“She took the hand. Now that woman is going to pull Beverly into the grave. She is going to kill her and use her to fashion a new soul.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

The last one, in which you argued that the boy wouldn’t have made the kind of overhand stab wound that killed his father, was very persuasive. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Avoided getting killed in a massacre but arrested by Gestapo on falsified charges. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I stood up, and since I did wish to speak, I said, almost at random, in fact, that I never intended to kill the Arab. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

They criticized him for selfishly taking food for his own family and killed him, leaving his body in the tree as an example. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And not because she hated him, but because she couldn’t bring herself to kill him. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Frightened, the camarada swung at it with his ax, trying to kill it. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

After he killed the farmer’s daughter, said the monster, the prince lay down next to her and returned to sleep. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

My mother died and then I killed Will; I shot him; I killed him. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s very nice. There’s a new kind of operation they’ll be doing on his eyes. He was in an auto accident, and his mother was killed.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Our bus doesn't leave till tomorrow. There’s a lot of time to kill.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He’s telling us how the Nazis killed more than just Jews. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

It’s not easy to kill a mountain goat. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“People use it against me. Either I’m poor Starr who saw her friend get killed in a drive-by, or Starr the charity case who lives in the ghetto. That’s how the teachers act.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The taste of hot blood filled Jon’s mouth, and he knew that Ghost had killed that night. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“But Cade said you could put him in it, and you could even kill him if you want.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

After I disabled their engines, I boarded the ship and proceeded to kill every avatar there. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The males were lured to a charged grid and so killed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Evidently Mauhúr and his ‘lads’ had been killed or driven off. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Or with pain and sadness, because his father might have been killed, and sometimes grief doesn’t make much sense. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You had no right to kill him. He was just walking by.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“My mom’s going to kill me if I’m late to pick up my brother.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But that shows you how life is valued now when ten-year-old kids kill for a piece of candy. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I can’t kill myself in this room, I will take the first opportunity outside of it to finish the job. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I had not killed any but I was anxious to please—and I said I had killed plenty. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He lived through a dose of strychnine in his coffee that was enough to kill a horse. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

But then the Dutch settlers killed them and took their land. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

They were marching around the camp, looking for survivors to kill. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

What Vera doesn’t know is: I’d kill to be a pickle on her Big Mac—ground to relish between her perfect white teeth. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Once he killed a bird with a stone, and he still felt bad about that, too. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was especially true in 2010, when North Korea launched a sneak submarine attack that killed forty-six South Korean sailors and sank the Cheonan, a warship sailing in South Korean territorial waters. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

They hadn’t just wanted to kill him because he was an Overlander. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “You can stop them, though. Right? You can kill them? You can call the Orkin army or something?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” Brinker qualified judiciously, “not actually killed. Finny’s hanging between life and death at home, in the arms of his grief-stricken old mother.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It takes a moment before I realize that he means for Helene to kill me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I was certain the birthing would kill both of us, just as it had Mama. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But, thank God, they are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and more able. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then we’ll just have to kill him,” Lucas replied confidently, with one eyebrow raised. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Rumor must’ve gotten around that Leo was the one who had fired on their little city, because those Romans seemed especially anxious to kill him. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He’d just sit in there grunting and threatening to kill us if we uttered another peep of complaint. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took me a while to sort it out, but I realized something sitting there while Jimmy Dill was being killed at Holman prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He and his family could be killed if they found out. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

But picking and eating the wrong mushroom can get you killed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Even if that creature had been a monster when she killed it, she had still killed it. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I bang against the mat, shocks chasing each other around my body, but the pain doesn’t kill me. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“He should die, the way my poor brother died. Please. Someone help me. Someone kill him.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Do you want us all to be killed?” she asked, shaking me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that if Frank became upset enough, he could kill the guy, but he probably wouldn’t reach that state. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

We didn’t kill too many Rebs ’cause we had few weapons, but we put them on the run. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Add to these one more compelling reason for Clarkson to abandon his post: yellow fever had already seized his wife and killed his youngest son, Gerard. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

See the barbers for monthly haircuts and endure the torture of periodic disinfecting to kill lice, even though you will soon have them again. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I think of his starveling servants, of his urging Cardan to kill one of them for training, of the way he ordered Cardan beaten while professing his love for their family. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When word reached Octavian that Mark Antony was dead, he feared that Cleopatra would kill herself or burn up her treasury or both. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

"I take it, Dr. Armstrong, that a woman would have been physically capable of striking the blow that killed poor Macarthur?" And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

And if I’m in a town somewhere with several minutes to kill, I’ll enjoy myself wandering about looking in the shop windows. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t burn him completely, but the fire killed him. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Some Asian peoples tame eagles for use in hunting, although those powerful pets have also been known on occasion to kill their human handlers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As one of the Divergent, I have the power to let Je&nine kill one of them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Either that or the Gamemakers have decided not to kill us just yet. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The white people in Little Rock were not afraid to kill us. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Uncle Katsuhisa said that it might seem sad to kill them, but eventually, we would learn to be kind of like farm kids—farm kids understood the meaning of death. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The people down there are wild and ye could get robbed and killed. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

For example, did Africa’s abundance of big wild mammals, available to kill by hunting, make it superfluous for Africans to go to the trouble of tending domestic stock? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But Sauron had already laid his plans, and he had a mind first to play these mice cruelly before he struck to kill. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Another legend claims that we descended from wolves — and that the wolves are our brothers still. It’s against tribal law to kill them. “Then there are the stories about the cold ones.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Do you want to kill him? Let him rest! Let him breathe!” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he finally got killed — gunned down outside the Showcase Bar on 125th — nobody went to his funeral. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was asked who else might have killed him. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I stopped, gasping for breath, I decided that I would go back and kill Bledsoe. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pipes...we don’t have a choice. Hercules will kill—” “Hercules doesn’t deserve this.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She had a good reason to want to fight the Nazis: in 1941, her baby was killed when a German bomb hit the maternity hospital where she’d just given birth. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Former jockey Bill Buck remembered it with a shiver: “It’d kill you.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Regardless of what you may think, we don’t want to have to kill anyone unless it’s absolutely necessary. Besides, there are two more gates, right?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

However you looked at it—whatever the ijji had been, and whatever had killed them, angels or not—this mound of bones was an epic mass grave. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She wanted daughter to marry somebody else, but Violet Westing killed herself before the wedding. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the typical refrain for the end of a shambler battle, a way of giving people permission to kill anyone who has been bitten. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Kendra considered her need, bier grandparents and brother were about to be killed. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Who were all these people roaming the world trying to kill him? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She never wore her company manners with one of us ... when Jem died, her precious Jem, it nearly killed her. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

If he had killed my parents, I couldn’t imagine how he could have pulled it off. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

From Jay in the Southeast: I stood up in a social studies class—the teacher wanted a discussion—and said I could never kill anyone or condone anyone who did kill anyone. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Please don’t kill me, she wanted to scream, please don’t. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Her platter was dented from all the times Percy had killed her, but those little samples looked perfectly fine. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

My parents taught me that before the Empire killed them. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was deeply a part of Lee’s kindness and understanding that man’s right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rather than just kill Lincoln and Grant, he now plans to do nothing less than undertake a top-down destruction of the government of the United States of America. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

She was the thirty-sixth person in Chicago killed in gun violence that year, and the year was at that point just twenty-nine days old. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Mango doesn’t actually kill them,” Zack says, his arm stuck halfway into a cereal box. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“God knows it helps me not to excuse myself, Sir Gawaine. I would rather to have killed my nephew, Sir Bon. But I did not see them, Gawaine, and I have paid it!” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I stood at the window, I thought, If I saw the boy or his father now, I would take a gun and kill them myself. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She pushed the plunger, sending a load of drugs into the heart, which killed the monkey instantly. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One passenger was killed; another, a woman, suffered fractures of her jaw and both wrists. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

No, he realized, she wants to kill him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s not my fault so many brothers are getting killed,” Hana says. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Kind of. Not my family specifically. But anything that happens to other Jews happens to us. So when the old tsar killed everyone in Sarkel and Atil and everywhere else in Khazaria, everyone felt it.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I thought for a little and I said, “I am going to find out who killed Wellington.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even if you tried to kill her and bite off her leg, she still forgave you. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“My mom did. Grandmother thought that’s what got her killed in Afghanistan, in the war. Mom tried to help some of her buddies, and...I don’t know exactly what happened. There was a firebomb.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Despite how much I hate him, I don’t really want to kill him, at least not with a knife, up close where I can see the life leave him. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Before, I didn’t want to think about people being jailed, killed, or forced to leave their homes. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to help. I wanted—” “You can’t, all right? You can’t help me. No one can help me. My wife is dead, and the police think I killed her.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when someone gets killed by lightning, everyone knows it’s because somebody used Mother Nature to take out a hit. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Teen basketball star killed in fiery crash Nov. 8—Robert Washington, age 17, captain of the Hazelwood High School basketball team, was killed last night in a fiery automobile accident on 1-75. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mom would kill you if she knew that.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If especially susceptible the cell may be killed outright, or finally, after the passage of time measured in years, it may become malignant. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s the same poison that was released when the gods churned the Ocean of Milk. It will kill us. Please tell me you read the sign.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

That’s what the men were going to do when they headed up the creek, kill the coyote. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why he killed them? Well, that’s no mystery, is it?” blustered Fudge. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

If I weren’t serious, she’d certainly kill me for crying wolf. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“He ain’t Dr. King! Then you hire thugs to work up in here. I heard that Khalil boy got himself killed last night. He was probably selling that stuff.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“I don’t seem to be strong enough to stay away from you, so I suppose that you’ll get your way . . . whether it kills you or not,” he added roughly. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Many nights I thought about it, wondering how I could possibly kill one of these great beasts. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve heard rumors of Scholar thieves lurking in the catacombs, popping through grates to grab, raid, and usually kill whoever is nearby before dropping back into their lair. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He looked positively ready to kill a man. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“What if they were going to kill you first?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

There are a lot of shiftas in Kenya—poachers who kill wild animals for money. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

If people in the Congo could go back in time and kill one person, Belgium’s King Leopold would come way before Hitler. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“We need an army of warriors to come and unfasten the locks, kill our captors, return us to our homes, and bring our families and friends back to us, alive and smiling.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was two men now that he’d killed, not to mention the youth in the Tower of the Angels...Will did not want this. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Water levels receded so deeply, the archaeologist Richardson Gill argued in 2000, that “starvation and thirst” killed millions of Maya. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was a sin to kill the fish. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within a few minutes, I spot a rabbit and make my first kill with the bow and arrow. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She had killed a human in order to save a dragon. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Aron said passionately, “You just let them try. If they go for to whip you, you tell them I’ll kill them.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the way home I imagined myself facing them, blacking out, and waking to find that I had killed them all. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“And then the next worst guy is down here. Like, the dentist who killed that lion. He’s right here.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

When I woke up on Monday morning, I remembered the pictures on my camera and wondered how long it would take Celia to find me and kill me after I’d handed them over to Claude. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

It had a dose of nux vomica strong enough to kill a horse. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I looked at the clock in the recess yard, and it was only twenty to twelve, so I had quite a lot of time to kill before I met old Phoebe. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

She believed that her prayers had killed him. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“According to your schedule, we’ve got about two hours to kill before Milo’s tied up in another activity.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And Doctor Watson tries to work out who might have killed Sir Charles Baskerville. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then he killed his brother, Jaime, hacking at his face until it was a red ruin, laughing every time he struck a blow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In any case, their meaning mattered little as long as the letter arrived, telling her aunt that Papá had been killed at sea and her niece and nephew were coining to Indio to find her. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Please kill me and put an end to this. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Every so often, they do kill a tribute just to remind the players they can. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Its defenders, wielding rifles, killed all but twenty-nine with their opening volley; the survivors committed suicide on the battlefield, including Kabuo’s great-grandfather. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I'm going to kill her,” I say, my voice low. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“She got killed and eaten by a crocodile. They don’t let their children step foot in the river, ever. Not even to be washed in the Blood of the Lamb.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole point of a refugee camp is that there are actual people trying to kill you. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

By the time his case reached the Supreme Court, sixteen people had been killed by police use of the chokehold, twelve of them black men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He looked like he could kill me and not even think twice about it. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Reed could draw faster than Camey, might even be able to kill him before he got a shot off. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“You were going to kill yourself here at school?” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The silhouette of the bodyguard looked menacing, and Matt remembered he’d killed twenty children with a bomb intended for the English prime minister.The man seemed to soak up the faint starlight from the ceiling. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you have a plan for how you would kill yourself?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

With any luck, when I kill her, Finnick will duck behind the tree for cover just as the lightning bolt strikes. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“When I was the one that ordered her killed?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

And likely gotten himself killed in the bargain.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Does your wicked stepmother hate you and want to kill you?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he took his knife and killed both his goats. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He has made himself scarce since baring his intent to kill the captain. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Some folk say they kill ’em, other folk say different. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

And then after he kills me, Ma gon’ dig me up, bring me back to life, and kill me again.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

And if she sees me again, her Candor-trained eyes will see that I am the one who killed him, I know it. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I figure I have enough attitude to kill a few people myself, only it never works on the right ones. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, the ’Glades and its waters had killed him. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“As our Mandrakes are only seedlings, their cries won’t kill yet,” she said calmly as though she’d just done nothing more exciting than water a begonia. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She had long, dark hair, and really expressive eyes, and she was using those eyes today to express to me that she wanted to kill me. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I know that. He would have killed me if I hadn’t killed him.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

They do not even need to touch the lines to be killed. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Though I knew that I had killed the kitten, my mother’s words had made it live again in my mind. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My bodyguards tell me that the man was...very violently killed.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But the woman cracked a vial under his nose before he could ask the question “You didn’t kill him, did you?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

They heard the giantess tell her husband that they had guests, her son and a friend, and that he had to be on his best behavior as a gracious host and not kill them. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“They were telling the reporter Shotgun killed a man and went to the penitentiary. ” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

We killed most of them and captured a few whom we brought back to base. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“You give him enough chances, he’s going to kill you.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

But they were Christians so I won’t describe them to you, or I could get them killed. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I’m gonna kill her when we see her tomorrow. What are you wearing, by the way?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Too much chicken manure could kill the grass. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The falcon flies off the boy’s fist, and kills rabbits and pheasants when the boy needs food. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was sometimes necessary to kill people, for example; and it was so much less troubling for the assassin if he could do so in a state of grace. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Livening up the action of the Lonesome Highway: two roadside memorials, with plastic flowers and photos of a dead woman and a dead man, killed in automobile crashes. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Ash finished buckling the saddle in place and said, “The woman asked the huntress to chase her down, as a stag, and to kill her. And then, she could finally be free.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I knew this was a kill shot: “I wrote it on the sexual tension between Nick and Bill in ‘The Three-Day Blow.’” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I was too worked up to sleep, but not bored enough to do homework, so I killed an hour on the Internet, which is how I ended up stalking Marcus’s SnowFlake page. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Instead he stares at the man who killed him, hatred clouding his vision. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“A day’s ride. I can take you to her, ser... but you will need to come alone. Elsewise, the Hound will kill her.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After I finished reading the manuscript documenting Lewis’s murder, I kept returning to one detail: she had been killed for her headright in 1918. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Why should 1 get killed so he can make another fifty million dollars?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

