“You could double the number of troops and that would keep things quieter—until they left. You could use nuclear weapons and kill all the people. I wouldn’t call that a win.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Then, after a moment, he dropped his head and pounded his left fist against the transom. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The moment he left her arms, the cold rushed in. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The sheriff brought his left leg down from the piling, hitched his trousers at the thigh and brought his right up, then settled his elbow on his knee. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Glancing neither left nor right, he strode indomitably up to the steam counter and, in a dear, full-bodied voice that was gruff with age and resonant with ancient eminence and authority, said: “Gimme eat.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Using an exploit left by one of the programmers, I was now able to create a bogus admin account. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

My left eye’s tearing heavily now, and in the dimming light it’s all I can do to follow the boots in front of me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And quite alone? Have all her friends left her?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Wait. Your things. You left them all back in your room.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They were sitting on the steps like that—Mama hunched, Papa tending the blackening rings—one morning a few days before we left camp. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Tony slurped the hot cheese, then set what was left of his slice down. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The red-faced judge hastily acquiesced in this extraordinary order and promptly left town. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The ladder jerks to the left, and then, as I move my right foot forward, I miss the edge of the rung. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Since my dad left, I’ve always felt shunned and that it was my fault. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She looks up at me in terror, and I am left with no doubt. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The skyline was broken here and there by the shapes of bams and farmhouses some way away over the fields, but otherwise, I appeared to have left behind all signs of community. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I left no excuse. I told Joe to say I was out, that was all.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father had taken over my grandfather’s store around 1942 after the old man left town. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still in a squatting position, Boo Boo put her left hand through the V of her legs, touching the pier boards in order to keep her balance. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I see that Miss Preston's has had quite the positive impact on your life, though I daresay the memory of the day you left still pains me greatly. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I hit a long one out to left field, and then a fast one to the shortstop, who fielded it neatly and whipped it to first. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He continued to live at The Children’s Home for five years after I left. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She felt as if she had been running away from this for days, and she had only the last of her strength left. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I froze, my heart in my throat, but the avalanching ice passed fifty yards to the left, out of sight, without doing any damage. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Soon I left Cambridge to spend a week in Paris. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

She left the kitchen garden behind her, closed the gate with a soft click, and set off across the field. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The densest tangle on the island, a mass of twisted stems, black and green and impenetrable, lay on their left and tall grass swayed before them. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Despair had not left him, but the weakness had passed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“How much land is there left?” he asked her unwillingly, and she saw instantly what his purpose was. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

"Stick! Stick!" she yelled, and I reached my left arm back and grabbed the baton smooth as smooth. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

We left the house, went through the gate, entered the zoo. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Might as well pick up where we left off.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

She’s the one who left me stranded with no one to talk to. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Byron was trapped in the doorway, with his right foot in and his left foot out. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left the room and went into his own. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Someone has left behind their copy of the Times, so I read their report. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Papa had left, I started thinking, “He doesn’t even talk to me like I was a boy any more. He talks to me like 1 was a man.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe the old bird keeper left and the one we met came out to take his place,” Osh said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Your brother is doing very well at the Exchange. He makes a fine living, and there’s still room for you. I’ve only got a few years left, and somebody has to take over.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The wind died quickly and left us to wreckage—power lines down, and no telephone for a week. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Christ, I said, when he was left with no alternative, used force to expel the moneylenders from the temple. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled the reins hard left, and we swept onto Broadway. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

All that was left of that day was the trophy sitting on the windowsill in my dorm room. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She honestly felt excluded and left out, unwanted and denied. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bottle of bubbly I’d lifted from my dad’s special reserve and choked down in my room after my mom left probably had something to do with it. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

"Which reminds me. Bertrand does not like to be left waiting." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Naomi’s worshipful eyes never left the eighth grade president. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“Hush now, Pa,” said my mother, wiping his chest as best she could around the binding, which wasn’t easy, with him lying on his left side to favor the broke ribs. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When he was ten, Shin left his house one evening and went looking for his mother. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

One by one, they left, each taking his precious seed with him. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Lelia had already left the apartment for a freelance job, though she’d clipped a note to the front page of the paper: You don’t have to go. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What I was trying to get through to you, beloved sweet; what I was, as a matter of accurate fact, shouting with everything I had left, was: ‘Whatever you do, stay up there! The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He collected two of the books but left the others. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“I never asked to be treated normal, Charlie. I just want to be left alone.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Lyra had left it She felt she was leaving the world altogether, so remote and intent she was, so high they were climbing, so strange and uncanny was the light that bathed than. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Every step she took in the woods was one more bit of string left to time. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“You know, I think you’re the only person left in the school who hasn’t asked me the color of their name.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Well, I don’t know if there’s any bread left. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I left the bucket at the boy’s feet and stumbled three steps backward. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Son, I came here this afternoon to discuss a business proposal with your mother. She tells me I need to discuss it with you—I suppose since Mrs. Cobb left you the house.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He pushed up and then threw himself backward, crushing Will between himself and the parapet, and that was too much; all the breath left Will’s body, and in the shock his hands loosened. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

What else, I wondered, was left to discover about myself? Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

With two days left, Harry started to go ofF food again. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Ellen, too, was taken of it, and I was left alone and helpless. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Then I left him pottering about in the library and went off to plead my case before Mother, to no avail. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. He left my grandma before I was born. She says he could talk to animals and make a sculpture that was more real than the real thing.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, I find myself focusing up at the sky—the only roof left — because too many memories are drowning me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She has been left to her own devices, and those devices are broken. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

One of the cuts went from cheekbone to hairline and it had not spared her left eye on the way. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“My mother died when I was a baby, and my father ran away and left me when I was two.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I . . . broke some things in his house, a teacup and teapot, and I didn’t put out the fires before I left tonight. He doesn’t like me.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The train lurches to the left, and Uriah falls against me, his fingers pinching the paintball until a stream of pink, foul-smelling paint sprays on my face. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I left it outside when...I left it outside.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

When Wharton finished, a nurse wheeled Henrietta back into the ward, and Wharton wrote in her chart, “The patient tolerated the procedure well and left the operating room in good condition.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The city’s attorneys and key witnesses took their seats on the left. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The hobbits began to tell him the story of their adventures ever since they left Hobbiton. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I told Mom that if she left Dad, she’d be eligible for government aid, which she couldn’t get now because she had an able-bodied husband. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, the Q, A and Z, all of which are hit with the little finger of the left hand, were colored blue to match the blue little finger. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood looking at me over his left shoulder, waiting. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He was a decorated war hero who had been reassigned to the Hitler Youth after he had lost his left arm in battle. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Brian tried to steer, using the paddle to swing the stern to the left and right, trying to avoid the boulders, but it was no use. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The new attack broke before he could get to the left. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tidy row of Steri-Strips marks a spot above his left eye. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He had a sneaking suspicion Odysseus had been thinking about this island when he constructed it, but unfortunately Leo had left it back on the ship with Buford the Wonder Table. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

By the time I finished writing up the Misbehavior Report, the sergeant for my shift had left. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Snape’s lip curled, but he left, shutting the door with a snap. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

A heartbreaking thought crossed his mind: He has nothing left. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Never was a body found. He brought his brothers back to find it and there sat the trap, still snapped shut. All that was left was an old boot.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I will always be here, in the offerings and people I left behind. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

To our left began the houses and buildings of the town. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weakness that his dengue fever had left was finally gone. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“They can be used like traps, left by someone to do harm to people.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The hopeful, happy look had left his eyes. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

As we left, Teashop Aunty walked outside with us. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

For a long time, the body of Kemmler was left to cool; when finally it was taken from the chair, rigor mortis had frozen it in a sitting position. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last only two of that roistering, impudent band were left, the priest of the suitors and their bard. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was left to Elizebeth to help him heal—and in ways large and small, she did exactly that. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He had left his mark on the program, even though it sometimes seemed he used his fists as much as his legs. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Scalapino must have thought I was asleep because she left me alone, even when it was time for recess and everyone left the room. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then, when I was eight, I left to live with my dad in America; ever since then, coming back to spend summers with my mom meant descending into the muggy and dangerous back of nowhere. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

But Bradford shook his head, realizing he wanted every second he had left. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Maddy's homework was done, and I had a little left of mine to do before dinner. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Before Henrietta left the hospital, a doctor put her feet in the stirrups again and removed the radium. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

If being left alone yesterday had affected them, it didn’t dampen their excitement for the coming meal They jumped around, asking if there was garlic bread. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

They left with the attitude that now they were off to something really important. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wheels flattened his right foot, then sliced through his left leg above the knee. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

As the family wept, my brother and I left our home to go to you. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

When her husband left, they welcomed the chance to take her back from the in-laws; she could live like the little daughter for just a while longer. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She got out of bed and left her room, her palm throbbing. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Really, Katniss, you could have left me something to work with!” she wails. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Feeling awkward and alone, Ash left the Square, walking back to where they had left the wagon on a side street. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A friendship that, unfortunately, would be left dangling. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Love, in a pretty yellow dress, was lying a-top the sheet on Granny’s side of the bed, her head cradled in the crook of Grandpa’s left elbow. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I grabbed up Henry’s things and left as fast as I could. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He got up, left the room for a moment, and came back with two wooden rulers. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She felt so defeated that she left the garage without seeing the new models and she spent the night turning over in bed and weeping with indignation. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

This time I know where I was, I know exactly where I left off. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“You left cheese dust all over the typewriter. That’s disrespectful. And you simply cannot eat a whole bag of cheese puffs. It’s not healthy. You’ll become stout.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Then she reached into her jacket and produced the photograph the Conte had left for them. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then they left and locked the door—all without a word. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Melancholy descended on him as he left the building. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then he replaced the lock but left the window open. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

See them come, bounding up the rocks, hitting the left flank. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, she told him that he had pursued her, that his eyes had left her not a moment’s peace. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Inside there was an explosion of laughter, hysterical, tension-breaking laughter that left my brothers choking and whacking each other across the shoulders. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Windows someone had left open so the air could circulate. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

After I left for work, Paul went back to school to put up posters for both of us. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“We started running at the same place, but you left me behind back by the jetty where it was like you pushed a turbo button or something. You run like a machine. It’s crazy.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

But I’ve never left a ringing phone in my life and I wasn’t going to start now. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stanton and Anthony were left without the financial support he had promised. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The Labrador would have called it a day and left now, but the terrier was enjoying himself and still eyed the collie speculatively. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

His right knee bent,just as it always had, and he leaned to the left, onto the bad leg. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went on his back and put his hands under his head, his big feet tenting his blankets way past where his bed left off. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Come to think of it, that bowl was empty when Scoob left for school this morning. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

The crater it left behind was so colossal that if you stood on one edge you would only just be able to see the other side on a good day. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Once the grave was filled in, we left small gifts on top of it. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She plants vegetable gardens rather than lawns; she carries the odd-shaped tomatoes home from the fields and eats food left for the gods. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If Mrs. Dalton’s right, then she could not have left.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the northern provinces, the collapse of the nitrate fields had left thousands of workers destitute. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I left for my village, I told him that for what he had done there could be no repayment. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

My left foot throbbed from the fall, so I leaned my weight on the right. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Before Robbie and I left on our tour, we discussed the presentation we would make in each country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This left a sizable stack of newspapers sitting on his desk beside his snowy owl, Hedwig: one for each of the days Harry had spent at Privet Drive this summer. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Where a fallen tree dammed the flow, the hunters were forced to loop around a deep green pool, but if the direwolves had done the same they'd left neither print nor spoor. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“There weren’t that many left. And there were no heads.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Marco looks down, surprised to find that he has been holding his right hand in his left, unconsciously stroking the empty space where a ring was once burned into his skin. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He pans his camera right and left, up and down. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“That’s what I want to know,” Axel says, but this time, there is no whisper left in his voice. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I sealed it, I think it unwise to leave it open now Aberforth has left his pub. Have you seen my grandson?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

To the left and apart from the other shelters in the village stood the home of the chief elder. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a flair for fashion and makeup that was best left untapped. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

It went away on its own after a few months, but until then he never left my mind. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She felt so stupid, and betrayed, and...left behind. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Clustered in the left corner of the room stood twenty or so black men, all wearing work coats and dungarees, a few sharpening their outfits with newsboy caps or brimmed hats. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

We had breakfast in silence long after Papi left for work, Mami distant as another country, shrouded by something dark and grievous that we couldn’t break through. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The world left him thoroughly alone in this, although Ishmael and two other boys were hired that June to clean the cages with wire brushes. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t hear if the main group had left yet. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Jupiter was sitting on the bed when I returned, so if she glanced to her left at any point, there’s a strong possibility she saw said message. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Tell me of Father, tell me of the son I left behind me; have they still my place, my honors, or have other men assumed them? The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

SJ glares at him and pretends to shove a finger down her throat as she approaches the seat to Justyce’s left. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“The Widow Cane passed away July first and left no heirs. Therefore, her estate is considered in probate, or in holding.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The smaller ones left their dribbling mustard streaks to find their own way down. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The monster grumbled, still not happy with his deal, but he left Grover to his weaving and rolled the boulder back into place. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

They had left to follow the ambulance in the honey wagon, wanting to see May’s body delivered safe and sound to wherever it was going. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

What little color there was in Black’s face left it. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

As we left the parking lot and rolled past strip malls toward Grandpa Portman’s house, I began to worry about what we might find when we got there. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

A triplet-based code had 64 combinations—enough for all twenty amino acids, with extra ones still left over to specify other coding functions, such as “stopping” or “starting” a protein chain. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“My mama gave me this before I left Virginia, a long, long time ago. And I suppose you already figured that I’ve got some salt.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“She sure did. She left me a note saying she was leaving, but she didn’t say where she was going or how long she’d be staying.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"That means we should have turned right when we left the boat." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

She led the young shepherd, with never a thought of Oenone left forlorn, straight to Sparta, where Menelaus and Helen received him graciously as their guest. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fiona, Eighteen, was on his left; on his other side sat Twenty, a male named Pierre whom Jonas didn’t like much. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I left Ma slumped against the armrest and went straight to the bathroom. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Don Little dropped out of school and left town shortly after, and no one in Bellmont has ever laid a finger on Erin or me since. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never looked back, but that doesn’t make me any different from a million inmates who have left a prison behind them. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A left to the head and a right and another left.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front door was open to the street and I was surprised to see there was still daylight left. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shyly I went over to tell the Mexicans that the patron wanted them to do something else before they left for the day. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could have been down there, battered again and again until there was nothing left. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He put his left hand in his pocket and in a moment took it out. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“She up and left before I could even walk.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“That’s what you said when we left Cherry Point,” Karen answered. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then two more kids got up and left. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I was exhausted—fighting undersea monsters had used up what little reserves I had left. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Felicia, her eyes closed tight, cautiously patted the floor until she touched the peeled grapes her sister had left for her there, and screamed to holy hell. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Better?" he asked, half sincere, half hoping there was one more booger left and that it was somehow making a mean face at Jasmine. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Since she’d left him, Cabot had continued harassing her, calling late at night, showing up with flowers or candy or big stuffed bears, sending messages to her through friends and acquaintances. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He raised the vial in his left hand. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child’s blindness, added to a student’s thirst for knowledge. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

Straight ahead he could see more beach, about a mile away, but to the left and northward there was a large bay that must have stretched close to three miles. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took a coin from the candle flame of a candle on the wall, another from his beard, a third from Shadow’s empty left hand, and dropped them, one by one, into the glass. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She stopped several feet in front of the Gladers and slowly looked left to right, taking them all in. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jimmy said, “Oh. Oh, maybe I should,” and left the kitchen. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

She darted around obstacles—broken furniture left for the trash heaps or for scavengers, stoves and refrigerators that were past repair, peddlers sitting on the pavement with their wares spread out around them. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Celia put her hand on mine and left the prayer notes on the counter. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She made sure the pearls were tucked away out of sight before she left. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I left the coach’s office and went back to practice in a daze. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Stella remembered how proud folks had been last year when Liza Twitty had left for college in Atlanta. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As I recall, neither of them said anything of note throughout the whole interview, which lasted perhaps three or four minutes, and they left sobbing just as they had arrived. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Officer Delinko was left alone to ponder the object lying on the linoleum tile—toothy, scaly, and lifelike, except for the $3.95 price sticker glued to its snout. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was hit three times on my left foot. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

