She climbed heavily out of the branches of the great fallen tree, and with the wind still wild in the leaves and the grass and her hair, set off back to the village. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The rotten leaves had been thrown up in showers. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ekon dodged just in time, rolling away over leaves as it struck at a nearby tree and splintered the wood. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“What kind of person leaves the Council?” she howled one day after she had insisted that he accompany her to the Market. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He sat on the end of the rows of spinach and tore at the leaves, stuffing a few in his mouth. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“You mean metaphorically of course. The tree seemed to talk to you. The leaves whispered and so on.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Beyond, glimpsed through a canopy of leaves, is a long view of gorgeously forbidding blue mountains. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

With a sad smile, she leaves the room, and doesn’t close the door behind her. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

At a deli we buy stuffed grape leaves and hot wings and Burmese beer and eat quickly with our hands on someone’s overheated stoop. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, Miss Fulton,” I say, wondering what Daddy’s gonna say once Miss Fulton leaves. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The first person to approach the red wagon is a roustabout, and when he leaves empty-handed the line buzzes with angry curses. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He remembered the great oaks and the clear living air, the clean sage-laced wind from the hills and the brown oak leaves scudding. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now, this leaf had come from New Jersey. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She's bent over the potted plants in the kitchen windowsill, watering them and putting her face so close it's like she's thinking of licking their leaves or something. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Picking up a yellow leaf, she held it in front of her face. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

These slower-growing leaves develop thicker walls and take up less water, helping them stay fresher longer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They began with a giant elephant-ear leaf, like a big triangular apron flapping in the breeze, which was nearly impossible to miss. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This isn’t a very good translation, you know,” he said, leafing through it idly. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The first pale streaks of dawn were barely showing across the sky when the young dog sat up alertly, hearing the shuffling approach of some animal through the dead leaves and twigs. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It involved harvesting everything left on the plants after the first picking, including cotton bulbs, shells, and leaves. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Black-haired Ernst leaves the school five days after he is chosen as the weakest in Bastian’s exercise. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She could just go on like this, like a woman from old-fashioned times, a maiden aunt, some aging perennial girl who never leaves home. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A woman leaves him her entire library of several hundred books when she moves. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a kid’s painting with blobs of green paint for leaves and the sun a yellow circle with lines coming out. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The brothers are each much happier when the grey of winter fades and the colors of spring bloom: yellow sun; blue sky; purple, pink, red blossoms; green leaves; new life. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

At one shop pilaus were being sold, mounds of saffron rice on buttered plantain leaves, glistening with ghee and garnished with red chillies and curling strips of fried onion. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tree with broad brown leaves grew from the middle of what looked like a well, circled with the same stones that lined the ground. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

They break through the sunflowers toward the cottage, stepping through Aaron’s rod, wild carrot, all the leaves browned from frost. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But when the sky is clear, we can make out the branches and rocks and leaves, all sketched in silver. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

A great fig tree spread its poisonous leaves over the surrounding area, making it the coolest in the neighborhood. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The brand flies buzzed in irritation, and a few peeled off from the sky god’s head like wet leaves and fluttered weakly to the ground. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The girl’s jaw drops open, and Helene turns back around and leaves the tent. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Though leaves and branches still flew through the night air around them, silence fell on the spot where he and Snape faced each other. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Sibanda sang these lines only once or twice when he heard a sound in the leaves above him. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

They pass their green paper, dry as old leaves and smelling of a thousand hands, back and forth and back again. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

It was harder to feel scared of a lump of tea leaves away from the dim red light and befuddling perfume of Professor Trelawney’s classroom. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She would not be here to gather those leaves. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then one day, leafing through Richard Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy, I found, in his description of the scholarship boy, myself. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In late October, when the leaves were a riot of red and gold, they were married. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our time together leaves him feeling satisfied, but just makes me want to start all over again. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

My mother kept all of us on a diet of rice and guava leaves in the form of hourly cups of steamy tea, with sugarcane swizzle sticks. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I won’t be allowed to force Day to come to me—which leaves me only one option. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

A spot of green on a wilted leaf. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the wind blows in the branches, and the leaves rustle and sing to each other. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sweetness of the air and the greenness of the leaves daunted him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The air took on a wintry sting as night fell, and in the morning, as I headed up the trail, a glaze of frost sparkled from the rhododendron leaves. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I was more impressed by how much the guests didn’t eat, as the servers cleared away banana leaves still piled high with food. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

After twenty minutes, she removes the rollers and leaves me with a head full of small ringlets instead of my old straight hair. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am quiet until the stiff, squeezed feeling leaves me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Mama’s saw palmetto was in there, along with catgrass and mint leaves. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He puts his hand on my arm and leaves it there. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Something moved faintly across the edge of the field of vision of my left eye, but I ignored it and kept staring at the sunlight on the ailanthus leaves. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The tree leaves, which had been green for the robot’s entire life, turned yellow and orange and red. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

As we wandered through the leaves and trees and flowers, I picked my favorites and she said “Good choice” for everything I listed. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He leaves the comfort of the quiet basement for the chaos of the world above. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The moth waved its feathery feelers and took a few steps along the wilted cabbage leaf. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There are leaves piled up around it, and the windows have pink flaps over them, cut out from an old washrag. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

He tossed the leaf, shoved his hands into his pockets. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It had rained heavily, and though the rain had stopped, wind still blew, and the leaves of the trees fluttered and revealed their pale undersides. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Brayden rocks into his windup, and as soon as the ball leaves his hand, I see that the pitch is tailing off the plate. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Soon after Captain Smith leaves, it is clear that we don’t have nearly enough food to get us through the winter. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He returned to his pile of leaves and began to deposit them by handfuls into a plastic garbage bag. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Gold leaf illumined the capitals and the delicate tracery which bordered the pages. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

He pulled another comic book off his shelf and started leafing through it. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

There is a wavering expression in her eyes, like she is a heap of leaves about to be scattered by the wind. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I would usually snooze through it, but it was a new day and I was turning over a new leaf, so I stayed awake. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Kote was leafing idly through a book, trying to ignore the silence of the empty inn, when the door opened and Graham backed into the room. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Shivering knee-deep in damp leaves that couldn't do his leg muscles much good, he readied his thumb on the button of the stopwatch. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Odysseus’ heart laughed when he saw his leaf-bed, and down he lay, heaping more leaves above him. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When my womb quickens again, and I bear a living child. Then you will return, my sun-and-stars, and not before." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The night was windless, the snow drifting straight down out of a cold black sky, yet the leaves of the heart tree were rustling his name. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A strange man in a fig leaf pushing her and others toward safety. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Since they’re not pumped up on synthetic nitrogen, the cells of organic leaves grow more slowly. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It’s not much past sunup when the last rescue truck leaves. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

As we crept along a path carpeted with oily black leaves, I stared at the trees covered in fungi, and the withered grass and bushes that had turned to mulch. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Sorry,” she always says quickly as she leaves. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the dim light of the stars their stems were grey, and their quivering leaves a hint of fallow gold. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

As she combs the emerald bushes, she looks for telltale signs—eggs no bigger than pinpricks, or leaf edges scalloped by the jaws of an inching worm. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But on the other hand: ‘Words are like leaves and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.’ Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Better,’ Nike called out, ‘but where is your aim? Don’t you want this circlet of leaves?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I’d need fire to roast the roots, but until then the leaves could be eaten like lettuce. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

At their feet were piled betel leaves, rice and a host of sweetmeats. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I reached out to steady myself, my hand didn’t come to rest on leaves and dirt. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Like mushrooms in damp leaves, they sprouted every night by a dozen roadsides—downtown, up in the canyon, out on the north-south highway. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are no houses, no huts, just wise old trees in spring leaf, standing guard over the sandy shore. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The koala gets all the nutrients it needs from eucalyptus leaves. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He was stripped to the waist, sitting up in bed leafing through a magazine. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to remember the morning, bright and clear as the leaves on the little green plants which grew low and close to the sandy ground. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The ground is covered with leaves and branches, so I cannot see what’s slithering beneath them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of the yard, a doomed ash tree was green with new leaves. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Then Celia’s arms were around him, and Matt could smell the cilantro leaves she chopped up when she was cooking. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suck on a few mint leaves and tell myself to get over it. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The light fades earlier; on the way home from school we walk through the smoke from burning leaves. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He rode back and forth along the line, watched Devin’s men digging in, heard bullets clip leaves above him as snipers crawled closer. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would just stop and start to shake like a little leaf. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I could not see a leaf anywhere on the dry gray branches. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He nods, then turns and leaves the room, closing the door with exaggerated care behind him, as if both of us are his ailing mother. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that, she spread manure in the fields when the leaves of the Indian corn turned yellow. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Trees stand like spears, dried copper leaves from the previous season still clinging to a few of the branches. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Each day Ivy and her grandmother walked in the great forest, where Gran collected herbs and leaves that she made into remedies to heal the villagers of their aches and pains. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He pays all the bills, and rakes the leaves on the lawn, and puts gas from the self-service station into her car. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Alakazam!—and her face went blank, her mouth closed, her arms went slack, and she backed out of the room, stunned, as if she were blowing away like a small brown leaf, thin, brittle, lifeless. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He goes with the Black Rabbit and leaves no trace behind. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stunned, I lay upon the decaying earth, fingers clutching rotting leaves, a cold rain drenching me. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Fine,” I said, as I fished the leaf out of my mouth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She imagined a green tunnel, the leaves whispering in a warm breeze. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The trees behind the monkey house had lost their leaves, and dead leaves rustled across the lawn. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then I’ll start on breakfast,” she says, and leaves me to get myself together. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The pale pink light of dawn sparkled on branch and leaf and stone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Chester had eaten as much of the leaf as he wanted. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s supposed to go to play practice at noon, but as soon as he leaves his house, he calls his director and tells him he has a bad flu bug—hopefully the twenty-four-hour kind. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

All that day the Company marched on, until they felt the cool evening come and heard the early night-wind whispering among many leaves. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Grandma brews a large pot of barley tea every day and leaves it on the stovetop. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Plump berries lay in a pile on a leaf beside him, and he popped one into his mouth. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The blossoms had many more petals, each beautifully shaped; the stems and leaves twined and feathered as if alive. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Spurge ran his hand in wonder over some of the beautiful carvings of oak leaves and hounds and icthyods. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He leaves these at the crossroads while he makes side trips, so he can go faster. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He tilts its contents into the trash and leaves. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

A neighbor who was raking leaves next door called to her. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I pull out my pendant and rub it on my clothes to clean off the tarnish, but it leaves black streaks. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The vines on north beach might make dark smoke, but the leaves on them were very small The sea grape! The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the two of us went about the large yard, I raked leaves and watered the flowers; Granny weeded the lawn. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small breeze rustles the leaves around us. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The fall season blew in with a rush of cold wind, the maple trees in the yard flashing orange and then dumping their leaves as if in a hurry to get it over with. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tables and pop-tents had been set up beyond the benches under frizzy trees, their leaves lit with orange lanterns. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When I had a long period of time alone on a Saturday, I leafed through the pages of my diary. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trembling, his stomach in a spasm, he tore off a few leaves and put them in his mouth. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then just before dusk, The Baron came up on his boulder and scratched and cleaned and played with a fern leaf. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lucinda’s death leaves us with a serious deficiency in the freak lineup. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

One leaves behind only its grin, the other, only its gravitational attraction. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She leaves properly then, and I see her father watching me from the car. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

When she leaves through the side door of the kitchen, I know it’s just the two of us, two Korean men at opposite ends of a stately Victorian house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s standing on a street I know but do not recognize, among piles of smoldering autumn leaves, holding a coiled skipping rope, licking one half of an orange Popsicle. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He leaves me standing on his concrete steps, closing the door behind him. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The moonlight was brilliant enough to show every leaf. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

There were no leaves to stir in this wilderness, but the air buffeted his body and made his hair stream away from his face; it was wild outside him and wild within. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently, actually putting the generator outside where it belongs leaves it open to theft. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Heavens no,” Ma said, scrubbing Caroline’s back with a handful of leaves. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

And no pheasant buried in coconut leaves for twenty days and stuffed with wild rice and cooked over a wood fire so tender and delicate it make you cry. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The leaves rustled as it slithered toward them, closing the distance as its massive gray ears flapped eerily in the wind. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I was embarrassed to reveal that Granny raked leaves and weeded gardens, afraid of being laughed at. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though it was difficult to see from far away, he made out something glittering and silver packed into its small chamber, bits of what looked like crushed leaf. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Each little tree was now packed with dirt about a foot high, with a few green leaves sticking out at the top. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I climb the ladder like I have a thousand times before and swing myself onto the octagonal deck that’s covered in a mix of old, crackling autumn leaves and a layer of spring-green pollen. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this particular writer absolutely drained. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together they sat in the shimmer of moonlight and listened to my leaves rustle. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The patches of mold disappeared from the tree trunks, and the drooping plants rose upright, their leaves turning bright emerald as they basked in the blossom's light. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He watched the rainwater fall from the leaves of the forest below and a tree frog vibrate his throat with song. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The sky spoke of rain to come; but the light was broadening quickly, and the red flowers on the beans began to glow against the wet green leaves. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We’d just gone for our last swim at the pond, the summer sun warm through the canopy of leaves. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I can see a tear in her eye as she leaves. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

For a moment he wished it was just another day, get up, out to the park, suck in the cool October air, and listen to his sneakers crackling over the fallen yellow leaves. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaves Antwerp quickly, without paying his bills. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Ellison always leaves a little loaf of banana bread or a cinnamon roll, and Dad saves it to eat with his lunch. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The leaves are a bright early spring green, and sprinkled along the ground are tiny flowers of white, yellow, and violet. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I rake a mountain into the front yard and there are still more, like the earth pukes up leaf gunk when I’m not looking. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

With my handkerchief I wiped away the gravel, leaves, and pine needles. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They tie nkisis of leaves around their wrists and declare themselves impermeable to bullets, immune to death. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He winces at the taste, but he’s working his yellow-bearded jaws until the leaf begins to break down. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Only when Prosper offered him a lettuce leaf did his wrinkly neck come out. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Appropriate, perhaps, because that is what will happen to my body when all the life leaves it; it will become cold and heavy, heavier than I have ever been. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a bell?” she asks after the waitress leaves. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It sends fear right over my skin and leaves me shivering, even in this heat. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

This meant that we could move their home to a new place in the garden each time they had finished eating the leaves growing inside. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was absolutely free during these maneuvers, and would fly high into the air and hover over me like a leaf. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was able at last to thatch our hut again, substantially, with two or three bindings of leaves. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The twig turned, one of the leaves caught the sunlight slanting through the trees and Hazel saw it flash for an instant. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father’s plate is polished clean, the chicken bones denuded of cartilage and chewed to a pinkish pulp, the bay leaf and cinnamon stick as good as new. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They pushed the dried leaves aside with their hands and piled up fresh leaves to make headrests on the ground. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It flared brighter than a thousand torches as all its leaves caught fire at the same time. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He sprinkled the aku, fried to twisted crisps, and the peppers on the leaf and then rolled it up. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks, and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end,” he said dolefully. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before she leaves, she looks over my way and pulls her sunglasses down past her nose, so they’re leaning on her top lip. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Dad shakes his head and leaves the living room. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fetch me a few leaves, boy,” said the farmer. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

On its branches a few dead leaves hung silent and still. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The eyes were still liquid and golden brown, staring at dark mountain dirt and dry oak leaves tangled in the grass. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

A breeze moved the grass and leaves; sand blew against my face. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the perfect absence of any human sound, the locusts in the leaves above us roared in my ears. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma did not eat any of the stew, concentrating instead on a green salad, fishing beneath the lettuce leaves as though there was gold hidden on the plate. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

There was a grandeur about the day, about the colossal, barely stirring beeches and oaks, and the light that dropped like jewels through the fresh foliage to make pools among last years dead leaves. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A chill breeze rustled dead leaves in the woods. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of herbs and barks, of concoctions brewed from berries and leaves. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Alexander smiles mischievously and leaves it at that. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

She leaves, and then returns with a makeup bag. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I slurped on a lime Popsicle, continuing my quest to survive on frozen treats, and leafed through the pages, wondering which part to draw next. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

As for maple leaves, they’re the hardest part to draw on our red flag. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a perfect October afternoon, with the sun streaming through what remained of the russet leaves of the maple and beech trees that lined the road. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He was halted by another grenade that exploded, causing his remains and blood to sprinkle like rain on the nearby leaves and bushes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

There’s a kind of hush and lassitude until that first snow, with the light waning and the last moose-maple leaves dangling from the branches like seaweed. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

We see the sad trees, with their autumnal leaves dripping rain, the grey sky reflected in the puddles on the road. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The dormitories we passed were massive and almost anonymous behind their thick layers of ivy, big, old-looking leaves you would have thought stayed there winter and summer, permanent hanging gardens in New Hampshire. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He takes his sweet time, but finally leaves. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

We gathered leaves from the trees, which smelled like sweet gum, and piled them to lie on. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The leaves overhead rustled faintly in the breeze. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

When she opened her fist, she saw a massive ruby tie pin circled by golden laurel leaves. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She leafs through them, going “Oh, my” at the particularly good ones. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“No animal likes to be cooped up too long. Your father and me are going back on the hill to clean the leaves out of the spring.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its voice was like dry leaves rustling in an autumn breeze. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It leaves us at the same time with a problem. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

And of course, Garrett, who ordered scattered, smothered, and covered waffles with sausage and hash browns, leaves literally a dollar. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Here’s a half. That leaves me exactly one dollar to last till Wednesday.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

