Troubled spirits walk those lands—storms erupt out of nowhere. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Then I imagine them landing on a cloud and sitting there, waiting to be answered. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Despereaux’s sister Merlot took him into the castle library, where light came streaming in through tall, high windows and landed on the floor in bright yellow patches. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

In addition to their flight preparations, all three young women had to learn to fire pistols and hunting weapons in case they were forced to land in the Siberian wilderness. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When the sun sank and the words faded, he gazed over the landscape, moved by its beauty, watching it slip from gray to purple before darkness blended land and sky. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Operation Forager was under the command of Admiral Nimitz, and Marine General Holland Smith was in charge of the amphibious landings. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed away over the land of Rohan into the darkling West under the sickle moon. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Well, but, leaving his land out of the question, do you like him? Is he liked for himself?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

There was nothing but the padded pole Soulzeren kept for pushing the sleigh clear of obstacles when maneuvering to a landing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Still another one swoops, flutters, and then lands on his wrist. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Anyone tempted by those thousand sovereigns had better find a place neither on land nor on water. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He belonged in the land of phoenixes and witches, the place where things were too fantastic to be real. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

There were birds flying and landing in low willow shrubs. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

He was not sure why this was, yet he had a terror of meeting the thing again on dry land. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

On the land taken from the commons, landowners were able to employ laborers from the peasant class to raise large herds of sheep and to send the wool to factories to be processed. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The feathers landed on the floor right in front of her. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She was much more graceful in her landing. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

For to men, freedom in their own land is the pinnacle of their ambitions, from which nothing can turn men of conviction aside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many hours had gone by since the Martian cylinder first landed in Grovers Mill. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

That was the way I first laid eyes upon this land.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kira pointed down to the area below the window, a small piece of land between the Edifice and the edge of the woods. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember feeling awed by the scope of land and sky around me and at the same time snug and protected inside that tiny home. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Typically the subject was a well-to-do immigrant supporting some potential insurgency in his old land, or else funding a fledgling trade union or radical student organization. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I landed flat on my back in the grass. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He would pick up a piece and practically throw it at a square, almost as if he were tossing a dart at a bull’s-eye; invariably, it would land in the center of the square. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They landed us in the opposite direction than they normally use. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Hygelac was so pleased and impressed by his nephew's courtesy that he granted to him as much land as he could cover in a day's ride on the white horse with the black mane. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

And later, for several hours after that, I sat hunched on the fire escape landing outside my bedroom, retching back into the ice cream container. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But Ceylon is a distant land, its people are not ours. How will you fare?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The coin of land was now at a forty-five-degree angle, and within minutes of completely sealing the hole in the earth. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

My heart begins to beat faster when my eyes land on Jason. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Tired of invoking God through the three-legged table and a cloud of hashish, he had decided to seek Him in a region less harsh than his native land. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Patches of orange lichen made the only bright color, and a high-water mark on the cliff walls showed that their landing site was not at all safe. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“Hollis hasn't sold this land," she complained, “because everybody likes it." An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Six more days on this boat—if they were lucky and the wind was good—and then they should make land. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The apparition jumped over a fence and chased a stick that somehow landed in the middle of Ignatius’ quilt. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I throw a lumpia in the air and it lands on the table with a dull plop. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

In a few weeks the land would be white with snow and in three months the long Arctic night that lasted for sixty-six days would darken the top of the world. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, after fighting a bunch of wars with each other over land, resources, and our made-up gods, we eventually got all of our tribes organized into a ‘global civilization.’ Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

"New milk, fresh from the cow! Best in the land! New milk!" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

He drove and rode and walked over every foot of the land. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

At this the grey-eyed goddess Athena left him and left that comely land, going over sea to Marathon, to the wide roadways of Athens and her retreat in the stronghold of Erekhtheus. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But here the countryside is too desolate and dry to live off the land, and begging is too chancy. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

There were stewed apricots and five or six different cheeses including of course the ever-present gjetost, that tall brown rather sweet Norwegian goat’s cheese which you find on just about every table in the land. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor do many species of animals live in this rigorous land, but those creatures that do dwell here exist in bountiful numbers. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

With some of that money, she paid men to come and clear the land and dig rows for planting. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Then the good land did again its healing work and the sun shone on him and healed him and the warm winds of summer wrapped him about with peace. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I describe the seasons, the land, the wheat and olive harvests, and the Eid celebrations. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

When we’d landed, there were a few dried ones on the ground, but the meat in them was not very tasty. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three of them devise a game that involves kicking the ball through one doorway or the other, and we’re lucky it never lands in the slop bucket or the soup. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They could only hope that the arrow had landed deep enough, or else it would be a long and potentially fruitless chase. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Antipodes had become a reality, and there was no longer any way of fitting the Earth’s land masses into one hemisphere. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But the name implies a land of white ice, and that’s exactly what this looked like. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think I’m letting it heal very well. I keep using my arm or landing on it.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, I hauled myself onto a tiny landing with two doors. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

A helicopter landed on the main building’s rooftop heliport. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“I hate to involve you, but since you’re in charge of the family finances . . .” Could Dede advance her some cash to be taken out of Minerva’s share of the house and lands in the future? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the top of the stairs is a landing, with doors on either side. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“It is better certainly than putting money into a mud wall. But why not a piece of your uncle’s land? He is clamoring to sell that strip near to the western field we now have.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Palmer’s mind riffled through a thousand answers to account for all this, but only one made sense: Nipper had just landed on his head. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The land undulated in the smallest, barely bubbling hills. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Troops on land stood by to engage Octavian’s army once Mark Antony’s ships broke through the blockade. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“You will go north and find Thanatos in the land beyond the gods. You will free him and thwart the plans of the giants. Beware Gaea! Beware her son, the eldest giant!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

My father lands on his stomach, pulling his legs in behind him. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Crisp bags don't fly far and it just landed on Robin South in the row behind. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Snow was falling in earnest now—big silent petals drifting through the springtime woods, white bouquets segueing into snowy dark: a nightmarish topsy-turvy land, something from a story book. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A lone Danish coastguard stood bundled in furs, his horse beside him, and he shaded his eyes against the glint of the icebergs beyond the sail and watched the strangers come swiftly in toward land. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

She executed a perfect double back-flip, twisting around at the last moment to face Gregor’s direction, and landed on the ground as lightly as a cat in front of Boots. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the landings, the She Elephant stopped to catch her breath. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He agreed that there were times when a person seeking justice might need to take action that could land him in jail. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But, as it turned out, I discovered something before we ever made land. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

They would have had to destroy the plane anyway, to make it look like a crash rather than a planned landing. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

A damp rope of hair lands on my neck. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He looked a great deal as his compatriot must have looked when he saw the promised land. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t use the automated landing system because it wasn’t set up to handle a plane with that much weight. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He stood and looked in all directions and could see no land, nor plane, nor other boat, no indication that there was another human on the planet. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He landed next to Tock and the terrified Humbug on the tiny island, which now looked completely different. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the land became steadily more tame and well-ordered. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She landed on the grass and bounced three times and finally came to rest. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

It went up in the air and landed in one of the garbage cans. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed quite large, if the shoreline was any indication; left and right it stretched on with only a slight curve, showing the is­land to have a fair girth. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I swung my head back to see Tilly land awkwardly in the tiny space at the front of my skiff. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

His mother was a princess scholar, and his father was the most handsome, feared knight in all the land. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Slipping on the pudding, she lost her balance and landed heavily on the substitute teacher, who was sitting nearby. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

When a beautiful, bright orange-and-black one lands on my hand, I loosely close my fist around it. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Out at sea, many of these sailors had picked up amatory habits that were frowned upon back on dry land. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My foot landed in a puddle, and without knowing how I fell, I found myself underwater. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It’s around 2,600 square feet, and covered fully by hardscrabble brown dirt on one side, with nearly eight feet of land above the structure of the roof. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“You don’t. You don’t know anything about the University. About the risks involved. You think this place is a faerie land, a playground. It’s not.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Can you imagine a stretch of grassy land bubbling like water in a pot? The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The device bounced off my shoulder and landed in my lap. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The white race believes—believes with all its heart—that it is their right to take the land. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Indigenous people who survived had little means to immediately resist the settlers’ takeover of their lands and resources. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I have been selected for a very important mission to disinfect this land. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In the book, the explorer, Lemuel Gulliver, travels to all these different lands after a shipwreck. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Her hands landed on my shoulders, and I felt her crouch to my left. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

When that old chariot comes, I'm going to leave you, I'm bound for the promised land, Friends, Tm going to leave you. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yossarian said he would think it over, and held his breath and prayed for a safe landing as Milo dropped his wheels and glided in toward the runway. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Bongo landed on the backpack, looking up at him hopefully. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

To begin with, they are the oldest of all land vertebrates. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

On this trip, he’s crossed the land and become a romantic hero, who would have guessed. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps the first Indians traveled by boat, and didn’t need the land bridge. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The squirrel dropped out of the vacuum cleaner and landed with a plop on the grass. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

She...it...had landed on a gate, and was curved over it backward, hair streaming long, ginger blossoms raining down from it like little flames. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The Cities lay on the other side of the forest, down the slow, southern slope of the mountain, where the land became stable and flat. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

But now, as the sun began to set, he was in a different country, a stranger in a strange land, where he couldn’t even speak the language. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a queer-looking land that loomed up over the sea as he drew nearer and nearer. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

It is afternoon, and the guys are in the backyard just as...Nipper swoops in to land on the porch roof. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

There are no mountains, valleys, volcanoes, rivers; no boundaries between land and air; just a vast ocean of dense gas and floating clouds—a world without a surface. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t use bright lights to guide them in to land, because any kind of permanent airfield lighting might have been spotted by enemy aircraft. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The emails had ricocheted off of a thousand drives before they landed in Marks’s in-box. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“Fourth grade. ‘America is a land of immigrants,’ our book said.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Directly northward the rugged Adirondack Mountains stood in a green haze above the land. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

By the time Piper had showered, changed, and grabbed a bagel from the mess hall, she could hear the ship’s landing gear extending. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Everybody whirled to see where the bird had landed. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I don’t. But that was the family, not the land.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The plantings had, by then, expanded from the hothouse to a plot of land by the abbey—a twenty-foot-by-hundred-foot rectangle of loam that bordered the refectory, visible from his room. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He had reduced private ownership of land, nationalized certain sectors of the economy, pioneered rapid industrialization, democratized education, and built a modem army. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The piece of moving land had to be a couple of hundred feet across. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

No one, it seemed, was sure where Nuer land ended and Dinka land began, so each tribe tried to lay claim to the areas richest in water. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spot where I’d landed was now coated with ice, and I was covered in frost like a sugar donut. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Their land mines are still all over the country, they take off the leg or the arm of a child every day, and I know what could happen to us if we travel those roads. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

This land had a blue sky like ours. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the water, the lost animals paddled their little paws and searched for land, but one by one, they went under. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Flat' lands, Aunty Uju said this section of Brooklyn was called. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He pushed it into the quiet water by the landing, and water began to well softly into it at once. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

For reasons still unclear, America, the land that had given birth to Ashe and nurtured him, loomed bright as the place to go to realise my fullest potential in tennis, in life. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked across the land until he caught the taste of the sea, carried across the flat, marshy fields on a freshening breeze. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The feeling of resentment and the balked longing for some kind of fulfilment and exultation—in degrees more or less intense and in actions more or less conscious—stalk day by day through this land. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The large black fly—it was the biggest, blackest fly you have ever seen—landed on the back of Brokk’s hand. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

If they were to be believed, any fairies who still walked this land were most likely to be found deep in the Wood, where no one had traveled for generations. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the location of the mountain range to the east, I know we’re nearing the landing site. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I’m surprised we don’t have a fistfight before the longboat even lands. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

They landed like a pile of tangled sheets on the bed. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He slipped off Trouble, landing lightly on well-worn boots. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

So take stock in America, my heirs, and sing in praise of this generous land. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suppose the boy had been caught again, somehow, someway, in his travel down to the landing, running through the midnight streets between the dark houses. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I crawled through the opening and landed in a heap on the floor two meters below. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He landed heavily on flat stones, legs twisted under him. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

She did not think of Japan as the land of Ainu, but rather as the land of her parents and the land where Lynn and I would eventually get sent to learn our femininity. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

When we landed, we’d knocked over thin, papery containers filled with garbage. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It’s the consequence: motherhood in a foreign land. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You may put your wildlings in these ruined forts, Lord Snow, but how will you make them stay? What is there to stop them moving south to fairer, warmer lands?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He fell forward, under Falconer's blade, and landed on his outstretched left hand, at the same time thrusting his sword before him, parallel to the ground. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The net had a long string on it, so the boys would move away from the net, but when a bird landed to eat the corn, they’d pull the string tight and catch the bird. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Much of the park was still barren land, and the biggest building, Manufactures and Liberal Arts, was barely under way. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I am, Artemis. Patrolling the main landing. Coming up on the safe room. I’m waving at you right now.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

But she now shivered beneath the starry mantle, and she looked northward, above the grey hither lands, into the eye of the cold wind where far away the sky was hard and clear. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He told Nathan of how years and years ago, before the excavation of the nearby mining cave, this land was green, and grass would grow as tall as Nathan’s knee. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I’d rather be soaking wet and covered in gritty wet sand and seaweed than living in a land of black robes and pearl buttons and sadness. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She misses my face with that sorry hit, and it lands on my shoulder instead. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The Osage territory, however, had been allotted, and much of the surface land where the murders had occurred, including the slaying of Anna Brown, was no longer under the tribe’s control. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

After two years engulfed in Chicago’s smoggy warrens, it was such a pleasant change to return to the land. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It lands in the center of the mug. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

And as the fiftieth anniversary of Independence Day approached, requests poured into Monticello and Quincy from across the land, asking the patriarchs to share their wisdom and memories about the meaning of it all. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

And then a magpie landed on the miller’s barn and would not be chased away. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The very next day Frightful landed on the aerie porch. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Mahmoud wanted Mohammed, and all of his sons, working on dry land, so Mohammed spent his early teenage years as a craftsman, laying brick and apprenticing for an ironsmith. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Blacks, most of whom did not work for Swift, coalesced in the narrow strip of land just east of the immigrants, forming the community that came to be known as the Black Belt. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I was able to regain control, except on one of my tumbling passes on floor, I went too hard into the somersaults and landed out of bounds. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The kitten landed on the ground in front of his master, then arched his back and hissed at the lord of the abyss. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

"Tara managed to land a small role or two in New York before they left, didn't she?" she asks. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When a gymnast does a little hop on the landing, that’s an automatic one-tenth deduction. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“This land is worth a lot of money.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

On the first-floor landing, as she was about to open her door, she gave Briony a look, a cool glance to let her know that nothing had changed, nothing had softened. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A cottonwood landed atop a Forest Service pickup being driven by Carl Abeyta, who received a broken nose and a mild concussion from the incident, but, unfortunately, nothing worse. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The land was gullied and eroded and barren. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Its back legs must be incredibly powerful because it lands a mere ten feet below us, its pink lips pulled back in a snarl. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Two British planes loaded with firebombs landed right on top of the German Officers’ Club. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

True, my husband did not own the land he tilled, as my father had done; yet the possibility was there that he might one day do so. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father was a sharecropper who moved the family to new land every few years. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

Safa used to chase any bird that dared to land near our house. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

In a flash of red feathers, Ella landed in the chariot. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Marco comes and stands next to her as she looks at the midnight sea that stretches out into a clear horizon with no land in sight. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When she read, I felt a Cleaving in my Mind—As if my Brain had split—her own head answered, A Canyon opened—where before there had been smooth land. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lanre leading the way, they came to a high place in the mountains where they could look out over the land. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The actual time on the way from Chicago was short, but the overwhelming size and variety of the land, the many incidents and people along the way, had stretched time out of all bearing. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The driver brought his bus to a landing outside a high gray wall. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He hoped for an end of all sales of Indigenous lands to settlers to stop their spread into Indigenous lands. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

A bird lands on the fingers that hold the knife. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The woodland of Belorussia was so thick that there was hardly any place to use as an airfield, so the 46th Guards had to take off and land in forest clearings. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

At all ports they came to, the crewmen were kept aboard the ship, and set no foot on land. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Woundwort leaped forward in a single bound and landed full against Bigwig like a branch falling from a tree. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Progress was slow and they paused on each landing. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A cold moth with unusually dense dorsal tufts landed lightly on Rahel’s heart. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As quickly as it had appeared, the bolt vanished—the spray of hot water had not finished landing upon us and already it was gone. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tell him to dump his leftover bombs in the sea if he’s got any, so he doesn’t set them off when he lands.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

It landed with a thump, padded over to Bob, and started purring again as it rubbed against his boots. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

At about that time, the first evidence of large-scale land clearing for milpas appears in the archaeological record. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He left the land of the giants and entered the land of the gods. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Yet such was the contract, else the land would not have been rented to you.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were the first cowboys in a wild and desolate land which they took from the Indians. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been born three months after her parents landed in America. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half of the food they ate these days came from his lands or Lady Tanda's. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Who isn’t in the equipment room but on the stairwell landing, with two other guys, just sitting there. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Hitherto, almost all we grew had been sold to pay the rent of the land; now we were enabled to keep some of our own produce. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even before it landed, he realized that Willis had never believed he would. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

