The thief fled on foot but was later spotted entering a yellow car driven by a black man with a beard and a mustache. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He later sent a letter describing his welcome, his new position at a building company. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The cops grouped the boys together, lined them up against a fence, and demanded to know which of them had jettisoned the bag, which later turned out to be filled with quinine, not heroin. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was late January, and icicles hung from the brownstone eaves. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She returns a moment later with my suitcase and heaves it across the room. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

They were watching the late news when the phone rang. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three days later, his jacket and knapsack were found abandoned, miles into the woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He holds her hand while she dies, and all I can think of is Rue and how I was too late to save her, too. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later, seeing the uneasiness in the room, Lincoln adds, “Don’t you see how it will all turn out? In this dream it was not me, but some other fellow that was killed.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

His system, as expounded in his thirteen-volume opus The Almagest, had much influence both in Europe and in the Islamic world, and was later adopted as dogma by the Catholic Church. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

This early form of air-conditioning was closed off when the three went to sleep, but was later opened by a servant, allowing cool, damp air from the caves to enter the room. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“But it’s too late to worry about that now,” he said. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

She got up, stored some of the smoked meat in her pack, spread the rest in the sun to pack later, and hurried out to the caribou hide. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, sure enough, five minutes later, Michael found himself standing in his stained clothes in a corner of the nursery, facing the wall. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later he was back with a zep, a large. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was late when she came back, and no one saw her creep upstairs and shut herself into her mother’s room. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

My next recollection is several years later when we were living in Calif..3 Nevada? In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Max leaves a few minutes later, kind of backing out of the front door, like there’s a dog that might bite his behind if he turned his back on it. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I crept back to bed, but was awakened later by low voices saying good-bye. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

You talk, you eat I began to realize, perhaps too late, that I had underestimated this lady. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

That zero is not the same as nothing is a concept that baffled Europeans as late as the Renaissance. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Does that mean I’m too late? I only just got my nomination.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Two weeks later, we traveled up the road for our first game of the season. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some three or four nights later I launched my first raid. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

First in May 1920, and then again two months later, he boldly and unequivocally predicted that a serious Communist revolt was about to take place throughout the country. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The Dutch are the only significant exception: in the United Provinces the universities were teaching Cartesian philosophy by the late seventeenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I heard you come in last night. Four o’clock. What do you do so late?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Five days later, a newscaster shrills that Paris has fallen to the Germans, and the German people are overjoyed to see the Nazi flag hoisted over France. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

But when I saw her picture, I knew I could get in bed with her on Sunday mornings and tell jokes even if she had been out late the night before with a beau. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Two protein bars. We’ll split one. Save the other for later.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Professor Trelawney behaved almost normally until the very end of Christmas dinner, two hours later. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was three days later when the hammer blow that Brienne had foretold fell, and five days before they heard of it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A moment later she emerged, carrying an open umbrella now, which she slanted ahead into the wind, and crossed to the woodpile and laid the umbrella down, still open. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, later that night, when Citra was sure Scythe Curie was asleep, she went to the study, got online, and retrieved the pics—which was easy to do since they were tagged. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She turned up a day late, told how the apple had come to be poisoned, and went back to her own concerns. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later, the bee flew out of my flowers again, and I carefully retrieved the bouquet. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We return to camp to join the others about an hour later—and though Garrett and I didn’t find any washer reservoirs that contained water, some of the others did. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Less than a minute later she was in the kitchen. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few seconds later I crouch back into a squat. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The crotons rustled in the late morning breeze. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

How they later fled together to Shanghai to try to find my mother’s family house, but there was nothing there. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The messenger, bored and scratching at an insect bite on his neck, came to Kira in the dawn and told her that she must report to the Council of Guardians at late morning. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later they were back with two buckets. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Three days later, Seabiscuit was put up for sale, placed in a rock-bottom claiming race for a tag of just $2,500. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A whole list of references pops up for Ibo, and I print them out to look at later. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Two seconds later there was a knock and Via half opened the door. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Roy wasn’t sure what Beatrice Leep’s problem was, but he knew he was seriously late for dinner and his parents were probably frantic. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, I am pleased to recall that by the time dinner was served an hour or so later, nothing but efficiency and professional calm was exhibited on the part of my team. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

It is late afternoon and his long shadow sways back and forth on the gravel. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

So it was a couple weeks later when I sat down at the lunch table and announced, “We’re leaving tomorrow.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“What are you doing up so late, Prima Donna?” he asked. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

An hour later, all is right with the world—the football captain and cheer squad co-captain are crowned Homecoming king and queen. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Kelton and I will be leaving in about twenty minutes, when my dad gets back, because he’s driving us—but knowing him, he’ll be late, what with all the new business. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Less than a dozen breaths later the sound of boots on the wooden porch echoes through the house, along with voices. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes later, the bus stopped at the end of my street, a cul-de-sac. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

These summer dinners always started so late—it was past ten o’clock—and the boys would be tired. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We all agreed to meet again a few weeks later. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

We met at the house of Dr. Masla Pather, who would later be sentenced to two years in prison for allowing us to meet at his home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A split second later he heard a body hit the floor. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minutes later he was out through the door, on his way to work, but not before I had said to him: “Don’t forget our fish and chips, Papa.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they settled in for the rest of the day and that night, and later Brian would remember what they had said—how it needed tension—and wish he had not thought it at all. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

We found out much later in life that he was bipolar, but before that we just thought he was eccentric. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Sooner or later Frankie was bound to hear about the party. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Collins caught the fever, and a few days later he joined the rest of his family members in the crowded potter’s field. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I dressed hurriedly, but I was too late. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He winks, gives all of the buttons a quick punch to make sure they all light up, then tells me he’ll see me later. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Now, a day later, I wonder what friends means to Dane. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Van Valen explained this idea years later, saying, “HeLa cells are evolving separately from humans, and having a separate evolution is really what a species is all about.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

By the time Xan reached the clearing, she was already late. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Then added, “I...I may be at the party later.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Thirteen days later, the Georgia Supreme Court reversed itself, holding that the fact that 98.4 percent of the defendants selected to receive life sentences for repeat drug offenses were black required no justification. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Fifteen minutes later, Makalu, the world’s fifth- highest peak, came into view—and then, finally, the unmistakable profile of Everest itself. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I was never very happy about singing in halls where segregation was practiced,” she said later. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

One year later there had been only one murder involving members of those seventy-five gangs—compared with between forty and fifty killings in each of the previous two years. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Much later, after all the sweets had been served and washed down with gallons of summerwine, the food was cleared and the tables shoved back against the walls to make room for the dancing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Look,” he said, “just think about it. I’m havin’ a few buddies over later ta, you know, hang out. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The car had played up on the journey out and we were an hour late for Tommy’s tests. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, Pastor Tom marched a groggy, squinting Henry out onto the porch. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Sarah and Miss Rose arrived a short time later, and I was surprised to see Ayanna trail them inside. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Two days later, Friday the thirteenth, six hundred men gathered at the park to protest McArthur’s use of what they alleged were “imported” workers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I can’t face going back to my empty room yet, so a few minutes later I find myself in Beth’s doorway. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

There would be time enough later to figure out the picture, Nhamo decided. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moon, his neighbor and classmate who later lost her big toe in the mine, had been knocked out. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Some of the beatings were as violent as those he later received from guards. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She didn’t tell us what she’d seen out there until it slipped out a week later. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

As for Father Michael Antoniou, he was later convicted of attempted grand larceny and served two years in prison. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He was a hateful man, and after he moved, the cat was taken in and renamed by my sister Gretchen, who later passed the animal on to me. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

This, she assured us, would definitely keep her from being late in the future. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

By time Mama heard about it, it was too late to argue. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“You’re always safest out of doors, no mike, and why would they put one here? They’d think nobody would dare. But we’ve stayed long enough. There’s no sense in being late getting back.” The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty- five years later, and now rich, he had returned with a wife and a child. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

It was late when they got home—almost dark. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Kamen was alone in the lab when the run ended late on the third night. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“We can figure that all out later. We know the Nightbeast is probably around here somewhere. Let’s go find it,” Seven said. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Despite all I found out later, I still think so. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

My dolls were becoming less interesting, and without air-conditioning our apartment got unbearably hot in the late afternoons. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later, early in the evening a woman screamed, down the block from the garden. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day, Vuyisile Mini, who years later was hanged by the government for political crimes, led the group in singing freedom songs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet there he was, Raymond Something, walking right up to her—it came out later that his date had suggested it—and speaking to her, and then they were dancing. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Hours later, the innkeeper stood in the doorway of the Way- stone and let his eyes relax to the darkness. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

By the time the weather cleared about a week later in mid-December, Marina got called away to Moscow—so her aviators had to continue without her. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Let’s calm down,” Mr. Richardson began, but it was too late. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A little more than a year later, in the Cabo Inn, at five a.m., Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Four hours later, we are thirty-five feet closer. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She kisses each twin on the forehead and later makes strings of folded paper cranes to hang above their cradle. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The attack might have happened six or eight days later. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, I was to fetch our suitcase, which was still at Piliso’s, and then meet Justice at George Goch, a small township in southern Johannesburg, later that day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

An-mei and I still laugh over those bad fortunes and how they later became quite useful in helping me catch a husband. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on. You know you’ll end up having fun and thank me later,” he said, still jumping into the air. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Not till later, when she and Judith undressed, shivering, in the chilly upstairs chamber, did Kit dare to venture a comment. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Some people were staying later, but it was my curfew, and plus I didn’t feel like staying. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

She gets up late, paints her nails, lies in the sun, and stares at pictures of African landscapes in a big coffee-table book. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Todd was a stout man in his late thirties, and had lived there as long as the Zeitouns had owned the building. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Jeremiah scored again, and late in the second half, Bien lobbed a cross across the face of the goal. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

As I learned later, she was upset because she thought she didn’t want the kind of future that Grandpa had in mind. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

About ten minutes later an exhausted-looking doctor in a scrub shirt poked his head into the waiting room. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

When Ivy hears this, she begs permission to stay late, too. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

That night I made for the first time the kind of journey which later became the monotonous routine of my life: traveling through an unknown countryside from one unknown settlement to another. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just, as it turned out, seven minutes too late. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Black later collaborated with Watt and invested in his new engine. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He comes back moments later and reports that a family, a doctor from Phnom Penh with his wife and their three children, have committed suicide by swallowing poison. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Devil Rays were playing the Orioles later in the evening, and Curly was looking forward to the ball game. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mathew Carey went around town noting carefully what was happening and would later turn these observations into a written history of the epidemic. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I apologized later for being rude, but she said it was okay. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Less than a month later, we packed up and prepared to move to Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

For once, Miss Saunders’s not getting on my case about being late. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

A moment later, he blinks, and it’s just his usual chilly arrogance. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t hear her reply, but a few seconds later the throne transformed into the Joust game, just as it had earlier. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But I heard Link’s voice as he said it was better to leave now and he’d help them get me later for sure. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guards looked at each other, and the older one said gruffly, “Go on. You’re late as it is.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she came home a few days later, the baby wasn’t there anymore and nobody really explained why. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was not more than five minutes later that a buggy dashed by. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would lie about inside his blotter, and he would answer it weeks later, one Sunday morning in a hurry, before lunch, having come across it when he paid some bills. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Too late for that. So you might as well keep flapping those gums.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

A moment later something like a long rope came sailing over the ledge. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

A moment later, a squad of Hermes campers gathered around Jason for no apparent reason. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

You’re handed the application form and, a few days later, you’re being handed the uniform and warned against nose rings and stealing. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don't find the note she hid in my bag until late at night when I’m looking for my good pencils. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Much later he remembered that if he got to school on time, he attributed his success “to the prayers and not to my quick running, and marveled how generally I was aided.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a short while later the drüskelle returned with a tin cup and a bucket of clean water. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He leaned toward them and said, “In object-oriented programming, discrete software objects interfaced more freely, in a system of corporate service provision that mirrored the emergent structures of late capitalism.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roemer noticed that eclipses of Jupiter’s moons appeared later the farther we were from Jupiter. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

What had started as a little camp for Mum and me ended up, six years later, as a research center, where students could come and collect information for their degrees. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

A few hours later, after I’ve eaten lunch and taken a nap, I sit down on the edge of my bed to change the bandage on my shoulder. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

A week later—to the day—the nurse is not curious anymore. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama and I brought Father home a few days later. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Two seconds later, however, he was interrupted again, this time by Wood. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Moments later, the hall leads me out into the narrow back alley behind the building and near its garbage bins. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He checked himself into a hotel, and days later an employee found him stretched out on the bed, dead. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Sooner than later, the greens and my final nub of bread were gone. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ishmael would find later, long after the trial, that their darkness would beleaguer his memory of these days. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

But they claimed later they went to remind Cold Sassy in general and the Methodists in particular that God loves sinners and forgives them, “and we ought to, too.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t even call them Mom and Dad. Two years later and I only called them by their first names. It felt like...” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t meant to make the connection, but it was too late. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Many of the congressmen arrived late, but Butler had invited members of the press, so the meeting room was crowded. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

But they talked to him later and Dave Murphy’s wife talked to him and they told him how it was in the last days. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The incredible effort of moving the boy to Boston, then watching him die, later struck me as an object lesson in the difficulty of Farmer’s mission, perhaps in its ultimate futility. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I found out why when, a few seconds later, a tiny bonobo clumsily pushed through the leaves to join her. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Coming up to the two-mile buoy, the California shell rolled slightly off keel; a moment later it happened again. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I got him later too when I dropped the ball around Guzzo. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We had no choice but to follow—she was carrying our protection, after all—and a moment later bullets were clanging against the door and chipping at the rocks around our feet. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Until later, Tab, Your Pacifist Working Boy III Mrs. Levy helped the renovated Miss Trixie up the steps and opened the door. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He trailed through the bush after her mother as she searched for late mushrooms, then sat on the cabin steps and patted the dropped corn kernels as she shucked a stack of cobs. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don't want that Hound picking up two odours at once. May I take this whisky. I'll need it later. Christ I hope this works!” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only later did I realize that the true cause of this malady was hard, merciless shivering, my muscles contracting as mechanically as if by electric impulse, all night long, every night. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I was back in B-block a few days later, responsible for half of Q-gallery, on the flats, as well as the center gate—the main access point from the flats to the galleries above. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The letters came later, from the Cigrands, Williamses, Smythes, and untold others, addressed to that strange gloomy castle at Sixty-third and Wallace, pleading for the whereabouts of daughters and daughters’ children. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Months later he reappeared in the jockeys’ room and went back to riding the hide off of every jockey in town. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its failure was a precursor to the falls that would later inevitably take place all over the country, on Wall Street in New York and State Street in Boston. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then—he later wrote Theo—“they came to tell me that someone was asking after me.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The phone goes silent, and a minute or so later she comes back. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It was only later that I fully understood the depth of his trust in the people working under him. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"No, I won't be needing the machine. Business is taking me away sooner than I expected. I leave late tonight." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Out at the barn, feeding the mule. He got in late, so I managed to get up a pretty good supper for him,” she said. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The three talked long and late of the race, the most formidable of Seabiscuit’s life. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

On May 10, 1940, the Nazis entered France, and six weeks later, France surrendered, leaving Britain alone to fight the Germans. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped moving forward and the sound of hoofbeats also ceased, but not until a few seconds later. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Robbie, I’d learn many years later, had sued Northwestern University for discrimination, having registered for a choral music workshop there in 1943 and been denied a room in the women’s dorm. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon, Howard and his wife left the house. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later the phone rang again, just as Prosper discovered a transparent cover with a photograph of him and his brother. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I'm going to come over later,” I tell her before hanging up. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Two seconds later, he opened the door just wide enough for his hand to sneak out and hang a “Don’t Bother the Beast” sign on his doorknob before closing it soundly again. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Three days later, I started school and saw Phoebe again. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I see them a few moments later when I look back up, and I go over to them. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Only 7 minutes later, I get my first response. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

She had refused to even hold Hassan, and just five days later, she was gone. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In his late thirties, he was an unathletic, sallow little man. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d come out a few minutes later, smiling, find me sitting against the wall or perched on a tree. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

David came back in a few moments later, still shaking his head. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He was never sure later just when he left the old Perkins place, but he remembered running up the hill toward his own house with angry tears streaming down his face. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

When the Huntsman came to their door later, he did not seem surprised by their decision. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“He was in late middle age. Fleshy and smooth-skinned. Silver-gray hair. Dressed in expensive clothes, and with traces of a heavy scent around him.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A few seconds later, she was soaking wet. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

A little later Frodo came out of the study to see how things were going on and found her still about the place, investigating nooks and corners and tapping the floors. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She looks at me blankly, and I explain, “We always go late everywhere. It’s almost a tradition.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I am late, but I find a spot on a bench near the back. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Sooner or later,just about all the bug boys went up the hill. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He called down from the window to the courtyard: “Jews! Repent! It is not too late! Come with me! Save yourselves!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

