“It certainly sounds intriguing! And I’ve been longing for another case!” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I was no longer asked to wait upon her or to read to her. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Adam knew that his brother was no longer dangerous. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Keep in mind that almost any nursery rhyme can be used for these activities, as long as they have a steady beat, which luckily most of them do. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I threw it right to her, so she wouldn’t have to run to get to it, but she didn’t last long anyway. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

You could always make a woman talk twice as long as a man. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The bayonets fixed to the ends of their long muskets flashed in the sun. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stand on the pavement outside his house for a long time after he shuts the door. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zola, she keeps asking me time questions, like: How long will the childrens stay in the tower? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

I have to check myself from saying, A visit is not a long stay, you know. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the sound of his voice, the old soldier spun about, took two long steps across the room, and made a grab for Jonathan. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

As long as I can remember, I’ve devoured stories of gymnasts who travel and compete internationally as part of the USA women’s national team. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We had left them propped against one of the carved stone pillars in the long corridor leading to the assembly hall. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ms. Carter is no longer a student here,” Headmaster Clarkson continued. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Down a long flight of steps the Lady went into the deep green hollow, through which ran murmuring the silver stream that issued from the fountain on the hill. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The next game was the longest ever played in the history of the World Series—over three hours of hard hitting and fielding and running at Ebbets Field. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

It seemed like that fall, or maybe it was the long prickly-pear spines that stabbed me in the hip, brought me out of my scare. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adam took a long time to answer, and his mind sought escape before he said, “Yes, sir.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I felt different already, no longer hampered by my appearance. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

At recess we had the school to ourselves, and also we could roam as far as we could go—downtown, Chinatown stores, home—as long as we returned before the bell rang. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Human DNA is a ladder a billion nucleotides long. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rattle down the long gravel lanes, past pit cottages and trash barrel fires, past laid-off miners squatting all day on upturned crates, motionless as statues. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Telemachus on guard with his long spear kept the crowd back so that they could not rush out through the door either to escape or to attack Odysseus from the rear. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her wrists look fragile and breakable, and her long, skinny braids seem too heavy for her small body. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

There was once a boy named Liang who longed to be an artist. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She also knew where certain marks had been placed upon lake rocks long ago. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

They were laughing and playing ball when Palmer, letting fly a long shot from beyond the bed, said, “Do you like my father?” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Set a minute longer, Jeth. There’s somethin’ I feel bound to say to you.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks at me for a long moment. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

King Loren had escaped, and lived long enough to surrender, pledge his fealty to the Targaryens, and beget a son, for which Tyrion was duly grateful. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The day after the April 15 hearing, Bunderson wrote a memo following a long conversation with a local lay official in the Mormon Church, Rod Merrell, who was the president of the Shaws’ region. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I walked slowly to her desk, expecting to be lectured; but my heart quickened when I saw her go to the corner and select a long, green, limber switch and come toward me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cattle raised on grass simply take longer to grow than cattle raised on com. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

After it officially introduced itself in the early 1980s, it didn’t take long for crack to place a stranglehold on many communities. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The bottles of ink I remember particularly, because I was very charmed by them, and by the long black straight pens, which looked incredibly archaic and troublesome. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

That winter was long and dark, and I wondered if sometimes Mother was staying in bed even when she didn’t have a migraine. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His nervousness had subsided months earlier; he knew he no longer had control over his destiny. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I gazed at her naked belly for a long while and, finally, with a kind of woefulness, bowed my head. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t think they get paid very much, because they never stay very long. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He looked fourteen, maybe fifteen, and had long, glossy black hair pulled back with a rubber band at the nape of his neck. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Beetle waited a long time before she came out of hiding and waded into the muddy pond. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has long dark hair like mine and was then the same age I had been when the camp closed. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soufflé and the fruit salad did not take long to finish. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“B. cepacia? That is rough. How long ago did you contract it?” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

For a long time it seemed harmless enough. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Her long hair is thick and dark, and her body is still slim, unlike the other moms in the neighborhood who are shaped like upside-down pears. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I carefully considered the ramifications of every option and took a long time between moves. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a week, Queens would no longer exist. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

We stayed like that while bees swirled around our heads with a sound like sizzling bacon, a sound that no longer registered as danger. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad was calm at breakfast but under his tranquillity I sensed excitement, and something like longing. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He’s so mad he has such a specific type of dude and never even noticed it for so long. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

If you stay here a minute longer I’ll take the hatchet to you, you drunken lunatic. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Go ahead. Keep it as long as you like. I don’t play it that much anyway.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seems like such a long time ago when I thought the world of him. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

That long yah sound was followed by a specific kind of howl from one of the dogs. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wants to know what took me so long. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I held on to the phone for a long time. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said our house because a couple of my uncles had built their houses against his until the original house spread into a long house with many of my cousins living in it. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a long two seconds, my brother turned to my sister. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The TV was blaring—some station that shows country-music videos all day long. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Gradually the heart in Enoch’s hand began to slow and shrink, its color fading to a blackish gray, like meat left too long in the freezer. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Half of my head was shaved and my long hair was gone. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I stared a long time at those things. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Then the whole company began to run with the long loping strides of Orcs. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

When the show is over, Lorena goes into the bathroom for a long time. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Spacious, clean, and bright, the long room had a pair of beds, shelves crowded with children’s books, freestanding wardrobes, tidy dressers, a unicorn rocking horse, multiple toy chests, and a hen in a cage. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She told us how, long ago, paper was scarce so women cut up old letters and newspaper articles to make patterns, then stuffed the paper between the quilt layers for extra insulation. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“As long as it’s not any of our lot!” said a voice: Harry turned and saw Ginny and Tonks, both with their wands drawn at the next window, which was missing several panes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I didn't at first for a long time. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Altogether, it took alertness and patience to keep those restless little bodies still for four long hours at a stretch. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

If only she could open her heart to him, Jo thinks as he talks, maybe her “indefinable searching and longing” would be fulfilled. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Before long, all of us were calling that day by a new name. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went to the annual steak feed, where the coaches and the booster club board sat at long tables inside a warehouse and ate delicious slabs of rib eye as thick as a Bible. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe, but it was so long ago. I don’t know.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

We had come a long way to meet bad news and now it seemed there was neither going back nor going forward. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tiller and Sairy had lived so long in Ruby Holler that they knew every twist and turn in it, every path, every foxhole and beehive. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I was walking down a long hall and saw the curtains on a doorway at the end. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He found a long white cotton nightshirt with nice pearly buttons. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

My granddaughter once asked me how I managed to live alone for so long far removed from civilization. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked for Neil once I was back outside, but he was long gone. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Fear glued me to the spot for long, agonizing seconds, then instinct made me jump aside at the last moment. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watching them holding hands and exchanging longing glances, I wonder what it would be like to have somebody look at me like that. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

His soft breath lifted, no longer disturbing the air. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Kapoor knelt next to Dari, and her yellow sari, the color of bright, fresh yolk, peeked out from underneath her long down jacket. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how long my eyes were closed. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

But he was exposed now and could no longer carry on his activities as a spymaster. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But things didn’t have to be new all the time if we’d stick around long enough for something to happen more than once. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

It hadn’t taken me long to figure out the command word required to activate it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He loved the way she would sit up naked in his bed, her long white back swiveled away from him, look at her watch and say in her practical way “Oops, I must be off.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This place hasn’t been planted for a long time,” he said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Chubby, with four long braids, two like horns over each ear, two like tails at the back of her neck. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a lovely boy who was a long way from his family and he was about to die. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I have a long coat on so she can’t see my outfit. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but I die a hero,” said Aziza, “while you, Rose, you spend your entire, miserable life longing for me.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was a long e-mail, digging, questioning, unearthing. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The results would let everyone know where they stood going into the longer, harder push after the Christmas break. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Anya didn’t want to tell Misha they had been transported in a magical house in a matter of minutes, so she said, “It didn’t seem that long.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Next she fell into melancholy, grumbling about the lazy British commanders floating at anchor off Staten Island, observing New York through long spyglasses but making no move to invade. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wipes her wet hands on her apron, looking at me long and hard with those apologizing eyes. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She must stay here in Wales for a while longer, where she knew people who could help and advise her, especially her husband’s great friend and partner, Mr Aadnesen. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’d been a long time since someone had pulled me into the huddle. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Their eyes are open, they stay open for quite a long time. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced nervously at Bob’s broom handle, wondering how long it would be before that hidden spearhead jutted out and got pointed at her. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And for a long time, he was referred to as “the boy we found on the boardwalk.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The watch ticked for a long time, very loudly in the captain’s ears. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their offspring had long childhoods—ten years at least—growing very slowly, as far as she could interpret their explanation. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was no longer Lefty’s face, no longer that of her brother or her husband. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I took long, hard pulls to pick up speed. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He stood there, looking at the people on the wooden benches, saying nothing for longer than Shadow could believe someone could comfortably say nothing. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He had no idea how long he’d been paddling, but as he slowed down, nearing the house, he felt more and more hungry and weary and cold. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

But there was no use in his going unless they were ready to do what they had been long planning to do. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair’s long and sleek with subtle highlights. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Jemmy no longer felt the slightest concern about the soldiers. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

“He said that the men have hair a yard long on one side of their head and the hair is shaved close on the other,” he says. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was the first time I’d heard her laugh in a long time, and it was nice to hear. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

A long table laden with many dishes, the smell of musty old room and hot grease in the kitchen. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

How can you long for someone you don’t even know? Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

At this the maids, all gravely listening, hastened to set out bread and wine before Odysseus, and ah! how ravenously that patient man took food and drink, his long fast at an end. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wants to see people break— has always wanted to, ever since he set up the camera in my execution room when I nearly drowned, and probably long before then. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it had only seemed like a long time. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The medic was a long shadow in the dark interior of the chopper. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hazel eyes, under their veil of long lashes, had a greenish flash to them. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it didn't take me long to find a bar, and for my agent to find me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“That you, Earl? You’ve been away too long. Guess it took your grandson visiting to pry you out of that big old easy chair.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The blindness of their limited lives—lives truncated and impoverished by the oppression they had suffered long before they had ever heard of Communism—made them think that I was with their enemies. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was still the south, and the devil had long nimble fingers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

At this rate, how long would it take for that magic to flow like water, move like streams and rivers and oceans? The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

When he woke up at 10:00 p.m. he was slow getting ready and he remained in camp long after the last of his clients, guides, and Sherpas departed for the summit. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He immediately assured me that as long as he was president of this university and unless I went crazy, he would back me and our work. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t hugged someone in so long that I was almost too stunned to embrace him back. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

By nightfall he no longer had to tell it. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

You knew that a long time before I noticed. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

My growing hate of the preacher finally became more important than God or religion and I could no longer contain myself. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As long as the animal isn’t packing, of course.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I know that watching Brandy walk away will stick with me for a long time. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

For the first time in a long time, I don’t feel sick. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

If it had not been for her long ears, no one could have told that she was a hound. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Need one last order, then a good long sleep. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crying can bring relief, as long as you don’t cry alone. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Not long ago, Mr Hooper had been talking about the moths. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

As long as her sons didn’t get too serious about any one girl, they belonged to her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

After ten long hours of working in the sun, my father would come home and then start working on building our new house. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Cyril, whom I met only upon my release from prison, was a worthy successor to a long line of notable ANC leaders. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

How to explain to these two children the longing in my heart for what they had? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He went to the long avenue of knights who waited in the sun. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘And it will be good for business, no doubt. So long as he lets Bree alone.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

There would be more now; the summer had been long and peaceful. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Jinny laid her long body down in the shallow water and showed him how to kick his feet and splash his arms at the same time, forcing a grin. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Without an overcoat, I cranked up the heat for the long drive home after dropping Minnie and Jackie back at their house. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It seemed like the longest evening she had ever lived through. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

It took them twice as long to get up the stairs as it had the week before. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“But we can’t sit out here. We need to get to the village and get picked up from there. We can’t hold these positions much longer.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am glad you are riot one of those babies that cry all day long,” I told her. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He had known everything about Kira for so long: her smile, her voice, her merry optimism, the amazing strength and skill of her hands, and the burden of her useless leg. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Squinting at the paper in concentration, she flashed the light once very quickly, followed this with two longer flashes, then paused. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The way the principal pronounces his new name is different from the way his parents say it, the second part of it longer, sounding like “heel.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn I arose and created a long, slow, time-wasting breakfast. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not long after we were married, I enlisted in the navy. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Is there a long way still to go?” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Notice,” he said, “it is not square but long, as if it could hold a coffin.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t mention that it was a long time ago, near the water’s edge, when I was little and Lolo bought us those cheap masks and flippers from Walmart. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It was as long as Nali’s mobile home and twice as wide. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t lived there long, but was already on probationary status for being loud and aggressive with the other residents. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t remember it. And obviously nothing that happened between us was particularly important in the long run, was it?” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The man, no longer the focus of their fury, scrambles away, not caring about his BMW or his water; he just wants to get out of this alive. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

After that, they’d have to switch to a road that followed the coastline, because Route 1 turned into the Turnpike for a long while. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, there were long rows of bushes on both sides of a wide brick walkway and to each side of those bushes was a big lawn area with fountains. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could school have been going that long already? Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Should I be thankful for the lawyers who are working for half their pay to make sure there is justice for the boy whose heart is no longer beating? Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

First she watched him for a long time, chewing on her thumbnail. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

It’s Valerian, and he has a long, curving knife in one hand and a smile every bit as sharp pulling at his mouth. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There was a long way to go, and progress was slow—especially in the more conservative South—but the world was changing. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

An improbably long patchwork scarf was wrapped around his neck, and a fur hat perched askew on his large head. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I chew it and swallow my saliva, then I put it away and then chew it again. It lasts a very long time this way.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The air’s cool, but not cold, and with the days growing longer, there’s still plenty of sunlight and lots of spring color everywhere. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Eva had said the occupation could last as long as ten years. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I stare at his face, trying to maintain eye contact, but it’s difficult because he’s zooming away from me, receding to the end of a long black tunnel. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It took longer to reach our great-aunt and cousin but we needed to cool down. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Thirty long minutes I could have been sleeping. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The spy’s face is scarlet from hanging upside down for too long. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“So? I’m going to live there for a long time, right? And because of me, we’ll have to buy a bigger house than we would otherwise.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The look of confusion on Ivan’s face was absolute but didn’t last long. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He left my sight for a long time, and I got nervous and even started to feel sick to my stomach, but then his light flashed somewhere different from where I’d thought he was. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“But we will see each other, patron. Life is long and full of unexpected turns.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back at Holman, it wasn't long before he again showed serious emotional and psychological distress. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

On the morning of the third day, the lieutenant made us rest longer than we had during the previous days. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I wanted Ralph's recantation to sink in, but I didn't want to hesitate too long because we needed a lot more. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The men’s long cloaks flapped around their ankles as they marched. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It rose, leveled at a high note, and hovered there for a long moment. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had counted on a rest after May 1 but realized now that the intensity would persist until long afterward. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Arm stretched his long, long arms, an activity that caused the drinkers at the next table to move their chairs. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The road was no longer stone, but dirt. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Since his father had died long before, and his mother died in 1586, he had to make his own way in life. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He had worked for Lucky Strike and Richard Lopez, had worked for Sadna, had worked to protect him and Lucky Girl, and then had simply walked away when it no longer suited him. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

But across their three necks lay one long naked sword. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Anyway, for the longest time, I just kept sinking free throws. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She was aghast that we had been in legal limbo for so long and thought that five years should have been plenty of time for my mother to get her act together. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He’d been staring at a scratch on the coffee table in the living room for a long while, and it felt like he’d left his body and was staring down at it from above. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The vigil light no longer contained oil but was an electric bulb. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“A protector of its magic. As long as she was here, no harm could come to us.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Each day, the sun grew hotter and more punishing, too hot for June, and the fence seemed to get longer and longer, like a living thing snaking out across the prairie. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mama holds up a long skirt with ruffles on it that would be perfect if I was living in the 1850s and had a matching bonnet to go along with it. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