These small relatives of the mink, with their valuable fur that turns white in winter, enter lemming nests and kill and eat the young. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I smile, arms folded on my chest, and wait, but nobody comes to kill me. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember thinking it was practicing for when it might have to kill to survive. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they feel as though they could almost kill each other, but then they go on vacation and come back sounding like newlyweds. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Of course, she said to herself, he had been relieved of his duties and had backtracked the hunters to the kill. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He could just kill the king, like he did all the others.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I could kill you, you know, said Moira, when Aunt Elizabeth was safely stowed out of sight behind the furnace. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want her to snap and try and kill me like some psychotic lunatic. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Plant die. People live. Hunter ask animal before kill it. Then give thanks. Animal die so village live.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without attempting to kill them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I felt as though the crowd might very well kill us with their love. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jonathan, realizing that they were going to attempt to fight their way out, began to shout: “They’ll kill you if you try. They will. Just give up. Give up!” The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The prisoner went on to declare that he stopped reading and started fighting back, and kept on fighting back until he killed a man with his bare hands. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I thought that if I got killed, I would want it to be over quick. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don't want to go back to the place where I killed my friends. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The Nazi army would kill us all, gun us down and leave us for dead before the war ended. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It...um...,” she stuttered, “it...it was taken by the man who killed her.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When they captured Jerusalem, they were less hospitable: Christian pilgrims entering Jerusalem could expect to be killed, tortured, or sold into slavery. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Tired, Percyjackson? As I said, you cannot kill us. So I guess we’re at an impasse. Oh, wait...no were not! Because we can kill you!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But the Capitol has not killed or even punished him. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The driver of the Cadillac never even stopped—he couldn’t have known that he had only killed a homemade go-cart, and not a child, but he sped on down the street, never looking back. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Addressing the jurors as “gentlemen,” he insisted, “I never devised a scheme to have Roan killed. I also never desired his death.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In the resulting gunfight, six more were killed or wounded. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But we could not show any fear or turn back, for if the Indians had sensed any weakness in us, even the Indians that we were bringing with us as guides would have killed us. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Usually she says hello by trying to kill me. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“If he tries any treason,” said Lancelot, clenching his fists, “I will kill him myself.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh...I couldn’t,” Emily said, even though it killed her to turn down a book. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

So now the entire faction is brain-dead, obedient, and trained to kill. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Hunters killed what the community needed to replenish supplies of meat and hides. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Her stomach fell, and she whispered, “Are you going to kill me?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Your own folk. In fear. Some will hate you if they know what you are. Some will even try to kill you." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Of course it’s unlucky to kill a spider!” shouted the Centipede. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Your father is out looking for you and he’s going to kill you, too. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The No-Pest Strips, she explained, released a poison that killed all the flies. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was after one of these nights that he had finally tried to kill himself. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I know exactly how many people I’ve killed, when they died, how, where. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Haven’t we had enough trouble? Are you trying to get us killed?” The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

One person, Edward, had already lost his life because of the suit, and I knew that Mr. Loomis would not hesitate to kill me for it if necessary. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The seal, who had to be the god of the East River, said, “Are you trying to get yourself killed, kid? Or are you just extra stupid?” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

On average, a man died in the mines every day, often crushed by coal cars or killed by explosions. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

He had killed that one, but he had been too late to save Pol. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Your first kill,” said Bono to me gently, with an air of kindness and a cadence of mollification. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

There was no excuse for him to have shot someone, but it didn't make sense to kill him. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The original writers show Tania scoring kill after kill as she guns down German planes and drops her bombs on German troops. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I was increasingly persuaded that we would have to figure out who really had killed Ronda Morrison to win Walter's release. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Around fifty of the Minutemen and lots of British troops had been killed on Friday at Lexington or Concord, or wherever it was, although nobody seemed to know how many for sure. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

On New Year's Eve 1957, while he was overseas, his wife and only child were killed by a drunk driver in an automobile accident. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we warned every robot in advance that gamma rays would kill them, which it would, and we further warned them all that gamma rays would be between them and myself. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

So it is every warrior’s dream to kill a lion at one point or another. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother figured that once Sam realized that his own side had captured or maybe even killed his father he’d come home and help manage things. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The radio said a boy had been killed, on a skateboard, then I got a call and...and...” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I would soon kill the wild dogs, but there were many small red foxes on the island. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I killed a man just like my mother did. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But this was something new—to hear a person say they hate you enough that they want to kill you. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“I heard he once killed one with his bare hands,” said Bronwyn. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He handed over his wand, which was proved at once to have been used to kill the Riddles. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

In fact he was very specific about whom he wanted to kill—himself. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Slow down, Sasuke! Put on your scarf. Mom’s going to kill me if you don’t wear it.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I knew how much you hated to steal, and I knew that you were suffering, but I never asked you if you were all right. I felt like I’d killed you myself.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t think Amá told her I tried to kill myself. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, I thought, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

That my very own friends sank the kayak and killed Ben. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

When my half-brother Wayne was killed in Vietnam, I was able to handle the grief of his loss by writing about it for Essence magazine. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Many of them had seen family or friends killed and had rushed away, leaving everything behind them. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

So long as I don’t die from it, I’ll be harder to kill. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Here he was with a gun ready to kill people to prove that he wasn’t queer, and I was ready to kill people because I wanted to get away from home. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She doubted Thanatos even needed to touch her to kill her. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to be killed for being on the wrong side of the walkway, so we might as well make it worth it.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It accused him of supporting terrorism, of being anti-American, of believing it was okay to kill innocent people because he wanted access to seventy-two virgins. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was as though he had deliberately tried to kill all the trust and the love and the deep devotion she had for him. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I probably would’ve been killed by shrapnel except for Thalia’s shield, which appeared over me. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“He studied with a famous doctor in Maputo. The doctor told him to kill a close relative so he could force the spirit to serve him.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dudes who use those final words to hurt somebody, to kill one last time. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But one after the other, they rolled down the stone hallway, clicking and moaning and ready to kill. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

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

The Huntsman said somberly, “If it judges you guilty, then it will kill you.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

If he did, he would kill me right away. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rock dwarfed the car, blackened the windshield, killed the sun. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“You do realize someone just tried to kill you, right?” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

People vanished all the time as they were arrested and killed or sent away. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“We must kill the structures all the way to their roots,” the angels had said, “and only then will Lucille be safe.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Or my worst. Every man o’ them has killed a crow.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The blast flattened buildings a mile in all directions and killed at least 2,000 people. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dumbledore wanted you to use Occlumency! He thought the connection was dangerous—Voldemort can use it, Harry! What good is it to watch him kill and torture, how can it help?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you know nothing? Dynamite’s stable. It won’t go off unless there’s a charge of some sort. Besides, you tripped over it. If anyone was likely to kill us, it was you.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then tell me what was the first creature I killed.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the Odyssey when a priest and a poet fall on their knees before Odysseus, praying him to spare their lives, the hero kills the priest without a thought, but saves the poet. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he believes that if Tobias has to kill him, he will see that before he dies. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

If he were doing wrong, they could not kill him, at least; all they could do was to tell him that he could not get the job. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

For a split second, I think he’s telling the truth, that our recipe is so bad, it could kill someone. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He was going to get them both killed. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The dead beasts in our hands seemed to be cursing and mocking us for having killed them. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around that time, someone tried to shoot her and missed; her secretary, who was standing right behind her, was killed instead. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d sure move if a coyote killed one of my birds. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Itchy trigger fingers,” Dad had said, aiming his trigger finger toward me and giving it a pull, “and stupidity is what gets people killed.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I held it tighdy, and said, “Major, I am sorry. If this breakfast will kill me, then today I am prepared to die.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had killed his baby, one of those “mercy” killings. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baba killed the engine and let the bus roll silently into our designated spot. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“They’ll kill him. They’ll ...” A great shout suddenly went up from the mob; a wave of movement drove it menacingly towards the Savage. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each day I expected to be crippled or killed. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know who I could just kill?” she asked. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gods be good, be must have seen something, beaid something, that was why they tried to kill him in his bed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I think you are bluffing—you have been prisoner for months and I myself killed you less than a day ago, so I doubt that you have much might left in your arm.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Another asserted that the bullet was inside Garfield's liver, where it would kill him either by infection or bleeding. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“If you have such power,” Gabe whispered, still trying not to move, “why kill someone as unimportant as me?” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Or maybe someone else killed her, some bad guy who followed her and stole her purse and emptied her current account. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“Either she, or the leader King Bull Sparra, is going to kill me. Evidently she looks on anything that can’t fly as an enemy.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

And maybe it would kill me, too, but I knew that staying on the rez would have killed me, too. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The men—like Papa—who were forced to work as loggers there had no prior experience, so Hanako was always worried that her father would get killed. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

This was what it meant to kill someone. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

When we had them regularly, as if to prove we could kill each other even without a dictator to tell us to. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And what I wonder most,” he whispered in Ekon’s ear, “is what will kill you in the end—the pain, or the madness?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

In the end I personally killed a dozen or so chickens before moving on to try another station. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Promise not to kill me if I put my sword away?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

They decided that he must be killed for taking their water. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

They covered the gourd with crossed cloths, then killed a black chicken and laid it over the offerings. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Right? Someone doesn’t kill off an entire species for no reason.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“And now,” said Deydey kindly, touching his son’s prickly hair, “what was that I heard you yell before the syrup spilled onto your feet? What about your first kill?” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“You might as well put it away. If you kill me you’ll spoil Capricorn’s fun. He won’t forgive you for that in a hurry.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

One unfortunate maiden after another beloved of the gods had had to kill her child secretly or be killed herself. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rage heats up my body, seeing only one of them killed is not enough! First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And other Jews turned right around and killed him,” clinched the big boy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finnick, who’s been wandering around the set for a few hours, comes up behind me and says with a hint of his old humor, “They’ll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

"Wrinkle up your face all you like, but spare me this false piety. You were a high lord's get. Don't tell me Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell never killed a man." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In later days he even killed women, when he had been worked into such a state—though he regretted it bitterly afterwards. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents would kill me if they knew I was calling long distance, but hopefully they wouldn’t notice if I kept the call under fifteen minutes. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

"I tell you again, I had no part in the attempt to kill your son." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

How can he kill me if I cannot die? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

If the RTG ever broke open, it would kill me to death. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There have been rumors in the village that Pa was not killed in a Khmer Rouge mass execution. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some people were killed instantly, in the pyroclastic surge and blast of rock and ash. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Some people’s anger makes them want to kill everyone they perceive as an enemy. Some people’s makes them more constructive.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

If she was a real water dancer, she would go out there with Needle and kill all of them, and never run from anyone ever ^gain. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I have heard many stories about how the soldiers kill prisoners and then dump their bodies into large graves. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the exchange, one white officer was killed, and the county’s white deputy sheriff was wounded. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

When she saw Michelangelo and the children begin to walk away down the street, she picked it up in her mouth and trotted proudly after them, carrying her kill high for all to see. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“He tried to kill me,” she said simply. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Would he just be tortured and humiliated until he was finally killed? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

This bacterium actually kills by poisoning rather than by disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Her husband had been killed the previous spring in a battle with some starlings. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It’s quite the predicament: wanting to touch and hug and kiss a white girl after a white man shot him and killed his best friend? Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Contrary to what I reported in Outside, the animal was a moose, as a close examination of the beast’s remains now indicated and several of McCandless’s photographs of the kill later confirmed beyond all doubt. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We both knew that we wanted to kill each other. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dragons are not so easy to kill as that. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A total of 51,116 soldiers were killed, missing, or wounded. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You could kill her, Will. You could ruin any chance she has for new lungs.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Cain can’t kill her on his own? Accidents happen all the time in duels.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

White and Agent Smith played their last card: they told Burkhart that they had another witness who would testify to his involvement in the scheme to kill Bill and Rita Smith. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She finally cannot stand the pressure of the guilt, and she kills herself. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We killed them all. Can you believe it? We won. We defeated them.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“For the marines to kill them? They begged for the marines to kill them?” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you out of your mind? Your own daughter, you have killed her. Murderess!” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You could have killed somebody with that thing!” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Because if she kills Ben, she will always have killed him. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It really moved him that I hadn’t tried to kill him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What did he ever do that you needed to kill him?” he cried. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chaos continued to rule in our country when, two days later, nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot and killed Oswald as police led him through the basement of the Dallas jail. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The same woman asked, “Did the freeze kill off the rest of your fish?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Gary,” he told him, “They’re ready to kill you, but I’m still your friend.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not well. I know at any moment Snow could kill him. Especially since he warned Thirteen about the bombing. It’s a terrible thing to live with,” I say. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“I’m the one you’ve been coming to for all your problems. Not the guy who almost killed me. I’ll let you think on that.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Necessary? No, I should not say that it is necessary to kill.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Imagine what would happen if a prisoner in a concentration camp insulted a Gestapo—they would get killed instantly. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And once, we found out about a man who had been killed by whitefolks and thrown into the pond. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

You will kill every good part of him. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Although guards carry automatic weapons, Shin and Park persuaded each other that their chances of not getting killed were good. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

If our message had not been sent and received all down the line, I am sure that many of our men would have been wounded or even killed. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every one of them says this kid killed his old man. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All those people wanting to kill him when he hadn’t done anything to hurt them.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Go back? Jorge wants to kill us. I heard him say so.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he looked at the white man’s bloody shirt and thought, he told Elizabeth, at the bottom of his heart: “I wish to God they’d killed you.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She meant that even if I got killed, the people could use my dead body for a weapon, but we do not like to talk out loud about dying. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time Crazy Joe tried to kill himself over Henrietta, he ran circles around her in the middle of winter while she was on her way home from school. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Yet except for one of them, Hypermnestra, they did only what the Argonauts found the women of Lemnos had done: they killed their husbands. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first to break out of the cloud on the far side of the lake would have the advantage, and that might mean survival, or it might mean a successful kill. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Salt water kills an engine dead, once it gets inside. Boat’s no good without an engine.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sick, but I never killed any enemy. I never even touched them.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“She wouldn’t let me go until she knew I was okay. But your immature little prank coulda got me killed!” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“How many men were killed?” she asked when he was done. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

About how the plant died—how we’d killed a plant that could survive toxins and death. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Consider the farmer who sprays his fields with insecticide to kill the bugs that are damaging his crops. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you trying to kill someone?” he said. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Mom is going to kill me when she finds out I snuck out of the house. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

For the first time, he felt something for Chuck that made him so angry he wanted to kill somebody. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The crowd of fourteen thousand five hundred, sensing the kill, rose to its feet on almost every play, the cries of “Mojo! Mojo! Mojo!” louder than they ever had been, almost scary. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alvin Hooks, in his final words to the court, characterized the accused man as a murderer in cold blood, one who had decided to kill another man and had executed his plan faithfully. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She stayed in the room to tell her own story of how her friend had gotten killed. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It had been two years ago that they hired her, separately, to kill the same man. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Malcolm X’s lawyer, Assemblyman Percy Sutton, said that the police now had the names of those whom Malcolm X had said planned to kill him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A total of 22,726 soldiers were killed, missing, or wounded. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Believing that it was morally indefensible to waste any part of an animal that has been shot for food, McCandless spent six days toiling to preserve what he had killed before it spoiled. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He just wanted to see what a girl who was crazy enough to kill herself looked like. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

So accompanied the old man passed the guards and came into the presence of the man who had killed and maltreated his son. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Day that killed my brother is a cruel, ruthless criminal. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“And they have a point. It was mostly Northerners who were killed.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“And it kills me that I gave it to you, Darius. It kills me.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He killed at least ten more people before he was suddenly tripping over the steps of the porch. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

They wondered who the assassin was and how the killing was carried out: Was Vaughan murdered before he was thrown off the train, or did the impact kill him? Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t want you to kill her,” she said faintly. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Obviously, three of the murders Smith committed were logically motivated-—Nancy, Kenyon, and their mother had to be killed be cause Mr. Clutter had been killed. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Is he...Is he going to kill them?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

In the gunfire, Will Turner was shot and killed. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to get killed,” I answered. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

No one from Nya's family had been hurt or killed by Dinka. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Are you going to kill them all, Elias? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t help but think of the monster that had killed him and wonder who it would take next. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

‘Someday,’ said Johnny, his good nature restored, ‘I’ll kill you, Dove. In the meantime, you have your uses. You get out the buckets and run to North Square and fetch back drinking water.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not deep enough to kill me, just deep enough to make scars. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The question that I needed to answer was this: Is there a way to raise farm animals and kill them for food without causing suffering? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“It had to be you. They would have killed you otherwise. The others aren’t in danger.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I could kill the man without a single shred of remorse, and I’m near about to do just that when the sound of hoofbeats stays my hand. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Thirty whites killed in Stanley, two Americans among them—we heard that over the shortwave radio and knew what it meant. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Reason? Was Gareth our brother? He killed him as a reprisal, out of revenge because it was our family that had caught him with the Queen.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do not aim to kill any of the birds,” the Abbot cried. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“They will kill you. And they will like killing you. Do not give them the chance.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

If our soldier boys had learned to knit, if my grandfather had learned, maybe it wouldn’t kill me to learn. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I still have the sin in me, the abscess, and I hope it doesn’t kill me entirely before I see the American priest. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