But a minute later, as he sits to rest, the pebble shoots back up beside him. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Eleven years later, a nine-year-old Mozart played a recital in the packed Rotunda, which had a capacity of two thousand. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s too late for that. Way too late.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A widely touted theory assigned authorship to Scandinavian emigres, who later picked up stakes, moved to Mexico, and became the Toltecs. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A decade and a half later, I was still that hyper, bouncing girl that my mom had enrolled in gymnastics classes so I’d have a place to burn off all that excess energy. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, the three of them could hear her rapid chatter, and a familiarity washed over Moss. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They would think him inconsiderate and they would plan to chastise him, later. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Still, even years later, no one spoke about the Crowell house bombing. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It’s slow and late night and American, and there’s a bit that keeps coming round when Judy sings: “Never let me go...Oh baby, baby...Never let me go...” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thanks me profusely while dusting them off, and then adjusts them across her nose, and a minute later we’re sitting back at the table. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Yep. Well, it’s been great talking to you, Karen, and I’ll see you later on. It really has been great talking to you.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though it probably occurred too late to have much, if any, bearing on the results, the most dramatic event of the campaign was provided by Hamilton. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Seward survived the attack, and Powell was later captured. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They clap their hands, turn over their money, and forget about it ten minutes later. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“There will be a gathering later,” Locke continues. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He agreed to it, as he agreed later on to the leash, because he thought it was a passing fancy that could be overcome in time. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

But a decade later, the rapidly growing prison population inevitably led to a deterioration in the conditions of confinement. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He often stayed overnight in the Fischer apartment in Brooklyn and later was Bobby’s houseguest when Fischer lived in California. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A second later, she thrust it away from her again, coughing. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I make a mental note to do some shopping later. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Barry Goldwater, in his 1964 presidential campaign, aggressively exploited the riots and fears of black crime, laying the foundation for the “get tough on crime” movement that would emerge years later. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He has become something of an expert at sneaking back into his house without waking anyone, so he has been staying at the circus later and later each night. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A minute later, Three White Cartoon Clowns chopped off each other's limbs to the accompaniment of immense incoming tides of laughter. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a rule that when Papa came home late, mama was to open the door. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the contrary they were merely casual events in a crowded summer and, until much later, they absorbed me infinitely less than my personal affairs. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Again and again Cole screamed, “Don’t! Don’t! I’m sorry I came home late. I’ll obey! Please, Dad, don’t! Life’s not a game! Please stop!” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Could recite the date and year of not only Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, but the name of the farm where they found John Wilkes Booth twenty-four hours later. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

As the chief resident joked later, it was as if Theresa were Vesuvius, and the rest of the staff, Pompeii. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was like a secondhand tin shop, a dinky little place over there on the campus,” he recalled years later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“I was grateful to Tom Black,” he later said, “very much so.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got there early, or the train was late, and I watched her as she stepped from the doors. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seconds later, she drops from my tunnel into the catacombs with a startled yelp. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He turns and, just a block later, pulls over to the curb and parks. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon Big Thumb gave them shade. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Some years later when the colonies began fighting to separate from Britain, the Cherokee again found themselves in the middle of warring nations seeking to enlist them as allies. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

So began what Herbie later on in his life would refer to as “that nightmare summer.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’ll go off on a drinking binge and then pop back up out of nowhere a week later. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But the New Jersey Bell Telephone Company later said that the number of calls placed that night had increased by just 6 or 7 percent. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later, Old Chong and my mother conspired to have me play in a talent show which would be held in the church hall. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A short while later, he moved on, leaving them behind. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Seconds later, a uniformed officer clambered aboard and the driver pointed down the aisle at Claudette. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

She thought, So the pain will move in toward the center, and sooner or later all the pains will meet in the center and join like rats in a clot. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Twelve hours later, sleep was still just that—a matter of principle, unattainable in practice. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Safer goes back into the kitchen and reappears thirty seconds later with his flask. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was chilly in Capricorn’s church—Meggie was to remember that later, too—although the sun must have been hot outside and high in the sky by the time Mo began to read. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay. I’m looking forward to meeting your mom later,” he says. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

A week later, Dad talked Mother into letting him see whether new babies were born with a natural instinct to swim. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mia began searching for the right, delicate words to uproot this idea, but it was too late. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And then, a few weeks later, she’d begun bleeding, and she knew even before they consulted the doctor that the baby was gone. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Years later, Daily Racing Form reporter Pete Pedersen noted that “Tom’s eyes were sparkling mirrors” when he recalled this incident, making one wonder if the old cowboy had a hand in the bell’s demise. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without definitive documentary evidence of particular sources we may never know if this research included tribal melodies he later passed off as his own. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I just won’t know what it will cost me until it's too late. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

One of Farmer’s brothers, Jeff, later would say that he’d known all along their father didn’t know much about navigation, no matter how many boating magazines the Warden had read. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The tradition in academic training has been, since the late seventeenth century, to draw first from plaster casts and then turn to models. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A couple more years and it might be too late' - he gave a rather vulgar laugh - 'Better go on up while you still can.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“There will be time for nonsense later,” Lena assured him. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“I’ll set aside a pile of kitchen stuff and save it for you later.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In 1917, Charles S. Johnson, a black sociologist and later the first black president of Fisk University, captured some of their stories in interviews with Mississippi migrants about their move to Chicago. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

All women come to it sooner or later: she has come off perhaps worse than most. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would wake up a few hours later, when the new batch was born. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed sudden, but actually there had been days and days of no snow—just frost—when, late one afternoon, a rain fell and froze. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

So we were agreed; but late at night, lying in our tent, I heard Bono, outside, wrapped in a blanket, whisper his seductions to Nsia. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

A moment later, Pollard and Seabiscuit were alone again, burning over the track, Kayak spinning off behind, the wire crossing overhead. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at last, in the late afternoon he was done and the raft—which he called Brushpile One for its looks—hung together even as he pulled it into the water off the beach. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flopping down on my bed an hour later, I decide that I am not going to even take off the blue silk dress I am wearing. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He gestures for her to wait outside, and a moment later, he locks the door behind him and leads her and Max down streets narrow and sloping. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was not until two hours later that we got to start. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At first I used to lose all the time, and I felt bad about it,” Bobby said later. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He turned to the greeters and said, “Do the processing later. They are tired. Take them to their living spaces so they can have baths and food. Let them rest for a while.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Seconds later he was in the driveway, loading the van. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Six days later, we knew when the second wave of the invasion force hit on the beaches north of here. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, the detectives were seated at the back of a bus. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled her hands away and stepped back, trying, too late, to retrieve her dignity. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Rowan led the way, passing other kids in the hall—students who, like him, were late, or were just on an errand. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“All of us youngsters were, I believe, extremists,” he explained later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

A short time later, he lugs a great cauldron into the room and begins ladling soup into cracked earthenware bowls. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I didn’t eat mine; I stacked it on top of the scarf and the figurines in a pile next to my backpack, with the excuse that I’d eat it later. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Our teacher was late, so everyone was talking. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Depending on public transporation meant she was late for everything—for work, for open school nights, for picking us up whenever she had to. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few moments later he spread everything upon a workbench beside the designated oven, which he had chosen because no one chanced to be working near it today. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

They had gotten a late start the first day, and by the time they reached the motel where they’d been planning to stay, the rooms they’d reserved were taken. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

An hour and a half later Father came home from work. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Years later he’d stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Then, late one afternoon while I was studying the messages of the spiders with my teacher, Mama herself came to his wasi in need of healing. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Even now, sixty years later, I can still remember that Dobson’s father was a doctor and that he lived, as I had learnt from the label on Dobson’s tuck-box, at The Red House, Uxbridge, Middlesex. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Göbekli Tepe suggests that the temple may have been built first, and that a village later grew up around it. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she told friends later, her poetic sensibility overwhelmed her good judgment. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later I took copies of my matric certificate and letters of recommendation from my principal and teachers and went for an interview at the Barclays Bank’s headquarters in Johannesburg. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a few minutes later he heard voices. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

If it was low, then of course, it was early morning or late evening. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among the things we could get fired for, Nigro advised, were arriving at the Academy late or drunk—once we were allowed to go out, that is—or, oddly enough, sleeping in class. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few hours later, once the sardines were ready, tens of thousands of them glistening in the refracted light, the fishermen would cinch the net and haul them in. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“All right. See you later, Billy,” I called, still lost in thought. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

There were about twenty people in the car, but most sat at the other end, avoiding the four teenagers, because they were, as eyewitnesses would say later, “horsing around” and “acting rowdy.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d have to wake up real early if I wanted to get to the mission in time for breakfast, if you were one minute late they wouldn’t let you in for food. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

And a bit later she said: “He said no, he was not, at the time of the crash.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Now come on, get out or you’ll be late on top of everything. Look, even the school buses are leaving!” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

By the time they reached the high school, Armpit was already five minutes late for his test. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

A few moments later an unlikely kernel of warmth ignited in her stomach, as if the icy water had activated some secret reserve of energy within her body. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Has she ever been late a day in her life?” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Asked fifteen years later, others remember it differently. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Phyllis’s mom said she couldn’t come over, but Suesetta and I will call her later so she can be a part of at least some of my birthday. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Sooner than later will be best,” she said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

She was assigned a late shift at that time and never finished working until mid-evening. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Less than a week later, a new letter came from Washington. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I remember she told me, “Canning, we should go, before it is too late, before we are too old.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll talk about your qualifications later. Right now we need to get the transporter up and running,” Ma says. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

He stacked up the gift cards and put them away in his pocket to pore over later. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

At dawn one morning late in May came the lookout’s, “Land ho-o-o-o-o!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is a delicate area—I don’t want him to be caught in a lie later on—so I tell her I simply had the impulse to take the day off. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Then it was too late to bring them at all. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“What would Mama think if she heard you encouraging me to stay out late with boys?” Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Bryant called back a day later after conferring with Outside's publisher. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She came back into the kitchen a moment later carrying Henry’s hat. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d be picking which college I was going to attend later this fall. I’d have taken my SATs, gone to football games and prom, taken chemistry...” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

An instant later Taran heard a loud clucking and squawking from the chicken run. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Couple hours later I seen Zeph is real quiet walking off toting the bag with all Leroy’s money and gold in it. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I made us a late breakfast, and we spent the rest of the day napping, playing cards, or listening to the radio in the living room. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Eventually she must have blacked out, because she awoke what seemed like hours later, with her eyes swollen nearly shut and her nose stuffy with snot. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A decade later Cieza de Leon saw the battleground and from the wreckage and unburied remains thought the dead could have numbered sixteen thousand. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mom says he stayed up late, running different tests, writing down results. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I realized too late that gossip can't kill you unless you let it. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

During the tests he drew blood samples from the people he vaccinated, which he later examined in the laboratory. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I saw Antonio once again, years later, in Washington, D.C., but he seemed out of place there, all dressed up in city clothes. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moments later, I catch sight of a sewer cap on the street. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

About a month later, Aunt Mirian wakes up again in the middle of the night. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He hid his hand behind his back, even though it was much too late for that now. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

After a late night I felt too dull to think up the excuse that would take me back to my room for the glove, the handkerchief, the umbrella, the notebook I forgot. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He would later joke that he had been around white people so much that he had forgotten how to dance, but at the time the situation was excruciatingly painful. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Looking back years later, he recalls his dad as a great guy. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

A moment later, Harry had given a loud yell and leapt out of his camp bed; the package contained a large number of maggots. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

A little while later my mother joined us. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I usually chose Sunday—usually starting in the late late afternoon or the minute Ty'ree started getting after me—whichever came first. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

About two hours later they were ready to start. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Then we will see you later. Watch out. There may be more Long Knives.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Often now, Tea Cake and Janie stayed up so late at the fire dances that Tea Cake would not let her go with him to the field. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Iloba called back two weeks later to say he had found somebody. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The tardy bell rang a minute later, indicating that lunch was officially over. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

One of the women of the Green family, Mary Dolly Green, later became my mother. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Little Walder laughed, and a moment later all the other men were laughing too. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We are easily replaced, and those who are late, inefficient, tired, or stupid will be replaced. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A few days later he adds a postscript: he’s not going to be kept on at the school. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

So eight years later, I left again, but this time while I was away, I wrote Ynez letters. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

A moment later Spike belched out a new vial - a stoppered glass tube no bigger than Leo’s finger. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

A few days later, Ann was cleaning her house when she was interrupted by a knock on her door. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t hear about it from his mother, but later that night, she did explain to him the purpose of the small house behind the parsonage. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The Italian says, Missus, you always pay your bill sooner or later and you can have anything you like in this store. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

A few days later I was put in a cell by myself, where I slept on wooden boards suspended from the wall. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

When he blundered again at the door a moment later, again invisible and blind within and beyond his wooden avatar, Dilsey opened the door and guided him across the kitchen with a firm hand. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

John later remembered how upset he was: “I wasn’t going home because I knew I had better cool myself down.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A moment later, his sword and pouch are gone, she’s losing herself in the crowd, and I can almost believe it didn’t happen. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When Dad asked me for another five bucks a few days later, I gave it to him. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In a phone call with the president a few days later, King backpedaled on his comments, trying to soften them. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon, Zeitoun again heard footsteps coming down the hallway. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They later told me just to be truthful so I didn’t upset any other kids. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

There was another bag, with the winter cloak and heavier dresses, but that would be coming later. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kept his hood up, masking his face, hair, and anything that would have let me recognize him later. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A thousand years later the village had grown to become the center of a large polity, also known as Tiwanaku. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I thought maybe we'd arrived too late and had missed the main attraction, but then someone opened the door of the cattle trailer and a vachette raced down the ramp and pounded onto the field. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Johnny was so excited that he started singing, not caring that it was rather late at night. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘They made me an old man before my time,’ he’d say to me many years later. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, I’m hanging out with Char and the twins. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

She’ll insist on going through the box with me, but then she shows up late and gives me a sassy nonresponse to explain herself. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The wiry man in his late twenties was Harper, an evening-shift officer who had been injured by inmates in the yard during an incident the week before. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he worked so long and late he never got back to the bed he bunked in. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stalked away between the lofty shelves and returned several minutes later carrying a large and moldy-looking book. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I don’t think he caught on until it was too late. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“I figures to myself,” he said later, “ ‘Woolf, get on that lane and follow it.’ Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could leave the impression that unlikely things are happening at the same time: While Dopey sleeps late, he enjoys vigorous exercise. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know you’re going to let Dante drive your truck sooner or later.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He mistakenly opened the valve instead of closing it, however, and ten minutes later all my oxygen was gone. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

We both head to the water fountain, and I’m wondering if putting deodorant on sweaty pits will keep me from being funky later, when Coach West walks over. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“I know. But it’s late. My dad’s going to start wondering if I broke down somewhere.” Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Other people—unused to telephones all their lives until immediately after World War II when the present system was installed—still, some twenty-odd years later, automatically answered anything that gave off an urgent blast. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess,” Marv says later, “her old man was ashamed of having a sixteen-year-old girl of his getting stitched up, especially by someone like me. I guess he was right to be stern. ...” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Then, one afternoon in late January, he finally relented and as-signed the jockey the race mount on a filly. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ali and Baba grew up together as childhood playmates—at least until polio crippled Ali’s leg—just like Hassan and I grew up a generation later. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I simply learned to get in touch with the power of nature this summer. Zack’s going to help me move my bed around later.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

A few seconds later, we were all huddled on the back stoop. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyrion arrived late, saddlesore, and sour, all too vividly aware of how amusing he must look as he waddled up the slope to his father. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

An hour and a half later she parked her car in a road near Sunderland Avenue. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, I heard the trolley car rattle past as the night grew late. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps later, when the system has matured, more liberal policies may be permitted. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even think about them until we were home, seven hours later, and I saw the halfway-open door to Dad’s office. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I no longer remember exactly what I said, but a minute later the shelling stopped. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am at a loss to explain the melancholy that settled over me on that victorious night,” he later wrote. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

After sleeping as late as I wanted all summer, it was hard to get out of bed at seven o’clock. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Let’s update the story to the late 1930s, he suggested to Houseman. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

At first he did true biology at the Strangeways Laboratory, but this was obviously trivial and two years later he moved over to the Cavendish, where he joined Perutz and Kendrew. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Ben later told Mary Anne it had been a banner day in his history as a high school student. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

By late afternoon, both boys had carved mice into their logs. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“What do you want me to say? It’s late, and I’m exhausted.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Met Bong stands up and disappears, only to return moments later with an armful of tools. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But HEW did not exempt those procedures; in fact, it later clarified the law to specifically include them. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

That was shocking to me when I discovered it later. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

About twenty minutes later he'd gotten himself together and was about to leave the house. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

One year later, the professional staff numbered 4,000 and Livermore ranked as the largest of the AEC’s research labs. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Four days later, the online Guardian^ had a free link from the Tribune's own homepage—and three days after that, the Sun Times followed suit. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

