An infinite supply of paper, to be sure, but nothing more than paper, strewn with marks like debris from an explosion. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

These she covered with leaves and branches and marked with tiny crosses so that she would remember not to step there. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Here the arc of the story soars upward unstoppably, pausing only to mark some fresh milestone of corporate expansion. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now she feared that people would see her as a juvenile delinquent, a criminal, someone with a mark against her name. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The gnats were too frantic to notice these intrusions, however, and since every pebble missed its final mark, the toad continued to squat and grimace without so much as a twitch. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The consequences of the sublethal poisoning of the woodcock are now seen in a marked decline in the proportion of young birds to adults, first observed in the season after fire ant treatments began. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The torso still bore the marks of battle. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

We capture one hundred of them, mark them, and then let them go. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Take back your library card? They don’t do that. They mark the book damaged, maybe make you pay. Now that you got the pages they can fix it.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“You all know that a witch cannot walk through a door so marked by the sign of Christ!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of them found its mark, and Williams let go of the tie. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

This time he charged the box, and when the defenders marked their men on the wings, he followed his coach’s advice again and took the shot himself: goal. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He continued to make marks in his magazine and acted oblivious to her being there. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I heard hooves and was certain it was a patroller seeking out the murderers; but it was a youth who rode past without so much as marking us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Her hair, which Henrietta once spent hours combing and braiding, is frizzy, with thick mats that stop just below the five-foot mark behind her. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

At three a.m., with only two white correction marks on what is now twenty-seven pages, I slide the manuscript into a yellow envelope. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Tic-tac-toe had nine squares, but then why not mark an X to start the game? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Amil and I usually sleep through our birth minutes and then when we wake up, we stand next to the last mark we etched into the wall with a sharp rock. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Later I would remember that, how she set out, a marked woman from the beginning. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then I guess we both have one mark against us. You walking where you shouldn’t, and me saying a bad word.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Even the hens and ducks came, and were at pains not to tread on the chalk marks. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Its reddish brown back, marked by pale stripes, lay toward her, and one of the large, cuplike ears was silhouetted against the pale trunk of the fig. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gold star on the floor inside marked the spot where the manger might have been. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They passed men and women dressed in shabby tunics, some nursing freshly bandaged wounds from encounters with beasts, some marked by more permanent injuries Eke old scars and missing fingers. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I did not mark the sobbing in the street, though I saw, when I passed by a window, that a hay- wagon laid with three corpses rolled past. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The oil drum she had seen when the skua flew over marked the beginning of civilization and the end of the wilderness. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There ’mongst the rows of his ma’s beets and corn and green peas were some of the strangest markings I’d ever seen. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

By the end of our training session my ears are ringing, my arms are sore, and I smell like gunpowder, but I have hit the mark three times. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Her Grandmother Clara searched her back and found the tiny star-shaped mark that distinguishes those born to true happiness. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Stone marked with E by the river’s edge.’ The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up Ansley Matthews at her house on Command Circle, charming her parents with a pleasant volubility that marked him as a blood member of the tribe. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if they did, then they’d think I made the mark by mistake. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Unclean! Unclean! Even the Almighty shuns my polluted flesh! I must bear this mark of shame upon my forehead until the Judgment Day.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

His eyes had narrowed into starpoints of cold, the killing edge of a personal fury that marked a crossing of the line which Lillian recognized immediately. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The message was a sealed envelope, waxed and marked with a thumbstrip as well, and Nailer had a chit for payment on delivery, if the captain was willing to thumb it. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It marked a Pg on the belly of a pregnant woman. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The drum was old, for it had different markings than those around Barrow, but like them, it was barely rusted. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boundary of a weather pattern, often moving across an ocean or landmass, is called a “front,” just like the line that marks out the edge of an invading army. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The conviction marks the beginning of the second phase: the period of formal control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“The marks you found under your bed were drawn by me.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Well, then, why can’t they protect us? It seems to me that, as innocent victims, guilty of nothing more than harboring a marked man, we ought to qualify for government protection!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then, flustered, she flipped a few pages, stopping when she saw more pencil marks. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The hands of all the four thousand electric clocks in all the Bloomsbury Centre’s four thousand rooms marked twenty- seven minutes past two. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were all suffering from extreme fatigue as we marked our calendars and counted down the moments before the blissful two weeks of Christmas vacation. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kid didn’t move, didn’t even lift his rifle, and there was no way to mark his shot, no splash of dirt, no splintering of rock, nothing. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When you are pregnant,” Ma said to Caroline, “give your body whatever it wants. You don’t want your child to have port-wine marks from your cravings.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

So were the shape, the smell, and the markings on the underside. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It was a woman, large but well contained within the gown of cobalt and peach that marked her as one of the servants of the royal household. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I wore these spots of shine and silver like tilaks, the marks of colour that we Hin­dus wear on our foreheads as symbols of the divine. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The pages of the book are covered with similar markings, though predominantly they hold other things. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Hamlet reached out and took the flowers, not touching my fingers nor marking my words. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

With whistles and calls and impossible boasts, the men and boys of First Congregational strolled across to Thayer’s haymeadow—mown just the day before—and marked out the lines. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She pushed claw marks and brainless corpses from her thoughts. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Just open it and see—each page is marked, remember?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

A faint light marked the eastern horizon, and the shoreline seemed very far away. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a soft blow, all in all, a little flick of the wrist, with hardly any force behind it It did not even leave a mark upon her cheek. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Where they mark me on the door, I’m up more than an inch since Thanksgiving even.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Howard did his best to warm them to the idea of rescheduling the match, even setting aside his heretofore paramount goal of breaking Sun Beau’s earnings mark. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Members of a turtle patrol are trained to recognize the flipper marks that the mother turtles make. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The last few people are getting off a train marked with a green four on the outside. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“What is this mark on the path here?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He was marked early on by his orphaned state, his displacement, his zealous skeptical mind, his aloneness. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Parker expects us to practice twenty minutes times five days each week and prove it with a signed-by-a-parent sheet marked with Xs for every day we play. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

There had been, of course, a marked drop in available sorrow from the madwoman. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Scarcely daring to breathe and glad that his feet made no sound on the sandy floor, Matthias went ahead, remembering to mark an arrow every few yards. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I got good marks during my final exams when I was eighteen. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was reckless, and reminded me of all the low marks you received during your training because you simply ignored the rules. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Just a few markings clustered together, like the footprints of a sandpiper that has abruptly taken flight. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“You told me you’ve been reading at bedtime. Did you forget to mark it down?” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

