After dinner Grace and I sit in the living room, on the velvet chesterfield, the same one Mrs. Smeath takes her naps on. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I entered Miss Volker’s living room she was standing in front .of the needlepoint map of Norvelt and looking over the small number of surviving original homesteaders. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I wonder what these people do for a living because this place belongs in a magazine—Chinese lanterns, what appears to be real artwork, and intricately designed rugs. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“It’s different for you. I’m not saying it wouldn’t be hard. But there are other people who’d make your life worth living.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Stanley was surprised that he himself hadn't gotten sick— either from the sploosh, the dirty water, or from living on onions. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Me and Leroy’s room is in the back, next to that is a little room for Leroy Junior and Benny, and the front living room’s been turned into a bedroom for Felicia, Sugar, and Kindra. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“We’re living in a duplex now,” my mother explained, and I sensed that we had come up in the world. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Dr. Felinia Tower had the skeleton of a person hanging against her living room wall, its bones all held in place with black strings. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The living room is hot, airless despite the open windows. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They named them HeLa! And they still living!” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But then I thought about the fact that he was living in his car, and maybe he needed to make sure he was safe at night. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

You’d think folks was living longer, but the fact of it was, they was just being put out faster. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Not enough. You didn’t say you’d be living in another country in less than twenty-four hours.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Scientists never expected there to be any living organisms there because it was so hot and so poisonous, but there are whole ecosystems there. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Like I’m somehow going to be able to talk her into reversing the breakup and living happily ever after. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Her auntie stuck her head into the living room. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I hated living in the small and claustrophobic atmosphere of my house. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Perhaps more important, he’d beaten Fischer in their last three meetings and had more wins against Fischer than any living player. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Strangers passed out on your living room floor. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

For many men, a computer was a piece of living hardware, an appliance that inhaled one set of figures and exhaled another. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

After dinner, we sat in the living room, with Mom and Grandma and me on the couch. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

You have heard it, and it—this true story of rich implication, this living parable of proven glory and humble nobility—and it, as I say, has made you free. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother had on rubber boots, unbuckled, and had used small finishing nails to tack a wool blanket across the entry to the living room. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Consider the enormous diversity of living things on Earth, all of which share the same planet and an identical molecular biology. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was kneeling in the living room of my own house again several feet from where I had fallen minutes before. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

But Mrs. Roosevelt called it living with dignity. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Inside, behind a curtain, a lamp in the living room glows. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He added that Neeley would continue living at home and wouldn’t require a transfer. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, he had made her gather her few things from the servants’ quarters, where she’d been living, and sent her off. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She looked at the food in her pantry, a hollowed-out space lined with small stones in the earth behind the living room. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Or it’s a commerce of imagined dreads, the Bethlehem housewives somehow convinced that a distant, black Communist devil will cost them some quarter in their color-matched living rooms. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shut up in the isolation of paternity, Lefty Stephanides concentrated on finding a safer way to make a living. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Noah, please go wash up. There’s a gentleman waiting in the living room to speak with you.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Papa and Mama were in one of the small living rooms that led off the main living room downstairs. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The house seemed silent, and in the living room she found a note saying that Mama had taken Akira next door, where they’d been invited for tea. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They would be gentle, formal, everyone gathered in the musty living room: her elderly uncles and granduncles, their wives, some cousins, and perhaps a baby tied on someone’s back. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

If the most versatile of living forms, the human, now fights for survival as it always has, it can eliminate not only itself but all other life. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry calls us into the living room then, and when we sit down, he and Gusty look more relaxed. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The grown-ups settled into the living room and launched into a long conversation about the details of what had happened that morning. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I could hear the door slamming in the living room and him and Aaron running down the stairs, taking them two at a time the way they always did. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

The phone rings around seven o’clock, and my dad tells me to pick it up in the living room. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I sat in the living room mostly, staring at the television set and wishing everybody would just leave us alone. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

What if I told them I want to act for a living? You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

That was fast, though, Moss thought, and he maneuvered his way to the living room as quickly as he could. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I guess he forgot when he bought it that we weren’t living in, say, Miami. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the living room they were talking about taking the train overnight to Kobe to get the butter and sugar in the next day or two. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

David stands framed in the light from the living room. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the evening with Aunt Rose’s husband and the subsequent conversation with Aunt Rose, Ophie knew the dead could do things to the living, especially when they were asleep. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He walked toward the living room without waiting for her to answer. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a silence from the kitchen, and then Flora’s mother came into the living room with a big, fake adult smile plastered on her face. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Although she submitted applications for food stamps and aid for dependent children, the welfare officials told her that she was ineligible because her children were no longer living with her. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

We head through the front door and into a big, empty living room. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

We were living in Kendall, Florida, right on the train tracks. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

She imagined her sitting in the living room, alone, doing her crossword puzzle. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I was by then living in Boston, a scholarship student at Harvard University. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, she turned to the bar in the living room, reached up for a bottle of Scotch, and poured a glass half full. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

As a species, we follow living leaders and—oddly, but it seems universally—we one way or another honor our dead. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

From the depths of the bedclothes in the corner came a dry-cracked-nasal tone—not a woman’s voice—not a living voice: it was the voice of the grandmother’s death. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In that way the three of them continued living without bothering each other. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

We all sat down in the living room around the pile of Daisy’s toys. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“How about this? I’ll get some breakfast while you finish all this cooking. We’ll meet in the living room in one hour to study. Got it?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

If identity was geography instead of blood—if living in a place was what really mattered—then Ishmael was part of her, inside of her, as much as anything Japanese. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

That this nightmare life of hunger and fear that we’ve been living might be over. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He could share the living room with me—there was plenty of space for a second bed—the toilet flushed, and the ceiling never leaked. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

This afternoon, the question still churning in her mind, she got home and found her mother in the living room, applying paint to a photograph of a stripped-down bicycle. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They sat on the sofa in the living room. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I went back to the living room and fell asleep. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of limiting the number of animals, cities could make ordinances to keep people from hoarding chickens in living rooms. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

And on the earth, in every direction, as far as the eye could reach, there spread a vast city in which there was no living thing to be seen. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

At first, southern citizens saw little change in their daily lives while living in their new country. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked if he thought it was possible Isaac and Edmond and Osbert were all still living together and he shrugged and said Anything’s possible, but there’s a lot of trouble about. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because Matt wasn’t even a normal, forest- living beast. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A strange woman stood in the living room. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is this appetizing yam of yours true? I like high living, and what you say tempts me.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

His dad keeps an old guitar in the living room, and June brings it out on the porch so the two of them can pass it back and forth. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was as if a long-buried corpse had made its way out of the graveyard and was suddenly sitting in my living room. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

From the living room came the aimless whisper of Lisa's flute. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

They even have a fireplace and a giant black piano in the living room. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Stella started wondering what she would feel like in their living room. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ram is set up in his favorite seat in the corner of the living room. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know we were living in foster homes, where our guardians could marry us off for cattle or treat us almost like their servants. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had tamed the bush, and in return it yielded them their food and their scant living from trap lines and a wood lot, but the struggle to keep it in subjection was endless. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

What was wrong with me that I was living here as if I had nothing to hide? The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I’d repeated everything to Mom, he stood with his arms crossed, leaning against the doorway to the living room. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Olive had married her young man, and Mollie was married and living, believe it or not, in an apartment in San Francisco. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She sat in the living room and cooed to the baby until Olanna came out. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Who better to target than the criminals living here? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Inside the church, it smelled as though no living, breathing person had ever been there, the air was damp and musty and dead. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

In our living room, the music was dying down as the radio station announced two a.m. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

A woman I’d never seen before came in from the living room. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

They pounded on the sides of the vehicle as if they wanted to get on, wanted to escape whatever horrible lives they were living. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Grace could see her mentally ripping out the carpet in their living room, adding a second wing, or quite possibly abandoning Grace’s father and her to live in this house instead. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She said good night and went out into the living room, where Lina could hear her humming quietly as she tidied up. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The morning sun brightened the living room beyond. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the owner, William Hamilton, was living in England at the time, and his caretaker, Thomas Boyles, could do little to stop them. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Laney looked like she was either going to protest or burst into tears, but she was saved from both when Mama entered the living room with an announcement. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I understand there’s a boy living with you,” her father said. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The living arrangements on board were uncomfortable and cramped. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

It reminds her of living in Paris— for a few hours at Dimitri’s she is inaccessible, anonymous. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I know she doesn’t like being here: she hates that house, hates living among his ex-wife’s things, hates the trains. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to talk about the refugees living in camps all over the globe, displaced by war, separated from their loved ones. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The living room had glass doors that slid noiselessly open and noiselessly shut. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Beyond that, the strange building loomed beneath what looked like a living tornado of dactyls. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Mom whistled when I walked into the living room. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The things already invisible living all around him, and maybe even on him, and there was nothing he could do about it. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The smell of chickpea sauce begins to meander into the living room, and I spring up. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The idea of living through an actual war is not something I’ve ever thought about. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“The living room TV is yours for the watching,” his dad said happily. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It does one circle of the living room, then goes right back to the same closed window. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

One Sunday when his sons, Rob and Jon, were home, they all gathered in the living room. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed to have grown in stature while Éomer had shrunk; and in his living face they caught a brief vision of the power and majesty of the kings of stone. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The problem with living in a one-horse town like Chokecherry is you can’t get away with anything. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I think about Constantine, after living fifty years in the country, sitting in a tiny apartment in Chicago. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He thought about using a different name, living in a different family, being a different person. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

You wouldn’t catch Christ, in the flesh, living in the projects. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Uncle C was living up to his promise of taking everything from me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

On either side of her now were great double doors, carved with fruit and grain and living things; all the doors she could see in this house were closed. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine living in a house like this, with an actual yard and everything. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Of course he’s not going,” declared Margot as we waited for Mother in the living room. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

What had I got out of living in America? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Considerable airtime is devoted to the comfortable lives, by North Korean standards, of defectors living in South Korea, where they receive housing and other subsidies from the government in Seoul. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to imagine that Sandy is poor, living in a neighborhood like this, but I guess you never know what the truth is, when someone wants to keep a secret. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

God only knew what was living in his hair! Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Yes, we live, or we’re given the chance to, at least, but sometimes living is hard and complicated because of fear. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I had left Howard without a degree and was living on the impoverished wages of a freelance writer. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It’s odd to be praised for living, but I guess she can’t exactly encourage us to come again. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I heard Mom finally go into the living room and order them both out. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re always living days we can never get back,” I say. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Soon they were living in this house, while renovating their original house on Dart, and renting out the other house next door. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She goes over all these things that supposedly keep me from living my own life. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A huge mass of bees dangled like a living piñata from the weathered chat ’n’ chew diner sign. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

As a criminal, you are afforded scarcely more rights, and arguably less respect, than a black man living in Alabama at the height of Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But the only thing in the living room is debris: price tags from all the gifts they’ve packed for their relatives, plastic hangers, cardboard from shirts. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

"I remember like it was yesterday. We were all of us living over in the tenements in those days, because the rent was so cheap and we were all just starting out." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

The living arrangement of my mother, brother, and Aunt Maggie—now that I had no promise of being a postal clerk—quickly deteriorated. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arthur’s dad was expecting Jessie to take Arthur’s bed, for Arthur to stay in his uncle’s bed, and Ethan to camp out in the living room. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. I must say, I wouldn’t care to be living with Charles right now. But I still think everything would be okay if Henry would just keep out of it.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“My name is Adam Costello,” I explain in a stage whisper, “and I have a fever of a hundred and four, as well as an ongoing syndrome that makes digesting anything living hell.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Byron stepped into the living room with a real mean scowl on his face. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Devèze had not only seen and treated yellow fever while living in the West Indies, he had contracted it twice. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Another night of Stew Beef making dynamic subtleties with his drum and living, sculptural, grotesques in the dance. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I don’t feel good in this room anymore so I go get my purple fleece and wrap it around me and go to the living room. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What the—” But Celeste just continued to drag them into the living room, where she pulled them both down onto the couch. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

When she woke, she came bleary-eyed into the kitchen, then into the living room, where Mrs. Delaney sat in a pool of lamplight rocking a sleeping Pearl. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He now earns his living by transporting anyone, including secret agents and diplomats, across the Potomac River. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I braced for the worst as my mom paced around Abuela’s living room. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The front door was unlocked, so she walked into the large front room, like Mrs. Bedlow’s, nearly filled with two large dining tables but with the semblance of a living area on one side. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I hear the doorbell ring, then his footsteps into the living room, then Lee Lee’s voice. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Distrustful but aggressive, he was a bundle of the weaknesses and virtues of a man struggling blindly between two societies, of a man living on the margin of a culture. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I set up my ironing in the living room. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He hated that men who had done really bad things could go on living their lives without even an apology when the people they'd hurt never stopped hurting. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Those guys might have spent their whole life going back and forth with messages on their heads, like a living piece of notebook paper,” James said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Dad brings all these extra lamps down from the attic, until our living room is glowing like a TV studio. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He was surprised to see light coming from the side window of the living room. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He pushes Ray from his lap, jogs out of the living room and through the dining room. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I sat on the living room floor, pressing my back against the radiator grate. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

When he said that, he had been watching the video of the 1987 Plano-Permian state semifinal game inside his living room. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie stood in the living room with her violin, playing her musical prodigy stuff. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“This account then is what he has received from Mr. Darcy. I am satisfied. But what does he say of the living?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Bruce Springsteen wrote and performed a song in his honor called “41 Shots,” with the chorus “You can get killed just for living in your American skin.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Lawrence was working full-time on the railroad and living in a house filled with children, Zakariyya was still in jail, and times had gotten tough for Sonny, who was now busy selling drugs. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They would go up on the snowdrift at one end of the living room, and run down, one behind the other, onto the ice, until they were running too fast to keep their balance. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

That summer, let's see, I'm still living in the basement, my own private down under, in the little room Grim built for me there. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I am living in the cave again, and I am glad now that I never told Mr. Loomis about it or where it was. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Obiora was pounding a yellow mango against the living room wall. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Moss stepped into the living room, glanced at the others. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then she resumes the tour: “Sunken living room. Greenhouse adjoining the dining area. And, as you can see, the house is well supplied with windows.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He did fairly well with his motorbike business, as I have said; not so well during the Depression, but still, by our standards at that time, anyone would have considered his a good living. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Like the pig is roasting on a spit right in the living room, dripping delicious grease all over the carpet. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

They had been living this kind of life for seventeen years now, ever since Gaines had gotten his first coaching job in Fort Stockton, and over time Sharon had built up a certain immunity. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can only say that after living so long with the birds and animals, the movement of a human is like the difference between the explosion of a cap pistol and a cannon. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fields were bare and planted with winter wheat, and Ada sat in her chair in the living room and stared outdoors. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everywhere, rulers and elites sprang up, living off the peasants’ surplus food and leaving them with only a bare subsistence. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had to be somewhere in the living room, and if he found it, he could just glue it all back together. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Love what?” asked Lindsey Lee Wells as she came into the living room wearing her paisley pajamas, her brown hair pulled back in a ponytail. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

If Pizarro had been amazed by the size of Tawantinsuyu after the terrible epidemic and war, how many people had been living there to begin with? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t a single living tree on the island, just cedar skeletons and patches of green-gray shrubs. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

They make a living selling their mushrooms to brokers who set up shop in motel rooms near the forests. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I feel like I’m living inside a love song. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Is there another family living in our house yet? The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“In exactly three months,” I said to her, “you’ll be living in New York.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A strange thumping noise brings us to the living room. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Lance Winters was all over our living room that night. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The Queen was a living symbol and well practiced at managing it, but she was as human as the rest of us. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In the living room, I can barely keep from skipping past Mom reading the newspaper on the couch. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they returned, they broke a hole in the side of Aunt Chipo’s hut—for the dead must not leave by the same door as the living—and carried Vatetes body out on a litter. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In return, LiNK provided him with housing and a living stipend, but no salary. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Someday Luke would inherit Hill House, but he had never thought to find himself living in it. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Yeah, I can edit, but that’s not how promises work, and living for everyone is a promise to the world. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

American radio — she kept her Philco in the corner of the living room nearest the bedroom, so she could listen nonstop. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if that wasn’t already the living end, now my knight in shining armor has arrived: Mr. Stinkpot Axelroot. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hoped that under his careful cloak of cheerfulness he housed a living, breathing anger against the smug, ordered world that she so raged against. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I’ve finally gotten Bryce and Aurora into bed—but not yet to sleep—I hear Frank’s gruff voice from the living room over the noise of the TV. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

No demigod in living memory had taken the title Pontifex Maximus. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And my absence would mean more sunlight in their living rooms and fewer acorns underfoot. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