The British used rockets later aboard their warships during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It made me think what might happen later on with my new girl. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I shoulda told her you was back in Greenwood, but I got in kinda late and Pa was on a bender. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Can I talk about it later, Grandpa? I got to get home like Papa said.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“I wept,” he said later, “like a little child.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

This is what I will tell Moira, later; if I can. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, later in the day, I would see the calendar and start thinking: did I check today or didn’t I? Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

A few months later, he got off the Andromeda in Houston and began searching for Kathy. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know that until my first progress report arrived six weeks later. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Some speak of departing, yet for that it already seems too late. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He calmed down again almost immediately, but it was too late. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was a crisp and blustery day—the sun hiding behind giant cloudbanks only to burst out moments later and dapple the hills with spectacular rays of light—and I felt energized and hopeful. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

A few days later the sixth Exhibition of the Independents begins in Paris. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I flew to Detroit, arrived late in the afternoon, dragged myself home and went to sleep. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

What she did not know—and I discovered many years later—was that someone in Florida had neglected to get the court’s permission for us to live with our relatives in the first place. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

A few days later, after the storm of the corpse’s arrival had died down and Uncle Marcos had been laid to rest, Severo noticed the hairy animal his daughter was holding in her arms. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man in his late forties, older than my own father would have been, wanted to marry me and began coming to our house. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked myself late that night as I scooted deeper under the blankets. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"And then I can pick you up later, if that's all right. You can try out the school for a few days and see if you like it." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Fine would later write that Bobby “was not yet strong opposition. My family remembers how furious he was after each encounter, muttering that I was ‘lucky.’” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He picks a night that my mother has late rehearsals so she won’t know about our criminal activity. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Usually I came late at night, when Mains was locked and abandoned. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Knowing that their slaves were likely to die by the time they reached their thirties, Louisiana sugar planters were extremely selective—they bought only healthy-looking young men in their late teens. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She returns a moment later with a size-me version of that very same dress, only in coral. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I did not think much of it until two days later, when summer school had resumed after the long holiday weekend. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Already Mr. Henson had called about our late house payment on the first mortgage. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the RJF Committee members returned to Iceland, they worked full-time arousing their parliament’s interest in the case, warning that if action weren’t taken quickly, it would be too late for Fischer to receive justice. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Both were part of the Mercury Theatre on the Air team that created the War of the Worlds program later that month. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I still wasn't sure how much Joan knew, after our trip to the Emergency Ward, but a few days later she had come back to live in Belsize, retaining, however, the freest of town privileges. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Southside died a month later after having suffered with advanced lung cancer, his long-held view that doctors were untrustworthy having kept him from any sort of timely intervention. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Hours later, Roza and I are sitting against the wall of the main cabin, sun-tired and bored, quizzing each other on math theorems. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I crave pardon; neb Goldsmith, for coming late. I could not help it. I—I carried an offering to my father’s tomb.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He left the room, and when he came back a minute later with Mrs. Coulter, Lyra was on her feet, too excited to sit. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Too late change this,” said my mother shrilly. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A month later, Martin called and informed me I was going to be a published novelist. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

"Perchance later you'll tell me how a nine-year-old girl the size of a wet rat managed to disarm you with a broom handle and throw your sword in the river." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She’d begin mixing a tincture, then a minute later couldn’t remember which ingredients she’d added, so that the whole batch had to be tossed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It’s late for her, but not for me. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Some time later, when I was more experienced at the firm, I was dictating some information to a white secretary when a white client whom she knew came into the office. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night, he came home late and in a strange mood. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It’s hidden in my room, so we can go through it later. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But she knew his words would hurt her later. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Thus the summer passed, and years later they would both recall those passionate nights as the happiest time of their lives. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shared the sentiment that his adversary Sherman would later so famously proclaim: that “war is hell.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Many would later say that Margaret’s surgical training was the only reason the Gey lab was able to grow cells at all. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He opens the front door and retrieves the Times, removing the blue wrapper, putting it on the coffee table to read later. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Can we fight about this later? I’m up to my knees in cursed mud!” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

A minute later, Carlos is back with water, and my dad is right behind him. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The grasses sway their tall spears; the white butterflies flutter around and float on the soft warm wind of the late summer. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here!” cried Hermione again a few moments later from out of the darkness. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Too late, I realized if he saw Papa later he might chance to mention seeing me on the train tracks going through Mill Town. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

One morning, a few weeks later, the chief warder, instead of handing us hammers for our work in the courtyard, gave us each needles and thread and a pile of worn prison jerseys. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was some five minutes later that he found Powell by hit-and-miss. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The man in the yellow suit jerked away, but it was too late. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jamie extended his arm, which was draped with his striped flannel pajamas, and said, “Lady Claudia, I knew that sooner or later you would get me to that restaurant.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Christmas morning, instead of racing off to River Valley Farm, he remained at home, and later in the day he shared with his family the splendid dinner his mother had been a week preparing. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when, several weeks later, I happened to see it next to her bed unread except for the first few pages, I was furious and suddenly wanted to cry. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only later did I realize that Mother and Father intended we escape. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

A few days later, on a quieter day, he sketches the beach. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The four of them are hanging out in the smoke of a late- aftemoon muck fire ignited by an early-afternoon lightning strike. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A half an hour later we were resting among the piled sacks. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Hours later, as I was lying in bed, I realized that my dad still hadn’t given a final ruling on the benefit concert. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

What he did was so foolish, however, that in later years it was often said that he had gone mad. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then two weeks later the porter and conductor of the north bound local had helped her off the train at Maitland. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He’d hesitated, struggling for words, but as she remembered later, the gist of it was that there was something about this race, this boat, that was different. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They leave for India six days later, six weeks before they’d planned. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Four years later their daughter was born, and they named her Jean Louise for her mother and her mother’s mother. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Before, I was using the time as an excuse to leave, but now it really is getting late. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“But—” Two hours later, there was not a single “snake” still attached to anything to which it was supposed to be attached. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

She leaves, and a moment later, returns with two others. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what Nazario meant at the time, but later I would. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

It seemed only a few minutes later that he passed a large fistful of sugar packets to another friend of his, instead of the prescribed six. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt sure they would smell him out sooner or later. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I must go to my work...it is late already. I shall be back at midday to feed the children, stay till then.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half an hour later, he returned to the trawler with his parents to sleep. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

When, months later, Ifemelu had the fight with Blaine, she wondered if Shan had fueled his anger, an anger she never fully understood. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A few days later, in an attempt to clean out her courtyard, Petra Cotes exchanged the rabbits for a cow, who two months later gave birth to triplets. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I nodded gratefully and let her switch into the oar seat, but twenty minutes later I asked for it back again. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Oh good, we’re not too late for the rush,” Seven said. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Faro set up a barking inside, and a minute later Mr. Loomis appeared. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Years later I found out I had sustained minor fractures to both feet. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I kept the children up late getting the details. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

About an hour later, our landlord came by our apartment. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

About an hour later Mrs. Oakes walked up the driveway from her cottage, carrying a string bag with her working shoes and apron, and a little parcel of tidbits for the animals. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They come to school late and talk back and are always chewing gum. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I look at her for a second and then down at her outstretched hand and I reach out and I take it and press it inside my own and a second later I let go. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The range of altitudes in the Fertile Crescent meant staggered harvest seasons: plants at higher elevations produced seeds somewhat later than plants at lower elevations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Why, if I hadn’t pulled Jingle Boy up, I’d be halfway to Buxton by now without getting a chance to have a proper thought, and it might be too late! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

In late August, as the days grew shorter and the air turned sharp and autumnal in the Brooks Range, McCunn began to worry when nobody arrived to fly him out. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Cotton Street order is a minute late, but they don’t seem to notice or care. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

They continued to dig until late afternoon, long after all the other groups had finished for the day. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Ms. Rubin said she had to go back to class but that she would call Mom and Dad later to check in. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He said he was just coming over the river and minutes later he arrived. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have been many a day in hot fights,” Rosser will marvel later, “but I never saw anything approaching that at High Bridge.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra heard these tales at first with glee and later with despondency. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

One exception came in late 1932, when William urged her to join him in Spain, where he was attending a conference. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Three days later, the Dursleys were showing no sign of relenting, and Harry couldn’t see any way out of his situation. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I see what you mean. It wouldn’t matter for a newchild’s toy. But later it does matter, doesn’t it? We don’t dare to let people make choices of their own.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

One radiant day in late April, she hurried to Joe as usual. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We watched TV late into the night, until my mom woke up. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

If the morning sounds and smells were touched with the supernatural, the late afternoon had all the features of the normal Arkansas life. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, barely a week later, a single rogue agent pulled a thread that threatened to unravel Stalin's carefully woven net. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The four men rushed in with it, and a moment later, three people were shoved, almost thrown out of the cabin. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Will had known they would drag him into the quarrel sooner or later. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then, barely a month of saving later, Mr. Ostrowski saw fit to enlighten me about the truth of my great potential. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Odyssey she is still called Ino, but later her name was changed to Leucothea and her son was called Palaemon. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered what was special about these chickens, and if I’d be able to figure it out myself, or if it was something I couldn’t really know until later, like Buffy’s chicks. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I thought maybe she would scan the pages, but ask to keep it, so she could read it more thoroughly later. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“We could hardly believe it,” Jesse later told me, recalling that first morning when they gazed up at a squat, ugly, four- story apartment complex facing a suburban highway. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was in her late thirties, Lyra supposed, perhaps a little older than Mrs. Coulter, with short black hair and red cheeks. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that was not until much later, and Clara never knew about it, so she could not write it in her notebooks that bore witness to life, for me to read one day. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how long I’m in the living room, but a little while later, Lolo comes to find me. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

A taxi which brought a very late customer to the Bear Flag squashed five frogs in the street. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too late I remembered I had cut off my long, flowing strands and couldn’t shield my scar from their gaze. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

They drank and joked and were still at it when Hugh and I returned later that evening for the fireworks display. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“To answer stones and bad language with a random volley of .30-caliber bullets was not imaginable in America,” he later reflected. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There are even pockets sewn into the skirt, a request the dressmaker was happy to oblige, and I’ve hidden Tom Sawyer in one just in case I find time to read some later. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Aristotle, two generations later, was content to argue that those things happened because it was the nature of the Moon to have phases and eclipses—mere verbal juggling, an explanation that explains nothing. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A second later, a gigantic pair of wheels and headlights screeched to a halt exactly where Harry had just been lying. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later, Nixon sat at his desk in front of television cameras reading his speech and calling on the “great silent majority” of his fellow Americans to support him. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

An hour later, Meriyn presented himself in file Royal Chamber, in answer to a summons which had been delivered by a page. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watching my sister walk along the path winding away from our village later that day, I was reminded of the yunka stranger and how the clouds had hovered about him on this same trail. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She died of an aneurysm just two years later.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Everything goes bright in my view—and an instant later, I’ve regenerated a pace behind the others. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She’s inside having coffee with Mom, who, embarrassingly, is in her Pilates clothes for her class later today. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, they were all gathered around the counter, where the candles were lined up. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“You were up late last night,” his mom said. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The last time we had stayed late, my mother had phoned the police and told them we had been kidnapped by bandits. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was six months after my best friend, Bluford Jackson, got firecrackers for Christmas and burned his hand on one and died of lockjaw ten days later. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I remembered then that I had aimed to get some more, but it was too late now, and then I looked up and there she came. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, too late, she remembered the dire warnings the locals had given her. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Finally, in late March, black ministers from the group not only gave their blessing to the action but joined students and other activists on the picket lines. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Since it’s late in the day, we’ll just keep Sir Fig Newton overnight.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

A moment later, a tall woman with her hair wrapped in a scarf came out onto the porch. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

About an hour later Kapu lifted his head, rolled his eyes around the cozy interior of the tent, and accepted chunks of stew. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, the bus pulled up and the Under Fifteens began to climb off. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He completed the course work and received his GED a month later. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The fallen hobbits were laid together in a grave on the hill-side, where later a great stone was set up with a garden about it. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

We’d taken the kids to visit her late that summer, and he’d gone again on his own ten days earlier, stepping off the campaign trail for a day to sit and hold her hand. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Created in the nineteenth century as a volunteer citizen militia to fight American Indians on the frontier and, later, Mexicans along the border, the Rangers had evolved into a kind of state police force. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They were modern not by the standards of 1826 but by the standards of a century later. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It was here that the Lia Fáil stood, the rock at the center of the universe, where the fairy kings and later the human Ard Rí were crowned. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

So if you discover that O = R at the start of the message, you still don’t know what O means later on. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The door opened half an hour later and the team huddled on the sidewalk in a lantern’s circle, consulting a ledger. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I started typing questions about fencing into the search bar on my computer, and one hour later realized I needed to give fencing another try. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“You could read a happiness on their faces, like they knew already that they were about to see the start of something very special,” he later recalled. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

We were a bit worried about the twins, but of course it wouldn’t have posed a problem even if they’d had to wait ten days or so and follow us down later. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Weeks later she might comment on the conversation, whether she had participated or not. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew, hours later, that things had gotten bad when Navid started texting me. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Seems once Newcharlie saw the inside of Rahway, most of the guys around here who cut school, hung out real late, and got into all kinds of stuff thought he was some kind of wonderful. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Moments later, tracer bullets started whizzing over their heads. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe three seconds later she started to heave, literally almost regurgitated into my mouth. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

No one before 1939 thought of it as World War I, since we had no idea that only twenty years later the world would again erupt in conflict. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The decision feels indulgent, as it is not particularly late, or cold, or raining, and he is in no great rush to be home. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Do you believe that previous failures always lead to later successes? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Speaking of schedules and countdowns”—Mr. Ages spoke suddenly—“we’ve got one for this evening. It’s getting late.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of blocks later, they pulled up to the Bohannon house. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later I stumbled home from the garage apartment late one night, drunk on some gin filched from a friend’s parents’ liquor cabinet. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old-timers mocked them as “Boy Scouts” who had “college-trained flat feet,” and this was not untrue; as one agent later admitted, “We were a bunch of greenhorns who had no idea what we were doing.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I'll stay on the sidewalk—see?—just like a path in front of the stores. Then maybe later we can all go into the mall and look in the stores. You’d like that, wouldn’t you?” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

About an hour later my eyes are sore and I glance at the phone. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

A minute later she asked me if I loved her. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Only later did he learn the cooking was actually done by Terryl’s roommate. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

A year later, when Anna Brown’s murder was prosecuted, Mollie attended the trial. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But scarcely a moment later she glanced back as though she couldn’t help it, and Kaede felt a tremor inside herself as the blush on Taisin’s cheeks deepened. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Best to head home and worry about unpleasant letters later. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, I know something’s got to turn up sooner or later.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Many years later, Kepler came upon his third and last law of planetary motion, a law that relates the motion of various planets Kepler’s second law: A planet sweeps out equal areas in equal times. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly before eight o’clock his son left the dining room to go up to his room and dress for an engagement in the city later that night. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

My nightly mountains of homework made the Tower of Babel look like a toothpick, and it was only worsened by my late shifts at Finnegan’s. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“His eye was rolling in its socket as if the horse was in agony,” Woolf later recalled. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He noticed two kids running up late . . . and he stopped to let them get on. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forty minutes later I was on the ground in Kathmandu. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

A week later, the tuft of plants was gone, but there was a new clump of seaweed on the shore. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I tried to smile back, but my lips felt quivery, so I got up and took our plates to the kitchen, wrapped foil around mine, and put it in the refrigerator for later. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“I’ll regret that later,” Tucker said, “when my steering column is gone.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Go on, now, man, before it’s too late. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a kind of farming, too, he told me later, one that he could share with his Nelson. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men who usually skipped church to go fishing, and men who stayed late at the local bar and slept in on Sunday mornings, squeezed themselves in with the rest of the community. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“For all I know, our Navy was shooting at whales out there,” he later confided in an aide. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It was late, he was exhausted, and he wasn’t sure he wanted to know any more about his mother. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She argues that strange facts came first and plain facts came later; first, there were Siamese twins, hermaphrodites, furry babies and virgin births, then there was Boyle’s air pump. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“This matter of ‘we’ you and I shall take up later,” said Vikus severely. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s late for you to be up north here.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She was in her late seventies when I first met her. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He whirled from me and went to the front of the store; he came back a moment later, his face red. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even in late afternoon the day was hot. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several uneventful hours later, however, Harry had to admit that some of the fun was wearing off. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She would not even let him come through the door, which a moment later she had to close because the house was filled with yellow butterflies. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Here is the conundrum: by the time most people pick up a parenting book, it is far too late. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Minutes later we all stand at the front counter of the secondhand store. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

In later pictures, she had braces on her teeth. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Ninety minutes later the court adjourned, the case for the defense having been completed in that brief time. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moments later, a massive explosion rocked the embassy compound. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The sunlight that came in through the window seemed too bright for late afternoon, too full of an ominous radiance. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Two gulps of vodka later, my eyes are watering and my throat automatically grumbles “Ahhhhh” to get rid of the burning. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Julia left the apartment late that night, in good spirits, Mrs. Crowe later recalled: “there was nothing about her conversation that would lead any of us to think she intended going away that night.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Fischer had a gun to our heads,” he later said, explaining the abrupt termination of one of the most important American chess matches ever played. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of weeks later my dad and I were in the car and we passed by a McDonald’s. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I try to explain that I found out about Mom’s family first and the paper chain came later, but they don’t really want to hear that. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Maybe five minutes later, the father sees me with Tony, standing up the back. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