For months she had lived a closed life whose every hour was marked on a timetable. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A couple of the younger nurses, the ones who probably listen to pop radio or watch MTV and have heard of Bikini, look up, their faces excited question marks. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face, however, was the most distinctive: his left cheek was marked with a row of four star-shaped scars, white and puckered around the edges. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t find any markings or writing anywhere, on either side of the wrapper’s surface. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t see them, but she knew they were there—the scratches, the bite marks. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

At first I think it’s a part of the faint pattern on the knife, but these marks are on top of the blood. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Here’s the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

But, as it turned out, Digory need not have marked the place. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Jonas popped another fry into his mouth, leaving a smear of gravy like a question mark on his chin. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The ten miles of trail we have already covered—the section between our parked vehicles and the river—were gentle, well marked, and relatively heavily traveled. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door that I pushed open on the advice of an elevator boy was marked "The Swastika Holding Company" and at first there didn't seem to be any one inside. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She was set to run in a competition, and then a gun went off to mark the start of the race. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“As for you, Percy Jackson, it’s true you bear the mark of Achilles. That makes you a little tougher to kill. But don’t worry. We’ll find a way.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He showed me where in one translation the German word “Unlust” had been translated as “pain,” in quotations marks, and the word “Schmerz” had been translated as “pain,” without quotation marks. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The question mark in his voice scared me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The slashes on the hems of her jeans looked suspiciously like daw marks. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

A loose black scarf obscures my face, and my dress, high-necked and long-sleeved, conceals both my slaves’ cuffs and the Commandant’s mark, still scabbed and painful. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A tethered raptor will make marks like these. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A calm, subdued triumph, blent with a longing earnestness, marked his enunciation of the last glorious verses of that chapter. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Accordingly he had advised that it be marked on the calendar and in the Abbey chronicles as “The Summer of the Late Rose.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“KAT stands for katorzhnik. Hard labor convict. It’s used to mark criminals who are sent to Siberia. But if he was Russian, I’d have known. I’d have heard it in his voice.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

That was Gandalf’s mark, of course, and the old man was Gandalf the Wizard, whose fame in the Shire was due mainly to his skill with fires, smokes, and lights. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Because,” he answered solemnly, “he can live for centuries, and you are but mortal woman. Time is now to be dreaded—since once he put that mark upon your throat.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Sitting on the large stone that marked this spot was a thin, white-haired man in a cloth cap, smoking his pipe. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Simon Oliver, the captain of the school debate team, carefully marked the boxes on a legal pad. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Just because she was rubbing her nose . . . 5TH JUROR: She has those marks. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The distinction between a first appearance on stage and subsequent appearances can also be marked by the use of names or indefinite nouns on the one hand and pronouns on the other. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

But when they are finished she switches on the lamp by her bed and they examine each other, quietly discovering moles and marks and ribs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone’s forehead was marked with chalk to show that the muvuki had been satisfied with his payment and that everyone had been satisfied with his diagnosis. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fish with markings so beautiful, they look painted. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

And we sailed to the next float, checked it for the mark that meant it was one of ours, and repeated the process. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Remember Tyshal Yet when his fingers trailed lightly over one nipple, it stiffened at the touch, and he could see the mark on her breast where he'd bitten her in his passion. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The jest among the brothers was that the three meats were mutton, mutton, and mutton, but carrot, onion, and turnip would have been closer to the mark. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But the pain in my wrist had gone, with only a blue mark to remind me of the attack. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

They saw the claw marks where a bear had shredded the bark of a tall birch. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“My brother has a mark on his head.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was faint, almost drowned by the other noise, but I heard it the same way a mother can mark her child crying from a dozen rooms away. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The minute he steps inside the facility, the guard by the door gives him a once-over before pointing toward an area marked visitors. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I get a bad feeling the second Mrs. Fisher says, “Class, today marks the third day of National Poetry Month, and were going to form groups of two for our poetry unit.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Only the sunlight, falling down the well on this single day of the year, marked it out. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll need water. “There’s a tap marked on this map the Muggle gave us,” said Ron, who had followed Harry inside the tent and seemed completely unimpressed by its extraordinary inner proportions. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Starvation and sleep deprivation do leave visible marks, YOU IDIOTS. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

There was no movement from the midden pile, where the bright shorts and blouses of the children marked their passage. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, today you’re sure as hell marking the atmosphere,” she snaps. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

That autumn he wrote in a new notebook, one marked “Expression” and labeled “N,” that “children understand before they can talk, so do many animals.—analogy probably false, may lead to something.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of them were Irish and lived in the surrounding neighborhood, which to some marked them as both ignorant and incompetent. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

If you refuse, you are marked a traitor and could be killed. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he lets me go I see the mark on his shirt. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The great cat had marked Rumpy as his prey long ago. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, let’s. I’ve marked the place where I buried the core of the Apple yesterday.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

A few paces from the rivers bank, on the village side, stood one of the stone crosses that marked Stromford’s western limit. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

With the quizzes all collected, the room fell silent as S.Q. went through the pages, marking grades in his book. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Babulya declared the rain lucky, an answer to the prayer they hadn’t even said yet, but to Anya it felt like a punctuation mark to her utter failure. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Peering into the dark, he saw the massive pyramid skylights that marked the roof. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“You said you wanted to discuss my mark...” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry knew instantly that they were there as a mark of respect to Cedric. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The body is marked only with a J, in red. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Father saw this pageant as a splectacular mark of things being on the upswing. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t feel angry or inferior because I had to use the toilets that were marked “coloreds.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Against the whiteness you could see every mark standing out in bright red hieroglyphics telling the story of our journey. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of August, she was reading more papers and marking more items than any other reader in the Bureau. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The win raised their record to four and one overall and a perfect two and zero mark in the district. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scorch mark was gone, as was the hole in her nightgown, as was the burn on her hip. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Small markings, like bite marks, crimped the edges. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I had gotten some of my best marks under him, and he had always made me feel that he liked me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing the question mark on Papa’s face, Grandpa reached down and shook my daddy’s hand. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

These two had passed through an experience that had marked them deeply; they didn’t want to talk about it yet. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I stared at it like it was the wrong grade marked on the bottom of my paper. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Did you get a bad mark on a composition today?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the composer wants the change from one dynamic level to another to be gradual, different markings are added. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

