“Based upon the length of your stride, that many steps wouldn’t take you to any door of any building in the whole Institute, front or back.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Once safely in the lead, Pollard slowed him down, and Seabiscuit galloped in ahead by four and a half lengths. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You and everything here appear equally insubstantial from my perspective. Perhaps we will be able to discuss it at greater length another time. Come with me.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Under the critical eye of Redtooth a band of rodents was gnawing off a length of planking from a rickety lych-gate fence at the rear of the church. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

If Newton went to such lengths to try to play down Hooke’s role in history, Hooke must have been an impressive scientist indeed. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

She liked him, cornrows running down the length of his scalp, and his expression always wry, scornful of sentimentality. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Manchee says, using his mouth to pull one about half the length of himself out from under what looks like a burned-up pile of stacked chairs. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“The mortal world is where we grew up,” Vivi insists, climbing onto a bench and walking the length of it, acting as though it were a stage. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The speed and force of the pounce, not a length away, were terrifying and Hazel leaped backward, knocking Silver off his balance. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The small fox walked lightly along its length. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I wave my arm up and down the length of my body. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Every one took a drink, tipping the wine-skin at arm's length. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Flaving said this, I must deal immediately and at some length with the question of violence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course I was surprised the next morning when I noticed that the long, spiky nails on his pinkies were gone and were now the same length as his other nails. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room was divided into three sections by two large grates that ran the length of the room. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Slouching along with clubs in their hands, lengths of pipe. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I look up and down the length of the fence. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The only one that is commonly used is triplets, which divide a note length into equal thirds. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He let his fingers feel along the length of chain as far as they were able, still puzzling over where Van Eck had brought him. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He lowered his nose and sniffed along the length of it. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

At length they stopped, and sat side by side, their backs against a boulder. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was a serious-looking gun; liquid coolant bubbled along its length. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

His free hand hovered over the length of the hose, gliding it back in our direction. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She squinted down the length of her own trunk with pardonable pride. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I like the flowers, but know I would not go to such lengths, make such efforts, get myself so dirty to produce them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He set it on the table at arm’s length, between himself and Bast. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They came to a gentle rise, where the main chamber widened to more than a hundred yards across—wider than the length of a football field. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could speak at length about the struggle between Britain and czarist Russia over Afghanistan. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Figure 1.66: Any common note length can be divided into an unusual number of equal-length notes and rests, for example by dividing a whole note into three instead of two 11half11 notes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The paralysis spread lower, until it felt like I had a metal rod running the length of my back and into my skull. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He liked this view down the length of Hancock’s Wharf. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stayed several lengths behind as Doha ran to Sunjin’s house. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Then the stranger held forth at greater length. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

In order to arrive at a definitive view, we should be able to survey the entire length of every chain, and that we can never hope to achieve. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

After making a neat pile in the middle of the bandage, I gather up the sides, give them a twist, and tie them tightly with a length of vine, making an apple-sized bundle. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

For fifteen strides, more than the length of a football field, Pollard remained virtually motionless. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a hundred meters left, they widened the lead to a quarter of a length. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

What’s more, they’d keep it low no matter what the other boats were doing, so long as they stayed within roughly two lengths of the field. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I see the SS man watch her for a moment as he walks the length of the fence. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He walked past Ben and along the pole, picking it up off the ground as he slid its length through his palm and fingers. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He would call wanting to talk at length about what we were investigating. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

After what seemed a suitable length of time, he rose and went to the icebox that stood near the other window. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in long pans, on a huge stove the whole length of the sugarhouse, sap was boiling high. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Proud that I lived in a country that would go this far to bring justice to a Little Rock girl like me, but sad that they had to go to such great lengths. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each of them was now approaching six feet in length. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The high wooden bar forms one long L down the length of the room. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Consider a map of ancient Egypt with two vertical sticks of equal length, one stuck in Alexandria, the other in Syene. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ishtar had gone to great lengths to protect her adopted daughter. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I picked up the jar at arm’s length and carried it downstairs with him pulsating all the way. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Along the length of Elsinore's vast hall, torches flamed in their sconces. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Ben slowly slid down the length of the wall. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found an antique bucksaw of wood and wire that he used to saw the dead trees to length. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The buildings were connected for the entire length of the street, and Joseph walked until he came to another attic window, lit from within. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It was like a metal mesa, the length of a football field and as tall as goalposts. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

"Perhaps the fabrics can transform the length and style of the dress throughout the ceremony," I say. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

By the time he recovered, he was in seventh, four lengths behind Aneroid and Indian Broom. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone was standing in the moonlight an arm’s length away. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

My heart nearly stopped when I saw him at the far edge of the narrow catwalk, nearly a boat’s length away, dangling over the ocean like bait at the end of a fishing pole. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

At the finish they were a full length ahead and still widening the lead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

What you do is tie the grapple—it’s like a big fishhook with four barbs—to a length of rope. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

In this case, "whole rest" does not necessarily mean "rest for the same length of time as a whole note"; it means "rest for the entire measure." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Now there was only gauze, black with congealed blood, along the length of the wound which ran from his knee to his ankle. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The longest river in the world, the Nile flows through the length of Sudan, then through Egypt to the Mediterranean Sea. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road was once a dirt track that wandered through the heart of Africa, almost impossible to traverse along its complete length. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lawrence and Cork had gone to great lengths, all meticulously documented, to cleanse their platinum targets of all impurities. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Move the square an equal length at right angles to itself, and we have a cube. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Pierre went to great lengths: he planted stories about the Patriarch of Antioch in Dutch and French newspapers on the offchance that Boyle would come across them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In other words, the second harmonic is still half the length of the fundamental, the third harmonic is one third the length, and so on. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

When I finally came to my senses, I sat up, coughed at length, and breathed in slow. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She planted a wet kiss on my forehead, then held me at arm’s length and began to babble in Ukrainian. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Was it over four thousand five hundred and seventeen miles? ’Cause that would be the length of a round trip to Bakersfield from Columbus and back.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

At length he gathered from Sam that they had seen nothing but the vague shadowy shapes coming towards them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Can you tell me why people go to such lengths to hide their real selves? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Satisfied there were no unusual sounds above me, I crawled on my stomach along the length of the ditch, which led outside the stadium, on Twelfth Avenue. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He measured the length of his knife with his fingers and then held it against the old man’s neck. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The thing was the length of their ship. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They were painfully difficult to draw; they required precise lengths and angles, or they became something else entirely. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He didn’t resist the shiver that ran the length of him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They conducted their duties humbly and reticently, with a minimum of fuss, and went to great lengths not to antagonize anyone. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He was not large of his kind, maybe the length of a forty-oared ship, and was wormthin for all the reach of his black membranous wings. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

At length, Fflewddur murmured, “I put the decision in your hands and abide by what you do.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

When Charity first learned to drive back in the sixties, she was taught to leave one car length between you and the car ahead of you for every ten miles per hour you’re traveling. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

As they came at us, I saw that they were as big as vultures, and their wingspan was twice their length. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Because the cedar was dry when attached to the frame but then became wet after being used regularly, the wood wanted to expand slightly in length. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I was so concerned that I was willing to go to great lengths to meet Chief Buthelezi. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she straightens her shoulders and leaves without looking back, her high heels tapping down the length of the car. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

At length one morning the sun came out brightly. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time we noted the clarity of her complexion, the length and languor of her eyelashes, the undeniably elegant armature of her hands. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

All night—because feverish Mirabelle would not sleep except in motion—she cradled Mirabelle in her arms and paced the length of the room. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He takes a small step toward me, his gloved hand sliding slowly up the length of the pool cue, his eyes cautious as my heart begins to race. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Before she got down, Wielaf ran up with lengths of rose vines in his hands. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

As one moves along a north-south axis, one traverses zones differing greatly in climate, habitat, rainfall, day length, and diseases of crops and livestock. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I remember watching the drops trace frantic paths down the length of the school bus window. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Here she is doing something I could never even dream of doing with my two legs of equal length. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

A length of iron chain connected each neck band, so each was linked to the next in a single file of chains and captivity. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or the fact that I am only an arm’s length away, meeting her stare. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

But, when you put the mouthpiece on an instrument shaped like a tube, only some of the sounds the mouthpiece makes are the right length for the tube. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He was now twice the length of the canoe from me and though I paddled fast I could not overtake him. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

And through the great length and continuity of his dominion the memories and causes of innovations die out, because one change always leaves indentations for the construction of another. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

He held his niece at arm’s length and regarded her with amused interest. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Each length bucked him forward and twice he nearly pitched headfirst into the blades. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I asked her to please tell me how old she was, and assured her, at great length, that the information, if given, wouldn’t go beyond myself. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He considered this, and at length, we now feeling the motion of the tide through our legs, said, “When I become burdensome, cast me off backwards.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Has fear, since the beginning of time, driven men to such lengths of calculation? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She noticed how her straight black eyelashes were uneven in length. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reggie veered smoothly back to the right, missing by a few feet the sedan, which was now just half a car length ahead of us. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Indeed, he told his mother as much—often, and at length—not that she listened. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

And he made an effort then to rock his entire body length out of the bed with a uniform motion. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked once around the perimeter of the blacktop, nibbling the chips off the cookie, counting the length and width by the number of times my sneakers touched the asphalt. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Today pushed a full length in front, then shifted down to the rail. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He brooded at length over what he perceived to be his father’s moral shortcomings, the hypocrisy of his parents' lifestyle, the tyranny of their conditional love. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

What’s going on, what makes him keep me at arm’s length one minute and rush back to my side the next? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

This can amount to as much as an inch of swelling in the length of a sixty-foot shell. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The interminable length of train cars carries a miserably bowed drone across the rhythm of the tracks. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His dad paces the length of the room. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Finch faced her and held her at arm’s length. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

If anyone showed up late to practice, the whole team had to do sprints down the length of the hallway adjacent to the cafeteria. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Each dot adds half the length that the dot before it added. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Tendai held Kuda at arm’s length—it wasn’t difficult—and let him swing his fists uselessly until he burst into tears of frustration. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her unusual veil is the entire length of her gown, giving away nothing of her outward appearance. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

One led the pepper-covered Special away at arm’s length, and the others approached the forest. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Inside the shed they formed a moving white carpet that stretched nearly the length of a football field. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She walks the length of the sitting room and kitchen. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I was too intent to keep track, but, at length, a sort of pinkness invaded the translucent blue skin of her cheek. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most noteworthy achievement of Winner Lane, now in his midforties, is the sheer length of his criminal record: nearly three dozen arrests for burglary, domestic violence, trespassing, resisting arrest, and other mayhem. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

His dented top hat did nothing to hide the deformed length of his skull, or his long, hairy ears. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she would reach out along the length of that bond, and at the very end, she could just sense the quiver of the Queen’s heartbeat. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Sometime after their train pulled out of Grand Central Station, Louie bolted, ran the length of the train, and leapt from the caboose. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

He swatted the shuttlecock the length of the locker room. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were thin red scars across her stomach, along the side of her neck, and beneath her chin, each about the length of a cigarette. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I knew as a teen that my parents had gone to great lengths to give me a better life, and killing my brain cells didn't seem like the most thoughtful way to return the favor. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He points down the length of the train. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Cornell, in third, had all but disappeared, eight lengths farther back. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Flux continued, “When a child is naughty and is sent to sit in a corner, who insists on the length of the punishment? Tell us, Time Out.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Up to thirty feet in length, the Hebridean Black is rough-scaled, with brilliant purple eyes and a line of shallow but razor-sharp ridges along its back. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was out there pushing his garden up into rectangular, flood-proof embankments, exactly the length and width of burial mounds. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blake's handlers inside the KGB went to great lengths to shield him from MI6's counterespionage teams, who were always on the lookout for traitors and double agents within their ranks. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Oliver arranged for me to meet Astor at his house, and we talked at length about the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulls it through a short length of wide PVC pipe, then folds the top part of the sock back over the pipe. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

A fighter was strafing the length of the column. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were blazing like live coals and her arms had doubled themselves in length. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

At length, and after repeated assurances that I was who I said I was, he fell on his back again, breathing hard. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The Head Peacekeeper wipes his hand along the length of the whip, splattering us with blood. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was running her hand down the length of the cane chair, over and over. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She belted herself with a length of rope. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I walked the length of the fence, and it was the same all the way, hundreds of these bits of paper. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At 10:15 PM, she placed the rock, as planned, in a stone window in the railroad bridge, and pushed it one arm's length from the edge. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A coiled length of rope was still looped over Sheed’s shoulder. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I got up and looked down the length of the train. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Thank you,” she said simply, thinking how amazing it was that there should be white people who were willing to go to such lengths to help a slave get to the North. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marigold and Zane’s eyes followed the whole length of it, up, up, up, until they found the source—one hundred feet above them in the sky. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It has a black-and-red-checked pattern and falls right above my knee, which is the perfect length for me, because anything longer makes me look stumpy. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He lit a cigarette and stretched himself full length upon the bed. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

When we were only an arm’s length apart, he stopped. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The waves of the third harmonic must be a third the length of the first harmonic, and so on. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He also has a moustache, but unlike Uncle Al’s, his lasts only the length of his lip. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The theory eventually circulated that Boori Ma had once worked as hired help for a prosperous zamindar back east, and was therefore capable of exaggerating her past at such elaborate lengths and heights. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Chastened by criticism of the stupefying length of October’s Dedication Day ceremony, the fair’s officers had kept the Opening Day program short and pledged to honor the timetable at all costs. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

His huge eyes are within a finger’s length of hers. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Lord Asriel and the angel were close in discussion with the engineers, and men were clambering down from the craft itself, one carrying a clipboard, another a length of cable. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The growing season—that is, the months with temperatures and day lengths suitable for plant growth—is shortest at high latitudes and longest toward the equator. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As I was running my fingers over a length of thick blue cotton cloth, something caught my eye. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Bull Meecham was the first in line, chugging what was left of his two martinis, then throwing the glasses the length of the room into the brick fireplace. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They don’t measure anything that we are accustomed to, like length, breadth, width, or time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

For the price of five reales, people could look into the telescope and see the gypsy woman an arm’s length away. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I can see something along the wall, stretching for the entire length of it. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I believe this happens first because of the causes that have been discussed at length earlier. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

She hugged me back, then pulled away and held me at arm’s length. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

It had grown three times in length in just a week. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The hulking Mark I, not yet dismantled, still sat in its barnlike home: a corrugated metal building the length of a football field that hove into view while they were still miles away. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In particular, note the length of the silences between utterances and to the tone of Klotz’s remarks. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I wave my hands up and down the length of my form. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The panicked jockeys behind him launched frantic rallies to catch him, but they could only cut the lead down to eight lengths. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hers were exactly the right length to show that she was naturally gifted and had a strength of will to do something about it. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is the brass instruments that excel in getting different notes from the same length of tubing. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She is wearing an example of her work, a woven dress with embroidered lines of thorns making a striped pattern down the length of it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I’d pushed the dresser against the room’s only door and tied the window shut with a length of rope despite the fact that it was too small for a grown man to fit through. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A grave had been dug close to the lane that ran the length of the cemetery, and as the service began, a black Rolls-Royce drew up, the back door opened, and a man got out. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps my intentions were bad,” he said at length. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt a slight sadness at the thought of not seeing my friends for two months, the length of the Christmas holidays. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben could feel a blush moving the length of his body, one that in a matter of seconds would be a full five feet, ten inches tall. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She scoots her body closer into mine, until the full lengths of us are touching. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

That was probably required—a certain length of time to delay people. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He retailed at length the conclusions that he and the doctor had arrived at together from the nature of the dead man’s wounds. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must be Littlefinger or Tyrion himself, and he knew full well that if he left King's Landing for any length of time, all that he had managed to accomplish would be undone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The heavy sword hanging from his shoulders by a length of cord thumped against him as he urged his legs forward: the breath rose ragged in his throat. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Then I’ll know exactly the length of the jump, and—Oh.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

At length they pushed and the door yielded. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I mean, sure it was the middle of the night, but we walked half the length of the boat and met no one. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I pivoted, striking out stiffly as someone went past, and felt the jar ripple along the length of my arm to my shoulder. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He peered closely up the length of the torn flank. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walked the length of the factory floor to a staircase. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It walked the length of the corridor and stopped down at the very end, where a full-length mirror hung. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Hazel supposed that he was tired and pretending to be busy while he had a rest, but at length he came back to them and said that he had some suggestions. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I held the phone out at arm’s length. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were able to talk at length, and we talked of little else but Palestine. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

For any narrow "container" of a particular length, there are plenty of possible standing waves that don't fit. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The others are almost half a length behind her now. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His thumbs stroked the length of my jaw, but even they stilled as I pulled back and turned away from him. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The letter itself was virtually endless in length, overwritten, teaching, repetitious, opinionated, remonstrative, condescending, embarrassing—and filled, to a surfeit, with affection. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The scent of lilac filled the air, and that’s when she saw a length of blue skirt flash at the edge of the landing, just beyond where Ophie could see. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I don’t hear anything except from deep inside the sound of one metal cup clanking the length of the bars and one lone voice calling for help. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Specify came into view, still leading by four lengths. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle shows that there is no possible way to measure the pencil’s length—or an electron’s position—and its velocity with perfect accuracy at the same time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Scheduled flights were delayed by hours, security took an unprecedented length of time, the flight itself was terrifying, but on Saturday morning when Aimee woke up, her mother was standing in her bedroom doorway. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

At length, however, his civility was so far awakened as to enquire of Elizabeth after the health of her family. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

The four Turks with us have spread along the length of our group. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Shay held the safety sparkler at arm’s length. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Thomas ripped a length of cloth from the hem of his loose shirt. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The 1800s section and the 1950s high-rise were connected by sort of a tunnel, maybe six yards wide and probably half a football field in length, or it seemed that way. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