That it's no good loving me because I'm never going to get married anyway and he'd just end up hating me later instead of sooner. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I’ll see you later, then,” he said, starting out of the kitchen. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was too late to return to Sir Ector’s castle, or even to get back to the outlaws’ camp by the big tree. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They later allowed residents to return to Gnadenhütten to harvest their crops. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I had no idea where Susan Thomas lived, but I figured I could track her down online first, and then figure out how to get to her later. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The others agreed; they sent their report, and two hours later Reynie was drifting away to sleep, having finished an upbeat mental letter to Miss Perumal and feeling hopeful for the first time in ages. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Birds were singing that they usually didn’t hear until later in the spring. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

A day later, another member of the crew was captured. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Sorry, Ess. I will later. Maybe tomorrow. But right now I just need some rest.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“My dad noticed that our grades are getting posted online much later than usual,” Soojin agrees. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“There is no hurry. It is more late than I thought. Come, let us seek somewhere that we may eat, and then we shall go on our way.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth Drinker heard more stories of friends who had died, and lamented: “Desolution, Cruelty and Distress have of late resounded in our ears from many quarters.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Softly he made a sound, one he had practiced; a brief moment later, he heard the sound he had both hoped and dreaded to hear, in response. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

A few seconds later he resurfaces and waves up to me. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

One summer morning a white girl came late to work and rushed into the pantry where I was busy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only much later did Doha understand what his father meant. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Then, later, when I had to kill him, it was like having to shoot some of my own folks. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran into the back room and returned a minute later, pulling something out of a bag and tossing it to me. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Years later, doctors would tell him that he was color-blind. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

A few hours later he was back, carrying with him twenty baskets of food and twenty buckets of water. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Now, more than a century later, another library ensures that those adventures can be remembered as she lived them. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he left the other two for an hour or so at a time, but they had ceased to pay any attention to his absence now, as sooner or later he always reappeared. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ain’t hungry now, but sooner or later I will be, and a peanut butter and jelly sandwich always hits the spot. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

No long-ago look to take the place of the desperate glance we shared, or the hollow stare from his dark, empty eyes an instant later. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Will you promise to explain everything to me later?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later the cat emerged and sat down, daintily cleaning his whiskers. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fifteen minutes later the roles were reversed, and I was holding the massive arm of one of the Antonelli twins as he sputtered and teared. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lockhart gulped and dived under his own desk, narrowly avoiding being squashed by Neville, who fell a second later as the chandelier gave way. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

At lunch later that day the girl was crying with her friends as she showed them the drawing. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

It turned out later that Dennis Doyle, a man I knew in Nairobi, had sent the man from St. Lawrence University to see me while he was in Kenya doing fieldwork with his students. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started having dark moods, staying out late and coming home drunk, and losing jobs. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But when that didn’t make any difference, and there was nothing but a bad silence on the phone, I really knew it was too late. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

This house is on Filmore Ave. and the corner of a lane leading to where many soldiers were buried and later taken up and carried to their burial ground in Winchester. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of years later, America is still not an egalitarian democracy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Many years later, when she began to feel she was the equal of her great-grandmother, Fernanda doubted her childhood vision, but her mother scolded her disbelief. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The breakers tripped, but it was too late. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started to tell him to wait, we’d pick it up later, but Billy was off on a run, heading up the mountain. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A second later it was morning, and someone was shaking him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“You’re sure it was that same day? His crime took place on October 26. It sounds like police believe the victim was killed in the late afternoon.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Joan was still in school, staying late for the Biology Club; Regina was in a nursing class, to be followed by library work and then a night shift after that. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I came to tell you Mama needs our help preparing dinner. Uncle Turu is telling stories tonight, and we don’t want to be late.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“I had a sense,” he later said, “of being included in something very secret and important.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I said I did, and a few minutes later I heard a loud rumble and looked out the window. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Splitting the check so many ways took a long time, and now they’re late. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“She suddenly began to utter the names of the women who had worked with her as if in a final roll call,” Shaw later recalled. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

A week later, in the midst of rehearsing carols for the pageant, the principal came to make an announcement. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

One of their granddaughters later wrote that “at Down ill health was considered normal.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matter of fact, some years later, I think in the 1930s, the mill caught fire and burned down. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The thrill of your life,” she later called it. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I guess I should have told you thanks for saving my life, huh? Is it too late to tell you that?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t till years later that I realized that for my sake. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fern took off running toward the black-and-white cows and so did Vonetta, but not before she curtsied and said, “See you later, Great Miss Trotter!” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The next step was launching a living thing, a dog named Laika, in Sputnik II less than a month later. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, Amara flings open the door of the apartment. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Can’t be much further, can it?” croaked Ron, hours later still, as the sun started to sink into their floor of cloud, staining it a deep pink. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later he’s back, carrying two sixteen-pound sledges, one in each hand. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

As it happened, Lowell Lee Andrews, whose case had twice traveled all the way to the United States Supreme Court, was scheduled to hang one month later. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later the swallows and swifts felt the change and left the Northeast. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The Rad Lab’s letter reporting its own disintegrations of lithium went out to the journal Physical Review on September 15 and appeared in print two weeks later over the names of Lawrence, Livingston, and White. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Even the Jesuits had allowed him considerable indulgence, such as permission to get up late in the morning, which became not so much a habit as a way of life for Descartes. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

She was out on the back lawn at that moment, testing its capabilities in the late afternoon sun. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Runt bounded off and came back a few minutes later with a worm hanging from his jaw. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“It was pleasant just to have a conversation with so sensitive and intelligent a comrade and scientist,” the woman later said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will find out later that she says: "We'll put down his address. And then in the future, when they come visit, we can go over and make it look like we live there." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Sometime in the late 1920s, after extraordinarily heavy rains, swollen streams running off the nearby mountains backed up into a ravine, then exploded over the banks. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Much later she married Zeus, the chief of the Olympian gods. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A short while later the Corps was stopped. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later they heard the front door slam. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Years later, a friend’s offhand mention that Bobby probably had every expectation of winning his first game against a chess master elicited a strident rebuke: “Of course not!” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“One minute I was at the top of the transplant list, and then one throat culture later...” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, she comes back holding a small pair of scissors. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

But Emma was worth it; so, as his daughter Henrietta wrote much later, he “made up his mind to give up all his natural taste for tidiness.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a card in the box that you can open later.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

When I met John later behind our house, he told me that Eden hadn't eaten since the last time I came by. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

IT was late in the afternoon when the first guests started to arrive. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The drifts had climbed so high that they swallowed the man bodily ... but bowmen on the battlements claimed they glimpsed him sometime later, dragging a broken leg through the snow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I must sit down and think, I said to myself, but not now, later. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The steep green hill was rushing toward them A moment later he alighted on its slope, a little awkwardly. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

She came into the living room a short while later. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

A second shock came several months later, when DNA extracted from the fossilised finger from Denisova was mapped. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thanks, Dad. See you later,” Ben said, leading his father by the arm toward the door. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And what sort of ladies came to call this late? Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few moments later Kenzi and Simeon were at the counter. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Over the years he had pondered what he might have done to make things better between them later, when the trouble had started. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The Germans knew what was going on in the camps, but the world found out too late because they held back that information. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Stella had stayed up far too late writing. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She ran into the cabin and returned a few seconds later with a gourd dipper of water. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Ewo, I am late for a chaplaincy council meeting,” he said, looking at the clock. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“There, now, Minerva,” said Fudge kindly, “Pettigrew died a hero’s death. Eyewitnesses — Muggles, of course, we wiped their memories later — told us how Pettigrew cornered Black. They say he was sobbing, ‘Lily and James, Sirius! Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I shall speak with each of you later and at more length. Now I have matters to discuss with Coll. At dawn tomorrow be ready to ride for Annuvin.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

A trumpet case was found two days later. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sooner or later he was certain he would come to a place he’d recognize. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I decided upon this it was too late, Maxim and Frank were demanding tea, and when tea was over Beatrice and Giles arrived. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Thought better of it—It was too late. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I’m going to be late for school,” I add, even though I know we’re early. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Not until late 1968, with the publication of an article by three American seismologists in the Journal of Geophysical Research, did the segments receive the name by which they have since been known: plates. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Three days later, while Lori and I were sitting at Grandma’s old upright piano trying to teach each other to play, we heard heavy, uneven footsteps at the front door. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But two days later a multiple telegram which almost overtook the previous one announced another uprising on the southern plains. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t, and an hour later, my father drove back. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

In late August they tried him in a good stakes race in Detroit. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though it was very late in the process, I was hoping that we might win a stay when I saw some of the compelling issues in Herbert's case. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The first murder in Odessa occurred late in the nineteenth century when a cowboy rode into a water-drilling camp one afternoon and demanded something to eat from the cook. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A week later, when the blooming is over, the florets will turn into seeds, and ripen. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“It may be too late. Ambrose isn’t even twitching. Look, he’s not rolled up in a ball anymore.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The little springs trickled on late in the summer. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But I know Mother would never let me out that late, so I just turn the radio up and enjoy his singing from the airwaves. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She was in her late twenties with a sprawl of red hair and a round, boyish face. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

A few hours later, people had begun to fill the Fur- faro home. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“No, Madame. I think you heard the man pass through—but unconsciously; later you had a nightmare of a man being in your compartment and woke up with a start and rang for the conductor.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later, she thought, Did we maybe pass it, and I forgot to count? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was rare Miss Lucy stayed this late on a Friday. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Smith, in a gesture that I would later realize earned him stature among inmates and yet accomplished his goal of discipline, would let them back out for rec if he felt he’d made his point. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barack was writing what would become The Audacity of Hope—thinking through his beliefs and his vision for the country, threshing them into words on his legal pads late at night. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I figured I could talk Jimmy into letting me walk with a sandwich, and getting the extra dollar to him later. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I try to check my swing, but it’s too late. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Gregory asked, and a nanosecond later said, "Oh." Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s too late to be scared, Joseph. Don’t you want to understand what’s going on?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Fifteen minutes later me and Missy loaded up with them on the wagon heading north.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later, Phoebe mentioned that she was getting a headache. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

My mother must be up late watching Eden. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

We’d learned our lesson two summers earlier when we got to the market later in the morning and all of the best produce was gone. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

They had secrets and were probably late to be toilet trained. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Mrs. March’s warning was evidently thrown away, for five minutes later Laurie tore by the window on his own fleet horse, riding as if for his life. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

An hour later, when we’re both done packing an overnight bag, I make a sign on a large index card and ask Dad to tape it to my back. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She could worry about that later in the day. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I called Mother, thinking they were running late. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, the hand came creeping back. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I saw many interesting things, some of which may bear mentioning later, but for now suffice to say that she showed me all the vast and varied corners of the Underthing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A block later, neither of us had said a word. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Fischer, who much later in life would gain notoriety for his anti-Jewish rhetoric, always said that although his mother was Jewish, he had no religious training. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I can print out a family tree chart for you later, if you’d like.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Four-fifty,” she said, “after your cut, and I only make about the same after all the costs,” which I found out later was completely untrue. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

As Lord Odysseus prayed there in the grove the girl rode on, behind her strapping team, and came late to the mansion of her father, where she reined in at the courtyard gate. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, Mr. Finney came around the back of the house and climbed up the ladder. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Guess we can talk more later. Just remember...the school, the church...it’s a good place for the kids,” the pastor said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The damage wasn’t discovered until late July, when a wildlife biologist named Paul Atkinson made the grueling ten-mile bush-whack over the Outer Range, from the road into Denali National Park to the Park Service shelter. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The two highest-scoring teams will meet for the final round later tonight. Good luck, and we hope we see you again.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I asked Chester later what a sibling was, but he wasn’t speaking to me. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, when I was next called to Mr. Turner’s office, he had his hands folded on his desk and was looking grim. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

When Mrs. Little came in, later, to tuck Stuart in for the night and hear his prayers, Stuart asked her if she thought the bird would be quite safe sleeping down in the living room. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Five days later, this place doesn’t feel like home yet. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

By the next rehearsal, a few days later, Shawn seemed to have forgotten it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“But there are many other students who were hesitant or even critical, and they give it a try and tell me later, ‘I loved it! Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

A little later my boss sent for me, and for a second I was annoyed, because I thought he was going to tell me to do less talking on the phone and more work. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Seconds later, the window slams shut, nearly jarring me from my perch, and the lamps go out. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, we’re all bundled up in our scarves and gloves. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He can't afford a bad grade—or a bad mark—in his Party record book, because that would keep him from getting a good job later on. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Less than a month later, in the middle of January, some of the monkeys in Room C began dying with bloody noses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three days later, at a special assembly, a Nazi student leader gave a speech, deriding the White Rose group for their resistance activities. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

As his son later observed, “To my father any waste was too much!” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

This was a lot later, when I was already living in Vancouver. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I got back here in time for a late dinner; went my rounds—all well; and set this down whilst waiting for sleep. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Years later, Grandma told me that she thought it was because I was afraid to trust the situation, because we’d lived with them before and then they’d let us go. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The experience he gained in judging horses would be invaluable to him later, though he would have scoffed at the idea at the time. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A long canter later I came up over a hill and looked down onto a crossroads at the bottom of a small grassy valley. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He comes out a minute later with three pieces on a paper towel and sits in Pop’s old chair. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I hoarded it preciously, but less than two weeks later it became totally worthless. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Less than two years later, Fudge had erupted out of the fire yet again, this time with the news that there had been a mass breakout from Azkaban. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Imagine that late one spring day, you step out of the dark and into a world of bright windows and polished floors, winking copper pots, shining suits of armor, and tapestries sewn in gold. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was late in the period and late in the day and everyone needed to relax, let down, take it easy. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three days later the smell of rotting meat infected every shop in the city. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jimmy Zizmo’s funeral was held thirteen days later by permission of the bishop in Chicago. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Fourteen years later, the question seemed much more important. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m really late for class and I don’t want to get in trouble, so can I please go?” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“No. It’s fine. Just, can we talk later?” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Too late, Anya realized she had looked at the fool while she thought about them. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

And that it wasn’t too late, I should start straight away, making up the lost time. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We're going to be late to Sunday school if I don’t rush, so I run upstairs and brush my teeth and change while I hear Baba telling Mustafa to hurry. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

This didn’t matter a whole lot to my father, who came home really late with Ernie Eco after someone had told him that he’d seen the police talking to his son. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, I heard my father speak to my teacher and felt ashamed of his labored, accented words. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three days later, we came to that passage in our Talmud class, and for the second time that year Rav Gershenson called out my name and asked me to read and explain. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Why didn’t the so-called “early” and “late” Vermeers have that luminous, haunting touch? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Modesty is a virtue,” he would later write, “yet one gets further without it.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I woke an hour or so later in the velvety space where you don’t yet remember what you’ve dreamed. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half an hour later it occurred to him to look through the window. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crick murmurs a yes a few moments later. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m going for a walk. I’ll see you back at your room later.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was damp, drippy weather but with no real rain, and they all just sat around on the floor of the temple in the darkening late afternoons and talked and talked. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hurried out into the hot, dusty, end-of-July afternoon, sweating and sandymouthed, as if late for a difficult interview, and boarded the red bus, whose motor was already running. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Balls and tendrils are floating everywhere, and of course I’m late for homeroom. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

After I’d leafed through them I would throw them away, for they were infinitely discardable, and a day or two later I wouldn’t be able to remember w hat had been in them. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

We miss breakfast, and when Miss Duncan asks where we were, Katherine sheepishly says we both overslept and got to our chores late. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

We were to return no later than nine o’clock. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Sooner or later someone will bring up my weird eyes. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Now she takes the train to Manhattan every morning and comes home late in the evening. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Less than a century later the picture is very different. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Around the time that I’m deciding it’s too late, that Peeta’s dead, moved on, unreachable forever, he gives a small cough and Finnick sits back. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I doubt it,” I mumbled, although two days later Grace invited me to a slumber party at her house with her friend Tess. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Sir Mador de la Porte’s heart turned over at the same time—but it was too late to draw back. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t really know what she meant, but I decided I could figure out that part later. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, a week later, there was a knock on the door, and a tall woman walked in. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Except this — that Theresa now, too late for class, fairly burst with what she had to tell. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn't until later that she learned that the ship was a spaceship. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered him stamping his foot when Aunt Gloria had tried to suggest leaving the Eye until later. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

A month later, in July, the multiparty forum agreed on a first draft of an interim constitution. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, that’s fine, but really, I’m a little late now, Bun.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In late August, I was washing clothes in the tin pan in the living room when I heard someone coming up the stairs singing. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Call me later and we can go over some of the key stuff. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later the attorneys decided that anyone who had been adopted or had returned to their biological parents should be excluded from the class. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