When the sky cleared of kites and only the final two remained, every kite run­ner readied himself for the chance to land this prize. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

So when you hop out, you'll have a head start before the dog gets to the other side of the pool and climbs back onto land. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The Enemy still lacks one thing to give him strength and knowledge to beat down all resistance, break the last defences, and cover all the lands in a second darkness. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The one with a rough voice landed right near where I was hiding. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

"I hope," says Louis, "that I see you again—in that land where I am not a king...and you are not a pain in my royal behind." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I have an idea and grab the carpet, doing my best to carry it under one arm as I make my way up to the last landing on the fifth story of the building. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The effect was as though the blow had actually landed, however. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A salty wind blew from the land out over the water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Part of the process,” Pearl informed him as they cut through the living room, with the nonchalant air of a native unfazed by the curious customs of the land. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then he’d have to swing onto a landing eighteen feet away, before making his way to the other gargoyles on which Grave and Nox now quarreled. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It lands a few inches in front of it. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lincoln held the highest office in the land; what would he think? Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The number of broods produced on treated lands fell off by some 50 per cent, and the number of young in a brood declined. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Blake, Pot, Edward, and the rest made a tribe of themselves on Randall land and were not above helping themselves to that which was not theirs. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A sparrow landed right on her foot and jumped off again. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Thalia dropped off the second-floor railing and landed across from me, on the other side of the globe. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I do not know why they need this bit of land,” I said, in the manner of people who must say something for the sake of the sanity which speech can bring. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Episodes from their various points of view came weekly in the mail, until the uncles were executed kneeling on broken glass by people who had still other plans for the land. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s from yangban stock, her people are the Korean landed gentry, and she finds this open talk of figures awkward, unnecessary. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The withered land and the people’s wasis and the smaller mountains spread below me tiny and bound to the earth. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The ancient lands were forbidden to modern demigods; the area was simply too dangerous. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The land seemed to fade each time we went over a wave. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The landing was soft as a whisper, the craft skimming over the tall grass until Soulzeren dropped the sail and they came at last to a halt. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And everyone knew now that Wang Lung owned this land and in his village there was talk of making him the head. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

As good as that computer was, it took the eyes of the pilot to pick the best landing spot. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now I know I was right. This will make thine arms even stronger, and soon they will help thee to get about on land as well.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Now the Queen was paying her own price: She was dying, and so were her land and her people. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In another part of that chief’s lands there were other people who also felt sad. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

However, practicing a beach landing in a similar setting would help prepare everyone better than just going into a situation cold. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

So she went with me to the landing outside the door, and then she said, “Wait” and went back inside. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

And as the good Lord is my witness, when that first drop of blood lands on its thick chest, he changes. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Seems like ever’ guy got land in his head.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For that matter,” said Lustig, nodding, “Williams and his men, as well as York, landed on the opposite side of Mars. We were very careful to land on this side.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Who will repay us for our homes, for the lands the Communists stole from us?” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were never the same after that: they had seen what the white people had made from the stolen land. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

My parents left Ireland in hopes of a brighter future, all of us believing we were on our way to a land of plenty. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“He met Arthur at Dover and fought a battle to prevent the landing. It was a bad engagement, half on sea and half on land, but the king woo. He won to land.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A warrior may walk 25 or 30 miles in a day to scout out new grazing land. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘My land, I don’t know what’s wrong with baby. There’s something—and he won’t tell me—’ ‘Isn’t he pretty young to tell much?’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The helicopter landed on a big elevator which was lowered below decks. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The storm rolls away north to reveal a blue sky and a land clean and glistening. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She landed on her back, all splayed out. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Beyond Joe’s field, and as the road curved north along the course of Milagro Creek, no land had been irrigated for years. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was alarmed to see, beyond the canal, the entire stretch of land called Port Meadow, acres of open ground, invisible under a gray and rain-swept wilderness of water. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The truce was signed on Friday, September 3, the day the British landed in Italy. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

We run at the guard and push him so hard that he lands on his back. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Men of that land called it Helm’s Deep, after a hero of old wars who had made his refuge there. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The MacGregors ruled the land near San Diego, and the Alacrans had a vast empire stretching from central California all across Arizona and into New Mexico. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Contemporary Mayan people live today throughout the lands of their ancestors. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“This might even land you an actual date with Tiffany.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He reached the landing with his head still attached to his shoulders. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps she favors neither of them and only wants the sea to have greater power, by diminishing the power of the land. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And there is no sea, no running of river or spring, in the dark land where once Ged had gone. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

His sling had come loose and trailed behind him, and as he tried to roll it up, the snow goose landed on the grass at his side. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance I saw a little harbor bobbing with colorful fishing boats, and beyond it a town set into a green bowl of land. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Four Nazi saboteurs landed and buried four boxes of explosives. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

They walked out into the lobby, and Rishi’s gaze instantly landed on Dimple, like his body immediately sought out where she was. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Lefty grew familiar with the shoreline of the Detroit River, its screened inlets and secret landings. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The Moon Squadron use them for nighttime parachute drops, the Hudsons being bigger than the Lizzies, not so suitable for short field landings. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

To this day, for Indigenous peoples the land and its resources are “home” and exist for the common good of the people who share it. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

And I liked the characters—made me think of me, Mong and Rondell, and how we were kind of living off the land too. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

And for the life of me, I could not get her to tell me how much the land was worth. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Pieces of my heart spill out of every part of my body and land straight on the floor. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He had a looseness and a fluidity that defied physics—imagine a jellyfish if it could walk on land. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He explained that he wanted a ride as far as the edge of Denali National Park, where he intended to walk deep into the bush and "live off the land for a few months." Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The land went up and down, with snow everywhere, unbroken except where the little road wound through. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

When she got to the first landing, she heard the guards shouting. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them, the wind swooped down from the painted mouths on the hill over the ruined land as if it could reach out fingers to tap them on their shoulder, turn them around. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Storm tides would frequently submerge their spit of land when the weather turned ugly. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The estate was a huge piece of land, acres, encompassing a horse bam, a large vegetable garden, and a pool, tended by a young white caretaker named Harry. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, were he to become ruler of this land, I doubt I could help them all. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

One of Ramona’s galoshes was lying on the landing. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

It was land I had to reach, hard, firm, certain land. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the only time I get homesick, when America lands on my doorstep in a missionary guise. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Professor Ekwenugo was on his way to lay land mines with the Science Group when they went over some potholes and the mines went off.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I jerked, flipping the fish back over my shoulder so it would land on the reef. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The college didn't want a farm, so it sold all the surrounding land to a developer who put in roads, sidewalks, and sewers, divided it up into lots, and sold it to builders. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every family in the township was allocated a piece of land by the government. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And so we still have a long, long way to go before we reach the promised land of freedom. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He walked across the land until he fell in the ocean. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“But some of these Indians I pick up, they say their people didn’t come over the land bridge. They say they come from a lost island, like Atlantis.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She flipped completely over his head and landed on the floor on her elbows with a jarring thud. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I hesitated, then turned left, coming upon a broad landing and another staircase. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It led straight to the land of Hades, and that was almost always a one-way trip. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Emma and I clambered over the ship’s door, which lay bent on the steps where it had landed, and entered the lighthouse. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

As we walk, snowflakes twirl like ballerinas and land on the ground, creating a soft pillow to walk on. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They saw no living thing, and not a bird was in the sky; but what the night would bring, if it caught them in that lost land, none of them cared to think. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But it turns out that plowing the land over and over damages the soil almost as much as chemical weed killers do. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Big, fat tears rolled down her face and landed on the horsehair sofa and trembled there for a second before they rolled off. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

I steered myself toward a strip of solid land with the wide, flowing river beyond. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

A little brown house sparrow swoops out of the rafters and lands on the tiles in front of her. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He’s traveled from the land of Great Georgia to Ever York to build his reputation in some skills so he can gain access to House Yale. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I had landed upon it from a height. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

As promised in the list, she brought a Kurt Vonnegut book, Cat’s Cradle, and she read aloud to me, her soft voice mingling with the the frogs’ croaking and the grasshoppers landing softly around us. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Clear-cutting” was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countries into grazing land. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe her imagination wasn’t just something that would keep landing her in trouble. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I don't like the way his eyes land on me when he says that last part. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Depend upon it, Mrs. Churchill does every thing that any other fine lady ever did. Mrs. Churchill will not be second to any lady in the land for”— Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Taylor looked around as if she were seeing everything for the first time: the arsenal, the unassailable wall of green, the volcano stretching up from the land like an angry fist of rock. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

They landed in a tangled crash and then Two Step popped up with a huge smile on his face. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The ball coming off the steps had to clear the sidewalk and land in the street. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I say, trying to get the thoughts floating around in my head to land on the paper. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

She felt one land on her brow and run slowly down her nose. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Apache. They were overrun. Killed. Their land stolen.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The pillars combined his Greek heritage with the colonial architecture of his beloved native land. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In the few years before forest recovers the plot, farmers can eke something out of the land. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There is hardly room to step without landing on someone’s foot, a squawking chicken, or a pile of cow dung. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

This lag can be very embarrassing if, for example, you have waited until the last minute to realize that you are going to land short of the runway. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two more horseflies landed on Old Flapjack’s flank and it was a chance to make up for the mistake I’d just made. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

So they tried to sink the loss in booze, and silence their grief with war stories about their courage, defending the land they had already lost. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The White Noise cut out sharply as something clattered to the ground and landed a short distance away. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Of my muddy shoes standing firmly upon the soil of this land. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

She said that God works in mysterious ways, and it just so happened that she had inherited some land in Texas when Grandma died. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A scroll shot from the river like a miniature rocket and landed in front of him. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Far gone in weariness, in oblivion, the noble and enduring man slept on; but Athena in the night went down the land of the Phaiakians, entering their city. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loses his footing and slips in the thickening mud, landing on his back with throat exposed. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Two knights came to him with a dispute about some land, and he decreed that they should duel for it on the morrow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Cold, damp air rushed past him as he fell down, down, down and — With a funny, muffled sort of thump he landed on something soft. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He began to be aware of it when it rose up suddenly, circled overhead, and then dived, to land not very far away from him. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

But Wang Lung, although he saw this and he heard the talk and felt their anger with a strange unease, desired nothing but his land under his feet again. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Our landing was delayed, but not the Navy bombardment. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys quickly found that they had just landed smack-dab in the heart of hog heaven. 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 couple of days we spent in a classroom, studying an Air Force manual designed to help pilots who made emergency landings in strange places. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He burst out laughing and slammed his cleaver on a salmon, its head shooting across the blood-slicked counter to land perfectly in a little guillotine bucket. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

But this time Bongo surprised Samar by landing on her shoulder and presenting her with a mangled piece of paper. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It's possible that I won't land any leading roles, or even supporting roles, but I feel good being here. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

When a grey light crept back over the western heights, long after day had opened in the lands beyond, they went into hiding again and slept a little, turn by turn. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

‘Five leagues or one,’ said Gimli, ‘we cannot escape them in this bare land. Shall we wait for them here or go on our way?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I step closer to the staircase and am startled to see Claire in the shadows, sitting on the landing, slumped against the banister. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children,” the recruits promised, in voices that echoed back through years and centuries. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

An RPG had tossed his tiny body off the ground and he had landed on a tree stump. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Phoenix was booming, and he landed a job pretty quickly. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I could not even afford to pay the fifty-pound balance still owing on the plot of land that I had purchased in Umtata, and had to give it up. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took out all the wet things, the blankets and pillows and Lyra’s sodden clothes, and laid them flat on the planks of the landing. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Ghosts, too, which have played so large and so fearsome a part in other lands, never appear on earth in any Greek story. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some expeditions journeyed from there to a land named New Holland, and today called Australia. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

These triumphant landings were due in considerable part to the great skill invested in their design, fabrication and testing, and to the abilities of the spacecraft controllers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Osage prevailed upon the government to divide the land solely among members of the tribe, thereby increasing each individual’s allotment from 160 acres to 657 acres. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

As the landscape evolved, there must have been a long period of trial and error in which plants attempted the colonization of this high and windswept land. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

On Monday when Dad returned, Mom showed him the four-acre plot of land. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“What on earth would you do with that much land?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He did barrel rolls and wing-over-wing spins and even flew the plane straight down the street above their heads, inverted, then landed smoothly and taxied the plane right back to where they stood. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

In the late fifteenth century, as European explorers sailed to unfamiliar places, their actions and beliefs were guided by the Doctrine of Discovery—the idea that European nations could claim the foreign lands they “discovered.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

We moved the rest of the people out to the landing zone and burned the whole place down. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air had a fetid, tropical feel to it as it passed through the car: the land was flat, lush and brilliantly green. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell me, why is it that your race is driven from every country whose shores you land on? Why can you never find a place that will take you?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

But from this place there was no sign the white people had ever come to this land; they had no existence then, except as he remembered them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Everyone wishes they could speak again to those who’ve gone to the land of the dead. Why should there be an exception for you?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The land is so pale and desolate that I might be standing on a distant, dead moon. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

There was a shout from the landing above, something unintelligible, a kind of animal cry filled with anger and fear, and then someone was kneeling beside her. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Jacob goes into a strange land where his uncle lives, and he don’t know where he lives, but he finds him easy. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It was said that you could walk from Oxford to Bristol in one direction and London in the other, and never leave Jordan land. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t always want a building to land on him, though. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

During the first week of September, it was my family's habit to rent a beach house on Ocean Isle, a thin strip of land off the coast of North Carolina. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt was also known as the guardian of America’s land—a cornerstone of his presidency that was influenced by his time spent in the Wild West. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Thirty ships would be enough to land a small army on . the shore of Westerns. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

This was one reason that each Viking lander was carried into Mars orbit with its orbiter, and descent delayed until the orbiter surveyed the landing site. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s night when we land on the green of the Victor’s Village. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

We've been in the land of the free for four months and Ma continues to forbid me from going out alone. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Herbert Dean looked forward to buying his own home one day and spoke of land in the South that his family had lost. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t it amazing?” she says as the snow falls past my ears and lands all around her head. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And just then, right that moment, there is a gray flutter and on the ledge of the tower balcony lands a pigeon. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

The ear for the story and the eye for the pattern were theirs; the feeling was theirs: we came out of this land and we are hers. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

You may be able to identify, just by listening, when the piece sounds as if it is approaching and landing on its "resting place." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

If Pluto took notice of her, he might have to return her to the land of the dead. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

An acidic sap dripped from the cut vines and burned where it landed on his arm. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Before long the hobbits could make out the shape of the land for some miles about them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

By the end of October, the land was getting to be very dry. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

With red eyes inflamed by wind and salt spray, they stared ahead into the ocean, anxious for a sight of land, licking their cracked lips. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

As she flew on her cursed dragon, the land rumbled and split. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Even so far, it looks large enough that its landing gear legs could reach out and pluck us up. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Bering land bridge, during its millennia of intermittent existence, would have been up to a thousand miles wide, covered by open tundra, and easily traversable by people adapted to cold conditions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There are fireflies winking around his head, landing in his hair. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Not exactly. He said you weren’t supposed to be dangerous. But the Quileutes still didn’t want you on their land, just in case.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

If my love were an ocean, there would be no more land. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The scent of burning wood reminded everyone of land so far away, and sunk many of the men into nostalgia and fresh pangs of homesickness. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Their arrows landed in a row across the road, making a flaming barrier. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Their microscopic furry feet tickled everywhere they landed. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

On five different occasions, she and her husband, Jim, the former principal of Ector High School before it closed, had taken students to Europe to let them see other cultures, other lands. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any week now, any day, any hour, the great terror that had gripped the land for four years would be over. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing had ever been so welcome as that glimpse of land, that pale sand beach, the cliffs above. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I open the bedroom door quietly and tiptoe out onto the landing. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Your missile lands a little to the right. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

She watched his eyes lift to the Tower, and then arc slowly across the sky and land on the forest. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She landed, unloaded her plane, and took off for home—but fainted from blood loss and crashed just as she was about to touch the ground again. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

And now he saw land, almost ran up on it, and there was nothing. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The river tore the edges of the farm lands and washed whole acres down; it toppled barns and houses into itself, to go floating and bobbing away. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been hoping to land a job as a runner, too. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Settlers who came to what is currently known as North America wanted land for homes, farms, and businesses that they could not have in their home countries. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The balls of flame that erupted from the parachutes shot over the barricades, through the snowy air, and landed in the crowd. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

These heroines were always willowy and managed to land in graceful postures of repose, and were revived with the merest passing of a decorated flagon of smelling salts under their noses. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Some families of powhitetrash lived on Momma’s farm land behind the school. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her heart was still racing when she reached the top of the landing, but it slowly calmed as the crowds’ buzzing below faded and she took in the much quieter hallway before her. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They'd go to the rural areas to live off the land, but that was not an option for my family. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A mockingbird lands on a low oak branch and scolds me. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She barely touched the ladder going down, landed squarely on the tiny bit of space left for her at the front of Missy’s saddle. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