There was a length of cord in Dustfinger's pack, strong if not particularly thick. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Alex flips them over, kicking off his pants until only his underwear is left slung low on his hips, and he climbs up the length of Henry’s body, watching his face grow anxious, eager. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mars has days and nights of about the same length as ours, and seasons which last twice as long. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came at length to the great drift. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The glittering lengths of the lagoon lay below them and beyond that a long white smudge that was the reef. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

She steps back as far as she can, holding out the remains of the box at arm’s length and pressing a button on it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Bastian takes back the length of hose from Rodel and drapes it around his neck and reaches underneath his belly to hitch up his belt. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He spent hours applying pomantum wax, padding, and lengths of brick- colored hair to fashion a high roll on Madam’s head. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

And all the while I could feel the rubbery softness of her flesh against the length of my body. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had to be precisely straight, he said, for the whole sixty-two- foot length of the boat, not a centimeter of variance from one end to the other or the boat would never run true. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And there were many the right size and length. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I begin to fully understand the lengths to which people have gone to protect me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

After a sixteenth of a mile, Seabiscuit was half a length ahead and screaming along. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

After half a mile, Washington was seventh in a field of seven—almost five lengths behind the leaders. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The guard turns and begins his walk down the length of the fence. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A thick brown worm reaching up to ten inches in length, the Flobberworm moves very little. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

One objection I do have to identification numbers is their excessive length. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked the length of Eliot Street until he reached the Catholic church, then came back down Rowland Street. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At length, we reached our proposed camp near Lake Champlain, not without some slight mishaps not worth recording. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Lo and behold, the mouth of a calm river at length came into view, with level shores unbroken, free from rock, shielded from wind— by far the best place he had found. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The length of her quietness disturbed him vaguely; it was almost as if she knew she had died and was afraid to find out for a fact that it was true. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sixty pounds was considered a good weight for the arms used on the pel-quintain—so that, when he did come at length to the usual weapons, he would wield them featly. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Santry encouraged her to talk at length about her work and the science of code breaking. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Some were so large that they came up to her hip, while others had legs the length of her hand with bodies as long as her arm. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She held me at arm’s length, eyeing me critically the way only a mother could. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She described the torturous climb up the cliff at length, feeling the need to relive it inch by inch as Einar had told her he had, remembering each handhold, each precipice and narrow ledge. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

With no warning, he picked up the bin of boots and flipped it over, so dozens of boots scattered across the length of the table with a terrible amount of noise. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Each time he went AWOL, he was caught and sentenced to dig and fill up holes six feet deep, wide and long for a specified length of time. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

To his surprise, the grin slipped off Brother Ugo’s—or Fedu’s—face momentarily, and for the length of a single second, he saw something else in the old god’s expression. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She rummaged through a stack of lumber, brought several long, narrow pieces over to a pair of sawhorses, and began sawing them into paired lengths. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They don’t look much alike, except for their hair color, which is a medium brown, but Shauna’s is chin length, like mine. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then a heavy blow vibrated along the length of the punt and its smooth movement was checked. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

This pile of paper doesn’t stack together very well—pages and pages of different widths and lengths and thicknesses. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He studied the musculature at length before turning his attention to details like the hand and toes. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

While he talked in the mornings, Billy Buck cut twenty or thirty straws into neat three-inch lengths and stuck them into his hatband. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I snipped a length of quilting thread from the spool. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Laila put on her shoes and quickly brushed her shoulder- length, blond curls in the mirror. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Lamarck believed that animals adapted to their environments by strengthening or weakening certain traits—“with a power proportional to the length of time it has been so used.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

They finally slide open and the men jump out onto the walkway that runs the length of the tunnel. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Most terrible of all was the roar coming from the center of the earth, that hard-breathing giant that was heard at length, filling the air with fear. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once Acorn put up a plover, which flew round them, calling shrilly, until at length they crossed a bank and left it behind. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within a few years, he was racing, setting mile records and obliterating his opponents by the length of a homestretch. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The lynx reached a paw out to its full length and raked at the cat, tearing a strip of the bark away. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

That would give them the length of the house. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

For virtually the length of Shenandoah National Park, the AT closely parallels and often crosses Skyline Drive, though most of the time you would scarcely guess it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

And this similarity: what it promised it did not give, and what it gave, at length and grudgingly with one hand, it took back with the other. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Papa stood up and started pacing the length of the couch. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

At length Doli straightened up and beckoned the others to follow. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

She began to roll the sock doughnut up the length of her ponytail, folding her hair into it as she went, until all Bridge could see was a big circle of dark glossy hair. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Except for that glass and the napkin dispensers, the entire length of the counter is empty. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“Is Cowslip the Chief Rabbit?” asked Hazel at length. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two steel rails ran the visible length of the tunnel, pinned into the dirt by wooden crossties. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Some carried ammunition boxes, the length of two cement bricks, between them, and others had semiautomatic machine guns and RPGs. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Another is to take a third length, such as an extension cord, and tie it to the end of one of the ropes so that it will be long enough to reach the other rope. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

There had to be at least fifty of them, their clothes smudged and sweaty as if they’d been hard at work, all shapes and sizes and races, their hair of varying lengths. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“We cut these scraps and lengths of wire into small pieces. About this size, you see. Copper in this bowl, silver in this, and gold here.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Each valve opens an extra length of tube, making the instrument a little longer, and making available a whole new harmonic series. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He could not move out of a walk, he could not hold his stool out at arm’s length, he could not stand on one leg without falling over. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The Washington freshmen jumped out early to a half- length lead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The length of the boat and the sleeping Lyra lay between them, or otherwise, he felt, they would have embraced and wept together. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

They pressed us back, keeping us at baton’s length. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

With time, a few dozen regional styles developed over the 1,500-mile length of the Japanese archipelago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The bad news was, a greenhouse ran the entire length of the garden, right under the fence. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I’m going to pace off twelve feet, the length of the bedroom. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to tie his dad to Aurora with a length of silk that Gox was rapidly spinning. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He walks closer, an arm’s length from me. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

By sundown, both Ellen and Jethro dragged down the length of the field with weariness lining their faces and tugging at their bodies. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kwang himself exhibited a different grace: he didn’t sport the brief choppy step of our number, but seemed instead to stride in luxurious borrowed lengths. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dozen or more enormous snow-white birds, each the size of a rowboat, with long, straight wings that trailed on the water behind them: very long wings, at least two yards in length. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He backed up and held me at arm’s length. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Specifically, the length would shorten as you moved away from the poles. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Although this is not typical or standard notation, there are very specific musical attributes that can be visually represented such as sound, silence, and duration or the length of the sound. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Localities distributed east and west of each other at the same latitude share exactly the same day length and its seasonal variations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A few lengths of braided cable snapped off at the turnbuckles. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The prison’s most famous warden, Lewis Lawes, called his memoir Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing—the number referred to the sum of the length of sentences of all the inmates under his supervision. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poppy had written “indefinitely” on the length of their visit when he filled out the papers on the plane. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

All the other girls’ hair is shoulder length, or chin length, or down to midback; no one’s hair is anywhere near as long as mine. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reached into her dress and pulled out a large yellowish stone, which dangled from two lengths of silver chain. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Wearing starched blouses, armpits stained with sweat, they cluster in tight groups of two or three along the length of the pool. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A foremost authority on prairie flora and fauna, she could discuss at length the thirty-seven varieties of hydrangea in Crawford County. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It came to a point three feet from the floor and ran fifteen feet in length. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

When that happened he’d sit for a minute in the dirt, his hands over his eyes, then he’d stand and reach for the next length. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Within a minute the crack of rifles, the whine of ricocheting bullets, the smash of pulverizing rock echoed and rang the length of the mountainside and along the hollow gulch behind. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held the paper out at arm’s length in front of her, upside down so she could read it. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

On the morning of March 27, in a heavy late spring snowstorm, it came in three lengths ahead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He was purposely holding me at arm’s length, afraid to let me get too close. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Trees were rowed the length of the long block beyond me, rising tall in dripping wetness above a series of cluttered backyards. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imps eat small insects and have breeding habits much like the fairies, though imps do not spin cocoons; the young are hatched fully formed at around one inch in length. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry folded his fingers and flexed them, at arm’s length, until they cracked. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Pet flexed her mother’s fingers, and its gold claws grew in length, the edge on them blinding. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Trailing behind us, back about two car lengths, was an old white pickup truck. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And Matt gave it at great length and wholeheartedly. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vaguely, I realize that I’ve slid down along the length of the couch, my head now on the armrest, and Hideo’s body is heavy against mine, pushing me down. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Miss Wren held the bird at arm’s length, turning her this way and that while Miss Peregrine squirmed. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

That night at supper Tyrion surprised his sire by walking the length of the high table on his hands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

On one wall hung several oars of varying length. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Robbie, I want you to reach into my pack and find the rope. There’s a good length of it in there.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The world seemed a good place to him that morning, and he felt ready to stride down the length of the field with a firm step and a joke on his lips. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kelly held her camera at arm’s length and took a picture of the two girls’ grinning faces. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

At length however, the question was asked by her uncle; and she turned away with alarm, while Mrs. Reynolds replied that he was, adding, “But we expect him to-morrow, with a large party of friends.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

At the trader’s, Deydey paid off the winter’s debt and bought a length of blue broadcloth for Mama to sew into a dress. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Wesley made beautiful clothes for her daughter— dresses just the right length and color and that perfectly fit Cynthia’s tiny waist. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Few things could inspire Smith to actually speak at length. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held the plate out at arm's length, over the edge where the cell ended and the sky began. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She could tell it worked because of the length of time it took Scythe Curie to respond. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

They were armed with short broad-bladed swords, not with the curved scimitars usual with Orcs; and they had bows of yew, in length and shape like the bows of Men. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He'd swapped his old, flabby shape for that of a lion the size of a rhino, fangs the length of cutlasses, and claws that could tear through tanks as if they were tin. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I manage to float for three pop-up breath lengths before inadvertently getting water up my nose. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The Union position was approximately three miles in length, or so it seemed from here. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stood in silence for a few moments, separated by a body’s length of the deepening darkness, and Ash suddenly felt self-conscious, not knowing what to say. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood across the length of the entry way from me . . . being careful. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The next day she had blisters the length of her thighs. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was late in the night when at length they reached firmer ground again. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Well, just for fun—suppose I ask the robots from now on a few questions on gamma rays. Wave length limits, for instance.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The rear length of exhaust pipe had been crushed, too. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Brother Matthew had found the wood of proper kind and size, then he sawed it the right length, allowing a little for finishing. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

For all its length and lexical exuberance, the sentence is easy to follow, because the reader never has to keep a phrase suspended in memory for long while new words pour in. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He went to greater lengths, but hearing I wanted to find him too? What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Moch had been told not to let the leaders get more than two lengths ahead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

From the bed she picks up my jacket and walks with me across the length of the apartment, to the front door. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Glossy black feathers the length of my forearm fluttered in the wind, and I glared at them, then got up on wobbly legs. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But this forty-yard length, this is what I am built for. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

At length, as slowly as a caravan of camels crossing a desert, some thoughts came together. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

At length Mrs. Weidenbach separated the two old warriors, though her hoopskirt got in the way. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The tailwind had stiffened further, slicing up the length of the lake now, piling more rough water into heaps of whitecaps at the north end. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I walked away from the hut with him in my arms, and at length his sharp cries sank into soft whimpering and finally into silence. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that if I kept going that way, I’d touch or fall over the length of life-line rope that tethered the raft. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Church had inspected Smith’s farm home and seen there, hanging from a barn rafter, a length of rope tied with the same kind of knot that was used to bind the four Clutters. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of these parallels have been discussed at some length in earlier chapters; others have yet to be explored. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Figure 1.62: The dot acts as if it is adding another note half the length of the original note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

By late afternoon, they were riding through a forest of trees with trunks wider than the length of the wagon they had left behind in Jilin. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Pax followed him out and watched until he slipped into a hole a few tail lengths away. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Given the length of the trip and the time I’d have to spend training for it, I stood to make a lot more money staying home and taking other writing jobs. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He started to follow me down the length of the hut. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tayo stood in the door and looked around inside, at the empty tables with crooked legs of different lengths. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I felt his hand trail down the length of my arm. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He did calisthenics each morning to get in shape for the rigors of the bush and discussed backcoun- try survival strategies at length with Bob, a self-styled survivalist. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked the length of time it took to count to eight, always the perfect amount of time to make a decision or take aim. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

We talk at length about the hit I put on Mimi. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

At length they came to the crown of the hill. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Without hesitation and with a quickness that caught Red off guard, he slammed the history book against the boy’s head with a stunning shot that echoed the length of the breezeway. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere he'd found a length of chunky chain, each iron link the size of a brick. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

"I'm sorry to be missing me part in the play," I said at length. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

At length they stirred and looked up, and began to search for anything that would give them tidings of Balin’s fate, or show what had become of his folk. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Tonight she has on a navy-blue number with three silver stripes running the length of her arms and legs. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

At length the agent said, “Do you think if he lost the hearing he would quit?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At length Frodo, groping along the left-hand wall, came suddenly to a void. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He knew that he had to have emptied the horn this time, and yet when he lowered the horn from his lips, it had gone down by only the length of his thumb. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She herself was in the dining room, pinning pattern pieces on a length of dark blue serge. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

A length of oily- brown cassette tape was wrapped around his leg. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The royal hourglass that measures the length of day and night churns with sand the color of white diamonds. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Approaching the line and already ahead by four lengths, George Morry finally called for a higher stroke rate. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Mini held the sprig of youth at arm’s length. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He walked the length of the leaf to the massive central shoot of the enormous river reed. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

My gift to Mamaji one birthday, I must have been thirteen or so, was two full lengths of credible butterfly. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Like a sword in sharpness but five times the length of any sword, the point of the dragon's tail arched up scorpion-wise over his mailed back, above the tower. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Tattooed dragons ran the length of his arms and sent their tails curling up his neck to twine with the faded patterns of his own long-ago light crew tattoos. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It is one long room running almost the length of the ship, though one can hardly walk for the barrels and crates that are taking up most of the room. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The jaw still held teeth: fangs the length and thickness of an elephant's tusks. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Figure 1.48: A whole rest may be used to indicate a completely silent measure, no matter what the actual length of the measure will be. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

For example, the first dot after a half note adds a quarter note length; the second dot would add an eighth note length. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

But it was one of the clearest indicators that, during Prohibition, people would go to any length to get their wine, beer, or liquor. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

By the time they reached the south end of the island, the Cal lead had been whittled down to a quarter of a length. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A stiff, dry, unrelenting wind blew up the fifty-mile length of the coulee, carrying the sweet scent of sage and the harsh, mineral smell of broken rock. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He handed her the sawed-off length of his gun barrel, the one that ruined itself after he struck the ghost sister’s feet. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He looked down the length of rope once more to the sidewalk, where Marigold was waving at him. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

You may have also noticed that the note lengths sound like fractions in arithmetic. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Lyddie could have stretched out full length in front of it and her head and toes would have remained on the hearth with room to spare. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He held me at arm’s length, examining me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

By the time he and his mount hit the finish line for the first time, they were two lengths in front. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women wore ankle- length gowns, no makeup, and scarves covered their heads. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was now lying full length on the ground with his head far out over the river, lapping up the chocolate like a dog. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Hideo murmurs, running one of his hands along the length of my tattooed arm. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The sand, trembling beneath the heat haze, concealed many figures in its miles of length; boys were making their way toward the platform through the hot, dumb sand. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Slynt spun on his heel like the watchman he'd once been, and strode the length of the Small Hall, boots ringing on die stone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Somebody,” said Francis, unrolling a length of bandage, “is going to have to take that glass out of her foot.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And attached to a pipe with a bit of shoelace tied to a piece of wire tied to a length of string — a grimy, coffee-splashed booklet, its edges soft with age. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She scrambled up onto the sill, but Lyra jabbed the length of rail at her fiercely, and she fell back again. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He refuses to elaborate as they walk quietly back down the length of the train. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the pieces were six to eight feet in length and thirty pounds in weight. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent a few minutes considering, as I paced the length of my bedroom floor, how embarrassing that incident had been. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Figure 1.59: If a piece begins with a pickup measure, the final measure of the piece is shortened by the length of the pickup measure. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

When they walked side by side, their strides were exactly the same length. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sirius grasped his hand briefly, nodded to Dumbledore, transformed again into the black dog, and ran the length of the room to the door, whose handle he turned with a paw. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The introduction shows a page-wide photo of a forearm and hand squeezing pliers around a length of taut barbed wire strung beneath one of the towers. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Using a pair of surgical tongs, she began carefully pulling away the sodden, congealed lengths of ribbon gauze from the cavity in the side of his face. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They swerve and cross the length of the field, tour its perimeter, and then swing back around. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Her finger, its knuckle bent and thickened by age, ran the length of the wound. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

One of them was holding a censer, and the priest was leaning toward him, adjusting the length of its silver chain. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

But he seems to sense this and holds me almost at arm’s length as we turn on the floor. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Opposite p., left: When the sun is not directly overhead, shadows of equal length are cast. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

At length, though, the stand-in grew impatient and began shifting his weight from paw to paw. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

As Harry closed the door behind them, the old-fashioned gas lamps sprang into life, casting flickering light along the length of the hallway. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The poles I made of equal length, using fire to cut them as well as a stone knife which caused me much difficulty because I had never made such a tool before. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

An arm’s length away from him they shout with everything they have. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Racing in 1919 and 1920, this immense red animal so devastated his competition that he won by as many as one hundred lengths and set numerous speed records. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He noticed an attractive woman park her car and go over to one of the pay telephones, where she spoke at length to someone. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dozen pigeons roosting on the cathedral spire cataract down its length and wheel out over the sea. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The surveying group, which was responsible for plotting the course and measuring the length of the river, had their work cut out for them. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