They were back hours later, with three-liter jars of the white chemical and a pair of long faces. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

She wished she had told Ginika about the tennis coach, taken the train to Ginika’s apartment on that day, but now it was too late, her self-loathing had hardened inside her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she could defer at Yale for a semester and start late. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“But I’m actually running a bit late. The hospital called this morning — Dr. Snow is taking a sick day. Besides, you know the stories as well as I do,” he added, grinning at Edward now. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They reached such a state of intimacy that later, without realizing it, they were whispering to each other. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Construction of large-scale irrigation systems did not accompany the emergence of states but came only significantly later in each of those areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As we left, she said, “Goodness, you girls stay up late.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

An hour later, he was half-dozing when he heard a tap- tap on the bedroom door. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out in front, far away at the horizon, he could see lots of them, glittering blue in the late afternoon sun. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I told Liam and the others I’d meet with them about something. Can we maybe do this later? Or even tomorrow?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I’m going out. I’ll shake the snow off the branches,” Tayo said, remembering how one spring when a late snow fell he had helped Josiah and Rocky shake the budded apple trees. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“If you’re late, I’ll take every minute out of your hide. Or”—she tilts her head thoughtfully—“the slave’s, if you prefer.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s not too late to repent. Even angels are allowed to do that. Let me hear your confession.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Hanging in there, girl. You got that flowerbed looking good! I'm coming by later to get some of that Birds of Paradise.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

In England, Kuhn claimed, experimental science flourished from the late seventeenth century onwards, science conducted in the tradition of Bacon. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

When she opened her eyes again it was late, because the sun shone in through the back window. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A year and a half later, Phelps’s brother fought for her release from the asylum and offered her a place to live. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I hoped whoever was doing that part was just running late, but there’s no way three or four days could pass. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Then, a minute later, she turned her head one way, then the other, then she looked right at me before she pushed her little round cloth arms under her stuffed body and stood up. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

For that price, a parent with one child could afford to be late every day and only pay an extra $60 each month—just one-sixth of the base fee. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

As a teenager, Caroline became the drum majorette for the school’s marching band, went parking down by the Canoe Club with the boy who would become her husband a few years later. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had no place to run to, and even if I had, it was too late. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deborah would later say that it was Henrietta warning him to leave her family alone, because he was about to tell them something upsetting. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was getting late, but time seemed to stretch like taffy. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Four days later, on Election Day, Anthony opened her newspaper and read another article intended to intimidate her and the other women. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Yes, Bessie,” said I, after I had kissed her; “and I trust I am not too late. How is Mrs. Reed?—Alive still, I hope.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

So he was out somewhere in the snow, heading to Brunswick, when it was already too late, which he probably already knew, but he was going to Brunswick anyway. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

There was a nonpolitical prisoner among us, nicknamed Joe My Baby, who later joined the ANC and proved invaluable in helping us smuggle material in and out of prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A while later, Sophie felt a little of its warmth on her back and was grateful. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know. Go get your toothbrush for later.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was late afternoon, but the sun was still high in the sky. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

All through that summer and into the late fall the training went on. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your mom and I will talk about it some more later, okay?” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

A little while later the team came in and I heard somebody pull up a chair next to mine. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, the PA system crackled to life and Annemarie was called to the nurse’s office. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

There was a burst of static, and then a moment later an answer came back. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until later in life that she understood why it was so important to my father that Watende be a part of me. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The collection would later include Elizebeth’s books and papers as well as his, and the transfer had her full backing. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Regina Fischer bought a copy and read it carefully; the book was found in Bobby’s library years later, but whether he ever read it is unknown. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You want the truth? I’m uncomfortable and don’t want to be here right now. I’ll see you guys later.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“There had been some kind of accident with his horses late that night,” she said as she lighted it, inhaling deep and shaking her head slowly. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ron came back five minutes later, carrying three foaming tankards of hot butterbeer. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was too late to visit the dean of Tuskegee, so I went to the bus station and boarded a bus for Atlanta, via Auburn, Alabama. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In late 1864 and early 1865, Booth organized his own little band of conspirators, loyal to him and not the Confederacy. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I know that a lot of time must have passed because later on, when I opened my eyes again, I could see that it was dark outside the window. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, it should have occurred to me immediately what was wrong, but it did not, and a few minutes later he called from the bedroom. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

A couple of minutes later another comes over, nearer this time. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a green light and we ride on, finally reaching Pluto minutes later. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Half an hour later, the driver pulled over. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Finally, Mama says, “This is us,” pushes a button, and a few minutes later, we’re inside the museum. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Three knocks later, I stumbled to the door and unlocked it. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

To my surprise, a moment later, he doubles back and enters my room, and it’s as if Mom’s standing before me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The same pattern materialized later in the 1790s, when Jefferson embraced two misguided propositions about European affairs. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

A few hours later, I finished my walk to the Coddington Rehabilitation Institute. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He used to come home late in the evening in his Model A truck. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa didn’t get home until late and went to his room without any dinner. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I was beaten out of my senses and later I found myself in bed, screaming, determined to run away, tussling with my mother and father who were trying to keep me still. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even today, as late as now, I have a tendency to wince when I remember that I brought a dinner suit up to Les Amis with me. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

She called Pilate into her shack one day later. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, like a week later, my family decided that we should go to the Grand Canyon. During the first week of August!” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

An hour later we went into the fish market. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could buy a bunch of those and have enough energy to sustain us until later on in the day. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

By late medieval or Renaissance times, most of Eurasia had come under the rule of organized states. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

His family would later tell investigators that he went to the gym for an hour, then came home and studied the flight plan for that evening’s journey to Guam. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“If I had done that, you can be sure I would claim it. Face it, nobody wants you here. It was bound to happen sooner or later.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Less than five minutes later she stormed back down the stairs, with her cheeks all puffed out, and flung her apron on a chair. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Two weeks later workers scuffled with police outside City Hall. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And here it was late November, a year later, and we were riding over the pass in a rented Jeep to visit our husbands in prison. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could follow from what other people said or from the radio or TV later on. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was pretty certain they’d be along sooner or later, after they’d done—done whatever they were going to do with Father. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mouth lifts and she says, way too loud, “Did you get a callback to sing later, too?” and I just shake my head no, that they didn’t see anything worth liking about me. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Six days later, just when Mama and Nokomis were hoping that the scratching sickness had passed them over, Angeline did not rise from her blankets. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

What happened next is something that Aunt Joan told only my mother, years later, with the greatest of shame. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Colonial governments, and later the United States, frequently deployed rangers to quash Indigenous resistance and displace Indigenous nations. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

A tired half hour later, he could see his own house, the roof of the barn canting as if leaning a bent elbow on a dark line of cloud. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I have to fly out of town first thing tomorrow morning. I could, however, do a late supper tonight....” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“And yet,” Ximena pointed out, smiling in that sly way of hers, “you were still late today. Maybe we should charge you a dollar from now on?” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The Redcoats, a British officer later wrote, were suddenly under “heavy fire from all sides, from Walls, Fences, Houses, Trees, Barns, etc.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because he was looking at her, he didn’t see Milo swing until it was too late. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And knowing Pita’s loose tongue, Mamá was bound to find out sooner or later. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I shouted for Ricky and a moment later he came tearing around the side of the house. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

A month and a half later, the FBI discovered the three men’s bodies buried in a fifteen-feet-deep earthen dam. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Many years later, a teenaged job applicant named Bill Nichols casually asked Howard if he was the boy in the picture. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Get it back to me by midday tomorrow. Not a minute later. I’ll put a check on it in the afternoon. It needs a service.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Half an hour later, after unfolding the sad tale of Methuselah, the Abbot also took his leave. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She was late, so he pulled his phone out again. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then she remembered that Francie went further to school and came home a bit later. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In later years he would rest on the sofa in the drawing room and look at some old china and pictures that Etty had arranged. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Captain Fleery,” Lina said when she got to work, “would you have time to come home with me later on today? Just for a minute? I found something I’d like to show you.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

While I never met him, I had the opportunity to see him in action—see him by proxy rather, but I’ll get to that, to him, later. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Tanisha’s version of later is starting to feel like a heaping load of never. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The wagon train returns later in the afternoon with balloons tied to their chairs and silly hats on their heads. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

This is all I hear about it until several years later, when he sends a postcard of the Statue of Liberty from New York, which says: Got divorced. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hours later—or so it seemed—they were allowed to stand up again. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the map, the division line between slave and non-slave societies occurs in Virginia, broadly anticipating the Mason-Dixon line that later split slave states from free. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He later wrote his own book about his adventures with John Wilkes Booth. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been working on the chemistry of nucleic acids in Copenhagen—“a complete flop,” as he would later describe it—but Wilkins’s photograph entranced him. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

So I didn’t say anything as my teammates excitedly picked me for the next Games, which would be held in Rio four years later. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

At roll call a few days later, they told us we were being moved again. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorry I’m late. Mr. Lee took forever handing back homework.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Both my father and my grandfather were late starters so far as children were concerned. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kat said later that this was body language for how Salim thought his mother was crazy. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

My homeroom teacher, Miss Allison, a young white woman with glasses who generally ignored me, would shrug as I walked in ten minutes late, apologizing about a delayed bus. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two days later, when Johnny was taking in some ribbon syrup, he had a passenger. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They crossed the bridge into the city late that afternoon. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Although less given to hyperbole than Washington, Du Bois saw Durham in essentially the same positive light after visiting there less than a decade later. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Two days later, Finch writes: I am on the highest branch. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Too late, for as they spoke their captive became a lion, roaring and glaring terribly. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

An hour later, when the hole was mended and Frightful’s jesses removed, Molly and Jose were walking across the Delhi Bridge. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I would take my notebook and write dark poems, which I would often later discard. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Then I add, “Want to hit balls at the club later? It’s so gorgeous out.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Wiggles Stern-Douglass was going to challenge me to a handball match later this month. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I’ll have to explain it all to her later in Spanish. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“We should find your gate, and then I have to run. I’m already late.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“See you later,” he mumbled, and shoved his way up the aisle through pair after pair of sprawling legs. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Carl’s grandfather watched game shows on television the whole time, except when he occasionally got up to tell us we needed to hurry because he was late for work. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Only the pure urge, the one thing that never let me down, got me out of bed fifty minutes later. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

But the air force, which was the agency charged with space exploration in the late 1950s, refused to consider any woman for astronaut training. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Four years later the revolutionaries removed the French king’s head. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Lie wanted to duck his head, or throw his hands in front of his face, but it was too late. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

At some point, either then or later, the agency quietly removed items from the collection. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The late sun sifts through the bougainvillea trained to climb the walls of the patio, to thread across the trellis roof, to pour down magenta and purple blossoms. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

A moment later, two metal dogs raced toward them—automaton greyhounds, one silver and one gold. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Twenty-five years later, an original copy of I Was Tortured...was selling as a collector’s item for upward of $500. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Doris was okay with this mainly because she was always working late, and I would never get to hang out if I had to wait for her to come home first. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

If Cora’s own mask was occasionally askew, she proved adept at maintaining the disguise of Bessie Carpenter, late of North Carolina. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Just as Rochester was about to propose, I heard Gramps downstairs jangling his keys, and a moment later he walked in whistling. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Much later, when we were getting ready for bed, Caroline said, “I’ve got to get away from here before she runs me nuts.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, Princesse sat in Catherine’s bedroom as Catherine sketched her seated in a rocking chair holding a tall red candle in each hand. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Todd would later insist that he had been a spy, a plant—meant to glean information from the Syrians in the cage. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The real blow came twelve years later, when, as a consequence of a radical taxonomic reshuffle, lepidopterists decided that Pappachi’s moth was in fact a separate species and genus hitherto unknown to science. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left that place and he never went back; and late at night when his mother was gone, he cried because he saw the mound of pale yellow sand in a dream. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

So 1 said, “I’m going to be late for violin practice.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

As he’d guessed, Pearl was out with Trip that afternoon, and learned the news only when she came home some hours later to find Bebe—quiet now—still at the kitchen table. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Why did food production develop first in these seemingly rather marginal lands, and only later in today’s most fertile farmlands and pastures? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

So I got up late the next morning, a Thursday. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Emma wrote to one of her sons in later years, “We have been rather overdone with Germans this week.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's made to ward us off, in case we get lost on a rover EVA later on. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The moment the lower-status aspirant thinks he has located the nut under the shell, it has actually shifted, and he is too late.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

From her brief glimpse of the sky when she had tried to reach the nest before she was attacked, she guessed that it was now very late in the day. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I would have never guessed,” Stockdale would say many years later, “that commodores in charge on the scene of action are sometimes not allowed to blow the whistle on a screwup.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The nerve-grinding squeal of the spike cutting through the ground sent a shiver up Thomas’s spine, though a second later the Griever tumbled into the abyss. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Why do I have to be an hour late? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

A few seconds later he got off again and walked back to where Sasha now paced the sidewalk on bare, charred legs. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Almost twenty-four hours and a couple of embarrassing moments later, but here they were. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

A minute later, some goats shuffled out reluctantly. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I step out into the hot air of late afternoon and summer. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Between classes he scanned the faces in the hallways on the chance that the boy had come to school late. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can clean them later, but I do take a minute to shoot a few into a nearby tree. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Can you say it again?” he asked a few moments later. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I could wait and save it for later—whatever it is. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He later summed up his experience: “The Cubans seem to take chess more seriously....They feel more the way I do about chess. Chess is like fighting, and I like to win. So do they.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But it’s too late because the jury has heard the words and latched onto them—if he likes her, she must like him in return. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The device raised a clanging racket, sounding, Pollard remembered later, “like all hell breaking loose.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s in a miniskirt and tight leggings and flat clumpy black shoes with laces, her hair is shaved up the back the way my brother’s used to be, a late forties squareboy’s cut. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The last case was a plump tavern singer, accused of making a song that ridiculed the late King Robert. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The valves were already known, but Fabricius investigated them thoroughly and described them in detail, first in public demonstrations in 1579 and later in an accurately illustrated book published in 1603. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He does a fancy turn on his heel, aims two pointer fingers at us says, I'll catch up with all of you later. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

‘Black horsemen have passed through Bree. On Monday one came down the Greenway, they say; and another appeared later, coming up the Greenway from the south.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

An hour later, Oliver had done zero brainstorming. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

When she crept downstairs later, however, the garbage was empty. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“The answer is no, you didn’t, because no, I wasn’t. Besides, Finnegan was going to find something to fire me for sooner or later. I’m glad it was something worth getting fired over.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Kashdan responded to Bobby’s overture and later commented: “I had no real problem with him. All he wants to do is to play chess. He is a tremendous player.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A little later she was in the passenger seat of a police car, and the road along which she had come was winding its way through the hills. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Don’t think about any of that stuff....Too late. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

It was a bit late to repair the damage, but Harry swore to himself not to meddle in things that weren’t his business from now on. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Our mama shushes us, says, It's too late for presents and the like. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I scream before I can stop myself, and a second later, the creature's hand drops away. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

About a month later, the members of the 125th were honored again for their determined gallantry: they were renamed the 125th M. M. Raskova Borisov Guards. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He returned an hour later, and when he caught sight of me he paused mid-step, confused. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Sooner or later, nearly every family lost a father, brother, or son. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

A nurse appears to re-bandage me as he makes notes in my chart and says, “A prosthetist will be in later today to apply it.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

This is not usual, it isn’t our silent agreement: even when he stays out late he is always in by midnight. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A half hour later, dusk drops over the city of Serra, and I am following the Tribesman swiftly through the Mercator Quarter, home to the wealthiest members of the Martial merchant class. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And I could always do my A levels later, at 18. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“My very first day on the job,” he later said, “all hell broke loose.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Fifteen minutes, or eighteen thousand miles, later, a man named Billy Gruber from the Craig County, Oklahoma, sheriff's department phoned my parents—Mike and Tracy Easton—in an attempt to track down their son. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I’ll call her later. We’ll get her our new address as soon as we have it,” Nan said and gave my hand a squeeze. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“We have to do this tonight,” I said to Jay when we were in our room later. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

A year later, Marshall went even further, dismissing King as a “first-rate rabble-rouser.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You better come inside first and have something to eat. You can look for them later.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dadi was at the table a minute or two later, holding a silver container with an ornate lid. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then, as if to redeem herself, she adds, “I didn’t get involved until later.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if Uncle Camp heard that, but I know he heard what was said a few hours later when Hosie Roach, the mill boy, came in to ask for a job. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t there either, but when I tried half an hour later she was. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He even later wrote a book about the theory, which he called “Darwinism.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of days later Momma asked me to sit in the kitchen with her for a while. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some irrational part of me wanted to clutch it, hoard it for later. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

By late afternoon it had begun to snow and they went on with the tarp over them and the wet snow hissing on the plastic. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