By the time we enter the living room twenty minutes later, Mama and Mrs. Shainmark are sitting on a beige corduroy couch. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The neighbor with the creepy cat still calls me Amelia after living next door for five years. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

One long, lonely night a few months after he returned, he decided it wasn’t worth living. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t find out until I walked past the living room. There was blood all over the place. I’m afraid I lost my head and ordered Rosa to throw it outside.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am relieved that we will not have to go back to living alone on our own. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he had the furnace taken out and moved upstairs into the living room. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the cave entrance and thought about the long climb back to the world of the living. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She shattered without any blood, as if she’d died without ever living. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“She is not your madam, my child. She is just a woman who is living with a man who has not paid her bride price.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

One time, someone had thrown a brick through our bedroom window in the middle of the night, and the living room windows, too. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Just then, as if on cue, Mom and Dad enter the living room. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She came out from the kitchen and stood in the arched entryway of the living room. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dallas was picturing Z living with his wife, and the two of them strolling through the holler. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on, now. I know you keep it for fruitcakes. Gracious God, Sister, get me some whiskey! Go in the living- room, Jean Louise.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The living room was hot because the fire was underneath the living room, and heat rises. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

It might have turned into a regular business, a real good living. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, the floor plan is a circle: a sunny living room on the right leads into the kitchen in the back, which connects to a dining room and back to the foyer. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

His eyes were the only living things in the white mask of his face. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

After James Henry Trotter had been living with his aunts for three whole years there came a morning when something rather peculiar happened to him. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike washing the dead, payment could be received for shemira, since it was for the benefit of the living. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

For months I imagined whoever had attacked the Islamic Center living among us and was afraid of passing them on the street or at the grocery store. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

So much for the distinction between authentic living humans and humanoid constructs. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“We have a lease with Mr. Beiderman. It’s an agreement between us for living here.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I felt as if I were looking at a living statue. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

They can turn me into some kind of martyr for the cause and paint my face on banners, and it will do more to rally people than anything I could do if I was living. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The two men and Cousin Eunice sat in all the chairs there were in the living room. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He believed that Max knew how he felt, and once more before he died he wanted to talk with him and feel with as much keenness as possible what his living and dying meant. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

And, now, we’re certainly living in a much more terrifying time than we did under the Obama presidency. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Yet somehow, despite virtually living on the Net, the discovery that he physically could live in almost any city in the country had come as a shock, an awakening akin to joining the Geek Club. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right now it showed the living room in the Big House: a cozy fire on the hearth and Seymour, the stuffed leopard head, snoring contentedly above the mantel. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I’ve never felt this way about anyone before, mostly because all my relationships before were centered on living fast and dying young and always leaving for a new hospital. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“A man can’t make a living out of books and scraps of paper,” Dad said. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Still she was relieved to ease back into her life, their life, of teaching and tennis and friends that filled the living room. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He went into the kitchen and took a few moments before returning to the living room. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

A violin in a dark barrack where the dead were piled on top of the living? Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was living on a slightly tumbledown horse farm in northern Missouri, sitting on the back porch in jeans and a cutoff T- shirt. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I could fight the living but I could not fight the dead. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You concealed the fact that at the time of the Armstrong tragedy you were actually living in the house. You told me that you had never been in America.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Angel and Gerald helped the weakened Monique walk up the six flights of steps, they found Jordan half asleep on the living room couch. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baseball cap already on backwards, shaggy blond hair already poking from under the rim, the kid who danced in the living room with his mom grinned up at me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Other birds are living until their time is up. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Until just a few days ago, the girl I was looking for was living at the home of a boy I'd seen multiple times. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I sit at the kitchen table, trying to peer at the TV as it plays my favorite early anime shows in the living room, trying not to worry too much about Sandy. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I just woke up and wandered into the living room, and it’s sitting there, nice and neat and ready to go. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

She half ran back to the living room. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A year or so earlier, I’d sat with my parents in their living room, bursting with pride as we watched Santita and her siblings introduce their father at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It might be gebbeth still, clothed in Skiorh's death, or it might be hidden in the gathering darkness, waiting to seize him and merge its shapelessness with his living flesh. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Krause gave Mariela a handbag suited for a wealthy woman doctor, which she was supposed to have over her shoulder in one scene when she enters the living room after returning from work. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Already I could see the Sally-Q parties in the living room: a little spinach quiche, lemonade with mint sprigs, and then the pitch: Practical can still be pretty. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

It may well be that the Magdalenians practiced their fertility magic in the bowels of the earth because they thought of the earth itself as a living thing from whose womb all other life springs. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would speak eloquently of how rare are the living things of our planet, and would underscore, as nothing else in human history has, the individual worth of every human being. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She peered over the balcony and saw Tess and me sitting in the living room with my brothers and their friends. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

And living is not being afraid of the answer. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And I leave any last shred of my childhood on the rough planks of that living room floor. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Papa was crumpled on a sofa in the living room, sobbing. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Now our major concern is no longer with the disease organisms that once were omnipresent; sanitation, better living conditions, and new drugs have given us a high degree of control over infectious disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Mom nodded along with Laleh and laughed at all the right spots while I followed Dad back down to the living room. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she took a plate of leftover white rice and a scrap of bread to the living room, by the window. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

If ghosts haunted people, not places, what did that do to the living they were attached to? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Jimmy helped them bring the food into the living room, then went back to the bodega. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

That rock that had been living inside my chest boiled so hot it melted and shot at her like lasers out of my eye sockets. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Many abolitionists wanted to free the slaves but didn’t want black people living nearby. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m living one day at a time, praise Jesus.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He paces the living room, the way he used to do when a mission on a video game wasn’t going his way. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The story of the Selfish Giant is in my head now, living there. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Yet he could have endured living with her if it had not been for just one thing—sex. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It was the highest of spiritual honors, he said, to be made a living testament of God’s power. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Except for sitting around the house, checking on his land, and doing business at the courthouse, the only thing Grampa did that wasn’t just regular living was his work on the White Citizens’ Council. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s sort of like we’re living on a boat that might sink.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The act of living felt wrong and harsh and uncomfortable. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I led Sohrab to the living room, which looked like it had been host to a Level Twelve Party by twenty or thirty Soulless Minions of Orthodoxy. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The pde tower, with a cow-byre under the two living chambers, had come the last of alL So it was among the untidy wreckage of centuries that Gareth scampered, looking for Us brothers. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many days I feared I had stopped living by committing myself to remember the past. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dust clouded the air in the living room when I got into the house, and setded on every surface. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Reggie was in the living room when the call came in. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She was a few years older than me, always talking about having a family, living in a house in the country, like her aunt's place in Michigan. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there's something kind of depressing about living your life on stale bread, the hard, dry loaves that no one else wanted. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

August said her heart had desired to read books, so the whole month she got to prop on the sofa in the quiet of the living room reading after her sisters went to bed. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I studied my father, sitting on the pale gray living room sofa in his blue striped pajamas. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their other engagements were few, as the style of living in the neighbourhood in general was beyond Mr. Collins’s reach. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

I took my time unpacking, until I felt like I couldn’t delay it any longer, then joined Gran in the living room. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Now it was at large in the forests, living off squirrels, mice, and an occasional duck or piglet. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was living with one concern—preparing to take part in the integration of Central High School. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But these were phenomena of the pre-industrial era, before the flowering of the industries whose products were to pervade the environment of almost every living thing. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t steal bread from a living boy, but I would wish death on him so I could take it without guilt? Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Instead they roamed all over the first floor, from kitchen to dining room to living room, owning the place. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad brought home our living money, and we were his prisoners. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

After months of living with the old woman, the cousins had seemed to decide that Aunt Rose was suddenly worth their time. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The front door slams shut and Justin walks into the living room shouting for food. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Back in the living room, everyone was drinking tea. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Boobie had been placed in a foster home when he was a young boy still living in the Houston area. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hand outstretched, Helen tried to direct him to the kitchen, so that he would drip on the linoleum rather than the living room carpet, but he ignored her. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight, she’s sitting on her living room floor in a glowing circle of screens like some kind of Capitol Hill séance. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Holism” suggests something biologically transcendental because of “holy,” although it was intended more simply to mean a complete assemblage of living units. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was where they came when the warmth had seeped out of their bodies; this was the dark hall of the dead, where the living feared to tread. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The horses were living shadows, fashioned from darkness. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

My thinking and breathing and living engine slowed down and flooded. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

And the living son, the child, Roy, was headlong already, and hardhearted: he lay at home, silent now, and bitter against his father, a bandage on his forehead. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She points at the living room, says, “He’s in there,” and then takes a left through the swinging door that leads to the kitchen. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

That evening after dinner, we all sat down in the living room to watch TV. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But since he had a working son, he could receive only a small portion of what he would get if he had no living relatives. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Which is why I spent all weekend clearing piles of clothes and papers out of the living room, piling everything into my closet in one giant, precarious stack. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

She left the kitchen and Mr. Jimmy went into the living room. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know all the ins and outs of banishment, but he did remember Luxa saying that no one survived living in the Underland alone for long. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Robert Burke and William Wills were smart enough to write, but not smart enough to survive in Australian desert regions where Aborigines were living. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

At home later, Bridge stood at the living room windows, counting the blocks between her building and Sherm’s house—two up, one over. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Scaring the living daylights out of them. You know, fun stuff. What about you?” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

They took hands, the living with the dead, and they began to dance. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

A living legend everywhere, not just in the north. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Sitting on the couch, Tamika faced a stack of papers alongside a tower of envelopes on the living room table. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I knew the place seemed small from the outside, but I didn’t realize how small: it has two bedrooms and one bathroom, in addition to a small living room and kitchen. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Try being a white person who adopts the trappings of black culture while still living in the white community. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“So what part of it isn’t living up to your expectations?” asked Harry. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Yates was supposed to be a businessman living in New York City but in reality was as much a fiction as Campbell. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We were living in New York State, out in the country, and the dogs were free to race through the forest. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Carrying their flints and torches, Native Americans were living in balance with Nature—but they had their thumbs on the scale. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Finally, at a quarter to five, Harry went back downstairs and into the living room. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Slowly, very slowly, he sat up, and as he did so he felt more alive and more aware of his own living body than ever before. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It is a bit like a rich person living in a wealthy neighborhood not seeing any poverty. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Justice had left school the year before and was living in Cape Town. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found no living family members, and as is true for much of history, there exists little written record of poor people’s lives. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

When Margaret came back to the add-on living room, she poured us each a glass of cold cider, and we sat at the kitchen table and talked. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet, some curious, wayward motive urges him to supply the answer, for there is the feeling that his dignity as a living being is challenged by something within him that is not understood. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I get off the bed and walk with them to the living room, holding the seerah book. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She liked the airiness of the living room, with its large windows, and the narrow flight of stairs that led to a tiny verandah charmed her, but, most of all, it was in Ikoyi. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

And it occurred to her that being a scythe was like being the living dead. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Disturbing hair and eyes, a smile like no other, threatened the ideal of five generations living under one roof. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A girl with her living to get has to be discreet. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

We made several laps around the kitchen island and ended up in the living room, where we collapsed on the couch, laughing so hard that tears streamed from my eyes. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it feels like I’ve been living in a dark hole. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The pajamas were big, but she hurried back into the living room anyway. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“We’ve been living in Scotland for ten years. There, I sounded like everyone else, and then I came down here, and now I stick out like a sore thumb.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He leaned in the doorway between the kitchen and living room. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Here and there a braid of smoke rises up from a hillside—a campesino and his family living out their solitary life. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

At least, I think it’s a living room. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It’s almost like I absorbed all of his craziness, like I was his leech, because he seems absolutely fine now, while I walk around school every day like I’m living on another planet. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few hours later voices in the living room awakened Gay. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Since then he has been a gentleman of leisure, travelling abroad and living on his rentes.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Trying to pretend he's a foreign exchange student living in our house, like he always is.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Ma once brought home a chick for Easter, and it grew and grew until she came home from work one night, opened the door, and saw eight kids chasing a rooster around the living room. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"TB is like living with a bomb in your lung," Buddy had written to me at college. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Whether he could conjure up a vision of blacks and whites living together in harmony at some unspecified time in the future remains unclear. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was as if he was more like family, the way he would sit reading in the living room while Olanna went about her business and Master was in the study. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Before we can get good into our conversation, E.J. comes home, smelling up the whole living room with his cologne. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

There’s only one bedroom, so Mom sleeps on the living room couch. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I followed Grandma into our house, and she motioned for me to take a seat on the living room couch. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“If he had still been living in Pittsburgh, he would have been ostracized.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

We’d be living out of boxes for at least another week or two. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

In the dusk its headstall flickered and flashed, as if it were studded with gems like living stars. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“The fact remains that this was an expensive piece of machinery. Why would someone living in a tiny cabin with a dirt floor own a crossbow worth ten talents?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Not worrying about anything. Just living his life, for now. Just happy being here now, with you. He’s a good dog.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But language is a living thing, always evolving, and It is I is just about extinct. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The DiAngelos’ kitchen is twice the size of our living room, with its own fireplace and glass doors that open onto a patio. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Making it big, getting out of the Garden, living past sixteen. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Some whites living in the area moved away, but most stayed put. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She laughed again and said, “Good, because I don’t think her new husband would appreciate the competition. Charlemae . . . Miss Hill is currently living in Chicago, Illinois.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Given the season, the dead were hard to distinguish from the living. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I think a partition had been knocked out to make the living room larger. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, a few minutes afterward, I heard a tapping on my living room window. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

She tells him this is the house she’s grown up in, mentioning casually that she’d moved back six months ago after living with a man in Boston, an arrangement that had not worked out. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Possible translation: That rickety shutter on the living room window that always smacked against the house whenever the wind blew was gone. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In a single morning, I discovered that Egyptians were creating great works of art and architecture when whites were still living in caves. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll see who wins, your dead man on a stick or the living spirits of Africa!” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But the living have fallen behind. Hurry and type that story up into an obituary form. Quickly, and then you can take my car to run it over to Mr. Greene.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

All the kids put in stasis the same day as me...All of them, living out their lives with no memory of home or Earth or their families. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

This was because it fed on living things and had grown so fat and swollen in its greed that bits of the people it had eaten dripped from its scummy lips and crooked teeth. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tries to convince herself that he is living with a friend, but she remembers their last telephone conversation: “I’ll be there soon,” he said. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Freedom and justice for all, the greatness of America, but a man living in a country sending satellites into space could still land up a heap in a doorway. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dolls, stuffed animals, and plastic cars and trucks were strewn across the living room, and the kids didn’t seem interested in any of them. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Only because the living must bury the dead? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The living rest of the turtle I lifted and dropped into Richard Parker’s territory. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Strange, imaginary shapes flitted about in the gloom; eerie cries pierced the still air; trees and bushes reached out their branches to catch and scratch like living things with claws. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She could have explained what she’d done there, that she’d never made her living on her back, but it was none of his business what she did or didn’t do. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But Hunt suggested they contact Bernard Barker, a Cuban American living in Miami who had done clandestine work for the CIA in the past. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

As if every living thing rushes to establish a foothold before some cataclysm arrives. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“People will talk. It looks dishonorable, an unmarried young woman living here. It’s bad for my reputation. And hers. And yours, I might add.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living right now.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were living in such wretched conditions that he wrote an article about the deplorable situation. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

She ran barefoot down to the living room and found Rasheed already by the window, in his undershirt, his hair disheveled, palms pressed to the glass. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Alex is living for it, watching Henry come undone, letting him be whatever he needs to be while alone with Alex behind a locked door. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She walks to the center of the living room, holds her arms open wide and turns a circle. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

And living an ethical life, a moral life, is important to them. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Instead, about three steps into the living room, he stops dead in his tracks. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

It seemed the jungle’s very essence had sought him out, a living nightmare purged from its most wretched depths. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to be living with Fuchsia and her mom in their apartment.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Having the chance to say goodbye before you die is an incredible opportunity, but isn’t that time better spent actually living? They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t at all sure he could make it back to the living room, but he knew he had to. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Finally, he came out to the living room where I was sorting books into one of the big bookcases. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Benny Quinto led prayer circles in his living room and offered to smoke with anyone who needed to calm their nerves. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

In my mind’s eye I saw reduced to soot all those wonderful books, which had revealed to me other ways of living, which had sustained me in a world of degradation. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baylor was running the vacuum in the living room and singing “Amazing Grace.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