It was an oar handie from a broken oar sawed off to about two and a half feet in length. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thin lieutenant came down the length of the custom house, holding our passports. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It needs only two lengths of straight stovepipe and an elbow, which I will get from Mr. Klein’s store, to connect it to the kitchen chimney. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He delivered the speech without a note and went on at length. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was pale blue silk with tiny pink flowers, ankle length and sleeveless, with a low, scooped neck. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I remember but little of the journey; I only know that the day seemed to me of a preternatural length, and that we appeared to travel over hundreds of miles of road. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

It is chin- length, black, and pinned back with silver clips. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The boat looks no more than fifteen feet in length and perhaps five feet wide. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One example, which we have already considered at length, is plant domestication, with at least nine independent origins. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit was only making up ground in inches, and he was still at least eight lengths behind. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now, with the biting wind and the endless landscape of white, the walkway’s bends and length were more of an annoyance, and the fleeing group kept slipping on its curves. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

A bright blue cloth is crumpled on the floor, and a length of string bisects the room. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

So the best answer we can give to our question depends on how high a particle energy we have at our disposal, because this determines on how small a length scale we can look. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The major picked up the length of rubber hose and began tapping it menacingly against his open palm. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“We can’t always see what others don’t want us to. Especially when they go to great lengths to hide it.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes things take a certain length of time, and they cannot be speeded up. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a wooden paling around it, broken by a small wooden gate, and at length—there being nobody in sight to ask—we walked through to the garden and so to the house. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

In contrast to Eurasia’s consistent east-west breadth, the New World was constricted over the whole length of Central America and especially at Panama. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She could feel his legs along the length of hers, how his continued on. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a big field,jockeys who opt to go wide may have to swing as many as ten “paths” out, forcing their horses to run roughly ten lengths farther than horses on the rail. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is now true by definition as, since 1983, the length of a meter has been set in relation to the speed of light rather than vice versa. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Briony leaned back against a wall and stared unseeingly down the nursery’s length. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Thus attired he descended gingerly to the platform and began to pace its length. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

In any case, The Times was not present at breakfast, and more attention was given to Vogue, the only magazine to which they subscribed and about which Francis could converse at length. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

It was so deep that his feet barely touched the bottom, and he actually did a couple of lengths before swimming back to the side and treading water, staring at the egg. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Here my father ran his hand along the length of a sleeping python as he hunted for morning eggs. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And if, as a boy, Hagrid had heard that a monster was hidden somewhere in the castle, Harry was sure he’d have gone to any lengths for a glimpse of it. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

But no white people had ever stood their ground and probed at me, questioned me at such length. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another salvo of three bombs exploded as Tom Bolles’s boys passed the finish line an astonishing five lengths ahead of Syracuse. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The length and destiny of your child’s life is in her hands. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He continues, “The factions were later introduced to most of our other experiments, three of which are currently active. We have gone to great lengths to protect you, observe you, and learn from you.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

When I arrived, Kilvin was in the process of bending a twisted length of iron rod into what I could only assume was a more desirable shape. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Some sort of heavy, industrial curtain hangs the length of the building, forming a sizable corridor. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The ceiling rises up to a point about another length of me above my head. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

In a few strides, Specify was six lengths ahead of the field and running away with Wright. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down the long length of the wide hall I heard someone unseen skipping down the stairs singing. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a stretch version of Auk XXIII, with a foot of length tacked on to see what difference it would make in altitude. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Lazarus was the world’s largest woodpecker, beating out the imperial woodpecker by just one inch in length. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Lyra could see what he was thinking: he was going to say that this had gone too far, they must turn back, they were taking this foolishness to irresponsible lengths. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

There’s the restless night to blame and the length of the journey and the nervousness. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nasty, smooth, clean, man-smelling peg was laid bare to the length of a rabbit’s ear, but still it did not come loose. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were a half mile from the finish now, still in third place, still two lengths back. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But it was another example of both the lack of knowledge about South Africa in the rest of Africa and the extraordinary lengths the PAC would go to besmirch the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By sunset the whole party—twenty rabbits all told—had made their way up the length of the beech hanger and reached the warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He noted that a number of the accused had been held in solitary confinement for unconscionable lengths of time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young bull stood as high as a tall man and was twice that length, yet from the force of the blow he rolled into the water and lay there stunned. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mo held Meggie at arm's length and looked her up and down. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I had cut down a small ash tree and was chopping it into lengths of about eighteen inches each. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He runs his hands along the length of my arms, slowly pulling me toward him at the same time. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Frisby walked closer, and then she could see it was not wire after all, but a length of silver-colored string, probably left over from a Christmas package. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The scar lines were parallel, all roughly the same length. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Great engines crawled across the field; and in the midst was a huge ram, great as a forest-tree a hundred feet in length, swinging on mighty chains. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Usually he was the least noticeable of boys: He was of average size, of an average pale complexion, his brown hair was of average length, and he wore average clothes. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nearby was a pile of stove lengths on the circle of burned ground where she cooked down her apples for apple butter. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I shoved him away, grabbed his shoulders, held him at arm’s length. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I do see,” he replied at length. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Colonel let out with a scream that was heard the length and breadth of Eliot Street, across the Lawn, and by a trout fisherman anchored in the river near the house. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smoked his cigar and paced the length of the cell with the folder tucked beneath his arm. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It drips like honey down the length of her strands. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

At length the Lady Galadriel released them from her eyes, and she smiled. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Two lines of Recruiters—there were dozens of them—stood back to back down the length of the gym floor, as if preparing for a dance. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

And so at length Éomer and Aragorn met in the midst of the battle, and they leaned on their swords and looked on one another and were glad. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Most of all, he didn't have to go to any humiliating lengths to get a green card like I did. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Then the blade disappeared between them, and when it emerged, dark liquid streaked its length. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Every so often he pushes it back at arm’s length to look at its display. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

At length watchers on the walls could see the retreat of the out-companies. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The trail led them north along the top of the escarpment, and at length they came to a deep cleft carved in the rock by a stream that splashed noisily down. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She conceals the length of hair she has been braiding in her pocket, scowling as she knows she will have to rebraid the entire piece because her concentration was broken. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Finally she showed them a length of slender nylon rope coiled around the bottom and sides of the bucket. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Up and down the length of the hall, Brazen Beasts lowered their spears. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The pressure and length of her strokes steadily increase with his talk, which is now Korean. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half her length, she sways her heads in air, outside her horrid cleft, hunting the sea around that promontory for dolphins, dogfish, or what bigger game thundering Amphitrite feeds in thousands. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He changed the stirrup length over and over, and could never get it just right. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

It ran half the length of the city and had become its most coveted real estate, never mind that much of it fell in humbler neighborhoods. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

As they shot across the line and under the bridge, they were eight lengths ahead and still pulling away. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At length the forest broke away to reveal sheer faces of jagged cliffs. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

At length, Mary Hudson interrupted him, and her voice was perfectly audible to the Comanches. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Now the guests were ready, and they drank the stirrup-cup, and with great praise and friendship they departed, and came at length to Helm’s Deep, and there they rested two days. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

His only reservation related to length: “All the columns of a large Gazette would scarcely, I conceive, contain the present draft,” Washington noted, adding at the end, “I may be mistaken.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

She held him at arm’s length to look at him. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a piercing squeal, an alarm, and from the ceiling the safety sprinklers sprung to life, showering water down the entire length of the floor. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

One who passed in and came at length out of the echoing tunnel, beheld a plain, a great circle, somewhat hollowed like a vast shallow bowl: a mile it measured from rim to rim. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He was much too late to overtake the filly or Professor Paul, but his rally carried him to fourth place, just four lengths behind Myrdewood, who had broken the track record. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Husky Clipper pulled briskly ahead and sliced across the line two and a half lengths ahead of the Winged Footers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The man in the gray suit began uncoiling the thick length of knotted rope from the corner of the basket. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Joey picked him up by the neck and threw him the length of the hallway and out the front door. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

As soon as she felt it, she wanted to be alone with it; she wanted to spend hours and days in its company; she wanted it never to be more than an arm’s length away. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

No doubt the heat, the foul stink from Ball’s Wharf, and the country’s refusal to join with France were discussed and argued over at length. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Every time Dad left the house for any length of time, Luke switched on the light by the back door, his old signal to Jen. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The heavy boy stood and sprayed him, holding him off at arm’s length. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa swung left, and we clattered out onto the wide, empty boulevard that ran the length of the camp, back to where our own baggage waited and the final packing. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncoiling a length of rope, he knelt over SEEf and began to bind his ankles. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

For they talked at length about their children, knowing nothing of the truth. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Riot is rubbing the length of his body against the sliding glass door. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Elongated and narrow, like pieces of blackened leather, the tongues were threaded along a length of copper wire, one tongue overlapping the next, the tips curled upward as if caught in a final shrill syllable. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had broken the track record by four seconds, the equivalent of some twenty-five lengths. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I jumped up and paced the length of the cell. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Around a peeled twig Ten Snow had wound a long length of the finest sinew thread to use in beading. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Just beyond the iron-gated entrance, about a football field's length away, stood a large two-story manor house surrounded by a park and garden. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He looped the excess length of the unruly hose around his shoulder, and let the other end fall in the red can. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Celia paced the length of the bathroom like an upset hen, her open trench coat flapping behind her like a large wing. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he seemed to be counting the steps it took—six steps for the length, two steps for the width, six steps for the length again, and two more for the width. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was bigger than a three-ton lorry, with horns the length of my father’s arms and points as sharp as daggers. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

He tied strips of fabric and foil along the lengths of them; the encyclopedia said that crows didn’t like movement or shiny things. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She pushed a slight hand into my hair, brushing the branches and leaves out of its length. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It’s almost certain that if you decide to attend Princeton, the university will pay your tuition, room and board for the length of your stay as an undergraduate, beginning in the fall of 1979. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a little unfortunate, the topic being one close to his lordship's heart and one he was inclined to explicate at some length. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the weeks between these two dates, frenzied Americans went to great lengths to obtain as much liquor as possible before the act went into effect. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

But all that lay there was a splintered peg and a twisted length of wire. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It went up with a whoosh as swirling tongues of green and yellow fire leapt up crackling all along its length. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Cal responded, quickly and decisively, raising its rate and pulling even, then moving quickly out in front by half a length. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The boys hooted and ran the length of our 17 Janvier lane brandishing their precious Mars bars. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Mama, a precious dress length of calico cloth, deep red with blue and pink flower sprigs all over it. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

But before he could cross the length of the church to greet him, he felt a hand on his arm stop him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then he cleared his throat at great length before speaking. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

A story that has to be memorised and spoken out loud is necessarily less complex than a novel that can be written down and unfolds over a greater length of time. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A length of twisted copper wire, gleaming dully in the first sunlight, was looped round his neck and ran taut across one forepaw to the head of a stout peg driven into the ground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In ancient music-making, pitch was fixed - defined - only by the length of your string or pipe, hence the need for a label like ‘A’ to denote the same sound made on different-shaped instruments. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

My plan is to bang the end of the stick, which is about the length of Daddy’s walking cane, against each floorboard to see if any of them sound hollow underneath. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Tobias emerges from a door hidden behind a length of white cloth. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I lasted exactly the length of the bus ride. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

These were, in fact, the very yuppies Jesse had gone to such lengths to avoid. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was trembling like a leaf in the wind, and a finger of ice was running up and down the length of her spine. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Basilisk is a brilliant green serpent that may reach up to fifty feet in length. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

One end of the thing was pressed into the bank, but along its length it diverged, sticking out slightly into the stream. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twice that week the hall monitors made her do the fingertip test, checking the length of her skirt. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The lists on the left and right side of the page looked about the same length. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here he bought himself a powerful flashlight, a jersey, a length of rope, and a box of chalk. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The length of the school day, though, was something else; I was frequently awake until one in the morning, doing homework. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Bono, at length, cleared his throat and inquired, “Where you wish us to...remove him to?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

All around him, suspended from the tree like misshapen fruit, were other new items: stolen shirts, socks, a length of rope, a tin cup, an extra blanket, sacks of food. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I looked back the length of the bus and saw that Joey was alone too. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

And the length of that night is most of our history. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

With Pollard standing on his back, pulling him in, he flew down the lane to win by seven lengths, smashing the track record. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here they drew in, and the ship ran half her keel’s length up the shore, she had such way on her from those great oarsmen. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the torments of the one class and the joys of the other are described at length. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of this length, however, was concealed by the flaps of skin from which it issued. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Another lay beside him, and another, in a circle of ancient dead guarding a high stone slab on which a shadowy figure lay at full length. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

They watched as it flew straight down the length of the island, so low it seemed to barely skim the tops of the skyscrapers. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

But the length of the rope has to be calibrated in proportion to the weight of the person; otherwise there is nothing quick or easy about it. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He barks “Todd!” in agreement but when I come near he curls his tail as far under his belly as the new length will go. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The queen's voice was soft as silk, but her words carried the whole length of the hall. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He walked half the length of Long Wharf until he saw carved over a door the familiar rising eye. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flat trolleys with the rubber wheels pass continually along the corridor, and always with someone stretched at full length upon them. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

With hard, frightening whacks he cut the cane into popsicle lengths before replacing the machete beside his father’s hammock. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The impact jolted up the length of her leg, making her wince. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“It was another trick. Those weren’t squares on the floor—they were rectangles. Their sides weren’t all the same length.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I explained the situation to the chief at some length, and he listened without speaking. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He strained forward and yanked down another length of wire. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit ate up the length of rein, bounding past Special Agent and leaving Woolf and Indian Broom flat-footed. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the mirror, Ash saw a pale, expressionless face with wide brown eyes, and where there had once been a smooth length of dark brown hair, now she saw ragged edges pointing every which way. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was sitting up like a human, his great paws folded in his lap, his dark eyes looking into hers down the length of his muzzle. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The boy picked up his tray and moved farther down the length of the table. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The forces on the wires are proportional to their masses, which are proportional to their lengths. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the biggest, heaviest rocket we’d ever built, four feet in length, and I found myself wishing on the drive down that Mr. Bykovski was around to see it, and Mrs. Bykovski too. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

At that speed, Seabiscuit would have trounced the track record holder by more than a dozen lengths. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the newcomers walked the length of the hall, Bran saw that one was indeed a girl, though he would never have known it by her dress. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Out in front, the Japanese, still rowing like demons possessed, stretched their lead over the British to a full length. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He ran the last length of the aisle and kissed her cheek. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then she was given a “spinal wash,” in which a cold, wet towel was rubbed up and down the length of her spine. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

His long red body, stretched to its fullest length, seemed to float in the air as he sailed over it. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reductio ad absurdum, by this token, would be classed as a figure of thought, whereas isocolon—a sequence of phrases the same length—or alliteration would be figures of speech. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

In June of that year, Ulbrickson’s varsity had attempted to redeem itself at the annual Intercollegiate Rowing Association regatta in Poughkeepsie, New York, but Cal had trounced them again, by five lengths this time. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The Friendship drones through the clouds, following the length of the Rift Valley, and Monet slumps back in the seat, and now he seems to be dozing. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blade was just shorter than the length of her forearm, and though it was made of a darker metal than the other knives, it was simple, straightforward, and ground very sharp. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The lengths to which lost love drove men and women never surprised them. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the field caught him, Seabiscuit bounced away again, winning by three lengths under a stranglehold. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

For his part, Baird continued to keep the case at an intellectual arm’s length. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Covering the length and breadth of the fabric is a stark swastika painted in splotchy black gunk. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

At length they came to the door upon the outer court, and they halted. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

In a contented daze, I look down and straighten my arm so that we can see the full length of my tattoos. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He raised his hand, hesitant, conflict raging in his eyes, and then swiftly brushed the length of my cheekbone with his fingertips. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

And a long, sustained roar went up from the tens of thousands standing along Sheridan Beach as the Husky Clipper crossed the line three lengths ahead of the California Clipper. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Every length smells of rabbit—of that great, indestructible flood of Rabbitry in which each one is carried along, sure-footed and safe. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

After describing at great length how solid and fireproof the Tribune Building was, Mackintosh paused and, with a sad sigh, he con-cluded, “That is, it was fireproof up to the date of its destruction.” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

They had to stalk her, one on each side of the garden, and Nat finally dived full length under a bush, dragged the cat out, and wrapped it tightly in his own shirt. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

It was unusual for it to be gone so long because Basta didn’t like to be away from the village for any length of time. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He was cracked in the head many times when a length of iron bucked at an unexpected angle. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At length Ralph took his lips away and paused to get his breath back. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Balee plucked out half a dozen pieces of ceramic: shards of pots and plates, a chipped length of cylindrical bar that may have been part of a pot’s support leg. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He peered down the length of the darkened hall. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Britain’s ability to read Enigma was a vital war secret, and they had gone to great lengths to protect it. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Celia has never spoken with either of the Burgess sisters at much length—Lainie is more talkative than Tara—and tonight she learns in greater detail the touches that they have put on the circus. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

‘Wake up, wake up, Master Holbytla!’ he cried; and at length Merry came out of deep dreams and sat up with a start. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

They had shiny colorful covers and he received them from the stock room tied up in a length of new yellow twine. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other people are strung along the length of the road. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Here, Jordan,” said Angel, holding the can out at arm’s length. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound they stand for will be a single note that is the length of all the tied notes added together. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Given the length of our services, I saw no other possibility. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But everyone could tell that Washington had fallen two lengths behind. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A comfortable silence settles over us, and I look over at her, a pool cue’s length away. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

It has lost a dimension; it has length and width, but no height. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Water, because of its weight, was the prime enemy, and jockeys went to absurd lengths to keep it out of their systems. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt the impact of the blow throughout the length of his arm, jarring his flesh slightly. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A narrow panel that ran the length of the end of the box slid sideways for about the length of his thumbnail. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Washington exploded forward, rowing at thirty-nine and pulling away from Cal by a full length at the line. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The freshmen immediately leapt out a half boat length ahead of the older boys. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

