“The men, yes,” my mother acknowledged, “but my Tony is only a boy, a baby yet.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amit is still on the bench, pretending to listen to the man's one-sided lecture. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She’d kept trying to win the man’s heart, but he kept rejecting her. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Just men and women, and some of them knew who Tehlu was. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Rumors circulate that there may actually be money on payday, and even the working men begin to crack smiles. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He started to wipe it away, but the man shook his head. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed like a fact, because when conductors and music directors and maestros held auditions, the men always seemed to sound better than the women. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

When the sun had risen further the old man realized that the fish was not tiring. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was with us at the tavern,” cried one of the men. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The field was strewn with stricken orcs and men, and a reek arose of torches cast away, sputtering out in swirling smoke. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Might be all I want is to see you pay for crimes. The kin- slayer is accursed in the eyes of gods and men.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Here is a black man caged behind bars, probably for years, put there by the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though there are many men who cannot read or write, they all speak English. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The short man dressed in black limped over to us from his post by the window. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh Johnny, you men don’t know the first thing about fashion. Now hurry up and get ready.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“This is a friend. This is the man who fought him,” Marlena explains. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The man who led Wake County schoolchildren in afternoon song turned at the sound of my voice and asked, "So what's your name, princess?" Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“We found a new waste mart man, but he’s worse than stingy.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

These were such nice men, friendly and helpful. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the war, five million men had left their jobs and joined the military, leaving women to fill those vacant jobs and raise their children as well. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

What could one man's hands hope to do to that black terror? Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you question a man’s integrity, you can expect a fight. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had heard of a man called Hitler, who was boss of all the Jackboots, who were also called Nazis. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

As if men with giant guns meant to keep us quiet and herded in is normal. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Myron and I both kissed the old man on the cheek because that was how we all wanted it. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Suddenly they surrounded her, three men, her own brothers, jostling her, pushing her along, pinioning her arms behind her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father is a hard man, Muscular and stout. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

I’m right with the Southern white man who believes that you can’t have so-called “integration,” at least not for long, without intermarriage increasing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hands wrapped around El Genius’s thick neck as the two men fell to the ground. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Major Major was elsewhere, and the enlisted men in the other room had made him the butt of an inhuman prank. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Eleven men were accused of being ringleaders in the fracas and arrested. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

In a clearing, two hundred feet from the shed, were three people—a man, a woman, and another, younger woman. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

‘That crate is not for kongos. In two days man come fetch that crate. If it not be here, some kongos be in bad trouble!” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bawled in terror as I pointed a trembling finger at the white man. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

His second visit to his friend was like the first, except that the old men in the room watched them listlessly and did not play slapjack. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The man was lying on his stomach with his face turned sideways. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You know," she said, "a star and a mortal man..." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The man who hurt you, I knew him from many years ago,” I said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as I think they're gone, I wave to the surprised man at the desk and slip out. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

A tattooed man in jeans and a jean jacket—his legs outstretched, his ankles crossed—was sleeping a few seats down. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It has been so long since I have been tested, let this man test me. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s been a long trip,” I said, trying to deviate the conversation away from the drowned man. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The man’s black gloves were of a thin, silky fabric and molded to fit his slender fingers. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

On my last full day, the sixth day, the old man took me out fishing on the Rainy River. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told me to “Take off that hat at the table, young man.” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had fought for almost twenty minutes, stabbing and slicing each other and the men who tried to part us. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He never forgot that, and finally, years later, he understood what it was about white men and Indian women: the disgrace of Indian women who went with them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

At the far end of the room, the altar was elaborately carved with a frieze showing the man with the ice-cream-scoop hat holding a knife to the neck of a bull. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then pointing to a man who was aiming a gun at the truck’s front tires, Father warned that if the driver did not consent, the man would shoot. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The main road was crowded; women with boxes on their heads and babies tied to their backs, barefoot children carrying bundles of clothes or yams or boxes, men dragging bicycles. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, because he was a military man and knew how to win the people over and to secure himself against the nobility, he succeeded in waging war against them for many years. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Once, at his club, he had perked up as a young man talked to some friends about his own parents’ divorce, how he had felt relieved by it, because their unhappiness had been heavy. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m not a skinny white man,” Darren says slowly, reasonably. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The small group stands staring at the sagging tire a moment, the two men kicking at it as if punishing it for having failed the señorita. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

If the men guarding her heard her pleas, they gave no answer. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A man behind the counter with his hair cut short in front and long in the back shook hands with him. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

One day, out of the blue, a man came to the door. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a cordial man of great dignity. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My uncle,” he said to Mr. Jacob Benally, using the polite form of address to show he respected this man like a relative, “are those other children in bilagaanaa clothing also Navajos?” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eze was the wealthiest man in the room, an owner of oil wells, and as many of the Nigerian wealthy were, he was free of angst, an obliviously happy man. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We arrived at the bank and joined the queue with men in suits and women in skirts and blouses. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They became horsemen, caballeros, men whose daily life was wrapped up in the ritual of horsemanship. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man in a car slowed down and called out to them in Arabic. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her intuition told her that as long as that man existed, no one could win Blanca’s love. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everywhere I looked I saw black men in dusty overalls looking tired and bent. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man laid a withered, spotted hand on his shoulder. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And if ever there was a man who did not know what he was doing . The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides the commuters coming home from work, the station was swarming with men and women who were leaving the city for the weekend, on their way to Grand Central Station. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

For myself, I am glad I married “beneath me,” for a finer man no one could have had; but possibly she was not so lucky. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first man I met in prison who made any positive impression on me whatever was a fellow inmate, “Bimbi.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tulip is not a reason for disbelief in the hanged man, or vice versa. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men were gone, and the sun was leaving. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the men in our group had tears in their eyes as their hair was shorn. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the men swirled around him, Taran caught his breath in horror. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

And a tough, strutty little man said, “I believe in capital punishment. It’s like the Bible says—an eye for an eye. And even so were two pair short!” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to know if Mr. Clutter was a wealthy man. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Goeth was a stout man with an arrogant sneer and a bully's swagger. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

So every attempt is made to cut that black man down—not only was made yesterday but is made today. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

A long, long minute or two, while the song rages on and Miss Cream sways on, entwined with the man I’m planning to throw my fists at in a minute. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

That the word had been written by a man confessing to an image in his mind, confiding a lonely preoccupation, disgusted her profoundly. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Like Mr. Clutter, the young man breakfasting in a cafe called the Little Jewel never drank coffee. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The memories of the scary Nino Carlitos slide from my grasp like a wet bar of soap, and all I see is a thoughtful, generous man who is skilled at origami. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you. There will be very little merit in making a good wife to such a man as Mr. Weston.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

"I would have sworn you were a pork chop man. Is that juice large or small?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a world of sights and sounds that few of them would ever forget, even when they were old men and women. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It was her house, after all, and what was one measly man, black or white, compared to a bear? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“This man says he cannot work,” a Nazi told us. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘Yea,’ he said; ‘for though the Stones be lost, they say, still the lords of Gondor have keener sight than lesser men, and many messages come to them. But sit now!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Dogs beside the men’s legs wait, looking up from time to time, and the girl who brings the food from the stove stands looking at the wall as she waits for the plates to empty. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the men was still wearing his hat and glasses. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I even bribed Lamar to go to the post office and tell Postmaster Grassel so that I wouldn’t have to see the man. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

A dusty green pickup drove by them, driven by a squarefaced man. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another said that the President’s speech would live among the annals of man. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had risen up against the men and had killed them all, except one, the old king. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice hoarse and weak, my mother called out to the man. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Both Stanton and Anthony backed the resolution, believing that the men “would modestly permit women to continue the work she had so successfully begun.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Some of the men immediately killed a seal that was resting on the rocks, and Greenstreet staggered toward it and thrust his frozen hands into the bloody, steaming carcass. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Whatever strong-arm men the hospital employed had their sights aimed directly at him. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fourth element, the vote, the right of the governed to govern themselves, has long been a cherished goal of all thinking men of Atlanta. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first time since she had been taken from her homeland that she had met a black man in a position of authority. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other workers were just young men: irresponsible and living for today. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The men didn’t seem to be paying any attention. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

After Burkhart’s admission, the campaign to fire White and his men ended. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

More dead men: a long neat line of dead, like a shattered fence. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cascade of perfect movements, with hundreds of brilliantly calibrated actions, coursed through the mechanical man. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Then he remembered: it was Buckley, the man whose face he had seen the workmen pasting upon a billboard a few mornings ago. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It brought back the face of the angry white man who had chased me down that day. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They tell many stories of the man. I regret not having known him.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man strode toward the cluster of students, keys jangling in his hand. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The old man writes an invoice, tears the yellow copy from the white-and-pink ones. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Plus, Hoover never wanted his men to overshadow him. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Then I said, “Father said I was never to mention Mr. Shears’s name in our house again and that he was an evil man and maybe that meant he was the person who killed Wellington.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When they got to the edge of the crowd, Chess thought maybe Emma had lost the man completely. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Who are you to talk to us like that?” the wispy-haired man demanded, starting forward. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you dare run!” two men in green fatigues said as they pinned him in the beams of their flashlights. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

At 2100 hours they went over the seawall along with three hundred other men. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

An old man calls out, so I walk faster. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"What is this nonsense? Look at how rough this is! One tile is broken! This is even worse than the old tiles! How can you be happy with this useless work?" she asked the man. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Your man kill many deer to make that dress for you,” he said solemnly. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I needed texture to capture the man’s hair. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Outside of employing a number of New Orleans natives, Zeitoun had hired men from everywhere: Peru, Mexico, Bulgaria, Poland, Brazil, Honduras, Algeria. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I know you don’t realize the enormity, the horrors, of the so-called Christian white man’s crime. . . . “Not even in the Bible is there such a crime! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They won’t be every day, man. Plus, you don’t make money like this at Cluck Bucket,” I joked, pulling the wad of cash from my pocket again. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As the man disappeared, Ophie’s breathing eased and the warmth returned to her fingertips. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“If it makes you feel any better,” Mapper said, “actually, it probably won’t. That was the wrong thing to say. Sorry, man.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Yet if he let the man turn him away, where was his authority? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I like to be able to look a man in the eye. You have very pretty eyes.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He was a good man at his job—but that wasn't enough for success. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I have known men who took half-a-dozen lashes in preference to being locked up alone. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was usually covered by the loose tunic all the Tang men wore, but today he had worn a special blue silk coat. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the men lifts and cradles me. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The Greek diner is open and there’s a stoop-shouldered man in the back booth eyeing his bacon and eggs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

August said she wished the fugitive would go ahead and find the one-armed man and get it over with. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your Grace,” said the man with the glasses. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

It opened slowly: a figure came out into the twilight and stood on the step; a man without a hat: he stretched forth his hand as if to feel whether it rained. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m telling the truth. I’m leaving the rez, man, and I want you to come with me. Come on. It will be an adventure.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Unseen, we watched the man and his daughter get out of the truck. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The children of mighty men of Rome were never made to pay for their mistakes, for their follies. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“The workers, the miners—they did this,” whispered the man who’d told me the name of the mine before. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s get off and stretch our legs. They’ve got a men’s room here if you need to go.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s the man who’s there for you, the man who takes care of you. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

By the time the men got Tommie down, she had begun to wail. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Stupid rich man fed me tea and gave me a rickshaw ride home. But would he donate any rupees to our school? No! All the furniture here is falling apart—including these ancient desks!” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The man, who had received two or three nice presents from her unasked, thought she was lying and was trying to tell him to shove off. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whether by man or woman, however, God the Father was rarely addressed directly. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though the old man was utterly incompetent with regards to the rudiments of writing and speaking, the teacher was never less than polite and indulgent. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The brim of the hat made it difficult to see the man's face. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“We need to get to our camp, men!” he shouted. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Two seats over, a fat bald-headed man is snoring with his mouth open, releasing an invisible cloud of halitosis. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t in the mood for any of that, and it had been four days since they’d seen those men. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Even before the arrival of the post-Soweto prisoners, there was a shortage of warders, and the rebellious young men required even greater supervision. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He barked at the men, buried his head in my chest in fear, barked again, then hid his face away. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Odom, who usually dressed in demure long dresses and straw hats, had on a pair of men’s overalls and an old plaid work shirt. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He leaped from the car while it was still skidding dangerously and hurtled up the flight of steps inside, where three men were busy at the instruments and the controls. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

At last the man decided that it was time to do something about the tree. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

It began to amble along the sidewalk, beside the man in the gold-rimmed glasses, and, after a moment’s hesitation, Shadow followed them. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“I still have time, Mister Dandy,” the man Jack began, but the silver-haired man cut him off, stabbing a large pink finger in his direction. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I once handled the case of a Coloured man who was inadvertently classified as an African. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You young men think you can force your way in here any time," she scolded. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“The man is surrounded by an entire army.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he described getting on the bus and how there was a man on the bus wearing a skirt. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The procession moved slowly and quietly through a black sea of men and women dressed for mourning. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I knew my brother and other young men devoted years to maintaining the roads and their little sisters, the bridges. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I could not use a net of kelp, because that needed the strength of several men. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We all know him,” Lavadie said somberly, and the other men nodded yes, muttering agreement, some smiling, some looking grim. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have to follow protocol,” the younger man says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He watched while the two men standing closest glanced at each other and went unwillingly into the room. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Last week—no, yesterday—this man was, in a way, his friend. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few men chased the black bathers away, some throwing rocks. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Being called by the men was better than a story, even a windigo story, any old day. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Hey, she was working hard too! Sold a bunch of earrings, man. People really like those things. Grandma even bought a pair.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

One of them, a short man named Zahur, frowned at him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They saw a young black man, and he seemed to be behaving oddly. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

All of the neighbors hoped that sudden wealth would not turn Kino’s head, would not make a rich man of him, would not graft onto him the evil limbs of greed and hatred and coldness. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last time he ventured out, a man had spit on him . . . well, had tried to. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

One JUROR, a middle-aged man, looks directly toward the camera for a long time. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Call it sentimental, but the twentieth- century Broadway musical was created by Jewish men and women whose families had - almost universally - been offered a lifeline of opportunity via immigration from Europe to the United States. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me,” I say to a man who looks like an American. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The man on the stretcher over me has a hemorrhage.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Mass incarceration has nullified many of the gains of the Civil Rights Movement, putting millions of black men back in a position reminiscent of Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The raspy man turned into the knife grinder. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The man nods and waves his hand over a display. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Another man reached up and scratched his nose—the most human thing Thomas had seen any of them do. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“And the man’s body was missing its vital organs—like someone had split him open from neck to navel, and—I’m sorry, you look like you’re going to be ill. I shouldn’t have said anything.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The man who had opened the door came up and put his arm around her. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

As I rounded one of the large rocks, I came upon a man resting on one of the boulders, the remains of his midday meal scattered about. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Mr. Muhammad taught that the five-pointed star stands for justice, and also for the five senses of man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A group of men soon appeared, accompanied by several police officers with their batons drawn. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

De la O could hear men yelling, machine-gun fire, and loud explosions. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The men no one had been able to save. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The Magpie had brought not only Meggie but an old man. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“What I really mean is, a man of discretion,” I clarified. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The picture was of a tiny boat, with one lone man, huge waves surging around him, shark fins visible in the foam. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Werner zips his old notebook and the little house into his duffel and the man beside him murmurs questions to himself and the rest of the ruined company sleeps. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The men coming out of the ground, squinting against the daylight, were like dead men rising out of a grave. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

"My fingers will grow back before that man bends to sense." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A young man immediately approached Charlotte, bowed, and asked her to dance. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the next night, as I lay on my bed, I suddenly, with a start, became aware of a man sitting beside me in my chair. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man says, “It’s all in how you tell it.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