For the longest time I used to think my name was Sugar. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked out at the world around me and no longer saw nuance. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

We pause to stare the length of Aleppo Way—the longest stretch of our journey. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

At bedtime, Shirley could no longer put off giving up the letter. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The spoils of a conquest that the country had long ago forgotten, and that some conquistador had failed to tell his children about. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thanks for the heads-up. I shouldn’t be gone long.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Mr. Trepid had scurried up and down the long halls, uneasy, restless, ending up at the door to Dallas’s room at the back of the house. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Under the skin the life no longer pulses, it has already pressed out the boundaries of the body. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I swam slowly, it seemed like a long swim with the high tide, and then pulled up on the raft and sat, dripping, on the boards that were becoming hot in the sun. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The longer a man stays in a form not his own, the greater this peril. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The girls had lost track of how long they had been on the island. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I lit a cigarette and sat for a long time. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the call at 4:43 a.m., he told Caroline Mackenzie, our Base Camp doctor, that his legs no longer worked, and that he was “too clumsy to move.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

And at their weddings they displayed themselves in their long hair for the last time. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A boy. He’s long and wide and dark.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Certainly not, not for a week at least; longer if the wound is not healed.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Not long after Walter and I reached this decision I was again transferred back to the hospital at the Fort. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any lunch after a long hike tastes good. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He slowly rubbed his face, then let out a long sigh. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

From sleepy eyes he looks at me and I look back, long long. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Piper tried to imagine Jason becoming a god when he died, standing on some beach guarding the gates to an ocean long after Piper and everyone else he knew in his mortal life were dead. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I was born in San Francisco. But we left when I was just a baby. I don’t remember it at all. We never stay in any place too long.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They would not have to come back to the apartment all summer long. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Too short for baggie basketball, and too long for regular shorts. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

But changed—no longer plump and sleek, but thin and hungry-looking. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

It has yellow eyes, bronze horns and similarly coloured spikes that protrude from its long tail. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But more than that, the kindness of the surprise gift was the real treasure—a glimpse of ordinary humanity in the long, terrifying, and hellish slog of battle. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I inquired, “Is it not surprising, sir, that despite its long continuance and your constant intimacy with it, you can smell it still?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I knew it would be a long, long hour. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“No one here will starve long as I have breath.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

How indeed could it be otherwise, so long as art is still being created all around us, opening our eyes almost daily to new experiences and thus forcing us to readjust our understanding? History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held a crushed Stetson hat under his arm while he combed his long, black, damp hair straight back. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The audience heaves a single sigh of relief, even though I am completing my dance long after the music has stopped. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“It was on the other railroad that started from the east. He wrote long letters about it.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Critics said that Mark Antony’s failure stemmed from having waited too long to get started or from leaving the fight too early. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s so hard to find what my mama calls modest clothes in the regular stores. You know, long enough to cover your butt, half sleeves or longer, not so tight you can’t even breathe.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The empty swing set reminds us of this— that what is bad won't be bad forever, and what is good can sometimes last a long, long time. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

They have long hair which falls across their foreheads and over their eyes so that they can toss their quiffs like Englishmen. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Small, framed windows covered the wall facing Main Street School and on the opposite wall hung long and narrow blackboards. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

They followed until they came to a long flat hill. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Among an obscure tribe in a backwater of West Asia on the confines of a long- vanished empire? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

But in the evenings the suppressed longing of the entire day, the happiness and the bliss of all the times before come rushing to the surface, and all we can think about is each other. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

By wearing long pants and long skirts she was in control of how her body would be perceived. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Warren had said, peering at one of the figures, the one long in the end zone, waiting for the pass. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Something about their color and their long shape recalled an incident in Patria’s house last fall. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The longer he knew us, the more of a kid he became. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Outside, where there should have been a long, windowless hall with dark green numbered doors leading into other apartments, there was a greening field and a lowering sky. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

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 wooden foot took shape, and before long Mr. Beaver was standing beside a beautiful carving that resembled a boot. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He filled one of his mother’s long black stockings with ashes and roamed the streets with his gang swinging his homely blackjack and crying out raucously from time to time. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within were three long hooded cloaks made from myriad small squares of cloth sewn together, three cudgels, three shortswords, three masks of polished brass. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He holds up his hands in protest, long bare fingers splayed. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My hands are white at the knuckles, I clench them so tightly in my longing for the fire to cease so that my comrades may come. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the persistence of the memory of the human species will be far longer in the impressed metal grooves on the Voyager interstellar record. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the best evening either of them had enjoyed in a very long time. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Had it not been for the tribal law which forbade children from intruding in adult conversations, I would have long said something, for I too had strong opinions about what was being discussed. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dropped her head onto her pillow and was quiet for so long I thought she was asleep. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She stood up then and hugged Obiora, and they held on to each other for a long time. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Fruitless Mountain is no longer fruitless! And the Jade River is clear and fresh too!” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Took even longer before I stopped sleeping outside in my tent. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He used to do that when we were little and fighting because he was bigger and his arms were so long that I could kick and hit and only catch air. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Well, you were quite right,” said Dumbledore, who was no longer smiling, but watching Riddle intently. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

But to me, what you experience every day is no longer news. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

So, long time ago they got him back again but he wasn’t quite the same after that not like the other children. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The image shows the two of us talking in the courtyard about some matter that I can no longer remember. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there was the unforgettable gun, long and deadly. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

His neck was thick, powerful, and cruelly muscled; his arms were long, athletic to the point of being simian, threaded with veins, and covered with reddish hair. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Granny said he always talked like it was just a long, tiring, boring time. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The young soldier was holding the burning stick high, making the shadows on his face long and severe, as if his head had been stretched; Jonathan saw him in a new way—powerful and evil. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

As I looked out behind us, I could see that we were developing a long tail. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody actually knows how long an atom can survive, but according to Martin Rees it is probably about 1035 years–a number so big that even I am happy to express it in notation. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The sickness didn’t last long, but kept him doubled over for an hour or so and left him weak enough to want to sleep again— and that ended another day. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had rushed to Wanda’s side, her voice cheery and carefree, and Moss took a moment to give a long look to the church hall. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Neel liked hearing his mother make music again—she had been sick for so long, her temperature raging until she hardly recognized them. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

For a long time, I sat on the edge of the bath, mentally going over the days’ routines. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They were done long ago, but a new pain and a new awareness were bom inside me. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Siddhartha became impatient at losses, he lost his patience with slow-paying debtors, he was no longer kindhearted to beggars, he no longer had the desire to give gifts and loans to the poor. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

It thought of food and water, but so many hours were spent just waiting, cushioning self against dread, that it no longer thought of much else. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I make this long time ago for when I have helper,” and out of a bag he drew two long pieces of heavy twine secured at both ends by pegs. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He didn’t seem to care that his fingernails were dirty, but maybe he couldn’t keep such long nails clean. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Ma Charles said, “He waited longer than Jacob waited for Rachel.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I washed dishes over and over, and Martín yelled at me a couple of times because I was taking too long to move the dish racks through El Monstruo. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We must be holding each other’s hands for too long, because her father finally says, “Say good-bye to him, Callie.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I longed to run away, never to set foot inside a classroom again. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could no longer control his own trembling. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Inside the average- size tent, children sat up front on the yellowed grass, and grown-ups crammed together on the few long rickety benches. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a long and exhausting but beautiful day. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They no longer heard the jingle of a joke in it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He’d been talking about “changing the world” long before his speech to the TB tribe in Boston. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Sitting in the empty classroom after school one day, Molly stares at that face for a long time, looking for answers to questions she doesn’t know how to ask. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

If either of them felt surprise, resentment, commiseration or envy, they did not show it The only surprising thing to them was that the secret had been kept so long. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been a fair somewhere near here once, long ago, with motorcycle races; the signs still carried fragments of words. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I found the longest antenna rod I had, so I could reach into the smooth area without having to step on it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

For what seems like the longest moment ever, the two of them glare at each other. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Keeping it safe just long enough to set it free. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I hope this awkwardness between us doesn’t last long. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Wearing long dresses and wrapped in shawls, they could have been mistaken for a group of grandmothers on a garden tour. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

After way too long of a ride, the bus screeches to a stop right in front of Shabazz Park. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Ascending Everest is a long, tedious process, more like a mammoth construction project than climbing as I’d previously known it. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

It might still be a long time until morning—she didn’t know. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The road went down a long grade below the chateau and then turned to the right and went down very steeply and paved with cobbles, into Montreux. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was a long way down, and Tally’s stomach already seemed to be in free fall. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He is no longer leading me—I am leading him. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Bekah Cotter, with her long, golden hair and compact curves, comes in with a huge group of friends and they sort of camp out with fries and fountain drinks. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

We’re quiet for a long moment, and I realize I can see the top of my building from here. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

No longer did I have to stand by, watch, and wait. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

But I can no longer wait for you to get here to tell you. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the kiln the potters no longer joked among themselves or smoked idly. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The kid sitting next to her looked about sixteen and he pulled his earphone out long enough to say, “Yeah, sure, whatever.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

By the time Henry comes wandering into the kitchen in his pajamas, there’s an entire breakfast spread on the long green table, and Alex is at the stove, flipping his dozenth pancake. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“As long as I’m with you, I love it.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

He intended to do this all night long, if necessary, to make sure the stakes weren’t tampered with. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The classroom was empty, but Mr. Creedy often let students work on projects during lunch, so I expected we wouldn’t be alone for long. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I admired the long expanses of lawns mown in precise lines and the huge, graceful trees. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“The Thunderhead...it spoke to me,” Citra said, forcing herself to stay conscious just long enough to get this out. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Its bony feet had been stuffed into long black boots. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The old man waited until the broth had cooled before he took a sip, long enough to be sure his guardsman had suffered no ill effects. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It took us longer than usual to reach her neighborhood. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

For a long time, I was mad at you. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I could no longer think that the tides of economics were not my concern. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fled the house and was headed for the south marsh before I remembered it was no longer there. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neeley, though weeping, remembered to spread his handkerchief on the curb so that his new long pants wouldn’t get dirty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Presentiment that long shadow passes over, and we are the startled grass. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emily slid her books into her locker, lingering longer than she needed to while slams and stomps and shouts filled the hallway. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Then, you would have a house like a boat, almost floating on air, and the long, leafy branches stretching above like sails. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it’s not long before the warmth turns to blazing heat. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Oh, you were wonderingI said with every bit of venom my troupe-sharpened tongue could muster. “Well maybe you can wonder a while longer. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“If it’s wrong to put shoes on those little feet, then I will continue to do wrong as long as I have hands and feet to crawl to Colliers.” Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Her second stride seemed longer; she hovered in the air for a split second before landing and then hurtling toward the sea. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“I take my friends where I find them, Commensal, but I no longer look to keep them long.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

But they were a long way off, and the sky overhead was still a spotless blue as we steamed west. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She could remember Daddy singing, but it was a long time ago—before he went away, when she went to bed at night. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t stay long on Buck’s Peak, maybe a week. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Kenya and I stare at him for the longest. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Frodo turned and saw Strider, and yet not Strider; for the weatherworn Ranger was no longer there. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He's been my guide, my protector, my best friend for so long that I don't know what to do without him. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

"That might take rather a long time, my good lord. I know quite a lot." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It swung from a wire that was sixty-seven meters long; because its trajectory changed over time, he explained, it proved beyond all doubt that the earth rotated. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to stick around too long and make a whole production of the goodbye. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The longer I sat there, the angrier I got. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

All night long I had been having nightmares in which throngs of black people sprawled dead in pools of red blood, surrounded by all sorts of slimy, creeping creatures. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last, she slides the long piece of the trombone all the way to her knees and back, making a thundering sound. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

In the center of the track, Azucar began to uncurl his long legs and accelerate, grinding away at the lead. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The question is how long will it take you to figure this out? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Before long she and Salvador would sit here like the hungry men and watch others eat. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Like you, I long for freedom and fresh air, but I think we’ve been amply compensated for their loss. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He wasn't sure how long he remained in the hole, maybe five hours. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I no longer felt his pulse, his presence, in my hands. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

About twenty feet downhill, two telkhines were placing something on a big rock— something long and thin and wrapped in black cloth. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It’s black, of course, the color of prestige or a hearse, and long and sleek. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a long table, also heaped with old books and papers, the proprietor was writing tireless prose in purple letters, somewhat outlandish, and on the loose pages of a school notebook. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I know where I stand. I’ve been out long enough to know. I’m like a ball-player that bats two hundred and thirty and knows he’s no better.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was not uncommon for inmates to be seriously injured, losing fingers or limbs, after working long hours in brutal and dangerous conditions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Because I’m sure that a single thank-you will go a long way in her mind. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He drank long and deeply at the pool and on his return tried the feathers again, for he was ravenous; but they stuck in his gullet and he retched them out. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“White and light” refers to people who are either entirely white or, more likely, who have some black heritage that is no longer readily apparent. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

His long steps closed the distance between us quickly, and in a moment, he stood peering down at me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She could take dance classes and go to the community pool, sure, but she never stuck around long enough to make real friends, much less relive memories with them years later. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I walked along Ocean Beach for a long time, until I reached the rocks below the Cliff House, and then I turned around. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Long Island. It’s this island. And ... it’s long. Oh, let’s just start.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Frodo and Sam were plodding along with heavy hearts, no longer able to care greatly about their peril. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Some are clearly shocked and afraid, while others are excited by the most interesting thing to happen in Livingston in a long time. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Silence continued as I picked it up and began a very long and close inspection of my face. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

On another occasion, he stared at the Sun for as long as he could bear, to determine what effect it would have upon his vision. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He hesitated for so long I thought he was going to say no. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

There were long benches, and tables ran across the room, and at the far end a dancing-floor. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Backbiter was a foot longer than my own sword. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She leaned in closer to the casket and took a long look. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

With this document, he would no longer be designated a ward of the government, and he could spend his headright payments as he pleased. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was not healthy, he had long since learned, to pry into Gebu’s affairs. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Although Snail was happy in his work as a trader, and was always able to buy all the food that he needed, he longed to do what Tortoise did. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Our lips touch, and I try to keep my eyes open for as long as possible. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

In fact the British boys still rowed with the long layback that English prep schools and universities had taught for generations. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The storm had lasted, how long—a day? The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How long will it take you to get rid of the rest of the papers?” asked Nesson. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure how long it was before I thought to look for Ambrose. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

This has been the longest and most exciting day of my life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I could drink down the whole bowl and it wouldn’t even give me indigestion. Alas, we can no longer turn water into worm.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

After school, Gates took the bus to the C-Cubed offices and programmed long into the evening. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Not long ago, I had a lot of fear. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It didn’t take long for me to spot those tie-dye T-shirts. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He longed suddenly to fly like a bird to rest in the green city. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” The Goober said, swallowing, his Adam’s apple doing a dance in that long thin neck. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sacker with a long, greasy ponytail and skinny little beard look me over when I was checking out and made a snort in his nose. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I ask the girl in the mirror: How long until people forget you were ever a longa? The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Percy didn’t remember the old blind man muttering a final curse, but as Phineas dissolved and returned to the Underworld, he probably hadn’t wished Percy a long and happy life. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She still had on her hijab and her work clothes, dark, long, loose pants and a brown cotton tunic top. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The hike is supposed to be longer than the first one I took with Farmer to Morne Michel, though not as steep, but after we set out I’m imagining a very long day. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He takes a long draught of beer and regards me thoughtfully. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was there a kind of long lie-abed sickness that didn’t hurt? Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared at the voice recorder for a long time. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“We’ve kept the races separated for a long time and we don’t intend to change now,” was what Grampa or one of his friends usually ended up saying. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He spent his days on the seashore, searching the horizon for a sail that never came, sick with longing to see even the smoke curling up from his house. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was back in the long shadow Sam had left behind. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Against the opposite wall was a long bench laden with wide earthenware basins, and beside it stood brown ewers filled with water, some cold, some steaming hot. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t long before the lady’s shoulders were white again. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Ajax found the biggest burrow I’d seen in a long while. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