So Nok's mother wheedled and cut deals with her society friends, and by a sheer miracle, she landed Nok's father an even better gig: Chief Law Commissioner. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Had I passed over to the land of the dead? Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its land slopes upward, along the rise of a hill, covered in dense clusters of evergreen trees. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had been left in an alien land. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A pigeon lands on the edge of the roof. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

A splash of milk missed his cereal and landed with a splat on the counter. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Radar observations of Chryse were made for the first time—because of the geometry of Earth and Mars—only a few weeks before the nominal landing date. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The dumbest part is that then he tells me that he doesn’t believe anyone ever actually landed on the moon!” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Also, because it came not from Africa, but from some far Eastern land, it was the rarest, and most terrible, somehow. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I saw it all quite clearly, because my land was on a hillside. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Lady Salmakia flicked the rein, and her dragonfly skimmed away from Lyra’s shoulder to land on the gunwale of the boat, where Tialys joined her. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Like Kuboyama, the farmer had been a healthy man, gleaning his living from the land as Kuboyama had taken his from the sea. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The growing light revealed to them a land already less barren and ruinous. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

We thought it best that he should stay in his own rooms; and we left him on the landing outside his door, holding a light over the stair-rail to light us downstairs. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

As they mounted to the bedroom floor, they saw through the landing window Rogers carrying out a tray of cocktails to the terrace. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

She was sailing dead east and making three and a half knots and that way lay the land. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I arrived at Chthonia a few minutes later, I did a cloaked flyby of the castle, just to gauge the lay of the land for myself. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

You think they were somewhere saying, ‘Well, this is supposed to be the land of the free and the home of the brave’? Nah, man. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Ten years before the flames, I was born in the mountains, a scenic land of jewel-green fields, bamboo trees, and forests inhabited by gorillas, elephants, and chimpanzees. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

‘And where were you off to in the cold hard lands, Mr. Gollum?’ he growled. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A landing approached below, opening into a room to her left. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

All royal authority seems to have ceased on the land, and the governors preside only over their floating town and this sickly island. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

A brightly colored finch landed on the windowsill and sang so sweetly, Luna thought her heart would break. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

This was a needed service in the Colonies, where land was usually a wilderness without roads. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being possessed continually by this thought of his land, Wang Lung saw as in a dream the things that happened about him in the city every day. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The guard turned quickly, and somehow his gaze landed not on Henry but on Francis, who was standing staring into space. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It would be a poor life in a land where no mallorn grew. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

My father, Isaiah Maxwell Thornton III, landed a position as a lawyer at the biggest bank in town when he moved back. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Even today, the contrast is startling between the desert and the irrigated land, with its lush patchwork of maize, sugar, and fruit trees. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Although the empire left the original elites of conquered lands in place, it humiliated them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A bomb had landed in the middle of the camp, near the Appelplatz, the assembly point, but had not exploded. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

So what that they landed a mere third of a mile from the landing site? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

All right, he paused on the staircase landing before leading us to our floor, and the kick that was supposed to delight my classmates by just missing the teacher hit him squarely in the backside. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

When the spacecraft finally separated into two ships, one landing and the other one staying up in space, we all cheered. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He told her that she was the apple of his eye, that she was wound around his heartstrings, that she was surely the finest little lady in the land. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

True, I hadn’t made Ali step on the land mine, and I hadn’t brought the Taliban to the house to shoot Hassan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

‘Is it the custom in your land to wash the head before supper?’ said the man who waited on the hobbits. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

We landed on an airstrip on one end of the island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frodo and Sam gazed out in mingled loathing and wonder on this hateful land. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Some absentee owners are merely letting him live on their land here, in another little trailer he stays in. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood experienced a dramatic population influx in the 1840s, when the Irish potato famine led to a great migration to America, as tens of thousands of Irish immigrants landed in Boston. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

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

Pizarro had similarly grim luck when he landed on the coast of Peru in 1531 with 168 men to conquer the Inca Empire of millions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had learned how to prepare all kinds of exotic dishes during our years in exotic lands. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Then he calmed the sea, and made it possible for the Trojans to get to land. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Haiyi, after landing on the ground himself, ran to the fallen bird. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

As Jon worked the land and flew his falcon, he saw how important the raptors were to the environment. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

At least he aims for the trash, but it lands on the floor. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Some of the youngsters could not land their feet on the ladders and have pulled themselves up rung by rung on their knees, which are bruised and bloodied. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

After about fifty meters, we reached a small stone cottage that looked as old as the land it grew on, as if it had been here since the beginning of time. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

‘We also know how to live off the land!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It also meant that no peasant had all of his land in the fallow field, which would have resulted in starvation every third year. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

She rolled in, landing upon the man on her back. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

He landed on his bottom with his legs poking up in the air. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll see you soon, Percy. And remember, know which fish are big enough to land, eh?” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Southern colonies did not hesitate to invent ways to extend the terms of servitude, and the planter class accumulated uncultivated lands to restrict the options of free workers. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The river remains flat and steady, like the brown and green land around it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I’ll only get to use it all just before we land anyway. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Here we are,” said Mrs. Cole, as they turned off the second landing and stopped outside the first door in a long corridor. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Perdita hit her head on the cavern wall as she landed and was knocked out. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Explore, map the land, the drying effects of climate change. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The headless one lands next to the remains of a joint. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“You are our safety,” she told him, “our sure defense. The sight of you is dear as land after storm to the sailor, as a gushing stream to a thirsty wayfarer.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a gas ring in the fender, and a shelf where food was kept, and on the landing outside there was a brown earthenware sink, common to several rooms. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Any person in the community could use the land. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The engine of Polina’s Po-2 overheated on the longer flight, and she and her pilot were now going to have to make a crash landing, only a week before the end of the war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He landed on his kneecap, cracked it, and stabbed himself in the hand with the clippers. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light was dimming, the road was straight, with neither house nor human being in view—nothing but land winter-stripped and as somber as sheet iron. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon afterward Holmes set out for Fort Worth, Texas, to take better advantage of Minnie Williams’s land. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And she hurried across the landing to the electric light switch. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

He had to make it back to land. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

One of the main commodities returned on those voyages of centuries ago were travelers’ tales,* stories of alien lands and ex otic creatures that evoked our sense of wonder and stimulated future exploration. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dark water was all around them, and the dark land behind, and the dark land ahead. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stretch, looking up at the pale-gray sky, the predicted snowflakes finally drifting slowly through the air and landing on my cheeks and hair. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

As they loosen the rope around the chest, the corpse tumbles off the chair and lands in the dirt. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Written 18 July, things so strange happening, that I shall keep accurate note henceforth till we land. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

If a beginning pilot makes a very good landing, it’s likely that his next one will not be as impressive. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The siskin landed upside down several feet away, and lay on its back in the dust, flopping and kicking spastically while issuing pained chirrupy gurgles. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went down only two floors to the nearest limo landing. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

You know, like in ‘O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.’ The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

‘We could land on the deck of that ship. The Greeks control the sea.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When I slid on the lid, it went into a tailspin, throwing itself against the glass over and over with pops and clicks, reminding me of the hail that landed sometimes on the windows. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evan watched as drops of sweat fell off his face and landed on the hot sidewalk. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

But the area it covered—that was no small bit of land, and there was no real guarantee that it was supposed to represent an area code in the first place. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Truman’s scores rise and fall from year to year—along with the anxiety levels of the administrators and teachers who are held responsible—and usually land just a hair above or below the “acceptable” line. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The high land began at the southwest corner of the park and ran down to the water, which it met up with about halfway along the length of waterfront. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dropped the crop and smacked me again in the face with her hand, as she had the day I first landed in New York. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

As zero spread through the Arab lands, the Muslims embraced it and rejected Aristotle. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

This brief overview of precolonial North America counteracts the settler-colonial myth of the wandering Neolithic hunter and vast unused and uncharted lands. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

He would meet them with reinforcements and fight Octavian on land. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

We waited for another minute before a lone round of white phosphorus landed in the distant trees. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I landed on it, with my legs wide open. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The sky, the land were distant then; trees and hills moved past the windshield glass like movie film. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He sided with British settlers who wanted land in the Ohio Country. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I felt a little thrill of adventure as we chugged into the bay, as if I were sighting land where maps had noted only a sweep of undistinguished blue. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Other scientists thought that static electricity would cause whatever dust there was to cling to the windows of the spacecraft, blocking the astronauts’ view and causing them to crash on landing. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was hoping the wind had shifted and we were blowing west toward land.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up ahead was another blotch of land—a saddle-shaped island with forested hills and white beaches and green meadows—just like I’d seen in my dreams. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Thor recognized their home of the previous night just as Thialfi and Loki came tumbling out of the mouth of the glove and landed in the snow beneath. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Behind us, the hat spun out into the morning air in a white blur, like a miniature flying saucer, and landed right smack in the middle of the highway. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Where they all slipped and landed on their butts. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we should take off and land again. Give them time to organize a party.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Galina Burdina told me that if I hadn’t done that she would have landed on top of me! We all landed safely—our first night landings.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Just as the scuttlebutt had it, we men of the First Marine Amphibious Corps were heading for the Solomons to force a landing on Bougainville. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn back to see it sail ninety degrees the wrong direction and land right in the middle of Nat’s button box, tipping it into her grid game. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Such an introduction to New York,” said Tucker, “to land in a pile of dirt in the Times Square subway station. Tsk, tsk, tsk.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I enjoyed watching jackrabbits leap suddenly from the cover of desert shrubs, land beside our speeding bus, and bolt back into the brush. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He said that where he came from, I wouldn’t be in school—I’d be working other people’s land or in a factory. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

And that evening, while he was playing, a brown leaf, the first leaf of the fall, blew into the station and landed right next to the cricket cage. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Likewise, we did not want to land in places that were too soft. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can only watch, wide-eyed, as my phone falls to the ground, hitting the carpet with a soft thud and a bounce that lands it on the bare wood floor under my bed. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

As they pulled away from each other, Baachan’s eyes landed on the plaid fabric. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

That fall, while Louie was on his way to becoming an airman, an urgent letter landed on the desk of J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

When it was realized that ancient tapirs had existed simultaneously in South America and Southeast Asia a land bridge was drawn there, too. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Rotund and slower in flight than the Vipertooth or the Longhorn, the Ironbelly is nevertheless extremely dangerous, capable of crushing dwellings on which it lands. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

As far as Nhamo could see, there was not another speck of land in any direction. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Omer said, “These lands don’t seem abandoned. The villages look very old. I knew it wasn't true.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was a small hilly mass of land, covered in forests and ringed with white beaches. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When I fell off the pony and landed on my butt my nose spewed blood down over my chest. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

For instance, Ralph realized that if he had not called Grover, if he had not remembered the number, if no one had answered, he probably would not have landed up a pondering sort of person. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

An enormous pipeline snaked over the broken land and disappeared farther into the jungle. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The land was in the desert near where nuclear bomb tests had been held. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

When his land was flourishing, he went back home and married a young woman named Susan. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

They flew for a few minutes, and when Alec seemed satisfied, he landed the Berg in a cul-de-sac surrounded by empty lots, part of some developmental expansion that had never happened. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

We landed in a pile of banging heads, cracking bone and blood. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“People buy and sell land all the time.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Most had left Riverrun before she had, to defend their own lands. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

That night, the Ghost shows me how to climb far higher than the landing where Taryn and I tarried the last time. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In another minute the Red Cow had landed on the earth again. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

He hurried across his land to the vast metal storage shed. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The relative size of the spheres and the extent of their displacement with regard to each other determines the size of the zone of dry land. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The chief mate’s body landed on top of her, shielding her from the blow. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Hey, Perry, you know ... I land of feel that maybe it was my fault.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the north and south, strips of land stretched out like arms enclosing the bay, and sitting in the mouth of the harbor, about a mile out, was an island with a stone fort. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And then I turned a corner and, right in the mid­dle of that barren land, I saw a cluster of mud houses, beyond them nothing but broad sky and mountains like jagged teeth. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Josh practically falls into me so I step away and Josh lands on the ground. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ammu always noticed them in the market, the women with vacant eyes and forcibly shaved heads in the land where long, oiled hair was only for the morally upright. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

That Saturday, Brian and I were reading on the sofa bed when one of the windowpanes shattered and a rock landed on the floor. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Christmas tree beside their table rose a few inches off the ground, drifted sideways, and landed with a soft thump right in front of their table, hiding them from view. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I admired him in some vague way, but in the end he had to land on my jerk list. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Leo tried to shove him away, but Passalos did a backward somersault and landed out of reach. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Here, tonight, it was the wood plank beneath my seat, the barbecue grease on my lips, the need to hide from white eyes degenerate with contempt . . . even in the land “where livin’ is fun.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as they were up the stairs and on the next landing, he let go of Koffi's arm and finally dared to meet her eyes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She ran down to meet him on the landing and in a few moments the two of them were back. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was powerful and fast, but he couldn't seem to land a blow. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Beringia, as this land is called, was surprisingly temperate, sometimes even warmer than it is today; masses of low flowers covered it every spring. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Six plumes of smoke rose from the land below. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I flinch as a little piece of spit flies out of Mr. Dixon’s mouth and lands on my arm. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Around them the land turned ever more desolate. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The Beni is of increasing interest to ranchers and soybean growers, who covet its open land and relatively good soil. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Tyrion had done what he could to buy their continued loyalty, promising Bronn and a dozen of his best men lands and knighthoods when the battle was won. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“These are wise men, father,” said a younger man, “seafarers, voyagers. Maybe they know of a land we do not know of.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Get down!” he shouted again as what appeared to be a flaming stick of dynamite whizzed past and landed on the stair just below me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he went out to his land day after day for many days. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

It landed hot and thick and wet on the side of Wash’s neck. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He stood up and walked the little way down to the landing, where La Belle Sauvage bobbed gently on the water. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Several steps from the landing, the whip caught me around the ankle and dragged me off balance. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The caption below the photo read: Children are the intended victims of Soviet land mine campaign. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

With a wild turn of the steering wheel, Grandpa landed us in a shallow ditch. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“This is a deal of land,” he observed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The landing pad in the central chamber was rotating open once again. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Encircling the property, contentedly grazing on the rich land, was a herd of at least fifty cattle and perhaps five hundred sheep. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran a hand over his books lined on the shelf and then began to search for the sheets where he had written notes for his piece about ogbunigwe, the fantastic Biafran-made land mines. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I’d rather not do this where we might be overheard,” Henry says, taking a left on the landing. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Officer Delinko slowly began backing away from the burrow, hoping that the grown-up birds would realize it was safe to land. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her native clime was a land of milk and honey and had its share of apes and ivory and peacocks. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A crumpled paper soda cup landed at his foot, and then another. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was one thing to climb on top of him while he was half covered by water, but now on dry land she realized how large he really was. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Birds were singing, and a wholesome peace lay on the land. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“It would be my land. The Tipped M’s land.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The words landed in the shells of her ears, but didn't really hit her brain. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He told Hamilton that his Farewell Address was aimed especially at “the Yeomanry of the country,” which meant ordinary farmers working small plots of land and living in households. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

There are no trees and the land is disconcertingly flat. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

There was the newsreel that told of amazing inventions and adventures in far-off lands; there were the cartoons and the slapstick comedies, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

On the next day of my attendance, when our usual exercise was over, and I had landed her at her dressing-table, she stayed me with a movement of her impatient fingers:— Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

On that last tumbling pass, I'd crunched my ankles on the landing, and now my right one was aching. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Somehow, I landed on my feet in front of him without losing my footing. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My gran called me “Springbok,” after the second-fastest land mammal on earth, the deer that the cheetah hunts. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It may have been because we remembered the suffering and courage of our grandfathers who fought as warriors to protect our land and our people. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She landed on the pavement of a quiet side street, the vibrations of her fall shooting up her legs and back. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

If ever Odysseus my noble father served you by promise kept or work accomplished in the land of Troy, where you Akhaians suffered, recall those things for me the way they were.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed to have landed in the corner of a field at dusk; Hermione was already running in a circle around them, waving her wand. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A yellow bird landed on a curlicue of wire, stayed for a moment, and flew off. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Although the San Francisco Bay was a swimming pool in comparison to Lake Michigan, with mounds of land on the far side that looked close enough to swim to. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

To grab their share, the pigeons at the rear constantly fluttered over the heads of their compatriots and landed at the leading edge of the front. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Archer landed blows again and again, cracking bones, causing bruises. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I wasn’t even supposed to have gone. But we didn’t actually land there.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The massive, thundering herds were pathological, something that the land had not seen before and was unlikely to see again. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Instead, under that dizzying socialist impulse that marked the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, the land was bought for the nation. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

A bright rainbow rose up toward the evening sky into an arch, traveled across the sky, and landed somewhere far away. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Surprisingly, they seemed to work perfectly and before long the two friends had covered nearly three-quarters of the common land. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