But at last, when the money she thus earned for him was not enough for his needs, he turned upon his own body and devoured it until he killed himself. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

My rabbit, which I have killed myself with a weapon I made myself, becomes part of the communal stew that evening. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“It was the only way to kill him,” the old man said. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their colleague had been killed just days earlier. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“And killed them all, removing the right eye from each body before she left for the bush,” finished Zheegwon. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

If the glory can be killed, we are lost. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had a friend who was shot in the eye and killed in cold blood. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

A bunch of countrified folks yelling and screaming, waving flags and chewing tobacco, forcing confused kids to crawl through mud, preparing them to get killed in a war? The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

From time to time, a seal lumbered onto the rocky shore and was quickly killed. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

That had been six years ago, the same year the Japanese had killed Sunjin’s father for being a resistance fighter. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“They’ll take you from here and put you in a concentration camp. Then they’ll put you in gas ovens and kill you.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would be the enemy, all of them, and we would be those who killed the enemy. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My in-laws were killed in an accident,” he told her curtly. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then he came here—to kill us, too? The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“You killed him! He was beautiful, and you killed him!” Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You cannot stop me. I will kill Jason Grace.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A year older than Emmett Till was when he was killed. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then they just leave them there. That marine colonel said when they found them they were still alive and begging for somebody to kill them.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, when the parents of Dimo’s wife went out to look at their animals, they found that the sheep had all been killed. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

After he inquired how I was, somebody asked him about the cow and mule that was killed yesterday. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She’d be needing a fresh bar of soap within the hour and could kill two birds with one stone if she got it now. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some friend or enemy or angel would kill you by defiling the marks you left in your passage. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that Falconer had killed a man for calling him one. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Two nights would get you killed if the Recruiters were on your trail. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“Someday I’m going to have to kill you to keep you alive.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“We cannot be the ones to take them. That is what caused this in the first place. And I believe him that he would kill them if we tried.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Before the whole sentence of the broadcast was finished, one suddenly got this horror of all the people who had been killed.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now that the Church knows that, too, they’ll kill her. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It told of a “historical counterrevolutionary,” who as a local official before Liberation had killed two Communist guerrillas. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m away working in the shop, see? These here men come to the house and say to Sissy, ‘Your husband’s just been killed, see?’ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piggy's arms and legs twitched a bit, like a pig's after it has been killed. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“You go. Poison will hurt Cyclopes. A lot of pain. But it won’t kill.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

My godmother Lili who killed herself in old age because her husband had jumped out of a flying balloon and her grown son left her to go to Miami. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

But Nass’s life was changed by a fatal accident that took place in Utah, when his brother, traveling across country, was killed by a drunk driver. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then she repeated what God told Cain after he killed Abel: “The blood cries out from the ground.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

If it was a game, then I had my own part to play; the Nazis would try to kill me, slowly, randomly, teasingly, and I would resist. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

When a valued band member died, the Aché customarily killed a little girl and buried the two together. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last the immediacy of the kill subsided. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Eomma, was it the North Koreans? Are they going to kill us all?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

For example, half the shrimp in one experiment were killed by dieldrin at a concentration of only 15 parts per billion. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I tried for at least two years to kill off that “Black Muslims.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want justice. And I want to free the boy who didn’t kill my brother.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I know that! But, Henry, it’s when there’s a choice, and it’s my own judgment of the merits, that’s when it gets me. I passed Judge Kendal’s boy and he was killed in training.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rogers had chopped a certain amount of firewood before he had been killed. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I was sure one would kill the other. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If this resulted in babies, women and their babies were killed,” An said, noting that he had personally seen newborns clubbed to death with iron rods. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

After a juvenile makes its first kill, the falconers leash and train it. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tells Vivian about living in the trailer on Indian Island, the car crash that killed her father, her mother’s struggle with drugs. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The Nazis would kill me, but only if they uncovered the plan. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She said calmly, “It seems, my son, that you will kill your mother.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When they attacked, they weren’t trying to kill us. They were shooting us with these,” I say. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

"Osha, kill the wolves and get his sword." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“How did you get in? Uncle Albert will kill both of us ifhe finds you here!” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

What difference would it make if the Nightingale was brought alive or killed? Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Do I have the courage to kill another human being? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both dogs were very hungry and watched enviously when the cat caught and killed a chipmunk while they were resting by a stream in the middle of the day. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered what he would have said if he had killed me. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Just because somebody zapped the old man doesn't mean he's going to kill again. Dad says . . ." Doug paused. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, it will not kill the pretty girl.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The president was dead, and people said it was Hutus, formerly from Rwanda, who had killed him, but it was feared that his intended replacement had also died in the fighting. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

‘He was with the Lexington men. They stood up at dawn and the regulars killed quite a few of them.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m glad that old snake didn’t kill me. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has been different ever since Jaja was locked up, since she went about telling people that she killed Papa, that she put the poison in his tea. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I will have to travel from district to district, to stand before the cheering crowds who secretly loathe me, to look down into the faces of the families whose children I have killed…. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I hide in butter churn, breathe through reed of straw, while own brother killed in same house. After, I come to London to escape the hollows. But they come, too.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I manage to keep sipping water, thinking of the days of dehydration that almost killed me last year. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But deep down, he held on to the hope that he could fight long enough for someone to punch in the code and shut down the Grievers before they killed him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“I suppose you just don’t care if you kill yourself, do you ?” “It’s my self,” he reminded her. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“But why do you burn your own schools and clinics, and kill your own people?” asked a short, stocky German named Hans. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The child was killed instantly, and her twelve-year-old friend, who was standing next to her, was traumatized. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I do. Yes, I do. Gawaine, are you going to sit there and let this happen after your own brother has been killed?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

American soldiers were winning individual battles, and the kill ratio was favorable—about 2.5 to 1. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They had gone only a few steps before Anya blurted, “Why did the tsar kill all the dragons?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Hell, they wanted him to lose, they wanted him killed, for Christ’s sake. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were reports of frightful American casualties—some newspaper said that two thousand American soldiers were being killed and wounded every day. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“But look, was your fight with the patroller really over? You said you were afraid that if he found you there, passed out, he’d kill you.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s always itching to carve somebody a grave marker. Maybe he even killed a few bodies himself.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

So he kills me and gives it a twist. . . how can he taunt me so? Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Then my father’s relatives held a feast and killed a cow to roast and invited a lot of people to come and enjoy the meat and help us build a new house. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I kill him, I won’t have to feel like this anymore. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to kill other demigods if he could avoid it. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

‘Together, a goddess and a demigod can kill a giant.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She chewed on her bottom lip, quiet for a heartbeat, before she asked: “Did Chaol give the order to kill Sven?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“The guy was dead the second he stepped on the trail. Understand me? We all had him zeroed. A good kill—weapon, ammunition, everything.” The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gill nets were outlawed years ago in Florida because they kill everything that gets tangled, not just the baitfish but sharks, reds, snook, tarpon, turtles—you name it, it dies. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

We had all gotten better at shooting, and our size gave us an advantage, because we could hide under the tiniest bushes and kill men who wondered where the bullets were coming from. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

If you ever change, I swear to God I'll kill you. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The poor dog did not have much meat on it, but the man killed and ate it anyway. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would they haul him away or kill him right in front of us? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

In the movie version Dorothy wears ruby slippers, but in the book she wears silver shoes that she takes off the Wicked Witch of the East when the house lands on her and kills her. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The Capitol has no end of creative ways to kill people. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If you are Lancelot, I must never yield or make friends. He killed my brother Caradoa.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men in their cells were being taken out at night in small groups and killed. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trouble was, at that point, the cells used in neutralization tests came from monkeys, which were killed in the process. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“How thick would Harry have to be, to go looking for a nutter who wants to kill him?” said Ron shakily. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Amari was frightened, but she knew the water would not kill her. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night I read to Gertrude about a jealous official who killed his wife with poisoned salad greens because she had taken a young lover. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“I am the Chosen One. I have to kill him. I need that memory.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“They bite. They can be as mean and dangerous as a guard dog. They even kill and eat snakes.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had respected Charles—and Charles would probably have killed her if he could. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was the perfect moment to kill Heisenberg. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are many cases in which one twin is killed in childhood, in a riding accident, say, or is struck by lightning, while the other lives to a prosperous old age. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Six people were killed: two on our side and four on the rebel side; and several were wounded, including two of the men who had brought us. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Nor could I remember that a bull elephant had ever been killed with an arrow or with a spear. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not to go asking anyone about who killed that bloody dog 4. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t want to see you killed. What do you think? Hadn’t we better forget the whole thing?” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Right—that gang member who got killed last night?" How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“They say I put poison in a fish, kill that cat.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It hadn’t crossed their minds that a change of environment wouldn’t immediately make us normal boys; we were dangerous, and brainwashed to kill. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He went on: “The sick ones were being killed, or so I thought.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, she thought, that big old dawg with the hatred in his eyes had killed her after all. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Every Thanksgiving, Dad tells the story again, and every year, Mom laughs and says she’s going to kill him if he tells it one more time. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“If he’s up there they just killed him,” somebody said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, when a fighter jet accidentally passed too close to a U-2, the spy plane broke up amid the turbulence, and its pilot was instantly killed. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A girl ran every risk of being killed if she confessed. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than twenty million people had been killed in the war with Germany. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You ask him right away, George, so he won’t kill no more of ‘em.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke lunged and almost killed me on the first try. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I have to go. We get to kill one of them for once.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I mean—I wanted to kill myself.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

It is just as that dear, good Professor Van Helsing said: he is true grit, and he improves under strain that would kill a weaker nature. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

But as such it was her terrible task to conduct the sacrifices, not actually herself kill her countrymen, but consecrate them by long-established rites and deliver them over to those who would kill them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel everybody watching us, wondering what was wrong with us, and whether it would kill us, and how heroic my mom must be, and everything else. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Bone-tar just happened to be the newest, most exciting way to kill yourself. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Being a kid and worrying that a bomb might kill you is terrible. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

When it’s done correctly it will kill the animal on the first shot. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Nearly all species of warblers present in the area were represented in the heavy kill that followed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m fifty-second level, and he’s nearly killed me every time I’ve had to fight him. I have to stock up on extra healing potions every time I come down here.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Is this the same Lally, the one the Macoutes killed last week?” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was speculation that during the world’s fair he might have killed dozens of people, most of them young women. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Brian only had two more arrows and he debated moving slowly to change the spear over to his right hand and use that to kill the bird. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he couldn’t kill me because I was himself under a slightly different condition. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you telling me a white girl had to get killed for you to finally pay attention?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I said the Fates would not allow me to kill you then. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Who is it? Tell me who it is or I’ll kill you!” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now go, dear, but don’t kill yourself driving at a desperate pace. There is no need of that.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The number of Vietnamese soldiers and civilians killed since 1964 was estimated to be at least two million. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The pieces of the chicken Jaja had killed had turned a deep yellow. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

A few months earlier he had almost killed himself on a combination of whiskey and some red wine made by an Italian drinking buddy of his. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suppose, for example, you went back and killed your great-great-grandfather while he was still a child. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he sold those tickets I’m going to kill him, Armpit thought, and then a second later the X-Mobile pulled around the comer. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

"Yeah, I took care of it, Ali, but I ain't kill nobody! Why you even think something like that? You ain't never known me to be wild like that, have you?" When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

She was talking about the Northerners in Onitsha who had been killed in reprisal attacks. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“If you kill something that understands death, do you believe you have murdered?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Just because they’ve declared it an unfortunate accident doesn’t mean they’ve fired everyone. And the government isn’t going to lock him up just because he killed a rebel under duress.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She never said a word against him—even though, trust me, he looked like he would kill the camera man if the picture took one more second to take. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it’s because Martin was back in commission, as much as it kills me to admit that. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t usual for women to kill their children during slavery times,” Miss Pat said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Joke’s on you. Maybe she’ll zone out and accidentally mix sodium phosphide with water and kill us all with phosphine gas.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Great Amon, he would kill me! thought the boy. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“I will kill them both as all Meereen shouts out my name.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I was mistaken; tonight I found new ones, worse ones. I am the most wretched of creatures. Say you wouldn’t mind it if I killed myself so I could end this existence.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Run, folks. He might kill us all. Personally, I think maybe he’s the communiss.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tell him I’ll quiz him on it when I’m back next week and that he doesn’t have to like it or anything, but if he doesn’t, tell him I’ll kill myself. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He felt the storm that had killed the sparrows. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I was used to almost every church funeral starting this way, and it killed me because I knew that the truth is that people do come in sadness. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You’ve taken everything away from me. Now I’m going to kill all of you.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

This is because she thinks Doctor Watson is Sir Henry Baskerville and she knows that her husband wants to kill him. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Do you have to distance yourself from the dead tribute on the final kill? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Chief Jiménez speculated that the girls might have been abducted by the same individuals who killed Gabriel Pérdido. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Though I went the other way. Started using all that fear as a punching bag. Nearly got myself killed on a daily basis.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“I don’t understand how everyone can make it seem like it’s okay he got killed if he was a drug dealer and a gangbanger.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

But the sentry—unless he could kill him—would raise the alarm at once and he could not be sure of finding the way to the river in the dark. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The organisms killed might, for all we know, be at the base of a vast ecological pyramid at the top of which totter we. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Nancy said, “Jeth, it’s the President—they’ve killed the President.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep my eyes forward, not wanting to see where I was killed. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

The FBI was unable to tie Fuller to any crimes and NCF director George Esser, Jr., backed his man, adding a warning to all those who would attempt to kill the messenger of urban grievances. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had killed many more than she—people undeserving and defenseless. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“A broken sword can be reforged. A broken sword can kill.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

You might as well try to kill the earth, Tartarus had said. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

This plant, which the purist would doubtless consider a weed in any rosebed, releases an excretion from its roots that kills the soil nematodes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

And under it all he knew that the white people did not really care about Bessie’s being killed. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You mean before or after I kill Beatriz? I can’t believe she played me like this. What did I do to her? How can I just drop out the day before the pageant?” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“You can’t blame me for you wanting to kill yourself,” Diana snapped. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

One guard had been killed in the uprising, and thirty-nine more were taken hostage. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

But later on Bigger No. 3 was killed during the days of Prohibition: while delivering liquor to a customer he was shot through the back by a white cop. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the morning of January 27, 1945, Soviet troops entered the camps and liberated the remaining seven thousand prisoners—a minuscule remnant of the number killed and buried in the camp. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Behold, my temple to the Earthshaker, built from the skulls of all those I’ve killed in his name! Your skull shall join them!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I am half a man and drunk with slaughter, let them kill me if they can! A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But it needed desperate courage to kill yourself in a world where firearms, or any quick and certain poison, were completely unprocurable. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“But I know one thing—if he finds us hiding down here, he’ll kill us for sure!” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“He was a very good bicycle repairman. He played the tabla well too. The Taliban killed him and his family and burned the village.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Because these people dared not kill me, for my ancestors were jealously protecting me, they had resorted to do the next best thing to murder—blind me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was sickened, if only at the waste of it: all they killed—cows, horses, men—they left to rot or burn. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the first hundred years after the English arrived in 1607, over 90 percent of Virginia’s native population was killed either in warfare and massacres or by the new diseases the Europeans brought with them. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Why I did not throw the spear, I do not know, for she was one of the Aleuts who had killed my people on the beach of Coral Cove. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You think I believe that you would kill me without figuring out the answer to this question? ” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

But James was trembling in the clubroom corner, ripping open his heroin bag, and the crowd was screaming for him to kill Rivera, and Griffin was flopping over like a rag doll. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And we killed two of them...” said Seven, “I killed them.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“If I had known you were going to make it up,” said Lancelot rather jealously, “I would not have nearly killed myself in coming.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don't really want to kill myself so I tie the end of our yellow towline in a tight knot around my ankle before diving in. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Ralph explained how he could be put in prison, maybe even killed. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The priest could get a splinter that would make his tongue swell to the size of a turnip and that’s enough to choke you and kill you entirely. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I was about to call Shoto, but then I remembered that his brother’s avatar had just been killed. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Any unaccompanied child is likely to be kidnapped or killed.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