A bicycle racer who went on long solo training rides in the mornings before school. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then, up on the dock, she spotted Riker himself, his long cloak and smug smile. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

While researching the murders, I often felt that I was chasing history even as it was slipping away, and not long after we spoke, I learned that Martha had died from heart failure. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Looks like we have to walk the rest of the way. Everybody grab only some clothes and all the food you can carry. We have a long way to go yet.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It just takes us longer sometimes to get it together in the morning. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It was a trouper’s lute, its long, graceful neck and round bowl were painfully familiar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Finally, after what feels like a very long day, we have the skeleton of a floor. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The woman who stood before them was no taller than Nonnie and just as plump, although she wore a long cape, so it was hard to make out her real shape. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

But every time I started over, it took a little longer. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

In her mind she walks a path in the Jardin des Plantes, the air golden, the wind green, the long fingers of willows drifting across her shoulders. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Lithe and young she made him, ruddy with sun, his jawline clean, the beard no longer grew upon his chin. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a cap made out of the same dark fur and was winding his little finger around Second Wife’s long pearl necklace. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been such a long, exhausting day. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Walter looks at me for a long time. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

And I thought, for an awful moment, My God, if this goes on much longer, you probably will. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

There were no crowds, no ordinary citizens, only the Council of Guardians: twelve men who sat facing her across a long table at the foot of the stage. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was supposed to memorize the whole thing, playing the repeat parts twice to make the piece sound longer. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pair had a long night’s ride ahead of them. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carole, a member of Girl Scout troop #264, pinned the numerous badges she had earned to a long sash that draped across her chest and proudly wore her uniform to school. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It had been a very long time since someone had labeled me like that—as a person with a home. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Caldwell is forty miles west, in the center of a flat plain known, for reasons that may have made sense long ago, as Treasure Valley. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Willis held the ball a long while, still smiling, then slowly leaned forward, swung his arm down low, and lofted the ball into a high arc. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She wore a long cloth coat and galoshes. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

"He's just—a friend of mine. We've known each other online for a long time." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

I ask for a few minutes to say good-bye, but it doesn’t take as long as I thought. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“It will be a long time, I think, before she opens another door by herself.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Julius had long ago learned to feed Boots at appropriate times so that there would be no “accidents” in front of the princess. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

She and I sat at one end of the long table. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He weren’t long for this world, seeing as how he got put down by a shambler, but I think of that poor fool every time I see Jackson. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The children ran off to hide and tell each other everything that they had stored up during the long months of separation. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a long knife in his left hand and a club in the other he made a rush at the ring, trying to burst out back towards Hobbiton. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The long walk to the Manpower Directorate, the sheer mindlessness of compiling names and addresses day after day, exhausted him, she knew, yet he came home each day with lit-up eyes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Winter was long that year, the dreariness punctuated only by my weekly counseling sessions and the odd sense of loss, almost bereavement, I felt whenever I finished one TV series and had to find another. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Outdoors we have a long shady porch our mother in her Mississippi-born way calls a veranda. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The races—in Greece, Italy, the United States—kept him away too long. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I leap off the table and high-five it, and when his hand hits mine, he doesn’t smack it a little bit harder or hold his look a little bit longer like I thought he might. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I stand at Abuela’s screen door for a long while without knocking. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Not ever,” Hannah muttered to herself as she watched the smoke curling up, writing its long numbers against the stone-colored sky. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poppy translated, “They’re ready to adopt you. See? I told you. Get set for a long day.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Wait a little longer until we can make the preparations for your escape, the shopkeeper said. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Knightley’s excessive curiosity to know what this word might be, made him seize every possible moment for darting his eye towards it, and it was not long before he saw it to be Dixon. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

It’s hard, and it takes a long time. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

For example, at the Columbia session, I paid particular attention to a young woman with pale skin and blond, curly hair and a tall, energetic man with green eyes and long brown hair. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“They were joined, as you very well know, by half of the Order before long!” snarled Bellatrix. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It no longer scratched my skin when I wore it. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I was in a dim, narrow chamber filled with water, with no way back up the giant’s long, smooth throat; no rope, no ladder, no footholds. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Everybody in Mrs. Rouse’s class sat at one long table in the middle of the cafeteria. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I had been gone a long time and about then I would have liked to have just been home. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tunnel is lit at long intervals, so in the dark space between each dim lamp, I fear that I am lost until a shoulder bumps mine. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She still has her long braids when she graduates. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a long journey with a great deal of shouting, shifting and moving through rubble and broken streets. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

We never triumphed; our strength of will faltered long before theirs. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The carriage picked up speed on the long, sloping drive up to the castle; Hermione was leaning out of the tiny window, watching the many turrets and towers draw nearer. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I lay awake longer than even Chi-Boy that night, long enough to see him slip the white trapper hat under Wab’s pillow and linger to touch her long hair as she slept. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She had long, white-blond hair cut in bangs, and since I never saw her in the daytime, I decided she was an albino. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There was a big chocolate cake in the shape of a heart set out on the long buffet with seventy-one candles—one for good luck. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It took a few long moments before she could finally talk again. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

She was silent for a long while, looking up into the night. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He took another long drag on his cigarette and let it drop to the ground. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would not cry, it was ridiculous to cry after so long, but her eyes were filling with tears and there was a boulder in her chest and a stinging in her throat. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

As long as you’re sitting out there pretending to be engaged to somebody, you might as well pass the time. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The many strikes that characterized the year 1919 came at a time when American industry stood at the threshold of a long period of unprecedented growth and prosperity. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I met his eye as long as I could, then shook my head. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a song by the same name—don’t suppose you’ve heard it. It came out long before your time.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

“We have rested too well. We should have been on our way long since.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

But pruning is usually done with special shears that look like giant scissors or with a small saw on a long pole. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“The mine will get along without you for that long.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

If she stays here any longer she will freeze to death; she will be left behind, in the wrong time. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The women liked a long blue gown for me, and it was stunning, but it seemed like a typical choice for such an event—too traditional, too safe. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She wished, though, Kainene would not take so much of the cream, so that it would last as long as possible. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And even the hedgehog was no longer glued to the window of the pasticceria, but the boy with the black eyes was nowhere to be seen. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She rotated the only visible handle, and the nose of the long gun tilted into place. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“You were sure gone a long time,” she said. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

After Mrs. Walton zips me into my dress, she turns me around and exhales a long breath. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I refused, even though I no longer had any illusions about what an education could do for me; I had already encountered too many college-graduate handymen. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Long, long ago, even the Holy People suffered from this. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It might be a very long time before I return South. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She might be having a conversation like this with some other half-blood long after I was dead, but Bianca would still look twelve years old. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

"Oh, of course not, beautiful, she only told two of us girls. She couldn't afford to let her husband hear of it. He . . . well, it's too long a story." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard Soheil talking about it to one of his friends as the crowd scattered. You’re not being cautious enough. Not by a long shot. That won’t end well. Trust me.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Was that because she hadn’t been dead very long? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Coach Hedge had lost interest in the conversation—probably because it was no longer about him—and wandered toward the bow of the ship, practicing his roundhouse kicks and complimenting himself on his technique. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She would find it increasingly exhausting to conjure up, to dust off, to resuscitate once again what was long dead. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Petra didn’t think much about what racial category she belonged to—her family had let go of that way of looking at things a long time ago. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

A long tail slid in the dark shadow of the dune before him. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Never had he seen a fellow drink so much, stay drunk so long. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The paths of the body were long, but the paths of the spirit were short, and the vadzimu had gathered to witness her gift, and to protect their wandering child. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Doon’s father asked why he was so late, he said his song rehearsal had gone long. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s amazing, really, how long I have survived the cameras. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

And a long way from the girl who gave speeches to the bathroom mirror. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I’ve no idea how long it took us to reach the windy summit of Lafayette other than that it was a double eternity. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Wha? Now, Chino — ” He took a long drag on his cigarette. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

In less serious moments Dev said he liked that her legs were longer than her torso, something he’d observed the first time she walked across a room naked. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The longing to look out became so strong she couldn’t resist it. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help but notice the bit was no longer in his mouth and he was not hooked up to the wagon anymore. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Petra had just settled herself on a footstool with a copy of Kidnapped when she saw a long ponytail whip by. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

They do not have to eat, they no longer speak, and they cannot think or miss us like we miss them. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They’d have long discussions about life, and what they would and wouldn’t do to survive. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It just appeared, this other face, for a fraction of a moment, long enough to leave me with the unsettling feeling that maybe I’d seen it someplace before. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I searched the entire western half of the Col for more than an hour, peering behind boulders and poking under shredded, long- abandoned tents, but found no trace of Harris. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The locket, suspended from the long nail on his paw, swung back and forth, back and forth. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

But I'm sure God can understand that she's had a long week. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“She said...she was surprised Harison lasted long enough for me to fetch her. I guess with wounds like that, most folks bleed out in a few minutes. She said it was mighty peculiar.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Or the relief I long for from this machine. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

If he could not speak the whole long truth no other word would come to him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She picked at her teeth with a long crimson-varnished fingernail, then she tapped the finger, gently, tap-tap-tap against the polished black surface of her black button eyes. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He’d lived with the Dursleys almost ten years, ten miserable years, as long as he could remember, ever since he’d been a baby and his parents had died in that car crash. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

She probably had, since she always falls asleep during car rides longer than an hour. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

We sit at the long, empty banquet table and eat cheese and bread. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Decherd said we must come and stay with them as long as there was the slightest danger. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again I had stayed too long in one place, and the following night I left as quietly as I had arrived. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father's war was long done, and lost. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She was a long time with the milk, and gazed fondly at the silhouette of Shirley Temple’s dimpled face. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So what if your maternity leave went on for thirteen years longer than planned?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I think the worst thing that could have happened,” Ivan said, “is that I could have lost either of you. But I didn’t. We have a long journey home, but we’ll manage. We’ll make it.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Something in that breeze made him think of Aunt Queen, and for the first time in a very long time, he, too, felt at peace. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a picture of Jesus in long white robes on the screen, and the words "Dawn Devotional" under His feet. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I guess I was going to be okay with that as long as he cared a little bit. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

As long as she didn’t panic, everything would turn out okay. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Mother stayed in Los Angeles long enough to get us settled, then she returned to San Francisco to arrange living accommodations for her abruptly enlarged family. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy looked at his father for a long moment, his eyes streaming again. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t like I was a pain all day long. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was a long ride, as he could well attest, having just ridden it the other way. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

For the first time in a long time, I thought of our first kiss. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Before long I could read well enough to read to Mama as she did the housework. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

For a long moment I just stared, the beam of my flashlight shivering across his body. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The wound was thick and long and warm. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

After a long while, he seemed to recover. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I ran from her, down the long narrow passage to my own room, tripping, stumbling over the flounces of my dress. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He stared down the long hallway packed with kids and tried to get his bearings. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Then they dispersed, flooding back into the burned corridor, almost as if Annabeth was no longer interesting. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“That was a long time ago,” she says. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The ground beneath me no longer feels the solid ground I walked on all my life. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

When I explain, it will seem strange that I did not choose to leave long before now, for my life during this time has been more miserable than I ever thought possible. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

"I know because I do. I've known for a long time." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

His long serpentine neck bent like an archer’s bow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Chords built only of consonances sound pleasant and "stable"; you can listen to one for a long time without feeling that the music needs to change to a different chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Oh my god,” she said, and she was no longer looking at him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

When he stopped, he breathed a long sigh that trembled in the night air. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

After a moment, Fela opened the door, her long hair in wild disarray. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It took a long time for us to even become friends, to stop haggling over every trade and begin helping each other out. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He felt himself falling for what seemed like a long time, falling as softly as a drop of rain on velvet. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Da-A-Fu — bring this girl home and tell Amah to take care of her. She has not slept in a warm bed for a long time.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She lit a cigarette, then gave the phone another, long, exceedingly worried look. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Since the invasion of the Smoke, Tally hadn’t been separated from David for longer than that hour in the storm, and now she wouldn’t see him for a whole day. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t going to tell him how I longed for a baby. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But whether that was the product of some sense of decency or their classmates simply having moved on after so long, Lydia couldn’t say. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She could bear her own death as long as her friends survived. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Against the middle wall were a few tall cooling racks, and in the center of the room were two long stainless-steel tables. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

It sounded like a faraway car alarm, the note pitching up and down in long, slow arcs. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

For a long time I looked at a picture of the building they called Commons. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The princess drew a hunting knife as long as Piper’s sword. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Not so long as there was food and drink within, willing women and warm fires. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We stayed late, just to make it last as long as possible. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Of course, all that no longer matters to me; my thoughts now are focused solely on food. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they might help her live longer, and better. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Today, the photo no longer embarrasses me the way it did when I was a teenager. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He was a short man, with round, pink features, always immaculately dressed, always smoking long, expensive cigars. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The bird was about the size of a pigeon and was grayish brown with a long pointy tail hanging underneath it. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like me, Hobart’s imagined scholarship boy spends most of his years in the classroom afraid to long for his past. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of December 1939, the Nazis decreed Jews could no longer attend school. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

She had loved Africa and was longing to go back. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The drive back to American Street is long and quiet. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When she came, she didn’t fool him for long. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They let those babies stay with them a good long time before pushing them out of the nest. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He had not seen a newspaper in a long time. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’d been saving my book since Christmas, waiting for a long stretch of time that didn’t include bickering sisters, a heap of chores, and homework. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Thanks to his long acquaintanceship with the locker room attendant, he and Maniac were privileged to continue using the Y’s shower facilities at their pleasure. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the more I learned about him, the longer his shadow became, and the more impossible it seemed that I could ever matter the way he had. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

There was a mystery here in this house, a great mystery, there was no doubt about that, and Matilda was longing to find out what it was. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

No one had asked Ophie her opinion on anything in a very long time, and it was nice to think that this very polished, very fancy lady cared what she thought. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Sherman stopped long enough to help Mr. Dubonnet and Tom up. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“But you said the Labyrinth is tied to your life force! As long as you’re alive—” “Yes, my young architect,” Daedalus agreed. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

That Barack was a good person with a big mind and serious faith in democracy was no longer any sort of secret. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She didn’t answer this one for so long, he thought she wasn’t going to and was on the verge of asking again when she said, “It’s too soon to tell.” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I had seen what those long arms could do. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Her eyes, much too big for her pinched little face, gazed at Kit with longing. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear his hand-wringing through the long echo of the telephone. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I grew my hair long to hide it in case it was a flower-stem neck. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hand cradles the side of my head, his long fingers slipping through my hair. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Such a long walk in the cold. You must have been very . . .” His voice trails off. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

This earned a longer titter from multiple voices. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“As long as either of us is alive, I will be your mother,” she said. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

But the truth was it had been hours since Triphena’s breakfast, and the walk back would be long and dark and cold. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

It would not be long before Major John André and General Benedict Arnold would meet. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our table is long wood, a fancy picnic table. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

How much longer would it take us to get there? Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

It would take her a long while to get to Sherlock Holmes level, but once Emily did, she’d probably be one of those competitive people. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The long ride to Kansas and back had Papa drawn down till he was as thin and knotty as a fence rail. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mathematics no longer seemed to be much of a problem to him. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

For a long time I thought she was diseased. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a long time, she came for him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I could see, through the long tunnels my eyes had become, his dark shape coming toward me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mam looks at Dad as if he just came down from heaven and Dad says, That’s what we did in Antrim long before there were doctors riding their horses. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s a long walk,” somebody said, and High-Tech laughed and said, “We will commandeer a car, of course.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It does not matter, it said, as long as you are still moving forward. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He lay a long time, hearing nothing; then he heard footsteps in the kitchen again. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A long high scream of orders, and the force divided itself into two: one to keep off the witches, the bigger part to overcome the bear. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Not much longer and Victor would have started to purr like a satisfied tomcat. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, you, Mom. It might be nice. I mean, no one ever goes to see her. A couple of people from her church now and then. But they don’t stay long.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

If I didn’t succumb to starvation, I would be here for a long time, with hateful mistresses and with Hattie ordering me about. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Was there something he had missed in the long talks with Dumbledore last year? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I’m no longer on the mountain; I’m back on the train. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I noticed Mrs. Baylor was taking a long time folding and smoothing. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