By the end of August he was swimming length after length in an easy crawl, diving from the high board, ripening to a deep brown from the sun and the water. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Putting on the gloves, I hold the screaming warrior at arm’s length. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shovel snagged what appeared to be a length of cord. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was obliged to break off from these very pleasant observations, which were otherwise of a sort to run into great length, by the eagerness of Harriet’s wondering questions. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

We have discussed it at length, whether it is right or not to do so. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Ash took out the fairy cloak, which she had impulsively brought with her, and watched Gwen’s eyes widen as the silvery length of it spread out on her bed. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know how to solder?” he said at length. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

With five hundred meters to go, they were still nearly a full length behind Germany and Italy, over in lanes one and two. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At length he prolonged his remark into “Pip, I do assure you this is as-TON-ishing!” and so, by degrees, became conversational and able to walk away. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

At length, save for an occasional rustle, the shelter was silent. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Uniform length, gum chewing, loudness of your voice—you name it, she monitors it better than our headmaster, Dr. Newman. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Then she lifted that small curling hand and put it upon his shoulder and she passed it slowly down the length of his arm, very slowly. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Ten years later, the Maine Appalachian Trail Club rerouted 263 miles of trail—half its total length across the state—removing the trail from logging roads and putting it back in the wilds. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

At last a pair of heavy iron doors rose before them, rust-eaten and forbidding, closed with a length of chain whose every link was as thick around as a man’s arm. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He dared not step left for a large ratdesnake was stretched full length with his head in the wind. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

And I get less total seam length by not trying to use the existing pop-tent canvas. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, imagine that you are measuring the length of a pencil. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Her hair was gathered into a single childish plait that fell from under the froth of tulle and organdy and lay along the length of her spine. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was about the thickness and length of a pencil, and like most pencils it had a lot of sides to it. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was all one length, but two colors. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He may choose at length to tell it to his brother, or his wife, or his friend, yet even those few will never use it where any third person may hear it. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

One had a small length of chain, which he swung. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Figure 3.7: There is a whole set of standing waves, called harmonics, that will fit into any 11container11 of a specific length. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He stares at her, surprised that she should actually be the type to go to such lengths. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Smith also went to great lengths to keep Seabiscuit’s training private. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

An instant later Taran was flung full length and roughly spun around. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

As they came around the bend and within sight of the crowd on the bridge, they were five lengths ahead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s about labor. The good things that were achieved—the railways, for example—but also how labor was exploited and the lengths the colonial enterprise went to.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“When you can swim half the length of the pool, I’ll give it to you.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

A hundred pool sticks of different lengths stand at attention in their cradles on the walls. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Race day, April 13, was again rainy, and a stiff headwind blew out of the south, up the length of the Oakland Estuary. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At length a silence fell, and they heard the music of the waterfall running sweetly in the shadows. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

With men off to the front, womanpower picked up the slack, and local businesses went to extraordinary lengths to recruit and retain female employees. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

If the fans didn’t get going soon, there was likely to be an explosion that would streak through the length of the mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was swimming off from the cave and the reef toward some rocks that were about twice the length of the string away. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spreading his wings to their incredible length, Snow screeched, “I’ll bet anything. Whatever you say, mouse.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Fluorescent lights hung over counters that ran the length of the room. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

To ask forgiveness, repeatedly, was what congregations were mosdy expected to do, all the while listening to choirs and priests singing at great length about the same sentiment. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

We picked mangoes from the neighbor’s trees and traded them for lengths of wire, which we used to make axles and attach the bottle cap wheels. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu could tell, from the longish length, the near-perfect waves that grazed his collar, that he took fastidious care of his hair. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

At length he spoke again, softly, as if he was debating with himself. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The stove was cold, so I twisted a length of grocery paper into a wick and coiled it in the firebox. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I used a steel tube with a butt weld down the length of it. We don’t have much of the seamless kind. Too expensive. We used what we had on your last rockets.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then she tapped the waiter’s arm, wiped the length of her chopsticks with her finger, and sniffed: “This greasy thing, do you expect me to eat with it?” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sticks placed at different angles to the Sun’s rays cast shadows of different lengths. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go in the barn where, after my eyes have adjusted to the dim light, I see a tall girl with bangs and shoulder- length soft brown hair crouched over a pig. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ned lifted Ice, looked down the cool steel length of it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I saw the angels, or at least I imagined I saw them, watching us scrap, stepping forward and catching the car batteries or jagged lengths of steel tubing that Dad launched across the yard. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“An empty house can be as lonely as a full hotel,” he said at length. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Toward the end of the quarter, Ben stole two passes from the same forward and drove the length of the court to score. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

For so long as it took him to ride the length of that hall he, forgot that he was broken. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The Northumbrian coast is the most beautiful length of the whole trip. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I’d been holding them up with a length of rope I had dug out of some trash. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

At length, not coming out of her distraught state by degrees, but in an instant, Miss Havisham said, “Let me see you two play cards; why have you not begun?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

My father paced the length of the living room in his leather sandals while my sister and I sat at the table by the sofa, trying to do our homework. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He ran a hand down the length of his face, and finally, finally, he said, “What happened? What happened between now and the last time we talked?” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

We went to incredible lengths to avoid looking vulnerable or uncool. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The starter cord was a three-foot length of rope that wrapped tightly around the engine’s flywheel. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Harry ran the length of the room, skidded to a halt at the door of Kreacher’s cupboard, and wrenched it open. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I could see the entire length and width of the Ballroom without anyone seeing me. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Michael says we’re up over sixty thousand links, and lengths of chain hang everywhere, doubled, tripled, and quadrupled up. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Notes of any length may be tied together, and more than two notes may be tied together. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He saw him first as a dark shadow that took so long to pass under the boat that he could not believe its length. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their length could not be measured in years, just as an ocean could not explain the distance we had traveled, just as the dead can never be counted. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They traveled the length of the island with an air of disregarding it and being set on other business; they were less a progress than a momentous rise and fall or the whole ocean. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The length of her limbs and the beauty of her face were of no use to Miyax as she lay on the lichen-speckled frost heave in the midst of the bleak tundra. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had constructed a flange that ran an inch past the length of the fin on both ends and bent it to match the curve of the casement. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Together the two girls walked down the length of the dock. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

To my left, under the windows, was a dark wooden counter the length of the room. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Squashed along its length, the line becomes a point, an infinitesimal nothing with no length, no width, and no height. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

In these theories the basic objects are not particles, which occupy a single point of space, but things that have a length but no other dimension, like an infinitely thin piece of string. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They each served prison terms of various lengths. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The task that faced me was to push it down the rocky shore and into the water, a distance four or five times its length. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Is there not an easier path?" asked the star, at length. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, we find two sets of African crops whose wild ancestors occur just south of the Sahara, and which are adapted to summer rains and less seasonal variation in day length. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He goes on at length about the mastery of it, and says he gathered there is no rhyme or reason to its itinerary, but expresses his hope that it will come to Germany. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

His fingertips traced up the length of her arm, and paused to roll the fine silk strap between them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

As we saw when we first encountered the octave, if your column of air is exactly half the length of where you started, you will get a note that is the same pitch, only higher. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He brandished his hot dog skewer at full arm’s length, like a sword. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

At length he folded the glass and put it on the table. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then I can cut along its length, turning it into a rectangle. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She let it out, looping between her gloved hands, until it seemed the length was right. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Omar waited for me by the narrow stream that sliced through the length of our village. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

At length I learned the answer: a gluey paste called fufu. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walking her length was more exercise than I cared for. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I’ve even walked through the whole length of it and come out the other side, into a neighborhood. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

With each stroke the boys took their rivals down by the length of another seat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The American boys were only a length off the pace but still out in the widest part of the lake, bucking the relentless, punishing winds, spray flying from their oars with every release. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The doctor’s wife, his beautiful wife, was there, smiling worriedly from behind a chair, the only one pulled away from a long wooden table that ran the length of the room. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He has never spoken at any great length with the contortionist, and her presence is almost as confusing as the fact that moments ago he had been somewhere else entirely. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She reached into her pocket and pulled out a length of wire that had once been a coat hanger. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

They were giants—five and six stories high and as long as the length of a large pasture. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, Alys lowered her to the bed and pulled the length of wool cloth up around her bare shoulders. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Katie had to drag her on her knees the length of the last hall. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held me at arms length, her eyes serious. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“He is my son, too,” he said, gently tugging at the mother’s close-enfolding arms and holding Robin at arm’s length to look into his face. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The weapon’s components, a piece of wood and a length of hard wire, were originally part of a toilet brush he’d confiscated, dismantled and hidden under his mattress. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Exchange stretched nearly the length of a city block. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I tied up my possessions with a length of cord and returned to where the men waited. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

She swept off gracefully, leaving Tyrion to waddle after as best he could on legs half the length of hers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

During the decade following Redemption, the convict population grew ten times faster than the general population: “Prisoners became younger and blacker, and the length of their sentences soared.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“We have a man in the Life Guards committed to our plan. He spends his days within two arms’ length of the general. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she watched, he found the pine tree he had in mind, and pulled a length of one supple branch loose. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

At length they came to Weathertop; and it was then drawing towards evening and the shadow of the hill lay dark on the road. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The nightingale has twenty-four basic songs, but gains wild variety by varying the internal arrangement of phrases and the length of pauses. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That's what I told them. I said any girl who goes to such lengths to preserve her life isn't going to be interested in throwing it away with both hands.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I walked the whole length of the cove. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have in my hand four lengths of rope of the sort fishermen use for mooring lines. May I ask you to inspect them, please?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

At the halfway mark, they led by a full length, with both crews rowing at thirty-two. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I turned our bucket upside down, sat on it, pulled a length of string from my pocket, and wove it into a fanciful pattern around my fingers. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair was shoulder length, framing his face in loose curls the color of frost. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After slaughter, the hogs were decapitated, split down the length of the belly, pried open, eviscerated, and strung up by the hind hocks on a high conveyer belt. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t really know what I was doing, but I ran around the length of the stable, throwing shells into the dung piles. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

At length they came to land again upon the southern slopes of Amon Lhaw. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But a brass player, without changing the length of the instrument, gets different notes by actually playing the harmonics of the instrument. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Right as I yank out my own length of rope, the dragon finally breaks free from the ice. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The list she gives me is the length of my arm. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I watch for a minute while he picks up a length of rope, makes a noose, and then pretends to hang himself for my amusement. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

When illustrated, their features were exaggerated to comical lengths in order to make them seem worthless. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

He looks up the length of Henry’s body and is met with burning eye contact, a red lip caught between white teeth. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I know that a stranger’s hand will write to me next, to say that the good and faithful servant has been called at length into the joy of his Lord. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He sat down to wait, choosing a bench on which, an arm’s length away, a woman’s purse rested—tempting him to snake his hand around inside it. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many fishermen were around the skiff looking at what was lashed beside it and one was in the water, his trousers rolled up, measuring the skeleton with a length of line. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

But Washington remained out in front, their lead—almost two lengths now—essentially undiminished. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The same boat that had been dominant all fall-—the boat built around four of last year’s freshmen—had won by an impressive three lengths in a time of 6:43. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The village, in which we Bradshaws lived for more than two hundred years, covers barely a third of our island’s length. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hugh paced the length of the cage, an agitated bee circling his head. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Odysseus at length said to his son: “Go tell old Nurse I’ll have a word with her. What’s to be done now weighs on my mind.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thing I didn’t love was the lengths we had to go to in order to get to church. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Since the areas of the cross sections of the supporting wires are equal, the stresses in the wire, force divided by cross-sectional area, vary as the lengths of the wires. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled out the pin and let it drop to the length of its chain. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Even today, artists and architects intuitively know that objects that have this ratio of length to width are the most aesthetically pleasing, and the ratio governs the proportions of many works of art and architecture. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

At the two- mile mark, Morry barked out, “Way ’nuffi” and now two full lengths ahead of both other boats, the freshmen pulled up, let their oars ride the water, and coasted to a stop. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She tugged at the knots, and he could see that she had done a masterly job of connecting them to each other, leaving a length of vine between. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Axe, as everyone called him, had a soft voice, a courtly manner, and a brushy mustache that ran the length of his top lip. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

His belly rumbled loudly as he chewed on a length of rotten sausage. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Because harsh sentencing is a major cause of the prison explosion, one might reasonably assume that substantially reducing the length of prison sentences would effectively dismantle this new system of control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The door led onto a wide corridor with an automatic sliding door at each end and a silver rail running its full length. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Jacob and Jeanne marveled at him, unfurled to his full length. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Believe me, we had a very long time to listen to the four-wheel-drive transmission and every bump in the road for the full length of two entire countries. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A metallic purr ran the length of the dragon’s body. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Their boys were out in front by a quarter of a length and bearing down on the finish line. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Multiplying by i turns the vector ninety degrees to the left and does not change the length,” Jake said. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

He reached down to a short length of floorboard and pushed at it until he was able to lever it out. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Using a short knife, Angelo made another shallow cut the length of the animal’s belly. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

At length they came to a halt before an unseen opening that led to the lower gates of the mines, on the eastward side of the mountains. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

So at length they came to the private chamber of the Lord of the City. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I do not believe you can suspend army ants away from the earth, on plastic, for any length of time. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This summer, for example, pants may be capri, classic, carpenter, clam-digger, boot, or flood, depending on their length and cut, and I’m probably leaving a few categories out. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t resist, and I don’t stop pulling until the full lengths of our bodies are touching. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I was handing him the half-sovereign, when something came bobbing up against the window, and Mr. Bilder’s face doubled its natural length with surprise. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

When she finished, she and her length of yellow silk swept out of the store without so much as a how-do-you-do to me. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I was struck again by the wonder of her, and for the length of my trance, the greedy uneasinesses were held at bay. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

This sound seemed to enter him, pierce him down his length so that his whole body opened up and he was able to step out of himself and kiss her freely. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

This is the true length of human history; before that there were two million years of prehistory. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She was extended full length at her end of the divan, completely motionless and with her chin raised a little as if she were balancing something on it which was quite likely to fall. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He spoke at length on the contradiction between the style of the sculpture and the fact that the marble from which it was carved came from Thasos. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

So while Francis continued thinking about the meaning of the X-ray diagram, I began to assemble the various atomic models into several chains, each several nucleotides in length. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Paxter Redwyne, Lord of the Arbor, marched down the length of the hall flanked by his twin sons Horror and Slobber, the former limping from a wound taken in the battle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

At length, our dinner being completed, I took the opportunity to read in Virgil. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Now Maa sat with a length of red muslin for my wedding sari on her lap. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

It sank to half its length and stopped with a hollow wooden sound. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

A verb phrase is a string of words of any length which fills a particular slot in a tree. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

At length we saw the numerous steeples of London, St. Paul’s towering above all, and the Tower famed in English history. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

Passing the anchor on the way, he skimmed his hand over its whole length, and tried to imagine it rippling and morphing as it apparently had for the dark god Skathis. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Two Gestapo officers strolled down the length of the platform. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coach Quatrini had us stretch for three minutes, then do four short sprints down the length of the gym, and then stretch for another two minutes. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

They kept at arm’s length the multimedia that Terryl feared would foil their engagement with one another, their studies, the real world. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The side benches ran the whole length of the boat, merging at the bow and stern to form end benches that were roughly triangular in shape. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He wraps the book with a length of fine wool yarn dyed a deep crimson, bits of it stained darker with something dried and brown. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

After a moment, she held him at arm’s length to examine him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Measure the length of the baseline between you and me and the angles of our two corners and the rest can be simply calculated. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

"Perhaps some evening when you're not busy you'll drop in to see us. Then we could talk at greater length. Unless, of course. . ." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a sentence sounds nice, reads well, and is easy to follow, its length is just right. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Russ. He’s just talking about outer space to keep people at arm’s length.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were talking to Georges Laforgue, who was telling us enthusiastically and at great length about a similar disappearance at Brandeis when suddenly, from nowhere, Henry appeared behind him. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A few men pulled the shark up higher by ropes and pulleys, and I followed the length of the shark’s white belly from nose to tail. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The dogs were bull-tough and the yellow one, particularly, showed its wolf origins in the springy length of its legs. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Finally I gave up my speculations and concluded that in life, as in stories, foolish lovers will go to great lengths, deceiving themselves for the sake of pleasure. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Because a sister can’t just ask a guy out like it’s some normal thing, girls have gone to great lengths to make sure that their Sadie Hawkins proposition is the most elaborate. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The rest of the field peeled away, scattered across thirty-two lengths of track behind them. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I deployed both sea an­chors fully, at different lengths so that they would not interfere with each other. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

In my humble opinion, the prescribed story structure, the limited length, and the other restrictions inherent to film cause the truth to be treated as a handicap. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Washington remained four full lengths behind the leaders. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In the space of half a step, she transformed her delighted headlong run into a demure greeting at arm’s length. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I lifted my hand and guided it lightly down the length of knobby bones between his shoulder blades. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Pass me a bowl,” said Hermione, holding the pulsating pod at arm’s length; Harry handed one over and she dropped the pod into it with a look of disgust on her face. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The master and his friends could complain about the Continental Congress at such length I feared my ears might drop off. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another bar ran along the length of the Berg’s lower edge, with just enough space for Mark to slip his arm through it. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I pace up and down the length of the kitchen. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“If there is any misunderstanding on that we should discuss the point at some length.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Fox passed Hobs a length of rope and said, “Make yourself useful.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The entire length of that border was about to become a battlefront. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He began to prowl the length of the living room back and forth, and by seven o’clock he had made them all nervous. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

These numbers were all six digits in length, and they also began with the numeral “6,” so everyone began calling them the Sixers. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It curved back around, halfway down the length of the cockpit. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arthur holds out his phone at selfie length. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Holding them at arm’s length, she announced dramatically, “The Sacred Flower of Egypt.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The quartet of horses blazed down the stretch at a terrific clip, with Seabiscuit a half length in front. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything around me was art, from the stains in my bathtub to the razor blade and short length of drinking straw I used to cut and ingest my speed. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Turner went back to the lady for a length of rope, but no one came to the door and he wasn’t certain that he had the right house. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