On the drive to the prison, Walter told me that the men on death row had held a special service for him on his last night. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I was merely along for the ride—very precariously, as it turned out—which reminded me once again how really minor man can be when it comes to competing for space and time and food. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“You oughta tell your customer use they ashtray, tell them peoples you workin a man in here below the minimal wage. Maybe they be a little considerate.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have ability and more brains than any other woman I’ve known. You can fill any job a woman can and many jobs that men fill.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And sure you hear that sometimes here, men are men after all, but more of the time the Noise is songs or it’s prayers or it’s directed to the work at hand. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The Khmer Rouge soldier sneers at the man and pushes him to another Khmer Rouge soldier standing beside him. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white man leaped from his chair, flabbergasted by the storm of screams in his office. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Horatio, you know his mind, if any man does. What of this ghost? Do you believe it?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

So when I looked around the door the first thing I saw was the red tie he had on and I was thinking what the hell kind of a man would wear a red tie. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of feet across from the women, behind yellow, featherless chickens hanging from hooks, men in bloody aprons raise their cleavers and cut into slabs of beef with the precision of many years’ practice. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He died soon after making this bequest of his life’s work to the stunned younger man, who only weeks before had been a penniless refugee. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Janina’s father took something from a drawer, put it into a little envelope, and gave it to the man. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

It was not only that the man who won was honored; the man who was defeated was held to be dishonored. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, he set great store on a man doing right by his family. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He said, “The man was dead and rotten. Not stinking but rotten.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lyndon must have been a pretty powerful person to get a man to fix his generator and get a sheriff’s escort in the middle of the night. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that they were about to attack the man and I was both afraid and angry, repelled and fascinated. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I am not a man to do things by halves.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

It was while working at the hotel that she met a young black man, George Myers. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

And then one morning a group of men came and caught him by the wrists and led him into a large room in the Cook County Morgue, in which there were many people. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He called his men together and ordered them to fit out a fleet and prepare for immediate departure, but to do all secretly. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only other time he'd heard Roberta sound that way was when the man in the fertility clinic had said they couldn't have children. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Two men stretched his arms out, as though about to crucify him; they placed a foot on each of his wrists, making them sink deep down in the snow. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Terror and Destruction and Strife, whose fury never slackens, all friends of the murderous War-god, were there to urge men on to slaughter each other. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’ve attached a wire to the heart, which rims to a loudspeaker, so you can hear the heart beating throughout the entire room, agonizingly slow, like an old man walking up stairs. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The door opened, and a man stepped out. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“The world will soon learn what a few brave men, fighting for their own land, can do.” I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

They moved swiftly, ignoring the taunts and vicious words the men called after them. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, man. I done really fed my face.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man just looked at him for a while with a mixture of puzzlement and recognition, as though the fish he had landed might be the same one he had thrown away long before. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man put a needle and thread to a dead badger. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Helen was the second-eldest of my sisters, all of whom were gentle, naive, talkative, and curious, which is why Mommy kept them off the street and away from men at all times. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would watch also the faces of the professional black men, the so-called intellectuals who attacked us. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what that man will do when she tells him. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The old man gathered his own bones and muscles as best he could and managed to hoist the kid and get him into the pickup. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man from the truck said, “Glad to hear it, but they aren’t paying us for excuses. They gave you enough cash to pay good money, so go find somebody!” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she picked the largest peach on the stand and handed it to the old man. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The Blackfish had taken a hundred picked men and a hundred swift horses and raced ahead to screen their movements and scout the way. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"Had you ever seen its like before, in other men?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The old man called me over; I went. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

One man was going to pick two hundred pounds of cotton, and another three hundred. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt that it was for the black man only a question of Johnson, the fox, or Goldwater, the wolf. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way to la marketa we had passed two men dressed in long black coats, their faces bearded. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“God let him jump,” the old man said. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here and there, a white man intervened on behalf of those being hunted down but quickly pulled back when the mob turned its vicious eye on the peacemaker. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"We dramatized the shooting down of an unarmed black man." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two men concentrated on the heart of the llama, and all the gathered shamans also studied the heart intently, speaking to it in praise and trying to listen to its message. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

When we finished uncovering the pipe, we looked like the mud men of Borneo worshiping a fallen idol. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I asked the old man to tell them what happened to me, if he makes it anywhere. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

This, Mr. Byerley, is a court order authorizing me to search these premises for the presence of illegal...uh...mechanical men or robots of any description.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“The only thing I can advise, boy, is that if you detect the gamma radiation between yourself and the man, you may as well sit where you are.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Even as he watched, Jonathan saw one of the men stick out his tongue, lick his lips, then hastily wipe away the spittle. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I jogged down the steps, heading for the waiting FedEx van and the dark-haired man sitting in the driver’s seat. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They quoted one man saying, “I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t worried. You lie there on your bunk knowing you’ve got cancer in your arm. . . . Boy, what you think about!” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Perhaps at the other end of the instrument some small, beetlelike man was listening intently— listening to that. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The man’s body was a bony shell inside rumpled clothing that hung on him like a disorderly collection of sacks. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Nice to meet you,” I say to the chipmunk man as I watch David slide his hand toward the platter of leftover cake. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She watched the men in the dust of the Moon and thought of the orbiting command service module, out of view of the camera, circling the Moon every ninety minutes. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He was Tom and James and a man named Switchman, another named Butterfield; he was the town mayor and the young girl Judith and the husband William and the wife Clarisse. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man pointed towards the two hatchways that gave entrance to the lower world. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Try again after you start shaving, little man," she says, and keeps walking. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They were soon up, and ready at that word; but I was not to take my men unharmed from this place, even from this. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my mind, I saw the executioner strip off the man’s shirt and lead him into the open yard. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The space heater wasn’t on, no steaming cups sat on the table, the old man was still under the covers. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the season, Theon thought as the captain's daughter slid her lips up and down the length of him, the season, the year, the day, and I am the man. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

At this, those who were still standing helped the dead men get up from the courtyard floor. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

For three hours the men labored anxiously in the water. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I catch David’s eye as he steps closer to me and the man who is still holding me against the fridge. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He slaps the floor with his palms, gets into a low defensive stance, and waits for his man to reach him. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if he could fix the mechanical man without using the notebook? The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

It aroused a sort of envy in both men and women. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Lyra wanted to ask all kinds of questions, but suddenly she felt shy of this massive man, with his little eyes so sharp and kindly among their folds and wrinkles. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

"We are free men, and free men by rights sit on all war councils." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The man had been a famous marathon runner in his day. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Odysseus was not only a hero, he was a man of great resourcefulness. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pictured his father, who must have been a shy and quiet boy, for he was a shy and quiet man, seated with his group, waiting to be called to the stage. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

There’s El Cantil, a tall, skinny man named after a particularly agile and poisonous snake. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They were men who knew their minds, and I was, as yet, unformed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lay on the cot and wrapped his arms about his head, torn with a nameless anxiety, hearing the man’s screams in spite of his need to escape them. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The picture on this one was grim: a man was lying facedown on the ground with a bunch of swords sticking out of his back. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The short man in the cloak had put down his bundle, lit his wand, and was dragging Harry toward the marble headstone. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I’ve never been in there,” I say, “but my dad says the cells are like cages. Each one has a toilet, a sink, a bed and a man.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

On they ran, some of the men and women leading from ahead, some yelling encouragement from behind. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

And then, not wanting to hurt the old man’s feelings, he quickly added, “Hey, I told you everything about me. How about you?” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man in black reached down for the goblets. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I look at the curly-haired young man in front of me, sporting the exact right amount of stubble and charm. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Women received theirs in their own rooms and were kept separated from the men to protect their reputations. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Already the men were over the bank and the torchlight was flickering up and down the hedgerow and through the brambles above their very heads. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like the kind of dog that ate babies for breakfast, old men for lunch, and virgin sacrifices for dinner. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The man looked at Father, then back at me. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

A crowd of black kids gathered, watching my white mother arguing with this white man. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out on the wharf men were trundling boxes and bales of cargo to the Freedom. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It makes the men like dolls on which the faces have not yet been painted; like scarecrows, which in a way is what they are, since they are meant to scare. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could figure that if a man had five children and seven mules, he cleared a quarter by taking his family to the show. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Mark, are you okay?" he said, trying to pull the man to his feet. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I called over the prosecutor and said: “Inform this man that these documents are protected by attomey-client privilege, and that I do not have to turn them over.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I alter bodies, change hair colors and skin tones, give a man a songbird voice, erase agelines, and try to reassure frantic courtiers about how beautiful they are. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

There was no way Otto was going to mess with the old man now. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

In those early days, we are told, women voted as well as men. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Someone else put her back together, a man from the audience who knew some magic, and then the two of them ran away together and my granny was left entirely alone.” Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The man who shot Travis yanked the zipper pouch from his hand. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He was, they said, “a black man, like us.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Prendergast had grand hopes for the future, all of which rested on one man: Carter Henry Harrison. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

As we continued to walk around the camp, a man kept staring at us. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He would think of a day to come, when he was a man, and would have gold of his own, and could buy all the bread he wanted. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

And of a man who sold chickens in a market and was kind to outsiders. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

And as is usually true of a man of one idea, he became obsessed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had more faith in Elijah Muhammad than I could ever have in any other man upon this earth. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still don’t feel entirely at home among men. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He was a man of perhaps sixty, frail and bowed, with a long, benevolent nose, and mild eyes distorted by thick spectacles. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Inside he glimpsed hundreds of women, children, and old men, huddled on the floor on piles of furs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was forcing the men to identify themselves, and so the false courage the whiskey and the darkness had lent them was slipping away. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked down and was so flat-out embarrassed that I was grateful when a colored man who had big, blacksmith arms was patient ’nough to take careful aim with his punch and knock me cold! The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Forty leagues and more it was, as a bird flies, from Edoras to the fords of the Isen, where they hoped to find the king’s men that held back the hosts of Saruman. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Capricorn looked at Mo appraisingly before turning his eyes to the bags and chests his men had filled with coins. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The two men laughed again, and Toby tried to slip away. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

"We did not capture enough horses. A few, but . . . well, I'll make do with what I have, I suppose. Fewer men means more glory." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Things began to fall into place for the man with the photographs. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “Thank you, thank you kindly. Now give them men some.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It was enough to burst a man’s heart wide open. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The man in the stalled motorboat yanked frantically on the cord to his engine, and the two mud hens sought supper at the bottom of the lake, tails bobbing. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stone man went over backwards, grabbing hold of Tyrion as he fell. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Pity your brother, for he is a man of great desires and disappointments.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“I’m trying to teach my teenage son to punctuate properly,” said a nice scholarly-looking man. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

The man swung the melon down to the edge of a rock. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s been in and out of our station since he was twelve, the poor brat. Looks like he finally got what was coming to him and pickpocketed the wrong man.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The timid one was Justin, a fugitive like her and unaccustomed to waving bowie knives at white men. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

When Bernard rang up from downstairs to let us know the delivery man was in the elevator, Mom gave me two twenties from her purse. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

From the other side, three men in dark suits push a hulking metal contraption front and center. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Tina pointed to where Mrs. Das was purchasing something from one of the shirtless men who worked at the tea stall. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He don’t enjoy me none, and I don’t want no man who don’t enjoy his wife.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Harrison, at one point, was standing next to a man named George Despinis, the head of the Acropolis Museum in Athens. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The man downstairs felt so bad he went inside and shot himself, too, and now his wife has gone crazy with the grief of it. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A man in a railway cap asks us if we’d like to wait in a warm place. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She chanced a glance behind her and saw the blow tube at the man’s mouth. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

A man introduced himself as belonging to the Department of Homeland Security. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Each man had a daily sugar ration of three lumps, but most of them willingly put one lump a day in the “sugar pool.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

They’d come down to shepherd us through customs and speak French to the men in uniforms. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man screamed and banged on the glass, jumping up and down like a fat fly trapped in a bottle. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

And over the heads of the crowd and down past the dark storefronts and blinking neon signs I saw a bristling band of about twenty men quick-stepping forward. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Underfoot the leaves are scratched up as though the man had been kicking. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear yawning, grunting, men relieving themselves into slop buckets. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Mother, make this man leave,” Ignatius cried, trying to push his mother against Mr. Levy. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The puppy’s stamina embarrasses him, as does her blatant interest in young men. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The cluster of men on the steps smiled, grabbed the pastor’s hand, and gave it two-handed shakes, saying, “Hey Reverend, you brought a friend?” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Behind her, a man was talking about the market, how the traders were dancing to Congo music and giving away the best of their mangoes and groundnuts. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had no idea what to do until a Greek man passed by. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

What chance had he against a man like that? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Cantonese, village people,” she whispered as we passed women in knitted caps, bent over in layers of padded tops and men’s vests. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But nobody, nobody, drank a man’s liquor in his house unless they knew each other mighty well. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his terror he was once more the nice man who had driven her home. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The boat returned with more men in uniform and a load of heavy chains. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby’s father, Gaston—a Swiss watchmaker and jeweler—was not a large man. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Another was of a disconcertingly calm young man whose upper body appeared to be swarming with bees. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Widget pauses, considering the change in the way the man in the grey suit watches him. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They said Robert Baratheon was strong as a bull and fearless in battle, a man who loved nothing better than war. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

By the time the mistake was realized and the crowd began to turn back, there was no sign of Mace and his man. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The dead men were carried to one of the storerooms along the baSe of the Wall, a dark cold cell chiseled from the ice and used to keep meat and grain and sometimes even beer. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Blanca had to forgo two of their meetings by the river in order for the young men to meet. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other person was a man named O’Brien, a member of the Inner Party and holder of some post so important and remote that Winston had only a dim idea of its nature. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But one day a man who was not a Liberty Boy told Revere everything that had been said in the tavern the night before. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rented a large Afghan banquet hall in Fremont—the man who owned it knew him from Kabul and gave him a substantial discount. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Roger,” she said, “do you know when these young men were born?” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Actually, he was more a young man now, but he had been a farm boy when, orphaned, he had come to work for her father, and Buttercup referred to him that way still. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Or alerting anyone that she was interested in it, she realized, thinking about those men who must know she’s Surly Wombat. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

There must be three or four hundred men, women and teenagers, their backs to us. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Across the yard, the man smiles at me, showing a mouth with about two teeth. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The men like Jude who could do real work. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The man in black looked around for a rope to secure the giant, gave up the search almost as soon as he’d begun. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

But the shipping clerk at the Howrah train station was evidently a man both befuddled and diligent. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Amari thought briefly of her father, who loved meeting men of other tribes and learning their languages. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ole had remembered the Japanese man’s promise: how he’d stood in the fields and vowed that one day he would get his family’s land back. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“One jerk of a finger and a man is dead,” mused Johnny. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all put our heads down as that red-dog white man yelped and roared. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The distant call of the charcoal man’s horn sounded at the far end of the market. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

A man they knew only as “Steve” let them into a small studio, nearly empty of furniture. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The men sprang to their feet as Lady Constance approached. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

But the old man was tired and muddled with his backsight, and dreams were in his noddle. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 1996 some sixty men and women had reached the summit without it—five of whom didn’t make it back down alive. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The SS man smiles and throws the ball to her again, pointing toward the brick wall of the building. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The gray-haired man said “Christ!” but picked it up before the second ring. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

A man’s billfold bulges prominently from the front pocket of her jeans. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The snake men led them through an iron storm grate at the docks, straight into their underground lair, which smelled of rotting fish, mould and snakeskin. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

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

He dug a step and pulled himself up one single step, the way a man climbs the last shoulder of a mountain. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Not only was she opposed to this one aspect of tribal culture, but to others as well, particularly those involving relations between men and women and the upbringing of children. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only person he ever talked to was the field boss, Mr. Irwin, a red-faced man who wore dark green coveralls. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Doha’s own courtyard was lush, with pink peonies and golden forsythias, magnolia and plum trees, and azalea bushes that bloomed to a man’s height. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Without knowing it he edged forward until he stood at the old man’s shoulder, looking down at the wonder and breathing hard. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Hugo stood, staring in delight, until the old man’s voice shook him out of his trance. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

A man in a red-and-white headdress met us outside our new home. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Six queen’s men were wrestling two enormous pinewood poles into holes six other queen’s men had dug out. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Here a man realizes for the first time in how many places a man can get hit. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a nod, the unhappy man pulled his hat down over his eyes and withdrew from the study. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dede had looked at her husband, a long look as if she could draw the young man of her dreams out from the bossy, old-fashioned macho he’d become. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited, certain this strange man would expose me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm glad about that, honey," the man said, and burst out laughing. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