That last night, as Mrs. Richardson settled down to sleep in the Winslow house for the first time, she began to think, as she would for a long time, of her youngest child. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Quite. As long as I'm satisfied,” said the other, wiping her nose with a large red and white bandanna handkerchief. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“No!” cried the goblin, bristling with anger as he pointed a long finger at Ron. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Our footsteps in the long corridors echoed so loudly I wondered if our shoes were amped up. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He made a few more jerky movements up and down, several times casting a longing glance at the lavatory pan. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Since he was very unwell and no longer able to drive a car, one of his co-workers drove him to a private hospital in the city of Kisumu, on the shore of Lake Victoria. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went the long way around, of course, by the pond and the store so that I could approach along the road as I had left. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Before long the whole thing collapsed with a tremendous crash and the startled Humbug leaped to his feet just in time to see the castle drifting slowly off into space. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know,” he said coldly, reaching for a cigarette with his long, nicotine-stained fingers. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Two days later, on July 7, the Oker family received a letter from Henry Gordon stating that he no longer needed the apartment. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The mile is hard, not because it’s long but because the ground is hard. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s been a long time. If you’ve lost your skill you might simply bruise me. How long has it been since you swung a killing hammer in the stockyards? Thirty years? Forty?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

And so they tramped on through the cold night in silence, Tonks’s long cloak whispering on the ground behind them. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

We sip tea in long stretches of silence. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Before long, though, there was no light left, and they were crawling upwards in total darkness, and Malcolm found himself beginning to get badly frightened. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t care less about Serakeen. It’s been too long since we’ve even gotten that far, and I’m dying to find out just how much the Arbitrator pays.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

We waited a long time for a público that could take all of us, our bundles, and our suitcases. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t long before Paul’s staff had to expand its office from a basement room to ten rooms on two floors. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The firing stopped long enough for three of the figures to rush forward, screaming, “On your knees!” and “Head to the ground!” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The only sign of civilization is a small log cabin and a long dirt road that curves out of sight. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Carmen stared at me, and I realized it was because I hadn’t said anything in a really long time. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“This is very pleasant—very pleasant, indeed. It is long since your Birthday fell on a Full Moon, my dear.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

In the mirror of the medicine cabinet he inspected his long eyelashes — like a girl’s, Twinkle liked to tease. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I also wait through the long Advent nights that are lit by a feeble white moon. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

No longer disguised as a domesticated donkey, the nagual, dressed in a soiled black robe, was standing over a huge bubbling cauldron. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The long tables had clearly been cut from the hearts of trees. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“We threw some things into the hole. Never heard them land. It goes on for a long time.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Though in truth I meant to be gone long before that, I nodded. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was silent long enough to count every paving stone. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Samuel,” he says, “you’ve been here a long time. Have you finished your prayers yet?” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“For how long will he have to live like that?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The middle school has so few students left it can no longer field a baseball team. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The Barbican Centre had long walkways leading to the street. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Alex watched for as long as he could, until the bus went through a short tunnel. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The women’s faces and arms are tattooed with patterns, the men’s hair is long with beads and bones—human bones?—hanging in decoration. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

"For the first time in a long while, I feel peaceful...." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Now, you might think that those days are long ago. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Her hair was a lusterless brown, and her face was long and solemn. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t see even a few feet in any direction, and— with no engines—had no way to keep the plane in the air for long. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The People could choose their exit time, as long as they left before the field disintegrated. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

They were slipshod and didn’t much care, so long as they kept out of trouble themselves. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then there would be no more stories by the fire at night, but all day long Laura and Mary would run and play among the trees, for it would be spring. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

A long, high bamboo bridge spanned it, and dense, prickly foliage grew up the high, steep banks on either side. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at me for a long moment, then her face softened. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

After a long time she decided he would not—his family was content and well fed. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because intensive agriculture has been regarded a prerequisite for complex societies, it has long been claimed that civilizations can arise only in such farm-friendly places. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They hovered just above the ground, making a long, low hum that stretched to the end of the world. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaede paced back and forth, her footprints sending long trails across the sand. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I took a long walk from here to the Brooklyn Bridge, because that's how I deal with stuff. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He was long and sinewy, but because of his mild manner we had always underestimated his strength. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I must have dropped off. It’s a long time, Mr. Frodo, since I had a proper sleep, and my eyes just closed down on their own.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“This war is a beast with long claws,” he said in a choked voice. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was tired after his long motor drive. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“They won’t be long coming back, you know, Hazel,” he said. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was clear he no longer needed the bear. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The man reached down into the canoe and pulled up a handful of long, slender hazel sticks. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

As long as no one opened the door, maybe, just maybe... The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t hold down a job, and before long, he was homeless. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

He helped Robin to the ground and got him in to the fire, for he was cold and stiff from the long day in the saddle. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

It wouldn’t be like this for much longer, but he had to manage until everything fell into place. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Not long after this, I came into a classroom with my hat on. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I longed to hurl myself into this current,” she said. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. As a matter of fact, I’m just going to my room for a good long rest. But don’t you worry, before long I’ll make those rats pay dearly for hurting your father.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

In the early evening, long before the party was to start, a new minivan pulled into Schuyler Place and parked in front of Margaret’s house. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Petey laughed right ’long with ’em, never knowing the joke was on him. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

She clicked the TV on and flipped through channels, not stopping on any one show long enough to figure out what it was. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Honey, I know you been bedridden a long time, but you need to get up and try to walk. Come on, please try.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

After the end of his expedition, it was a long time before Europeans again reached the Mississippi Valley, but Eurasian microbes were now established in North America and kept spreading. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some of these folks have come a long way, like Mr. Daryl, who’s been clean for six years and works in construction now. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I have a list and a whole system for making sure they stay in the fridge long enough before I cook them, kind of like Mom’s system for her article deadlines. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Among some, accustomed to this practice by long usage in Africa, there is stoical assent; but the most are struck with horror. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Robin Hood looks up at David, a mixture of hope and longing in his eyes. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Oh, he came in once in a while, all long and lean looking, but he never was the same friendly cat any more. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Argus got fired. You two have been gone too long. Things are changing.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It was a brave thing, a hard thing to do. I am proud of you. You are no longer Rengen, now you are Wereth, the forger of the path.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was not long before they realized that the digging was going on at two points. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think it need take very long,” said Colonel Julyan. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie spent the next day in Mrs. Caruthers’s room, only leaving long enough to head down to the kitchen and fetch this or that. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The bride was garbed in white and grey, the colors the true Arya would have worn had she lived long enough to wed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But deep down, he held on to the hope that he could fight long enough for someone to punch in the code and shut down the Grievers before they killed him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Albert pulled his fur coat tightly around himself, opened the latch on a gate, and walked down a long series of battered concrete steps to the rocky beach. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The long rows of onions looked endless, their sharp green shoots already half hidden by encroaching weeds. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Then I cried until it was time for embarrassment, burritos, and a long call from Dad to Mom. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

With Julia he felt no difficulty in talking about such things; Katharine, in any case, had long ceased to be a painful memory and become merely a distasteful one. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I watched their wings shining like bits of chrome in the dark and felt the longing build in my chest. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dream of an independent Confederate States of America had long since died. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Had she been at home she would have finished her breakfast long ago. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I knew that he would not go; I saw it in his long silences, in the set of his lips, in his eyes that seemed focused on invisible objects for a long time. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was holding up something that looked to Harry like a long, maroon velvet dress. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Well, Dr. Carhart said that he’d once taken a train from Switzerland to Italy and at the border the train went through a long dark tunnel. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here at last the snow crown began,- Sky's weathered stones were rimed with frost, and long spears of ice hung from the slopes above. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Just as long as we don’t fly ourselves to death.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was a long time before I went to sleep. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can see some forest now; we can hide among the trees for a spell, maybe a long time. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

This remark set him to coughing so long and hard, I thought he might vomit, but he didn’t. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And you know what Mr. Gregory had given me and was now rolled up in a long tube in the back of the car? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The windows of the cabin stayed steamed up almost all day, the kettle had boiled so long. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

If, after becoming a successful student, I no longer heard intimate voices as often as I had earlier, it was not because I spoke English rather than Spanish. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sticking her dagger through the opening for light, Annabeth could see a lower chamber, long and narrow, with a mosaic floor, painted walls, and benches running down either side. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But if you perform so well that a rival company comes calling, you become a vice president and no longer have to work for your father. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He’d been shooting so long, his fingers were starting to lose their feeling. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“His lady wife is long dead. Lord Wyman has two grown sons, and grandchildren by the elder. And he is too fat to sit a horse, thirty stone at least Val would never have him.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mostly they came one at a time and ordered little and stayed long. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He leaned back, teetering on his chair in a long oilskin coat, basking within his power and authority. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Upon the sidewalks, to the front and rear of him, were long lines of policemen with drawn guns. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was twenty-two feet long, with a two-foot wooden bowsprit sticking from her nose, a stainless steel pulpit above it. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t take such long walks after that, but he still walked whenever he could and encouraged his sons to do the same. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to get in any more trouble than he was already in—but he didn’t know how much longer he could last. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

There was a long torn welt on his forehead from hairline to a point between his eyebrows. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A surprising sense of calm eased his nerves; he let out a long sigh of relief. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I stayed long enough to mend some fences, help plant some crops, but that was it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Helmuth lies awake for a long while, wondering if Germany deserves to win such a war. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Later, she didn’t know how long she had slept. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

There came a long rolling of great drums like thunder in the mountains, and then a braying of horns that shook the very stones and stunned men’s ears. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

There’s no longer any hand lotion or face cream, not for us. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that we were sitting, Lovey couldn’t hold back any longer. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The girl could not believe that the family would be leaving the place where they had lived for so long and of which she felt so fond. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

That £500 from my mother is not going to last very long. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a moment later, her familiar voice returned, and the robot said in the language of the animals, “Hello, son. How long was I out? It seemed like only an instant to me.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

With a regular police escort, our vehicles no longer stopped at traffic lights. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They went out to dinner— first time in a long time. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a few more months, he might no longer speak at all. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My teacher, Ms. Gruwell, is young and determined, but this class is out of control and I bet she won’t last very long. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Thus, while the bearer is no longer a member of our scholastic family, it is highly important that his severance with the college be executed as painlessly as possible. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She swings the camera to show an older woman with the same long brown hair sitting next to her in a bright-red booth. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Is she thinking of Vincent, and how hard it would be to make such a long trip for such a short time? Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Nine years was a long time to sail by ash breeze. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The corporals had no heart for a tangle with the Scotsmen, who could no longer be bothered with them. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Pullum stood behind the pulpit wrapped in a long black robe with red crosses on its front, sweat beading his forehead. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

There’s a traffic jam longer than a slithering python and I have to look where I’m going, because it’s easy to twist my foot on the broken cobblestone road. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then there would be a long silence before the next breath began. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We both stay still for a long moment. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

And looking at that long square of land he thought to himself, To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

In the crook of his arm was a long staff entwined with two living serpents. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

What he longed for above all was a piece of bread. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I watch a second longer before I rush back to the car. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“When one cigarette burned down to a fragment he no longer could hold, he lit another.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair is so long he could braid it like a girl’s. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Though the bitter cold did not abate, the daylight hours grew perceptibly longer. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed another by its long, sinewy neck and began swinging it around, knocking others to the earth. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

And every night I would cook a special tonic soup called tounau, which was not only very delicious but has eight ingredients that guarantee long life for mothers. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pin was flat, as long and as wide as Laura’s two biggest fingers, and it was carved all over, and scalloped on the edges. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, he convulsed again and let go a long, goopy train of yellow liquid from his throat. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

How did he know she had not been wounded, for example, and unable to travel long distances? Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her jewelry hangs there—slices of agate on long chains of raw crystal beads, collars set with moonstones, deep green bloodstones strung together, and an opal pendant, bright as fire in the sunlight. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It didn’t take long for my parents to find my name. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

We run through a cornfield in a long line. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Reason told me I could not keep up my ruse of madness for long. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were the biggest I’d ever seen and she had long brown hair. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Kin long dead washed up and cast fey sidewise looks upon him. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Not long afterward he was killed in a brawl. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The chant is long, the voice low and sure. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The boy thought they were telling him to chain up Sounder, but then he saw that one of the men had snapped a long chain on the handcuffs on his father’s wrists. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We had a long talk about Freud, Freudians, psychology, psychoanalysis, and God.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was a pleasant evening and my first night of relaxation in a long while. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought with longing, but contentment, of that other basin ... the one that had been exactly right and never completed. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t long before Adria became super attached to our grandparents. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The soldiers bordered the town along the west and the north in two long fire-speckled fences—a lovely sight in the gathering dusk. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Tijuana horsemen, long accustomed to calamity, wrote off the horses, picked up, and went on. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because there were so many fencers competing at the Junior Olympics, the tournament was more than four days long. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t long until the Silvers built arenas everywhere, even villages like the Stilts, and attendance that was once a gift became a mandatory curse. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

Her green gown is both sleeveless and strapless, leaving her shoulders and arms completely bare save for a long silver chain with what appears to be a silver locket around her neck. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

My mother and Ultima kept to themselves, tying the red chile into long, thick ristras. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The words themselves must show the internal marks of long use; they must contain their own inner conversation. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Echo was a nymph like us, a long time ago, but she was a total chatterbox! Gossiping, blah, blah, blah, all the time.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He longed to know what was going to happen. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The Owner stopped his toe-tapping just long enough to nudge a powder blue suitcase farther under the countertop. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I’ve never seen them stretch that long before, and they spring back up again into a spiral pattern when Mrs. Walton lets them go. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Everybody understood that my head had to stay kinky awhile longer, to grow long enough for Shorty to conk it for me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It takes longer for him to realize that he knows the names. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I guess I had a feeling, even then, that I wasn’t coming back to my cabin for a long, long time. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Then she saw it, way off in the waves: a medium-sized steam frigate, its long masts reaching up into the night and beneath them a squat chimney. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

When I was a newborn, she could wrap me up and take me anywhere, but very quickly that was no longer an option. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Not long after that Kerwin had come creeping to the captain to complain that four of the crew had dragged him belowdecks and used him as a woman. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After the longest fifty-two minutes I can remember, I corner Roger at his desk before he can even stand up. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Truthfully,” Sally said, “I don’t much care which side of this issue I’m on, as long as I get to skip school and get new clothes. Mother bought me this.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stopped only as long as it took to feed and water the horses, and then they were off again. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"Just how long does Robert intend to hunt?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And changing those conditions required many, many sacrifices like Fannie’s over a long time—more than a century. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

So my father began talking about Christmas at home in Pennsylvania and before long all the grown-ups were talking about old Christmases. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the dried blood was washed away a wild scoring of long, straight cuts became clear. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her father said, “You can stay for as long as you need. You can stay forever.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was no longer his victim, I could see that. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a moment they had lost their choppiness arid had lengthened into long swells that came slow and syrupy. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

To this day, Abuela makes the sign of the cross when we go by the condo, just in case Doña Rosa is still mad that it took us so long to notice. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Not when they had shared those long mornings together. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“He took a bad fall when that limb tripped him, but he hasn’t been lying here long enough to be frozen. I think he’s just unconscious.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was tall, with long hair that he had tied back in a ponytail. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The four of us stood in the dark while the truck drove for what seemed considerably longer than an hour. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pang of longing shoots through my chest. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He went and sat down at his desk, put his feet up on it, next to a long, long tube. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

During that long summer I’d been over and over the various arguments, all the pros and cons, and it was no longer a question that could be decided by an act of pure reason. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

