“Anyway, I don’t need to jump into the lake,” he said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

His mouth was as dry and as parched as the lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He turned and stole silently down to the lake shore, where presently his long slim body, crouched on a rock, was seen in the binoculars of one of the men. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

After allowing them to disperse about the lake, we catch another hundred fish and see what fraction of them are marked. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally we returned to the canoeing lake, where the trail led back to the cabins. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

And they repeated to one another all the signs by which they would know the places they were looking for—the- blue lake and the hill with a garden on top of it. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

He drew the stick up through the circle of the lake, from bottom to top. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As night fell the fog flowed down off the glacier and spread out all across the lake, so that he could not see his way, nor where to set his skis. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It feels as if the entire frozen lake shifts. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

There is no lake nearby, no mountain, no view of anything much except houses and apartment buildings. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The boys in both boats could now hear the roar of the crowd down the lake. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In back of the palace was a giant lake. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

They tied them up and took them back over the lake. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

They waited, watching the moving clouds reflected in the lake, while the bush next to them whispered in the breeze. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He felt as if he’d dived into a deep, clear lake and discovered it was a shallow, knee-deep pond. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I parked Rocinante about ninety-five yards away but also on the lake’s edge. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cade said, “Come on,” and took off down the shore of the empty lake. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

But most days till I started school, you could find me at a lake. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a great silvery sheet of water and Dad said it was Lough Neagh, the largest lake in Ireland, the lake where Cuchulain used to swim after his great battles. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I knew I had to pass that mountain and go up the lake at least five miles further before we would be in Swiss water. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Drag his body out of here, weight him down, and dump him in the underground lake.” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I looked across the lake and saw the high school boys pointing excitedly toward us. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He taxied away without looking back and as soon as he was clear of the reeds he gunned the engine, increasing speed until the plane was roaring across the lake. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I can tell from their clothes—torn shirts and trousers, mismatched shoes filled with holes—that almost all of them are from the poor sectors near the lake. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He threw wood on the fire and blew until it flamed, then banked the flames to last and went down to the lake. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry spits out lake water and sends a splash in his direction, and Alex forces a laugh. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Just once let’s tell it: how you got to the lake and built a house of fir boughs.’ East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

About riding to the mill behind Gluglu; fishing back in the lake with their Uncle Jasper; picking pecans with Lidie’s little black brood, and hauling chips in their express wagon. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

Had it been "Dave”? or "Dad”? Just where the faint path from the House in the Woods meets the path to the lake, footsteps came pounding my way. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Farther down the trail—a long way down—there was a line of travelers with pack-horses, making their way steadily up toward the lake. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Yakov, in comparison, had been like a mountain lake, its stillness a guise for its cold and vast depth. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It is a bird of spectacular appearance and beguiling habits, building its floating nests in shallow lakes of western United States and Canada. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon replaced by a shovel. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

They change the name of the lake after that, and call it the ‘Lake of Amir and Hassan, Sultans of Kabul,’ and we get to charge people money for swimming in it.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The sky had darkened and red lantern lights started to glow all over the lake. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a lake of rushes he saw the pike making chase in evening hunger. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

They drove toward the lake over the park’s rough roads at the pace of a funeral cortege and with equal gloom. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Another enormous roar went up from the crowd, just down the lake now. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

From where I was pinned, I could look up and see JP stumbling out of the lake. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He makes a collection of the boat funnels from the lake freighters, checking them through binoculars. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I just threw a few trophies in the lake.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Hatchet’s men had left the lake three mornings ago, and she and Archer had continued following them north. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She thought about the beautiful lake, and the town she had seen, and the big store full of so many things. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy was sprawled on a frozen lake, his eyes white and blind, his mouth open in a last word. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The bright paintings with white winged horses and snakes as long and wide as lakes. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The front of the boat would sink, forcing the back to rise out of the lake. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Nhamo climbed over a rock, she saw something rise from the ground and hurl itself into the lake. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It has the same kind of terrain as the lake you crashed into, and roughly the same altitude and kind of forest.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

There were no oceans, just a few dozen large lakes placed here and there. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It pools in lakes and swirls through canyons. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

But die pilot had put his headset back on and the gratitude was lost in the engine noise and things went back to Brian looking out the window at the ocean of trees and lakes. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Waves crashed against the hull as angry voices came from above deck—Percy shouting, Coach Hedge yelling at the lake. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Turn, smell, listen, feel and then a sound, a small sound, and he looked up and away from the lake and saw the wolf. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stanley gazed out across the lake, toward the spot where he had been digging yesterday when he found the gold tube. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The edge of the lake a riprap of twisted stumps, gray and weathered, the windfall trees of a hurricane years past. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The cicadas and the wind and the lake are probably still making sounds, somewhere, but it’s all faded into silence. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“It happened to me. They throw you in the lake. You swim out. You walk home.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

On this side of the lake there was a concrete wall with a spillway. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing with his arms stretched over his head and the tight knot of hunger in his stomach, he looked toward the lake and saw the tracks. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are a fool! You could not even lift it from the lake, much less carry it from the sea!” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Brian went to the lake and got water in one of the aluminum pots and came back to the fire. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papas can react very badly to sur- prisements, this I have seen, like when Signora Divino’s husband was a papa and his son said, “Papa, the car went into the lake.” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu gestured to take in the room, the view of the lake, the town. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The lake still froze in winter, but boodeggers didn’t drive over it anymore. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She turned away from him and scanned the horizon: trees, rocks, lake, grass, weeds, flowers, birds, sky.... How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

My brother and I stand at the end of a ramshackle dock beside a long blue craggy lake. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I followed the path along the lake, alone, and found a bench near O-Hall. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The moon reflected over the lake, which sat still in the darkness of the brisk night. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Yellowstone, I hardly need point out, is sensationally beautiful, with plump, stately mountains, bison-specked meadows, tumbling streams, a sky-blue lake, wildlife beyond counting. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

With every ounce of strength he could muster, Harry raised his head a few inches and saw an animal amid the light, galloping away across the lake.... Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Thank you. If I took this wine and poured it into a basin of water, or a lake or even the ocean, would the wine itself be gone?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I saw, as we approached, that she was watching my grandfather as he came down the path from the camp to the edge of the lake. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Between Papa and Maria and the photo by the lake. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

After a time he got out, walked down to the beach, and waded into the lake without undressing. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several times he left the others to drink from a small lake a short distance away, standing chest-deep in the cool, soothing water. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

From across the lake he could see the approaching dust cloud. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I peek in to see Voxy staring wide eyed, a huge smile on his face at the lake. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“This water was taken from a giant underground lake that goes on for miles and miles,” Albert announces. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I thought that when two American destroyers arrived, along with die Dutch cruiser Van Kingsbergen, to protect the lake tankers, Mother would change her mind. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not worrying so much about that,” I said, “as about getting into the Swiss part of the lake before it’s daylight and the custom guards see us.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Al Ulbrickson stood on the floating dock, listening to the lake water lap at the shore, watching them go. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Soon they were speeding along the lake front, past a huge flat sheet of dully gleaming water. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a velvet blue-green, reminding me of the lake at dusk. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He said the camp director and several of the counselors went looking for the hearing aid in the morning while we all went swimming in the lake, but they couldn’t find it anywhere. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Merry waved his hand towards the steaming lake; and as they looked, they heard a distant rumbling and rattling, as if an avalanche was falling from the mountain-side. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But the turn cost him speed and now the lake was above the nose. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a face the sentry knew, but he gave the password anyway and said, “We found him at the sulphur lake. Says his name is Baruch. He’s got an urgent message for Lord Asriel.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t just sit at the bottom of this tree and stare down at die lake for four days. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Cool! I’m staying at the Four Seasons. It’s next to a river or lake or something. If you want I can look up the address.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Once Ty'ree took me to Central Park and we watched the sun go down over the lake my daddy got hypothermia in. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Herein lay another complaint the people had with the educated and tricky thugs who were trying to form a conservancy district in order to build the Zopilote’s private swimming lake behind the Indian Creek Dam. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first he thought it was a lake, and, like all the other lakes he had come upon, dead. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

On the lake a hundred or more ships, yachts, and launches lay at anchor with colored lights on their bows and booms and strung along their rigging. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He shuddered at that thought and then remembered what was in front of the plane, down in the bottom of the lake, still strapped in die seat, the body of the pilot. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Voldemort was flying again, whether to the underground lake or here, to the castle, he did not know: Either way, there was hardly any time left. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

No lakes where I grew up neither, just the river and the swamp. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The house they lived in had a lake and gardens, a wide staircase, white doors and windows, and curtains with flowers. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snow was wet and sticky, the ice on the lakes still thin—forcing them to take the long way around the water. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

"There's been a little trouble out on the lake," Mr. Sir said. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The ranks included a carpenter and furniture-maker named Elias Disney, who in coming years would tell many stories about the construction of this magical realm beside the lake. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Her pale blue eyes stared unblinkingly at the lake. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fine. You want me to go hang out at the lake. Sure. I’ll do that.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Harry found himself gripping the edges of his seat very hard as they flew toward the lake. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

In later poets there are various entrances to it from the earth through caverns and beside deep lakes. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he couldn’t resist a little modernity here and there; he sped around his lake in gleaming speedboats. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure, no problem,” he said, all hoarse and funny-sounding, lake care. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But while she was watching Mrs. Coulter, she didn’t look behind her across the little blue lake. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

With camp ready for the day he looked to the lake. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

A loud splashing echoed in the air, and a giant beast burst from the lake as if ripping through a paper moon. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

No trees grew there and it was open to the sky; stars were shining already in lakes between shores of cloud. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

You saw a fluttering fan before her face and magnolia blooms and sleepy lakes under the moonlight when she walked. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He looked out across the lake and imagined the feel of his tongue against the truth. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Do you think there could be fish in the lake? The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

What remained was the artificial lake and island with its two stone bridges supporting the driveway, and, by the waters edge, a crumbling stuccoed temple. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

With a miserable gesture, Harry got up, turned his back on Ginny and on Dumbledore’s tomb, and walked away around the lake. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Around Halloween the last, stubborn wildflowers died away and the wind became sharp and gusty, blowing showers of yellow leaves on the gray, wrinkled surface of the lake. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In spite of everything, she fell into a deep, dreamless sleep and woke long after the sun had lifted from the edge of the lake. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The great black lake, teeming with the dead... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She and Pheoby Watson visited back and forth and once in awhile sat around the lakes and fished. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

A lake of dark blood spreads from its neck. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

NOTE: Although standing waves are harder to get in water, the phenomenon does apparently happen very rarely in lakes, resulting in freak disasters. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

To her right, a long pier jutted into the lake, and there were other docks farther east, wooden fingers reaching out from the town. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He drove two miles down the riverbed to the south shore of the lake. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane was flying, but so slowly, so slowly... it would never reach the lake. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it will sink out there in the lake and go to the country of the njuzu, she thought. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an elegant villa with lakes dotted with orange fish and moon gates that led to courtyards lined with trees. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

"You know that feeling you get when you're playing," I say after a while, "and you lose yourself in that...that still lake, that warmth, and you kind of...cease to exist?" What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But in other places it ran straight for a considerable distance and he followed it, through smaller lakes and what he thought must be swamps, through the darker green portions that meant heavier forest. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

She stared at me, her eyes deeper than the lake beside us. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You tell the Governor that if he didn’t want his house pushed into the lake, then he shouldn’t have cleared that forest. Seems to me the yetis were only returning the favor.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

But there had always been the lake, which was the town’s first cause of existence, a place for immigrant settlers to put down their loads. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

You left out the lake, still your favorite place in the world. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The waters in the lake and out in the open ocean churn furiously now, turning choppier as a storm approaches from the horizon, black and threatening. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We don’t have any lakes that big in Texas. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of die women said that his men had ridden all the way around the lake chasing Beric Dondarrion and slaying rebels. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The light entering the room was preternaturally intense, carrying with it the surplus radiance of the lake and its frozen shore. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Instead we worked our way around the teeming lake and towards the creek. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Preparing for their journey south, the martins flapped and fretted in the eaves, and, from the blanket of mist hovering over the lake, I heard the harsh, lonely cry of the mallards. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The dragon did not seem to have noticed anything: It was already fifty feet away, swooping low over the lake to scoop up water in its scarred snout. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Squinting, she caught a flicker of movement in and out of the trees—figures stalking along the lake’s shore. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Their principal dam had gone out for want of attention by its skilled architects, and the lake had drained away. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Annie and I sat on an iron bench facing the lake and exchanged schedules. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I toss the peel into the lake, watching the waves lick at it, carrying it farther from shore. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sad news met her at at Vevay, for the heat had driven them from Nice in May, and they had travelled slowly to Switzerland, by way of Genoa and the Italian lakes. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked along beside the lake and saw the swans and the many gulls and terns that flew up when you came close and screamed while they looked down at the water. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

When they came to the northernmost corner of the lake they found a narrow creek that barred their way. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The thought stunned him and he realized how foolish it had been to leave the lake and trust the map. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The downstairs in our house is a lake again from the rain pouring under the door but it doesn’t matter because we’re drenched anyway and we can wade through the water. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then all at once the road came out of the woods and Laura saw the lake. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Directly across the lake from it, at the inside comer of the L, was a mound of sticks and mud rising up out of the water a good eight or ten feet. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind ceased its lapping of stagnant water against the shores of the lake, and there was quiet. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We've been running obstacle courses, and have to swim long distances on the lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

There was a lake a mile from his uncle’s farm where he and his uncle used to go in the fall for firewood. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Where the river left the lake it cut a deeper channel in the soft bottom. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

If the lake is just ahead, I know which direction to head toward the cave. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, the drop in the lake had created a small bay on the far side of the little island. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the far side of the lake, otters built a slide and were amusing themselves by tumbling down it. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The lake began to overflow and pour out through the old tunnel, and the water was rapidly rising up the steps. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He smiles slowly, like the moon slipping beneath the waves of the lake. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Harry’s eyes flew open as he wrenched himself back to the present: He was lying on the bank of the lake in the setting sun, and Ron and Hermione were looking down at him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Now, she’s past Leschi and then Seward Park, and it’s a little creepy out that way, with the lake a deep indigo and the big evergreens shaking their boughs overhead. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I went further out in the lake to pass it. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Nestled in an undulating patchwork of beech forests, lakes, and clearings were 140 cottages, a shopping mall, a barbershop, a post office, a dentist’s office, a sauna, a hospital, training facilities, and dining halls. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“If you went into a river or a lake, you were probably going to get leeches on you,” Horan said. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Will walked carefully around to the entrance, which faced the lake. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The grounds contained a swimming pool and polo fields and a golf course and five lakes with islands. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The region does have permanently water-filled swamps, sinkholes, and lakes, but often these are too salty to drink or use for irrigation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She had braved the lake to find them. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mother, how will my spirit return to the village if my body is at the bottom of the lake?” she asked. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here at least we have some shelter,” Wylde was insisting, “and there are fish in the lakes.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t think, just held and knew that he was praying but didn’t know what the prayer was—knew that he wanted to be, stay and be, and then the wind moved to the lake. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bordered to the north by Lithuania and to the south by Poland, it was a land of deep lakes and dark forests. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But when ice starts to melt on a frozen lake, the surface can shift unpredictably. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting near the lake, watching the giant squid waving its tentacles lazily above the water, Harry lost the thread of the conversation as he looked across to the opposite bank. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Walking through the door felt like breaking through the water after a long dive to the bottom of a lake. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the hill, the frozen lake glistened in the light. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“If you don’t want Coach benching you, you should go to the lake with the others. You shouldn’t be here.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Now it is one hundred square miles of grassland and trees, a lake, and some little rivers. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the walls are clusters of local butterflies, mounted and framed, a map of the region on thin white paper, photographs of the family at the lake over the years. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. It’s far safer anyway. Barges are always hurtling into that causeway. We’ll plunge into the lake and drown.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

To his left, golden hills rolled inland, dotted with lakes, woods, and a few herds of cows. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Bacchus walked to the edge of the lake. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Soon, the roof of the Ares cabin was burning, and naiads from the canoe lake rushed over to blow water on it. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Under the lake, probably,” said Ron, squinting around at the dark, slimy walls. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The lake teemed with fresh fish, but they had nothing to catch them with. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then I said, "All right. What do they do, the fish and all, when that whole little lake's a solid block of ice, people skating on it and all?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Peeta raises his eyebrows and I see the knife has already left his hand on its way to the lake where it splashes in the water. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Until they stood in a great stone room where lay a black and ancient lake. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He followed them up and down the lake in his launch, wrapped in an overcoat and muffler, bellowing at them through his megaphone. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

From each summit the panorama was sensational—for as far as the eye could see nothing but heavy green woods, denim-blue lakes, and lonely, undulant mountains. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

As they approach he sees that after a certain expanse the yard falls away, and then he sees the lake, a blue a thousand times deeper, more brilliant, than the sky and girded by pines. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I ran toward the platform at the center of the lava lake. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

All nine Little Baldy Bear Lakes were visible now, and at the uppermost lake a pair of campers in a bright yellow rubber boat were fishing. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lived on the bank of a lake, in a beautiful neighborhood with fancy houses and perfect green lawns. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

For the first half hour, the lake crossing was routine. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Medwyn put his hand into the lake and stirred the water. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Soon the sand outside was drenched and there were rivulets running down to the lake. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