C.P. himself seemed a bit conciliatory later, admitting that another cause of tension was "acts of agitation by—yes—by whites against blacks." The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The person on the left is Boethius, a Christian from about a thousand years later, who is using Arabic numerals. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The baboons straggled out from under the trees in the slanting golden light of late afternoon. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A similar suggestion was made a few years later by the French scientist the Marquis de Laplace, apparently independently of Michell. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two hours later Alba felt a warm viscous liquid between her legs and saw that her slacks were stained with red. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only five weeks later, Captain Robert F. Scott of England reached it, a heartbreaking second-place finish—and then died on the way back to his base. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“Give it time,” Arturo told me later that night when he detected the disappointment in my voice. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Jason drew his sword, but it was too late. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But I don’t have any of these things, and it’s too late to go out and buy any. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Six weeks later, a man named Martin Greenwalt called from New York and offered to represent me. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Want the light on or off? It’s getting kind of late,” he said, pausing by the light switch at the door. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He was, his son John would later remember, a person who brought an uproar with him wherever he went. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A minute and a half later, I’m ringing Hilly’s bell. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The main hurting would start later, I guessed, after the bleeding stopped and my leg started to get stiff. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hours later, the ice cream’s been eaten and the Peach has dropped and my neighbors have finally used up their fireworks. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

One senses Madison's matchless political savvy at work throughout the process, but also a preview of Jefferson’s defiantly bold behavior thirteen years later in pushing through the Louisiana Purchase. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The firm was now more than thirty days late in paying my invoice. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

By early April, he was down to 4:46; by late April, 4:42. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Captain Newport and his men return from the coronation a week later. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, in the late afternoon, the sun shone directly on the jar and lit it up so that it looked like a lamp. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Mr Cardinal fell silent again and for a moment - perhaps it was to do with his having evoked memories of his late father - he looked extremely melancholy. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Having an operation in the late afternoon meant having to skip breakfast and lunch. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I hated the flavor of canned milk, but Mami had told us that when somebody gives you something to eat, you eat it, even if you throw it up later. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

With the exception of her late brother Seymour, it should be noted, all her brothers had overly vibrant, not to say sinewy, voices on the telephone. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I nod and file the information away for later. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Your friend, Thomas I walked into a bakery seven years later and there he was. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ten years later in 1630, Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded by the Puritans. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, the girls return and report that whatever was out there is now gone. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ones who had gone to the movies in town came back a little later. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“This afternoon, late, if I’m not too tired,” said Charlotte. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

When I get back up on the Hill later that afternoon, Ella’s on the phone. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little later Bigwig brought the hutch rabbits up the hill and at once called everyone to meet in the Honeycomb. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Returning to the village late in the day, with her baskets and belly full of apples, Alyce cut through the manor field, near where the villagers had dug a pit for the quarrying of gravel. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Macy came home late from school and wouldn’t tell me why,” I said quickly. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

In late summer, I decided to finish my dissertation and to accept a one-year teaching assignment at Berkeley. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I allowed Adèle to sit up much later than usual; for she declared she could not possibly go to sleep while the doors kept opening and shutting below, and people bustling about. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Five minutes, ten minutes, twenty minutes later, his leg was stiff, the backside of his jeans damp from the grass, and the graveyard hadn’t revealed itself to be anything more than a graveyard. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

One morning in late October, Stanton asked her daughter Harriot to fix her hair and help her get dressed. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

At last the cold of the car roused him; he switched on the ignition key and a moment later headed in the direction of downtown San Francisco. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I heard the front door open and shut, and then a second later Mom burst into my room. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Or you could ride on the back of one of ours, and we could come back later for your bicycle,” Willem offers. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The letters Mother wrote back, painstakingly, late at night, when she’d saved up enough money for a stamp, contained plenty of news of Matthew and Mark, but never once had mentioned Luke’s name. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

A voice, Uncle Shepsel’s, cried out: “Jews! Repent! It is not too late!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Hours later, despite Roosevelt’s best efforts, he came back empty-handed. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The outer wall, raised many centuries later, was twenty feet lower, but thicker and in better repair, boasting octagonal towers in place of square ones. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A few months later and she would have cried if she’d been taken out. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The Box came late today, ain’t got time for the Tour. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Until that time, the sacrifices I had made had not gone much further than being absent from my wife and family during weekends and returning home late in the evening. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do not be late. And take my phone.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Trains are always late and always crowded with “servicemen.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, Wash made a detour on his way to school and left Naomi a note in case she beat him to the tree later: “How about Mexico?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I have to get to the vault before it’s too late. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“All right, you get back to your nap. Just wanted to say Merry Christmas...All right, now. Talk to you later.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

A little later in the morning they came around again, this time pushing a table on wheels. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

A few moments later, they heard the gun blast. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

A little while later Margot appeared in the kitchen doorway looking very agitated. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He was in a wheelchair—because he was so weak, I found out later, not because he couldn’t actually walk—and I’m not sure he recognised me when I went up and said hello. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of that legendary library, the most that survives today is a dank and forgotten cellar of the Sera- peum, the library annex, once a temple and later reconsecrated to knowledge. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Actually,” said Jake, “mouthwash wasn’t invented until the late eighteen hundreds....” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

"At once may be too late. I fear those birds have flown. But I shall do what I can, my lord. With your leave." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was already late afternoon, and I passed through spotted light, then brighter clearings, with grass so tall it bent from both sides to form a tunnel overhead, then back under trees again. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He should have expected that sooner or later the course of things would bring him to this pass. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They had no idea what his occasional late nights were about, and they didn’t want to ask. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“She died a year later during a surgical procedure to fix some of the damage. It was a fluke—an infection.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

An hour later the chopper set down at Tribhuvan International Airport, and we stepped out the door into a thicket of microphones and television cameras. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“When I saw Dane follow a short time later, I grabbed my club.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

A month later, I got a call from Mom. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A week later Duchess sensed another cold front bearing down from the northwest. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I wrote down the conversations my brother and I had when he was asleep late at night. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

"Ha! Good one, Rita-roo. Catch you all later," Eddie said as he joined his own pack of friends at a table near the window. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“We just better pray—” A few days later, Harriet was hired out again, as a child’s nurse. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, all these years later, my sister and I were reversing that journey and heading from Ohio to Texas. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I guessed that she knew Ambrose’s temperament well enough to know that if she bolted away and embarrassed him, he would make her pay for it later. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Like hell it is. Who called who? And who came two hours late? You’re gonna stick around till I’m sick of you. The hell with your lousy career.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, the two scholars looked up from their climb to watch the three griffins flying up a nearby slope, carrying the royal party. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes later, Lorena comes out the door with a gigantic grin on her face. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“It’s too late to start out. I want you to stay with Rudy and Pilar and head back tomorrow.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A habitual early riser, she began to sleep late. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Tobias emerges from the men's bathroom a few minutes later, his red Amity shirt replaced by a black T-shirt, and his short hair glistening with water. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I ate the fish some hours later, also some bread, jelly, oatmeal, and cream. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, when I had been at the hospital for about six weeks, Dad appeared alone in the doorway of my room. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dad took his cell phone out, and a moment later, Professor Thomas’s voice filled my bedroom. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Better to apologize later than to have to bury a friend. Or worse.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

A minute or two later she was sound asleep. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The train ran out in western Maryland, which is pretty far away, so we drove out late one afternoon and spent the night at a Holiday Inn. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

As we’re throwing our trash away, Isabella says, “Is it later yet?” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

We probably wouldn’t have the best seats in the Garden, since we’d have to buy our tickets late, but at least we’d be there. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Two days later, Roosevelt and Cherrie woke up not a second too soon to find their tent crawling with thousands of termites. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Twelve days later, on the evening of July 26, the men were ready to try the device on Garfield. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Plus, it’s one day later, and it’s October, so the days are getting shorter.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

This conversation happened a little later in the Martha’s Vineyard summer. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Do you think I could look at art schools in California? Maybe some of them are still accepting late applications. Plus, California is cheaper than New York.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was many years later, and far away, when I came across this passage in The Waste-Land: The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Others joined The Mercury Theatre late and assumed the worst. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later, in the port side gunnel just below the mast, they found a small fracture in the wood. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“What if we ask people to leave a couple of rows empty near the front so that we can gather there later in the afternoon?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

An instant later, the hulls came slamming together again, so hard the deck seemed to jump. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A TB epidemic, laced with MDR, had occurred in New York City in the late 1980s, largely targeting prisons, homeless shelters, and public hospitals. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

What the devil was he doing here if, as Fela argued later, she was working only with good spirits? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Years later, after her death, my dad would talk of how strange she had sounded when he first met her. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“You’re only going to want to find me later! All the others have!” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The night was growing late, and the children, exhausted, decided to adjourn. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“But it’s too late now,” the strange woman continued, tears now streaming freely down her puffy cheeks. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he mumbled something about coming to see him later that afternoon to go through the forms. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came back with him half an hour later. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

"You can take him, right?" he asks a couple minutes later. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

A few years later, when I moved into the Mosses’ home, I would be reminded of the cramped quarters and zooey smells I first encountered here. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Half a minute later she sticks her head back through the door and waves for us to follow. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Cyrus took Adam to walk with him one late afternoon, and the black conclusions of all of his study and his thinking came out and flowed with a kind of thick terror over his son. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Here you are, then,” said the driver, a surprisingly short while later, speaking for the first time as he slowed in Charing Cross Road and stopped outside the Leaky Cauldron. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Jaybird was as fair as it got,” Williams’s wife, Julia, remembered years later. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, Poppy woke up and made fretful noises, and Lina gave her the last of the peas in Doon’s pack. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Only later, in 1629, was a satisfactory technical term invented to identify unambiguously this new entity: it was called ‘the terraqueous globe’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later when the nameless man stood beside his desk in the front office of the old red county jail behind the courthouse, Sheriff Quinn stuck the will out in front of him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Master, I work only in the day at the stonecutting shop. And at night Gebu is often gone from home, often and very late.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Generations later we know he was released, but why and how is not told clearly anywhere. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

An hour later Dad was no longer grinning. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s not likely, Jeth, not before nine or maybe later.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would fall to later composers to take more daring liberties with harmony. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It was nice, picking in the cool late morning together. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Several days later, on the bus to Oxford, the notion came to me that each TMV particle should be thought of as a tiny crystal growing like other crystals through the possession of cozy corners. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I can’t just walk past the gate guards so late at night. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In the late winter of 1862, the deserters began pouring back into Illinois. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the war in Europe ended eight days later, it was overshadowed by the news from Baltimore that Caroline had been accepted by the Juilliard School of Music in New York on a full scholarship. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The...I’ll tell you later. God, I hurt, and I’m so tired. But it doesn’t matter. I’m home.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

But by the time he got approval, it was too late. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

A short time later, an optometrist examined my eyes and studied the spots on my blouse. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then later she waited on the front porch by herself for Mister Singer to come home. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

About fifteen minutes later there was a knock and the door opened. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Situation like this, we’d generally advise cutting in late fall. Less likely to disturb any nests.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Five years later, archaeologists remained unsure of the answers to such basic questions as where the geoglyph builders lived—the structures show no sign of habitation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Some ninth graders sat behind me, but when the Colonel walked up with Lara a moment later, he politely told them, “Thanks for holding our seats,” and ushered them away. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

That year, it held 150 young resisters; two years later it held 640. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

And I knew a lot of them would watch my brother play football later that day. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you doing up here this late?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I searched for Raizel, knowing that she stayed late to walk home with her mother. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

We needed to keep a low profile—if movies are to be believed, dockworkers have a reputation for punching first and asking questions later, if at all. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Years later Fufi died when a burglar was trying to break into our house. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The locomotives began to move east in late December. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Virtually the same applies in Egyptology, in which the study of the Ptolemaic “late period” has long been the neglected stepchild of a discipline engrossed by the Rameseses and Thut- moses of high antiquity. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The way I got to really know her, I had to stay after school one day for flipping spitballs, and she was staying late so Miss Neppie could help her catch up. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The committee made short work of US concerns that the bomb might come too late to affect the war. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s a little too late for all this, don’t you think?” he said. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She asked if she could get it to him later in the week, or by mail—whatever worked better for his schedule. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

More than a year later, when asked by a reporter whether she ever “tied the knot” with Fischer, Miyoko replied, “I’d rather not say,” and then added, “I prefer not to talk about private things.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You remember that day,” he asked much later, “when you come into the store?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She was immediately enamored by it, fascinated, but there wasn’t time for further investigation here, so that would have to wait until later. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But late at night, Cole also remembered the baby sparrows. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

On late Sunday afternoons before evening church services, old women who were carbon copies of herself came to the apartment to share leftovers from the Sunday meal and religious talk of a Bright Hereafter. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s going to be okay. Take a deep breath. I’ll call you later.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon it began to rain. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The loser of the watch, the person from whom it had been stolen by us, I later found, had described the repair that it needed. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Four of us went to see him,” Paul later wrote. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Fang never did come back, but Faith really surprised me by returning an hour or so later, with her face back in place and ready to sell more shirts. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Years later, when other men and women who’d served in the military in the Soviet Union’s Great Patriotic War referred to their units, they’d call them by their official name or by their regiment number. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Or did he stumble upon it while trying to stave off the boredom of an interminable faculty meeting, as he told Wideroe at their only face-to-face meeting many years later? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Numerous persons later said they saw two men rushing toward the stage, one with a shotgun, the other with two revolvers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later Captain Brannon stood in front of Bull’s desk. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went to bed, but I was still awake hours later when I heard a pickup roar up the hill. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Less than two years later, the organization had more than nineteen thousand members. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I needed to look at his work schedule, and he’d left his laptop on, because he’d run out late for a meeting. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I gotta get you to a doctor ’fore it’s too late,” he gasped. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I told her we were already too old, it was already too late. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today I found a photograph taken by our late father. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Toward late afternoon, when one side of the shed was already deep in shadows, she heard footsteps, the bolt drew back, and the constable’s face peered through the door. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

"I cannot find good wine at any price of late." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Send the empty cans down a trash chute, pocket the full ones for later, flip sofa cushions smeared with blood, wipe traces of gel from the tiles. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Grammy is going to be late from work, so I sit with my back against Olive’s Tree, watching the Laskos’ windows like they are television sets. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Still, it was enough to keep everyone in a seat as they pondered what Vogel told them. "... and then mission would conclude with Earth intercept two hundred and eleven days later," he finished up. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa had told me that was a real sight, the way the bats come out in the late afternoon. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

And later, for a split second, leaving the gym. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Reams of ‘work-sheets’ were destroyed in the desire not to bury completely all posterity under a mammoth paper mausoleum,” she later joked. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon Mary took Will and Lyra along the riverbank, past the fishing posts where the nets were tied, and through the wide salt marsh toward the sea. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And years later, it was also to be the starting point for my work in theoretical physics. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was going to the late show by myself and had left Kermit at home. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe some of them would show up later in the week, but he doubted it. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon Frightful flew back to the culvert. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

There have been, of late, journeys of weeks or even months, to France and Germany and Greece, filled with more studying than sightseeing. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later, just after our wake-up call, I heard a sound in the courtyard that made me uneasy: it was the thud of picks and shovels on the ground. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lolo’s going to be in trouble with her later, for sure. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

And they objected to making discrimination against women part of the Constitution, fearful that it would make it more difficult for women to establish their rights at a later date. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

But months later, when I had become a civilian and Delacruz had become an inmate at a medium-security prison, I wrote him a letter, with my post office box as a return address. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can always sneak my food out and hide it somewhere until it is found later by one of our helpers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was never late or absent and she asked nothing more than to pass at least two of her courses. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And later she also dropped the bags of wheat flour and rice and kept walking like this for many miles, singing songs to her little girls, until she was delirious with pain and fever. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later he was down the bank and limping up the track, pausing from time to time to sit up and look about him for an Efrafan patrol. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Never in my wildest dreams did I think to put the girls in gymnastics,” Mom admitted years later. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Seconds later, I heard Justice’s strangled voice pronounce the same phrase. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Cynthia knew that later he would open it, read it, then forget he'd read it, and believe he wrote it. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Ma wouldn’t allow it, and neither would Monday, for reasons I wouldn’t know until much later. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They were “clamping down on every thing that he did,” Elizebeth later wrote. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Nobody had the heart to tell him to save some for later. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They had all agreed to meet later that afternoon at Rogers Peet clothing store, where they were scheduled to pick up their newly tailored clothes. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Miss Whitlaw came out a moment later with one of her heavy wooden kitchen chairs. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the war, I'd be able to hear the music from halfway down the block, first a melody played by my mother and then a student's plodding, clunky version a few seconds later. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“My friends are visiting later,” I say, shrugging sadly. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Two days later the three men stared at each other. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I had a letter from her yesterday. Down in my room. Show it to ya later,” Clay said, listlessly. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Grant’s later years were filled with travel and, later, financial upheaval. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a few months later, but it’s not addressed to David the way some of the others have been. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She wondered how many other things she would have forgotten, both big and small, things that she wouldn’t have even known that Peach needed until it was too late. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