These are just some of the incredible things that happen because Joel Salatin doesn’t let his cows graze in the same spot too long. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Your mother and I have been looking forward to this vacation for a long time.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“How long I’m going to be in here, I think.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Luke pushes his chair back from the long table at Toscana’s. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The hard feelings of the long fall and winter were forgotten; everyone had come out a winner. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Everyone’s oxygen had long since run out, making the group more vulnerable to the windchill, which exceeded a hundred below zero. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The screws bounce off the painted tin, leaving long, twisting marks like curled ribbons. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“You don’t make it very easy. But let’s say she went away and we have to find her—see?—like a kid’s game. You’re making it that way. How long have you been married?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The twins consider for a moment—and then move aside, silently holding out their long arms for me to enter the Emporium. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s so nice to see you, too, Angie. It’s been too long, really.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They submitted to searches of their person and property and subjected themselves to long waits in order to spend a short time in Sing Sing’s Visit Room. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After he flew past the finish, rewriting the course record, he looked back up the long straightaway. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

He held her, stroked her hair, and with moist eyes assured her that she had nothing to worry about, certainly he would marry her, as he long had promised. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Well, it was a long time ago now,” she tells me. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The car ride was long and it was late when they reached Esplanade Street. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spent far too long in the bathroom in the mornings for one thing, and didn’t seem to mind if Bruno was left out-side, hopping from foot to foot, desperate to go. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 2006-01-05T00:00:00Z

Before them was the Southern Ocean, and they were making for an island only twenty miles long and 100 miles away. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

They had been sitting together for a long time, and Claire was stiff. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Kali. She told me a long time ago—when I first went to where the brook widens near the river.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cried about that yellow dog every night for I don’t know how long. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Her long silver hair hung on both sides of her face. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

She took a long, greedy draw of the scallion smell. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They looked a long time in Lee’s window coveting the pliers, the hack saws, the engineers’ caps and the bananas. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I stay too long and talk too much.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

But out here in Saint-Malo, the dune grass grows long and blue; German sailors still run drills in the harbor; gunners still stockpile ammunition in the tunnels beneath the fort at La Cite. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They strapped the deer’s legs to a long fallen branch and hoisted it up on their shoulders, each taking turns to bear the weight on the way back to Jilin. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The ground no longer seemed to be heading towards him at the same speed. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

It was about fifteen inches long and it had wings. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

But at least I am no longer an outcast, as Pete would say, in this strange white state. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she knew that if she kept going much longer, she would no longer care. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The elevation change from the rim to the basin is 1.5 kilometers, and the ramp is at least 45 kilometers long. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though terrible conditions for sugar workers still exist in places such as the Dominican In many parts of the world, sugar is now harvested by machines, its long history fading into the mists. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

However, what the singularity theorems really indicate is that the gravitational field becomes so strong that quantum gravitational effects become important: classical theory is no longer a good description of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before nightfall he saw away off on his left hand the long, faint shoreline of a great land, which must be Karego-At. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Dad said sternly, like someone who was about to begin a long lecture. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Alone on his bed, unable to concentrate on what he was reading, he would imagine how Amanda looked naked, wrapped in her long black hair with all her noisy adornments, like an idol. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

W hen the old house had closed its bleary eyes and settled into sleep, Ammu, wearing one of Chacko’s old shirts over a long white petticoat, walked out onto the front verandah. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know I do—teaching those tiresome children nearly all day, when I’m longing to enjoy myself at home,” began Meg, in the complaining tone again. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

German prisons everywhere were absolutely full, and there was no longer any food for the prisoners to eat, and no longer any fuel to keep them warm. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night before going back to school, I spend a long time picking out my outfit, as if I’m getting ready for the first day of classes. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

It was very narrow, but it was ninety feet long, big enough for Charles to pace in every day. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was becoming a long walk, up and down in the heat, but Chamberlain was not tired. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Three hours isn’t bad! But that’s too long for a bike ride. Let me think.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Joey made me quit sobbing so we could see what Dad was going to do, but for the longest time there were no sounds from the living room. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our dinners could stretch into hours, not unlike the long communal meals my family used to have around the table at Southside’s house. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As long as I could remember, she had been living in the small room downstairs. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a one was just a straight line, anyway, kind of long and flat already. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

When David came out, he held a long knife. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I didn’t make any friends in Highlands North for the longest time. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I cuddled Dinah close and listened to the sound of Jay’s soft snores for a long, long time before I finally fell asleep. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The war, however, and the rhetoric that accompanied it created an urgency in the black community to call in the long overdue debt their country owed them. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

They had also cut smaller sticks—limbs and the tops of the trees—some of them five or six feet long and two or three inches in diameter. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was a long time since she had done anything on her own. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There was still plenty of careless weeds and crabgrass that needed hoeing out of the corn, but I guessed I could let them go long enough to see a bullfight. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

So all day long her thoughts fought with each other. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Saruman has long spied out this land. Still in that place our defence may last long. Let us go!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It took me a long time to understand the awful price I’d paid, and that even God has to admit the worth of freedom. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been a long time since I had felt any dilemma about eating meat, but some things had changed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They would remain in our doorway for the longest time just staring us up and down, while their baskets of plenty loomed silently on their heads. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was vaguely ill at ease all through that long and heavy meal. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

For a long moment, Doon stood as still as a statue. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

This is the best thing for nursing mothers and for those who are long weaned. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

When he was there, it no longer mattered that her mother retreated to her bedroom; it was enough that he was downstairs with a book on his lap. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, as the low sun reached long yellow fingers through the tall grass, he had stopped beside a meadow to listen to just such a noise. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of all I miss the outdoors and having a place where I can be alone for as long as I want! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“It was ever my lord husband’s wish to grant sanctuary to these savage peoples. So long as they keep the king’s peace and the king’s laws, they are welcome in our realm.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Few people could tolerate the gray zone for long, but this was the place where George Blake found his true calling—and his real powers as a spy. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

Now they were no longer thirsty, dinner was on their minds. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They say she will Point a long finger, Gnarled root of evilness, And stare a soft Hole in your lungs: The air leaks From this hole And climbs in the trees. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed so long since I had used it, and yet it was only four months ago. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

For a long time he lay there, too full of plans to go to sleep. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then all the long afternoon they must sit in a row on a bench and study their catechism, until at last the sun went down and Sunday was over. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the sun sinks down, casting long shadows over glittering snow, it is time to return to the village. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“It was long ago. Your Grace would not know them.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Only the most elite of Miss Preston's girls get to train with the short swords, no longer than a woman’s forearm, and my hands itch to pick them up and test their weight. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The muscles of the body also find their job easier, especially the leg muscles, which no longer have to hold a heavy body “up. ” Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had deep-set dark eyes; a handlebar mustache; and long, greasy black hair streaked with gray and tied in a ponytail. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He took his jacket off for a pillow, set his seat back a bit, and said, “It’s a long ride to Texarkana; I’m going lo catch some sleep.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I remembered for the first time in a long time that scar Jermaine had. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

It was Amelia’s idea to hide the discovery from them, and now that we’re no longer friends, I can ask Mom and Dad about it. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I followed them as the trilling intensified, becoming one long siren call. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

They didn't have a phone, so I would have to wait a bit longer to see Mother and Papa Will and Grandma and Conrad. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We Navajos have listened to white men speak for a long time and we have learned to tell when one is trying to deceive us. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could no longer see him, but his words were clear. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He can’t stand being alone for too long. I don’t think it matters, but don’t let him touch Luna, just in case.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

We looked at each other for a long moment. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

This was all a long way from Plano, and my father’s gas station. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I hold the note to practice my long tones. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“I am also the judge. Now would you like a long or a short sentence?” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The temple walls are decorated with magnificent detailed carvings of people, cows, wagons, daily life, and battle scenes from long ago. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was all so long ago, I barely remember. Now—when do you want to begin?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I missed him long before he was dead. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Hopefully that would help, as long as they could cause a big enough distraction to get to the door first. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But men must work on, and Wang Lung worked as he had before, although the lengthening warm days and the sunshine and sudden rains filled everyone with longings and discontents. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She looked at her drawing of the fields for a long time. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

The long summer vacation—a peculiar and distinctive American legacy that has had profound consequences for the learning patterns of the students of the present day. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Lithe gymnasts twirled on parallel bars and uneven bars and took long running leaps at pommel horses, trying to time their precise movements to coincide with the slow roll of the ship. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I could become a drunk, or use an arrangement that has been around for as long as there have been taverns and musicians. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I had been crouching for a long time. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

There was no reason to wait any longer. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He gave me a long, exasperated look before he turned to the keys. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m letting my girl know I’m happy to go with her anywhere, no matter what neighborhood it’s in. As long as she’s there, I’m good.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

And when there’s another long silence, I add, “Well, I’ll let you go.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

On Saturday Mom parks our car in front of a sprawling modern house with tall windows and a long wooden ramp leading to the front door. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last the stairs were empty of clattering feet and the shrill laughter of young women at the end of a long workday. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

New sweet wood was going in, pine sharp with resin and velvety redwood and a new roof of long split shakes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

As long as I was understanding the lesson and moving along with the work, she’d test me at the end of each unit, rather than make me take all the chapter tests in between. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It is likely that the rebels were emboldened by the king’s long absence in Asia. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Then Dad starts slathering his toast in butter, while Mom takes a long sip of her orange juice. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ramon’s face was no longer tanned and rosy-cheeked but instead seemed thin and gray. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

On my mother’s is a statuette of an inhumanly long ballerina. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A few days later he began working at the tannery, and before long Thambi, my second son, had joined him. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew it from the way his left foot came forward and the bat snapped back and his long, thin body began its swift pivot. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

As the clumps of men stretched and thinned into a long, broken thread, Louie sank through the field, to twelfth. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

She decided to let her family sleep awhile longer. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my mom turned twenty-one, her aunt fell ill and that family could no longer keep her in Transkei. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

This room has been prepared for our use, but we’re barely there long enough to drop off our gifts. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was like the day they had gone to the castle, all over again, the smell of the car reminded him of the long, green tunnel of trees. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“My girls and I have known each other for a long time, Shayla. I guess you could say we speak the same language.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

From a tea chest underneath, she removed a portrait of a man in a suit and a woman in a long, white dress. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, they will seize every measure to defend the new prince so long as he is not neglectful of his duties. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

"As you say. It's the long way home, but I'm more like to get there. I'll wait for you below." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He asked how long was the train trip from Texas, spoke of the drought, and discussed the difference between Texas barbecue and the Georgia kind. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Many years later, John recalled feeling, “As long as the raft was there, we were safe.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I watched for a long while, astonished to see what Ruth May had accomplished behind my back. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My coat and shirt were pinned to the wall by some kind of spike—a black daggerlike projectile about a foot long. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

When his dad and Tina found out that the baby would be a girl, they drew up a long list of possible names and studied it for a long time. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a woman, I can see the long skirt now, or is it a long cloak? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed to speak cooperatively, and if a sentence was more than a few words long, one would start and the other finish, with no detectable pause between. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I can but it’s a long story so I’d rather not. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made my toast while his cigarette dangled out of the corner of his mouth, collecting a long ash that finally fell on the floor. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chokecherry is a pretty small town, but we live on the opposite side, so it’s a long ride. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

His dark beard was cropped close, and Moss often felt brief bursts of desire when he spent too long staring at the man’s face. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I can’t sit here any longer. I’m going to check out what happened,” he finally says. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Only after a long time did he move. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked younger than I’d seen her in a long time, maybe since before the accident. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Captain Black tugged himself erect and began scratching his scrawny long thighs methodically. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It didn’t take me very long to completely erase the Bryce Lynch identity and copy my fingerprints and retinal patterns back over to my original citizen profile. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But at that moment of first doubt, they were a long way from being able to enumerate precisely why they felt the way they did. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

There was a long silence, during which Bunny leaned back in his chair. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She had reclined too long on satin cushions, letting oxen bear her hither and yon. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But I thought I would get to keep that bit of Dad to myself for a little while longer. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

A belief that all blacks belong in jail would be incompatible with the social consensus that we have “moved beyond” race and that race is no longer relevant. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Her charmspeak was so powerful, the words flowed over Annabeth, filling her with the desire to drop her dagger and have a nice long chat. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Early in 1958, the United States put up its first satellite, Explorer I, and it wasn’t long before people started talking about putting a man into orbit. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Jesse after he’s been forced to talk too long, I was spent. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Isolde still in the realm of the sun, in the shimmering daylight still, Isolde—How I long to see her! Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

It’s as if one of the firecrackers that have been going off all day long has suddenly fallen in the center of the group. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

But even as they stood, the line grew longer, until it curved around Eighty-first Street. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

"The plane was shot down in flames. Nobody knows where we are. We may be here a long time." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Don’t despair. I’m going on a journey. I won’t be gone long.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I probably wouldn’t have lived for very long if I had assaulted those officers. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

After five long years, the Copper Key had finally been found, by an eighteen-year-old kid living in a trailer park on the outskirts of Oklahoma City. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Rain always brought her to our door, draped in a long oilskin, skirts wet from crossing over. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

First, given the rarity with which executions are carried out in this country and the long delays in doing so, no reasonable criminal should be deterred by the threat of execution. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Like me, they live at the far end of a food chain that is long and complicated. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I thought he was gone. We banished him from the village a long time ago. I was Leader then.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Japanese pilots were no longer just dropping bombs and strafing. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone except for Mother and Father shuffled up to bed, leaving the two of them to sit up together awhile longer. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I discovered a bird with a black head and mahogany-colored tail as long as my arm, curved like a bow. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she cried for so long that Maddie fell asleep first. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Someone had put up the wallpaper during the Civil War, Turner figured—for a girl, he was sure—and it had clung to the walls for longer than it should have. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

‘Here is a friend that you have long missed.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We held each other and got halfway naked and forgot, for as long as we could, every horrid detail of the beautiful Sinclair family. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Motionless, he stared off into space for a long time. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“As long as you pay for the paint.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He spread out his hands before him, looking at them for a long moment. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Thomas and Zart were weeding a long row of young corn when Thomas decided it was a good time to start asking questions. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Must be nice to live in the same place for so long.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

They passed down the long ranks of waiting men with stern and unmoved faces. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

On a brisk spring evening not long ago, two dozen men and women gathered in the back room of a Manhattan bar to engage in a peculiar ritual known as speed-dating. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Our team has been so good for so long under Coach, he has a lot of power around here. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex chased him to the corner, but Radar was already long gone, blocks away and out of sight. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was more than two hands long, with a curved blade. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I did not see that coming. Unfortunately, sporting events have champions and clear winners. After next Monday, you may no longer be in the lead for the Excelsior.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Jo obeyed, but as her hand went softly to and fro across Beth’s hot forehead and wet eyelids, her heart was very full and she longed to speak. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, that’s good,” said Harry loudly, his temper getting the better of him, “just as long as it’s not drawn-out. I don’t want to suffer.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was a project that had long fascinated him, and Las Vegas was the ideal place to try it out. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t even find the words to thank her for one of the most fun days I’ve had in a real long time. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I’ve known Katherine for a long time, and the last thing she wants to do is spend another moment in the sheriff’s presence. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He was clearly respected here, and had probably killed many people judging by the number of fingertips on his necklace, but he also looked too young to have been doing this for long. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The tips of Dumbledore’s long, thin fingers were together and he was resting his chin upon them, staring up at the ceiling through his half-moon spectacles as though lost in thought. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Her hair hung long over her shoulder, swept to cover the left side of her face. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

After a long time he handed the pictures back to me. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

The domovoi appeared on the railing, plucking at his long beard as he listened. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Books was something missing from my life for so long. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

You do not know how long you are in a river when the current moves swiftly. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

All three of us were relaxed by now and ready for a long snooze. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced up long enough to smile at the swineherd, then dropped her eyes again, making such a picture of awkward bashfulness that I was almost fooled myself. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The last months had been full of frustration and long nights of work and travel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Christina is perched on one of the horses, her long legs crossed and her hand around the pole holding the plastic animal upright. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

But she was still angry at Pa for having been gone so long, and angrier at Cecile—who she called the “root of all evil.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