There are still a million Jews living there; they too are doomed. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I hold the pendant up against the living room light, and the diamonds glisten like a lake on a sunny day. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I walked into the living room to find my mom sitting alone and looking at a photo album the way a woman who has one missing child would do. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t my fault I got to keep living, and it wasn’t her fault she was dying. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He left Mama the house we were living in and a thousand dollars. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The placidity of her countenance along with the smoothness of her skin made her face appear like a mask, with living, human eyes behind it. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Fine. Just walk into a person’s living room with a bruised- up face and give no one any explanation for it,” I said. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The living room was covered in trucks, train tracks, and every species of toy dinosaur. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I was sure at any moment they were going to smoke us out and figure we were rabble, living on top of one another in a seventies junkbox down below. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After a second’s hesitation, I follow her through another kind of living room and into a study. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Got that right,” Grandpop said, coming from a door just off from the living room—which was just off from the kitchen—glass in hand. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He drifted into the living room, scuffing his feet along the carpet, headed for the worn Barcalounger next to the old gray sofa in front of the TV. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I thought about that look on his face, the one in the living room when we were both just happy kids still, playing around. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

For the next two weeks, the three of us arrange ourselves in the same seats in Aibileen’s small, warm living room. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Lorena and I watch a reality show about a bunch of rich kids living in New York. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The living room sat empty, with a big ghost of furniture crowded in the middle, and whenever I passed by, I imagined the severed television huddled somewhere in the scrum. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I have never been so damp and miserable for such a long time—it is like living in a tent with no light, no heat. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

It turned colder that night, so after we had eaten dinner I built a fire in the living room fireplace and closed the windows. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Puritan leaders were horrified when some members of a rival English settlement began living with the Massachusett Indians. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They were right on the edge of the street so that when I walked by, with their doors open, I felt I was in their living room or in their kitchen. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been a moment—she was sure now—when she had ceased to exist as a living human being. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Clear-cutting” was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countries into grazing land. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

When the wind picked up briefly and died, the sound moved away from her, traveling out across the darkened park like a living thing. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps there are living things that do not have a solvent system at all—solid-state life, where there are electrical signals propagating rather than molecules floating about. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was a living breath this time, not a dying one. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

So when he came flying into the living room on skates, I laughed it up so he’d feel a little better about my slipping him the insects. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

That night, we rearrange the living room and Dad throws Mom’s clothing into a few black garbage bags for Goodwill. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

And they had drawn these accolades by cleaning big houses and living in one-room Alabama shacks before moving to the city. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She walked into the living room, shaking her head. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

There were more pictures of her family, of Esther and Emmanuel living lives that were snuffed out for reasons that still no one could fathom. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

She and Muhammad are sitting in the living room with a box of doughnuts on the side table. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“Christ, Francie, a feller is got to make a living and it comes slow in this business—a penny at a time.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day after school when I came inside, he was waiting for me in the living room. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s not a coincidence that I do what I do for a living,” she said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He loaded up a tray with glasses of iced tea and rushed back to the living room, glancing my way as he passed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wander through the living room, to the kitchen, and out to the backyard, showing everyone that picture of Layla and Warren on IG, and asking around if they’ve seen this girl. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

When he told his father that his job was to "hinder production," his mother scolded him, "You are here to do something against the country and here we are earning our living here." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

You've probably regressed completely by now, living in that substandard old house with only your mother for company. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure,” I said, and Grandma left me in her living room. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Outside the tall living room windows, the Inner Harbor spread out below, water gleaming and lights twinkling. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I didn’t think I would witness those kinds of living conditions, either. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

They were living an alternative lifestyle forty years after the rest of the world had given it up. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“That, in truth, is the most common outcome. A living Overlander like yourself, plus your sister, well, this is most singular.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I would have to make it fit for living in until I could move to my permanent quarters on the lifeboat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

My father’s tribal rule had as its fulcrum the constant performing of rituals spanning the range of day-to-day living. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did the dining room and was soaking the living room couches when I realized I should have started at the end of the house farthest from the mudroom door. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

It was based on the realization that all living things have within them an isotope of carbon called carbon-14, which begins to decay at a measurable rate the instant they die. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

But there were no men at all in the dim room that served as the living room and kitchen. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“At one point,” he said, “there were five thousand monks living as hermits in these caves.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

With the easy living of the summer also came a threat. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did the dishes, swept dust and candy wrappers out from underneath the couch, mopped the living room floor, wiped the bathroom sink clean of my toothpaste smears, and even made my bed. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In the living room Daddy made a big fuss over my castle. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

And then she swept you up and danced with you up and down the living room. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

Daphne, who was now living with her family full-time, was coming to my party, so I asked if her family could be included. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

"South America hell! If you went there the way you feel now it would be exactly the same. This is a good town. Why don't you start living your life in Paris?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

In the coming years, Southam injected HeLa and other living cancer cells into more than six hundred people for his research, about half of them cancer patients. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“The things you don’t know about living on the Cape.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He had no mouth, but he was still a living man. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I had great expectations about how my life would go and then . Nicholas Nickleby! — you fell on hard times and were living in a real bleak house.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

In reality, there are only a few New Guinean—like populations in the Philippine/western Indonesia area, notably the Negritos living in mountainous areas of the Philippines. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A 1905 State Prison Improvement Commission found the cells damp, too small, and badly ventilated, concluding, “verily, this is far worse than living in a sewer.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

These people seem to be living together, clustered in small, dense villages, but they are really solitary, unrelated individuals with no evident use for each other. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the living room, Dad holds up the boards of my CharlieCard costume, and I slide in between. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

In two strides he is by my side, grabbing my hair and dragging me across the living room. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He ended up in the San Francisco Bay Area, living out of his backpack, going to rock concerts, sleeping in local parks. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It is not well for a man to know more than is necessary for his daily living. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Local farmers wanted to hang dead crows around the town on public buildings to frighten the others away; ornithologists said that it wouldn’t work, that the living crows would simply eat the dead ones. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Her hands were strong, as though she worked with them for a living. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

One day we were living in a law-abiding community and the next day the city and the community had both dissolved, with every person for himself. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

We end up cooking grilled cheese in the toaster oven and bringing it into the living room to eat in front of the TV. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

In the center of the living room floor was a large white cloth with a pile of her mother’s jewelry, her father’s special watches, jade figurines, money, and other precious items. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Might those pagan babies send us to hell for living too far from a jungle? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you think my family is living in this moldy corner of hell for the fifty dollars a month!” she practically shouted at him. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Littles had a grand piano in their living room, which was all right except that one of the keys was a sticky key and didn’t work properly. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

In Park's living room, it was just awkward. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Lettie went on, “And one of those evil root people. Look at that ugly bracelet. It looks like it has bugs living in it.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He went and wiped down and pulled on a clean undershirt and pants before walking the rest of the way down the hall to the living room to tell Naomi. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They'd probably want nothing to do with me once they learned I technically wasn't allowed to be living in the country. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

"Are you sure your wife doesn't understand English, I mean, after living here so long?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holding my pillow over my head for protection, I ran into the living room, where Dad was reading. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“How I used to sit you down in a chair in the living room and ask you questions? Remember?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“So how would you kids feel about Grandma living here?” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

After almost a week of living there, he realized he had nothing to worry about. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

People living on the road call it The Jungle. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

At home, I’d take my legs off in the living room and leave them near the television. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

We filed, into the living room, where our dripping clothes made puddles on Grosie’s Persian rug. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He carried the banner into the living room and stood on a kitchen chair to pin it to the drapes. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

In our living room, hands shoved into his pockets and peering around, is Jack Allen. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

On the living room floor Glen and four other guys were sitting cross-legged around a tall brass-and-glass hookah. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Nikki and I would play this game: I would sit on the living room chair while Nikki deeply inhaled and then blew directly in my face, eliciting hysterical laughs on both sides. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Her lips widened into a skeletal smile as she said to me, "You, Sikander, have broken the most sacred law of Kurnugi. The living are not permitted in the netherworld." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The phone was in the living room and I got on the couch and picked up the receiver. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The very small living room incredibly contained—aside from things to sit on—an organ, a piano, a garden of flowering flowerpots, and usually a darting little dog and a large, drowsy cat. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, my parsimonious father launches into a ten-minute-long lecture about how working for a living is hard and kids today don’t get it because they’re given allowances they don’t earn. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

But if there had been any paleontologists living 67 million years ago, they could not have predicted the dinosaurs’ imminent demise, because asteroids belong to a field of science otherwise remote from dinosaur biology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He ended up living in a single room in a Philadelphia boarding house, surrounded by books, papers, and bones. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

And the heart of any living thing can be broken. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

They saw the images of devastation and desperation, and could not believe that their uncle was living amid all that. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Living here in the colonies had to be better than living like a savage in the jungle. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Will my mother be living at your house or my house?” her niece asked Brave Orchid. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chaplain relished the privacy and isolation of his verdant surroundings and the reverie and meditation that living there fostered. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She would cover his expenses living with Sadhu, and Dell would continue to make the payment on his place. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

My job, mostly, was to break the opposing team’s line and scare the living hell out of their QB. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

But what had I learned so far that would help me to make a living? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The 1880s saw two scientists, France’s Louis Pasteur and Germany’s Robert Koch, isolate various bacteria—extremely small one-celled creatures—living in animals and humans and link them to specific diseases. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

It had almost the same dispiritingly drab quality and the same bottom fine: an inhospitable place for a bright young lad with no friends to be living. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since my father’s death, my mother had made the tattered brown leather couch in the living room her bed. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I fall asleep on the sofa in the formal living room. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

In most of physics and chemistry the concepts of “ultimate cause,” “purpose,” and “function” are meaningless, yet they are essential to understanding living systems in general and human activities in particular. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

At last I found out how to end the book; I ended it just as I had begun it, showing Bigger living dangerously, taking his life into his hands, accepting what life had made him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was like having a foreign-exchange student living in our house. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

After living together for so long, the two of them alone in one tiny room, they’ve ended up looking like each other. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

These tests confirm that the same ancestral peoples either ended up extinct, or returned to living as hunter-gatherers, or went on to build complex states, depending on their environments. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When she didn’t answer, I looked back into the living room. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mama’s speech was slurred as she told me to say hello to Jean, Louise’s granddaughter, who was in the living room. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Maureen had graduated from high school and enrolled in one of the city colleges, but she never really applied herself and ended up living with Mom and Dad. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Each morning someone in the household would pour a bucketful of water over his lantern, and after several years a skin of living vegetation began to show on the stone. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went on into the living room, where Styx was laid out on the couch with a bunch of pillows under him, looking perky as all get-out. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Surely it would be peaceful and steady, that way of living, and easier, too, demanding no set standard? Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

These three volumes were found to be a work of great skill and learning in which, between 1403 and 1418, he had used all the sources available to him in Rivendell, both living and written. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We talk about other times, other places, other persons, and lose our living hold on the present. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even in living outside of our lives, he has not had a full life of his own. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

And this illusion is only a moderate one compared to the one I had in 1928, when I regarded myself not only as the Laughing Man’s direct descendant but as his only legitimate living one. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Across the hall from his office is a law firm, affiliated with Kavesh and Gau, that handles wills and living trusts and all other legal matters related to financial planning. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stench was overpowering—men unwashed for months and puke and muck and rot that was eating living flesh. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

While in high school I accepted that I was living in a void, but now that I was heading for college I needed some fresh air and fresh thinking. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Henry Washington. He’s been living over there with Miss Della Jones on Thirteenth Street. But she’s too addled now to keep up. So he’s looking for another place.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Campbell returned, sitting in what appeared to be her living room. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

To put the seriousness of this in perspective, that year six so-called witches were burned in the town where she was now living, Leonberg. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He was so alone—all his family was dead, save one aunt living in Africa. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“The complete price is $10,500, for two bedrooms, a large living room, kitchen, bath, and dining space, and five closets.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I get to the living room and there it is: five guys holding back a crazed Rondell. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

When Mama kept having baby girls back-to-back, our parents decided to turn the big living room into a bedroom for all five of us. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

If Grandpa and Miss Love weren’t already living happy ever after, they would be soon as he got well. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

His duplex had changed since the last time she was here, and it was more than just the box of Fisher-Price toys in the living room and the makeup in the bathroom. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

When Luke tried to help, Annie pushed him into the living room and told him to find a movie. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

They must have been living off benefits from the military or something. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

We had created this idea of ourselves as a defense mechanism to survive in the world we were living in. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

If there is anything I've figured out in the last months it's that you can find labels to organize living things, but you can't put people in any kind of group or order. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Later, in the living room, Gil settled into the couch with his oxygen tubes in his nose. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I imagine flashing lights and people bumping into each other and drug trolleys zooming around like fast cars and that’s how it was in our living room now. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Helena is in the corner of the living room, making herself small on the far side of the sofa. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He looked like a kid who’d been living on the streets. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She rubs her neck and looks at Manchee, sniffing round the edges of the weir, probably smelling the wood weavers who made it living underneath. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Going out to drink gets him out of the trailer, where nine people live and Enrique must sleep on the living room sofa. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She saved practically all of her earnings, living like a miser, hoarding each penny. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

His group was spread all over Oakland, and despite them not living all that far away from one another, their lives hadn’t intersected as much as he wanted over the summer. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It also took on the meaning of someone parasitic, living on the flesh of others. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a month living in the car, we got a room at Avalon. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

There were warnings, rules against using the energies to harm any living being. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

At the time the photo was taken, we were living across the hall from my father’s parents in Parkway Gardens, an affordable housing project on the South Side made up of modernist apartment buildings. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, there in the living room Max and Grace sat across from each other like they had when they’d first met in Model United Nations. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

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

Take for example, the forty-two-year-old African American man who applied for public housing for himself and his three children who were living with him at the time. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I’d been living with Miss Thomas and the band for about seven days and this was already my third trip on the road. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Many others arrived before us and are living in green tents and sleeping on cots. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She’d been living here since the night after Papa died, when Mr. Grasso carried her upstairs and tucked her into bed with the two little girls. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

The walk through the living room and down the hallway to the phone feels extra long. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afterwards, in the living room, the strain was almost too great to be borne. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The company of men long dead seemed to suit him better than that of the living, and his boar seemed happy rooting amongst the graves, well away from other animals. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Last night, Ivy went downstairs to the Bishops’ kitchen for a drink of water and overheard Taryn’s parents in the living room talking about the Aberdeens’ house. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He was living in a four-walled tent with a smaller table and a cot. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He said that since I was the oldest living at home, I had to watch out for Mommy and my little brothers and sisters because “y’all are special,” he said. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mamá is all right. I knew she would be. Have you told her I am living with Lucky?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“Scared? Of what? The chidings of old men? Sam, you saw the wights come swarming up the Fist, a tide of living dead men with black hands and bright blue eyes. You slew an Other.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Like Moss had another life, a future he could look forward to living. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Sure, they were having a great time camping out and playing hide- and-seek, and living out here was a great trick on the cities. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It’s really quite a good deal, though, for the inside of the trailer is nice, it’s a house trailer, furnished, with some of the electric sockets working and a lot of living space. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She grows from baby to mother to old woman and then turns into a baby again, and on and on she goes, living a thousand, thousand lives. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The curtains on the street side of the house are closed, and the living room is cast in a reddish hue that seems to suit the heat and the smell. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I think he became an undertaker because it was easier for him to spend time with the dead than the living. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Galton’s talk might not have generated the effusive endorsement that he had expected—he later groused that his audience was “living forty years ago”—but he had obviously touched a raw nerve. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Love can kill you and I’d rather be alive than out there living. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He came back out with a wrapper slung around his body and tied behind his neck and sat with Richard in the living room. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

My mom walks into the living room and watches me reread the email. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

They “needed some time apart” to figure out if they wanted to continue living together. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Probably carryin’ a box car full of grits to some southern pansy living in New York.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was worried about living with a family. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

You know—living in a slum, his mother dead since he was nine. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes you risk everything for a life worth living, even if you’re not the one that’ll be alive to live it.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

When he was living he spoke in a foreign language and lived in a foreign place—like she wanted to do. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the living room, the men have stopped talking about politics and instead lay bets on whether Milt’s new kid will be a boy or a girl. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

By the time I get to the living room, David’s already crouched in front of the fish tank, his smiling face reflected in the glass. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I caught wind of some local legends near the Mongolian border. Cost me nearly two months of brutal living to track her down.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Uncle Jet gently snored on the couch in the living room. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

My parents keep the television on in the living room even though they’re in the basement, watching Pretty in Pink on an ancient portable DVD player. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I no longer saw my parents or our living room. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He told me he was living with his wife and a pack of kids in a mobile home behind the barn, making his money working oil rigs in North Dakota. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Having failed to locate any living witnesses, White found himself stymied, and Hale seemed aware that agents were onto him. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Adele was engaged to a wonderful man from our tribe, but they weren’t living together, as that would have been frowned upon. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Since my friends were now living within a few feet of me, we could hang out all day and eat dinner with my parents at night, kind of like an endless slumber party. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In the living room, the front door slams, people shout. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