From the tip burst three silver cats with spectacle markings around their eyes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Hector Bowen takes his daughter’s face in his gloved hand, scrutinizing her expression for a moment before releasing her, his fingers leaving long red marks across her cheeks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Central Maryland stretched away to the horizon in folds and hollows, in bands of trees and rumpled fields, studded by silos that marked the presence of family farms. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But by the mile-and- a-half mark, California had answered the move and powered back past Columbia and Penn into second again. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The bell rang, and the doors were all closed by the time she found the room number that was marked on her slip of paper. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

And, he thought, my car is clearly marked as a police vehicle. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

She shrieked, jumped off her floor mark, and crashed into the ocean. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

But the longer she spent in America, the better she had become at distinguishing, sometimes from looks and gait, but mostly from bearing and demeanor, that fine-grained mark that culture stamps on people. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Probably Wash had never thought to cross the lines that marked out who could be loved and by whom. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sierra was using her shiny white library card to mark her place in the book’s pages. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

There was a cutting table marked up with scratches and gouges next to a register, though getting there was like navigating a Halloween corn maze. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I touch my collarbone, marking the path of their flight—toward my heart. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It was queer this feeling of marking time, like sitting in a waiting room at a dentist’s. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

And tonight, for the first time in thirteen years, Lord Voldemort’s mark had appeared in the sky. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He found a small scrap of paper and tore it into strips, which he used to mark significant parts of the book. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Tonight marks the party’s fourth anniversary, and the host certainly wouldn’t miss this Friday, even though he’s already logged a huge day. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

They wanted to mark their service, and they wanted it to be remembered. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The lobby was tiled in unattractive squares of tan, with a row of mailboxes marked with masking tape or white labels. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

This was the mark of a good soldier, and all of the Sisters were good soldiers. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It was a crime punishable by death to attack the King, and the royal mark was painted on every one of the coaches in that caravan. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Winston, however, in rewriting the forecast, marked the figure down to fifty-seven millions, so as to allow for the usual claim that the quota had been overfilled. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“And the Ice Court is like any other mark, one big white pigeon ready for the plucking.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I watched him empty the graduate back into the tank and noted carefully when he went to another marked SKA-3-69-T-Y and refilled it. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

This peculiar linking-together of opposites—knowl-edge with ignorance, cynicism with fanaticism—is one of the chief distinguishing marks of Oceanic society. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He opened the book at the place marked by a slip of paper and began to read. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gustavo sang to her beauty mark, the lunar by her mouth. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t take him long to find the trash can marked with chalk. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Harry and Ron were deeply amused when Professor Trelawney told them that they had received top marks for their homework in their next Divination class. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

In all that open space, she is the sole upright creature, an easy mark. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In his cabin, he marked his chart and started the log of the Putnam. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man speaking had tribal marks all over his cheek; there seemed to be no area of skin free of the ingrained lines. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

With his claws, he marked different spots on the wood. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A seventeenth- century globe as big around as a small car, with rubies to mark volcanoes, sapphires clustered at the poles, and diamonds for world capitals. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I saw Mr. Rochester shudder: a singularly marked expression of disgust, horror, hatred, warped his countenance almost to distortion; but he only said— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Runners, take your mark,” I announce, doing a friendly little mock of him, “set...pow.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I buried Timothy, placing stones at the head of the grave to mark it I didn’t know what to say over the grave. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And also - less comfortably to the modern eye - like this: Most significantly of all, however, they ignored the old marks that had aided the reader-aloud. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

My mother scans them until she finds the one marked “Finn.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“He’d deserve it,” Cedric muttered, but all the same, he raised his wand and shot a shower of red sparks into the air, which hovered high above Krum, marking the spot where he lay. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I concentrated on my gait, marking the changes in direction, following nothing but the way my feet seemed to divine. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

There were paper sacks of groceries and clothing, all marked with a red Christmas card. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She keeps marking, stopping to think which one she wants next. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Father had lash marks on his back—he never said how he got them. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The rhetorical questions had a clammy air; the exclamation mark was the first resort of those who shout to make themselves clearer. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

If Powers had to eject while in flight, his instructions were first to flip a switch marked ARM and a second switch marked DESTRUCT. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

As I marked the May days off my calendar, I felt as though I was caught up in a whirlwind. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So close was the ookpick, the white owl of the north, that she could see the clove markings on his wings and the dense white feathers that covered his legs and feet. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once again, put a check mark to either the right or the left of each word, in the category to which it belongs. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Redemption marked a turning point in the quest by dominant whites for a new racial equilibrium, a racial order that would protect their economic, political, and social interests in a world without slavery. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Thanks to his fascination with plastic, something I discovered when the shower curtain was riddled with tiny bite marks, my bedroom now had the honor of housing his litter box. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He pull back the notebook and mark a big 1 over top the VI I see that he seriously means to charge me double. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It marked the beginning of the end and made everything else seem rapid, the months rushing past, time hurtling forward. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In the distance she saw the twinkling of lights and mistakenly thought that it marked a villager’s house — but it marked the edge of a fairy ring. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mole at the comer of my mouth is no longer a mole; now it’s a beauty mark, just like a movie star’s. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat by him and watched the throb of his pulse in the wrist of the marked arm. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

When the counterfeit Beast was perfected, the knights took it away and hid it in a cave at the foot of the cliffs, above high-water mark. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

On her tongue the very title of his calling became a mark of disrespect. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Ben, the youngest brother, was licking a black crayon and marking prices on soap-flake boxes when they walked in. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

With blue clay I made the mark of our tribe across my nose. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of steering between the port and starboard buoys marking the deep channel through the reef, Hamilton steered to the outside of the port marker. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

We made many mistakes, but the Defiance Campaign marked a new chapter in the struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the marks were made by the spirits, some were made by humans; others were drawn by a giant race of people who had lived on earth in the old days and had disappeared. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Up ahead on a shoulder were three white crosses marking the casualties from a recent accident. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cruelty to punctuation is quite unlegislated: you can get away with pulling the legs off semicolons; shrivelling question marks on the garden path under a powerful magnifying glass; you name it. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