On November 4, they were unusually tired, having stayed up late the night before writing a paper for Russian Lit. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“It was Lawrence’s genius for understanding a new phenomenon when he had only a glimpse of it,” Livingston marveled years later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Eighty years later, I remember every word he said to me. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a full moon, and it’s late at night, and I’m peering out my window at Nino Carlitos, who is drunk and banging on the front door. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had drunk much wine and late after midnight he went to bed, tired and yet agitated, nearly in tears and in despair. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, about in late 1934,1 would guess, something began to happen. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Saidy later related, the house was subjected to an unending media barrage. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Just as the latter was getting uneasy some workmen came past the door bound for his restaurant and Michaelis took the opportunity to get away, intending to come back later. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I’d sometimes hear her chewing out her students for not having practiced enough or chewing out their parents for delivering them late to lessons. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, it had very few military men with the right skills—“possibly three or at most four persons,” Elizebeth later wrote. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He was shivering in his sleep when they came for him, late that night. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Panofsky, who had risen precociously in his two years at Berkeley to the rank of associate professor, detested the very idea of the oath, but signed— “reluctantly,” as he put it later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Next to her is the keynote speaker, Hunson Greene, head of the New York Baptists Ministers Conference and a tremendous speaker, who also happens to be the brother of Mommy’s late best friend Irene Johnson. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Years later, Dasch would finally learn why the commission had found him guilty: "a last minute change due to fear when he arrived in the United States." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later: two guns to his head. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

No, he later explained, because the Pentagon Papers did not really belong to Daniel Ellsberg. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A few days later, I studied her while we washed paintbrushes in the janitor's room. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Mark Fossie was busted to PFC, shipped back to a hospital in the States, and two months later received a medical discharge. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was blowing so hard that the drifting boats would not be going out and the boy had slept late and then come to the old man’s shack as he had come each morning. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

An hour later, about twenty of us were sitting in a Denny’s in Spokane. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Reports issued early in the year 1949 declared that the arsenic-resistant ticks could be controlled readily with the new chemical; later in the same year, a bleak notice of developing resistance had to be published. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It is understood between us by now that it is never too late, but I go through the ritual politeness of asking. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought she was unreasonable to hold me accountable for policies I was opposing,” he said many years later. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A person’s indentured status did not pass to later generations, but children born to an enslaved person would also be enslaved. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was too late to get a refund anyway, and besides, he didn’t want Dimple Shah to think he’d come all this way simply for her. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

"Well, we all have that, Buck. Really, we’ll talk about it later." The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You may as well go to bed; it’s late.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their backup meeting was scheduled for a couple weeks later on the corner of Ninety-Sixth Street and Central Park West in Manhattan. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have been,” said Mr. Wopsle, exalted with his late performance,—“we have been indulging, Mr. Orlick, in an intellectual evening.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

He showed up late, just as Coach blew his whistle and a chaotic warm-up came to an end. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We shouldn’t have been so late; there was laundry work to do and Chinese school to get to by 5:00. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were getting ready for the party, but the time was getting later and we weren't hurrying. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Two hours later I talked Ma out of it. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you call Travis to tell him you were running late?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He attempts to get out of the car, but it’s too late now for that. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Two years later, in June 2012, we won a constitutional ban on mandatory life-without-parole sentences imposed on children convicted of homicides. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A moment later she rushed out into the dusk, waving her hands and shouting; before he could move from his door the business was over. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

And had he come along a few years later, the little window that gave him the chance to write the supporting code for the Internet would have closed. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

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

In the late 1960s, when I was five or six, Baba decided to build an orphanage. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, my bedroom door creaked open. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Three nights later in the foothills of the eastern mountains he woke in the darkness to hear something coming. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

A moment later, something heavy dragged after the boot steps, and liquid leaked through the wood slats of the barn floor into the cellar. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

And a moment later, out from the door of the farmhouse came a long file of pigs, all walking on their hind legs. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Conor put his hand up to his mouth too late to catch a bit of blood coming out of the corner. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she would regain her senses minutes or hours or half a day later, shaking her head to un-addle her brains, and wondering what on earth she had been doing, or for how long. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

When Bernard and I reached your mother, it was too late. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Two months later, the family hears from a man who was among the group headed north. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

A few months later, a reporter from Collier’s magazine by the name of Bill Davidson contacted Gey—he was planning to write a story identical to the one Berg had proposed. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When I woke up hours later, Mommy was sitting at the foot of my bed, whipping belt in hand. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t going to go to work because I planned on attending Bodega’s funeral later on that day. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I sent Dr. Runciman the draft, and a few days later we met in his office. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A moment later our intercom buzzed, a jarring blat-blat that punched right through my flesh and bones. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Zola thinks about this, and then she goes away and later that day she brings to me a poppet dolly that she has made out of a dish towel and many colored ribbons. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

The world shifted again a few weeks later. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

As late as Shakespeare’s time, scientists talked about the revolution of orbs of different proportions and discussed the heavenly music that reverberated throughout the cosmos. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

On stage a few minutes later, Leslie Groves handed Oppenheimer a scroll— a certificate of thanks from the government to Oppenheimer and the Los Alamos staff. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He confessed to me in later life that he knew even then that his greatest pleasure lay in teaching. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“If anyone tried to live by the letter of the law, it was me,” he said later, in an interview published by the Ambassador Report. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Lately Sam had been showing up to my competitions late, if at all, and dressed like he was going out clubbing in Harlem in the 1920s. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I hesitate—I know it’s already too late, the doors are about to close, I’m in the middle of the carriage, I won’t be able to push my way through the crowd in time. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And years later I found out my brother was wrong. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I will question her later and tease out her purpose. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Less than twenty-four hours later, Bunny was dead. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He shouted to the clerk of scales to hang on, raced to the bathroom, emerged a moment later with his pants still at half mast, and made weight. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two days later the girl found the two hundred and thirty-two dollars that Fay kept in her dresser drawer, and disappeared with the money. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

At some point in the woman’s lunge toward Joe he realized that a stick wasn’t much of a weapon against the dead, but it was too late. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“I won’t lie and tell you it don’t break my heart. But there’ll be plenty of time later for the cursing and the shouting. Right now we need to focus on our next move.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He was neither clever nor sensitive, but he was loyal—stubbornly sometimes, and even annoyingly and stupidly so in later life. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The principal had to stay late to help, and they had to arrange two special late buses to get all the kids home. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went back inside and returned a few minutes later carrying a saltcellar. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But today I was, later even than I had to be. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, Bobbette Lacks walked down the stairs and through the living room slowly, wearing a faded blue terry-cloth robe. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Years later, a record of the fateful voyage was discovered among some artifacts in Arctic Canada. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

She knew that sooner or later word of her return to Tres Marias would reach the boy and that the call of love would overtake him no matter where he was. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two months later, when I was back at college, our relationship hit a wall. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Two days later, Reggie went missing, apparently having wormed his bulky body through a tiny rent in the corner of the pen. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I’d hardly ever been to the Kingsfield in those days, so Ruth and I had to consult the map a number of times on the way and we still arrived several minutes late. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That seems late for—” I say, but then something distracts me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

About five minutes later, Garrett pulls his favorite and most frustrating travel maneuver. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

After consulting the horizon on all four sides, she tore what was left of her quilts into several strips and resolved to polish the banister poles at a later time. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

According to Cicero, he was executed some years later when an asp was slipped into his hammock—his end providing a fitting case history for another book on statecraft. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

I resolved to stay late the next night. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

But this time it wasn’t heat lightning, for a few moments later a low mumble, still far away, announced at last the coming storm. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could either run or try to take it away before it was too late. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

A few days later, the second jolt arrived in the form of the January 1 issue of Physical Review. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Then, there would be the whole day, until very late in the evening, before anyone could possibly find out. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“Then maybe later we can go for a tour on a canal boat.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

And I told him I went to sleep late. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But by the late twenties, as he had witnessed the menacing rise of eugenics in the United States, he had begun to reconsider his enthusiasm. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Working nights and weekends, she finished the job in late December. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I hate the heat of late summer,” Polly remarked, her hair sticking to her face in the humidity. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980s: that Afghans are an independent people. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Fifteen minutes later, my phone finally buzzes as I’m sitting down for lunch in the food court. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Kat said later that we spent the next hour darting around the South Bank like headless chickens. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

A day later, on Sunday, it was the Under Fifteens’ turn for a big away game, against a Roswell Soccer Club team called the Santos, from an affluent suburb north of Atlanta. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Jobs came of age breathing the air of the very business he would later dominate. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Then came the crime wave of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He had been riding on instinct, reflex, but now his heart caught in his throat: I am too late. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Lannis- ters of easterly Rock had come late to Robert's cause, when victory was all but certain, and he had never forgiven them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He wondered if it was too late to write team leo on his shirt. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Esme laughed and clapped her hands, and when a bomb fell close by a moment later, causing the clay man to lose his balance and fall into the tub, she only laughed harder. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Six months later, I was a fighter pilot flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

A late fall of snow threw the evening light upward into the chamber, shining on the ceiling more than on the floor, so as to alter the usual shadows. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he later recorded in his diary: All operations other than feeding, observation and cleaning were to be suspended. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was on a Saturday in late October, some time after four o'clock. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some hours later, Creon in the palace was startled by a shout, “Against your orders Polyneices has been buried.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s going to make me disappear an hour later? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“That’s no way to speak to your mother. Okay, Sweet Pea, hurry up and eat your breakfast. You don’t want to be late for school and keep Monday waiting.” Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Civil service reform in the late nineteenth century reduced patronage and corruption and introduced a merit system that allowed blacks to get a foot in the door. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

And just a second later, when she pulls away, her eyes are fully wet, like two of the three rivers that converge at one point in downtown Pittsburgh. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Less than an hour later, a house came into view. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes later I had to start talking to keep Miles awake. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Kali said: “Never mind. There will be many later on. You have plenty of time.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I offered to come back later, his is girlfriend said no, she’d be happy to wake him. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

A moment later, the great round ball disappeared into a cloud, and the people on the ship never saw it again. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, yes. I saw her downstairs reading When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead. We’ll reach her later. It’s nearly noon and I’m eager to move on to the next round of our competition.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Moments later they flew over the Dancing Trout, and over Milagro, and they circled over it all again. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not even a second later, Park landed on top of her. park She felt so good underneath, even better than he'd expected. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Of course, David. It’s late, and Tally has a lot to digest.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Half an hour later Daisy herself telephoned and seemed relieved to find that I was coming. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Three weeks later, things had started to settle down. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Kenny always set it early in the mornings, knowing that by evening it would be late. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minutes later they were sitting inside the old blue van, eating corn tortillas and drinking coffee from the thermos. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Ellis arrives at my door a few minutes later. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“We are going to be late if I braid your hair again,” I say. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Sometime later Stanley saw a tarantula crawl across the dirt, not too far from his hole. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

An hour later, my belly is full of pizza, but I’m still confused. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

It was growing late, and Miss Bates became anxious to get home, on her mother’s account. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Three hours later, they were still engrossed in conversation. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Fifteen minutes later, Lopsang arrived at the South Summit on his way down from the top and encountered Harris.* Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

But too late; he had already told her, and he could see by her face, by the flicker of sudden aversion, that she knew. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The lieutenant had decided Mudd was guilty of something and he would arrest him sooner or later. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the last week or two, Dad had been coming home very late every night. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A minute later he dropped the test out the window. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

We later found out that privately, despite the confidence expressed in his statements to local media and to 60 Minutes, Chapman had begun to worry about the reliability of the evidence against Walter. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

By the time she was back on her feet, it was late September. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Every night we’d stay up late, listening to his Caribbean adventures. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He simply carried on where Dufay left off, thickening and embellishing the polyphonic choral style that you would have heard almost anywhere across Europe in the later fifteenth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“These are the kinds of pictures that they will later lay over the image of a champagne glass or something,” Ma said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The second story was dated six weeks later. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two weeks later he returned with even more disturbing news. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We reached the beach late in the afternoon. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

We finally got tickets and a few hours later, another train came. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“My father paid several cattle for my mother, and later the two got a certificate at the Marriage Court.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Two minutes later the door hung sagging on the staple alone. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few months later, when school let out for the summer, Mom and Dad took us to Heidelberg to look at the stalls and stalls of puppies. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Dinner is to begin at five thirty with cocktails, and Miss Anderson doesn’t want to be late. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Two years later he invented the differential calculus. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Were you at the Tallahatchie River when a body was pulled out three days later?” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Once they got finished slapping you with pay deductions, late fees, and interest penalties, you wound up owing them more each month, instead of less. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“No, J.B. First he was Mother’s father, and then later he caught typhus and died.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

An hour later she was lying on her canopy bed in the clean white cotton nightdress which Betty had found for her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then at one point halfway through the month, she herself suggested upping the amount of the penalty she would give us for being late from one dollar to five dollars. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“But did you not say he gave the scroll to Wenamon, later?” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I arrived by bus in Biloxi too late to find any Negroes about, so I walked inland and slept, half-freezing, in a tin- roofed shed with an open south front. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Thain’s Book was thus the first copy made of the Red Book and contained much that was later omitted or lost. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Five months later, when asked to complete a short profile for a Who’s Who of notable American women, Elizebeth sent back a long letter. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The old man could not know that he was giving Blanca something that would later be her only means of survival, as well as her sole comfort in the sad hours to come. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I finally turned forward it was too late. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

This one couple, whom I was told later were very popular and in love, stumbled into my room and asked if I minded them using it. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Several days later, expectant, I arrived at my first construction site. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My new powers lasted until I went to sleep, and that was really late because I was up watching my family’s clouds interact with one another. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

When I had sorted out the planks and shaped them, the work went fast, so that by late spring I was ready to finish the seams. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

An hour later, Thomas sat in front of the Keepers for the Gathering, just like he had a week or two before. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

When we bring the kite down later, though, David sees a groundhog, and next thing you know he’s after it—the groundhog zigzagging this way and that, David yelling like crazy. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stitches dropped themselves and later reappeared at random so that the long striped scarf I was knitting bulged in the middle like a python after dining on a rabbit. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I'm ten minutes late to work because I wanted to be. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

A minute later, Fern was seated on the floor in the corner of the kitchen with her infant between her knees, teaching it to suck from the bottle. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Neither Pa nor Miss Marva Hendrix gave me much to work with, but sooner or later, I’d come upon a clue and piece things together. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Half an hour later, the bottle was empty and I was starfished on the hall floor, admiring the crystal chandelier spinning slowly overhead. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Malfoy came back a minute later, holding what looked like a newspaper clipping. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

We got there late, and the party was already raging. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, he continued to play into late fall, until the weather became too cold and damp. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He’s doing something I can’t quite see, but a moment later, I hear a click—as though a lock was tripped or a trap disarmed. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was more than a week later before Nat got around to what he had wanted to tell Elizabeth’s mother—about returning the dowry. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I get up three snooze alarms later, I feel worse. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Bill Clinton traded in a hand of low cards with the help of a college education and a Rhodes scholarship and emerged decades later with four face cards. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Twelve days later, we received our first correspondence about the Plant. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She later discovered a charred patch where someone had started a fire. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Then I do something really bad, and I’m just going to fully disclose it here because I can edit it out later. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

So as we sat around the campfire later Uncle talked while Auntie nodded as if he were telling fascinating stories. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then she said she’d call again later, and I went to bed with my stomach so tangled up in knots I couldn’t sleep. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

His temperature was slightly elevated, especially late in the day, though the doctors thought it was nothing to worry about. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Stop. It’s too late tonight. We’ll have to go tomorrow. Sit down and calm yourself. Think back. You said we were coming back from the river,” he prompted. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Finish it later. The inspection team is due in soon and we will shine when the general troops the line.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They staggered after Luke, but it was too late. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Eight months later one of the boys was stricken with acute leukemia. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She and her late husband had once been friends with many Japanese officials, but that was before Japan and the United States had gone to war. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Instead, he was a fairly successful doctor in California who later lived in Asia. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

A second later, cool night air pours into my room, and I drag my eyes open to see Aspirant Aquilla silhouetted in the door. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

By the time the late arrivals straggled in at 7:52 and the bell for first period was ringing, the hallways were crammed with gleeful students, bewildered secretaries, and furious teachers. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“For all the world,” as Mrs. Banks said to her husband later, “as though she were doing us a signal honour.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

My question is, if he really had killed his father, why would he come back three hours later? Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a second later a soft push of wind brought her feet back to solid ground. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Remains of rice and millet at later Taiwanese sites provide evidence of agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Kind of late to be discovering this, no?” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

A few seconds later the square was empty. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flower garden, as always, was thriving and well tended, with late roses in bloom and fall asters fat with bud. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I found out later that it had eight sides instead of being built in the shape of a square. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the late 1980s, however, not only conservatives played leading roles in the get-tough movement, spouting the rhetoric once associated only with segregationists. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A month later, we moved into the Camden Village town houses right off the Camden exit on Highway 85 South. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Only too late did I realize what her look meant. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