On either hand the land dropped more sharply; a broad flat dotted with small cabins whose weathered roofs were on a level with the crown of the road. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yes; the family have always been respected here. Almost all the land in this neighbourhood, as far as you can see, has belonged to the Rochesters time out of mind.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Best landing place on the island,” Major General Turnage said, nodding his head. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not being able to visit my land or work on my house means that now I can think only of leaving. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Within a few minutes, we’ve gotten a decent lay of the land. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

No sooner had the glass cleared his forehead than Bucky practically dove into the house, landing with a thud in the middle of our floor. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

But the way he said the word, I knew that at that moment he had crossed some invisible border into a different land, and he would not be returning to our childish band again. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The land was up and down and up and down, and I wondered how Great-grandfather ever cut it and plowed it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry whirled around, slipped off the plinth, and landed on the floor. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“The American ships bombed Incheon so they could land their troops.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Orange and purple shadows crept over the land as the sun went down that night, and Miyax crawled into her sleeping skin noting that the days were growing shorter. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he decided that the only solution, if one wanted to retain the right ratio between water and land, was to break up the land and scatter it across the surface of the waters. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

So I drop The Lord of the Rings on my bed and trot to the landing at the top of the front hall staircase. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If this were an enchantment of illusion, it was powerful beyond belief; to make the Open Sea seem land. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Yet it was queer how the man could land up in a place like this. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He returned to the beings of land, eager to begin learning the ways of the water monsters. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

They were under the eaves of Fangorn, and endless leagues lay between them and the Men of Rohan, their only friends in this wide and dangerous land. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They leap off in different ways and clear the area of anything that might hurt us when we land. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black Africans, who generally lived on only 5 percent of the nation’s land, made up over 80 percent of the population. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He had only just reached the upstairs landing when the doorbell rang and Uncle Vernon’s furious face appeared at the foot of the stairs. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The stairs ended at an opening in the stone landing above our heads, through which I could feel the snapping chill of night air and hear the whistle of wind. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

A land mine had gotten to him again. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Hazel was about fifty yards from the shore when a raven landed on the boat’s stdm. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It’s a wonder a bird didn’t land on my head for a rest. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seconds later, out of one of the castle’s shattered windows, something that looked like a misshapen bird flew through the half light and landed in Voldemort’s hand. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The rivers flood in the rainy season, enriching the land, Nile Delta style. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I crossed a high toll bridge and negotiated a no man’s land and came to the place where the Stars and Stripes stood shoulder to shoulder with the Union Jack. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is, however, land in the Virginia countryside that, for thousands of years, has been home to the native peoples who still live there. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

A yellow one lands at my feet and I stare at it. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he’d expected, the landing was pitch-black by the time he reached it, save for a single wedge of yellow light coming from the Kuhani’s study. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I walked the land from post to post, trying to place myself within its borders. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Odessa High won the state championship that year, which became one of those events that was remembered in the psyche of the town forever, as indelible as Neil Armstrong landing on the moon. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Texans who bought the land fenced it and posted signs in English and Spanish warning trespassers to keep out. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

As Roy’s butt landed in the dirt, a hood came down over his face and his arms were jerked behind his back. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before Columbus, Holmberg believed, both the people and the land had no real history. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“But, uh, we talked about not landing the ship on the ground anymore, remember? You know, with Gaea wanting to destroy us and all.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Charles and Marjorie Moss lived on a little more than ten acres of land with three fenced areas. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

And so when the hand landed on her arm, she shrieked. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The Dragon was guardian of a treasure hoard so vast and valuable that they knew it would bring prosperity to their land for generations to come. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon after she’d landed on the Argo II, her pegasus Scipio had collapsed, overwhelmed by poisoned claw marks from a gryphon attack the night before. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When she tried to land at Elmtree she misjudged the amount of runway she was going to need. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“The land offered by the King is distant from their farms.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he landed safely, he turned and laughed at the animals, saying that they were perfectly welcome to kill his skin if they wished. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Finally, I began walking across the wide grassy land that separated the house from the fields. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Week after week he had informed her about Monty and the Brits driving Rommel’s tanks out of North Africa and the American troops liberating Algeria and landing in Sicily. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There was no land around, and no beings, but there was an aura of vague friendliness in this indifferent place. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“If a man works hard, the land will not be lazy.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I said quietly, “Auntie, when is Uncle Katsuhisa going to quit his job at the hatchery and become a land surveyor?” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I see. However, where Shady makes his alleged concoctions doesn’t change the fact that this land is now up for public sale. So, if you’ll return to your seat...” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

When the two friends arrived in England from the Roman war, the fleet landed at Sandwich. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The eagle landed on an outcrop of rock and screamed in triumph. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

At the same time, I bring her closer to me, forcing her mech to land on the now-connected bridge between us. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Wings rustled, talons dropped like a jet’s landing gear, and a red-tailed hawk snagged the rat. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I rubbed the spot where it had landed. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

You will read more about the US history of settler colonialism, white supremacy, slavery, genocide, and land theft in later chapters. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Getting the lay of the land, as it were. And waiting for things to calm down.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was just a small thing—an inconvenience, really—that made the task of landing a plane just a little bit more difficult. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Some miles beyond the Tallises’ land rose the Surrey Hills and their motionless crowds of thick crested oaks, their greens softened by a milky heat haze. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It’s funny how when the land is so flat, and the buildings so low, the sky seems to take over everything, announcing itself in a way you can’t ignore. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the first place, he was clear that land was not confined to one hemisphere, so the old two-spheres theory would not do. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

When a shell lands in the trench we note how the hollow, furious blast is like a blow from the paw of a raging beast of prey. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the same week, as well, Apollo 11 landed on the moon, and some children — understandably — seemed to prefer that historic moment to Sesame Street. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the chief virtue of a gradual approach was to extend the cost of compensation over several decades so that the full bill never landed at one time or even on one generation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“You’re obsessed with the most hideous beasts in the land, after all.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Fracture lines etch the surface of the glass box as if a body fell from the sky and landed on it. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

In her surprise she toppled forward, dropping her phone, and landed on something a few feet above the ground. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He was a funny and land drunk, always wanting to laugh and hug you and sing songs and dance. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ivan stumbled down a moment later, tripping down the stairs, and he landed hard at the bottom. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

They spun through the air and twirled to the ground, landing with a dry rustle. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

They hadn’t gone far when the jeep hit a land mine. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

When his eyes landed on her face, she made the shape of a heart with her fingers and held it to her chest. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It is only after the captain is gone that the parrot lands on my shoulder—something he rarely does—and says, “We need to talk.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I look up, watching as a gentle flurry of snow starts to fall, landing on my cheeks and my eyelids and my forehead. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

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

Idiptu sprang out and landed on the ground in front of me with a heavy thump. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“She wants to take a little walkie on the landing dock.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

They survived the landing, but Olga was killed by a mine. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

All three of us look at her as if she has just landed from space. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then the lights switched back to the land, the helicopters swerved over the city again, as if they had picked up another trail. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clearly, this had once been somebody’s home, but whoever they were, they were gone now, and the land around here didn’t look like it could support so much as a carrot patch, let alone people. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Every time there was talk about living off the land, somebody ended by saying, “How did those people manage, in the old days, going right out into the wilderness the way they did?” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

My husband can till and sow and reap with skill, but here there is no land. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Japanese man had asked about the land then, and asserted his wish to buy the seven acres his family had once held. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

After two hundred years without being permitted to own the land they had opened and worked, the tenant farmers rebelled. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had come down amid a mass of sweating bodies, had landed on a sneaker instead of the floor. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Will’s left hand, bleeding again from the blow he’d landed on the monkey, was Mrs. Coulter’s pistol. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The coins flew to the ceiling, then ricocheted and spun around the room before landing on various parts of the red tile floor with tiny pings. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning, late in November, two PTs came in escorting a landing craft that had just rescued some Marines who had been trapped on a riverbank. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I landed on my back hard enough to drive the wind from my lungs. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The important part. Here we are. Look. Suddenly Holly drops the helmet. It must land lens down, because we lose picture. We’ve still got sound though, so I’ll bring that up.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

One could walk through China, from Manchuria in the north to the Gulf of Tonkin in the south, while remaining entirely within land occupied by native speakers of Mandarin and its relatives. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We landed, to lie down in that place two days and nights, worn out and sick at heart, tasting our grief. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a solid thump, the shot putt landed on Bull’s left shoe. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The practice apparently began when Atlanta was working to land the 1996 Olympics. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The door to the landing was locked, the bookcase shut. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

In their eyes the land was an unoccupied, pristine wilderness. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

He’d done security convoy, escorting trucks to the Turkish border, dressed in full body protection, hoping neither he nor the trucks would stumble onto land mines or IEDs. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

‘They say in my land that he can govern the storms in the Mountains of Shadow that stand upon the borders of Mordor. He has strange powers and many allies.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Any solid land is a godsend when we are so badly in need of rest and food,” Worsley admitted. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“I trust no other animals shall land in my lap while we proceed?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“The land’s not working. But I would like to look at that rig you’ve got there.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite his concerted efforts, he was unable to land a lucrative commercial sponsorship of the sort enjoyed by some of his more famous peers. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She hoped there would be food for them in the land of the dead. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The red rim of the sun rose over the shoulders of the dark land. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Doors creaked open and families gathered on the landings, pleased and amazed at the something unexpected being added to that moment of their lives. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even in a dream you had to land, didn’t you? Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They swung him like a jump rope, like the wagon men had swung dead Jon, and let him fly, and the Flop went sailing through the air, landing in a slushy splash. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“What is a stranger doing in a strange land?” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Homo sapiens, whose body was adapted to living in the African savannah rather than in the lands of snow and ice, devised ingenious solutions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Time! For! Breakfast!” he shouted as he landed. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Dicey swam out, away from land, in a slow crawl. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The closer we came to the land, the stranger and smaller it looked. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The land around them was hilly and green, turning slowly gold, then hazy purple. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, when he was sixty-three years old, he quietly donated the entire amount to buy the land to build the migrant shelter. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Stepping onto the dark landing, I feel for the light switch, but they turn on a second after the door closes behind me. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

As soon as they were down they went on again with Gollum leading, eastwards, up the dark sloping land. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

With five gold pieces he bought an ox from a farmer ploughing in the field, and this before ever he reached his own land. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Then all three Witchlings hovered up and landed with hard thumps against the ground on the other side of the river. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

A sharp crack revealed a small victory, but any elation ended when he realized that the momentum of his swing was now pulling him back down to land right on top of the creature. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

We were brothers: strangers in a strange land who had banded together for mutual help and protection. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the remotest North, so far away it was at the back of the North Wind, was a blissful land where the Hyperboreans lived. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The airplane landed steadily enough and ran up to the group. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He stood on the dark landing outside the attic, his chest hurting with trying to get his breath. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

It whistled over the pond, gliding like a hawk before its blade grazed Adiah’s shoulder and landed in a nearby tree with a dull thud, splintering its wood. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Tonight I just figure I’ll get the lay of the land. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we landed in Miami, Farmer surveyed the cabin. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He squawked like a dying seagull as he flailed through the air, landing facedown. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Over the following centuries their descendants colonized virtually every habitable scrap of land in the Pacific. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We'd put 'em in the ground and run string around 'em, cutting our land up into six pieces. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Red Rabbit was without a doubt the laziest, slowest horse in the demon land. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the gayety which Wang Lung had never had from his labor on the land was held here in the walls of this house, where men met to play and never to work. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

"Lord Manderly told me when I landed at White Harbor. Have you had any word of your sisters?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I watch the land of pavement and glass and metal turn into an empty field. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

As soon as the craft had landed, Lord Asriel leapt out and ran to join King Ogunwe on the western watchtower, ignoring Mrs. Coulter entirely. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He couldn't land a date to save his life. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The dust had no one to land on anymore; Great-great-aunt Florentine was gone. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It yowled and landed on the other mother’s head, claws flailing, teeth bared, fierce and angry. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

One of the good wizards from the castle—no one remembers his name—saw the Witch on her fearsome dragon as they flew across the broken land. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Conclusion reached by the Annex while breakfasting at nine: this is a trial landing, like the one two years ago in Dieppe. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Moving to this quiet New Jersey neighborhood—owning a bit of land after his family lost the ancestral property during the war—restored him. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The U-2's huge wings generated so much lift that the plane resisted landing; pilots had to stall the engines just above the runway in the final moments before touchdown. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A leaf drifted down from above, brushed his brow, and landed in the pool. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As the sun heat overhead and the rain never came, drought and famine spread over the land. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

They also get great satisfaction from the care they give to their land and their animals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

All of them but Alec up the short flight of stairs and onto the landing, grouping together in front of the door. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Imagine two dozen ships and a dozen different landing beach sites. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

For say to Denethor that in this hour the King of the Mark himself will come down to the land of Gondor, though maybe he will not ride back. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

On land, the old fisherman stopped to light a pipe, and then, with the pipe clenched between his teeth, he walked home, carrying Edward atop his left shoulder as if he were a conquering hero. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Rolling off the bed, I land softly on my feet. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One Monday we came to a forest land. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A basketball court in the highest building in town was the highest court in the land, Sheed once noted when Grandma brought them to a game. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The chamber in front of him, where the landing pad rotated before lowering down into the ground, was empty and vast. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The land became drier and more barren; but mists and vapours lay behind them on the marshes. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The little craft lurched and strained in the turbid air, but she held the course firm, and her dæmon guided her down to land on the terrace. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Looking at the horizon helps,” yelled Maddie, her own farseeing eyes focused on the distant place where the battered gray land met tumultuous gray cloud. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

It was located on the long narrow stretch of land, owned by the Widow Cane, that ran alongside the mine. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It's quite common for probes to land on the wrong planet. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mopane flies circled her face, landing to drink moisture from her lips and eyes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lost sight of it for a second, but the fifty-foot wave that raced toward the invading ship, dousing fire spouts and drowning fetterlings, let me know he had landed in the marina. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It also keeps some of that country’s land free from pesticides or chemical fertilizer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Suddenly a mortar shell came whistling in, landed 200 feet away, and exploded. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Large plants and animals did not colonize the land until the last 10 percent of Earth history. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scott is sitting on the landing, his arms around his knees, his head down. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can hear my mom’s footsteps on the landing. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the doors up here were painted brown, and after the first landing, there was no carpet. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The first Lords of Winterfell had been men hard as the land they ruled. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We said good-bye, agreeing that I would fly out to Chicago a couple of weeks after he and Eric had landed. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It arched, then landed somewhere very far away. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

When she reached the landing, out of breath, Henry was already sprawled out on the boards. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The men had been divided up into different teams, and each team was going to land in a different spot along the East Coast of America. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“Fine. Jack, then to Lou’s land. Everyone buckle up, I don’t have all freaking day.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

A piece of it had landed on Kent’s forearm, blue, fresh, and glistening. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Before ever meeting Indigenous peoples in the Americas, they had already fought the indigenous Irish people for land, and they had perfected techniques of scalping their Irish victims for bounty. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“So...does that mean we’re going back to the land of dinosaurs?” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

When we landed on the topic of Jewish involvement in the civil rights movement, I wound up telling her about this Be Like Martin experiment. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Muslim rulers took Alexander’s old lands in Afghanistan and then, from there, swept through to conquer northern India. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Beneath the blanket of white, the land now seemed empty, its history erased. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those who remained continued to work the land, but the out-migration of African Americans combined with other factors to make traditional agriculture less sustainable as the economic base of the region. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The place where they land will then become part of the web and serve as a point of departure for further leaps. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before he knew what was happening, Ricky improvised a hip throw and Luke landed on top of the flimsy coffee table, splintering the wood and glass. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The book said that my people had killed the Hazaras, driven them from their lands, burned their homes, and sold their women. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And that was how he felt every day now, even on land. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Hard and cruel and bitter was the land that met his gaze. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She told him an entire army—several hundred rats, at least—had invaded the land of the spiders. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The bombs kill farming families, destroy their land, and drive them out of their homes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His gaze lands back in my eyes—it’s like an electro-shock, a jolt straight to my core. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Night was gathering over the shapeless lands before them; the sickly green of them was fading to a sullen brown. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

His hand landed right by her thigh and, building up his courage, he flicked his fingers so they toyed with Anastasia’s hair. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It bounces off the canvas and lands in the grass. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I used to think that when people fell in love, they just landed where they landed, and they had no choice in the matter afterward. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I was back in the land of my forefathers, Georgia. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is better to be without the seed than bereft of the land in which to plant it. Seed is cheap, it can be bought. I can earn a few rupees, or perhaps my sons...” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

At 10.05 I crept out onto the landing just as Kat’s shape appeared through the frosted glass of the front door. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through a school friend I landed a job selling newspapers after school plus Saturday and Sunday, from morning till noon. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we landed, my head pounded up into him. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I asked when we got to the landing,. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

George hoped it wouldn’t hit against the curtain or, worse, fall and land in the bathtub with a thud. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

There was no need to cut Cynthia off anyway, because the punchline landed at the exact moment the bell rang. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

But the land was flat for miles and there was no telling which way the sergeant might be looking, and they didn’t like to turn around to check. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It is six weeks today since I landed here. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Spurge was even luckier: he landed on Werfel. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Her gaze landed on Mabel and she said, "It looks like lingerie. I'm sorry, mi amor, but you can't go out like this." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