In a land of poor farmers, there were too many troubles for God and man alone. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

There was a sutler’s store, a white wagon, a man selling a strange elixir with the high blessed chant of a preacher. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I passed the night kneeling by the side of the finest man I had ever known, praying that the morning would not come. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes?” the dapper man at the clean desk asked brightly. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A greyhound, as white as ivory, couching on its hocks and elbows, its tail curved into the bony sickle of the greyhound, watched the old man with the doe-soft eyes of pity. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would attend to their evening tasks, preparing for the return of the village men, who would need food and fire and the wrapping of wounds. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A minute later, the flap separating Major Major’s office from the orderly room flew open and the second C.I.D. man was back, puffing frantically in haste. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

"But how? Only a few men in the whole country possess the knowledge —" "Then one of them is an inmate of a semi-madhouse," the vet said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked up and said, “That man was me.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She has not noticed him approach, but the man whose name she still cannot recall the proper pronunciation of is standing by her shoulder in his distinctive grey suit. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Where once a mighty curtain wall had stood, only scattered stones remained, blocks of black basalt so large it must once have taken a hundred men to hoist them into place. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My Polish papers would not do, said the little German man from behind the desk, one finger pushing up his wire-rimmed glasses, because I had never provided proof of my birth. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Temple building ceased in this season to free more men for the fields. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“From now on, we’ll do things — ” “Don’t you see, John? I don’t need you anymore. You are an old man!” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

She never offered any opinion or statement, and when a man was talking she gave a vague impression of listening while she went about doing the housework. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure which one I dislike less—the goofy loser who can’t fire a weapon, or the kid who can kill two men in cold blood and not break a sweat. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The man gestured to his left and we looked. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“A gud man,” said Jan Sorensen, who spoke with a hint of Danish in his voice. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

For a lap and a half, he ran in the cluster of men, unable to get free, restraining his stride to avoid running into the man ahead. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

On February 9, 1864, two African American men carried large bundles of petition rolls into the Senate chamber. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

And this had happened because I had read a novel about a mythical man called George F. Babbitt. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man said nothing, but he knew that what she said was quite right. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

These hours….The gurgling starts again—but how slowly a man dies! All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And this must be your boy,” the bearded man said. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was the geography of his own life, and that of the blind man, for they had both moved from that place to this other, with great difficulty. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Mose Wright shifted in his seat “It seemed lighter than a man’s.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

A horrifying thought occurred to Colonel Cathcart: Suppose Colonel Scheisskopf had already bribed all the men in the room to begin moaning, as they had done at the first Avignon mission. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

What does Shad think about it that General Grant is the top man in the army now? Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Biography section you see an old man reading The Tipping Point. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

I nodded, yet fear of the white man still tormented me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Historians have described the commandos as ordinary men who had an extraordinary job. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Several witnesses had told us that around the time of the crime, a white man had been seen leaving the cleaners. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

There wasn't a town trapped underwater or generations of men with the same name destined to repeat the same mistakes. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Small and slight and who knew how old, Crane-man still moved his upper body with the ease of a young man; many were the times that Tree-ear forgot completely about the useless leg. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Captain,” a man calls out, “there are seventeen wounded, no one dead.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Was he handsome?”—“She believed he was reckoned a very fine young man.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Who was this man who interrupted the princess so carelessly? Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I imagined the big man as wide across his back and tanned as the dark turtle and just as unflappable as it did a slow breaststroke from end to end. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the little man under the arms, hoisted him up in the air, and spun him around in a circle. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

That distasteful little man didn't even have the sense to remove his silly aviator's cap. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, as dawn began to drain the dark, both men heard a sound. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t ever lose that, George, and I know you’ll turn into a fine young man.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The darker man narrows his eyes and studies Yolanda a moment. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The thousand ships carried a great host of fighting men and the Greek Army was very strong, but the Trojan City was strong, too. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Whenever, man, just have a good time, all right?” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Over my dead body that man is going to eat a sancocho in my house.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At noon Smith had decided to try to take his men back. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man hangs his long arms from the top bar of the truck canopy; he eclipses the ruined village, the fields, the rising sun. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“They clean and they cook and they make babies and they all live in a big dormitory outside of town where they can’t interfere in men’s business.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

But Chaol and his men moved so fast that the fleeing Champion didn’t have time to touch the glass door before an arrow went clean through his throat. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Our men were being sent in without guns. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Three muscular young men were lifting and straightening some heavy boxes. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A guard planted a kick in the old mans ribs. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I want you see my men. I call them. They come and you see them. First I call Chijioke. He work cab driver. Then Emeka. He work security. You see them.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The thin man turned obligingly and called for the slave girl to fetch them food and drink. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mercenary captains are either excellent men or they are not. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

The men were in chest-high water now, some of them carrying rifles above their heads, and they were dropping into seas already tinged pink by the blood of other men in front of them. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It is said that men may not be the dreams of the gods, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then a tall, broad-shouldered man stepped out of the pickup truck. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I would have called until someone let me out,” said the man Jack. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The men in charge said that since I work with animals at home, I should be in charge of caring for the cavalry's horses. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

It was without fault except for the old man waiting for bread. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I think for an important man like you we should be able to find a bed at the Merciful Sisters.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

As young men came to the island, we realized that they knew very little about the history of the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the sort of man who invariably went hatless, his hair was bleached from the sun of the last days and his skin was deeply tanned. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Dying horses and wounded men lay all around, screaming or moaning. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was between two strange and ruthless men, Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

My working theory then held all black people as kings in exile, a nation of original men severed from our original names and our majestic Nubian culture. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The man goes to sleep in a golden palace and wakes up in a set of ruins, for the man had been the victim of illusions conjured by the demons. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man was looking past them, into the dark, and then he came out and looked around further, as if there were someone missing. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A growl from Pantalaimon prompted her, and just briefly she saw someone there on the very top, looking down over the battlemented rim, and not a child either, but a young man, with curly hair. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had often talked of a deep-sea-fishing boat, which they would buy, man themselves, and rent to vacationers—this though neither had ever skippered a canoe or hooked a guppy. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half an hour later, another convoy of trucks carrying more grim-faced black men in gaudy blankets went by. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any man within visiting distance would have been neutralized as a lover—“brother,” “younger brother,” “older brother”—one hundred and fifteen relationship titles. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just when the commotion was quieting down, a man appeared at the schoolhouse door. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lot of men in town were not educated. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

"I need no man's help," he said, in a voice proud and hard. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Benko had achieved the “better” of it and years later would confess: “I am sorry that I beat up Bobby. He was a sick man, even then.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

At the front door of Gutshot Textiles, they were met by a large man with a beard like Santa Claus's but browner. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The man pulled a penknife out of his pocket and slashed the cloth banner off the poles. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

By the time Jonathan reached the tavern, only four of the men remained. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

R’hllor provided her with all the nourishment her body needed, but that was something best concealed from mortal men. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Book after book showed me how the white man had brought upon the world’s black, brown, red, and yellow peoples every variety of the sufferings of exploitation. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They took her into a room with some naked men prisoners. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, Tidbit, you no slave. You free man, just like your mama dream. You never be slave again.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the young man sneered at Wang Lung and he said, “Ah, that son of my cousin’s needs no leading. He can go alone.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Tonight he appeared to be a shadow, hanging on every word from this pompous opinionated man. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

A young man in front of her screamed and placed his hands on his head. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A dark-skinned black man dressed in a Santa suit is clanging a bell next to a Salvation Army sign. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

In my writing classes, I first wrote brutal stories about prison, about New York street life, about the men I knew who had hard lives and hard hearts. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The old man on the bench, for example, made her cry. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“I-I've been thinking. About the fire last week. About the man whose library we fixed. What happened to him?” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Meridian, Mississippi, where Mrs. Hunter lived, the chief of police confiscated the Defender from men selling it on the street. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Gesturing with their guns and laughing, the other sailors corralled the remainder of Hatchet’s men. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“A brave man acknowledges the strength of others,” Four replies. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The bolts were making the normal-looking white man in the picture with him float off his feet and scramble and scratch at the air like he was ’bout to drift up to the clouds! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

"If truth be told, I doubt even Lord Frey knows what Lord Frey intends to do. He has an old man's caution and a young man's ambition, and has never lacked for cunning." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Narciso taunted, and even as the men struggled to separate them his huge arms flew out and landed with dull, sick thuds on Tenorio’s face and body. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trees cleared, and before him was a line of men wearing turquoise jewelry, blue jeans, velvet button-down shirts, and red moccasins. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

And so the old man bowed several times, gave his blessings and stammered his wishes for a good journey. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pomp asked him of the sea’s lore, and he told us tales of sea-waifs in cradles of kelp, and the glowing corposants that crawl ship’s spars when guilty men keep crimes embosomed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

‘They hide in the robes of these Arab men as they’re walking towards the gates . ‘I remember,’ Kat said. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I do. So that he can marry again—marry a cheerful healthy woman who’ll give him children that can live. That’s every good man’s right.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young man and his mother were still staring at each other. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I realized then that Hamlet believed it was a man’s lot to be cheated by the woman he loves. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The police cars and officers manning the roadblocks were clearly visible. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grass as tall as living men, and taller, but dry and white as a dead woman’s hair. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A prison administrator dealing with captured American enlisted men for the first time should be warned: Expect no brotherly love, even between brothers. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to talk to the white man and ask him some questions, but he did not know for sure if he could really understand. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A man who can’t learn from experience is a fool, he said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He stands next to a tall man with bushy eyebrows and a short, meek-looking woman with red hair. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Flowers weren’t available at sea and so the koumbaros, a guy named Pelos serving as best man, switched the king’s hempen crown to the queen’s head, the queen’s to the king’s, and back again. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Its title is Inkheart because it's about a man whose wicked heart is as black as ink, filled with darkness and evil. I still like the title.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He went where the man beckoned and stood near his chair, noticing the scent of cologne that emanated from him. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Flora wasn’t sure, but she thought it was possible that her father was the world’s loneliest man. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

A man who had slicked-back hair and wore Bermuda shorts came around the back, carrying a bowl of water. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

From where I stood I could look up into the flooding beams of light that were pointed down by the excited men. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I were Gestapo, I think, I’d have a man in some of these apartments, watching the fence, unseen from above. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She kept one eye on the young guy and the man in sunglasses, who had lit up a cigarette. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The man in the pale suit in the seat beside Shadow put out his arm and tapped his watch with his fingernail. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Over the next two days, the men concentrated on getting well. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Bigger, pleasel Don’t say sir to me. ... I don’t like it. You’re a man just like I am; I’m no better than you. Maybe other white men like it. But I don’t. Look, Bigger. . . .” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He paused, and for a moment assumed again his air of a schoolmaster questioning a promising pupil: “How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Matt was filled with gratitude for the old man who had spared him such a terrible fate. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a very brave thing to do, but a thing that only a man with a heart as hard as his would have done. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

On November 12, the temperature soared to thirty-five degrees Fahrenheit, and several men took advantage of the warmth to take a wash in the snow. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The dinner was Kheifetz’s way of thanking Kamen for his having arranged radiation treatment for a Soviet diplomat’s leukemia in John Lawrence’s lab, but it was viewed with much greater gravity by the security men. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Ultima took a step towards the men and they fell back. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

C. J. hurried forward and stopped the man and asked him what he was doing. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men came after him a few minutes later. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the door stood the porter and the conductor, a black man and a white man of the South, both crying. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Varangians are good, ye hear? But Sigurd is as dark a man as can walk this earth. He’s mad, but a cunning mad. The kind of mad that’ll leave nothing but ashes where he goes.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The men and older boys would be out grazing cattle. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Varney said this smiling, but he was driving in nails now, attacking deep and hard, sensing that the man in front of him could not even blink an eye in rebuttal. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got to teach you that I’m a white man. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men aboard the fan boat barely glanced at them. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

So why would black people know what’s going on in the white man’s world? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Doctor Warren told his colored man to make up a bed for Johnny in the surgery. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"One thing I do remember is that he had a thing about socks," says the assistant manager, a fleshy, garrulous man named George Dreeszen. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Aight, so how about when we get to the store, we just take some yarn, man. I mean, ain't no point in buying something so stupid," he said. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He did not want her to see the monstrous mask of fear on the man’s face. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man shut his eyes and spat on the station floor. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“We are now led by men from Virginia, I am told,” she said, “land of my birth. I assure Your Honor that in Virginia, we do not tolerate the rebellion of slaves.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

To those men, I was an inferior, a servant, a person without a trade, and therefore to be treated with disdain. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He himself could do something outrageous with his bowie knife and earn the love of a hundred men. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

One that was sitting in a man’s hand. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Dasch worked hard to help the men create and learn their new identities, and he was proud of his efforts. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“First winter I remember, the snows came over my head,” said a Homwood man in the queue ahead of him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I’d tell you if you had, Arthur,” the gray-haired man said. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Man, oh man, you going to see something. Ain’t those Cheerleaders something? Man, oh man, you never heard nothing like it when they get going.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And well he might. He was a man, before you killed him." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I remember one of them especially: a lean, aloof, superior man of middle age. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dim light from the cabin window cast long equal shadows from man and posts. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Too old. And he’s traveling with two other men.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

And she would have tried to protect me from the older man who wanted to marry me. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amidst these alarums, Will pleaded still with men around us to take him back out to the island; that John could be saved; that they had come so far together, he could not leave him. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

So Will supposed that this was what the men were after, and knew he had to do something about it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first, the man and woman were just annoyed and pressed past Fred to ask other people if they’d “seen a boy, six years old, in a Lion King T-shirt?” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Within an hour after arriving in Shali- mar, a young man had tried to kill him in public. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There really were only five men,” I say, tho the word army is echoing round my Noise. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Still, it placed upon men such as Powell and Donovan the necessity of synthesis of complete robots,—a grievous and complicated task. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“His head burns, and this heat is no good for a man his age,” she adds. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

But I was not really listening to Papa; I was thinking of the man in the blue jeans, the dead man. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The medic fumbled briefly with the wounded man’s fatigues, then cut them away from his chest. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another man spoke up, “Yeah, and to them any colored man would do just fine.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And here I am, shooting off my mouth at five-thirty in the morning to a man holding a rifle. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She needed a steady man who could marry her. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the team couldn’t find any of the men they’d talked to before. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

When the train give a jerk and stopped in London, the man who was sitting ’crost the way from us got off. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

He recognized a few people—a woman with a baby, two men, a teenage girl—but no one he knew well. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man stepped quickly inside and slammed the door behind him. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I turned and saw a man in overalls, a paper cup of coffee in his hand, a ring of keys hanging from his belt. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Slowly, stiffly, the man got up and went over to where the young soldier was sleeping. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then the merchant said with great good humor, “And so I have such need of a sharp young man, if he reads and writes.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“She’s using the transmitter we were supposed to find. I found it. Weeks ago. They said it was a network of terrorists, but it was just an old man and a girl.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The man rolled off the roof again, and Tally leaped onto the board. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Was this her idea of “throwing off the yoke of oppressor man?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Captain Smith decides that now that some of us are well, every able-bodied man must be skilled at using a musket. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

When the lights came up, the gloved man was gone, melted into the shadows. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Teece,” said one of the other men on the porch, getting up, “let him go.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men on the side of Death are still alive. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The online men too were gorgeous: 68 percent called themselves “above average,” including 19 percent with “very good looks.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

After school, just to be on the safe side with those men, Emily left through a different door from the main one they had walked out of yesterday. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Soon’s he heard my voice, the man’s eyes got wide and his nose flared. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Susan Smith's effort to blame random black men for the death of her children in South Carolina before later admitting to murdering them fascinated crime-obsessed Americans. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“You are three men of sin, whom destiny has belched up ’pon this island,” Cymbeline crowed, rolling her eyes at the disturbance. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

World War I was still raging when the ice men returned to England. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He bent o’er the man and went through his pockets too. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

As the last notes faded, Horse murmured, “You miss a man so much.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I shoved my way along the column of marching men, chose a moment when the guard wasn’t looking, and stepped into the moving line beside Max. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