We held hands, and I led her over to the sofa, where I found the Seanie-gap-Isabel arrangement had not changed since I left. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He gestured to his subordinates, and two of the three left. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

We again trotted all the way to the other end of the township, where we left George and my sisters under Granny’s care—she was not working that day. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Somebody ruined it. I left it in here this morning.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

A rock hit Shin in the face, just below his left eye, opening up a deep cut. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She made me rewash the breakfast dishes with near boiling water and complained that I left too much dirt behind when I swept. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They turn left, then right, until they reach the steps of the cathedral, where a third doll waits, dressed in black, one arm raised. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

"Don't get no independent ideas, ye young fools! To the left or right of me is yer death. Do ye hear?" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Harry let her talk, nodding and agreeing whenever there was a pause, but his mind had left the conversation. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Before she left, she said, “You are a strong young man, shinálí. You are going to get through this mood. But you don’t have to go through this alone.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He was thin and weak and hollow-eyed; his illness had left its marks on him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her daughter, Victoria, is left behind, like me. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The four guards were the only ones left inside the castle, for the Prince needed no spectators to the events that were soon to happen. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Donovan opened his mouth and left it that way for a full minute. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Gran wouldn’t have left us without anything to help us. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

His other arm wrapped around my left side, until there wasn’t an inch of his body that wasn’t pressed up against mine. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The fire was a big one and the drum-roll that he had thought was left so far behind was nearer. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Gran and Gramps left a while ago, but I stayed behind here in the ICU. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember what I told you,” Mother urgently reminded me for the last time, before she left with Maha. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

She finished the rest of the aisles, and left with one cup still steaming on her tray. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I, however, had dispensed with the two middle names long before I left Maryland so that I was generally known by the name of “Frederick Bailey.” Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

You’ve been walking around that way, and it’s left your feet blistered, scraped, and bloody. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Before Suba left, she said she was going to the outside world with her mother because she was too old to be in jail. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He left the pages on the desk under a glass paperweight; then opened the door in answer to a faint scratch. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk along what’s left, clinging to the railing, but I can’t get onto the hill where the other people are standing because the bridge isn’t attached to anything. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She grabbed her staff from where she'd left it leaning against a wall and sprinted out the gate. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

And Cuckoo answered at once, “Ah, and that was Liu, the grain dealer. Ah, he was a good man! He left silver in my palm whenever he saw me.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He meant for Mrs. McCullough, but as the words left his mouth an idea occurred to him, a way to spin this, and later that evening he would call his contacts at the paper. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Head-to-head's where Kid A solves a problem on the left of the blackboard while Kid B solves the same problem on the right, like a race. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Or keep quiet and just try to hide until the family left? A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Understanding dawned on him then, and tripping in his great haste, he left the room. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

As it happened, I had them all in my desk upstairs, left over from geometry. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The pain in my left eye was so intense I could feel it in the base of my spine. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

When all the humans have left, I send Bob to check on Ruby. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

It was right where I left it, in a hole four kilometers away. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you,” Shawna muttered, and her head drooped as she left the classroom. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Motor Boat and Tea Cake were still playing so everybody left them at it. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

There were only a couple of carts left when I grabbed this one. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But then Mom left to start another family—without us. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though we had left the Company, Father had stayed a partner on paper so that he could keep me. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How fitting that I am called the Palace of Illusions when all I have left are memories. Perhaps memories are the grandest illusion of all,” said the palace quietly. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

By dawn, all that's left of the vigil is a pile of flowers, some wrapped in bundles, some tossed alone. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

If I left now, I might never run into her again. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But she left anyway, and he was alone in his room, searching out anagrams for mymissingpiece in a vain attempt to fall asleep. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I could almost hear the sighs of relief from the bottleneck behind me as I turned left onto the deadend asphalt road. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

A blister was swelling on his left heel which forced him to walk on the edge of his boot. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you shouldn’t try writing with your left hand,” Raizel said blandly. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

His mother’s badger dæmon had left his corner and come to the door, and he and the cat dæmon touched noses and exchanged a whisper. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Still, in Gloria’s disheveled home, where the back door is left open to the muddy yard, her efforts are futile. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

‘When I left him in Epirus, he was fine.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Documents in my handwriting showed that I had left the country illegally, had arranged for military training for our men, and had been behind the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the two men left the village, the task of clearing more of the land between the trees began. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they got back to Medallion and into the quiet house they saw the note exactly where they had left it and the ham dried out in the icebox. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought I had a few packets left. Anything else you need?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

We sat around the table and drank two bottles of the wine that had been left in the cellar of the villa. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He had left the flashlight on the other side, and he knew that even if he wanted to, he didn’t have the strength to go back. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

She left the scones on the counter and hurried for the door. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Me and Mr. Simms walk in the same rhythm: left, right, left, right. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

And no territory was being gained, because as soon as American troops left an area, the Viet Cong slipped right back in. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Yes, and when you left, I thought you were dead.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Half an hour later, they paddled the canoes ashore to the right side of the river, away from the left side, where they believed Julio may have been hiding. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I left the job that following Saturday, not telling them that I would not be back, not possessing the heart to say good-bye. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom opened it and pulled out the last three Post-it notes I had left in Auggie’s locker. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He has nothing left but the power of his mind—and no pleasure there: a case of knives. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

His job was to clean up after the Republic's soldiers, so he was usually gone, and Mom was left to raise us boys on her own. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Hey, don’t forget where you left off felt mildly inappropriate, so I settled on a basic “Nice to meet you, sir.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Say hello to Frau Elena and the children who are left. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

One inmate was thronged by three little kids the moment he left our desk. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though I smiled to see her and ate the food she brought, I did not satisfy her desire for conversation, so she soon left again. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Concerned that the boy might get hurt if released, the doctor sat him down in a holding cell and left to telephone his mother. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Monday, Lucas left the house before I did. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, she and 426 left the eggs and flew off to the courthouse cupola. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

But he made a left at Third and went around the block, coming back out to Main Street at Fifth, the whole time glancing at me weird through the rearview. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

After graduating from North Carolina A&T, Blair left the state for a job in Massachusetts, where he continues to live, working with developmentally disabled adults. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

When Tyson had left, battles had been raging all over the Adantic. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She left the room and there was silence. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That day in Jalalabad...the day we left Afghanistan...” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Finally Toby left the shed and walked to the middle of the yard. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pauses at the only fact he deems relevant: that this girl now left in his custody is, obviously, his own daughter and that her name is Celia. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They just left silently—no parties, no backslapping, no addresses exchanged. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He sat me on the table, unwrapped the tourniquet and the soggy dressing, observed with interest the waning spurt of the little blood left inside me, and hauled out his suture kit. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Some evenings, when the visitors left early, he would sit on the floor of the living room and listen to Master talk. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Pa thinks it’s something left over from—well, from some other plan for the way the world should be,” said Jesse. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such pleasures were beyond El Patron now, and he had few enough left at the age of 148. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see flyers scattered in the streets just a few feet behind them, left behind by people who were now enjoying the festival. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The gun feels unfamiliar in my left hand, but I can’t bear its weight with my right yet. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The previous night, after Z had left Ruby Holler, he drove into Boxton. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like hieroglyphics, like some ancient language left by a time and a people he could never hope to understand. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

They had only seven dollars left, but they had bicycles now, and Dicey had her jackknife and her map. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

And before she left, she hugged me again. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Japanese man passed her, turned to his left, and perched on the edge of the bench sofa. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“But what happened to him when all the other children left?” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

‘We ran off with nothing but a couple of spare packets of Iembas, and left everything else behind.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Day hadn’t left the house in nearly a week because of a nosebleed that wouldn’t stop. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“You know I’m okay with that, right? Before Dad left, he made me promise to take care of you. He said you were like that.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Mom changed her outfit before we left, too. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A coiled hose left out by a keeper has made a menacing impression. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I understand you left a pretty disturbed bunch of pedants up at Boston,” Nicholson said, watching him. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Am I supposed to understand how a towel feels about being left on a bench? Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

There was just one more day of school left before Christmas vacation. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The lane was bordered on the left by wild, low-growing brambles, on the right by a high, neatly manicured hedge. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon, Bryce and the old lady left the field. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

“It was after Lemuel left. Lord, what a sorry man. I told him to leave when he’d nearly drunk us broke. He grabbed the rest of our money and I tried to stop him.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

During the summer, my friends Jasmine and Maya always left town. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

But Reverend Mokitimi went ahead and organized the meals and every Sunday, I left the hall hungry and depressed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So there's only one thing left to tell and I've already told it. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The glass face, the hour hand, and the minute hand'd gone and only a bent second hand was left. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

On the left was the first version: glittery sleeveless dress, dark hair circled with laurels, golden wings folded behind her. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“You could have left a note or something. I had to find out from Taro.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

"I left my bags and all at the station. I think maybe I'd better go down and get them. I have all my stuff in them." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Finally, the clay was left to settle for a few days until the water at the top either had drained away or could be bailed off. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“It suits you, Madame? It is, you see, exactly like the compartment you have left.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reached out a finger, stroked him above his left eyebrow. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

They left ducks on the pond—runners on base—in the third and fourth, and against the Renegades, you best not waste scoring opportunities, because it’s going to come back to haunt you. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

When it came to the human race, there was no more left to learn. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Every bed was occupied, and new cases were left on the stretchers and laid between the beds to take advantage of the transfusion stands. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

"Thank you, sir," I said, beginning where I had left off, and having them ignore me as before. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are gone, left in cars that came for them, driven by pale Americans in white uniforms with gold braids on their shoulders and on their caps. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I open up a paper clip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I left my motel room and went out to stand in the air of the world. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It only took its meaning from the digits to its left; the symbol for zero literally meant nothing if it was by itself. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

This is one of the reasons I’m glad I left that picture at Libby’s last night. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I put the blind back to how it was, checked I'd left no other traces of my incursion, slipped out, and flew downstairs to see who it was. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I even look outside, but she must have left. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

People can be thrown away too, like last night’s trash left out on sidewalks or pushed to the edge of wherever all broken things go. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Those that were left worked longer, worked harder. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He was dragging his left leg and trying to hide it because he was ashamed. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A spear had taken him through his left calf during the fight at the holdfast. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As little as I wanted to be a part of the coming scene, I didn’t want to be left out of it either. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And cast it in the same fire where you left your manhood?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I had my small revenge before I left,” said Griphook in English. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The blush spread across her face from that side, as if my words left a visible trace. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was what is known as a kouros—a sculpture of a nude male youth standing with his left leg forward and his arms at his sides. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Each time he was left alone, he mourned formally for a while but actually he felt a sense of relief. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Think about it. They hadn’t even left yet. How could they have gotten back already? They didn’t even know for sure whether they would get back.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

They left the cart in the lot and walked the littered aisles. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Pretty much everyone else she’d ever known had died; he was a scrap left over for her to take, the alternative to being forever alone. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Her left knee was scraped and skinned, and the palm of one hand she had thrown out to stop herself was a mess of scraped skin and grit. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

What he did not know, though, was that the moment he had left, Tortoise had taken a handful of corn and had put it into boiling water. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“She was too coarse, too stubborn. I’d left it too late....But where is she now? I followed her footsteps up.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe...maybe it’s us,” I said, surprised to learn I still had words left to speak. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

None of their personalities had been left in the rooms, except for the two paintings on the wardrobe doors, the lady cutouts, and the little picture of the boat. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I immediately packed my books and clothes and left for Granny’s place, where I stayed for two weeks and then returned home. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spread of infectious diseases was inevitable, as were bitter arguments among old neighbors who fought over ownership of the land that was left. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Another letter was dictated, this one an agreement between him and me: “Nothing can be in this book’s manuscript that I didn’t say, and nothing can be left out that I want in it.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left the sentence hanging, but there was no need to finish. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

They were to sit at a large T-shaped table, with Lyman Gage, president of the exposition, at the center of the topmost table, Hunt on his right, Olmsted on his left. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Styx hitched his chin over his left shoulder. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

But still, I left him without a knife, without even a chance. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Something twisted in her gut at the thought of all those slaves she’d left behind in Endovier, all those people doomed to suffer until they died. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Truth be told, I didn’t notice when she left carrying the tray. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can even hold a plate up on my left knee. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Mark left the woman in the front yard and followed Alec inside only to be stunned by what he saw. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

For the first time in months, he perused the old pictures of his parents, smiling and waving up at him from the images, which were all he had left of them now. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

For a moment, I was confused, not knowing whether to run for cover under sea grape, or what was left of it, or try to fight them off with my cane. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farmer and his team eventually left the room, but only after it was clear Joe had been comforted and Farmer had earned his trust. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Imagining him at his wedding left her with a feeling like sorrow, a faded sorrow. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He probably trusted them or he wouldn't have left his precious little brother in their care. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

To our left, far away in the gloom, fires burned on the ramparts of Erebos, the great black walls of Hades’s kingdom. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“He took my eye,” Chencho said, lifting the lock of hair from over his left eye to reveal a deformed eyelid fused together by thick scars. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Pressed up against steel ribs and timber blocks young boys strangled when the oxygen left them to join the water. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They were exquisite, shimmering with white resin that left her fingertips sticky when she pinched them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The door is still open, the way I left it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I thought the parents were going to bid on us after we left.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Her gown sparkled in the lights, and the audience rose to applaud Marsha as she wept for the women she'd left behind. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The woman two racks from her has a purse hanging on her left shoulder. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I asked for water. I offered him some of our food. But they only have a bit left, with four children. He said there’s running water in the next village an hour away.” The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When I see him, or what is left of him, I will tell him all about the missing part of me and listen for his crying shame. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

So she flourished it, feinting to right and left, not intending to hit him at all, and he didn’t move. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m surprised you know that,” I say quietly, “since you left halfway through my one and only fight.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Despite the performance, Luke’s eyes never left the car. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was left to Bran to fill his place at the head of the table, and act the host to Lord Karstark's sons and honored friends. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Ever since they’d left Vancouver, she’d been calling to him in her thoughts, hoping he would hear her and come find her, but that was just wishful thinking. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He was lifting the edge of his cap with his right hand and wiping his head with a handkerchief with his left at the same time. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

She took off her white coat and hung it on the door, gathered a few papers into a bag, and left without a word. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says they have only two nurses left to house, and he doesn’t see why they would each need a bedroom. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I ain’t had a meal this good since I left home. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

It is as if our Rachel had been left suddenly in charge of everything. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was all there was to it, but it left you precious little leeway. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood in her doorway, looking around slowly from left to right, and his gaze swept past the tree. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In my haste to leave the house, I’d left my cell phone in my room. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

One of the last diary entries Elizabeth Drinker made concerning the plague spoke of the unshakable unease the invisible killer had left in its wake. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“Not so loud, honey,” Wanda said, and she directed the group into the wings on stage left. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He refused to believe it when Dustfinger told him they hadn't come with him, he had left them behind in a book along with the thieves who used to beat and kick him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I can tell because his left hand is balled into a fist even as his right arm envelops me. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It all looked as deserted as if the Flood had newly receded and left this one cold building in its wake. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

"Have you noticed," she whispered to Papi when the waiter had left with the drink orders. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

To my great relief, he left his sword where it lay on the floor. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you allowed to be left alone in a dressing room without me? You don't like, need me to button your pants or anything, do you?” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Dad left us in the car, and entered. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put his eldest son, John, in charge of the Brookline office and left Harry Codman in Chicago to guide the work on the world’s fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Unsure of what to do but knowing if I stayed there debating my options, the mother cat might well come and blind me, I left the coal shack and lingered about the yard. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I crumpled to the concrete and sustained a deep gash above my left eye, which required three stitches. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t anything left to beat in California anyway. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would leave the school, he thought, just as he had left the graveyard. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Leah who had left me to the lion’s den in question. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abilene balanced the watch on his left leg. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

He held his left hand to his chest. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

And they were gone, the girls waving as they left. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I went into the lunch bar, sat down in an end booth, and kept my left hand over my black tie while I ordered soup, rolls and black coffee. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He flicked his cigarette butt into the creek, stood up, and left. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

On the left are words I understand: man, houses, shoes, axe, sea turtle. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“So you’re saying the old Greek gods—they just changed permanently to Roman? There’s nothing left of the Greek?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