And then a couple of months later when she liked Jason Hatami, we hung out at his dad’s hardware store on the weekends, just in case Jason stopped by. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Too late he saw a familiar hunched figure emerging from the rear door of the shop, directly next the pouring table. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

We’re escorted through the gates, and moments later, the slaver is circling me, sweating in the heat. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

More than a decade later, she told a confidant that the raid “was what one might have expected of Nazi Germany, but not of the United States.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I watched them play from a distance until a few minutes later, when her Barrier spell dissipated. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

"I know about that. I've drawn a line. I'll explain later. Bear a bit to our left, both you horses. Ah—here it is!" The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The detective wouldn’t tell us anything more, but Shelly filled us in by phone later. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I spent the whole three hours of their last visit gripping my Colt .32 so tightly that four days later my hand is still stiff. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He will later bite someone, and both dogs will be given away. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Food was brought to him upon trays and an hour later the trays were taken away, untouched. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“No mistakes today, guys. If we nail everything on the first take, we can head home later tonight. If not, we’ll need to spend another night in the city.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Few minutes later, I go back to her bedroom to get the dirty clothes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I was greatly relieved a few moments later when I saw the colonel walking back to the car with two cans of Coca-Cola. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recall listening to him tell it to visitors when I was a child, and then later, when I was starting out as a footman under his supervision. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

But when we met up outside ten minutes later, togged up and ready to go, Katz was looking miserable. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She throws down two more stalks, and moments later three ragwort ponies snort the air and snuffle at the ground. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“No luck. We better get going before it gets any later,” Seven said. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

A week later, they took the shield off. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could send a telegram later, claiming illness. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had light hair and fat dimpled cheeks that later became high cheekbones. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They had rowed, as he would himself remark to reporters later that afternoon, “better than they had ever rowed.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A bit later a few men in dark coveralls emerged, and Joe spotted his father immediately. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We arrive at the water port late in the afternoon, but the sun is still hot and beats down on us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll get them later,” he said to mollify me, then slammed the door. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Hazel—the danger, the bad thing. It hasn’t gone away. It’s here—all round us. Don’t tell me to forget about it and go to sleep. We’ve got to go away before it’s too late.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later the plane passed directly overhead. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I stay up late fixing this for y’all, and all you can say is ‘tomorrow’? Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was not yet hobbled by guilt about his mother and brother; that would come much later. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Three months later, a six foot, two-hundred-fifty-pound army colonel named Leslie Groves was walking down the hallway of a congressional office building on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as possible, which was three days later, Malcolm hurried to the priory to learn more about the child of the famous explorer. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, the panel at the top of the stairs slides open. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The younger boys, who had never been up this late, responded to the generalized slackening of discipline by either tearing up and down the stairs or falling fast asleep on the parlor rug. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

A moment later, we heard the engine of the police car scream to life and tires skidding in the dirt, scaring our chickens into a bunch of squawking. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“He incited a great deal of interest in chess here,” one of his teachers said later. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It is too cold and dark to play, and the hour is too late. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Among them was a precocious and stunning young drama student named Frances Farmer, who less than two years later the rest of them would be watching on the silver screen. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“You say there is hope for Sohrab? I pray you don’t lie, Agha. But... you may well be too late.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, it is kind of late,” said Sierra. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I didn’t hear when Mustafa got back, but it must have been pretty late. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Forty-two shots later, my arms wobble and I miss one. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You shovel like a disznó. A pig. You cannot toss the ground aside like an old rag. Then it will not help you later. Use a hoe, there by the shed.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

“Being called dumb as a man who slept late the mornin’ they handed out brains?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She had been saved for no good reason, and it was now too late to go back and save her babies. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And she boosted me up so I could get a drink. And imagine, all these years later and we’re married and have two kids.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

"I will leave you here, Camellia, to get acquainted and witness the toilette ritual that only befits a princess and future queen. I'll see you later this evening for the royal games and banquet." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

They emptied their glasses, and a moment later Julia stood up to go. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Often they stayed late into the night, eating and talking with Grampa and Dad about Gramma. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He patted me on the back and said, “I wouldn’t be late.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve often thought about that day, and I’m sure now, in the light of what happened later, that we only needed to ask and Miss Lucy would have told us all kinds of things. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore skirts when everyone else wore jeans and had a singing voice so clear and powerful that she’d end up touring years later as a backup singer for Roberta Flack. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Sooner or later, he warned, the city would feel God’s displeasure. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I thought he’d fallen asleep, but a moment later he said, ‘You got called a lot worse things than neek at my school. It was all boys, no girls, and really rough stuff.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not asleep when they themselves finished a late silflay and went underground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moments later there was a distant glint of sunlight on metal, followed by a muted thwack. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was worried now that it was almost too late. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

People will kill first and wonder about their motives later. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I saw them one spring in Cannes and later in Deauville and then they came back to Chicago to settle down. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Several weeks later, his transfer orders came through: he was being sent to Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He tapped on the kitchen window with a stone to make it easier to hear, and a moment later Alice opened the door and came out. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t expect you to be home. Should I come back later?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Of course Digory did not realize the truth quite clearly either, or not till later. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The post was picked up and delivered more than once a day—a few times, in fact, depending on where you were— and it arrived at its destination later that day or the next. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, in an attempt to avoid his nightmares, he began to read, late at night, which was when his motionless body felt most restless, his mind agile and clear. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She took up a place near the archery targets; Nox joined her a moment later, and started firing his knives at the target. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“You know,” said Rawiya, “if everyone’s late to homeroom tomorrow, how long will it be before they start writing us up for being tardy?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Sighing, she said, “What were you doing out so late anyway?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two minutes later, Reid was back in my office. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty minutes later, he emerges from the bathroom a new man. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Then if you kept asking: “But is it a bumper crop?” they’d sooner or later smile and say: “Oh, I’d say so, sweetheart. A real bumper crop,” bringing a thrilled cheer. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up and saw a heavily built man, probably in his late sixties, wearing a rather tired tweed jacket, his shirt open at the neck. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

She had to leave earlier in the morning than Neeley and she got home much later. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt too late to do anything but hide, so they hurried out of History and into Fiction. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

George handed the hairpin to Ron and, a moment later, Hedwig soared joyfully out of the window to glide alongside them like a ghost. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

They'd leave early in the morning and come home late, looking wilted and tired. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon a new prisoner was brought through the bus-station doors. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

If there are any dangers Over There—well, it would be a pity to arrive a moment too late.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“It was obvious,” Teller said later, “that Oppenheimer did not want to support further weapons work in any way.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half an hour later, Ear opened the door for a flustered, damp- looking man. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, he later claimed that the guards brutalized him and deprived him of food. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In later years, I would tease her about this early allegiance, telling her that had she not met me, she would have married a leader of the NEUM. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This girl is not our concern. And you are late. We dare not keep him waiting.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think about saying no, except it could cause me trouble later. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Even years later, Mrs. Richardson would insist that that digging into Mia’s past was nothing more than justified retribution for the trouble Mia had stirred up. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He could fake it for now and look her up later. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He returned four minutes later with the principal in tow. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

A moment later the door of the upper room banged shut. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Alone in the observatory late one night, I heard the telephone ring persistently. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hours later, under a sliver of moon, Petra was almost asleep. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He said he had also had to cancel his planned trip to Jackson, Mississippi, which he was going to try and make later. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Parvati set off for Divination five minutes later looking slightly crestfallen. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I'd squat down to pet the cat and wake up on the floor eight hours later, having lost a perfectly good excuse to change my clothes. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Lafayette failed to kidnap Arnold, who slipped away and, in later raids in Connecticut, burned warehouses, ships, and much of New London. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was sure he would take out his anger on me later, but even so, it was a good moment. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

To what end would God create species only to wipe them out later? A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Charlie’s legs stuck out from under the Wrangler when I trudged home twenty minutes later, and country music filled the morning silence. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I had charge of serving breakfast; in the late afternoons I carted trays of food to patrons in the hotel who did not want to come down to eat. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Mom called to remind me that I was late delivering the casseroles, I had finished typing up the obituary. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When she sprinted down to the beach a minute later, she found the boys had moved on from scales to guts. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

At the hospital, Luis jumped out of the truck and came back not a minute later with a nurse, who took one look at Maribel and called for a gurney. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

There would be time for that later, she told herself, after women had won the right to vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

A moment later Andy desperately pawed the zippered door open and barely managed to thrust his head and torso outside before vomiting. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

When the rescuers arrived a moment later, they found April lying on the ground and Marshall squeezing out to meet them through the fence. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door was leeward, but we all knew that later the wind would shift. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. and Mrs. Monroe were hurrying in and out of the room, stepping over us, late for work. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Can I put these in your special bowl later?” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was late at night when the city of Rio de Janeiro first came into view, and the ship finally passed the famed Sugar Loaf peak, which marked the entrance into Rio’s calm natural harbor. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

And thankfully, her mother was busy with the vegetable garden, so she didn’t notice Stella slipping in a little later than usual. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

An hour later, they were taking everything out into the yard. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the later poets, Artemis is identified with Hecate. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later I walked down the stairs, the Story Box on my back, to give my first official performance as Anansesem to the most dangerous audience I could ever imagine. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I’ll have to ask her more about her family later after we do this thing. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

As it was too late to regain my dignity, I resolved yet to free the lamb. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

My parents scheduled me for ankle surgery a couple of weeks later. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Two hours later, when Frightful again turned the eggs, there was still no movement. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She’d see how I drank a bottle of tequila and ate the worm later on to forget and feel better about the whole thing. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Now that her sister and niece were visiting, Brave Orchid went to the laundry later. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The innkeeper ducked into the back room and emerged a few minutes later carrying a tray loaded with hot bread and steaming bowls of stew. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Momma says she doesn’t want any big kids knocking on our door that late, and she tells me it’s time for bed even though I’m not even a little bit tired. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, her hair was hot-oiled and wrapped in a towel so tight, it hurt her forehead. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

In the late sixties the Warden quit his sales job and turned to teaching. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

A couple of minutes later, he was snoring like mad. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

A few days later Nat was ready to start learning Spanish; he had a dictionary, a grammar, and a New Testament. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stones rattled behind him; an instant later, Eilonwy dropped to the ground. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Sparrow darted out into the garden and came back a moment later holding... Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A minute later, she heard Shay swimming for shore. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It will get chilly later, so she wears her jeans and an orange T-shirt. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A little over five minutes later, a brick sign surrounded by colorful shrubs welcomes us to Brook Falls. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

But he also loved the noise, which came later in the day. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sooner or later, we are bound to get into trouble with this word. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hours later she was awakened by thunder shaking the old silo. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

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

I learned later that Dr. Luce had emphasized the medical risk in letting my condition go untreated. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“So do husbands, I suspect. By then it is too late, for they are yoked to each other like oxen for the long haul.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry,” says the gate agent, not sounding sorry at all, “but as the last to purchase, I’m obliged to reschedule you to a later flight.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Complains bitterly about the handling of the army at Gettysburg, is later given a command of his own: the Army of Tennessee. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But later that morning, Fifth Wife was smiling again, prancing around in a new dress and new shoes. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest I fill with Hairy Chest Blend because it sounds highly caffeinated and maybe I can stay up late to finish the tapes. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I hear Poe’s annoyed voice shout down the hallway to me, followed by the sound of his door slamming shut a few seconds later. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m not asking you to side with me over her here. I’m asking you to stand tall for yourself and wake up before it’s too late.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fourteen hours later we swayed sleepily in a car that wound down a twisting road back to Seffner, where Ms. Jamison deposited us on Paula and Milton Pace’s doorstep. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

In the later poets he was her son and almost invariably a mischievous, naughty boy, or worse. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever information we provide must still make sense to us two centuries later, and must still seem important, or the conversation will be an embarrassment to all concerned. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bare seconds later, it had slammed into the prisoner, pinning him to the ground as he screamed, its poison dripping over his face, leaving smoky trails wherever it touched his skin. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It is going to take a long time to get there–three or four million years at least–so we’ll leave it for now, and return to it much later in the story. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Look, you and Mrs. Vole start serving along by the gatehouse. Keep your heads low and be careful. I’ll start up here at the corner and see you back at the kitchen later.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I said good-bye. I grieved. Then a few hours later, your parents told me what they had done.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Although the plants had been sprayed before the flowers were formed, the nectar later produced contained the poison. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She would have to come back herself later. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Six minutes later, Elizabeth Manwill returned to find Mrs. Richardson back in her own seat, composed and unruffled except for one hand clenched on the arm of the chair. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

So I said, a little suddenly, “Hey, I should probably get going. It’s late and I still have a lot of homework to do.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The red bricks were drugs, I found out later, when my sister told me this story. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It must only have been a few minutes later that men came and carried you and Muthu into an ambulance. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Two weeks later, Bobby, Eugene Torre, and the two bodyguards drove in a rented car to the border of Hungary, were asked for their passports, and without further delay were allowed to pass. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It is like the world’s slowest roller coaster, but somehow it works, and minutes later we’re at the peak. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The timekeeper at the finish line later said he had to ask the other kids in the race who’d won because everyone was watching me instead. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

We were already a half hour late for school when we heard the order “Move out,” and the leader motioned us to get into the station wagon. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hours later when Miyax crawled into her sleeping skin the wolves were so near that she could hear the pups scratching the snow as they made their beds. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In late spring, as the days grow longer and warmer, the snakes will all slither back to their thinking spots. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

"Let's take the bottle and come back later," Bill said. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it is life extension, a kind of loan allowing you to take the assaults heaped upon you now and pay down the debt later. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He looked annoyed, as though they were the ones who were late. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Then come to my house tonight. My parents are attending a fund raiser and won’t be home until late.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

And with that she left the balcony, reappeared a moment later on the great steps of the castle and, quite alone, walked open-armed down into the crowd. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The water began to freeze in late February. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As the light was fading in the sky, millions of lights were suddenly flashed on, all at one time,” she recalled, years later. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later I find myself standing in front of the elephant. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Thanks to my long walk to school, I was late every single day. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Arthur prays—too long for someone who just said he was worried about being late. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Daisy went upstairs to wash her face--too late I thought with humiliation of my towels--while Gatsby and I waited on the lawn. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The motionless wooden horses were fantastic in the late afternoon sun. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

After she had eaten, Lupita immediately fell asleep on the van’s floor, and a little later Salvador nodded off too. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He comes home late roaring and singing.The twins cry and Mam shushes them and cries a long time herself. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

But later that night, as I brush my teeth in the bathroom, I overhear Baba and Thaya Jaan talking in the guest room next door. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

By virtue of its demographics, Levittown—older, whiter, less educated than the nation as a whole—is a late adapter, not an early one. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

A year later, when Leigh left, there were no problems. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I told her to meet me under the clock at the Biltmore at two o'clock, and not to be late, because the show probably started at two-thirty. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

But several studies have shown that black patients were treated and hospitalized at later stages of their illnesses than white patients. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

By the time everyone got off at Fifty-seventh Street, it was too late to go back to school. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the state he’s in, I expect it would be sooner rather than later. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

An instant later, Woolf felt a subtle hesitation in his opponent, a wavering. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of this I learned at the time, much of it I found out later. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 90 per cent of a later series of 20 cases there was similar high estrogen activity. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

By the same token, there are movies that people hate when they see them for the first time, and they still hate them two or three years later. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t help but just break out grinning,” Sister Betty would later tell me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was late in the afternoon, steamy hot, and few golfers were out. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes late winter storms swept in and men froze while they were trying to work the fields. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m really sorry, Dad. Can’t we deliver tomorrow? They probably didn’t think if they called that late—” “No. No. We can’t deliver tomorrow.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

My chat request is sent, and a moment later, Hideo accepts it, appearing at the edge of the pool as a virtual image. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I woke up some time later, surprised that I’d fallen asleep. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

So the mouse raised his head and squared his shoulders and pushed the spool of thread forward again, into the kitchen, where he saw, too late, that there was a light burning. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I was...‘a loner’ as far as any assistance in the solution of secret messages was concerned,” she later said. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Some months later, Pitipiti was ploughing her fields when she heard a cackling noise coming from some bushes nearby. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

As for Mr. Katz, his body was dredged from Bubbly Creek a week later. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Well have to see about sorting this out later,” she says. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

By the late innings of the game the rest of the room—a few laggard coals glowed orange beneath the fireplace grate—lay sleeping in soft, quiescent shadows. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Bobby gave Michael lessons, and the young man went on to become an international grandmaster some eight years later, perhaps inspired by his meeting with the world’s greatest player. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Some time later, while still walking under the burning sun, they met the son of Chief Mmeke. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

She was in her late teens and wild looking, her hair a nest well on its way to becoming dreadlocks. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

We were applauded and given more soft drinks and more shrimp, but it was to be years later before I found the joy and freedom of dancing well. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

No more than half an hour later he laid his pack down beside the wooden house of the village headman and turned to salute the little crowd that had gathered. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later a light began flashing in the woods. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

In late August, a teacher from the school and some friends went on a vacation trip to the northern part of Zaire. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z