That week, a man put chicken wire around his garden, five feet high, complete with a little gate and padlock. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gale force wind tore the crests from the rollers, covering the men and boats with a layer of ice. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

"Die," the man grunted, chopping at him savagely. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There, I saw not only flare-ups of ethnic animosity, but the comity that was also possible among men of different backgrounds. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"That's the one," said the little hairy man, his head questing from side to side as if he were preoccupied, or a little nervous. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The free men and women of color, the fugitives who stayed and the ones who moved on. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It disoriented me to hear the two men speaking, their voices overlapping in a low din. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was as likely to kill a crop as nurture it, and it sent grown men running for the nearest shelter. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He turned delightedly to the man across the aisle. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Fewer than 5 percent of the neighborhood’s adults had a college degree; barely one in three adult men worked at all. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Even as I decided to speak to him, I saw the steward and the bailiff emerge from the manor house, along with men from the village. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Right here,” the man said wearily, lowering his sunglasses to reveal a pair of sad, ocean-blue eyes. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was a big bear of a man who didn’t think twice about offering me a hug in the face of this tragedy. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

But I simply did not believe that this man could stop us. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Mostly, I just think Mr. P is a lonely old man who used to be a lonely young man. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like a heavy door—one more likely to break the men’s shoulders than it was to give. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The little man wrote with painful deliberation, finally finished with both Milo and Tock, and looked up happily. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Why would a man want to call a book Prejudices? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another black man went up the steps and into the flat. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And a man couldn’t harmonize with his crewmates unless he opened his heart to them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

"Yeah, man. Be in front of the house in five minutes." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man was screaming right in his ear. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I force myself to look at his eyes, searching for a remnant of the soft-spoken man who once thanked me for saving his marriage. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abuela told me she was tired as she looked back at the impeccably dressed man. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Right, well, I’m a busy man, so let’s get down to business. First of all, we need to discuss your security.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The mansion cracked its sides open and men and women spilt through the doors after their own babble. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“He’s with someone right now. It might be a while—” A tall, lean Cealdish man opened the door behind the entry desk. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Even as her hair lured her imminent lover, many other men looked at her. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again, save for the shifting feet of the men, there was a silence. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The peculiar young man hesitated, then commenced to hum once more, his voice as deep and reverberant as before. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I almost leap out of the man’s arms. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

What men care for most was set before him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed a few checkpoints manned by Nigerian soldiers, and Odenigbo muttered something under his breath each time they were waved past. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Naomi stood by Beto as a man with round glasses and shaky hands examined him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

As I approached the line of little frame houses on both sides of the creek, I came upon a knot of men gathered on and around Pooky’s porch. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“If need be, he j could simply take all this at swordpoint. We do not have the men to stop them. The wildlings must be fed as well.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"He sounds like a good man to have around," I said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says that Ratchett told him of this person and employed him to watch out for the man. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three white men were arrested two years later and details of the lynching were finally made public. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Below, the men were gathering for the distribution of weapons. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I came to wonder if every disease of man and beast had simply waited for my arrival to invade the valley. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because Frank hailed from Chicago, the men called him Gangster. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The few who found it invigorating tended to be men who had waded in its “river of death,” Sinclair’s phrase, and panned from it great fortunes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Boyfriends are supposed to be the ultimate hype men. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The man in the cowboy hat spit sunflower seed shells into a wastepaper basket. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

‘Well, there is only one piece of advice I can give you,’ said the wisest of wise men. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was glad now that his father had left him a rich man. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

At Moat Cailin the bog devils had loosed poisoned arrows at his men, but that was to be expected from such degraded creatures. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The man in our living room was taller than the sky and whiter than my image of God. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The military men began to twitch, but they stayed put. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept my eyes on the mopping man and in my head I said, Pineapple. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

For nearly two years, the young women would have to struggle with men’s boots and oversize, ill-fitting clothing, made for men “right down to the underwear.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It’s the bones that let you know which skeleton was a man’s when it was a man and which a woman’s. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Salim knows, knows deep down in his gut, that Blanding was the man with the unlit cigar. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Yessuh. Looked to me like a man was sitting in the backseat along with her.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Did he want to touch the man to comfort him, I wonder, or to kill himself? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ladies in long skirts, with parasols, and strong men in striped three-piece suits with gold pocket watches. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Some even accused those men of being fakers and cowards. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men knew that we were accusing them of misconduct, but for the most part they remained civil. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

My mother had looked in my rice bowl and told me I would marry a bad man. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wang Lung looked at the pictured man in horror and with increasing interest. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

In the early stories, he is oftenest a beautiful serious youth who gives good gifts to men. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The desert takes our men from us, and they don’t always return,” she said. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You want to be with that white man, girl?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

In 1952, the year Perry completed his military service, the old man was in the midst of plans meant to end his travels forever. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

His head was wrenched sideways, as if loose at the neck, and the dead young man seemed to be staring at some distant object beyond the bell-shaped flowers along the trail. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fair knight,” he said, “put down that wounded man and 353 let him test a little. Then we two can prove our strengths.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was sent to tell you he’s dead,” said the goony man. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The men and the dogs were talking to each other. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow he had been pushed there by the scuffling, reeling men and he lay sprawled in the chair like an aged doll. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps thirty men alive were his equal when he used his left. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The old man could see that he was very tired. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she had been little, she had thought that he was the tallest man in the world. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Vincent came up and stopped the column, and the men moved gratefully out into a field, carrying the rails of the fences with them for evening fires. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the tribal men lunged at the cross-eyed evangelist and had to be restrained and taken out of the tent. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I've gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. Have you read 'The Rise of the Coloured Empires' by this man Goddard?" The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Barty Crouch was a stiff, upright, elderly man, dressed in an impeccably crisp suit and tie. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I—I never meant—” To Zane’s surprise, the man in the gray suit chuckled. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He was gesturing in a quarrelsome, agitated manner with another man. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

His television, the only one in the neighborhood, would draw a big crowd of men who wanted to watch the afternoon news and drink tea. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

I chuckled at catching subtle expressions of disdain on several white faces as a black man trounced a white man. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old man like him goes to bed early, I guess. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mama offered the man the small portion of rice remaining from our morning meal. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We could drown ourselves,” said the bald man. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

But Hesiod, who was a peasant living in a poor man’s world, knew that the poor must have a just god. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Zulu man is known as the warrior. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She fled to a cousin’s house in the country, disgraced, while the minister kept his post and was deemed a generous man for acknowledging his son. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

After all these years of acting like the saddest man alive, Milligan now acted as if he were the happiest man alive—and perhaps he was. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

On a table is a gold picture frame of Miss Celia and Mister Johnny at the altar and I look close to see what kind of man he is. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The hate we felt for the men whom we had tried to cheat went into the blows we threw at each other. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

His corps of generals and provincial governors was filled with ambitious men with access to manpower and vast amounts of cash. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Drab, silent men hang all around the perimeter with hungry eyes. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Her handmaids wolfed theirs down giggling and grinning, though the men of her khas sniffed at the grilled meat suspiciously. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Through the big window, I see the man backing up, like he’s trying to see where to break in next. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Bull had flown with Cecil Causey in the Korean War and had great respect for the man both as a commander and a pilot. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I passed the man with the jumping frogs and the man with the boxer toys. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

She had seen these men before, on the night she had gotten lost. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

At last, I see my window—a gap where two security bots have turned away and left a narrow, clear path to the man. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Riding there from fall to spring every year, they defined themselves as athletes and as men. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He imagined that somebody had told Eze something similar—you need to collect art, you need to learn about art—and so the man had gone after art with the zeal of an invented interest. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The man ripped off his apron and bundled it under her hands. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Castle Black was already beginning to stir as men in black cloaks made their way across the yard to break their fast with bowls of porridge before they relieved their brothers atop the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I’m trying to give you some advice, from one old man to a much younger version of himself.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Just then, they passed one man shouting at two others. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Yet for all the splendor of his garb, he remained an ugly man, big-boned and slopeshouldered, with a fleshiness to him that suggested that in later life he would run to fat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

War-sick men streamed from the walls, sticks raised, converging on a figure down on the field. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The body of a large man in uniform was filling the door. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The captain shouts orders at his men, a whip much in evidence. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He brought in another man who turned out to be the doctor, and my leisure time was over. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

And even though the stories Chaim told were terrible, of German planes shooting down the refugees on the road and the executions of innocent men, there was more laughter than tears. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

This is exactly the reason why wherever people who are anything but white live in this world today, the white man’s governments are finding themselves in deeper and deeper trouble and peril. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man was doing most of the yelling, even though we couldn’t really make out anything he was saying. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A dog accompanied him, or rather, the dog ran ahead, slowed, sniffed the ground, gave a bark, chased a butterfly, and in a dozen other ways, made the world safe for the man. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“No man wants a wife more learned than he is, for fear that she will prove a shrew and make him wear the skirts.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Without a word, the man puts a large sandwich stuffed with scrambled eggs into Rodas’s hands. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The waitress came by and Link stopped and smiled at her and she was like, What a nice young man. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His quick fingers turned the pages until they came upon an engraving of a man’s body, its skin flayed open to reveal bones, the human heart, and a maze of conduits and sinews. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The two men said nothing more to the policeman, but they watched him all the way back to their bunks. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even with the fetters gone, Reek moved like an old man. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

That night she danced he was already a dead man, a living dead man who sucked life from the living, desiring and hating it even as he took it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, just the young man I wanted to see,” he said, his face illuminated by candlelight. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The street below was filled with men, Jewish men, walking in lines, one behind the other, German guards with guns marching with them on either side. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

And I say, “I thought you were. You defend this criminal white man harder than he defends his guilty self!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men speculated it must have belonged to one of the rubber gatherers who had been out exploring the area. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

There were eighteen military bunk beds inside for thirty-six men. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s like this, man,” the disgruntled coyote figure said, its lone jaundiced eye staring blankly at the sky. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man intends to deal out Freawaru to him; he has no assurance it will work. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cilia reported to Johnny that Lieutenant Stranger did, indeed, attend Miss Lavinia’s handsome frolic and a more gloomy young man she had never seen. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Give the men flintlock pistols and horses and they could have come straight out of a children’s book. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The man turned his head, looked at me, twitched his mouth to reveal several rotten buckteeth, spat a huge blob of mucus into the fire, and then broke into a long, scornful laughter. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had run into a whole crowd of Capricorn’s men almost as soon as he stumbled out of the church. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Why do there have to be men like that, men who enjoy another man’s dying? The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shouting man was tall and blond and clad in a rich robe. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

They could have showed us a thousand big, flat-faced men, and we would have known Mr. Kendall in a trice. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

And on top of my head was this thick, smooth sheen of shining red hair—real red—as straight as any white man’s. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

As Ferris’s men became accustomed to handling the big cars, the process of attaching them to the wheel accelerated. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The prospect of food brought other men out of the houses, near all of them wearing bits of mail or boiled leather. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The young man could watch Theresa walk past a window. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

There came a thunder of footfalls above me, someone calling, "Keep going man, it's hell upstairs. Somebody done opened the door to the roof and them flames is leaping." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced at the man out of the corner of my eye. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the final window, a red Indian received a piece of parchment from three white men who stood in noble postures, their hands open in gestures of negotiation. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And this time there was no way for the men of the Connecticut 5th to shoot back. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

That night, a man let Kaztauskis in on a little secret to success. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The old man nods his head and says, “Yes, sonny. We are all going to cut cane in Dominicanie.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

That way, American men could be freed up for combat work. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s pity,” said I, scornfully, as I finished my interrupted breakfast, “that the man did not say what he had done and would do again.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The three men lay on their beds, smoking and waiting. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There were peep shows in the back that showed movies of young women and men with no clothes on. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

An elderly man walking a little white dog looked curiously at them as they passed. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The third picture was of Sergeant Bickle, the woman, and a young man— their son, I figured. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

We pile in as many men and goods as we can, and then the sailors take to the oars and row to shore. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

What kind of society did he live in which allowed a black man to become rich and famous at the expense of whites, instead of the other way round? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around fifty men sprinted down to Twenty-Ninth Street to see for themselves what was going on. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The man, who was as bald as a beach ball, introduced himself as Curly. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the men working nearby would watch me and laugh. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"That's great, man," Brick says, in a voice that sounds almost serious. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Before they could regain their feet, I had picked the locks on the ankle cuffs, snapped them onto the men’s wrists, and bounded down the stairs. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The man with the raised hand demanded, in an accent that sounded Latin American, “How do we get to the Combat Zone?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There were only three men working on the small ship. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The man that hove into view and stood there looking at him was dressed in a gray and yellow ski parka. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

All the men in the photographs wore hats; the women and girls were in billowy skirts. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Now an old man distributed these and some tiny boxes of raisins to everyone. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was alone,” as James Joyce wrote of Stephen Dedalus, his artist as a young man. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man lay back with his head pillowed on a heap of cut grass. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not that she sounds like a man; it’s like she sounds like something way beyond silly signs on a bathroom door. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Montag tried to see the men's faces, the old faces he remembered from the firelight, lined and tired. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You watch out,” said the black man softly as I started after them. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it is not right to speak of young sea elephants as babies, for they are as large as a man. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is a slender man who looks like a teenager, and he has a wry sense of humor. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The very last man of Colonel Smith’s command to return was Major Pitcairn. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a lot of stuff about becoming a man. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

We were just coming out of the third den when we saw three men appear in the courtyard. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the men on the bus seemed unsurprised. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Details of men, in front, were removing white rail fences. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The entire cloister was now on fire, and although firefighters raced toward the blaze, they were intercepted by a young man stepping out of the main gate. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The two young men were staying at the Leaky Cauldron in London, preparing to depart for Greece the following morning, when an owl arrived bearing news of Dumbledore’s mother’s death. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Now, his father was a healthy man, although he was old, who had not worked at all for five years now and thus could not be counted on for very much. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man carrying the feet pushed a button that rang a bell. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The old man felt the fingers, warm and firm. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That man is a dangerous radical,” Ignatius said darkly. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

No men in the guest room arguing politics. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A large photograph of an elderly man in yachting costume attracted me, hung on the wall over his desk. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The color climbs over the man's arm, changing his skin from pale gray to a warm color with yellowy undertones. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

There is a great deal to be seen in the tilt of a hat on a man. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A lot of us could have lost our jobs over excavating the park, but she protected us all. Every man out there that night kept his job thanks to her.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Some religious people were furious that it ignored the biblical account of creation and man’s expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man got started but, without a mirror, apparently didn’t make much progress. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the helicopter got shot down, many men would not be able to be medevacked out. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

With fumbling hands, the old man lit a candle and carried it to the workroom beneath the rookery stair, where his ointments, potions, and medicines stood neatly on their shelves. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A sliver of a man could be seen looking out at them, a man with long black hair parted in curtains around a sallow face and black eyes. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The man raises it, silently fires it into the air, and a second later Pete hears the delayed report of the gunshot, dull and distant. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The white man who sat beside me rose and I turned my knees aside to let him pass, and another white man sat beside me and buried his face in a newspaper. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white men said the ferry waren’t leaving for forty-five minutes. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Oh, how the white man has succeeded in turning brother against brother.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man was a creature of the library through and through. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In the picture beneath the headline is a young man with a plain face and a beard. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

One of the “wise men” from the dungeon appeared on the screen, with a speech balloon that said, “Thank you. I am indebted to you. Please accept a giant robot as your reward.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They wouldn’t hire a black man for the orchestras or anything like that in those days and he scuffled around and slept in flophouses. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You want a taste of the stick too, you little beggar?” the man sneered, spitting drops of saliva. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Better Joe pushed at the young man’s head; seemed to remonstrate; and Charles said something in their tongue. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

This was bad news for Hutton, of course, but good news for science as it cleared the way for a man named John Playfair to rewrite Hutton’s work without fear of embarrassment. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

My dad said, “Was he there with his family? Did you bother the poor man?” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I pressed my back against the closed door, trying to put space between me, the man, and the machine. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