As the first stroke landed and the pistol-crack sounded, I was thrown forward so violently that if my fingers hadn’t been touching the carpet, I think I would have fallen flat on my face. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day in the fine summer, he was riding through the park land of a castle which was strange to him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes widen, and I hardly see her hand slicing through the air before the slap lands on my cheek, hard, angry, and stinging. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“What is it, girl?” asked Werfel, holding up his hand so she landed on it. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

At a landing I almost bumped into someone coming down. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trucks roared up and down the streets, and planes and helicopters constantly landed and took off right overhead. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He clambered easily to the top and perched there like an enormous crow, scanning the land in the direction they had traveled. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

And the land itself by which we lived. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The land didn’t end beyond those nearby communities. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The boys landed in dense, thorny scrub and when they finally managed to free themselves they hesitated, not sure in which direction to go. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It felt strange dropping through it this time, landing on the stairs amid fragments of wood from the door Adiah had destroyed. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

As it landed, the girl picked it up and, seeing that there was writing on the yellowed paper, unfolded the glider. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ended the conversation by telling me I had landed the gig, and she hoped her children would get the chance to meet me one day because she found my story so inspirational. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The refuge manager believes that pesticide residues are now building up in the waters of these refuges, being conveyed there by return irrigation flow from heavily sprayed agricultural lands. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In the accompanying letter, Martha wrote that she had found the pebble on the Jersey shoreline, precisely where the land touched water at high tide, where things came together but also separated. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We drew close to a ramshackle house and garage on a scrubby plot of land. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He went to Delphi, but all the priestess would say was to bid him seek the land where men eat not Demeter’s golden grain, but only acorns. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time he kept his feet when he landed. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

In other lands they would have greeted him with kind words; but now they stood silent, each feeling a strange expectancy: something was approaching that held a hidden power — or menace. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the llano was like me, as I grew the innocence was gone, and so too the land changed. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe the Dragon King was right. Maybe the magic takes a different form in our land. Maybe that’s why you don’t need words for it.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

This would have been the best beach day of the summer if we were on land. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He lived in Paris after the war. He’s got all lands of fruity habits.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Your cargo is approved to land, Captain. Welcome to Sullivan’s Island.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yet they who live there may know of farther lands,” Ged answered. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

In a land where many women can’t read the prices in the markets, we did multiplication. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

"They looked so alone, so alien in the strange land, that I choked up." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Captain Short comes in for a landing. She takes off her helmet. Bends down, presumably to pick up an acorn, and...there!” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

And they were strong: if just one HeLa cell landed in a culture dish, it took over, consuming all the media and filling all the space. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I’d heard Baba tell Rahim Khan that a judge had bought the land and that an architect was working on the design. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was not lawn, nor pasture, nor mead, nor woodland, nor lea, nor arable, nor waste land. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually when he smelled the land breeze he woke up and dressed to go and wake the boy. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Egyptian Book of the Dead, a newly deceased person must swear to the gods that he hasn’t cheated his neighbor by stealing his land. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Now he can add that we finally landed in Virginia, but that the natives do not want us here. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

What sort of man would wish to murder the president of another land? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celaena hit the landing, ran for the tomb door, and prayed to gods whose names she’d forgotten, but who she hoped had not yet forgotten her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Ralph felt as though he had a cardboard tube down his throat as he described how Grover had bought the land, built anyway, then sold it. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the open plaza leading to the landing, the one figure ran. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

A crack of orange-vermilion broke the black cloud bank far beyond the land. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rich Cuban family Vera had married into still kept the pink slips of their nationalized lands in Cuba, along with high hopes of reclaiming them once Castro was ousted or finally, finally died. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

From time to time Ash thought she saw the air split apart as if torn by an unseen hand, and within that secret space was the oldest land of all. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My voice trips forward, landing on the ground at their feet. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She landed smack on her back, right in the water, with her legs stuck in the air. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

It was soft, swampy land, drained by half a dozen deep ditches, which we crossed on wooden footbridges. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Settlers who used the labor of enslaved Africans wanted limitless land for growing cash crops. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

His gaze traveled back and landed on the nurse. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

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

She said, “I didn’t foresee it all. But the dragon I did. Also, I foresaw a sickness in the land.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

If she dropped her end she would simply leave, gather her things from her room into her suitcase, and go to Scotland and work as a land girl. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I wonder what it would have been like if York had received that land and that money, and his freedom. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

As for the other jewels, he pondered this way and that, and at last he decided he would go to the great house and see if there were more land to buy. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

A strong current and a high wind had carried the peach so quickly away from the shore that already the land was out of sight. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, there was a technique that enabled us to determine the roughness or softness of a candidate landing site: radar. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He landed on the ground with a grunt, his gun clattering against a nearby patch of rocks. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A familiar hovercraft landed, and Matt’s heart leapt to his throat. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They don’t quite land there, but I step back and try to throw the little things with all my might, one by one. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I jumped backward, bumping into Jermaine and landing on his sneakers. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“This here is state land, you know. Not a playground.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Although it was still dark, they could make out the white shape of the land stretched out below them. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

It is bad enough when the cane lands on fresh skin, but when it comes down on bruised and wounded flesh, the agony is unbelievable. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last three flights carried a dune buggy, the Lunar Rover, a lightweight battery-powered car that enabled the astronauts to travel several miles from their point of landing. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

That west-east expanse of Eurasia is the largest land distance on Earth. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He sighed and stood, feeling, he later said, “like an utterly exhausted swimmer setting foot on firm land.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought it was strange that I would be sent to school so soon after landing in Rochester. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When the boat’s hull scraped sand, two men rushed forward to haul them farther onto land. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The land was green: in the wet meads and along the grassy borders of the stream grew many willow-trees. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Just the lakes, and it came to him that he would have to use a lake for landing. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

All his memory of other lands and other men was a child’s nightmare of blood and giants and screaming: Ged could see that in his face, as he shook his head and shook his head. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Hadn’t he insisted that every square inch of land be planted? Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up ahead where the land began to drop there was a junction with a back road and some kind of commotion was taking place. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We just need to land close enough for him to reach it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Unless he has spoken words to you as his friend that we have not heard,’ said Éomer, ‘none now in the land of the living can tell his purpose.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He wormed his ship through the ice pack to reach seventy-one degrees south latitude, and then turned north again without ever seeing the land. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“You know that our little land has suffered many invasions,” Crane-man began. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Silky cables trailed from the arrows, arcing over the pool and anchoring where they landed to form a huge golden asterisk. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“If you are trying to land at JFK at rush hour, there is no nonverbal communication,” Greenberg says. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

All four of us landed on the ground in a big heap. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Just as I felt unwanted in this land, so do I feel a reluctance in writing about it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our lesson involves the history of the delicately negotiated peace between Orlagh, Queen of the Undersea, and the various faerie kings and queens of the land. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Once he crossed the creek, Ben was in officers’ country, his native land. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A single white flake landed on her palm. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He remembered his dream of the flood covering the stalk land. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old cartoon captioned “The PhD thesis” shows a little boy firing an arrow into the air, seeing where it lands, walking over to it, and painting a target around that spot. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The band’s land is used jointly by the whole group, instead of being partitioned among subgroups or individuals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine if it produced that food in a way that restored the land. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“One day, when a beggar from a far-away land came to the old couple’s door, they fed him the last of their corn. Then their dry scraps of tortilla.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

What soil is rich enough for planting and the patches of land that need a year of rest. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

More helicopters landed, bringing another batch of patients, and then another. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

They landed with a heavy thump and Alec punched away, landing a couple of shots before two other men were on him, jerking him off the guy’s body. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Before landing she slips into the bathroom and changes, miraculously in that minuscule space, into a fresh sari. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It thrived so much that the people kept taking, taking, taking land that belonged to the mountain creatures. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Then, walking stiffly, he moved out between the hot red hills of the land, alone. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a few minutes later the air screams, the earth heaves, cries ring out; a shell has landed among our rear squad. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dragged the mass of twigs and branches further up on land, then ran to call her mother. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Samuel sunk well after well and could not find water on his own land. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Though still in the King’s dominions, they felt as if they had landed on another planet. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A crow flies silently into a tree across the stream and, after checking the land and sky, drops to the ground near the coyote’s prey. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We threw some things into the hole. Never heard them land. It goes on for a long time.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

But the night watchman of the Eiffel Tower, and some passengers who land in an airplane, are mysteriously able to move around the silent city. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Helicopters were landing like wasps all over the hill, and out of them poured swarms of newspaper reporters, cameramen, and men from the television companies. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

It peered at the boy with one hand up—like a lost mariner searching for land—and exclaimed, “Ah-hah! Whom have we here, what?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I purchased Solara Industries simply so I could move their plant out of Lambert, ruining the Allens’ land lease. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Because the Osage had purchased their land, it was harder for the government to impose its policy of allotment. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The first homes in Prentisstown, see, were made from the ships the original settlers landed in. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I tried to throw, but it landed about a foot in front of us. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My emotions spun around and around like a broken compass, not quite sure where to land. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I did, eventually, and woke to the landing gear coming down. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

My main job now was to keep Columbia running properly, and to keep quiet, because Eagle and Houston would have plenty to talk about during the landing attempt. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The view that Indians left no footprint on the land is an obvious example. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

My father’s footsteps on the landing are slow and heavy. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She flew directly to her mountain and landed on the wooden box. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Eventually, Solovet and Vikus waved them down, and the party landed in a vast cavern at the mouth of a tunnel. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Had they managed to make their way to land? Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Four thousand members of the National Guard landed in Memphis to help manage the angry, grief-stricken crowds. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I sneaked up to my spy position on the landing in time for Dad unchaining the door. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The tradition of the land is deep fixed in the Texas psyche. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone knowed ’bout her and talked ’bout her ’cause word was that out of the three hundred families here, she was the only one that never had to borrow no money to get her land. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The city pier and square, however, afforded a place still for landing parties, and ’twas there we disembarked, formed, and began our mystified sortie. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

America is not, never has been, and never will be what the songs and poems call it, a land of plenty. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“West is where the spirits of the dead walk. If the whites keep chasing us west, we’ll end up in the land of the spirits.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

With the sea literally at their backs, on a cliffy tongue of land, they had built their tingle wail across the root of the tongue. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the open sea, with the land blue in his eyes and the sea green in his hand, he wept. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

But I'll give myself legs, she thought with an amused smile, because it's a picture of a mortal land. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

And his grandpa laughed, and it says it sounded like “water in a parched land.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

"I will lie on the land and transform myself into water for them to drink." Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then standing up he looked over the land ahead, and called to Pippin. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

This is the kind of thing people eat now, people who eat in places like this: Toronto is no longer the land of chicken pot pie, beef stew, overboiled vegetables. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The dark shadow had passed, and a fair vision had visited him in this land of disease. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

When Cortes and his bedraggled adventurers landed on the Mexican coast in 1519, they might have been driven into the sea by thousands of Aztec cavalry mounted on domesticated native American horses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the aborted landing, the plane’s Ground Proximity Warning System went off no fewer than fifteen times, telling the captain that he was bringing in the plane too low. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“The lie of the land. I smell limestone. Solid-rock foundation. There might not be a way in.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

‘They have no need to ride to war; war already marches on their own lands.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Mark Antony stopped off in Cyrenaica to begin planning a land battle in Asia Minor. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Ms. Walker, who was in desperate need of money, had to sell the land which had been in her family for generations. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

To-day, over all our land, the unburied bones of our fathers and sons and brothers tell the sad mistake that those men made when long ago they left this one great wrong. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The years passed, and Maeve became as connected to the neighborhood as I was, even as newcomers from other lands added their music and food and language to our little part of the world. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“The map is yours. The lands are ours. It’s said that a Lannister always pays his debts. We fought for you.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Finally, after the enemy aircraft had flown away, Katya landed the damaged Pe-2 in a small field just inside Soviet territory over the front line. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I figured the chances were about fifty-fifty for Apollo 11 to be the first flight to try a landing. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got to go down into the land of the dead and find him, and...and say sorry. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He lived on Mr. Read’s land, and Mr. Read was a Patriot. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

That might have been the first combination I had ever landed in real life. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

It did not seem to me to have the thrust of land that supports itself and its owner. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She only suffered a kinsman to kiss her on the cheek and then she secretly wiped it off; Atticus kissed her vaguely wherever he happened to land; Jem kissed her not at all. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He’s calling from the land of stories and genies. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She threw out her hands to break the fall, and they landed on the figure’s chest. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He managed to round up a few goats and cows, and a donkey to help him carry goods and farm the land. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

When the landing took place, Seaman Stephanides would stand in the front of the boat. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

After the two men left the village, the task of clearing more of the land between the trees began. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And since you come with an Elf of our kindred, we are willing to befriend you, as Elrond asked; though it is not our custom to lead strangers through our land. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Gregor twisted around in the air, trying to position himself so he wouldn’t land on Boots when they hit the basement floor, but no impact came. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

"He seems to be working hard. He’s prepping the rover for a long trip and testing it. He plans to be there when Ares 4 lands." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ours was a small landing ship designed for troops, not one of the huge LSTs that carried in trucks and tanks. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A wind that had sprung up in the night was blowing now keenly from the North, and it was rising; but the lands about looked grey and drear. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Dylan guides us slowly out of the stall and into the landing area. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Most of the lords in this part of the country are for keeping their lands to themselves. But times are changing, and we have a good king.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Most of the guys around the landing field were in fatigues. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distant land the boy came from, they called it the levanter, because they believed that it brought with it the sands of the desert, and the screams of the Moorish wars. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we could check that the candidate landing site was not covered with sifting, drifting dust, we would have at least a fair chance of guaranteeing that the winds were not intolerably high. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

With April, a walk to the library could become an exploration of a forbidden land, or a shiny pebble on the sidewalk could be a magic token from an invisible power. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Probably no other agricultural program has been carried out on so large a scale as the dusting and spraying of millions of acres of land in southern United States to control the fire ant. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Creditors now claimed the land, and Campbell didn’t know what to do. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Instead, the guards continued on past the landing, down to the next floor. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Oh, it will be. And when we land, you gonna apologize for doubting me.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

They found a place in the swamp land bordering the main boardwalk and crouched together, scanning the night traffic, looking for signs of Tool or of Nailer’s father and the half-men he had appeared with. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We knew the Germans hated the Poles and wanted our land. Our attitude was, Let ’em come! Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I cooked them on a top of a tin can, and as I ate them, smothered with blueberry jam, I knew that the land was just the place for a Gribley. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was grinning now, enjoying himself as he jumped up and landed with his feet wide, then shimmied across the room, nodding his head with a heck yeah expression on his face. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The snow was landing everywhere except on him. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Something does not feel right. Why drop us here only to meet us elsewhere? A suitable landing site for the ship has not been cleared yet.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

William winced as each book landed, as if each were a sleeping infant being dropped. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

His manner, his clothes were reminders that they had no crops of their own and no land to speak of either. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The land in Arkansas was lime green and lush, flat and boundless. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I heard it land with a thud, saw it moments later, wobbling out from under the shadow of the house, meowing and stumbling forward. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

We'd land on the Normandy beaches, drive south, lie about our ages, and work in vineyards or ski chalets. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

His stallion leapt from the end of the quay and over a splintered gunwale, landing with a splash and a scream in ankle-deep water. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Why had I thought I could learn anything about the land? Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upon landing, Columbus was to thrust his sword into the ground and claim the New World for Spain, while his men assumed positions that mimicked those depicted on a two-cent postage stamp commemorating Columbus’s discovery. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Our city, I mean. In terms of land area. What percentage?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But the rice he reaped from the land of the Hwangs brought him twice as much as that from his own rice land. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

We spend the night holding each other in some halfway land between dreams and waking. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The ghostly crowd gave them a standing ovation as the Argo II extended its landing gear and settled on the arena floor. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

One foot caught on the edge, while the other landed in empty air. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

To coax rice out of the stubborn land, the fields had to be flooded with water. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He had many fields and there were lots of people who lived on his lands. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Please think about this: When I started teaching, no one had landed on the moon, there were no space shuttles, no CNN, no weather satellites. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sped up our steps and took dives into the bush before the grenade landed, followed by several rounds of machine gun fire. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Kermit, Lyra, and the camaradas had the remaining five canoes down to a point where they could be dragged over land. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Might it not turn out to be a vegetable ship that brought me to land? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They targeted former slaves and any whites who supported the blacks’ rights to vote, acquire land, or gain an education. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He swayed and toppled and landed on the edge of Wilbur’s trough. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

I told him that we would try to rescue him if something went wrong—but no elf has made it out of that dark land of mist and fire in living memory. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Somehow he wasn’t, though, and the blows he did land were having no effect. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But to himself he said when he had let the lad go snivelling home, “We must get back to the land.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

But not all who came to the United States were “pushed” out of Europe; many were “pulled” to America, a country seen by many as the golden land, offering freedom and opportunity to all. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

They must not land on the nearest coast of Italy, the east coast, he told them, because it was full of Greeks. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then there were huge bright yellow ones, twice as big, and torpid, so waxy and fat that they bowed down the grasses when they landed. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Soon we realized the decision boiled down to one question: How scary was the prospect of landing in the forest? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I looked around, confused, until my eyes landed on the tree stump. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