His voice rang off the stone walls and down the length of the halL He liked that too. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I do not consider its length as particularly in its favour. Such things in general cannot be too short.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

We pause to stare the length of Aleppo Way—the longest stretch of our journey. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

That first week, the second graders made red-and-green construction paper chains that they hung the length of the elementary and junior high school halls. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He was back after some length of time, fully visible and looking furious, his ears trembling and rimmed with blue. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath the Cloak he could feel the last vestiges of Polyjuice leaving him, his hands returning to their usual length and shape. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And on the third floor, they had this room that ran the whole length of the house, about as big as left field in Yankee Stadium, which I have walked on, by the way. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You’re surrounded on three sides at a distance of three arms’ lengths. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Tongues flicking, some of the moccasins extended to their full lengths while others coiled sluggishly. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he lay at full length on the ground, Aurelia would sometimes sit astride him and dig her hands into the fur along his neck, kneading him to make him purr. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

But in a few minutes, he placed several lengths of palm fiber across my lap. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Space, considered barely in length between any two beings, without considering anything else between them, is called DISTANCE. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Along the length of the wall was a row of potted poinsettias. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

For each note on the first line, write a rest of the same length on the second line. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She bent down, tore a length of cloth from the bottom of her dress. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

A length of pink ribbon was woven in and out all around the top of the hem, wasted, pure waste where no one would ever see it. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The precise length of the Appalachian Trail is a matter of interesting uncertainty. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I take a deep breath and feel the music vibrate my bones and focus on the roof just an arm’s length in front of me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“First off, don’t be concerned about destroying evidence. They would never have gotten fingerprints off the drill, not after that length of time and with it being exposed to the elements.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was not difficult for either of them to stand thus, for the first test which they had had to pass in archery was standing with the bow at arm’s length for half an hour. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She begins upwind of the train and runs alongside its length, straining at the leash until she gets a hit. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

There was an unusually hot day that spring, and Luke and I spent it hauling purlins—the iron beams that run horizontally along the length of a roof. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At length, when he was sure that there were no men anywhere near, he went cautiously up to the verge. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calipers are used to evaluate his feet, the length of his fingers, and the distance between his eyes and his navel. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

To the smaller of the two bundles, we tied a length of rope. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Dots and ties give you much freedom to write notes of varying lengths, but so far you must build your notes from halves of other notes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He says it measures 180 feet in length and climbs to a height of 20 feet. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Instead the man shrieked in surprise and dropped Otto heavily into the dirt, holding the cut rope at arm’s length, like he was handling a snapping turtle. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

At length Hazel turned his eyes away from watching it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He moved to the bed set against the wall and slowly folded his length on top of the comforter. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

His body lay stretched full- length on the ground. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone started unreeling sections of Nailer’s new haul, parting the lengths out amongst themselves. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I watch him down the length of the ship; he grimaces and works his fingers backwards and cannot sit; and none of us can walk about, or breathe any air untainted. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He also increased the length to fourteen inches, and that looked about right to me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He stretched out full length upon the cot and groaned. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

As the Washington boat swept under the black skeleton of the railroad bridge at the three-mile mark, it was still nearly three lengths back with a mile to go. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Whether a stem points up or down does not affect the note length at all. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Notice that it doesn't matter what the length of the fundamental is; the waves in the second harmonic must be half the length of the first harmonic; that's the only way they'll both "fit." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

My hands go to the length of rope dangling at my waist, and as Asher and Ren attack the Demons, I dart toward the surface and slow my board down near the dragon. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You’d be surprised at the lengths people will go to avoid responsibility,” Wanda replied, and her voice was rough, but certain. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

People also recalled, though this point was discussed at considerable length, that he had returned home without a degree, and that he had, in some undefinable way, changed. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You get an arm’s length, and then he pulls it back and you don’t hear from him for a long while.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

When a note has a fermata on it, you hold it for about twice the length of time.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It was fun to run the whole length of the big room, from the large fireplace at one end all the way to Grandma’s bed, under the window in the other end. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

From everything Ginny had told me about you, I knew you would go to any lengths to solve the mystery — particularly if one of your best friends was attacked. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Dad picked up a six-foot length of angle iron and handed me the end. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The two bikers had stretched a length of cheese wire between them. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

But no one ever replicates those prescribed lengths perfectly. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

At the rear, she climbed the shallow steps leading to the wide brick terrace that ran the length of the house. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Deborah threw her black canvas tote bag onto the floor, tore the wrapping paper from the photo, then held the frame at arm’s length in front of her. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

On the ceiling, moths fling themselves at the dull gray light tubes running the length of the corridor and I hear the papery flapping of their wings. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The festival holding cell was a mobile office with three rooms closed off from one another that ran the length of the trailer. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I grin, almost blushing on Violet’s behalf, as I pan the length of her body, allowing my camera to assess her black satin dress, which is short, backless, and tight—and worn with absolute aplomb. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I cut a notch on each side of the shell and connected them with a length of rope. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, he sits with his bag pulled up to his chest, clumsily trying to make knots in a short length of rope. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Jam stared in silence as Pet stood up from its crouch, its full length looming through the air. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

What I like to think of as fighting length. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Rainy days, I generally sat in a dry place and read a book, often just an axe length away from a ping-pong table. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

There were four minutes remaining in my lunch period, which was the perfect length for a Mom conversation. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

However, for orbits whose lengths were not a whole number of wavelengths, each wave crest would eventually be canceled out by a trough as the electrons went round; these orbits would not be allowed. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a sigh, he stepped back from her and held her at arm’s length. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The boys from Berkeley executed a tremendous surge, suddenly blowing past both Navy and Penn, seizing the lead and winning by a quarter of a boat length. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Were you more aware, you would know or realize by now that the offending trousers were dispatched to you with our full knowledge that they were inadequate so far as length was concerned. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pastor Weeks turned around to talk to Mr. Robert Finch, who rode his horse a few lengths behind the wagon. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rode his warhorse down the length of the hall and dismounted before the Iron Throne. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was barely dawn, and only the white stripe running the length of her face was clearly visible. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

We stand arm’s length apart cuz her silence still bothers me. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Otto wrapped his remaining length around Flux’s hands and leaned back, drawing the rope tight. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She walked the short length of hall towards the stairs. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ammukutty... what is it— She went to him and laid the length of her body against his. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is quite impossible for a body to survive in that cold for any length of time. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

At length they arose, and took their leave of the Lady, and thanked her for her care, and went to their rest. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

His length was his pride, and no mere walking stick was more impressive than he! Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He had cut two grooves the length of the board, and laid the board on blocks, one end a little higher than the other. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the pipes were threaded through with lengths of chain fitted at their ends with every manner of bludgeon. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She held it out at arm’s length, pinched between her thumb and forefinger. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“He didn’t really either,” Anya said, sawing through the first length of rope. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Over on the evening side, a hedge ran down the length of the field toward the iron road. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

M aria Isabel travels up the length of Mexico on buses. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I rushed out before anyone could catch up with me and walked, not home, but across the length of the marsh on the one high path to the very southern tip of the island. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Rats’ teeth continue to grow our entire lives, which necessitates gnawing to keep them at a manageable length. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He stretches his length on the grass and shuts his eyes in excitement. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ayanna held Gum Baby at arm’s length and looked at her. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Once the remaining empty slots were filled, the Scoreboard began to grow in length, to display rankings beyond tenth place. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She held him at arm’s length and glared into his eyes. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Three silver beads, strung onto a short length of red thread, plopped carelessly on top of the rest of Zane’s loot in the suitcase. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The young otter now was the length of my arm and very glossy. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caravan guards wandered among the aisles in copper helmets and knee- length tunics of quilted yeUow cotton, empty scabbards swinging from their woven leather belts. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I held the flare in the air at arm’s length and waved it slowly. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

If you blow across the mouth of a length of tubing you can make a musical note. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The same length may be written as a half note and a quarter note tied together. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Tiller and Florida had traveled the length of Hidden River and had spent the last two hours portaging into the Goochee River. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Odd Fellows’ Brass Band played a short selection, the Moose Band played at length, and the International Woodmen of the World, the band with the fewest members, went on forever. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

That’s when the rope dropped from the sky, a thick length of rope with knots tied into it, expertly, every foot or so. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Ahead and behind, people straggle along the length of the road. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Walking the full length of the track, Woolf found that it circled the entire oval, a few feet from the rail. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A migrant, moving from car to car, can inadvertently step on the pressurized brake line that runs the length of the train. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The drill bit is 1 cm wide, the holes will be 0.5 cm apart, and the length of the total cut is 11.4 m. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dragged the rest of the brush in under the bridge and broke it up, standing on the limbs and cracking them to length. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

But at length Faramir said: ‘I do not oppose your will, sire. Since you are robbed of Boromir, I will go and do what I can in his stead — if you command it.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Inside there was one length of braided cord—red and gold, just like the one Father Cham had given to the baby girl at the school. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Foremole paced the length of the step then shuffled sideways over it. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

For six weeks consecutively I did guard every Sunday and was hut-orderly for the same length of time. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Attached to the back by a short length of rope was Zane’s skateboard, piled high with four powder blue suitcases strapped down tight, each one stuffed to bursting. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

By examining the moving shadow cast by a vertical stick he determined accurately the length of the year and the seasons. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A radio astronomer on a planet of another star would be able to calculate the length of the day on Earth from the times of appearance and disappearance of our signals. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His marriage was now fast approaching, and she was at length so far resigned as to think it inevitable, and even repeatedly to say, in an ill-natured tone, that she “wished they might be happy.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Sitting forward, Zooey reached for it and shot it the length of the tub, closing himself off from view. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

If Ambrose was willing to go to these lengths, I could only imagine what drastic measures he would take if he didn’t need to maintain a semblance of civility. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was like a small panther when confined with the same people and surroundings for any length of time. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore caught the piece of parchment and held it at arm’s length, so that he could read it by the light of the flames, which had turned back to blue-white. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I stroked his head and kissed it, but held him at arm’s length as I took some broad leaves and cleaned his bottom as best I could. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I could fed him standing there watching me as I tried to reeve the lengths, but I knew they weren’t fitting together. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although Native historians and scholars have written at length about how events in US history have impacted Indigenous peoples, their perspectives are not often included in history courses. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was on Snowdrop’s advice, too, that Woundwort at length ordered that the warren was not to extend further, on account of the risk of detection and the weakening of central control. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shorter length of the skirts is supposed to let us kick shamblers easy-like and not trip us up if we need to run. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

We had once stayed at a motel with a swimming pool, and I worked up enough nerve to make my way around the entire length of the pool, clinging to the side. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In memory, distorted by a child’s sense of time, it had always seemed the length of a Shakespeare play. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The election came, Mr. Buchanan was elected, and the endorsement, such as it was, was secured At length, a squabble springs up...” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The only thing that distinguishes one hallway from another, here, is their length. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Taped to the spine was a length of string on the end of which was a pencil. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The actual affair may not have lasted as long as the opera itself, its incredible five- and-a-half-hour length being one of the many obstacles to its being mounted in its entirety during Berlioz’s lifetime. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She even bounced a little in the air before flying speedily down the length of the throne room toward the door. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The bakehouse is away at the other end of the town, and the two must go there and back through the whole length of it. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bus stretched out over the whole length of our driveway. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

There was a secret compartment beneath Ma’s bunk, where Lyra lay cramped for two hours while the police banged up and down the length of the boat unsuccessfully. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The soils beneath Berlin were sandy and unstable; engineers quickly determined that the entire length of the 1,800-foot tunnel had to be sheathed in steel, to prevent the structure from collapsing. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The professor turned to a small table no more than an arm’s length from his comfortable chair and poured some golden wine into three glasses. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit crossed under the wire, finishing second by slightly more than two lengths. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Jockey Harry Richards outrode Jack Pollard at the wire, otherwise Seabiscuit, streaking along in midstretch with a length lead, must surely have won,” he wrote in the Los Angeles Times. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is another way to make a great variety of note lengths. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

That meant that the length of a degree wouldn’t be the same in Italy as it was in Scotland. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Matthew held the letter at arm's length, the way Luke had seen him hold dead baby pigs when they had to be carried out of the barn. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

At length, he demanded, “Why have you trespassed here?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They must make an illegal and dangerous trek up the length of Mexico. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Make groups of equal length on each side, by putting a dotted note or rest in the box. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She’s pacing the length of the kitchen, hands scraping against her hairline. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

They at length said, that they had learned I had been in a “scrape,” and that I was to be examined before my master; and if their information proved false, I should not be hurt. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

Except for the handrails that run the length of all the walls, it would be easy to mix this place up with a hotel. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It hung heavily on the battlements, like thick icing on a very good cake, and in a few convenient places it modestly turned itself into the clearest icicles at the greatest possible length. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She measures length and depth as carefully as a surgeon places a scalpel, as though it is a matter of life and death. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

One long room runs the length of the boat. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

One reason that Kepler had to go to such lengths was that he could not simply baldly state the facts, because there was no tradition of taking facts at face value. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It seems that no matter what lengths I go to, I’m always winding up with people like this in my shack or in my cab. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“The corps is a body,” he explains, twirling a length of rubber hose so that its tip whirs inches from a boy’s nose. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Later my sons set upon it like apprentice palm readers, trying to divine the fate of their world from the lengths and curves of its rivers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nali peeled herself away from his hug and held his shoulders at arm’s length. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He squeezed my shoulders with his strong hands and held me at arm’s length. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The giant was half the length of my spear from the reef, but while I watched, one of his long arms ran out like a snake and felt its way into the crevice. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I run my fingertips up the length of my throat. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Then she pressed her shoulders back so that her breasts swelled forth, and looking from Hamlet to Horatio, she sighed at length. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

There was a space of beach about a half mile in length between Twenty-Sixth Street and Twenty-Ninth Street that was a favorite for people who lived on Chicago’s South Side. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I actually wondered sometimes if Ellie hadn’t gotten into that popular group because of her hair, which was just the right color and length to fit in. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Then came the carving of the quarters, and they spitted morsels of lean meat on the long sharp tines and broiled them at arm’s length upon the fire. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘We will not walk in the dark,’ he said at length. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He balanced a hand on the woman’s shoulder as she held the phone at arm’s length to take the picture. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Food had little meat, each person s piece the width of two fingers pressed close together and the length of half a finger. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

At length they made up their minds to go on again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Seasonal changes of day length, temperature, and rainfall constitute signals that stimulate seeds to germinate, seedlings to grow, and mature plants to develop flowers, seeds, and fruit. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Apollonius of Rhodes told at length the Quest of the Golden Fleece, and in connection with the story a number of other myths. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among them were the length of his left foot, the width and length of his head, and the diameter of his right ear. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Cowslip is in the great burrow,” said one of them at length. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The U.S. boat crept up to within a half length of the British boat’s stern. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

My mother seemed to cheer up as the talk turned to skirt lengths and I leaned over to Andrea. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they simply overpowered the older boys in the last mile to pull away and win by a convincing length and a half. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

George Morry whipped his head around, took a quick look, and was startled at the length of their lead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then she held her out at arm’s length, scanning her face, hands, body. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

An old embroidered blue rug covered in geometrical white shapes wound down its length, and the razor-thin windows lining both its sides offered only strips of Lkossa’s pale morning light. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

His leg was swollen to the point that the skin was about to split along the lines where he’d torn into it, up the length of his shin. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When a European arrives in the West Indies and gets settled or set down for any length of time, he finds it necessary to provide himself with a housekeeper or mistress,” one eighteenth-century observer wrote. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

They start up the length of the rue Cuvier. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Previous work in Adaurice’s lab had shown that crystalline A-form DNA fibers increase in length when they take up water and go over into the B form. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Her braid hung loose along the length of her back, the curled tip just touching the stone behind her. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Am I wrong, do you think, to go to any lengths, then, to protect her?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

An incident later in B-block had called my bluff: I’d discovered a fire in the service area that ran down the center of the block; welders upstairs had unwittingly ignited a length of PVC pipe. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their usual weapons were sticks, short lengths of chain, and an occasional knife. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Ishmael argued at length about this, asserting that Cod could not possibly view their love as something wrong or evil. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was a young fellow and he held the wine-bottle at full arms' length and raised it high up, squeezing the leather bag with his hand so the stream of wine hissed into his mouth. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Almost everything Stamitz does is provided with a response of the same length and shape. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Mira, your dad and I have already discussed this at length. There’s just not enough money in our budget, and Gran is already helping with other things.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Norwood, whose first love was trigonometry and thus angles, decided to bring a little mathematical rigor to navigation and to that end he determined to calculate the length of a degree. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I hoped the bag would give us the extra length we needed. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The strength of the Wall was its height; the length of the Wall was its weakness. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Uncle and White Deer set his leg—there was plenty of wood for that—and we bound up his sides tight with some old lengths of cloth. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government went to insane lengths to try to enforce these new laws. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She left just enough of her consciousness seated in her body to do that much: pace the length of her terrace and know if anyone came near her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The horn felt like regular horn when she got to it, until she traced along its length and felt a loop pressing down halfway. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The tanker came from Athens, from Athens across the Atlantic and down the length of the Mediterranean Sea. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nowadays we use just this method to measure distances precisely, because we can measure time more accurately than length. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pillars on either side of the door are cracked, lines running the length of them, bits of concrete missing. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

We watched her unfold it and carefully unwind the sheet of paper, which took up the entire width and length of the lunch table. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He first elicited Michel’s name and address, his length of service, and the length of time he had been on this particular route. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

By February 1955, the tunnel was nearly done—complete with its own ventilation system and trolley for moving men and materiel along the full length of the narrow passageway. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She turned back into the room and began to walk to and fro down its whole length without stopping, without resting. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