And I knew she was thinking about how she wanted to be outside, living, instead of in her room, dying. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I sit on the sofa in the living room, crunching on Lucky Charms while I think about the word birthday. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

It must be tough living with so many war stories. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was too soon, her youth and prettiness had frightened him, he was too much used to living without women—he did not know the reason. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Bleak as the area was, there was no money for anything better; the low wages paid by Swift and his fellow packers kept the unskilled masses living in squalor. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was hard to imagine Mrs. Lynch, with her gray hair, wrapped in a bun, as a teenager, dancing to music in the living room with my mom. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

When you’re in the middle of actually living your life, however, there’s no picture of what it should look like at the end to guide your choices. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

One rainy day, with his mother shut in her room, he occupies himself bouncing a ball against the living room wall. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

As he passed the door to the living room, Harry caught a glimpse of Uncle Vernon and Dudley in bow ties and dinner jackets. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I rise from the living room couch and inch past the doorway to the kitchen. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Alex started toward the living room, ready to defend the chair again, but Radar pushed past him and hurried to the front door. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You people are living on borrowed time in this block.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can’t keep drawing your own spirit. It might not kill you,” he said, because spirit wasn’t like blood, and somehow people went on living without it, if you could call it living. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

This is because someone put a canvas tarp over the skylight in the living room. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

On the front was a model house with a wide porch, living room, bathroom, kitchen, and two bedrooms. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It just wasn’t enough time living in this world. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A keynote “outlines the character of the people living there.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“I thought living out here would protect us. I thought we could hide.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The moist towel that Wes held to his lip was almost solid red and beginning to drip blood on the living room carpet. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I even made my living helping to guide him to the sick things he wanted. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before that he’d been living on his family’s farm in northern Connecticut. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Though he wasn’t yet forty, he was in danger of becoming a relic in a Wild West traveling show, living but dead. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Samar watched them from her living room window, but she didn’t venture out. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I was living in a culture and not a civilization and I could learn how that culture worked only by living with it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it is a decent living and the firm is basically happy with me. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Your brother would want you to go on living your life. He loved you more than anyone.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Grampa pushed away from the table and went into the living room, and I headed out the kitchen door for Naomi’s house. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Just living with his family, he has to do more tolerating than the rest of us put together. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Cherish lets us in and tells us to wait in the living room. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Max and Danuta have a long talk in the empty living room of the Diamant apartment, and when they come back, Max says that he asked me for one night. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mom liked to encourage self-sufficiency in all living creatures. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The clanking of glass in the living room lets me know that Pop Pop is having his nightcap. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The living quarters and dining rooms of the tenured scholars would have been in the very same building, affording easy access to the collections. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“But wouldn’t it be better if we already knew we were dead so we’re not living in the fear of how it happens?” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But the school had been my father’s dream, and we were all happy to be living it. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Every Thursday night, Fred and the other dogs from the show would hang out in the living room of the Brooklyn brownstone and watch Dog Squad together. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Robert Horton had marveled, even before the migration, at the power of blacks living in Chicago to elect their own. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

After sleeping on the floor of a Baton Rouge mosque for that first week, he and his wife had rented an apartment for the month, and were living there. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

On January 1, 1863, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed the slaves living in the eleven states that had seceded from the Union. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Isaac: “I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

To fall between them would mean living and dying in a fog of fear. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He despised me for living down Kingfisher Meadows. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

It’s covered in carpeting nicer than we have in our living room. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

But that was a lot, packed into someone’s living room. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was hesitant to trust the food in the box, as there was the distinct possibility that the fellow living here had been some manner of crazy. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Penkovsky, the most productive spy ever to work for the Americans, was living up to his code name. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The littles are watching a movie in the living room. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

And that first visit, Alicia sits on a chair in the living room, and I sit on the couch with her mom, and she stays there with us the whole time. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I explained how I had met him and assured her that I was not living with him, as she had assumed. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe we are living in a house,” I thought to myself. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She burst into the living room, duffel bag over her shoulder, laughing and belting out one of those goofy summer-camp songs kids sing at night around the fire. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t think of a happier way of having it spoiled—not if this meant that maybe one day soon we’d be back living an ordinary life. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

We argued about the bayou octopus rumored to be living in those waters, waiting to eat us if we ever tried to swim away. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The living room was warm and as big as the one-room cabin we lived in. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She stayed out of the living room, my fortress, and only ventured into the kitchen when she knew I wasn’t there. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

They now knew they could make decent livings and be comfortable; it wasn’t enough. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s working a railroad job back in Iowa. He says it’s not fit living for a girl my age, so I’m here for the summer.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The leaves seem to grow out of the dark gold, to be living things, their stems crossing over one another in a delicate knotwork. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And I liked the characters—made me think of me, Mong and Rondell, and how we were kind of living off the land too. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I think about Dad and Pop living alone without me. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I have one saving grace, it's that I'm lucky enough to have found someone willing to handle the ugly business of day-to-day living. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Groggily I get up, wrapping a quilt around myself, and follow him to the living room. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry. Like you said, with a bit of courage, creativity and fifteen”—I eyed the pink and mauve striped drapes in the living room—“thirty-five yards of upholstery fabric, anything is possible.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

If I could reach backward somehow to give Father just one gift, it would be the simple human relief of knowing you’ve done wrong, and living through it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They examined the living room, the dining room, the kitchen. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The Baron, who was living here when I arrived, considers himself the real owner of the moun- taintop, but because he finds me interesting, he lets me stay. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Jackson Five was in our living room on Herkimer Street. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

On that “cool September evening,” Compton, Conant, and Lawrence arranged themselves around the fireplace in Compton’s living room. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The ancient tyrant Mezentius of Etruria, punishing his enemies, bound each living prisoner to a corpse and left them thus, shackled face to face, until the corruption of the dead involved the living. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

In the harbor there was the stink of living, the smell from the other boats, the smell from cars driving by. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he saw Julie sleeping in the easy chair in the living room and it came back to him. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Auntie Fatima returns from the living room, holding three bouquets of flowers. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I lay on the bed and reveled in the delightful sensation of living out a long-sought dream. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because he wasn’t adopted. Like, ever? He’s been living with this family about an hour away from here, but he’s been in a lot of different homes since before then.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

At least once a week there was an argument between the two either over money or me living in the house. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

A few dozen people had collected in the living room, sitting on couches and folding chairs that had been brought in for the occasion, while others sat cross-legged on the floor. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Papa scanned the living room and took in the funereal atmosphere. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Finn didn’t mention how cows were okay if you knew how to handle them and how Charlie’s living room stank with all the chickens wandering around inside. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

After a while, I went out into the living room to sit with my parents and watch TV. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

First, we sat around in Laura’s living room and told stories; then we danced into the night. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Every other year she says something about how Mary was working for a living, and just because she’s not married, it doesn’t mean that she is worthless. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Once they reached the living room, Brandon peeked out the window. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When Don Linton was a boy, a time in one’s life when innocence and truth should go hand in hand, he was a walking, living zombie of a lie. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She went to the living room with a book. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the dichotomy of love and disdain living side-by-side is what surprises me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He went back to the living room and sat down at a small table that stood to the left of the telescreen. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Theo has been living with the disease for a long time. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When Tillie decided that I was good enough to help with the invitations, I sat on the floor of her living room and used her coffee table as my desk. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Gramps tells this story, he starts with when he was seventeen years old and living with his parents in Bybanks. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Then I tell her she needs to go on in the living room, let me do my work in here. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Well, it looks like that, too. Florida’s a huge place. We’ll be living in an area that’s more like this one. There are still a lot of farms around.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bread was in the oven and Luke was picking up lint by hand from the living room rug when he heard tires on the gravel driveway. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, when David and I were talking about the schools being closed. I know you’re suffering the most. Being sent away from home and living with Granny and...” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At least he can go somewhere while still living here.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I meant because we could really kick everyone’s butts. If we had more time like that. If we were living together.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The third time through the living room, Judy caught my arm. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was more or less living in the kitchen and the smaller of the two libraries. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Like Kuboyama, the farmer had been a healthy man, gleaning his living from the land as Kuboyama had taken his from the sea. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In a lifetime of living with misery and pain, his soul had not hardened; if anything it was increasingly vulnerable to pity. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

First we talked of other things, sitting in his living room. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take my exam notes into the living room. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

They are at least 600 million years old, probably older than any type of living thing you’ve ever seen with your eyes or imagined inside your brain. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Maybe we had died on the train and we were reincarnated and living a different life now. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

No fighting or bombing or invading other places, just living out in the open, on the beach. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“There are seven billion living people, and about ninety-eight billion dead people.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

But no matter how shabbily he is treated, Goriot goes on, living out the obsession of his life. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I had survived for years on the streets of Tarbean, living off my wits. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s more like living in Disney Shanty Town. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

"Will," he says, "do you have a sec to talk in the living room?" Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

My mother was now always “resting” and it was as if she had died and become a living ghost. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Moreau and the chair vanish and a different scene emerges inside the cage—a fancy living room with plush chairs and a large fireplace. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

My wife and I were living in an apartment in Kansas City. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

That way we’d have water and electricity in the End of Days, when everyone else was drinking from puddles and living in darkness. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was black and shiny and seemed to fill up the whole living room floor. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

In my opinion, she enjoyed the attic because the vertigo of living up there reminded her of Mount Olympus. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I could hear voices from the main living room. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They would not love me living, so let them dread me dead. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

People traveled to San Francisco to participate in his games, and now Emily was going to be living there herself. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Here’s what they told me when we got home, when Dad took my earbuds away from me and they forced me to sit in the living room. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It would be an interesting and reflective way to reacquaint myself with the scale and beauty of my native land after nearly twenty years of living abroad. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

How could I make a living doing that? My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

My uncle pointed to a corner in the living room where I could sleep, and then gave me detailed instructions on how to get to the bank, to meet Alois, my cousin’s husband. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Father and son alike shed happy tears at this strange meeting between the dead and the living whose love had been strong enough to bring him down to the world of death. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed to be the only living things that weren’t scared of her. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I run to the bathroom and grab the can of air freshener and just about empty it, spraying the hallway and living room. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

There were, of course, no living women within hundreds of miles, but I was groggy and didn’t think of that. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

She looks at me seriously, and she says, “Djo, I have been living on your island for six days now. It is the only place I live.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were standing in the living room, trying to be casual, as if we habitually stand around together in the same room and it’s nothing to be alarmed about. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dropped the mush into flasks that contained living cells from the kidney of a monkey. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, sunbeams shined brightly into the living room, almost forcing me to open my eyes. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

After what I had witnessed in the village, I could not believe I was hearing a living voice. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if we were living in the future, and I was already gone. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As much automatic, Abnegation-bred sympathy as I have for the people living in this place, I am also afraid of them. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

More people died at Drossen Tor than there are living in the world today. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“There’s a huge colony of bats living under a bridge right by here,” he told her. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I run to the window of our living room and steal a glance down at the street. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. Stone droned ... a Christian can rid himself of the frustrations of modern living by ... coming to Family Night every Wednesday and bringing a covered dish . . . abide with you now and forevermore, Amen. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

A small farmer before the war, and twice a widower, Duke was always on the edge of ruin, scratching a living from the lean soil of the northern Piedmont. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She didn't have cable or a phone, and she felt like she was living underground in her own house. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The first thing I remember about being a person living in Little Rock, Arkansas, during the 1940s is the gut-wrenching fear in my heart and in my tummy that I was in danger. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The poorest went on living in burrows of the most primitive kind, mere holes indeed, with only one window or none; while the well-to-do still constructed more luxurious versions of the simple diggings of old. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I wondered what it would be like living here with her to watch over me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Usually, I don’t see anything interesting, but yesterday I saw a woman in a towel dancing to Juan Gabriel in her living room. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She headed straight for the living room and started talking to Fang, who was sitting on the couch looking all staggered by the home invasion. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Plain and simple explanations on living off the sea were given in abundance, but a basic knowledge of seafaring was as­sumed by the author of the manual. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Park could tell her that he had lice and leprosy and parasitic worms living in his mouth, and she would still put on fresh ChapStick. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

But, perhaps worst of all, he insisted that Dasch and Burger "were not living up to the orders" given to them in Germany. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

She went into the living room, where she straightened a sofa cushion in passing, and climbed the stairs to the bedroom. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And in that hour the great Battle of the field of Gondor was over; and not one living foe was left within the circuit of the Rammas. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He checked to make sure there was nothing living in it, then climbed down into a hole. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He resumed his old habits, living like a hermit and rarely appearing at the house. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went to the kitchen to find Rohin, but he was now in the living room, at the dining table, kneeling on one of the director’s chairs. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I was trying to come up with something that would make her laugh again, but then Drew rushed into the living room, chasing after Erin. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Neither boy was faster than Mr. Flux, who moved like snakes, and living taffy, and malignant rubber bands, slender and stretched. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I caught an old woman looking out her living room window at the whole spectacle. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

So I just went back in the living room and turned off this little lamp next to the couch, and then I got in bed with just my shorts on. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Every other Bengali living on the East Coast does.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

From the doorway, the living room looks almost normal, even though the couch is kind of patchy and faded, and the wallpaper is from the nineties. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I paid my way with my compensation money and found living with her pleasant except for her constant talk about leadership and responsibility. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would not steal bread from another living prisoner. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Back when I was still living at The Children’s Home, Mary Miller had asked me, “If you could do anything you wanted, what would that be?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Matt wondered who was living there now or if perhaps it had been sealed up. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But it’s the waste that gets me. The loss of one more living creature. Couldn’t you tell, Isidore? Didn’t you notice the difference?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

My heart thumped faster as I bounded into the house, into a living room crowded with people. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have seen the acorn before the oak. I have seen the spark before the flame. But never have I seen such as this: A dead woman living. A child born from nothing.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She pictured herself living there, in Kabul, at the other end of that unimaginable distance, living in a stranger’s house where she would have to concede to his moods and his issued demands. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to rent it, either, since she was opposed to anyone else living in her house. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Where are you living?” said Charles in black ink. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The “resolution” for the sample debate was that “Fair governments should require employers to pay a living wage,” and I kind of have an opinion on that. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Perhaps that was why Dad hadn’t wanted me to come: because he knew that by living with them, with people whose faith was less, I risked becoming like them. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She got herself some basic science textbooks, a good dictionary, and a journal she’d use to copy passage after passage from biology textbooks: “Cell is a minute portion of living substance,” she wrote. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

On Euclid Avenue, we were two households living under one not very big roof. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Keller slides open the glass and we step into the living room. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

With only a few adults to supervise us, we had to create our own ways of living from day to day. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dell then maneuvered around his heaps of junk, and took a seat on his patio furniture, which he used indoors in his living room. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Something about how much money he has, how many girls like him, his clothes, his jewelry, the gangster life he’s living. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

They could be underneath the skyscrapers for living people that are built up. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She felt cut away from him, each of them living and breathing in separate spheres, he bored and spiritless in Nsukka, she bored and spiritless in Lagos, and everything curdled in lethargy. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Upstairs, Mom puts on a record, and she and Richard dance for a while in the living room while I sit on the couch and grin, just watching them. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

It’s a shame we can’t just admit that we have failed family living, sell the house, split up the money, and get on with our lives. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

We were living at Providence, Rhode Island, at the time. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was more furniture than she had in the living room. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was far away in his spirit, living on desert islands, in silence, with eternity.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

To my right, the smudge pots and that bloated bonfire were spewing out over every living thing. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything was in that girl’s wet black eyes, every worry Kathy shared—that these were the first days of their new life together, living in Phoenix, living without their father. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past, to childhood and before birth, finally, to commune with the dead. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was a grotesque creature, and he’d never seen a fighter survive its attack, but it was also a living thing. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We met the numbers runners, gamblers, lottery takers and whiskey salesmen not only in the loud streets but in our orderly living room as well. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, and returned to the living room and lay down on the sofa. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

And he has his parents living with him! Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

With husband and children now far away, her living space shrunk from a spacious house to a single room, her suitcase now her closet, Dorothy’s daily existence was reduced to its simplest elements. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

By Pearl Harbor Day there were eight hundred and forty-three people of Japanese descent living there, including twelve seniors at Amity Harbor High School who did not graduate that spring. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He is nearly asleep when he sees the Parisian who has been living three doors down exit the house of Etienne LeBlanc. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I whisper, “Let’s go on in the living room and play with the talking toy. What that donkey say?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He hooked his arm around my shoulder and led me back into the living room. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He had told Aureliano and had even made plans to set him up in a business that would bring him a living, because the baskets of food had stopped coming since Fernanda's burial. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. It’s better than—” “Yeah, I know, living in pile of klunk.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He poked his head into the doorway and began to gabble good-naturedly about something or other, and after a few minutes we picked up our drinks and followed him back to the living room. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