How long do you think people can go without food? The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Next he hung the paper on one of Thoth’s long sharp toenails and sprinkled it with more holy water. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a long time they heard his voice: “Okay.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Before too long we were licking the grease from our fingers and filling in the corners. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I can see my reflection from all angles: the gray fabric obscuring the shape of my back, my long neck, my knobby-knuckled hands, red with a blood blush. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t a long letter, but it took me an hour to make the final copy. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“But...but...how long have you worked here?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I hoped to read of Hamlet’s longing for me in his letters, but they were nothing like sonnets of love. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Uncle Maury straddling his legs before the fire must remove one hand long enough to drink Christmas. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lindsey saw me wince and touched the top of my knee, left her hand there for a second longer than it took to ask if I was okay. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was in fact a long time before all the rabbits had come back to the hollow in the middle of the field. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fence isn’t charged anymore and has been propped up with long branches to keep out the predators. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She has something he’s been seeking for a long time but hasn’t found. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

As for Hester, she sat taciturn in the bow, her long ears flat against her skinny back and her eyes narrowed. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I did help. We practiced for a long time yesterday.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t expect this to go on so long. I’d best be on my way or poor Elise will be getting a trifle warm.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Bigwig soon found that he was not up to a long journey. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They led us into the cafeteria, then into their sleeping area, with bunk beds in long rows. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

All its feathers were spread out, and you could see how Audubon got their pattern down—three rows of long, overlapping dark feathers, tipped white at the ends. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Kainene always made sure they didn’t stay long, and she didn’t ask him to meet them because she said they would bore him, so he stayed upstairs reading or scribbling until they left. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I could see that she wasn’t even staying on a page long enough to read it. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I took care to avoid the dark recesses of the cellar and the door to the storeroom, still locked, its key long lost. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

He could be trying to trap me here, hoping I’ll stay a Mask long enough to decide that a soldier’s life is better than an exile’s. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

"Our marriage . . . that makes a long tale and a dull one, Your Grace. I would not trouble you with it." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

So every one of us knew it was going to be a long and tiring day. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

After Mr. P left, I sat on the porch for a long time and thought about my life. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

After we got through why I was in the hospital, I asked Mrs. Fitzgerald how long she’d been working there. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

If I thought about it too long, doubt burrowed into my brain, multiplying and feeding on my fears. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“For a long time, the only thing I wanted was to be a Son of the Six,” he said quietly. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“You could say whatever you wanted. As long as no one reads it.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hugged Nneoma, moved back to look boldly at her hips outlined in her fitted skirt, her long weave falling to her shoulders. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Not much longer now,” says Frau Elena, her palms out in front of the stove as the water refuses to boil. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Soon we were no longer hitting, biting, pinching, scratching, or using potty language. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood among my other relations mocking me when I no longer spoke Spanish. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

For as long as it took, for forever if need be. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I took a long breath and began: “There’s something you should know about me.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Only woke up long enough to eat some cold supper, and right after went off to bed.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gathering her pride, she tossed her long braid behind a shoulder and lifted her head. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I knew she'd wonder why I was staying in the house all day, which I surely would be, for who knows how long. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He was very lithe and wiry, and his long sinewy body was covered in sleek, black fur. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

And for a long while he remained very still with his head in his hands, feeling doomed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

All night she kept Shukumar’s long fingers linked with hers as they walked among the guests at the party. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t long until they loved the water. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unnervingly, it reminded me of the same view I had all day long. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For how long have you held that post?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, they made long wooden arrows without a blade on the tip to spear the fish. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I have an idea that Gatsby himself didn't believe it would come and perhaps he no longer cared. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

As the water slid over his body, Hari appeared surprised, as if he could not believe that at long last Maa Ganges was wrapping herself about him. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

We wear long wool coats with tie belts, the collars turned up to look like those of movie stars, and rubber boots with the tops folded down and men’s work socks inside. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Harlem’s black people were long since sick and tired of police brutality. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every few seconds I’d look for cop cars even though we were a long ways from the store and I supposedly didn’t care. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He took long strides to stand behind me, leaning against the lockers while I loosened my tie. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“I should have looked in here a long time ago,” she said. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Tonks landed in a long skid that sent earth and pebbles everywhere. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Even now, long days later, the memory filled him with a bitter rage. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The truck made a long screeching noise, and then the driver came running out and shoved me away from Sal. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

But for a long time people in the neighborhood have called me the “wishtree.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Dr. Katz is wearing a long black-and-white cardigan today; it goes all the way down to her Nikes. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

But he was a silent man with problems of his own; as long as a letter was properly stamped and addressed it was no affair of his. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s one huge hall laid with light-green carpet for praying, a long and narrow dining room laid out with rows of tables and plastic chairs, and another smaller hall for Sunday school. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She handed Rose back her camera and the couple were gone, hopping into a long black limousine. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Bigheart, who had died not long after the imposition of allotment, was hailed as the “Osage Moses.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Each morning hundreds of men climbed to its roof; each evening they picked their way gingerly back down in a long dense line that from a distance resembled a column of ants. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

His long strip of letters was the only submission for the week. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Someone long ago—someone skilled in the art—had made the stream appear to flow by stitching white curving lines that gave a sense of foam. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out to be the beginning of a long and happy friendship. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I’ve got Mom’s freckles and her fingers, which are long and limber and make it easy to reach across my keyboard. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

And yet as they rushed out of the Memory Terminal and up the long secret passage, Reynie couldn’t stop thinking, “But we are too late! Much, much too late!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

And, one day, the leader of the caravan made the decision that the fires should no longer be lighted, so as not to attract attention to the caravan. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, people have been trying to do this sort of thing for a long time, by other techniques and with varying degrees of luck. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited behavior patterns of lizards and baboons. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His head dangled downward, and a long teardrop-shaped glop of drool fell to the dry earth. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Billy thought a long time what to say. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women have set up long tables and laid out side dishes, desserts, and cold drinks. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t done much work or stayed long. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The fledgling Hippogriff should be ready to fly within a week, though it will be a matter of months before it is able to accompany its parent on longer journeys. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the varsity boys, it was a long, dismal train ride back to Seattle. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Sarpi, at some point, wrote a brief treatise on magnetism, which no longer survives. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Now good night, you two. It’s been a long day.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He draws a blade, clearly no longer interested in playing politics. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

This couldn’t have been long after that time I’d shown him Patricia C.’s calendar and he’d marched off, because I remember we weren’t sure how we stood with each other. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit there a long time and he doesn’t come. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We purchased cups of warming coffee and took them to a set of long tables, where we sat with a sprinkling of other steamy hikers and ate our packed lunches. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

No longer the entire fourteen—the battle had taken its toll—but I was disappointed to see that Idiptu and Sidana were still alive. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Just like Emerson had taught me over the summer, first I warmed up with a few long notes. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I bet kids ran around and played out here all year long and not only in the summer. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Collecting orphans? Does that lift an ounce of guilt? You have been among mortals too long. Gods should not suffer guilt. You are the goddess of war. Celebrate!" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Some say they lost little ones, too, and there’s nothing worse in the world, you could live as long as Methuselem’s wife but you never get over it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

If you're wondering how bacteria on Earth survive longer periods of cold, the answer is they don't. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I contemplate asking to switch uniform skirts with her since hers is too short and mine is so long. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She rocked back and forth in her long, blue village dress, humming to herself. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The long scarf I’m wearing with it is a cheerful red with a blue border. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Appalachian Trail maps are so monumentally useless that I had long since given up using them. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Now, having seen it, I no longer wanted to lose it or to have those years erased. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In the name of the Council, we swear by the River Styx to grant your reasonable request as long as it is within our power.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

How long could you go in a day without using the words no and not? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He’d gotten used to the old bear’s ways a long time ago. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

If the music Bod had heard until then was a prelude, it was a prelude no longer. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“I just go to see if there is anything new. I stop by. They all ask for you. It is a disgrace that they should stay so long that they become friends.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The flickering hope for peace each of them had nurtured for so long flared like hot fire inside them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t have needed to stretch more than I did through those nine hundred miles—although Vonetta’s legs were growing longer. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The experimenters found, though, that the infants did not respond as predicted to the appearance of the ball, but instead did not look significantly longer than they did when the objects were not swapped. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

On the left was a man in a suit and a woman wearing a long dress and pearls standing next to a three-story house. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It took them thrice as long to cover the distance as it had taken Reek alone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why I watch this yearly ritual in our backyard; my nightmares per­sist long after the bloodstains on the grass have faded. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But as I lay there—I don’t know for how long—I became aware of commotion. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

A tall black boy recited a long, funny piece of doggerel, replete with filth, describing the physiological relations between men and women, and I memorized it word for word after having heard it but once. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stayed in the car I lit a cigarette, to steady myself, and drew the smoke in, a long breath of counterfeit relaxation. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph’s mother settled back into her seat until she was swallowed completely by the long black car, and the driver shut the door. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The; walk to Friendly takes a good long time unless I hitch a ride. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a long time, Harry lay staring up at the dark canopy of his bed. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Your stitches are too long. You are simply lazy,” she said, and tossed it aside. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

So one day, not long after one of Bristol’s mutts gave birth to a litter, the men all went to the barn to put their tools away. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He had long possessed a house of his own and his own servants, and a garden at the outskirts of the town, by the river. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so the day passed very long and lonely for him. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He scrutinizes me for a long, awful moment. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In his rare laughs he bared his teeth in the same way, only now his teeth did not flash long and his body was relaxed. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew it would not last long; the eyes would begin to cloud and turn glassy green, then gray, sinking back in the skull. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Papa’s face now resembled a roti that had been left in the pan too long. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He heard her sigh a long, wheezy breath, and he could hear the relief in it, as well as the exhaustion. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I longed for the weekends when I could go horseback riding. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

It is well known that a long time ago people and animals lived together in a contented way. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The last dress I wore was a long, thick, striped sweater dress from winter that would be too warm. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He was young, wearing long denim shorts and a white tank top. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

This was long before metal detectors and security checks, and I was carrying my pistol in a holster inside my jacket and the two hundred rounds wrapped around my waist inside my trousers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And these humans wouldn’t stay complacent for long. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Tom, chastened, retrieved his rifle, and it was not long before he understood the sergeant’s urgency: they were being tracked by the rustlers. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My eyes sank through an alphabet soup of letters to the long word in the middle of the page. bababadalgharaghtakammmarronnkonnbronntonnerronnttionnthunntrovarrhoun awnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk! The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It hadn’t taken long for a nasty feeling to curdle in his belly, and a day later, it had continued to linger. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Finally, unable to stand it any longer, he switched on the light. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

The Berg had taken them a lot farther from home than they’d thought, and they ended up camping in the woods for two nights, resting just long enough to feel strong again. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Just then he saw a man-of-war bird with his long black wings circling in the sky ahead of him. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

These people, of course, were not ready for a revolution; they had not abandoned their past lives by choice, but because they simply could not live the old way any longer. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kristina asks from the front seat as we drive to Atlantis the long way because we have some time to kill. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I longed for each day to end so that I could go home to my family. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Pa and Ma traded for a long time. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The huge blazes were meant to light the way during this longest night of the year, so Inti would see the path to come back to us. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Through the long glass of Dauntless's nav system they watched as the ship heaved itself up onto its own hydrofoils, its feral bulk skimming above the water. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The glass windows I pass reflect a distorted vision of myself—face elongated, dark jeans stretched too long, black gloves, beat-up boots, faded red scarf wrapped around my black hoodie. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I no longer wonder if the checks I have been writing to the Missionary Fathers of the Blessed Way are bribes to God; I just go ahead and write them. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

But when, I thought, how long before it starts? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The going was painfully slow, but Chickenhound consoled himself on the long journey by boosting his own ego. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

They worked willingly to build her a temple, and when it was finished Demeter came to it and sat there—apart from the gods in Olympus, alone, wasting away with longing for her daughter. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Take Carter’s district record of four wins and a tie and change it to two wins and three losses, a record that would no longer be good enough to make the playoffs. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

After she vomited the water she didn’t have anything left in her stomach, but she dry heaved for a long time. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, she said that Mary Elizabeth and she got over it, and she thanked me for taking Patrick’s advice and staying away for as long as I did because it made things easier. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

After being in tunnels so long, I found it weird that part of the Labyrinth could be open to the sky. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

What is concerned here is not the morale of the masses, whose attitude is unimportant so long as they are kept steadily at work, but the morale of the Party itself. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“There is no hope of justice so long as these conditions are permitted to remain,” the investigator concluded. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Then she began to cut our mosquito netting into long sheets and stitch the layers together. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The leaves were long gone from the trees. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I wondered how long I could bear it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gone, all gone, she thought again wildly, no longer even sure what was gone, what she was mourning. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then something kicked in—something that had been missing for a long while. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“If you build the cabin well, you’ll stay dry and comfortable. Build it poorly, and . Edwin shrugged. “It’ll be a long winter. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

It’s been a long time since I’ve had anything worth keeping a clear head for. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why it takes me so long to realize what’s going on. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the price of what I’d wanted for so long. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

She spoke about her secret hopes and fears and longings. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Cloke leaned forward, his long, dark hair falling in his face, and knocked the ash off his cigarette. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

After that, she spun a long one for the Centipede, and an even longer one for the Earthworm. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

But what would he think of me now, knowing that I’d been keeping so much from him for so long? The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The creature slipped off the bed and bowed so low that the end of its long, thin nose touched the carpet. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He took a long look at my father. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew very well what she would see in it; her reflection had long since ceased to interest her. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then come the time when I must go and we shook hands fer a long time like as if our fingers didnt want to let go. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was gone she stood for a long time. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The more I sit, the longer the journey will take us.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

A long serrated silver knife lay alongside the plate. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The Muslims who aren’t citizens are going on a much longer trip—deportation. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

In nature, without human intervention, the changes took longer. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You will go and deliver a message to your master for me. I am assigning him a commission. Tell me, have you worked for Potter Min long?” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

We sat quietly a while longer, looking out the window at the people below. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I don’t hear an apology. You’ve already lost five minutes from your screen time today. The longer it takes, the more you’ll lose.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’d got into the habit of loosening the long laces that held the leather socket tight to my left stump when I sat down. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

It was one thing for Sam to say he was going to fight the British; they were a long way from here. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Researchers had long believed that human cells contained forty- eight chromosomes, the threads of DNA inside cells that contain all of our genetic information. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Eduardo Leones worked long and hard to hide his treasure,” said Grace with great admiration. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Little Walder pushed him stumbling past the long tables where the men of the garrison were eating. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m okay,” I tell him, and take another long drink. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The familiar faces in the crowd were haggard, dirty, crumpled by shock and defeat, but Tally realized that she no longer thought of them as ugly. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Matt was no longer sure of what was real and what was a nightmare. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, however, the night feels like one long, impossible dream. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We study each other for a long moment, the pixie watching us both. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t long before Jim decided that he wanted to make Farmer’s preferential option for the poor his own life’s work. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Via, looking stunned, took off her T-shirt and jeans and pulled the long dress over her head. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I remembered what he said about not leaving the lobsters in their traps longer than we had to. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The butler hadn't taken this long last week. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

There had long been talk of England coming in on the side of the South. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know how far they’d get before the police caught up with them—it could be the county line, it could be three states away—as long as it wasn’t leaving them here. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Regular bronze would have corroded and become unusable long ago, but these were Celestial bronze—the handiwork of a demigod. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I could tell he no longer trusted me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Their shadows that day were unnaturally slender and long, leaning in toward each other, the late afternoon sun at their backs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We seem to have been standing there for a long time. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if God had at long last granted my wish for that magic pencil. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She’s got big girl hands, and her bones are long like ladies’ bones, and she wears makeup too. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hundred nights would not be long enough to explain, to make her understand. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As long as Vonetta kept her fear to one shriek and Fern kept hers to biting Miss Patty Cake, I kept on spinning straw, making everything all right. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the mouth of the gravel road emerged a long line of Israeli soldiers. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Let’s see— monkeys that inhaled Marburg virus took a long time to develop the disease, from six to eighteen days. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Introducing my friends to my employees was going to be a seriously weird moment that I’d just as soon avoid for a while longer. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Katie managed to buy her white kid slippers and a pair of long white silk stockings. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Primadonna is behind her—tall with long, flowing hair reaching down to her elbows. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Miss Ellis shook her long blonde hair back off her shoulders. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Przemyśl taught me long ago not to divide people by their country, their religion, or even their preferences in politics. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It’s mighty bad dat it’s gone on so long. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Why else take so long to choose a dress, or fight over a vase, or find everything so different, or be unable to leave? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He peered at me from under his long eyelashes. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then she pushed him away down a long hall and into a room. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