False friends, treacherous servants, men who had professed undying love, even her own blood ... all of them had deserted her in her hour of need. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Are you still studying? What else do you want to know? Dr. Bentley says you already know more mathematics than any man in the country!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within minutes, the three of them were standing before a muscular man with the head of a bull. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“He says you were the contact man in setting up the Smith house explosion,” White said. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They were going to talk the talk of young men, and even in the role of Eduardo there was no place for her. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

As in Płaszów, men and women were housed in separate barracks, but unlike Płaszów, we were allowed to visit each other. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

That they were giving an award named after a beloved prime minister who had been tragically murdered by a deranged man to someone who represented people on death row revealed a lot about their values. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But then she saw that Will had swept up the man in his right hand, holding him tightly around the legs so he couldn’t use his spurs, and was holding him high. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A man with panic in his voice demands the crowd make way. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She felt that the man should be beaten for his impertinence, then thrown out of Asgard and sent on his way. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Three miles south of Rose Hill an old man waited at the side of the road for the wagon to approach and held up his hand as a signal for Jethro to stop. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

It also includes a man, whom I’ve never told you about. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

My father had to be pulled off the man, having nearly beaten him to death. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

His men emerged from the wood behind him. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Twenty miles north,” said the man in the yellow suit. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked like a woman who has lost her baby, like a man who has lost his son. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The man found a larger bag that had contained brochures and helped consolidate my trinkets. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

"Come in, my daughter, come in," the robed and bearded man was saying, and then "Come in, my son" as Shasta panted up to him. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Deciphering the laws of heredity, he wrote, would transform “man’s outlook on the world, and his power over nature” more “than any other advance in natural knowledge that can be foreseen.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The empirical evidence strongly supports the conclusion that declining wages, downsizing, deindustrialization, globalization, and cutbacks in government services represent much greater threats to the position of white men than so-called reverse discrimination. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Strauss scholars disagree on whether his withdrawal was a rejection of his previous accommodation with the regime, a suspicion that it might not last, or simply an old man choosing retirement. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The man’s face broke into a smile, and he tore our tickets and remarked on what pretty children we were. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

He walked his horse in a circle, looking at the little force of men. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In the intense silence a drop of sweat fell from his chin to the concrete floor, and both men heard it distinctly. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was the same suspicious man she'd seen earlier that morning. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then—as a crowning absurdity, my salvation that moment—came the man the thanes called Unferth. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a very nice man from Mexico living in your old apartment. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

And the old man had given five million dollars to colored people. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“A man with a brave tongue should support his words with courageous actions.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The man was satisfied with this and he went away. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

It dawns on me that he could be an old man just pretending to be a fourteen-year-old kid. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

They had just cleared off the plate i rom the man who had been at the counter. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes—yes—food—” said the old man eagerly, following her into the kitchen like a child. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He was one of Herat’s best-connected men, friend of the mayor and the provincial governor. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

In the mid-1950s, a woman named Helen Willey led a successful charge to have every female computer with a math degree upgraded to mathematician, a title that automatically applied to men with the same credential. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

They want the best for me, and the way they see it, a man from my tribe would be best for me. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Francie knew that this was so because now, as soon as night came and the street lights went on, the hot-chestnut man set up his little stand on the corner. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the black man always says, “I forgive you, man. I forgive you for your sins.” Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

From behind the shed, the men looked out at the suspension bridge leading across the gorge. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He moved back to the cluster around the black man. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The daughters will never know and the old man won’t mind because he’s only half conscious most of the time worn out from all his years in the English army in India. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She watched a corpulent man beside her pull out a gold coin from a purse on his hip that looked to be near bursting. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

My old man only took water when he was tracking an elephant. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The elders, the old men leaders, had chosen him for a special task. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Finally the woman came into the dining room followed by a pale young man who sat down and stared at the food. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started playing him real loose and kept switching off on number 5, Trip’s man. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

And as to stratagems, no man would claim Odysseus’ gift for those. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They're just way stations before the prisoners are taken out of the country, to other camps with foreign-sounding names, to places where healthy young men may die of mysterious illnesses. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But little did we know, as we ate and sang and the older men told stories about the fire, that our good fortune would soon bring trouble to Ghalas-at. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its wounds are as fresh as the wounds of the men who carved it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Someday,” she said, moved suddenly to tell this man her deepest wish, “I will be a princess. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Old men and young ones draped themselves in front of the Elmira Theater, Irene’s Palace of Cosmetology, the pool hall, the grill and the other sagging business enterprises that lined the street. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He came to a halt beside the man with the knife, who was now cackling with laughter at the sight of Ogden on the ground. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

That milk is drunk by the children of men alone and without it they will not wake to life. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re fighting so that you, me and every black man, woman and child in this country can lead a life of dignity.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gordievsky considered himself a devoted family man, but his secrets and lies created an inevitable distance between him and those he loved most. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

State law in Delaware once had explicitly restricted jury service to white men, and “no colored citizen had ever been summoned as a juror.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“That the same young man who caused all that trouble last year for cussing someone out?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Rage would heave their chest each time something or someone reminded them that it was the white man who kept their families away from them. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this tree in the yard—this tree that men chopped down...this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up its stump—this tree lived! A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

White men walking arm in arm with black men, with no chains on either of them. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the contrary, the old man would always announce it. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tall man in uniform stood in the shadowed doorway of the next building. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t disturb the body, they just grabbed the old man’s hand and offered a few words and moved away. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not even look at the man, and as the sheriff drew a chair across the room the man said, “We’ll go out so you can talk. Come on, Myrtle.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a man in city clothes and a woman in the fanciest clothes ever. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“That man has been a great help to you,” he said. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Tell me about the man with the red beard, then.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Her mother translated into simpler English, "What car was the man driving, Carla?" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“But rights are for living men, not for the dead.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The man pointed spot-on at the boy and called out, “You!” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The skinny man drove off, and I had a feeling that my dad’s change of heart had already happened. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The woman in front of me lurches to the right, losing her balance, and then erupts into giggles as she falls against the man next to her. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

No jury can declare a man guilty unless it’s sure. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He catches my eye, nods, and takes long strides to a black-suited man who has been watching the scene unfold from a short distance. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

A man was climbing over a near-by ledge, and beyond him was a small knot of men, their faces lit to a distinct whiteness by the swinging pencils of light. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

So far, neither man had mentioned where they were going. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

O-lan brought them food and the women brought their men food, and the men ate standing in the field, gulping it down as beasts do, as they worked night and day. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

There’s probably a religious motif, though in the foreground something more immediate: money, the release of others jailed in some sinkhole for doing more or less the same thing these men are doing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The old man was now bent over the side of the bed, his face buried in his hands, weeping. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

It allows you to think, to wonder if you’ve missed out on other possibilities by becoming a wife to this man in this house with these children. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A man next to me said, “I’d rather be shot than sit around and watch my kids go hungry.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Come on, man, she said, her hands trembling. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

"Turned over a new leaf, Preacher Kane turned over a new leaf so there's no booze for anybody on Christmas Eve, even in our own house where a man is his castle." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Is there any Guild men in the tower now?” said Lyra. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her heroes were her friends and her friends were big men in the rackets. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, man, I’m just in high school,” I said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He hurried to the desk, picked up the man’s glasses case, and threw it to him. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two men hurried back inside their den. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Muhammad was taken aside in order not to see while men pinned down Basel and removed his clothes. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“What a shame. Seemed like a nice young man.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

In Amarillo the doctor I summoned turned out to be a young man. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the gold cloaks knocked the man off his feet, but he continued to shout. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Just pay up, dependent,” the man said, a bubble of saliva darting out of his mouth. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Colonel,” Bull said to Cecil, “If any of your pilots need to go potty during the contest, some of my boys will take them to the men’s room and hold their hands.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Popcorn was the neighborhood’s only openly gay man. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Despite my suit, my haircut, and my height, every time I went into a men’s room a shout rang out in my head: “You’re in the men’s!” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In those days when Prometheus had just given fire to men and when he was first bound to the rocky peak on Caucasus, he had a strange visitor. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man reached out quicker than Moss expected and wrapped the front of Moss’s shirt inside a fist, and he lifted. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t marry a man I hated or despised. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That must be her! My grandmother! Sing. Did she marry a man named—” “I knew there was somebody in your family named Sing! ” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Charley Bloom answered, two men in state police uniforms, both men wearing sunglasses, were standing on the front stoop. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was holding my hand but staring at the man, chirping worriedly, wondering what was happening that was making me react like this. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Games 26, 27, 28, and 29 were all draws; it was very hard for either man to defeat the other by that time. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A handsome young man with long, thick hair stares back from the porch. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Generally he was one of these worn-out men: when he wasn't working he sat on a chair in the doorway and stared at the people and the cars that passed along the road. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The man slammed an elbow into Stick’s bony chest. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The man said, “Do you understand now? Do you see?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The man in the gray suit kept the sideways grin on his face as he handed over the suitcase. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then I saw he was a very old man, the load he carried kept slipping over his lean shanks and every time he hitched the baskets up they bumped against me. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The message was a familiar one: black men should be better fathers. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The man came after him, waving his blade and trying to get a cut at him from behind. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That librarian was awful. She always called everyone ‘young lady’ or ‘young man.’ Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

In fact, some medical men believe that intermittent exposures to chemicals may produce just such sensitivity. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“What is it? He’s moving! He’s walking! It’s a little person! It’s a little man! Down there below the waterfall!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

With every movement the men made, ice crackled off their clothing. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“My son has been living abroad for two years,” the man’s father said, “earning a Ph.D. in Boston, researching in the field of fiber optics.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The reason the ravine is forbidden to us is not the dead people but the men. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He wished the young man to go away and leave him in peace in the twilight and alone. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The Industrial Revolution would depend on the skills of such men, skills that would have been familiar to the craftsmen who built the first Strasbourg Cathedral clock. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The old man looked up, smiling, when Jonas entered the room. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

One claimed that men were more intelligent than women; another claimed that men were superior because Christ was male. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I kept glancing at the blank, stony, pinched faces of the men and women staring at me from steps and doorways, and at the children, all white-headed just like you see them in the Appalachians. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He was a man of thirty-one with a hardened face, a tall man with the eyes of a war veteran. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When the man looked up and saw him, he stopped turning the spit and stared, not moving. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

‘A boy in time of peace and a man in time of war.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the Council’s man exited his black vehicle and walked the remaining path to the gate, strewn with debris from the explosions and subsequent fires and maybe even some looting, the campers moved in closer. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She was wondering why a Black girl was getting out of a white man’s car. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Now we walk along the same street, in red pairs, and no man shouts obscenities at us, speaks to us, touches us. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I suppose you will be wanting some new men." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

‘I ashamed make mistake. Not nice man,’ she said. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

They kept talking about the man’s daughter, who would soon start med school. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

As she passed the clay statues, she thought she could see figures of the goldfish man, the buffalo boy, the king, and Da-A-Fu silently watching her. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

You could lose a friend as quickly as you made one—men as well as women. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

For many of these young men, it was the only political education they had ever received. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one fact to remember was that eight thousand men, white men, with guns and gas, were out there in the night looking for him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The men were marching, prowling, feeding themselves courage for an attack. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the wake, the men wandered through the sitting rooms and hallways of the house, speaking softly of business. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, in this stem man facing her, so totally different from her grandfather, Kit sensed the same quality of directness, and out of an instinctive respect she gave the only honest answer she could. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He was a young, thick-looking man with a buzz cut and a school ring. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

That strapping man from Virginia has a mischievous look, don’t you think? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, Captain,” Booth cries out, his old sense of the dramatic now fully returned, “you may prepare a stretcher for me. Draw up your men. Throw open the door. Let’s have a fair fight.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He still found it hard to believe that this ridiculous man could have created anything so sleek and powerful. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Your father’s a very practical man. No, we need something stealthier than a pool.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The man had brought her a gift of great value. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was too dark to make out the man’s face, but he was heading straight toward me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He had only two weeks to train for Compton and, with the Olympic trials in July, two months to become America’s youngest elite 5,000-meter man. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

She certainly wasn’t going to let that man make her cry, however, so she focused on her father’s bushy eyebrows, so like her own. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A man, not in uniform, detached himself from the spot at which he had been standing; he approached Rick Deckard at a measured, unruffled pace, gazing at him curiously. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Black men worked as butlers in the homes of the rich, shining shoes, polishing silverware, serving guests at parties. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Bigger looked up at the two men, helplessly, wonderingly. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A pair of captain’s bars ulcerated with rust hung on the man’s ragged shirt collar. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The queen’s men began to sing a song of praise. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

One harassed man, made crafty by desperation, told the mother that he had inside information that the military bands led the soldiers into action and invariably were the first ones killed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

One man’s life was given over to a boy to end, all on his own. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

We stand before a table where three men are sitting asking questions. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I know I already said it, man, but I’m so sorry,” he said. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

While the women did the wash, my father and the other men, hoping to provide the meal for the day, hunted for porcupines in the areas surrounding the stream. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

But there were other places in this world where men were known to break their fast on human flesh. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I could have knelt in the mud and kissed the man’s hands, but I didn’t. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It struck him as curious that you could create dead men but not living ones. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Or is this a shallow, gullible man who doesn't think about very much of anything? Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

So there were four men, each with their own special skills. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

One of the men yelled something at me which I did not understand. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Remarkably, the man who rarely signed a letter of financial importance gave this seventeen-year-old the right, in this case, to speak for him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Blackheart, his men had named him, for the sigil on his shield. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

With the four officials beaming, he wrung my hand in welcome, a young, tall, powerfully built man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He called on the German people to defend Berlin to the last man. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The men on top of the wall leaned back and pulled up the door of the corral. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The bald man took hold of his hair with his free hand and twisted it cruelly, till Bran sobbed in pain. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And there was one strip, faded and smoke-smudged by time, which had been written by one of the men who had founded the Company and who was long since dead. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wave to the man and trudge through the sand. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Many years earlier he’d been a young man behind the wheel, momentarily distracted, with a life hanging in the balance. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I could stand by the side of a real man. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But the women had to share the bathhouse with the men of their regiment, so they hung a sheet between them for a little privacy! A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“A man came through the other day,” a fisherman was saying. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Because I’m certain that when they check the ladies’ room and the men’s room, they peek under the door and check only to see if there are feet. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Rab played a man’s part. Look that you do the same.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man driving an empty cart pulled by a pair of oxen regards us from a little side path, his mouth left hanging open like he forgot to close it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The man wrapped the bow guard around his wrist and smiled. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

How was it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent? Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy took the old mans head in his arms. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“This poor old tree isn’t going to sell by the end of the day, and it needs someone to love it,” she told the man and offered him three dollars. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A tall, gangly man stepped out of the boot car. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Unlike most Cealdish men he was clean-shaven and wore his hair long, pulled back into a tail. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He only thought the man was an idiot. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The city man looked faint, but Honor and Hunter had not only watched the common and counted-on birthings farm people see, but had tugged and twisted newborns from all sorts of canals. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is usually easy to do homework in class because Mr. Stet- man’s voice creates a gentle, white-noise sound barrier. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You know what I mean,” said the Wart “What have you done with the old man with no nose?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re living in drastic times, Jinx. War’s going on and a man trying to make a living gets his legs knocked out from under him by a crooked lawman. Where’s the justice?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

No research student could live in, and so the only predictable consequences of being a Jesus man were bills for a Ph.D. that I would never acquire. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The other three men walked briskly into the flat as he spoke. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you observe, gentlemen,” said Mr. Waldengarver, “that there was a man in the gallery who endeavoured to cast derision on the service,—I mean, the representation?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Now he didn't mention that to me, but one day I got a phone call from a man named Norm Lyons. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was like a distracted man doing two things at once, one of them important and the other unimportant He felt a duty to the unimportant one. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was easy to see he needed looking after, but what did she need that an old man could give when she already had a beau her own age who was anxious to marry her? Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

A man in army trousers came running down the path toward the boats, shooting at the soldiers. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