After that they’d be living in a building with heat and hot water. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The number of people who lived in the home at any given time fluctuated between five and nine, which made for tight living conditions. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He needed to be roaming free in open country and living among untamed animals. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe when you’re very old, surrounded by all who love you and your heart gently stops beating because you’ve had enough living. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“It took him years to get over it. He had nightmares and he suffered just as you do. But it didn’t stop him from living.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The singers made Bran a throne of his own, like the one Lord Brynden sat, white weirwood flecked with red, dead branches woven through living roots. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Fields’s types were the only living exhibits. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Alone in the house, Mariam paced restlessly, from the kitchen to the living room, up the steps to her room and down again. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

If they died, she would not want to go on living without them. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She imagined the two of them living out their days in a tree house on the island or setting sail through the Caribbean. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Clothes never dried: tweed and woolen coats housed living things, sometimes sprouted mysterious vegetations. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He was Russell Dieter, an ex-Marine aircraft mechanic who had been working as a production welder and, since his divorce, living on the family farm, midstate. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last battle, before this story opens, and indeed the only one that had ever been fought within the borders of the Shire, was beyond living memory: the Battle of Greenfields, S.R. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Dr. Zamborska is one of four children—all living—and Branwell is one of seven grandchildren on that side of the family. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jaja and Mama were dressed and waiting in the living room upstairs when I came out. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

"It is so,” nodded Vasudeva, "the voices of all living creatures are in its voice.” Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

After lunch, she’d pass out these carpet squares and we’d pick our spots on the living room floor for nap time. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I dared not glance over to where Mrs. Moss and Melissa were sitting in the living room, but I knew they were close enough to overhear every word. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

One way to identify a virus is to make it grow inside living cells in a flask of water. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I tore out of my bedroom, dashed down two flights of steps, and found both of my parents on the couch in the living room. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

And the one place a body could count on finding both the living and the dead in the evenings was the theater. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“And, Momma, I can’t even picture living with you. We hardly know each other.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Celeste stuck her head into the living room, where Bridge and Tab had done what felt like hours of French. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

She lets out a sigh that means life is hardly worth living under such conditions. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It was like living in a white neighborhood with all the streets named after varietals of fine wine. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My cousins are laughing and talking among themselves in the living room. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Daedalus had created it to be a living, growing maze. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Any time I let it, the weight of living creeps in and starts to drag her down. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The living men and women and children of Weep were safe from her nightmares again tonight. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The same thing happened with dogs and foxes, with ferns and flowers, with all living things. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In August of 1982, activist Ruth First was opening her mail in Maputo, where she was living in exile, when she was murdered by a letter bomb. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Those guys might have spent their whole life going back and forth with messages on their heads, like a living piece of notebook paper,” James said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“You think I don’t know what your life is like just because I ain’t living it? I know what every colored woman in this country is doing.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“The day I took you to the Met. Remember? You had been living in this city all your life and had never been there. Remember that day—” “Stop it! Stop it!” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Cecile wasn’t in the living room, which meant she was in her kitchen. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hopefully her family would still be living in San Francisco next spring. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Sissy’s living son was the great wonder of the family until Uncle Willie Flittman gave them something else to talk about. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uhmma rushes to the living room still rubbing her hands dry on a towel. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Pattie must have the same thought, because she moves out of the kitchen, through the clutter of the living room, back to the tight hallway. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Jon sits in the living room, having a beer with one of the painters. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I say, Nobody living can stand to smell home cured ham without tasting it. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ob talked about what a good wife May was and all the sweet things she’d done for him—for us—while she was living. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

My parents slept in the lone bedroom, while Craig and I shared a bigger area that I assume was intended to be the living room. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“My father wasn’t,” protested Flaco.“He’s living it up in the United States. He’s running a movie studio, and when he gets enough money, he’ll send for me.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d been best friends from an early age, spending hours together building forts out of cushions and blankets in their Annandale living room. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another advantage was that there was no one living overhead to make vibrations on the ceiling and cause the Welsbach gas mantle to crumble into powder. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them, Luke heard Petey come into the living room, followed by the thud of Jack-Jack being pushed off the couch. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He skids around the corner and into the living room. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

When you’re living through them, events are nothing more than stuff that happens. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

How long can you keep living in fear of turning every corner, before you give up and hide out in your house for good? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Qareeb was happily living in Los Angeles with his wife and toddler son. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Inside the house, Jude sat on the living room rug and ate fish sticks, soggy from the microwave and dragged through a sludge of ketchup. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And he hadn’t, but once I existed he realized he couldn’t have a son living around the corner and not be a part of my life. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The last was made of rope and wood, and the wet salt wind made it sway underfoot like a living thing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I’m speechless, standing in the middle of the living room. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I join my mom in the living room to watch the news. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I decided I would take four or five centuries to tell her about the special misery of living with T. Ray. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom marches to the living room and shoves her hand into her oversized purse. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

There are people living everywhere, in alleys, in streets, in crumbling buildings and tents. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood on top of the last hill before Peiping and saw the roads below me flow like living rivers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I start screaming when I open them in the living room. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

After the moving van arrived and two men crammed our Bybanks furniture into our bird-house, my father and I inched into the living room, crawling over sofas and chairs and tables and boxes, boxes, boxes. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The steady rise and fall of gunfire coming from the screens tells me that the people living in those sectors must be facing off against the troops. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I played out scenes in my head where I declared my intention of living as a boy and my parents, at first protesting but then breaking down, accepted me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His mother, though still living in Jakarta, was warm and supportive from afar. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Inside, my parents call us into the living room and ask how our day was. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Their plot, escape, and arrival were the elements of an elaborate living play. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Then I went into the living room, where my packed bag was by the door. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

All three of my cousins back up into the living room as the three men step into the house. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I wanted to say something grown-up, possibly something memorable, so when I returned to the living room, I said, “I would like to make a toast.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I don't know how, but they followed me here. I have half of Ishtar's kitties living downstairs. Never met such demanding beasts." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

We crept into the living room trying our best to avoid every creak in the floor. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

‘Unless he has spoken words to you as his friend that we have not heard,’ said Éomer, ‘none now in the land of the living can tell his purpose.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Statistically speaking, a black woman living in the United States is most likely to die at the age of seventy-eight from heart disease.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

When she didn’t say a word, I went out to the living room to check on her. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Why else do you think I wanted to join the King’s Guard? I needed a living, yes, but I could have done something less...life-threatening. Some of us need adventures.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Isidore stood holding the two handles, experiencing himself as encompassing every other living thing, and then, reluctantly, he let go. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He inched back toward the living room and came to a halt in front of the group. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He operated a small tannery in a town in Massachusetts, which made a comfortable, careful living if he worked very hard. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then she realized light was still glowing in the living room. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I look past her into the living room. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

To complete the game, every treasure you collected had to be returned to the living room and placed inside the trophy case. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure there’s a way to show him that us living here is better than us not living here.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He was living in Addis Ababa at the time, and the slaughterhouse was chosen because, he says, "it was convenient." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Then why are you even here? Why are you even competing in Warcross if it’s so beneath you? Weren’t you living in New York’s gutters before you came here?” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It’s one thing to conclude that groups of people living in circumstances pretty similar to their ancestors’ act a lot like their ancestors. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“I’m living for Mr. Hayes’s Instagram,” Harriett says as we step out of the frozen yogurt store, a smoothie in one hand and her phone in the other. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I turn from the cabinet and go to the credenza that takes up a large portion of the living room wall. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Most days, she spent more time with the dead than with the living. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then he added confidently, “In Santa Maria, of course. I can’t imagine living anywhere else. What about you?” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The riflemen and the other living allies were bemused: they could make nothing of this ghostly, spectral combat. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Their faith in a living God would be strengthened, their faith in themselves would be renewed. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Floor coverings spread across the floor: narrow hardwood boards in the living room, asphalt dies in our bedrooms, advancing row by row. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning she woke early to nurse Pearl on the couch in the living room and Pauline came in. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was banished from the living room when they came, but listened all the same, sitting on the steps in the darkened foyer. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The middle-class whites living to the east formed property owners’ protective associations to hold the line against a black “invasion.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Even after living there for years, he referred to himself as a “tourist.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He’d sneak into cities disguised in ragged beggar’s clothes and hand out gold coins to kids living on the streets. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Darren’s in the living room playing a game on his phone when I come downstairs. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

They take away your options and all you can do is live, and it’s just like Humble said: I’m not afraid of dying; I’m afraid of living. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The people living on North Third Street were mostly Mexicans and Indians who had moved into the neighborhood after the whites left for the suburbs and subdivided the big old houses into apartments. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t ’bout to make however much time I had left living be a slow-moving train wreck. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“We’re all going to be staying together and Petunia is going to stay with us. It’s just that we’re going to be living in a new place.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Being of an open, talkative disposition, she declared that I was going about the business of living wrongly, that reading books would not help me at all. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Florence hated the trombone, disliked jazz, and wanted to be reunited with her daughters, who were still living in Martinsburg with their father. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Everything here is horrible and sad and life is not worth living. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When she was living, Mama would sit with me and Jay and eat breakfast Gran cooked, then get up and head right for her food stall when she was finished. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He shuffles into the living room, dragging his feet and slouching with his head pushed forward in a new walk that reminds me of a vulture. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He took a left and crawled toward the living room couch. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

A deep silence fell on the living room after that. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Empty of the living,” was his comforting reply. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In consequence, every living cell has a consistent, low level of C14—they are all very slightly radioactive, a phenomenon that Libby first observed empirically. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Indeed, the incredible diversity of living creatures from bacteria to the great blue whale is largely due to this capacity of carbon. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The stacks reached the ceiling, and then the living room filled up, and Mom’s collectibles and found art overflowed into the kitchen. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When their father died, she says, he told a neighbor that “dying is hard, but living is harder still.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We were all sitting in the living room in front of the fan, trying not to melt. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom comes home shortly thereafter and sits with us in the living room, listening to Nuah. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

When you are young and are living in peace, it seems as if your friends will always be there with you. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The things burning and people living in cellars. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also took three bunches of sticky notes, my whole bundle of sharpened pencils, a few pens, and ran back to the living room. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I find her downstairs in the living room while I’m on my way to get a glass of water. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He got up and went to the living room. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

When he came back out, Radar had made himself right at home and was stretched out across the big lounge chair in the living room. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I was thankful to have experienced them in full, as living creatures and not as items shrink-wrapped in the supermarket. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Are there no other countries on the planet worth living in? You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Conrad, barefoot but wearing his green-striped bathrobe and jumping up and down like a frisky puppy, chased close behind Papa into the living room. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It belonged to the thirty-eight-year-old, unmarried daughter of the family that, up to a few weeks earlier, had been living in the house. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

But he thought that living in the country might make him lazy, which would be terrible for his work. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pass the chimney of the fireplace in the living room. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

But I feel like I've spent most of my life wishing for someone else's approval, or relying on their reassurance that I'm living my life the right way. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The hot sun danced on the brass handlebar and it looked like living fire. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s similar art all over the walls of the living room. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I drank some chocolate milk and then lay down on the sofa in the living room, not really sad, just floating, trying to imagine what it was to be dead. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Granger went across the living room and sat on the couch. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the living room I find Decca staring at the television, and I say, “Is your mom home?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Where it comes to the more specific question of living witnesses, Aristotle is as ever pragmatic. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I haven’t decided yet. And I told you, I’m not living in the same house as Uncle Max.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the planters wanted nothing more than to make a humble living, and then there were men and women who wanted to own the world, as if it were a matter of the proper acreage. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know why I started collecting them. I suppose those people reminded me of Nikkei I knew. Picking produce for a living. But today those people remind me of us. They had no home.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When Mrs. Sen did not reply, he untied his sneakers and returned to the living room, where he found her on the sofa, weeping. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

It was a mansion, practically, so big that Grandma Smith had had two families living in it, both paying her rent. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

One day, she and Princesse and I were singing it with her in her living room, and I started to cry. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It was a small house, a lot like our apartment except for two extra rooms: a small dining room and a small alcove off the living room. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Our door was open and Cecile was in the living room, lying on her beat-up sofa. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited to hear his car drive off, with Jaja and Obiora inside, before I came out into the living room. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When we finally got our own house, her boyfriend took the bedroom, and my mom, my sister, and I slept in the living room. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was pleasant living with that sign of a visitor, his only one. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

We don’t own much, but what we do have is tossed into cardboard boxes in the center of the living room. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“A woman my age, living alone,” she said, at least once a day, “if I don’t keep on top of things, who will?” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was enough to scare the living vegetarian daylights out of me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I want to stay in here, where it’s warm and bright, surrounded by things that are living and not dead. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Chapter Eleven was against our living room, everything we had, everything Milton had worked for. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was good practice for him, and although he was the only living wizard in the world with his regular hand, the right, still, he was more than worthy with his left. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

For all we knew, he could have been a small Inuit woman living in Anchorage, Alaska, who had adopted this appearance and voice to make her students more receptive to her lessons. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Once, she had seen a haint raise such a bluster on the sidewalk that a living man stumbled as it spun through him, falling hard into the street and nearly getting flattened by a streetcar. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

At first Mini curled into a ball on the living room floor and cried and cried. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Daddy, you’re okay with us living out here with the fake people?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I saw over and over again that we weren't living equal to the people on TV. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They are sitting in the red wingback chairs in the living room in the waning light of late afternoon. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The living room was even weirder than the front lawn. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

When I got back downstairs, Darryl was sitting in his chair in the living room with a needle and thread, finishing up fixing the hem of his jacked-up pants. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Dinner’s done,” he called out to the living room. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

They were living in Rome the first year that Gogol and Moushumi were together, on a Guggenheim that Astrid had gotten. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Aly and I each showered and then we did our hair and makeup together in the living room. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It must be a fantastic experience to look down and see something living scuttling along. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

They thought she might be living in France. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

They did not know she was a predator, but they did not like any other living thing in their territory. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I’d helped my dad to his place and had waited in the main living space while he went behind a screen to change and get ready for bed. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

We’d make a good pile and then lay low awhile, living it up. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whether there were rules about first-year students living in apartments. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I wonder whether they are there, whether he knows, whether he’s left, or whether he’s still living a life he’s yet to discover is a lie. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat in the back, rigid and uncomfortable, like sisters of sin, like a living defiance of the drab sanctity of the saints. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

But I could never quite feature the two of them living in the same house. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the impending all-destructive war with Russia when we would all—when every single living thing on the planet would be—would be...“No. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Us. Me, you, your mom, your dad. Here we are, all of us good enough people. All of us living our lives, not hurtin’ a soul. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Maybe eight or nine steps into the living room before reaching that door. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I know he left, and maybe that wasn’t right, but he’s always felt more present in my life than Mom, and she was living in the same house as me. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was unspeakable that she should pity a human, ghost or living. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Lupita whispered, “Perhaps they will see that four of us are living there. Perhaps they will wait for us.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Some of her brothers joined the Army, one sister died, and two got married, increasing the living space and giving the entire Kentucky venture a feel of luxury. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a rented hospital bed in the living room, where I watched soap operas on t.v., and my family cranked me up and down. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom went to get a world map from the living room, which she laid across the table. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The man realized that the animals on Salatin’s farm were not being treated like unfeeling raw material, but like living creatures. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Camp having committed suicide, and not living long enough afterwards to ask God to forgive him, there was no way he could ever be reunited with Loma or Campbell Junior in Paradise. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I remember this like I am living it as I sit on the steps of Windemere, still staring at the spot where Gat disappeared into the night. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

We were all in the living room, playing cards, when the phone rang that evening. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Only a few living people came with the wagons. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Soon the cameras were rolling in front of the living room fireplace, with Koppel in his crisp blue suit and Morrie in his shaggy gray sweater. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think about his bedroom even though the door is shut and his bike leaning against the back of the house and his chest in the corner of the living room. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s one of the things I like about living here, and I want to hug her for the warm but confused smile she wears as she tries to figure out if she’s seen me before. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He wondered whether she took in washing for a living, or was merely the slave of twenty or thirty grandchildren. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

That bothers me, but not because my brother won’t be living here with us. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I understood how lucky we were to be living this way. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He had assumed she would retreat to the living room, behind her barricade of files. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She scurries out of the hall to hide in the living room, probably listening to make sure I send him away. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It didn’t take long for William to realize—as he put it to a friend—that he wasn’t suited to “scratching a living out of the soil.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

To date, the oldest living human being is somewhere around three hundred, but only because we are still so close to the Age of Mortality. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

My living room was like a campaign office in late October. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Once out there, she was living in a tree. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon no one would remain, and the fair would cease to exist as a living memory in anyone’s brain. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