Its black skin glistened with silver markings and tiny crickets hopped about and, in the silence of the damp underground that made her think of a grave, she screamed. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The village hag, she was a tiny, stooped woman with a dull red mark on her right cheek and wayward hairs upon her chin. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a cardboard box, marked with a capital E in black Sharpie. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And though it’s often seen with a small initial r, it’s supposed to be capitalized as a registered service mark owned by the National Association of Realtors. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His head was smooth; there was no gash, no mark to show where the blood had come from. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They came together to negotiate a peace, and once the negotiations were concluded, they marked their truce by each of them, Aesir and Vanir alike, one by one spitting into a vat. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

In other words, a marked reduction in the poundages used would hardly alter the lethal situation, for applications of over o.i pound per acre to the pond itself are generally considered hazardous. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“We were bitten by huge horse-flies the size of bumblebees...The boroshudas were the worst pests; they brought the blood at once, and left marks that lasted for weeks.” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I set down the mark that makes the eye. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

So to mark his manhood, Tyrion was given charge of all the drains and cisterns within easterly Rock. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If one thing marks out that difference, it is ‘the fact’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I saw his fingers delve into the pocket marked with D. He found it almost at once. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They walked in silence until they reached the two gilded pillars marking the start of the Takatifu District, and Ekon stood straighter. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He drew his fingers across his own markings. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“It could affect our whole future,” she told Harry and Ron as they pored over lists of new subjects, marking them with checks. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I wondered aloud as I observed the body markings swirl and transform in an endless dance. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Thus it was that he learned about the war in Europe and was able to follow the advances of the troops on a map he hung on the school blackboard, which he marked with pins. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in Volleyball, I had to finish all the scuff marks I’d missed on my side of the floor. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He had been to school, after all, and his marks weren’t bad. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

If you pull up my shirtsleeves and look at my arms, you will see black and blue marks. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It’s rather like a medical version of the maps police departments put up on their walls, with pins marking where crimes have occurred. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you do write, pray do not address the letters to me or mark them to show that you are the correspondent. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He saw no such marks, absolutely none, then remembered that Leon Longbridge had told him no peregrine falcon would nest near Delhi—no cliffs. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

His role was to keep the official scorebook and put down the code that marked every measurable moment of the contests: hits, runs, strikeouts, stolen bases, errors, wild pitches. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Tuesday morning marked Emily’s second first day of school this year. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“How could you reject your station like that? It is an honor to be marked.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

If I die, there will be no body to mark me, no funeral to attend, no burial. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Only a few teachers hurried by, barely glancing at me as they went into a room marked Teachers Only. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was like the pencil marks were holding her together. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She showed her how family clothes were marked with the ideograph “middle,” which is a box with a line through its center. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I checked the time and knew that the two-hour mark was coming, and one thing about Momly was she was never late. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Cressen's fingers went to the chain about his neck, each link forged from a different metal, each symbolizing his mastery of another branch of learning; the maester's collar, mark of his order. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I returned to work, stopping occasionally to examine the teeth marks; they were swelling. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And thus becoming a permanent resident marked the beginning of our next chapter of waiting. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I mark time by the flares the tinkerer fires, and the third one has just gone up when to my left one of the roughnecks goes down, screaming as the dead begin to devour him. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

In the back, beneath the farthest eave, Joseph found three cartons marked simply with the letter B. They were filled with men’s clothing, some covered in dirt and mud, all carefully folded. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Let your fingers brush the wall. There are markings there, invisible to the eye, plain to the touch.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The deck marked “life” is stacked full of bum cards. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The appearance of the sign in the entrance hall had a marked effect upon the inhabitants of the castle. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

At the end of the word, Sosie made an exclamation mark with a smiley face at the bottom. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Zarra stands at her mark, her braids twisted with ribbons, facing a girl with straight brown hair. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

As Mr. Gitney and Bono descended, I could see in the lineaments of their faces that the ride of hours had not been passed in idleness, but rather marked by contest of will. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The lawmen were untrained in forensic methods and didn’t make a cast impression of the tire marks, or dust the bottle for fingerprints, or check Anna’s body for gunpowder residue. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We are marked as self by the chemicals we leave beneath the soles of our shoes, as unmistakably and individually as by the membrane surface antigens detectable in homografts of our tissues. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old marks of accidents and bad food and childhood illnesses all washed away. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Calvin laughed and was suddenly swallowed up by the dark, only the low swinging lamp marking his path. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the ground I see drag marks where the girl musta pulled the bodies out of the crash and brought them here. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Even though it’s only 5:30 a.m. in California where she is, Bev’s texted a string of question marks. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“So then,” he said, “it would be ‘stone marked with E....’ ” He frowned at the next bit. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

No one wanted to hire a marked man. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He jogged to the end of the hallway and turned right, heading for the double doors that marked the back entrance of the gymnasium. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She aimed to cut off the rat’s head, but she missed her mark. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“You told me to stay in my rooms the other night. And those scars look like bite marks. They say Verin and Xavier were killed by animals.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Giant diamonds of glass marked out an impressive star. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But having made this mark on medicine and laid down a marker for the scientific approach in general, Vesalius suddenly abandoned his academic career although still not 30 years old. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The guardians sometimes went in there to mark our work or get on with reading. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every hollow I’d come into contact with had left a mark on me. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

And with the marks that she’d found painted under her bed...there was no way in hell she’d wait for it to show up. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The tribal marks curved even more on the man’s face as he frowned and pushed Aunty Ifeoma aside. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Viftas reached for a thermos and poured me iced water in a glass cup that had measurement marks on the side. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One or two of the rats were a bit slow off the mark, but not as slow as Colin Vole and his mother, who were roughly grabbed by the faster sentries. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A curving window of nonreflecting glass was the first break in the universal metal, and below it was a single large dial, with a single motionless needle hard against the zero mark. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

We prowl around among the trees, looking for bones, for hummocks in the earth that could mark diggings, the outlines of buildings, turning over logs and rocks to see what’s underneath them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

One was an old hand-drawn affair tracing out an acre or two of land, and marked with the now outmoded pictographs of old China. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The Egyptians’ innovation of the solar calendar was a breakthrough, but they made an even more important mark on history: the invention of the art of geometry. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It does matter that there’s no question mark on a direct question. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

On my first report card I got a C+ in overall conduct and a few Needs Improvement marks. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