They had explained away Harry’s long absences at Hogwarts over the last three years by telling everyone that he went to St. Brutus’s Secure Center for Incurably Criminal Boys. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Once Alice told me,” Zella goes on, “that her dream was to go on a long hike, clamber beautiful waterfalls, with the water splashing around her, and sleep beside them at night.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then he saw something he hadn’t realized: the highway snaked around a long range of foothills. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The group no longer had to worry what was around the next bend. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

And by the windows looking out to the water, plants with long stems and these flowers that—well, it’s hard to describe. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I had an accident in the car once. My father was driving. It was a long time ago. It wasn’t my father’s fault, though.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Jimmy’s eye was black and there was a long cut across his eyebrow. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Fang readjusted the joint between his nails, which he kept a little long for the purpose, had another toke and held it out for me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

And even though I want nothing more than to go back to Rose Hill and the life I left, I need to have options if Rose Hill no longer exists. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He examined her knife-pleated skirt, the blouse she wore with long darts through the shoulders, her hair bound tightly to the back of her head, the plain hat held in her hand. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I wondered how much longer I could stand it inside that moldy old box. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

These stories “prove” that race is no longer relevant. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The letter was in his big sprawling hand on a long ruled sheet torn out of the store’s ledger book. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The treatment could take up to two years—much longer than the treatment for regular TB—and the side effects were often painful for patients. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I look at the hundreds of long pine needles, each perfectly aligned with the next, each end carefully pushed into the loose soil, forming a curved snake that flows in and out of the ground. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I hung up the phone, and for the first time in a long while, I felt like everything was going to be okay. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Rushing’s feet, I remember, were big and funny-shaped—not long like most big feet, but they were round and roly-poly like Rushing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, she left long before she needed to that morning to avoid traffic, a missed turn, not enough gas. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Thirty miles seems like a mighty long way to go in a ten-foot skiff, but compared to Portugal it ain’t much. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The lights come on, revealing a long, narrow room with busted brick walls and a cement floor. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Still, she told herself, she was not a dummy either, so as long as she kept her thoughts to herself, well, where was the harm? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

There must have been a garden once, but now the grass was long and overgrown, crowded with nettles. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The neighborhoods were emptying out, and it wouldn’t be long before there was no one else to help and little left to see. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“He’s got a terrible rash,” she said, and lifted his long white cotton dress to show the baby’s bungy. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Nightingale, who was never to be referred to as Florence, had been in the Crimea long enough to see the value of discipline, strong lines of command and well-trained troops. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Before long the Elves came down the lane towards the valley. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“You saw. It was digging at that wall long before we ever got here.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She opened the hall door, stared up and down the long narrow hall, saw nothing and closed the solid wood door behind her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan felt the hard, short consonants and the long, lyric vowels weave together. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

My mother, especially, grew very fond of her and came to see us often, although it meant travelling several hours in a bullock cart, which is very tiring when one is no longer young. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you, by Jove? What an extraordinary thing. It’s all wrong, you know. Against nature. How long have you been married? Three months, isn’t it?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t bravery. I let my mother die. I cooperated with Gaea too long. I almost let her win.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It should be safe to enter the apartment as long as someone is the lookout on the lobbycam, watching to see if Mr. X comes into the building. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Svadilfari was grazing, as he normally was, in the long grass at the edge of the forest, almost half a mile from the wall, but he always came when his master whistled. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I saw him again not long afterward and reminded him of my request and he said the material was on its way. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat there a long time waiting and dreaming, but she never came, finally I walked home and went to bed, but I didn’t sleep much. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

She no longer threw up every day, but she stayed nervous and tense. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now they had, which meant that the decision could be delayed no longer. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She had a plaintive way of saying, “When Papa was rich we did so-and-so,” which was very touching, and her long words were considered ‘perfectly elegant’ by the girls. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Problem is, they soak up a lot of power, and they have to run all day long. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fires were no longer lit in the middle of the rooms, leaving the smoke to escape as best it could through lanterns. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moonlight shone through the window, and if anyone had looked into the Baudelaire orphans’ bedroom, they would have seen three children crying quietly all night long. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

I pulled out too much hair, so the bangs are too long and my hair is starting to frizz already. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Billy Pilgrim had a boiling case of heartburn, since he had been spooning malt syrup all day long at work. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to be fed and dressed so I can spend another long day in the happy-face room at Spaulding Street School. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It started with a period—it might have been a month, maybe longer—when the pranks went on pretty steadily, but Tommy failed to lose his temper. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A staff to cater to my every need on the long train trip. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He decide to sit it out as long as he could. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If it’s who I think it is, his name’s Bonneville. He’s not long out of prison.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Once when the Muse was on her, she sat staring into space so long I got worried. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“I am no longer afraid of you, Mr. Ai.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The cookies she left for Clara never lasted long enough for Ophie to have one—whenever she found them the next day they were always sad, moldy black lumps of nothing. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She believed it, even though they were sitting at the long table with a linen tablecloth and silver service to have a cup of watered chocolate and a sweet bun. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The tiny dragon perched on the branch extending over the door of Xan’s tree home, opening his multicolored wings as wide as he could and arching his long neck toward the sky. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

There were men in long narrow stalls set against the sides of buildings who sold toys and different candies— one a type of sweet but hot-tasting, candied ginger that was a bright orange-red in color. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As long as this boy brings his rat up to the castle” — he jerked his head at Ron — “I’ll come quietly....” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She told me about the dark times when Denmark warred with Norway and a long drought brought starvation to the village and hunger to the castle. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He told Americans that his preference was to complete the term to which he’d been elected, but that he longer had enough support to continue. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Henry took a long time to walk to the house. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I hear the sound of coughing, and Dad is no longer leaning against the car, now he’s moving toward the hose, and laughing. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Their hearts were encouraged, but they longed for the sun to warm their cold stiff limbs. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I picture his tousled dirty-blond hair, dark blue eyes, and very long neck. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I’d had the stitches out long ago and it was nearly gone. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Because I got the impression wherever he was going he didn’t mean to stay long. That he meant to cut back here. Sorta been expecting him to turn up any day.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was no longer sure what time it was, but I knew it was very late, and I was wearing down. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I had food enough in the cave for a couple of weeks, maybe longer if I did not eat much. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I gave up trying to understand my father a long time ago.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to be sad any longer. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I’ve been here before: with Luke, in the afternoons, a long time ago. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Saturday before sunrise, September 28 This will be a long entry . . . something important has finally happened to me. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mingo opened with the story of his journey, the nights he spent begging the Lord for guidance, the long years it took to purchase his family’s freedom. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Then, I saw that his head was furrowed and bald, and that the long iron-grey hair grew only on its sides. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

After what seems like a long silence, Pa tells us that we will get through this somehow. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its thick and long legs were as large as pine logs. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Beyond here though, we’re no longer best friends, just...I don’t know. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The kid holds a can of drink and a long stick of licorice, and now I see there’s someone else with them. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She says: "It is no longer wrong to call this place the Gardens of Glenwood." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Juju don’t care as long as they pay to get into the party. She ain’t giving nobody nothing for free.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The colorblind public consensus that supports the new caste system insists that race no longer matters. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“No, no, I’m inclined to give Junior here a piece of my mind. I’ve wanted to for a long time.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I know I’ve come a long way, and though it’s hard, I’m trying to give myself credit for that. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

That jetty was made of men, a long file of them, six or eight deep, standing up to their knees, their waists, their shoulders, stretching out for five hundred yards through the shallow waters. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

To go for so long without prey and suddenly to have so many—his pent-up hunting instinct was lashing out with a vengeance. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered how long he could stay in the pool. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The madwoman stared at the window’s iron bars until they were no longer iron bars at all, but paper bars. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

After a long silence, the doll said, “I hope you don’t think that anyone is going to buy you.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

I'm lonely enough to let myself believe that for one second, but I'm not hopeful enough to let myself believe it for any longer. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They labored together so closely for such long, unbroken hours that it was understandable that their contributions to the finished product blurred into one another. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Cletus’s black hair is long, straight, and, from my point of view, slimy. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Since Moore had abandoned his cells, they were no longer a product of his body, the ruling said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

We were on 2/3 ration, hoping to keep the longer route from running us right out of food. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Curly had stalled as long as possible before phoning Mother Paula’s corporate headquarters. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Whoo! I forgot how long it takes to drive down here. Me and Angelo been in that car almost a hour.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently Leo’s diversion with Buford the end table hadn’t worked—at least not for long. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Kiowa looked at me for a long while. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went on serving chicken, trying to keep operating for as long as they could, figuring and figuring as they went. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tortoise, people said, would always be thinking of slow things, and of how long it would take for him to go from one place to another. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Momma said, “Sister, go bring the long fork to take the potatoes out.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was strikingly beautiful with long, dark hair and clear, bright eyes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

How the wing feathers were long and sharp, but the feathers on the body were like whispers. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I can no longer count the number of mothers with whom I’ve cried, their distress so acute that all we could do was lace our hands together and pray silently through tears. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“My shoulders have been covered long enough. They need to breathe.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then there was the rustling grass all night long. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s been in a demon’s hair for who knows how long. How’d she even get it there if everything she touches turns to ash?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The BFG wiped the tears from his eyes with the back of his hand and gave Sophie a long thoughtful stare. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She showed the baby to Pa and he said, “We got some nurses what’ll tend your child, ma’am. How long she been ailing?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Despite the fact that Mr. Muhammad, convalescing, could no longer work the daily long hours he had previously worked in Chicago, he was now more than ever burdened with heavy decision-making and administrative duties. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now it was December, and to a kid Bubber’s age that was a long time from summer. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

If I stare too long at the flames, I’ll remember what I most want to forget. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Miss Ohio sauntered onstage in her long, hot pink gown. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He screamed, “Look! Look! Women there. Black, all black, and long hair like snakes.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘You shall not stand. You shall sit beside me, as long as I remain in my own lands, and lighten my heart with tales.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Various tilts of the head to catch perspectives in triptych reassured her that her face was not too long, or not this evening. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Magni, Thor’s son, is the first to find one of the things in the long grass, and once he finds it, he knows what it is. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Idomeneus brought his company back to Krete; the sea took not a man from him, of all who lived through the long war. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within a tenth of a second, the rip was a meter long, running parallel to the seal-strip. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

If her mother tried to boil such a small amount, the pot would be dry long before they could count to two hundred. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

O’Brien tried it on and was surprised to discover that it fit even his long arms. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Working quickly and quietly, she began to tear these into long, narrow strips, and to tie these strips together. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The reason I couldn’t quit was that working at Smart Aid as your first job had long been a hallowed family tradition. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, he may have been trying to help, but why wait so long? It’s like he expected us to bake a batch of cookies for him.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The purpose of the test is to find out how long you can continue to distinguish among different tones. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One hotel even has slot machines in the elevators for the people who can’t wait that long. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

My mom had begged him to stay longer, but he claimed he needed to be back on campus for some obscure reason he never disclosed. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I wasn't up there for long before I saw them: two figures, huddled around an open fire in a small clearing about a three-hour march to the west. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe he was reliving a scene from long ago. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

You might want to ask why so long with this news, well its been out for years in and out of video’s papers, books, magazines, radio, tv, all over the world. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When she comes she rushes from the awning in a long slicker, her head covered with the hood. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the bathroom mirror, my hair is no longer black. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

His favorite pastime was walking back and forth across a thin, long wire that my mother sometimes used for hanging our clothes to dry. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The noise of my voice drifts down the long table. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“No, not today, Jez. I only wanted to walk with you a little longer.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Dallas was still swatting at the air, waving away bees that had long since vanished. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly they lifted their long hands to their mouths, and sent forth ringing calls, clear as notes of a horn, but more musical and various. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Abby and I sit like that for so long my arm starts to prickle. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

But there was a sense of menace that lingered in him long after. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The headman greeted the old man and said how sorry he was that he had not seen him for such a long time. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I feel the ghost of where his hand was, his fingers long and narrow. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Francia looks at it, then a long look up at me, her face saying something I can’t read nor even begin to figure out. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Before long, I didn’t see how I was going to be able to stick it out there eight hours a day; and I nearly didn’t. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the rate the morning had gone, this trial might last for weeks, and I wasn’t sure how long I wanted to sit there sweating about being called up to testify. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The rest were leaving, being shuttled out of the city for their own safety—and from the look of the winter coats and overstuffed cases some of them carried, maybe for a long time. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She wore tunics of raw linen that looked like the robes crazy people wear, and in the winter she wore long woolen socks and fingerless gloves. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time, I was contemplating a long pickled worm stretched out in a square steel pan. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I no longer believed in Santa, so I knew the holiday was all over. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

"Whatever you want. This won't take long. No son, so no immersion, no priest, no prayers." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A long silence ensued, and then finally the door opened again. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The lot is covered in long grass, but it’s brown and trampled, crispy as hay. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“The dead won’t stay much longer, now that the battle is over.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Piles of bear scat on the trail and, at one point, a set of fresh grizzly tracks—each print half again as long as a size- nine boot print—put me on edge. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soup was made with eggs and lemons, th6 long green peppers stuffed with cheese and onions. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

That means the child can no longer be granted permanent residency as part of their parents' application. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

My brother’s patience got shorter and his prayers got longer as I drove around in circles as if I were on a merry-go-round. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

For a long time, he sat and said nothing. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

"Don't know how long you were planning on sticking it out," a man says. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Turning to me, he says, “Nobody killed Mango, Mia. You knew he was sick since the day you found him. It’s a blessing that we had him around as long as we did.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I’m so happy when Kim arrives; happy to see the familiar sight of her long black hair in a single braid. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quite early on my trip, however, I invented a method for washing clothes which you will go a long way to better. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The frontier is a long way back. I think this is the customs town. I'm pretty sure it’s Brissago.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was like a seal of stability, their wedding, because as long as they were married, his world with them was safe. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Claudio walked away from the stream, carrying her into the sagebrush until they could no longer hear water, until the land—the mountains, the mesa leading off to the gorge—was very quiet. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the worst of that day was the long trip back down the mountainside with the cart full of wood. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

His eyes were the color of pecan shells and his long, stringy hair was just a shade darker. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had listened now for a long time. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was even used to sex, which he no longer wanted twice a day. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke stared back at his family’s farm as long as he could. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

During the game, over and over again, he had proven that Bull was no longer fast enough to drive around him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could barely remember it now, of course—one of the hazards of so very long a life. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

As the silence grew longer the tenseness between them became more strained. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Game’s got a long way to go yet.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Even her feet were small; her shoes looked like they were less than half a toadstool long. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The thought of that silence, something to which he’d long been resigned, now oppressed him. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

A little bit of attention goes a long way, Genie noticed. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He was colder than she was, even though she’d been outside for far longer, he was impatient to be in the warm again. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I traced the white road winding round the base of one mountain, and vanishing in a gorge between two; how I longed to follow it farther! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The problem was that Wagner felt that writing symphonies was no longer a worthwhile pursuit. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Junior used to long to play with the black boys. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry could tell she had no objection whatsoever to long hair or earrings with fangs on them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She said, “How long are you going to be with us, Paul?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She just sits there grinning like some mind-reading Bess-shire Cat, and the longer she smirks at me, the more furious I get. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Garnett no longer looked well; his coat was buttoned at the throat. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And at last she opened her eyes and looked at him for a long time and she also said nothing. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I should have had this container woven with a double wall. But it would have taken more time. Now I pay for not waiting a bit longer.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Her mascara is streaked across her cheeks and her eyes are puffy and red, like she’s been crying for a long time. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“A-Fu! As long as you both are safe — that is all that matters.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know how long it would take for him to be found or for those remains to be pumped into the river. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There is no prophet in the earth’s long chronicle who’s not honored here today. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I stare at him awhile longer, still unable to speak. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Lightly, her fingers stroked his shoulder blades; quietly they plucked the long hair scruffing his neck. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother and Daddy and Betty Jean a long time ago, and Judy and David a year or two before I was born. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them stood a large matronly woman with thick ankles and all the buttons done up on her long overcoat. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were about two inches long, those claws, and sharp at the ends! The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think I can hold on any longer!” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The one person who doesn’t seem excited about the long weekend is Edie. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