More beautiful than the sight of a spring field after three years of living in that pestilent cesspit of a city. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I think I’ll go into the living room and read a book.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure, living in a welfare motel for my senior year in high school was unusual, but it was not extraordinary. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“I am living at the Old Soldier’s Home,” he said, “and I ain’t got much money, but here’s something for your campaign.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She and Philip Lombard sat on the windowsill of the living room. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I circle through the living room again, sniffing the air, wondering at the strange odor that does not belong in this house. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy begging for a few paise, walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, “Business as usual.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nazi propaganda had led the German people to believe that the Poles were mistreating ethnic Germans living in Poland. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I took cold & was up all night with bone trouble and am living on toast & tea,” he wrote on Friday, April 28. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I stopped and walked slowly over to the hut that perched like a circular living room on the waste of sands. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

As if he has any concept of what living actually means. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

My mom had left for work and I was in the living room. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I remember the musty living room, full of those old Christ pictures, prayers woven into tapestries, statuettes of the crucifixion, other religious objects on the mantel, shelves, table tops, walls, everywhere. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In some places the ubiquitous vines had been woven into living wreaths and other fanciful patterns. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She ran out of the living room and through the dining room. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

I include her age, what her parents did for a living. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Dad was a partner in an architecture firm that mostly designed museums and concert halls and other “centerpieces for urban living.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

When asked the secret of his success, the industrialist always replied: "Clean living, hard work, and fair play." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first living things were not anything so complex as a one-celled organism, already a highly sophisticated form of life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once we’re in the living room and Mama Ya-Ya is settled in her favorite chair—all soft with a blue lap shawl—I say, “I memorized some Shakespeare. Want to hear?” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

She removed it with a pair of tongs and carried it dripping into the living room. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Master’s cousins came for a few weeks and slept in the living room until they left to join the army. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Flinging open the front door, I raced through our living room and straight into my parents’ bedroom. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

For a moment I thought how it would have been so funny if kids took a field trip to my house when me and my grandma were living together. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn off the computer, saying good-bye to my e-friends, and go back to the actual human in my living room. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She had no relatives left—no person on whom she had any claim—certainly there was no one to enquire whether she made a living or how much longer she could continue to do so. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each one had a hyper-colored plastic gun, and they pretended to shoot the group of guys in the living room watching the Pats play the Broncos on TV. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The Germans are upset at stories that Czechs and Poles are abusing ethnic Germans living in Czechoslovakia and Poland. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The night before, Mami had called us into the living room. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

There are potted plants and flowers all over the living room and kitchen. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The elephant tears up living trees, dragging their precious roots from the dirt they love. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a Monday evening when Mother gathered us in the living room for a family conference. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat in the living room; the carpet was the same crisp white from my childhood. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was their office, study, living room, dining room, kitchen, bedroom, bath, and laboratory—all in one. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like tribes, chiefdoms consisted of multiple hereditary lineages living at one site. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A movie plays out in my head: myself in the future, mar- ried to Antonio, living with him and his family. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is this what living people do? thought Bod, but he knew that it was not: that this, whatever it was, was special. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Downstairs, my father is playing the piano—soft, sad notes floating up from the living room. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Kentucky Maybe living there is not such a bad thing. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The system described how to categorize living things on the earth, but did not ascribe an underlying logic to its organization. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

We are nowhere near any of the Collective’s living quarters, so I’m wondering exactly where he could have seen the book. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

If Bobby can get a place to live, I think, then I can get a life worth living. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

On New Year’s Eve I sat in the living room with my dad, who was reading a book. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe the special has been living with her. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He says someone is living in our apartment now. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The truest happiness, he said, lay in working hard and living frugally. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

They lowered their voices in the living room—I knew the technique. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he seemed so old, just a graying forest fox living out his final days, a fact he had made peace with. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It remained from before the Ruin, a time so far past that none of the people now living, none of their parents or grandparents, had been born. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I held my breath as the living man untangled himself from the dead one and stumbled to his feet. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s tough living and not everyone finds it relaxing. We have a long summer, and if you keep that attitude, it’s going to be even longer. Be patient. Give it time. For me?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He told everyone it was like they were living on their own island. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He has the same mission as always, and a new reason for working fast: he's feeling so weak he “can’t count on living for a great many years.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I’m fine. I told Papa that we’re living on a farm. It’s actually very nice here.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Even if I did manage to shove 450 pounds of living, fierce animal off the lifeboat, tigers are accomplished swimmers. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s almost evening and the living room is filled with my bridges. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Instead, under almost perfect control, I got a broom and began savagely to attack the sand that was stuck like cement in the corner of the living room. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I push back my chair, ignore the rusty-red scraping sound that reminds me of dried blood, and march into the living room. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Because we shouldn’t be living lies,” I say. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I am the only man still living who has thought them all out.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an elderly client, a woman living alone in a Garden District mansion, asking if Zeitoun’s crew could come over and board up her windows. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I came to know Andre rather well; in fact, like Wilfred and his patrons at the ranch, abnormally well considering the type of society we were living in. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘If there be in truth such paths,’ said Théoden, ‘their gate is in Dunharrow; but no living man may pass it.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Someone in the living room must have found the remote, but it didn’t matter. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Are they under the sun’s rays, living still, or gone down long ago to lodge with Death?” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every weekend, when they inspected the house to make sure her builders were not stealing the materials, he never spoke of their living there, as though to absolve himself from the blasphemy. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“She lived, and found powerful friends. She is living now. She is a lady and very beautiful. And I love her!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Why, Daniel replied, ‘I do not revere false idols but the living God, who is chief of all mankind.’ The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time this book went to print, thirteen million American children were living in poverty, some half million of whom labor in the fields that grow America’s food. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Yes, but if I hadn't been shifted, I would still be living in a world of illusion. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or would they split up, the mother taking the colored child to live in the ghetto while the father stayed white to make a living to support them? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Lifting a picture from the wall of the living room, he attached a small electronic device to the nail, stepped back, viewed it, then replaced the picture. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

For several years those Long Knives had been living in Lakota territory. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Lefty and Desdemona, accustomed to living in their own house, were forced to adapt to their new landlord’s ways. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A matching echo came from the kitchen, and then, from the other corner of the living room. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She stopped in the middle of the living room, looked back at me as she placed her bag on the coffee table, and said, “Let's start with the proper way to sit at the piano.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

And the next morning, with their things in the car, she wrote a hasty note and left it in the living room. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was hard at first living in San Jose de Conuco away from my family, but I got used to it. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

China consisted then of kingdoms with rich elites and poorer commoners, living in walled towns, and on the verge of political unification to become the world’s largest empire. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the way out the door I glanced into the living room, and there must have been about a hundred carved ducks. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It’s like I have two different mothers living in the same body. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The apartment is made up of five hot rooms—two bedrooms, one bath, a living room, and a dining room/kitchen—that feel like the inside of a tandoori oven. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As in the case of all of the Nation’s ministers, my living expenses were paid and I had some pocket money. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you enjoy it? No, don’t tell me, let me tell you: you had a marvelous time but you wouldn’t dream of living there.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Up here, up near the end of the road, up near the top of the mountain, the wind was a living thing that shook the truck and snuck through the gaps in the door. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“How long have you been living with Jordan and Monique Sparks?” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We want you to organize a committee against the high cost of living ...” “The high cost of living?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he would remind the many who doubted his methods that it was appropriate to be reckless when living in reckless times. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It is only movement and love; it is the living infinite. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Bill rose from the couch and went into the living room, snapping on the television before sitting down. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

On nights when there was no moon, we’d light a lamp and gather in our living room. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

But is it not also thus: the living man, black and desperate to run, cursed by his connection to the white, devouring ghost? The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

But I remind myself that he has a father who is still living, a mother who is happy and strong. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Although I didn’t want to start before Labor Day, when the nation settles back to normal living, I did want to get used to my turtle shell, to equip it and learn it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tie my hair up and clean up the living room. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

During the late Middle Ages, the world was changing: towns were growing, and more people were making a living by trade. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

South African whites had always struck me as people who would have been happier living in the nineteenth century, or the eighteenth. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I was a soldier; I was an officer in the Marines, and then I earned my living as an explorer; I was as fit and healthy as it’s possible for a human to be. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me?” his mom calls from the living room. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

This was to keep sharp track of Colonel Smith and the other officers of the Tenth Regiment who were living at the Afric Queen. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The small room with the stove was our living- room. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Peoples of Eurasian origin, especially those still living in Europe and eastern Asia, plus those transplanted to North America, dominate the modern world in wealth and power. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He felt a delight in wood and the touch of it, neither as forester nor as carpenter; it was the delight of the living tree itself. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Vincent is worried Tersteeg will tell Ma and Pa and his uncle’s how he's living, ruining the peaceful relationship they all have at the moment. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

So likewise those living creatures that are enemies to poisonous things, and swallow them up without danger, may shew us that such poisons will cure the bitings and blows of those creatures. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They arrive home from the hospital courtesy of Dr. Gupta, who owns a car, and sit in the sweltering living room, in front of their only box fan, suddenly a family. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He worked for the government, too, with his secret assignments and all, but he has never talked about it all that much since we started living together. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three remaining Richardson children clustered together in the doorway between the living room and the kitchen, so close their shoulders nearly touched. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Both of us just two beings floating around in the world but not really living no more. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

We went into the living room and sat down at the chess board. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

At the time, my thought was,“Yeah, like I’m really in the mood to read a book about this when I’m living it 24/7 already.” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were on our way back up to Mabel's room when I heard Ana and Javier talking in their living room. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The girls loved their new school and marveled at living in such a large and dynamic black community. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“If I die down here, you go on living in the dark. Gaea destroys the gods, and they never realize you were the better weaver.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Hugo had, for obvious reasons, not been able to sleep, and had followed Matty back to the living room. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

“A scrawny gray cat that was living up under my porch.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The vast cyclic movements of chemical elements such as carbon and nitrogen through soil and air and living tissue could not proceed without these microplants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He would be cut off from the living, forever; he would have no name forever. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

After ten months living on Maxwell Street, I knew my way around. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I wonder whether the realization of living on the streets will hit her when we finally end up standing on the sidewalk with all of our belongings. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Of course he and my aunt would love the idea of a teenager suddenly living with them. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I go in the living room, start dusting the books for the second time. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

All the mice took a solemn vow never to harm another living creature, unless it was an enemy that sought to harm our Order by violence. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I got to make a living and you go and spoil my Saturday for me!” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they went down the stairs to the living room, Oliver remembered something. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Bull said, walking toward the living room with the morning paper. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put the pot of tea on a tray, along with a few cups, so I could serve Mamou in the living room. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Making a sort of squinched, twisted face, Nancy flopped back onto the couch in the living room area. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take a shower, get dressed and make another cup of coffee, and then I sit down in the living room, little black book at my side, and I call Scott. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the living room, they heard Travis’s father cackle at something. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I imagined myself in college and living in the dorm, away from home. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Grim comes inside and for once he doesn't tell me what a rat hole I'm living in, or how it smells like a locker room because I forgot to put my socks in the hamper. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Every time there was talk about living off the land, somebody ended by saying, “How did those people manage, in the old days, going right out into the wilderness the way they did?” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“They have many souls living there, far more than here. Too many to count. But I assure you they are Christians.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

A big wooden table sat in the middle of their living room. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

A similar phenomenon seems to have taken place in North America, where Indians were widely said to have practiced slash-and-burn as part of their habit of living lightly on the land. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Whenever World Wrestling Federation with Hulk Hogan came on, or The A-Team with Mr. T, people would cram into his living room and gather around his house, trying to watch through his window. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

No, I felt like a magician slicing myself in half, with Junior living on the north side of the Spokane River and Arnold living on the south. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Methuselah was a sly little representative of Africa itself, living openly in our household. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only neighbors were family members living in other trailers. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The feeling was of living death—or worse, of never having been fully alive and knowing. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

When I came back into the living room, Grampa was asleep in his chair, The Greenwood Commonwealth folded in his lap. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

His mom was in the living room area, and they couldn’t risk her shutting down their final project. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The door that led to the verandah was half open, and the purplish tinge of early dawn trickled into the living room. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’d looked at Kat’s little finger, and imagined Dad going around it, in miniature, stretched and pummelled into an odd-looking, living ring. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s been living away from the edge all summer and now he’s inching closer and closer to his favorite place in the world. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

As Roy rode away on his bike, he pondered the possibility that Mullet Fingers was better off roaming the woods than living at home with a witch for a mother. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although our spacious dining room gave way to an even wider living room, I felt suffocated. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I pace the living room when I should be watching TV. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Even in his forties, he kept it alive, but maybe he’s living a little through me, now.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Yes, ma’am. Plus we have my folks living with us, too.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Refers to how human minds have to be living conduits to the Holy Spirit, akin to radio antennas. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“When did she die? How long was she living in Chicago?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There is a living room separate from the dining room, something Uhmma did not know could exist. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I have only the Count to speak with, and he!—I fear I am myself the only living soul within the place. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

At first, the idea of living among the Romans had appalled her. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There were men and women, children and elderly, of all colors and ethnicities, whispering in a dozen languages stories of heartache and spite, a perfect ghostly mirror to the living of the city. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He was a Greek demigod - the first person in living memory, perhaps the first ever.; to go back and forth between the Roman and Greek camps without telling either group that the other existed. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Then there’s Johanna Mason, the only living female victor from 7, who won a few years back by pretending she was a weakling. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was only four days away from living on the streets. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Milton looks up to see Morrison in his living room, lighting a cigarette. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t think ghosts provided food fit for living people at their parties.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Gib, Frank and Kathy set up shop in what had once been Arnold’s living room, using the dining room table and dragging the kitchen table in too. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We scoured the entire lower level of the house, from the dining room to a narrow, dirty kitchen to a living room with the ugliest orange shag carpet I’d ever seen in my life. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

His mother’s voice rang out from the living room, and Moss sighed again. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“If you can call it living,” Chrissie said, and held her nose. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Oftentimes I find him asleep on the couch in the living room, his form under a quilt like the exposed root of an old tree. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I shut the door and walked to the living room looking for Frankie. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Olanna struggled to hide her surprise, then, when Mrs. Ezeka came out and hugged her twice in the spacious living room. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She glanced over at Pearl, who stood quietly in the empty living room of the apartment, hands clasped in front of her, and the girl smiled shyly. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Smoke drifted into the living room from the kitchen, a spectral finger beckoning me onward. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was evening; not a house, not a living creature, was to be seen. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those who managed to survive the unbearable living conditions would later be sent to concentration camps and killing centers. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Being from Alex gave you way more street cred than living in Highlands North. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I wiped the sleep out of my eyes, put on my robe, and followed Frankie back to the living room. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

By 1939 the Japanese had taken much of the land along the Kwoo River, and my mother was living in the mountains with other refugees. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I crept into the house, shut the door behind me, and took one step—before the lights in the living room flared on. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Is your mom still living with you? Didn’t abandon you when you were a baby? Do you have a bed you can sleep on?” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“Once a spirit enters this realm, it is for good. I’m no longer of the living world, Sierra. I held on this long only so you could reach me.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I press a button on my phone and the voice of my brother’s murderer fills my living room. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The police are too busy arresting Polish Jews living in Germany, cramming them into trains, shipping them back to Poland. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

‘One of its bedposts was a living olive tree, so it could never be moved.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

This view held that societies, like living organisms, grow, mature, and inevitably decay—a phenomenon for which history provided ready examples. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

We started dating when she was still here at Pluto, and we’d rest underneath the blanket together and use it for the occasional living room picnic. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I also liked living vicariously through her letters. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Grandmother infuriated him sometimes; but still, she was his only living family, the only person alive who loved him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Yet the Food and Drug Administration’s chief pharmacologist has declared the hazard of living in a house sprayed with chlordane to be “very great.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

All Abnegation houses are the same, so this living room is exactly the same as my own, and it does bring back memories, if I look at it carefully. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Those were some interesting birds, living to such a great age that they were passed down in the family will. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

As I ate she began the first of what we later called “my lessons in living.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he went into the living room with his father anyway. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Moss tilted his head, confused, and his mother stood up and walked across the living room toward the kitchen. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Laundry soap, knitting wool, and a special syrup to strengthen the lungs were distributed free, for Trueba did not want anyone dirty, cold, or sick living on his land. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should explain that yesterday was November 16, the first anniversary of his living in the Annex. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Or perhaps she could sing to the child. I would appreciate her blessing—living as she does in the presence of magic.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I rolled till my feet touched the floor and then staggered to the living room. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The cold, cottony light of a winter storm was something he gave thanks for after living without windows for seventy-seven days. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When Mom came home, she found our bikes parked neatly beside each other in the backyard and Jim and I sitting innocently together in the living room. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