On this side of the lake the forest was more open and the plums and nuts and berries seemed to thrive in the light and heat. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The next afternoon: The glow of Ultraviolet The day after that: A lake. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The animal’s body cavity was a lake of blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in fact the lake is comparatively warm, and so the land surrounding it is less beaten by frost than the surrounding highlands. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The text from him that should correspond—if it lines up the way the others have—is the last one I received: A lake. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The drop target was a frozen lake deep in the wilderness—hopefully, far from any German patrols. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two boats churned up the lake for almost a quarter of a mile, locked together in that configuration— Washington’s white blades glinting in the sunlight, Cal’s flashing shards of blue. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But Laura and Mary ran along the lake shore, picking up pretty pebbles that had been rolled back and forth by the waves until they were polished smooth. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Rivers turn and twist,” Bran said uncertainly, “and where there’s lakes and hills, you need to go around.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When he looked out toward the frozen lake, he saw the dog that had been running with the woman skidding out on the lake. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Even before her stroke, she was a little...away with the fairies, like. We thought you were one of her”—he did a horror-film voice—“drowned boys, like, from the lake.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

So he asks Theo to send him his colors: silver, white, lemon chrome yellow, vermilion, geranium lake, carmine, Prussian blue, very light cinnabar green, orange lead, emerald green, and more. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Then he picked up the spear and the bow and trotted back around the lake to his shelter, where the fire had burned down to glowing coals. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Fat Cheeks wouldn’t march the troop into the lake to satisfy his pride. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, by the lake, sitting on a mossy, half-rotten log, the Colonel said to me, “Lara was right. We should do something for her. A prank. Something she would have loved.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The beauty was breathtaking, the lake absolutely still. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I limp through the streets along the rim of Alta and Winter sector, along the lake and out in the open, lost in the crowded shuffle of other people. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The clouds were down over the lake but it would be beautiful with the sunlight. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Between the loss of the tourniquet and the effort it took to get to the lake, his wound has opened up again. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

In the center of the valley, nestled by the lake, was a small city of white marble buildings with red-tiled roofs. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Those all-too-rare days when her mother took her to the lake. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

For a long moment, the king looked out, past the stone sculpture to the frozen lake. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It is called the “swan grebe” with reason, for it glides with scarcely a ripple across the lake surface, the body riding low, white neck and shining black head held high. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The scenery was altered in only one regard: the long summer of drought had dramatically lowered the level of the lake, exposing brown earthen banks and leaving the floating dock high, dry, and useless. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The park had snack huts, picnic tables, and a lake with a swimming area, but all were shut and there wasn’t a soul about. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Smoke began to rise eerily from the ground over a wide area, like steam off a lake at dawn. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Near the hemlocks, a small lake caught the sky and sparkled blue and white. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Skirting a small lake, they had stared to see a great gray fisher bird that stabbed and paddled in the sedge, until a flight of wild duck had frightened them away with their clamor. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wish she had spoke to me, and told me what it was that budded there in the clearing by the lake. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

At the far end stood thirteen tall white columns, the Peristyle, with slashes of the blue lake visible between them. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

An owl or something fluttered low across the lake. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

And we can’t spend hours at the lake, out in the open, harvesting enough vines to eat right now. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In her mind she falls into a lake; water fills her ears and mouth; her throat opens. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The weather, as I remember it, was clear that day, the lake sparkling at the edge of a well-tended lawn. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The others swung round and saw the waters of the lake seething, as if a host of snakes were swimming up from the southern end. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And Austin on its hills among the bordered lakes might be across the world from Dallas. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something drew her onto the icy lake shore and although she knew the ice covered the rocks she kept walking, exploring. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

A big lake or an ocean was different. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leaves fall into the lake and dissolve into slime. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

There was a woman in a pink running outfit jogging around the lake. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

We stare off to a dark pinpoint in the distance, high above the lake from the direction we came. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The taxi passed within a few yards of one who was sitting at the edge of a lake washing his feet, but the driver didn’t panic. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Harry, Ron, and Hermione turned and saw the gigantic outline of Hagrid at the other end of the platform, beckoning the terrified-looking new students forward for their traditional journey across the lake. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

This flushing had undoubtedly released insecticides lodged in the accumulation of gravel, sand, and rubble and carried them into the lake and thence to the river, where chemical tests later established their presence. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

After cutting the dragon free, Minli’s knife was dull and the skin on her fingers and toes was wrinkled from having been in the dragon’s lake of tears for so long. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, Annie stayed in the girls’ dorm, which was a good walk in the opposite direction down the lake from the secluded O-Hall. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Storms brought disaster yesterday when the saturated ground in Aurora County began to resemble a lake in low-lying places. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The guards shoved Gendry inside with the boy and barred the doors behind them, fust then, a breath of wind came sighing off the lake, and the banners stirred and lifted. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I peek in through the open door and find her out on her balcony, looking at the trees and the lake beyond. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

If he kept the lake in sight as he had done yesterday he should be all right, should be able to find home again—and it stopped him. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found myself looking out at the lake, and suddenly the idea of leaving seemed very hard. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I make my way back up the stream and follow the same path back to Rue's hiding place near the lake. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

And now she had stopped, was watching the story unfold below us on the dry lake. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I asked Joe to tell me what was the joke that backfired and he said go jump in the lake. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The big stableboy no longer fought him as he had the first time, back in the lake tower during the storm. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And then the sun went behind a cloud and the lake turned back into a floor and Martha said, “Let’s just go talk to Isabelle,” and it was all over. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

I gather more water samples and lake plants. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Frigid, biting winds blow in off the lake. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

On the first day of conditioning, we had to go out on a three-mile run to the north shore of the lake and back. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When we finally saw some lights much further up the lake and close to the shore it was Intra. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The surface of the lake was once more shining black glass: The ripples had vanished unnaturally fast; Harry’s heart, however, was still pounding. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The English for part of the poem goes like this: A lake of new milk I beheld In the midst of a fair plain. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The summer before, we spent many weekends at my grandparents' lake house in the Poconos. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

We reach the top of the open space, the sun and lake and rest of the park hanging out behind the crowd of Yale’s noobs. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It was halfway up die hill from the lake, standing with its head and shoulders sticking out into a small opening, looking down on him with wide yellow eyes. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoon'd gone and the sky was turning to outer space when I noticed another kid on the lake. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He could see forms and shapes that resembled rivers and streams and oxbow lakes, and he could see specks that might be towns, and he could see belts of forest. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind skips behind me, nudging me forward down the walk and then away from the main road, toward the older homes, his neighborhood, right beside the lake. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Later in the afternoon, as evening came down, he went to the lake and washed the sticky berry juice from his face and hands, then went back to prepare for the night. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, and by the way, the loons are disappearing everywhere because their lakes are dying from acid rain. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them the sky had turned dark, and for the first time in over a hundred years, a drop of rain fell into the empty lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Metal slams against metal as we both go tumbling off the bridge and into the lake. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As they entered the last half mile and came into the lee of the hills at the north end of the lake, the headwind died down. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The long blonde hair swirled softly, like golden seaweed, as the lake released its grip and the body tumbled up. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

What stays with me is that sense of comfort, the unusual calmness of that unusually warm November night by the lake in Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“It will not even look like a river. It will look like a big lake. We will spend a long time crossing to the other side.” A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two nights without sleep tore at him, and the raft seemed bolted down as he tried to get it along the edge of the lake to where the river moved again. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I know he was mad about my starting that fight with JP at the lake, and how Seanie had to take some punches himself when he got between us. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The wind off the lake grew hotter every day. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane went into a glide, a very fast glide that ate altitude, and suddenly there weren’t any lakes. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The rangers say it's just woods and mountains and frozen lakes, with lots of snow and ice." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

By the time the moon rose they had traveled several miles, and they had come to the edge of a small lake which the track skirted. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That will make it difficult. She was coming north, you said. Was the lake to her east or to her west?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“She saw it when she was swimming in the lake with him and Princess Rhyia this past full moon night.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And now the mansions along the lake are lit with Christmas lights. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Beneath her feet the floor had become a wide, shallow lake. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But I played it cool, looking out at the lake. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Out on the lake, the other boys asked Stanley what he knew about Mr. Sir's face, but he just shrugged and dug his hole. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He guessed at the amounts and put the beef dinner and peach dessert on to boil, then went back to the lake and brought water to mix with the orange drink. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they moved into the Rookery at La Salle and Adams, a gorgeous light-filled structure of Root’s design, they saw views of the lake and city that no one but construction workers had seen before. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“You pushed a truck into a lake?” said Flora. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

A sip, he thought, still worrying about the lake water—I’ll just take a sip. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the edge of the lake was over five miles away, and it was little more than a small pond full of dirty water. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

More than one hundred thousand people had turned out to view the annual contest between California and Washington, crowding along the shores of the lake. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

So I get a big boulevard in the middle and lots of traffic circles around it, with circular parks, circular malls, little circle lakes. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The lake as big as the desert behind Lita’s house lies less than thirty meters in front of us. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Near the center of the fields there were thin lakes of muddy water which I had to make my way around, my unrecognizable shoes making obscene noises as I lifted them out of the mire. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked into the dark depths of the lake and saw the golden carp, and all around him were the people he had saved. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t really think your lake is nasty,” she assured the njuzu. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gear will just weigh us down, and we at least need to try to find them before eking out a life inside caves and eating lake vines. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

There are beautiful, faint streaks of orange over the lake. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They collected an additional four thousand crates of pond lily roots, which Olmsted’s men quickly planted, only to watch most of the roots succumb to the ever-changing levels of the lake. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The farther she got from the lake, the more nervous she became. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lake wasn’t all that big—maybe a quarter mile long, so we didn’t have far to go when I saw it. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Into the calm lake of our lives the first stone has been tossed. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The country around the lake was moderately hilly, but the hills were small— almost hummocks—and there were very few rocks except to his left. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked down the path under the giant umbrella and out through the dark wet gardens to the road and across the road to the trellised pathway along the lake. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“In my father’s office, there’s a photo of the lake from the air, and you can see Clara Wingtip’s shadow under the water.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Apart from the lake where people walk dogs, every season chokes up more and more paths in the woods. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Zero kept backing up, out past the cluster of holes the boys had been digging, then farther and farther out onto the lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Forty years it had taken, rising like a great shadow on the shore of the lake while Harren's armies plundered his neighbors for stone, lumber, gold, and workers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He heard his laughter in the dark, saw his eyes, blue and clear as mountain lakes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A train sounds its lonesome whistle somewhere out beyond the lakes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I told them it was a bad idea to plant there. Blue willows crave water. Ponds, rivers, lakes.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

It goes some- how against the grain to learn that cost-benefit analyses can be done neatly on lakes, meadows, nesting gannets, even whole oceans. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

God knows how I walked up the rooty, twisty path from the frozen lake on that busted ankle. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

That beautiful girl who brushed the sand from my skin after my secret swims in the lake. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“That day when we went to the lake,” he says. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Long aqueducts conveyed water from the distant mountains across the lake and into the city. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He could hear laughter in the crowd and knew he must look stupid, walking into the lake without showing any sign of magical power. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He looked up the lake shore, to the north. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Catherine went along the lake to the little hotel to see Ferguson and I sat in the bar and read the papers. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The sky is black with shimmers of glitter, and in the lake, there’s the sky’s rippling twin. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I crept along the outer rim of the lava lake, hoping I could get a better angle to see what was happening in the middle. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Harry raised his head to look at the circle of dementors across the lake. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Do we just lie down on the cracked, dried mud of the lake bed and call it a day? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Kreacher needed water, he crawled to the island’s edge and he drank from the black lake...and hands, dead hands, came out of the water and dragged Kreacher under the surface....” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The high lakes might be below their usual waterline, but they’re still lakes. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I’d like to sleep in Coeur d’Alene tonight. Your momma sent us a postcard from Coeur d’Alene, and on it was a bountiful blue lake.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I loved him in that moment, loved him more than I’d ever loved anyone, and I wanted to tell them all that I was the snake in the grass, the monster in the lake. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lower and lower the dragon flew, in great spiraling circles, honing in, it seemed, upon one of the smaller lakes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The lake was so full of holes and mounds that it reminded Stanley of pictures he'd seen of the moon. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

My father has told me many stories about the small town of Mangochi, located on the southern tip of the lake, just near the mouth of the Shire River. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

But after all, he realized, this was once a lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“You enter through the wall. It’s full of skulls and stuff and it’s under the lake, so the light’s all green.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“The sky was overcast with clouds and the lake covered with foam.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He stood on the dock for a long time, gazing at the lake, oblivious to the rain, thoughts assembling themselves, connecting with other thoughts and drawing together in new ways. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Turning quickly they saw ripples, black-edged with shadow in the waning light: great rings were widening outwards from a point far out in the lake. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“We’ll join other flocks at a beautiful lake in the middle of a great, sprawling field,” said another goose. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Being close to the water and hearing the lake slapping ’gainst the sand was ’bout the peacefulest thing you could think of. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The lake bed had been dug out by the southernmost advance of the Wisconsin glacier. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"This is just like the time you left me at the bottom of that lake in Wales. I had to wait fifteen hundred years to be found! The humiliation." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It seemed to go on around the lake, thick and lushly green, but he could not be sure. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lake, surrounded by birches, was bright and very still. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But he braced himself to the shock of Spitz’s charge, then joined the flight out on the lake. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shone like a window of glass upon a far hill in the westering sun, or as a remote lake seen from a mountain: a crystal fallen in the lap of the land. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The surface of the lake was a black mirror reflecting the moonlight. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The plane almost seemed to stop in the air, floated on down toward the lake below and to the front, and Brian remembered the last time he’d “landed” on a lake in a bush plane. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

She finished her stew, cleaned the bowl out with sand at the shore of the lake, and waited with a sigh for her mother to ask her to fetch the deer-bone scraper. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

We’d just come from a town meeting, where the Eagle announced the school was going to build a playground by the lake in memory of Alaska. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Using all his might, he brought the shovel back down onto the dry lake bed. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

They saw far beyond the lake a bobbing pinprick of light—a torch being carried along the drive—but they did not comment on it. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

AND NOW he stood at the end of the long part of the lake and was not the same, would not be die same again. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the First Arrivers are in the habitable zone, it might take years—and gagging down a lot of lake vines. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

"Okay. Think you could make it to the lake?" The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes until the team left for the lake. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It was another long day's march before they glimpsed the towers of Harrenhal in the distance, hard beside the blue waters of the lake. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“All right. Meet ya at the lake in a few minutes, then.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The lake had turned blood-red, but it wasn’t from the light of a setting sun. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I skated across the lake to intercept him, but he vanished before I got to the island in the middle. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Her voice shivered, like a ripple in the still surface of a lake. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The wind was still blowing outside up the lake and we could see the tops of the white-caps going away from us and up the lake. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

After the forges, we spent some time at the canoe lake with Annabeth. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He flung himself over to the edge of the rock and plunged the goblet into the lake, bringing it up full to the brim of icy water that did not vanish. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I stare out the window at the lake, the waterfalls, and the mountain peaks, until once again I’m looking at the abalone-shell sky out the cockpit window. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“For instance”—I hold my thumb and pointer finger ten centimeters apart—“the lake holds millions of tiny, winged fish.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

So long ago that the mountains of those days have worn away and the deepest lakes have become dry land. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The only light comes from several antique streetlamps lining the edge of the lake. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when the sun is directly overhead and shines onto the lake, the light is so bright it pickles your eyes and you have to turn away from it. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Not quite in front but slightly to the right he saw a lake. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water was frozen, and the snow had been falling for so long that Bran had lost count of the days, turning the lake into a vast white wilderness. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We trolled up the lake beyond Stresa and then down not far from shore. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The bright sun transforms the otherwise green lush scenery into a magical land of silvery lakes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They threw all the prince’s wealth into the lake, and then they turned to the terrified servants. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was after your second-grade teacher sent her daughter to that place near the lake. Do you remember? Your dad and I did the research and everything. We talked about it.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I meant to make a meal at the lake, but once I saw Twill and Bonnie’s condition, it seemed wrong to take a single mouthful from them. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Are the waves on the lake two inches high or two feet? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I should have run straight for the lake, or even the showers. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There were police officers stationed on practically every corner, Coast Guard boats patrolling the lake, helicopters overhead. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The moon was bright, and the rolling hills and dry lake flats reflected a silvery light illusion that everything was as visible as if seen in broad daylight. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The lake is pink-tinged with morning, and she can see the freeway beyond, and the cars lining up in their commute. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In the summer, we had stood on the shores of the lake, amidst the birch groves, and we had laughed like some new pantheon preparing for Creation. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The launch cast off and began chugging northward along the lake shore. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

One year, these scientists came with a mini-submarine and tried to find the bottom, but the lake was so silty and muddy that they couldn’t see. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

It showed a long straight stretch and the contour lines were spread far apart, which would indicate a large low or flat area where there might be a lake. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

They mosdy sat out every activity and checked their reflections in the lake and did their hair and gossiped. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

But I walk straight to the railing and lean against that instead, my back to the lake. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Then he remembered that the grids stood for five kilometers each, and when he counted the numbers of grids between the lake and Brannock’s he came up with about sixteen squares. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

By evening, we had set up our camp along the edge of an enormous crater—a hollowed-out earthen swimming pool half a mile across that would have been the lake for Aberdeen Lake. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

We found the lake again just as the sun was setting and bats were screeching out of their hidden roosts. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was an enormous garden, very beautiful, with a large funny-shaped lake at the far end. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so he sat through a long part of the day, keeping the flames even, eating from his stock of raspberries, leaving to drink from the lake when he was thirsty. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two beautiful people, a young man and a young woman in evening clothes, were at the rail in the stern, loving each other and their dreams and the lake. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lakes, rivers, Inland Sea, Sea of Japan to the west, and Pacific Ocean to the east teem with fish such as salmon, trout, tuna, sardines, mackerel, herring, and cod. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He walked slowly—still a bit pained in his joints and weak from hunger—up along die side of the lake. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had soon swum so far into the lake that he could no longer see the bottom. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Not even the gardens fronting the lake showed marigolds that year. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were little more than halfway across the lake when Miss Katherine heard the loud roar of the engine. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Ku-Ang landed painfully on the ground, across the lake, bleeding and gasping. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“He’ll be all right, you know, if we give him a chance,” said Hazel to Bigwig by the lake. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Yao arrived in Malawi more than a hundred years ago from across the lake in Mozambique. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