They cleared forests and drained swamps, creating land for farming and other useful purposes. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

When I say this, I am not merely drawing attention to the fact that our generation had a less snobbish attitude as regards which employers were landed gentry and which were 'business.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

She invited us onto her property, a desolate piece of land we would have never imagined was inhabited, set far enough back from the road that we hadn’t seen it through the trees. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

In the 1880s Chicago was experiencing explosive growth that propelled land values to levels no one could have imagined, especially within the downtown “Loop,” named for the turn-around loops of streetcar lines. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“You’ll be all right here. It’s a bit windy, so keep your eye on the lights and try to land on the flare path! They’re waiting for you. You know how to get out?” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The boot was spat up out of the river, flew into the air, and landed on the shore in front of Pyatsha. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

It’s the same town I’ve known for thirteen years, but I’m a stranger in a strange land. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Sure it had its advantages, like the salary, the security, and, with seniority, the schedule: Starting work at dawn, Kingsley had afternoons free to work on his land and rebuild his log cabin. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Likewise, if his landing is very bumpy, then, by chance alone, his next one will likely be better. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gasping pools were choked with ash and crawling muds, sickly white and grey, as if the mountains had vomited the filth of their entrails upon the lands about. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Mosquitoes landed on his lips and tongue at will. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

"Tell me what you know of the fighting in the river- lands," she said. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He wears his pride in his posture, in the way his eyes claim everything they land on. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

For enslaving her people, for massacring another race, for stealing the very land itself. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

‘It is a lie that comes from the Enemy. I know the Men of Rohan, true and valiant, our allies, dwelling still in the lands that we gave them long ago.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We call this land of ours Great Britain, and there may be those who believe this a somewhat immodest practice. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He told of Roman legions who had come to Britain centuries before, and of Saxon and Danish kings who in turn had ruled their land. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Irritated by the interruption, the King answered brusquely, “There have been some sightings—nothing definite, mind you—but it seems that some of the Xi have been coming across the borders into our lands.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Never had any king of the Mark such company upon the road as went with Théoden Thengel’s son to the land of his home. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I was Alexandra, I was South Africa, I was part of what Alan Paton described as “a tragically beautiful land.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the next field grasshoppers burst up from under his feet like the shrapnel from land mines, and with a swipe of his hand Bloom caught one in midair. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking about my land, and how it feels just right to build there. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Just for a laugh, I imagine him landing in our tiny front yard, maybe in a personal-size flying saucer, which would probably just fill the center circle of a basketball court. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The momentum spilled forward and Moss landed on top of the large man who had been in front of him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then there came flooding over him the memory of his land. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He landed on the sill with a thump, as owls are apt to do, did not stop himself in time, and toppled straight out of the window. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the end of the rope and swung out toward the other bank with a kind of wild exhilaration and landed gently on his feet, taller and stronger and wiser in that mysterious land. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

‘Mah land, Johnny-boy, I could do with a bit of help. Them Britishers expect a clean sheet every week and seems like a clean shirt every day.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt his heel bump land, touch pebbles and rocks, scrape sand. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

She listened and then said, “He’s just reminding me. On the first floor there’s a small landing and a door that opens on a corridor where the nursery is.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The land between the rivers is a sea of elephant grass, which can grow ten feet high. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I first heard of the tremendous, cosmic might of loving kindness in this Hindu land. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They had gone only a mile or so from the cliff when the land sloped down into a wide shallow depression, where the ground was soft and wet. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I hear a big splash and a thud when it lands. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was raised by the man who murdered my parents, reared in a land of monsters. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

After Tonya had managed to land her plane safely, she and her crew had come to the same place to get their wounds treated. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The most valuable land in all of Georgia. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I guess when I flung it, it landed on a sleeping bag, because the next thing I knew, David was shouting, “Fire!” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

And then she spread her wings out real far and flew and landed on top of Winn- Dixie’s head. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even those who knew they were eligible to register worried that registering to vote would somehow attract attention to them—perhaps land them back in jail. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

After that, land forces had captured three forts guarding the city of Mobile, which meant that the Confederacy had lost its most essential port on the Gulf of Mexico. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was on that slender riotous island which extends itself due east of New York and where there are, among other natural curiosities, two unusual formations of land. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

But when they saw how the cattle kept moving, Josiah got worried and decided to brand them in case they got off reservation land. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the many years since I have listened to the land the change is very great. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Battle at Fallen Timbers and its aftermath were evidence that the federal government would not hesitate to use both regular and irregular warfare to get the lands it wanted. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Hugo didn’t have time to scream as a dark figure lunged at him, knocked him to the ground, and landed on top of him. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

They hurt, but my left knee is worse—I feel it crash against the handlebars when I fly over them, and then land on something sharp and painful. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She landed in an open field and raised her head just in time to see a splash of bright red flush across the dark grass toward her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

There’s a door leading to a steep set of stairs, and at the top is a wide landing and a large metal door. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It bounced off a doorframe and landed with a thunk in a pan of melted butter. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

And as they approached the spot, Minli realized that the yellow was flowers — in front of them was land full of blooming trees. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Once again he fell through darkness and landed in Horace Slughorn’s office many years before. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

At that meeting, Lewis and Clark told the tribal leaders that their land was now the property of the United States, and that a man in the east was their new great father. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

On the second day of May, as she came out on Wethersfield landing, a trim little ketch was already tied up, fresh-painted, with clean white canvas and not a barnacle on its hull. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Now that she really looks, now that the land is not simply her day’s chore to cross, the fields roll and stretch below the large sky. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

And then he lands, and it’s horrible, awful, because the hit and the landing instantly turn the animal—beautifully alive and running across the road just a moment ago—into a gruesome, bent corpse. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Frightful flew down from the tree and landed on the top of the box. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It landed on Butler’s arm, touching the bare skin. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

At the top of each landing there was a gaslight fixture that was no longer being used now that the building was wired for electricity. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Then there was a plunk as something landed on the ground at our feet. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He sprang from his chair, bounced off Jason’s head, did a flip, and landed next to Leo, his hairy arms around Leo’s waist. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“No one can sell that land except my father.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever they heard the far-off drone of the relief planes, nothing like the low-flying swiftness of the bombers, Kainene would say, “I hope that one will manage to land.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Something flew across the hallway and landed at our feet. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

In a land of poor farmers, there were too many troubles for God and man alone. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The chariot bounced violently as Nergal landed on the rim in front of me. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The French occupied land in the Mississippi Valley called Louisiana and much of the land north of the Saint Lawrence River. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The land around the town of Nzara held rich plantations of teak and fruit trees and cotton. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than three months on a ship has confused my legs so much that solid land feels like the rocking deck! Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

She came to that marriage with her slave Noah, lots of land, and piles of money, which is what ol’ Massa wanted.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as the U-boat inched closer to their landing spot, the rift continued to widen. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Gay was staring out at a jet that was coming in for a landing with a constricted expression on her face. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Now she belonged to the spirits and would dwell in the land of her ancestors forever. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to own her like a plot of land. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first he had thought that maybe the Bergs landed in the clearing, but there was no sign of such a spot whatsoever—the vegetation had grown pretty thick. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

"He must have flown off after he dropped us. He couldn't land here. Not in a plane with wheels." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Something wet landed with a thump on Seven’s foot, and she jumped. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Several of the creatures landed on the face. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The next morning they rose early and walked and walked and walked, and by evening they had left Baugi’s land and reached Suttung’s, on the edge of the mountains. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The land was drier than elsewhere—making people less prone to malaria—and it was here, on the unused green fields, that some of the best cricket was played. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

We didn’t know whose land it was, of course. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In a second he was on dry land once again, standing beside Merlyn on the piping drawbridge, panting in his stuffy clothes. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

On March 23, they spied land to the west, probably one of the Danger Islands at the entrance to Erebus and Terror Gulf—a scant fifty-seven miles away. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Our sweat-stained uniforms, still dusty from the endless push-ups and practice jump landings in man-made pits overflowing with sawdust from our first week, clung to our skin. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I watched refugees cross the ice and continue their trek down the narrow strip of land between the lagoon and the Baltic Sea. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The terrors of the land beyond, and the deed to be done there, seemed remote, too far off yet to trouble him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He was a clever, beautiful child, and though his elder brother would inherit the title and lands, he claimed all else—love, attention, laughter, praise—and he claimed it loudly. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

There's a rolled-up carpet in the corner of the landing along with a small potted geranium. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then I check through my backpack for any homework I can get a jump on so I can avoid going into the land of ultimate paella. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

They bombed with their landing lights on, since no one was shooting back. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

So they stood, the travelers, at the edge of the land of the dead. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

We travel to a land that never was. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Hugh represented an earlier time at this school—before the space capsule landed and barfed up Cap Anderson. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I felt like a curious tourist in a strange and remarkable land. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We already grow groundnuts in the damp soil and squash in the poor land. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a plop as it landed in the water, then it thrashed around wildly for a few seconds before settling down. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I watched the tiny projectile land and lodge itself amid Cap’s cascading piles of long hair. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The trek across countless miles of wasted land and crime-riddled streets. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

As we go out, I hear my grandfather telling the story of how he bought the land for the compound after the big hurricane of 1930. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

What if my brother had landed on the goal line with the left side of his hair singed off? Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought of the pigeon flying over the snow-covered land, looking for another window at another bedroom, and he felt bad. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Worse, creating its own complicated path, fire could keep hopscotching over land until it overwhelms us. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Having once been accepted by the spirit of the land, it seemed likely he would be chosen again. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was only after she’d sailed over the log and landed several feet past it that she realized something was different. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Something changed in Greg’s expression; a slick smile took over his face as his free hand landed on my foot. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Warm muscles help you jump higher so you land like a feather rather than a brick. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Many paratroopers, their faces blackened so they couldn’t be seen in the dark, landed as well. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The land would catch you at the end. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Drunk? On drugs? On this guy’s land in the middle of the night?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Bongo flew high into my branches and landed with a victorious caw. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The fields are so flat you could land anything anywhere. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The first task we were given was to clear a massive plot of land the size of a football field. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Before he could say anything else, something heavy landed on top of them. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Like the voices of the women in houses nearby singing “Go down, go down, way down in Egypt land...” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Briony was listening out for footsteps on the landing, and it was to distract herself that she attempted a conversational tone. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It had landed nose-first full bore against the only rock outcropping within a hundred yards. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We landed, in fact, parallel to a canal, like there were two runways: one for us and one for waterfowl. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I looked out across the flat, dusty land and could see the slow glow of blue light over the horizon, the first sign of dawn. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Luckily, I landed in a farmer’s soft plowed field and was not hurt. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And some boats, like me, seemed to float farther and farther from land. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Nothing. It’s like where the bomb landed and the poison’s leeched into the banks, everything’s gone in all directions till you get further out.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

At least Liyana knew they had landed in the proper hemisphere. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Samuel stood in the doorway of the forge and looked at the land. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She landed barefoot and filthy with smoke and soot. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“So? We have ridden since the snows of winter covered this land, through the kingdom of Mercia, through—” Another 500 points. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And then he thought again of his land and he cried out passionately. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The stretch of land between Dauntless headquarters and Erudite headquarters does not look the same in reverse. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Alex landed perfectly on the path at the bottom, dropped into a tuck, and zoomed down the asphalt. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The actual landing had been the one part of the mission that had been impossible to rehearse prior to the actual moment—and the most dangerous. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But the land is dry, having been neglected during the Khmer Rouge rule, and produces hardly any fruit. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lines of vegetation along their banks are like oases, fertile places where people can farm in an otherwise almost lifeless land. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It bounces off the back of his chair, and lands between his big feet. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

On his way down the stairs, he noticed a built-in cabinet with heavy doors beneath an old bench on the landing. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Dinwiddie had sent a special message to London, advising that French troops had marched out of New France and built two forts in the Ohio Valley, land claimed by Virginia. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Murals depicted her ancestors as powerful god-rulers who presided over a rich land. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The steersman leaning on his long sweep turned his head and called, “Sir! is this true land or a witchery?” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mama has bribed all lands of ointments in and none seem to work. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The sky came closer, and it stretched forever above her, away and away to distant lands she’d never heard of. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But we lived in the land of the toads and needed toad papers. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

At one point, she launches up in the air, over a small barrel and lands poised on her tiptoes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

"Folks," he said, "this is going to be the most 'ghetto' spacecraft ever built. There's only one way to finish that fast: no landing system." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I steal a chance to go on deck and have my first sight of land in many weeks. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

But instead of answering me, she kept repeating that it was important to keep Uncle Jim’s land—land that had belonged to her father and his father and his father before that—in the family. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Irina Rakobolskaya, in her role as chief of staff, had been on the airfield as she always was, checking each of her aircrews as they took off and landed. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Brother will kill brother, and the land itself will decay. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The landing at the top of the stairs ended in a single door painted red, with a peephole in it. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Many generations ago, our kingdom negotiated a treaty with the Fairy Queen that established the border between her lands and ours,” said the Mistress. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But he didn’t want to give up any land. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

After long wanderings and many trials on land and sea he reached Italy, where he defeated those who opposed his entering the country, married the daughter of a powerful king and founded a city. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

From there we saw for a while, away below and beyond us eastward, vague vast lands blurred with clouds and shadows of clouds and streaked with silver of rivers, the Plains of Rer. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Our hiking boots land on the crooked planks with hollow thumps. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She was causing the terrain to shift around them - opening new trenches, changing the slope of the land, throwing up new walls and columns. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

If you needed to illustrate the idea of nineteenth-century America as a land of opportunity, you could hardly improve on the life of Albert Michelson. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It is a relief to discover that although there might be axe murderers and kidnappers in the world, most people seem a lot like us: sometimes afraid and sometimes brave, sometimes cruel and sometimes land. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Silver fish scales flew around the kitchen, landing on kettles, walls, vegetable peelers, the fridge handle. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stood at the landing and watched Papa descend. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Maria Teresa and Minerva and I managed to squeeze up on the landing together. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since my eyes were closed, I landed awkwardly, banging my hip against the stone top of a worktable. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It is said that there are still havens of the High Elves, but they are far north and west, beyond the land of the Halflings. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He looked at the barren land all around him. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The second time, I performed much better, sticking all my landings and not wobbling or messing up on the beam. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The water has risen to the upper edge of the track’s groove and is beginning to spill onto the landing itself. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The oil deserts of the Near East, the opening lands of South America have felt the thrust. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

As loud voices approached the dock and a plane droned overhead circling to land, Cole watched the white patch of hair. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Yoyo stood before both of them, blocking their view of the soldiers in helicopters landing amid silenced gun reports and explosions. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

At the edge of my vision, I saw a flying chariot land on Fifth Avenue. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was like a big ugly apartment building had fallen out of the sky and landed in the basin. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Nathan wanted to see how this land looked when the animals and plants returned. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Where he landed, the marble floor cracked under his leather shoes. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I start practicing my reply in case a hand lands on my shoulder. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

American military maps showed this region of South Vietnam in different colors: one color for land controlled by the South Vietnamese government, another for territory controlled by the Viet Cong. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“And three hundred acres of land to explore. You and MacDuff will have a lovely time.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Those were the moments when I imagined an accidental nuclear test bomb landing right smack-dab on Lily, Arkansas. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Poppy always included camels in his childhood stories and folk tales, but they’d mostly vanished from this land since then. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Yet still before it there stretched a wide region of fuming, barren, ash-ridden land. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

His land was barren; the prairie dogs moved in. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, he must have thought, after all these decades, his mother tongue, Afrikaans, was on its way to supplanting English as the language of the land. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The land of the llano was not good for farming, the good land was along the river. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A splotch of green dye landed on my shoe. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

She and her family had extensive land down there, with a lot of bees. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Now the land itself, the only one they knew and knew intimately, began to terrify them. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Freedom and justice for all, the greatness of America, but a man living in a country sending satellites into space could still land up a heap in a doorway. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mind flashes back to when I landed in the hospital in the fifth grade with a fever that wouldn’t break. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

From now on no more than two or three together are to go openly over the land, by day or night, when it can be avoided.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

As soon as they do, I scramble up the ladder and onto the next landing on the fire escape. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They had forty-five minutes to search the high-security cells, meet back at the landing, and get to the basement. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

So it was that I determined to look again, to try to rediscover this monster land. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was faint moonlight coming in through the landing window and it illuminated the hall below. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

After breakfast, I head to the landing, where Baba's portrait is displayed. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The residents immediately became squatters, scrambling up the steep hillsides to remake their homes and farms on land they didn’t own. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

But still one thing remained to him and it was his love for his land. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

So it was done on every island of the Archipelago that night: one dance, one music binding together the sea-divided lands. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

But after the landing he was able to crawl free of the aircraft, only to see that Masha and Galya were still trapped in the front cockpit of the burning Pe-2. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Yes, we want to land. Very well, put us down below the ridge.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

When he landed on the other side, his banana shoes let out a gassy PPPFFFFFIIP. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