If the men are that dangerous, why have women and children living on the island? Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put small wooden chairs in the living room and established a nursery with other children from neighboring families. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Ivy walked around their bed and into the living room area. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And now, there are ghosts in the living room. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Dad was drunk all the time except when he was in jail; Mom had completely withdrawn into her own world; and Maureen was more or less living with neighbors. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The pines threw their roots around the shore’s boulders, grappling with the living rocks and wrestling them into position. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t eat them, but she seemed to appreciate touching them, as though the sugar and flour gave her strength, the same way they would a living person. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I let go of the handle and walk back into the living room, and I open my laptop again. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I have my staff in, we sit in the living area. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They were sitting on the couch in the living room, and they had been laughing about something, but they stopped abruptly when I walked in. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

On a trip home to Jordan after her junior year at Smith, Luma realized that she had changed so much she could never feel comfortable living there. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Life...is a chemical incident,” Paul Ehrlich, the chemist, had once said, and biochemists, true to form, had begun to break open cells and characterize the constituent “living chemicals” into classes and functions. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

There was a time when Helmuth longed to join, but living with Hugo has changed all that. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll never be anything other than a drunk living off his mom,” the Ash Being said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Then we would all entertain ourselves by playing cards in the living room. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He can take his second-favorite book, the one that wasn’t completely swallowed by the tree in his living room after the storm. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Shucks, it looked like this guy was going to go over my whole family tree, but he whistled and said, “So were you living in an orphanage?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The silk rippled in the wind like a living thing; across the fabric was blazoned a night sky slashed with purple lightning. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

This was incredibly annoying, because I was trying to read in the living room, and she was in one of her moods where she just kept asking Whyyyyyy. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I just couldn’t wait to actually get up there and play the drums for all these people — that was the part I was living for, anyway. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see someone living in my world—our world. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I followed him down the carpeted steps to the living room. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

A man in a uniform calls out from behind the gate, scaring the living daylights out of me because I didn’t see him at first. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Everybody used to listen to CDs when I was growing up, but my dad—your grandpa—kept a record player in the corner of the living room. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I take an uncertain step forward and peek in at the living room. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the nice things about living in a little town like Paintbrush Falls is that you can walk or bike just about anyplace you might be of a mind to go. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Wherever the living gathered, so did the dead, and nowhere more thickly than the Pittsburgh crosstown trolleys. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

No matter how harsh their living conditions, no matter how hungry they were, the young women of Raskova’s regiments were living life to the fullest. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I was surprised to see how my hands trembled opening it, so much that I was obliged to turn my back on my mother and grandmother in the living room and go to the kitchen. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lissa and her father were in the living room playing checkers. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The sun was steadily on the rise and the living birds were beginning to chirp in the distance. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Evolution describes nature’s past: How did living things arise? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

They had been living in the old farmhouse for just under a year. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

At the stroke of half past eight, he has to be in the living room. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It’s like he’s the living definition of the word dweeb. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

From the time he’d grown up big enough to get out of the cabin, he’d made a practice of trying to catch and keep every living thing that ran, flew, jumped, or crawled. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

O High was his third high school in Oakland, plus he’d spent sophomore year living in a group home in Redding, California, three and a half hours away. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“It’s a suburb of the world of the dead. Sometimes the living come here by mistake, but they have to wait in the holding area before they can go on.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He saw people living in a childish or animal-like way, which he both loved and despised. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Halfway to the living room he suddenly stopped. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forever and forever now, on Christmas morning, Marly knew, she would stop on the stairs where she couldn’t see the living room yet. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He'd been living with these people for a year when he overheard Mr. Hoyt tell a friend that he and his family would soon be moving to Munich, Germany, the beer capital of the world. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

As I enter I see that their large living room is packed with people. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

So Fraser took everything to Chelsea, where he had a little nursery, and made a good living selling azaleas, rhododendrons, and magnolias to the English gentry. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

These units encode messages to build proteins—and the messages and proteins, in turn, enable the form and function of a living organism. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Dorcas moves into the hall that parallels the living and dining room. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never appreciated the smell of the Quarter before: clay and earth and the warmth of animals living close together. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He had exchanged them for the most wretched things, for the transitory, for the pleasures of the senses, for high living and riches. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tap my toe 3 times before letting Pi jump free from the blanket and onto our living room floor. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

People think pleasing God is all God care about But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We move into a formal living room with ornate molding and green velvet settees, so full of heavy furniture I can hardly see the floor. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And James, son of a cardiologist, was a model of healthy living. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Diego left me in the living room, and I sat on the couch. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I walked back to the living room and found my father asleep on the sofa, his round mouth pursed and tightly shut, his breath filtering softly through his nose. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm on my way to Starwood House, the assisted living residence where I volunteer. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I can’t die, Pa. There’s nothing we can do but go on living. But, one day, they will all suffer as we are suffering now.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But best of all, better far than this, the actual living and the dreamy flesh itself. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she wished she didn’t have such a good imagination, because now she was certain they were walking across a living thing. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The father had once been a powerful magistrate but had fallen out of favor and was bitterly living at the palace. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The Captain expanded Mr. Carter’s building program, providing every Coalwood miner a house with indoor plumbing, a Warm Morning stove in the living room, and a coal box the company kept full. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

When we got back home, all the lights were on in the living room. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

After I started living as a male, my mother and I moved away from Michigan and I’ve been moving ever since. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I walked to the edge of the living room and just waited for the lecture I knew was coming. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I turn back to my living family: Grandma, Kim, and Carlos. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

“The earthquakes disturbed thousands of snakes that had been living on the mountain. They came slithering down into Saint-Pierre. Some of them were venomous six-foot-long pit vipers. Hundreds of people died from bites.” I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

These boys had long left their homes and were now living in various neighbourhood junkyards, making it on their own. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Valley walked into the living room with Edgar, a smug smile on her face. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I also had to dust the living room baseboards and empty the dishwasher. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He was living, truly and deeply, no matter what others might think, looking at him with their blind eyes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Because he writes poems about being colored and living up North but missing the South and feeling lonely. Miss Fulton likes his poems too.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

He said it was a hymn, then ran from the living room and came back carrying a soft blue Bible with large gold lettering across its front. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He smiled, and at that moment, just being in the kitchen with him was the best birthday present I ever got Then my mom called from the living room, “Percy? The candles are melting!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I told him that we would try to rescue him if something went wrong—but no elf has made it out of that dark land of mist and fire in living memory. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Though forbidden, living contraband kept finding its way into cells. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the timer on the microwave went off, Calista walked into the living room. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Genie quickly shifted his gaze as Dad stalked into the living room with Grandma and Ernie, who was holding the suitcase, following behind. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Holmes called upon an Englewood resident named Cephas Humphrey, who owned his own team and dray and made a living transporting furniture, crates, and other large objects from place to place. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It was as if I had stepped through a mirror and was living a day in the life I might have had, if I’d stayed on the mountain. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I went to the living room, said hello to Jean, who was about my age and thoroughly unlikable, and went to my room. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Some of us aren’t living hand-to-mouth. Some of us have risen in the world.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She opened a door at the far end of the living room, and Lina peeked in. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Only a monster would give a living child to the flames. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Would you stop being paranoiac, woman? They were here just last week; how can they come again this week? Need I remind you that we’re not the only people living in Alexandra?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they made compost heaps and tried to conserve every little ounce of living matter, I laughed at them. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew about the weather, omens, the living, the dead, dreams and all illnesses and made a modest living with her skills. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I mumbled something about having stuff to do and pulled June into the living room. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

So much of this was patience—waiting and thinking and doing things right So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though we have been living at Krang Truop for two months and my blistered feet have healed, the thought of more walking makes my ankles throb with pain. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her strength was in keeping us all moving forward and in holding the pieces of our sorrow together, but we were living with shards of it. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered why he kept them at all, let alone in an otherwise empty formal living room. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I did not dare defy King’s Landing so long as my last living son remained a captive. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was a magic in living through that chemical poison, and Mom was the first one to realize it. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I still remember living in New York City, and loving the smell of the sweaty steam coming through the subway vents, and the vendor carts full of boiling hot dogs. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

"We don't print stamps of living people. So we stopped the run immediately and recalled the stamps, but thousands were already sold." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were living, loafing proof that the White House was a home. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

On the top of the paper, it said that they were living in 12B. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I hang up as E.J. comes out of the kitchen and into the living room to convert the sofa into his bed. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I was showered and ready by five, so I waited out in the living room. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

To extirpate is to exterminate or destroy a living entity or group so completely that it ceases to exist forever. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

He was maybe ten, wiry and overenergetic, and he kind of skipped across the living room before shouting in a really good imitation of Isaac’s voice, “KILL MYSELF.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

An intellectually disabled black woman living in Choctaw County, Alabama, Ms. Banks was accused of killing her newborn child even though police had no credible basis for believing she had ever been pregnant. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the hood you can be a forty-year-old man living in your mom’s house asking people for money and it’s not looked down on. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Spring is terribly exciting when you are living right in it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had little interest in living there and didn’t care if Sandwich was mad enough to want to. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They tiptoed down the stairs past the living room, down the stairs to Dr. Levy’s office. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

One may look in vain for living creatures in the daytime, but when the sun goes and the night gives consent, a world of creatures awakens and takes up its intricate pattern. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the double-wide study doors, I saw a line of flame zip down the hallway on one side and into the living room on the other. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

We watch this movie Mad Max, with all these people living in a desert ’cause humans bombed the cities or something. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He makes her life a living hell in many different ways. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what happened to Agent Davenport—I expect he’s still living in Nashua, New Hampshire—but Detective Sciola is dead. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He told me that West Indian Archie was sick, living up in a rented room in the Bronx. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we got home, there was a smog in the living room caused by Aunt Gloria’s cigarettes. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So we assumed. But then came rumor the rats had kept him living,” said Vikus. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A half-inch layer of the black goo has spread from the living room about three-quarters of the way down the hall. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The young women of Marina Raskova’s regiments treasured the thought of finishing the war and living ordinary lives, drawing heavily on Marina’s model of perfection as a soldier, a woman, and a mother. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

For a moment, I wondered if Dad was trying to avoid the living room. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

We walked over to the house and found her dusting in the living room. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s better than living in the temple of zits.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad and I went back to the living room. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lori was lurching around the living room, her eyebrows and bangs all singed off and the smell of burned hair in the air. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Just as I was about to ask the guys by the keg if they’d seen Ben, he ran into the living room. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Living cells ordinarily stick to the bottom of a flask to form a living carpet—cells prefer to cling to something when they grow. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood up and moved slowly about the living room, running my fingers along the shiny black radio with its brass knobs. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"You must. Once I begin to sing, no one must enter this tent. My song will wake powers old and dark. The dead will dance here this night. No living man must look on them." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

After my parents left us with Nan and Pop, it took weeks for me to stop feeling jumpy, to get used to living with two people who actually seemed to love each other. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I scream, a sound of pure animalistic rage, and before I know it tears are running down my cheeks, my pain and frustration a living thing. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

After we finished supper, Grampa went back to his paper in the living room, and Gramma started cleaning up. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Not finding what they had hoped or expected, many returned home, but others stayed and tried to eke out a living. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I found him in the living room trying knobs on the television set. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

But the kids that have always been doing bad stuff are going to be the ones to go to school, because they’re already tired of living that way. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fourteen remaining heirs of Samuel W. Westing sat in Judge Ford's living room wondering what had happened. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hold out my hands like I did the other day in her living room. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s mad pressure to do all my living in one day.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I came to on the living room floor to find Kevin bending over me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the cramped living room, surrounded by the dark oversized furniture from the old house they grew up in, they were children again in a smaller, simpler version of the world. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Four thousand years ago I should have found their ancestors living in the same place, in the same kind of house. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dries has gotten married, and although the marriage is rocky at best, a disaster at worst, he is living the life of a married man. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When Angel got home from school the next day, Jordan was sitting in the big chair in the living room, drinking a beer. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has ancient Chinese sailing ships called junks, hundreds clustered together with thousands of people living in them. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

It’s like we were both living inside a lie and now we’re free. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Ignatius, feeling just as invisible standing there in Dorian’s living room, began feinting at some imaginary opponent with his cutlass to relieve his self-consciousness. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if I wasn’t the—the Black Rabbit, there’s hardly a living creature that can ever have been closer to him than we have.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Virginia gentry were psychologically incapable of sharing Hamilton’s affinity with men who made their living manipulating interest rates. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I shuffled through the living room and heard voices in the kitchen. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“I say that because...I always thought people like Lee and Dale were wrong. Like, they were living in sin.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Eventually, she has to know the truth so she can go about living in a way that’s real. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She decorated the living room walls with her oil paintings, and soon every square inch was covered, except for the space above her typewriter reserved for index cards. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We brought all of the letters and boxes into the living room and spread out the tablecloth. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But First Wife turned out to be a living ghost, no threat to Second Wife, who had her strong spirit intact. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I switched off the burner and trotted back into the living room. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Most of me is made of wood cells that are no longer living. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They had no grandparents, no living family at all. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Instead, Lee’s party was routed in a midterm election that showed that South Koreans were more interested in preserving peace and protecting living standards than in teaching the North a lesson. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s not like you’re in a burka and living in North Africa or, you know, severely oppressed.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“No one’s living in there, right? We should stay in there for the night.” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We went back to the living room, where Johannes sat examining Héctor’s new red and yellow top. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

You have been living in the turrets of a fairy-castle — which is a fine view — excellent prospect—until you realize that fairy-castles, my friends, consist in their architecture of tea-cake and icing. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

For instance, consider all the peoples of sub-Saharan Africa living within the range of wild zebras and buffalo. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

One night when Dad had made an especially big score, he said it was time to start living like the high rollers we had become. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What were you doing here in the living room by yourself?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Gomersindo Leyba said, “Knowing Bud, he probably rented his living room out at six dollars an hour to that state cop.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was born to them at a time when they were living in a shantytown in Port-au-Prince and had nothing. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I should’ve been blind, too, this deep in the water at night, but I could see the heat from living forms, and the cold of the currents. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Back in June, the two of them had been living together in a house Immie rented on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

You’re living in the moment on a cloud somewhere, not thinking, not considering costs, effects, consequences. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“When school’s over, then can we? I like living here with Grampa.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I knew, as I watched, that I was looking at the future of mankind, that this way of living would finally win out. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don't even sit down on the giant leather couch that wraps around the whole living room where a wide chandelier hangs from the middle of the high ceiling. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“We putting it in the living room again this year?” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was quiet in the living room, no talking, only ice, for a long time. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

We just finished reading a story about a kid living in the projects who had to deal with peer pressure and gangs. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

When the meal is over, Taft and Will duck into the living room to avoid helping with the cleanup. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“Landlubber might see it as lonely, I s’pose. A man like you might get lonely out there—a man who talks for a living. I—” “Oh, yes,” said Alvin Hooks. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Still, Julia admitted that she would have to make a living somehow. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The aunts always teased Liyana’s family about living on “crumbs of bread and mint leaves.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“A den they’re calling it, like wild animals are living there.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There was a living treasure under our roof, and none of my brothers could see him. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

This process by which the cell functions as a chemical factory is one of the wonders of the living world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Now he’s arranging things around my living room: clothing, fabrics, and sketchbooks with designs he’s drawn. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She’ll be a person, not just an idea living inside of you. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It's one of the things that stinks about living with a genius. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still felt very guilty for not telling him what had happened to me on the living room floor while he was in New York. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was like they were brown people living brown lives in a brown place who made bright colors to sell to America. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

A white censor was standing over me and, like dreams forming a curtain for the safety of sleep, so did my lies form a screen of safety for my living moments. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though he had a picture with some of his war buddies hanging on the living room wall, he never talked about that picture or the names of his friends. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

"Tomorrow, we must waste no time. By the way, where are you living?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody living in it yet, but it’s there for when the white folks is ready to move somewhere else new. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Now that it is just the two of them it seems to him, more than ever, that they are living together. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I worry, about them, the girls, Doña Laura, moving among men the color of the living dead. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“I work pretty hard for a sufficient living, and therefore—yes, I do well.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

We would eat on the coffee table in the living room instead of at the dining room table. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He lazily plucked another living bracelet from the soil, held it between thumb and forefinger, and let his hand drop open on my chest. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

And perhaps Uncle wanted to make up to us for all the time we had been living out here like this, trying to prove he was wrong about our never being able to fly. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Erlan sat on the couch with Erik and Karim, who answered questions about what it was like to be a triplet, and how they liked living in New York City, all sorts of things. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

That is writing as I feel it, a kind of significant living. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