A strong wind was blowing by the time the main event, the varsity race, was set to start, and the lake was frothy with whitecaps. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Out on the lake there were flocks of grebes, small and dark, and leaving trails in the water when they swam. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

There was an island with two trees on the lake and the trees looked like the double sails of a fishing-boat. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The lake is huge and cold and blue and treacherous. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But now, with most of the rivers cut into pieces and lakes left as grey sludge puckers on the landscape, my own history seemed like a myth along the lines of dragons. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It huddled on the edge of a dead, dirty lake, fed by a river best known for burning; it was built on a river whose very name meant sadness: Chagrin. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"The lagoon. That little lake, like, there. Where the ducks are. You know." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I went to the edge of the lake and signaled for Hassan to come and fetch me. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

When he had gone halfway around the lake, and had jumped up twenty or so birds, he finally gave up and sat at the base of a tree. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Fridays, the lake was bustling with families out for a day in the sun. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the mountains, green hills and brown deserts and blue lakes came together in a mosaic of beauty. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

At the bottom edge of the lake and off to the right a short distance a river flowed south and east, and it was amazing to Brian how accurate the map had been. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then they stepped into the shell, sat down and laced their feet into the stretchers, pushed off from the float, and started to paddle up the lake toward the starting line. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I can’t imagine Cardan swimming in a lake, jumping in the water, splashing people, laughing at something other than their suffering. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Now there were open fields among the lakes and forests, fields with the crumbly friable soil potatoes love. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a telling me something else. In the next valley there’s a village by a lake where the folk are troubled by a ghost.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I kind of felt stupid, though, because I’d seen plenty of naiads at camp, and they’d never done much more than giggle and wave at me from the bottom of the canoe lake. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The lake roared in her ears, and sunlight jagged off the waves. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mah uncle come for me. He say hurricane warning out in Palm Beach. Not so bad dere, but man, dis muck is too low and dat big lake is liable tuh bust.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

And with that, she waded into the lake. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He stands over you like this little mountain, and he’s got this dark beardy shrubbery all around the peak, and arms like pines, and legs like oaks, and feet the size of small lakes. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Fire in the mountain lake: grace brings success. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

JPs head snapped back, and purple blood sprayed from beneath my knuckles as he lost his balance and fell backward—right into the muddy shallows of the lake. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The town was ringed by the river, the creek, the lakes, and numerous other springs. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why then was I unprepared for the beauty of this region, for its variety of field and hill, forest, lake? Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

There once was a very large lake here, the largest lake in Texas. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He would have to come down in a lake. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older trees, which had been cut down a year or two before, were well dried out, and when Brian rolled and skidded them down to the lake he found that they floated well. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The river left the lake at the south end, a good half mile away. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The crocodile fled into the lake as she approached. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the frozen lake, a pavilion was brightly lit. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

A giant sea that is actually a lake, filled with boats. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Our brother school, River Vale, is right across the lake, and we have socials and dances and whatever with them all the time. Almost every other weekend.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Then I put on coffee to boil and brought out my garbage-bucket laundry, which had been jouncing for two days, and rinsed the detergent out at the edge of the lake. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They raided our villages, killed our men, then sent our women and children across the lake in boats. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

When the wind blew off the lake, the nearest corpse twisted on its chain, ever so slightly. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was as smooth as a small lake, though the sails were up high enough to catch some breeze. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were also the dreams—he had many dreams about the lake after he was rescued. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn't bad but not worth sacrificing my own private frozen lake for. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He exploded into powder on the lake’s surface like a huge packet of drink mix. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The lake quickly became hidden behind trees, only occasionally appearing when she climbed over a boulder. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nice view,” I say, trying hard to look at the lake and not his face. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Tyrion eased the mushroom back into the lake of butter from which it had emerged. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The beast crawled out of the lake, and when it reached the shore, it panted and gasped, exhausted. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Abel nodded and scampered up the path that cut around the side of the lake. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other teams weren’t used to the thickness of the water, the feeling of lake weed tickling their legs, their toes slipping off the algae coating on our homemade turn boards, costing them precious seconds. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

I think the mountain is downside up and the lake is in the sky. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

It showed clean river with narrow banks where he guessed the lake was and if it was inaccurate about this one thing then it might be wrong about all things. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

With the water supply gone, firemen could do very little unless they were near the river or lake and could draw water directly from those sources. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

We have this annual thing at my dad’s lake house in Texas. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It would be easy to take the raft back around the lake, and possible—though certainly not easy—to drag Derek back up to the shelter. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

My father thought that a long time ago there were a lot of buildings—you can still see some of the foundations—and people came to them to play and fish in the lake. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been watching the first gray light bring into view the park and the bridges over the vanished lake. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s coming from that valley with the lake in it,” said Fledge. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Because the lake was so deep, most kids swam close to shore. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

On each side of the fill was a great expanse of water like lakes—water full of things living and dead. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The blue tin lake sparkled in the midday sunshine. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Next day they hiked to all the lakes, fished a little more, lazed about in the warm misty weather, and, strangely, encountered not another soul. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

New Guineans manage to look secure while paddling dugouts on calm lakes and rivers, but not even New Guineans can use a dugout in seas with modest waves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Out on the lake, the man in the stalled motorboat still fiddled with his engine. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look up into the clear sky over the lake, and I start to cry a little. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

A lightness entered into his body as more small cyclones of increasingly icy wind rippled across the lake and through the luxuriant summer grasses. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t remember this lake, or wide place, or whatever it was, but if it was two miles long it would take two full hours at least to cross it. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

It is a picture of a lady pouring water into a lake, a bright shining star over her head. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She had seen no one fishing in all the time she was on the lake, but that didn’t mean it didn’t happen. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time of Christ's birth, two of these early polities had become dominant: Pukara on the northern, Peruvian edge of the lake and Tiwanaku on the opposite, Bolivian side. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A loud boom of thunder echoed across the empty lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The oak grove was a quickly receding lake. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

As they worked past the northern end of the lake they came on low brush filled with small nuts. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sam had big strong arms, but it would still take all day for him to row across the lake and another day for him to return. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

There was a shallow steaming lake beneath the Library Tower, and hot water gushing from a crack in its side. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The water in this lake is supposed to be sa- cred. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woods were full of frozen streams and cold black lakes, and Meera was as good a fisher with her three-pronged frog spear as most men were with hook and line. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My parents met at a midsummer’s party by a lake in the mountains. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

No roads cross it; ponds and lakes freckle its immensity. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were driving by the lake now, and a group of brightly plumaged girls were emerging from the warming house carrying skates and chirping to each other. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

She felt small and fragile, the way ice over a lake thins as the weather turns warm. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It would take a whole day to reach the islands in the middle of the lake, and another day to get to the far shore. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cabin was two miles from Hatchet’s camp at the lake, but three from the ridge. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Her name was now Sally Gustafson and she lived in a pleasant blue house on the less expensive side of the lake road. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cabin used to be on the eastern shore of the lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Fed by neither streams nor springs, the lake was often filthy and algaed, relying on fickle prairie rains for replenishment. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dark, the lake is black plus black. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

After centuries of these baths, gold dust carpeted the lake floor. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mist churns over the lake as the cold air from the east mixes with the west’s fading hot breath. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But, before this, he had last been swimming in the lake, so he would call the Sea King. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

While crossing a lake on a ferry boat, they found an outlet for their rage. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the morning meal nobody seemed in a hurry to go to the lake; this person and that always eating one more thing. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sit by the lake, in full sight. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Her eyes are like Stella’s, black and long-lashed, bottomless lakes fringed by tall grass. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

He had been moving from the lake to the shelter with a birch-bark cone full of water when it hit him. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The lake had been formed and dug to a uniform depth of nine feet, with small wooden boat docks fingering out from its waterless shores where the most desirable concrete slabs had been poured. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The beavers had left clear sliding trails where they had dragged branches down to the lake, and Brian used one of them, the main trail, to pull the logs down. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The depth of the lake had changed, too—now it came all the way to the giant’s chin. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

With weather like this, the regatta promised to draw throngs of people to the beaches at the north end of the lake. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He slowed his movements and stood slowly, without stretching unduly, and went to the lake for a drink. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sees it in the mallard ducks that bob, bottoms up, in the Alster lake and in the return of the robin. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed as if the whole city was on vacation, with people riding around on their bikes and walking along the lakes and feeding the ducks and eating and canoeing and windsurfing. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The surface of the table reminded Stanley of the surface of the lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The dam would be built across Indian Creek at the mouth of Milagro Canyon, establishing a mile-and-a-half-long lake whose easternmost shore would extend up to within hailing distance of the Dancing Trout’s main lodge. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It rained so much that night that the creek flooded into the dirt streets, making the cabins look like they floated on a lake. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

From the ruin’s taller buildings the great lake, almost ten miles to the northwest, is just visible. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

BOOK: A turn in the city, a glide through a lake. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

As Ron and Hermione emerged, spluttering and gasping, from the depths of the lake, the dragon flew on, its wings beating hard, and landed at last on a distant bank. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

You fell into the lake when you thought you were farther from the edge than you were. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He had bathed regularly in the lake, but not with soap and he thought how wonderful it would be to wash his hair. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And look! There’s a green hill at the far end of the lake. And look how blue the water is.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“So we’re going to have to cross the lake to get to it?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

On the plateau, the team would set up camp, scout routes to the target, radio weather reports back to Britain, and light up a landing strip on the edge of a frozen lake. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They retire to the far side of the lake to allow the Gamemakers to retrieve the body of the boy from District 3. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I rode completely around the lake in one minute and then headed toward home. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

While driving through Pennsylvania he had simply happened upon a beautiful lake, pulled over, and taken an impromptu fishing vacation in perfect serenity. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shutting of the gates regularly at ten o’clock and the impossibility of remaining on the lake after that hour had rendered our residence within the walls of Geneva very irksome to me. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two thousand meters up the course, on the far side of the lake, a gangway had been constructed to the starting line, 325 feet out into the Langer See. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He let out a long “Ahhh!” and got ready to put his whole foot in this lake that couldn’t no one but him and the conjurer-man see. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The most violent storm hung exactly north of the town, over the part of the lake which lies between the promontory of Belrive and the village of Copêt. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just stay above deck, okay? You can keep watch, in case—you know, the lake decides to attack us or something.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, once. On a lake in Minnesota. I was on a camping trip with my family.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The building was split into fourteen rooms facing out toward the lake. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

And he refolded the map so it would show the lake where they were and the trading post at the same time. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sky blue, lake blue, sailor blue, aqua blue—you name a blue. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the lake to the south, another hill was dotted with even more impressive buildings—temples, Percy guessed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“It is said they still dwell beneath the water. Those who fish the lake are pulled under and devoured.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

On them were pictures of Chinese ladies and gentlemen, dressed in colored gowns and robes, walking on little bridges over a calm blue lake. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

If eight of the hundred we capture are marked, then a reasonable estimate of the fraction of marked fish in the whole lake is 8 percent. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out on the lake, rattlesnakes and scorpions find shade under rocks and in the holes dug by the campers. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“The old Van Helsing lake house. It’s been in the family for ages, but I’m the only one who comes here anymore.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

At the last trip to the top of the stone bluff with wood he stopped, sat on die point overlooking die lake, and rested. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was about thirty feet below in the lake, but I could see her clearly: my friend from Long Island Sound, Bessie the cow serpent. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

On its surface, darkened by near three hundred years of varnish, were painted the Seven Kingdoms as they had been in Aegon's day; rivers and mountains, castles and cities, lakes and forests. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The wind was down or we were protected by mountains that bounded the curve the lake had made. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

In fact, he would not have even known it was a lake at all if it wasn't for the giant moon reflected in the water. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Robert’s going to walk us over to the lake, show us the best fishing spots for later. Joey, Kenny, you coming? Give these two some time alone to talk.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was a log extending about twenty feet out into the water of the lake—a beaver drop from some time before—with old limbs sticking up, almost like handles. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around his candle were bits of bone and brain, islands in a lake of melted wax. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

On the opposite side of the lake, from a distant cliff face, gush three waterfalls of varying heights. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The song described the home that they had lost forever: the orchards, the cool lakes, the warm forests, the green fields. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Some nights, when it’s too warm in the cabin, he and Maxine take a flashlight and walk to the lake in their pajamas to go skinny-dipping. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was opening the monkey up, and now he was putting his hands into a bloody lake of amplified hot agent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would tip over the rock children and rock people she made of specially piled lake pebbles. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The night was warm, but a cold wind was blowing from the lake. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I was at my window, handing money across the counter to some customer I hardly knew, and it just hit me. The lake is dying. It’s dying. I had to leave.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

A snowshoe rabbit trail ran along the lake and she set off to find the resting place of the one who had made it. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light reflected off the lake and hurt her eyes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

You might be swimming in a lake and come upon a spot that is cold and murky, and it feels like you have swum through a ghost. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Fortunately the tents and trucks and two trailers were settled on the edge of a clear and lovely lake. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The strait between Siberia’s Chukotsky Peninsula and Alaska’s Seward Peninsula is now only 56 miles wide and about 120 feet deep, shallower than many lakes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The wind was blowing up the lake and we passed the point that hides Pallanza in the dark and never saw the lights. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Rather than try to move the raft across the lake, he decided to pull it around the edge in the shallows, and he started moving along the shore. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The plane had crashed and sunk in the lake and he had somehow pulled free. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

We also liked to swim in nearby Lake Tanganyika, one of the biggest lakes in the world. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

At one point he managed to scavenge meat from a diseased caribou that had wandered into the lake and died. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, if you dive into that lake to try to get the moon, you are!” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

On the dock at Fred Rantz’s house, Harry and his kids and Joyce sat eating peanuts and tossing the shells into the lake. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Out on the lake a man’s motorboat had stalled; the man was bent over the engine with a wrench and a frown. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brian looked around at the shelter, the comfort, the food, the fire, the lake. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Once it had been green and filled with avenues, and groves of fruitful trees, watered by streams that flowed from the mountains to a lake. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A few kids, all strangers, called after me in concern, but I ignored them, following the smell of mud and molding leaves until I found the lake we had passed. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The tunnels then are storm-sewers, and the spaces between buildings become canals or lakes, on which the people of Rer boat to their business, fending off small ice-floes with the oars. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then she turned her back on him and went out to the lake with Grandma to check their fish nets. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

So we followed them to the middle of a wide grassy field where there was a lake and hundreds of other geese. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

On the morning the Romans were scheduled to leave, Piper was sitting on the pier at the canoe lake, trying to placate the naiads. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

This isn't just a metal structure to hold up the lake's shores. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

They were emerging out of the darkness from every direction, gliding around the edges of the lake.... Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

To houses on the lake or one of the manicured subdivisions miles from here. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

On the front was a picture of a beautiful blue lake surrounded by tall evergreens. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I can see houses beyond, and the lake to one side, the top of it green with algae. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There, he told her all about the dragons, and about everything Sirius had said, while they took another long walk around the lake. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

My mother would look at my wild tangles and scold me: “Aii-ya, Ying-ying, you are like the lady ghosts at the bottom of the lake.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite being burned at the dump, and burned again in the lake of fire, Stupid Horse was untouched. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He could see die reflections of the trees at the other end of the lake. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

And not telling me till now that he'd been there when my daddy went in that lake. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Streetlamps glowed around the shore of the lake, making the water and trees look even spookier. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I guess it was about four thirty when I made my way down the hill on the path toward the lake. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She turns against the bank so that her back now faces out toward the lake. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“She only pulled out of your reach on the last turn. It was all that practice racing mud puppies back at the lake.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Because the lake is gross and nobody ever comes to our meets.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

In the distance, across the lake, a truck lumbered around a corner on the hill. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A small red number—a zero—printed in the same style as the ones I'd seen underneath the porch of our house and under the banks of our sector's lake. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

They snapped like icicles and spewed bile over forests, into lakes, drowning whole reserves and towns. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He along with the rest of the guys grabbed hold of Ike and Felix and threw them into the lake. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how long I spent bathing, but after ’while I saw splashes and waves coming from the other side of the lake and I knowed the fish had started feeding. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Derek worked up and away from the lake, looking for more berries as they moved. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

But as they moved down the lake, even rowing at a leisurely twenty-six, the varsity could not manage to stay behind their very good counterparts in the JV boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Down below he could see into the green water of the lake and there were fish moving and the sight made him realize how hungry he was becoming. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

As we wandered along the shallow shore, the mist dissipated, exposing an entire community of canoes being steered by both men and women on the surface of the lake. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

When he was done he covered the two piles with grass he tore from the lake shore to keep the flies off and went back outside. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

We rarely went to the lake when I was a kid, even though it was close. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The lakes boomed, and Nails howled mournfully beyond the tent. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the lake they again left their carriages. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

By now he could see two more azure, nearly circular lakes above the ninth Little Baldy Bear. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He set off along the edge of the lake, away from the travelers, and the angel followed him, invisible in the bright air. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

When I looked back, the lake was steaming. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Mr. Singh had opened the windows along the side wall, and a breeze from the lake breathed sweet spring air into the room. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was very skinny indeed, but apparently a lot tougher than he looked, because he climbed up onto the side of the ship, stretched out his arms, and dived, right into the lake. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then he looked at the lake again, saw how it lay in the wide, flat greenness—how there were many lakes around it. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