All around them he carved tiny leaves, and flowers, and birds. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The breath coming out of the nostrils was so faint it stirred only the furthest fringes of life, a small leaf, a black feather, a single fibre of hair. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked like a younger version of Zafoona, but her hair was cut fashionably short and her eyes were leaf green. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Steam is rising off the hot pools, and the red leaves of the weirwood are rustling. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Murry looked up from a copy of an English scientific magazine through which she was leafing. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The early storm had caught the tree vulnerable with leaves that caught the snow and held it in drifts until the branches dragged the ground. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

One instant, her grandmother’s skirts would brush against a dead cottonwood tree, and the next, its branches were covered in tender green leaves. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Nearby stood a squat, gnarled tree with thorny leaves and black bark. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

There were bright fall flowers in the front yard and maple trees with crimson and yellow leaves on the curb. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drank a little rain that had collected on a broad leaf, figuring it was more sanitary than the pond water, and enjoyed the cool sensation on my lips. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

And next to it is a floor lamp, a long black pole with three oval spotlights attached like the broad leaves of a rubber plant. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad calls her Hurricane Gloria because he says she leaves a trail of devastation in her wake. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together they cleared a place for a fire, surrounded it with stones, then gathered twigs, leaves and branches to burn, plus four slim branches on which they could thread the fish. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

From their bed of leaves, the Lacks children would stare at ceiling beams the size of trees as they drifted off to the sound of laughter and clanking bottles, and the smell of dried tobacco. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

With most of the trees’ leaves gone, I could see the roof and tall chimneys. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The scowly waitress comes by and leaves the check face down on the table. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

I could tell she had been hanging decorations off the trees, because of the little twigs and leaves stuck in her hair. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Just in case,” she said, slipping in their simple food of rice wrapped up in leaves and salted boiled eggs. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He leaves, and my phone buzzes again inside the jacket. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I am grateful for the clouds that prevent the sun from wilting their leaves before they take root again and resume their growing. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

A few red maple leaves danced circles on the cobblestones. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The leaves get smaller and yellower, folding back toward the bud, and the air crisps. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some leaf crops were so burned and spotted as to be unmarketable. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Before them a wide grey shadow loomed, and they heard an endless rustle of leaves like poplars in the breeze. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She smiles once more, pops a toffee in her mouth, and leaves the office. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

I am spending them like enchanted gold, doomed to turn back into dried leaves in tills all over town. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I watch the pile of leaves quiver and shake, and out walks Mango, his fur bristling from being sat on. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The leaves shimmer in the heat, and the chitter of cicadas rises across the field. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Malloy gives me a hug and a kiss on my forehead and leaves. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He studied the silver leaves that shone dully on Bull’s hard shoulders. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fairy lays up to fifty eggs at a time on the underside of leaves. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last of autumn’s leaves spiraling to earth. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I think about it all the way home.When my mother leaves, I unroll the sleeves of my shirt, button them at the cuffs, and I grab Natalie’s jacket. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d seen both Doc and Mama weave strips of palmetto leaves and sea grasses into baskets and other shapes: flowers, crosses, and such. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Grote leaves at dawn with his rifle and rod and brings home squirrels and wild turkeys, whiskery fish, now and then a whitetailed deer. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

They gathered fig leaves and placed them in a row down Dill from his head to his feet. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The new snow lay in skifts all through the woods, along the limbs and cupped in the leaves, all of it already gray with ash. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

They could hear the rustling of a thousand leaves. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Their voices were no louder than dry leaves falling. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

As soon as the Jupiter ship sails into the sunset, though, Courtney comes to mind, with those eyes the color of autumn leaves. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The dismal drizzle caused the overhanging leaves to drip with irritating monotony. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He needed the medicine woman to wrap it in healing leaves, but no one seemed concerned about his injury. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

That leaves Garrett completely speechless, and before any of us can keep his little fiction balloon from popping, the soldier leans in, looks down at Garrett, and says, “Mind telling me what that is?” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Dad usually leaves all his cleaning for Saturdays because he hates the idea of coming home from work on weekdays to more work. On the weekends we cleaned and earned our TV marathons.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I felt my resolve to keep my distance melting down like the sugar in those leaves. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The task of emptying three rooms, practically empty to begin with, leaves him exhausted. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Velia and Delia purchased piping hot ears of corn on a stick, wrapped in their own leaves and enveloped in newspapers to keep them warm. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Then he stands up and leaves my bedside. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Its long branches trailed their fragrant corkscrew leaves almost down to the ground. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He saw the jungle, the blood on the leaves, the eyes of a monster coming toward him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Their leaves littered the terrace, blown into piles in the corners. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Just before Thanksgiving, the first of the cold fronts from Canada finally reached us, and the trees abruptly dropped their leaves and turned black and skeletal. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Put the stem of a leaf spray in water, in a narrow-necked container, such as a bottle, so the caterpillar can’t fall in and drown. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

A light rain had fallen just before dawn, soothing my leaves, if not my mood. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I stepped into it and shone my light around; the leaves were splattered with something dark. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“The train leaves in two hours, so you have to make your decision now,” Dad says. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naomi felt her face warm as sun streamed through the leaves of the cottonwood tree above her. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The valet trotted up with the requisite fig leaf, and Woolf, smiling out of one side of his mouth, wrapped it around his waist, rode into the winner’s circle, and posed for the photo. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It leaves out my mother’s many opportunities and the importance of her cultural legacy. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It was night now, and cool, and a breeze blew against the sycamores and moved softly through the leaves. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

By the time the leaves fell and the acorns dropped, he would be home with the cattle. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Although leaves remained on the beeches and the sunshine was warm, there was a sense of growing emptiness over the wide space of the down. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tree was scrawny as hell and barely had any leaves. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the Abbey kitchens, Cornflower carefully wrapped Matthias’s food in fresh dock leaves. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

When all had been bought, even to fresh squares of beancurd, shivering in a jelly upon its leaf, he went to a candlemaker’s shop and there he bought a pair of incense sticks. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Tanin fed leaf after leaf into the campfire, where they curled inward like blazing tongues before they shriveled and turned to ash. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I can see it in my head: a strong old oak tree with a wide scarred trunk and thousands of leaves reaching to the sun. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the middle of September; the leaves are already turning, dark red, bright yellow. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rain quickly went from a sprinkle to a downpour, thundering against the leaves and trenching water through the soil. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I plucked a leaf from the oak tree we were standing under and tore it in little bits while Lightfoot studied the gravestone. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Boarding is at five thirty-five. Flight leaves at six o’clock. Gate B sixteen,” he says. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

For three days, we'd had nothing but boiled water with some old dried mint leaves I'd found in the back of a cupboard. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Then she leaves me to stew in thoughts I refuse to sell. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He rolled the bottom of the teapot around on the cardamom pods to pop them open, then scooped them up and dropped them in with the tea leaves. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The banister of the rear staircase was hung with drying leaves and stalks sent from the frontier. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Your hair is as vivid as a Kinvara sunset, autumn leaves, the Koi goldfish in the window of that hotel in Galway. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The tea leaves had their own alphabets and conveyed messages once the tea was gone. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Slender and sinuous, olive green, mahogany red, scarlet, and ash, they were weighted with broad, gleaming leaves and velvet berries and shaded the beach stones and mud flats. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He tried to move only on the balls of his feet, but the leaves made sounds. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

My peperomia is thriving, each leaf full and luminous. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“The fellow appeared to be scared stiff,” he said, “he was shaking like a leaf. I was watching him. He’s never been ill-treated, has he?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The children opened the packages with the appropriate sense of wonder and spent the morning happily leafing through their new treasures, which of course Penelope promised to read to them at her earliest opportunity. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

She jumped on leaves that blew into the box and watched every bird that flew past. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It had been the school’s first, but this was its one hundred and sixty-third Winter Session, and the forces reassembled for it scattered the easygoing summer spirit like so many fallen leaves. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maddie is supposed to take the seat to my right, but she leaves it empty and takes the next chair over. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The tree whose leaf umbrellas had curled around, under and over her fire escape had been cut down because the housewives complained that wash on the lines got entangled in its branches. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I cannot fly, anyway, until the numbness leaves my wing.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The leaves grew larger, greener, veined underneath in pale chartreuse, the blades thick and full of liquid that I kept expecting to smell like gardenias, but it didn’t. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Behind the gate, safely within the seat of the Vatican, they let Pedro Tercero out from under a mountain of lettuce leaves and bruised tomatoes. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a desultory nod of his bored and sleepy head, the Level Crossing Divinity conjured up beggars with bandages, men with trays selling pieces of fresh coconut, parippu vadas on banana leaves. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dry leaves crackled underneath their feet as they crept toward the house. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He moved into the tree house when school ended and spent a lot of his time leafing through motorcycle magazines. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The trees crowded close to the road, their leaves rustling in a breeze that sounded like the whole forest sighing. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The day was bright and hot, and the first dead leaves of the new autumn scraped on the sidewalks. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

For example, Jeanne lived in a small cabin in the middle of the desert, while I lived in a small hut built of straws and pine tree leaves. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell her about my dream where a man chased me down a rocky path littered with bruised al- lamanda leaves. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

A guy whose strings were broken, who didn’t feel the root of his leaf of grass connected to the field, a guy who was cracked. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Lourdes fired her after she found Pilar in her bassinet smeared with chicken blood and covered with bay leaves. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Her voice is like dead leaves blowing around, and her hair is spooky.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

When he spoke, everyone at the desk stirred slightly, then grew still, like leaves touched by the wind. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Other plant foods included berries, fruits, seeds, leaves, shoots, bulbs, and roots. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The zoo is filled with tall trees, their leaves the colors of a sunset. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She gives my hand a final pat, lowers the head of my bed, and leaves. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Beside the house, shading it in summer, stood three mulberry trees, the fledged leaves that would later be broad and placid as the palms of hands streaming flatly undulant upon the driving air. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ice puts the ball on the floor, he fakes left, then goes left and leaves Brothers standing in his tracks. He looks away, then goes up and rips the net with a bodacious slam!” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

In the autumn the leaves fall to the ground, accumulate in sodden layers, and begin the slow process of becoming one with the soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Bramble and bits of leaf were tangled in her hair, and...two tiny silver bells looped on ribbon were tied around each ankle. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

As Vivian leaves the bedroom Molly runs back to the front porch. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

A wealth of rustling leaves still clung to the branches of the trees, all ignorant of the word the white raven had brought to Riverrun a fortnight past. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Yellow birch leaves blew from the trees and drifted down to rest on the surface. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The noise on our heads was a white roar that drew us together in our small shelter of leaves. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the heart and blood of the maple trees; it has the gold of the leaves in it and the brown of the bark. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was talking to a man raking up the first fallen leaves of autumn, but staring at Davis and me. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

One tree on the lawn was still full of leaves, red and orange, like the tent in which he had married Twinkle. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was a bird with great wings, and for feathers they put a covering of leaves from the trees that grew there. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

She won’t be here tomorrow when my mom leaves for work. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even knowing that no matter my efforts, the leaves would eventually dry and curl in on themselves. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It's only after Ollie leaves me at home, after finishing the hot chocolate at Mama’s insistence, that I realize he never told me where it was, this meeting of his student group. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They covered their tracks with leaves and headed into the darkness once more. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I trimmed all the leaves and thorns off, then headed for him. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain heard the wicked hum of shrapnel in leaves. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the summer when the trees are in full leaf, they make a canopy over the road—which, these days, is only wide enough for one-way traffic. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the third day, I found myself in the middle of a thick forest, standing beneath huge trees whose leaves and branches made it difficult to see the sky. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Past the SS guards standing sentry, Papa and I walked through the scrolling iron gates, stopping at every place where a bulb pushed its new leaves through the warming ground. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As we sprinted, a crackling sound came from behind us, like someone stepping on dry leaves. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The trunk split into branches full of soft, feathery bright green leaves where he’d also hidden names. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I stripped the leaves from the stalks of motherleaf and ate one. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The wind rustled, pushing leaves and food wrappers across the peristyle. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When we had eaten, and fed the leaves to the goats, and washed, Puli to my surprise lay down beside us. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Near the base of the willow was a smooth gray stone, half covered with leaves. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

How to put down a foot without snapping a branch or crackling a dried leaf. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

On his first day on the picturesque campus, he walked briskly through the bracing Pennsylvania wind and fallen autumn leaves in open-toed sandals and shorts. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I found there were still plants under the snow, and I would dig down and get teaberry leaves and win- tergreen. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were narrow with concentration, like she was picking apart each leaf. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The water bounded from the mountain-top, tore leaves and branches from the trees, poured like a cold shower over the straggling heap on the sand. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Rufus leaves his bike in the front of the store and follows me as I tour the aisles. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Chester really preferred his mulberry leaves, but he ate everything so as not to hurt her feelings. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Patti leaves, I stare out the window at the moon. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

A girl with curls the color of sunlight through yellow leaves. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The dog’s bent tail, matted with twigs and leaves, thumped on the ground, and the boy grinned in reply. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ran up to touch the tossing leaves. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

As she talks I watch the freckles on her cheeks, dappled like sunlight through dense leaves. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

An elaborate wooden desk took up almost half the room, papers covering it like autumn leaves. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Before she leaves, the waitress also puts down a plate filled with fresh bean sprouts, lime slices, chopped scallions, whole red chili peppers, and mint leaves. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He comes at night, then leaves during the day,” Sam adds. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The rest of the temple complex was silent, but Pong’s thoughts swished like the wind through palm leaves, filling his head with noise. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“If you would be so kind, sir,” I said, “I will take my husband’s portion as well on my leaf.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ate mealie porridge, called sadza, with tomato, onion, and chili sauce; boiled pumpkin leaves; and okra with peanut butter. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In autumn the leaves come blowing, yellow and brown. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Live,” she pleads to her husband before she leaves. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the ridge, even on the other side of Burden Hill, there are no leaves; everything is dead. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what kind of bushes they were, but the leaves had a rich smell like sandalwood, and there’s nothing I like better than scented sheets. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carefully she refolded the cloth around the dried petals and leaves and replaced the little packet in the carved trunk. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I crush maple leaves underfoot all the way to the wall separating school from the street. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Yellow leaves were falling everywhere, littering the ground like a carpet rolled out for the approaching footsteps of the end of time. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quentin continued to leaf through the book at the kitchen table. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Hair the color of autumn leaves and moss-green eyes and horns curving from behind his brow to just above his ears. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

One evening they walked at twilight and scuffed autumn leaves. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember the river, which was calm; I remember the slow drift of autumn leaves resting on the glassy surface. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I hear crunching—footsteps in the frozen dead leaves covering the ground. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“So this is volcanic ash. How long before it leaves?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

When I was a kid, I would gather the brightest reds of the fallen leaves and tie them with scraps of ribbon into little bouquets for my mom. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It fell out this way: late in the day I had climbed into a great oak so thick with leaves it hid me completely. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I stood at the sink in Miss Sadie’s tiny kitchen, wrapping an assortment of exotic tea leaves in a worn piece of cloth. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The stones only produced the smallest of sparks and the scraps of newspaper and leaves that he had collected were already far too wet. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

This is what he leaves to the world: gray and scarlet feathers strewn over the damp grass. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

More of the black things were scuttling out of the dark, their feet beating a quick staccato rhythm against roots and rocks and leaves. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the distance she saw trees, their leaves as gold as the Queen’s eyes. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When she leaves work every afternoon, he pleads in a tiny voice for her to stay—or at least to take him with her. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The sort of truth that leaves me wishing I’d never asked in the first place. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

It leaves an ugly dash across my drawing, right through the middle of a lopsided mountain. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Insects had devoured most of the leaves and vegetables, leaving behind skeletons of stems and branches. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The oak leaves were already fading from dark green to light yellow, and within the week they would turn gold and bright red. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Bran’s voice was a whisper in the wind, a rustle in the leaves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The night is windy, so much so that the car josdes slighdy from time to time, and brown leaves as large as human feet fly across the road in the headlights’ glare. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A gust of wind rustles, scratches pine needles, oak leaves. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“He leaves it near the phone in case Mama wants to get in touch with him.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the kisses she shared underneath its canopy of leaves. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Lily leaves the room, and on Day Fifteen of being awake, I make my first independent decision. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He was covered in twigs and leaves, like he’d been sleeping there a long time. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“You’re shaking like a leaf. What were you doing up there?” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed like I could actually see the leaves and flowers growing and changing. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clump of leaves did look a little like a hand, reaching for something. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

It will flake away into the chamois and underneath there will be gold leaf. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The few trees left around here have shed their leaves, but because no one in our neighborhood bothers to rake, we crunch our way down the sidewalks. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was divided into chapters but Chapter 80 was unfinished, and after that were some blank leaves. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t even hear the turning of a leaf. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Her fur was matted with mud, leaves, pizza slices, and dried monster blood. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then, in July, Hilly leaves for her annual trip down to the coast for three weeks. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Only the old oaks seemed reluctant to give up the summer, and their leaves re- mained an even mingling of gold and green. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He leaves with his body soaking from the dew of our flesh. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Then fumbling for his flint and iron he caught, with a dried leaf for tinder, a flame to light the incense. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She holds a bunch of leaves in one hand, twists the wire around the stem—one-two—hides the wire with ribbon and hot-glues the acorns into place. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

This leaves plenty of leeway for judgment, depending on whether the writer wishes to emphasize the continuing truth of some idea that was bruited in the past. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He so caked with mud and matted leaves, I can't even see his clothes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

After a few moments he tried to get up, but a faintness came over him and a feeling of turning over and over in a ditch of leaves. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Malloy stands, takes a coupon gently out of my hands, and leaves it on the coffee table. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