There was a woman who lived in a village near the end of the land. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Even today, a pilot is trained to learn emergency flight procedures as a memorized sequence, so that if your engine fails, you have an automatic routine to help you ward off panic and land safely. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He was immediately aware when I landed a turtle or a dorado or a shark, and I had to give quickly and generously. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

People could have brought in loads of turtles and shellfish, built a fire in the shelter of the cave, and enjoyed the feel of dry land. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He released a huge sigh and turned, his eyes roaming over Ivy and Layla until they landed on Mom. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Imagine, if you will, five thousand years of Jewish history landing in your lap in the space of months. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I even think about it, that big, green slimy stuff comes flying my way, landing right on my shirt. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

My gaze landed on Fig in my arms in the photo, and my heart broke all over again. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Kyril Montana had also helped Bud out of one ticklish situation involving federally controlled interstate land sales in which Bud had become embroiled during his earlier days when he was based in the capital. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to land on top of his bag in an effort to keep it from the men, but Clyde tugged it free. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

‘And land with only a few ‘savages’ is the next best thing.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

His feet went last, so that by the time he’d moved his upper body forward he could watch the ground for exactly where his feet should land with minimal impact and sound. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Carefully I squeezed the plastic container until every gooey purple drop landed in the toilet hole. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Restriction of land ownership on racial basis shall be ended, and all the land redivided amongst those who work it, to banish famine and land hunger. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Rupp property is on a rise, an exposed plateau, from which he could see the harvested, glowing land of River Valley Farm—scenery that occupied him for perhaps an hour. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He continues his twirl, landing a flyer in the hand of a blind woman. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I managed to climb over it and I landed in soft mud. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nergal beat his wings to land on the roof of a parked van. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He arched his back, twisted free, and landed on all fours. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

There, at last, was the river, full of reflected moonlight, and a little landing stage and a few pleasure boats. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

If Father had a really big problem, involving state matters, he went to an entirely different person, the Lion Spirit Medium, who was able to contact the mhondoro, the spirit of the land. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The bus landed at Paririnyatwa Hospital, and paramedics raced out to care for Arm. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to drift too far from land. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew nothing about the customs of the strange land he was in. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Slowly and painstakingly he quartered the land on either side of the ravine. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

My people who had been on this land even before Gran was born. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

As a Navajo, I was used to a dry land and so were most of the other Marines. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help but hope she had a tent pitched out here somewhere on some little piece of land two feet higher than everything else, keeping the rain off. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“But there’s a lot left to the demons’ land that we haven’t seen. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It does,” I say, noticing a ladybug has landed on my hand. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

So even though the rocky land was cold and windy, the family brought their breakfasts of warm rice porridge out to eat. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She could be his solid land in the tumultuous seas of his heretical thoughts. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t just paddle away, because this was the only land they’d seen, and it was dark, and out there on the water was the CCD boat, and Lyra needed food and warmth now. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Adam sat like a contented cat on his land. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was such a scarcity of high land on Rass that for generations we had buried our dead in our front yards. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he knew, I felt his skin jerk and twitch the same way a horse’s does when a fly lands on it. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“First my people. Now my land? I cannot allow it.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The land grew marshier, inlets appeared, and soon we traveled over the bridge to the island. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“He’s in a Heinkel bomber and his crew’s been killed and he’s lost an engine and he wants to land at Calais.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Frightful sensed she was far from food and land. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Once they got there, it wasn’t a pretty landing. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Contrary to all the boasts of the land’s fertility, it was virtually impossible to farm anything because of the difficulty of getting water. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a soft landing on a warm bouncy surface and was feeling lucky—until she opened her eyes and found herself staring through a glowing gold membrane at another, much larger face. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It envisions an initial landing of small guerrilla forces in four different areas of South Africa and the attacking of preselected targets. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It landed squarely on top of his head and sent him tumbling backward down the ladder, in the process knocking Jillson down as well. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t into the space race, but there was no way I’d miss the moon landing. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The other squads in our company had landed at the same time. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As plantation farming expanded, particularly tobacco and cotton farming, demand increased greatly for both labor and land. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She says, All right.Write when you land. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I dart back across the diamond, spring off the balance ball, and land in front of the whiteboard. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

‘I think I know why we landed here. It’s my fault.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Look what I found in the land,” he said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The demon landed in a crouch and sprang at her, painted claws reaching out. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

There's a splash, and one of the sea lions breaks through the surface and lands on a flat stone. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Don’t care if it was my father’s land once,” he’d say. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He felt a little kick on his shoulder as Tialys leapt off and landed on the cheek of the biggest, seizing her hair and kicking hard below the jaw before she could throw him off. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Here there are so many coves and creeks, rivers and small streams, that the land areas are little more than heads or necks of land, almost surrounded by water. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

About how, before we were enslaved, we governed ourselves and ruled our own land. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day after all the excitement, Toby had drifted down the alley just to look things over, and he had found the land of Egypt boarded up. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The land mass of Texas is rich in recoverable spoil. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And whenever he went he took with him his youngest son, who was to be on the land after him, that the lad might learn. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“We were sixty tons over maximum landing weight,” he said. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

So these people were considered and treated as the dregs of society, aliens in the land of their birth. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the United States, Brazil had a population of different Indian tribes native to the land. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

It was only when our flight back was supposed to land that I realized Abby really wasn’t coming home. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I double back and jump so that I land on the guard’s stomach. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I've always felt the same as my sisters—the only difference was that I liked to experiment with my arcana, even if it landed me in trouble. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

My eyes landed on the first sentence in the final paragraph. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

‘We have come to bid our last farewell,’ she said, ‘and to speed you with blessings from our land.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Nothing could have been more pitiful and hopeless than the twenty-eight men marooned on the rotting ice pack nearly 200 miles from the nearest solid land. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The landing pad must’ve fully rotated and was now sinking into the ground. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She passed the first landing and went on to the second. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He slid a considerable way down what felt like a stone slide, then landed on cold, damp earth. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The Great Meadow, Judith explained, was the grassy land that lay within the wide loop of the river. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He told my father there were only eight Congolese men in all this land who have been to college. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We both got a piece of chalk and we marked where the shoe landed. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, I wanted you to know. I was just being annoying—about the moon landing.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

They were still a long way from land, separated from solid ground by an array of ships from every corner of Kelanna. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I knew my father and stepmother would be thoroughly amazed, and my mother would see the act of man landing on the moon as cause to write an oppressed woman’s poem. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

This was his land and these his people. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They don’t live in the Shire, but they wander into it in Spring and Autumn, out of their own lands away beyond the Tower Hills. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Faith and I were sitting on the floor in the landing strip of white light spilling from the bathroom, talking music. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He pointed at a shining golden sliver of land. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He moved the dory in closer to the land and stopped rowing altogether except to keep the bow into the waves. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

It landed on the floor beside Lavender's desk and very quickly she ducked down and picked it up and put it into her pencil-box for another time. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

But in many places this only works for a while, or it is economically unfeasible not to use the land for a year. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

With every drop of water that landed on Toby’s face, Cady noticed something new about him. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

His hair was cut just as flat on top, so miniature airplanes could’ve used it for a landing strip. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He leaned back, and Tino flew past him, landing on the desks of the next group. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We did not wish to land in too rough a place. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Long time ago, though, it was land, and that’s where the Indians came over from. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The hobbits were glad to leave the cheerless lands and the perilous Road behind them; but this new country seemed threatening and unfriendly. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I instinctively struck out and felt my fist land on his chin. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time was a direct hit, filling the tin almost to the brim, and she even managed to keep her feet on the landing. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Our landing sites had to be not too high, too windy, too hard, too soft, too rough or too close to the pole. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some even said Lanre had killed himself and gone searching for his wife in the land of the dead. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The land had been falling steadily, ever since they turned aside from the Road, and they now entered a wide flat expanse of country, much more difficult to manage. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Someday there will be fifty dollars and somewhere on this long island is a piece of land that you may buy for that money. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then it glided down and landed with brisk sweeps of its powerful pinions, and came to a halt on the wooden deck a few yards from Lyra. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

All the lands were grey and still; and ever the shadow deepened before them, and hope waned in every heart. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

One of the survivors fainted as soon as Reed landed in the longboat, but the other backed away, scrabbling for purchase in the piles of bones. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“You know, this land belonged to the fish before it belonged to us. I have no doubt about the prophecy of the golden carp. He will come to rule again!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Everyone, arm yourself. Leo, get us close, but don’t land—no more contact with the ground than necessary. Piper, Hazel, get the mooring ropes.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The Locktons and Charles walked to the land end of the dock. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yup,” Cico said, “the whole town. The golden carp has warned us that the land cannot take the weight of the sins—the land will finally sink!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came to the strange blue lands and put their names upon the lands. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bird flapped across the solar to land on Mormont's shoulder. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Once land “belonged” to an individual or a speculator’s land company, it could be protected by force against Indigenous peoples. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Soon some Japanese leased small plots of land and entered into business for themselves. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“No. We are a family of diviners. We see and understand things most people overlook. We read the signs of the land.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

February 3, 1966: Unmanned Soviet spacecraft Luna 9 lands on the moon. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed it was going to be neither the one thing nor the other, neither land nor letters, which was to claim him. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next moment, they were both soaring weightlessly through darkness, until they landed squarely on their feet, back in Dumbledore’s now twilit office. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

His eyes were stuck completely on the garden land being uncovered. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stolen rivers and mountains the stolen land will eat their hearts and jerk their mouths from the Mother. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He kicked at me, his boot landing in my calf, like I was a tin can in the road that he might as well kick because it was there in front of him. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until the crow landed on his back, and he gave a muf-fled gasp. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Sitting thus and looking at each other, it seemed less than possible that the day before they had left their own house and their land and that these were now a hundred miles away. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She demonstrated this, stepping to an arabesque on pointe, wobbling only a little before she stuck the landing. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They were the only ones, therefore, who understood how the young commander of the guard had died of love and how a gentleman from a faraway land had been plunged into desperation. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

In addition to volunteering at the homeless shelter, he gets grades that land him on the honor roll every quarter. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Walt was appointed test director and section head for the Surveyor 1 mission, the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the moon. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whether in the sugarcane fields or by the leafy stream bordering my family’s land, being outside had always calmed me. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It looked relieved to get back on land—not that she could blame it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun seemed to dance over the land of the Danes. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

The land on the Opium side of the border was deserted. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had landed near the summit of a forested hill. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

With the passing of the lemmings, however, the grasses had grown high again and the hour of the caribou was upon the land. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go and see who it is!” said Jane, and taking Michael's arm she drew him away from the window, through the Nursery and out on to the landing. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

British ships continued to land at Staten Island, hundreds of them carrying thousands of soldiers armed with countless guns and bullets. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The master said, “Oh, no! See those hills? That’s bottom land, rich and fertile.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

We all knew that Bull couldn’t catch a pop fly if it landed in his lap, so we weren’t exactly surprised to see him bagging groceries that spring at the Winn-Dixie. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The federation president gave Bobby a deed for more than an acre of land in Elista, his capital city. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Farmer hoped to land a job at Schweitzer. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

But the one thing she always said about her job was, “I can’t let these kids live in a fantasy land.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“It is not likely the Old Lord can sell all the land of his family without the agreement of his sons,” he demurred. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The shallow Bering Strait became a wide land bridge between Siberia and Alaska. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The birds, who couldn’t move as fast on land, soon gave up the chase and turned back to the settlement. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It's not a bad story he's landed in. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Except for this sorry reproduction of an Irish pub before us, nothing in this new land bore the slightest resemblance to the world we knew. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He was in the war, too--he landed on D-Day and all--but I really think he hated the Army worse than the war. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

A strip of sky separated it from the lake, but it was most definitely a patch of land with trees. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grasses, and pasture land, are hard to come by upon the islands tilted in the sea, and Ithaka is the island of them all.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The giant careened back into the junkyard, and his right hand fell off, landing in the scrap metal with a horrible CLANG! The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

That way the landing craft could make a quick run back out to sea once everyone was off. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘But don’t clay for these here bricks cost money? And don’t it take money to rent land and raise crops on?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He led her to his brother’s house, and went on eastward into another land, the bluegrass plain of Argos. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came from the west, from the Cree lands. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Grandma worked all day caring for the land she lived on and also for the orchards she’d adopted. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

None could pass the Teeth of Mordor and not feel their bite, unless they were summoned by Sauron, or knew the secret passwords that would open the Morannon, the black gate of his land. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“This is for tree stumps, for clearing land.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I suppose they might auction off the land to the highest bidder.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

In the newspaper, I see State Senator Whitworth pointing to an empty lot of land where they plan to build a new city coliseum. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They were indoor pools with roofs, on land and open year-round. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

For the first several hours on land, the men ate, slept, and ate again, standing around in small groups, stupefied and silent. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

They would find some patch of arid, dusty, useless land, and dig row after row of holes in the ground—a thousand latrines to serve four thousand families. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I fell off the mountain and landed on my belly. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“I still don’t understand what happened either,” Mom said, glaring at Grandma before her gaze landed on me. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Not in such times as these, when land is cheap. Not until better times come.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The helicopter landed in a swirl of dust, the white flowers bending in a wide circle around the touchdown spot. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Most of them were on land, but some were in the ocean. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They evicted Polish families and gave their homes and land to German families. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Behind it a steep shoulder of the land lay grey and bare, and beyond that the dark shapes of the Barrow-downs stalked away into the eastern night. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I saw in their faces how happy they were, and sad, too, because Uncle Katsuhisa would never be a land surveyor. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The more viable option was transportation to the unsettled lands of the American West, along the lines of the Indian removal program adopted over forty years later. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Where is the easy land of ice-cream cones and new Keds sneakers and We Like Ike, the country where I thought I knew the rules. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The relative lack of material goods has led some to regard these groups as exemplifying an ethic of living lightly on the land. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She rappelled down and landed on his shoulder. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

And the snow and the foreign land were a long, long time away. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“The ships I sent to take off Mother Mole and her people have been wracked by storms. We must send what help we can by land or let than die.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mark followed just as the landing pad above him started to rotate, the bushes and earth and small trees heading back toward the sky. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Our landing site is at the delta of a long-gone river. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to tell whether they were over land or sea. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s crying full-out—sobbing like the world has ended and Noah hasn’t landed his ark. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Outside the city, there are houses for a while, but then it turns into wide flat land on either side of a road that goes into infinity. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Some shots fell short and landed in the sea, raising great columns of water. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

All over the country, farmers were leaving behind their parched lands, selling off their goods, roaming from village to village looking for water. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

When the first helicopter landed in the Daribi area, they briefly looked at it and just went back to what they had been doing; the Chimbus would have been bargaining to charter it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Once the electric undercarriage failed, and she had to earn her keep by taking her turn at the hand pump so they didn’t have to crash land. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The feud had been fought in forays and ambushes for three generations, and there was no settling it, for it was a dispute over land. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I want to scream out that I don’t remember my mother’s name because she left me, apparently to do something stupid enough to land herself in this God-awful place. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Between the second and third floor landing, she fell into his arms. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Tartarian honeysuckle reminded me of Tartarus, the land of the dead in Virgil’s Aeneid, the underworld, where the shades of the dead whispered in the shadows. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He inherited this land. I’m sure the fence came with it.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Tannery or not, the land might have been taken from us. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thorn nodded and pressed the foxglove dart to her lips, shooting it out and landing it right in front of the monster. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The coach didn’t see any of this, but I knew I had just landed the job. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“People in England were being mean to them because of their religion, so they sailed to America and landed at Plymouth Rock.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Windmills power pumps that drain the water so the land is not swallowed up. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

So take stock in America, my heirs, and sing in praise of this generous land. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to take forever, but finally the helicopter thudded to a landing in the middle of Fifth Avenue. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Winchell threw incomplete on the second down, the ball slipping off his hands and landing out of bounds. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Ngoni were led by Chief Nawambe, whose plan was to capture the Rock of the Edible Flies and all the land visible from its peak. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The light reflected from the stained-glass window on the stair landing and made shattered fragments of blue and orange and green on the dark wood of the hall. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He has finally upgraded from a hint to a crew obligation: he wants to abort the landing. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

As it was, she managed to roll backward and land on her feet. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

And as its beams shot across the land the travelers could see for the first time what sort of place they were in. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

‘But next time, kid, can we land on the floor and not ten feet above it?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

We’d climb into our landing boats before they were lowered into the water. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane landed ten minutes early, at exactly one o’clock Pacific daylight time. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I had no idea where it would land, but I felt lighter inside, as though I had cleared something out of my head. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was a land of milk and honey up there, and Captain York and Captain Williams had just never bothered to come back. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Yeah," Ty wheezed, his back aching as if a school bus had fallen from the sky and landed right on him. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

No one else had made any effort to touch him since he’d landed. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Six cement columns stick up from the ground like they are waiting for something to land on them. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

It was then that he decided to review the titles to land that went back a hundred years and he discovered the legalized outrages of his brother, José Arcadio. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was no accident, but rather the result of long ages of experimentation by nature, that the great plains of the West became the land of the sage. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