At sundown, Nhamo remembered, the larger animals would venture down to the lake. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They cried out as best they could, “De lake is cornin’!” and barred doors flew open and others joined them in flight crying the same as they went. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He said he’d seen people swimming in the lake and rowing boats. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We grabbed Takumi and walked down to the lake, hiding behind a few trees, laughing. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She rearranged her barrettes and put her hair behind one ear and leaned in toward the lake. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Go jump in the lake,” I growled, and pushed past him, heading for the exit. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the cabin heard it—the far-off creaking and groaning, the boom of the lake ice. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“My name is Ixtali,” the beautiful young woman said as she rowed us out toward the middle of the quiet lake. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Because he was also half-covered by ropes of twine that had been tied tightly around him so he couldn’t move and by the silvery lake of water his tears had formed all around him. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

When they reached the shattered window, Fred saw a van parked outside in the shallow lake that was the shelter’s parking lot. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Brian kept moving along the lake, waiting, walking, and waiting, and he realized at length what he was waiting for—what was in the back of his mind. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The wind was swirling from the west, driving still more snow across the frozen surface of the lakes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

This increased the speed a bit but filled the windshield once more with nothing but trees, and put the lake well above the nose and out of reach. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought of them—the houses near the lake and the houses near the levees. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

And maybe once in a while she sees in her head my daddy running toward her on a half frozen lake. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

He steals a key ring from the horn of a sleeping djinn and throws it to a mermaid imprisoned on a salt stone at the center of a pink lake. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Out in the lake, in the short part of the L, something curved and yellow was sticking six or eight inches out of the water. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lake widened and across it on the shore at the foot of the mountains on the other side we saw a few lights that should be Luino. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She makes him go back to the night of the firebombing and reenact it, starting at his house, working his way down across the Meadow and through the woods to the lake. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He looked out across the lake and brought the egg to his mouth and closed his eyes and sucked and squeezed the egg at the same time and swallowed as fast as he could. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the lake’s western end, where the Little Tennessee River flows into it, stands a big hydroelectric dam, 480 feet high, built by the Tennessee Valley Authority in the 1930s. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s keep our seats a minute, Sunshine. I have a little thinking to do. I should throw this key chain in the lake.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

On the right was the top of Central Park and the Harlem Meer, which was a little lake where you could go fishing in the summer. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“I thought it was my dad who’d conjured my Patronus. I mean, when I saw myself across the lake...I thought I was seeing him.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Soon we were approaching the first bridge, and already I could see that the lake was no longer there. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Where the forest began, there was a lake. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

We camped near the lake and felt a bit better. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Harry looked down and saw deep green mountains and lakes, coppery in the sunset. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He spent fourteen months in a dried-up lake bed, where he did nothing except dig holes. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He was looking for one of the foolish birds—he called them foolbirds—and there was a flock that lived near the end of the long part of die lake. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

A whole lake of tears has been under the surface for years, waiting to come out. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hermione always liked to go through their exam papers afterward, but Ron said this made him feel ill, so they wandered down to the lake and flopped under a tree. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

And now I’m wondering what other creatures lurk in the lake’s water. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She filled it with lucky beans to make up for the lack of proper beads, and hurled it far into the lake. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like a great placid lake out there in the bay. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The terrace sloped to the lawns, and the lawns stretched to the sea, and turning I could see the sheet of silver, placid under the moon, like a lake undisturbed by wind or storm. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Outside of a few lakes, there was only hardscrabble ground and the soil wasn’t so deep for growing crops. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain might have stopped, but the compound was still a morass of shallow lakes and slippery mud. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The muddy bottom of the lake beneath my toes. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I know them lakes. You been on them like maggots on a corpse, hundreds o’ you. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They came upon the promised lake not long after, and turned north as the ranger had bid them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I was actually buying time to go to the lake without her worrying. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Harry checked his watch, then remembered it hadn’t been working since it had spent over an hour in the lake. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow, going away with Dad to lake house for weekend. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Cracking open the ice on the lake, she weighted the pieces with stones and sent them to the bottom. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can see the faint and hazy Chicago skyline across the lake. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

"Maybe it'll rain so hard it will fill up the whole lake," said Squid. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

In the middle of that valley was a glittering blue lake, with three small islands like a vacation resort in the Bahamas. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“That was the kind of thing I would have done before,” he said to the lake, to the sky, to the trees. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a sound that makes Alex think about what his dad told him at the lake, about how much of Luna is still hidden. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Now this lake, like all the industry-plundered Great Lakes, was poison, and a tall fence blocked it off from the overgrown streets. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I could not see the lake, only the dark and the rain but the wind was quieter. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Nan, Wynn, and I wandered around until boats started to come in from the lake and people began to move toward a covered grandstand. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The pent waters spread out into a long oval lake, pale Nen Hithoel, fenced by steep grey hills whose sides were clad with trees, but their heads were bare, cold-gleaming in the sunlight. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Another woman from the morning bioloaf group leans at the lake’s edge, observing the purple glow of a swarm of water butterflies where the pale floor normally would be. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

As the first sliver of a crescent moon came peeking through the clouds, they finally stumbled into the village by the lake. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The lake, which was receding gradually anyhow, experienced another sudden drop. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

How it contains thousands of lakes, filled with fish of all kinds—walleye, for one thing, catfish, largemouth bass, rainbow trout, perch, and pike. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Clummer was creeping over the grounds around the castle; sky L_Jand lake alike turned periwinkle blue and flowers large as cabbages burst into bloom in the greenhouses. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She liked Gothic details: mist hanging over a silent lake, gnarled roots heaving up from the earth, a solitary crow in the branches of a bare tree on the shoreline. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mom was painting a picture of a woman drowning in a stormy lake. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The tree reflections on the even current were unbroken as on a lake. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d grown up hiking its winding trails, diving into its cold lakes, and fishing for trout in its streams. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

There were twelve of them, nesded in the woods by the lake. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Shaking her head at the view—of the hilly, green campus, the lake in the distance—she says, “Youse girls better enjoy it now. Best time of life is when you’re young.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was a lot harder to dig in water than it was in a dry lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Maybe I should take off my shirt, take a swim in the lake. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

On the bleached shores of the lake the carcasses of sinners rotted. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom asked, “The lake? Is that Lake Windsor?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Friday afternoon, I was sitting with Grover at the lake, resting from a near-death experience on the climbing wall. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Above the engine roar comes a loud crack, followed by a scintillation spreading underfoot, as the Packard hits a dark patch on the frozen lake. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She was sitting on a bench near the lake, with a coat clutched around her despite the heat. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

One hundred and ten years ago, Green Lake was the largest lake in Texas. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Every square inch of this road, of that lake, of these woods, is Charlie. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

This was lifting up one end of the lake and causing the water to run out at the other, as would happen if you lifted one side of a child’s wading pool. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The hills on the other side rose from the lake like giants emerging from the depths. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

So I have to find my way through the exploding production lines of the Middle West while sitting alone beside a lake in northern Michigan. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not as bright as Earth’s sun, but the jungle and lake bask in its golden glow. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I buy a pack of gum and a water, and I tell her I’m looking for a lake and a church, someplace lovely. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It rose from its lake of milk in a mystic light of its own—in a greasy, buttery glow. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept thinking about the U-boats off our coast and those lake tankers with barefooted Chinese sailors on board. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

His paintings are great impastos of pigment: chrome yellow, Prussian blue, vermilion, carmine, very light cinnabar green, emerald green, Veronese green, orange, lemon chrome yellow, geranium lake, silver white, zinc white.... Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, most continue to accept Seton s basic thesis: the Americas seen by the first colonists were a wildland of thundering herds and forests with sky-high trees and lakes aswarm with fish. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It had been over a day now—they had eaten normally the day before when they flew to the lake—and the hunger was becoming demanding. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

He rode miles across dry lake flats and over rocky cerros until he came to a high fence of heavy-gauge steel mesh with three strands of barbed wire across the top. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Princeton boys, though, found it inconvenient to row among the coal barges and recreational vessels that also made use of the canal, so they got Andrew Carnegie to build them a private lake. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At its center was a vast shimmering lake that glowed with a pale phosphorescent light. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I call Kristina on my way to the lake to make sure this will be okay with her. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

They stood, and Brian moved down to the shore of the lake. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

On sunny days the lake still managed to look blue. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The lake of poison rolled toward her in tiny waves and rivulets. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I’ll bet Dad’s telling him about that trout at the lake,” I said to my mom. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The road came quite close to the lake now and 1 saw a soldier coming out of a cafe on the road. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I’m back in the car and driving past every church I find, but none of them are particularly lovely, and I don’t see any lakes. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Twilight didn’t last long, and already the lake had turned dark blue. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was more like a cave than a house, with one large garage-style door for an entrance and only one small window facing the lake. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He would have to come down near the edge of a lake and try to slow the plane as much as possible just before he hit the water. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

One way or the other, he thought, while dragging the first log down to the lake. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“The lake’s off of Private Road, if that’s what you mean.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They led around the lake and up through steep woods to the summit of Piney Mountain, which wasn’t indicated on the map and isn’t really a mountain since it barely rises to 1,500 feet. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Hermione looked across the lake to the far bank, where the dragon was still drinking. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And with this light, Minli saw that the sky below her had somehow become a vast lake of pure water and the night clouds were made of floating lilies. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Workmen on rooftops immediately signaled to peers stationed throughout the park and to sailors aboard the warship Michigan anchored in the lake. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Below them, to the west, they could see the nine Little Baldy Bear Lakes, tiny and almost unbelievably beautiful, each lake pocked with hundreds of silver circles from the feeding fish. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How about if he fell through ice, into a lake, say? What'd happen to him then? Would he sort of stay...deep frozen?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He was floating in a great lake of light, and the voice was singing to him. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Gramps said, “Okay then, bountiful blue lake, here we come.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

They all went back through the sand to the wagon on the lake shore. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people who lived near the lake hadn’t noticed the smell for a long time now because when air conditioners came, they shut their windows and slept a light surface sleep under the motor’s drone. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It isn’t this smooth and easy. You don’t just fly in and get set on a perfect lake and have all the food you want and have it all come this easy. It isn’t real.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

In June, Gerald and Lydia disappear to their lake house in New Hampshire. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I jumped up on his back and let him carry me to our secret lake. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Fat lake trout would sleepily rise from the bottom, hungry to be caught. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The lake’s surface was calm, and once the boats had pulled away from the shore, there was not much to see—just water and more water. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he got to the sidewalk he tried to run but it was like sloshing through the shallows of an endless lake. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The final performance, following a notice from the judge regarding the chronic drainage issues at the lake, was a short play. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The trail crossed the lake on the top of the dam. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“True or not, I’m in the middle of a big, wide lake, with my feet kicked up on the edge of the boat. I could get used to relaxation like this.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

"Then let me make it a gift. I will set it free in the lake, and it can continue to bring joy to the hearts of all the villagers." When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Stanley watched the cloud of dust move across the lake to the cabin beneath the trees. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Gogol goes for runs around the lake with Gerald, arduous laps along steep hilly dirt roads, so infrequently traveled that they can occupy the dead center. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

At dead of night in front of the dark cavern on the bank of the somber lake she slaughtered four coal-black bullocks to Hecate, the dread Goddess of Night. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning Annabeth and I were sitting by the canoe lake sketching chariot designs when some jokers from Aphrodite’s cabin walked by and asked me if I needed- to borrow some eyeliner for my eye ... The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was the just plain ice, the kind you couldn’t see through, that covered the lake and hid the water and the fish below. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He turned back and set off up the side of the lake, heading for the gut cherry bushes, his windbreaker-bag in his hand. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Halfway up the lake, just as he started to step over a log, he was absolutely terrified by an explosion under his feet. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a postcard, greetings from the land of 10,000 lakes it said on the front. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The lake was so deep because the volcano crater and tunnels and lava chutes and all that plumbing went all the way down to the center of the earth. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

A warrior on a horse rode across a lake. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

One Saturday night her drunken boyfriend, a guy named Rex Reese, had plunged his parents’ car into the lake. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Swarms of water butterflies follow in our shadows as we walk along the lake’s shore. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Preacher said, “If only we were at a lake so he could show you.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Get to him and Engorgio his head and watch him float out of the lake — away from the task—away from the competition . Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

He put up his little tent some distance from ours and quite near the lake. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Yes, he stays at the camp full-time. He got stung, too, when they drew the tracker jackers in by the lake," says Rue. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

From the minute the red ball of the sun lifted above the lake to when it sank again in thickening layers of haze, Nhamo hurried from one chore to another. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lake, surely impossible...though was there a slight possibility that Dumbledore might have known some of his past misdeeds, through the orphanage. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

As the boat rounded the Laurelhurst light and headed north, it hugged the west shore of the lake. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I think about going to the lake, but I’m so weak that I barely make it to my meeting place with Gale. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The driver and I started on our way through dark, murmuring—and, at this hour, strangely beautiful—Chicago, along the lake. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

When I was young, I tried to imagine what it would look like as a lake, with no fence built into the mud to keep the city safe. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

A small river snaked around one side and curled toward the center like a capital letter G, emptying into a sparkling blue lake. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The lake lay before him, twenty or so feet below, and he had not seen it this way since he had come in with the plane. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked round him, at the dark fir trees on the hills surrounding the lake, and at his mother and Mr Hooper, only paying attention to each other, now. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

In the afternoons, when it’s too hot to pick berries, we swim in the lake, in the same water the fish come out of. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was thinking back to the person he’d seen on the other bank of the lake. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing. Nothing. Closest was that thing to dry up puddles and ponds, that Drought Charm, but that was nowhere near powerful enough to drain the lake.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden, it reminded him of the crater lake in the Philippines called Pinatubo, which was created after the 1991 eruption of the Mount Pinatubo volcano. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

They rode to the lake the Dothraki called the Womb of the World, surrounded by a fringe of reeds, its water still and calm. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Do you think we’re going to have to go into the lake?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Rue has given specific instructions on how to reach the best spying place near the lake from this point. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We didn’t say much on the drive to the lake. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s cool there, on the bank by that lake. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Salamanders will dry out and die next to fish that never made it to the lake in time. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

There was a bit of an uncomfortable silence then, and I wasn’t sure what to do with my distraught mother and her dying lake. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

SCORPIUS: But, just a minute, isn’t—wasn’t—the second task took place in the lake, and you’re not allowed to leave the school building. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Kendra had once ridden in one at a park with a lake. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Was it the milk? This is way cooler than the lake!” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

This time he quite deliberately placed his hand firmly on Gabriel s back, and released the rest of the calming day on the lake. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

First years traditionally reached Hogwarts Castle by sailing across the lake with Hagrid. said Hermione fervently, shivering as they inched slowly along the dark platform with the rest of the crowd. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then, where the faint path from the House in the Woods meets the main path to the lake, I heard a boy, gasping for breath, pounding this way. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Nhamo watched him stride along the bottom of the lake as easily as a man on a forest trail. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He threw her in a lake, ‘rescued’ her, and told them she tried to commit suicide. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Down at the lake, on the edge of the dock, Ida Nee was twirling her baton. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Angels come down from above, he says, and not up from kitchens like ours which are lakes from October till April. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The central jade green lake mirrored the arching tiled roofs of the pavilions and the rough beauty of large weathered rock sculptures. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The lake was frozen, so I guess the dog just figured it could run straight across. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

There's the lake, but I find that an unlikely option since it's so close to the Careers' base camp. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But our view was of the lake’s heart, where whitecapped waves churned in the deep. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

And the fleet of little boats moved off all at once, gliding across the lake, which was as smooth as glass. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Okay, okay, I’ll write to him,” said Harry, throwing his last piece of toast into the lake. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The smell from the lake here was nauseating. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

His tears continued as if from some huge, bottomless lake. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Instead of following the turn, little Willy took a shortcut right across the lake. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He longed for lakes and trees and hills, for serene places where he could take walks by himself. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time the blades entered the lake, they disappeared almost without a splash or ripple. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The waves of a lake lapped against the stones. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

This would be the first time they rowed on a river rather than a lake, the first time, in fact, that they rowed anywhere other than Lake Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The drone and die sea of green trees that lay before the plane’s nose and flowed to the horizon, spread with lakes, swamps, and wandering streams and rivers. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only trees are two old oaks on the eastern edge of the "lake." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

‘We’ve got enough to start on. But the water’s going to be a bad business. But come, Mr. Frodo! Off we go, or a whole lake of it won’t do us any good!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

This place, though, didn’t feel like the canoe lake back at Camp Half-Blood, or the streams in the woods where Piper normally met nymphs. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

On April to he hustled all three of his crews out onto the frothy lake to see what they could do among the whitecaps. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A truck flew through a pothole lake and threw a wave of muddy water onto us. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

But of course there’s still a grande fête at the quarterback’s lake house. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The lake was a few feet away, home to fat frolicking ducks. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

We counted out loud the number of lakes we stepped over, trying to outdo each other. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

ALBUS: Help us, Myrtle, help us get into that same lake. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

There are three ponds or small lakes in it, and apparently these are fed by springs, for they never dry up. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Gasping, thoroughly pooped, the men trudged into the half-mile-wide grassy alpine bowl with the small circular lake in the center and collapsed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ducked into the woods, following the faint path around the lake until we came to a dirt road. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I look away from the lake to see her holding out a piece of bread and cheese, gesturing for me to take it. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“He’s mad!” said Harry, staring at Krum’s dark head as it bobbed out into the middle of the lake. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was as if they were discovering new land; a cold lake empty of boats, the few cottages nearby all blindly shuttered, locked and empty. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Briony would have gone out with her mood, probably to be by water, by the pool, or the lake, or perhaps she had gone as far as the river. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Sherman bought them a house at Forty-third Street and Michigan Avenue, near the lake but more importantly near the stockyards. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