My emoticons are puncture-ation marks from the time a dead horse fell out of the sky onto me and my mother. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Presently, a tall, burly man with hideous vertical scars on his face —tribal beauty marks—and a left shoulder decidedly lower than the right, came by. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scars marked the snout, but one scar stood out from the rest—the letter M, with loopy humps like cursive. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

They sliced the air like a blade, and she watched as they found their mark on Ekon’s face. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It calmed her to follow him, his delicate hoofprints marking a way out of the maze of her thoughts. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its marks, its scars, its wounds from old wars and the walking-backwards days .all fell away. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were deep scratch marks in the paintwork below a small sign that he had not noticed in the dark. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

His scaly back is striped with white marks that read like a warning label. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

One found its mark in a guard’s thigh. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

While the rest of us were worrying over getting our printing to match exactly the example shown on the blackboard, Esther got praise for any kind of mark that resembled the letters. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Ye think I’m a fool, then,” he answered, his Efrafan accent becoming more marked. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

These artifacts marked the room as headquarters of the Whitechapel Club, named for the London slum in which two years earlier Jack the Ripper had done his killing. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He roared in pain each time one found its mark, but they affected him like bee stings. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Your school marks this term have been very disappointing, and your behavior in class continues to be disruptive and disrespectful. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The roaring sound instantly fills my vision with brown streaks and slashes, and I look up to see the familiar markings of my father’s chopper. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The sophomores leapt out to a one-length lead and never looked back, pulling away decisively at the halfway mark and cruising to a seemingly effortless win. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She watched as he rotated his wrists to look at his palms and then the backs of his hands, a few nicked scars marking his knuckles. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Her strides took on purpose as if her feet were marking a path through the cornfields where wild girls ran unconstrained — and where they hid themselves when the world judged them for their agency. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

His story must have been lurking inside him, caged by his silence, even though the marks of it were all over him: the scars at his throat, at his back and chest and arms. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

My complexion becomes a mark of my leisure. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Put the names of shorter works, like poems, stories, and songs, in ordinary type with quotation marks. books: Gone With the Wind magazines: Newsweek n e w s pa p E R s.- Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He brought out three snakes that seemed larger than the rest, with white markings around their necks. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

My grass be kind a spotty and I still got a big yellow mark where Treelore’s pickup sat for three months after the accident. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Appreciating the treelike nature of a text can also help you understand one of the few devices available in nontechnical prose to visually mark the structure of discourse: the paragraph break. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The mark allowed how he was being interested, so Black said he would tell his friend and they’d get in touch with him. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The aircraft came closer, so that the boys could make out the markings on the wings and the white helmets of the pilots in the cockpits. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Some friend or enemy or angel would kill you by defiling the marks you left in your passage. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A score of ioo is average; you probably need to be just above that mark to be able to handle college. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But the question mark must be outside if it’s not part of the actual quotation. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kat’s idea of ‘nice play’ was to line up her naked Barbie dolls with their savage haircuts and strange biro markings and play hospitals. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blood runs from the teeth marks on the hand he clamped over my nightlock. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It was awful to see seats at a bus stop marked “Slegs Blancs”—Afrikaans for “Whites Only.” My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Scarred, as mine were before the Capitol erased all marks from my skin, but strong and deft. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was clear from her tone of voice that this was a huge black mark in her book. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Now he touched his gloved fingers to where the sleeve of his coat covered that mark. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

If only part of the quotation is in parentheses, then the closing parenthesis goes inside the quotation marks. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When women shared an airfield with male pilots, they put bunches of flowers on the wings of their own planes to mark them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“None of the other teams have started training yet; we’re going to be first off the mark this year —” Yawning and shivering slightly, Harry climbed out of bed and tried to find his Quidditch robes. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Audrey furrowed her brow like she was staring at a math problem that had been marked wrong when she was certain it was correct. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The proofreader ran her finger from edit mark to edit mark across the manuscript pages and then checked the other stack to make sure all the edits had been made in the almost-a-book version. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They roared northwest through the bend at Krum Elbow and continued another two miles alongside forest and cliff until they came to a dock marked “Hyde Park Station.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In classical texts, it was used to mark dropped letters, as in t’cius for “tertius”; and when English printers adopted it, this was still its only function. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

“Janie, you mark my words, you be careful who you trust. You never know when the man you married is going to turn around and try to take a nibble out of your neck.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

They were the initials of a rubber gatherer, and it marked his territory. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

In fact, he had seldom received a mark lower than an A. In the seventh and eighth grades at St. Jude’s, he had received straight A's for two years except for a 5-plus one term. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the clock begins to chime near the gates, the first archer lets his arrow fly, soaring over the crowd and hitting its mark in a shower of sparks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“They leave nasty marks on you! Don’t your parents get mad? My mother would hunt down anyone who did that to me.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Using the alphabet he’d written on the board, Mr. Quisling drew a hash mark under a letter for each time it appeared in James’s message. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The storm curled along the coast like a question mark; all over the city people braced themselves. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The proofreader ran her finger from edit mark to edit mark across the manuscript pages and then checked the other stack to make sure all the edits had been made in the almost-a-book version. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Above him, a tear in the tanker’s hull still spewed oil, marking where the ship had vomited him into open air. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

His excellent manners, educated voice, and physical poise marked him as a gentleman. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held up his staff in the hope of finding some marks or inscription that might help his choice; but nothing of the kind was to be seen. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He pointed down to his boot, where a mark in the shape of the zmeyok’s teeth marred the leather. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He could see the poison-fang marks clearly upon the shrew’s chest. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The Sons of the Harpy did their butchery by night, and over each kill they left their mark. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But on any system, there are five that everyone agrees deserve full marks. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

We breathe in our nebulizers, and do our IV drips, and mark off treatments and meds together in her app. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