If my instincts serve me well, they probably also let it slip that we know you didn’t kill the man from Edgar Street. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I got to kill eight more Cong before I get my quota. Then I can go home.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Selmy was training knights for her, teaching the sons of slaves to fight with lance and longsword in the Westerosi fashion... but what good would lances do against cowards who killed from the shadows? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“If the glamor fails, they will kill you.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Cattle were extremely valuable and they were almost never killed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam was shot and killed in the water. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The pilots all looked like that in September of ’40, during the worst days of the Battle of Britain—the vicar’s lad looked like that, running out to his plane, the day he was killed. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

"And didn't you laugh fit to kill when the knights slipped off their horses and clattered to the ground? You'd hog-greased the saddles." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

“There are people in Ethiopia who would kill for a place like this.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And I knew Doc wouldn’t hesitate to kill an injured animal from the marsh either. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The loser is killed and loses a life. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“And you will die knowing that I killed her slowly.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

High-priced ham: the only revenge I have been able to get on the people who killed Bas, but I'll cling to even that small satisfaction. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry too. About the wine. It wasn’t you who killed my brother or that poor old man in Tyrosh.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Less than twenty-four hours after the assassination, Dr. Mudd had just given Booth the first confirmation that he had killed Lincoln! Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents killed a chicken and steamed it whole, as if they were welcoming home a son, but I had gotten out of the habit of meat. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Willing to kill me, too, if it comes to that. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

A killed flyer earned two points for the shooter, while a wounded walker scored a mere half point. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

In their efforts to nullify my influence in the union, my old comrades were willing to kill the union itself. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not reveal that Blackie Thompson had escaped under the bureau’s watch and killed a policeman, or that because of so many false starts in the probe other murders had occurred. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Besides, she found out that the man who killed her niece cried all day and for him and for Violet that is as bad as jail. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They dropped their weapons and ran as Bull Number Two closed in on Clarisse for the kill. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Orr got knocked down into the water again last week on that second mission to Avignon. Maybe he’s unhappy enough to kill him.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Then in the Clarkston area of Washington the insects became refractory — they were harder to kill than in the orchards of the Wenatchee and Yakima valleys and elsewhere. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Anything less would be an insult to the men I killed. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Everyone she came into contact with could be taken, tortured, killed. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

If Native Americans could go back in time and kill one person, it would probably be Christopher Columbus or Andrew Jackson. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

To me that meant the big lesson Pizarro learned from history was that it was okay to kill innocent people and steal their gold! Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“That man killed us, Sarai,” she hissed when she finally found her voice. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

If ever a face meant death—if looks could kill—we saw it at that moment. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“My friends and I killed Phineas, one of Gaea’s other servants in Portland. Maybe we can help!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“And you up there? I come from a mining town. Since when do miners condemn other miners to that kind of death, and then stand by to kill whoever manages to crawl from the rubble?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Copying the tigers, their stalking kill and their anger, had been a wild, bloodthirsty joy. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pyce’s people would have killed them all anyway. He wouldn’t have wanted witnesses.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Three days later, her closest friend was killed in combat. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But if that Violet was strong and had hips, why was she proud of trying to kill a dead girl, and she was proud. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Johnny Tremain is a bold fellow. I knew he could learn—if he didn’t get killed first. It was sink or swim for him—and happens he’s swimming.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lion regarded us both, trying to decide which of us to kill first. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to kill you,” I say, nestling the blade into his neck. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It seemed more and more that it could have been one of the cousins from Virginia who had killed Clara. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Far more Native Americans and other non-Eurasian peoples were killed by Eurasian germs than by Eurasian guns or steel weapons. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The detective leaned the gun against the wall, relinquishing it, although he felt certain it was the weapon that had killed the Clutter family. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought you’d kill me in a more personal way. Silk pillow over my face, slow and gentle suffocation. Just you and me. Sensual.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It seemed incredible that such lasting ire as Corporal Whitcomb’s could have stemmed from his rejection of Bingo or the form letters home to the families of the men killed in combat. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Success would be measured by body count: the more captured or killed, the closer the Americans and the South Vietnamese were to victory. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

If I could have used a bat with two hands I could have killed the Rrst one surely. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you got lucky, the bad guy would drop an artifact when you killed him. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Her parents were dead—killed in the recent war with the Turks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“The flat and endless Pacific rose like a great wall around us. I never thought we would get around it. “He killed her. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And she was killed. Alaska has passed away.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

My mother used to say that when men get old they think anything that smells bad can kill germs better than soap and hot water, so they either bathe in liquor or cologne. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

This was because his victim had been the younger brother of a leader of Sing Sing’s Latin Kings gang and the administration feared that members of the gang in prison would kill him. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pity he didn't kill the Witch, but nobody's perfect. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“I—I still remember how it felt when I made my first kill. It wasn’t easy.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I don’t have a snake because a mongoose wants to kill a snake. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was not you that killed him. It was Aphrodite. Know this, that he will never be forgotten. In song and story men will remember him.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama would kill me if she knew I was headed to a boy’s house in the middle of the night. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“What’s wrong with you! Do you want to get yourself killed?” he whispered. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“You looked like you killed and ate a wild boar,” she commented mildly. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“He said he wanted to marry me, not kill me,” Kaira pointed out. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t get the captain to move. I thought you were elil and there was no point in staying to be killed. I don’t think I could fight a field mouse.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stuart Little killed the one by the kitchen house and that was a good business, so now Mama lets it come on in the house. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

By making a picture of an animal they meant to bring the animal itself within their grasp, and in “killing” the image they thought they had killed the animal’s vital spirit. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not that they were hunted or killed, but many left the clinic from fear, and Farmer noted the “paralysis” and “lassitude” among those who stayed behind. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, I would have hurt him, or even maybe killed him if I could. I’m a person who respects the law, but... sometimes there’s things you can’t help, right?” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered how we’d act like we were sneaking up on a plantation to kill the lot of slave masters and make a run for Canada with some happy, smiling, free slaves. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

That week, which included the hottest three-day period in the nation’s history, the heat would kill three thousand Americans. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Later I would discover that they eat a variety of insects and sometimes hunt and kill prey animals to feed on meat. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

But this dead man had tried to kill him. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

“And before you left that house you killed all the people in it.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before Marines were finally called in to restore order, two black men had been killed and seventeen people had been injured. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Ajax saw himself disgraced and in a fit of furious anger he determined to kill Agamemnon and Menelaus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you try to kill him, like, a lot of times?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“If I killed this miserable hog, then I wouldn’t have an excuse, que no?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He believed I would kill him to free his slaves. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Hit me, go ahead. You can kill me if that makes you feel better,” I screamed loud enough for the world to hear. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The plant is in a plastic pot, not a ceramic one, and only medium-sized, not so heavy that it will actually kill Nino Carlitos. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Defenders of the overkill hypothesis reply: you would hardly expect to find kill sites if the extermination was completed very quickly and long ago, such as within a few millennia some 40,000 years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I was feeling pretty bad; I wanted to kill myself.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Many of them would be imprisoned or killed if the Communists took over. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

"You look at him sometimes when he thinks nobody's looking at him. I'll bet he killed a man." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I—I shot the woman who killed her.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to kill somebody soon, just to relieve the tension. You’ll see.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m dying, look at me! It’s killed me!” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Oh, so Phil accompanied you back to the opera house. We didn’t know that; our communications broke down about then. We knew just that she had been killed; we naturally assumed by you.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“You think the Augurs would have let me? Besides, I know you, Elias. You wouldn’t have killed her, even if you’d known.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Con asked: “If we do not kill her—if Elowen remains alive—what will happen?” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“So may I do,” Achilles answered, “I who did not help my comrade in his sore need. I will kill the destroyer of him I loved; then I will accept death when it comes.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe Massa Clay got loose and kill the snake,” she added fearfully. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s better than around the ship yards. This is nothing at all in comparison to that. And it hasn’t killed me yet.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, God, I feel cold and empty and I wish I could be in India where it’s nice and warm and there’s no school and my father could never find me to kill me. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“He was caught shortly after you were too. He preferred to fight rather than come quietly and was killed in the struggle.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Combined, the risks meant the operation could kill me. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

In the normal course of things he should have killed the zebra. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Anyone who worked at PIH knew that a simple “epi” map—based on what makes people sick and what kills them, and in what numbers and at what ages—could be coded in two colors. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The noble killed him then, with no warning; a flash of the nobleman’s sword and Domingo’s heart was torn to pieces. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They killed Signy’s other children; they shut her husband in the house and set fire to it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or the children who have been killed by bombs and bullets. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I would kill you before you ever reached the water,” Dr. Thorn said, as if reading my thoughts. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

"They have swords too, big longswords, and they showed me how to kill people who bother me." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

What will happen if it kills me? the boy wondered. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s not going to kill him to wash it!” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I thought when you said you killed him you meant that you tracked him down and...” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Aunt Miss Trotter, God doesn’t want us to kill,” Fern said. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Could the muvuki really have killed his own son to get power? A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One principal said out loud what many were thinking, expressing concern over “the emotional tendency of the colored to knife and kill.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“You look to me like you be lying, gal. If I find you been lying to me, I swear I’ll kill you all. Nathan!” he called suddenly. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ninety-five percent of the gunters who challenged him lost and were then killed. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“And to think you were forced to spend so much time in his company. I’m amazed he didn’t kill you in your sleep. I’m—” Thomas pauses, then decides against finishing his sentence. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

True, I had heard that colored people were killed and beaten, but so far it all had seemed remote. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You mean there’s something he could do to make you kill him, after all?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s a solid policy until people want to kill you. And in our line of work that happens a lot.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

If Clara was sure she had been killed in the attic, then there might have been clues left behind. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The man police blame for his murder was killed four days later in an outbreak of violence that left four people dead in one six-hour period. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I bled and thought about the people to be killed; I bled and thought about the people to be born. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the chemicals in these Earth defoliants killed most fish and mammals too, as well as humans. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I know, I just, for a minute, I thought he was going to kill me. I’m not ready to die, Jane.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I wanted her to feel hurt and guilty, to know that she drove me to kill myself. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a group level, though, they were less genetically homogeneous, which conferred some relative advantage; the virus would sweep through them, but not kill quite so many. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Not to mention, her guards would kill me before I even lifted a hand.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Mam says it’s not the River Shannon that will kill us but the stink from that lavatory outside our door. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

By the time I made it home, I only had a little bit of time to kill before Coach picked me up. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

As far back as Yossarian could recall, he explained to Clevinger with a patient smile, somebody was always hatching a plot to kill him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

We would hike to the gap if it killed us, and then try to hitchhike into Hiawassee for dinner and a night in a motel. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

This is just wrong: of course Ramses II did not know he was dying of tuberculosis, but nevertheless we now know that it was tuberculosis that killed him. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Next time, we kill you,” the gangsters told him. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Taisin’s body hummed with a jumble of emotions—awe at witnessing the child’s frightening transformation; terror that it was going to kill her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I asked Mr. Wise if he knew who had killed Wellington on Thursday night. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had killed a cliff-ghast, but using the knife on a being shaped like himself was much harder. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He knows what I suspect, that I think the government may have killed our parents intentionally. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He had seen a golden opportunity to attack—perhaps kill—the detestable Thlayli and Blackavar, together with their one companion—who seemed to be lame—and bring the doe back to the Council. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that he’d been in an ambush and seen men injured and killed, he was also ruthlessly ready to fight. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Still holding the gun that had killed Herod Sayle, he walked over and examined the body, prodding it with his shoe. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Sometimes a wishing star turns out to be just a lump of rock that crashes into a planet and kills all the dinosaurs. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But a study in the early 1960s of seven thousand unvaccinated smallpox cases in southern India found that the disease killed 43 percent of its victims. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then I killed the me that killed her.’ Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’d just kill me and that would be it. No questions asked,” Ben said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Agave was the most wretched of all mothers, driven mad by Dionysus so that she believed her son Pentheus was a lion and killed him with her own hands. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sight of the rats was unbearable, even if they had just been about to kill him. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You are the Witch. You are thousands of years old. You have killed countless children.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

This, as everyone knows, is true of radiation, which kills cancer cells but may also cause cancer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

So sorry, but Ike should perhaps be killed now with a poisoned arrow. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stories repeated about them in the mountains told how fast they were with a gun, and how many men they had killed. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they managed to kill a deer or antelope, we’d make a fire and roast the meat. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I backtrack the coyote by following feathers and find that she killed her prey in a clearing not far from the falls. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says, ‘He is here. He will kill me. ” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

About the only thing I could do was slip down there, kill the guard, open the gate and let the prisoners out. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dogs, perhaps many dogs, had been killed simply by getting too close to the back feet of a horse. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Next time he might kill someone. This Circle Justice has its place, but I oppose any plan that does not isolate Cole Matthews.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I killed a snake this morning, just whacked it into pieces with my machete and flung all three of them up in the trees. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were taught to kill with their hands and feet. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

For we discover that some of them always lived nobly and demonstrated great strength of character, yet nevertheless lost their empire or were killed by their own soldiers who plotted against them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

A citizen of our city, a citizen of our state and country, has been killed by people who attempted to rob him. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

To believe them dead is to accept I killed them. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“The Schoharie Bridge was falling apart for years and years, and no one did anything about it until it killed five people.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then he took his slingshot from the porch and walked up toward the brush line to try to kill a bird. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell myself again that if I get killed, his winning will benefit my mother and Prim the most. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

‘Because I hate Fascists. If I met one walking on the street I’d kill him.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Clara Harris and Henry Rathbone married, but eighteen years later he went insane and murdered her, using a gun and knife, the same type of weapons Booth carried the night he killed Abraham Lincoln. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Martials will sell him if he’s lucky and kill him if he’s not. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A week earlier she had learned from Freddie that Hagar had tried to kill Milkman six times in as many months. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tractor then plows the field to kill them. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

To kill time as we waited for our rides home, I was turning kids into animals. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

While Ares screamed that Athena’s children couldn’t be trusted, and Mars bellowed at him to kill all the Greeks, Frank had grown to respect Annabeth. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Bobbette stormed over to Galen and Ethel’s house, and burst in their front door screaming that if either of them touched one of those Lacks children again, she’d kill them herself. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

That was the second innocent thing I killed, if you count the bull. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“But then, you don’t have to be mean about it. Wouldn’t kill you to smile,” he said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

What would I even kill an animal with, a stick? The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

So many whites killed the papers would not print the number. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same indifferent system that had allowed Grigori to kill with impunity had made it so he died anonymously. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“If a warlock’s spell could kill me, I would be dead by now. I left their palace all in ashes.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“If we had killed that cop they would have rounded up all the men in town and cut off their heads and hung them from their patrol car antennas.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The teacher gave no instruction the entire period, except to applaud the actions of a man who, in broad daylight at an airport, killed a manacled criminal suspect accused of molesting the man’s son. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was at Wilson’s Creek that the Union commander, Nathaniel Lyon, was killed; and it was here, people said, that hundreds of boys died because of General Fremont’s refusal to send reinforcements to Lyon. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one I remember best was with a woman who had been the mistress of a man who had supervised one of the camps where they put the Jews, before they killed them. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fish,” he said, “I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Food brought to him ready killed had never, never tasted as this did. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“You silly girl, do you think I’d have such a rare and valuable beast killed?” said her father testily. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

In the very same Chicago block, a white man was dragged from a truck and killed, and a black chauffeur was hauled from his car and murdered. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I am the wolf that kills the stag, the hawk that kills the mouse, the spider that kills the fly! A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I resolved, absolutely and finally, to kill myself, for love of the Baby Grendel that used to be. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would kill them every one if I allowed it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The kid that got killed had a toy gun, Amari said. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

But why shoot himself in the body if he meant to kill himself? Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“What do you know about natural? I just saw a demon kill a man, was that natural?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Then they’ll kill him. He’s not a bear, you see. He’s an outcast. Like me. Degraded, you see. Not entitled to any of the privileges of a bear.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

And there have indeed been other football players killed— one at Tangerine High and one at St. Anthony’s High. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emo fed off each man he killed, and the higher the rank of the dead man, the higher it made Emo. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she honestly thought she saw the boy kill his father. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go shower before you kill me,” I say as I lean as far away from him as I can. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

My mind roves back to the battlefield and my first kill’s assertion: that everyone on that field will die by my hand. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It killed me to watch, but I couldn’t turn away either, not then. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