"Brothers, this man is a—a—opportunist! All you got to do is read this article to see. I charge this man with using the Brotherhood movement to advance his own selfish interests." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was after the men had come for the stock, the pots and the chair her daughter Rose Dear was sitting in. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than anything he wanted the camaraderie of the road men: the lunch buckets, the hollering, the body movement that in the end produced something real, something he could point to. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“And what kind of man you think you married?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

"One of the Mountain's men fell off a wallwalk last night and broke his fool neck," she heard Weese tell a cook. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

On the ride home I cried in the back of the car, but quietly so the men wouldn’t hear me. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Your adrenaline makes you almost stronger than the three pastel men holding you. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“The cap’n was a man of his word too; wouldn’t back down from a crowd of two, three hunnert yelling and screaming colored folk. Dared ’em to do anything to him.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

And the ultimate source of these rights did not lie in any indigenously American origins, but rather in a transcendent realm of natural rights allegedly shared by all men everywhere. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Lee was not acting like a man heavily outnumbered. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

A big, broad-shouldered man, he pushed Paco out of his way. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Yet nowhere did they see or scent a living man. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It is the mother of all creativeness, and it sets each man separate from all other men. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to see these men, confront them, punish them. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of your eye, you see the young man in the next car over gesturing for you to roll your window down. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Far off toward the highway a man shouted something, and another man shouted back. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This kind of conversation depresses me more than you could possibly imagine,” the young man told him. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thanks, I know. He was a nice man and I’m not complaining.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I needed to remind myself that this man, whoever he was, was not a monster. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

But without Captain Smith to lead us, the men shirk their work. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Say, your thumb is fat and kind of short, then you’re bound to like men with a similar endowment elsewhere. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A young man at the end of the table grinned. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The musicians played and she sang, and this time the audience sighed and sat forward, a few of the men stood up in surprise, and a winter chill moved through the amphitheater. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He approaches Gettysburg unsure of himself, in command of twenty thousand men. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Cantor and I took flowers over to the groom and his best man to put in their buttonholes. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

A squad of mounted policemen lashed themselves around the corner and galloped past, the horseshoes thudding dully through the snow, the men rising high in their saddles, shouting. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

So when he answered the ringing phone, and the man on the other end of the line told him to make a record of the call, he did. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The old man was silent, and I was suddenly worried for Stew Cat's safety. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But those white men will be looking at us, laughing at us,” I said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pattie is surprised that a man wants to speak to me. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

One of the men in the car got out and gave the round boy some medicine. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered how fast the man had been when he encountered him outside the bedroom. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

On the other, there’s clinking and shouting as white-jacketed white men set up glass after glass of lemonade, forming pyramids of full glasses on the counters of their red and white striped concession stands. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Not only would he be risking his life in a fight by not using his machine gun, but also he’d jeopardize the lives of the men he served with. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

As he crossed the state line into Mississippi, a white man hidden in a clump of bushes shot Meredith from behind with a shotgun, seriously wounding him. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

If they considered me some sort of hero or holy man, it gave me useful leverage. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He kept his job at the bakery and hired two young men to work the cart during the hours he was delivering bread. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

“It will start women thinking, and men, too,” Stanton wrote to Mott, “and when men and women think...the first step is taken. The great fault of mankind is that it will not think.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

"Oh? And which story is that? Is that the one where I try but fail to gain immortality and die after many years a sadder, wiser man?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Even the air seemed lush and thick here, like velvet, swallowing up the click-click of ladies’ heels and the chatter of men in suits, so that they passed as silently as gliding ships. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Odessa established itself as a distribution point for oil field equipment and experienced more growth in a month than it had in ten years, inundated by men who were called simply boomers. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dead man continued to float in front of us like a giant water-logged voodoo doll—a bad omen to be sure. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The man turned back and looked at Grandfather, then lifted the handles of the wheelbarrow and dumped the woman on the street. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before they arrived at their Orange County destination to retrieve the money, they found themselves being followed—and then chased—by two Latino men in a gray van. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He was a different man on occasions like this. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

His shoulder slammed into the man next, throwing him to the floor. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Then there were men’s voices, rough, harsh, commanding. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

But Janie had done worse, she had cast down his empty armor before men and they had laughed, would keep on laughing. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

So it was just the curious boy and the man with the complicated, attractive face, and Malcolm had to smile in return. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Gideon said it was because sometimes a man’s demons could creep up on him. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She bought plants called philodendrons from a Japanese man who had one hundred thousand plants in his nursery. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

For a moment, the man in black teetered at the ravine edge. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

That’s when I noticed the back of a man in an orange parka boarding a bus. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“The count was done by a blind man with your fat friend by his elbow. And Slynt names you a tum- cloak.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His own daughter, he said, thought a man on his phone had threatened to kill her. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m go’n show you two big fancy headstones for men who weren’t dead when they were buried,” I said gaily. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Two men were carrying a man in a wheelchair. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

What I notice right away about the walk-in closet is that there are tons of dark suits hanging everywhere, looking like rows of men at a funeral. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The man across the aisle grinned and said: “Better not believe anything he tells you.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally the black man said, looking at me from bloodshot eyes, “Now, young bahss, I mos’ feel like dat my own self, Timothy, but ’twould be of no particular use to do dat eh?” The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why are you suddenly pleasant? Don’t you have some old man to meet somewhere?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Listen to me. Marcus is not a good man. He lies and manipulates people. And he’s a convicted murderer. I don’t want him in your life. You have to understand.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The men at the bar sipped their drinks and listened. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

One morning after I had just smoked a joint rolled from old roaches a man came in with hand-drawn plans for a crate which included a false bottom about four inches deep. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

A bloodied corpse, a man in blue jeans, lay on the roadside. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

A few old men sat on benches playing chess, and in the shady places some old people did tai-chi exercises. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Shut that door, boy! It’s cold in here!” one of the men called. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Way down at the end of the street the man looked normal, but as the sled got closer, the man got bigger and bigger. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among the men put with us was George Peake, one of the founders of the South African Coloured People’s Organization, a Treason Trialist, and most recently a member of the Cape Town City Council. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man began to shake his head. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I wondered, though, whether this was the Judge Holman who would soon be sending men out to chase Isaac. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It is a meeting of the Haves and Have-Nots in force, an insane clash between bodies of men, not between leaders. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man shook her so hard her teeth rattled. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“So that’s how he got all of his money,” said the other man from the den. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

They heard the scuff of boot9 in the hallway, and a man’s voice. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“See what you have done to your Lotus—and there is no man in the world except you, and if it is your son, it is only your son, and what is he to me!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Where is the man who dispatched armed soldiers to keep nine children out of school, who bet his life and his career that he could halt integration? Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government puts out calls for men to enlist in the service. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, say Wendy’s husband and the other Central Americans, the man with the cobra tattoo on his arm orders Wendy to remove her pants. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have rebelled long ago! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He had managed to finish fixing the mechanical man. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The men wear red rags sewn to their chests, which has been lately required of them as proof of their oaths to the Crown and to Lord Dunmore. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I could imagine him as an old man. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Yet it was an integral part of the heritage of all Americans, and so it troubled the minds of men in the North and in the South, long after Jefferson's death. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The forces of nature, at least during that geological era, would never again challenge men and women as they had Paleolithic peoples. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The burly men Matt had seen before guarded him. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, the man wore an honorable legend: After he hired himself out from his master for weekend labor, he had purchased the freedom of his wife, then his children, and finally himself. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Bullish in both appearance and temperament, they're the juvenile delinquents of the cow family, the hardscrabble cousins who sleep in trailers and fight like men. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Just then, however, came an interruption which distracted the thoughts of every man there. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, a few years ago, the white man from Ibadan came to excavate. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Gary approached the young man behind the counter and pulled a fat, intricately tooled wallet from his pocket. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The old man measured out a length of string and cut it. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He was still saying that while he felt himself being propelled rapidly away, heard the old man’s thin furious voice dying away behind him. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the members of the executive were pleased that I had been freed, they were also eager to evaluate the man who had been released. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of all of them, the one who danced the best was Transito Soto, who was also best at resisting the drunk men’s attacks. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a good man, and there was no conceit in him. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want anyone really to take advantage of the old man. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Please help us save the others” Miss Whitlaw said to two sturdy young men, but they were in a hurry pushing their wheelbarrow. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This man wants to sue us for a lot of money.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch him, talking to the young men, the boys, promising much. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He untucked his shirt and put the book inside, hastily retucking it just as the hook-handed man reentered the library, escorting Violet and carrying Sunny, who was trying without success to bite the man’s hooks. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The drifts had climbed so high that they swallowed the man bodily ... but bowmen on the battlements claimed they glimpsed him sometime later, dragging a broken leg through the snow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The two men turned, and Emily watched until they rounded the corner and disappeared completely. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She didn’t have a number for the Homeland Security man who had called; she cursed herself for not asking for a way to contact him. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Now I know, whatever your burdens, to hold yourself apart from the lot of more powerful men is an illusion. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then stun her with it, Pellinore. Give her a good bang on the head with it, man, and perhaps the will get concussion.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prince said, “I’m not joking. Ask any man on board.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his wake came another man, a tall, stooped figure with a dark cloak folded about him like drooping wings. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Especially for a man like Horse, the kind of man who’d drop in on a total stranger to cheer him up. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Harry took off the Invisibility Cloak and looked down upon the man he hated, whose widening black eyes found Harry as he tried to speak. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

From his worried face I could tell he’d clearly decided these weren’t true police but the other kind: drunk men with guns and a hunger for bribes. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“We happened to get to talking, just like we’re talking now, and the next thing — bang — I’m a millionaire. A self-made man. What do you think of that?” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the muscles of his arm were trembling so much that he was afraid he’d drop the knife before he could use it; and did he really intend to stab the man, anyway? The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

At this time of day it was thronged with men pulling on their gowns for dinner, or hurrying to leave papers or briefcases in the common room before moving into the hall. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

How could they if she found herself stuck on a man old enough to be her father? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as they started rowing at a racing beat, though, he would bust the boatings up, and it would once again be every man for himself. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Sir Charles and the other white man brung their heads together and started talking. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I happen to be the young man's godfather. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The large man lay on his stomach as he’d dropped, his head turned to the left. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

He looked like the men referred to as “purebloods,” portrayed on the German signs. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“The Celtics were in the playoffs, man! That was history in the making!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

So this was the white man’s version of integrated sports. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The building overlooks University Avenue, which has lawns and some copper-green statues of men on horses. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The headman called out in his own tongue, addressing the man by the name the old seal hunter had told him: Jopari. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As far as I can remember, he was a big blond man. Very pale hair.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned quickly to the spitting man and smiled like I wanted him to buy me a chocolate. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“You become pregnant,” Rick continued, “by a man who has promised to marry you. The man goes off with another woman, your best friend; you get an abortion and—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The statue showed a man with a pile of books behind him. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Was he glad that he was having something offered to him that ten million men in America would have fallen on their knees and thanked God for? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was to give a presentation on ventilation, a great honor for a man without an engineering degree. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother looked surprised too and glanced at Olanna, at the man, at Maxwell, before she put down the hand placed on her hip. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Except for Mr. Schmitt’s cousin, a stocky redheaded young man with blotchy freckles, there was no one working in the store that day but Mr. Schmitt. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moths fluttered from under the men’s feet, and a few ticks brushed off the bushes to quest for food. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The game is over for the evening and all we can hear is our friends' Aw . . . man!! Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

He was a thick-set, red-faced man with straight black hair, and he was brilliant. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

My roommates’ families—old women in bright shalwar-kameezes, children, men wearing skullcaps—shuffled noisily in and out of the room. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She tries to pull away but the man in the grey suit keeps his hand firmly around her wrist. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

One by one, the men took their pay and drifted away like shadows. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

‘Audrey” ‘Ah, lovely” I’m about to leave when I realize I have no idea of this man’s name. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

We are speaking of the collective white man’s historical record. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

His sinewy, broad back was more like a dragon’s than a horse’s, and he had enough strength to carry a legion of men. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

A group of men going to work stopped to watch. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had reached the point where she could kill a man with her bare feet, an idea that did not in itself give her much satisfaction. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asked the young man in charge if he could leave some papers with him. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had removed his jacket, thus allowing the other two men to do the same. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The S.O.E. picked five of the best men for a special mission. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A young man married a woman whose brother was blind. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He walked into the evening air, which was cool and smelled like juniper smoke from the old man’s fire. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The king was left with only the child for company, along with more sadness than one man should bear alone. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Edward looked into the eyes of the man. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

As they slogged their way through the snow, a strange feeling began to grow on each of the men. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I remember how all the men wore boaters in those days. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surrounded by men in sport coats and women in nice dresses enjoying their fancy meals, I did what I could to keep my voice calm. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“There are some men in dark suits looking at the train cars.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Carla, knowing better as the oldest, gave her hand to the men and curtsied the way they'd been taught to do for guests. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t expect—I mean—I’m surprised—I mean—man, am I glad you’re here!” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And this was a shame, for Samuel was a laughing man, but I guess Samuel was wide open to the devil. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once it was a shaming thing to say, and crushing to have it said about you, by a man. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

More and more, Mr. Curtain seemed like the real man, and Mr. Benedict like a memory from a dream. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He looked in front of him and saw two men running under the tank. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were four other regiments of Po-2s in their division, all staffed by men, but only the women of the 588th were honored by becoming a Guards regiment. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

For years afterward, Jon Connington told himself that he was not to blame, that he had done all that any man could do. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The old man was not happy to hear this news. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m the Arbitrator here,” said the man with the broom. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Not all my hopes, Kate, no. That would be rash. But the world can surprise you. I am a younger man, but this much I do know.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Are you all right, my friend?” the man said, his voice hushed and stricken. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The Army Intelligence soldiers, those black spies in civilian clothes, hung around in Harlem with their ears open for the white man downtown. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the soldiers thought I was the man’s son, so they checked his documents and not mine and charged him for both of us. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Is it possible that race really didn’t matter for these white women and men and that they simply never happened to browse a nonwhite date that interested them? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I grinned at the man in the black mask. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Cary Grant was a real man. Don’t you say anything about him.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

"He's old physically, but ideologically he's a vigorous young man. He can be depended upon in the most precarious circumstance." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Didi was the kind of woman who needed a man, they said, and all young boys need a dad. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The social and political advantages I enjoy as a man result from the day that I came to believe that my name, indeed, is Rich- heard Road-ree-guess. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along the benches, a dozen ghosts shimmered into existence—glowing purple men in Roman togas, like the Lares she’d seen at Camp Jupiter. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When the girl had got off the motorbike at the scooter show freestyle jumps, everybody had assumed she was a man, until she’d taken off her helmet and loosed her long hair. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t surprise me because Lorena loves attention from men, no matter how old or ugly. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But the sheriff was a man of inherited anxieties. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Once his will was captured by the power of the Stone, then they would let the shadow into the walls, for a gebbeth was a better slave even than a man. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

In prison, one likes to be around men who have a sunny disposition, and Selby had one. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So I will not have you run against a grown man. Where is our little Hugi?” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Come see. There’s a man cleaning the sidewalk with his beard!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“I’d like to be in love with the man I marry.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then with sudden clinical interest he observed the white man’s face, for in his eyes he saw a strange, fixed, and withdrawn look of madness. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain said, “You men wait just a bit. Rifles will be available after a while.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, Your Highness. A woman and a man. But they didn’t give their names.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next, the White House invited a man from Baltimore, R. S. Jennings, to set up a machine he proposed. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was between two parked cars, and it looked like a man holding his head in his hands. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Detective Frank Geyer was a big man with a pleasant, earnest face, a large walrus mustache, and a new gravity in his gaze and demeanor. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It is that every man is his own stickler. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

The man, who was armed with a .44-caliber, snub-nosed English Bulldog, was named A. W. Comstock, and he was a local attorney and the guardian of several Osage Indians. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Young single men go out for drinks, to the theater, to shows with music and dancing girls. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The solicitude of the women, the head pats of the men, pleased Cholly, and the creamy conversations fascinated him. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose that I had blithely assumed that generals were people who charged around and “did” things; that they were men of action, men of the moment. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I could only think of some immortal who had suddenly woken one morning to find himself in a man’s body and realized he was being punished. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stop!” the man roared, as a buzzing arose from the crowd. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