As the lake filled it emptied in a slow trickle into el Rito. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you think going for a walk by the lake’ means?” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Step by step I kept easing into trouble until I finally was standing in the lake with the water up to my knees. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I watch, power-ups materialize over the steel walls and along the edge of the lake’s waters, the colorful marbles lining the bridges both over and under. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I can hear cries of "To the lake! To the lake!" and know they hope to evade the wasps by taking to the water. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Except for the ten miles of Gombe shoreline, the hills along much of the lake have lost all their trees. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

We hit the first ridges of granite, the first lakes; there’s snow in the shadows. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The lake’s edge sits just a few blocks away. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

By the end of September, snow was piling up on the tundra, and the lake had frozen over. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning they were sitting on a green bank at the edge of the lake. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

And even the thirty seem to have nested in vain, for no young grebes have been observed on the lake since the last DDD application. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Dany could hear the distant call of night birds, the hiss and crackle of the torches, the gentle lapping of water from the lake. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When I look at my reflection in the lake, I realize that I look exactly like a street beggar now. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Sam's onion field was somewhere on the other side of the lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Down the mountain slopes it lay, spread before them with its green fields, its orchards, its forests, its rivers and lakes, where white sails drifted. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The lake was coming nearer and nearer, but there was no sign of anybody. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Her icy sled jingled over the wind-swept lakes and she sang as she traveled. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

No canoes cut the surface of the lake. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

You cannot see the mountains opposite, you cannot see the houses on the hillside or even the roads or the lake down below. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Then the clouds came over the moon again and the mountains and the lake were gone, but it was much lighter than it had been before and we could see the shore. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

When the Sillingtons first settled in Clarion County, before there was a state road parallel to the lake, they owned all the land down to the water's edge. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the sun came up, full up over the lake and brought them warmth, Brian felt like he’d been hit by a truck while playing in a puddle. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Alaska and I were smoking down by the lake. We usually go off campus, but we forgot. We’re sorry. It won’t happen again.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

At a restaurant at the lake’s edge, we eat our fill of fried fish and share a giant bottle of Coca-Cola, which the Doctorita never lets us have for fear of cavities. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In some places, the ground was covered with the salt of dried-up lakes. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Breakfast is eaten by seven, on the screened-in porch overlooking the lake where they have all their meals, homemade preserves slathered on thick slices of bread. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I know that is crazy because Mutare is nowhere near the ocean or even a lake, but still, I had nightmares about it. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

In that freshwater lake, fish with long whiskers swam down deep and close to the mud. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The Foreign Secretary rushed for the stairs, calling out to the guards she passed, “Patrol submarines! In the lake! Warn them!” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

At the turn of the nineteenth century, men and women like him carried progress on their backs, laying tracks across America, around valleys and lakes and through mountains. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He remained out on the lake, digging during the hottest part of the day, long after everyone else had gone in. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Did he wade in de lake and uh alligator ketch him?” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Another commented that they “could have turned their shells upside down and rowed without making much difference in their progress. It was nearly as wet above the surface of the lake as it was below.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He did not speak aloud his thought that whatever it was that dwelt in the lake, it had seized on Frodo first among all the Company. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Harry peered down the lake toward Sand Point with a pair of binoculars. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Me followed it a long way under the earth and came out by the lake. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Among the group were a few people whose home villages had been near rivers or lakes. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was charging toward us, walking straight over the top of the lake. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

There must be freshwater lake turtles that did the same. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he had to bring the raft to just below the shelter—bring the raft to Derek—and that meant building it here and working it up the side of the lake to Derek. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

As aquatic weed killers in lakes and reservoirs they have made public waters unsuitable for drinking or even for swimming. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

All of the trash was carted to the lake and dumped; not only was Chicago swept clean of the fire, but a large landfill was created in the process. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It was obvious that we had not landed on the lake,” Ronneberg recalled. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the north end of the lake, the coxswain called out, “Way... ’ The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Those who fought it out at the Cornucopia will have food, an abundance of water from the lake, torches or flashlights, and weapons they're itching to use. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

After I wash them, I paint the jeans and shirt in some mud, so it looks like I crawled out of the lake. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Whiteman’s bones were in Blackwater Draw, which during the Pleistocene served as a wide, shallow regional drainage channel, a kind of long, slow-moving lake. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Finally, as much to humor her as anything, Francis suggested a walk to the lake. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

When he had rested a bit he went back down to the lake and drank a couple of swallows of water. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some people said the lake is named Turtle because it’s round and green like a turtle’s shell. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Circling the lake, Norman Bowker remembered how his friend Kiowa had disappeared under the waste and water. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a railing all around it, and beyond that, a clear, tree-lined lake. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I figured I'd go by that little lake and see what the hell the ducks were doing, see if they were around or not, I still didn't know if they were around or not. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Then the log house would be almost buried in snowdrifts, and the lake and the streams would freeze. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My sisters children picked them today at dawn near Adada lake.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Just like that, the horse was gone—nothing left but a steaming trail across the lake. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When we drove along the lake, Stick liked to sit where he could see the water, and me where I could see the buildings. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

It’s a hike to the lake, no question. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

My feet took me out toward the lake in the woods. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The house had sixteen rooms on two floors, was surrounded by “superb old trees,” and occupied a long rectangle of land that stretched to the lake. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

That crumbling horror, that evil lake, the fungi, the extensive decay! The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caroline grew up picnicking by the Shaker lakes in the summer, skating on city-flooded rinks in the winter, caroling at Christmas. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Had he been seeing things across the lake? Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

They moved up the steep hills on either side of the new lake to rebuild their homes and replant their crops. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Down the embankment they swayed and there it was, a plain, homely little house, barn-red, and below it the last of the sun flashing on the wrinkled surface of a tiny lake. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the scarcity of water, they may even have had to return to the lake for refills. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Thatched roofs clustered along the shore of the lake and the small stream that emptied into it, and a wooden pier jutted out into the water beside a low long building with a slate roof. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I jumped in my own kayak, thinking if he could sail the lake, so could I. But I had no idea what I was doing. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The wind kept whistling and pushing, but the rest of it—the stars, Sahil, the lake, the earth—everything stilled. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But because it was much bigger than the pond, the clay of the lake- bed still held water. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were pictures of castles and lakes and pretty girls on the walls. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were strange, a main center line up from the lake in the sand with claw marks to the side leading to a small pile of sand, then going back down to the water. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had sat at the lake for hours, throwing rocks into the water, thinking about Pearl and his brother. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When they reached the bottom, the sun was just rising above the lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Our best bet will be to get to the First Arrivers quickly, hiding in caves or the cold lake along the way if they send the shuttle. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

For the finale the fair’s pyrotechnicians launched five thousand rockets all at once into the black sky over the lake. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

His mech is flying, his metal blade wings beating so hard that they form a whirlpool in the lake’s water. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

An orange light flickered to life at the northern end of the lake. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I hop in, start her up and drive to the lake because who’d go to the lake on a cold day like this? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I was in the backyard of our summer house by the lake, lying on an old quilt my mother used as a beach blanket. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

On the night of their escape, the flames of the burning town had shimmered so brightly on the water that it had seemed that the lake was afire. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As his food supply grew meager, McCunn deeply regretted tossing all but a dozen of his shotgun shells into the lake. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the north end of the lake, a silver airplane circled the area of the finish line. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The pain makes me light-headed, like I'm drowning in a bottomless lake. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

By the time we reach the lake, Gale seems to have lost his ability to speak. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The one that leads from the camp Rue and I made all the way down near the lake and beyond. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It was a poem written by the Drunken Genius, Lee the White, who drowned one night when he tried to embrace the moon as it appeared on the lake. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lake was beautiful and always changing in hue and texture, but it was also, Olmsted argued, a novelty capable of amplifying the drawing power of the exposition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The lake was gray, darkening to a band of black at the horizon. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It had overflowed so that the fringe of poplar trees on its banks stood deep in water, and the cornfields were transformed into endless lakes. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I ducked under the rope tying off the path to the lake and made it all the way down the trail before I realized anything was amiss. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“You is supposed to be down by the lake with the other champions, sir!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Cool clear water, lake water, cool and dark at the bottom, out of the light. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The droplets of water came from somewhere high up in the dark recesses of the roof; they dripped steadily down and broke the surface of the subterranean lake, causing a continuous ripple. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Five floors above, Jake's partner stood before the restaurant's front window staring at the froth on the angry lake, and beyond. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of one night in 1975, some African rebels from Zaire crossed the lake in a motorboat and captured four of the students who were working at Gombe. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

All the towns east-west roads dead-ended into Erie, and that day I glanced down every one to watch the lake spit chunks of dirty foam onto the beach like some angry, stalking beast. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Each princess, when she came down to bathe in the palace lake, would slip her rings for safekeeping on the tail of her attendant cat. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now with the Olympics approaching, officials were planning to add a massive set of wooden grandstands built out over the water on the other side of the lake. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Trout in the mountain streams seldom were more than six inches long; in the lake they thrived so prodigiously that many grew to five pounds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Next to the jungle lies a lake, as turquoise as an image I’d seen of the ocean in the Philippines. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He found to his dismay that there were few of these, the line passing mostly through uninhabited regions of lakes and hills. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the fire started out in the middle of the lake, so the kids were able to safely climb out of the water before it all went up like a big bowl of gasoline. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was his eighth revolution around the lake. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there wasn’t anyone there, and I walked along the trail by the lake in the dark alone. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We pulled and tried to tear the dead weight of his body from the waters of the lake. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn't got halfway across the lake before they got me. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

It takes me a few blinks to shake my dizziness, but once it’s gone I stare out at a large lake that sparkles in the moonlight. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Nobody had ever told him if you could or could not drink lakes. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mothers and fathers carried babies over shining lakes and snow-covered mountains. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The first gulp of icy lake water felt like the breath of life. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

As we pass the lake and twist around the S curves that lead up the mountain, I push thoughts of Charlie out of my mind. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You’ll see that some of the lake was drained so that we could build the fence, but we left as much of it intact as possible.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The dirt road and all the trees seem like a completely different world, like the bottom of a lake with flecks of dust floating by in the silvery light. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

If they could sink the boat over the deepest part of the lake, the barrels of heavy water would come to rest 1,300 feet below the surface. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clearly they were not on the frozen lake they’d been aiming for. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The memories of the hard work in the rice fields, her father’s careworn hands, the plain rice in the dinner bowls, and Ma’s sighs washed upon her like the splashes of water from the lake. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“So, I guess it’s a no to going to the lake then?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

There were lakes, some large and small, but he was not moving fast enough to have reached any of them yet and that meant the map was not accurate. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a perfecdy round blue lake with a border of grass between the water and the road. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I step to the window and look below at rivers and lakes and green. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Feathers has followed me partway and is crouched by the lake, brushing debris off a stone. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s got a screened-in porch where we can eat breakfast and watch the lake,” she said. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he must have been alarmed to find a three-acre lake covering the trail. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their eyes were deep lakes filled with old wisdom. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

There's not much shade in a big dry lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

It was like swimming through an enchanted lake. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The dead zone in the middle of the lake just keeps getting bigger and bigger...” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I learned that she never learned to swim, and for that reason she always loved rivers and lakes. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was not perfect, not as nice as Brian had had on the L-shaped lake. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath die Mother of Mountains, a line of naked crones crept hum a great lake and knelt shivering before her, their grey heads bowed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Oh, between losing you and coming upon the mud slick, I tried to get to a lake I saw from the mountain.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

There were fish in the lake and they were food. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys had built a wooden raft they kept tied up there, fourteen feet long, nine feet wide, big and solid enough to carry them out into the lake. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The lake dark glass and windowlights coming on along the shore. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Though wind and rain had worn its features some, it looked just like a giant who’d sunk up to its neck in the lake. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The view of the Péligre Dam and its immense lake and the land it had drowned was, so to speak, another mountain to Farmer. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Then without a word, we break apart and head for the lake. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

In the alpine jungles, lakes and little rivers drew herds of deer and the big cats that hunted them, making for plentiful game. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He headed toward the lake for no specific reason, just because it was in front of him and he needed to keep moving. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The last thing he wanted to do after killing himself all day on the lake was to get in a fight with a boy called the Caveman. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

If die plane had come down a little to the left it would have hit the rocks and never made the lake. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about Hassan’s dream, the one about us swimming in the lake. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It would be a float plane and it would land on the water and come across the lake and the pilot would be amazed that he was alive after all these days. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had to wash my pajamas and sleeping bag in the lake. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The villagers who had lived in the Zambezi Valley dug up the bones of their ancestors and carried them to new places beyond the edge of the lake. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rivers and lakes get clogged with the soil washed down by the rain, and the fish may die. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The guardian of the lake was a lonely man, the more so because he had a wife. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They saw a circle of standing stones that Illyrio claimed had been raised by giants, and later a deep lake. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Tea Cake lost heavily, for there were several good gamblers on the lake. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The finish line for the Pacific Coast Regatta in April was a little less than a mile up the lake from there. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

None of the other racers attempted to cross the lake. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sees the lake and throws himself inside. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Nya’s family did not live by the lake all year round because of the fighting. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having lured the unwary on to its back, it will dive straight to the bottom of its river or lake and devour the rider, letting the entrails float to the surface. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

This year she could plant her garden at the right time, although rising lake water might make it difficult to reach the little island. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The valley was deep and there was a stream at the bottom that flowed down into the lake and when the wind blew across the valley you could hear the stream in the rocks. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

After church I go with the Smeaths through the vacant Sunday streets to watch the trains shunting monotonously back and forth along their tracks, on the gray plain beside the flat lake. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They felt the surge of lake water in their blood. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“That sounds right. You live upstate. I live down here near the city, too close to the harbor. The water. It’s like a lake effect.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I sit up and remove them, I hear a laugh somewhere near the lake and freeze. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He jerked his mind back to the lake. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the south, beyond the lake, a cluster of temples perched on a hill. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The next day the king’s scouts chanced upon an abandoned crofters’ village between two lakes—a mean and meagre place, no more than a few huts, a longhall, and a watchtower. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Pleasant Pond was a vacation spot—we could hear the happy shrieks of children splashing and swimming perhaps a hundred yards away—though we couldn’t see anything of the lake through the trees. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

We were supposed to go swimming that day at the camp, and I worried that I would turn the lake red. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They were named for lakes, great and small; for rivers, flowing south or east, and one was named for a sound, Long Island Sound. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The first warm day falls on a Saturday, which is how we end up in Prairieton at the Blue Hole, a three-acre lake that sits on private property. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The boy had no doubt conveyed to her my words of blasphemy, for she talked with me for hours, warning me that I would burn forever in the lake of fire. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the color of a mountain lake—that gem-like shade that didn’t quite have a name. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I’ve never seen so many little islands in a lake,” I said. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The lake is bigger than he’d expected, a distance he cannot imagine swimming across. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her attitude toward him had changed completely since he had saved her sister from the lake. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It also means I know exactly how to treat the lake vines. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Past dry rivers and dry lakes they flew, like a shadow of the moon, like a torch burning. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I will base your character upon the attributes of the boulders on the lake- shore: silent, apathetic, and—considering how little they exercise—surprisingly chiseled." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The air was full of the smells of warm grass, lake water, and wood smoke from Hagrid’s cabin. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Pinch tramped the edge of the lake and many times edged out as far as he could go on the rocky shore. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I scoop up handfuls of water from the lake, wishing I could dive in and surface alone and naked and unobserved. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I could see Annabeth now—standing barefoot above me on the canoe lake pier. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The Other said something in a language that Will did not know; his voice was like the cracking of ice on a winter lake, and the words were mocking. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The security team had him scheduled for the second watch—five p.m. to five a.m.—all the way at the far west end of the lake. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A lake of molten sulphur extended the length of an immense canyon, releasing its mephitic vapors in sudden gusts and belches and barring the way of the solitary winged figure who stood at its edge. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It wound out the bottom of the lake, the southern end, and headed southeast down into the lakes below and was lost, and he had not followed it except to note the name. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Olmsted dismissed the inland sites out of hand as being flat and monotonous and too far from the lake. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I pull into the parking area of the lake, and we sit at a picnic table. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I became like the ladies of the lake. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He glanced at his brother Nick, then over the frozen lake. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

When the violent storms arrived, the waves on the lake would become extremely dangerous. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then — when they had walked so far around the perimeter of the forest that the castle and the lake were out of sight — Harry heard something. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When we arrived at the lake, I was disappointed to feel no cooling breezes. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

On his tenth turn around the lake he passed the hiking boys for the last time. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure you probably think I’m nuts sitting here crying over a lake. I know it’s not a person. It’s not Stan. It’s just that were so careless, and...and...” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It took him most of an hour to work his way back around die lake. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky is pink, and it has turned the sweet ripples of the lake pink, too. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

We dashed across the road, to the path to the lake in the woods. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The water bomber glides just meters above the lake. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Every year when the rains stopped and the pond near the village dried up, Nya's family moved from their home to a camp near the big lake. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lake was surveyed, its volume determined, and the insecticide applied in such great dilution that for every part of chemical there would be 70 million parts of water. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The plan is to go down to the lake. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