These she covered with leaves and branches and marked with tiny crosses so that she would remember not to step there. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I hit the ground so hard and sudden that my mouth came open and I swallowed a bunch of dirt and old dead leafs. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It’s very old and has to be wiped off leaf by leaf with milk. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A thousand leaves fluttered, and for a moment the forest seemed a deep green sea, storm-tossed and heaving, eternal and unknowable. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Even the leaves were silent, and the very falls seemed to be hushed. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The wind was practicing with small gusts of hot air that fluttered the leaves on the elm tree in the yard. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you tell him there isn’t time? Or stall them somehow? I don’t think that all the monks will even get to say good-bye before Father Cham leaves us.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Petra remembered picking up a leaf on Harper Avenue that fall, and being struck by the thought that yellow was the color of surprise. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment, he was leafing through the tables and diagrams. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hold up a tiny leaf in the sunlight and whisper, “Sorry, little guy, but I’m going to have to send you off for testing.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Nana gives me a hard look but then leaves the room. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

But they do not want the yellow heads—only the jagged leaves. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The yam leaves on either side of the railway track began to nod in mass consent. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could see leaves of the trees dark and sharp against the blue sky. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shake my head, trying to take a deep breath as he leaves, the room becoming completely silent except for the steady beeping of my monitors. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

My mom pecks me on the cheek and leaves my room. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I yell out to her from the bathroom as Kim leaves with his bag. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She helps us load our bags and leaves, and I’m alone with Abby all over again. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Sitting cross-legged, sunlight and shadows of pomegranate leaves dancing on his face, Hassan absently plucked blades of grass from the ground as I read him stories he couldn’t read for himself. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing’s changed, little girl,” he said, his voice sounding like the noise dry leaves make as they rustle across a pavement. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Wrapped in a green lotus leaf, the brown, glazed crickets smell of smoked wood and honey. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heavy leaves cut my cheeks and arms. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The goats snuffled and munched at the grass and the leaves beside the chariot, eyeing with distaste the tethered mules that pulled the caravan. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Clasping his hand, she could still feel Archer shaking like a leaf clinging to its stem. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

These were plants, they discovered, taller than they were, with stems as hard and thick as the walls of houses, and leaves that spread out over their heads. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He leaves the room with the pipe and foot, and before long he’s back. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I started to set up the fire, surrounding dry leaves with a pyramid of progressively larger twigs and branches. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Each morning at five thirty, six days a week, Mrs. Nielsen makes breakfast for her husband, usually fried eggs and toast, and he leaves for the store to open for the farmers at six. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

In a month, those leaves would shut out the sky, but now the sun came through and brushed streaks of gold across the sidewalks, the street, the talking women, and the playing children. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Helen uncovered her cup, checking to see if her tea leaves had sunk all the way to the bottom yet. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That leaves three of us to check on the mile marker,” Percy said. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, even her lipstick seemed a shade or two lighter, as though she had just blotted it with a leaf of Kleenex. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The children spent all day arranging the corn into two mammoth piles, inside a border of red leaves. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Bus leaves in ten minutes from right over there.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“But look at it now!” my mom says, smelling more leaves. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The beech leaves grew darker on the boughs and fresh grass grew where the old had been nibbled close. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the twins, with unsuspected intelligence, came up the mountain with armfuls of dried leaves and dumped them against the pile. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“A girl is like a tree covered with leaves. You just want to climb up and tear all those leaves off.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Some afternoons he leaves Marie-Laure in the laboratory of Dr. Geffard, an aging mollusk expert whose beard smells permanently of damp wool. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I stood and wrapped the drill inside the second, unused leaf bag. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The leaves fell from the trees and the snap of fall was in the air. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was flickering within the leaves, birds that made their universe inside the mammoth cloud of branches. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I squeezed nervously through the thorny door, ducking and holding in my stomach, and entered a long, twisty hallway made of woven branches still carrying leaves and flowers. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The leaves flared and faded quickly, leaving nothing but a thousand embers, making the tree look like an immense extinguished candelabrum. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I watched from a short distance as the shaman studied the koka plant intently, examining the leaf patterns and listening to their inner wisdom. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

When they got there a group of men were already pulling the monster off the sharpened stakes they had set in the bottom of a pit covered with dry leaves, and it stopped lowing. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Leaf blister, sooty mold, oak wilt, leaf scorch: Been there, done that. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The old man, meanwhile, was leafing through the book, without seeming to want to return it at all. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A smell of loam and another, pungent scent rises from among the leaves, a smell of old things, dense and heavy, forgotten. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then she slowly lets go and leaves. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

In the sunshine, the rustling leaves don't sound scary at all. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

They wound and squeezed their way through bushes with fat shiny leaves. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I get so concentrated that I don’t even notice when Noelle leaves. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

After school the next day, Petra raked leaves with her dad, who seemed to be in his own world lately. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the long rows of tobacco mounds, children stood in the sun and watched the turkeys eat the hornworm and the devouring beetle off leaves. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

A nursing student pulls her up, she leaves her conga aside and starts wiggling her big butt in the middle of the circle—we yell out encouragement. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

As far as he could see lay fields of the snowgrass, white and shining; There were groves of white trees, with white leaves growing on them. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, the moon is high in the sky, turning the leaves silver. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He swung his chin through the leaves, trying to see. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Once we reach our meeting place, Pithy leaves and goes her separate way. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Mom leaves for work, I sit my laptop on her bed and look up the doormat vlog again. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

It was ideal apple-eating weather; the whitest sunlight descended from the purest sky, and an easterly wind rustled, without ripping loose, the last of the leaves on the Chinese elms. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She began collecting her bookmarks from the floor: the green feather, the pressed leaves. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“That time he randomly picked a fight with me and got irrationally angry? I think he was having a bad reaction to the hasira leaf. I think it makes people violent.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Especially since they were sitting in front of five birdcages, which, Genie realized, if you looked past the entwining vines and leaves, were arranged in a semicircle. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She leaves the card sitting out on a table in her parlor for some time, glancing at it whenever she happens to be in the room. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The wind kicks up and whirls, and the leaves of the old oak outside my window brush up against the pane, stealing my attention. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Seems like all we've been seeing lately is our own muddy green uniforms, so the bright fall leaves are like a colorful kaleidoscope. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Pretty soon they seemed very approximate, like the idea of trees: a grayish-brown trunk below, a greenish splodge of something that might have been leaves above. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He takes the bottle of spirits from the table and leaves the car. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The sweetness comes from the leaves the cows eat. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fire, the old people had taught me, is stored in trees that grow red flowers or red berries in the spring or whose leaves turn red in the fall. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the nurse leaves, the grandmother’s face darkens and she turns her attention to me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After my mother leaves there is no one to say, The children can choose their own faith when they're old enough. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Even to Scarlett he seemed shadowy in the deepening dusk, like something that was almost not there, a shimmer of heat haze, a skittery leaf that for a moment had seemed to be a boy. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Before he leaves for the night, arms laden with suitcases and rolls of blueprints, Marco places a full bottle of brandy and a glass on the table next to Chandresh’s chair. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The leaves are harvested with a machine that Earthbound designed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They’d bent them and twisted them around and through each other to weave a wooden lattice, then hung it high above a deep pit filled with logs, leaves, and kindling. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When I took cupping classes at Rose City Teas, we always had to smell the tea leaves both before and after they had been steeped. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He makes targets of leaves, and pins them to the trunk of the great mango at the edge of our yard. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thereafter, the garbage preserved at archaeological sites rapidly becomes more and more interesting and leaves no doubt that we are dealing with biologically and behaviorally modern humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I unfolded the legs and helped him line them up beneath the canopy of fig leaves. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was lovely being high up there in that conker tree, all alone with the pale young leaves coming out everywhere around me. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Annabella had told her that most of the flowers and leaves could be dried and used later. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But who would marry that monster Yitzchak, who leaves his precious children outside like yard goods? Besides, the ribbons will look beautiful in your brown hair.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Close by, under the left bank, a bed of crowfoot trailed downstream, the wheel-like leaves all submerged. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Birth, life, and death—each took place on the hidden side of a leaf. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘They are all going to London until this insurrection, as they call it, is over. The Unicorn leaves at dawn tomorrow. Gage has given permission.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I balanced the tray of vegetables on my lap and set to work, plucking the stalks and putting the leaves in a bowl at my feet. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It had just sprouted a very small leaf the other night, but Seven had not noticed that it had grown to full size. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

As well believe you could destroy a tree by tearing off a single leaf! Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was brown like a fallen leaf, and brittle with age. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He took a step closer so the toes of his sneakers brushed against the pile of leaves. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Through the second Aru could see the leaves of a dense jungle. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her mother stooped down to snap off a dark-green leaf. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Moonlight painted the leaves in shades of bone and silver as the guests drifted among them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

One time before Toño falls into bed after his all-night work, he leaves me a Post-it. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. da Silva leaves and returns with a store-credit check in the amount of two hundred dollars. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Torn from a nearby tree by the constant wind, it was crowned with a thicket of leaves. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Will,” she said, “eat these leaves before you have any other food.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lettuce was selected for luxuriant leaves at the expense of seeds or fruit; wheat and sunflowers, for seeds at the expense of leaves; and squash, for fruit at the expense of leaves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Before he leaves Arles, Vincent sends off two crates of his paintings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The trees clustered so close and thick that he could hardly force his way between them, and when he did, the leaves scratched his hands and his head; but this was a relief. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Most of the leaves had fallen, and gusts of wind sent them spiraling along the roadside. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But I shook my head and put the leaf in my pocket. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

When Ma leaves, Keav can only turn her head to watch her disappear. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two boys rolled out of a pile of brushwood and dead leaves, two dim shadows talking sleepily to each other. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

She sped to the abandoned meadow, now pale green with raspberry and young hawthorn leaves. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Running a few feet in front of him is Sasuke—clearly the younger of the two—all grins and laughs, his boots crunching in the leaves as he sprints forward. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The armchairs and the lumpy sofa were upholstered in dusty brocades, threadbare at the arms: rose patterns on tan, acorns and oak leaves on mossy green. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then he looked at the bush, with its few leaves and the hard ground around it. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I call after him, but he leaves the room without turning back. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The flakes fell softly, vanishing in the heaps of brown leaves, swirling in little smoky coils. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He heard a stealthy rustle of leaves on the other side of the sandbags and fired two quick rounds. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Probably he says some other stuff before he leaves, but I’m not listening. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He let out a sigh and kicked at the leaf that had so let him down. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Joe, the colossal bartender, leaves his post to stare into my father’s grinning face and clamp him in a bear hug. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I miss you,” Isobel says as he leaves, but the sentiment is crushed by the clatter of the beaded curtain falling closed behind him. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was half concealed among trees in leaf, and was not what she expected. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was mehndi, a design made from the powdered leaves of the henna plant. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

As the pastor leaves the pulpit and the choir stands, Justyce looks around the packed interior of the church. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The wind caught the leaf and swirled it away. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ways the light hit different parts of the leaves made them look three-dimensional. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Her? eyes were unfocused, and she trembled like a leaf. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dry leaves flew in a whirlwind beneath churning hooves, as the stallion sped to the brown crest of a hill. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

She knew where trillium would stand tall, its leaves saying“three” and its petals saying “three.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The golden morning light seemed to glow all around him, while brighter patches fell, now on his lean, brown hands, now on his hair and face, as the leaves stirred over his head. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had not gone out with that intention, and did not really, even in those distant days, believe that every leaf you caught would mean a happy month next year. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jacob has leaves in his shirt—that’s what he was collecting. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Helmuth pours the water over the leaves, lets the peppermint steep. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Nailer cast about for his knife, saw it lying in the leaves. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Fragments of metal and clumps of leaves and torn branches rained into the water. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

We stand next to the door until everyone else leaves. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The wrought-iron frame mimicked the weave of vines, decorated with flowers and leaves of green copper. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

From then on, night and day, Buck never left his prey, never gave it a moment’s rest, never permitted it to browse the leaves of trees or the shoots of young birch and willow. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five days a week, she leaves us to work at an office back in Brownsville. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“OK. That leaves twenty-six, twenty-seven—stand still—twenty-eight. You get twenty-eight, Greg?” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Freedom is a delicate idea, like a pretty leaf in the air: It’s hard to catch and may not be what you thought when you get it,” she observed quietly. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Huge piles of leaves start appearing on the sides of the road, and Boomer makes it his job to run through every single one. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t say another word as he leaves me in the kitchens, alone. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I picked him up and held him to me; his limp, emaciated body, so light I might have been holding a handful of leaves, not a child, sagged lifeless against mine. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also had to fit in a pyramid tin from Rose City Teas: some loose leaf FTGFOP1 First Flush Darjeeling I bought as a gift for Mamou. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

‘And now, dame, if you love the Lord Faramir, run as quick as your tongue and get me kingsfoil, if there is a leaf in the City.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I stand hunched, twigs and leaves tangled in my hair. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She leaves, and I hear her tromp down the back stairs to the garbage. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had rubbed his hair hard with green leaves to cover human odor. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

As I wandered across the lawn to the terrace my eye was caught by a gleam of sunshine on something metal showing through the green of the rhododendron leaves at the turn in the drive. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

And with thirst my tongue is dry as a dead leaf. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, Lee Cheun scoops ladles full of cooked rice and puts it on banana leaves. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tortoises nibbled at the lettuce leaf Victor was holding out to them. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The current carried a drifting leaf into a little eddy. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

In the light of the fire, the waxy leaves and thick branches stood out black. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looks around us again, peering thru the leaves and over the river to Doctor Snow’s house. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The leather is cracked and flaking, the thick shoulder strap leaves a brown mark on my blouse where the leather stain is rubbing off. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The sound of crunching leaves and labored breathing filled the warm autumn air, and Celaena kept her gaze on the damp and gleaming dark hair of the thief in front of her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A sharp, acrid scent, like overheated rubber or charred leaves. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Painted grape leaves and tiny white lights decorated the bricks around the door. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

In the dim moonlight I could see the dark, shapeless shadows of leaves swirling over the grey of the cobblestones below. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Baba leaves to exchange gold jewelry for Turkish money and to find out information. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“When the tree is dead, ghosts eat the leaves.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

To my disappointment, Hideo leaves one last kiss against my skin. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Armelio bangs on his chair with some sticks and gets bored, leaves the room. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Each time he leaves, we wait with fear and guilt for his return. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She leaves me in the kitchen and comes back with a letter in her hand. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The headlights creep through the tall stalks, illuminating a leaf here, an ear of corn there. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She kisses me on the forehead and leaves with my dad. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Every time they have a fight, she takes the kids and leaves. Then, two days later, she comes back.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

She leaves her desk, raps on the door behind her, and disappears inside. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He leaves the door half open and walks out of sight to wherever he keeps his recycling. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The air was cold—icy, even—and it smelled the way early mornings always smelled to me: like dead leaves and the dregs of unfinished cups of coffee. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

As long as she fixed on leaves and blossoms, stems and seeds, she could pretend it was a normal day, and there weren’t ghosts standing guard under the arches of the arcade. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

By the years end the Firemen had raked the autumn leaves and white xylophones away, and it was no more fun. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the summer they joined together in bands of twenty-five to thirty—cactus leaves, a local favorite, were plentiful enough in that season to support larger groups. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It is a question she poses to him often, as they leaf together through apartments featured in Architectural Digest or the design section of the Times magazine. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She added little round seeds and the scrapings of a gnarled, flesh-colored root; furry, blue-gray leaves and pale orange blossoms. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Don’t look like that. When it leaves we’ll check the wreckage of the house. I’ll bet there’s some rope in there.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The captain sends word that he is thrilled with their progress; he promises holiday leaves, steaks, brandy. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She had applied a bright blue mask to her face, was smoking and sipping some bourbon with ice and leafing through a fat paperback book whose pages had buckled and turned gray from the water. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It held a number of small plants, all of them the same kind, with stringy roots and dark, veined green leaves that looked like mint. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

But someone else would harvest the first leaves. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She climbed off the dragon’s back and she could still see the monkeys through leaves and branches, their bared teeth flashing. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“And some children have diabetes,” Ben said, “and some have leprosy, some get eaten by tigers, some are born without arms, some get struck by lightning, and some use leaves for toilet paper.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Rezaei scooped the leaves into a colander, banged it on the sink a few times, and handed it to me. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I get that it leaves you feeling lost and wondering how you fit into the world.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a silk blazer and a shirt patterned with forest leaves. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They crept beneath the twigs and leaves, settled themselves in the smooth, curved trough—which soon took on some of the warmth of their bodies—and slept at once. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

After receiving permission from the chief, Ma leaves with the girl to see Keav. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at the table, covered with leaves and scraps of paper. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He scratches his nose with his knuckle, laughs uncomfortably, and leaves me alone with the shoe box. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Something in the leaves grabbed her attention, and she seemed transfixed by it. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I know there’s a cluster of trees with leaves that turn brilliant shades of yellow in the fall. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

We emerge into the woods, and my hands run through the leaves overhead. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The smell leaves me seized by desperate panic—panic not like my lungs are out of air, but like the atmosphere itself is out of air. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He cleared his throat and said, “Now, your mother wants you to come back to Oxford with her when she leaves next weekend.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