‘Many have tried. Even Artemis’s own brother, Apollo, was not able to kill me back in the ancient times. He had to use trickery to get rid of me.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“This is a gamble. The kind I don’t like. The kind that killed Miss Nita’s last ship, you understand?” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I could forgive a man who killed my father by mistake, but love him as a husband? By God, Horatio, I do not know!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Your efforts are futile. You cannot fight me. I do not want to kill you. I have great respect for the teachers of Hogwarts. I do not want to spill magical blood.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Back at the house, we still had about an hour and a half to kill before I was supposed to be at the high school. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fatman! Buffo! You hate me. You want to kill me. Here I am. Here”—I took his hand and put it on my head—“kill me.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Sadness makes me want to kill myself to escape the hopelessness of my life. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each layer of kids fell down and away, peeling back to reveal a new, fresh layer for the kill—I couldn’t see the snow beneath them anymore. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

GINNY: The best way to break the prophecy is not to kill Harry Potter, it’s to stop Voldemort doing anything at all. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Grandma glared at Crab like she wanted to kill him as dead as those squirrels. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“And what about those other men? Did you kill them too?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

When Farah drew it, they killed her and ate her heart immediately. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I killed my own brother, Rondell. My own brother. Dead, man. ’Cause of me.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

"We can't kill them," I said, looking at the bloodthirsty mob approaching, leaning into the wind. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Any fool can kill. It’s easy—as easy as throwing a book on the fire, breaking down a door, or frightening a child.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They killed policemen and dumped their bodies by the side of the road. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I’d seen the papers and heard Holly’s mom and dad talking about a boy who got killed for playing with a toy gun. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“It can also kill you down there,” he finished up, pointing at his crotch. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I know that Clyde was really trying to kill me. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I had fallen awkwardly enough I could have been killed. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And yet you know it is not the same. For them, racism kills.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“My friend killed herself not that long ago. We argued and she died angry at me.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He was concerned that his family living in Germany would be killed. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

She said the words aloud to herself to kill the sound. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed that some of the Men had ridden in close, slipped off their horses, crawled to the edge of the camp and killed several Orcs, and then had faded away again. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t really look injured anymore—there are some bruises, some cuts, but nothing serious enough to kill him. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Yet most of the chemicals now used kill all insects, our friends and enemies alike. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

By the grace of my Iwas, when his walls come tumbling down for good and he kills me tonight, I will do the same. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, there were a lot of warriors wounded. Nobody knows exactly how many. Some say around forty warriors were killed. One of those was Crazy Horse’s best friend.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The real question of capital punishment in this country is, Do we deserve to kill? Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but you might not stay dead. I thought Brahmasura was killed a long time ago.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“One leaf could kill every person in the Collective. I thought you might find it a priority to eradicate it,” I say. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Are you really that selfish? Or are you just stupid? They’ll kill you and your family,” he said. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

And there was Jimmy, the older boy—Jimmy, who had one day driven his wife to suicide and killed himself the next. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

And what of the president—had Booth killed Abraham Lincoln, or did the tyrant still live? Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is said the soldiers often kill children in front of their parents to elicit confessions and names of traitors. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if they were going to kill us? Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For no reason at all in the world they would have killed me. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then some of the hearthmen jumped up with shouts and tumult, intending to kill him, for murder is a lighter shadow on a house than suicide. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ben thought for a moment, then said, “What about Uncle Dan? Your brother, the one killed in the Solomons. Was he a lousy pilot?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What were you thinking, Brightbill? You must leave now before he kills us both!” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They killed the bees that were stinging him and they shook the bees out of his clothes and then they dressed him again and sent him to the house. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

When stung, patients report a feeling of impending doom; some patients are so certain that death is imminent they beg physicians to kill them so they can “get it over with.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

My biggest fear is that something I’ve done or said will cause us to be killed. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“But I don’t think you would accept my help, since I’m only waiting up here so that I can kill you.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, after we had lavished so much time and effort and money on it, it should never have let one of its bolts snap and destroy itself and maybe kill Father. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had not spoken with another human since the night my family was killed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was like asking a cat not to kill a bird. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“And you didn’t kill a Cobalt Blue Orchid, sweetie.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He sounded just like Luke when he’d tried to kill me in the woods at camp four years ago. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then they were attacked by a gaggle of vampires, led by a cheerleader Annabeth had killed two years ago. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“And get killed in the meantime,” she said. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Look at their faces, grinning and snarling at me, a sure kill above them. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Word drifted back that there had been a terrible dynamite blast in one of the quarries that had killed twelve convicts and wounded several others. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the media is to be believed, teenagers are too busy breaking laws and trying to kill themselves and the people around them to form any bonds of attachment. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The delicate larvae themselves are killed by very small quantities of many of the common insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

‘If I don’t honour the bargain,’Jason said, ‘Kym can always kill me. With Gaia, she has no guarantee at all.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Grandpa, the monsters aren’t coming for you. You killed them all in the war, remember?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

"If you are to rule in the north, you must think these things through, Robb. Answer your own question. Why would anyone want to kill a sleeping child?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“My colleague wanted to know about your connection to this place. Is it true that your own father was shot and killed by the Oakland police?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He was lonely and wanted to get married, which made him weak, says Mikey, and got him killed in the end. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, friends say, migrants are killed when whirlpools suck them under. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

One touch between two CFers can literally kill the both of them. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Do you remember later? You came back with a hatchet to kill me.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were paid less than men doing the same job and received no benefits or pension; if one of their pilots was killed in flight, her companions chipped in to pay for the funeral themselves. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Oh yeah? How do I know you don’t think I’m some evil creature and this is just a plot to get me alone so you can finally kill “Don’t be stupid,” she said. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“You killed your father,” Dumbledore said, in the same soft voice. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

And there had been a sister who had died young under queer circumstances, and the fire that had disfigured his brother, and the hunting accident that had killed their father. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And so they are, Anatole says, “For how can you kill what is already dead?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt dimly that the true power was to withhold the death stroke, to let the creature go when you could have killed it. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

She looked softer than the woman who had once tried to rob and kill him in the wolfswood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

To me, Gram said, ‘Your grandfather nearly killed the egg man over that letter.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“You kill the child and keep it in your room.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Black defendants, like McCleskey, who killed white victims had the highest chance of being sentenced to death in Georgia. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Wouldn't you know that as soon as I got a claim staked and a place built, the doc here would tell me this cough was going to kill me. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Please, God, please don’t kill my daddy. Please, God, please don’t kill my daddy. Please, God, please don’t kill my daddy.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In truth it had nearly killed me, but I could hardly write that down. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“They killed him. Doesn’t that make you mad?” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“For Christ’s sake, let me go! He’s nuts! He’ll kill her!” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The villagers kept a watch nearby that night, hoping to surprise the panther and kill it, but it never appeared. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had been found unconscious atop the iron wheel that had killed the demon. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In fact, that was how we came to say a child was killed by Buffo: “He smelled the mint.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I’d killed two of them now, and each encounter had nearly been the end of me. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“These things happen every day. They kill them and throw them away every day.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s joking, so I figure this must mean she doesn’t know how much I want to kill her right now. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The next morning we heard the search party had found what the lion killed in my place: a yearling bushbuck. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Sphinx, inexplicably, but most fortunately, killed herself; the Thebans were saved. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half the men in his company had been killed or wounded. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The Nazis had killed so many of us, they were running out of Jews. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dozens of people were killed and hundreds were wounded in pitched battles with machine guns, pistols, and rifles. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I am tired of everyone keeping their secrets so well that they get other people killed. We are all involved in your game, and it seems we are not as easily repaired as teacups.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But the orders of the Dark Tower were at present Frodo’s only protection, and if they were set aside, Frodo might be killed out of hand at any moment. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I was pretty sure she thought I was going to kill myself. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I plunk the tools into the sterilizing machine, which will kill the germs so the tools will be ready to use on the next patient. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piper couldn’t hear him, but the gist was obvious: We need to kill those Greeks! The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t watch Vu Lee kill and clean it, but it tasted so good. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It’s as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things it can kill. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because...Okay, because I was afraid you might kill me.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

And they killed the Preacher and got him hanging in the stable!” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Then the war blew up my school and killed my friends. My dreams are dead, Baba. I’m not afraid to fight ISIS.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I think you could kill a turtle with this.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear, and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the ones we actually killed . . . do they believe they're avenging their own deaths? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

More than a thousand Redcoats were killed or hurt that day. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

He had always said, “Let them kill me. I will die for what I believe in.” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

SCORPIUS: The hedges want to kill us too? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Kill us, kill us, kill us, the train engine chugged. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Is this the majors? We’re not even in shape, some of us are old men—is the point to kill each other?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the other telling, she’s the jealous maniac who murders Maryam and decides to kill herself when the son insults her pride with a proposal. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“No. A girl from here in the village that got killed last year.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He is Drogo's son, and the crones say he will be the stallion who mounts the world. It was prophesied. Better to kill the child than to risk his fury when he grows to manhood." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Did he tell you,” asked the King with interest, “that it was wrong to kill people for any reason, and especially when you were looking for the Grail?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t belong on those tapes. Hannah just wanted an excuse to kill herself.” Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

At one point, though, I listened, because he was saying, “It is true I killed a man.” The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, I did. But Mr. Hamilton kind of talked me out of it. He says Trask hasn’t got it in him to kill anybody.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

As with Lincoln, the decision is made not to transport Booth because any movement will surely kill him. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“My mom and dad would kill me if they found me on my phone this late. Also, minutes are expensive.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

‘I don’t need to kill you,’ Leo said. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

After sunrise the bees would come out and I discovered that by slapping my two palms together smartly I could kill a bee. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But two sentences later we’re told that the instinct to hunt and kill is directed by the intellect. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The name meant “earth pig,” and the book said that a “sharp blow with a stout stick” was all it took to kill one, if that was what you wanted to do. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was not, as the Dursleys had pretended for ten years, a souvenir of the car crash that had killed Harry’s parents, because Lily and James Potter had not died in a car crash. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Fat Cheeks even killed a hare and snarled at anyone who tried to get a share. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pretended to fiddle with my oxygen tank for a second just to kill time. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Was my father going to really go to kill those guys? When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poetry and prayer put ideas in people’s heads that got them killed, distracting them from the ruthless mechanism of the world. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“My parents will kill me if I get detention.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Still, this question remained: Could they—could his side, the police side—weather the storm that might result if Joe Mondragon were killed? The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s slow and stupid. I can kill him too.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Ne-gro, please. If I kill Tyrone, I’m going to prison. If a cop kills me, he’s getting put on leave. Maybe.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Modern foragers occasionally abandon and even kill old or disabled people who cannot keep up with the band. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found that the more people killed in a war, the less likely it was to occur, and the longer before you could witness it, just as violent storms occur less frequently than cloudbursts. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is it supposed to teach me not to kill myself? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

From what I saw, most people thought this was a joke: honoring the scoreboard like this was a quirky little thing we East Shoalers did to cover up the fact that it had killed someone. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

In the book, the rabbits had come across this warren—this community—that accepted food handouts from humans in exchange for accepting that some of them would be killed by the same humans in return. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I began to think about all the times that I was almost killed and the fact that my name could have been on one of those buttons. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I would have killed, Brian thought suddenly, for someone to talk to, someone to share it with, someone to hear me; and now that I have someone, I don’t talk. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The man, however, did not wish to listen to her and he pushed her with a stick, making her continue her journey to the place of Chief Mmeke, where she would be killed. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got it. The headlines will read, ‘Little Rock heroine gives in to segregationists—kills herself.’ Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was feared that Morrison planned to kill both children. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Maybe so, but if I take you into town and I tell them I’ve got the man who killed that banker’s son in Kansas City, I think they might be real interested.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“How do you kill a thing like that?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When the lawyer asked if Hale had ever requested that he hire someone to kill Roan, Burkhart said, “He never did.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Should I come right out and say, Actually, Mom, he wasn’t killed by a tree branch. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not lying when I say that Hollywood actresses would kill for my mother’s smile. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Twenty-eight campers were killed, nineteen of them buried too deep ever to be found again. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I could have been killed but I was lucky—the bullet just skinned my ankle. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When its frills unfurled around its head, Annabeth couldn’t help but think what a regal and amazing monster it was that was about to kill her. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“No! I’m gonna kill it now. I can do this,” Seven said. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I mean to talk to Hizdahr. If he understands ^ do not intend to kill him, he may command his guards to yield.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Written in grease pencil on the acetate surface of the chart were columns and rows of numbers—the numbers of American and enemy troops killed or wounded in battle. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The thought of him—and his accusation against the Republic, that the Republic creates the plagues, kills kids who fail the Trial—fills me with rage. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Your mother would kill you if she knew about your smoking,” Laila said, looking one way, then the other, before slipping into the alley. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Conversation In the car I ask Dad if going to the doctor will kill him. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

“They weren’t after the memory serum. They were after poison—death serum. So that they could kill a bunch of important government people and start a war.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“We must flee! If he gets loose, he will surely find us and kill us.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You want us to kill him in cold blood ?” Yossarian objected. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Well,” he said, “if I may ask, why did the man kill his wife? In fact, why did he ever have to feel sad to shed tears? Couldn’t he have just smelled an onion?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I killed a chicken last night. I’ll fry it if you can wait.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Both men appeared to have been killed on impact. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She’s going to kill me for not having done this sooner. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

For all I knew, he might kill her. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I killed one of the other lodgers. In a duel." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

One leak from a refrigerator at a hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1929 killed more than a hundred people. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Who was the first one, Mama, the first to kill when they decided to break apart India? The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I killed and skinned as many meerkats as would fit in the locker and on the floor of the lifeboat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Gaea was making her the ultimate deal—kill one annoying guy, get a handsome one free! The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Mumtaz would kill us if she knew we were even talking about something like this.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Remember the name of the man he killed?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Japanese soldier was supposed to die in banzai charges or kill himself rather than give up. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was going to kill himself tomorrow, in front of Pinkus’s house. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Anyway... the giants were hard to kill. According to prophecy, they could only be defeated by gods and demigods working together.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“You stupid girl. You could have killed us both.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But he couldn’t hide his own Divergence, and that killed him. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But she was not trying to argue her eldest into staying, even though she knew that if he escaped or died trying she and others in her family would be tortured and probably killed. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The Taylor Method's to zap out a duct through my shelter and kill the aliens from safety. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He worked like a dog for her and nearly killed himself saving her in the storm, then soon as he got a little fever from the water, she had took up with another man. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“It’s really that I can’t leave Otto, Mom. I know the surrogate mothers are great, but he’s bonded to me and it would kill him if I abandoned him.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Long legs, up to yer chest, with claws at the end that can kill you with one kick if yer not careful. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He would go off and kill Medusa and bring back her head as his gift. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, it’s no worse than some environmental factor on Sagan that kills everyone. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The panic-stricken people in the town thought only that they would be killed or enslaved and their city ruined. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have killed the owl with a bullet molded by the Prince of Death!” he shouted at me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told her about the plan to kill Lyra. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

What with Ladybird Hope trying to kill us and all. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Finally, he planned an insurrection, in which he and his followers were to kill all the white people in Charleston, South Carolina, and free the slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were Jains with masks tied around their faces so they wouldn’t accidentally breathe in an insect and so kill a living thing, which was against their religion. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t kill them all, Leah explained, because then we’d have no eggs for omelets—one of the few things we knew how to cook. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made my mother sad, and it slowly killed my father’s dream. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now I was sitting next to someone just out of Vietnam, fresh from his job to kill or be killed. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Luke had tried to kill us in cold blood too many times. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Minerva says the police don’t kill him because he is so old, he will soon die on his own without any bother to them. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look up into those blue eyes that no amount of dramatic makeup can make truly deadly and remember how, just a year ago, I was prepared to kill him. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Stanton believed that the Lincoln and Seward assassinations had exposed a Confederate plot to kill the leaders of the national government in an attempt to reverse the results of the Civil War. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though promoted to a major by the Lon Nol government, Pa said he did not want to join but had to, or he would risk being persecuted, branded a traitor, and perhaps even killed. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few months later Miss Mitten was killed by a milk van in Hobart, across the road from a cricket oval. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would have killed a dozen horses if it would have helped me get more information about the Chandrian and why they had killed my parents. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I can think of no sane reason that Coin would send an unstable boy, programmed to kill me, along on such a key assignment. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we all have it and it just takes longer to kill you depending on your immune system.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“You killed him while he was jerking himself off?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