No houses had been built, but the lots were marked with surveying stakes, and the grass was freshly mown. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Suddenly one in a crib marked male let out a shriek, then switched to a loud wail. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I think about Dain’s offer to give me a love mark on my brow and wonder idly if Locke might have one, because, despite everything, I am tempted. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Then the smoke and flame died, and new marks were seared onto Frank’s skin: spqr, an image of crossed spears, and a single stripe, representing the first year of service. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I marked the spot mentally and said, “Ha!” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, in the exact place where I had been sitting, he had left his mark—his droppings. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He spent a great deal of time with Adam Bowyer shooting at a mark, and was already at work again in the carpentry shop making a viol such as Piers Nitingale used. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The rest of his body rocked almost imperceptibly inside his white shirt, marking time, keeping his rhythm. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I place a mesh marked with quadrants over her face. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“He can’t be here unless he’s got the count too,” said a man whose old blue military cap marked him as a former member of the Everican Navy. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Viewers filled out questionnaires and turned a dial marked “very dull,” “dull,” “fair,” “good,” and “very good” as they watched the show, with their responses then translated into a score between 1 and 100. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The station agent wouldn't have been allowed to sell a ticket to someone whose papers were marked Jood. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Even farther below, the streetlights marked off sullen pathways that squared back into themselves. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For Greeks, the pillars marked the end of the known world. The Romans said the pillars were inscribed with a Latin warning—” “Nonplus ultra,” Percy said. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Take a pencil or pen and assign each name to the category to which it belongs by putting a check mark either to the left or to the right of the word. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

His cheek still bore the red mark of the hand. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last few days of school mark the start of pageant prep season, which means my mom is on a diet. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

They are large pebbles or chunks of rock that show the marks of repeated use for the same operation, whatever that may have been. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I climbed up a set of stairs marked p-12, where the green sign said, MRS. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Pardons, my lord. The message is not for you either. It is marked for the eyes of the Lady Catelyn, and her alone. May I approach?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Next door to Claire’s is a candle store, where Elizabeth gets a small candle marked “Tranquility” for her mom. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The three companions now left the hill-top, where they might be an easy mark against the pale sky, and they walked slowly down the northward slope. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The ones they thought they could save they worked on, the others they marked their wounds down. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The marks on the pages, the “squiggles” as Merlot referred to them, arranged themselves into shapes. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Beside them was drawn a crude giant, the mark of some Umber. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And when I told her that I had read them, she asked me very long questions that were really just her ideas with a question mark put at the end. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Those necklaces left green marks around our necks where they rubbed, but our tans mostly covered them up. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Somehow the red marks on Carol’s bum have given her a credibility she lacked before. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He marked through my name on his sheet. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The handkerchief marked with the initial H. Whose is it? Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

She explains that the annual Pagoda Pizza Christmas party has always been on the second Friday in February, because Super Bowl night marks the end of our busiest season. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The workers, who marked watch dials with luminous radium paint, customarily licked their brushes to a fine point, ingesting the radioactive substance. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I rubbed my palms on my pants to try and get the mesh marks off them. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Perhaps you are marking each day on a calendar with a large red X? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The belling tower struck the hour outside, and Kilvin looked around, marking the faces of everyone there. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I could see the yellow on their hats and the yellow marks on their cape collars. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He doesn't think about the meaning behind the words, just writes—writes what Herr Vinke wants to hear, writes what will earn a high mark. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

They were loose in the bag and wrinkled; a few were marked with crayons. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Every tattoo I got with them is a mark of their friendship, and almost every time I have laughed in this dark place was because of them. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

And tramps didn’t seem to mark her fence post. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“A section of wall. A boulder. A doorway. A sewer entrance. But it would have the mark of Daedalus on it. A Greek A, glowing in blue.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Finding no telltale marks of an aerie on the bridge, Sam walked up Elm Street and stopped in the library to get a book on farming wild edible plants. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile I would be marking the woman’s premium book, an act which would distract her from what the superintendent was doing. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Warsaw, Poland, they saw emaciated Jews living behind thick ghetto walls topped with barbed wire, and men, women, and children thrust into cattle cars, marked for the concentration camps. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was kneeling on the floor, marking, with ripped bits of a Post-it, patches on the baseboard that needed to be retouched with paint. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Even your garden is all right except for the scorch mark on the lawn.’ Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The roads on it were marked with velvet black ink, rivers a pearly blue, mountains a speckled green. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no other road marked DETOUR, so obviously the only thing to do was to turn around and go back about five miles to the last town and take the regular highway. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her fingers sketched quotation marks around the name, and her tone dripped sarcasm. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But he didn’t shout out the marks; Harry supposed the judges were holding them up and showing them to the crowd. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He had found the stag about an hour’s walk north of where they were camped, and he had marked the path to show them the way back. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were ugly red marks all around her neck. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The bang was like a cannon blast, and the golden flames that erupted between them, at the dead center of the circle they had been treading, marked the point where the spells collided. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The Great Patriotic War had only just passed its halfway mark. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The original has the marks of early Greek poetry, great simplicity and directness and delight in the beautiful world. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little dots that marked the position formed a rough circle about the red cross of the selenium pool. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

In Aunt Maggie’s eyes I was a plainly marked failure and she feared that perhaps she would have to feed me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taisin walked in a circle around the perimeter, marking it with stones or branches. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Teotihuacan fell in the eighth century for reasons yet unknown, but left an enduring mark in central Mexico. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Also, the Babylonians used only two marks to represent their numbers: a wedge that represented 1 and a double wedge that represented 10. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Slash marks in the sand made a trail downriver...as if something heavy, with multiple legs, had scuttled into the darkness. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I turned back to my work, made a check mark on my paper, and at full voice, began singing a tango that my mama switched off every time it came on the radio. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Nothing Kreacher did made any mark upon it,” moaned the elf. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Jake drew a triumphant X to mark the spot halfway between the two markers. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

They were placing bets on how he would die...what sort of scorch mark he would leave on the ground. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Twelve through eighteen-year-olds are herded into roped areas marked off by ages, the oldest in the front, the young ones, like Prim, toward the back. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He opened the conversation like that, without pause or question mark. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Annabeth and I found tracks almost immediately—scuttling marks made by something with a lot of legs. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

By 1836 it was possible to describe steam as marking ‘a new era in the history of the world’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He led Lina down the corridor and opened a door marked “Reception Room.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The thrashing was the high water mark of his life. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He brushed his fingers against a scuff mark on the wall. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Without looking back once, he opened the door with the Venetian printer's mark on it and closed it quietly behind him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Micrographia really did mark the moment when microscopy came of age as a scientific discipline. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

No one with a name that would be remembered come winter, so shallow was their mark. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Certainly during the Roaring Twenties, a time marked by what F. Scott Fitzgerald called “the greatest, gaudiest spree in history,” the Osage were not alone in their profligacy. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And even the stone looks like it’s been cut into—I tell you, it looks like claw marks to me. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