For they had talked of this, going away together, just the two of them, Maxine picking him up after Christmas, staying at the lake house. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The trail cut away from the lake through the densest part of the forest. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They also show roads, buildings, railroads, transmission lines, mines and caves, vegetation, and towns, cities, rivers, lakes, canals, marshes, and waterfalls. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lake seemed to respond with rage and fury. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We found a little cottage on the north shore of a lake,” Dad explained. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lived near the water and had grown up, like all Grosse Pointers, pretending that our shallow lake was no lake at all but actually the ocean. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was empty now, but sweetly expectant of clean, white, well-behaved children and parents who would play there above the lake in summer before half-running, half-stumbling down the slope to the welcoming water. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

A short while later he saw the cloud of dirt heading across the lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

By the time Fadi made it over to the edge of the lake, the sun had begun to sink into the line of clouds on the horizon. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Over the course of the last five years, the lake’s remarkably unchanged and I’m almost unrecognizable. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is a vast area of deeply wooded wilderness—of endless chains of lonely lakes and rushing rivers. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It curved in a crescent-shaped arc, bringing Matthias back into the main cavern with its luminous lake. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He dreams once, briefly, of the lake house, an orange beacon under the moon. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

On autumn nights, in some parts of the city, the wind from the lake brings a sweetish smell to shore. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tess and I are sitting in the sand underneath a pier, at the part of the lake that crosses into our sector. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The bird cut down toward the lake, then, seeing it couldn't land in the water, turned and flew back up die hill into the trees. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The falling light magnified the dusky expanse of the park, and the soft yellow glow at the windows on the far side of the lake made the house seem almost grand and beautiful. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then they filled their canteens, got their shovels, and were marched out across the lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

In front of him lay the lake, blue and deep. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought. . . maybe we could get a glimpse of that lake. I thought the baby would like to see it.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Over the last several months, body parts had been discovered in the lake or on its shore, and it wasn’t only feet like the headline suggested. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

After a couple of hours, I reach an old house near the edge of the lake. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

With a deep sense of relief, Will went back to the camp by the lake, closing everything behind him. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Hills and lakes, mountains and forests went waltzing round them to unheard music. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I’m supposed to walk east from the station once I get there—toward the lake—but I still get lost for almost twenty minutes, going in circles and ending up in a cul-de-sac. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Her hair is calm, a placid yellow lake around her. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Stanley staggered across the lake, almost falling over a dirt pile. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He saw plenty of birds, working up along the shore of the lake to the end, then down the other side, but he only saw them after they flew. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a bad lake for swimming and fishing both. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hemlocks whispered of rest and peace; the lake spoke of sunlight lingering in its depths, the joy of otters at their games. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

They had spent most of it out on the ice, shivering beside a pair of holes they’d cut in the smaller of the frozen lakes, with fishing lines clutched in mitten-clumsy hands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He grew hungry shortly after he’d set out and came upon a lake. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He stooped and put his mouth to the lake and drank and drank, pulling it deep and swallowing great gulps of it. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

James Goodale, the New York Times lawyer, carried a portable radio down to the lake near his family’s Connecticut home. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Painfully, she forced herself to roll over and crawl to the lake. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood, using die tree to pull himself up because there was still some pain and much stiffness, and looked down at the lake. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

There's probably a whole system of pipes down there, something that leads all the way out to the lake. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Now, through the memories, he had seen oceans and mountain lakes and streams that gurgled through woods; and now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

No one objects, so we walk east, toward the marsh that was once a lake. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The lake would sparkle with reds and blues and greens, like a mirror, and the picnickers would make low sounds of appreciation. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although the cold was sudden and the snow had fallen thick and mysterious overnight, the water of the lake was still open just past a skim of delicate ice onshore. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The helicopters flying overhead beat the lake into a frenzy of waves and patterns. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Then the road curved around a lake and got lost among low, forested hills. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

A little way back above the lake they found a deep brown bed of last year’s fern. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

All too soon Stanley was back out on the lake, sticking his shovel into the dirt. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Probably come in here with amphibious planes, small bushplanes with floats that could land right here on the lake and pick him up and take him home. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is talk of the lake, the temperature dropping, the water turning cooler, summer coming to an end. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

True, everyone referred to this area as "the lake," but it was still hard to believe that this dry wasteland was once full of water. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I even lost again, the second time we played, and that time the guys made me swim across the lake in the middle of the night wearing only my boxers. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Soon they stood on the edge of a cliff, looking down on the dry lake bed. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

She was an old lady then, living on a Michigan lake with a gang of grandchildren who had to listen to her familiar stories. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

No one could match the fineness or colors of the widow's silver clouds, flaming flowers, or crystal lakes. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Hell was and would always be as far as she was concerned, a lake of fire exactly the size of Maycomb, Alabama, surrounded by a brick wall two hundred feet high. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Then, the world fades into view and I’m standing on a ledge, looking down into a perfectly circular lake surrounded on all sides by sheer metal walls hundreds of feet high. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her tribe, the Nuer, often fought with the rival Dinka tribe over the land surrounding the lake. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went clean over to the other side of the lake and laid down my two pouches and my tote sack and net-basket and pulled off my brogans and all my clothes. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

A misty greenish light shone far away in what looked like the middle of the lake; it was reflected in the completely still water below. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The boat was on a pond or maybe lake. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the lake that curved around near the playground, I doubled back, found another path, went over the small footbridge and then around and under it. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

In amazed horror from Motor Boat, “De lake!” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The others strapped themselves in below—except for Coach Hedge, who insisted on clinging to the forward rail, yelling, “YEAH! Bring it on, lake!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

From here she had a view of the driveway and the lake across which lay a column of shimmering phosphorescence, white hot from the fierce late afternoon heat. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

On his orders his sanitary engineer, William S. MacHarg, built a water-sterilization plant on the fairgrounds that pumped lake water through a succession of large tanks in which the water was aerated and boiled. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I’d learned that from some old man who owned the bait and tackle shop out by the lake where Scrappy and I used to go fishing. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Below me are the blue hills slipping down to the lake, and above floats a chalky white balloon moon, which is sending light beams down to the deep blue lake. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Instead of the colossal white room, forests of swaying trees and rippling turquoise lake water fill the space, like we are right there. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The flooded farmland was now a large reservoir or lake. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

So the river had widened into a lake, but he had moved along the west bank. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The fish in all the nearby lakes and rivers will be safe today, because it seems like every fisherman in the state of Maryland is here at the funeral. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He looked at it in his lap, picked it off, looked at it in his hand, and flicked it—sidearm—into the lake. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I’ve been to lakes and stuff in the summer, but nothing that has those bright colors. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

They'd play games, dance, sing, and swim in the lake to keep cool. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Though the property was on the lake, there were no docks or boats in sight, only a mansion-like clubhouse, two paddle tennis courts, and a swimming pool. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Don’t get away from the lake so far that you can’t see, and if you run into a bear don’t look into his eyes.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the new buildings are next to the marsh, which used to be a lake a long time ago. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

They found the missing canoeists floating dead in their life jackets in a lake. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The man in the stalled motorboat yanked frantically on the cord to his engine, and the two mud hens sought supper at the bottom of the lake, tails bobbing. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The icy water of the lake beneath them seemed to suck warmth and energy out of them more quickly than they could produce it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They would land right on the lake, but the pilot could also take off from solid ground. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

When he turned away from the sun to mount the mare, he saw the spotted cattle, grazing in a dry lake flat below the ridge. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was an island in the lake and there were ducks swimming on the water. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lake reached closely to the base of the hills, obliging Taran to splash through the shallows. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Just then, there was a rustle in the bushes beside the lake. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lake doesn’t reflect your own face—it shows you someone else who has looked or will look into it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Like its fields and rivers and lakes, Ludus’s forests were just computer-generated landscaping, placed there to fill up the empty space. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

There was a cool lake for tubing, waterskiing, and fishing; a swimming pool; crafts; even archery and BB gun ranges. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The city was growing in all available directions, and where it abutted the lake, it grew skyward, sharply increasing the value of land within the Loop. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I can’t go on, my son . . . lake me back to my bunk.” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before she went back on the trail, Omakayas rinsed off the old candy lump in the lake. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

After five minutes, Pauline twitched her thumb, and the cello woman was replaced by an Ansel Adams landscape, Mount McKinley glowering over a lake of pure white. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Below Wall on the west is the forest; to the south is a treacherously placid lake served by the streams that drop from the hills behind Wall to the north. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

If you throw an orange peel into the lake, it passes through | long underground tunnels and mysteriously reappears kilome^ ters away, at the Peguche waterfall, a place where wishes come true. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He blew a thin stream of smoke forcefully toward the lake. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“We thought you died, Jimmy! In the car. In the lake.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Peculiarly, the abandoned land was the wettest—with its rivers, lakes, and rainforest, it should have been the best place to wait out a drought. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Peeta pulls me to the lake where we both flush our mouths with water and then collapse into each other's arms. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Every day the man took his dog to the edge of the lake to get water, and the dog would bark furiously at the lake, like he was mad at it.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Since then, though, scientific measurements, mainly of pollen in lake sediments, have shown that the Maya did cut down much of the region’s forest, using the wood for fuel and the land for agriculture. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Lots of rich kids who lived on the lake. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I hold the pendant up against the living room light, and the diamonds glisten like a lake on a sunny day. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Would he be sitting watching television and suddenly think about die sunset up in back of the ridge and wonder how die color looked in the lake? Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were clouds over the lake and over the valley. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Now it was much easier to transport water from the lake. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He moved closer to the lake to a stand of nut brush. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He checked Derek one more time, made certain his breathing was regular and his heart was beating steadily, and then moved off down the side of the lake, looking for wood. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

He would’ve just said it was a hot day that needed a cold lake. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dev told her stories about his childhood, when he would come home from school and drink mango juice served to him on a tray, and then play cricket by a lake, dressed all in white. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He informed us that there were fishermen who were fighting over who should fish from which beach along the lake shore of the Game Reserve. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Let's fish at the lake. We can leave our poles and gather in the woods. Get something nice for tonight," he says. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He just wanted to get off the lake and away from Mr. Sir as soon as possible. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

During the slow march of summer days I was aware, as one is aware of a drum steadily beating across a lake, of something unspooling itself in the bodies of my campmates. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

On one side, a big lake spread out, ringed by barren desert mountains. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

They had ended up just giving a bunch of brownies to group of homeless men and women near the lake. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Finally, we found ourselves in a trailer park at the edge of a lake. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Not my old room, but Auntie Venus’s, always considered to have the best view in the house, over the lake, the driveway, the woods and the hills beyond. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

In Sagan’s twilight, through the haze of dirt and mist, the lake comes into view. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Here the land rose as they approached the northern end of the lake. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

When the first shimmer had appeared in the distance, he’d thought it must be an illusion, like the lakes they sometimes saw that vanished as they drew near, but this hadn’t vanished. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Now the Zambezi had become a huge lake. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first essay is on nature, by a writer I've never heard of who spends pages describing a lake. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

This very sink empties directly into the lake. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

At some point the lake water just changed to salt water. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Is someone fishing in the lake at night? Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When I tried to Summon the Horcrux, a body leapt out of the lake.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I blew out a breath and looked at the stars glittering in the lake. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

That I thought of throwing myself in the lake like the other ladies of shame. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

In late fall, as the deer moved down with each snowstorm, the people hunted the foothills and cerros and the grassy dry lake flats of the big plateau. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“That must be the north shore of the lake,” Nhamo decided. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lloyd: Walking around, interviewing people, going to the lake, riding buses, going out of town to win awards. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He used sticks and cleaned it as best he could, covered it with clean sand and went down to die lake to wash his hands and get a drink. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only forest below now, forest and lakes and the plane droning. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Even after the television special—a camera crew went back with him to the lake and he showed them how he’d lived—they stayed after him. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“As aquatic spectacles go, I am a trifle underwhelmed by your lake. Is this where the swans are?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The sky to the southwest burns pink, and every so often there’s a break in the mist, leaving a stained-glass reflection on the surface of the lake. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Her heart shrunk cold in her chest, tiny but heavy as a lake rock. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Its colossal curtain walls rose beside the lake, sheer and sudden as mountain cliffs, while atop their battlements the rows of wood-and-iron scorpions looked as small as the bugs for which they were named. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But Brian moved along the lake, up from the shore and back, and finally he found a stand of large poplars where beavers had been working. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I could tell it was a lake because ... well, I just could. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

They were heading, as Harry saw when he stepped out onto the stone steps from the front doors, toward the lake. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The father gave an infuriated roar and grabbed the paper from his son, seizing it with such force that he fell backward into the lake, shattering the reflection of the moon. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

There lay a rocky ridge that stuck out overlooking the lake, about twenty feet high. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

They flew over the nine lakes, silver baubles in green alpine bowls. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says lakes and forests reside in our minds. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

If my suspicions are true and the lake plants I saw are edible, maybe we can survive. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Once these facts had been absorbed and lamented, Briony was gently returned to the scene itself, to the events on the lake island. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was a misty, gray lake, wide and ringed with firs, its calm surface smooth as slate. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“We’re in the middle of a lake! Can that thing fly?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The pilot was all business now, his hands working the controls, easing the throttle, settling the plane the last bit down to the lake. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

A village above a lake, suspended on giant Persian rugs. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

There were blue lakes, glistening as much as the jewels above; and cottages, and small farmhouses. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Why didn’t you tell me? When we were running at the lake, you could have said something,” I said. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He looked across the lake toward the cabin under the two oak trees. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

At one point they came to a little lake, a patch of intense blue scarcely thirty yards across among the red rocks. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat in the great room with Dad and made small talk about the Japanese fish in our lake, stuff like, Are the koi disappearing from the lake? Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tea Cake! Motor Boat! De lake is cornin’!” The lake was coming on. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He came close twice, and then, down along the lake not far from the beaver house he got his first meat. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Waterfalls gush out of the many hems on the outfit, and, as I hobble out of the lake, more secret pockets release their water. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Before being sent to San Diego I’d never seen any body of water bigger than a small lake. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

From his height he could see not just the lake but across part of the forest, a green carpet, and it was full of life. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been green fields, a lake with a happy, joyful fish, and friends and parents. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The two men drank whiskey from bottles and filled the room with a stratified lake of cigarette smoke in the flame-white light of night. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bertha told me a story about when she and Mama were little girls and went to a lake one summer. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The park’s gravest flaw, at least from Olmsted’s perspective, was that its shoreline was subject to dramatic annual changes in the level of the lake, sometimes as much as four feet. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Already there are nurseries in twelve villages along the lake. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The king was silent, and for a long moment, he stared out at the lake before him. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Fairfax County—beautiful neighborhoods, lakes, golf courses, expensive homes, good schools, and Ebola. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had never gone into details about what had happened on the island on the lake: The events that had taken place after he and Dumbledore had returned to Hogwarts had eclipsed it so thoroughly. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It sank into her body like a frog diving into a lake. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A marmot whistled, and he searched through gray boulders beyond the lake for the animal, but you could never see them in rocks like that. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But maybe it's like lakes full of it. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She thought that it would be pleasant to visit them and see their new home, their small lake and their crops growing. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up a stone and skipped it across the lake. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Here there was no lake, but something even more amazing: statues! Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“On the lake? What’s out there? There’s nothing out there, nobody.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

At their backs rose a perpendicular wall of rock, and Perrault and François were compelled to make their fire and spread their sleeping robes on the ice of the lake itself. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had forgotten how rich and beautiful is the countryside—the deep topsoil, the wealth of great trees, the lake country of Michigan handsome as a well- made woman, and dressed and jeweled. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later, the river fed into what was either a sea or the biggest lake Gregor had ever seen. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Swim across the lake in the woods, climb the quarry down Pig Lane, go nightcreeping across some back gardens. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I begin cooking up some lake vine soup, boiling in a 500 ml beaker. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I turn to look at her, but she’s staring out at the lake. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Brian leaned against the rock and stared out at the lake. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

My way went endlessly through forest country and past many lakes, not yet frozen. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were talking about the lake at our development and about what might be happening to the koi. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, we make it back to the lake. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

There was a lake of perfectly clipped grass and, across the lake, an ivory-tinted building I vaguely recognized as Greco-Roman. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But the poison had not really left the lake; it had merely gone into the fabric of the life the lake supports. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Back in the Everglades the wind had romped among lakes and trees. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Once he got out of the stable he’d head straight down the road afore he cut off into the woods heading for the lake he first took me to ’bout a year ago. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Then we’ll turn time again, make our way to the lake, and reverse the second task. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Gilmanton was a small farming village in New Hampshire’s lake country, sufficiently remote that its residents did not have access to a daily newspaper and rarely heard the shriek of train whistles. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Suddenly feeling the heat, she let the cigarette drop to the surface of the lake. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The monstrous guns of Krupp were in place in their pavilion on the lake south of the Court of Honor. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In fact, Margaret and Jasper had been seen whispering plans to go ice skating on the lake should a few hours of freedom tumble unexpectedly into their laps. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

We hadn’t heard the Eagle since we got across the lake, but I didn’t think he had turned around. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Water whips off the lake blinding our view. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

For a quarter, then half a mile, she fairly smoked after the coyotes until they ran out into the dry river/lake bed once again. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“The only place the story made mention of aside from this lake was that mountain,” Emma said, indicating the bluff beyond the trees. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Out front, Penn was still thrashing the lake white at thirty-nine. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

For the town’s water supply, he tapped into a pristine ancient lake that lay a thousand feet below. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