She got an emasculated carrot, a droopy leaf of celery, a soft tomato and a fresh sprig of parsley. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I squinted at every dappled leaf in the mulberry wood, hoping to see leopard eyes looking back. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Mr. Nielsen has arthritis, and though he still comes in early every morning, he usually leaves around two to take an afternoon nap. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The autumn leaf might cling to its branch, but it was already dead. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Pulling a leaf from my hair, she slapped me on the shoulder and shoved me inside the house. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She takes her ring from her finger and leaves it on the mantel, resting between the two hearts emblazoned on the playing card. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The moss under my scuffed boots glitters with dew, and there is a threadbare carpet of golden leaves beneath the sycamore tree. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The only sounds were the rustling of the leaves and the cawing of a crow high up in one of the trees. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The only sounds that answer him are the faint trickle of the stream’s water and the hush of golden leaves drifting in the air. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A white-haired woman stepped toward them through a drift of dark red leaves, a bronze sickle in her hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A few other women worked nearby, weighing dried leaves or straining tinctures. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The leaves on the trees turned red to show I was late. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked side by side, in the golden-green light of the sun through the newly opened leaves. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Low branches whipped at Bran's face as they pushed between the trees, and the leaves brushed away his tears. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The pot was filled with limp, almond-shaped leaves, boiling away in about half a gallon of blackish water. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Robbie Ray was already sitting on the top step, his gold chain gleaming in the sun, the blowing leaves slapping him in the face, driving him crazy. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He said, “The way I see it, it’s bad luck. Everybody knows what bad luck is. It leaves you defenseless. And there it is! The way I see it, it’s bad luck.” The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“If we get our heads bashed in and that lunatic leaves us here on the sidewalk—” she said. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The germ that spreads better leaves more babies and ends up favored by natural selection. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Only the bamboo leaves clung to the bamboos in the sparse clump to the east of the house, and even though the wind wrenched the stems double, the leaves clung. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Walking paths, like veins in a leaf, weave through the green below. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He hobbled the mule and tied a long rope to the burro and let them graze on the thin, bluish green leaves of salt bushes growing at the entrance to the canyon. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

We all sat and watched the fire eat the leaves, little lapping tongues of flame climbing up the branches. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Sounder’s blood would wettin the leaves,” the boy said after he had stood a long time with the poker in his hand. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Darkclaw, send those ferrets out for more dock leaves, will you?” he ordered. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Here they were only lightly touched with green, not yet in full leaf. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Overhead, the autumn breeze tugged more leaves from the trees and sent them spiraling slowly down around us, yellow and red, as quick as little fish gathering in pools. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I was sad for Phoebe and her parents and Prudence and Mike, sad for the leaves that were dying, and sad for myself, for something I had lost. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Pouches of pan-fried shredded coconut Tamarind paste on banana leaf Steamed corn on the cob Rounds of fried dough Wedges of pineapple on a stick And of course cubes of papaya tender and shiny. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Branches caught at her clothing, but through the spiked leaves and dead vines, she could almost see what was happening in the clearing. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The moss and leaves are hard like cement beneath my feet, the moon hanging big and low, beams streaming down like searchlights. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was November now, and most of the trees had dropped their leaves off and were all bare and dark. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Trees danced and swayed, dust and leaves rose up around us in boisterous swirls, and our jackets and outerwear took on sudden lives of their own, leaping and flapping about us. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

When the leaves shake in the wind, they tickle my skin. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Part of him wants to turn around, go sit in his car until the person leaves—but he knows that’s not what Manny would want him to do. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Bullets zipped in the leaves, cracked the rocks. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

No: it was the greenness of the lawn, the sharp lines of white mortar between the bricks, the rustle of the maple leaves in the gentle breeze, the very breeze itself. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In three months, in a time when the leaves would be fat and full, our lives would separate like the branches overhead that made their own way into the sunlight. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He has his tea and leaves the house early for the long walk into the country. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She was shaking like a leaf this morning and even burst into tears. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A small winter breeze rustled some dead leaves in the deep canyon. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alyce turned back again for the cottage, gathering comfrey leaves and raspberries and the tiny wild strawberries in her skirt as she went. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrap my blisters in cool leaves, but they keep falling off. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He leaves so he doesn’t have to talk about it anymore. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

As the Wood be- came familiar to her, she became attuned to the sounds it made: the light tread of deer, the rustling leaves, the flapping passage of night owls. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he’s done, Johnny leaves the mug and the mangled, leaking tea bags where they lie. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

When his piece of grass got bent, he dropped it, picked up a little twig, stripped the leaves off it, and used that. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a light breeze, which lifted a faint scent out of the flowers and rustled the stiff leaves, and Mary imagined a huge, dim benevolence holding her up, like a pair of giant hands. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Stopping for coffee and two burritos with green chili in a cafe near the central plaza, he leafed swiftly through all twenty magazines, marking the stories that carried a Charley Bloom by-line. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children begin to scamper between rows of the dead, over leathery leaves, looking for their own names, a handful triumphant when they are able to claim a grave they are related to. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Raking some dead leaves into a pile, she picked Little Ann up and laid her in them. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The buds on a weeping spruce cascade over a small embankment—a little hint of life beneath the desiccated vines and leaves. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Miss Spink peered shortsightedly at the black tea leaves in the bottom. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I nodded without looking away from the leaves. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Called back among the banana leaves that do not speak in the silent night, I listen. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night Jack Frost passed by, and in the morning there were bright colors here and there among the green leaves of the Big Woods. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tables and pop-tents had been set up beyond the benches under frizzy trees, their leaves lit with orange lanterns. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Whenever a woman leaves her wide-open-to-the-world yard to work her field or saunter off on an errand, first she must make herself decent. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told him about the river where I had washed the clothes among the kingfishers and the dragonflies, and the calls of the doves and the wind rustling through the leaves of the peepul trees. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a temporary assignment, but on his twenty-first birthday, May 1, 1878, he leaves The Hague. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

That trees shed their leaves not according to season, but according to rainfall. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I know something must a happened, but I’m just so glad to see her face before she leaves for New York. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“The leaves are gone / you should be, too / I’d be gone if I were you / but then again, here I am / walking alone / in the frigid dawn.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Gasps, the crunch of straw or leaves, a strained groan. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

My parents arrived as the leaves began to turn, when campus was at its most beautiful, the reds and yellows of autumn mingling with the burgundy of colonial brick. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A leaf had become entangled in the fuzzy hair of a floppy ear. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bird’s dropping fell on the floor of the veranda, and Richard picked up a cashew leaf and wiped it off. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

That night, Thomas escorts me back to my apartment and kisses me on the cheek before he leaves. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The big banana-tree leaves grow right up against the shack’s filthy back window, leaving narrow gaps perfect for spying. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, I go back to cleaning pool chairs, picking up Miss Celia’s movie magazines and tissues the slob leaves out here. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I got off the path and walked carefully, minding my footstep on dried leaves in the forest to avoid making any sound. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Our group got an A, so it’s going up on the bulletin board, which is newly decorated with fake fall leaves to remind us we’re in September. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The way a picture that’s been hanging on a wall for years leaves a shadow of light behind, Bodega had kicked the door down and left a green light of hope for everyone. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Granddaddy stopped every now and then to peer at a leaf, a rock, a mound of dirt, things I didn’t find terribly interesting. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He leaves it safely tucked within his pocket. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Every stroke of the quill leaves me a little poorer... or would, if I were not a beggar to begin with. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My hands recoiled from the coldness of serpent flesh, my nails clawed at my palms, the leaves I had parted moved back to cover it. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother won’t be there and she leaves his lunch for him. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Something was slithering over dead leaves nearby: it sounded like a cloak trailing along the ground. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Prosper leafed through the compartments but there were only a few one thousand lire notes tucked in between crumpled receipts, restaurant bills, and used vaporetto tickets. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The red leaf settled down in the corner with the other leaves. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

In the ragged hedge on the opposite side the boughs of the elm trees swayed just perceptibly in the breeze, and their leaves stirred faintly in dense masses like women’s hair. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Starry leaves her friends behind and jogs to keep up with me. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was as if she could see the leaves unfurling gracefully from their jewel-like buds, the young beetles creeping purposefully forward on the earth. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had a pale bark, and equally distributed branches that carried an amazing profusion of leaves. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The morning of her two hundredth notch, Jinny woke to the sound of rain, spittering softly against the sand and leaves outside her window. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The tip of the hazel switch sang through its arc, leaves and stems flew apart, but the cheers of the crowds were harder to summon. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A robin landed on the earth and overturned leaves, searching for chubby bugs. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It was so nice to sit beside her with the leaves drifting down around us. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

We trod upon broken twigs, and last year's leaves, and here and there the fresh green stubble of the young bracken, and the shoots of the bluebells soon to blossom. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then, without even rustling a leaf, her little hand slides into the open and points to something above my head. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

In California, for example, the loss of some 60,000 game fish, mostly blue- gill and other sunfish, followed an attempt to control the rice- leaf miner with dieldrin. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In turning a leaf she happened to look up, and I said to her directly— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Besides the traitorous leaves, Stella could hear a pair of bullfrogs ba-rupping to each other, but nothing, not a single human voice, from across the pond. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I wish I had something to eat but there’s nothing in the icebox but cabbage leaves floating in the melted ice. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I sat down on an old sycamore log, and started thumbing through the leaves. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m amazed that I don’t fall on my face since the grass and the fallen leaves are so slippery. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

In the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, a famous apple-growing region, hordes of a small insect called the red-banded leaf roller arose to plague the growers as soon as DDT began to replace arsenate of lead. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He looked like a dry leaf clutched to the bodyguard s chest as Tam Lin hurried out with the doctors in his wake. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Internet searches are better than tea leaves or a tarot deck. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Round squash hid underneath large broad green leaves. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I hand him a couple of mint leaves and pop a few in my own mouth. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Moths were perched on the wooden headboard and the pillows and the wall behind the bed, and when the door opened, they lifted into the air like leaves stirred by a wind. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Hazel had picked a fresh bay leaf from a tree by the river and he had dropped it in. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled dried leaves and clouded liquids from the shelves, all the while gushing about Mother’s exploits, finishing with the confrontation in the hospital. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Others, led by an instinct that simulates foresight, merely lay their eggs on a leaf so that a browsing caterpillar will eat them inadvertently. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I folded my hands in my lap and watched a red leaf spin past my feet. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I saw mosses and fruit trees and crop fields filled with peanuts, chili peppers, and koka leaves. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

They lined the floor with beech twigs and leaves. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The leaves are turning,” the girl said companionably. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I reach the path to the bridge, start down, past the nightshade vines with their red berries, past the undulating leaves, the lurking cats. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He methodically peels off the shells, piling the meats on a leaf. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Presently he saw open space, and the green leaves of the edge of the thicket. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

After a few weeks, even the leaves are becoming scarce. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chester was in the middle of a song when the leaf came down. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its hair was so matted and covered with leaves that it looked like an owl’s nest in need of housecleaning. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

A few weeks sped by, but the leaves on the trees were still green. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Rabbit runs tend to be bowshaped; but this was straight, so that above them, through the mouth of the hole, Hazel could see leaves against the night sky. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A south breeze brought the scent of lilacs and sweet fennel to his nostrils and set all the frosty-green leaves of a silver poplar tree to trembling. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not dead yet. But it will be soon. The leaves aren’t turning this year.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some dry leaves fell, and then something white tumbled from the branches to the earth with a dry, whispering sound. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ma was beautiful, too, in her dark green delaine, with the little leaves that looked like strawberries scattered over it. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sample question pictured a leaf standing top to bottom and progressively leaning to the right. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“And it’s wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It’s possible to love something and still condescend to it.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Bushes cracked, leaves scuttled, and a man with a rifle came into the meadow. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, the trees—those that hadn’t yet been cut down for firewood—shed their spotty yellow-and-copper leaves. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

We sat beside each other silently and watched the last leaves spin down from the trees. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

She didn’t feel sure of what would happen when the leaves caught. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I moved the bubble, now trailing a leaf, to hidden grove leaf five. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

It can harbor a curse no more than a leaf can, or a mirror, or a life. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Since roosting overnight in a tree isn't sensible anyway, I scoop out a hollow under the bushes and cover myself with leaves and pine needles. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It smells green, the way a leaf does when you tear it in half. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then he’d climbed into bed again, curled up like an autumn leaf, every blanket in the house thrown over him, and lain without sleeping until dawn came. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She turned her head almost upside down to focus on a twisting leaf, a flying beetle, and a bird. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He was moving on four good legs, strong and swift, and he could feel the ground underfoot, the soft crackling of fallen leaves, thick roots and hard stones, the deep layers of humus. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Outside, the leaves were falling to the ground, and I was infinitely sad, sad down to my bones. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

There were cards that required you to play an air guitar solo, speak like an English-dubbed anime character, eat leaves like a giraffe, engage in staring contests, and end every sentence with the word dawg. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Stooping, he gathered a handful of the leaves and crushed them with a little mud in the palm of one hand. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

We used a thick white paste to glue leaves and picture cutouts onto heavy construction paper. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Even my hat would go; its green was sun-faded and brown, like a leaf struck by the winter's snows. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Granted that we face a world crisis which leaves us standing so often amid the surging murmur of life's restless sea. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He tipped his ginger roots into the cauldron too, and wondered whether he ought to take a leaf out of Moody’s book and start drinking only from a private hip flask. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He finishes his tea, tells me to be firm with Helena, and leaves me to my thoughts. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Its whisper was like a snake slithering over dead leaves. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Soon both native and African women were bringing her specimens and describing uses for each leaf, worm, and beetle. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The mountain laurel tightened their leaves, and the apple blossoms froze. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

They macerate and digest the leaves, and aid in mixing the decomposed matter with the surface soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I thank the kind prison guard, and he leaves the room. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He cries deep soundless cries that make his thin body shiver like leaves in the wind. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Solomon gets up, leaves his tray disgustedly at the table, and moves out of the room with alarming speed. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He squatted down, parted the leaves arid looked out into the clearing. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“It might fly away. After all, it’s got a lot of spots to choose from. Look at them all over the leaves.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

So that leaves Cato and the girl from District 2, who are now surely celebrating the new rule. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Behind him, strapped into the litde seat, his mouth speckled with leaf fragments, the infant looked back and grinned at Claire. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He stretched out his arms and they became branches, from which smaller branches shot out and grew leaves. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I know for a fact that Manuel wants to dance with you before he leaves on Monday. ” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“For a thousand years it has not shown a leaf. In another thousand it will have turned to stone, the maesters say. Weirwoods never rot.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Above—through the leaves and branches of the black-water trees—the sky scrolled before her, new constellations wheeling in the darkness as she relaxed. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They must not have had the sense to remove the stingers, or if they did, not known about the leaves that healed them. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The wind rustled the leaves of the guava tree. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They drank huge glasses of iced tea, sugared and garnished with mint leaves. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He doesn’t wear a silver leaf on his collar, sir. He wears a cross.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Even so, most say they oppose the government’s taxing the assets a person leaves at death. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

A leaf fell on to my hand from the tree above. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Bloomin’ ’eck, that leaves us only about fifteen hours for a ten mile push-bike ride! Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The leaves were falling, rolling in dusky clouds, and the conifers on the slopes were crusted with snow. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And definitely don’t be the leaf wallowing in it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Two sucres,” my cousin Zoyla said, holding forth two leaves, grudgingly playing along. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a path made of the long leaves that circled all the way down to the base of this plant, where there was a beach. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Especially this one. She’ll have you off to bring her a leaf of the singing tree from the other side of the world.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

‘I know, right? I’m awesome! Do I win a leaf hat now?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Every fight of my entire life leaves me lying on the mat. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He flew right out at me, landed on my shoulder, gave me a lecture that I shall never forget, and vanished under the scant cover of trillium and bloodroot leaves. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shouldn’t emerge until dawn, especially since I spiked her tea with kheb leaf—a scentless, tasteless herb Pop used to help patients rest. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

No birds, no squirrels, no rustling leaves—even the wind held its breath. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Autumn rolled over the countryside as they moved through it: They were now pitching the tent on mulches of fallen leaves. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Adding zero to a number leaves the number unchanged. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Everyone on the row of streetcar seats was turned directly toward the judge, who coughed, leafed through his file, and turned toward me, fanning himself. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Nhamo looked up through the dark, fan-shaped leaves at patches of bright sky. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaves her at the fence, goes right past her. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

This mild breeze, carrying the moist essence of early spring, caused a dead leaf to flutter here and there, and across the garden near the fence it moved something that sparkled in the sunlight. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s see, this one’s for the intercom—I saw you push that one, too—and these levers are obviously for the wheels and brakes, so that leaves...this one!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The willows that grow in the river bed were well leafed, and the wild blackberry vines were thrusting their spiky new shoots along the ground. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They would waddle up to the front of the cave, look at the fire, and come scampering back to roll and play in the soft leaves. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The branches in the tree began to rustle, and leaves floated down around us, as though someone—or a bunch of someones—was climbing down. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It had just rained, and the streets were covered with wet leaves; their earthy tobacco scent hung in the air, mixing with the spice of wood smoke. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

But you think perhaps you can smell caramel wafting through the evening breeze, beneath the crisp scent of the autumn leaves. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was the in-between time, before day leaves and night comes, a time I’ve never been partial to because of the sadness that lingers in the space between going and coming. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Add a mint leaf from your garden to each glass. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A cold, raw wind whipped dead leaves about the ankles of the four people grouped in the Sunset Towers driveway, but not one of them shivered. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Small tears in skirts are stitched over with embroidery in the shape of leaves and pomegranates and—on one—a cavorting fox. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

One morning there was a rustle in the leaves above. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its berries, its bark, its leaves, its sap, its pulp, its wood, they all thrum and burn and twist with life. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