His words scalded me, left my cheeks burning hot. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I grabbed two and left two for Mae and Birdie, hoping against hope they wouldn’t need them. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The only path left was across the water. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was welcome to use the stove as long as I left it as I found it. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He had sold only three of her children—left her one to live for and protect. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He snapped out a left jab, straight at the moving head, just as he had for weeks. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you go left, there's the couch and stuff. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Emily left her dad perplexed by her sudden interest in the editorial process and raced back to her room. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I caught one final blurry glimpse of Hassan slumped in the back­seat before Baba turned left at the street corner where we’d played marbles so many times. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The silver dollar remained cold in his left hand. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Into a pit went Mr. Steffens, where, bound and tied, he was left to face the advancing razor steel of a great pendulum which now whirled down, down, closer and closer to his outraged body. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was around the corner now, peeking through the banister like a little kid checking to see what Santa had left for her under the tree. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

All I knew was that it involved an egg, so I imagined they used a cooked one—likely fried—which left the recipient greasy and smeared with yolk. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Johnny went to the Hastings’ house, where he met Paul Revere, who told him Doctor Warren had left for Lexington. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The firewood was stacked against the door as she and Charlie had left it. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

His sullenness left him as he fried the bacon. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The boat came nearer, the searchlight sweeping to left and right, almost on course to hit the island, but at the last minute it turned a little to starboard and moved past. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He took the ring of keys, left the house, and walked back to the train station in the dark. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“With the white ring around the middle. If you throw them over your left shoulder and make a wish, it’s sure to come true.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I’ll be fine,” she said, but she felt the beginnings of panic whirling in her stomach—why had Taisin left?—and she swept up a piece of glass that nicked her thumb. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And just then a paper bag sailed from a window to my left and burst like a silent grenade, scattering garbage into the trees and pancaking to earth with a soggy, exhausted plop! Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am not the only person left in the world. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then the path went left and south away from the cliff and there were thick woods on both sides of it and they went steeply up and up into the pass. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

It left him too much room for some nefarious rebirth in the afterlife. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I left Mr Cardinal in the drawing room and made my way to the study, where I found his lordship working through some pages with a look of deep concentration. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Now there was a constant odor, and Brian took another look at the pilot, found him rubbing the shoulder and down the arm now, the left arm, letting go more gas and wincing. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They left for Chester in the dark of night. Warner has kin there. There was horrible screaming and carrying on. The youngest girl fell ill after an apprentice died.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next thing I know, I'm lying on my back in the vines, a terrible pain in my left temple. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Since yesterday, he had left Jojo’s side only long enough to eat or run out to relieve himself. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Before he left for France, he and Elizebeth posed for pictures. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Before we left the Marines, each of us was sternly reminded that our code was still a top secret. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything he worked for over almost twenty years has been left behind: the school he started from nothing, the school that now has three buildings and eleven hundred students. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The things that break your heart when you think there’s nothing left to break. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one was sitting at the guard’s desk, so Lina left the note there, placed so that the guard would see it when he arrived. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as I got my high school diploma, I left California. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

As they drove away from Quinn House, the morning cloud cover began to clear, and by the time they left the village behind, the sun shone brightly down on the road. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was mostly the colored folks that fought the shamblers. No surprise there. Government pays to send them to those fancy schools while real men like me are left to fend for ourselves.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It was Sunday and an unusually warm evening for October eighth, so Daniel “Peg Leg” Sullivan left his stifling little house in the West Side of Chicago and went to visit neighbors. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

When the first workers arrived, Jon and Leon left the bridge. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

If it had been left to the Italians, classical music would have made it to the modern age without so much as a scratch, still completely mainstream, still loved by everyone. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He had left him in the shelter of a thick hedge, sure of his course for the big warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are hardly fifty of us left, and those that are left are half starved and weak. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He knew them by their windows and cars and porches and toys they left outside. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes never left my face, but I sang softly, carefully, proudly. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The minute she left the hall, she felt its light begin to fade, heard the boy’s disgruntled shouts, but she kept running with the sparkles overhead. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Gary won the first heat easily and had plenty of breath left to boss the organizing of the second. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Einstein left for a conference in 1933 and wisely declined to return. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Only two weeks since he had left, and it was already happening. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Daddy said something to Mr. Johnson that I couldn’t hear, and they left the room. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And it was all done so indirectly, so craftily, like a burglar who left no fingerprints. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Before the soldier left, he made a circle with his hands, meaning that he would return on another day. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

She felt neglected and he was always busy, and when I left her I had arranged a rendezvous at my apartment for the following evening. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shift my weight from left to right, right to left, as she leads me forward. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

These shy little animals had come back soon after the Aleuts had left and now there seemed to be as many of them as before. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Those rabbits we left—Cowslip and the rest—a lot of the things they did weren’t natural to rabbits—pushing stones into the earth and carrying food underground and Frith knows what.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Frank’s bus left, I thought about walking home. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She stares at something above my left ear. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He remained in Minneapolis until May 1886, when he left for New York City, planning to take “a part of the material there,” and to leave the rest in Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

That night I sat on my mattress, staring at what was left of my bedroom. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Though who knew what would happen when Luke left for school next year. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But there were human beings down there, whatever was left of them after a couple of hundred years, still sitting in their blackened cars, as if still trying to escape their fate. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Moss frowned at that one; it left him with a bad feeling, as if the guy was more concerned with being witty than caring. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Lee rode left up a flat grassy rise. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Little, who had left the window up when she missed Margalo, was glad to see them back, for she was beginning to worry. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later, she finished and left, promising to check back later. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

At first, he thought the dwarfs had left. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When the three had left the stage, the hot-tempered boy remained, just as Scythe Faraday had said earlier in the day. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

That night, in what little sleeping time there was left, I dreamed that Amon Goeth was chasing me with his dogs. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Moments after Dona Maria left, just as we were getting ready for bed, Torito started moaning. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The other children screamed, and some of them tried to grab at him as he left the hut, but they failed to stop their brother and he was gone. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The day she left and didn’t take me with her, I decided I would find my mom again. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

For example, if you run across two sticks in the shape of an X you have to hop over it backwards on your left foot. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Javier had an arm looped over his chest, his fingers gently exploring Moss’s left arm. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I pick up my apple with my left hand, and grab his hand under the table with my right. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Now, he was a satirist, so he left it that way, and my father was, I guess I realized too late, a romantic, so he ended it another way. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

But she doesn’t, so Axel must rely on things left behind. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“For I am not afraid. With my husband’s death, I have nothing left to fear. You are the bravest of all of us, truly.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

There wasn't much left for our intrepid hero. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sugar has left a bloody trail through human history. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

At last we came to the top of the path, and I saw its fellow branching left to the Happy Valley. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then it left again, a few minutes later, the same way. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I left the buck tied to the fence. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“There was the debt my father left, so . Whatever she said only made it seem worse. “But we own the land. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I left my pack propped against a big rock at the trailside and went with our water bottles and the filter down to the pond edge and filled up. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

We reach the end of one and turn left, into a dim room that reminds me of an aquarium. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Leaves flew as my pup left the bed. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he came up, his left hand slipped behind her back. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m this girl who wants to be left alone. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The worker shortage caused by the war left the shapeup empty and laborers in high demand. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The AEC Personnel Security Board hearing into J. Robert Oppenheimer’s security clearance convened on April 12, 1954, in the agency’s dilapidated headquarters, a temporary building on Washington’s National Mall left: over from wartime. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I remember that plane ride because I left my kite behind—it was too big. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He left, but now I had another problem. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

People left with long sticks with squares of fish on them. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I left my jacket at home because I wanted everyone to see my new shirt. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Migraines left my blood spreading across unfamiliar hotel sheets, dripping on the floors, oozing into carpets, soaking through leftover croissants and Italian lace cookies. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I looked around the garden before we left. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

At six o’clock, I left Zion and made my way into the apartment to get changed for the evening events. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I left four messages for Frank Kasigi before he finally called me back. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I refreshed my face and hands with cold water at the basin, then seated myself on a hard-backed chair left near one of the windows to await my tea. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

There’s the way they left things this morning. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It looked like a deep cut to Alfred, right on the outside corner of Willie's left eye. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If she left her phone here, maybe she left one of her computers, too,” Emma said. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

With his left hand he aimed the flashlight toward the unseen intruder. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt as if she had left her pearls lying loose for too long and it was time to gather them and guard them more carefully. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I pulled up in her driveway and left the upcar hovering. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman pulled her daughter by the hand and left. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Their feet pounded and thundered on the ground and left a great sheet of dust behind them. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when I sing to him, I'm not just left of the key or right of the tune He says I sing beautifully. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

He only knew they had left the main road when he suddenly found himself being bounced up and down, and he was grateful that the truck was now moving more slowly. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Miss Thomas said, “Is there any more of that meat loaf left?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

There were seven left, plus the two chasing his friends. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Luckily, she’s too distracted to notice how much food I have left or to say anything about it, so I take my plate with me. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

When I got home, the handle of the door was locked, the dead bolt unlocked, just as I’d left it this morning. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I left work that day happier than I’d been since starting at the Academy. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother had left two teenagers at war, only to return home to a peace treaty. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I turned left and pedaled against the sand toward the front of the development. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1898, two years before publishing Sister Carrie, he wrote to Sara, “I went to Jackson Park and saw what is left of the dear old World’s Fair where I learned to love you.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The left side of his face was slick with scar where an axe had cut off his ear and part of his cheek. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“So listen carefully ... if you really want to destroy my house, Joseph, I guess this will be your last chance. Go ahead. Burn everything down to the ground till there’s nothing left but ash.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Peck shouldn’t have left Aimee in the street, but she didn’t want to see him and he’s not exactly happy with her either. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Either someone left the rope three hundred feet from the top intentionally, which made no sense, or the rope was cut while that someone was still three hundred feet from safety. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s the one. Shop’s empty. No sign of a struggle. No one knows whether he left voluntarily or was kidnapped.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I had hoped that the morning rain would make the courtroom more bearable, but the rain stopped early, and the humidity it left behind only made the air in Sumner hotter and heavier. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I had gone to my window after he’d left and looked out, envying the men I saw going to and from the mine, because they knew exactly who they were and what they were doing. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But she just told us she hasn’t left this room. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Why had she left her own daughter in the dark all this time? Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

‘Hmm . Imperial gold sword wound, but that’s healed nicely. No cancer, no heart problems. Watch that mole on your left foot, but I’m sure it’s benign.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The tank clattered and clanked over the cobblestones, swinging right and left over curbs and back again to avoid the few pedestrians, then sped into the harbor district, past taverns and shops and shipping offices. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was an old wicker one of Granddaddy’s with hardly any fishy smell left. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

But now, instead of seeing the white brick and windows across the way and to her left, there were gaping holes where classrooms should be. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Wouldn’t he want to clear his conscience, at least with me, before I left? Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

On the left was an American colonel; on the right, another soldier looked away, his face obscured; and in the middle stood a Soviet officer, whose face had been cut out of the photograph. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And the entirety of the Kingdom of Death left unexplored? Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Claudette left her house on the first day of high school determined to put her mind on her studies. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

She left the room, pressing her fury back so she would be able to wait and wait until somebody returned. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not like we’re destroying property that matters anymore,” Charity told us before we left. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

We turn left, and a group of people stands at the other end of the hallway. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

They prayed for the family they left behind. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Two soldiers carried me in the hammock, but this time I had my gun and I looked left and right as we traveled the forest path. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I looked at the grocery bag in Cletus’s left hand and the famous suitcase in his right. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

My khakis have a day or two left in them and two clean T-shirts remain until the next trip to a Laundromat, but a question has been raised about the T-shirts. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one bus out of Welch left at seven-ten in the morning. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas reached out and grabbed a vine two feet to the left of where he hung. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t a clue why Connor had left this for me. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I left my trunk, grabbed my valise and Mr. Whiskers, and started off down the snow-lined street. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

It seemed to me that if God really wanted the Americans to win, He would have sent sea monsters to devour the fleet when it left Boston. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was ashamed of the many times — more times than she could count — when she had skipped off and left her work undone. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the school year, Mott left the faculty to move to a farm in Maryland with her husband to raise chickens, and Volpe applied to be assistant drama director. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I think about last time, when I kissed him before I left—the look on his face, longing and frustration and anger. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I left that day, Holly loaded me up with vintage fabric she had left from her opening year. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He’d smoked a vaporizer, which never stank very much, but we were inside, not outside, and without the breeze it had left a little something lingering in the air. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sissy left after promising that she would come back on the first of the month with the magazines. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stood in line like a platoon, and each one lifted up his left arm and pointed at me. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Cora hadn’t picked up a needle apart from simple mending since Mabel left. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Rising above the windows was a tall and dirty tower that tilted slightly to the left. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Jake left the porch rail and walked right up to a girl named Suky, the one who had been most bitter in her making fun. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When was the last time you left this apartment?” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“And to keep everyone at a distance. After I’d been left by my husband and son, I guess I decided I’d do all the leaving from then on.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

You put the mouse on your right hand and a little piece of cake on your left hand. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“I know you weren’t exactly sipping tea and eating crumpets when I left you back in the cargo room all that time. Ready to tell me what happened?” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The typed page, left by him near the typewriter, was the one he had taken and folded into the envelope. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He left off decapitating fish to glare at me, dripping cleaver in hand, and I vowed never again to discriminate against the intoxicated. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

After a few tries, he frowned and left to busy himself in a ghostly way about the garden. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Tons of things. Hard to remember all the names now, you know. Was speaking the lingo like a native by the time I left.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There’s a lanky, fair-haired Mask on my left, and my stomach sinks because I know this Mask. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The trees around them began to change as they left the river behind. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I’m left with a bodyguard made up of Gale, Boggs, and two other soldiers. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Anatoli had left the summit around 2:00 p.m. and quickly became entangled in the traffic jam at the Hillary Step. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll take the left side of the road. You two take the right. Tell them we gotta meet. Our house. A half hour. Shake a leg, now.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He was afraid; there were only a few people left where he was and not much food. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

My parents, unable to bear the hostility, had sold their home and all their furniture and left for Mexico where they hoped to find a new life. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he lashed his horses and round and round the walls of Troy he dragged all that was left of glorious Hector. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slapped the screwdriver into his hand and left without another word. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I have no time to erase the stricken look on my face, but, lucky for me, she associates it with the conditioner and curling iron that I left on the desk. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“There’s no telling how far down it goes,” the captain says, the left side of his mustache twitching like the tail of a rat. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She had left her own front door wide open and walked back through, closing it softly behind her. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I wanted to buy a straw hat from one of the ladies, but she would not sell it to me for the last two gourdes I have left in change. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I walk to the sidewalk, look left, then right. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Moon Orchid recognized him as the brother-in- law in photographs, not as the young man who left on a ship. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hate to mention this, Hattie. But Chester left a bill here.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Alex left the church uncertain where to go, but ending up on Amsterdam Avenue. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

And seen that Chacko had disappeared and left a monster in his place. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Second from the left is Roy Wilkins, executive director of the NAACP. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Chapter Eleven and I were left to figure out what was going on by the tone of a conversation that made no sense to us, and to be honest, we didn’t pay much attention. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Until 1:55, when everyone had left for Temple Beth-El or Saint Adelbert’s, and Mrs. Baker said, “Mr. Hoodhood, I think I could get you there for some of the game.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

When I’m certain they’ve left the building, I run at a full sprint—thankfully Guillermo’s still not back—down the hallway to the front window. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

And now, twenty years later, I’m left with faceless responsibility and faceless grief. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

For this reason she left her alone with her embroidery threads and said nothing about Rosa’s nightmarish zoology. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it turned out that such crops did not become adopted for cultural or other reasons, we would be left with a nagging doubt. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the boys and girls I had grown up with left school because they lacked money to continue. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we got home, few of our friends would be left to greet us. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bookcase had wheels, and each night, before he left, McNaughton would wheel it into a closet-sized safe and lock the door. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

That August evening on the day Cradle left, we played in the yard and, when it got dark, went inside and played with Lego blocks. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The battle for the town had left it in ruins. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