If his father were here, riding shotgun around the lake, the old man might have glanced over for a second, understanding perfectly well that it was not a question of offensive language but of fact. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he walked on, around the edge of the lake, taking in the outlines of the beloved castle, his first kingdom, his birthright.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He stood and looked across the lake and felt strangely old. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Moody says he didn’t see her anywhere near the judges’ table at the second task, or anywhere near the lake!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They walked three times around the lake, trying all the way to think of a simple spell that would subdue a dragon. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She had watered those seeds with water hauled from the lake, makuk after makuk of water, until they sprouted and grew. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, Alex took a kayak out on the lake at Linda’s house by himself, and so, as usual, I followed his lead. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Farther across the lake I can see downtown Los Angeles sitting right next to the shore. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

They chase each other around the pier, race down to the lake’s shallow bottom and shoot back up in the moonlight, all elbows and knees. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

My whole body felt cold and hard, like a rock sinking to the bottom of a lake. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I’d’ve been smart enough to put one and one together and would have choosed something off the bottom of the lake for supper. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I kneel at the edge of the lake to collect the underwater plant samples the drones couldn’t reach. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Do the kids who’d drowned in the lake down the years mind me trespassing on their roof? Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

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

At the lake my father bartered with the Muslim businessmen, known as the Yao, who populate that part of the country. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Then, days later, when the clouds disappeared and the sun emerged, the lake began to split into hundreds of small puddles throughout the labor camp. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

My tears finally stop and I feel a strange sense of calm, the glassy surface of a lake once the wind stops. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It fills the room, creating landscapes of mountains and valleys and lakes with its wind notes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I whirl around, and now I don’t know how I missed it: a wooden observation deck, up a short ramp, overlooking the lake. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

In the subdivision’s center, a perfectly circular lake had been dug and then, for some reason, drained. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

There are a lot of lakes down there, and wherever there are lakes in Florida, there are rich people to congregate around them, so it seemed an unlikely place for a pseudovision. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

She was standing at the edge of the lake now. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Assume we want to know how many fish are in a certain lake. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I longed for the sparkling blue waters of Lake Tanganyika, the colossal lake where I loved to swim, despite my parents’ warnings about crocodiles. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Now, on this first day of her long journey, she is running along Lake Washington Boulevard again, but this time on the east side of the lake. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Across the lake he raced, his paws kicking up sprays of snow behind him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I scamper down the tree and hit the ground running in the opposite direction of the lake. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“You can go to her mama’s work place, but it’s way over by the lake.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the lake spirits thought the Roman guys were so hot that they, too, wanted to leave for Camp Jupiter. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Arturo was going with us to the wide, silent lake and the butterfly fishermen who glided over its surface. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Of the state’s 9,304 square miles of territory, some 85 percent—an area somewhat larger than Wales—is woods, and nearly all the rest is either lakes or above treeline. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Peach fell headlong into Snapfinger Creek which was no longer a creek—it had become a lake. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“He got the coach to cancel practice. The rest of the team is at the lake, far away from all of this. Kind of convenient, don’t you think?” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Then obediently, as if following instructions, we cross to the lake and fill our water containers. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The sun was almost overhead in the large, empty sky, and the cool woods stood back from the edge of the lake. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun could only think that perhaps the body had traveled far, that the man had been swept from closer to the lake all the way to Uptown. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Finally, I pull into a gas station, and the boy there—who can’t be much older than me—tells me there are some lakes up north a ways off US 150. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

On one side was a row of tall Australian pines, and on the other side was a milky man-made lake. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrote a report pretending that I was by myself near a lake for two years. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Ratliffs own the moon that floats over the lake, and the sun and the clouds. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Gramps had tried to wake Gram when he saw the lake. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“He’s really funny. He’s got a house near the lake. He said we could all...” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When the nurses asked what they should do with the lifeless baby, I hurled a newspaper at them and said to wrap it like a fish and throw it in the lake. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tears were sliding down her face like a cracking dam doing its best to hold an overflowing lake. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I spun and slid to a shuddery stop by the edge of the lake. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

From far out in the lake came the fat, rounded plop of a fish jumping, a precise and solitary sound, for the breeze had dropped away completely. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

"I guess she was once a real person on a real lake. It's hard to imagine." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The little boat sank into the water once more; clanking and tinkling, its chain slithered back into the lake too. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Brave geese punch through the thin ice left on the lake. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The fresh wind across the big lake blew away the smoke of cooking fires and vanquished the mosquitoes that came out in whining droves and had plagued them in town. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I see a raggedy lake with dead trees stuck into the marsh around the edges. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I spot a Dollar General on the side of the road and pull over because maybe they’ll be able to tell me where these lakes are. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As the Chippewa headed north, up the lake toward the finish line at Sheridan Beach, a navy cruiser and nearly four hundred other vessels flying purple and gold pennants joined her. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It was so lifelike that she wondered if the weaver had been there, lurking in the lake with a waterproof camera. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

In the marshy ground where the stream met the lake she found dense patches of sedge. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rivers boiled and the mud bubbled and entire lakes turned into steam. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

From here I can see all of downtown Los Angeles, as well as many of its surrounding sectors, and the thin rim of land that separates the enormous lake from the Pacific Ocean. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

They have been found in fish in remote mountain lakes, in earthworms burrowing in soil, in the eggs of birds — and in man himself. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In their wooden boats and motorized canoes they ferried illegal goods back and forth across the lake, using the Sese Islands as hiding places. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She nods and stares across the far side of the lake, to the distant icy mountains where the water pours over the plateaus. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It rained so that I couldn’t see across the dorm circle, so that the lake swelled up and lapped against the Adirondack swing, swallowing half of the fake beach. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The lotus pads lift themselves huge out of the lake, plates for the gods. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned her head away and looked out across the emptiness where the lake was. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Myrtle . . . what lives in the lake, apart from the giant squid?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“There you are! Your mother is in the house saying you were abducted by a boy at the lake.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“You could have drowned! Or gotten really sick—there’s all sorts of bacteria in lakes—or...” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He knew he must be even deeper in the lake now, but nothing was moving but the rippling weed. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A blue projectile splattered against one of the centaurs, hurling him backward into the lake. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

They left the wagon on the shore of the lake. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he turned to warn the others, to his surprise he sawGurgi in water up to his waist and heading toward the center of the lake. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The yelping seemed to be coming from the ground near the edge of the lake. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The train stopped in Vevey, then went on, passing the lake on one side and on the other the wet brown fields and the bare woods and the wet houses. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

As a consequence I’d lost the natural counterpoint between the lake and the field. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even on the New Year they did eat but a fish they caught themselves in the lake and a pig they killed from the farm. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

But the woods were near, there would be streams and waterfalls and lakes in there. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

One was lounging in a lake like it was a hot tub. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Hush. Don’t worry none,” she whispered, and the honey in her words complemented the sundown spilling on the lake. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The middle of the lake was a whirlpool clutching and flinging him to the depths. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Juanga looks like he wants to say something, but instead, he walks a few feet away from us and looks down toward the lake. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” she said, “those hymns about eternal lakes of fire; are always so jaunty, aren’t they? Play another.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“How dare he,” Hagrid growled as they strode past the lake. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The tornado tore one more time at the shore on the opposite side of the lake— Brian could hear trees being ripped down— and then it was done, gone as rapidly as it had come. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never again saw my grandfather, but eventually his clothing was found on the shore, washed up on the dark side of the lake. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The rooftop beyond that was a lake of fire. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I’ll guide you, Cousins, straight and true,” said Hand Clap, “for there’s nothing I can’t do. I can dig up a mountain, drink up a lake, outrun the wind....” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was painted pale blue and pink—the same color as the lake and the peach trees along its shore. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Maybe, I thought, Grandfather told me not to fish this dark side of the lake because no fish lived here! The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Hopelessly, round and round, a rotating sprinkler scattered lake water on Dr. Mason’s vegetable garden. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he will get to spend a day or two recovering in his tent, instead of having to dig a hole out on the lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

They came to the end of the lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I stared into the lake, wishing somebody would give me a straight answer for once. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Sefia propped herself up on her elbows and peered out over the lake again, putting the glass to her eye. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He brings his finger to a long, Y-shaped lake west of us. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

There are walks you can take and you can troll for trout in the lake. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

His eyes were lakes of molten gold, and smoke rose from his nostrils. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We enjoyed a boat ride on a lake. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It inhabits deep lakes, where it will prowl the bottom in search of food, preferring water snails. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the dining room window of Aunty Uju’s house, the lake shimmered, a blueness so tranquil that it held the gaze. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

That year Burnham bought an old farmhouse on the lake in the quiet village of Evanston, called by some “the Athens of suburbs.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A lake of hot caramel with steam coming off it.... Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was staring at the view—the usual verdant infinity of woods and lakes, shimmering slightly in a heat haze. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It is almost dark now, so I see only shadows of buildings against a dark blue sky, and a few glowing lights near the lake that must belong to Erudite headquarters. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Briggses lived on one of the lakes that lay in the heart of the city like a chain of jewels. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Raindrops the size of bullets thundered on the castle windows for days on end; the lake rose, the flower beds turned into muddy streams, and Hagrid’s pumpkins swelled to the size of garden sheds. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

His family owned most of the peach trees and all the land on the east side of the lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The lake lay flat and silvery against the sun. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a big lake three days’ walk from Nya s village. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It has some issues with people. It was abused or something. It’ll rip you to pieces. The Eagle put it there to keep us from walking around the lake to smoke.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Nhamo closed her eyes and flung the beads into the lake. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Washington’s number seven seat, a realization flickered through Joe’s awareness—the boat was drawing abreast of his father’s house on the west side of the lake. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Maybe if you stay in Colby, Daddy will drive us over to the lake one day,” Howard said. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

When the lake froze he would have lost the fish, and when the snow got deep he would have had trouble moving at all. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would have enjoyed it more if I hadn’t kept thinking of Katz stumbling and gasping and searching for a lake by moonlight. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The horses were used to drag ice that was cut from the lake in winter. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

By afternoon the wind rose, and she realized it would be impossible to sleep in the lake. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cattle rolled their eyes and bellowed, but they had no choice but to go forward until one after the other, they tumbled into the lake. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even from this distance, the lake’s spray is visible skirting off its surface from the gusts. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Tom Yew parked his Suzuki by the bench on the narrow end of the lake and sat on it, sidesaddle. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Water made sound and he realized it was the river gurgling as it left the lake to his right. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow the cold lake water actually made it worse, sharpened it. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lake seemed to wash away the troubles of the past, and the grand old mountains to look benignly down upon them saying, “Little children, love one another.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few, having put down their guns and taken leaks, staggered over to the lake, where they knelt and drank. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He desperately needed a lake right in front of the plane and all he saw through the windshield were trees, green death trees. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’ll graze around the lake until I call him. But I want to see the ship. Lead the way.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Glowing, misshapen swarms ripple below like a wave of bees across the turquoise lake. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She listened to the low voice through the canvas and then moved carefully to the open flap that overlooked the lake. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They strolled around the lake, bought tea at a stall, and rented deck chairs to listen to elderly men of the Salvation Army playing Elgar adapted for brass band. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She had expected that the monkey’s interior would be a lake of blood, but no, this monkey looked all right, it had not bled into itself. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dear mountains! my own beautiful lake! how do you welcome your wanderer? Your summits are clear; the sky and lake are blue and placid. Is this to prognosticate peace, or to mock at my unhappiness?” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lanes one through three, on the other hand, came in so close to the southern shore of the lake that they were almost entirely protected through much of the course. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The American boat drifted on down the lake, beyond the grandstands, into a quieter world, the boys leaning over their oars, gasping for breath, their faces still shattered by pain. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“What’s there? I’ll tell you. Two long coastlines, a hundred hidden coves, otters in the lakes, salmon in the rivers, clams along the shore, colonies of seals offshore, tall pines for building ships.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Boats chug around the lake, careful to avoid the giant water turbines churning along the edge, and the shore's flood sirens are quiet and unlit. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Some sort of underground salt lake? I didn’t think Alabama had these.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Look, I left the film Ms. Bethune gave me at school. I’m going to go back and pick it up and then go to the lake for some inspiration.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

My friends, a crow was sitting there, its eyes black and shiny as lake stones. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Jason deflected it over Percy’s head and into the lake. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I feel weird watching her type, so I turn to face the lake, resting my arms on the railing. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Unimportant kids' coats were put at either end of the lake as goalmouths to reach through and to defend. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Others nestle under trees fringing a river or a lake. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was galloping silently away from him, across the black surface of the lake. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The sun had just come up and the lake was smooth and still. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two ravens skimmed deliberately along the distant treetops, floating into the open over the ninth lake and drifting down through the subsequent meadow- land, heading into Deerhair Canyon, where the Milagro posse had retreated. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They appeared to have swum across the lake rather than sailed. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The theater is set among hundreds of acres of beautifully maintained parkland with lakes and ponds. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In a few hours we will begin registration for all of these fine ladies of the lake, the ships that will save thousands. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Soon a reservoir came into view, a mountain lake far below the road—tranquil blue waters set among steep, arid mountainsides. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The wind was whipping off the lake, and she hugged her upper arms and stamped her feet as she waited for the door to open. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The gale blows the shuttle forward, and we skid toward the lake. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Argo II listed dangerously to starboard, then righted itself and rocked on the surface of the lake. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Rubio holds the beeping atmospheric reader and carefully starts walking the perimeter of the lake. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

At this time of day, Stanley sometimes could see some distant hills or mountains on the other side of the lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

And the lake had drowned his friend Max Arnold, keeping him out of the war entirely. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below us Toronto festers in the evening heat, the trees spreading like worn moss, the lake zinc in the distance. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He told her about his secret onion field on the other side of the lake, "where the onions grow all year round, and the water runs uphill." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Rivers, lakes, and seas were the only highways; there were no roads. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I used to take johnny to the lake. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They tied the rope to a cleat at the rear of the boat and rowed back across the lake, jerking the stump slowly behind them. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I could throw the monitor into the lake. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The woods about the lake they left behind. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Native Mexican women dressed in pale tunics slid their paddles into the lake and rowed slowly, serenely across the water toward what could only be described as densely vegetated islands floating on the water. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

There were some more cattle grazing near the shore of the fifth, and largest, lake. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why won’t you tell them to go jump in a lake or at least to leave you alone?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The lights down by the banks of the lake stood side by side like a caravan of glowworms, trembling as they were reflected in the black water. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I contemplated the lake: the waters were placid; all around was calm; and the snowy mountains, “the palaces of nature,” were not changed. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

It came up in a low roll that made a sizable hill next to the lake. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

If he was floating atop water shared with the lake, surely fish had been swept into the city. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Pinmei could not even see a faint shadow of it as they began to walk over the lake...or was it an ocean? When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The bright blue of the lake that was painted on the rear panel matched the blue leather seat. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

"The Careers have two pairs. But they've got everything down by the lake," Rue says. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be another point going out a long way ahead into the lake. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It’s small, and its claws remind me of the one that landed on my palm at the lake. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The fact that the insecticide was applied in very low concentrations is meaningless, as its explosive progress through the natural food chain in the lake demonstrates. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“We may have angered the nymphs who live in this lake. Like...all of them.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was beautifully made, light and strong, carefully waterproofed with pitch by Grandma, who kept it in good repair and in its own house by the side of the lake. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Rani picks a tree by a small lake, not too far from the building where the family lives, to be our new home. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The lake water had filled his stomach but left it hungry, and now it demanded food, screamed for food. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we can go by the lake then?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s this way, sir. Joe would have told me to jump in a lake before 1 opened my mouth.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both of these flies waren’t accustom to being wet and started whirring and splashing and skimming ’cross the top of the lake. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The crofter’s village stood between two lakes, the larger dotted with small wooded islands that punched up through the ice like the frozen fists of some drowned giant. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Off to my right was the Rainy River, wide as a lake in places, and beyond the Rainy River was Canada. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

His home was a small ice floe in the middle of an inky lake. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He bought a ticket and traveled down the lake on Hydro, leaning over the rail, with one eye on the minute hand of his watch. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun had all but set, the skies had cleared, and the lake spread out before him like a polished stone, glowing in the last reflected light of day. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I... I promised myself I wouldn’t speak of this. But—” She was interrupted by a rumbling sound somewhere out on the lake. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The moon was full, the lake silver and glimmering. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There was a road running through it, and a lake. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole mob began arguing while Narcissus stared at the lake, ignoring them. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The river moved rapidly back into flatter country, swamps, lakes, and the first thing that happened was the bottom turned to mud. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

A bare lady in a punt drifted on a lake of water lilies in a gold frame. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Ron floated, unconscious, a few inches above the lake bottom, drifting a little in the ebb of the water. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Here, as Uncle had said, the river formed a big lake. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next several years, he sat there, day after day, looking out over the lake, listening to the clock tick, waiting for the telephone to ring, hoping some business would materialize. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The first, at 1 per cent of the present level, shielded out enough ultraviolet radiation to permit cells to move into the surface layers of lakes, rivers, and oceans. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He skirted the camp, moving like a shadow through the trees on the hill behind, until he came out upon the lake’s shore a quarter of a mile upwind of the camp. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You threw Ida Nee’s trophies in the lake?” said Louisiana. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Harry nodded, but even as he did so, an insane urge to confess that he didn’t have any idea how to survive at the bottom of the lake for an hour came over him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Pinmei heard the king shift, and both she and Yishan craned their necks to see him lean out of the pavilion, holding the Paper over the frozen lake. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Inside—the green taffeta gown, and a framed photo of the three of us by the lake at Bad Windsheim. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