In 1965, while he was living in Berkeley, California, he began singing songs at the early protest rallies that had sprung up against the war. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Bye! ” she called to my parents in the living room. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She used to worry about me quite a bit Now I went into the living room and lay on the floor next to the couch. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The strong evening odors of green things and living things were in his distended nostrils, drawing him toward them more powerfully than the smell of goat or wine. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

She sat in the living room with her big Bible in her lap. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Ma was still at work, Willy still snored in the trundle bed below me, and so I got up and stood in the living room, staring out the window. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She strolled around the tiny living room, studying photos of old people on the table beside the couch, peeking into Bertha’s yarn basket, peering into the kitchen. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“In that house? It’s Clytie. Dont she ” “No. Something living in it. Hidden in it. It has been out there for four years, living hidden in that house.” Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked with Flora into the living room. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

But combining those things with a hunt was like living a real-life board game, with a book as the prize. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“It meant starting over from scratch,” said Ruth Lieberman, a young Jewish girl living in Stuttgart. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You aren’t going to start living by the rules, are you?” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She praised Hitler and his Nazi regime, to his surprise, and spoke persuasively about the improved living conditions and happiness of the German people. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

When Kenzi and Simeon made it to their building, the building they'd been living in their entire lives, they sat out front on the steps. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

She walked to the living room window, murmuring about how this might be the last good snowfall for the winter and we’d better enjoy it while it lasted. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

They were herdsmen, scraping out a living on rocky and infertile land. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Many jobs, big houses, good schools, make a living, they say back and forth. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

A city accustomed to living in freedom is more easily maintained through the means of its own citizens than in any other way, if you decide to preserve it. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump talked about building walls and deporting the eleven million undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

No one argued, though there hadn’t been a three-bleeder year in living memory. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“There are a few rules for living here,” Uncle Carlos says. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I don’t believe we return to haunt or comfort the living or anything, but I think something becomes of us.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

We were in the living room of my house in Hanover. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

And she soon found they were just as varied and different as living folks. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He strutted into the living room, as proud as a peacock. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I returned to the living room, I sat down on the chair that was opposite the end of the sofa where Vivian was seated. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t a good Scrabble player, but it was better than sitting around the living room staring at one another. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone says that our living with Grandpa Ted helped him cope with the tragedy as much as it did Mom and me. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Only inches away on the other side of the porthole’s glass is a body, a living body. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When I left, closing the door behind me, the last thing I saw was the two of them standing in the middle of the living room. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Elena, too, had mellowed: of course she still donated to charity and voted Democrat, but so many years of comfortable suburban living had changed both of them. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I mean, she’s probably been through a lot, living on her own in the blackberry bushes. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

And she had a high-class city accent from living in Hong Kong. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He repaired chairs for a living now, since he had retired from teaching. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the night wound down, I escorted Sohrab and his mom out and said good night to the living room, where all the ladies sat sipping tea and talking over each other in Farsi. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Their brains are more like ours than those of any other living creature. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since his family lost their apartment, Bucky'd been living on the street. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

We only have one picture of him during his tour there; it’s framed on the mantel in our living room. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Apparently, the thinking goes, inanimate things aren’t as possessive as living ones. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She festooned our living room in green and yellow streamers, the colors of my new school. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Yet socially—in my entire teaching career, I’ve never met a student who knows so little about ordinary everyday living. Have you worked with any other students from this Garland Farm?” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

But maybe ghosts were just like the living and were down on their luck. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lights were on downstairs— in the living room and in Mr. Clutter’s office. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was living in Hyde Park, subletting an apartment from a friend. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I pace a rut in the living room, near the front window, watching for Sophia’s headlights. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been living with the dilemma themselves. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reckon he thinks my living alone in New York is ipso facto living in sin.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“And what does he think about a daughter who steals jewels for a living?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

With an older son to help, maybe he could have made a living for them on the hill farm. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her hand evaporated as it got close to living skin. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

However, any human beings who were observing the cups would be living in a universe in which disorder decreased with time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

So maybe President Snow will prefer keeping him alive, crushed and heartbroken, as a living warning to others. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Goodmans realized their days of washing lettuce in the living room were over. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Angrily Pauline threw her book on the floor, starting to cry as she stomped across the living room. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Working at this job full time, the family made a living. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would die if it was not found; or, he was dead already, and would never again be joined to the living, if it was not found. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Bod was breathless, but he could not imagine the dance ever stopping: the Macabray, the dance of the living and the dead, the dance with Death. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

How could I know at this age that I wouldn’t have the advantage of living life to the best of my ability? March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

However, if any living being suffered, then for all the rest the shadow could not be entirely cast off. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

They arrived in Wichita on Thanksgiving Day and ate a meal of turkey with Nancy’s father, Curtis Dunn, who was living with Nancy’s brother. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could see Babi too, in the living room stacking boxes of books atop each other. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Maybe he just didn’t like living here in the graveyard.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He said, “Perhaps you are frightened at living here alone—but in a few years we can move—maybe even buy a house such as your father’s. You would like that?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

After she had held the sleeve of Papá’s coat to her cheek for a brief moment, Lupita went back in to the noisy living room. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I stand in the middle of the living room, curling my toes into our plush but soullessly beige carpet. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

But Aunt Eva had preferred living with her brother, Will, and his wife and helping them raise Hannah’s father when Belle was away at work. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Play all day, stay up as late as we wanted, roam the woods and fields, tease and play tricks on the living. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

His enemies and doubters, however, said that this Gotama was an idle fraud; he passed his days in high living, scorned the sacrifices, was unlearned and knew neither practices nor mortification of the flesh. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie couldn’t quite think of him as Aunt Rose’s husband; she’d never met the man when he was living, and his spirit seemed to be a person all its own. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The Chevalier looked down on the slow-moving millions on the floor of the land of the dead, all drifting after that bright and living spark Lyra Silvertongue. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The women whom they are living with are friends. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her social security check barely covered her living expenses, let alone classes and books. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I felt that I had crossed some threshold, out of the foyer of my life and into the living room. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In a sluice of seconds, they were dressed, back in the living room, Play pressed on the video recorder. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

All my life I’ve had a body worth commenting on and if living in my skin has taught me anything it’s that if it’s not your body, it’s not yours to comment on. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“DAD!” he shouts then, tripping over his not-even-solid feet as he makes his way back to the living room. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

One day, she came downstairs and saw Dallas sitting on the living room floor, with the jar of quarters in front of him. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

She and Karl were sitting side by side on the claret-colored sofa in their living room, framed by the bay window behind them. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In spite of his condition he had no timidity about inching forward a bit on the spodess floor of the living room. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a framed world map in the center of her living room wall, black-and-white photos to the left and right. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Apart from his companions, Jon had glimpsed no living man since they'd left the wood behind and begun to make their way upward. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As the Lacks men talked about Hopkins and insurance, Bobbette snorted in disgust and walked to her recliner in the living room. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And she, she knew today that door: a living, wrathful gate. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The Teapot Dome scandal preoccupied the living, but the dead had their own concerns. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He was living in a shack in the woods like this. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She hopped out of bed and hurried to the living room in her underpants and undershirt—she still did not have new pajamas. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

People were living in the forest, but she never saw them. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm living proof of that, and so are you." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The author of the letter, as stated earlier, was Zooey’s eldest living brother, Buddy. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

He rented a storefront on Sheriff Street, with living quarters in the back. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I was living in the woods like anyone else lives in a house. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, stepping into the house, Emma noticed that the living room curtains were still drawn tight across the windows, and so were the blinds on the bay window at the back of the house. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“You really don’t like living here, do you?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He looks from the kitchen into the dark and unused living room. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

When I get home, Jay’s lying across the living room sofa. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t the one Will had knocked down the stairs: he was the one who’d appeared at the door of the living room as Will ran down and jumped over the body. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though he was thirteen, the judge condemned Ian for living in the streets, for not having good parental supervision, and for his multiple prior arrests for shoplifting and minor property crimes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was Minerva who taught her how to play it after she was released from prison and was living those last few months at Mama’s with Mate and Patria and the children. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It says, He alone is to be thanked for the fact that, for German children, a German life has once again become worth living. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A hallway off to my left led to the living room. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And now, as they step into the sunken living room, Miss Marsh’s head begins to swivel, too. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I’ll do more tonight,” she promised before grabbing her coat and entering the living room. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I asked the mother if she had ever thought the daughter was living out her name. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

She tears through her life like she plans on living out the whole thing before she hits twenty. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seconds later, they heard the roar of the crowd, which meant Cedric had entered the enclosure and was now face-to-face with the living counterpart of his model. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The fact that sleeping in the living room also allowed her to avoid the haunted bedroom she’d once shared with my father was never mentioned. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“If we don’t do something quickly, living anything down—or even just plain living—will be out of the question.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we went shopping together, and sometimes she would sit at the beautiful white baby grand piano in her living room and play her heart out. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Judging by the present incidence of the disease, the American Cancer Society estimates that 45,000,000 Americans now living will eventually develop cancer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I began to think of these people not as players mouthing speeches but as actual persons, living out a part of their lives before me. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

We did not know where we would be living in America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I am glad to be living with this kind couple, whose quiet, self-effacing manner I am coming to understand. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

A more unnerving theory about Anna’s death was that her killer was living among them in sheep’s clothing. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

"Now, now, I gotta earn a living, don't I? I don't have some fancy monastery, giving me food, do I?" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

"Hello!" it reads, Have been living on streets of San Diego for the past week. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

First of all, he was a famously absent-minded scientist, living in an abstract world of ideas and numbers. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was going to take some living up to. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I work every day for a living,” I said, remembering that he was being paid by the party to talk to me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma was in the living room watching a show. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Do you think the people of Gutshot, Tennessee, have ever seen an actual, living Arab?” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

She goes in my room, the bathroom, the living room. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

How could such a lonely person have been living so close to me my whole life? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Kendra went through the living room, the dining room, and into the kitchen. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Their job was to get the living quarters ready, and to make sure the pilots could land when they arrived in their Yaks. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

If she wants to use obscure European words for everything to feel better about living here, then she can. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Malia’s been living and working in New York, finishing out her gap year before college. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The billowing clouds of Mordor were being driven back, their edges tattering as a wind out of the living world came up and swept the fumes and smokes towards the dark land of their home. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

You could still hear the raised voices in the living room. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The concept of death is simple: it is when a living thing no longer entertains experience. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The inside of our apartment consisted of two very small bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen, and a bathroom. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mother’s computer was on, the screen saver casting a green light over the living room. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Soon there were thirty or more birds living on their roof. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure where Max is living now, if it’s the same place or a different one, or if it’s safe to say his name. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

But the living asked more of you than the dead. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Neither is living across the hall from Uncle Max, but I don't tell her that part. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It’s bad theater as well as bad living. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my head comes into sight, a gasp ricochets through the living room. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was living a straight life, playing football—and then doing plays. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He had showed up a few weeks earlier to visit Miss Mary Finch, his aunt and only living relation. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep walking toward the living room, even as he comes chasing after me. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Matilda had never once stopped to think about where Miss Honey might be living. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was living in a hotel for women in Greenwich Village, working as a waitress in a German restaurant, and taking art classes and even fencing lessons. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wander around the living room, looking at photos of generations of women who all look like Carla. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It had gripped him, then consumed him like a living thing, and it wasn’t the first time. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I sped into the living room where Big Ma sat, going through the mail. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Some day it was coming: it might not be soon, it might not be within the lifetime of any animal now living, but still it was coming. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

If he stayed, his life was no longer worth living. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The men file into the living room, not even having had time to get the floorboards away from the bunker. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

People fly in airplanes, but living on other planets, that’s something else. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so over the course of the next hour, Colin shot the holy living hell out of the oak trees before him, pausing only to reload the gun and call his parents. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

When Molly comes into the living room with her raisin bran, she looks up and frowns. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

If the gene was the central currency of biological information, then major characteristics of the living world—not just heredity—should be explicable in terms of genes. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The gun made me superior to almost all living things in North America. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I could hear her because my room was directly above the living room and because I had never heard crying that loud before. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Try to imagine what ‘living with one’s family’ meant.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally I grabbed the phone off the front hall table and carried it as far as the cord would permit, which left me at the entrance to the living room. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

There were islands in the chain that had little more than sheep living on them. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to do a little project that I like to call living history. Where we study the different generations that make up our society.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“That white girl. Why is she living with you?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

In December, my mother and I were transferred from Ghetto B, the section where we had been living, to Ghetto A, the area now designated for workers. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“It means the spiral on the shell is made in perfect proportion. Don’t you ever see a living thing and wonder how it was made?” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

You’d never know it living here, but Jackson, Mississippi, be filled with two hundred thousand peoples. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A true southerner, she never felt safe in the city, despite living here since I was born. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden, after living like a young lord, he found himself doing the most drudgelike work. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you tell anyone, I will make your life a living hell.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The bad news was that the rest of the living room was occupied by Mrs. O’Leary. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“If you are still among the living could you please inform me so I don’t have to pinch you?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Innocent black children growing up, living out their lives, dying of old age—and all of their lives ashamed of being black. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the people living in the Great Lakes region are confused by their place on the country’s edge—an edge that is border but not coast. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tired of poor living and working conditions, they wanted a simple but drastic solution. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing living seemed to be down here, there were no birds or butterflies, it was like a dark, damp tunnel. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He reminds me of those living statues—they’re thinking, feeling, sensing, but, nonetheless, seem like stone. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Since finishing law school, I’d been living back in my old South Shore neighborhood, which was still relatively untouched by gangs and drugs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“If I can't have a lock on my room, I'm going to move out. I don't trust the people living in this house,” I say. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

My last few days of being sixteen, and living in this house. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.... While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

On his first payday, he came home and called us all into the living room. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

To illustrate this point, picture living in a small town filled with normal people, just like you. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Master’s voice, loud and firm, came from the living room. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the booklet from the coffee table in the living room and walked into the kitchen. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I heard the fire growl like a living thing, heard myself yelling Pa! Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The upper stage of the Saturn V moon rocket was converted into living quarters for three astronauts. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if living next door to the person who did this to me was a torment I would never shake. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

When she touched the symbols, the stone seemed to shimmer as if there were something living within its depths. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Minny came ever day to make sure I was still breathing, feed me food to keep me living. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Her mother glanced nervously into the living room; Richie would punish Mouse if he knew. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

In the living room Mr. Pirzada, my father, and mother were sitting side by side on the sofa. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Yet by the miniature framed portrait my father carried, I saw that I was the living image of my mother. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Havens is now living in a house owned and supported by the Christian Union and is trying to reach not just other evangelicals but nonbelievers as well. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

At that scale, with families of five and six people living off a farm the size of two hotel rooms, agriculture changes dramatically. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She was only a few years older than my mom, but she was living a life my mother admired. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The one where I had a living father and mother. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Government propagandists repeatedly claimed that the leaders of the campaign were living it up in comfort while the masses were languishing in jail. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We both know your schedule isn’t the reason she’s not staying with you. Or is Danielle no longer living at your apartment?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I yank the zip and seal away the compacted version of my life I’m going to be living with. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I was thinking of running away from home, forever, and living in a junkyard somewhere. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were middle-class Haitians, Farmer said, adding that they regarded living in Cange as living in the sticks. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I have zero doubt Drake’s space would make mine look like I’d gotten a visit from the organizer lady on this TV show about “the bliss of living tidy.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

James had said his family had been living in this building for generations, and you could feel it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Perhaps its knowledge and wisdom kept it separate, like a shaman living on the edge of a llaqta, feared by the people. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The girls all filed out of the living room and made their way to their bedrooms. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I walk out of the living room and into the kitchen. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some have become symbionts in more specialized, local relations, living as working parts in the tissues of higher organisms. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well... those gods are still alive. They kind of follow Western Civilization around, living in the strongest countries, so like now they’re in the U.S. And sometimes they have kids with mortals. Kids called half-bloods.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Not a single living thing” I got the feeling he was being truthful. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like every year, the Christmas tree stands in a corner of the living room. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I stretched out on the living room floor and it felt like I was swimming. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I rush past her and down the hall to the living room. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

That was the reason the company—meaning my dad—allowed him to make a living from his still on the ridge behind his house. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Same thing. Just caused trouble. She went away. I heard she’s living in Philadelphia. Does dressmaking. I heard she gets ten dollars just for making one dress.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Suffering had finally succeeded in penetrating to my very soul and established within my consciousness a certain fear of living. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

After they returned from Virgil’s house, they’d collapsed on the floor of the Tanakas’ living room to discuss their next plan of action. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The girls sat on the living room couch. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Not somebody I made up but a living, breathing person. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben and I figured it was Radar, so we paused the game and walked out into the living room. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He strides across the living area into the kitchen, the frigid January air still clinging to him. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z