She digs in the pack she carries and pulls out a handful of leaves. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Here the air was softer and warmer, and faintly scented, as if spring was already stirring and the sap was flowing again in herb and leaf. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The following afternoon was warm and aglow with the oranges, reds, and yellows of fall leaves. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was like wind rushed through a noisy tree in fall, every leaf muttering something to its neighbor. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Like the finishing touch. Like how when—how do I explain it? Kind of like when chefs put those little leaves on top of fancy desserts.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Every year, a new class of Masks leaves Blackcliff, young, savage, and deadly. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Her heartbeat only settled after the hasira leaf’s power took effect and the lurid yellow glow in his eyes slightly dimmed. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I pointed out how the pile of leaves she had walked through were obviously disturbed, and how the branches of the banerbyre were broken and torn where she’d struggled through. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The tents look surprisingly old and worn in the light, and he wonders how long the circus has been traveling, and where it goes when it leaves. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“You know, I’ve never seen it like this before—with snow on it and the leaves gone. It’s lovely, isn’t it? You see the shapes of things.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Peewee had made a checkerboard out of some leaves he wove together. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Capricorn opened the book, leafed through it, and then closed it again. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Every morning, when Papi leaves for the office, one of the cars starts up its colicky motor and follows him down the hill. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He, Ranofer, was to be allowed to work in gold, to learn a bit, to practice, to fashion a leaf. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Wind pummeled his face and tore at the leaves of the trees and ferns around him. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The last class of my old professor’s life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink leaves. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She grabs her makeup box and wigs and leaves the room. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I learned it was a mixture of com, turnips and rice, seasoned with thyme, bay leaf and green peppers. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he rubbed his eyes and leafed through the prep books that he would have to study for the next four months. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The weather had turned the leaves brown, even though it was midsummer, and a cold wind gusted through the gnarled branches, making the dried leaves rattle. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then he knew that it was not leaves, but the sound of the Sea far-off; a sound he had never heard in waking life, though it had often troubled his dreams. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Gently I touched the bubble to leaf four. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I thought back to my father’s resignation letter: “I know that no one really ever leaves the Abeona Shelter. ...” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The noise began all about them, a rustling slither, like a snake twining through dry leaves. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“If he leaves his isolation, I will let you know, but until then, I have other matters to attend to.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A second explosion seems to split the air and leaves my ears ringing. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Her crash bracelets caught for a moment, holding her up above the waves, but then the wind caught the hoverboard, much lighter without her on it, and spun it away like a leaf. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

But then the image of Grandpop crawling around in the grass and leaves, slapping his hands against the ground, trying to get to Ernie, came back. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A cool breeze carries leaves across the floor like a prism of windy-season makeup colors—marigold, chestnut, scarlet, apricot. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Taking my pups and bundles from the gunny sack, I used it to gather leaves to make us a bed. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her palm is cool and smooth, and leaves my hair standing on end. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I dreamed it was a leaf and I ate it.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Which leaves you and me, Ron!” said Tonks brightly, knocking over a mug tree as she waved at him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Squirrels darted in the trees, stirring the leaves. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

There is a flat, leaky roof, which does not touch the top of the metal cellblock but leaves a gap of maybe ten feet. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lay still for a long time, looking at the cloudless sky through the branches and leaves of green maples and sycamores. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a fine morning for hunting, with the air still and the rising sun shining bright on the tall green grass and the greener leaves of the timber. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Speed, some poison in the leaf, the tongue, the tail? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And on the under side of the leaf of the potato vine are the bright orange eggs of the potato bug. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

He leaves his ID and keys with the lady at check-in, and a second guard lifts his chin as Jus approaches the metal detector. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In his hands he carried on a large leaf as on a tray a small pile of white water-lilies. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The ferns, the pines, the leaves, the moss—everything. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

A cold wind had risen, swirling the leaves in great circles above their heads. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

I think of the blood on Shauna’s shirt, and long for the Amity orchards, the sound of the wind in the leaves, the feeling of bark beneath my hands. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some small critter skirts through the undergrowth nearby, rustling through the leaves. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He ripped a fistful of leaves off a scraggly tree we were walking by. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

But when he finally leaves for the dressing room, I lean my elbows on her desk. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Once all the oxygen molecules have been loaded onto heme, the four leaves of hemoglobin tighten around the oxygen like a saddle clasp. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He reached out to pet him, his hand trem-bling like a leaf. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Ma went into the hall closet and pulled out some old leaves that she had been saving. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She leaves the kitchen and follows Charlie, who is already checking out the rest of the place. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Where does a woman go when she leaves one man who hits her and is just as likely to wind up with another man who hits her, maybe even worse than the first? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When the coals are hot, I push them into the hole, place the fish on them, and cover all with leaves, then soil. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was not the least sound in the leaves. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he did those three movements again, and again, and a realization peppered Anya like falling tree leaves. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Once, he shot a bush pigeon down from the cashew tree with a small stone, wrapped it in leaves, and put it into his bag. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A raccoon or a possum or maybe even just the rustle of leaves in the wind. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The loudly buzzing syrphid fly, often mistaken for a bee, lays its eggs on leaves of aphis-infested plants; the hatching larvae then consume immense numbers of aphids. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Her handmaids filled the tub with tepid water that stank of sulfur, sweetening it with jars of bitter oil and handfuls of cmshed mint leaves. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Our wounds were then dressed with a healing plant, the leaves of which were thorny on the outside but smooth on the inside, which absorbed the blood and other secretions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the wad was gone, I put a fresh leaf in his mouth and he casually chomped it, looking here, there, and everywhere, as if I couldn’t have asked him to do anything more boring. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

They’d been collecting leaves from the cobblestones: red, orange, yellow, green. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He straightens her glasses on her nose and plucks a leaf from her hair. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It moved and churned, foaming and dark, carrying leaves and sand and twigs from one place to the next. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Accustomed to building fires on the beach, they found it easy to light the small starting pile of leaves and twigs with the matches Dicey had taken from the counter in the store. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The branches with their flat, bright green leaves did not start below a hundred and fifty feet up. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was dark inside, but he easily found the leaves wrapped in his handkerchief. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The smell of dying leaves in the motionless gray morning as he shambled up onto the porch after a night’s fishing, and the full, fine growth in the cedar trees. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Aunt Docia’s dress was a sprigged print, dark blue, with sprigs of red flowers and green leaves thick upon it. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I was so busy thinking about how ridiculous it is to have a basket of leaves in a bathroom that I said, “No.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He gets up from the table and leaves the other half of his Pop-Tart and his salad stuff too. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The few leaves that dangled from the branches were brown and dead. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Autumn was most fun, because then they imagined, like on Earth, they were scuttering through autumn leaves. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t see her face as she leaves. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

By the time the leaves started to fall she’d helped with a dozen births. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The tall trees still stood inside, but their leaves were shriveled and their bark was turning moldy and corrupt. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Gandalf lifted it carefully, but the leaves crackled and broke as he laid it on the slab. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The tree shakes; leaves and twigs and caterpillars patter down, bouncing off his gray felt hat, hitting the tarpaulin. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rain hadn't knocked all the leaves off the backyard trees, but the next rain probably would. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The trees burned scarlet and saffron, so vivid they looked as if someone had covered each leaf with gold foil. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Little Ann had dug a bed in a pile of dead leaves. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Party Field a beautiful young sapling leaped up: it had silver bark and long leaves and burst into golden flowers in April. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Chucha brews me a tea of hierbabuena leaves that makes the flutter in my chest and the cramps in my tummy go away. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

She swings her trunk across the ground in front of her, fanning her ears like enormous leaves. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Bailey is much more fond of his grandmother than of his sister, so he leaves the blame squarely on Caroline. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I patted the chilca leaves vigorously over the sick person’s body to clean his spirit. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then a flat, wet clod of dead leaves shot clean through the gap and landed clear of the hedge, close to Hazel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Christina walks out, bumping me with her shoulder as she leaves. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Nathan inserted a sprig of lavender and two sage leaves into the kettle. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He threw himself in front of the prosecutor, who was spending his time leafing through the typed pages of his speech. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

In the House of Hwang, of course, every bowl of water was green with leaves. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

When cattle eat the leaves of a grass, the plant will kill off some of its roots, to balance itself out. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Steam rose as the leaves began to steep and tint the liquid. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"I'm sure," she says, and she turns in her boots and leaves through the back. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

After everyone leaves and she’s putting the exam booklets into her bag, I approach her with my open backpack. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Green leaves sprouted and, as they cascaded over the branches, pale moon-colored balls like pearls developed. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The wooden bowl burst into flames then, a huge gout of flame which singed the leaves of the oak tree far above them. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The top was a thick mass of large limbs, and it hadn’t shed all of its leaves yet. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then out past the island of Formosa, looking like a giant, well- fertilized gardenia leaf, and across the Pacific, over Hawaii, and now time for California once again. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The huntress looked up at Ash with eyes the color of spring leaves and said, “You've found me.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I hope everyone leaves you alone tonight, because that sounds like WAY too much family time. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He scraped a patch of ground clear of wet leaves and twigs and put the little pile of papers on to the soil. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

It happened when the camaradas hurriedly set out to clear the area for their campsite, cutting away the thick vegetation and brushing aside the dead leaves. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I watched the leaves on the blue willows twirl, silver to blue, blue to silver. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The tree branches would be stark and, with their leaves fallen, wear a kind of proud desolation. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The light faded, and the leaves on the bushes rustled softly. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He leaves, instructing us to visit his lab if we want more information, and Tris, Nita, and I stand in the room in silence. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He opens the door and lets Karin and Ilse go out first, and then I shuffle around while holding on to Helena’s hand so that the smoking doctor leaves next. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

"There's pink on the edges of these leaves," she says. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

After Daniel leaves, Axel and Lark go to visit Ray, who is out on the porch, curled up on the love seat. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

All day Pa was busy, banking the little house and the barn with dead leaves and straw, held down by stones, to keep out the cold. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘You’re bound to the code. Bound to aid any who—” “The code applies to our own. Members of the Resistance. Their families. Those who have given everything for our survival. Keenan, give her the leaf.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The green leaves were the roofs, and through them they could see bits of the blue sky. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mami propped up her pigeon pea and annatto bushes, which had been flattened by the storm, and soon they bloomed again, their leaves as new and fresh as babies. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The leaves blew upwards in sudden gusts of wind, and spots of rain began to fall from the overcast sky. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then he leaves, as always, dodging a barrage of questions. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But in the story, the doll remained silent and wore leaves for clothes. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The women are supposed to wave palm leaves and chase the flames in toward the middle until all the trapped animals inside get completely nerve-racked and jump out through the fire. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s the principal trick of Congolese cooking: rubbing two leaves together to give color and taste to another day’s translucent, nutritionally blank ball of manioc. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I struggled to pry the lid from the can of tea leaves, aware that my grandmother had come in and was standing close behind me. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The policeman had a big orange leaf stuck to the bottom of his shoe which was poking out from one side. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ivan leaped into the air, tapping his heels together off to the side, and landed on his feet as lightly as fall leaves. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

McGarrity, the saloon keeper, sent a wreath of artificial laurel leaves. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I floated like a dead leaf on the water until I drifted out of my mother-in-law’s house and back to my family home. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know that no one really ever leaves the Abeona Shelter. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He had treated my forehead with a poultice of dried plant leaves mixed with water. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

It jumped off Nathan’s backpack and landed on the leaf he was standing on. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The paint on the walls and ceiling was peeling, paint chips tumbling to the floor like dried-up petals, resembling the leaves falling from the September trees outside. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The leaves seem to grow out of the dark gold, to be living things, their stems crossing over one another in a delicate knotwork. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Deftly, with a delicacy surprising in such a big man, he began to scrape away the black leaves and dried blue mud from Drogo's chest. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

One of the leaves that was falling over—yellowed, dying, drooping like a waterslide that nobody’s allowed on—has pumped up a little, is climbing to the window. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Okay...so I need you to promise me you won’t tell Coop anything I’m about to tell you. Not a word of it leaves this room.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I washed my hands and started rinsing dirt off the leaves. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

She didn’t have the mortar and pestle Mama would have used in this situation back at the Night Zoo, but she improvised, using a rock to grind the seeds against a large leaf. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The leaves that rustled around his feet on the outside have not followed him past the fence, though there is room enough for the breeze to carry them through the bars. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

On the trees the topmost branches are bare, the remaining leaves yellow, paper-thin. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“January,” Aibileen whispers and she gets up and leaves the kitchen. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

If we want sweeter milk, we take our cows to special places where they can eat leaves from a certain tree and a certain grass. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

He guards it jealously, stuffing it into his messenger bag to take home with him when he leaves the office and hiding it from WASPy Hunter. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A half-moon lit the path, and Nhamo saw that the leopard was merely a tangle of leaves by the water. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She found room for the last little goat’s cheese wrapped in its vine leaf, smiled and bowed again, and took a last drink from the spring that bubbled up among the gray rocks. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The usual tightness engulfed them; Harry’s feet parted company with the snowy ground, then slammed hard onto what felt like frozen earth covered with leaves. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Sinjin took in the sight of the man in the fig leaf trying to commune with the ergo chair. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth grins and shows off her very colorful autumn leaves leggings. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Not like the ones from under the canopy of green leaves, among the waving ferns. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But a few were uninhabited and gloomy-looking with dandelions overrunning the yard and limp gutters hanging loose from the weight of soggy old leaves and broken tree branches. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Reynie, meanwhile, speared a dry lettuce leaf with his fork and thought: So far, so good. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The rustling leaves drowned out what Ben said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The ground was covered with decayed leaves that had changed the top color of the brown soil to dark. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The wind blew, the trees shook their myriads of leaves. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was watching a dry leaf swirl and twist in the wind and she suddenly appeared. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Gabrielle releases a deep sigh, then slides off her chaise and leaves the chamber. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Moving the telescope closer to the window, she spent some time mastering the knobs, bringing the leaves on the trees below into crisp focus. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The plum trees blossomed; the petals fell like snow, leaving behind tiny green buttons that hid shyly among the leaves. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

It smells like wood chips and wet leaves. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

This self-awareness never leaves me, and every time I open my mouth, I think, “You should have said that differently” or “That’s fine the way it is.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Instead the only sound I heard was a kind of rattling like a couple of pieces of paper rubbing together or like dry leaves blowing around in the wind. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Then you two can have some time together before the barge leaves.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The leaves were whitish and rather papery, like the herb called honesty, and it was loaded with little brown fruits that looked rather like dates. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Shelves rose forty feet under an astonishing painted ceiling, and the spines of books glowed in jewel-toned leather, their gold leaf shining in the glavelight like animal eyes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Something like a feathered bomb blew up and away in a flurry of leaves and thunder. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the train leaves, the gangsters roam the Tapachula depot, eyeing which migrants are buying food and where they stash their cash afterward. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

"That leaves three beans for each us," Ben had cracked to Eleanor earlier. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

ITs hand leaves my throat, attacks my body. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I crush a leaf and hold it to my nose. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Mind you don’t touch any leaves. Or flowers. And maybe not the dirt, either. Not without gloves. Many of these herbs are deadly poisonous. Aren’t they pretty?” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The sand at the bottom caught the color of the sun, and tiny green leaves grew out of this color, suspended in the still water. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Undecidedly, Meggie leafed through the worn pages, then closed the book and put it down. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The shadows of the willow leaves made her skin look mottled and dark, the way the iron deposits streaked the yellow sandstone cliffs dark orange. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Will Daniel still want to be friends if Axel leaves him outside alone? A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Indeed it is. It leaves us with so much freedom.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I spit the dirt and leafs out of my mouth and told him, “I’m sorry, Mr. Leroy, I didn’t know he was gonna steal your money, I swear I didn’t know, sir!” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

To top it all off, his room smells like him—like the ocean and warm sand and crisp leaves. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“O! they do very well here?” interrupted Biddy, looking closely at the leaf in her hand. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

From high above him a copper-colored leaf came falling slowly, spinning and gliding and tumbling down. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The cordate leaves were large and broad, and ended in a single point. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He puts his hand on my shoulder, leaves it there like it fits, and we watch the rest of the game together. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Trey pushes away from the table and kisses the top of my head before he leaves. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Anastasia feinted at me, hurling sticks and leaves and dirt and whatever else she could manage to grab. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“So is it you who breaks the twigs and bruises the leaves of the paulownia tree just beyond?” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Another soldier fingers the rope at his belt, but the Mask leaves me between two burly legionnaires. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they use the same tea leaves over and over and Mam says the tea is stewed, coddled and boiled. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

You can make yourself a nice cup of tea but you have to use the tea leaves left over from this morning. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The wind moves the changing leaves in the trees. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I start on the leaves suffocating the bushes. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

An odor of loam and dead leaves hung in the corridor. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

I noted the thinning leaves and felt a ball in my stomach. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Jon struggled after him, listening to the call of the brook, to the leaves sighing in the wind. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She ignores knocks on her door, leaves the mess hall when I appear, and begs off when I approach her head on. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The leaves hung listless on the trees, waiting. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Leprechauns eat leaves and, despite their reputation as pranksters, are not known ever to have done lasting damage to a human. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know what, Maverick—” “I’ll be there,” he says, and leaves. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

And I’m so frightened that none of them will ever come back out again that it leaves me sick. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

When Taran went back to rearrange the weapons they would now be obliged to bear, he was surprised to find a large oak leaf on the ground before his cloak. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

At his feet, in between the creeping foliage, were dead leaves, rusty-coloured and dry on top, but packed to a damp mould just below the surface. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

There were tiny buds on these sycamores now and on some I could see the green shoots of infant leaves. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was half buried in a drift of leaves where the fairy had dropped it. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

As kids, being covered by the branches and the leaves always made him feel invisible. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Then falling off, like rotten leaves on dust? Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Fine- stein always has a bowl of oranges out, on a table up a few steps from the vestibule; no one else leaves oranges lying around like that when it isn’t Christmas. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

THe car that had stopped in the street leaves, and all of the onlookers go on about their business. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

But perhaps all this that I think is mere melancholy and dismay, which will fly away as the dust, when I stand once again beneath the poplars and listen to the rustling of their leaves. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Roza," I whisper after the customer leaves, "these are my clothes!" What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The wind whipped up a froth of fallen leaves on the ground around her, and she pulled the sleeves of her sweater down over her hands. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’s the only person I know who checks into a hotel room and leaves it cleaner than when he arrived. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Like if because I raised the boat my dad would quit drinking and turn over a new leaf or something. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’m pretty sure she dyes it regularly but leaves some gray to make it look more realistic. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