My heart lifted and I rejoiced in the same sun that almost killed me. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Laika, who for whatever reasons had an excessively guilty conscience, immediately dropped the snake and curled up in her “please don’t kill me” pose. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

When Tecumseh was killed in October r8r3 at the Battle of the Thames, the alliance crumbled. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I scrape the cheese off a sliver of potato—which will not kill me, potatoes rarely cause death—and shove it in my mouth and chew, chew, chew, smiling across the acres of tablecloth. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

The last party I went to was April 4, the night Eleanor was killed. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

White man trying to kill you slow every day, and sometimes trying to kill you fast. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I knew I was being unkind, and I hated myself for it, but I had to find a way to get through this conversation before it killed me. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

They killed the owl and made Ultima powerless, then they beheaded her and drank her blood. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the Negro was killed on a Wednesday, the Wednesday man takes it; if he was killed on Monday, the Monday man takes that one. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to try to put food and water down Derek’s throat, and if he did that he might choke him and kill him. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

She even went over to Bridgeport, practically got herself killed on the bridge. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll kill him,” I said, anger flaring up inside of me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He told Creon that Thebes would be saved only if Menoeceus was killed. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A person is not killed here, but chosen. They are not cremated in the ovens, they are processed. There are no corpses, only pieces of drek, only shmattes, rags.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lowers her voice and asks with suspicious, squinted eyes, “Did you kill somebody?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

It's not really fair to present us as a team and then lock us into the arena to kill each other. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“You and I had just better stay in the hemlock tree until Frightful gets this kid on wing and out of here, or someone is going to get killed.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It had also killed a man and maimed another before they had successfully exorcised the thing. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

It’s hard having to kill the dead you once knew. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Hercules, without a thought of how kind Hippolyta had been, without any thought at all, instantly killed her, taking it for granted that she was responsible for the attack. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why, we had a real set-to, and there were some folk killed, killed dead! The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Eat it so that the point of the hook goes into your heart and kills you, he thought. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gangsters have killed and have gone free to kill again. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The plot to kill Washington had been uncovered. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well...I think he wants to kill me.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“It had killed before it met us,” said Blackberry with a shudder. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I had a mug like that, I’d kill myself,” she says, lifting up her arms and smelling her pits. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“If what you say is true and Yakov was murdered by the very man he intended to kill, then I fear you will have no choice but to complete the job for him.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

So, like, I was constantly reminding him that he had killed our plant. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The pig was the boar who'd killed him, Sansa knew, but in some verses it almost sounded as if he were singing about the queen. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She came close to snapping—flying at her enemies in a rage and getting herself killed. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

After that summer, after being friends with Won-a-nee and her young, I never killed another otter. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although everybody paid up fairly, it had lowered the value of the kill. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

People have been killed by pigs, horses, camels, and cattle. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"But we'll leave part of the kill for ..." He knelt down again and was busy with his knife. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“That’s what you think. You didn’t see the way they were looking at me. And don’t say”—he formed the words kill pigeons with his lips—“around him.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

She learned of the fight, which did not kill her mate, and of the humans’ explosion, which did. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She wore a tattered dress of black silk, and her face was twisted and ravenous, like a demonic grandmother in the mood to kill. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Even if they hadn't, the freezing cold would have killed the crops. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sir, I’d forgotten. We have word that General Reynolds was killed.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I could kill you right now,” he says. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

How it had looked up from Junior Haskell’s lifeless body and said, “You killed him.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I can’t forget the rifle grease smeared on the hilt of the knife that killed my brother. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

More than anything on earth Bellerophon wanted Pegasus, a marvelous horse which had sprung from the Gorgon’s blood when Perseus killed her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman said the dagger would kill only if Anya wanted it to. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I remembered the story; the giant who’d tried to kill Theseus with excess hospitality on his way to Athens. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

In addition, measles and some of our other “childhood” diseases are more likely to kill infected adults than children, and all adults in the tribelet are susceptible. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I was there, big deal. It didn’t bother the other two. Why did this James decide to kill me? There’re people all over the place, why me?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Snape raised his eyebrows and his tone was sardonic as he asked, “Are you intending to let him kill you?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But the man was certain that the debils would soon pass through our village, recognize him, and kill him too. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the trackers found the swept place, he must leap for the horseman, kill him quickly and take the rifle. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We will keep going until we are killed,” Abraham said. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of those extinctions, the Great Dying, killed off nine out of ten species on Earth. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

As I pelted away he limped after me, shouting that he would kill me for what I’d done. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Our opponents had done everything they could to frame Walter—in order to kill him. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“But, Four,” she adds, “you didn’t kill Uriah. You didn’t set off the bomb that injured him. You didn’t make the plan that led to that explosion.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He flashed back to an encounter in Texas two years ago—a fight with a monstrous rancher who could only be killed if each of his three bodies was cut through simultaneously. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

‘They could play backgammon till they got all tired and then they could climb up on that smokestack and throw these at everybody and kill them.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Look, Fatman! I’m a Jew. You have to kill me. Look!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“The boy is right, Zoe Nightshade. Put away your bow. It would be a shame to kill you before you witnessed Thalia s great victory.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Especially with the prodemocracy groups demonstrating, calling for a government investigation into Papa’s death, insisting that the old regime killed him. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

A near riot ensued over who had the right to claim the “honor” of the kill. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Try to swim away in this water and it’ll kill you,” Edwin warned Cole. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t supposed to kill me, just keep me there till You-Know-Who came.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“He might wish I had,” Pet said grimly, “but no, I won’t kill him.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He offered to kill his son with his own bare hands. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kill the headlights and drive along the road that parallels the river. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

To that bed I seemed to have grown; I lay on it motionless as a stone; and to have torn me from it would have been almost to kill me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

But World War II was of magnitude 7.7: some fifty million military personnel and noncombatants were killed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is recorded that they killed prisoners but they were no better nor worse than the English. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“The army will come here and kill everyone who don’t join it. That’s it.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Bod said, “What was his name? The man who killed them.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

No sooner were they seated than, from secret places in the room, soldiers emerged who killed Giovanni and all the others. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was with a mixture of osha that Ultima washed my face and arms and feet the night Lupito was killed. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are copper head snakes, coral snakes, cottonmouth snakes, and the blue indigo snake, so long and fast it can kill a rattlesnake. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

My senses were so misaligned that I was nearly killed in the woods. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“The words on that monument said there were no survivors. That means that all the soldiers were killed, right?” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

I went up to Mrs. Alexander and said, “Do you know anything about Wellington being killed?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

To be more accurate, I’m just glad he was there before I fell off the ledge and killed myself in front of everyone. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Just a thought. Besides, I don’t see that we have many choices. If Hercules doesn’t get that horn, he’ll kill us and our friends.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You don’t mean he would really kill her.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

FBI agents also infiltrated black community and activist organizations, sought to undermine political education efforts, and illegally and legally surveilled, targeted, jailed, and killed activists. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

That would leave me six hours to kill with meals, nature’s call, my memories, and the story about the Czechoslovakian. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

"Robert fought a war to win her back. He killed Rhaegar on the Trident with his hammer, but Lyanna died and he never got her back at all." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The word bàndika, for “kill with an arrow,” has two meanings, you see. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In violent details we hear of the soldiers’ mighty strength and supernatural powers to kill the Youns. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had killed her and they did not know it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“As hard as I could. And I am pretty sure he would have killed me if you didn’t stop him.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“The first summer I was here was the summer of ninety-five, when Chicago had a heat wave that killed hundreds of people, and of course the hospital wasn’t air-conditioned,” Reilly remembers. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

This is to prevent the spread of infectious diseases that could kill other primates, including humans. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man told a New York City operator that people were planning to kill their children before the Martians could get them. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe she was actually a spirit, a zombie creature that could not be killed. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

But still, I entertain her nonsense because I have a few minutes to kill before I have to get back to the station. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Then Sister Betty came through the people, herself a nurse, and people recognizing her moved back; she fell on her knees looking down on his bare, bullet-pocked chest, sobbing, “They killed him!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie knew that George's first wife and child had been killed in a car accident and that was why Charlie's mom said he drank so much. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Will they kill the bird?” she asked quietly. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“You’ll be all alone with me in that little room,” she whispered.“I swear I’ll kill you and bury you under the floor if you make trouble.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Drop out? Of church? You crazy! Ma would kill me!” Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“She asked me to call you and let you know that the police have arrested her for murder—they say she killed all those old ladies.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They were waiting to ambush us because we were in their territory and they thought we had killed their cattle to eat. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the most spectacular fish kills of recent years occurred in the Colorado River below Austin, Texas, in 1961. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

This Tithonus, the husband of Aurora, the Goddess of the Dawn, was the father of her son, the dark-skinned prince Memnon of Ethiopia who was killed at Troy, fighting for the Trojans. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can get killed flying them, too,” Dobbs answered pugnaciously in his rough, quavering, overwrought voice. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile Jason charged at Otis, who pulled his spear and heaved a great sigh, as if he would much rather dance Swan Lake than kill another demigod. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“We have to kill them! Give the order!” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

"You never killed a woman before, did you?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“So you did kill the children,” Matt said. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I see... Well, actually, I’m blind, so I don’t see. Have you come to kill me, then? If so, good luck completing your quest.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Forgetting can kill you. What if you had an attack and we weren’t here?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She told us about how she tried to bribe the officers into letting her friends go, but they threatened to kill her. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

As soon as it was gone, I called him back because I was afraid he’d get hurt or maybe killed. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

"We have to get him out. Hot Pie, you got to help. We'll sneak up and kill the guards, and then I'll open the door." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And now twenty-three of us will be killed to show how even that hope was an illusion. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Nothing but a childish prank, you said. Some childish prank; both my children cruelly injured, almost killed. Maybe now you'll do something, now that it's too late." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

By Friday it hurt him to breathe and it like to killed him when he coughed. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

‘He’ll kill me for losing it,’ he told his captors over and over again. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He thought the adults were the ones being taken to work, while the younger ones would be killed. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was a son’s duty to kill his father’s murderers, a duty that came before all others. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you sure you are not an agent of the Nigerian government? It is you white people who allowed Gowon to kill innocent women and children.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps I should kill you now, before my dark friend arrives?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The time it took to get my dad out of the car and into our house almost killed my sister. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“But not so quick as the one that killed our fathers,” he retorts. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

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

Though I knew Sass would never do such a thing, I believed she would surely kill my spirit with her spitefulness if I didn’t fight back. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Luma learned that Jeremiah had been at home the night that his father was killed. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

One of his friends bought a freshly killed monkey and put it in the back of the Land Rover. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could kill him so easily, tear that grin from his face...She could destroy the king as he had destroyed her... Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Anyway, the second Phiri saw my father arrive, he shouted to him, “Mister Kamkwamba, PLEASE...some vines for my head! I don’t want to kill this man!” The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

And yet, she didn’t quite seem ready to kill him. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Herds build up in good years, only to be killed off by drought. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I was prepared to struggle for, to kill, and, if necessary, to die for my Führer and country,” said Henry Metelmann. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing who killed her isn’t going to bring her back. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily, I didn’t kill myself and have a tragic ending like Romeo and Juliet did. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But with the “improvement” instituted by the Forest Service, the willows went the way of the sagebrush, killed by the same impartial spray. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“The worst thing is having to kill time,” James wrote in his diary. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“It’s been thrashed and bitten. The book says that’s how pigs kill snakes.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We can’t kill the giants without the help of the gods.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Does he want to kill his parents in the next room? Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“The people who did this to him are coming here. Right now. They’re going to kill you and take your son unless you leave.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She hauled me out of the Big House before Dionysus could remember that he wanted to kill me. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought so. I’ve heard it’s an acquired taste in animals. So why did you kill them?” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Why didn’t you kill me when you had the chance?” she whispered. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Was there something unusual in his voice since he had killed Mary? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“My wife is dead, and the police think that I killed her. What could be worse than that?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I became a monster today, and decided to kill them, one by one, they would become aware only after most of the flock had been slaughtered, thought the boy. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Why don't we just kill him now and get it over with?" The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

No one can say for sure where he was killed, whether some hostile landsmen or the sea, the stormwaves on the deep sea, got the best of him. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When they were killed, Nerissa became as frail as glass, Henry as hard as stone.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

"You tried to kill the memory of her," I said. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Mr. Leroy dying, the Preacher getting killed, the smells, the way the chains rattled, and the naked folks looking so scared and whupped and tired, it was just too much. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

In fact, it was that which killed him, to his great surprise. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I struggled to accept that the massacre was real, that all those people died in the camp, that kids were killed or orphaned. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Not only had it killed every avatar in the sector, it had even destroyed Castle Anorak, a fortress that, until now, had proven itself to be indestructible. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Yet many listeners believed that their favorite radio personalities had been killed and the Buffalo area taken over by extraterrestrials. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He was black and he had been alone in a room where a white girl had been killed; therefore he had killed her. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘They did. Seven hundred against seventy. It wasn’t a battle. It was .. .just target practice ... for them. Some of our men were killed and the British huzzaed and took the road to Concord.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have killed an animal larger than myself! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the trip back home, though, I asked myself what I would do if a Talib came to kill me. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“No way. I took off. But she chased me or something. She threw rocks at me and knocked down this big branch. It could have killed me!” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Here is what I knew at the outset:The officer who killed Prince Jones was black. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“A headband? I’m trembling with fear. Now, let’s be honest. I could kill you easily. Two little girls. No training, no valor. Do you really think you can get the celestial weapons?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

For a fraction of a second I was desperate, feeling some of my justification for wanting to kill him slipping away. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, he was sure he understood: They were going to kill him. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

When a bear was killed and its skin was off, Omakayas knew it looked fearfully like a person. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“She said something to me once. About our eyes. Hazel- green eyes. I never understood. Was she bad, like Auntie kept saying? Did the cattle kill him—did I let the cattle kill him?” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

After graduating from Big Creek, the story I got was he had spent his entire time in Korea on top of the same mountain, waiting for the Chinese to come up and kill him. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“What’re you trying to do,” the white man asked belligerently, “kill this man’s sale?” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was even suspected of sabotaging a siege engine and getting his own centurion killed during the war games. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In Baton Rouge, Kathy was again driving to kill time, her car full of children. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Pressing End kills my mood and the world feels heavier again. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“We’ll kill him the hard way—-just keep slashing until we find the weak spot. Once we defeat Percy Jackson, we’ll be more famous than Medusa! Our patron will reward us greatly!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

And Tom brought him chicken soup until he wanted to kill him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

With three hours to kill until bus time, I walked and window-shopped on Canal. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My family was missing, and I felt certain they had been killed or taken prisoner. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about all the chances they must’ve had to kill me. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Or: “They admit that Agamemnon was killed by Clytemnestra; yet despite this they say that I ought not to have avenged my father.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Lies helped her friend in the camp, knowing that if an officer saw her she would be killed. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

"If he was anywhere nearby and saw that hovercraft, he'll know we killed her and come after us." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

At that time I had had two friends killed while riding them and knew of several others permanently in wheelchairs. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

If they are not killed, she will be burned. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think of the men you killed?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first time they had had flesh to eat since they killed their own ox, and Wang Lung’s eyes widened. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Since everyone who knew the secret would be at the wedding, the Chandrian can come in, kill everyone who knows anything, and either destroy or steal whatever it is.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know which one I wanted to kill more. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This story—grandparents killed in a Jeep crash, and sisters not speaking to each other—she should be bawling. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Palmer, they kill pigeons in this town, not people.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“But Tom Yew was killed back in June.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Here there were wooded valleys, streams, sunlight on the poplars which they could not take away unless they killed him. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He was proud, he said, to have killed the Muggles, had been awaiting his chance all these years. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Hercules captured the city, killed the King, and gave the maiden to his friend, Telamon of Salamis, who had helped him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite his twenty years on the police force, Geyer found it difficult to believe that anyone could kill three children for absolutely no reason. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Rodents do not speak to princesses. We will not have this becoming a topsy-turvy wrong-headed world. There are rules. Scat. Get lost, before my common sense returns and I have you killed. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

And yet—her breath caught in her throat—they were going to kill him. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“But, Papa, w hat about Pete? He didn't do nothing and they killed him.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought that maybe he had been killed. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how many you killed, they kept coming back. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, people die, but it’s not always your good friend who kills them.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