A huge, dark shape appears above the ledge, and a few Dauntless rush forward to help the two men haul it over. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

How falling out of a boat can kill a man if he stays in cold water for long. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Typically, it took him just seven months to be promoted; that is, to install himself in the head man’s job. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Richard disappeared into the vines and night screech of the jungle, a pale skeleton of a man fading into the blackness. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The four representatives of the upper classes sat down wherever they could—there were only two stools—and stared at the holy man in receptive silence. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are any of you his family?” a tall, slender, muscular man asked. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The men were moving about downstairs, and Will could see a dim flicker of light that might have been a flashlight at the edge of the door. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Cooking is women’s work, same as sewing. Act like a man, Robbie. Go outside and get your hands dirty. You don’t start toughening up, I might have to drown that cat of yours.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I saw a man pushing some kind of a mowing machine. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m just a man who wanders the desert and knows the stars,” said the alchemist. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emo fed off each man he killed, and the higher the rank of the dead man, the higher it made Emo. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

When we finally got to the zoo, the man at the ticket booth looked surprised that anyone was there. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I got along good with the other men, and was well liked by my boss. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

But every man went on his own way and none spoke openly to any other. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

But the old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favours, and if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help them. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man realized what I was doing, softened his manner, and finally stamped his document and said quietly, “Welcome to the Sudan.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that night we found out that Fazlullah’s men had switched off all the cable channels. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe the medicine man didn’t laugh all the time; maybe the dreams and the voices were taking over again. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Did you hear that, old man?" the woman said, drops of spit sputtering from her mouth with her words. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The hook-handed man followed behind her, his walkie-talkie buzzing and crackling. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The man was hurrying across the grounds, toward one of the entrances. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The five men piled into the Chevy and drove off into the lessening light. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

We buried the man who wound his watch. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

They would wear all white for the month after returning, symbolizing that a boy had left but a man had returned. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

A young man in a trench coat, with cornsilk hair and delphinium eyes red-edged by the dull wind, turned to me and then pointed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, for many young men in South Africa’s townships, freedom looks like this: Every morning they wake up, maybe their parents go to work or maybe not. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I can’t stand the thought of her falling into that awful man’s hands.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes you touched a man like this and it was the last time, and the next time you saw him he was cold and white and bloodless, and the warmth was gone forever. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As far as a man could go to the north in a day, or a week, or a whole month, there was nothing but woods. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She's wrapped in the arms of a young man—legs, arms, and lips locked together. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

There had been a shower of flying tools, a violent slamming of the door, and the service man was gone. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

The noble of the inner circle on both aides were in a way traditionally more friendly with each other than with their own men. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you think you can? Is that it? You’re going to save the baby from the big bad man?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“It sure looks like a cow to me,” Ben said noticing the man had not smiled yet. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see him; I saw a different man. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

And the rest of his men shout with him. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“We’re running out of time!” the man with the gun trained on David says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She’d cook and clean all day at the diner on Third Avenue for fishermen, railroad workers, and the occasional crew of navy men. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“The American Standard translation orders men to triumph over sin, and you can call sin ignorance. The King James translation makes a promise in ‘Thou shalt,’ meaning that men will surely triumph over sin. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He cannot know that it is only one man against him, nor that it is an old man. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slavery was not an abstraction, an economic force, a counter in the game of world politics—it was the suffering of men and women. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He continued on his way, through the stream of pedestrians, whistling and tapping his cane on the brick sidewalk, completely unaware of the two men who’d stepped into his wake. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He avoided our company, preferring to spend his time with his drinking companions, mostly hired men from the less reputable theatre companies. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

They suspected that a man of his reputation must know something of Booth’s escape. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old man with a lined rectangular face and a scar across the flat arch of his nose, he was the leader of the larboard watch and Reed’s right-hand man. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

There were about ten people crowded inside, mostly men. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

When we reach downtown, people dressed in black are parading solemnly through the streets: nuns carrying crosses; men and women holding candles, the tiny flames lighting up their faces eerily. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man gave Ignatius a little rectangle of white paper. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus arrayed, we set out again: two captives, a master, and his man. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

It seemed to me Buddy Willard and I were like that Jewish man and that nun, although of course we weren't Jewish or Catholic but Unitarian. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“The man obviously has a camp stove. He probably just prefers to cook out in the open.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

"You would do well to avoid both those men, Your Grace." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know,” the man said through a whimper. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Might—to have ended it— to have made men happier. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He waited while the bus guard gave the man some papers to sign. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Until then, the most powerful people I’d met were the headmaster of the school and the elders in my village, and there I was sitting with the most powerful man in Kenya. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A small man—dark—with a womanish voice,” said Poirot thoughtfully. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nurse Langland had been seconded to the men’s surgical ward, and was asked to help prepare a young soldier for an appendectomy. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

His grandfather—Toby had only met the man a handful of times before he ended up on the wrong side of a knife in a bar in Startown—had taken his chances in Nashville. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Then Medon, the perceptive man, replied: “A god moved him—who knows?—or his own heart sent him to learn, at Pylos, if his father roams the wide world still, or what befell him.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fierce man seemed less dangerous now, but Matt still tried to wriggle away. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them wore the cotton slipperlike shoes of the Tang men, while others wore demon boots. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a Connecticut Yankee in Milagro’s court, and a blind man could see that whatever he might know enough about to teach somebody would be totally irrelevant to these people. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” said Eric, “maybe. But the man in the canal was definitely a spy.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Some of the men would beg for a shot at the target themselves. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

She’d never slept like spoons, encircled by a man’s arms; she’d never experienced a man getting hard against her spine while trying to talk as though nothing were happening. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Four men, including the one in the janitor uniform and another with only one leg, performed the roles of soldiers and carried real spears. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it would be so a man wouldn’t have room to store his happiness. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She tries to run to Edward and the Erudite man, but Christina stops her with both hands. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The queen’s men gave a heave and sent the horn tumbling down into the fire pit. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The tall man said he thought that Ann was being treated badly. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

And then the men lay down and put their heads in the girls’ laps and looked up into their faces. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man on the horse seemed to be making the sound. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Instead, he saw a middle-aged man with sagging jowls and pouches under his eyes. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Brute understood nothing of the two-legs’ mouth-noises, but he sensed the man’s excitement and urgings and knew a change was coming. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The men of the Columbian Guard stepped up their vigilance. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Kunthi’s two eldest sons were among the first in the village to start work at the tannery, and between them they brought home more than a man’s wages. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the man is really Stapleton, who is wearing a false beard. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Sanitation porters,” said three Latino men with plastic garbage bags in their hands. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This guy everybody called Boo dribbled down the court and tried to dump it into their big man, but Rondell stepped in front of the guy and picked it off. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Elodin closed the door and the mousy man flinched a little. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“See, we worked on the rails, and all of us, we worked for a man we just called Boss.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And don’t you just hate that, Cerseii "Perhaps I'm dangerous too. You, on the other hand, are as big a fool as every other man. That worm between your legs does half your thinking." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His father yelled at his men to bring some blankets. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Then how could he tell you the man was a spy in the first place? En’t that an official secret?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Surprise and pain made the man loosen his grip on me slightly, and I wrenched away. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

A tall man with narrowed blue eyes paused as he was exiting the door. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Henry Dobbins was a good man, and a superb soldier, but sophistication was not his strong suit. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fellas, I have to get a man out of jail. See you around.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

This grownup American man about her parents' age beckoned for her to come up to the window. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

A man swore, which echoed in the empty shopping center. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was a year since she had set eyes on the man for whom her child-mind lived. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mundín explains his father is probably still at the office, and so the man asks him where his mother is, and Mundín says he thinks she is home. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The young man said, “I don’t suppose you remember me, Mr. Bowditch. I haven’t been around Salem much for years. I was knee high to a grasshopper when I went to Harvard.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man who opened the door that day is the hero of my life. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men suffered from a diet that consisted almost entirely of meat. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Sorry, son, had to stop for a minute for a visit from our holy man, Aaron.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Maybe Henek is right, and the man just wants to get paid.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Didn’t the men that we give honor to, the men that shaped up the Constitution of our country, didn’t they recognize slavery? Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Jethro the room seemed perfect, as beautiful as any man had a right to expect. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stickup men were out to rob their bank accounts. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Curious, I watched how men and women acted in each other’s presence. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He was a powerful man who wanted to help. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Hence the laughter of the women to whom he made proposals, the practical joking of his equals among the men. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night we carry the wrong message to some man. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned and fled, not sure if the man was going to shoot me. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

From where the man dropped us off, it was only ten steps or so to the building Frankie called home. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t risk him doing anything crazy,” the old man said, his voice surprisingly shaky. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“What can I do, man? It’s not like we have the power to change anything. We live in Oakland, this is how it is. It’s nothing new. No one trusts us.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Back in Bithynios, where sustained respiration rendered a bachelor eligible, men of equivalent age had successfully asked for the hand of a girl like me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Now, don’t let him sway you, son. You’re a natural at this game,” the man said without his usual smile. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“How could your mother do a man’s work?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t so bad at night with the engine running,” the man says. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

You cannot be in danger from an unarmed man who is running away from you. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The poor man was half-mad. Something had put a fear in him so deep that my words could not reach him." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And evidently the regular officer was satisfied with these men. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he recognized something: the man was a little drunk. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The nine men spent then- time doing experiments that increased our knowledge of the sun, the surface of the earth, and the human body. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in less than half an hour, Stella’s front room was filled with the bristling anger of the black men of Bumblebee. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

From where he sat he could see twenty other men, all of them writing intently. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Quite so. At a quarter past one, to the best of my belief, I was talking to the young American fellow—secretary to the dead man.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a sight few men were privileged to see and many who had seen it best had not lived through it. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the time came to meet Isabelle and Etienne at the theater, he didn’t want to break his promise, so he made excuses to the old man, left the station, and ran to the cinema. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

It is a collection of men from many different places who have seen much defeat and many commanders. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” she said, “though I wonder if they might not have preferred to have the fruits of men.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

At a nod from Corporal Craigie, Charles held his bayonet to the man’s neck. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

In a few weeks I’ll be delivering telegrams at the post office, working like a man. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Your baron has pledged fifty men from this district, one from each family,” he said, and then named the family names. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once there, many of the men broke down, sobbing, realizing how close we had come to death. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

It was an image of a man in a kayak, looking over his shoulder at a large fin sticking out of the water behind him. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

A ghost ran toward them—an old man with a medicine- ball belly and toga so long he kept tripping on it. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

None of the people who'd seen the movie seemed to care about the dead man. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Still, even with steady wages and three meals a day, there were a lot of men that left within two or three days. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dibdin glanced back at the other men in the cell before continuing. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bigger,” Jan said, “why did you tell these men I came here?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The old man knew that he was dead but the shark would not accept it. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a handsome man, even if he was old; he was almost forty. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Only medicine men and medicine women are able to remember each story. The medicine folk say that the sp’ sing their stories to each other. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Beyond those canvas walls, each man got a heel of bread and a chunk of black sausage no longer than a finger, washed down with the last of Galbart Glover’s ale. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The man says, Do you expect Limerick to start building lavatories in houses that are falling down anyway, that will be demolished after the war? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

What Goldman’s algorithm indicates, though, is that the role of those other factors is so small in determining what is happening to the man right now that an accurate diagnosis can be made without them. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

By the time we had finished with them they were only the shells of men. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He remembered, from his reading, descriptions of besieged medieval castles, and armies of men with bows sending so many arrows that the sky seemed thick with them. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He said: “I’ll make it so no man will ever want to look at you again.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

After a week of world-bruising a young man from home had come along and seen her. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Lyles, I cannot thank you enough. You’ve literally saved the boy’s life. Your compassion will inspire him to be a better man. He truly is sorry.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He turned swiftly to see Alice trying to get between Mrs. Boatwright and a man in a dark uniform, and three other men behind him spread out to prevent anyone leaving the cave. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was not normal procedure to give commandos this kind of information, but Wilson wanted the men going in with no illusions. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the girl pointed to the south, indicating that it was there the strange man lived. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would scarcely have been the first man who came to look on things differently after a few years at court . . . but the change was marked enough to make Ned wonder. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

At this point the Inquisition stepped in, determined to get their man, and issued the crucial second warning which made the reference to teaching. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

They plowed all day and came home to nestle like plums under the limbs of their men. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we met, I was a skinny twelve-year-old, and although he was only two years older, he already looked like a man. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Another man said, “Yeah, and please take some of it with you.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

DuShawn: And Royal's got skin the color of mocha latte, man. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I know quite a bit, young man.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“If that man is seen in here again, arrest him and put him in a cage.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He worried that other men would get sick. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Root was a notorious bon vivant, whom Louis Sullivan once described as “a man of the world, of the flesh, and considerably of the devil.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

That gave the men in the crowd something to chew over. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know how the medicine man could look down at it every day. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He said that a man in the office was waiting to see me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man didn’t return Pa’s wave or nothing. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

After a long pause, he said, “He’s truly a great man.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“That man shall never enter this house while I am here. After he had grown tired of you, he would probably turn his warped attentions on me. ” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It showed no lights, and he could just make out a man’s outline at the wheel. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He was a patient man, stubborn and slow, not brilliant, but a dependable soldier. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rangers exchanged glances; they could see it was true, every man of them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I fear for my son, learning to be a man from such men. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those who’ve reached the counter hand their tokens across it, to the two men in Guardian uniforms who stand on the other side. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only when they turned him on his stomach did they see that he had something more than other men, and they leaned over to examine him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I wanted to know who the men were, too, but even if I knew the answer, it still wouldn’t make any sense. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

No—Lillian was a lady, and a man with as much honor as Perrington would never harm one of noble birth. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They were men who knew the heroism of the boat itself. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Wonder came into the man’s eyes, and he laid the weapons hastily by the wall, as if he feared to handle them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

At one point, he heard some men—familiar customers—talking about the river level, and he stopped to listen in the way he’d always done and that hardly anyone noticed. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The man was holding the woman, and she had one arm flung out in front of her as if she were pointing the way home. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Colonel knew his audience and pointed at a gray-haired man with an unlit cigar clamped between his teeth. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“A gang of men chained together and made to work.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Those whom fire has spared are drowned by water; the man rescued from the water is saved only by air tainted with pestilence; and the survivor of war is ruined by wasting sickness.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The two men headed for the tavern as the sun finally dropped out of sight. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or to plumb the psychological reasons why certain men exhibited themselves on the street. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I’ve heard the men say that there are dissidents everywhere—even among the armed forces and policemen and cabinet members—just waiting for a signal that El Jefe is out of the way. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

A group of ClockWatchers—half of them women, and half of them men—all in matching blue suits, raised brown leather briefcases in an affirmative salute. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

"I was the only man throughout the entire nation,” he bragged, "that had the inspiration and the nerve and the brain and the opportunity to do the work.” Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I was there in the camp, surrounded by men with torches and machetes. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

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

They passed a dead man in a sitting position on a hummock, entirely surrounded by wild animals and snakes. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Once Garth brought his ladies by to introduce them to the dead man. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Saturday morning, he drove Sister Betty to see a teal estate man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My lord, I have thirty men in my personal guard, and other friends beside, knights and lords. Give me an hour, and I can put a hundred swords in your hand." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She sighs but, with a helping hand, climbs onto the seat next to the man. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I always thought a single marker joining the graves of a man and wife looked like the head of a double bed. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh my God. That man is bleeding!” she screamed. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Three of the men started laughing, but the smallest one was rattled; he lifted the rifle and aimed it at us. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Near her, a skinny man in old jeans and a battered army jacket was playing the saxophone. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I pictured the man and woman in their somber gray suits. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Among the last survivors were three men named Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Now try to be a man and let’s get going.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It came loose from the men holding it and Alec jumped at them, hurtling forward with his shoulder out like a battering ram. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

"See, see! This man was no bobo! He didn't put all his pokers on a back burner. I kept telling you, one of these days my ship would pass me by in the night!" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