As the light leaves these stars, certain frequencies or colors are absorbed by the atoms in the stars’ outermost layers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And we jump on down the hill, skidding on leaves and wet vines, using rocks as handholds as best we can. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Gourd leaves that yesterday drooped down like a hundred little half-closed umbrellas were now freshened with dew. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He looked faintly absurd, stepping over the carpet of dry leaves in his tight airport suit, his tie blown over his shoulder. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After dinner he will help Sonia and Ben scrape bay leaves and lamb bones and cinnamon sticks from plates, pile them on the counters and two burners of the stove. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sammy struggled to free his head and arms from the snaky leaves. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We leave when he leaves! We’ve got diplomatic immunity. That S.O.B.’s a dead duck if he dares lay a hand on us!” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Merely rational thought—forgive me for preaching, but I must, I must!—merely rational thought leaves the mind incurably crippled in a closed and ossified system, it can only extrapolate from the past. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, Abby’s stuck at school until the late bus leaves, and I feel really terrible about that. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He had compared himself with a star, and other people with falling leaves, and yet he had felt some reproach in her words. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slashed at birch leaves till the splintery point of the broken broomstick was green and sticky. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Alice and I always cover our campsite with leaves when we depart so that no one will know we have been there. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A breeze whisked through orchard branches, rippled aspen leaves, stirred across the lawn, and slightly tickled the swimming pool water. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

From below there came a roaring, rushing sound, like the crash of surf on a stony beach, but he knew it was the wind tearing through the leaves on the trees. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly as they exchanged memories each saw the other putting forth leaves. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Directly in the middle, in front of him, was a table with drop leaves on each side. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a girl, but smaller than Arya, her skin dappled like a doe’s beneath a cloak of leaves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Jinx held out a handkerchief full of three-pronged leaves. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The leaves were soft, and felt good to my tired body and sore feet. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some caterpillars masquerade as dead leaves, twigs, snakes, even bird droppings, to avoid being eaten. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And George and Axel, Dr. Martin, and now the baby, move swiftly through the field over fallen branches, past roots and leaves. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Souvenir hunters had taken his paper cup and even the pieces of mulberry leaves that were left over. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She carefully removed the hard lump of sweetness from her mouth, stuck it back in its leaf just inside the pocket of her dress. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I hold my breath when I hear leaves rustling all around me, then footsteps. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took them, smiled, then let the leaves drop. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The trees were mostly bare now, save for a few that stubbornly held their leaves. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“It wouldn’t hurt either of us to eat a little light. You frightened me last night. I had an aunt who died of heart trouble. And that leaves a memory, you know.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Its leaves were green, but the bark looked very old. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Wind raged, the bean leaves were covered with dust; they looked bedraggled, unhealthy, dying. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A smoking roll of leaves juts from his mouth like a giant cigar. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a bright fall day when the sun lit up its scarlet leaves, you never saw anything to equal it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I brought the leaves to the old man and old woman, and they ate them for immortality. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Proceeding cautiously, Kyril Montana advanced through underbrush and dead leaves, automatically avoiding twigs and small branches that cracked underfoot. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would have liked to say, “Certainly there must be tea leaves. Do you think we are beggars?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I take the packet wrapped in banana leaves and head toward the hospital. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This grove has a magnetic pull, beckoning toward a carpet of blue-green mosses where I long to lie on my back and sing into the leaves. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Them that sits and twists their curls, They just leaves them, calls them "girls." A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I hoped this meant that he was really finished with that Paula person and she was finished writing him letters and calling our house and that he’d turned over a new leaf. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It was pretty out, the sun cutting its way around the leaves and dancing up off the water. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

The weather began to turn colder, and from her bed at night Tessie listened to the wind and the rustling leaves, wondering where I was sleeping and if I was safe. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In the Southfarthing the vines were laden, and the yield of ‘leaf’ was astonishing; and everywhere there was so much corn that at Harvest every barn was stuffed. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

When leaves or branches fall, the carbon and nitrogen in the debris are rapidly reabsorbed by the hyperefficient root systems of tropical plants. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“What if the ship leaves before?” she pressed. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She leaves the satchel on the floor nearby. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He took a book from his pocket and began energetically to read it, judging by the precision and frequency with which he turned die leaves. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took a deep breath, shaking like a leaf, then pointed behind her. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He was only vaguely aware of the leaves and branches twisting around him, softening and widening to let him lie back. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“The woods aren’t magic, but they still speak: the branches rasping in winter, and the rustling wind. I like the creaking leaves and the birds scuttling their wings.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

They are gentle with my new leaves, careful with my exposed roots. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I'm glad when the policeman orders me to sit and leaves me alone in a chair for a while. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The domovoi sat on the top step leading up to the door, fanning himself with a leaf. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Then she would lead me to the plant her owl-eyes had found and ask me to observe where the plant grew and how its leaves looked. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was reduced to eating the pumpkin leaves when every one of the new vegetables was devoured by beetles. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His throat was as dry as dead leaves. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He made a smoky fire of grass and leaves to make the bees drowsy. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few large raindrops splattered down onto the rhododendron leaves, then many. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Bren’s ride to the airport shows up, and as I say good-bye, I get that sinking, empty feeling when someone leaves but you stay behind. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He heard her steps on the porch, on the crisp dry oak leaves on the path, and then he could hear her no more. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The older woman sat bolt upright and put her feet to the floor, and thrust back the leaves from her face. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Fire ran along the dry grass and leaves, and took hold of a neighbor’s fence. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Alys rolled a leaf tightly and slipped it between the bars for him to nibble. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In the autumn the leaves flamed and rat- fled before the west winds, tempering their sad atheu with glory. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

My prayers are answered, because Jasmine nods and leaves it alone. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I look at the turnstile and see how easy it would be to duck under the metal bars and slip onto that train just as it leaves the station. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The rain was still slapping the leaves and running down my arms. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He leaves him with regret, “but I repeat, it is necessary.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He lay back and stretched, looked into the leaves, and said, “If I do something with this, I’ll come back and play it to you. I’ll bring my portable organ.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sukey and Rosie, the cows, were turned loose in the woods now, to eat the wild grass and the juicy new leaves. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Underfoot the leaves are scratched up as though the man had been kicking. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says that we need the light green leaves to grow, thus giving us more food. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually when our teacher leaves the room, Charlie Price, the class clown, acts up. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The back of her neck ached from keeping her head bent, and occasionally her eyes blurred between the dirt and leaves she had to search through to keep focused. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I was only about five feet off the ground, but already I was surrounded by leaves and oak flowers. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s twice as big as it was when I got it. It’s eaten two square inches of cabbage leaf.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly, the leaves were too thick to let much light in. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

At night the wind through the leaves would sound like the surf had sounded in Ocean Park, and while drifting off to sleep I could almost imagine we were still living by the beach. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Professor Sprout took a large plant pot from under the table and plunged the Mandrake into it, burying him in dark, damp compost until only the tufted leaves were visible. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Behind her, Annabella poured water from the kettle over dried leaves that she had placed in two thick mugs. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I place samples of leaves and ground cover in petri dishes and spray my environmentally approved potion over each. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

My way of life, new line, Is fall’n into the sere and yellow leaf. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It targets explicit memories, like your name, where you grew up, your first teacher’s name, and leaves implicit memories—like how to speak or tie your shoes or ride a bicycle—untouched.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I gathered leaves and pine needles, covering the body as best as I could. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Her weight leaves my body and I’m alone. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They whisper chants and spells that the wind carries through the leaves, back to my ears. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two seasons later, large branches on these trees had died, others were without leaves, and the deformed, weeping effect of whole trees persisted. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She uses clippers and expertly snaps at leaves and branches. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“He leaves right after, as fast as he can.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

When he leaves his flat in the early afternoon to find something to eat, the streets are already buzzing with the news: a strange circus has appeared overnight, just west of the city. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Besides the slight stirring of the wind through the leaves, there are no sounds. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The advantages of such control over chemicals are obvious: it is relatively inexpensive, it is permanent, it leaves no poisonous residues. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

There was stirring, a movement of mud and dead leaves. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Axel doesn’t wait another second; he leaves the ottoman for Frank’s warm spot on the couch, lets Ray jump right back up into his lap. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

So the knights disgorge the bitter leaf, black with saliva, into Jacob’s small palms. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

They didn’t smile or nod or look approvingly at me in that heartwarming way teachers always do in made-for-TV movies when the troubled student has turned over a new leaf. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To pen a letter if you desire. And to please our Lord and Mother Ermentrude by recording your daily devotions,” she says, and leaves. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Within reach of his fists all day, pounding chisel against stone with great heavy mallets instead of fashioning leaves or watching the gold turn crimson in the crucible? The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

It was his houseplant, hopeful green leaves rising from three bamboo stems, and when she took it, a sudden crushing loneliness lanced through her and stayed with her for weeks. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The air was fresh, delicious, smelling of new leaves in the woods, just-popped-out mushrooms, the pelts of young deer. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He envisioned an overgrown jungle, a body facedown in its leaves. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The insect life of the leaves and grass was stilled. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She leafed through her study book, crammed with sketches of insects painted from life on scraps of vellum. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The marshy water, thick and clouded with dirt, leaves, and branches, smelled and looked awful. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I stay at the table for a while after he leaves, thinking about how there are two kinds of missing. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

We will post our creations by our leaves all year. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Glittering light, like diamonds, peeks through branches, dark and green leaves. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Jacob fingered a patch of dead raspberry leaves. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I am at the end of this book; there are no further leaves to write upon, but the stubs of that quire I tore out to instruct my friends in writing. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The light filtered through the leaves and pine needles above as if through lace, the ground spotted in shadow. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I pulled a limb down, and all I saw were leaves, twigs, and flowers. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The returning soldiers carried the only booty available in the squalid town: the pale golden leaves of “bright” tobacco. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Raindrops slid down the leaves, the air smelled of wet soil, and he and Harrison were talking about his upcoming trip with Mr. Richard. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The lord’s words were accompanied by a faint rustling of wood and leaf, a slight twisting of his head. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was cold and muddy, full of sticks and leaves, tadpoles and crayfish...and a dog. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ash stared down at the ground and perhaps, yes, there was a broken leaf, but the hoofprint was so faint that it was hardly visible. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A faint wind sighed through the godswood and the red leaves stirred and whispered. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She blows air kisses at me, then leaves. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Pale green loopy ferns and spiked leaves of a much darker green filled the ceramic pots on the end table and the coffee table and the magazine table. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He’d just rounded the corner when two guys burst through the bushes in a flurry of leaves. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I snipped a couple of twigs off their apple tree and stripped off the leaves. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

But a man who has lived by truth—and you have believed in what he has lived—he does not leave you merely wary when he fails you, he leaves you with nothing. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The cat ignored me and pounced on a sluggish beetle that lumbered under a leaf. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the social worker leaves, Gran and Gramps sit in silence for a minute. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sass paused only to buy two palm leaf fans, giving me one. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

And when she peeled back the leaves, she discovered a single perfect goose egg sunk in the mud. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

No child in the alley would dare to climb into his courtyard to steal his mulberry leaves. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a hard little cushion on it, with a petit point cover: faith, in square print, surrounded by a wreath of lilies. faith is a faded blue, the leaves of the lilies a dingy green. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They looked up at the grey and yellow leaves, moving softly against the light, and singing. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“So either he climbs over his own wall, or else he walks through the woods down to the river and leaves from there, right?” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I’d draw a rose, with a velvety red bloom and a green stem and yellow-green leaves coming from it. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He pulled his time book out of his pocket and opened it where a pencil was stuck between the leaves. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for the evergreens, there wasn’t a leaf on a tree that morning. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Clutching a handmade cross of plastic beads on a string around his neck, he leaves his chair and moves frantically from one stranger to another in the hallway. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The hobbits crept inside, and sat there upon a floor of old leaves and decayed wood. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And now Theo is going home to his father’s funeral; he leaves Paris the same day he receives the news. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Kicking leaves out of my way, I hear “Watch where you going” in front of me. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

It was winding its way through the trees ahead, and he could only catch glimpses of it between the leaves. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I can’t help staring as they snip off the larger leaves of what I now recognize as kale. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

This morning, past the Cedar Falls train stop, Annabelle runs on a friendly path of crushed rock bordered with trees, all bright green and yellow with baby leaves unfurling. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Theoretically, that leaves us enough time. It’s only July fifth. We should be able to close the Doors of Death, then find the giants’ HQ and stop them from waking Gaea before August first.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

After breakfast, she shows me the phone and then, with an encouraging smile, leaves the room to give me privacy. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rainy season came and went and golden aspen leaves skippety-hopped across the field into his hole. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She called us to come and separate the food from the dirt and dried leaves and grass. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under a canopy of grey-green leaves stood a dark-haired woman in a white dress, a leopard-skin cape draped over her shoulders. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The thick, green leaves formed a bowl around her. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked down at Ess, at the bits of leaf and sand in her hair and the smudge on her cheek. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

There were still a few dried leaves clinging to it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doubting that Christianity or Protestantism was a precondition for the Scientific Revolution leaves plenty of scope for studying the interaction between faith and science: e.g. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Pay attention, woman! I just asked if Bess is coming tonight. If she leaves without Coop and me meeting her, we will have to disown you.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I remember the nannies in Cuba with their leaves and rattling beads. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually Mack leaves after the last show, but tonight he is in his office working late. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“Here she is,” Ignatius said to the office manager through the big leaf of limp lettuce that was hanging from his mouth. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Shut it, Camel! Get yourself on that train before it leaves without you!” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

A deep wood grew outside, with summer leaves of alder and black poplar, pungent cypress. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way to the Big House, we read the last report, which was handwritten on a maple leaf from a satyr in Canada. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

There were some leaves and branches in it with him. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

There was a rustle of leaves and a loud snap in the distance, but no one came. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Charles reached over and hauled the lexicon towards him over the table and began to leaf through it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I take my time picking out a fork, watching as Zach pays the cashier and leaves. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Above him was a bright green tube that looked like a midrib of a large leaf. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Stopping only for quick licks of water from the leaves, he followed it back to the road. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The used plaintain leaves I stacked in one heap—they would do for the bullocks. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Underneath, the white bones revolved in the edthes of the water, the heavy ones lying still and the airy membranes lifting gracefully, like leaves in an autumn wind. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only reliable signs were the black plumes of smoke from the dredges and the ever-present scent of burning leaves from slash piles set aflame by workers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I renew my search, looking inside every bush, kicking aside the leaves underneath. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew how the leaves would come green on the trees, how their flowers would turn the soft maples red along the brook. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The parade actually leaves the school grounds, where it loops around for a block before coming onto the track circling the football field. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I ate lettuce leaves with Thousand Island dressing, and caramel apples, and popcorn with butter. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Whenever she didn’t like my tone, she would clip the crown of thorns violently, scattering a spray of leaves and red petals in the air. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bag filled rapidly with icy water, and in the wet darkness that stank of rotten cabbages and leaves, Anya and Ivan struggled to find a way out. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I smiled at the thought of anyone trying to dowse for me now, trying to make sense of the dozens of contradictory signals as the leaves swirled and spun in a dozen different directions. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The day after Brian leaves for boarding school, I sneak into Jude’s room while she’s in the shower and see a chat on the computer. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Before anyone else can answer, I give her a hug and a kiss on the cheek, which—since we’re not a family that likes to show affection—leaves her looking alarmed. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He wandered off a little way into the clearing, kicking his feet against the tree roots, stirring up the leaves. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The ground is soft and marshy, cluttered in the soggy brown muck of decayed leaves, squishy lumps of moss. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

In fact, he pretty much leaves me alone until the berries come up. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Either way, when I got in, she looked at me, my shirt stained with grass and tears and dirt, my hair with little pieces of leaves stuck in it, my face snotty. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Now she was again with child, and Alys would prepare the raspberry leaf infusion for her to drink three times a day. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was hard to spot him because he blended in with the green leaves and twigs. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Gilgamesh plucked a leaf and handed it over. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Through the leaves, she looked into the open uncurtained windows and saw growlers being rushed out and returned overflowing with cool foaming beer. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain slows, and beads of water collect in the palms of green leaves in the trees, trailing to the edge of each leaf and plopping onto the roof. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He paused: the birds went on carolling, the leaves lightly rustling. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

When she leaves, I inspect my reflection in the mirror—the first time since arriving in Minnesota I’ve looked in a whole piece of mirror unclouded by spots and damage. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Cars growl in the streets; leaves whisper in the sky; blood rustles through her inner ears. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The trees grew thicker and denser the farther back in the corner they went, more alive and full of leaves. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

After breakfast he left his car hidden under a skunk cabbage leaf and walked up to the post office. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

One morning, Kaede emerged from her tent to find a wreath woven from new leaves and perfect pink and white flowers. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When I woke up, I did my best to fill our bellies with manioc leaves. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The body slumbered on, and the self that observed was being borne away out of the canopy of leaves altogether and into the open sky. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Ordinarily, at summer’s end, as now, some leaves would be falling, and by the time snow came, later, many trees would be bare. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

After my mother leaves, my grandmother pulls us further into the religion she has always known. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The attack leaves me in a black mood for the rest of the day. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Now the dappled light of tiny new leaves moved on Grandma’s beautiful, softly lined face. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Sitting on the steps there, I watched a green leaf drop down from one of the tree branches above me. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The leaves rustled again more lengthily while you could count a hundred, and then Maid Marian, who had done the rabbit’s thump, was surrounded by her band of twenty plus two. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light over grass and leaf, or over snow — an Elf.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