So ten years earlier, Charles had left Edinburgh and had gone off to study theology at Christ’s College, Cambridge. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can see carts up ahead on the left, a whole string of ’em, pulled by oxen and by horses, disappearing round a bend. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

All that was left of the building was a jagged brick wall with nothing behind the windows but black sky. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

‘We have left all the rest behind, one after another. It seems almost like a dream that has slowly faded.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Some of them are missing—a search party must have left. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

When Strauss and White and their half- dozen followers turned right down Corridor B, I turned left up Corridor C and took the elevator to my room. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was still asleep when I left the cabin this morning, so this is the first I’ve had a chance to talk to him. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

In the way of herbivores, nothing left here to kill. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just a blank space was left where the word had been, like a fleeting thought at the edge of a dream. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The scar left by the bonfire was still visible on the lawn behind the house, where Capricorn’s men had piled up the books and burned them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“If you left Congo, why did you come back?” he asked. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He glanced over his shoulder before he left. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Then for a while hope left me, and I did not wait to gather news, or I might have been comforted; but I rode on the trail of the Riders. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

This left Malia, who surprised me a little by immediately signing on. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

‘I’m afraid I can’t go in, sir. He never wants to see me either. Perhaps if you left a note.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He had some stitches above his left eye and the left side of his face was all scraped up. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

It was rumored that in some rooms nothing was left at all. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The column on the left lists top, bottom, hijab, shoes, purse, and accessories, and the next three columns are filled in with her outfit details. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She had a sinking suspicion that sooner rather than later there wouldn’t be an extra ticket left in that envelope at all. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was painted a bright yellow and the whole thing leaned a bit to the left. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

What is known is the truth about the barbaric practice of lynching has, in many ways, been suppressed and that this form of racial torture and murder left deep scars that remain with us today. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Most of the raiders that were left alive then broke and fled, this way and that, pursued one by one to the death. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

On the sixth-floor landing, they turn left, and he pushes open the door to what was once her grandfather’s room. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I would feel this way right through, even as first-trimester fatigue left me drained, as my job stayed busy and Barack continued making his weekly treks to the state capital. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“It was born an hour after you left this morning.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Which person,” she said, her voice shaking, “which abysmally foolish person wrote down this week’s passwords and left them lying around?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was larger than the pebbles around it, and it looked out of place, as if someone had left it there by accident. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Then the Girl's gone, and I'm left alone in the cell with the soldiers. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

"Now there is only one evil left that plagues the village." When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She touched his face, left her hand resting on his cheek. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And it was for moral reasons and sporting interest that she left her school and her home to compete with a man whose fame as a great, unprincipled eater had spread throughout the country. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

To my left, the water is calmer, but to my right, it is white, battling with rock. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It was one o’clock by the time Jan left and we’d done the dishes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Walton’s mother left, but at least she didn’t go to jail. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I haven’t even left the kitchen except to go to the small bathroom a few steps off of it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

His left hand twitched and moved back and forth, pretending to pull the at.oow over his freezing body. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Between men’s lives and their love and his old totems, he was left with nothing but shame. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thousands of people—literally thousands—had left condolence messages for her. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

With a calm skill, without the slightest misstep, he left his accumulated grief behind and found Remedios changed into a swamp without horizons, smelling of a raw animal and recently ironed clothes. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Certainly a station wagon whose right back door flies open when you take left turns too quick, gets honked at every time it inches up a hill, and leaks black oil all over the street. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“He must have done, yes, they must have arranged that before they left the Room of Requirement,” said Lupin. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Colonel Aureliano Buendía who at first received them with mistrust and even doubted the parentage of some, was amused by their wildness, and before they left he gave each one a little gold fish. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I left the floor and sat up on the bed next to Abuelita. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I don't remember exactly what I had left, but it was no fortune or anything. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“So I poured one of... my bottles on the hamburger that idiot clone left behind. ‘Come here, Furball,’ I called. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Donnelly left town so suddenly that she hadn’t even gotten her bracelet back from the engraver. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

She stretched out her hands as the passengers left the train, and in the bustle I saw a man stick his finger in her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every hollow I’d come into contact with had left a mark on me. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

As soon as Clara was able to move, she pushed Esteban out of her way, rose with great difficulty, and left the study, trying to walk as erect as she could. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon he left Chicago and moved to Gilman, Illinois, where he met a young woman and began a formal courtship, which compelled him to visit Holmes’s building one more time, to seek a divorce decree. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I agreed it was chucking it down, and left with her quick. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“He cried last night after you left, Sam, maybe he knows something about wars that you don’t.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I peek over my shoulder, and sure enough, Coach has left the mound and is headed toward the dugout. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The ribs were very tender on the left side. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

So I gave him all of the milk; two of the eggs I left in the hen house, thinking I would pick them up when I left and carry them back in my hand. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Next I reached into the “live” fly pouch and plucked out two that had a good bit of fight left in ’em. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I got my bearings zipping around the rink for a while, picking up speed, cutting left and right, short hops, pivots. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced at the bag of clothes Tori had left for her. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was insulted that I left the wedding early. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

After the meadows they had left, this was a strange, forbidding land. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked as we left the market, our bellies full. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

His tie is unknotted and his hair is dampened and mussed and he has a gauze patch taped above his left temple where his head glanced the ceiling of his sedan when it crashed. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asked the photographers to take close-up shots of the horse’s left ankle. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many families left the camp, to search for relatives or to hide in the bush from the Nigerian soldiers who were coming with whips. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

At daybreak I stepped outside to look at the brazier; nothing was left but ashes, now grey and powdery. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a scar zigzagging across his left cheek and one running from the base of his nose into his lip. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

At last, Dad swayed up to Anglesey, raised his left hand 'cause his right was so busted, and did this...” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Some men refuse to rise and are left sleeping, soon to become Union prisoners. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The one in front of them had a pink scar marring the olive skin next to his left eye. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The steel was scorched and dented, the left ear of the snarling hound sheared off. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He flashed his biggest smile and hoped he didn't have any breakfast left in his braces. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The woman took the newchild and left through the door she had entered. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

He always seemed to be speaking to the empty space over your left shoulder. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

When he left, he didn’t say good-bye to anybody, just picked up his book bag and his horn and went. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Before he left the monkey house, he and the other veterinarian placed the dead monkeys in clear plastic bags and carried some of them across the hall to a chest freezer. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been a very long time since Hugo had left the train station, and he wasn’t dressed for winter, but within moments he burst through the doors. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

If there were no seats left in the rear, black passengers were simply out of luck. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He left it that shape for the time being. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A silhouette appeared in the walkway arch, lurching left and right. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“You broke off the left end, but a left end still exists. Go ahead, break it off again.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Sleek black crows strutted among the students, hoping for a morsel of bologna or cheese left unguarded. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And so with all the ducks I had left in a row, I was ready to fall asleep too. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is where I left her, hunched in the hay, rocking back and forth and talking softly to herself. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Deep behind my left eyebrow, my head is still pounding. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

With his left hand he grabbed hold of the frame. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles left home at sixteen, but he couldn't hold a job or support himself. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“If you hadn’t left, there wouldn’t have been a me for you two to support. Mama, I’m really sleepy. Do you mind letting me sleep?” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before they left, Washington spotted many French canoes. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cousins, nephews, sons and daughters-in-law waited on the rest of the store, but Lee never left the cigar counter. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the light turned green, I took a left and drove a minute up the strip, to the car wash. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Usually, on the night after a Changing, the kids wouldn’t have gathered at the fire circle after dinner, but Jinny hadn’t left in the boat, so everyone was a little unsure of what to do. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But it had been—to make sure they were left alone to do what needed to be done, and to remember that he wasn’t helpless. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I decided that maybe we left each other alone too much. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The twins shouldered Pita between them and they hollered and hooted all the way up the hill as we left the riverbank behind. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

In March 2009, he left WHO and Harvard to become the seventeenth president of Dartmouth—the first Asian American president of any Ivy League university. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I started reading my mom’s copy from the place I left off with Bill’s copy. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

‘The Riders have left chip and bough enough, and there is dead wood lying in plenty.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It curved away on their left northward, back towards the hills, and so barred their road in that direction, at any rate while darkness lasted. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They turned left and right, scanning the sky. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

She yelled "Good luck!" at me the same way old Spencer did when I left Pencey. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I may be the only one of the eight of us left. So maybe you’re right.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He went slowly along Pott Street, then turned left on North Street. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It is not known whether Henri was a good painter or not for he threw himself so violently into movements that he had very little time left for painting of any kind. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d left Lansing unable to dance, but now I went around the gymnasium floor flinging little gills over my shoulders and hips, showing my most startling steps. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing left for Jennifer to do would be to punch her in the face. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I stay outside for a few minutes after he’s left and Carla waits with me. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps they felt as helpless as I did, but they left New Orleans misrepresented to the world. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother promised to take him to Brooklyn to meet his daddy, but when she left home again five years later, Reggie remained in Lambert. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

By sign language, he said he would return within three hours, then he left. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flour left white stains on her, the four points of the cross. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ollie Mae comes into the living room and starts cleaning up all of the crumpled Christmas wrapping paper and empty boxes that were left behind from this morning’s gift opening. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

To their left, a green lawn sloped toward a line of woods. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Anyway: there was this Mr. Frodo left an orphan and stranded, as you might say, among those queer Bucklanders, being brought up anyhow in Brandy Hall. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

When the soldiers marched and made a sharp left turn, I saw that hat sitting on top of my uncle’s shaven head. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I turn left again, my chest burning because I'm running my hardest. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Michael seemed immediately interested and hopped from his perch to the cage bottom, and Genie left the room relieved. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

And her mother had said, “Ha! Your father is so far off in left field that he wouldn’t recognize love if it stood up in his soup and sang.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Members of the newly formed all-black Delta Sigma Theta sorority of Howard College also joined the procession, knowing that if they didn’t stand up for their rights, African American women would undoubtedly be left behind. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Bree lifts one of the hourglasses on the table, showing me I only have a few more minutes left in his session. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

After they left the room, I climbed back out of bed and got on my knees and prayed. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He said quietly and with great dignity, “Then ask your son to look around for my arm, which I left over there.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And perhaps that was what left the deep impression on those who saw them. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you tell them that I was pregnant when you left?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I moved closer to the shark to get a better look at the ridges on the serrated teeth, leaning the sketch pad on my left forearm, to make a quick sketch of the steak-knife points. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Butler, do we have any tranquilizer hypodermics left?” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

All that was left were the thorny roots digging into the bottom of the door to the next compartment. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

After Independence, when the British left, his designation was changed from Imperial Entomologist to Joint Director, Entomology. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After everything she had done to protect me, I had just left her there.... The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I began to find things on the step where I left the bread. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I thought everyone had left, so I’m startled when I hear, “Finley?” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A part of me did not want Richard Parker to die at all, because if he died I would be left alone with despair, a foe even more formidable than a tiger. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The women wore gowns that left one breast bare, while the men favored beaded silk skirts. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The walls showed cracks, and clods of mud had fallen where people had bumped against them, but these I left for patching in the morning. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of them, however, much younger than the others, wearing gray flannels and a blue tie, had left his pen lying in front of him and was looking at me. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Trash was left near the door in a rusted metal barrel. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

A figure moved from within, from left to right, and then stepped down onto the pavement. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

We started in the foothills of the Rockies as we left Yellowstone, and all day we climbed up and down. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

But then Pa married Miss Marva Hendrix and Uncle Darnell left us and Big Ma got on a Greyhound and returned to her house in Alabama. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

But the idea of going back to the Honeycomb and reporting that he had glimpsed an unknown creature in the grass and left it alone was more than he could swallow. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I left the store to walk downtown to the bus station, Mameh handed me a bag lunch and kissed me and I was out the door and gone. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

On her left Gods Eye lapped calmly against its shores. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Our kids had their own agendas, which left them less impressed with even the more fun parts of ours. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Then we left the house with Mum and Aunt Gloria walking behind us, talking up a storm. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night before I left, a dance was given in the Lincoln School gymnasium. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Do a tragic tribute to the woman lying where we left her, with my arrow still in her heart. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Some of them left, of course, but for the most part they stayed. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

"Red door on your left," I say sharply, and she follows me up the three concrete steps to the doors. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It is now some twenty minutes since the man left, but I have remained here on this bench to await the event that has just taken place - namely, the switching on of the pier lights. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Before long I saw my book, lying on the hall table, one of the most obvious places I could have left it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There have been acts of protest since the start of the occupation—an organized worker strike that was squashed quickly and left dead bodies in the streets. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I wish I had asked for my earmuffs before I left. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

By sunset the beach was pretty much deserted, and the riot officers who were left behind were firing warning shots at anyone who dared to come close to the ruined machines. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

A minute after the snow goose had appeared, the last of the children left the temple, and the only sound was the rush of air in the branches of the circling witches above. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The holes in the wall are covered over and left unpainted, his bed pulled away from temptation, nothing for him to peel away. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“When my family got attacked, we left Boggs Ferry because we were so scared. Maybe the cucos didn’t want to hurt the council members. Maybe they just wanted to scare them,” Thorn said. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Four years after Osborne left, however, a former guard from Elmira named Lewis Lawes took the helm and in twenty years on the job became America’s most famous and admired warden. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s about as far to my right as the land strip on my left. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her face is heart-shaped, with her dark hair forming a widow's peak at her forehead, and her chin comes to a little point, with a small birthmark to the left of center. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the upper left hand is a tongue of flame, a reminder that the universe, now newly created, will billions of years from now be utterly destroyed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I half hoped someone from the household might be watching my departure, and might wish me Godspeed, and I could bid farewell in return before I left this place behind forever. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Five minutes left in the girls’ game, Coach.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they glance to the left while they’re talking to you, if they add too many details to a story, if they answer a question with another question. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

"Something bad happened...I left it in neutral, and somebody crashed into the back of it while it was parked. Some damage to the rear, and the front is wrecked. They didn't leave a note." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We had fifteen days left, and if we got caught, we’d just have to start senior year with some work hours. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

But suave comrades from his suburban youth come by to shake hands, as if he had never left their silver midst. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

As soon as she was in the cover of the shadows, she turned left around the corner of the building, away from their car. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Capricorn left the bloodstained fabric lying over the arm of his chair. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I stumbled backward, switched my sword to my left hand, and lunged desperately. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

At seventeen, he was deemed incapable of management and was left homeless. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Finally, Charles suggested that they take all the wood left in the woodpile and stack it in front of the door. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

It’s crammed, but there’s one free chair left. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Doctors visited her and left without making any comment. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hard to believe it had been only six weeks since he’d left his grandmother’s house—six weeks since his mom’s funeral. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Th e good news: the left tunnel was straight with no side exits, twists, or turns. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I pulled out of the long drive and headed to the left. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

At one o’clock in the morning, Manning left the apartment with six stacks of paper, tied together with string. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He drank what water he had left in the sealskin pouch, and steered around the westernmost headland until he came into a wide strait between it and a second island lying to the west. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I left Corvallis, Oregon, to enroll in a distant college where no ivy grew, I was speaking to my father with a clenched jaw or not at all. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The hollow’s by the third trough from the left, so keep to the right! ” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

When I had left home, there were thirteen brothers and sisters. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t either, I thought, but he had enough mental power left to give me one last lesson in tragedy. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

After she left, I would throw it in the river. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the neighbouring room on the left a painful stillness descended. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even see it until after she left. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

After the photographer left I had to go have another target practice session with Paul. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Go and get ready, and bring anything that Pippin left behind. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Then he sat, gathering his gown around him, his crow dæmon in her usual position on his left shoulder. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Only some of the overhead lighting has been left on, and Alex can see an enormous chandelier looming high in the rotunda, tendrils and bubbles of glass in blues and greens and yellows. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Shae dismounted from her horse, but she left one hand on the saddle to steady her, for her leg was still not entirely healed. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When we read, we are capable of taking in only about one key word and then four characters to the left and fifteen characters to the right at any one time. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the autumn of wonders, yet every day, every single day, I go back to that burned afternoon in August when T. Ray left. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also knew that Henrik and his mother would think us cowardly if we left just because a few German submarines were off Curacao. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Mr. Costa left, the school was a silent, deserted place. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

When he was advised that he had no avocation, he left the island, came to America to study the then budding field of psychiatry. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if I’d stayed just a few more minutes, I don’t know if I could have left. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