As each one landed, it emitted a thick cloud of white smoke, which hung malevolently in the air. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t a soft landing, but it was better than asphalt. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They would land right on the lake, but the pilot could also take off from solid ground. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I have a gift to deliver to him, a gemstone of unimaginable price, carved by your ancestors before your people crossed the Bonecruel Mountains into this land.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

They were unaccustomed to army discipline but willing to exchange scalps for bounty or to kill Native people in exchange for a plot of land. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

On past the dim glimpse of land he sailed, tacking more westerly now, in a faint dank drizzle that over land might be a light snow. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Across the stalk land, into the pine woods, into the climbing, brightening glow of the dawn, the boy followed the dog, whose anxious pace slowed from age as they went. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I talk about how I did not plant the seeds too deeply, how it was the fault of the earth, the land, of our town. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen on the landing outside the room was small, but I didn’t mind. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

All that was left of the old neighborhood was empty land. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And he thought no more about anything now except his food and his drink and his land. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Stepping onto the landing outside his office, I heard voices in the hall and stopped. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

If whites wanted the land or houses of the other groups, they could simply declare the land a white area and take them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To see the firehouses burn across the land, destroyed as hotbeds of treason. The salamander devours his tail! Ho, God!” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The raven spread its wings, leapt into the air, and flapped noisily across the room to land on the table beside him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The landing capsule was still in the planning stages, but there was a lot of backdrop to be painted: midnight blue with silver stars and Earth glowing in the distance. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Suddenly she gave a little wiggle and—plop!—it landed on the straw. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The papar risked their lives—and lost them in untold droves-r- not in the pursuit of wealth or personal glory or to claim new lands in the name of any despot. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They landed simultaneously on the top of the arch of the bowstring truss. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Bananas and other tropical Asian crops for which Africa’s climate is eminently suitable, and which today are among the most productive staples of tropical African agriculture, were unable to reach Africa by land routes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Not displeased. Perhaps disappointed, since all our sons have forsaken the land. But it is the best way for you.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for sitting around the house, checking on his land, and doing business at the courthouse, the only thing Grampa did that wasn’t just regular living was his work on the White Citizens’ Council. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Welcome to the land of the demons, boy.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Europe, zero was an outcast, but in India and later in the Arab lands, it flourished. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The line moved slowly down the center aisle to the altar, then up a set of stairs to a landing in front of the Virgencita’s picture. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon enough the land was gone and they were alone on the waters of the northern sea. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

A few trees spotted the hillsides, but most of the land had been cleared and planted. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The air above was heavy with fog, and a reek lay on the land about them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But we never did get to see whether Father would land all right or not. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slows at the edge of the water and I get close and land a good swing on his rear, thwak! The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“The pasha gave him his weight in gold,” my father would say, “and once again in jewels. And your great-great-great-grandfather returned home. He bought all the land around Ardestan.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She—or he—became aware of the land. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dad started to laugh, and as he rocked back and forth he shook the house so that loose whitewash flaked off the ceiling and landed on the top of his head. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had begun placing land mines around the plant. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was another narrow spit of land, with a penguin rookery and a glacier nosing down the mountainside nearby. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

If they begged forgiveness for their treasons and promised to serve loyally henceforth, Joffrey welcomed them back into the king's peace and restored them to all their lands and rights. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

So as I pledged, I pictured the American flag on the Bund, waving as if it were telling the world that America was the land of the free and the home of the brave. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second day she forged on, and by nightfall she saw land again. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A splendid Midsummer shone over England: skies so pure, suns so radiant as were then seen in long succession, seldom favour even singly, our wave-girt land. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

For him, the world—and by that I must mean this very land, his chosen nation—operated on a determined set of procedures, certain rules of engagement. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or even if he’ll help me bring a few things to my land. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

There was a long moment’s drinking noise, the sound of a tent zip parting, the tink of an empty can landing in undergrowth, the tent zip closing. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He could see why it was a land beyond the gods. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

However, one day, as Jade Dragon ended the rain and moved the clouds away from the land, she overheard some villagers' conversation. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

What you have been doing is feeding him precisely the kind of story that he would have been receiving in his native land. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

No one but Bodega and Nazario, who loved that tired piece of land just off the East River. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

These usually bought land, but good land, and built their houses of planed lumber and had carpets and colored-glass diamond panes in their windows. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In one part of Russia, though, the nobles who owned the land were interested in trying out new tools, new equipment, and new ideas about how to improve the soil. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Finn dove into the tent after it, landing on his elbows, pain ringing up to his shoulders. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“This is our staging post. From here, we three will set out for uncharted lands, and what comes after no one alive can say....” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I closed it just as Miss Peregrine was reaching the landing. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Some of the holy water landed on my lips, and I tasted the stale saltiness of it as we prayed. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Who else will my prayers accompany to the land of death? Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lifted up, he scrambled onto the top of the gates and jumped down to the drive, landing on all fours like a frog. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

In an instant, the land on Jack’s side was now officially part of Germany. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

He landed on his feet and stood peering through the window into the alley; all was white and quiet. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She landed with a thud on her creaking hips. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

And he smelled the fresh smell of the fields and when he came to his own land he rejoiced in it. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“May I say, miss, that I have utmost confidence in your success in this hard land.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He studies the people milling about on the landing across from where he stands, every one of them with their gaze locked on the new arrivals. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It took three or four flights before you could pick out the subtle shapes of the land when you were high in the sky in the middle of the night. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When his eye landed on Mommy, he’d nod as if to say, “Oh, it’s just Sister Jordan”; then he’d slip back into his spiritual trance. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The inedible cookie made a thud when it landed on the plate. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only once he had calmed down did we slog to the dark spot that meant land. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Old Mr. Fleming, a classic country lawyer more happily at home with land deeds than ill deeds, opened the cross-examination. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had to fly away and land somewhere else—Raisa, Katya, and the others couldn’t get past the Germans to land safely on their own field! A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

A mile further on they came to a narrow ravine that led away northwards through the steep lands on the left of the Road. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They took the lands, remade the laws to make their titles good. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I went to the end of the landing and listened. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

After lengthy discussions about how to redistribute power and land, Octavian and Mark Antony reached a compromise. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Not for many years did Ged set foot on that land or see the white towers of Havnor Great Port at the center of the world. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Sell this land, sell that house, collect the money, and run away like a mouse. Go back to America, spend the money on a family vacation to Mex­ico.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Both armies stared, dumbfounded, as the forty-foot-tall gold and ivory statue came in for a landing. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

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

Most people didn’t know who had started the blaze, but she did: Hale’s workers, on his orders, had torched the land for the insurance money—$30,000 in all. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They landed in a public park, in the center of a vacant soccer field lightly dusted with snow. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The water in the fishbowls rippled and waved as the fish gazed calmly; their brilliant colors against the abundant green land glinted like gold and jade. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“When we first landed on Penikese, he pulled me ashore and to the top of the bluff there by the pier and said, ‘Where did she live?”’ Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

More often than not, they did not believe in conversation, their dispositions reflecting the rough, atonal quality of the land, which after the droughts consisted mostly of the gnarled limbs of low-lying mesquite bushes. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a bleak land, a bleak house. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The morning the money landed in my parents’ bank account, my dad said, “I think we should buy a car.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I felt like I was a dry leaf floating in the wind wondering where I’d land. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“No,” I said, turning down his offer to buy my land for a second time. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Schoolchildren wonder out loud how discrimination could ever have been legal in this great land of ours. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The black cat sprang out of Belet's arms and onto the marble stairs to join his half a dozen or so companions on the landing. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Ucho realized this, for he scrambled off just before the Handsome One landed next to me. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

But they also destroyed Indigenous farms, gardens, and towns, killing men, women, and children and taking over stores of food in addition to their lands. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes land on me, only for a second. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Someday I’m go’n farm this land,” I bragged, gesturing in every direction. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Now it did something even more amazing—it crept up onto land. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

At sunup she was still just above the water, her wings outstretched, gliding to And a badly needed bit of land. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

My hand is smeared with blood when I rub her where the flies have landed. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“That man is a discredit to all our kind. How long has it been this way? Kings and queens can squabble for land, but no self-respecting outlaw says he owns the sea.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He plotted courses to Paulet Island, Elephant Island, Clarence Island, even far-off South Georgia Island, where they had last set foot on land. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Hence those seas became dry land during the Ice Ages, when much ocean water was locked up in glaciers and sea level lay at about 500 feet below its present stand. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Why should we leave land for the King’s governor to grant to his favorites?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Then, we stick a candle in the sand of each bag, and when we light the candles, it turns the street into a “landing strip” for Santa Claus. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I could read and write, but I knew none of the skills needed to survive in the unfamiliar, perhaps hostile lands that lay beyond the fields and folds of our little parish. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

It may bear the marks of boots on its back, but those marks become the possessions of the land. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he told the slave that he was very sorry that he had to give him valley land. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Consistorial Court of Discipline intends to send a squad to the cave as soon as they land. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I dived over the back of it, landed on my head and hands on the cushion, pushed off, swung my feet around, and landed on the floor. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Molly lands sloppily on top of him and they both start to laugh. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, Germany was also the land of Leopold Kronecker, the mathematician who would hound Cantor into a mental institution. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The ball landed in the second-base dust and rolled all the way to the fence in center field. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conflict, portrayed by both the Catholics and the Protestants as a holy war, was more an exploitation of religious fanaticism by those hungry for land and power. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

While that seems like an interesting and innocent endeavor, the land they surveyed belonged to Indigenous peoples, who had not agreed to the Doctrine of Discovery. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The alliance could then manage Indigenous lands as a federation. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The rocket made climates, and summer lay for a brief moment upon the land.... The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty minutes later we were standing around the landing zone, discussing how to get Beck down, when a faint thwock- thwock-thwock-thwock sounded from the valley below. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

While we did that, Father began to tell me about his life as a boy on our farm, his first years with Mother, and his first years over here in the demon land. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a home in a land that might as well be in another galaxy to the people sleeping on the other side of the wall I leaned against. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was walking across the land until he came to the sea. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Two ghostly-gray ravens, like transparent skins of birds, landed on Wednesday’s shoulders, pushed their beaks into the side of Wednesday’s head as if tasting his mind, and flapped out into the world once more. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

It contains nitrogen he can return to the land along with carbon he’s harvested from the woodlot. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It hit the far wall and dropped, landing upside down on the linoleum beside the carpet. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“Why would she sell land to that guy?” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“Someone should tell her personal copilot that His landings suck,” Miss Michigan muttered. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

One spot along this line grew so bright they could hardly look at it, so bright it seemed to take a bite out of the land. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The land is well tended, the buildings strong and freshly painted. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane lands with a few bumps, and as we race along the runway, the forces of the plane’s momentum and the brakes oppose each other. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Brer leaped out of the tunnel entrance and landed next to me, finally appearing in the flesh and not as some magical face in the dirt. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The land around Trebon was rough, mostly thick forest broken by stretches of rocky ground. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Their god, they believed, had given them dominion over the land and all its resources. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Eight days they sailed and eight again, before they came in sight of land. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

At once the western Hobbits fell in love with their new land, and they remained there, and soon passed once more out of the history of Men and of Elves. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They attacked the main ships, not the troop transporters, ’cause once the Task Force is sunk, our land forces’ll be easy to pick off. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She gave me stores, victuals and wine, a cloak divinely woven, and made a warm land breeze come up astern. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The law was intended to reduce overgrazing by cattle, but its impact would be to further abridge land for Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Bruno, he thought the oceans would be brighter than the land. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The goose beat his great wings, raising a flurry of snow as he landed. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The color seeped out of the sky and washed over the land. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In an even more terrible incident, four aircraft collided, two landing and two taking off. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The scarred pinewood table was covered with maps of the Wall and the lands beyond, a roster of rangers, and a letter from the Shadow Tower written in Ser Denys Mallister’s flowing hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He leaps off his own isle as it crumbles, landing in a perfect crouch on the isle Penn is clinging to. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The wheel struck flat, with Encanis on top.There was an explosion of spark and ash as it landed and sank inches deep into the hot coals. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Light flashed down through the negative, landing on the paper. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

But if you were standing on the equator, and launched a missile to the south, it would land to the left, not the right. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

They look a little like sea horses and will ride over land and sky, according to Vivi’s command, keeping their seeming for hours before collapsing back into weeds. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Madeline flinches, like a spark from the fire has just landed on her skin. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Millie was not here and the Hound was not here, but the dry smell of hay blowing from some distant field put Montag on the land. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

She decided when and where the clouds would rain upon the land and when they would stop. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I drove past Holly Meadows three times before I finally found it—everything in the area was oak trees and ranch land, and Holly Meadows—lacking a sign at its entrance—didn’t stand out much. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He’d fly into France on his own for a bit, then turn back without landing. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The bird landed right in front of his feet. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

When the rough edges are worn off the new land, businessmen and lawyers come in to help with the development—to solve problems of ownership, usually by removing the temptations to themselves. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then she ran downstairs and jumped on the landing. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Hazel’s foot landed in the snow and she muttered, “Oh, great.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

And he watched the dawn come ruddy out of a mist over his land. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He also knew that the longer Boobie stayed in a foster home, the greater the odds were of his ultimately landing in a juvenile detention center, or on the streets, or in prison. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could land with no danger of injuring myself on the padded mats or in the squishy foam pits. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The three eagles still circled overhead, but they made no attempt to land on the ship, probably because Festus the figurehead blew fire whenever they got close. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

My eyes land on Poe, sitting in the front row, his elbows resting on his knees as he talks to someone over FaceTime. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Letters from college coaches landed regularly in his mailbox at home, holding out the prospect of scholarships. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Just below Wilmington, the Chesapeake Bay drove up like a wedge between two sections of land. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we got off in Cape May it was the first time in three weeks I had been on land, and I had sea legs. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The Bull would fly over thirty rooftops before landing on top of someone’s chimney, which would be burning hot even though it was summer and no one was using their fireplace. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Just the day before a rule had been passed that members should be called only by their Egyptian names while they were inside the land of Egypt. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the wake of the reapers’ scythes the black land showed again through the stubble, no longer moist and rich but bone-hard, desiccated, and beginning to crack in all directions under the burning sun. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

My land had other things, too, like an orange hammock connecting two trees, and a rusty old trailer bed. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

They shoved their oars into the water again and, with land in sight, found strength they didn’t know they had. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, on the stairwell landing, he startled a group of teenagers shooting dice. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Then Wang Lung said to her plainly, “Will you sell the land for gold or for silver or for jewels?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Before he dealt with that problem there was still the common land to be crossed. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

We saw a simulation of the landing but we heard the real thing. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I slid back slightly, not wanting his usual messes to land on my beautiful dress. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“They shall land soon,” said I. “They shall cross the channel.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“The camp has magic borders. Nothing, not even weather, is allowed in without permission. It could be a land without rain.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

So Father phoned the police and arranged for a squad car to pick them up on the Gondwannan landing dock. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

In a few hours the country had split into two irreconcilable groups, a division that began to spread within every family in the land. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The family had once owned vast amounts of land, many businesses, and other kinds of property. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light diminished as they climbed, because the only illumination was the small deep-set window on each landing. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

No sign of Rabbi Shilsky, whom I traced to a Brooklyn address in the 1960s, where he apparently landed after wandering through Norfolk, Virginia; Belleville, New Jersey; and Manhattan. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

See how she spreads her legs for this soft green land lord. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I own two things of the Nelsons’—their land and my not-so-Filipino features. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe the boy, looking under the cabin with the lantern, had caused Sounder to crawl out the other side and die in the brown stalk land. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I will go forward free,’ he said, ‘or I will go back and seek my own land, where I am known to be true of word, though I perish alone in the wilderness.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

On my first pass over Tranquility Base since their departure, I told them: “Eagle, Columbia passing over the landing site. It sure is great to look down there and not see you!” Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s right! How could you land up a beggar? Don’t listen to him!” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

From this parent branch, if the Lord blessed, other branches might grow and a mighty work be begun throughout the city and throughout the land. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

For to preserve the old orthodoxy it would have been necessary to insist that the world’s land masses were confined to one hemisphere. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Even if he makes it alive, this place is not the promised land for everyone. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He turns his head so his cheek lands in my palm. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

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

It soared up, up, up and landed on the very top of the wooden tower. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Fifteen minutes later, in they flew through the open window of the Littles’ living room and landed on the Boston fern. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I like exploring. My grandpa owns this land.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She had managed to land an audition in Los Angeles with no less a light than Fritz Kreisler. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then the land birds vanished and she saw only birds of the open ocean, the albatrosses and snowy terns. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I wonder if my ma was excited to land here, if her head was full of peace and good hope and joy everlasting. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

To reclaim his lands, his name, his honor. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She goes flying through the air, landing with a splash in the churning open ocean beyond the wall. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I went up to the next landing and there wasn’t anybody there either. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

A sound like a sigh went up from all the lands about them; and their hearts beat suddenly again. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Exiled from land to land after some killing, he turned up at my door; I took him in. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Captain Newport has been telling us for weeks that we’ll see land any day. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

At the worst, maybe they’d land in a wastebasket at the post office. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

So from place to place he went until he saw that there was no kindness left for him in his own land, and his crime would not be forgiven.* The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

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