This could be the longest wait of my life, I think. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

A long search through the captain’s telescope had shown no signs of life whatsoever, but John Faa planned to take half a dozen armed men ashore just in case. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then he led us down a long hall to another locked door. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But by pouring more mercury into the long arm of the tube, the pressure could be increased, forcing the air in the short arm to contract. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Not even the most grinding student can feel required to lose himself in his books, since there is Sunday ahead, long, lazy, quiet Sunday, to do any homework. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

His beauty was so great, all the girls who saw him longed to be his, but he would have none of them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning Connelly made it clear that he no longer required Nag in his bed. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They were in the time of short days and long nights. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

That night Dad called a family meeting, and we gathered around the kitchen table, because it was wide and long, and could seat all of us. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And the story of a mysterious stranger who no longer seems quite so mysterious and who is definitely no longer a stranger. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

Frantically, I try to peel them off, my fingers grabbing their cold squishy bodies.The leeches stretch with my pull, become longer. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very fair was her face, and her long hair was like a river of gold. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

When she could bear it no longer, she joined the knot of girls under the live oak in a corner of the schoolyard. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

What is certain is that it is a long way, and from either end it is not easy. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

For a long time nobody could read it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The hall is a little over forty-three feet long. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he never spoke to her either as long as he lived. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet long before Columbus arrived, that wild grass had managed to evolve into maize and spread across North America. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

His eyes narrowed: whether from our long association, or from many dealings with human beings, and whether one kept silent or spoke to cloak one’s thoughts, he always knew the heart of the matter. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

As long as Gary Edwards had a failing grade in algebra II, there actually wasn’t much that could be done. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a long time, he left it beside his hole as he continued to dig. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He had seven cents between him and starvation and the law and the long days ahead. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not long after Senn’s visit our clothing did improve and we were given long trousers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please stop it. I don’t want you to get Scotch and crazy tonight. We won’t be together much longer.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Geyer and Cuddy descended a steep set of steps, more ladder than stairway, into a small chamber about ten feet long by ten feet wide and only four feet high. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A long hallway with a tile floor greets me, doors on either side, some open, some closed. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The coffle began their long march south that night, staggering behind the trader’s buggy. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

There was a long silence while we all contemplated this new development. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The use of DDT would be banned in the United States in 1972, but the antimosquito campaign had died long before that. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

‘I shall not stay there long. My way lies now eastward. Look for me in Edoras, ere the waning of the moon!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Tall, thin but not too, round in all the right places, long chestnut hair. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

My body understood long before my mind did. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

After another long pause, he said: “Approach it this way. Let us take this jug.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

He holds them in his gaze for a long time. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He reports to his family after a long day’s work: these women don’t wish to speak of the dead. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My great-uncle lived just a little while longer, and then he died too. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat there a long time looking at her dead face. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I described the glittering casinos and the glamorous high rollers, the palm trees and the swimming pools, the hotels with ice-cold air-conditioning and the restaurants where hostesses with long white gloves fit flaming desserts. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

So let me start here, with a small thing that happened not long ago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The sharp chisel slipped and cut a gash across the longer piece of the cross. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Off-white rugs on the gleaming parquet floor—faintly tinted walls—a long mirror surrounded by lights. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I was sixty-five and they told me that government regulations said that I was too old to work any longer. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take a long, deep breath and look down at my clothes. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Chiron had told me long ago: Immortals arc constrained by ancient rules. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I was no longer a girl but a strange woman. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s going to wait too long,” Max says. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The chalky fields did nothing for her; she longed for a landscape like the one around Maer— beautiful, green, and varied. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped back into the water and began swimming again, taking long, even strokes, kicking and pushing along the mud; pulling himself forward. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I guess I’d been reading newspaper stories about it and hearing people shout over the whole thing for so long that I didn’t listen anymore—it just went in one ear and out the other. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a long silence, in which I noticed the ferns he’d dug up the afternoon we killed Bunny. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Dell may have found the missing kid on the day she left Mercy Hospital, but he wasn't a hero for very long. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

So Harry had had no word from any of his wizarding friends for five long weeks, and this summer was turning out to be almost as bad as the last one. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

While John watched, the Power struck someone, a man or woman; they cried out, a long, wordless crying, and, arms outstretched like wings, they began the Shout. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It didn’t take long to collect my belongings. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I slept a long time,” I said quietly. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

By the time he started following, if he even did, we’d be long gone. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She said that as long as we kept them on, nothing could come between us. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He looked at me a long time, then walked over to the bushel baskets stacked at the back of the stand. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not know how long she sat in quiet terror, hut it was a long time. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ugwu tried to read the titles, but most were too long, too difficult. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He became a much beloved king, the monster said, who ruled happily until the end of his long days. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

He could go on this way forever, as long as he got to visit Jen. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

And then one blew a long trumpet, and they went on through the aisle of trees beside the singing stream. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She could no longer hear the buzzing of cruel insect wings. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

For a long time it didn’t make any sense at all. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was wearing long Quidditch robes in thick horizontal stripes of bright yellow and black. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Upon a towering barbed throne sat an old man in rich robes, an old man with dark eyes and long silver-grey hair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

For a long time he lay on his back smoking, staring into the blackness of the cavernous roof. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Because what I hand her is a long, thin white cane. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for Eurasia’s head start, humans have occupied Eurasia for about a million years, far longer than they have lived in the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“How long do you think we’ll have to wait before we know if the miracle’s on or not?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

For an extended pensive moment Ruby stood with her hands on her hips, an ash growing long on the cigarette held tightly between her unpainted lips. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maria came up to him, no longer angry or rebellious. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One boy with long dreads grins at me. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

But the fire was there and he approached warily, from a long way off. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Open it, boy. I’ve been saving this for your eighteenth birthday for a long time.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not too long ago, racism and discrimination against women was accepted by a lot of people. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I knew that he hadn't moved for a long time. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Ten feet long, it looked more like a giant scorpion than anything. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Things had changed a good deal in the preceding years, and he felt overtaken by events that he had not expected to live long enough to have to confront. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then came the training on the long halter. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Harriet heard that long slow wail from the fields, she knew he was dead. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The press conference ran longer than expected—nearly every news outfit had questions for the McCulloughs, and the McCulloughs, dazzled by their good fortune, stayed to answer them all. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

That lonely drummer practicing his roll long after the rest of the band has gone to bed. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was still a teacher, a heralded one, but she was no longer a teacher’s wife. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure how to make my long story short enough. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Not half as long as you fought against us.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Tally still didn’t know how long she was going to stay there. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

We were all quivering with fear and joy as the driver let out the clutch and the great long black automobile leaned forward and stole into motion. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

His gaze, half vacant, was directed at the long car too. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

His head is large, framed by long prominent ears, and his narrow blue eyes are hidden by oversize aviator-style glasses. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Oh, may these somber words not come true for as long as possible. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s been a long day. This morning I thought I was being deported. I’ve been gearing myself up for that for two months. Now it looks like I’ll get to stay.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I guess the mom had been searching for the little boy for a long time because she came running up to the information desk, and when she saw the little boy, she started crying. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Dad had just yanked me off the soccer team and the lectures were fast and furious, not to mention loud and long. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, almost no one in the audience of over four hundred microbiologists seemed interested as I read long sections of Hershey’s letter. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Lindsey darling, I ain't seen you in so long. It's been years, hasn't it? Oh, but Lord it's good to see you.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Still, she sat for a long time and wrote and erased, then wrote and erased again. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I am surprised you have remained here so long,” said Voldemort after a short pause. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Whatever excitement and girlish joy I felt before the bombing simply died for a long period after the bombing. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning I stare into the mirror for a long time. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He pointed to a long skinny black suitcase that had a leather handle on top of it and said, “And be careful, that’s my bread and butter in there.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

How long would it take for the electricity to fail? Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was a long way from Victor's place to the children's old hideout. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t know that I’ve always been on my own—except for Mama Ya-Ya and the neighbors who watched me grow for a long time. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

She’s in front of me, so close that strands of her long hair blow into my face. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

"If only your hair were a bit longer." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“And how long have you known each other?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

So often had Ben been drilled in the proper manner in which to greet Marines and their wives that his act was no longer an act but an intrinsic manifestation of his personality. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room is dark apart from a domed metal lamp hanging from a long cord, which casts a concentrated pool of light on the table’s center. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

For once, I went a few minutes without looking at the clock, so I was surprised by the bell ringing, and took longer than everyone else to get my backpack packed. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how long it took for me to get back. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

No longer would thousands of Japanese men be thrown at the invading Americans in banzai charges. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And for as long as that’s the case, it’s easy to pretend that I am a normal girl, making out with a normal boy. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Produced by boiling juice extracted from sugarcane, it has long been used in making rum, as a major ingredient in making explosives, and as a sweetener. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Had I been anyone worthy of any respect at all, I dare say I would have left Darlington Hall long ago.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

All of the kids who had gathered there—some who had escaped from camps or capture, others that had been able to hide out long enough to avoid it all together—had responsibilities. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I can bear my weight upon my feet, though I cannot stand long alone, nor can I straighten. But can I not lean upon the bench?” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Bridge didn’t examine the idea too closely because she liked it and hoped, really hoped, that it was true about the long, hard roads. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

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

It didn’t last very long, but while it went on the outside world was blotted out, and she seemed to be listening to the struggle in her body. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The specialists had their own section it seemed, the patients disappearing down a long hall when their name was called. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

By the time he finished, nobody in the room was cold any longer. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We waited a long time—almost three-quarters of an hour, I think. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

There was even a place on the quilt for Mala, though I had heard she was no longer at Mr. Gupta’s. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The coins and the bowl belonged to Minli; they had been given to her when she was a baby, and she had had them for as long as she could remember. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Rufus said I didn’t have to, but as tedious as the work was, I could stand it easier than I could stand more long hours of boredom. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She also brushed her long chestnut hair—now sprinkled with a few white hairs that were invisible to all but her—a hundred times. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down the cleared path now, striding large, feather nodding in time with each long step, came Old Tallow. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, before long I see glimpses of Day’s old cap peeking out far ahead of me in the crowd. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

All week long the RRG had boasted of great successes in Russia, one battle victory after another, with little or no German losses as the German army advanced on Smolensk. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

For a long time, I would go into churches. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Managers didn’t care what language workers spoke, as long as they showed up on time. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

On any other day, his chinos and button-down would be fine for a casual photo op, but for the first time in a long time, he’s feeling distinctly out of his element. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She had never seen hair so long, so black, so thick. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I start pushing my hips from side to side, taking long steps and putting my arms out like I’m on a runway someplace. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I held back the urge to get into the water a minute longer, but finally I said to Masson, “Shall we?” The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, you will be safe here as long as we have the protection of the Spanish. What skills do the three of you have to offer?” he asked. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure how long I clung to him, rubbing my forehead against his rain-plastered neck and breathing the scent of his wet fur. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The night was barred with long clouds, fleeting on a chill wind, when they arose again. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

In the late 1800s, long before the start of the Cold War, France took control of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, ruling the three countries as a colony known as French Indochina. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“You are safe, but not for long,” said Boo. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Like the bedroom and bathroom, the study was squashed under the apex of the bungalow’s roof, and was little more than a corridor between the two, barely six feet long and five feet wide. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The doctors were no longer concerned about the pressure inside her skull. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A semi-truck roared by, sounding a long honk as it did. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The ten minutes John had given seemed very long, but at last wheels were heard; four equestrians galloped up the drive, and after them came two open carriages. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Is that what your long face is for? Somebody cull you for a copper?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Now he’d pointed it out, she could hear a low, persistent rumble, almost like thunder, a very long way off. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He turned into Washington Park and pulled the car slowly round and round the long gradual curves. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Strange as it might sound, it was only after a long time that I looked to see what was happening in the lifeboat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I entered sixth grade, I was beginning to wonder if I’d be able to maintain my sanity until graduation, still six long years away. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He felt that he no longer needed to run away, at least as far as Hooper was concerned. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I see a lock of long, greasy hair, and a silver earring. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

They were silent for so long that Olanna felt she had to apologize. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Oh, I’m feeling supernaturally good for once—it’s been so long—so good I start blabbing like I haven’t since Brian left. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Measures like these added precision to the understanding of how long it takes the brain to react, findings that were very much in the spirit of Helmholtz and mental chronometry, the study of brain structures. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Together, they walked down the long corridor, climbing up and over the broken pieces of hallway and ceiling in their path. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But when I got below and found a hammock, it took me a long time to fall asleep. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was a long, long moment of silence. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn't sleep too long, because I think it was only around ten o'clock when I woke up. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Just in time he threw himself down in a patch of long grass behind a tree that overshadowed the road. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A long rod of iron rested on his shoulder as he held the door open for Carter. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

‘My mum gave it to me for going to New York. I wanted a digital one, but she says this kind will make a better photographer of me in the long run.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I poked my head out of the covers and took a good, long look at my brother. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“How long will I have to take them?” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Not long ago it was proved that Dwight D. Eisenhower was descended from the royal line of Britain, a proof if one were needed that everyone is descended from everyone. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stands at the top of a short flight, only seven steps long, and I stand at the bottom. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He knew, at some point, someone would likely find the trapdoor and the sky garden; by then, he’d likely be long gone. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He regards me for a long, unnerving moment. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Uncle Carlos holds the nape of his neck and slowly releases a long, deep breath. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I reckon Grandpa found her mouth before God could answer, because for the longest time the only sounds I heard were little moans and gasps and Grandpa’s hard breathing. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He takes me down a dead-end corridor that’s only six feet long. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I had wanted this for so long, I wouldn’t let fear sully the moment. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Agent Magnus follows behind me just long enough to make sure I don’t get any more dumb ideas. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

We are no longer temporary; only our feelings are. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The children were facing one another across the pillar where the bell hung, still trembling, though it no longer gave out any note. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Not at all. So long as we are collecting rents, we will not have to pay any.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The woman in the school office had given her a long, hard look when she brought in her enrollment card. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess. It will be dark before long.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The arrow had cut a gash just above his knee about three inches long. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Joe smiled briefly, too close to panic himself to hold the smile for long. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They stopped near a long rock ledge which walled the road. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat for a while longer, then I started to get up, except I was still feeling the wobbles in my head. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sir, and it was laughing right in my face. Then I heard this long moan, ‘Agh-h-h-.’ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You talk like you’ve known this a long time. You—” “I have. So’s your father. We wondered, sometimes, when your conscience and his would part company, and over what.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The man “put spur to his horse and escaped”—but not for long. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Using both hands, she tugged one of the heavy wooden doors open, revealing a large, high-ceilinged room filled with long tables. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The question was three pages long but the answer was always “Yes.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There was a long white chaise longue and two tall, curvy white armchairs. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

It preened a long iridescent feather, shook its head, raised and lowered its crest in a gesture that was somehow threatening, and turned to gaze at us with a perfectly round, yellow eye. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

When I turned, I found the five people smiling at us, their faces made long by high cheekbones and long, white teeth. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They racked their oars, hung their rowing clothes up to dry in a steam-heated locker in the shell house, dressed, and began the long trudge back up the hill to campus. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The longer she thought about her encounter with the mother bear, the more Omakayas was convinced that something she did not understand had passed between the two of them. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

We regarded it as our duty to keep ourselves current on the politics of the country, and we fought long and hard for the right to have newspapers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fingered his glasses and stared at me a long time. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

What we’d done, haw, and like I say it was my idea, we had cut every stick exactly four inches too long for the Whisnants’ kitchen stove. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Long story short, we were massively in debt. So long, sex reassignment surgery.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z