What would be left might be a perfecdy charming provincial city, but would it still be Paris? Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

At the top, a wide, flat plain dotted with huge ant mounds stretched for a mile, and Joe left the dirt ruts to slalom between the mounds for a ways. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sprang forward with a yell, and seized his master’s sword in his left hand. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Then, as Omakayas was gathering in and folding Nokomis’s net, she noticed one bird was left, struggling hard to free itself. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

There’s no sound for a minute, and I wonder whether he’s left. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was common knowledge she hadn’t left a will, so the county owned the property now. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Just about the only business left standing in Churdan is the grain elevator, the tall structure where corn is stored before it is shipped elsewhere. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Maybe she was. I can’t say. I just know some things are better left alone.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’d always made his living selling things, so when all that land was left on his hands, why, the only thing he knew to do with it was sell it.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The plan before Max left was made by Dr. Schillinger and involves paying off the mailman, a man Dr. Schillinger knew before the war. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The trail the bleeding Runt had left when they’d moved was still strong enough to mark them as vulnerable. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I even made her a mix tape and left it at the grave. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The cattle were all gone, probably driven off when they left. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Everyone was back on planet Earth, the Holy Spirit had left the building, and casual conversations started up. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Headmaster waited until only a few students were left in the room. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

It occurred to him that the bodies of the gods might still be up there, left where they’d died, but he didn’t see why that should cause such a trembling and shrinking. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And you know what he asked me, Diary, after tossing duffel bags and jerseys and other kinds of things to the left and to the right? Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

And then all that was left was that tin roof, halfway covering the gaping entrance of the silo. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Two rats among the swedes showed their teeth, thought better of it and left them alone. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His sickness had left its marks on him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sonny says he stopped by Malik’s house, and Aunt ’Chelle told him that Malik had some sort of freak accident that left him with a black eye. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

In the end, Dinath pulled enough strings to speed up his release and left after serving only four months of his two-year sentence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the front door slammed behind her father and Henry, she went to her father’s chair to tidy up the papers he had left on the floor beside it. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t even remember the moment my dad left us, or let us go—however you wanna say it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He left notes and candies in their secret spot. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He nodded, and with the knife in his right hand, he pressed with his left the spot where her tear still lay on his cheek. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He gave a good-natured salute with his left hand. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He stops, reaches one arm out, and pokes Gabriel Witter on the left shoulder with his index finger. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Oh, we’ll come quietly,” the Savage answered, dabbing alternately a cut lip, a scratched neck, and a bitten left hand. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The feeling of his eyes on her had not left her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Her bare feet left bloody footprints upon the path—sliced by every stone and sharp stick she stumbled over. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she was gone, and Briony was left alone with him. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Nicholas, there’s only a hundred or so of these left. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

My bed is messily unmade, just as I left it. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

On my left was a Thicket wall, and on my right there was a steep drop-off to where John Henry’s hammer awaited. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The thousands from Orleans Parish Prison, including those who were in jail for public intoxication, shoplifting, and other misdemeanors, had been left on the city’s Broad Street overpass for three days. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she tied him up with rope and left him down there for hours. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“His reward for passing summer school is not getting left behind.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Jelly Bones” craned his neck like an Egyptian robot: his feet went left, arms in s’s, snaking left and right. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He could’ve written a “left of center” ticket, a moving violation that would have laid the matter to rest. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“It’s possible that Mr. Lemoncello left a couple different paths to the same solution.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“The cook left it unguarded for a minute, and I—I, uh, wanted to take a pancake, but I, uh, didn’t.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Give it here. A boy your age has better things to do than sniff hooch. I’d offer you breakfast, but seeing’s how all that’s left of it is an apple core...” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Papa had left me to look after things. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

But polio had left Ali with a twisted, atrophied right leg that was sallow skin over bone with lit­tle in between except a paper-thin layer of muscle. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When Moniek left, Jack moved out of the camp and into a private home. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, there was her mother’s cleaning cart down the corridor to the left. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

By two o’clock in the afternoon the fire had consumed the old drawing rooms that had been used since colonial times, and only a handful of men were left around the President. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s true that the embassy had his cell phone number, but he’d left no forwarding address at the Bern hotel. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I didn't know that my life forever changing would be because you loved me and then left, and in such a final way. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The left side of his face was a web of scars that radiated out, leaving bald strips running through his black hair and beard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Siddhartha treated him with consideration and left him alone, for he respected his grief. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The car with the motor running waited fifteen minutes and then they left. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’d best get rid of these before the sheriff finds out there’s still some left.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I covered my face with my hands because I did not want to mention my bed-wetting, which had stopped immediately after I left the Moss home. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The Tap-Out left them with a calling they didn’t have before. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“All of his other material possessions are to be auctioned off. If you were no longer friends, why are you the only person he left anything to?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He had been here only once or twice, and each time had left the place as soon as he could. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

By moving the joystick left or right, I found that I was able to scroll through a selection of over a hundred different “giant robots.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

You don’t even know what “it” is, but whatever it is you’ll stop if you don’t have to be left here. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Native peoples also left an indelible imprint on the land with systems of roads that tied their nations and communities together across the entire landmass of the Americas. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know what day it is, Percy? I just saw it on TV It's June thirteenth. Seven days since we left camp.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He stood alone in the empty hall; Mercer had left him because he had done what he came for, Rachael—or rather Pris Stratton—had been dismembered and that left nothing now, only himself. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

It made me feel that at least some part of my life was left intact. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while, he got up to play pool, and no sooner had he left his stool than a man came over and sat on it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, he left it up to us to figure out what an “assessment word” is—while saving no characters, and being less rather than more scientifically precise. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The miner was working a block, he said, sloughing off the coal until all that was left was a pillar. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Instead she was sitting on my left, with her arm around me and her face smushed against mine. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She’d been the only one he had left, and she had failed him. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He left, closing the door behind him firmly as if to say, You can have this room, but the rest of the house is mine. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I’ll go anywhere as long as we don’t run into the Sleeper again. Did you see him when we left Valmiki?” she asked. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I used to have more stuff, but every time we moved, Mom left more of my stuff behind. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Who could possibly have left such an enormous package and such a strange one? The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was still holding the Spaghetto container, which had nothing left in it but streaks of red sauce and a plastic fork. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

They now learned to their joy that Erkenbrand had left many men to hold Helm’s Gate, and more had since escaped thither. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

His left hand hovered in his coat pocket. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

When Rosaleen and I stepped from her room, I looked left, then right. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember when our teacher had us make Mother’s Day cards to take home and how he left to go to the bathroom and never came back. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

I then stood up immediately, as if unhurt, and left the gym. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Always keeping the tree moss on his left, he continued eastwards. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It proved that the creature had indeed turned almost directly to the left, perpendicular to the path. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

But one day he either stayed in the bathroom for a long time or went for a walk and left the boxes unguarded. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I left it right here,” I heard her screaming. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

There was screaming and fistfights, little kids left alone at night, and animals being hurt. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Large puddles had formed on the ground around where I had left the Ford, obliging me to assist Miss Kenton a little to allow her to reach the passenger door. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Tayo went inside the station to buy candy; he had not eaten since he had left Betonie and his helper up in the mountains. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Would he keep searching for Parker’s fortune without her if they didn’t find it before she left? The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Jack transferred the knife to his left hand and smudged blood over his forehead as he pushed down the plastered hair. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I study the cards I have left in my hand, confused. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Ah left him on the doorstep and got here to yuh de quickest way Ah could. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

All the boys came to help, and the fumes of the remnants of John Eye’s elixir left us all a little giggly. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I duck under branches to follow her, the rucksack getting caught left and right. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

My job, in the little time we have left together, is to match that intelligence with wisdom. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But feeling hungry myself, I reasoned that it would be pointless to waste whatever little energy I had left in scatting them away, for they would soon return. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why Dad left home as soon as he could. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A little below him to the left the road ran down steeply into a hollow and disappeared. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

For a sixteenth of a mile, Count Atlas lay over on Seabiscuit’s shoulder, his head and neck thrust to the left, preventing Seabiscuit from moving up. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roosters were already crowing as they left to spread the news to all their friends in the area. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If only he’d left the lamp on, anything to tip us off.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The paths of the sun and of Alpha Centauri through space-time are shown as the vertical lines on the left and right of the diagram. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front door slams; the children toss in their beds; Frau Elena paces the parlor, her slippers whispering left, whispering right. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They left him curled on his side, leaking blood onto the cobblestones. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I thought such magazines had all been destroyed, but here was one, left over, in a Commander’s private study, where you’d least expect to find such a thing. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The headlong pace had left him puffing, and his wrists were chafed raw from the manacles. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They had to finish their work in progress before they left Riverbank, he told them. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Eventually, as though from far away, Omakayas felt the tentative brush of Tallow’s tough, creased palm, and heard the rustle of her clothes as she got up and quietly left. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then I looked at the left rear tire, and to my horror saw a great rubber bubble on its side and, farther along, another. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He calms down, is silent for a moment, then meets my left eye with his. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The ride to the academy takes 103 minutes, 14 left turns, 22 right turns, and 5 times of Nana telling me not to be nervous. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She grabbed him and kissed him right, left, and full on the lips, laughing at his surprised expression. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I get out the books again and read the good words Decca left behind, but they blur on the page so that they don’t make sense. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Lash my left hand to the left oar and tie the rope with a good knot. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Would the others go and Johnny be left behind? Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad was razzing me about how much time I’d spent reading such a short book, and I said, “Actually, it’s not for English; it seems like maybe Margo left it for me to find.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Before we left Varanasi, Sass purchased a cheap white cotton sari for me. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sixty-five, seventy, which, with the fifty dollars she had left from the car, made one hundred and twenty, then one hundred and forty dollars, one hundred and fifty. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left her sitting in the small vestibule while he finished up with the delivery Dedd could hear going on in the adjoining choir room. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left off thinking and let his body do the work. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“After all,” Grandma Josephine said, “in the whole wide world there are only three tickets left to be found.” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

He saw puffs of white smoke start up down in the valley, like vents in the earth, blow slowly lazily to his left, to the north. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

How to send flankers to the left and right, curling in a semicircle to hit the enemy from three sides and prevent him from sneaking behind you. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Jack nodded, as much for the sake of agreeing as anything, and by tacit consent they left the shelter and went toward the bathing pool. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

After the audience had left, we cleared the stage, played rock ’n’ roll, and danced the Chicken, the Mash Potato, the Twist, the Stroll, and many other dances. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

What a no-good nothing he is and how he left her high and dry. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He left Joe sitting outside on the steps and went in to talk to the male schoolteacher. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Ever since those words left my mouth, I’ve been replaying them in my head. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Napoleon was so gratified that he left his place and came round the table to clink his mug against Mr. Pilkington’s before emptying it. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

She would need that long to make repairs; the storms had left her little more than a hulk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She left during the lunch hour to go to his room. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She left a riveting bitter blob of cucumber froth behind. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, Hazel imagined a chute in the darkness, just to their left. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Oksi was old enough to be left alone while Frightful hunted. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It is a well-worn prayer in Honduras, especially by children whose mothers have just left them to head north. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They throw up a mound for the funeral pyre, for whatever arms or legs or heads my haste has left behind. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the only one left, just a little lantern that he'd rigged together and kept at the Mud House back door in case of emergencies. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

So if neither food nor company nor its own shelter was important to it, Violet decided, and Joe agreed, nothing was left to love or need but music. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were dim anbaric lamps along the wall, which was otherwise bare and whitewashed, with doors to the left and right. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

A week after my drugs ran out, I left my bed to perform at the college, deciding at the last minute to skip both the doughnut toss and the march of the headless plush toys. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Wood made this, and it’s the only thing from his childhood Grandma has left—it means the world to her.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Still, the waste man’s curiosity left me uneasy. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I could tell her there won't be a sheriff left when I’m done, but I doubt she’d go along with the plan if she thought it was predicated on unsavory business. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It took Ned a moment to comprehend her words, but when the understanding came, the darkness left his eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“So I should have left you there for them to kill you?” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

To this day, my mother insists that I ran away from her at the Miami airport after we first left Cuba. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” she said, slowly, “we’s all going to be together there. Mama, and you, and me, and Deborah—and what was the name of that little girl who died not long after I left home?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I was there on Friday. Nobody used the machine during my class. The room was clean when we left, and I’m sure I locked the door.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The next morning, before she left for work, Mom asked me to help her plant two purple coneflowers someone had given her at the nursing home. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He’s pretending he isn’t aware of us, but I know he didn’t need that much concentration to roll up his left sleeve. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

We left the meeting and agreed to meet once again before the Christmas break to make sure everything was in order. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

When they left the apartment, their shopping bags were full. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She raised her left hand and waited a beat, and just as the shadow reached her, she smacked her drawing with her right hand. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

We stopped inside Mean Lady Ming’s and gave her all the change we had left except for two dollar bills. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We know how big they once were by the bones they left behind. But that’s all they are in this world now. Just bones.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Cora filled her in on what there was left to tell, going back to Jockey’s birthday. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Dad left the decision to Mom, who drilled us with one of her I’m-not-kidding stares. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“No. I was gonna tell you—someone said they saw him run out into the Maze after he left the Gathering. Hasn’t been seen since.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

After viewing this scene, Frear and his nephew left the restaurant and hurried off quickly to search for his sister-in-law’s children. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

I step out onto the front porch, looking left, looking right. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a swollen black bruise under his left eye. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they finally left, she hurried to the atrium, hoping she was not too late, only to find it empty. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He did not feel fear or nostalgia, but an intestinal rage at the idea that this artificial death would not let him see the end of so many things that he had left unfinished. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was becoming clear that when the war ended the United States and the Soviet Union would be the only world powers left standing—and that they’d be rivals. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his right hand he carried a basket and in his left hand a wooden staff. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Rabbits in flight tend to keep away from each other, and the does had opened out as they left the hole. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late, late that night I left Danny at his home and returned alone to the apartment. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

There were doors to the right and left of the arch. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I point to the museum with my left hand while the empanada warms the fingers of my right hand. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He left them there and stared at them, viewed them as if they were attached to some other body in some other place. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

With my help, he flipped the sack over his left shoulder and held it in place with his right hand. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“As other businesses left this building,” her dad explained, “City Lights gradually took over the whole space.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I stayed up reading the day-old newspaper Abuelo left behind or traced the flower patterns on paper napkins with a ballpoint pen. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Anya nodded, even with her cheeks being squished by overly friendly hands, and her chin being swung left and right. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she left the house, not in her work clothes but dressed a little better than what she wore around the house. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

As we left the hotel, we met Cassius Clay with some of his entourage, returning from his morning walk. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The goat then trotted into Herbie’s yard and ate a copy of Portnoy’s Complaint, which the volunteer had carelessly left on his front stoop during a foray into town for baloney, beer, and cheese. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soldiers fled the army until there were only about three thousand men left. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of her teachers had just welcomed her to the school and left it at that. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He looks terrible—as thin as a skeleton, and half the hair is gone from his left side. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Before we left the house, my parents packed a picnic basket for us. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“That book. It’s all I have left from ... that time in my life. I would very much like to buy it back from you someday, when I have the money.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Because of an administrative bungle, some soldiers were left to convalesce in the hospital. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was a very old suitcase, boxy and large as a small child, with worn corners and three small dimples near the left clasp. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Carlos shot off instantly, picking up right where my brother and Berry had left off. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But like a darn fool I left my life jacket in the bottom of the boat, under the seat. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She had toasted her bun but had left George’s soft and cool, just the way she liked it. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was terrible for a boy my age to be left alone. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

When I get up to go to the bathroom, I hear her downstairs, talking on the phone in low tones, probably to Dad, who left early for work. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was the rest of the screwups who were left to counseling. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

When Daito’s avatar vanished completely, it left behind a small pile of spinning items on the ground—everything he’d been carrying in his inventory, including the Beta Capsule. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In the daytime the cows were turned into the high stubble and weeds which had been left by the harvest sickles. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A laurel wreath was stuck around her left ankle. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Mamma left me some timber and I sold it. Put up this shop here.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It’s been almost a year since I left home, and the few clothes I brought with me have worn out and gotten too small. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He left the school last Wednesday,” came the reply. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The best were distracted mothers who either had kids with them or left them in the car, with one eye always toward the window. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