On some nights when we really need it, Pa allows Ma to cook a tiny portion of the rice and mask the smell by burning damp, decayed leaves in the fire. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That leaves us with the theory that they were built for some mysterious cultural purpose that archaeologists have a hard time deciphering. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We can no longer afford to eat plain rice but have to mix it with mushrooms, banana stocks, and other leaves. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she bounded away through the thickly tangled underbrush without stirring a leaf, without snapping a twig, and vanished into the green. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Is it a forest? Trees with yellow leaves?” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Just the rustle of leaves in the breeze. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The door to our apartment was carved with more bunches of grapes and leaves. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then I moved into the house on the left and learned that pain, like the green of the jungle leaves, comes in many shades. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The buckets were full; we fished out floating leaves and twigs and took the buckets in. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

And he had blood-red nails and a brown leaf on his back that made the monsoons come on time. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took my hand and we ran through the bright rustling leaves. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I carefully scanned the fallen leaves around a couple of oaks, hoping to spot one. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“We must close the gates and put every fighting man upon the walls. No one enters, no one leaves.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She plucked up a leaf with deep purple veins and spun it between her fingers. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A mature plane tree, only just in leaf. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The trees have slight bends in their trunks, careful angles of their palm leaves. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

There were also stunted oaks, barely in leaf. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Instinctively, he touched his clothes and found—to his surprise—that they were perfectly dry, and that, in fact, the place where he’d slept had remained entirely dry thanks to the leaf overhead. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I try not to dwell on it too much as Elsie and I get ready, but that only leaves me to think about last night and that awful spell I used. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I was tying the bean tendrils to the wire fence I had built when I saw a quiver in the leaves of the pumpkins. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she weaved her way to him, the last peach was picked from the tree and the leaves and branches began to disappear. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He looks in, acts as if he's going to open the door, then leaves again. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trick, he explained, was to look for signs of something pushing up the leaves. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She smelled of leaves and dirt and...she sniffed...and whiskey! Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I hear the bell clink when Deacon Boyd leaves, so I know it’s safe for me to come back out. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Nick grabbed the dictionary and leafed to page 541, his heart pounding. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chou taught me to use leaves, but at night, when I cannot see, I am afraid there might be bugs on them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I stood up, brushed the leaves and dirt from my clothing and walked slowly down the path in the direction from which I had come. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was a gray afternoon, the kind of gray that darkens and deepens the greens of leaves and grasses. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just don’t tell him. Captain Westfall leaves me alone in the midafternoon. The hour before supper is perfect.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Thought I felt something brush past me. Like a spiderweb. A leaf, maybe.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Hans wasn’t home, and so Sophie waited, leafing through his books and papers. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh yes, they live in a wonderful city called Reality,” he announced, smashing into one of the smaller trees and sending a cascade of nuts and leaves to the ground. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re shaking like a leaf,” he said, watching Howard work on the fourth match. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your bus leaves at six a.m. tomorrow. You don’t want to be late. Come on. Chop chop. Your teeth are brushed?” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Could you read the leaves for me? I would like to know some things that will come to pass in my future.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Outside, the brook swam quietly through the woods, and up above them the warm wind blew through the newly opened leaves of the big oak tree. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Here Sam and Eric were waiting, and Bill Jack, concealed from the sun, knelt by the pool and opened the two large leaves that he carried. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Samuel Beckett spliced his way merrily through such novels as MoIIoy and Malone Dies, thumbing his nose at the semicolon all the way: “There I am then, he leaves me, he’s in a hurry.” Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

An idle wind tussled the leaves in the trees and wafted a patch of smoke like a low cloud toward me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the last bowl, dark green leaves mixed with cooked onions and the wrinkly purple things and some smallish white things. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The lumberjacks and environmentalists love me equally, but a problem arises when a group of lesser scientists spread the rumor that the leaves of my trees cause cancer in laboratory animals. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Clouds of smoke unfurled beneath the wide green rims as the leaves darkened and withered in the flames, their words becoming faint distorted lines before they turned to ash. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I brush through the leaves and wipe him from my sight, hearing his voice and the constant remarks during cards. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Every movement and leaf shift seemed to be her. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trees in the drive were in full leaf and the yard was overgrown and dark. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

We covered the little mound with leaves from the poplar trees. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even my hat would go; its green was sun-faded and brown, like a leaf struck by the winter's snows. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the type of kiss that leaves you short of breath. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Before he leaves the table, he says that Dray will be dropping something off, then he has a surprise for me after he closes up. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He’s finished at six o’clock, which leaves him time to do what he loves: read, write letters, and take long walks. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The banana leaves stirred up a breeze as Saleem pushed through them. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Barb leaves and I hold my mom’s hand while she cries, knowing she did all she could do. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

There was a smell of damp leaves and moss, and everywhere the splash of water went whispering about. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leeches have been heard to tap rhythmically on leaves, engaging the attention of other leeches, which tap back, in synchrony. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cool air brushed against my skin, and the rustle of leaves in the trees reverberated in my ears. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

There the leaves are sorted, mixed, washed, dried, and packaged. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

JING-MEI WOO A Pair of Tickets The minute our train leaves the Hong Kong border and enters Shenzhen, China, I feel different. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, the woman next to me leaves, and a guy approaches and asks if he could sit down. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Once familiar oaks and alders appeared strange to Taran; their dead leaves clung to the tangled branches and the black trunks jutted like charred bones. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The daylight grew and the air became warm; the dew faded off turf and leaf. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“No Pashtun leaves his land of his own sweet will. Either he leaves from poverty or he leaves for love.” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She leaves her porch and walks down the stairs where she says she finds herself sleeping at night, and opens the gate and stops right in front of me. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the intense, strange light, the plants and leaves seemed magnified and the fields beyond the river very near. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The golden oak leaves glitter with the light of candle flame. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And through the great length and continuity of his dominion the memories and causes of innovations die out, because one change always leaves indentations for the construction of another. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the light of the streetlamp, the leaves were bending upside down like it was going to rain. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

But the United States, for all its wealth, leaves its citizens to fend for themselves—facing market-based rents, for example, on their wages alone. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the floor she had two shopping bags full of canned peaches, real peaches, beans wrapped in taro leaves, cookies, Thermos bottles, enough food for everybody, though only her niece would eat with her. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He threw himself down on a thick padding of dead leaves and motioned Jethro to do the same. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took a tiny leaf and tried the sauce. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The man peeped at us from behind a banana leaf. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It just sat there, in the way, and was covered over by leaves and papers. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sudden wind rustled through the birches; a gust of yellow leaves came storming down. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The alternating pattern of light and dark suggests sunlight falling through the leaves in the woods. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Her exit leaves a hole, an imbalance to our already teetering triangle. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

While I am still able, I go about the business of healing, crushing leaves of me to mb on aching joints and applying poultices to clear the lungs. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“You can spread the leaves out to dry some.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He leaves her on the platform, and when she turns after him to see which way he went, the grey suit is nowhere to be found amongst the crowd. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The air was rich with the smells of earth and leaf. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A hardly perceptible shiver ran through the stem and up into the branches; the leaves rustled and whispered, but with a sound now of faint and far-off laughter. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

‘Here all are enemies of the one Enemy, and yet I must walk blind, while the sun is merry in the woodland under leaves of gold!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Her sink was overflowing with whole romaine lettuce leaves, bathing under the running water. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I never thought I’d end up in a place like this, he thought, as he leafed through the pages of a chemical journal. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A rush of dead brown leaves, Asha told herself, bare branches creaking in the wind. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

‘But there is no great hurry. Merry expects us some time the day after tomorrow; but that leaves us nearly two days more. We’ll halt at the first likely spot.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She whetted the knife on a stone and polished it with damp leaves. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked down at himself, and curled up his toes, feeling the cold leaves mulching between them. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She pelts stones at a tree with small, dark leaves, and bunches of a long brown fruit fall to the ground. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The newspapers in some of the boxes were yellow, and some were almost like leaves. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He reaches out to the fallen tree, tugs at one of the leaves, which pulls away easily from its branch. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Vincent leaves that very day, packing up just what he needs: his painter’s tools, his watercolors, his portfolio with drawings, and some clothes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The letter leaves me stunned, dazed with fresh pain so that I cannot even rise from my bed. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Without the crack of a twig or the rustle of a leaf they passed and vanished. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The familiar woods lay ahead, their leaves swaying in a summer breeze. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

If there’s a bit of food left at the bottom of the pan, she leaves it to spoil instead of transferring it to a glass dish. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The odor evaporated; the leaves were still, the mud settled. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I have lived in constant fear of being seen and hunted down: the sound of pebbles sliding on the rocks, a twig snapping, even the wind in the leaves can make my blood run cold. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

They were cloaked in a haze of flies, and the stench coming off the demons made the nearby leaves curl. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

In autumn, the street is ablaze in the reds and oranges of the leaves. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Joel just leaves the manure where it falls. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He pressed the leaf against his cheek until the cool went out of it, and then he rolled it carefully. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the blue sky and green leaves through a window, went toward it, and simply crashed through the wall to get through. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I decided to make my new home a little bit more comfortable by adding leaves to the weaved branches to make them less hard to sleep on. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

As the nights grew warmer and the leaves filled the gaps in the forest, I started to sit out on the deck and look at the stars at night. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

If I wanted to eat my breakfast under a maple tree and watch the day grow between its leaves, I could—and did. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The lovely leaves, too, did not last very long. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

A breeze picked up; burdened leaves poured their watery hearts out to him as he tried to xiang banfa — to think of a way out of his predicament. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has been known to create crude clothing from leaves. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The panels were backed with gold leaf, the fronts inlaid with shimmering diamonds, emeralds, rubies, and jade. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Not tiny spiders like those surging over the leaves below. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The revelation leaves my mouth dry, and my hands itch for my sickles. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

A gust of wind sent wet leaves flapping round them like a flock of dead birds. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His hair was tangled with leaves, his sweatshirt streaked in mud, and his nose reddened with what promised to be a full-faced sunburn by the end of the day. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But after he leaves, I fall back down into my bed and stare at the ceiling. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

On the blank leaf glued to the inner back cover I drew the double curve within the circle, and blacked the yin half of the symbol, then pushed it back to my companion. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The episode of paralysis leaves him gaunt, weaker than ever, drained of life. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She leaves and I wonder if I’ll be eating with nuns and nurses or will I be in a ward with children having their Christmas dinner. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Many of the trees were yet covered with leaves; the undergrowth was thicker; the land less stark than the hills around Dark Gate. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

I walk behind, leaves crunching beneath my feet. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The new growth covered the earth lightly, each blade of grass, each leaf and stem with space between as if planted by a thin summer wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What’s this thing that’s on yore mind?” he asked, settling back comfortably against the tree trunk and looking up at small segments of sky that appeared here and there through the canopy of green leaves. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The direction of the wind abruptly shifted, and the melody that had been running through the leaves changed. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I've lost the will to do the simplest tasks, to do anything but lie here, staring unblinkingly through the canopy of leaves. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Even Boromir bowed his head as the boats whirled by, frail and fleeting as little leaves, under the enduring shadow of the sentinels of Númenor. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

When Lenny leaves the kitchen, Bryce gets the ketchup out of the fridge, and I don’t stop him when he brings the whole bottle back to the bedroom. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The two on the aisle crossed their legs over the walkway, making an X. It was casual enough, but it sent a clear message: nobody leaves. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Joan was leaning on one corner of the piano and leafing through a new issue of some fashion magazine, and DeeDee smiled up at her as if the two of them shared a secret. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Eventually, like a falling leaf, our square slowly descends to the surface. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t hear the whispering of their leaves or smell the medicinal scent of their bark. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He leaves her standing by the table with her mouth opening and closing in silent rage as he closes the door quietly behind him. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She takes the tray and leaves without a word. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Sai pulled off about a dozen leaves and put one in the cricket cage. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She just could see that high leaf in the dark. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Abandoning the remaining condolences, Celia takes the card in hand and leaves the room, ascending a winding stair that leads to the upstairs parlor. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Chew leaves and apply them to my stings that are deflated but still tender. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Within the copse, Thom was fast asleep on a bed of dried leaves. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crouching down, she crumbled some dried leaves into it, two pinches from this bag, one from that, and added three drops of a pale yellow oil. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

We sat down in the dirt and leaves and he opened the bag. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was late September, and the leaves on the trees were beginning to turn from vibrant green to rusty red and mustard yellow. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She inhaled the perfume of the drenched earth, the rotten leaves, and the humus, which awakened an unknown pleasure in all her senses. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tender freshwater shrimp garnished with cream and rose leaves, devilled barley pearls in acorn purée, apple and carrot chews, marinated cabbage stalks steeped in creamed white turnip with nutmeg. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The smell fades, but it leaves me uneasy. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Daddy leaves to get lunch, and Momma shows us the rest of the house. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I mean the heart pleasure you get from looking at speckled leaves or the palimpsested bark of plane trees in Provence. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Before he leaves, he decorates the apartment with art—Japanese prints and his own paintings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Then he pats Trey on the back and leaves. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The sun was spearing, now and again, through the network of leaves, and rippling over the tree trunks like water. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Along the borders of the rich lady’s sari were embroidered flurries of blossoms in pale yellows and pinks twined with green leaves. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Part of an inlaid peony blossom with its stem and leaves twined along the groove. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“The power is in your hands,” Balekin tells him in a clipped way that leaves the “for now” heavily implied. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Her short brown hair was tucked behind her ears, and a bit of leaf clung to it on the right-hand side. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Behind us was Miss Lilian’s house, barely visible through a screen of trees in full leaf. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

He put the ivy in the middle, the white-edged, star-shaped leaves girded by ten little candles. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

A butterfly laying an egg on a leaf. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

"They're already teasing me because I can't stay out with them tonight. Papa leaves early to go back to Den Haag for work tomorrow." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Venia gives him a look, and he gently sets the scissors on the table and leaves. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rainwater would seep down gently and the delicate membranes would not be crushed or broken before the emergence of tiny fingers, roots, and leaves pressing out in all directions. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

At the tournament in Savannah that the Fugees had raked leaves to attend, for example, locals who’d read about the team came to watch them play and to cheer them on. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

My heart is beating so fast now that it leaves me feeling weak. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Morrison stared at the vines and leaves still swaying from Georgie’s plunge into the trees. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

This part of Oxscini was filled with tall elegant trees with leaves the size of their fists, and there was nothing but air between the canopy and the ferns on the jungle floor. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It hummed a tune in the underbrush and rustled the leaves on the huge red oak. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed through the fence and moved across the fields without disturbing the leaves. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In it was a tree with bright red and orange leaves. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I heard the scrabbling of feet on dirt and dried leaves. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

As they came up to the house, Sammy called to them from up among the leaves of the big tree. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those there were had large nonflowering stalks, with big barbaric leaves. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Time came and went, mountains rising and falling, vines creeping over the slumbering city, concealing it with layers of thorns and leaves. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I held out the jar with green mint leaves. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The first soldier was at the wheel, smoking dried leaves rolled in paper and the smoke was pungent and the drive took so long that Ugwu could no longer hold his urge to urinate. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’d be tending my herb garden, clipping sprigs of fragrant leaves or replanting tender roots, then all of a sudden, a single tear would fall down my face without my awareness, surprising me. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

One of the little boards he shaped in a lovely curve, and around its edges he carved leaves and flowers and stars, and through it he cut crescent moons and curlicues. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

And even now Johanna has him drawing a map on a leaf rather than risking the jungle... Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“So it’s even called ‘liverwort,’ sometimes,” he said, “that pretty flower! But it’s got more names than you can shake a stick at. Some say it’s a ‘herb-trinity’ because of the three leaves. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He stood under a tree, his attention fixed on three brown leaves that clung to a low branch. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I filled it up with the rocks and dirt and stomped the mound down, then gathered leaves and spread them over the dirt. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Familiar smells fill the house—sandalwood, turmeric, bay leaves, incense, black pepper. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He sighed, but didn’t try to convince me to stay, and helped me pack my duffel with bottles of well water and garlic- greasy hunks of roasted manioc wrapped in their own leaves. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I know about ovipositors, for laying eggs, on leaves, on caterpillars, on the surface of the water; they’re right out on the page, clearly labeled, on the diagrams of insects my father corrects at home. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Back on the beach, the girls built a signal fire from sticks, palm leaves, and paper from their morals clause contracts, rescued from their official “Welcome, Miss Teen Dream” folders. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

A framed diploma hangs proudly in the waiting room above a potted ficus with leaves a little too green to be real as well. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Meg G. and I sit next to each other, and I hope someday she leaves school and wins 4-H and doesn’t ever have to be around rich people or mall people again. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She watched animals, birds, and insects which disguised themselves as leaves or twigs or other animals to escape from things that could hurt them. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Jude and me have one soul between us that we have to share: a tree with its leaves on fire. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He lay flat on his back and stared up at the canopy of branches and the reflection of the flames on the leaves. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Each kind is different—some with fat leaves, some with leaves that bloom, some with spikes or needles. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Noodles started folding up those pitiful leaves like he folded up his comic book pages. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He would have stamped the dirt down on top of the jar, and scattered leaves. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered watching my mother pushing a silver needle in and out, gently nudging flowers and leaves and vines to bloom on the cloth. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a chilly, spectacular November day, the blue sky cloudless, the trees shedding bright yellow leaves that blanket the ground. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A plume of red soared up in the middle of town, tendrils of fireworks drifting down like the leaves of a giant willow tree. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Oliver’s door has a pretty spring wreath on it, with branches forming a circle and small white flowers and leaves on the bottom half. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

We couldn’t see his face, as his head was behind the leaves. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She sang of flowers and gardens and sweet, sweet nectar oozing from every petal and leaf. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“So you said. But, Mademoiselle, the Orient Express leaves Stamboul every day of the week. Even if you had missed the connection it would only have been a matter of twenty-four hours’ delay.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