So Howard whipped out his map and a stubby pencil and marked the places we had looked, and we decided to call it a day. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I joked, showing her my plate, which had nothing left on it but knife marks. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Finally there was a compromise, and Bump called, “Get ready on your mark!” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was marked with a B+, the best grade she’d ever gotten. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I marked it on my calendar when you left. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Mark Antony marked the occasion by hosting what might be his final banquet, drinking and feasting in the light-hearted, easy-going manner that characterized more carefree days. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Then, the next day, I went to rounding up and marking hogs and forgot all about the plague. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever made them mark our door in the first place has apparently stuck around. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The garage chief believed nobody was loony enough to steal a marked police car. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And another thing! I saw that toy airplane he won in a card game, and mark my words— you will never get in it. Never!” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Lord, what he wouldn’t give for a new pad of real art paper and a set of those marking pens—color pouring out onto the page as fast as you could think it. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

As they approached Government Island and the halfway mark, California slowly increased its rate and stretched its lead out to a full length. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

"A family I know had their door marked recently." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I figured the black lines with the little marks through them were for the railroad tracks. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was crying, because the red marks of the whip on his back still hurt so terribly. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a heart-stopping, ruby-red pinprick of a beauty mark just beneath her eye. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They found the book with the mark on the cover! From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not a line. I don’t even sing anymore. I left the band. I’m home for good,” Papá finally answered, tightening his hold on Pita as if to mark his words. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

On it, within the old province of Szechuan, so light and gentle that none could see it, was the little mark placed there by Ching which indicated the location of his ancestral farm. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

He was marking hospital charts at the table. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Brown marks appeared as if I were rotting fruit. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Her throat and shoulders were scored with similar ugly marks right the way ’round. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The king traced a mark on the glass arm of his seat. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Will I mark my life as only having two parts? Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

But here in Village, marks and failings were not considered flaws at all. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

She looked skyward, watching for stars to mark the end of the day. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Even those without prison marks glowed softly, like paper lamps. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Even if he could have borne the disgrace, he’d have lived each day as a fugitive from the Kerch government, a marked man. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

People were sweating and panting, their faces smudged with soot, their cheeks marked with tears. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The Nightbeast’s fur blended almost exactly with the color of the fog around them except for red markings along its face and mouth that looked a lot like blood. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“And while you’re at work, look for the rock marked with E.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The nurse by her side got up from her chair and put a mark in the book she was reading aloud. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

After nineteen years of running after good marks and prizes and grants of one sort and another, I was letting up, slowing down, dropping clean out of the race. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to see those problems again, covered with red marks. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The stone Pensieve lay in the cabinet where it had always been: Harry heaved it onto the desk and poured Snape’s memories into the wide basin with its runic markings around the edge. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

We paid the fine — ten thousand marks — bore curses, blows, spittle, and stones, but that, of course, was not enough. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Until then it was a rumor, an undefined, unseen question mark shrouded in fog and surrounded by ice. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

My mom was just about to get up to pour drinks for herself and my dad when she noticed the marks on my neck. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Killconey marked a cross on the ditch wall with his claw. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Make a mark, say, five and a half inches from one end, dividing the foot into two unequal parts. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The scene repeated itself through the course of the week and marked the beginning of the end for Valencia and me. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

We could catch most of the pigs we needed to mark and castrate without ever getting in reach of the old hogs. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meryra would have a sorry and crooked bowl, he reflected, if he did not hold his elbow higher, and he must stiffen his wrist or that sharp-edged hammer would leave marks all over the gold. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

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

Beyond the foothills and fields I could see the long, white, crooked line of steam, marking the river’s course. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But her scratches hadn’t even left marks—nobody could even tell where she’d been hurt. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Thus, the limit of that race—its ultimate destination—is at the two-foot mark. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I gotta pinch myself so hard, I left a mark once. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

A robe of undyed wool belted with a hempen rope marked him far one of the begging brothers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m off,” she said brightly, and she went back up the spiral stair as the closest Sister rose and unlocked the door marked “5.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The tall thin stalks of cane resemble bamboo: They have a woody bark marked off with knobs. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I can hear the thud of Finnick’s trident finding another mark and know his weapon is occupied. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Among those selected was the new pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, twenty-six-year-old Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The attempt to obtain justice for Claudette Colvin marked Dr. King’s political debut. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Navy made a bid, charging forward as they passed under the railroad bridge at the two-mile mark, but Wink Winslow called for more. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Still, the MTA’s failure marked only a temporary stumble in Lawrence’s influence over domestic nuclear policy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

August’s fingers have left red marks on her chin. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I had added my indelible mark to Laconia Avenue, a testament to the world that Wes Moore lived—or at least Kid Kupid did. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Her papers all have high marks on them, and she kept a running tally of her grades compared to everyone else's. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She dusted my face with golden turmeric powder, and with a paste of sandalwood and vermilion painted the red tikka mark on my forehead. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The boss cop said,“You lily-livered rats,” and it was like someone said, “On your mark, get set, go!” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Other evidence, however, is necessary, for it is known that Michelangelo did not carve all the marble blocks which were quarried for him and which bore his mark. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The realization that she and the children were not faced immediately with starvation brought a brave smile to her face and marked the turning point in her distress. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

There is temporarily a marked increase in sugar content, making the plant more attractive to many animals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

There were no marks of identification on him. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at the lash marks, and again hear the whistling of the whip, see his bloody figure hanging unconscious by his wrists. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Some kids stood in a little circle out back, beatboxing and freestyling, inventing brand-new ways of putting one another down and sending up wild cheers when a dig found its mark. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

A backward question mark formed the lion’s head and chest, and a triangle to the left represented the lion’s haunches. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Covered by mystic markings, this cross had been erected where Saint Giles had once appeared. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, Today marks a turning point in my life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Eleanor had left a mark on his shoulder, but you couldn't see it anymore. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

This is the punctuation mark that has many sign painters mystified. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Used to be we’d mark them graves with a rock so we could find em,” Cliff told me. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

No matter how much I tell myself that the fat and the stretch marks don’t matter, they do. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He draws two question marks at odd angles bisecting each other. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Now he feels he has helped put his mark on Truman Drama. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