We’re picking up where we left off all those years ago. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Now I was left in dread, alone, while wind and current bore them on to Ithaka. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I left the courtyard walking on my own two feet with my head held high. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A few minutes after Angela left with the hikers, Jacob sauntered over to take her place by my side. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Who lost his nose, left ear, and eye to shellfire. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

His right ear looked as if a dog had chewed on it and his left was missing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If there’s anything redeeming about my mother that Aibileen left out of the letter, I want to know. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Wish my mum and dad had loved me enough to worry when I left home.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

In front of him was an electric fan, or what was left of it. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“As God intended, it is just the two of us left in this Garden of Eden. Marry me. —E. Spizz.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The villagers evacuated in such a hurry that they left clothes, sandals, and scarves strewn everywhere on the ground. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That way we could squeeze in every minute left to us. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He had been fighting with a man called Sir Alphagus, whom he had killed after getting these wounds—three of them on the head, four on the body and on the left hand. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t seem to have much fighting spirit left at all. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

So, in the late afternoon, they left the place which had been their home for three days and trotted slowly along the track together again. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the rest of the guys left, I sat down on the bench and slammed my fist down on the metal. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He also disliked his ideological position; he was convinced that left- wing extremists like Miguel were doing more to harm the President than those on the right. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little soft laugh floated down to her, and she ran, breathless, up the stairs and stopped at the top, looking to right and left along the hallway at the closed doors. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He left them with a “good day” and crossed the field. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Just as it always had, his sudden departure left an ache inside her: Every time, it felt like he took a part of her with him. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stayed behind my pillow until she left the room. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“Yours is below,” she said to Bear and left. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Gregor reached out and grabbed the claw on Ares’s left wing with his right hand. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every step it was to perform was loaded into the on-board computer before it left Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now I had left school and was out in the big world. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

It must have flustered him, because he left his briefcase behind when he went out to the vigil. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

There were three dragons when I left Brooklyn, but there are only two in Ma’s hand now! Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

He remembered the night before they left Earth, the hustling and hurrying, the rocket that Dad had found somewhere, somehow, and the talk of a vacation on Mars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other internees who’ve left the darkness of the Mess see our line and join in. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Just after sunset, they left the road to rest in an overgrown yard beside an old stone well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I grasped a piece of his hair with my left hand and snipped with my right. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She was good for nothing, and should have been left to take root. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“After being with me. Except one. A very cynical man. Phil Resch. And he’s nutty; he works out in left field on his own.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Tucker left with the crowd when the game ended. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“And furthermore,” said Nels, “after the defendant left that afternoon you and your husband sat on the porch and had your own conversation?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I asked, keeping an eye to the left of me, trying to figure out who was hiding in the foliage. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

After the Indians left, the industries and businesses in and around their territories closed up too: small-time fisheries, hunting camps, tourist traps. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

By ten that morning, everyone was coughing, but no one left his place. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

To the right and left, Dany glimpsed places where the grass was burned and ashen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The master left for London with much muttering on the part of his wife. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put two stones in my right hand and three in my left. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

We all got up and left the table. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

A hunk of dark hair covers the left side of her face. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Off to their left, a shadowy shape soared past and then dipped sharply down. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He stood at his control panel about sixty feet to Percy’s left. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Most changed of all were those who had been left behind. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

When Virginia left the Union she bore his home away as surely as if she were a ship setting out to sea, and what was left behind on the shore was not his any more. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I thought he would be around for a long time, you know, someone I could always lean on. He was all I had left. And now he's gone, and 1 wish I knew why." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Horace was by inclination a private man, nearing fifty now, with a sprawling port-wine stain on the left side of his forehead that he often fingered unconsciously. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Seems like your family still has some friends left because it’s been taken care, of as they say. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that the encounter with Dr. Cable was over, her anger and defiance were fading, and there was nothing left to sustain her. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He left immediately after speaking and drove straight home, doubts howling in his ear the whole way. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The deceased’s left foot had locked itself behind the right, and Horace now exerted himself to free it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The sheriff glanced to left and right, as if Gramps might be hiding in the bushes. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Much of the oil had spilled, but there was still some left. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

His fingers probed at the great, aching boss over my left eye. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I’ve always held that to this day, that guilt, that I left Mameh, because all her life I was the one who translated for her and helped her around. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This will happen to you, because you left your children when they were young. You think that filling our bellies is the same thing as love.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

In 1990, a doctor told me I had cancer and months left to live. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The concierge left a dozen roses in Rosie’s room. faux pas. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It paralyzed her left side and left her in overall poor health. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kind of day on which we draped our coats over our heads, left our galoshes in school, and came down with croup the following day. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In spite of the curly crop, I don’t see the ‘son Jo’ whom I left a year ago,” said Mr. March. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the mystery of his suicide had left him baffled and without support. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Lee explained the position that Ewell had orders to move to the left and take that hill. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the light we see today from M31 left for Earth, there were no humans on our planet, although our ancestors were evolving rapidly to our present form. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The middle finger of the left hand was bullet-shattered, and blood gushed from his goatee. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would still have Evan Parker on my mind the night before I left home for college. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Patrice left, and Mom sat there quietly for a moment, stroking both me and the bonobo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

As we left the moon, we curved around its right side, and we could see it gleaming in the sunlight, vividly etched against the black sky in gray- tan tones. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn, they left the school scrubbed, shiny, warm and ready for the daytime janitor. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked along the road past the pond and then turned left across the field. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

We left the dance having spent not an ounce of energy on the dance floor, but many of the dance moves were etched in my mind. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t tell if Charlie was still asleep, or if he had already left. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

No sooner had the final word left my mouth than Frankie’s features darkened. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Segregationists left no doubt that they were seizing Minnijean’s suspension as an opportunity to fire up their campaign. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drank three glasses and then they left me and I looked out the window a while and went back to sleep. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Shahir, the left midfielder who frequently set up Josiah for attacks down the left sideline, had lost the nails of both his big toes because his cleats had been too tight. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

By the time we left the hospital, it was a quarter after three. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Two hops on his right leg, two on the left; Bo never just walked—he ran or he bounced. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Since it was breakfast and he was home and it was a warm day, he left his cap on a hat rack. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Being left out of social situations isn’t helping me make friends at middle school. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

A sigh sounded with each step leading to the third floor, where they left the offering at his door. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He excused himself and left his office to consult with others. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘But the rules they is making do not suit the little piggy-wiggies. Am I right or left?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “My father ran away with a dental hygienist. He left in the middle of the night.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Begin in the section to your left and, within each section, move from left to right and top to bottom. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned and walked to the hill where they had left their trucks and several of the men hurried after him. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tore the LED bulbs out of one and left the two frayed power wires very close together. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I left you with a council to rule over you, Dany thought, a healer, a scholar, and a priest. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Even though our little group at Yar’s home had started to feel like a family, a safe place, it couldn’t fill the hole in my heart left by my missing parents. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the nerve that had allowed me to open and close my left eye, raise my left eyebrow, and smile. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I left so fast I was almost running, all the way back down the hall to the main part of the library. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t much time left to get to the basement. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“You’re lucky,” she said, “it’s muskrat stew and there’s plenty left over tonight, eat as much as you can.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

They left the classroom, and then the school. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Flight 93, with thirty-seven passengers and seven crew members on board, had left Newark forty minutes late because of runway congestion. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

But that left her with a bigger question. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Forgive me for telling you I’d be happy if you left forever. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Herbert Richardson was a Vietnam War veteran whose nightmarish experiences in brutal conditions left him traumatized and scarred. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But then he’d suddenly opted to start his training and left. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But just how far they will go to destroy the mark Jeanine Matthews left on this city, I don’t know. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“You will find the dustpan and broom inside the hall closet on the left.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Every few seconds, my brother would call my name, to make sure I wasn’t left behind. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I exhaled and paid attention to the way my lungs sank in, with just a little bit of rattle at the end left over from my annual bronchitis. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

All that was left was to press send. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Nurses had stacked sandbags all along his left side to prevent him from turning over on his broken chest. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes left the bottle and looked at the man. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I’m wondering if maybe, like me, she left behind people and places that she holds on to in her dreams at night. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

If they were going to miss him, before they left, they would do so at any time from now, and for the next half hour. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Fischer signed his score sheet, made a helpless gesture as if to say “What am I supposed to do now?” and left the stage. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He wore an old fishing hat that seemed to cover his entire face, and plaid pants that left about two inches of sock and four inches of ankle showing. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The waves were close to swallowing up whatever was left of the shark, the remains of muscle and organs that were already being picked apart by isopods. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

They left the man alone and allowed him to leave, deciding instead to take Jones into custody. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

By the time he decided, there was only six hundred dollars in cash left in the envelope under the refrigerator. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Early one morning a few days later, he left for Easton Point where he could catch a steamboat to Baltimore. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He ran his trembling fingers around and around the frayed bracelets on his left wrist. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

As the guys left, Henry surprised Palmer’s mother by saying thank you for the party. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

For the first time since we had left New Hampshire, we felt like masters of the trail. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

My father started chipping away at a plaster wall in the living room of our house in Bybanks shortly after my mother left us one April morning. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Still, she was nervous when Jordan was there and usually threw up when he left. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no protection: knee-high grass, low stone walls, off to the left a low field of rye. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when the memory glimpses subsided, he was left with the gnawing, painful emptiness. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I could not see how the South Vietnamese could win once we left, given the skill level of the North Vietnamese—and their determination.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It’s not just that the room is bare— it’s that there’s a strange, dead stillness to the air, as if the room is an empty shell left behind by an animal. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

After Mama had left the room, I buried my face in my pillow and cried myself to sleep. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

With my cigar box of dollars and scrip left from my defunct newspaper delivery business, I went to Junior, the clerk at the drugstore counter, to find out. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They wiped their dirty hands quickly and left the garden, closing the gate behind them and following the same path Ramon had rushed along. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He left so quickly that one hadn’t time to meet him, but he seemed a gentleman.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the written word is a recent invention that has left no trace in our genome and must be laboriously acquired throughout childhood and beyond. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Smeath, standing in the hallway, considers me as if I’m an orphan left on her doorstep. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It interfered with his concentration: Normally, an ongoing game resonated within him even if he left the table. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Balancing the small reed and wires in my left hand, I used the other to pull myself onto the tower’s first rung. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

When he gave to charity, his left hand never knew what his right hand was doing. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“She left this world sending you back to school. That’s the bright side I’m trying to see.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I walked carefully to the nearest street corner, brushing the wall of the buildings on my left with the tip of one finger to steady myself. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

When the girls finally left for school, Aunt Pearl turned back to Alfred, her eyebrows raised. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I’d hung up the phone and come outside, he was sitting right where I’d left him, by my backpack in the trees, waiting for me. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

After all, who knew how many more nice, sunny days were left this fall? Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And not until his boss left for the night could he go home. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She started on the left side of the can label. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But he’s left me a present beside the sugar tin, where the picture of an SS officer once sat. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A small window—the only window, I was to find out—left of the door stared dully at me. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Before he left the bookshop, he sent Tendai a text: Are you home? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The older girls left early and came back late, their clothes and hair full of dust. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

We left the Polish girl holding her baby. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was these three huts that I associated with all my happiness, with life itself, and I rued the fact that I had not kissed each of them before I left. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I wept: Helen Burns was not here; nothing sustained me; left to myself I abandoned myself, and my tears watered the boards. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Written on the back of the picture in neat cursive was “3rd row, 5th from left.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This would explain why my mother would leave me—this would explain that she hadn’t left me by choice. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We left the old man on the steps of that building. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Mami, please let me wear one of your shoes on my left foot, just to see how it feels.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

She slips on her coat, and then it's just Mina and me, and nothing left to do but wait. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Interesting theory,” he said and left the kitchen. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

So luckily for me, that left both Nicole and Ana with little choice in the matter. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Three weeks before I lost my mother, I had left South Carolina bound for Florida with her, her husband, and my brother. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

After they left, Emma asked Dad why the fasting guy came at all. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

They rolled down the stairs, knocking people left and right until they bounced off the bottom step and onto the floor. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Leo left Jason hanging and ran after them. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

After I left the Fishery I headed straight to the Florse and Four, arguably the best inn this side of the river. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But I left my face alone this time. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The night before they left for Connecticut with Cloke, everything seemed fine, but you remember what Charles was like when we got there. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He, too, stared at the prisoner, and observed that a cluster of veins had appeared in his left temple. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

But with all the scenes, the birthdays, the lessons, the practices, the ordinary events that should have been left alone, what I remember most are Jenna’s eyes, flickering, hesitation, an urgent trying. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Because even though Dad’s leaving now, Mom’s already left. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I was lying in the right-hand couch, with Buzz in the center and Neil over on the left side. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I came to it after passing the beggars, I looked to my left and saw the American flag flying over the American consulate building. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they left one dark tenement and headed toward another, they spotted a group of about forty boys standing a short distance away. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But Will came home early and found them, and once again he blazed at them, and once again they left. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing left to do with her wet handkerchief but to stick it back inside her purse. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Sitting to the left of the Chancellor, Master Rhetorician Hemme made a disgusted noise at my comment, earning him an irritated look from the Chancellor. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her fingers would commence sliding back and forth twixt her left ear and her mouth like they were tracing over a invisible welt that got whupped into her. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Her white shirt is buttoned all the way up, and there's a black briefcase in her left hand. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The captain then left, much quieter than he had entered. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crazed creature had cut a swathe through the middle of a vineyard, turned a stone wall to rubble, and left a guard dog gibbering under a hedge. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s our fault. We should have left her a note or something.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I left the dancers quickly, although I hesitated at the edge of the fire circle to watch. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Chiron turned to his left, where the satyr Grover Underwood sat in silence, fingering his reed pipes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“The reporter left her name and number and asked that you call her when you have a chance. ” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When he and Ernie left home, was Ma going to start calling popcorn her babies? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Amber left, and Lynn, who had read the story, took the time to tell me the story was about greed. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

On my right, Katherine has my spare set of sickles out, and on my left, Red Jack has pulled out a long knife from God knows where. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The older man does not know how tough it is to be a Mexican immigrant in the United States now, tougher than any young man who ever left Huamuxtitlan would admit. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“This has truly been a walk of faith,” my mom had said to me just before I left for Nanning. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And they left my brother in charge of the house. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorry that old Commie didn’t dive in after it,” he cracked, and then he slowly left the room to go tell Mom he had really straightened me out once and for all. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I didn’t tell her that after you left, I stopped eating, I got so skinny that the bathwater would collect between my bones, why didn’t anyone ask me why I was so skinny? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Amid the chaotic sounds of battle, a plainsong chant, ‘Crux fidelis’, introduces the figure at top left with a gleaming cross. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Bye, Mrs. Carpenter,” he said as he left, and she waved vaguely as she listened to the other customer. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Here,” June said, handing Ivy the notebook that Ivy had left on the bed. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

That the kitchen curtains burned from the plantains she left frying on the stove. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s lovely, she’s engaged, she uses Pond’s” the advertisement read, showing two exquisitely white hands with perfectly formed and manicured nails, long nails, and a diamond ring sparkling on the gracefully curved left hand. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men next to the butcher harrumphed and walked away, while the blue-eyed man swung his bags around and left the store. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

She left Dauntless not because she was ill-suited for it but because it was safer to be Divergent in Abnegation. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, she was never left alone, the older woman even milling about in the hallway outside the bathroom when she went in. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The vertical row of connecting rods, so many they seemed to reach the sky far above, slid toward their corresponding holes on the left wall, ready to seal shut until the morning. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

To discover who she was when she started out, you have to comb through all the evidence she left behind, and then go hunt for more. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Those who were allowed to leave left by the King's Gate or the Iron Gate, but Lannister men-at-arms in crimson cloaks and lion- crested helms manned the guard posts there. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In the distance were two women, one to the left of the cypress tree and one to the right. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I hadn't thought of that when he left. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Debates are going on left and right in the Annex. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It was moonlight when he woke, and a naked man was sitting on his left foot trimming his finger-nails. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed like a million ice ages had gone by since he’d left us for whatever adventure was next. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Incorrect: To crack an egg properly, the yolk is left intact. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can use your left hand if she doesn't want you. It's a free country, dude.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