When Troy fell she had been given to Neoptolemus, sometimes called Pyrrhus, Achilles’ son, the man who had killed old Priam at the altar. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

My cousins sold the drugs that killed the white girl. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Or anyhow that’s how it strikes me. I’m going to kill you,” he said. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

There was a broken sword hilt labeled: This broke and Leroy got killed. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I killed him, man. Killed my own brother.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She yelled back, “Fine. Stay. I hope neither of you gets killed.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of us, so it was estimated, would be killed. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

And wouldn’t it be horrible and terrifying to discover that all of this was part of some great clever plan by the Martians to divide and conquer us, and kill us? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man with the cold voice had killed a woman. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, if Bradley doesn’t get us all killed first,” Soojin reminds her. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Archie’s here to kill me, and there’s nothing I can do. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember thinking it’s enough to drive someone to kill himself. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were a dozen people who could talk about the fish fry and insist that Walter was at home when Ronda Morrison was killed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Had a little spell yesterday. Leroy dropping him and the rest a the kids by in a while. Let’s hope the lemon don’t kill him.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

If it hadn’t been for her, Macbeth never would have killed the king in the first place. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the hosts are animals, you kill them and incinerate the carcasses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I shall not kill you,” he continued in a low, eerily controlled voice. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

No disrespect to you, Ashton, but it sort of sucks that you can still go to the park with that gun and not have to worry about getting killed. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“He just rubs me the wrong way. What if he’s some nutcase? What if he’s the one who killed those sheep?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Though he could not explain this to Lillian or his children because he thought it would frighten them, he wanted to tell them this someday: that pilots are killed in the blink of an eye. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bruce Springsteen wrote and performed a song in his honor called “41 Shots,” with the chorus “You can get killed just for living in your American skin.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I told the priest what had happened when I ran from my mother’s burial—my fall, my waking to witness the meeting in the clearing, Aycliffe’s attempt to kill me. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

But what she said next, man, that’s what really killed me. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Adding it to water and active bacteria would quickly get it inundated, replacing any population killed by the Toilet of Doom. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“People love to kill themselves on this bridge,” said Brooke thickly. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

That means if they find you guilty in religious court, they kill you. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Was this the same person who had killed her father? The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I haven't decided. Right now I've got an awful feeling I want to smash things and kill things:' “Go take the beetle.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to see his new friend, Tucker Mouse, get killed. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do not want to sacrifice for the country that killed my pa. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cook tried to run and hide in one of the defensive trenches but was killed in the attack. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“There’s this fellow loose that killed the little girl on our block.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was clear that the pursuers intended to capture them, not kill them, for a burst of gunfire just then would have finished both of them in a second. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I figured the kid wouldn’t have to beat me up—you’d kill me if you had found out. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s terrible when a man kills a child.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Aztec survivors were demoralized by the mysterious illness that killed Indians and spared Spaniards, as if advertising the Spaniards’ invincibility. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The assignments, quite honestly, made me feel guilty for growing up in a time with a life-changing advancement, sort of like how we have medicine to cure common diseases that killed others in the past. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Any crime they committed was not investigated, giving them the power to arrest, harm, imprison, and kill without consequence. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“How do we even know that the person who killed my family is still alive? That he’s out there?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The date of the execution arrived, and Horace Dunkins was killed in a botched execution that made national news. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Artemis killed her on the Isle of Dia at a word from Dionysos. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t,” Fleming said, hastening to the heart of the matter, “say anything at all to Mr. Hickock to discourage him from coming out here to rob and kill the Clutter family?” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I typed in, “Can an aneurysm kill you?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

All those years of kidney dialysis, and his heart had killed him. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Do you want us all killed? Put out that light!” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re twenty years old, for Christ’s sake. Are you trying to get us killed?” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“That sounds,” Rick said, “like an invitation for you to come in and kill me. To get your owl back immediately. I won’t agree to that; it’s too dangerous.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“And kill me too, son of an evil mother. That way I won’t have the eyes to weep for the shame of having raised a monster.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Surrender or be killed!” came the Corporal’s voice again. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, the village where the devils and demons live. Believe me, they’ll kill a boy like you and eat you for breakfast. They’ll enjoy their coffee all the more afterward.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The noise makes you want to kill it. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

How they will have to hunt and kill. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She could be hurt or killed in the swamp, but that wasn’t for certain. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

"No, it gives me joy to kill people." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I know that I killed you. How can you survive that and the fire?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He watched Nico with satisfaction, as if he’d identified the exact spot for his next arrow to make a clean kill. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Yes, it’s great to have allies as long as you can ignore the thought that you’ll have to kill them. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Two Step,” Magdalys said, “he was going to kill you. He was going to kill me. You saved my life.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Oh my God I’m going to kill you!” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t stop, or they would all be arrested, or worse, killed. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

She intended that it hit on the other side of him so she could claim he had been killed by an incoming artillery shell. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither dared confront the thought that man is a thinking animal in whom the intellect directs the urge to hunt and the ability to kill. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It killed monkeys like flies, they were dripping virus from every pore, yet no human being had crashed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I came to this wild place, directed by Athena, so that we might lay plans to kill our enemies. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were here to kill the two of us. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I felt certain something was going to kill me, and of course I was right: Something is going to kill you, someday, and you can’t know if this is the day. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I wonder, How easily would he kill me? Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it wasn’t the plane crash that killed her. Maybe she actually saw herself in that dress.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Wouldn’t you let yourself be killed for the sake of Rome?” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I can understand that. It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don’t know and don’t hate.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband, Cresphontes, a son of Hercules, and king of Messenia, was killed in a rebellion together with two of his sons. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, let’s say her village wasn’t as kind to Jews as Zmeyreka has been. Her parents were killed. Lena was sold to a jarl who came through. She was lucky. He wasn’t cruel to her.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“You told me you never was going to kill.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Nasty thing, a crossbow. How many men you kill with that?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Cape pigeons often darted and flitted around the boat, but the men couldn’t bring themselves to kill the friendly birds, and ancient superstition forbade them from killing the albatross that still followed majestically above. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

They were big bees, too, armed with the kind of venom that could kill, if one was unfortunate enough to be attacked by the whole swarm. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was afraid of my considerable capacity to kill.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He’d only survived this long because the two snake-haired ladies—gorgons, they called themselves—couldn’t seem to kill him either. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When not sleeping or studying, Thetans were fond of video games, constructing and solving elaborate puzzles, playing, inventing, and reimagining board games, and pretending to kill one another as part of live-action Mafia games. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He would kill Citra at the end of their apprenticeship, or she would kill him. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Of my grandparents, my grandma Ellie was the least likely to kill any animals. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Peeves upset me so much I came in here and tried to kill myself. Then, of course, I remembered that I’m — that I’m —” “Already dead,” said Ron helpfully. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

All I felt was angry and bitter and ready to kill somebody. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to cry because I think maybe we did something that killed the bird. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

"Yo, man, do you not know Doris? She would kill me!" When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

"But one guard won't be enough, we need to kill them all to open the cell." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Even if she could get past the troops at Pelusium, Ptolemy’s advisers would have her killed the minute she set foot inside the city. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Boy,” he said, “I just finished seven months of ranger training, learning how to kill little people like you. So why don’t you just shut up?” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It kills me that she doesn’t instinctively know. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I see a pattern. The way you killed Garland and then the way you killed Luba. You don’t kill the way I do; you don’t try to—Hell,” he said. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Now I understood why Richard Parker had not killed the zebra: he was no longer aboard. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Old and young, women and children, lame and hearty, they killed, as best they could, the tunnel they were forbidden to build. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

All told, the three of them had killed forty-five other boys. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“But if you’re going to kill me, could you just get on with it?” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

To accomplish that goal, at the current kill ratio of 2.5 to 1, would cost the lives of more than 175,000 U.S. soldiers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“You were out in Holcomb, Kansas. In the home of Mr. Herbert W. Clutter. And before you left that house you killed all the people in it.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The saboteurs had all been instructed to kill any team member who acted suspiciously, to ensure that no one would destroy the mission. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Birds are more easily killed by radiation than insects. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For all his philosophy, Boethius had still been tortured and killed. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aye—for the troops, in battle fury still, made one pass at me after another, pricking me with spears, hoping to kill me. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You shouldn't have worn that corset. That thing is going to get you killed.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“That’s all I can swing. It’s already late and if I get you home any later than eleven, Ma will kill me. Okay?” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Kneel to me, mouse! Kneel or I will kill you,” he stormed. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

So why is it we don’t care about the contour of a peanut, but would kill over the color of a man? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I’ll kill you,” I say, but so quietly I might as well be talking to myself. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He said, “I grew up in the South and I can be killed down there for marrying a woman of the other race.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now you can kill,” Trademaster said with a short, mirthless laugh. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

This was not a bad thing to do in China back then, to kill a baby before it is born. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had never thought of it before, had never felt any empathy on his own part toward the androids he killed. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Getting inside the walled city was the only way Mark could think to find the people who’d issued the kill order. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

How that had lost against what type of soap kills the most germs, I’ll never understand. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Who would have killed one of the Champions so brutally? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Stheno just kept toting them across California so she could offer Percy a snack before she killed him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Though he was describing the bog boy, it wasn’t the bog boy who had killed him. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Lourdes is convinced he was killed in Mexico or drowned in the Rio Grande. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Before the Ecuadorian army could bring calm using tanks and tear gas, several people were killed. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

So far, Pathfinder hasn't tried to kill me. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My father isn’t a soldier, but that’s because my mother was killed in the accident and there’s no one else to take care of me and my little sister.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Percy was relieved when the demon grandmothers closed in for the kill. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“My father said the guy who hit us was killed.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“So, in short, Valerian tried to kill me,” I say, finishing my story. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Just dangerous. I don’t want you getting hurt. If the Commandant finds out, she’ll kill us both.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

If it failed, he would very likely be killed. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I'm about to die and you’re worried about that? How do we kill it?” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as this murder occurred, the people rose up and killed all the Canneschi. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Money? Course not. Identify a demand, handle its supply, make your customers grateful, kill off the opposition.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

But there’s plenty of other things lining up to kill me right now. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I want to kill all the vandals, miss,” she said, when she came up to hand in her drawing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He has never been told why he was really named Gogol, doesn’t know about the accident that had nearly killed his father. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He nearly killed a group of sophomores who, as he sped by, cussed and raised their fingers into the air. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Honestly, you are going to get us all killed.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Never mind. That’s one thing I can always remember. I killed that of a sergeant.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Out into your city,” he said, “to drink a keg or two and pick a quarrel. It has been too long since I’ve killed a man. Might be I should seek out your betrothed.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I needed to be able to kill her, kill them all, if I had to. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In the scuffle that followed, the slaves scattered and were able to reach safety in Canada, but one of the slave catchers was killed, and members of the patrol were arrested. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I mean the Colonel Armstrong who married an American wife and whose only child was kidnapped and killed.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without knowing who killed their father, they instinctively hated the murderers’ house. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There were falconers here in the woods. I saw them. They left about an hour ago, soon after the nice woodland coyote killed one of their birds. “I have some good news for you. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Rumor had it he left Earth because he killed a man.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And don’t do anything stupid tonight, guys. I’m serious. Mom and Dad will kill me if they have to ID your body at the morgue.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

After his years at the university, the man I killed returned with his new wife to the village of My Khe, where he enlisted as a common rifleman with the 48th Vietcong Battalion. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought...I thought I killed you. You stopped breathing.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I killed myself, but it never happened for me. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It was her job to kill, and then to vanish as if she had never been. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

‘I was nearly killed,’ he had said to Kingshaw, the first day they brought him home. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

For day, he thought, did not really kill the dark. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he was a teenager who had tried to kill himself. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“If I really deserve better, then maybe Jesse shouldn’t have killed himself.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Don’t try to run away from home or anything stupid! I’ll kill you if you get yourself killed.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Kino,” she said huskily, “I am afraid. A man can be killed. Let us throw the pearl back into the sea.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to find that monster, I’m going to kill it, and I’m going to avenge Baba.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t reach for her crop or threaten to kill me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere “modernity” cannot kill. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

A blunt axe of silence'd killed every noise in the playground. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

In the first six months of the war, the commandos killed 500,000 people. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I sagged against my mom’s shoulder and muttered, Please kill me, Mom. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Volker had killed all those rodents with it and I had buried their bodies by the dump. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Undoubtedly he would kill both the girl and the child for doing this prohibited thing. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Thousands of animals are killed for the bushmeat trade each year. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I named him after a young man I liked who had been killed by the Aleuts. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were silent for a while, watching the vultures hovering overhead; the neighbors had killed a chicken. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Because if I was to get killed upon my return, I knew that a memory of my existence was alive somewhere in the world. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“See me do that? We always touch our stars if anybody mentions getting killed.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Branwell’s mother was killed in an auto accident when he was nine months old. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Area Teenager Chooses Poorly My mother, the pacifist, would kill me dead if she knew what I’d just done. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Her common sense told her that her prayers could not possibly have killed the master. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry’s parents had died in Voldemort’s attack, but Harry had escaped with his lightning scar, and somehow — nobody. understood why — Voldemort’s powers had been destroyed the instant he had failed to kill Harry. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“I do not take orders from you! Tell me what I must do! Or...or—” “Or you’ll kill me?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But if he could not kill them outright, he could put them in the way of tolerably certain death. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Unless your father will kill a corpse, because I will start with you first,” Aunty Ifeka said, and rose with the bowl of clean rice. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We tried to explain that Billy had started it, that we’d been provoked and were defending ourselves and didn’t even aim to kill, but the cop wasn’t interested in the nuances of the situation. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“He killed the water fountain last night,” Tyson confided. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Now the kids were plotting to kill him, too. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I might have taken something off that wildling I killed to save Bran Stark, but he had nothing worth the taking. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

However, if, for example, somebody like Billy Boy killed Kaira before she turned eighteen, then her mother would inherit all her money. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“We were just talking about how I’ve decimated my reputation and killed my own political career.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Before the game, the Fugees found themselves with some time to kill. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He did not know what to feel, except shock at the way Snape had been killed, and the reason for which it had been done.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The only terrible beings that even Monster Slayer was unable to kill were those that still attack us all. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

His beloved first wife died early, in 1909, and the younger of his two sons was killed in the First World War. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

All these virgin martyrs are told by Roman judges they have to give up their faith and accept the Roman gods but they say, Nay, and the judges have them tortured and killed. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

They had not killed the Nightbeast, but they had stopped it, which was enough to satisfy the impossible task. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“On Christmas night the general led a surprise attack on Trenton. He beat the Hessians—killed a handful and took more than nine hundred prisoner.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Copernicanism led to the idea that the planets shine by reflected light, which was confirmed by the discovery of the phases of Venus; and this killed off the Ptolemaic system. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The only thing they could have said to make me keep quiet was that they would kill Nicole if I opened my mouth. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Predators captured in the moment they went in for the kill. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Ruby said gently, “Jose, they shot a bullet through your window. It could have killed somebody.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just landed myself at the bottom of a twister with a man who’s tried to kill me twice. Don’t reckon any of my ideas are too bright.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She acts like she’s sorry, when a few weeks ago, she nearly got my sister killed. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Yet a moment ago, Caesar had suffered a defeat—had been turned from his purpose by his own people, any one of whom, individually, he could have had killed without thought or scruple. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“But I killed him, not you. You just lay there. And Luba, too. I got her.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I asked Aunt Maggie why he kept the gun so close to him and she told me that men had threatened to kill him, white men . Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, if I had to guess, I’d say this particular piece of insolence was the main reason Ambrose eventually tried to kill me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“What kind of gun would a person use to kill a skunk?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The freezing-cold winter had killed three-quarters of all the cattle that roamed the Badlands, and ranching turned out to be a money-losing venture for him. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“We killed all the animals that were there,” de la O said, “the chickens, the water buffalo, the pigs. We did them all up.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He killed not as he had been forced to by the last bull, but as he wanted to. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