The head moved slowly, taking in the dusky lengths of the wood ride in both directions, and then fixed them once more with its fierce, terrible stare. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s lovely to sit on the float looking along the length of the horse from his tail to his head rocking along the Ennis Road over the Shannon and up the Dock Road. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She didn’t stop to wonder at the ease of her footing or the length of her leaps. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

These novel insects, named Blatella asmithicus after the geneticist responsible for creating them, Dr. Andrew Smith, measure nearly a meter in length, and have an astounding resiliency and immunity to all known toxins. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The shadows bring out the sharpness of his bones, the length of his lashes, the merciless beauty of his face. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"I did not trip," she said at length. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Why are you doing this to me, child,” Granny said at length, in a quivering voice. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

His tone made it obvious that he and Dionysus had already discussed me at length. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The eastern length ran along the Sound in an uneven line. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why had I gone to such lengths to avoid them? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

We walked the length of an alley to a small courtyard. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rubbed his fingertips together and continued the length of the anchor. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I walk the length of the building calling for him. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It’s difficult to believe, but Bobby rejected one set because the length of the knight’s nose was too long; the anti-Semitic symbolism was hardly lost on those who heard the complaint. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And without waiting for an answer, she quickly produced a length of silk thread and attached the end of it to the peach stem. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

For nearly its whole length through the Smokies, the AT marks the boundary between North Carolina and Tennessee. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He balanced a hand on the woman’s shoulder as she held the phone at arm’s length to take the picture. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

At length they came back to the Steward’s Door, and Beregond looked with grief at the porter. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

When Lane broke it, it was because he was not one to keep a punch line to himself for any length of time. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

His eyes traveled down the length of the staff to the keys on the floor. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The scabs harden and, at length, fall off; and gradually, the mind reasserts balance and health. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

They had clothes and blankets and pillows from the upstairs rooms and they fitted themselves out in new attire, the boy’s trousers cut to length with his knife. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Lourdes’s walkie-talkie crackles as she works her way along the length of river that forms the western boundary of her territory. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing on end in the yard was a tall length cut from the trunk of a big hollow tree. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother made sure that Viola got nice new lengths of cotton in the summer and flannel in the winter, along with her weekly wages. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The boys dug hard and the American flag snapping on the foredeck of the Husky Clipper began to move past Duckworth, creeping halfway up the length of the British boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I could pace off the length of fence he built in ten strides. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Nailer turned and peered down the length of the train, looking ahead to where the towers of drowned Orleans would eventually rise. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Their strides, each twenty-one feet in length, fell in perfect synch. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

This she takes an undue length of time to unfold and scan. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They counted five for a hit and one if the arrow was within a bow’s length, and they added up their scores at the end. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The length of the string does not change. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Sing Sing, it was clear from watching the training officers, did not care much about the polish on your shoes or the crease in your shirt or the length of your hair. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been enjoying a reign of terror since they brought him to Detroit, trying to take big chunks out of the grooms, and no one wanted to go within a pitchfork’s length of him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And only now, after working this same land for ten years, am I coming to understand the length and breadth of outsiders’ failure to impose themselves on Africa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It zeroed in on Stef until it was an arm’s length from her. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, taking the length of rope from her bucket, she fashioned a loop at the end, and with one expert throw lassoed the doorknob at the far side of the room. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was about the length of my arm and about a third that in width; and it had a cunning metal clasp with a ring at the end. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Inka bola consisted of three stones tied to lengths of llama tendon. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I was forced to admit, however, that from the moment it had been passed its consequences became as real and as serious as the wall against which I pressed the length of my body. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I buttoned the braces on to the trousers, six buttons in all, then I put on the trousers and adjusted the braces to the correct length by sliding two brass clips up and down. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four trees are wanted for the Keel, which all together will measure 146 feet in length, and hew 16 inches square. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

All sat silent for a while, until at length Boromir spoke. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Her throat constricted as those fingers, cold, so cold, traced the length of her jaw, the curve of her ear, the hollows of her neck, where a pulse fluttered like a dying moth. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

We can imagine generating a cube in the following way: Take a line segment of a certain length and move it an equal length at right angles to itself. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had tumbled the length of its body and was trying to stagger to its feet; after a moment it gave up and lay still, barefoot, shivering, its belly heaving in and out. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The itching came again, the tingling sensation of yet another attempt to peer inside my head, dread trailing down the length of my spine like a freezing fingertip. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It’s knee length and pink, with blue and green flowers. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They flew down the length of the nave, turned sharply, and disappeared through a doorway. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Usually phrases vary from four to eight beats in length. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

With spit, he wipes clean the length of the wire and coils it a hundred times around the base of the pipe, making a new tuning coil. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A trickle of sweat began at my temple and worked its way down the length of my spine. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Then the squall struck whining from the west, with gale force, breaking both forestays, and the mast came toppling aft along the ship’s length, so the running rigging showered into the bilge. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes bulged, and blood vessels in his throat began to pulsate, until at length I lowered the jug. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up and down the length of the building, but besides Maribel and me, no one was around. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Did you know some frogs can leap so far it’d be like a human jumping the length of a football field? They’re amazing jumpers.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“You can tear off a length of tape from your ankle and use it to patch a hole in your suit,” she said. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Canning jars, stacked three deep, gleamed like a rainbow of liquid jewels along the length of the shelf. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They walked it in circles several times, letting the merchant and his wife admire the shiny black spikes running down the length of its back, each one sharp enough to draw blood. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A tongue the length of a stair carpet encircled the flask as he popped off the lid and tossed the whole contents down. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He was extremely thin, with shoulder- length white hair neatly combed beside a face so seamed and wrinkled, it hardly seemed real. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, what’s typical these days? When I was in high school, everyone wore floor length, but I hear that’s not a thing anymore.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Their hands were handcuffed behind their backs, and their feet tied straight out in front of them with a length of bright yellow rope. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There was bread in all shapes and sausages of all lengths and colors and fruits and candies. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He pulls his small glasses out of his breast pocket, puts them on, and holds a paper out at arm’s length. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He parked his car next to Aunty Ifeoma’s station wagon and took out a can of petrol and a garden hose that had been cut to a quarter of its length. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

No wonder he had gone to such great lengths to hide what he was reading. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

If the two sticks cast shadows of equal length, that also would make sense on a flat Earth: the Sun’s rays would then be inclined at the same angle to the two sticks. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His rage stayed with him for a while as he walked behind the horses, back and forth along the length of the field. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have a difficult time writing at extended length about anything. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held him at arm’s length and inspected his face. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Johnny kept on running up Long Wharf and the short length of King Street. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ferocity of their arguments only increased, as did the length of the cold silences that filled whatever other time they spent together. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

By a fallen telegraph pole Turner cut off a length of cable and made a noose. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Some inventive rat had devised a fearsome weapon: chunks of iron grave-railings from the churchyard, strung to lengths of cord. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It is early April 2000, and they have made it nearly a third of the way up the length of Mexico, a handful of migrants riding on boxcars, tank cars, and hoppers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He licked his lips and squinted at the courthouse ceiling; his hands roamed up and down the length of his cane. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The tall man accepted the book, holding it at arm’s length to study the cover before Clyde grabbed it and flipped it open. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

His own two hands at arm’s length looked menacing. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to roll free off the arms that are carrying me but succeed only in tearing a length of paper chain. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I use my real last name, pausing a moment as I think of the lengths to which Papa went to avoid it. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We’ve seen microscopes before, but not at such length; we can spend a lot of time with them before getting tired of them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

At length Bear called me to his side. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Howard went to great lengths to manipulate those covering his horse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fell about the length of his own body—far enough to tell him that he was in a burrow. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He'd picked up bamboo lengths on the beach and had fitted them together into a short pipe to funnel the rain water into our ten-gallon keg. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most everybody jotted down random guesses, but I took a ruler and measured the length of what we had and the length left to reach the floor. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

When they rose at length and moved in the direction of the door, Poirot sprang up and followed them. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his hand he had a length of chain. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

A long I beam stretched nearly the full length of the loft, and on it lay the framework of an eight-oared shell under construction. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Washington was two and a half lengths ahead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

For my twin sister’s name I prefer the spelling Lee, as that makes her—from the back-court position from which I generally watch her—the slippery length of muscle that she is. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Elinor heard the shots she jumped up so fast that she stumbled over her blanket in the dark and fell full length in the coarse grass. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Hazel’s hand flew to it and traced it all down the length of her cheek to her jaw. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Then she lay full length in the metal channel and leaned her head sideways to hear as well as she could. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She could see herself a child, rocking a baby in a cradle, rock, rock, rock; could see herself sick with the measles, walking the length of Cook’s trap line, in winter, shivering, eyes watering. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walking-stick bugs grew even larger—some of them four feet in length. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Thousands of miles of country roads, rough timber lanes, overgrown tracks leading to abandoned mines, and unmapped trails snake across its length and breadth. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am still figuring out the logistics of interacting with physical things,” Marco says, flattening the raven’s wings and letting it limp down the length of his arm. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Uaaxee came too and was responsible for keeping our animal guest, Apple, from galloping the length of the palace hall. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I shrug to communicate that my hair length’s a matter of complete indifference to me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Down the length of the ship, two other launches dangled over the side, full of Dauntless’s crew. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Twice more he stole the ball from the opposing guard, dribbled the length of the court, and laid the ball gently in the white square painted on the glass backboard. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother played along nicely, Father looked on stonily, and Ravi was mercifully absent be­cause of a cricket match, which did not prevent him from comment­ing at great length on the event. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I knew there were several lengths of log over near the campfire. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it was, his shoulder was paralyzed by a shockwave of pain that traveled the length of his arm. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A foot’s length of tightly packed cleavage is directly under my nose. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Yet he was not quite at the goal: simple math told him that reaching that energy would require a linear tube many meters in length—“rather awkwardly long for laboratory purposes.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Up the entire length of my long, wide, tree-lined road they came. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the bunch of reeds was pulled apart in the middle to form a hollow, and the two sides were tied all along their length to make a basic boat shape. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deftly she circled his waist, and then her own, with the length of supple vine. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

And then, down the length of the pond, a voice rang out. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came in a staggering eight lengths behind them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The straws were different lengths, and when she came near the end of one straw, she put a new, long one from the tub in its place and went on braiding. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hurl myself at him, but before I make contact he once again has me at arm’s length. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The length of it pushed against his trousers, and his trousers pressed against her underpants and their smooth, wet silk pushed pleasantly. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I walk the full length of the sidewalk in front of Tyler’s house without looking at the window. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

This time there was no growling rebuff over the prey: instead, the cat sat down a few yards away, studiedly aloof and indifferent, then painstakingly washed down the length of his tail. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jenna thrusts her pitchfork into the sand and the camera zooms in on her sandy feet, then glides up the length of her body, like every inch is being adored. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Most salamanders are tiny, only an inch or two long, but the rare and startlingly ugly hellbender salamander can attain lengths of over two feet. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

As their name suggests, cosmic strings are objects that are like string in that they have length but a tiny cross section. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he occurs at length in this account, it is because he contributed much to the trip. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Fabian took six long pieces of dried grass, cut them to the same length with his sword, and then cut two of them shorter. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“There goes Majidi, dribbling fast down the length of the court, and—OH MY GOODNESS! He drops the sledgehammer! Up high and down hard!” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

As the hoofbeats grew nearer, she pulled her sun- bonnet farther down over her face and shortened the length of her steps, edging over to the side of the narrow road, hitching along. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked down the green-hung length of the Egyptian Walk, and then, with an effort of will, he became as obvious as he could, and kicked at a pebble. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The inmates loved waffles and sometimes went to great lengths to acquire more than their share. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Green beans, snapped always the right length, collards, cabbage, juicy red tomato preserves that came into their own on steaming buttered biscuits, and sausage, beets, berries and every fruit grown in Arkansas. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Otherwise I have no doubt you would have done so long ago and at some length. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Moch yelled again, “One length to make up—six hundred meters!” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And I did not like black socks, regardless of length, because they made my feet smell like Cool Ranch Doritos, which is not a normal smell for feet to have. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Her body ran the length of the port corridor, her outstretched hand jutting into the engine room, offering the life-sized figure of Nike that stood in her palm, like, Here, have some Victory! The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

At length, tired out, they slunk under a curtain of brambles that hung down like a mat over a low rock-face. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Equally, we can use a more convenient, new unit of length called a light-second. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked inside and pulled out a piece of pie crust the length of my finger. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

At length, the captives were led into a spacious council chamber. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

In the middle stage of a grueling distance race, Seabiscuit had broken the half-mile world record by two seconds, the equivalent of more than thirteen lengths. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pulsing jugular looped lazily down the length of her neck. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Instead, they form along the length of the tube. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Again and again he barked, and the cat growled softly and continuously, walking back and forth and rubbing his whole length against the dirty, muddied head. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over my hair I tied a ragged length of linen. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

With a yell, Matthew leaps forward, running the length of the barn toward me. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

They have a sense that the length of a day is mutable, and you can never see the end from the beginning. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She trudged down the length of the throne room and through the door to the prison. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“He used to measure out short lengths of fabric by wrapping them around his wrist.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then we could get the length of the whole row of houses.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The maid brought her a length of cloth, which Roza pressed against her damp cheeks. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

For the remaining mile and a half, the sophomores settled in and rowed gorgeously—a long, sleek line of perfection—passing under the automobile bridge and finishing a comfortable two lengths ahead of Navy. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The workers installed three sets of parallel railroad tracks along the length of the building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The audible result of this slight increase in length of each subdivision is that the rhythm feels more relaxed, smoother and less rigidly precise. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Bessie supplied the hiatus by a homily of an hour’s length, in which she proved beyond a doubt that I was the most wicked and abandoned child ever reared under a roof. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was black with white stripes along its length. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We looked back to see a length of rope uncoil itself and float across the gravel at ankle height. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I wondered what he would say if he found me speaking for such an inappropriate length of time with his daughter. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Petey led the way, and everyone followed with their crates now held at arm’s length. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The entire length of the grip was cracked, with a deep seam visible where it had been glued back together. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill, For, even though vanquished, he could argue still, While words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

A-block, probably the largest freestanding cellblock in the world, is 588 feet long, twelve feet shy of the length of two football fields. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could not really sleep for any length of time, but dozed now and then, and in between I would go in and see how he was. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I sit down at the foot of the bed and lay across the length of it on my back. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

In my classes, my teachers always say to let your breath travel through your body, down the length of your limbs. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Tapeworms,” the expert continued, “can reach lengths of nine feet.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Soon the hair on my head was no more than a finger’s length all over. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

At length, she lay beside him like a burden laid down at evening which must be picked up once more in the morning. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Creating a stable calendar was a problem for most ancient peoples, because they generally started out with a lunar calendar: the length of a month was the time between successive full moons. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I visited him often at his house, and we discussed my opposition to communism at great length. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad also scavenged a couple of tables and chairs, and he built some makeshift closets—which were actually kind of nifty—by hanging lengths of pipe from the ceiling with wires. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Later he turned and spoke at length in Swahili with Robin MacDonald. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They carried armloads of dead limbs up the back stairs through the kitchen and into the diningroom and broke them to length and stuffed the fireplace full. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

They crossed the line three lengths ahead of Navy, still pulling away at the head of a long, strung-out parade of boats far to their rear. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I opened the knife, and cut a length of twine, and came back into the room again. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

At length, while we were having coffee, I tersely outlined my new plans for the summer. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

On March 23 it won by an astonishing seven lengths in one race and a commanding three or four in a second. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Sweat trickled down his forehead and chest as he ironed with great enthusiasm, his right arm pushing the iron across the length of the shirt with such vigor that his breathing nearly duplicated Dr. Hyde’s. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

They hadn’t gone to such lengths to kidnap Miss Peregrine only to give up after one failed attempt. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Ever since then, they feared—correctly—that the Soviets would go to great lengths to eavesdrop on conversations inside the embassy. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They entered a large rectangular cavern that ran the entire length of the block, interrupted only by beams and posts. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, maybe you’re right,” she said at length, and blew out her ear holes. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Morse code is made up of dots and dashes, each of which has its own prescribed length. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Because of getting on at the observation end of the train, Mr. Popper had to take the birds through the whole length of the train. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

She followed its retreating path with the point of an alder stick; its two feet of length disappeared. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I catch sight of myself in the full- length mirror on the wardrobe. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alfred Lanning looked up with sharp disapproval and snorted the length of his prominent nose. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Banners and flags and gonfalons suddenly bellied from every cornice, a huge red banner unscrolled along the full length of the Machinery Building, and the canvas slipped from Big Mary’s gold-leaf shoulders. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Madam Malkin stood Harry on a stool next to him, slipped a long robe over his head, and began to pin it to the right length. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Turning westward they came at length to a door in the rearward wall of the sixth circle. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It is essential to do this, as was discussed at length earlier. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Before me the low, snow-caked walls dividing the buildings stretched hurdle-like the long length of the block to the corner, and before me empty clotheslines trembled in the wind. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see it in the worried glances he gave the sun as it moved across the sky, in the anxious way he appraised every length of pipe or cut of steel. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I saw the head chef place a huge silver basin on to the wooden side-bench that ran along the whole length of the kitchen against the opposite wall. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Yet it has been changes in our laws—particularly the dramatic increases in the length of prison sentences—that has been responsible for the growth of our prison system, not increases in crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Cut each string to a different length: short, medium, long. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Cutting straight across the meadow was a secret tiny river no wider than the length of my arm. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

From tip of nose to tip of tail he took up over a third of the length of the ship he was on. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They cantered down the lane and hit the wire, winners by five lengths. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But his affection for me at length overcame his dislike of learning, and he has permitted me to undertake a voyage of discovery to the land of knowledge.” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