One Sunday, midway into a film, his mother left for the pharmacy, to buy her allergy medicine. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He must have started down the minute she left. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was only when a couple of them broke and started to bleed that he thought he’d better stop, since he was not sure how much blood he had left to lose. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“At everything in the world. But that’s not the reason I left.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heard a whoosh like something moving through the air, then a wrenching pain shot through his left shoulder. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Later, before I left, I watched Violet and her father petition FeedTech for free repairs. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is that your name?” she asks shyly, pointing to Felicia’s left shoulder, where “Otto” is stitched in plain lettering. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

At noon George had left his outpost and gone down to the Quarter to get the packages from Miss Lee. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was over, he knew it, and all that was left was the thing itself: dying. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Without saying a word, we left the cave and walked through the snow toward the house. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

"I can't talk to it at all; signal failures left and right." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We still had a bit of innocence left, a sliver of hope. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I slipped sideways through the doorway and picked up the flashlight I had left on the top step. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Two on the rooftop to my left, another in the doorway up ahead. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She crouched before the fairy so that their faces were level, and her eyes never left the fairy. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I ain’t had a good meal since I left Raleigh,” Spoon Man admitted. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We drove in to Biarritz and left the car outside a very Ritz place. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Thinking what a clever bird he was, the thrush swooped down on the basket that had been left behind. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

In front of him, through the East Door, he could make out passages leading to the left, to the right, and straight ahead. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

But Aloe’s words to Jam floated around in the studio air even after they’d left. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

This time, though, nothing was to be left out. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But you went before we left,” said Ruth. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he came out again, the little silver bell was hooked over his left front leg. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I left at nine, when it was pitch-black out. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

For a moment Ishmael caught them in the beam of his flashlight; then he reached in and took up a nearby egg left untended in the cold. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I just kept moving the wheel a little to the left and a little to the right, pretending that my small adjustments actually made a difference. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

About 2 million years ago, some of these archaic men and women left their homeland to journey through and settle vast areas of North Africa, Europe and Asia. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d have to tell her that her boyfriend or partner or whatever he was had left the brains of two kids splattered all over an alleyway. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

After a while, she would take her turn, picking up where I’d left off, and she’d make up some new part of the story. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

It didn’t matter, though, because she left and the words wouldn’t come out anyway. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

We shared supper together and then she left, headed for Perilee’s to deliver a jar of tea there. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

"Use the passages. I've left trunks for you that contain all you need." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

All I could do was think of that teapot of water my mother had left on the floor below. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

There’s hardly any left, but I don’t want the glass taken away. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

With his left hand, he slides the long, razor-sharp knife from its sheath. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Soon Myrna’s brutal social manner had driven my courtiers from the table, and we were left alone, all cold coffee and hot words. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The seven inns around the village were still jammed with folk who had left Philadelphia, and the few larger houses in the area were already filled with guests. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I ran after him, my bike left in the dust. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

As they were led through an arch on the left, Kaz glimpsed Inej disappearing into the opposite arch with the other female prisoners. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“The Reds’ve been talking to ’im,” the guard said, piously touching his fingers to his forehead, his chest, his left shoulder, and then his right; making the sign of the cross. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Early the next morning, before I left for Greek, Judy knocked at my door and told me I had a call downstairs. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Dean left, looking as though he was not sorry to depart the scene. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

To the left are the winter whites: wool coats, mink hats, wool sweaters. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Reluctantly, Tom and Matt left off their glaring contest and began looking under pillows, behind curtains, in dresser drawers. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mister Leefolt promise he take her and she hold him to it, even though it’s only the late show left. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Some of the Sports Family’s windows were left open, though still covered by the blinds. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I close the door behind me, sit down, and say out loud, “Okay, Finch. Help me out here. You must have left something behind. ” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Certainly. Just around the corner to your left.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only choice left to me was death by water or death by animal. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe twenty seconds have passed, which means we still have 400 seconds left of this. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I had left enough in my pocket for a train ticket, but before we got to Marshall, I found out that L.D. didn’t have nothing. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t run away. Is it you who left the flowers?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The rocks seemed to enlarge as they left Briares s ' hands. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

They climbed a staircase that was lined on the left by layered sheets of granite and echoed on the right by rows and rows of shelved books. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

That’s where the Augurs have left me, in this salt-white flatness that stretches for hundreds of miles, marked by nothing but angry black cracks and the occasional gnarled Jack tree. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I saw the ushers from the left side of the church near the big windows begin to move discreetly, like pallbearers, toward Sister Monroe’s bench. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of hours ago, at around ten, that wave came out of the second section to the left of where the lightning strikes now. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the claw of the crane had already flattened the roof, pinning his left leg, perhaps even breaking it. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“It was my mother’s. It’s the only thing I have left of my family.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Even the two daughters left their grouchy mother and sat mesmerized by the fantastic tales. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

There the road, which had been veering southwards between the brink of the channel and a steep fall of the land to the left, turned and went due east again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

When their mother had left the room, Nouri sat up and leaned over to her sister’s bed. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Then she looks in the mirror and turns right to left, smiling at herself. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t have this left in me anymore,” she remarked at one point. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dark pink welt an inch long scars his left forehead like a cross. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

When everyone left, the quiet got real powerful. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chess had seen her look exactly like that in the days and weeks and months after Dad died, every time she left the house. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Alone, friendless, pursued, his love left behind him forever. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“He left his new coat somewhere and can’t remember,” Iris said. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Even though I still had one evening left of washing dishes in the cafeteria to work off my smoking conviction, we didn’t much fear the Eagle. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The blue knight let his broken shield drop to the ground to free his left arm, and then the Knight of Flowers was on him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A half dozen of his friends were lurking outside when he left the King's Tower, where Lord Commander Mormont now made his residence. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When we left, he said, he was going to head out into the desert on his own, to become a prospector. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She stepped under the skeleton’s left arm and kept walking. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Most of my dad’s German friends had left for Cape Town. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He held a candle in his left hand. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Not the midnight wandering in a sleeping house or the pain of being left in a room after the door has been slammed shut. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was like he suddenly had no words left, like his tongue was dead. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In her shock, she’d severed the connection and left the moth on the dreamer’s brow. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

After a good deal of delay, during which the cat left the woodpile and began to move stealthily round toward the side of the shed, Blackberry managed to get them out into the farmyard. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I get to the sidewalk, I turn left instead of our usual right. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

He left yesterday morning and he’s not back until tonight. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, when I left for the train station, I was glad I had made the nightmarish trip to Soweto. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

With an effort Wilson left the shade and support of the doorway and, breathing hard, unscrewed the cap of the tank. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“You turn left, then right, then left again. And the gate’s got no top bar.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Stella moves to George’s left pocket and discovers a carrot. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

She also wants me to tell you that the beets just haven't grown right since you left. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Her job was to review and file all the exit surveys left by the guests, make copies, distribute them to the appropriate people. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I left Joe by the hanging trees and hurried over to Mom. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Cripe didn’t ring up a stilt after the farm women left, so they may have come in just for the toothpicks. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Chief left his umpire’s position behind the pitcher and came forward anxiously. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The man was slumped over in the recliner, his left arm in a sling. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“When I told him I wanted to quit, he left me here,” answers Stephanie. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

In every imaginable scenario, they left Eurasia before the first whisper of the Neolithic Revolution. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She decided to go left, toward a part of the jungle she had yet to see, promising herself that if it got too frightening, she would turn back. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The man from the juice joint, who left the great mixing vat for no more than a few minutes, storms off to Uncle Al, convinced that roustabouts are responsible. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Slamming the car door behind him, he left. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Feeling Ben’s release and the hand hitting his left side, Bull reflexively looked to his left and switched the ball to his right hand. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest was pure improvisation, and it left little time for explanation. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He left his clothes on the blueberry bushes and moved to the edge where his pale toes clenched the rock. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Seeing her face crumple like that reminded me I wasn’t the only one who’d been left behind. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

They had left the light from the trees behind, and the darkness here seemed to be not just the absence of light but a positive presence, something exuded from the vegetation and the moisture. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

As Kirke spoke, Dawn mounted her golden throne, and on the first rays Kirke left me, taking her way like a great goddess up the island. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He realized, though, that not focusing on one area meant he was left with not the slightest idea—not even a guess—of what his Assignment would be. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

On the drive there, Curly was distressed to remember that he’d left something else at the construction site: his gun! Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bright red in the face, he balanced first on his right hand and then on his left, bare legs up in the air. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Right after we left the Pigman’s, John dragged me down to Tony’s Market, which is on the comer of Victory Boulevard and Cebra Avenue. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even if it was only a hit to left field. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Then I would thank Allah because I had been born into the house on the right, rather than the one on the left. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother had given her a small jar of Mentholatum the day before she left Lagos, saying, “Put this in your bag, for when you will be cold.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He put his left hand behind her back to help guide her out of the room. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Go back inside before Coach realizes you left.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Night after night, the three boys left the flyers in apartment buildings, mailboxes, telephone booths, and other public places. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He crossed the street and went left on Dart. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

However, as soon as they left the house, the girl wiped her eyes and stuck out her chin. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

And if she started lying to Wash, she wouldn’t have anything left. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, that’s because she left our family when I was little. I don’t know where she went, haven’t seen her in years.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

As he continued east on F, he approached two of Washington’s greatest landmarks: to the left, the huge marble Patent Office. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he left the gymnasium, he noticed a large number of parked cars sitting beneath the street lights outside the locker room door. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mom invited Jenna over. Not that I wasn’t happy to have her there. And as soon as you told me you felt left out, I invited you over, too!” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Don't listen to the crowd, no one's hitting them, pop-pop, in and out, jab and run away, circle left, and Rivera's eyes were bloodshot and swollen, his thick arms were sagging. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frieda bought potato chips, and we got three Powerhouse bars for ten cents, and had a dime left. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shin was desperately cold as he left the yard. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

They had left the Hogwarts grounds completely; they had obviously traveled miles — perhaps hundreds of miles — for even the mountains surrounding the castle were gone. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“If he wanted, he could have killed you. But he didn’t. He left your eyes open,” she says. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

To our left was an enclosed play area for kids. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our principle trouble,” Gold later said, “was to decide whether Klaus, for some reason, was unable to keep the meetings if he was still in New York, or whether he had actually left New York.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t respond, but when the light turns green, she switches the blinker from left to right. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

They left knowing—all but Antain—that it was not a matter of if the child were eaten by animals, but rather that she surely would be. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He grabbed a hand towel off a hook to his left and ran it over the glass, his reflection appearing in the clear streak he made. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I... left my satchel. At the League. Hilly picked it up.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Put those tools back in the right order,” she muttered over her shoulder as she left. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Drops the center card in the left slot and so on in a kind of rhythmic pattern that gets faster and faster until he finally stops. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

North Philadelphia reminded Wes of the Baltimore neighborhood he had just left. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The Thug said, “Now all that’s left is to give little stuff here a name.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The skin was broken above his left eye, and blood ran down that side of his face. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

One of them lifted his left hand from time to time and patted the floor lightly and swiftly ten or twenty times, then sat motionless again. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The piano sounded watery, like it had been left out in the rain more than once. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then for the first time since we left Cold Sassy, the boys got to talking about her and Grandpa. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They left Shae’s horse behind, along with her gear and a tent, but they took all the remaining food supplies. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Chou gives Ma some of the very little food we have left, but she will not eat. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out the corner of my eye, I saw a shadowy shape ooze from what was left of the broken bottle on the ground and creep along the grass. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She told him about the car and how they had left it there. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but then she left, too. Went to live with their mom.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

If he craned his neck out as far as it could go, he could see other cells to his right and left and above him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Now she had only two left, at most. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Beer, candy wrappers, old movie ticket stubs, and one soiled pair of underwear had been left on the ground around it as offerings. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I slap the tea tray down without saying boo or squat and left them women to fend for they ownselfs. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The red woman too had her attendants—the squire Devan Seaworth and two of the guardsmen the king had left her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I am dimly aware that I left my own gun in the hallway behind me, sure I wouldn’t need it if I made it this far. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Right after high school, she left Pike County, making her way through college and law school, spending time in France, Scotland, and Ireland, and beginning a high-powered legal career. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I already baked two pans a cornbread, left it to stale on the counter today to give it some crunch. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She seemed very kind and interested, and I left in good spirits. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glance at the boy to my left, who was Erudite and now looks as pale and nervous as I should feel. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I found them under my bed, in a box, where I had left them. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s probably for the best. We still have fifteen minutes of that wretched movie left to endure in Biology — I don’t think I could take any more.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

When the flask was full to the brim, and Snape looked as though there was no blood left in him, his grip on Harry’s robes slackened. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He left his arm across my back for a second. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

But what would become of my mother if I left her in this queer house? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He called four more times before he gave up and finally left a message more desperate than he liked. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

And when Uncle played the albums Cecile had left behind—the ones with piano, bass, drums, and smooth-voiced Sarah Vaughan—in my mind, smoke still filled the house. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone was angry now and I wasn’t about to be left behind. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I moved from right to left, with Neil now in the center and Buzz on the right. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept expecting her to scream, until finally the car lurched and I was able to free my left arm. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Janie felt a pain remorseless sweet that left her limp and languid. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

At the other end of the pool, a massive statue stood thirty meters tall, a globe held aloft in her left hand and a staff in her right. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He had sunk back deeper into his silence than when I had left him yesterday. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Traveling with the Red Army to the front, Grossman saw the panicked population as people left their homes and tried to escape the German army. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He regarded the Plate balanced upon his skinny Knees; & all life left him as he beheld that Mound of Flesh. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I left him my name. He won’t need more than that to know where to find his precious little daughter. Tell Capricorn I’m shutting her in one of the cages.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Four were left I ran down the hill At the signal fire, I searched around for a rock. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She started a new life where her old one left off. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a pelting of pebbles, they disappeared down the drive, and we children were left alone with Doña Charito to learn "the roodiments of art." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

There are three or four runs left, and James says if I wait a few minutes I can take Helen home and drop off a big order at the same time, so I wait. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

This desire, this murderous need that sent my fingers curling inward, my nails cutting into my palms—it was everything ugly inside of Yakov, left to grow inside me like a thornbush. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

They were not the only youngsters left to fend for themselves in the ghetto. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

When they finally left, it was closing time, and they had to borrow a paper bag from the teller at the front desk to transport all the photos. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry I left like that,” he said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The pressure that had been building in my chest left no room to breathe. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Suddenly a wave of fatigue and nausea shuddered over me, and I went to the closet, got my coat, and left, closing the door quietly behind me. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Harry left her floating there, looking utterly bewildered. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Planting a light, soft kiss on my forehead, he left. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My family will stand frozen in our living room long after the soldiers have left. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

When the bed was smoothly made he waited until Alice had left the room before he slipped off his trousers and crawled inside. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The perspiration from the ice had left a ring of water on the thigh of my pants. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She had given those left behind a right to mourn and wear black and receive visitors who would come in, saying “Ndo nu.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Bigger wondered what he could say to his mother, or the relief, or Mr. Dalton, if he left them. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were woods to our left, the Hudson River to our right, and the driver seemed to be veering toward the river. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The pair left the shop and remounted their creatures, Isagol holding up her bracelet so the moons tinkled like bells. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He signaled the guards, and they left without a word. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hamlet whirled around to his right, then to his left, before he saw me and drew near. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Or am I a new Jenna, the product of technology, changed by what was put in or maybe what was left out? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Whenever the Indians visited Rondon’s camp, something was usually missing after they left. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

She probably knew too but left it up to her sisters, who wanted to be called on. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Mama left, I stared at the closed door, at the smooth surface, and thought about the doors in Nsukka and their peeling blue paint. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

My wardrobe left something to be desired at the start of ninth grade. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The first time I got zapped, it knocked my breath out and left me twitching on the floor. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Forgot why he left in the first place and was forced to sneak into his own home ground. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which left only the middle line, and that one utterly baffled them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Gaur then left the room, and Mr. Sidelsky just shook his head ruefully. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You seen that glove on his left hand?” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I left, his mother managed to pull me aside. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