While he was there, he made the sign of the cross over a kid’s head and they thought he was spreading curses, so they took him prisoner and killed him. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Because if it was melted, then Ben and Joel and Davie said they were going to have to kill you.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Truman asked General George Marshall how many Americans were likely to be killed or wounded. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Uncle Jack, I’m so ashamed of myself I don’t know what to do. Me yelling around like—oh, I could kill myself!” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Then her sister turns to me and says, “So you killed Christina’s boyfriend.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Five and you nearly were killed when I brought the fish in too green and he nearly tore the boat to pieces. Can you remember?” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry I am late for the geography lesson. I was trying to get a few small birds with my cross-bow. Look, I have killed a thrush.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I could react, he threw down his lantern and lunged at me as though he meant to kill me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“He’d tied his shoelaces up high on the bars, but I guess not high enough to kill him, so he’s there all pale going gaagaa-gaaghh.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next night the wolf called him from far away and her father went to him and found a freshly killed caribou. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then she could kill us before we even step foot in her fortress,” Kaede said. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

That meant she was closing in for the kill. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t understand all he said, but I did gather that he would kill me if he saw me there again!—and that I should leave the island as quickly as possible. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Well, for instance, they don’t need any big excuse to kill someone. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because maybe Balekin isn’t going to try to kill Dain at all and the Court of Shadows has the wrong idea. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Pol Pot has turned me into someone who wants to kill. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I swing up my bow and blow up the first pod with an explosive arrow, which kills the nest of flesh- eating rats inside. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Enough toxaphene remains in sandy soil ten years after its application to kill termites. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Next the Long Knife headman insisted that the man who had killed the cow be put in jail. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Uh, were supposed to meet for breakfast. Would you explain what you did—I mean didn’t do? I mean...I really don’t want that faun—I mean satyr—to kill me.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

After my family was killed, I wandered deep into the forest and slept. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"He was to jab himself with this poison pin," Khrushchev proclaimed, "which would have killed him instantly. What barbarism! Here it is, the latest achievement of American technology for killing their own people!" Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And this is the reason I think those boys killed him. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“God don’t want us to kill each other, Fern.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“I want to go with you, and I want to help you kill it.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She’d been wounded in a furious air battle and her navigator had been killed, and when she ran out of ammunition, she destroyed a German plane by ramming it with her own aircraft. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

You could play by the rules, keep yourself clean, do everything right, and still the Nazis would kill you for looking at them wrong. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Or shot and killed in the street!” someone else said. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing to do but kill a woman like that. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guitar could kill, would kill, and probably had killed. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

David says it's okay because I didn't mean to, and because he was about to kill that little kid. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Please...my mom and sister—they’re counting on me to bring back water. If you kill me, you kill them, too!” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

For more than twenty-four hours we retreated and attacked, using the arms and ammunition from those we had killed. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She had to get back to the reserve before she was killed and skinned, with each of her body parts sold on the black market to line that rich man’s pockets with even more rupees. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

I love it here: the people rule the traffic, and cars must stop and—oh, wait, that Honda almost killed that lady. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She’d burdened him with emotional baggage he didn’t need, and left him so dazed they had almost gotten killed by a giant shrimp monster. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“They went through a lot of trouble to bring us all this way. Were needed for something, so I don’t think they’re going to be so quick to kill us right yet.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

After several hours, I had the good luck to kill a rabbit. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The boys caught five small fish, which they killed and then left lying in the water, so they’d be fresh for breakfast. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the gathering crowd of kids started telling Bunny to run before I killed him. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

A year before at this former asylum, a drunken CO had shot and killed his girlfriend, also a CO, and a female roommate, over unrequited love. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if Sima brought home a stray cat and said, “Can we keep him?” and my dad said, “If the Committee finds out they’ll kill all of us.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Wait... You are familiar to The Peacock. Did I kill your family?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The other two now allowed him first access to any newly killed and bleeding animal provided by the cat, and he lived solely on the fresh bipod that could be licked from the carcass. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are ways to kill people like me,” he said. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

And he begins to have enemies, some who want to kill him. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them run after me, and I killed them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“The chapel is neutral ground. If I go there and kill her, even if I can justify the act, the protection of the treaty will never again be mine.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Nergal digs out the plump heart of a freshly killed young man and begins to chew it, letting the blood dribble down his chin. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Pollard, up in the saddle, was a lion poised for the kill. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I realize . . . he was my first kill. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Matthew said from the highest branch, “I don’t think he’s going to be all right until he’s killed Karen with his bare hands.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So everybody wants to kill us, except black men, right?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you call the guards, I’ll kill you,” I cried, pushing his face to the floor. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay. I killed them. You better move. I don’t think I gave anyone a chance to raise the alarm. Take a coat from out there, or you’ll freeze your butt off.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Telling them that this was their only chance to kill themselves or each other. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

How many Congolese were killed by the Belgians and labor and starvation, by the special police, and now by the UN soldiers, we will never know. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I killed...Michael Jackson. One of Grandpop’s birds, man. I killed him.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Leave it to Daddy Cool to kill a bird, then give it a funeral. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!" said the head. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

His talent didn’t necessarily reside in a wisdom for capital and markets but rather in an expert and unflinching opportunism, the hunch for the big kill. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had seen the Shadow kill too often already. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I was getting closer, if not to where Yakov had been killed, then where they had found him. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

At the camp they found the sheep dog dead, killed and torn to pieces by the wild animals that had killed thirty head of sheep. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He realized they were alive only because the gryphons weren’t trying to kill them. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Two of the fishermen who’d been killed this year had been wearing them. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

What kind of justice would it be for Deborah if I embraced the very notions of division that killed her? How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I would stand for hours on the doorsteps of neighbors’ houses listening to their talk, learning how a white woman had slapped a black woman, how a white man had killed a black man. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If they didn’t want to kill us before,” Viola says, “they’ll sure want to now.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

"I let each man cut me once, before I kill him. Count the cuts and you will know how many Strong Belwas has slain." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They were going to kill when they broke. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When he returned, climbing back in, it almost killed him, for he was maimed by then, bloody and in terrible pain. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"Brave men kill them, for dragon terrible evil beasts. It is known." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

People were jerks, so he flooded the whole world, killed off the whole human race except Noah and his family and all those pairs of animals. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“You gave her the drug, and she killed her master?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Five. We killed two before they could get over, and Harl slew another on the wallwalk. These two made it to the yard.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“They killed my teacher and my friends and tied me to a tree for hours.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

James Vincent babbled, “Don’t kill me, don’t kill me, please, I’m really on your side—” Then he fainted. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not a single person had been killed—-he spared everybody indifferently as soon as he had knocked than down—and, by the Chevalier at any rate, not a single word had been spoken. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shasta now gave himself up for lost and began to wonder whether lions killed you quickly or played with you as a cat plays with a mouse and how much it would hurt. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

When I step on it, Coraandhersisters scream at me, You just killed the Devil while he was sleeping! Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I hope you’re pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed — or worse, expelled. Now, if you don’t mind, I’m going to bed.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“We are prisoners. It is obvious the emperor does not keep many. He prefers to send them to work or have them killed.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Be quiet! Shut up! Stop it! I’m going to kill you!” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

I said: ‘I do not care what you are allowed to do, or not allowed to do. If you like to defend yourself, I shall fight you: if not I shall kill you anyway.’ The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she wondered about that man—no, he couldn't be the murderer, he couldn't even kill the waterbug in the sink this morning. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

How it might infect his own life to hate his wife, and kill some innocent man to get what he wanted. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to kill you,” the nobleman said. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Soon he had become Chief Rabbit, having killed both the previous Chief and a rival named Fiorin. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It troubled me deeply to think of enemies so determined to kill us that they would give up their own lives. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Chipo killed one of her precious hens and forced her daughter to eat all of it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He killed time by mailing blown-up match race photographs to reporters and taking out ads celebrating the win. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d never be able to get far enough away before using it The monsters would kill us first or disarm the explosives, or both. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Most of the teachers aren’t in it, and none of them has ever been killed — well, unless you count Quirrell, and he got what he deserved seeing as he was working with Voldemort.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It had been one of those fights where one party is so enraged, so blind with anger they have to kill the other. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He killed his children and Megara, too, as she tried to protect the youngest. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gods could not kill Bran, no more than I could. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They petitioned Hitler to allow their doctor to kill the child in a merciful manner. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in his life, he wanted his wand back in his hand, not to defend himself, but to attack...to kill. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

When one of the Freedom Writers talked about her friends who had been killed, a little girl in the corner started to cry. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She looked very tough as well, and very mean, like maybe she would kill Hanako for five US dollars and a meal. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Many labored under hot suns and then killed the restless ache with alcohol. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wrote Mama a letter all about how Jenkins had got killed. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

That Mister Singer had killed himself and was dead. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He said they killed chickens, but I don’t believe it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mice? Oh! Sure, kill them all off. Billy said there isn’t any good hay left. ” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Our boy. He’s beautiful. And if the Witch takes him? It would kill Ethyne. And that would kill me.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She got her first look at the man she must kill later that morning as she wheeled her barrow through the cobbled streets that fronted on the Purple Harbor. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It killed our souls and tried to take away our lives. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Doha wondered if they might have been the ones who’d killed Gunwoo’s father and all the rest of the people in the mountain valley. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Whatever, dude. Break the Number One Rule, kill yourself, whatever.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“You’ve got to beat him up, Ben. Dad will kill you if he finds out someone pulled a knife on you and you didn’t do anything.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The story of a prince who could not be killed, a priest who warned of a goddess’s wrath, a French prelate who believed he’d bought the same stone centuries later. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

‘Tomorrow,’ Reyna said, ‘we Romans must return home. We appreciate your hospitality, especially since we almost killed you -’ ‘You almost got killed,’ Annabeth corrected. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Because of the knife. Where’s the nearest one? Tell me! I want to kill it!” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And why din’t they kill him when they had the chance?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Do you know how I know this? Because of your commandments. Thou shall not kill.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I burst out: “They should be killed, Mama! They should be killed! They should be killed!” thinking that if indeed I had been poisoned, then the culprits had to die. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

First it killed people who had received injections, and then it moved through families, killing family members, particularly women, who in Africa prepare the dead for burial. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You may have killed the whole crew," Teddy countered. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Small pieces of fiberboard were impregnated with the two chemicals and were distributed by air over the entire island chain to attract and kill the male flies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The kind of weapon that Aaron Burr used to kill Alexander Hamilton in their infamous duel. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Big Ma was as mad and sad as anyone when they killed the president. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, as I nursed my wounds, while my father was at work, I told my mother that I hated him and promised her I would kill him when I grew up. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tendencies to kill humans have disqualified many otherwise seemingly ideal candidates for domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I was still dead...and it told me a name. The man who killed Scythe Faraday.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Does she know they may want to kill her? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He bent the pup’s head up and looked in its face, and he said to it, “Now maybe George ain’t gonna let me tend no rabbits, if he fin’s out you got killed.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several were homeless, and of a group of men who sheltered under a tree when the storm began six had been killed by lightning. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps because some part of me wonders if he knew the Commandant killed my parents—if he knew and sent me to Blackcliff anyway. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

If they survived the night, she was going to kill Kaz. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The night Soheil died, when the Director and everyone who created this camp killed him. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Trot down to the hardware store and buy me a tin of 1080 poison—I got some vermin to kill up at the dump.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

If Clara’s spirit was trapped at Daffodil Manor, it made sense that she had been killed there, possibly by someone who lived there. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

My ma dying, being killed by men I probably saw every day. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Sure, he had tried to kill them, but Piper still felt bad for the old god. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The bombings destroyed many villages and killed many people, allowing the Khmer Rouge to gain support from the peasants and farmers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jason and Piper moved in for the kill, but, before they could strike, Hygeia’s legs popped back on like they were magnetic. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure what would happen if I got three strikes in a row, but my guess was that I’d either be expelled from the gate or that my avatar would simply be killed. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Private Willis had been killed two days later on patrol, by friendly mortar fire he’d’called for at the direction of Lieutenant Kent himself, who’d given the correct coordinates. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Not likely. My mom would kill me if I dyed my hair,” I reply, “no matter what age I was.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“And, um,” Frank said nervously, “they don’t, like, kill men on sight, do they?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Shoji is in the hospital. He tried to kill himself.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And then I thought, “Why kill the big tree and not accomplish anything?” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought, and finally said, “He might not be dead. We can’t be sure. We didn’t want to kill him. That wasn’t the plan at all. We were just defending Lyra. En’t that right?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t be likely to get it if I had killed his father—even a father he didn’t like. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

One harassed man, made crafty by desperation, told the mother that he had inside information that the military bands led the soldiers into action and invariably were the first ones killed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Capricorn's man wants to kill it because he enjoys killing small animals, so Dustfinger tries to save his furry friend and dies in the attempt.'' Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Deckard works as a “blade runner,” a special type of cop who hunts down and kills replicants—genetically engineered beings that are almost indistinguishable from real humans. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I guess you read about the cadet and instructor who was killed here last week. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The storm destroyed buildings, broke trees, and killed a man in Barberton, Ohio, but it did not stop the Limited. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They did not want the bull killed yet, they did not want it to be over. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“You killed Westley, did you see his face in the Fire Swamp? When you walked away and left him? That’s what I call killing.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He knew just where the head of the hammer would need to strike to kill the serpent. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He had never known that the impulse to kill was in him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I think so. I mean, I didn’t kill any of the animals I handled.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“But now you go and nearly kill us!” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

After storing her fuel she returned to the kill to cut off more strips to smoke. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were surrounded by thirty-foot-tall giants who were about to kill us. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“It belonged to a boy who was killed last year.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

"You hunters! You can laugh! But I tell you the smoke is more important than the pig, however often you kill one. Do all of you see?" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Everyone was awake now, every prisoner, and we watched the roof and waited without a word, waited to see if one of the bombs would fall on us and kill us all. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had several today, and one at the rest stop after I thought the guy was going to kill me in the bathroom; when he was only handing me Libby’s brilliant escape note. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

By saving Piper I saved myself, and all the things that might have killed us were also the things that saved us. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A little something here and there, but...my mother would kill me.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Will...will he be killed in his turn?” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

One week, as his uncle’s security guard returns from trading Honduran lempiras, robbers drag the guard off a bus and kill him. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Looked to me like they’d kill us all if they ever broke through those log walls. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could kill them, everyone of them, if those silver weapons were in my hands. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Already he had tried to kill the bear. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

In front of him was an enemy who was trying to kill him; in front of him, also, was a human creature, in pain and perhaps with a broken bone. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“If he hadn’t tried to kill us all, I’d be quite sorry he was dead.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The woman people called Violent now because she had tried to kill what lay in a coffin. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You still don’t get it? Minerva, don’t you see? Trujillo is having everyone killed!” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But nothing that can kill me or kill them. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It didn’t matter how often Salva swatted at the mosquitoes, or that one swat killed dozens at a time. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A heartbeat later another bush killed Quenton, driving an axe into the base of his skull. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When they got to her turnoff, Anya had just finished telling Kin about how Lena had helped her kill Sigurd. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“You killed my family,” he spoke in my ear through gritted teeth. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“What I mean is, I wouldn’t be surprised if he flat-out killed her.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Repeated sprayings have now completely altered the stream environment, and the aquatic insects that are the food of salmon and trout have been killed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He tells me about what he overheard in the hallway, how Barb confronted Will about us, how being together would kill the both of us. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“The others are dead. The ones you saw killed were the real people. The duplicates, the robots, stood by and watched.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now they killed someone and a part of them is dead too. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re lucky he didn’t kill you. He would have if Alice and I hadn’t talked him out of it. Now what are you going to do to repay us for saving your life?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The same fire that had killed my family. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Hundred years ago, when hollows first born, they strike my home first. Everything destroy. All in village killed. Old woman. Baby. All.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

That same windbreak allowed the black brothers to crawl within a few feet of them, creeping along on their bellies until they were looking down on the men they must kill. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“But are you sure? Because a mistake will kill you. And my brother.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

How many more innocent children like these were going to be hurt and killed? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He’d hurt Boo and threatened to kill their families and them if they didn’t bring him all three keys. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“If he’s got the body of someone he killed upstairs in his car,” Crams said, “he won’t be coming back.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, tell me about the one you didn’t see. The one killed your mother.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four men had been killed outright and two others had died of wounds on the trail home. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“You care about me saying ‘Mudblood’ when I’m about to kill you?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Basically my strategy was don’t get my neck broken, don’t try to kill anybody either. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“Have you gotten to the part where Bertha bites her brother and almost kills him?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I just don’t get why when it comes to guns our country is like, ‘Oh yeah, take that thing that’s used to kill people and do whatever you want with it.’” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z