In some books, too, you will find the tertiary and quaternary taken out and replaced by periods of different lengths called the Palaeogene and Neogene. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Strolling down Main Street, we moved through long blue shadows cast from the two-story buildings that ran the length of the street. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tiny fragments of light seemed to be gathering all around her, dancing up her length and out of her hands. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Aren’t you coming to learn to carry, Five?” asked Hazel at length. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stretched out her arms, measuring length, as the undertaker had done. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Ian’s office was a room running the full length of the house, high up on the top. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

It took forever, and they came out baggy and lopsided, with sleeves that were different lengths and armholes in the middle of our backs. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They came at length to the steep abrupt end of Treebeard’s Hill, and looked up at the rock-wall with its rough steps leading to the high shelf. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The pattern continues with eighth notes, sixteenth notes, thirty-second notes, sixty-fourth notes, and so on, each type of note being half the length of the previous type. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I have one outstanding character trait that must be obvious to anyone who’s known me for any length of time: I have a great deal of self-knowledge. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

By Tuesday afternoon the line snaked almost the length of the parking lot and 366 fans were in it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the boat Bobby Moch took a look at the four lengths between his bow and California’s stern, and hollered to his crew, “OK, you lugs! We’re one length behind.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Finally I felt the heat of her body along my entire length. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I shall set aside any discussion of republics, because I have treated them at length elsewhere. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

There are almost 700 miles of gorgeously mountainous Appalachian Trail in New England—about a third of the AT’s total trail length—enough to keep me occupied till August. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

An angular citizen with popping eyes, and clothes too short for the lank length of his limbs, was pulling to the fore. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Fifteen feet in length, maybe ten feet wide. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A lake of molten sulphur extended the length of an immense canyon, releasing its mephitic vapors in sudden gusts and belches and barring the way of the solitary winged figure who stood at its edge. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He frequently paced the length of the gym, wrote so often in his notebook that he had to get a new one, and would occasionally start his sentences in the middle of a thought. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

By then, the field was six lengths up the track. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that instant a dazzling claw of lightning streaked down the length of the sky. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

No further attempt was made to teach children the length of the Nile in their sleep. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The longsword in his hand was red for half its length. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The Nazis went to great lengths to keep the euthanasia program confidential. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He said he could throw a Frisbee the length of a football field and from April through September his sunglasses tan made him look like a raccoon. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She walked the length of the house to her father’s office. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It came near the end of the game, as Muamer was chasing down a ball near the touchline, alongside a puddle that ran the length of the field just beyond the boundary. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

When the Washington boat neared the finish line, it was eighteen lengths behind Cal, and the only real question was whether it would sink before crossing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He did not come into sight for what seemed an interminable length of time. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Since Saturn moves around the sun once every thirty years, the length of the seasons on Saturn and its moons is much longer than on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heat was then removed, the steam condensed and the piston charged; as soon as the bolt was pulled it would be driven down the length of the cylinder by the pressure of the air. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The best thing he could find was a length of rusty wire. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He extended its planned length from 1,200 miles to well over 2,000, and before it was finished he had walked every inch of it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Gran starts untangling my bangs, which are about chin length. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a night when the thick fog drifted through the streets and I could not see more than an arm’s length before me, and everything seemed unreal, as if I were asleep and dreaming. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it was finished, the house stood five feet high and an arm’s length across; it included shutters, a door, and windows. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

And I could elaborate on this at some length and with, I believe, a fair degree of accuracy. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Bigger took a piece of newspaper and gingerly lifted the rat by its tail and held it out at arm’s length. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not only does time change with speed, so do length and mass. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Not only that: the greater the curvature, the greater the difference in the shadow lengths. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, he was all too aware of how little space there actually was between the two of them, only an arm’s length. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Washington sliced across the finish line four and a half lengths ahead of California, and almost twenty seconds ahead of the freshman course record, despite the headwind. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Caroline seemed intrigued by the idea through the entire length of tea in the cushioned, flower-wallpapered calm of their grandmother’s Cambridge parlor. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He tied another knot—another loose knot—around the ring and kept a length out long enough that he could hold on to it—which he did, for dear life. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

It has length and breadth, but it doesn’t seem to have any depth at all. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

They were less than two feet apart now, little more than an arm’s length. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“You talk a great deal of the length of this passage, my dear. It is a mere nothing after all; and not the least draught from the stairs.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

The planks were all about the same size, the length of my arm, but they came from different canoes and were therefore hard to fit together. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

True, the lengths to which powerful corporations have been willing to go to protect their profits highlights an unbroken trail of shame running through our nation's history. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

“I have been training animals for a long time,” he said at length. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Each of the four singing parts had its own duration-value sequence that started and ended at a different point, creating an overlapping lattice of notes of different lengths. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Then step by cautious step, he began to walk along its length. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was very frightening, but at length we got the medicine down. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the ten years or so since this group was first identified, economists have gone to great lengths to understand them. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it was a simple matter to find four of them about the same length and pull them together. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anna and Mr. Archie got in the act, swinging a rake and a length of plastic pipe respectively, swatting Clock Watchers like giant bugs. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Politely he admires the plaster cove moldings, the ceiling medallions, the marble mantelpieces, things he knows how to speak intelligently and at length about. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But small shorts are a weird length on me. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I held the lighter at arm’s length for two who had rolled their own, ready to spring back at any second. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry unlaced his shoe and pulled the broken string to even lengths so he could tie it in a bow again. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She prowled the length of it, until she was standing right in front of him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Bleeding carcasses hung on hooks the length of her arm. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The surprising number of consecutive runs of heads or tails of various lengths give rise to further counter-intuitive notions. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He at length recognized that I followed him still, and turned. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

No matter how you arrange it, 12 lunar months only add up to about 354 days—roughly 11 short of the solar year’s length. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

At other times he tried to explain to her, in confused words and at great length, about his discovery of God. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right down the length of the room, with the afternoon sun shining full on them, there ran the screen perches to which the birds were tied. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smith is handcuffed, and the handcuffs are attached to a security belt by a short length of chain—an arrangement so restricting his movements that he cannot smoke unaided. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did she tell you the daughter was sending me these book- length emails, calling me three and four times a day at the office?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

A thick, full- length cape made from some sort of rich velvet. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

At length she grew more calm and turning to him said, sweetly, but oh! so sorrowfully, as she held out her hand:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

For a while Francis wanted to expand our note to write at length about the biological implications. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

It was written a thousand years ago and is twice the length of Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad combined. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He told me to put them on, which I did, and they were roughly the correct length, although the waist was far too large. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that never did come through, even after James rigged up an extra length of antenna wire. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Penn remained out in front by three-quarters of a length, and even continued to slowly draw farther ahead of California. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It took Ekon a moment to understand the cause of the unease running down his length, but then he pinpointed it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

There is dancing after dinner in the ballroom, where lengths of colorful, gold-embellished silk cascade over the walls and windows, glimmering in the candlelight. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Before we went inside, she built up a big fire from the stove lengths and shavings. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The stride length, the quickness of the foot feints, all clearly revealed to his unfailing eye, made him reassess his second conclusion. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

At length even Gimli could hear the distant beat of galloping hoofs. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

So he strolled the length of the wharf. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hardly an arm’s length away, he was looking back at her, his face alight. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He gestured at the length of the hall. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Rich land is scarce in Kerm, and a Domain’s pride is in the length of its borders, and the lords of Kerm Land are proud men and umbrageous men, casting black shadows. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

But he climbed, clawing his way higher until he was at the top of the freight car and could see down the length of the train. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She sat down on the bed, back propped against the footboard, legs stretched along the bed’s length, gazing up at the ceiling, as if testing it out. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“With riders reversed, Seabiscuit would have won by half a length. Jack Pollard did not go to the whip near the wire until too late. The defeat may be chalked up to Mr. Pollard.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dotted note is one-and-a-half times the length of the same note without the dot. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He was the only one I met in the whole length of the Slack Run. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the librarians—a woman named Birdie, who has blue streaks in her hair, square-rimmed black glasses, and tattoos of red roses down the length of her arms—looks up from her computer monitor. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Up the length of the street they came shouting, and never knew they had run right through the village, as the empty huts and houses loomed and disappeared again in the writhing grey fog. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

They almost cover the length of it, and I worry that we will have a test or have to write about our favorite. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was, I thought, a gesture to the weather, and the length added inches to my height. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Only two days earlier, Akeer had complained noisily and at length about the pains in her stomach. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she walked the length of Cook’s trap line she saw an occasional gunning skiff, heard the wild free crying of the water birds, watched them fly up, wings spread wide. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The memory gap between English and Chinese apparently is entirely due to this difference in length. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I shimmied the length of a purlin, which took me to the framing beam at the barn’s edge. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A length of rope was wrapped tightly around his ankle: a snare. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Luke held Jack-Jack at arm’s length as the boy twisted, contorting his body back and forth like a wild animal. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Again, it has lost a dimension; it has neither height nor width, but it has length. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

No one could match the smooth erudition of Bawden or the assured nihilism of Pirie, who strongly disliked the notion that some phages have tails or that TMV is of fixed length. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

After half a mile, he was more than twelve lengths back and still sinking. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At length the feast came to an end. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

That unit of length, the distance light goes in a year, is called a light-year. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not that he doesn’t like you,” she said at length. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Others were quite large, maybe half a mile in length. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he clenched his fists and began to plead the blood, to exorcise the hosts of Hell, but even this motion was like another motion, and at length he fell on his knees to pray. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Pythagoras had learned the triangle theorem—that the length of the third side of a right-angled triangle can be deduced mathematically from the length of the other two sides—from Indian or Babylonian geometers. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He held Seabiscuit a half length behind him, keeping just far enough out from the rail to give himself clear running room. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at length all was said, and they parted again for a while, until it was time for the Three Rings to pass away. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She raised her voice so it carried down the length of High Hall of the Eyrie, ringing off the milk- white walls and the slender pillars, so every man could hear it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She held me at arm’s length, looking me over as if she were trying to preserve that moment in her mind. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I uncapped Riptide, and the sword grew to full length in my hands, its bronze blade gleaming in the dark. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

At first he made no reply, but at length said testily:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I stand frozen, or I hold up the line with the complete, grammatical sentence that comes squeaking out at impossible length. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In other words, the note keeps its original length and adds another half of that original length because of the dot. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She swings them in loops and circles, leaving glowing trails of white light in their paths, moving so quickly that they look like strings of fire rather than single flames on lengths of chain. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The giant’s pace was a ponderous one, despite the length and girth of those legs, and he was forever stopping to knock snow off low-hanging limbs with his maul. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was like saying she couldn’t stand to be around him for the length of a stupid project. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It saw the rabbits, ran to the length of its rope and began to bark. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zahotep turned back to his drill and Ranofer started down the length of the shop, his bare feet cringing away from the gritty carpet of stone chips that covered the dirt floor. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

There were doors fining the walls, but Alec suggested that they explore the length of the corridor before they tried each one. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Smoldering the entire length of each train journey, safely contained in its iron cauldron. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Now I saw that the depression was in fact a ditch that ran the length of the street. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“What are your sentries like, Chervil?” he asked at length. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We measured to get each rope the same length and made sure they were far enough back that the cowhide wouldn’t touch Jumper’s heels. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dressed in a tailcoat and white bow tie, he ate heartily and spoke at length with Robert Peary, the Arctic explorer who was credited with being the first to reach the North Pole. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

In the mornings Bibi arrived in the storage room wearing cracked plastic slippers and a housecoat whose hem stopped some inches below the knee, a length we had not worn since we were fifteen. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He cut off a length—about three-quarters of a yard—wound it into a sort of garland, and wrapped it up first in white and then in brown paper. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

She was about thirteen, with straight ash-blond hair of ear-lobe length, an exquisite forehead, and blasé eyes that, I thought, might very possibly have counted the house. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Then the fish came alive, with his death in him, and rose high out of the water showing all his great length and width and all his power and his beauty. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, Celaena found herself standing at the white line, looking at the vast length of the room before her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Down the middle of the mid-Atlantic ridge was a canyon–a rift–up to a dozen miles wide for its entire 12,000-mile length. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

At length, however, he reached over and took up his sack and rummaged through it. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“More than twice the length of my own life.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Because of the length of the lunar day and night Kepler described “the great intemperateness of climate and the most violent alternation of extreme heat and cold on the Moon,” which is entirely correct. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once she’d hugged the stuffing out of her, Sam knelt down and held the little girl at arm’s length, scanning for cuts and bruises. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

At length we saw two men approaching, jogging along towards us with bundles on their heads. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carleton would say, tilting his head back and gazing at us down the length of his nose. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lewis held the paper at arm’s length, squinting. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

This basically makes a vibrating string of a new length, with a new fundamental. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Men stretched a heavy line the length of the Putnam from bow to stern. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I changed into the kittel, Meir knotted lengths of blue and white cord into the tassels found both on tzitzis and on the corners of a prayer shawl. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Eva also fell asleep quickly, her huge frame the length of two wandering boys. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Papa always used pruned lengths of the roses that climbed the little house, weaving them into a very loose topping, but those roses had burned when the old house had last year. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

At length he let out his breath in a long sigh and opened his eyes. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He pulled the bolt and bored out the collet with a hand drill and resleeved it with a section of pipe he’d cut to length with a hacksaw. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I walked over, and she held me out at arms length, an expression equal parts sadness and acceptance working across her dark features. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Along its quiet length white people in bright clumps moved churchward, under the windy bells, walking now and then in the random and tentative sun. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tote bag was tied to my waist with a length of cord. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He looked along the length of the shining black instrument, sighting on the house two backyards away, and especially on the pale, timid, excited face at the third-floor window. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I lifted it to arm’s length and the strands cleared. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

At length, Mrs. Glass heaved one of her premium sighs and returned her attention to Zooey, who, pushing at his cuticles, had pivoted a half turn toward the morning daylight. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

"It sounds like a long one. Epic in nature. What in the world would a squirrel have to write about at such length?" Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

I was dragged the entire length of the block, bouncing along behind the cab, past the sewers, past parked cars, and all the way to the corner, where the cab was stopped by a light. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

At length, just as they felt that they could endure no more, they saw Gollum’s eyes peering down at them again. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The flashlight beam, none too steady in April’s hand, made trash bins crouch and garbage pails lurk, and a length of hose slither against a wall. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

For weeks I’d tripped over that length of rope Uncle Chester had curled up inside the door. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Lewandowski has discussed it all with us at great length; in the army there are no secrets about such things. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had electric torches—both men walked up and down the length of the bus inspecting the damage and cursing. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

A plank of wood hung from two thick lengths of rope, with a stretch of bare dirt below, where years of feet had worn away the grass. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

From time to time, SS officers on motorcycles drove the length of the column to shake off the growing apathy: “Hold on! We’re almost there!” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt the complete length of her then like a warm sliver under my ribs. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The bridge is still burning like you wouldn’t believe, hanging on the opposite cliff like a waterfall on fire, flames having leaped up the entire length of it, angry and greenish yellow. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Fill each measure with a different combination of note lengths. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He crossed the tracks to the other side and walked down the length of the cars. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He clung to Uncle like a baby or a little boy, hanging on to his hand or shirttail when he could, never letting Uncle get farther than an arm’s length away. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in very well-cut English tweeds, and might have been taken for an Englishman had it not been for the length of his moustache and something in the line of the cheekbone. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

At length, the larger of the two came out, slipped along the bank under cover of the brambles and so down into the ditch and up into the field. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went two or three bus lengths beyond the sign, and even after he stopped and I ran up, he didn’t open the doors at first. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He was less than an oar’s length away from her. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Nero climbed to a high branch and stretched himself along its length like a panther surveying his kingdom. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

They came in and sat on the narrow wooden porch that ran along the whole length of Jinjoo’s house. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Several around here done that,' Grandma said, “though I don’t recall him being out of town any length of time. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now he fills the length of the hospital cot, his ribs visible under the white sheet. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

At length, I just closed her envelope with care and placed it to one side of my desk, with the exciting plan to work on it that night, in my own time. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

At length a bumbling hairy half-wit was brought in for questioning. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Its walls were a pale green and it ran the length of the house. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

For example, in 3/4 time, a measure can have any combination of notes and rests that is the same length as three quarter notes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

As I have discussed at some length elsewhere, these ideas are almost certainly wrong. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Do you know, Sam,’ he said at length, ‘the beastly tree threw me in! I felt it. The big root just twisted round and tipped me in!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The testing, the experiment, the surgery, and my subsequent mental development were described at length, and his talk was enlivened by quotations from my progress reports. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

‘I is having early suppers today!’ he shouted, holding the poor squirming soldier at arm’s length and roaring with laughter. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weight, the length, the glory was there. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

When he put his weight on it, a shower of silver needles gushed up the length of the calf and went off in the knee. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cutting the arm off the suit was easy; so was cutting along its length to make a rectangle. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they crossed the finish line four and a half lengths ahead, their official time was recorded as 10:11.2. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But Brutus's excitement got the best of him, and he ended up knocking the ball just past the length of the chain restraining him. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Gollum cast up and down along the brink, and at length he called to them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Henri would go to great lengths to increase his height. heinous. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke at length of the black man and the one with the jerking mustache and the girl. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Mother and I discussed the matter at length,” she later wrote. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Flora watched Ulysses fly over her, his tail extended at full length and his front paws delicately pointed. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

At last after everyone else had left, I walked the length of the aisle and stood for a second at the top of the steps. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

With two fingers Shelly plucked the can from my hand and held it at arm’s length, like it was radioactive. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She picked up my other arm and kissed with her breath the whole length of it. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Cole returned to camp and brought back two lengths of rope. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

One had a great array of slaves; and at length, we decided to approach one, claiming that we had newly run away, and request he bring us clothing. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