As they were waiting for orders, black men and women were too excited to sit idle. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was a great beast with scales of black iron, whose breath was a darkness that smothered men. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then he turned to the men at the ropes to give the order to let go. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore a pair of men’s boots, patched and worn and lopsided, that she must have borrowed from one of the groundskeepers. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

King Arthur might turn to Guenever in the Pavilion, and remark that the great man’s footwork was as lovely as ever. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man on the dole needs to keep up with things because all the other men on the dole are experts on what’s going on in the world. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The blowing snow had covered the ashes at the base of the pyre and crept up the dead man’s leg as far as his ankle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The man’s name—John Singer—was engraved in the center, and beneath this, written in ink with the same elaborate precision as the engraving, there was a brief message. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They have, for the first stages, two men to ride and lead their spare horses—four in all, so as not to excite curiosity. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“So the young man became a great chief, and he always remembered to leave honey out for the honeyguide.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had heard all he wanted, for he had often listened when men were bargaining in the village and knew how it was done. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

But before he even reached her, one of the milk-faced men thrust a knife into his stomach, and Komla fell silently to the earth. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother and my grandmother told me never to go anywhere with a white man no matter what. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The man answered and Poirot drew back his head and, turning, almost collided with Mary Debenham who was standing just behind him. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were playing the riau-riau music, the pipes shrill and the drums pounding, and behind them came the men and boys dancing. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

A man came to stand behind the counter. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clink of glasses, the giggling of excited women, the laughter of men. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

If I let my imagination go wild, I could picture every man on the street hiding a gun, waiting to attack. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

That is, if I survive the attack of the murderous fiend who is lurking behind men’s dress shirts, sizes 15 1/2 to 17, to my right. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

It's about the different mental and spiritual traits of men, traits such as courage and honor and duty. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Right, old man, what do you think I’m going to do with them?” asked Basta scornfully. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“That same young man came to the door. He looked around and went away.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I was in eighth grade then—a little man. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll fire Majesty at the redcoats!” joked a man with a booming voice. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Genie asked like a big man, even though he only had ten dollars—the same ten dollars Grandma gave him the first trip to the market—on him. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Two white men burst into the shack, guns pulled, flashlights startling, searching faces. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

The man was stunned into silence, motionless as he stared at Jed. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Mr. Popper silently reached into his pocket and gave the service man his last five-dollar bill. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

A middle-aged man in a white kurta and gray topi points at me. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t wait for the man to go home. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not understand when I saw boys urinating on the stone stoop of the store while men stood about and approved their mic- turation. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The old man shook his head, staring down at the luggage piled around him. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing amidst blazing cherry blossoms, he ordered the men under his command—some 88,000 troops in North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida—to lay down their weapons. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

So we decided to leave the endless trail and stop pretending we were mountain men because we weren’t. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not a way that the men, they can dress. You can’t hang your trousers right here.” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The same fella who had given me back Termite was manning the front desk. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

They'd known about it for centuries; part of the initiation of a medicine man involved going through and bringing back a trophy of some kind—though some never came back. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man held his hands up, a gesture of innocence. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Or sometimes just the FedEx man needing a signature for a package. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I straighten, and the man’s gaze slips over me. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He, a black man, had repeatedly impugned the government of South Africa and its policies of apartheid. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was hoping you could help us out. An elderly man went missing from a nursing home just down the street. The staff seems to think he probably came here.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

But I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

First of all, did Mary’s assessment of John’s personality match the personality that she said she wanted in a man before the evening started? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Even though they worked as equals with the men, the women did not receive this sum because, except for widows, they were not considered heads of family. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Advertisement in the Chicago Defender encouraging black men to join the Eighth Regiment, April 21, 1917. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Everyone looked at me and I was starting out when the thin man called, "There's plenty of seats for late comers. Come in, brother . . ." Brother? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No?” the man roared, his face so distorted with anger he looked more like an animal than a man, his teeth glittering in the flickering torchlight. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Many a night his sister’s pack gorged on the flesh of sheep and cows and horses, the prey of men, and sometimes even on the flesh of man himself. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Nobody on this earth could ever love me like that man loved me. And poor Courtney...” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Beautiful women and men glided around the room, their flowing robes waving a dance of color as they moved. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The more cows a man has, the more respect he gets. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Very good, Percy. Elpis, the Spirit of Hope, would not abandon humanity. Hope does not leave without being given permission. She can only be released by a child of man.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Instead I counted how many cars passed us on the freeway, thinking back on how me and Diego used to flip people off from the back of our old man’s truck when we passed ’em. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I saw him eat last night. That man can throw down some food—angels don’t burp like that!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“We’re here to change the wires on your transformer,” said the heavier of the three men, smiling pleasantly. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He had been fighting with a man called Sir Alphagus, whom he had killed after getting these wounds—three of them on the head, four on the body and on the left hand. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what of a young man who has left behind all that he knows and loves, never to be recovered? Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

In fact, a strange white man had come to her house, written up the statement, and forced her to sign it, even though none of it was true. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

No lip, missus, or I’ll send the men to put ye out tomorrow. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

If ever a man needed angels, it was that man. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He’d wanted to try and make a tent out of the tarp but the man would not let him. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Most of the men and women walked with their eyes toward the ground, or fixed blankly ahead. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Jenny is fur and away too young to be thinkin’ about Shad or ary other young man,” her father remarked quietly. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now grown men—one a doctor and the other an attorney—both live in California. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The man had paused in the road and hoisted the wooden jiggeh higher on his back, shifting the cumbersome weight. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The woman’s eyes glittered like black beetles in her ravaged face, and the man licked his lips as if hungry. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Armistead jumped down, saw a boy in front of him, kneeling, crying, a row of men crouched under the far bank, an officer yelling, pounding with the flat of his sword. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men from the Telegraph were the first of a small stream of visitors during those early months. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a young man like me, the invention of the Internet was the invention of space travel. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

If there's anything I look down on, it's a man in a blue outfit. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Once a month, on a Sunday, I walked down into Oakland and rode the trolley to the ferry depot, where I would join a lot of other Tang men—houseboys and other dayworkers. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man was being burned alive across the camp, screaming in agony on his knees. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She answered volubly and eagerly, “And why not, indeed? So have all men who have prospered. It is only the poor man who must needs drink from one cup.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

His men were idle and dishonest, the fields were full of weeds, the buildings wanted roofing, the hedges were neglected, and the animals were underfed. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Then I finally got a man who promised to send up a taxi at once. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I know he is still trying to impress Mrs. Walton, and I so want to tell the old man he doesn’t stand a chance. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The bleeding man turned toward the direction of the scream and looked at the colored girl long enough for Macon to pull out his knife and bring it down on the old man’s back. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw a man, the most magnificent Jackboot I had ever seen, sitting in the backseat of the first car. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Now he didn’t look much like a High Blade—he was just a fat man in wet, golden underwear. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Mother smiled at Father, who in turn reminded the man that, if we were allowed to return to Ramallah, we would leave with only a day’s notice. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

But most worrisome to Roosevelt was learning that Rondon had left behind food rations for his own men. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

It was May, remember, and the wandering men had only recently taken to the roads, now that the warming months let them spread their blankets by any water course. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I yell to him—no answer—a dead man. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The peculiar-looking man was of average height, but of an odd shape: Shadow had heard of men who were barrel-chested before, but had no image to accompany the metaphor. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

It was the man who had recognized Silvertongue when they slipped into the village the night before. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Dutchy and I are standing together talking quietly when a man approaches with skin as tanned and scuffed as old shoe leather, trailed by a sour-looking woman. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Carriage doors open and a few men with suitcases step to the platform and hurry toward the gate. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Would you like to take the book out?” asks the librarian, a scholarly looking man who is settling down in his chair to work. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man stood at the door, hungry for his evening’s food, which, now that the woman was in the house, he would never prepare for himself. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

A man like Petyr Baelish, who had a gift for rubbing two golden dragons together to breed a third, was invaluable to his Hand. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Colas out of the bottle and glaring over at the men. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henceforth, Burnham ordered, all carpentry work was to be done only by men employed by the fair’s contractors. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I asked a bearded man sitting at the bar if Dylan Thomas was there. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He’s only eleven but he’s a man, oh, a man indeed. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He moved up behind Fenoglio, smiled at her, and ran a finger across the old man’s throat. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He was a small, wiry white-haired man and was acting the way I'd been told captains should act He stood by the lifeboat in the fire’s glow, very alert, giving orders to the crew. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared straight into the man’s eyes, past the man’s thick glasses. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I followed the old man’s unsteady gait until he walked out through the gates. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

One man said, “That was the most beautiful sight I’ve ever seen.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The letter was now under a man’s leather boot. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was a shy man, interested only in natural history, who had never fought with anybody in his life. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hop over fallen man after fallen woman, over children and teenagers and the elderly, stepping on fingers or stomachs or ankles, searching for signs of pain. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The man was Tom White, the owner of Boston’s largest commercial construction firm. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

But I’m thinking about what Shorty said—his whole theory about how the black man shouldn’t have to fight this war. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw a little girl pick her way through the snow and stop at a corner newsstand; a man hurried out of a drug store and sold the girl a paper. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He rode up spattering dust, jerking at the horse with unnatural motions, a square-faced man, a gentle face. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neel’s stomach coiled like a cobra—how could a big, powerful man like Gupta hunt down a defenseless tiger cub? Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

And I’m not gonna lie, man, when I grabbed onto the side after rinsing off I thought how weird it was to be skinny-dipping solo. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Dinka girls never give men too much encouragement. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men who had carried Saidu began placing rocks around the grave to hold the mounds of earth. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Every man who wore the black walked the Wall, and every man was expected to take up steel in its defense, but die rangers were the true fighting heart of the Night's Watch. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When I met the big men to whom my letters were addressed I would put on my best manner. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth,” said the Savage promptly. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man from my bunk died three days later, coughing up blood. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What did you do?” the man holding the flashlight asked. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Lyra and Will soon found themselves ignoring them altogether, though Will thought: Those men I killed—their deaths were close beside them all the time—they didn’t know, and I didn’t know... The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was something about the man, prepared for flight, that made Longstreet grin. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The frail young man was a gaunt man with white hair. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But, sir, that’s impossible!” he blurted out “We don’t even know all the men that well.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was hard to make out much, but indistinctly I could see a body of men coming toward us. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other soldier stationed in the picket, a man unknown to me, asked me when I thought they would put in with their boats and cross over to us for an assault. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

They admitted that, no matter which way you looked at it, Johnny Nolan was a handsome lovable fellow far superior to any man on the block. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rushed out to the delicatessen store and beguiled the man into letting her open a charge account until Saturday payday. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are a man, and it is a man we want. You are better than me, better than my friend John.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Among them are many that are used in man’s war against nature. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Shucks, this doggone FBI was just as good as the movies said it was, they were just like those Royal Canadian Mountain Police, they always got their man! Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The old man nodded and gave Baba a salute. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Dying man talks to living man, tells him what he should know. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had managed to finish fixing the mechanical man. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

And she tried not to think about the redheaded man. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a fact that every American Negro bears a name that originally belonged to the white man whose chattel he was. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Not on the front lines—the men worked closely together to make sure everyone survived. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Come. Sit and talk with a lonely man.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shadowy shapes streaked past, and—oh, man—something slimy brushed my ankle. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

We still discuss what's wrong with men; we still, on visits back home, have our hair done together. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The man chuckles, but it comes out as a hiss. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

There were no disabled role models for a young boy trying to work out what sort of man he could become. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The man hauled Lyra up to a sitting position and propped her against the side of the sledge. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“He comes the closest to it of any Tang man I have ever seen.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of the men, certainly not those who knew him well enough to call him by name, suspected that he wanted a wife. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I found an old man sitting in the chair Danny had once occupied, staring nearsightedly at the pages of a scholarly journal. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

A low moan came from a bald man in front of me. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The men were still sitting there, listening, and watching the sky. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before summoning the serving men to carry him away, she knelt and felt his face, tracing the line of his jaw, brushing her fingers across his cheeks and nose, touching his hair. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Eventually it was agreed that the man was a deserter and denner addict come to their little town just in time to go crazy. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But I feel good—necessary and tired and alive. julijonas Urbonas, the man who thought up the Euthanasia Coaster, claims it’s engineered to “humanely—with elegance and euphoria—take the life of a human being.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The men file into the living room, not even having had time to get the floorboards away from the bunker. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

There was a man known as Hig Phillips down in the southern part of the county, and the story came out that he had hired a substitute to go to war for him. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple men were up front giving it some kindness and making it calm. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was one of those days when a man feels good, feels like speaking to his neighbor, is glad to live in a country like ours, and proud of his government. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an odd sensation for a man who was the leader of a nascent guerrilla army. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Theologians justified the presence of corruption as a means by which men strove, were tested, and triumphed. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cox finally blurted out, “Tom, we must get those men who were here this morning across the river.” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

That we are notified by mail to come down to this place and decide on the guilt or innocence of a man we have never heard of before. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

People ran about across the grass, blankets were brought, Mr Hooper raced off in a car and came back with another man, a white ambulance arrived. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

St. John was a good man; but I began to feel he had spoken truth of himself when he said he was hard and cold. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Later. Let’s talk about it later. Hell, man, I’ve got plenty on my mind.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then the half-mad men knew and they went all mad. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You know if they had come even one second after you were pronounced man and wife, they would not touch you?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

As any official in the Nation of Islam would instantly have known, any death-talk for me could have been approved of—if not actually initiated—by only one man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “I knew God didn’t want me to marry a man like him. He talks tough but inside he’s just a little bitty boy, scared of his mama. And anyhow, it’s her house.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

A bitter, mean-spirited man with too great a sense of his own worth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was a very young man who had said this, scarcely more than a boy—very dark and sober, very bitter. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Now you ain’t never heard a man scream until you hear one with a knife ripping into his balls. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

One administration official went down to the basement and was alarmed by the men and their military equipment. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Whereupon a silence, like the silence of Hiroshima ten minutes after the bomb, struck the men’s room with an audible thud. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind on the beach, the remaining twenty-two men cheered and waved. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

"More than ever before, the races need to trust each other. And I want to offer you an opportunity to enter the circle of trust between the black man and the white man." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Peering through the hole, I could see several bearded men wearing fatigues. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The good memories I have of these men—of helpless laughter, of bets won and pranks hatched— they are stolen away. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He recognized the man in the light gray suit as President Garfield. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The men took turns hacking ice off the thwarts and bows, and bailing to keep the small boats from foundering. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The grocer, tall, skinny Mr. Waylan, with his Adam’s apple sticking out above his collar, his fish- belly blue-white skin and oversized fingernails, was the white man I saw most often. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the men could hear was their own breathing. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was struck for the first time by the spectacle of him—this strange mix-of-everything man. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Every available man went out into the fields to gather in the gold of grain and fodder. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The men were ordered forward and were suddenly in thick jungle. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The 5 men from the prison bus worked silently and willingly alongside us, anxious to help. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Go on. The superior man shares his wealth in adversity.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could still see the air shimmering above the scarlet sands, smell the blood spilling from the men who’d died for their amusement. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But Lev is bargaining with the man to give us a ride, and before I can argue, he's helping me into the back of the cart. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The angry man said, “No! Absolutely not! I don’t want you tracking dirt in my house.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I thank Heaven it is not the Plague you have had, for that enemy has slain more men than battle, besides the women and children it has taken toll of. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

As the old man talked, Matt pictured in his mind the dusty cornfields and purple mountains of Durango. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before long, he was jolted awake by a fierce-looking man pressed against his window, demanding to know why he was trespassing. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But since the men arrested at Rivonia were Ninety-Day detainees, and therefore not technically charged with a crime, this judicial principle went by the wayside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were passing near to the house when a voice hailed us; and we found a man stood before us with a fowling-gun; his daughter stood beside him. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

They were confident that these provincials, these yokels now gaping at their equipment, gauging the manner of fighting men they were, would be so impressed they would never stand up and fight them. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

This afternoon when she arrived at the Junklot to work on her own mural, it took Sierra a few seconds to find the old man’s face peering out from the brick. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“This man says, ‘An exquisite book, full of truth, beauty, and earnestness.’ Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z