She settles back, smoothing the loose strands of hair off her cheeks, which are pink from the cold, and leaves her coat on. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The sun was shining through the fluttering leaves, which were still green upon the tree. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She flitted toward the ground, leaping from leaf to leaf, guiding the other children safely behind her. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I run my hands over orange and yellow leaves. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I know as it leaves my hands it will miss. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The wind rose then, taking the brown leaves in a whirl from the trees, and smoke wafted from the chimneys of cottages as fires were fed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He fed the cricket his breakfast—leftover asparagus tips and a piece of cabbage leaf. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doc filled his pipe with dried peach skin and tobacco leaves. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

At first he walked fast to vent his fury, but soon he slowed and began to push aside bushes and leaves. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

There are rumblings in the crowd, but thankfully no one leaves. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He could hear many different notes in the rustle of the leaves overhead, the river murmuring away on his right, and the thin clear voices of birds in the sky. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

On her right a wind sighed through the branches, and leaves rustled and stirred. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

On our way home she pulled a leaf off a tree and handed it to me. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

All around her, the riders raised their lances, and the dirt and leaves that had buried the cruel bright points fell away to reveal the gleam of sharpened steel. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Its leaves harvest sunlight to photosynthesize, so trees compete by shadowing their neighbors. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pa had told me that bubble nests only stuck to blue willow leaves. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

If ruining the only religious icon I have leaves me vulnerable to Martian vampires, I'll have to risk it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She jumped down, and the two of them darted back and forth on the massive leaf that was as wide as a car. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Harry said his fence would take root in places, maybe, and get green leaves on it in the spring. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Here and there pendulous clumps of green mistletoe leaves and pale white berries hung from the oak, seeming even more insignificant when seen next to the grandeur of the oak. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Then Dad leaves a room just as I’m going in. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Seed Collector pointed, and it and Spider scuttled over to another leaf. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

We heard a rattling in the leaves and underbrush. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The oily leaves broke against his skin and released a pungent smell. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soft sunlight cast leaf shadows across her face and the wind made gentle ripples in the moss-colored lake in front of her. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the hole he saw rocks, boards, leaves, even a tin cup, but no gold. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are little yellow lilies on long slender stems with oval leaves dappled with gray. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carla leaves and my mom asks if I want to beat her at a game of Honor Pictionary, but I ask for a rain check. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were as brown as dead sycamore leaves. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ihe tree’s massive roots were large enough to use like a makeshift table, and some of the larger leaves served as plates. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Even after Sandy leaves, I stay standing where I am, watching the dragonflies and their wings. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I feel this white rush of panic, which leaves me shaky, because what if I’ve lost it? All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The road hadn’t been used for years, so it seemed the bus was moving through bushes, as leaves and branches heavily slapped its side. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She would chew some mint leaves before going home. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It might be a mouse hiding under a leaf, a squirrel twitching its tail on a tree trunk, a blue jay calling from a bramble bush. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The wind danced with the tree outside our home, and the leaves made their soft flutter music. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“We have an hour and a half before our plane leaves, honey,” my mom says, but Charlie ignores her and tells us to hurry. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Her footsteps crushed the fallen leaves and the dry branches, producing a light crunching sound, the only noise in that vast sleeping space. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mr. Lewis leaves, Daddy winks at me. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

That thing shook like a leaf in the wind. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

We brushed off the few leaves that had fallen on the pile of clothes and skin, then got on either side of it to drag it away. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

We sit on her porch, or I watch while she works her small jungle, snapping off dead leaves, forking rotted manure into her camellias, talking under her breath. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there’s the morning announcements over the loud speaker about all the activities the good kids do like drama and jazz band, but that still leaves us eight and a half minutes of awkwardness. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I trembled like a baby leaf fluttering in the wind as I moved toward my mother. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The second picture contained for foreground only the dim peak of a hill, with grass and some leaves slanting as if by a breeze. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Papi changes into his fumigator’s uniform and stops to see me before he leaves. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“And the bubbles wouldn’t stick, Connor! Not to any of the other blue willow leaves. Not to any of the other tree leaves. Just to the leaves from these two trees!” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

She locks the door and leaves without saying goodbye. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The sounds of man and horse diminished, swallowed up by the wet green wild, and soon enough he could hear only the steady wash of rain against leaf and tree and rock. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When he woke up, it felt like a whole season later because he was warm, and the light through the leaves above was bright and sparkling. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, it leaves a number of important questions unanswered: 1. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others, with fingers as gnarled as tree roots, nevertheless moved with the grace of leaves in a summer breeze. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You can go to the end of the line. This train don’t go into Canada, so it stops at Toledo on Lake Erie. It leaves in forty-two minutes, but you can board anytime.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair was full of dry leaves, which he removed one by one. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pillowcase was crumpled in the leaves like a deflated balloon, and he suddenly realized that he had no idea where Smaug had gone. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I kicked through piles of crisp, brown leaves and savored the sound. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

She paced this way and that, hands in her pockets, as the wind blew swirls of leaves and discarded paper cups about her feet. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Red and orange leaves drift lazily to the ground, dotting the green grass with warm color. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The leaves against the streetlight made quick, freckly shadows on his face. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There's a drowsy in-between period when I can hear the last few strains of her music although she's lost in the leaves. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He came now out of the coconut trees, limping, dirty, with dead leaves hanging from his shock of yellow hair. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

We spent the day doing the usual: raking leaves, pruning bushes, watering flowers and weeding the lawn. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Darrell says he has to go home, and Camille leaves with him, giving me and Jasmine a hug and telling us not to worry, Sandy will be found. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“Look up in the sky. No, not like you’re looking at a plane. Like you’re looking at a leaf on a tree.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Mam leaves us outside with the pram while she goes in or she sends me. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The shower deepened the calm of the woods, ticked through the new leaves, lightly wetted the seeds sheltered in the earth. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The spaniel has a skin disease—mange, I think—which makes almost all its hair fall out and leaves it covered with brown sores and scabs. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

A branch snapped in the woods—something large, from the sound of it—and Sefia and Archer dashed off the path, hunkering down among the leaves. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Mam is happy we’ll have loads of paper for lighting the fire though the wood we burn from that collapsing shed leaves a sickening smell and she worries the white maggots will escape and breed. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

At eight-thirty the next morning, a police helicopter touched down noisily beside the bus in a blizzard of dust and swirling aspen leaves. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If so, my eyes must have turned the color of the lizards that lived inside banana leaves every time I passed Jenny’s house. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The plantain leaf was handed to me, the rice placed on top, then the cup of dhal. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

My lap and the branches below were covered with thin, soft leaf peelings. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

As the rabbits came up by the hole inside the beech wood, a swift gust of wind passed through the leaves, checkering and dappling the ground beneath, stealing and giving light under the branches. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bailey lags behind, glancing back as he leaves at the spot where the illusionist had been. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They swerved over to the heap of leaves. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He’s leafing through a newspaper and only looks up when there’s a raucous burst of laughter. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She picked up her brown shift, shook some leaves off of it, and pulled it down over her head. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He looked into his cup for a minute while the leaves settled slowly to the bottom. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaves early with the cool morning air and never makes a sound. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I stare into it, allowing my focus to soften, looking beyond the leaves and branches. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

My mind grew dazed and my senses dimmed; my thoughts scattered like dry leaves. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“I can not only see that tree, I can see the individual leaves on it.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But if he comes to the top of the ridge, he is sure to come down here, because he will see the green leaves. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

An anonymous hedgehog sent four or five dirty leaves with fleas on them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even now, wisps of the leaves’ cloying fragrance still suffused the air. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He turns and leaves me alone in my room. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

After the car leaves, we stand for a while looking down the empty driveway. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

As I sat on the rock weeping, I heard the rustling of leaves and brush behind me. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Khaled was still down in Emergency on a thin little bed with his leg wrapped as tightly as a stuffed grape leaf. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Met Bong takes her old clothes and stuffs them with leaves and straw to make dummies. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She mouthed a few words I couldn’t hear, then threw a rose made of woven palmetto leaves into the water. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

There were few leaves left on the bush, as the old man had been forced to eat leaves to deal with the great hunger which plagued him. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I haven't seen Mrs. Janssen since I first agreed to help, so I bicycle to her house as soon as Ollie leaves, in the twilight before curfew, to tell her everything that has happened. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He stripped the leaves from it and gripped it tightly. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Lolo said that before harvest time, the leaves would grow to the height of a short man. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Raking leaves for Mr. Hodges, he had gone into the cellar for two bushel baskets to put them in. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The evening light slanted through the silvery leaves and the air was full of the noise of crickets and cicadas. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Before he reached for a log, the silver sparkle off shiny bean leaves several fields away caught Snuffy’s attention. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went forward again more slowly, kicking aside any leaves or branches on the trail. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

His mother leaves her seat and leads him back to the table. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Nearby, garden tools hung on the wall and lay on a long shelf, clippers in four different sizes, shovels, hoes, stiff metal rakes and long-fingered leaf rakes. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not sure. I get that it doesn’t make sense because he leaves tomorrow, but...I think there’s something more to us. I should head out and go see him.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He’d come up behind her and drop a pile of leaves on her head, running away in surprise when she snarled back. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Their wide leaves trembled delicately as they lay one on top of the other. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Axel leaves Frank to talk to his team, that is, if Frank can find the words, because right now, he has none. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She leaves and locks the door behind her. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Wherever we were, there were still traces of the dead leaves from the fall before staining the highway’s cement. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The bees zoomed among its bright and sticky leaves, higher and higher toward heaven, and a rope ladder disappeared among the foliage. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seems obvious, but the question leaves Ms. Dale speechless. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

We steeped the leaves in the water I had boiled. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The vines grew everywhere, their green and silver-white leaves contrasting attractively with rose-pink flowers. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, among the overgrown shrubbery and fallen leaves, he had mistaken her for a statue, covered as she was by moss and vines. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

As I collect fist-sized, dry tree branches, Chou bends and shaves the leaves with her ax. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spring is finally burgeoning after the longest winter, and the birches' new leaves turn their faces toward the sun's warmth. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The leaves caught and piled up against the soldiers’ tents left behind at the Battery campground. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, not officially. But you know what they say about Gutshot: the population never goes up and never goes down, because every time a woman gets pregnant, a man leaves town.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The fallen autumn leaves were slick beneath Bod’s feet, and the mists blurred the edges of the world. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The trees along the sidewalk near the school—so recently a burning orange and red and yellow—are losing their last leaves. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

They were in a magic world of gems, a glade under trees whose leaves were jewels. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rotten leaves had been thrown up in showers. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because he’s turned over a new leaf,” he said. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He was trailing a leaf skimmer along the edges of the water. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He poked the leaves with his stick and heard something—this time, from the ground. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He leaves, shuffling down the walk and sliding his wide girth into a small car that wheezes under his weight. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Petey, a sixth grader, blushes red, drops his foil, and leaves the gym. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Three untidy banana trees grew in the little front yard that had been fenced off with panels of woven palm leaves. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's eerie how little sound he makes, even when the leaves have fallen and it's a challenge to move at all without chasing off the game. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Three words that hold sadness like a tree holds leaves. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Plenty leaves on tree. I save all for cricket.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the door Mr. Chris said, “Now you folks don’t have to leave us again until the leaves turn.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Shells were falling on the ridge nearby and bullets were slicing leaves, but Reynolds sat astride the horse in a motionless calm, looking out toward the fight, picture of a soldier, painted against the trees. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk stiffly to the center of the room as Tobias leaves it. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He’s brown as water Over a stone, Brown as leaves and branches, Brown as pennies in a hand. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fields of green com turned yellow, and the leaves, withered during the frosty nights, rattled as if in protest as Jethro drove his wagon down the rows and piled it high with full golden ears. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The autumn leaves are more beautiful than stained glass. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He had raked underneath the frangipani trees, and dead leaves and pink flowers lay in piles, ready for the wheelbarrow. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Where somebody leaves a mirror and a razor behind in a tree so the next fella can catch a quick shave. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She listened for any change in her surroundings, but the nearby trees were silent, their leaves motionless. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires and fog in the valleys; cellos, dark windowpanes, snow. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Turning me like the wind turns a leaf in a puddle, making the compass spin from east to west and round again. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He hands me the phone and leaves for the restroom. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just grabs her backpack from where it sits at her feet and leaves. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

There was then a silence, broken only by the sound of the wind in the leaves. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, we lived on what remained of our salted fish, roots and leaves, the fruit of the prickly pear, and on the plantains from our tree. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not fear touching his heart, but the wordless sorrow of dry leaves rushing desolate before the wind. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

All I can think of is that the rest of the leaves are going to drop and I’ll have to keep raking. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It is a deep red flower that grows on a strong vine. Its leaves are dark and delicate. They grow best in shadowy places, but the flower itself finds stray sunbeams to bloom in.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mist's dulling the gold leaves and browning the reds. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“You make it sound so easy,” she said, catching an apricot-colored leaf in midair as Tony whacked the mottled white trunk of a birch tree. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

"You weren't there! So how can you know what's good and what's bad? How can you understand God's plan? It's greater than you! Can you see every leaf in the forest?" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I made pictures in my mind of the summer until the pictures became so real I could leaf through them like pages in an album. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At another practice, the Under Fifteens had gathered in a circle at midfield to stretch, when they heard noises in the woods—snapping twigs and the crushing of dry leaves. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Stella gazed out at the few remaining leaves stirring in the sharp breeze. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Melissa hates boots, so she leaves them at school. That way her mother can’t make her wear them.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

The frost has made some leaves wilt, droop. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

When I glanced back as we rode along, usually they were looking at each other, not at the fall leaves or the distant blue mountains. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The cellos made the hills glow red, and the leaves and grass were tipped with a soft pale green as the violins began their song. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had heard people say that when someone dies, it leaves a hole in the world. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Tree branches lashed the side of the building and torn leaves whirled away. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ain’t a very good Christian, so you know where that leaves me. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

You could almost hear the leaves opening like reaching fingers, almost feel the trees pulling their posture straight. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Out of nowhere, I thought of Sir Zurt, lying in his blanket of leaves, and fresh tears came. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He leaves the road—he don’t say why—and walks to the stone wall at the edge of the pasture. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

And here, the reality was that they sat ten feet apart, she at the window, crushing geranium leaves in her hand and smelling them, he twirling around on the piano stool, saying: The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

Just a few weeks earlier Aunt Xi-wen had complained to the school because some students had climbed into her yard to pick mulberry leaves for their silkworms. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no leading them anywhere, unless it was to a nearby clearing for fragrant leaves. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s really starting to irritate me how she never leaves the house, how she smiles like the maid walking in every morning is the best part of her day. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Only the leaves, shined to a tender green, gave a clue to the shower that had passed over Brooklyn. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Dark chords from the organ slip into the night, turning our shoes into concrete blocks and pulling down our faces until we look like trees drooping with black leaves. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

The dust of the leaves covered him from head to toe and found its way into his lungs. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up a fistful of leaves and began tearing them apart, apparently unaware of what he was doing. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I understand that Rasheed agha has tickets for the bus to Kabul that leaves shordy. So, in the interest of time, we will bypass some of the traditional steps to speed up the proceedings.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Beneath your lordship’s roof, your lordship’s word is law... but I shall want a reckoning with this onion lord before he leaves this city.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Once the itty-bitty baby plant peeks out of the ground, it sprouts leaves, so it can absorb more sun. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lost, he said, just a few weeks ago, like a leaf in the wind. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The birds landed in some taller willow type of undergrowth with wide leaves and started jumping and making noise. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been trying not to look beyond the ragged edge of the backyard to the bulldozed mess of branches, trunks, leaves, and mud that had once been his beloved woods. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

He moves the wind across the water or leaves it still. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man moved with exquisite calm, like a leaf drifting on the surface of a pond, making its own way on gentle currents. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The sun was blazing down, the air was sweet, but every leaf that the wind lifted, every rustle of a pheasant hen in a clump of ryegrass, sent needles of fear through their veins. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house smelled like a forest as the leaves boiled on the stove. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She leaves him a pitcher of beer and a paper sack filled with sandwiches for lunch. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The air-conditioning has to run all the time so the jungle heat won’t damage the gold leaf on his chandeliers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our feet crunched over twigs and fallen leaves until we tumbled into the clearing that led to my house. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Do you know what would happen if they saw us?” she whispered, shifting her stinging feet, the crushing of dry leaves seeming far too loud. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The streets had that worn dusty look of August, and the leaves hung listless on dull trees. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The breeze is blowing, rustling the leaves on the trees. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

My father witnessed the progress of every new leaf and fat flower bud. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there were cabbage leaves stuffed with ground meat and rice, cabbage leaves of such a toughness that they were almost impossible to cut without spattering ground meat and rice all over the carpet. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“You have twenty minutes, and then Owen leaves!” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Doric columns are the strongest and simplest, Corinthian ones are the lightest and most ornate, adorned with rows of acanthus leaves giving rise to graceful volutes and helices. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

My breath hitched when Babou leaned over the edge of the roof to reach the farthest leaves of his fig trees. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Miig pointed with his chin to a dark smudge, only visible through the trees by the geometric slope against the slash of branch and leaf. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The tattered oilcompany roadmap had once been taped together but now it was just sorted into leaves and numbered with crayon in the corners for their assembly. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

As Bob tended the stew, Damasen perused his drying racks, plucking various leaves and roots. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Outside the narrow window of my convent cell, leaves of linden and oak turned gold and brown and red and fell to the ground with every gust of wind. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I’ve looked at the photos enough times now to keep myself from turning away, but it still leaves a queasy feeling in my stomach. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I wonder if the trees miss their leaves—dropped like a friend who turns out not to understand you at all. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Each of these leaves clasps, at its center, an iron-containing chemical named heme that can bind oxygen—a reaction distantly akin to a controlled form of rusting. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

She nodded as the gust whipped loose soil and leaves all around us. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z