"I've spied on their base camp by the lake. They made it back before they collapsed from the stingers. But he's not there. Maybe he did save you and had to run." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The folks in the quarters and the people in the big houses further around the shore heard the big lake and wondered. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The lake he had crossed did not show. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Halfway over the still misty fields he stopped to load his gun, then walked quietly toward the cover of the alders fringing the little lake. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They made a beeline for the lake—through the streets, across the railroad tracks, not walking but running, trying to avoid any trouble along the way. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She decided to keep to her route and reach the lake by circling round the back of the house. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A swan’s reflection slid up its slope of lake to meet the swan. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to fish from the shore of this lake. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly the bear got to its feet and permitted itself to be herded up the lake bank and back to where it had come from. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the lake, over Sally Gustafson’s house, the sun had left a smudge of purple on the horizon. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

You’ll just have to go down to the lake in the morning and tell the judges. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Chiripa was one of half a dozen small, competitive centers that emerged around the lake in that time. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The lake would turn green with algae, and the golf course would burn up, and the dragonflies would crack open for want of good water. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thick clouds conceal the sky, which appears only here and there like the small lakes on a map, and the air threatens rain. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Holmes told Ned how sorry he was to hear of her passing, but in his eyes there was only a flat blue calm, like the lake on a still August morning. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

From time to time, ever since we’d come back from Olduvai, Louis had talked about some chimpanzees living on the shores of a far-off lake in Tanganyika. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere just before dawn, when the first light of false dawn was making the western side of the lake come into view, Brian finally accepted it. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother’s hand is wrapped around her shoulder, and her father is pointing at her acrylic painting—an image of a house on a lake, with several geese dipping their toes into the water. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Each letter had a ghostly halo around it from the time it had spent submerged with the two of us in the lake, and some were gone completely. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The tailwind had stiffened further, slicing up the length of the lake now, piling more rough water into heaps of whitecaps at the north end. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Each time, in his kindness, The Giver ended the afternoon with a color-filled memory of pleasure: a brisk sail on a blue-green lake; a meadow dotted with yellow wildflowers; an orange sunset behind mountains. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Just the green of the trees, endless green, and lakes scattered more and more thickly as the plane flew—where? Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

De son of a gun laid up in dat house and slept and de lake come moved de house way off somewhere and Motor didn’t know nothin’ ’bout it till de storm wuz ’bout over.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“To the charrette,” shouted Ann, her voice skipping over the polished wooden floor like a stone over the surface of a lake. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the fall, I would lake a shotgun and be out there with him in the reeds. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though a pleasant breeze rolled off the lake, the heat and humidity were relentless. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I know. And when my father would tell me I would say to him, ‘Get to that lake—get my mother there—don’t let it happen again, not this time. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The days grew warmer and the Blue Lake opened for swimming, but Cico and I avoided the glistening, naked boys who dared the deep-blue power of the lake. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

An unexpected swell knocked him off his feet and even as he put out his hands to break his fall the black lake sucked him down. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

A little while later he saw Mr. Pendanski and two strangers, coming across the lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

She stopped to watch flecks of light on the lake. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There icy runoff from the eastern snowcaps meets the sun in the west, pouring into a river that feeds the glacier blue lake. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The next morning, out on the lake, Stanley listened as Mr. Sir told Twitch the requirements for his hole: ". . .as wide and as deep as your shovel." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Each one appears standing on a bridge, near the center of the lake where they do not connect. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He glanced at the moon and its reflection wavering in the lake, the murky green water rippling in uneasy waves. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

That night, and the day that followed, and the night that followed, they spent in the hut in the forest by the frozen lake. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I followed the gesture and gasped at the sight of a beautiful city that seemed to be floating in the middle of the lake, encircled by a magical mist, bedazzling us with its towering splendor. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

We got to the south corner of the lake and started running along the shore. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Strangely, as the old man stepped onto the lake, he did not sink but walked straight onto the path of moonlight reflected on the water. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Around the lake ran a gravel path, and around that was simply close-cut grass, in a huge arc. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I was reading in Central Park, at the sailboat lake, when four of them came along. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She dipped the calabash—the one the njuzu had used—into the lake and drank repeatedly. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lie there resting in the steaming grass, the old lake hissing and gurgling behind me, whispering patterns of words my sanity resists. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

All our supplies, our packs, remain down by the lake where we abandoned them when we fled from the mutts. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

And where there are water-filled drainage ditches near lakes in Florida, there are often alligators. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Sure. Then why did you look like you were going to flip out when I showed up outside the field house? Everyone else went to the lake—captain’s orders—but you were here. Why?” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He saw a small, dark shape struggling its way through the snow toward the lake. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

And here it was, beside the lake, reflected in the dark waters. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It skirts the lakes at the bottom of the Rift and passes through groves of fever trees, yellow-green and glowing in the sun. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, I watch as the plane returns to the lake, skimming water from its surface, filling up for a second run. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Dill basked in his relief, like he was swimming in a warm, starlit lake. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Several thousand people had gathered along the shores of the lake for the qualifying heats, most of them climbing into the newly constructed grandstands at the finish line. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then, with a glance at Kapu, he ran out on the lake. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clockwise, as if in orbit, he took the Chevy on another seven-mile turn around the lake. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were too close to the lake for comfortable sitting, really, but the Old Man seemed happy. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

After this rock got done chunking the fish in the head, it skipped four times ’cross the water and slipped down in the lake quiet as a duck going after minnows. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I was looking at the wooded, slow-sloping hill beyond the lake. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

We would leave early in the morning and hike farther into the woods than usual to a small lake he’d found while hunting. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Goblets lie on their side, mead pooling to run over the uneven floor like tributaries into great honey-wine lakes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I wish I could sit at the bottom of a nice, cool lake like you,” she told Crocodile Guts. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe cover it with grass or leaves or sticks, he thought, and he started to go down to the lake again, where there were some willows he could cut down for braces. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked up at Hagrid — perhaps he had to go into the lake sometimes, to deal with the creatures in it? Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

To the east, the sky showed a lake of clear blue into which the sun would rise. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It will be sung year on year and age on age that Unferth went down through the burning lake—” he paused to pant “—and gave his life in battle with the world-rim monster.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll go to that lake. There might be something there I can use. And I’m getting thirsty anyway. I’ll take the way I think it is and you can guide me if I go wrong.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The lakes had vanished, and the woods as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Silhouetted on the dark horizon, high on the cliff over the lake, stood the many turrets and towers of Hogwarts castle. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

But I need Haymitch or Peeta or somebody to share the burden of all that has happened to me since I went to the lake. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The wrecked ferry lay 1,300 feet below the lake’s surface. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe then I would have known a long time ago about Ty'ree being at that lake with my daddy. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“My luggage was lost in your foul lake. Do you have a hat I could borrow?” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He clicked again as a little boy was yanked from the edge of the lake by his distracted mother. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He had clear open eyes, light brown curly hair, was the tallest in a group of men by a lake. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Nhamo thought he was indeed a magnificent being as he gazed at the lake where his wife had disappeared. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It splashed down in a sudden, black lake. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not that hard when you know where the lake is. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I landed on the lake’s surface just as Hyperion struggled to his feet. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I felt sometimes like a swan on a lake, knowing that my job was in part to glide and appear serene, while underwater I never stopped pedaling my legs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The young king gaped in shock, and the father was only able to see why when the reflection of the moon returned to the lake. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Otis was floundering in the lake, trying to re-form, but from the arms down he looked like a puddle of burnt oatmeal. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They picked a lake in the middle of the wilderness, perhaps a hundred miles east of the lake Brian had crashed into the first time. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The lake still shimmered quietly in its own indifference to him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

As he continued walking, he became aware of a large object on the lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Most captivating were the nights, “when the long shadows have all merged into one and the stars begin to gleam out over the lake and the domes of the palaces of the White City.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It grew larger and larger until the great globe seemed to be filling the lake. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Mr. Sir marched the boys out to the lake, chewing sunflower seeds along the way and spitting out the shells. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I guess it was supposed to look like something from under the sea, but I don’t think there are any lakes or oceans that really have rocks that color. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

They took me a roundabout way to the fake beach, and then I knew what would happen—a good, old-fashioned dunking in the lake—and I calmed down. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was not such a good lake for swimming. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despondent, she climbed off her horse and knelt by the lake. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He’d love to see math and numbers the way I do—in everything from the stars to building construction to ripples on a lake. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the lakes were immense, and nearly all of them had probably never felt so much as a human toe. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

My lake with the butterfly fish is one tiny lake among hundreds. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Don’t sleep now,” said Tallow gruffly, “the sky is clear. Your brother is sliding on the lake. Go out. Be childish.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

There lake and plain smile fair and free, ’Mid rocks their guardian chivalry. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Once or twice a week he would row across the lake and pick a new batch to fill the cart. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The scent of pine and what I imagined the bottom of a lake would smell like filled the room. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

They forget that lakes can catch on fire. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“When you come to the tallest of the trees, go toward the lake, then around the rocks and back into the trees. There, the buck will wait for you.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The Colonel and I walked into the woods down by the lake that afternoon and smoked a cigarette in the precise spot where the Eagle had caught us so many months before. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The American boys were only a length off the pace but still out in the widest part of the lake, bucking the relentless, punishing winds, spray flying from their oars with every release. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Like the pond back home, the lake was dried up. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were over the lake — the castle was right ahead — Ron put his foot down. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

When I come back around to the little concrete house beside the lake, I pause in the doorway and see Gale propping the crooked poker he salvaged against the wall by the hearth. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

His room smelled like certain areas of Central Park, down by the lake, where white guys with dreadlocks played bongos. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The lake froze solid and the Weasley twins were punished for bewitching several snowballs so that they followed Quirrell around, bouncing off the back of his turban. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He pulled his legs out of the lake and crawled on his hands and knees until he was away from the wet- soft shore and near a small stand of brush of some kind. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I swim in the lake provided, and eat raisins and crackers spread thickly with peanut butter and honey while reading detective stories, and sulk because there’s no one my age around. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Don't kill him, or Mother'll throw you in a lake like last time." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I stayed well out in the lake, rowing awhile, then resting and holding the oars so that the wind struck the blades. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Switzerland is down the lake, we can go there.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The lake glinted, appearing and then disappearing again, as the road curved and they walked farther and farther away. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Sitting up in bed eating breakfast we could see the lake and the mountains across the lake on the French side. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The lake is a full day's journey from where I sit now, a much harder journey with nothing to drink. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The same golden light falls over the jungle and lake. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Out there the wind was stronger, a cold north wind that howled across the lake, knifed through their layers of wool and leather, and set them all to shivering. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When it was hot in the middle of the day, they moved deeper into the forest belt, toward the lake. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen of the lake house faces the water, always smelling like citrus and salt and herbs, and his dad keeps it stocked with plump tomatoes and clay-soft avocados when they’re visiting. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They were looking down a broken, rugged slope toward a cluster of wooden buildings beside a wide stretch of snow as flat as could be, which Lyra took to be the frozen lake. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Stepping outside, I nearly trip down the stairs because lake is standing by my front door and totally startles me. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

But what we used to lake out of that creek in those days would put them all to shame. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And change, I thought, looking out across a lake I owned, is always good. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the castle window, it was summer and she had her own lake, and there was a stone library for her with a big Renaissance-y window. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But when he brought a cupped hand to his mouth and felt die cold lake water trickle past his cracked lips and over his tongue he could not stop. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reached down as if to place the piece of puzzle in the small lake of brown tabletop near the center of the puzzle. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

We went to the other side of the lake and returned, half-blinded by the light on the water, to find Bunny and Charles on the front porch, eating ham sandwiches and playing cards. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And then on the thirty-seventh day, she went and drowned herself in the lake. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

First, there was the castle ruin, and beside it, a lake. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Marshall said, “That might have been your sister I saw down by the lake. She was giving the nettles a good thrashing.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He crouches beside me, outlined against the lake, a blacker patch of water. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the opposite shore, we sat on the edge of a dry-rotted wooden boat dock and dangled our feet over the Mars surface of the dead lake, which was nine feet below us. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

If she jumped into the lake, she could surface inside the boathouse and climb into a boat. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

All the field, and all the people in the field, and all the towers of the castle, seemed to be jumping up and down like the surface of a lake under rain. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind it rose the first gentle slopes of the hill clad with trees, and trees marched away westward along the curving shores of the lake. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

His thinking had changed during the time he was at the lake. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The name is inappropriate, for actually it is a rather turbid lake because of the soft black ooze that covers its shallow bottom. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The train runs northwest, through hundreds of miles of scraggy forests and granite outcrops, hundreds of small blue anonymous lakes edged with swamp and bulrushes and dead spruce, old snow in the shadows. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The state had also bulldozed some lakes in the valley and stocked them with rainbow and cutthroat trout, and there were half a dozen manicured campgrounds along the route. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white-green poison kept pooling, little streams trickling from the plants as the venomous lake around him got wider and wider. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The closest I ever came was that time at the lake with Ramiro, Carlos’s cousin, who treated me like I was some sort of cheap prize. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The lake makes it windy, hence its appellation: the Windy City. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

"Or why you were finally able to free yourself from your prison of the well to this lake?" When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I only know that the fish at Old Flapjack’s lake sure do think these horseflies are the best eating they’ve ever done. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I pointed across the lake where the high school boys loitered on the pier and dove off the high board to show off for the girls. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He swung his eyes across the berries to make sure the bear wasn’t there, at his back, then he moved down to the lake. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d talk of winter sleigh rides in the countryside, of lakes frozen solid enough to jump on and snow that fell like crystal from the sky. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There would be trees and trash everywhere—the ground would look like that of a dredged lake. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Directly below the ship, nestled at the edge of the lake, the city of New Rome gleamed in the sunlight. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The river and the canoe lake dried up. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Thirty minutes after leaving the dock, the boat was over the deepest part of the lake. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we watched as she anchored her paddle against the murky lake’s floor and pushed the little boat away from the shore. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Maribel swimming in the lake with her friends, coming home with her hair dripping wet, her clothes clinging to her thin frame. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

There was snow on the tops of the mountains and the lake was a gray steel-blue. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I shook Mr. Costello’s outstretched hand and said, “I was just up at the lake. Just now.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a light breeze that seemed to keep the mosquitos down and, he thought, looking up along the lake shore, if there was one kind of berry there should be other kinds. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, the only requirement for fishing those lakes was a fast unhooking technique and a pitching arm in topnotch shape for throwing the trout back in the water. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I strain to hear what he's saying to one of the nurses. "—from around the lake's edge." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Kendra strolled after Seth, whose ruckus was sending the swans drifting toward the far side of the lake, leaving V-shaped ripples in their wake. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

All he’d seen since they started flying over die forest was lakes and now they were gone. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down below were the gardens, bare now but beautifully regular, the gravel paths, the trees, the stone wall by the lake and the lake in the sunlight with the mountains beyond. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was clouding over outside and the lake was darkening. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The house itself is perched atop a knoll, and from the upstairs windows you get a good view of the lake. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“How awful and terrifying, that trip. Yet I imagine there were nights in Antarctica that were as beautiful as this lake is right now.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Still, I have to insist: to Desdemona periphescence felt like a lake of warmth flooding up from her abdomen and across her chest. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I walk away from the lake and toward the forest and surrounding shrubs. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And now everything was cool and dark: The sun was barely visible over the horizon as he glided alongside Snape, up through the grounds toward the lake. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Miguelito and I imagined the puddles were lakes and we pretended to be giants stepping over them. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

At Clear Lake the western grebe is a breeding bird and also a winter visitant, attracted by the abundant fish of the lake. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In places it broadened into wide areas like small lakes; and at others it split into narrow channels, only to combine again unpredictably. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The landscape is lush and green, with a huge lake at the center, and nothing but trees and woods for miles around. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Just the lakes, and it came to him that he would have to use a lake for landing. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Staring at water for minutes on end had put her in mind of the lake. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then I understood: we were in a field, not a lake. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We heard a motor boat once more but I kept quiet until the noise of the engine went away across the lake. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The sun exploded the sky, just blew it up with the setting color, and that color came down into the water of the lake, lit the trees. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly after daylight on Sunday morning, January 15, dead fish appeared in the new Town Lake in Austin and in the river for a distance of about 5 miles below the lake. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

As far as I’m concerned, they can go jump in a lake. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But find it they did, and they promptly began to power past the other shells on the lake. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I scratch the black darker, and darker, and more violent, until there’s nothing but a haze of scribbles, and their fortress sits in a lake of shadow. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She instantly recalled the special day she spent with Neewo on the shore of the lake. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I was breathing hard now, though inwardly I was as calm as the waters on East River’s lake. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Bernard stayed until we had stowed all our gear on the government launch that would take us along the lake. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was the biggest lake she had ever seen, with no hint of a far shore. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There hadn't been any weeds on the lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

ALBUS: I’m pretty sure you told everyone that was on the bottom of a lake. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Arya had started to roll it up when the colors caught her eye: the blue of lakes and rivers, the red dots where castles and cities could be found, the green of woods. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

On the lake they were all the same reddish brown color—the color of dirt. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

She fell on the sand, scraping both knees, and scrambled to put distance between herself and the treacherous lake. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Briggses’ house perched on top of a small hill across from the lake, its red brick glowing against the white snow. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

A person misplaced, disorganized, miscalculated, overlooked everything and opened every loophole, and just when he thought he had it made, the government gave him a lake or a forest or an oilfield and spoiled everything. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Soon after, I crest a rise and spot something strange ahead: glimmers of light, like moonlight shining down on a lake. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

As I sailed into the lake I realized the Fates really were cruel. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I was on my third way through “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” when Tim Miller, a senior who lived down by the lake, jumped into the seat next to me and pulled my earphone out. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Lovely day,” said Fudge, casting an eye over the lake. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The rolling hills, once perfect lakes of snow, were dotted with mangled trucks and rusted septic tanks. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But after another half loop of the lake, he'd be back. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

All that had taken place around that black lake seemed like an old nightmare now; had it really happened, and only hours ago? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z