When she went to the north side entrance she saw empty cars standing in a double row the length of the building. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The length of the hall is forty-three feet, six inches. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could walk the length of my cell in three paces. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He brought a bruised knuckle to his lips and began to suck on it, pacing the short length of the room. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They measured the spokes, making certain they were of identical lengths, then wrapped a thread that turned the spokes into an eight-angled star with a perfect center. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Among his many exploits, he paddled his canoe up a river to the Fijian village of Kasavu, halted less than a pistol shot’s length from the village fence, and fired away at the undefended inhabitants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The earth was eroded to gray clay, and deep arroyos cut through the length of the valley between the mesas. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sequences of heads and tails of a given length, say twenty flips, generally have a certain number of consecutive runs of heads. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cecilia went to Briony’s bedroom and rummaged in a drawer for the least girlish design—white, ankle length, with red and green strawberries around the tops. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

My fingertips traced the length of each board, feeling along the splinters and the knots in the wood. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of his car, with half a length between it and that drop of two thousand feet, and the blank expression on his face. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He began forcing his way along its narrow length. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

By six hundred meters, they were a length and a half back. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She crossed the length of the room at a run and, not even bothering to try and keep them clean, started rifling through the stacks and stacks of documents. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

They had to work out details like the specific placement of the memorial, the exact length needed to fit everyone’s names, and the thickness of the granite. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

But as the months passed and I had the opportunity to ponder McCandless’s death at greater length, this consensus came to seem less and less plausible. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could feel the hard length of him and the silk of her underpants and his cotton trousers between. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In 1993, three people rolled a measuring wheel along its entire length and came up with a distance of 2,164.9 miles. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Nightingale was standing in front of her, an arm’s length away. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I knew that but half the car’s length had lain between us and the fall. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Trefusis expatiated at somewhat galling length upon my achievements; which accolades Lord Dunmore received with kind pleasure, saying, “Faith, excellent! Excellent! You are brave boys, all of you.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Mama would hold up a pair of jeans marked “irregular” to a brother’s hips and try to ensure that each pair had enough leg length to last through the whole school year. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

You’ve gone to great lengths to please little oV me You really cared, and that I now see, Words cannot express my deep gratitude. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Right now her sister, Angeline, was digging at the ground near spruce trees and cutting lengths of the roots, used to secure the house better and to finish baskets. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

All other note lengths are defined by how long they last compared to a whole note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Ten prisoners were seated along benches that ran the wagon’s length, their wrists and feet shackled, black sacks over their heads. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The fountain spurted a few inches into the air from a rough length of pipe, threw up its hands, collapsed and drowned its ragged dribble in a stone basin of yellowing water. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Cari came into the kitchen and slid a finger down the length of the kitten’s spine. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And Blanche and I will be talking about the length of our skirts,” my mother added. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

National Park Service, which constantly distinguishes itself in a variety of ways, manages in a single leaflet to give the length of the trail as 2,155 miles and 2,200 miles. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, Minister, I definitely think this is a matter for the Ministry to ponder at length, yes. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

He thought it surprising that they hadn’t talked about his dream at length before the thank you. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I look with Slant’s eyes down the length of this dark hold, and I see men involved in speech and exhalation. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She pulls out a modest dress of calico, similar to mine but the full length that real ladies wear. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The Lord dwindled in size until he was only about twice my length. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the moonlight I could look up the length of the bed and see Dad still awake and when Oliver cried in his sleep Dad reached for him and held him. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Just snip a length of wire, grasp it firmly in the little tongs and—careful now. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He didn't even close the door before he put his arms around her, his entire arms, all down the length of her back. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

After pulling a length of the cable out and stripping the ends, she fiddled with a roll of electrical tape until Vogel arrived. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

At length, with a voice of forced calmness, he said: Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Huge finlike wind wings stuck up along their lengths, harnessing the breezes to help move the lumbering ships and their scrap loads of nickel, copper, iron, and steel. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He sees spare lengths of rusted rails heaped in piles. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I go over to the knot-tying station and get a length of rope. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She patted my arm condescendingly and reached for a length of plastic tubing that hung nearby; it was connected to a pipe that ran up the ladder to the surface. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He went the length of the room to pull aside the heavy blue draperies and opened the doors. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” he said at length, pointing the prow of the Wasp out toward the center of the pond, “I’ll tell you what I’ll do with you. You see that big racing sloop out there?” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

The tall soldier sprawled before the fire, his long body stretched full length, his head cradled in one arm. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The back corridor, which serves as a sort of backbone to the staff's quarters of Darlington Hall, was always a rather cheerless affair due to the lack of daylight penetrating its considerable length. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t even yet an agreed length for a nautical mile. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Naturally, wheels and writing aren’t directly linked to latitude and day length in the way crops are. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There are three women in here already, sitting on the benches that run the length of the van on either side. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Figure 1.39: Note lengths work just like fractions in arithmetic: two half notes or four quarter notes last the same amount of time as one whole note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

All the Cyclopes held huge lengths of black iron chains—big enough to anchor a battleship—with grappling hooks at the ends. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

They were always around, after school, and it took me an embarrassing length of time to realize that they were probably around all the time because they were getting together for practice every day. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

To get any of those other wavelengths, you need to change the length of the vibrating string. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He uncapped his pen and Riptide grew to full length. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Anything written in the first person in Deborah Lacks’s voice is a quote of her speaking, edited for length and occasionally clarity. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Equally important to understand is this: Merely reducing sentence length, by itself, does not disturb the basic architecture of the New Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In one is a hunk of cheese, and in the other, a knife the length of my forearm. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I bit off a length of thread and slid it through the eye of a needle as Eliza talked. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

From this, he reasoned he could determine the length of one degree of the Earth’s meridian and thus calculate the distance around the whole. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

For example, the Mediterranean crops that became Egypt’s staples require winter rains and seasonal variation in day length for their germination. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m looking for something knee length, with a full, flouncy skirt,” she tells me, “so I can dance.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

They’d traversed about half of what they could see of its length when Mark heard voices, then saw their source. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The man fell away from Bigger, on his face, full length in the cushion of snow, like a man falling soundlessly in a deep dream. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He unrolled his tongue down the whole length of the pizzeria, flicking it side to side and splashing stinking saliva over the walls. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

At length they came to a sharp bend. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The tall soldier was now stretched out full length, asleep. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped an arm's length away and said, “I never introduced myself. Vasilisa Tsarevna, the heir to the throne of Kiev, no matter what my father’s henchmen think.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The alchemist saw the tribal chiefs greet the leader of the caravan, and converse with him at length. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or else a Scholar would forget what he was supposed to teach her, and drill her at great length about the subject of his current research, whatever that happened to be. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He took out two brand-new hoes, a knife with the hilt wrapped in copper wire, a length of dress-cloth, and a small amount of real money. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked the length of the hold, then came to a halt in front of the prisoners. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The correct length is at least one clenched fist beneath the chin. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

At the end of the day, all she wanted to do was lean against the warm kitchen hearth, reading, the soot smearing down the length of her skirt. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grip a length of rope tied to the side of the boat. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Jet then held him at arm’s length. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The twins crawled out from behind their rock with a length of rope, Miig watching their six with his revolver behind them. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

As a handicap, Ulbrickson positioned the junior varsity, which had not thus far shown much promise, three boat lengths out in front of the other two boats at the start. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

To some there Bilbo’s tale was wholly new, and they listened with amazement while the old hobbit, actually not at all displeased, recounted his adventure with Gollum, at full length. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Professor McGonagall waved her wand again, and a length of shimmering silver rope appeared out of thin air and snaked around the Carrows, binding them tightly together. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Besides, as they said later, it was the first trip of any length that the two of them had ever taken together. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A crowd had gathered a few lengths on the other side of the brazier, mostly soldiers and tradesmen, with a few women, one carrying a babe in her arms. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stretched full length and shut my eyes. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Thus, a ratio of two numbers was nothing more than the comparison of two lines of different lengths. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

There was a cot in one corner and an old-fashioned loom in the other, a length of white cloth half woven on the frame. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I did. He talked to her at length, but when I got back on, he said he hadn't the foggiest idea. She claimed to be his relative.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

His feet left prints in the soft soil and the creepers shivered throughout their lengths when he bumped them. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I complained at length and clawed savagely at my legs. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

On this day she’d brushed her hair out long and tossed it to flow down the length of her back, unfettered by braids or ribbons. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She had already hung several along the length of the porch. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They rowed the length of the estuary and out along the mudflats on the east shore of the bay. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The plane’s shape darkens a shifting length of ground. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I took out my dad’s electric clipper and buzzed off my whole head of hair to shorter and shorter lengths until I thought it would be easy to shave with an electric razor. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I start drying my head, waiting for the inevitable comment about the length of my hair, but it doesn’t come. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He seemed taller lying down, occupying the length of the mattress, and I remembered what he had said about simply reaching out to pluck icheku from the tree, in his youth. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

At length, he found himself preaching at the Sunday night dances held near his master’s house, and his sermons were not unwelcome. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“No mice, mind you. A fat chicken would be lovely, or a length of sausage, or beef stew ... Listen to me. I’m as bad as Grandfather!” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A current of its energy runs the length of me, intoxicating. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The dusk was deep when at length they set out, creeping over the westward rim of the dell, and fading like ghosts into the broken country on the borders of the road. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Fair Knightess finished just two lengths behind him, fighting to the last. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly there was silence along the whole great length of the brigade. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took out his copy of The Monster Book of Monsters, which he had bound shut with a length of rope. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

They took the lead easily at the start, widened it at each quarter-mile buoy, and crossed the line almost six lengths ahead of California. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A fissure ran across the length of the ceiling and the far end of the cavern collapsed, burying the altar and the pater. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A dotted quarter note, for example, would be the length of a quarter plus an eighth, because an eighth note is half the length of a quarter note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The classifications generally ran parallel to the length of one’s sentence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you stretch out a bullet, it begins to look like a length of rope, and if you coil the rope into a loop, it becomes a ring, like Marburg. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A magnificent spray of white carnations, red roses, lavender, and baby’s breath blanketed the length of Great-great-aunt Florentine’s closed casket. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A length of baby ribbon was sewn to the top. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We played Operator with a scrap of cardboard and a length of twine for a switching station. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, this is a nice surprise, Hazel,” said Bigwig at length. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At length they were once more aware of a wall looming up, and once more a stairway opened before them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

At length, she prompted gently, “If Sir wish his clothes washed, he must needs give them to me in my hand.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

San Juan is so small a place, on any day I believe I could nearly spit its whole complete length. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

A better way would be to place a ruler gently next to the pencil, but in fact, comparing the lengths of the two objects also changes the pencil’s speed a tiny bit. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

My hair needed a bit of a trim, but was shoulder- length and straight, as was the current fashion. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He walked the length of the grandstand, checking for spies. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coach Mustilli didn’t say anything to me as I stood in line with the other kids as he walked up and down the length of the cafeteria examining us all. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Her face maintains a semblance of girlishness, in the length of her eyelashes and the slight pout of her lips, despite the fact that she is clearly too old to be properly called a girl. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She held Izzy at arm’s length, wiped her cheek with a fingertip, smoothed her hair one last time. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The owl swallowed the mouse in just a couple of gulps, leaving just its tail trailing from her mouth, like a length of bootlace. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The shark must have been the length of a swimming pool. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She closed her eyes and absorbed the blond waxy smell of his hair before she stood him at arm's length. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

On his nose, a bit low, sat his steel-rimmed full moons, gently prosthetic and handsomely discordant with the sinewy length of his jawline. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He told almost all the stories and he told them at great length. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went out the rear rather than walk the length of the hall, Bran ducking his head as they passed through the lord's door. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He had already crossed the whole length of the hall and was pressed close to two rabbits, a buck and a doe, each of whom was fully as large as Cowslip. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father would set the problem of ratios to me, in which I would have to convert the figures for a full- length original to a scaled-down model. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is what happens when the player holds the string down with a finger, changing the vibrating length of the string and changing where the nodes are. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

We have a parking lot’s length of time left with each other. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He took a length of twine and slipped it deftly under the vase to release it from the wheel, then placed the vase carefully on a tray to dry. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Washington settled in at thirty but held its position at a quarter length back. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She sat there smoking a slender length of dried grapevine as if it were some rare cheroot. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

At length, with a red light in his favor, the harassed man swung around in his seat and looked up at me, just behind him. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

They would talk at length about the somewhat artsy-craftsy world in which Odile moved and into which they were frequently invited. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

When notes are tied together, they are played as if they are one single note that is the length of all the notes that are tied together. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

You just have to find the brass tube with the right length. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

His dad bought him a bunch of supplies the week school ended—lengths of two-by-four, pulleys and screws, and sheets of weather-treated plywood—but Charlie didn’t choose a tree for three whole weeks. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I am at length the happy mother of a daughter,” Stanton wrote to her friend Lucretia Mott. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was Wilkins who supervised Sprat’s History, in which Galileo’s discoveries are reported at length. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Deydey usually beat her in short time, but today she managed through desperate measures to think ahead far enough to draw the game out to a phenomenal length. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“It was discussed at some length,” Lawrence remembered, “perhaps ten minutes.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Most everyone else kept me at arms length. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Their span was three times their length, each wing a delicate fan of translucent skin, gorgeously colored, stretched taut between long thin bones. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She ran a hand through her hair, bobbed to a suitable length for her part-time job as a bank teller. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I came out of the kitchen and stood for a moment staring down at the strip of gray carpet that ran the length of the hall. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

A brazier filled with hot coals set on the ground a few lengths in front of me. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the witch took her own knife and split an alder sapling along its whole length. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In London and Paris in the ensuing months, they could keep their eyes open for KGB trails and interview the Russian spy at length. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

All six boats were loosely bunched up, roughly a length and a half separating the German bow in first place from the American bow in last place. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Naomi pulled on the string and opened the paper to find a folded length of yellow fabric with a tiny pattern of white flowers. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A length of frayed rope bound the bundle together. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Closing my eyes, I could almost see them running, bodies stretched to their fullest length, legs pounding up and down, white steam rolling from their hot breath in the frosty night. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took this funny-looking white thing out of the fridge and held it at arm’s length. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

California and Navy were far out in front, with Columbia trailing them; Washington had eased past a weakening Penn crew but remained a devastating four lengths back. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In contrast, crops and animals moved easily between Eurasian societies thousands of miles apart but at the same latitude and sharing similar climates and day lengths. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was carrying my gray jumper rolled up and at arm’s length in front of me. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Twelve jointed legs ran along the length of its bottom, spread out, making the thing look like a sleeping lizard. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She took a step back, her hand slowly sliding down the length of my arm until it fell away. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

For this formal group picture she straightened her hair with oil to make a chin- length bob like the others’. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We make complicated floral patterns with a compass, we glue odd substances to cardboard backings: feathers, sequins, pieces of macaroni garishly dyed, lengths of drinking straw. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It came from long tubes that ran the length of the ceiling. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He gnawed off a length of thread and used it to tie the needle around Despereaux’s waist. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Seeing that he was the only one within arm’s length of the dark thing, he took a measured step away. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Schrödinger imagined a chemical with multiple chemical bonds stretching out along the length of the “chromosome fiber.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But he had never really been without food for any length of time, never over a few hours. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those boys in their boats were—length by length and victory by victory—suddenly be-ginning to put Seattle on the map, and they were likely to do more of it in the near future. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Scars crossed and disfigured his face with jagged lines across his forehead and down the length of one cheek, and his eyes were opaque and unseeing. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young man with the ruffled collar held about a hundred-foot length of rope in his hands. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He obviously had plans and I soon learned what they were: he wanted to explore the length of the valley and take a look beyond. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She landed belly-down in the snow as the entire length of the bridge fell into the crevasse with a soft whoosh behind her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

But by the time all these thoughts had gone through his head, Tristran was already standing in the center of the clearing, an arm's length from the beasts. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Couldn’t beat him away from Greek with a stick—Ah, thank you, there, sir,” he said to the waiter, who was holding out another of the coral-colored drinks at arm’s length. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Much against her will, Jo at length consented to sacrifice a day to Mrs. Grundy, and help her sister through what she regarded as ‘a nonsensical business’. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

At length in the midst of the blackness I heard Selvam speaking and I opened my eyes. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they approached Government Island and the halfway mark, California slowly increased its rate and stretched its lead out to a full length. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

His entry in the Dictionary of National Biography is one of the longest, rivaled in length only by those of Darwin and Lyell among nineteenth-century men of science. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The men soon discovered how difficult it was to condense a novel into sixty pages, the average script length for a one-hour program. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

When he did, I made a long cut down the length of the specimen. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the ash of a large stove they found a length of chain that the jeweler in Holmes’s pharmacy recognized as part of a watch chain Holmes had given Minnie as a gift. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He kissed her fingers deliberately, tamed stiffly, and began to pace in silence down the long length of the room. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nico felt as if he was standing on the goddess’s throat - as if the entire length of Long Island resonated with her vocal cords. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Yet even as they were bundling him Outside, saddling the horses in the rain, and tying his hands with a length of coarse rope, Tyrion Lannister was not truly afraid. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It is worth quoting at length: As I entered through the so-called “gates of the Sun,” I was immediately confronted with the brilliant beauty of the city, and my eyes were filled with pleasure. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Bitter was refilling her cup with coffee, wearing a tank top and gray shorts, her legs wild lengths extending out. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I narrated this small story at great length. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drew out his own wand and compared the lengths. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He plucked what looked like a four-foot version of a string bean from a branch, split it lengthwise, and showed me flattened, shiny seeds arrayed along its length like teeth in a jaw. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Following the forelady’s instructions, her left hand picked up a foot length of shiny wire. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ate at long trestle tables that stretched the length of the room. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

He indicated a new length of wire strung between two new posts. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The room was furnished, and ran the whole length of the cottage. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Captains of riverboats had heard about the virus by this time, and they refused to stop their boats anywhere along the length of the river in Bumba, even though people beseeched them from the banks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I came out of water beside the raft, pulled up, dove once more, holding it for length, and then swam ashore. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z