We left the rain behind and emerged into a landscape of smoke and noise. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Everyone else had left by then, too, rushing off to see scary movies or pass out candy or go trick-or-treating or whatever they happened to have planned for Halloween. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe none of them even left her bower. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They found a military cache that left them openmouthed, for they had never seen such perfect instruments of death. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stand up, girl, or you’ll choke yourself,” growled the man locked into the stocks to my left. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their things were still laid out exactly as they’d left them. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well, serves you right for scaring the hell out of all of us. Here, keep drinking this,” he said, handing me what was left of our water bottle. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She waited until he had left the kolba, before snickering and saying, “The children of strangers get ice cream. What do you get, Mariam? Stories of ice cream.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

They were sitting in the basement with some girl named Heather, and when she left to go to the bathroom, Brad and Patrick were left alone. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

As though he had simply run out of conversation and had nothing left to say. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I left the menu on the desk as usual,” she said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He left the silent house and walked to the stream, where he stood staring at the motion of the current. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

She left him standing by himself and afraid to return empty-handed to her. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leads me back across the lot to one of only three tents left standing. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I was just wondering, that’s all. Seems to me if your wife up and left, you’d go after her, wouldn’t you?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

His jaw is misshapen on the left, as if it was badly broken and then healed improperly. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

They weren’t happy about the news, but neither were they inclined to quit, so Reynie left them to their thumb-wrestling and hurried back to Mr. Benedict’s study. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

After Mama had left and Baba had been killed, it had been Kamau who’d found them a new home at the temple. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Which left me wondering how he could figger if I was worthwhile to listen to if I wasn’t ’lowed to do no talking. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

We smile, we choose our lunch, we speak of this and that, but—I say to myself—I am not she who left him five minutes ago. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I felt cold and dismayed: my worst fears then were probably true: he had in all probability left England and rushed in reckless desperation to some former haunt on the Continent. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“A good long time. Over nine years. Until I got that teaching job I told you about. We still kept up after I left, though.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every morning he left Emma sleeping comfortably in their bed, to go “write about coral formations,” as he wrote to his sister Caroline. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a very funny story that took shockingly impossible twists and turns and left us in awe. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

No part of the Host must be lost from the time it left the chalice to the time it entered our mouths. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Exactly. He tied up to Carl’s boat and left a line on it. That seems to me pretty clear.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When there was only one exposure left, Patrolman Mancuso decided to combine two of the props for a dramatic finale. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before we left my aunt’s house, she put two boxes in the trunk of the car. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

She turned up her hood to hide her swollen face and left him there in the dark beneath the oak, amidst the quiet of the godswood, under a blue-black sky. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

One naughty night, Dedd left Jaimito sleeping heavily after sex and stole out to the far end of the garden to the little shack where she kept the garden tools. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the shelf below the baffle tray, she kept what was left of Mammachi’s willow-pattern dinner service. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What I mean is, Coach O would give his left nut to have you on the football team. What’d you play?” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I guess he told her once he had lots left over from a project a long time ago. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

They passed the playground area to their left. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead he feigned great interest in the . clouds and he cried, “That cloud which hangs upon the left horn of the new moon speaks of rain. It will come not later than tomorrow night.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The mechanical eye on his left side was dark. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He began counting down the weeks until I left, just as I had counted them down for Lori. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He left the bird and flew out over the tundra, screaming the demonic call of the hunting ookpick. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

This she said so readily that Wang Lung perceived she knew everything the old man had left, even to the last foot of land. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

One by one, guys left to go to their hearings, I stayed to wait for my lawyer, and new people started to pitch up. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The autumn passed in a dogweary haze for me, with much work and little time left to ponder or breathe. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left the court, going to his old room in the South Tower, which they had kept empty for him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The left side of the knight's face ran red with blood, and a cut to the hip opened a gash .in his mail and left him limping. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“My own fault, Artemis. Apparently I left a gap in the curtains. Mrs. Fowl couldn’t sleep.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The farthest thing from my mind was hitting someone; I jus’ wanted to roll up in a ball and get left alone. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Does she know I left church to get candy? Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Some of her friends—students with solid academic records and all sorts of talents and accomplishments—had gotten shot down left and right as early applicants to schools like Brown, Amherst, and Yale. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthew left the room, and James turned the wrapped book this way and that. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But before I could feel too good about that, I tried to stand, r and my left- leg budded underneath me. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair was pinned up as usual, but not in the signature French chignon twist she’d been wearing when Maddie had left her last night. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The day after she left I asked Jack Kalantzakos what he knew about the places my wife would be, whether they were beautiful, striking, possibly dangerous. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you,” Kaisa said, and then the man nodded to her and left. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, there’s a kid who has hardly left the waiting room since you got here,” she said. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

My sisters and I left home wearing six pairs of underdrawers, two half-slips and camisoles; several dresses one on top of the other, with pedal pushers underneath; and outside of everything an all-weather coat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apart from his companions, Jon had glimpsed no living man since they'd left the wood behind and begun to make their way upward. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s so easy to get turned around. I think the river is that way,” she said, pointing to her left. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already I had killed five of the pack, but there were many left, more than in the beginning, for some had been born in the meantime. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Head injury aside, hanging a left never would have occurred to him. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Go on up Union, left on County, right on Allen. And be quick, Crow. It’s a long walk. And there’s but one ferry back to Cuttyhunk today.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He rinsed her left arm, laid it back into the water, and began to wash her feet. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I learned that Americans drove on the right side of the road, not the left, and that they called a lift an elevator and an engaged phone busy. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Now pull yourself to the edge of the bed and swing your left leg around.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

She ran a few steps ahead of him, caught up her left foot in her left hand, and hopped two or three times. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

One of the wheels is wonky and spins left and right instead of rolling straight. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry,” I wrote, “I don’t speak. That was my grandson who just left. Could you tell me what he was doing here?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed a good idea to the tiger to follow these smells, and he left the pool of sour stuff and began to walk toward the entry. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

If Harvey had left, he certainly would have taken his food with him. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She didn’t leave me enough to discover her, but she left me enough to rediscover the Great Perhaps. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I open my mouth to come up with some story to excuse myself, but the sheriff has a hell of a left hook, and I go down before I can utter a word. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He twisted his body and tried to spin out of the mass, gripping the Transvice with both hands to swing it left and right to get people away from him. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He tried to recall all he had been taught of the crannogmen, who dwelt amongst the bogs of the Neck and seldom left their wetlands. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then her son had left her, and now she was about to lose her only grandson. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

C.P. left my mother to look for a job, stayed away for a year, and came back just long enough for my sister Delphine to be born. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Bogert saw her politely to the door and grimaced eloquently when she left. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

"I already told you that. She couldn't have left through that door. And I already looked through Mirjam's hiding place. You're wasting time doing things I already did." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe there was something else Abuelo had left that could give me advice. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Nobody left the clothes halfway through the wringer to run to the house. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

This was long enough for Mace to run, not toward the sea, but sharp left, and left again, up a narrow street that curved behind the shops and bars, away from the front. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

After she left, I stayed in my room for about four million miles—two days—with the shades drawn and my phone turned off. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t help but draw a parallel to the day he’d left for Insomnia Con. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Your dad got upset and left the farm life behind forever. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

When Charles had just gotten back from the voyage, he found it difficult at first to resume where he had left off with his sisters and his father. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you be a big girl and not mention it to him so he doesn’t feel left out?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Most of the time, though, she left him alone. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She had left babyhood far behind, and she was not capable yet of being one of the grownups she admired. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He sat on the left seat of the cockpit and leaned against the back cabin wall and closed his eyes and sleep took him as if he’d been hit with a soft hammer. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The apartment smells funky because we forgot to take out the garbage before we left. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She looked at a faded picture of the Nine Old Men on the wall to the left of her. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

A bird chirped three feet from her face, and Miyax rolled her eyes to the left. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They even woke up Tar Baby, who came out of his room to look at them and then left the house in search of music. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They were mixed somewhat, but still in their separate piles for the most part—red on the left and orange on the right. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And that’s how she left me, standing in the kitchen, hot and breathless, the world tilted under me. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jack didn’t get to the bus stop until just as they were loading, and then he was immediately called over by Tyler and Hazel was left to sit by herself and she’d forgotten her book. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I realized that I could find something I liked at almost any restaurant, whereas before I had often left hungry. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I had left them behind, all of them. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

None of them had left him speechless like Alaska. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

There’s a rumor that Larry Bird, the basketball player, left a pair up there somewhere. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We left the farmer to ponder his slain sheep and went back to town, plodding across wet hills in the slate-gray dusk. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

As soon as they had left Barbarossa's shop, Riccio dragged Prosper into the pasticceria he had stared at so longingly before. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

After Wambui left, she went to the drugstore, Curt’s baseball hat pulled over her head. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Ugly old women, every one of them, but all that praying and scrubbing and beating novices with sticks had left them tough as roots. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Twig was shifting her weight, left and right, fidgeting with the excitement of a plan. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

My left leg is weak, my arms are weak, and my broken leg, which they say isn’t broken anymore, feels heavy, heavy, heavy. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“If we helped every Scholar taken by the Martials, there’d be nothing left of the Resistance. Maybe if you were one of our own...” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

They slept the rest of that night under a tangle of branches that might have been left by a storm. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smith, this fabled Hammer, proved to be a ffeakish-looking hulk with a left arm that appeared twice as thick as his right. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I was cleaning houses in Draper when the mail came, so Robin left the letter on my bed with a note that I was a Commie now. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He left the room in charge of Sergeants Amen and Klages while he went out into the hallway. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let anyone say anything they please. I cannot prevent that, but I can prevent having one of our delegation left to march alone, almost as if she were a disgrace.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Henry threw a slow hook, and pivoted on his left leg. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He takes Pa to the station and watches as the train pulls away, stays as it disappears down the tracks, so all that’s left is the smoke. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She was moving in, two days after I’d left, my bed not yet cold. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ethan did not say another word until we left the auditorium that day. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Memorizing lyrics left me little time to think about what had happened in the war. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Luke peeked around the stairway door, surveying the chaos of dirty pans and crumb-covered plates left in the kitchen. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But now everybody but us left for the United States of America,” I say sadly. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

There was also a tile trivet depicting a blond, unbearded Jesus, delivering a sermon on a mountaintop, left in one of the drawers of the built-in china cabinet in the dining room. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You pervert,” was the last thing my sister said before she left the room, still carrying the bowl of potato chips. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The plan was laid out, and it left no room for error. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

It took them so long to find her classroom that, early as they had left Divination, they were only just in time. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“And what happened after you left the office?” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Up, now, young master,” he said to Robin, and with that they left the cottage and went on their way. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“I bet if they shut down everywhere in New York where somebody had got smoked, there wouldn’t be nowhere left open.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Sitting in a cane-back rocker pulled up by the bed, he was resting his left elbow near Granny’s head. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The hobbits remained flat on the ground, as Grishnákh had left them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Now more people stood up to speak to each other, confusion and gossip swirling in the air as Stephanie left the auditorium. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I’ve even left the door unlocked so they can enter my house in a civilized manner. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I left my desk and peered out into the hallway. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It left a red circle around his eye and when it was gone his whole face looked naked. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last time I saw her was in late August, before I left the Swiss Chalet. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Benny swung his trumpet from left to right, his ponytail following along. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

And all of these young women had left him for the same reason. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mind was thinking over all she must do before she and Jaimito left in the morning. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to quit,” I said to Josh, who was telling me for the eleventh time how great his life had been since he’d left the fencing team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I was so used to the dimple in her left cheek by now that I never confused when she was serious with when she was joking anymore. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I left him at the back door of the Lyceum and walked to Dr. Roland’s office. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She stormed off and left me feeling even worse than before. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was a lot easier to keep on than my left. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

But somehow, after throwing a fit in the starting gate and being left flat-footed at the bell, the colt won his race that day. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The glasses are quite remarkable, but I still sorely miss having the use of my left ear. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Aaron lets go of me and I fall to the ground again, clutching at all the bruises he’s left on my chest. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He should’ve carried her up the stairs to her room and tied her to the bed and touched that left knee all night long. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Granger took a look at the clock, eight minutes left. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thrones were empty except for two at the end: the head throne on the right, and the one to its immediate left. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Permian had a third and eight at the Carter 26 with thirty seconds left. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When one gets hit, the other reflexively closes down to protect what’s left of your vision. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I left behind that scene and sought our accommodation further. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

His hats were black, round of crown and straight of brim, and uncrushed as though he still left room for a coiled queue. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

At about six Fm supposed to call two motels charging only $40 a day, where something may have opened up, but I realize I’ve left the phone numbers in the car. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slave owners fought back, arguing that owners should be able to list their slaves as property when they arrived in France and take them with them when they left. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Well, I hope you left some suitable excuse,” said her husband, somewhat appeased, as he added a dash of cayenne pepper to the soup. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

From the backseat, two policemen produce a frail-looking man in a beige suit with a perfect purple bruise around his left eye. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She opened a door on the left of the hall as we went in. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The final comma in those last two sentences, the one just before and, can be left out. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dumbledore died over a month ago. Why has it taken this long to give us what he left us?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He left the door of his room open, and on the table in an envelope addressed to Mrs. Kelly there were four dollars for the past week’s rent. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

After Calista left me under the covers, I kept waiting and waiting for her to come back and tell me it was time for me to get ready already. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The light illuminated the gray interior, revealing a flap of fabric near the left taillight. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Her parents stood where she’d left them, leaned together in conversation. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Will asked, “Where do the Specters come from? Why was the window left open under those trees, the one we first came in through? Are there other windows in the world?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just stand there, not sure whether I should turn right or left, go forward or backward, get in the black car or the tan one. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Through the shutters of our balconies we watched her; perspiration had already left black moons beneath her armpits. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

When her brothers left Washington for Williams College two weeks earlier, they expected their father to regain his health in Elberon. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Employees sat elbow to elbow with the same people during their morning coffee, ate lunch in their designated time slot in the cafeteria as a group, and left together to catch the evening shuttle bus. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I'd been there quite a few times, because after I left Elkton Hills Mr. Antoilni came up to our house for dinner quite frequently to find out how I was getting along. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

There were just seventy thousand Americans left in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, when I was around five years old, my gran left me at home for a few hours to go run errands. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The problem arises when a tree encounters an attacker for which evolution has left it unprepared, and seldom has a tree been more helpless against an invader than the American chestnut against Endothia parasitica. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He leveled the gun to shoot, but the man got over and left his line of vision, disappearing under the tank. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the left of the center hall was the long dining room. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I must have left it. at home, Miss Harbottle,” I said. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“You gotta hold his rear with your left arm and swing with your right, you know.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Brushing her bangs to hide the mark, Hannah left the bathroom worried that someone else might be lying in wait for her, and dreading it. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since I never left my apartment, it was easy for the program to keep track of everything I ate. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

At the same time, the blades tend to slow down, so you have to twist your left wrist to add throttle, to keep the blades turning at the same speed. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry’s clothes lay in a heap on the floor where he’d left them that morning. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Corcorans were thoughtless but this was unconscionable; those monsters, I thought, those imbeciles, they just went off and left it here all by itself. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The room was exactly as he had left it last night. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I could have left and camped in the gorge again, but my enormous desire to see another human being overcame my fear of being discovered. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

From our condo, Jeremy’s house is about five minutes away: walk down one straight, main road, turn left and then right, onto a quiet, leafy street. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“You are the greatest source of joy in her life. But she cannot help it. She has left behind a part of herself in India.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Quickly, Bandit got out of bed, used what was left in Fourth Cousin’s water urn to wash, dressed, plaited her hair and then began seriously to clean the room. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The three of us had gone over the summer, right before Jenna had left for Texas. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I felt his blood leak past my hands, scarlet under the overcast sky, and I thought about what he had said the night Zu left us. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Finally, the lights went out and the people left. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

All bags must be left on the bus. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“So, I left here the other day after you told me to—” “Sorry,” I interrupted. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Some sleeping inmates had left their lights on. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought he would somehow find a niche. It made absolutely no sense to me when he left that.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

With a slight bow, the Butler took the tray and left, and Thorold went with him. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly the energy left her, and her hands began to move in slow arcs, soothing and sensuous, the wild drums silent. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

This left Cambridge, England, where I knew that someone named Max Perutz was interested in the structure of the large biological molecules, in particular, the protein hemoglobin. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z