| 单词 | limb |
| 例句 | And Mr. Kendall came tumbling out of the tree, a large limb falling with him, hitting the ground first, then the big man himself. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z A long shadow crossed the hold to the galley store, where the ship’s boy unlocked the door and began poking among the barrels, a silhouette of long limbs and curls on the curving timbers. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Her eyes have been replaced by storm clouds, and she untangles her limbs from mine. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z I heard a voice cry out “Ophelia!” at the moment that my numbed limbs released their hold and I fell into the water, blackness engulfing me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I thought of RiRi and Minerva then, and aggression filled my limbs like adrenaline. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He darts left, reverses himself and bounds to the right, and a limb catches him. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Their bark is burned and their limbs are dead branches. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “They say man lived in trees one time. Somebody had to get dissatisfied with a high limb or your feet would not be touching flat ground now.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z One foot found a sturdy limb, and then the other. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He went outside and fished a wrist-thick limb out of the brush pile. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Pippin marvelled at his strength, seeing the passage that he had already forced with no other tool than his great limbs. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The flames just kiss the birches nearby and char the undersides of their limbs; ever after, the scars will curl under to protect the fissures left by the fire. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I pause in the act of rising to study him, his sharp ears and fox-fur hair, the softness of his mouth, his long limbs spread out in sleep. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z His limbs they gathered and placed in a tomb at the foot of Mount Olympus, and there to this day the nightingales sing more sweetly than anywhere else. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Elnora made me remove my clothing, and she examined all my limbs and fingered the heartbeat in my wrist. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The canteen is his refuge, and beer is far more than a drink, it is a token that a man can move his limbs and stretch in safety. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Not only are many animals running around in the creaking cold, but the trees cry out and limbs snap and fall, and the wind gets caught in a ravine and screams until it dies. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z His limbs felt like lead; his eyelids too heavy to lift.... Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z All soft lines and curves and overlapping limbs. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z “I just meant that they weren’t missing any limbs or anything.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Before I lost my nerve, I jumped and grabbed the bottom limb of a giant bur oak tree and began to climb up. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Another British experimenter who applied DDT in acetone solution to his skin reported heaviness and aching of limbs, muscular weakness, and “spasms of extreme nervous tension.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z An icy wind howled, whipping its way through my scantily dressed limbs, and the thought of waiting another four hours numbed me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Their voices lift me up, my limbs go light, a familiar but totally different swoop swoop inside me. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z He hears of atrocities: knives, a rifle to the chest, beatings with tree limbs, demands for shoes and money. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z She skipped ahead of me, exaggerating her steps with her long limbs and swaying hips. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z My fingers wave overhead, looking for a branch, a limb, something to hang on to. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Inside, however, I felt a thrumming nervousness, that sense of inching perpetually farther out on a limb. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She broke off the dead limbs, pushed back live ones, and wiggled upward. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I reached for the limb of a small cedar and held tight, as though everything I had was about to slip from my hands. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She and the dog sprawled like corpses, their limbs arranged in an eternal embrace. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I thought Mr. Cowgill was going way out on a limb. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z His body was tangled up in itself in the wild grass; I couldn’t tell where one limb began and the other ended. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z You know how some amputees can feel phantom pain in the limb they’ve lost? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z First I took all the dry limbs off the trees and hauled them home. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He rigged a block and tackle to supplement a dead tree limb that they were using as a lever. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z His maneuvers around limbs were jerky, and Frightful thrust out her wings to keep her balance. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The children piled out of the crate, stretching their stiff limbs and rubbing their bruises. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z He threw down the limb and his spear and, holding the hatchet, he started to run for camp. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z He stared at the ceiling, a tension in his limbs, and felt as though he were acting the part of a sleeper in a play. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Eleven months old, Gerhard had been born blind and with deformed limbs. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Wash brought them the things they needed, worn-out clothes from his mother’s scrap bin, heavy wire to connect the limbs, armfuls of straw they could pack into the sleeves and pant legs. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She imagined that she had been drugged and that was why her limbs were so weak and sluggish and why her ideas had grown so jumbled. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Your limbs ache and your ears ring, as if you were right back in that awful place you tried so hard to forget. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Awkwardly folding her wings to her body, Duchess stood upright on the tree limb and shook out her rumpled feathers. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z One look at the heavy limb, and Seth took off down the path at a full sprint. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He was six feet four and had the sinewy limbs and the eerie composure of a gunslinger. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Hooper stood above him, his eyes flicking about nervously, his face as pale as his limbs in the dim light. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The crowd burst into applause, which increased as the freak proceeded to unfold himself, limb by limb, and step out of the impossibly small case. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Yet there had been nothing, only the long, slow fall, and then the absolute stillness, the heavy, crumpled limbs. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z It was all very confusing to Clevinger, who began vibrating in terror as the colonel surged to his feet like a gigantic belch and threatened to rip his stinking, cowardly body apart limb from limb. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The sun burned down on Ngwabi and before he had taken more than a few steps he felt all the strength drain from his limbs. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z It spreads, slow and sodden, loosening her teeth, weighing down her limbs, darkening the scar on her withered chest. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Against my will to live, my limbs longed for oblivion. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He walked slowly with a constrained dignity, hoping to conceal the presence of his artificial limb. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z His body and mind felt oddly disconnected now, his limbs working without conscious instruction, as if he were passenger, not driver, in the body he was about to leave. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z And another creature that looked as if it had been sprung from the limbs of an oak tree: wood nymph. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I cut off some boughs for a mattress, then I leaned some dead limbs against the boulder and covered them with hemlock limbs. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The tree is easy enough to climb, and the limb closest to the circus wide enough to manage until he gets closer to the fence. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Gabe, moving his own skinny body in imitation of the wrestlers, found himself wondering how it felt to be Miller: to be so strong, so in command of his muscles and limbs. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z As she spoke, her limbs shook like an epileptic’s, her pupils dilated. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The mechanism by which genes specify macroscopic anatomical features—limbs, organs, and structures—was the first to be deciphered. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z One evening there were so many deer that I decided to chop limbs on the other side of the meadow. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z And I took his head in my lap and set my hands to massaging the pain from his limbs. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z At the end of it, his limbs are too long, but human, and there he stands, a tall, naked man. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He shows me how to use a towel to stretch and strengthen my limbs. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z They dangled from every limb and trailed on the ground. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z He held the boy’s hand and kicked up limbs and brush and got a fire going. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z My limbs felt frozen stiff, my muscles clenched so tightly that the tendons bulged on the backs of my hands. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Their hearts were encouraged, but they longed for the sun to warm their cold stiff limbs. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It caught on jutting tree limbs, as though eagerly clutching them to itself Often, at these sudden checks, the companions lost their footing and went sprawling. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Nok's older brother and her sisters also shared those traits, but they looked like their mother, too: slim as herons, with long limbs and graceful fingers. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Jemmy was disappearing, limb by limb, under the straw. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z The part in his hair, the searching eyes, the delicate limbs. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z She lay sprawled in the sand, her head resting on a tree limb. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Here there is great virtue in the limbs, were it not for the lack of it in the heads. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z I tried to roll away from the direction of the light, but hands wrapped round my limbs like mummy bands, and I couldn't move. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Their limbs wove through one another and creaked with every breath of wind, and their higher branches scratched at the face of the moon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Do not get up. I have to inspect your limbs,” the Gran said. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z My mind became unnaturally calm, as if part of me had lifted right up out of my body and was sitting on a tree limb watching the spectacle from a safe distance. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z You want to see it lying at the bottom of the lifeboat, limbs trembling, eyes rolled back, a deathly rattle coming from its gaping mouth. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “Poor Basta! Are you feeling hot already? Do your limbs begin to tremble?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He’s so fast that his limbs seem to blur. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z One of the remaining live limbs brushed against the porch railing at the top of the stairs. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z They swim in the dark water, under the moonlight, weeds catching their limbs, out to the neighboring dock. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Mutations in genes that specified macroscopic structures, such as limbs and wings, were the easiest to spot and the first to be characterized. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “He took a bad fall when that limb tripped him, but he hasn’t been lying here long enough to be frozen. I think he’s just unconscious.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But then my scratching hands find it, the memory of my mother’s face, and the strange angles of her limbs on the pavement, and the blood seeping from my father’s body. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z He ducked to avoid a low- hanging limb, almost falling. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Her features eradicated, her limbs three times their normal size. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z A person can become a part of you as real as your arm or leg, and even though Jesse is dead, I still feel the weight of that phantom limb. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “Who was where on the limb? Was one of them ahead of the other?” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I was suddenly exhausted, lungs squashed flat, limbs too heavy to lift. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Renly was handsome as Robot had been handsome; long of limb and broad of shoulder, with the same coal-black hair, fine and straight, the same deep blue eyes, the same easy smile. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I would have cut off a limb if it meant I could have had a child. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Much to my surprise, the debils did not shoot us or chop off our limbs. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z I take the shower head from its mount and spray my body from up close, aiming it over my shoulders and down my back and then over each of my skinny limbs. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The other was a giant humanoid like a Cyclops, but he was surrounded by a flurry of limbs. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z My stiff limbs are well on the way to becoming as limber as they used to be. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He picked one of the limbs that seemed right and began chopping where the limb joined the tree. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Insectile limbs stuck out from a few of the jackets, and mandibles clicked from grossly wide mouths. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z “You believe my own Elf King will not save one of his most loyal servants. Someone who has risked life and limb for him, and seen inside the city of the goblins.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Presently I saw a man leaning on a two-strand barbed-wire fence, the wires fixed not to posts but to crooked tree limbs stuck in the ground. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Janie spread herself between him and the wind and he closed his eyes and let the tiredness seep out of his limbs. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z I let my eyes follow the smooth white trunk up to the huge spreading limbs. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The effect of the draught began at the toes, and rose steadily through every limb, bringing refreshment and vigour as it coursed upwards, right to the tips of the hair. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z To wait out of her sight, I climb into a young hemlock with limbs that hang over the falls and sit among the dense needles. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The study door flew open, the little red wrapper appeared on the threshold, joy put strength into the feeble limbs, and Beth ran straight into her father’s arms. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Nancy thought, An angry monkey is like a flying pit bull terrier with five prehensile limbs—these critters can do a job on you. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Its huge limbs spread out over the small birch, ash, box elder, and water oak as if it alone were their protector. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The white world tore us limb from limb and came back to feast on the chitterlings. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Rose sat back down, and we slowly placed our limbs into sleep positions under the wide, wide sky. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z As soon as Frodo had swallowed a little of the warm and fragrant liquor he felt a new strength of heart, and the heavy drowsiness left his limbs. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Instead of these, however, he had only many small limbs which were incessantly moving with very different motions and which, in addition, he was unable to control. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z She stared at it, then settled dreamily on her limb. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The chill of the night touched the tips of her toes and fingers, creeping up her limbs to her chest. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z A limb has to be missing for them to take me out of school. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z These good souls worked with people whose legs were swollen to the size of tree trunks, whose numb limbs had become as twisted as jungle vines. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I shook each sleepy limb, each screaming muscle back into service and half slid, half climbed back down the tree to the ground. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The pain was sharp and sudden, and his limbs went sluggish. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Seeing Rose there in our van’s rearview mirror, standing underneath those green tree limbs, didn’t seem right to me, though. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z They had also cut smaller sticks—limbs and the tops of the trees—some of them five or six feet long and two or three inches in diameter. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Near the fire, on a tree limb fashioned into a crude perch, crouched a heap of shadows which Taran realized was indeed a large crow. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Which was another thing she’d never admit, even though hiding the throbbing pain in her limbs was nearly impossible. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Clover tried to stir her stout limbs to a gallop, and achieved a canter. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z She felt useless; her limbs would not obey her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Two branches parted, and he glimpsed a little man moving from limb to limb as easily as a squirrel. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “It’s almost like it did! I was right there, right on the limb beside you.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Graybeak brought us to the roof windows, and we looked down into the factory and saw machines building sparkling heads and torsos and limbs. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He sat nude on the lowest limb of the tree and balanced himself with both hands grasping the bough directly above. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The Old Bear glanced up, searching for a glimpse of sky through the pale limbs and red leaves of the weirwood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z His right foot was wedged in the fork of a broken box elder limb. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z When I reach the limb that supports the nest, the humming becomes more distinctive. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z It took a lot of concentration to keep all four limbs moving independently of each other, which was perfect. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z With unthinking sureness I moved out on the limb and jumped into the river, every trace of my fear of this forgotten. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z From then on, with Yeller to tree the squirrels and Little Arliss to turn them on the tree limbs, we had pickings. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “Marines have lost more than ears in their long history. But still they come, always attacking, always forging ahead, driving forward without regard to life or limb.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The ends of their long sweeping boughs hung down like searching fingers, their roots stood up from the ground like the limbs of strange monsters, and dark caverns opened beneath them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z A medication, recently discovered, kept his limbs steady and his speech well controlled. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z A bigger gust moves the vast limbs, and the sound builds slowly until the wind commands the branches to dance and the leaves to titter. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Concerned now, I take a running start, jump, grab the first limb of the spruce, and find myself kicking wildly to fend off- the female goshawk. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Retreating to his dead limb, he watched the lightning buzz around the cliff. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I leaned my head into the mess, limbs dangling with no effort, just another set of roots protruding out of the fallen tree. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z I’m floating back to the elevator bank, my limbs and bookbag and good-luck rabbit foot drifting around me as if suspended in the syrupy ooze of celebration. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z A warmth had coursed through her body, rushing up her limbs, then out through her hands. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Anger flooded through me, cutting through the lingering pain in my limbs and any fear I had that he was taking me out somewhere in order to finish the job. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z There were tiny babies with club feet, children who had paralyzed limbs from polio, adolescents dying from muscular dystrophy. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z One of the goddesses, some say Demeter, some Thetis, inadvertently had eaten of the loathsome dish and when the boy’s limbs were reassembled one shoulder was wanting. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Yes, because the last thing she wanted was to break it off five years down the road, when the two of them would be in so much deeper, it’d be like cutting off a limb. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z She could not stand; he had to hold her up, aware of some feeble movement or intention in her limbs until he realised that she was trying to sit on the bottom step. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z My fingers grew numb, and the numbness spread sluggishly up my limbs, flowing through my bloodstream. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z His glasses giving his eyes some small protection from the smoke, he raked the firestorm below, seeking a sign of life, a limb or a face that was not yet charred like wood.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It was cold but its touch was clean, and as he went on and it mounted to his knees, he felt that the stain of travel and all weariness was washed from his limbs. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Tight, rigid cords of sickly green veins webbed across the boy’s body and limbs, like ropes under his skin. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Two forked limbs, cut and trimmed, had been pounded into the ground near the cascade. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z There had been terrible deaths, with bodies brought out strangled by vines or branches that had reached out malevolently around the throats and limbs of those who decided to leave Village. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z A couple were missing a limb or an ear. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Then they set off, beating the road with their lateral limbs, and urging themselves forward down the slope until they were moving at a terrific pace. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The adrenaline surge was back, flooding my limbs and head like helium, lifting me up, dizzy-up, ready to swing. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Both of them moved in fits and starts, trying to get their limbs to obey, shuddering with cold. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z His limbs tingled and tickled, reawakening from the five-hour drive to his paternal grandmother’s mobile home on Dine Homelands, forty-five minutes north of Church Rock. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z His numb limbs felt wooden and stiff, moving awkwardly as if disconnected from his body. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z In the real room, her moth took stock of real Lazlo, the relaxation of his face, and his long, easy limbs, loose in slumber. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Chubs’s face crossed back into my line of sight, one eyebrow arched at my tangle of limbs. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Before them a pale lord in ebon finery sat dreaming in a tangled nest of roots, a woven weirwood throne that embraced his withered limbs as a mother does a child. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Fletcher removed the blanket and the fugitives stretched their aching limbs as they took in the barn. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The limbs that hold the nest are too small to support both Alice and me. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, he jerked upright as if an electric current had been applied to his limbs. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Instead he turned around and saw Kevin lying on the sidewalk, an ice-laden tree limb across his neck, pinning him down. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z They stood up, stretched their stiffened limbs and started leaping about in fury. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, just as quickly, she sliced its legs off and used each limb to replace the broken pillars. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z "What the—?" Pong struggled out from under a tangle of wet limbs and staggered to his feet. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z I groaned as the heavy ache in my limbs crawled into my spine, seizing my lungs in an icy grip. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z As I pushed aside the mountain laurel, I saw three two-by-fours and some planks lying across several of the lower limbs of the tree. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z High up, the podo tree flares into a vase-shaped crown, like an elm tree, and the downhanging limbs are draped with bundles of evergreen leafy needles and are spangled with ball-shaped fruit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They camped almost in the road itself and built a great fire, dragging dead limbs out of the snow and piling them on the flames to hiss and steam. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Daniel’s voice grows louder as the uneasy feelings start to spread from the center of Axel out into his limbs. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I reached down for the bear and sat him on a limb near Georgie. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z A mother gray squirrel ran out on the limb of a burr oak tree. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He climbed two limbs up and reached into a gnarled old knot that had doubled as a squirrel’s nest. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z He kept looking at the limb, as if imploring it to return. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z A short man in a white surgical mask stepped up and looked at Stockdale’s bloated, discolored limb. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He stood alone in a treeless field, nothing but stumps and dead limbs scattered around him. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z He brought back chunks of driftwood, and he would pass long hours sitting on the steps carving myrtle limbs into benches, table legs, and lamps, filling our rooms with bits of gnarled, polished furniture. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The moon and stars looked down upon their struggle, their pale light filtered through the tangle of bare limbs that twisted overhead. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Phantom limb pain,” Caroline explained, “a kind of pain that people feel after they’ve had their arms or legs amputated. The doctor thought this would make it go away.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z His friendly advice on how to handle Luzan was that I actively seek out his weaknesses, expose and use them to take him apart, limb from limb, cell by cell. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Another hand up, forcing her limbs to cooperate, seeking a rhythm, but finding only an awkward syncopation that left her muscles trembling with every upward gain. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Some had big lumps of bandage and tape where limbs used to be. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Through their thick, diamond-shaped panes of yellow glass Jaime glimpsed the gnarled limbs of the tree from which the castle took its name. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I never finished my meal; sobbing, I slunk off to bed, my limbs afire with pain where the rawhide had raised welts. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Without thought I circled back around and stopped my bike at the familiar old oak tree at the end of my block, its far-reaching limbs casting much-appreciated shade. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z He whistled for Frightful, but she did not appear, and he climbed on up, limb by limb. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The glassy, artificial blueness of it, and the way people's limbs looked huge and pale and swollen underneath. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Finally she could see well enough to climb through the tangle of limbs that covered the hole. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z Most of his known victims had been butchered outdoors, but I also remembered reading about torsos and limbs washing ashore the Thames. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Tree limbs bent to the ground under heavy sleeves. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Ever since he'd started jogging, his limbs seemed to function independently from the rest of his body. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Before sunrise the next day, Sam hurried down- mountain to the big sycamore, jumped for the lowest limb, and swung hand over hand to the trunk. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I decided to go out on a limb. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z It also means he’s suffered the loss of a limb. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Right now, with her head bopping and her limbs flailing, she almost looks like one of those one-man bands, but without instruments. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Mr. and Mrs. Bacon had limb disabilities themselves—he with a missing arm and she without a left foot—and so were well suited for their business. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z While Otto’s legs dipped in the rushing water all the way to his calves, Mr. Flux fell in fully, stretching and flopping his limbs against the current. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Muscular thighs; long, lean limbs and fingers; and a strong butt come in handy for all those twists, bends, and squats. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I watched, certain that it was about to impale itself on the broken limb, but the jagged spear of hard wood barely dimpled its chest before splintering. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z George had filled a meal sack with dirt and hung it to a limb of the tree for a punching bag. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z They would lift their arms part of the way and then stop, as if their limbs refused to obey. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He crouched, tightening his grip on the limb, and faced into the storm. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He tried again to rise, but his arms and legs only sank into a slippery smoothness, like a deep silk pillow swallowing his limbs. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z She carried the gunnysack of cheese herself, tied to the end of a tree limb hitched up on her shoulder. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z We walk around like plastic soldiers with our limbs held tightly to our sides. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “My mother went out on a limb for you,” he says. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The red dirt at my feet shifts as more of it rises from the ground, dancing up my limbs and seeping into my very bones. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I didn't till the soil or weed the flowerbeds or try to graft a tree limb; I sat in the shade and listened to my Japanese language instruction. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z When at last the tips of his toes touched mud, he forced his limbs to make swimming motions one last time. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He started up the wooden rungs and I began climbing behind, up to the limb high over the bank. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Here and there, sunbeams cut through the limbs like golden swords. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z High up in the top I saw a hollow in the end of a broken limb. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just back off now, and everyone can walk away with all their limbs still attached,” Brian said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z And indeed the limb was almost as wide as a sidewalk. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z In its downward plunge, the huge limbs stripped the branches from the smaller trees. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Gogol and Maxine step out, and he is led by the hand to the back of the house, his limbs stiff from the hours in the car. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Bodies still warm, limbs that fell as the bodies were moved. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z His limbs became flaccid, his eyesight shrouded by a dark mist. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I bring pizza and salad back to my room for dinner, telling myself that anything tastes better when acquired at some risk to life and limb, like venison fresh from the hunt. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Rain fell and froze, and tree limbs snapped from the weight of the ice. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z After a light rain, when the leaves have come, tree limbs are like wet fingers playing in woolly green hair. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They saw Lazlo and what he held in his arms—the slender, slack limbs, the wicking flowers of blood, the cinnamon spill of hair, and the truth that it betrayed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Few axes had ever swung in that black wood, where even the moonlight could not penetrate the ancient tangle of root and thorn and grasping limb. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Hamlet had a companion, a fellow with reddish locks and lanky limbs, who accompanied him everywhere. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Nicasia’s limbs are long and perfectly shaped, her mouth the pink of coral, her hair the color of the deepest, coldest part of the sea. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Justice, a voice said, a newer ghost in the house stretching phantom limbs and reaching out. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I had put on some clothes, though horror shook all my limbs; I issued from my apartment. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z She threw her limbs around, hitting Jule in the face with the back of a flailing hand. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z A great heaviness was in all his limbs, but he roused himself with an effort and sat up. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z To move an inch further was a pain and weariness to will and limb. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z A weakness, beginning inwardly, extending to the limbs, seized me, and I fell: I lay on the ground some minutes, pressing my face to the wet turf. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z When the rocky bottom bumped against his feet, he kept thrashing his lifeless limbs. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Stiff in limb, chilled in bone, numb in thought, I shifted about. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z He looked up at the walnut-sized birds flitting among the tree limbs. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The frayed end had become entangled in a fairsized dead limb. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And the sodden heaviness of peace weighted down his limbs so that it was only with the strong, true purpose that he moved. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z In the darkness and rugged terrain of the quarry bottom, Dad’s foot was crushed by a tree limb. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z “Before I came back to North Carolina, I’d never seen a mob rip a man limb from limb,” Martin said. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I tried to walk again: I dragged my exhausted limbs slowly towards it. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z My limbs were freed and I ran straight into Rachel, Nico, and Annabeth, who were standing in the entry hall, their eyes wide with dismay. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Warm steaming water—tired limbs—presently a shave—a cocktail—dinner. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Thrashing her wings, she righted herself on a limb. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z My limbs felt heavy as wood, my head cottony. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z She had wiggled her way far back under the thorny limbs of a blackberry bush in the comer of the garden. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z My limbs were frozen and my thoughts were on repeat: What are they going to do to me? Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z My limbs are light as feathers, ready to drift off in the wind. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The quiet afternoon opened up between them like a woman stretching her limbs. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I just nodded, bits of joy sparking through my limbs. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Upon the quiet daughter of Ikarios she let clear drops of slumber fall, until the queen lay back asleep, her limbs unstrung, in her long chair. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I repositioned myself, driving my body into the sofa arm, gathering my limbs and pressing them away from him. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The grip on his limbs tightened again, but the pain had ebbed away and the trembling had stopped, leaving him merely weak and cold. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The hollow bolted around the bend, using its muscular tongues like legs, its atrophied human limbs hanging useless. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Gripping the bough above with both hands, Milo began inching his way out on the limb sideways with utmost care and apprehension. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “You stay clear of that bull, Nathaniel. That beast could tear you limb from limb.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z And, if it did, Laila’s dreams were suffused with fire and detached limbs and the moaning of the wounded. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Their skin turns pale, their limbs stiffen, at last only their eyes live—stubbornly. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Flapping her wings uncertainly, she jumped off the limb and headed for the aerie. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Three days after Herbie first dangled the feeder from a limb, only a few tiny red drops remained inside the jar—the rest of the feeder was crammed full of well-fed dead ants. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It eats plants and tree limbs and even whole trees, if you let it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Frightful winged out of the door and flew to a limb, where she tried to perch. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Light snow on the road, on tree limbs, adds magic. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Coming in toward the bank from midstream, he had caught the dangling limbs and climbed up. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Not five or ten but scores of monkeys weigh down the limbs of the jungle trees. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Harry got out too, and after a minute or so, Ron seemed to regain the feeling in his limbs and followed, still stiff-necked and staring. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z She pulled off her clothes and danced desperately, her thin limbs pale and shaking, her movements pathetic and jerky. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “On this arm, I have neither hand nor nails,” he said, drawing the mutilated limb from his breast, and showing it to me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z At first only two came, then five, and soon I had a ring of large-eyed white-tailed deer waiting at my tree at twilight for me to come out and chop off limbs. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The pile was so rotten, and now so tinder-dry, that whole limbs yielded passionately to the yellow flames that poured upwards and shook a great beard of flame twenty feet in the air. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z He was a whole head taller than Bobby Gene, but he was scrawny, with long, knobby limbs like a praying mantis. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Several more medic trucks come and go, dropping off soldiers, some with broken limbs, some with gashes on their heads or lacerations on their legs. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z She performed a few high kicks, stretched her long limbs, then settled under a tree to get her beauty sleep. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Each one was an entity in its own right, each possessed its own consciousness and a full set of limbs capable of autonomous movement. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z She could feel it in the heaviness of her limbs and eyelids: The lull had not yet spent its thick gray spell. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z One night two Indwellers danced, men so old that their hair had whitened, and their limbs were skinny, and the downward folds at the outer eye-corners half hid their dark eyes. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z He’d had it for so long that all the decals had been rubbed away, it was just a red torso and yellow limbs. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z “Well, there I was on a limb,” Horace said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z One of them tried to throw it over a big limb, but it fell short. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I got to worrying about the deer, and for many days I climbed trees and cut down tender limbs for them. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The chestnut was leafless and skeletal, but its bare brown limbs were not empty. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Swaying in his wicker basket on Hodor’s back, the boy hunched down, ducking his head as the big stableboy passed beneath the limb of an oak. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His limbs had felt cramped after his long drive. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z As I sat there on the limb, looking at the old fellow, he cried again. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I could also make salt from hickory limbs. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z She worked her way down through its dense limbs almost to the ground. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Quietly, listening to the creak of her limbs, the crinkle of the cloth that clothed her, Linda roused herself, left the room, turned into the bathroom to draw a tub. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone tripped over Ralph and Piggy's corner became a complication of snarls and crashes and flying limbs. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z She flew to the lowest limb of the hemlock. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Every sudden noise—the crack of a falling limb, the crash of a bolting deer—makes you spin in alarm and stifle a plea for mercy. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The sun traveled farther westward; sage and cholla shadows shifted slightly; some ants crawled up their pant legs “1 guess we might as well begin,” Snuffy said, slowly unbending his aching limbs, arising. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Occasionally, when caught in the exact eye of this bleached and motionless crystal expanse, Billy Ray’s limbs went weak from sheer joy. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z This one was bigger than most, with the jagged angles and uneven limbs that were Leen’s signature, since she built most of her machines out of whatever found junk she got her hands on. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Many migrants who lose limbs to the train end up back in Tapachula, a dozen blocks from the depot where they first boarded the train, at the Shelter of Jesus the Good Shepherd. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Its lowest limbs reached out over a hollow; its upper branches glinted blue with feeding jays. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I shifted my position and the limb swayed. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The tiny electric stings felt like a sleeping limb waking up. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z There was burst after burst in the dirty air, yellow lightning shattering the ground, splintering rock, ripping limbs off the great trees and sending them twisting swirling dancing along the ground, along the ridge. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He kicked a cleared place in the snow out where the fire wouldnt set the tree alight and he carried wood from the other trees, breaking off the limbs and shaking away the snow. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Still, it is strange to see his pale, waxy skin, and his limbs stiff with death. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z One week the weather gave a little to the sun, and snow melted and limbs dumped their loads and popped up into the air. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Perched on a tree limb is an animal with the face of a fox and the paws of a bear. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Both would rather cut off limbs than ask their strapped families for more money. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At the tree limb that holds the nest, I position the knife in the groove and I'm about to draw the teeth across the wood when I see something moving. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z She had touched with the hand she held up to us the cool limbs of the marble boys, and those short blunt fingers had been shot through with artistic talent. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Instead, I recited, “I have an extremely rare genetic disorder that causes malformation of the limbs.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Alighting on the dead limb of an oak, he looked down and saw the rabbit. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z And then there came a day of long, hard walking: no trouble for Will, but a torment to Lyra, whose limbs were weakened and softened after her long sleep. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The sighing creak of branches and limbs when the breeze pushes them farther than they want to go. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z They talked about cutting me down, even as they enjoyed the shade from my lovely limbs. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Here hang bits of uniform, and somewhere else is plastered a bloody mess that was once a human limb. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Each doll was about as big as my thumbnail, with cardboard limbs wrapped in colorful thread made to look like clothes. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z They had to step around a lot of tree limbs on their way to the gym, but there didn’t seem to be any more damage than that. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I try again anyway, and this time I pull myself onto the first limb, gasping for breath. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z He had loose and floppy limbs and was dressed in a three-piece black suit with a bright red tie. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Shaggy's jaws snapped shut beneath her ankle as she swung up and over the limb. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z One of the Freys stepped forward, a knight long and lean of limb, clean-shaved but for a grey mustache as thin as a Myrish stiletto. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Hence, even though terrified of political commitments, Bloom had gone out on a limb and it had cost them. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He wiggled the tip of the tree limb into the mouth of the can. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z My limbs are too heavy, and a hand catches me easily about the waist. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Arms extended to either side, she walked along the tiny limb, adjusting as it wobbled. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z She examined the red dots that mottled my limbs. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z As I howled, feeling pain shoot through my limbs as the thistles of the brush encountered stubborn callouses, there was a loud knock at the door. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z A sudden feeling of lassitude, of intense weariness, spread over Vera's limbs. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Scrambling and crawling and pushing, twisting away anytime someone tried to latch on to his limbs or clothes, he moved forward, barreling through the crowd of people. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z I've turned off the sound, but the vibrations tremble out from my pocket, through my hips and stomach and up and down my limbs. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Ah. Let me see your leg. Broken like the tree’s limb, I’ll be bound.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Around me I hear small grunts and sighs as those lucky enough to have slept stretch out their cramped limbs. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Others required the opening of their coat to discover missing limbs, gunshot blasts, and tank treads. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It was as if they were surprised to see he was still alive, with all limbs intact. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I cut off the branches and then started to cutting the limb into fireplace-sized logs. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I still miss the limbs and branches in the tree fort. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z With a little work the debris could be shifted, small logs and dry limbs placed between boulders to form a barrier that only flood water could pour through. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z On its broad limbs sat the wigwam Sam had made for Alice. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z To test it, he tried raising Alby only a couple of feet, limb by limb. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z They were a big help and let me use my lower limbs to provide some extra momentum, but they would only stay on for a minute or so before starting to slide off. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z 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 It was one of our C ration cans rigged to a limb that you would have to push out of your way if you were over six feet tall. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He could hear tree limbs succumbing to the wind, great exhalations as their trunks fell on streets and roofs. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I climb a pine and knock off an old limb stub rich in resin. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Angeline Fowl sat hunched on the bed, her pale limbs glowing white in the gloom. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z About three o’clock of that day, I broke down; my strength failed me; I was seized with a violent aching of the head, attended with extreme dizziness; I trembled in every limb. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z I waited until I couldn’t hear her, until I was able to move my heavy limbs and drooping head. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He opened the door, and got out, stretching his aching limbs and neck as he did so. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z First my eyes, then hair, then down my limbs, until even my toes and fingers felt they were aflame. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He was thinking of a big globe of the world, suspended and swaying from a limb of one of his oak trees. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z One man was swiftly lashing cords around her, around her limbs, her throat, body, head, bundling her over and over on the wet ground. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z They slew the gentle musician, tearing him limb from limb, and flung the severed head into the swift river Hebrus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked at the monster in the thick glass carboy, with its freakish eyes and multiple limbs. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Standing on this limb, you could by a prodigious effort jump far enough out into the river for safety. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The two of them tore through the undergrowth, kicking past thick briars, dodging trees and low-hanging limbs. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z It was not uncommon for inmates to be seriously injured, losing fingers or limbs, after working long hours in brutal and dangerous conditions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He used gasoline in the lighter and it burned with a frail blue flame and he bent and set the tinder alight and watched the fire climb upward through the wicker of limbs. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z When people suffer a great shock, like death, or the loss of a limb, I believe they don’t feel it just at first. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Where the sores were, there is now pink puckered flesh; his limbs are untouched. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z He throws some fine crooked limbs on the ground, reaches into a pocket on his vest, and hands me a pamphlet. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Some were subjected to unmatched blood transfusions, limb amputations, or operations without anesthesia. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Well, that sure made Genie feel good, but before he could reply, Crab called out, “This one’ll do,” shaking a skinny limb. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Gale always says I remind him of a squirrel the way I can scurry up even the slenderest limb. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I was tired of sitting on the limb, and my bare feet were getting cold. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The man had a kind of gray wistful twinkle in his eyes as though he remembered humor when it was not against the law, so that I dared go out on a limb. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He went and pushed Caddy up into the tree to the first limb. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The hum of those insects and the twisting limbs of the live oaks stayed with us long after we'd gone north again, beating in us almost like a second heart. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I watched, fascinated, as he disemboweled the whole row of dummies, hacking off limbs and basically reducing them to a pile of straw and armor. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Over the carcass of the horse, they built a platform of hewn logs; trunks of smaller trees and limbs from the greater, and the thickest straightest branches they could find. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The light burned sudden and intolerable, the light along her limbs, the fire, and she screamed aloud in terror and pain, “Yes, yes, yes!” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Again they rolled, entangled, a whirl of limbs and the machete’s blade. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z From above came the sound of wood splitting, and a huge limb fell across the path behind him, a few leaves and twigs swishing against him as it passed. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z It felt quite heavy, and rather loose, as though there were nothing holding its limbs together, inside. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z He could tear a grown man’s limbs off his body. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z Woodchuck Lodge is small and rustic, with a sharply gabled roof and a porch railing of twisted limbs and branches. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Our Little Fetus looks like your basic cute little alien with a big head and tiny limbs. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z 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 I kicked and swore and swung my trapped limbs so hard my braid wiped at my own eyes, so I closed them. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z I run barefoot over the stone floor, blinking clouds from my eyes, my limbs still heavy with sleep. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z This was my chance to get my compass back without risking loss of limb or soul. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Bongo flew to my lowest scaffold branch—one of my big, primary limbs. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Tree limbs blew through the air as if they were nothing but tissue paper, while bits of dirt and pebbles stung Ivy’s face. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I climbed down, and as I ran off toward my tree I saw her drift on those muffled wings of the owl through the limbs and branches as she went back to her work. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z All of the neighbors hoped that sudden wealth would not turn Kino’s head, would not make a rich man of him, would not graft onto him the evil limbs of greed and hatred and coldness. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Her breath was ragged in her throat; her limbs felt weak, as though she had just climbed a thousand steps; her hand holding the broken stem shook. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “It wasn’t? You mean he didn’t tear you limb from limb and throw you down in the spidery cellar?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z The logs he had selected were smooth and round and had no limbs. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z He is afraid of offending Booth but even more terrified of this mob, which would surely tear him limb from limb. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z I waited till one of the pigs came trotting under my limb. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z I know in an hour, our limbs will fall asleep and hurt to move. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z The Sun’s limb was lifted, an arc of fire, above the margin of the world. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I still feel a little weight in my limbs from the truth serum Cara, Caleb, and Matthew tested on me earlier, as part of our plan. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z They tied the corners to the limbs of two scraggly trees. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Together, the sisters had sailed out over the creek on a tire swing tied to a fat tree limb by a knotted fist of rope. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I felt as if my limbs were melting. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z I lift it carefully into the air to admire the exquisite balance, the elegant design, and the curve of the limbs that somehow suggests the wings of a bird extended in flight. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Her yellow hair sticks straight up as she lifts a wiry leg and places it on a limb. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Not the simple cold you feel in your skin and limbs on a winter day. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z When there wasn’t much left of that limb, the saw got pinched. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She pulled herself free of any tree limbs that clawed at her and kept chasing after her children, never losing sight of them. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “Nice one,” said Ron appreciatively, lifting Dobby into the air so that his flailing limbs no longer made contact with Kreacher. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I’d put in the hours to polish my form, fully extending my limbs for a long, clean, graceful line. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I reached out—out—got the cat in my hand, my hand under it, lifted it up from the limb. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z A minute later, Three White Cartoon Clowns chopped off each other's limbs to the accompaniment of immense incoming tides of laughter. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z The Prince had worked at this for many years, ever since a wounded tigress had surprised him from a tree limb while he was tracking her. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z On trembling limbs, she grappled onto a nearby tree and hauled herself upright again. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The thrashing of limbs and the waving of arms became more violent by the second. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z These had limbs and he dragged them down to his work area at the water’s edge and fitted them together. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes I would find him just sitting quietly on a limb next to the bole of a tree, all fluffed up and doing nothing. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z They helped outsiders find their way into the sanctuary and violate every limb of her body by standing on top of her, crowing in victory, and dirtying and polluting her bosom. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He could make out the shape of the child in the crib, head and limbs and torso. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z My arms and legs get all tight and lash out like tree limbs in a storm. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z All face, no body, just twiggy limbs waving at its corners. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The blast he aimed at the white-oak limbs disturbed nothing, for the shells were in his pocket. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I push my way through limbs that scratch my face like broken glass, faster and faster, because I can hear screaming. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z In the center, about twenty yards away, knelt the gruesome figure of a woman, her clothes tattered, her limbs emaciated, her skin leathery green. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The rays from the lantern fell on his wasted face, on the tight yellowed skin, on the lips split with fever, on his limbs which were like a child’s. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I now had all four limbs stuck in the mud. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z In two years, thirty-two migrants lost limbs to the train. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I turned back toward the river, moved a few more steps along the limb, sprang far out and fell into the deep water. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I watched as the limbs flew off the pile until they reached the guy who was still alive. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Their short lives were nearly over; each of them felt a stiffness in their limbs, a coldness around the heart. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I stop a safe distance away from her and follow her eyes to the baby, more tubes and wires than limbs. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z But sometimes off to either side the dry limbs breaking sounded like gunshots, causing him to cringe and swear softly to himself. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They lay in a silent, shocked heap on the floor, arms and legs so tangled Dimple had no idea whose limbs were whose. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z All of my limbs feel heavy as I sit up. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z When she had pushed herself completely upright, she drew her limbs inward, curling her arms around her legs. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z At the crack of the gun, he ran far out on a limb and jumped. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Their absorption in one another, the heat of their bodies, their mingling smells and the movements of their limbs—these things shielded them from certain truths. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z For a few moments she struggled to get back to the edge of the pool, but there was a current in the water and it tugged at her limbs. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z It was the first time either had worn the insosuits—which marked one time more than either had expected to upon their arrival the day before—and they tested their limb movements uncomfortably. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Rowan knew he was out on a limb with Volta. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Kate was already working on it—she pointed to a large petrified tree limb lying among the stony rubble nearby. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The stump of his amputated arm throbbed, or more precisely it was as if the arm were there again but half-numb, a phantom limb. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The program took control of Parzival’s movements, synching them up with the music, and all four of my limbs were transformed into undulating cosine waves. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She looked like the victim of a famine—limbs like sticks, swollen knees and knobby elbows, rags for clothes, broken fingernails and toenails. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z 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 The heart tree appeared in front of them, its bony limbs spread wide. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The tank beneath was filled with charcoal, pieces burned out of whole sticks and limbs in carbon effigies of the trees themselves. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Pax saw that Bristle was as far out on the limb as she could go. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It was only after dinner, when I was on my way alone to the library, that the full danger I had brushed on the limb shook me again. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps it was the obvious lethality of it, the certainty that a wrong move would cost a limb. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A Seattle doctor had suggested sympathetic denervation of the limb—doing away with its ability to feel—but Ishmael had balked for unfathomable reasons. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I feel groggy today, my mind stifled and my heart still pounding from another round of nightmares, and my limbs are weighed down as I drag myself out of bed. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Soon enough she was addressing him as a ‘lazy good-for-nothing,’ a ‘lug-a-bed,’ a ‘worthless limb of Satan.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z We lift off his heavy limbs, crawl free. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Another shell passed close, fifty yards to the left, clipped a limb, ricocheted up through the leaves. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He should definitely stick to easier things, like sewing people’s limbs back on or inventing new substances. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Their limbs stuck out at awkward angles through the wooden bars of the cage, and at the sudden sunlight they cried loudly, scrambling over each other to try to get out. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z As migrants cross the bridge, the bandits drop out of the limbs and surround them. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It awakened me, for the screech of the iced limbs rubbing each other and the snapping of the ice were like the sounds from a madhouse. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The raw dead limbs of the rhododendron twisted and knotted and black. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The limbs folded down and made a canopy under which a man could lie and look out at the flow and vitality of Cannery Row. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It pulled taut just as the mob reached it, and they went sprawling over it and into the mud, a tangled heap of flailing limbs. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z But the arms, shoulders and heads would be those of villeins, and the blows which rang, without removing many limbs, would be exchanged by the iron nobility. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He found a tree limb to stand under. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z It was evening here, too, and she sat down to breathe the air and rest her limbs and taste the wonder without rushing. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Tarzan let out mighty yelps and swung from limb to limb on vines that looked suspiciously like ropes decorated with sweet-potato vines. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He passed a hospital wagon, saw mounded limbs glowing whitely in the dark, a pile of legs, another of arms. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Rietveld, his family name, was abandoned, cut away like a rotten limb. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Her brown limbs flashing in the sunshine, Lupita ran up the steps past the first and second floors. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z I knew she was no match for him in that tangled mass of limbs and logs. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The banging grew louder and I tried to sit up, but, lacking limbs, I fell off the table instead. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The limbs are rotten and there is a hollow place in the trunk. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z "The worst cases cause mutation. Some might grow boils or develop black lumps, but others suffer from warped bones and muscles—even their skulls change shape, and new limbs grow where they shouldn't." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Some of them went out on a limb and promised that it was above tide level. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z A lost great blue heron took shelter on a limb below her. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I looped the rope around the lowest limb of the tree and, bough by bough, branch by branch, made my way to the small, precious orchard. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z You’re not supposed to see the limbs of your friends and relatives crammed into plastic bags, all tangled up together because no one knows who the limbs belong to. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z She was standing under an apricot tree, partially hidden by a bushy canopy of gnarled limbs sweeping so close to the earth the slender leaves touched the ground in the wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I lay Laia down on the pallet inside with aching slowness, one limb at a time. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Apart, they would have been impossible to scale because the lowest limbs were too far up. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She laughed, but I saw the lines, thin as spiders’ limbs, around her mouth and the faraway look in her eyes. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The children crouched on the limbs of a water oak that grew outside Mary Anne’s window, listened to their mother’s laughter, and tried to interpret its meaning. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I took several sips before the shuddering in my limbs subsided. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Guards forced James Stockdale’s badly healed broken leg into irons and left him until his limbs turned blue. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I remember its limbs flying outward as it sailed through the air like a comic-strip image. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Moments later, Christian dribbled into the box and faked to his left, a move that left the North Atlanta goalie tangled in his own limbs, before shooting right: another goal. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z From where I sat, all I could see was his expansive butt and homeless lower limbs. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Many men, women, and children had lost limbs to land mines across the country. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z The water in my glass has to be swimming with microbes, judging by the children’s skinny limbs and swollen bellies, signs of amoebic infections. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But now its limbs were broken, dangling at odd angles, punctuated by occasional wisps of brown leaves. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Sierra let herself get swept up in it, let go of the fear and sadness that had been haunting her limbs since their visit to the printing press, and danced. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Tree limbs that bend like Byrd when she does her yoga in the backyard. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z With a cry of thankfulness, Harry sank to his knees; he was shaking in every limb, his body ached all over, and his breath came in painful stabs. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Kino lay as rigid as the tree limb. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a small head, a thin body, weak arms, and short legs, but his limbs grew larger and larger as he advanced. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Good surgeons were ones who could work quickly, removing the limbs in a minute or less. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “Love means never having to lose your limbs,” I tell her, moving in for a kiss. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z More often than not, they did not believe in conversation, their dispositions reflecting the rough, atonal quality of the land, which after the droughts consisted mostly of the gnarled limbs of low-lying mesquite bushes. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The dogs were just under the windowsill, a tangle of limbs, heads to the heavens, as if they had been waiting, for weeks, for him. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z 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 His teeth chattered and his limbs felt utterly without strength. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z She cut the little dead body up, put the limbs in a kettle over the fire, and served them to Tereus that night for supper. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Her friendliness, her smile, were warming like the sun on old limbs, gentle as the rain on parched earth. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Settling herself on a wide limb, she leaned back against the trunk, knotting a rope around her so she wouldn’t fall. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z If the stiffness in my limbs is this bad, how can Peeta even move? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Papa said, “It’s not much of a tree, just an old box elder snag. There’s not a limb on it.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t stop shaking, and my limbs felt like they were caving in on themselves. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Sometimes she even climbed the trees and danced among the upper branches, her toes gripping the limbs as she moved back and forth, teetering a little less every day as her balance returned to her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z After looking over the tree good, I commenced to sawing off a limb that was rotted. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He had never seen an artificial limb before and watched keenly as the photographer inserted the new block into a portion of the leg. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The barred owl was perched on a limb halfway down Frightful’s Mountain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z In his era, even simple lacerations often left diabetics with savage infections that necessitated limb and digit amputations, a consequence of the disease’s ravaging effect on circulation and immunity. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It ripped off every groundsel leaf, leaving the limbs bare. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Rubbing, warming, bringing life back to his white limbs. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z His eyes moved up the side-hill and stopped on a motionless hawk perched on a dead limb. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z They were dead now, dry and filled with weathered dry dead limbs—enough for many days. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z They gobble and fly off, miraculously missing limbs and trunks as they zip through the forest. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They lit a fire in a hollow, down among the roots of a spreading hawthorn, tall as a tree, writhen with age, but hale in every limb. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Though Perch was no doubt imagining how he’d like to tear me limb from limb, I felt strangely calm, fatalistic. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Grabbing at limbs with her feet, she fell several yards before she got a good grip and flapped herself upright. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I melt into myself, my limbs stiff and my mouth closed, and when Adam is finished trying to smother me with his alcohol breath, I watch him lean away from me. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z To squeeze the body into a narrow, hand-dug grave, he had to push the limbs together. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Birds were dripping from the trees, little birds, singing and flying and pouring over the limbs. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I shift over to lie down, and then I pull him down with me—chest to chest, limbs in a tangle. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z About midway through, the limbs of a stand of birch tree hold up the forest's form like women's bones. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The dog is big, like a man dressed in a dog suit, and runs the same way its owner does, clumsy and wild and with the limbs flopping all over the place like untied shoes. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Nailer and Pima forced their stiff limbs to move and stumbled down to the beach, joining a ragged assemblage of other survivors who were streaming toward the sands. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Now she had Jaunty, though she was a little unsteady on her feet, a little unsure of her own limbs. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z We were standing on a limb, I a little farther out than Finny. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Thick limbs at its center were brittle and white. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “What did the priest mean—that I’m an unbaptized limb of Satan?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We all collapsed, exhausted, on the obsidian graveL My limbs felt like lead. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Everyone was smiling ear to ear, with my mom crying tears of happiness and my nephew trying to squeeze his narrow limbs through the bars to reach me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Eventually he created a pocket big enough to wiggle Kevin out from under the limb. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z ‘I will rip the flesh from your limbs!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The recovering Mr. Flux’s limbs and torso retracted quickly from his smooshed, flapjack form to something resembling a human. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Usually the swishing sounds were only squirrels, but to be safe, Genie broke a limb off a tree and swiped the leaves off it to make it into a weapon. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Three hours later, when I crawled into my sleeping bag, the doctors were still gingerly thawing Beck’s frozen limbs in a pot of lukewarm water, working by the glow of their headlamps. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z There were no bloody bandages, no limbs wrapped in casts, no bowls brimming with reddish liquid. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Gregor's small limbs buzzed as the time for eating had come. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z Ash knew she could not conceal her fear; she felt a prickling sensation along her limbs where the fabric of the dress touched her, as if there were fingers prodding her to move. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “He went out on a limb for you, don’t ask me why.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z He moves as quickly as he can, over downed limbs on his own walkway, to the fence. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He slipped his gloves out of his jacket pocket and took hold of the boughs gently, remembering that it was an old tree and the limbs were brittle. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Claudine's limbs whiten like rice grains, and her hair explodes out from the braid I put in, hitting the floor in one cascading wave. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The warm tides had washed over them for days, and the skin had loosened from their limbs. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z They sit or lie upon the ground, arms too thin for human limb, faces too drawn for flesh, smeared white with powder. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The old man set a bench near the fire and told them to stretch out on it and rest their tired limbs, and the old woman threw a soft covering over it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Pop's body, Nan's glazed irises, Darin's flailing limbs all flash before my eyes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I pass through another car, trying to avoid the limbs that stick out from under bunks, the arms that spill over their edges. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z There was a tree limb hanging high above us. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z That was apparent really for the first time, now that he was no longer raised on his small limbs and, moreover, now that nothing else distracted one's gaze. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z I try not to imagine the agony he must have endured: limbs, organs, and bicycle mangled by a hit-and-run driver. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Its hair had burned away, its clothing fused to its limbs. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z They were all thin limbs and hollow cheeks, as if they had stretched out a great deal in a short period of time. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z There was a speck above the island, a figure dropping swiftly beneath a parachute, a figure that hung with dangling limbs. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z It had stopped snowing and the cedar trees lay about in hillocks of snow and broken limbs and a few standing trunks that stood stripped and burntlooking in that graying landscape. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He made two more trips into the woods, dragging armloads of brush and limbs to the bridge and pushing them over the side. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Andeg danced up and down with her on a limb above. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z A dark-brown root-beer bottle, like a burned limb, grew out of her dimpled hand. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The small limbs had firm floor under them; they obeyed perfectly, as he noticed to his joy, and strove to earn’ him forward in the direction he wanted. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z He circled the big hemlock, looking up among the limbs for his friend of the mountain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z A limb just above me resembles a shotgun. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z My limbs ached, heavy and leaden, and I had to put my watch away in fear it might slip from my numb fingers. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z And the maid in the attic stretched her phantom limbs and began to plot. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z There was laughter as well as cursing, and people were getting to their feet and feeling their limbs. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Unferth gnawed at his knuckles like an animal trying to rid itself of a wounded and unwanted limb. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Here was somebody who had brought the art of skulduggery to the highest point of perfection, somebody, moreover, who was willing to risk life and limb in pursuit of her calling. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Slowly, and very heavily, Colonel Meecham fell to the bedroom floor, one limb at a time. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And from the absolute passivity of their limbs, they seemed in the last stages of exhaustion. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z No matter what they did, the limbs wouldn’t attach. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Conscious of my freshly healed limbs, I move gingerly. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z They took the two straightest trees, hacked the limbs and branches from them, skinned off their bark, and split them, laying the logs in a square. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They imagine this animal overseeing its offspring proudly and tenderly, the whole family watching the setting of the sun from the limbs of trees with sighs of pleasure. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I begin to weave my way across to the mansion, tripping over abandoned treasures and snow-frosted limbs. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He hauled himself down the incline and, as he turned to go four redwings shot up from the lower limbs of a white-oak tree. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z One pack of jabbering mutts charged across a field, threatening first to deafen him, then to trample him to death, then to tear him slobberingly, teeth-clickingly from limb to limb. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let it be Frightful,” Sam said, squinting up through the big hemlock limbs at an erect, broad-shouldered bird near the top. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Kaz was dizzy, and his limbs felt creaky from being trapped in the chair, but everything seemed sunnier with a weapon in his hand. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I think it might be a stone or a ball, but it has limbs. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z She wore all black, with extra limbs running down her sides, and she recited the most beautiful words for the entire auditorium to hear. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z It didn’t take so long to bring down the limb even though it was a pretty good size. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Upward he bounded, up, two bounds, three, hardly slowing, until he was among the lower limbs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I’m going out on a limb here, so you know what that means,” the captain said. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Day wanted Henrietta to be presentable for the funeral, so he’d only given permission for a partial autopsy, which meant no incision into her chest and no removal of her limbs or head. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Neil caught fourteen mice, and scores of others escaped with missing limbs and tails. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Her body didn’t feel warm exactly, but as soon as they made contact, the pain in his own limbs receded. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z There’s a broken branch hanging from a limb out over the water, and I’m wondering if I can bring it down with one shot. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z We all walked across the charred remains of the camp, wading through a sea of crumpled bodies and limbs. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z And a second later, pitching down in a swirl of white limbs, black silk, and green twigs, the witch fell right at the feet of Father MacPhail, her bones crunching audibly on the rock. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z 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 He sits with eyes fixed upon the speaker, mouth open, limbs motionless save for the hands, which pace and wheel upon his knees. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z A long time passed; when at last I rose, my limbs were stiff and prickling, and darkness had given way to the first grey beginnings of dawn. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “I deliberately jounced the limb so you would fall off.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z It fed the will, and it gave strength to endure, and to master sinew and limb beyond the measure of mortal kind. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z They were hoping to hear thwip sounds and that the robot limbs would snap right into place and Roz would return to her old self and life on the island would go back to normal. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z In return he would tear me apart limb by limb, organ by organ. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He looks around, then points to another snake, soaking up the last sun of the day on a limb of the dead tree. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Calling up his remaining strength and resolution, he dragged Sam to his feet, and forced his own limbs to move. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Doctor Dastuge arrived and bled her and stuck pins in her limbs and gave her a bitter tea. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Celaena’s limbs trembled so violently that she had to focus on gripping Nox, and her stomach turned over and over and over. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He had sat a whole night and shaped die limbs carefully until die bow looked beautiful. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Her patients wanted to tell her about feeling their lives were ruined now that their bodies were, their phantom limb pain, their fear of suffering and dying. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Aloe had shaken his head and picked his daughter up, locking her flailing limbs against his body. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He begins to move slowly, just testing his limbs, and gradually begins to swim. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z His sword sheared off limbs, cracked heads, broke shields asunder—though few enough of the enemy had made it across the river with shields intact. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z As fast as their tired limbs would allow them, Matthias, Constance and Hugo went together. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z My limbs, especially my feet, were swollen and a constant source of pain. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z And once again they headed through the woods toward the strange yellow house, swiping limbs from their path and jumping over thick roots bursting through the earth. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z He flapped and he flew, too, but only as far as a tree limb— not to the hack board. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The trees in their ordered rows gnarled and black and the fallen limbs thick on the ground. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z When it was nearly time for Kelly’s first lines, she stepped up the ladder, carefully holding her extra limbs in her hands. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z The Thunderhead is the root, and I am the shears, pruning the limbs into fine form, keeping the tree vital. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z He was flat on the floor of the boat, limbs splayed and visibly trembling. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Holding firmly to the trunk, I took a step toward him, and then my knees bent and I jounced the limb. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Frightful circled and swooped to a limb in the sycamore tree. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The room quieted, except for the soft bumping of Ruth’s limbs on the floor. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I was supposed to write TK, shorthand for tourniquet, on her forehead in Sharpie ink, along with the time I’d tied off the blood flow to the injured limb. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She lay in the darkness, waiting for the strength to return to her limbs. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Like, my limbs are weird and loose, and my head’s full of cotton. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The only sounds were the clomp of the mule’s feet and the angry fussing of a pair of squirrels high in a limb above them. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I spotted her up in the tree, reaching across a limb to pick a plum. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Two large limbs being rubbed together by the strong wind made a grinding creaking sound. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Goddammit, you are trying to pick a fight with me. For two stinking cents I’d jump over this big fat table and rip your stinking, cowardly body apart limb from limb.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I begin to move, clasping the hands extended to me, touching the sound parts of those unable to move their limbs, saying hello, how are you, good to meet you. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z My limbs grew heavy, and after a time I found myself sitting on the porch, the corners of the boards digging into the backs of my thighs. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z It sailed over the big limb, causing a small cloud of dust when it landed. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When he looked behind him the boy was trudging through snow half way to his knees gathering limbs and piling them in his arms. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Over a limb of an-other, someone’s tennis shoes dangle with the laces knotted. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Splintered limbs flew skyward and rained out over the bottoms. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Squelch straddled a limb of the Hollow Log like a horse and whipped his own bum with a whippy stick. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Strength poured into her limbs, she bit and slapped and bashed, fighting now as she had not been able to then. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I imagine my body plummeting, smacking into the bars as it falls down, and my limbs at broken angles on the pavement, just like Rita’s sister when she didn’t make it onto the roof. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z They tore him limb from limb, and then, only then, the god restored their senses, and his mother saw what she had done. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z We crashed against the rooftop in a tangle of limbs. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I can’t feel my limbs, and the edges of my vision begin to blur. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Little by little, one small portion of a limb at a time, I soak the poison out of my wounds. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The opener of soda bottles pinned down her thrashing limbs. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z A head was shooting upward from the ground; limbs were sprouting; a moment later, a man was standing where Scabbers had been, cringing and wringing his hands. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Though in a million superficial ways it would be identical to the day before—the same breeze would blow and the same tree limbs would fall—my experience of it would be new. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Branches clutched at his cloak, while overhead thick limbs twined together and shut out the stars. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The new snow lay in skifts all through the woods, along the limbs and cupped in the leaves, all of it already gray with ash. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z It curls through the tiny cracks and spaces not occupied by limbs or torso, and seeps between her fingers as they press against the glass. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It felt good to feel another body so close to mine again, the jitters in my stomach popping out into my limbs, working their way down to my fingertips. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “He’s in that hollow limb. See— that one way up there. That’s why I couldn’t come home. I was afraid he’d get away.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z When I was playing the set, all four limbs just knew what to do without my even having to think. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “You almost scared us to death,” my mother muttered as she stripped the leaves from a tree limb to prepare it for my back. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He stood up slowly and looked down at the dead witch, at her rich black hair, her flushed cheeks, her smooth pale limbs wet with rain, her lips parted like a lover’s. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the quickest fight he had ever been in; each attack came faster than he could think, and it was only the swiftness in his limbs that allowed him to keep up with her. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z But I manage to get a grip and slowly inch my way out on a limb that hangs above the barbed wire. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z It was excruciating to lie there and listen to people suffer—even if those same people had been ready to tear us limb from limb just minutes ago. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Sierra’s limbs were barely moving; ancient rivers gushed through her body, an ocean raged inside her heart. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z When he points, I train my camera on the knotty dead trunks of Japanese maples and the cherry and ginkgo trees—gnarled limbs reaching toward blue sky. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z I can barely see her for the dense limbs, but I do see the parent goshawks. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Dragging the limb was what made the dog look so odd. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z His jaws closed on matted fur slick with hoarfrost, on a limb thin as a dry stick, but the one-eyed wolf clawed at his belly and tore himself free, rolled, lunged for him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Most are draped across the limbs by the laces like oversized Christmas ornaments. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z It had been like losing a limb, an eye, a vital organ. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z At every meeting the limb seemed higher, thinner, the deeper water harder to reach. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The mother is bent and betrays the pain in her limbs. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The tree transformed into my truck, full of merchandise—piles of blouses and skirts and shoes, and I bounced on the limb, beeping and roaring my engine to far- off places like Quito and Colombia. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He legs it toward the stables, limbs already buzzing with the steady knowledge of Henry’s body getting incrementally closer to his. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “My limbs are okay. I’ve been floating in a bubble for the past hour!” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Those who spied drops of him on their limbs or torsoes drew back with terror and revulsion, as though trying to shrink away from their own odious skins. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z They hover by his shoulder as he leans over a plate of rice at dinnertime or nestles against Ashima’s limbs at night. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Bod made for the lightning tree, an oak that had been burned by lightning twenty years ago and now was nothing more than a blackened limb clutching at the sky. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z From the doorway, Jemmy watched Hold-Your- Nose Billy vanish into the tangled maze of tree limbs and brambles. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z He was weary and full of pain, and his limbs trembled as with a chill. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z They turned to escape in the other direction, but crash! a massive limb hit the ground just feet from where they stood. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z We saw images of dead bodies and limbs strewn across the camp. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Malcolm dug the paddle into the water with limbs that were trembling with fatigue. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The place was littered with torsos and limbs and heads. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z No sooner had he banged the phone down than his limbs turned so heavy he could hardly stand up. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I pulled a limb down, and all I saw were leaves, twigs, and flowers. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Thousands of elephants lived on the mountain then, and they could be heard moving through forest, making cracking sounds as they peeled bark and broke limbs from trees. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Didn’t he know that the debils wouldn’t hesitate to cut off his limbs? Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Now he let himself fall against the back of a nearby chair, on the edge of which he braced himself with his thin limbs. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z For a long moment there was no sound but the wind and the water and the creak of leaf and limb. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The statue was wedged tight in the corridor, so Leo had to climb over the top and wriggle under her limbs, searching for levers and buttons. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z There was no blood, and the limb appeared structurally normal. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z When he was onstage, it was like the guitar was a fifth limb, a natural extension of his body. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Deeper in, men worked to adeptly remove the large arteries and segment the limbs. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He had, of course, seen plenty of bare limbs before, belonging to the American and European ladies who took his tours. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I counted my limbs: two arms, two legs. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z But there was a log extending about twenty feet out into the water of the lake—a beaver drop from some time before—with old limbs sticking up, almost like handles. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z She grew tall quickly, with long limbs that made her awkward as a child. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I have always been the one who sacrificed life and limb and half a brain to save the other half. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I reach Boggs first, try to make sense of the torn flesh, missing limbs, to find something to stem the red flow from his body. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Then Athena, standing by, filled out his limbs again, gave girth and stature to the old field captain fresh from the bathing place. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She felt as fragile as glass in his hands, her limbs as weak as water. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z And when she tried to pull herself from the tangle of rotting limbs, she’d been dragged down into a pile twenty bodies deep. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I watch the sky move against the branches, watch the waxwings above me move easily from limb to limb. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z It’s an honor, all the hopes bestowed upon my tired old limbs. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I don’t know this, because I’m rinsing my hair thinking about arms and legs and if I had a choice about which limb I had to give up what I would choose. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z The deer made beds in shallow niches deep within the thickets where the oaks grew tall and made canopies of limbs and branches. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Ernst’s limbs pump furiously, but he clearly is not accustomed to sprinting, and he loses steam. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z By eight o’clock in the morning, weariness had settled into our veins, our limbs, our brains, like molten lead. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z But I did mind as, limb by limb, the rest of me went invisible before I woke up. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Mags rips off a handful of hanging moss from a tree limb and gives it to me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The beeches with white, naked limbs leant close to one another, their branches intermingled in a strange embrace, making a vault above my head like the archway of a church. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The top was a thick mass of large limbs, and it hadn’t shed all of its leaves yet. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He and I had a good time finding limbs that were twisted and bent by the wind, the sun, and the ice. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Come, you, and gaze upon the tar man! Blackly he reposes, tender face the color of soot, withered limbs like veins of coal, feet lumps of driftwood hung with shriveled grapes!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The trunk must be four feet in diameter and the limbs don’t even begin until twenty feet up. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Finally, Alice starts down, and I lower myself on the ladder of limbs, looking up as I go to make sure she’s coming. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Although there were many limbs, they looked rubbery and not substantial enough to bear any weight, so it had to be a swimmer. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z His eyes become a cliff of snow threatening to avalanche; his eyebrows bend like black limbs of leafless trees. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Now trees were growing up again, but there were tangled old limbs in piles and ancient stumps overgrown with lichens and moss and little green leaves and ferns. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z I try to feel my way forward, but my limbs are leaden, and in moments I slip to the floor, my body a deadweight. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Her feet gripped the dead limb more and more tightly. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Is there anything to his limbs besides fabric and stuffing? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Though I expect soreness, my limbs move easily, and I sit up. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He examined us from head to toe, and seemed pleased to find no bullet holes, shark bites, or missing limbs. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z The people, thousands of them, crept forward, their limbs stretching, elongating as they limped and crawled and skittered like insects. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z 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 Tripping over a dead limb, I sprawled through the darkness and didn’t bother to get up. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I should get up, move around, and work the stiffness from my limbs. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Closing my eyes, I saw my mother perched beside August on a tree limb going through each line of “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” which I myself had had to learn for English. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The slender animal stopped at a limb, then walked down it and jumped to the ground. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Back in the thick timber of the river bottoms, the sharp snapping of frozen limbs could be heard. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He worked all through the morning at die wood, breaking down dead limbs and breaking or chopping them in smaller pieces, storing them neatly beneath the overhang. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z She threw herself back onto her bed and, still bouncing slightly, let her limbs fall lifeless to her sides. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z The damaged limb floated inside, cushioned by saline solution that had to be at exactly the right temperature. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z They kissed until his brain spun, until her limbs fell loose and soft and open, until the moon hid its face behind a veil of clouds. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Way high up there with the sunlight falling reddish-brown on the palm trunks and the boys’ narrow limbs, they look beautiful. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Casting about with my limbs, I could find no posture that did not scald, and returned, therefore, to my slump. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Full-grown trees hunkered alongside the house, birds perching in the limbs as if posed. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z It was bald, with tattered ears, a narrow chest, a pot belly, and shriveled, spindly limbs. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Every inch of his body hurt, inside and out; his limbs cried for him to quit running. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The leader moved ahead a little, trunk raised, and they could see how he propelled himself with powerful backward strokes of his lateral limbs. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z His limbs seemed stretched, even more so than when they last saw him, the way a sweater sagged after Grandma pulled it from the washer but before she put it in the dryer. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z By the time they laid me on the washing table, I could no longer feel my limbs. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Shock cut straight through my limbs, waking them with a slap. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The Honda was bumping its way up a hill, and the limbs looked like long fingers on big stick hands trying to get in and grab him. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The tree limb had bought them a few extra seconds. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z For a moment, the three of them and the weasel were a pile of sprawling bodies and flailing limbs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She was a natural dancer—her petite frame and her long, graceful limbs made her movements seem as if they melted into the music. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Rimas tried to feed her and massage circulation into her limbs. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Finally he uncurled his stiff limbs and got up quietly, shivering; and with the knife at his waist he set off higher up the mountain, to calm his restlessness. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He passed me the flask again, and I swallowed a couple of gulps, feeling the alcohol loosen my limbs and my brain. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z As I stood beneath the shelter of its limbs and the shadow of its trunk, it felt like I was in one of Nana’s stories. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The invitation knocked some of my anxiety out of my limbs. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Crack—crack—snap—as the golden monkey pulled the little thing apart limb by limb, and the woman lay moodily on her sleeping bag by the fire and slowly ate a bar of chocolate. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I grew tougher, my older limbs less pliable, my shadow longer. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The creature they belonged to was tall and skinny, like a horse that had been pulled until its limbs stretched into spider legs. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The surgeon closes the wound first and then eases the blood into the limb. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Needles poked his skin and the spiky points of tree limbs snagged his clothes and scratched his face. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Then the jester seized his own throat and fell to the ground, his limbs twitching in a pantomime of death. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The scene would unlock with the quick, heavy thud of a body on a hood, then warp-speed into a scrambled collage of bent limbs and black pavement and broken glass. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z It grew taller, it stretched its ashen limbs. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “God needs you. He doesn’t need you with all your limbs. He needs your heart. You have much to give.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z All Southern California waterways have become like phantom limbs. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Frightful slept on the stub of the pine tree, Chup on the dead limb of his oak. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z On the contrary, he was a mountain of flesh, a great barrel of a fellow, whose arms and legs were as thick as tree limbs, and with a tublike belly before all. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z All around him, trees shot out hardwood limbs that he could tape to the broken pieces as a splint. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z When the tree was done, Bando had discovered that the sap was running in willow trees and the limbs were just right for slide whistles. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Flailing human limbs flash between pounding black and white legs. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Her limbs turned rigid, and she lost her grip on Percy. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It was a big old tree with tight limbs and it was slow cutting. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I could see distinctly the limbs of these vermin with my naked eye, much better than those of a European louse through a microscope, and their snouts with which they rooted like swine. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Wrapping clothes or blankets around your limbs will make for a minimal form of armour. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Mom asks, “The socket’s the part that goes over her...over the residual limb?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z They plowed all day and came home to nestle like plums under the limbs of their men. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a long series of explosions; a tree limb burst. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I reshape her body again, stretching her limbs like sugar-sticks, cinching her waist, and making her a whole four inches taller. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z This happened again and again, and as I was still in thangen and weak of limb and will, it seemed I could not care for him at all. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “My limbs all went dead on my wedding day. I vomited all over my wedding dress on the way to the church.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z She pressed herself against him and wound her limbs round him, as though to reassure him with the warmth of her body. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “Two arms and two legs,” I said, kicking out my limbs to demonstrate their wholeness. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z They could see the outlines of limbs and heads in the bags. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She alighted on the limb of an oak tree. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Then we were lodged within gray, the smoke thick around us, and we coughed and slapped at our eyes, scarcely able to perceive our own limbs; with the heat of the flames all about us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the men continued to eat and rest, enjoying the feel of solid ground under their feet, stretching their cramped limbs, melting glacier ice into drinking water. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z I had limbs, but they could merely sway. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Conibear died just a few years later, in 1917, when he climbed too far out on a limb, while reaching for a plum in a tree in his backyard, and plunged headfirst to the ground. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Not on my life,” vowed Granny, her limbs tightening in anger. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The horizontal apparition hovered in the sky without growing larger, and though he was beginning to understand its meaning, it was, as in a dream, impossible to begin to respond or move his limbs. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I looked all over it, on each limb, and in every dark place. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother heaved a sigh of relief; her tense limbs relaxed. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The nut tree, wide above my head, stretching its cool black limbs to take the sun, sends darkness down my chest. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Under the water I kept my eyes shut and touched the sandy bottom with my hands and feet and felt a couple slimy seaweed limbs brush over my back and legs. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z They hang from the slender branches, they bounce through the limbs, they seem to come from the whole forest. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z When her arm grew weary, she sat with her legs over a high limb to catch her breath in the cool dark air, listening to the squeak of bats as they hunted. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She circles Barrius as his skinny limbs begin to seize, pausing between each lash, no doubt pondering how she can make the next one more painful than the last. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z We built a shelter out of tree limbs, palm branches, and whatever other materials we could find, but the huts leaked when it rained and always needed repairs. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I lay in the grass for some time, my heart clamoring in my chest and my limbs weak as water, before I could compose myself enough to continue on to the playhouse. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Aside from his impressive height, Hugo was broad, with thick limbs and disproportionately large hands and feet. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z After several misses, I gently push myself higher, until I can grab a skinny limb and pull myself up. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z As his ship gained on them, Medea herself struck her brother down and cutting him limb from limb cast the pieces into the sea. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z When his will could drive him no further, and his limbs gave way, he stopped and laid his master gently down. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I want to dig through the dirt, climb through these tangled limbs, inspect this gnarled trunk. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The curbs were loaded with tree limbs and trash and ruined things that people had swept from the streets. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Leaving my basket at the base of the willow tree, I climbed onto a strong limb that grew aslant the brook. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Arm, who could just as well have been called Leg, stretched out his long black limbs. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z We could not rearrange his limbs so that his nerves might quiet their shrill attack; he desperately sought, but could not find, sleep’s oblivion. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Out of armor, her body seemed ungainly, broad of hip and thick of limb, with hunched muscular shoulders but no bosom to speak of. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I try to fight, but my limbs have turned to rubber just as completely as the ship has turned to copper. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z My lament subsided into bitter tears that left me shaking as if all my limbs would come loose from my body. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Risking life and limb, Smith positioned himself directly in front of the horse, facing him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It was dead and more of an old snag than a tree, with limbs that were crooked and twisted. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z No animal moved about, neither grass-eater nor predator, and the air was so still that the dark limbs and leaves of the live oaks stood unmoving against the Milky Way. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z His limbs were tangled in chains, and a strange orange glow filled his eyes. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z There’s sweat on my brow, and my limbs are shaking. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He could not feel the lower half of his body, and so was unaware that the mangled limbs of Ghosh were draped over his legs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z A tree was growing out between the stones on the north side of the Gatehouse Tower, its gnarled limbs festooned with ropy white blankets of ghostskin. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z We sit there for a few minutes watching the shadows created by the blowing tree limbs outside of his plastic blinds. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Manipulating my body parts, bending and stretching the limbs to assure a good fit. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He’s speaking the language of privilege, speaking it with his drawling tone, with the looseness of his limbs, as though he thinks he owns everything he can see. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But as he says, you have to eat, and there’s just more demand for cut-off limbs. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It involved him being tied with all of his limbs, like his arms and his legs, onto the frame of his bed with the rubber tubing. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It took the fish to a limb, juggled it twice, and swallowed it whole. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z I would not tell the story of my love to this hard-hearted fiend should he press my thumbs and threaten to pull my limbs apart on a great wheel! Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z In that night’s drill, the dogs were supposed to spring at him and latch on to his limbs with their snarling teeth. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Whoever came to him suffering, whether from wounded limbs or bodies wasting away with disease, even those who were sick unto death, he delivered from their torment. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He would lie up on the red oak limbs and watch every move I made. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Most migrants must leave the shelter before she can afford to buy them limbs. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z In operating rooms, limbs were being amputated without anesthesia. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “You’re pretty sure he’s in that hollow limb, are you?” he asked. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Listen to what I say: strangers have come here, many through the years, but no one ever came, I swear, who seemed so like Odysseus—body, voice and limbs— as you do.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Standing outside of the foundation building, my limbs tingled with a sense of familiarity, like they longed to get back on the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z At the return Ralph found himself alone on a limb with Jack and they grinned at each other, sharing this burden. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The splendor’s energy moved down her limbs, then left her. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Just past midday she came upon a bush growing by the stream, its twisted limbs covered with hard green berries. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They lay where they had fallen, their limbs in grotesque positions. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Frightful hopped from limb to limb until she reached the wispy top of the ancient hemlock. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The sluggers abducted me and cut off my limbs. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Lightfoot, her toes curled tight around the branch, she walked a few feet, hopped down to a larger limb, then swung hand over hand through the tangle of leaves until she reached the trunk. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z My limbs are heavy, and I am running through quicksand, but I am breathing and determined. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Her limbs were so delicate he was afraid his fingers would break them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The fire roared, at least ten feet wide with its tongues of flame licking far up into the air, almost threatening the lower limbs of the trees surrounding it. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The strain broke the tree’s limb, and the four girls plummeted into the water and were borne along by the fast-moving current. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “A good, sound body. Strong of limb and well-proportioned,” she said, the tone of approval giving me some hope. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I take my sling and a stone from my pocket and move to a limb where I can swing my arm if another creature comes to the bait. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I turn off the Xbox Infinity, where Cove has respawned, all limbs together as if he didn’t just explode minutes ago. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I aim one of my last two arrows at Cato's head, knowing it'll have no effect on his trunk or limbs, which I can now see are clothed in a skintight, flesh-colored mesh. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z When she emerged from her coma, she was so stiff that she thought there was a danger of her limbs cracking off if she moved, so hungry that her stomach was willing to risk it. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Our little girl ran about in the sun bare and beautiful as she grew, with no clothes to hamper her limbs or confine her movements. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Then just as she started to reach for the first limb a terrible notion came over her. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “This unbaptized limb of Satan has no right to make a mockery of this rite! Would you bring a dog to church?”The people in line had halted. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a good ten feet up to the first limb. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Bullets were flung among us—I saw men collapse before me—or grab a limb and topple—rise up—and stagger. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z One foot was bare, although in all other ways he was well-clad—a garment fitting close to his splendid limbs, and around his shoulders a leopard’s skin to turn the showers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I cannot run away on the muscular effects of adrenaline, but I could taste fear in the back of my throat and feel its despairing weight in my slack limbs. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She has accepted the loss of her limbs but blames an out-of-control medical system for the outcome. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Alex looked up and could see the fresh torn gap in the tree where the limb had fallen from. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z I closed my eyes and waited to get suffocated or tored limb from limb. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z A narcotic heaviness still clung deliciously to my limbs and I imagined what fun it would be to wander with her—drowsy, hypnotized—up to Commons in the fading light, the snow. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z My limbs tingled, and that was how I realized I could move again. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z With nothing but her stubbornness and what remained of her fading strength, she made it to the opposite bank and hauled herself out of the water on shaking limbs. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The vuvv reaches up with a limb and flips through images of my paintings of castles, mountains, and walled towns. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He was just raving, flinging his limbs about, at the sky, at the wind, at the nearest fence post. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He remembered the musky smell of him, and the way he had snarled down at them from the limb of the oak. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It’s as if sacks of meat have been tied to my limbs, to my torso. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z She hopped down to the next limb and looked for her perch. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z She could feel the heaviness in her limbs, as sleep crept in to fill her up once more. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He started to crack the black lower limbs off pines. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Spreads the limbs of lilac bushes low enough to hide you. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Rabiya is almost jumping with excitement, her body a blur of limbs moving in different directions as she speaks. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z The foliage has hidden the wheel from sight, so I scale a tree with rubbery limbs to get a better view. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He killed his brother’s two little children, had them cut limb from limb, boiled, and served up to their father. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Jessie ate voraciously, then climbed the old hemlock and draped herself over a limb. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “Broken, by God’s whiskers. Broken,” she moaned, feeling her ankle, and she set about telling Beetle how to pack the boneset herbs and wrap the rags about the limb. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Down the face of a precipice, sheer and almost smooth it seemed in the pale moonlight, a small black shape was moving with its thin limbs splayed out. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Leeches crawled over my limbs to help me push through, and I had to eat pastille cakes and skin-color pastes to quiet my stomach. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z She plopped down in a wing chair, her limbs loose and relaxed, and Ophie envied her for a moment. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z One day Grayson dragged a pair of tree limbs in and started sawing away. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But the woolly mammoth slept on, refusing to stir a limb in her behalf. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z A burning pang began in the center of my chest and spread to my limbs. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z "So what happened?" asked Belet, looking amazed that I was here, all my limbs still attached. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z He’s in front of his cabin in the shade of the big slippery elm tree, contemplating a twisted limb. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Straight overhead was the tree, with its circle of limbs radiating out from the great, pale trunk. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “They might have been kidnapped at Mbare Musika. It’s an excellent place for it,” said Arm, draping his long limbs over the threadbare sofa. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Now that I recognized Yakov’s dybbuk for what it was, I could feel him stirring inside of me like a phantom limb. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z In a few weeks he should go off to an institute for artificial limbs. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z My limbs move supplely, I feel my joints strong, I breathe the air deeply. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Its soaring black trunk was set with rough wooden pegs leading up to a substantial limb which extended farther toward the water. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Bands of it flooded his body, twisting around his torso and crossing his limbs, spiraling down his legs and over his boots. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z It wasn’t just a game anymore, Sierra thought angrily, as dancing limbs and torsos slammed against her and fell away again. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z When he advanced, he crawled close to the ground and with trembling limbs, like a newborn cub. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He wished for his limbs to swim in cold, deep wetness. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Squirrels, having raced to limb tips, poise there to assess danger. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z When I moved his head or limbs, they stayed like wax. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z In my brain, in my limbs, in my dreams, it is still happening. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She could only hope he was still waiting on the limb outside. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z After a moment, the boy smiled and flopped down on the hay, rolling over on his back and waving his limbs in the air. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z He went bade to die fallen trees and found more dead limbs, carrying them up on the rock until he had enough for a bonfire. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z His pale limbs are thin, the skin dry. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Sweat drenched my back, and my limbs trembled uncontrollably. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z A gentle soul, already long and spidery of limb and uneven of tooth, this boy was introduced to me in the evening in some embarrassment. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Even before the sun made itself known, the animals and owls departed the safety of my limbs. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He hadn’t even realized he had drifted off until he was awakened by the sound of tree limbs scraping the sides of the car. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z He had simply crawled into the hole at the bottom, climbed up the hollow of the tree, and worked his way out on the limb. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z My limbs are frozen, head to toe, and I stand there with my power-up in my hand, unable to budge an inch. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Nero began edging backward along the tree limb. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The slave felt panic flooding through his limbs as the lizard's eyes swiveled to look at him. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z "Who rides with you? Tell me truly, or I shall set harpies to tear you limb from limb and hang your remains from a hook deep beneath the world." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The soldier pines and sentinels wore thick white coats, and icicles draped the bare brown limbs of the broadleafs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Almost spider-like he looked now, crouched back on his bent limbs, with his protruding eyes. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Gregor was startled by the sudden commotion behind him, so much so that his little limbs bent double under him. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z The ground was so littered, with limbs and tree-tops sticking every which way, that it was hard to get through. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z He ran from die shelter to the pines and started breaking off the low, dead small limbs. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Pterodactyls had wings formed by a thin skin and muscle membrane stretching from one of their elongated fingers to their hind limbs. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Then Encanis grew silent, and the only sound was the hiss of sweat and blood as they fell from the demon’s straining limbs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z We can get the cart down to those rocks and cover it with limbs. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z We saw officials stuffing people’s limbs into long white plastic body bags, just picking up different people’s limbs and throwing them into the bags. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z My entire body ached, my muscles in knots and my limbs as stiff as boards. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The thermal collapsed, and Duchess fell landward, alighting on the limb of an enormous sycamore tree near the river. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He strapped the nest box to his back and, gripping the lowest limb of the hemlock, swung hand over hand to the tree trunk. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z When the big limbs are gone we shinny back down and set our machetes to biting into the trunk. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Ranging in height from one to five inches, the fairy has a minute humanoid body, head and limbs but sports large insect-like wings, which may be transparent or multi-coloured, according to type. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Simply stretching out my limbs requires an enormous effort. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The tangled mass of limbs slowed my dogs and they all but tore the treetop apart getting out of it. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z There was nothing but obliterating sensation, thrilling and swelling, and the sound of fabric on fabric and skin on fabric as their limbs slid across each other in this restless, sensuous wrestling. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He was whooping and screaming, and falling over logs and limbs. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Debris from floods had caught in the limbs, forming a drift. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Henry rolls his eyes and seals it with a smiling kiss, and they fall back into the pillows together, Henry’s wet hair and sweatpants and Alex’s naked limbs all tangled up in the lavish bedclothes. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z There are about forty of us now, aged six through sixteen, representing a range of ability to control our limbs and our voices. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Heaving up again, wrenching away from the pain, she bent her writhing limbs beneath her and sprang backwards in a convulsive leap. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I climbed up on top of it and dug a hole down through the ice and snow until I reached the dry limbs. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Some were missing limbs, and one had his face completely wrapped in bloody bandages. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z I sat down on the limb, and held him tight. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z My only hope was that he’d find something that would clear my name and keep me from swinging from a limb with a stretched neck and tied-up feet. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z The fits of shivering stopped, the stiff limbs fell limp and relaxed. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Sam stopped where two limbs made a secure brace for the box and tied it to the trunk and both limbs. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Its limbs were long and veiny and covered in bite marks and slashes. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Blanca felt something hot run through her bones, loosening her limbs. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He then spent three weeks in bed, made miserable by constant aching in limbs, insomnia, nervous tension, and feelings of acute anxiety. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Squirrels were everywhere, small red ones that chattered at him and seemed to swear and jumped from limb to limb. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sweet lad,” she begged, “’twill give thee strength and mend those ailing limbs.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Hanging on a pine limb, he watched her go, half expecting her to turn and come back to run over him again. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z He kept turning around the tree limb to keep it between him and Little Arliss, till he was on my side in plain sight. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The truck driver hadn’t been able to maneuver his long limbs farther than that, thank God—otherwise Chubs probably would have been in the grass with the driver. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Her arms jerked up like the limbs of a marionette, shocked by this gesture, this posture. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Harry took a running jump, caught a limb, and chinned himself. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Its extremities were soggy wooden beams intertwined with metal shackles, the iron restraints lining its limbs like veins. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z It was shortly after the bell rang for the close of morning watch; we paraded the deck by company for the exercise of our limbs. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Hazel had never heard that name—Clai-tee-us—but saying it made her limbs feel heavy. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Or I’ll take my fist and ram it down your sassy throat! One more word out of you, and I’ll get a limb and teach you a lesson.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It didn't matter what they talked about, for their hushed conversation had only one purpose: to fend off the fear and exhaustion that was weighing down all their limbs. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He felt his body and limbs gently, and took his friend’s hands in his own. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z An emotional heaviness pinned his limbs down into the hard mattress, immobilizing him. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The wind and waves hadn’t been that strong, yet even as he struggled to tread water with his numb limbs, he found himself drifting back toward the shoreline. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z McNair was sobbing over his decapitated ex-wife, her torso in his arms, her limbs strewn in front of him. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Whipping his bendy limbs about, Mr. Flux mounted the nearest Time Suck, digging his heels into its flank, forcing it into a run while he attempted another shot. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I no longer felt like a vital organ of the body — the heart, lungs, or backbone — but a severed limb. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We need our limbs trimmed just the way you need to cut your fingernails and hair, although for us it’s only once or twice a year, and it’s called pruning. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z For a moment my legs remained stiffly planted beside the pumpkins, then the blood came racing to my limbs again, and I ran from the spot screeching with fear and not looking behind me. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of the wounded have their shattered limbs hanging free in the air from a gallows; underneath the wound a basin is placed into which drips the pus. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z His limbs were shaking, a terrible stitch was beginning in his side, and the sweat that kept dropping into his eyes blinded them and made them smart. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Frightful peered at him through lacy hemlock limbs. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He shot again and again, sending a series of arrows fleet and sure to the center of the trunk, just below a branching limb. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Their wide khaki shorts were rigid with starch, and bobbed over the tall grass like a row of stiff skirts, quite independent of the limbs that moved inside them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Like a fool, I sat there on the limb, waiting to see him come out at the bottom, and come out he did. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Their limbs were long, and their hands had many fingers; their hair was stiff, and their beards grey-green as moss. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z My avatar’s limbs and torso began to flow and spin like taffy, encircling Art3mis, while strange color patterns flowed and shifted across my skin. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z A shot took off the limb of a tree nearby, clipped it off cleanly, so that it fell all at once, making a sound like a whole tree falling. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I slid out on the limb until it dipped beneath my weight. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z I move one limb at a time and crawl on all fours to the front of the truck. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Blue Eyes and her opponent rolled, tangled limbs flashing, a furious scuffle. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z There’s nothing to stop sparks, burning tree limbs from flying, singeing, killing us all. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I waited till she got to her feet, a long, unbelievable process of grunts and moans and limbs coming to life. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And the South being a limb of the nation, its pain spreads out to all America. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He grabs a limb from the hood of Byrd’s car on his way past. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Chup, who was soaring under the purple-blue cloud bottoms, saw Frightful with the fledgling and flew down to his dead limb. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z After, when they were a sweaty tangle of limbs, she told him, “I’m not ready for the other things yet.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z But they are much faster, flying through the underbrush so gracefully as my boots catch on roots and fallen tree limbs, that there's no way I can keep apace with them. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z There was wood everywhere, dead limbs and branches scattered over the ground. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I push my limbs through the doors of the emergency room and say to the first person I see, “I swallowed pills and can’t get them out of me. Get them out of me.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I'm more than tall and lengthy of limb. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z My head felt unnaturally light, as if it were ballooning; I began thrashing in agony, feeling my limbs deaden. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z As they trekked through the brush, Ernie swatted limbs to the side. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z These connections, which drape themselves from the limbs of one tree to the limbs of another, violate the neatly nested, branch-within-branch geometry of a tree.2 I’ll call them arcs of coherence. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Her toes curled as she focused her mind and summoned the splendor, shuddering as it danced up her limbs and instantly warmed her. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z One limb after another, and there I was, even with Muffy. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Presently Frightful flew from her perch, wove her way up through the dense tree limbs to open sky, and returned to her bridge. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “I’m from Virginia myself,” she said, and for some reason this stirred up the current that had moved in my limbs when I’d first entered the room. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Grendel tore his victim limb from limb, picking off arms and legs, lapping up the blood with a greedy tongue, taking big bites to crunch up bones and swallow gory mouthfuls of flesh. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Another flood of anger shot through my limbs. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z It didn’t make the fear go away, but it did loosen my limbs. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Ulcers, glaucoma, gastritis, gangrene, cancer, broken limbs, malnutrition, and a host of infectious diseases—almost everything came through the doors of Zanmi Lasante. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The sharp crack of the limb gave me the idea. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z His arms no longer looked like human limbs. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z They grasp one another’s arms, forming a net of limbs beneath me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z These structures had also been reinforced with plywood, and debarked tree limbs buttressed every wall. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Then she asked how Jeffrey was doing, which I thought was amazing — here she was, with a limb all mangled and her piano career slammed into reverse gear, worrying about my brother. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z They were always smiling in the photos they took, while sailing and hiking and visiting tourist spots, holding each other, all easy limbs and white teeth. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She descended from her roost, numb in her arms and legs from her entanglement in the rough limbs. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z A large limb, tom from a tree by the strong wind, fell to the ground. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z We were under way again, not keeping a sharp eye on low-hanging limbs. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z She likes the way he looks at her when their limbs are still tangled together, out of breath as if he’d been chasing her, his expression anxious before relaxing into a smile. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z There’s Jena, all blond hair and lanky limbs in her blue, fitted Warcross armor, its dragon scale texture tailored to match the level. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Cold hands and stiff limbs moved to obey as yet more arrows flew down like rain, straight rods of rain tipped with death. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Riding the muddy surface were sections of picket fence, giant tree limbs, crab pots, remnants of floats and crab houses, boats, and...“What’s that?” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Some had made clubs from tree limbs, or carved knobby staffs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Shadows flitted across the walls within, thrashing movement, the silhouettes of flailing limbs—was there a person in there? The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z My body felt hollow, like my sluggish heartbeat was bouncing and echoing through my vacant, aching limbs. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He had only a little vision under the fallen limb. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z It might as well be a phantom limb. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “Plus, I like the course study better. Especially after all this”—she gestures with all four limbs. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z It stood up and moved out of the shadows on to the limb. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z An inch shorter than Joe, and more slightly built, he was nevertheless a fine physical specimen and striking to look at, with fine, regular features; gracefully proportioned limbs; and an open, eager face. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She wished she could shake ‘them limbs of Satan.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z There were bare limbs that bent against the car, scraping as it passed, brushing off their snow. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z I turned and looked out at the night, at dripping tree limbs, at shadows moving on the half-lit porch. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know what I look for in a female these days? A heartbeat and a full set of limbs.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z They marched past the cypress, where a singletree hung from a limb to butcher the pigs on, and past the black iron kettle, so it was not a pig killing. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Her spine curved, and her limbs drew in more and more tightly until she seemed impossibly small. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “The man’s never laid eyes on an invisible boy, and he wouldn’t know what to do with one if he did. He’d either treat the wrong limb or run away screaming.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Harry placed the elf into the grave, arranged his tiny limbs so that he might have been resting, then climbed out and gazed for the last time upon the little body. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z All the court was choked with dead orcs, or their severed and scattered heads and limbs. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I didn’t want to be seen, I wanted to run away, but I couldn’t, my limbs were too heavy, and when I tried to cry out I made no sound at all. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “Boys!” the stranger said, his voice strained as he fended off Mr. Flux’s weirdly bendy limbs. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z He swatted at her with his other arm, but she moved aside, cutting the limb as well. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The limbs were high and not right for a tree house. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Her limbs felt like bags of wet sand, but Percy was helping her now. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The tree’s thick limbs draped all the way to the ground, forming a kind of low-ceilinged room surrounded by the waxy evergreen leaves. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Sam leaped to the lowest limb and climbed. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z It walked awkwardly on two hind legs—its only limbs. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The blade was sharp enough to hack off a limb. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z She walked up the limb to the hollow, climbed over the sill and stepped inside. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Now the fire was nearer; those volleying shots were great limbs, trunks even, bursting. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Inside, they stretched out on benches and yelped in pain as they tried to regain the use of their limbs in the steam room. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I couldn’t sit there on that limb and hold him all night. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He was smaller than Mychal, but he took up more room—Davis’s gangly limbs occupied space like an army holds territory. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Bawling and clawing his way free of the limbs and logs, he was on his way. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Her whole body is moving in all directions, as if each limb has its own plan. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I brushed myself off and tried to shake some dignity back into my limbs. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z "That's someone from the office" he told himself, and he almost froze while his small limbs only danced around all the faster. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z She climbed majestically up to the peak of the bed, stretching her limbs out like a spider’s, while Kelly jumped onto the floor and snorted. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z She would brush May Ling’s hair—which was straight when dry but wavy when wet, just like her mother’s—and coax her damp limbs into pajamas. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In the brief tug-of-war, my crab lost a limb. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z High in the top of the big sycamore a breeze had started the limbs to swaying. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He balanced on the log, holding himself up with the limbs, and teetered out past the weeds and murky water. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z As much as she disliked flying through forest limbs, she must. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z When he slowed and settled, his limbs were free again, and the rope was thrown aside. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Because famine and epidemic disease had been rare in the Dawnland, its inhabitants had none of the pox scars or rickety limbs common on the other side of the Atlantic. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She turned us and rowed along the bank, under the low- hanging limbs. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The room trembles, and the crowd bursts into a mass of jumping limbs. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I could still remember those unnatural golden eyes staring out of Luke’s face, and the feeling that my limbs were slowly turning to stone. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The desire that had awakened within her was like a fog descending on a mountain valley, filling every hollow, slipping between tree limbs, tickling every leaf with its seductive breath. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Captain Cat shoved her way past Reed and into the sick bay, where she fell next to the body, her hands fluttering uselessly over his withered limbs. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The pears they let hang On the limb because if they plucked them, they would be gone from there and who else would see that ripeness if they took it away for themselves? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I raise my limbs, gently, gingerly, to inspect them. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I followed the side trail up and under heavily bowed limbs to where it rejoined the AT. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z High above her, a flock of colorful birds perched on a limb, their aqua-and-orange tails trailing down like the fishtail hem on an evening gown. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z When I took it to bed, its hard unyielding limbs resisted my flesh—the tapered fingertips on those dimpled hands scratched. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Given Penelope’s tender feelings about animals, she did not think she could bear to see her pupils tear one limb from limb without becoming extremely upset. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z He was a born anatomist and so devoted to his studies that he sometimes illicitly borrowed limbs, organs, and other parts from cadavers and took them home for leisurely dissection. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Besides the garden, there was a pond to clean and a big tree with rotten limbs to come off. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Ron glanced at Hermione, clearly hopeful she might soften at this small instance of humor, but her expression remained stony above her tightly knotted limbs. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I felt a tingling in my limbs, a sensation I sometimes felt when my mom talked about my dad. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z I stumbled over an obstacle: my head was still dizzy, my sight was dim, and my limbs were feeble. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z One large long limb ran out and hung directly over the gate. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Kaz tracked Nina’s gaze to the top of the ring wall, high above the courtyard, where five men had been impaled on spikes like meat skewered for roasting, backs bent, limbs dangling. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z When I blink, I see Rita’s sister on the pavement below the train tracks, limbs bent at strange angles; I see Rita screaming and sobbing; I see myself turning away. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Their little bodies twitched and stiffened; their limbs moved jerkily as if to the tug of unseen wires. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes he would come out of the water by catching the dangling limbs of a leaning birch and climbing up, never touching the bank. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The sycamore limbs rustled under a little wind that died immediately. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The stark gray sky and bare tree limbs feel more suited to her than the uncomplicated promise of sunny spring days. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z |
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