As soon as he completed his thesis—“An Analysis of Conical Helices”—he transferred to Hughes’s big California operation, where the real action was, eager to make his mark in the race for space. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went to the tombstone that marked where her mother lay buried and knelt down on the new grass before it. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They shot well with the bow, for they were keen-eyed and sure at the mark. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He had left his mark on the program, even though it sometimes seemed he used his fists as much as his legs. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lloyd is one of the children I would have had a question mark about. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In any case, shortly after Ruess carved his mark into the sandstone, he departed Davis Gulch and mysteriously disappeared, apparently by design. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We arrive at a driveway, marked by a simple white post with an address. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Later he had showed her how it all worked, the secret marks and folds, the way he distracted her eye. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

In another list, Cora marked the decisions that led her to this wagon and its iron rings. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Carving Morgan into the wood that marked the new “grave.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Even his boil, he reasoned, was an outward mark of his difference from such as Beowulf. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never seen a dwarf before, but I knew they were special people, sent to the earth marked for this sacred life of duty to the nobility. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The left side of her cheek is red and swollen with still-bleeding scratch marks. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We use a big tree with a mark on it as a target. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

When the Hitler Youth collected, most people gave because to refuse could mean a black mark against them. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

A giant encyclopedia marked A–F squawked at a dictionary. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The shambled outline of an ancient stadium showed beyond the spires of Orleans II, marking the beginning of the old city, the city proper for the drowned lands. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then he adds, his voice a question mark, “If that’s okay with you?” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Another had a club, which missed its mark as she dodged, and she used his momentum to flip him onto his back. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The screws bounce off the painted tin, leaving long, twisting marks like curled ribbons. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Next up, a song called “Road to Nowhere,” which is quite fitting, given what surrounds her—miles and miles of ranch fencing, and then brown and green and yellow hills marked with green scrub. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

For black Americans, the four decades between World War II and the crack boom had been marked by steady and often dramatic improvement. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

They had six arrows each and would be able to fire and mark them all before they needed to frighten the rabbits back by walking about to collect. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Divide by a number and you undo the multiplication: a tick mark that had been stretched to a new place on the number line resumes its original position. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

When she comes out of the car we will beat her up, make red marks on her white skin, and she will cry and ask us do we want her to pull her pants down. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpa always counted my furs carefully and marked something down on a piece of paper. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

His chest and sides were badly bruised, and he had several fractured ribs....Chouchou’s back and thighs were striped with deep lash marks. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Her arm has all these dark marks on it. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then Brave Orchid worried over a daughter who had the mark of an unlucky woman; yes, there was certainly a girl with an upper lip as curled as Brigitte Bardot’s. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though bathrooms for the black employees were clearly marked, most of the bathrooms—the ones implicitly designated for white employees—were unmarked. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He knelt down and took the small stone out of his pocket, making a mark on the floorboards next to the others. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

James slid over a sheet of paper filled with various hash marks. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Guess that marks us next on the list,” I say. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

As the Washington boat swept under the black skeleton of the railroad bridge at the three-mile mark, it was still nearly three lengths back with a mile to go. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Reynie peeked over at the pencil woman, but she hadn’t noticed—she was busy grading Rhonda’s test now, making check mark after check mark and nodding her head. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

All of them out there in the hot sun that day were just dumb animals cursed with the mark of ash on their brow. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only her golden brown eyes mark her as from another district. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’d wanted to tell Commander Jameson what the easiest solution would be—to simply round up everyone in the Lake sector whose doors are marked. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

And since the failure of the witches’ spell to stop his bleeding, he thought they were regarding him with fear, too, as if he was marked by some curse greater than their own powers. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would tell audiences, “On election day, look down your ballot and when you see the face of a young and handsome man, mark an X.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And this sailor, tall, dark and crowlike, marked his ship's papers with a circle that night and was on deck at dawn when the ship sailed out of the harbor in the morning mist. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Like a chain of grey islands, the marks of his hunting dotted the green grass sea. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They and Myrta settled into a life marked by increasingly sparse visits from Dr. Holmes, but when he did appear, he brought warmth and gifts and entombed little Lucy in his arms. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I suppose she took marks off for your shoulder. Mr. Crouch came next. He shot a number nine into the air. “Looking good!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He talked as he drove along, saying that my school marks showed that if I would just straighten up, I could make something of myself. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man who had made them had now destroyed them, erased them like mistakes in a drawing, like marks on white paper. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I lift my head and spot the dark-green railing that marks the subway station just up ahead. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A foot had marked that floor in all the seven ways of a dance. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sit on a half wall just outside, under a great tree marked by bullets. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Rob’s dad smiled at Gerald as he opened the car door, laugh marks making walnut brown wrinkles in the sides of his eyes. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He goes on to check the socket from all angles, making small marks on the plastic as we go over the pressure points. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

He stands at his spot at the turnstiles, counting down the minutes until Disneyland opens up again, marking the first official day of normalcy. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

And I thought of a mean neighbor boy who had tiny pits in his cheeks, and it was true, those marks were the size of rice grains. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now is the month of May, which marks the end of spring and promises a full and fruitful summer. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I glance at the sections marked Victim Statement and Estimated Value of Damaged Property. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Then, slips and newspaper went to the cutter who stood before a large slanting desk and slashed out the marked items with a sharp curved knife. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every night I was sure her face was as marked and deformed as it was possible for a face to be, but every morning it was somehow darker, more tumid. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There’s always one ear higher than the other, or too-short fingers, or visible eraser marks. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

They marked these little graves with the biggest shells they could find. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Onto the shirt, she had sewn four carefully hoarded brass buttons, gleaming, each marked with the French flower that the voyageurs called fleur-de-lis. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Rand, who was marking a row of boxes she had just closed off with her initial, looked up at Maya and smiled. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I told her everything—about the pins and the marks on my skin, about the face in the water, about how it wasn’t the face that scared me so much, but the teeth. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They reached a spot where the slightest outline of rectangular light marked the door through which the two strangers from the Berg had gone. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Instead he was smiling at a rather severe-looking woman who was wearing square glasses exactly the shape of the markings the cat had had around its eyes. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Probably the ruffians of that time so marked innocent people as a cruel joke and the practice had persisted down through the centuries to be distorted into a meaningless Halloween prank. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see she despised me, marking with all the snobbery of her class that I was no great lady, that I was humble, shy and diffident. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Two murders completed in a single night mark a descent I should be proud of. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“About your mark: You haven’t turned in work this term. I should have failed you. But at the last moment, I decided to pass you so that you could graduate with your class.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There's a chair in her bedroom and on the seat of it there are marks of seaweed same as on her shoes. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

This was something that Mrs. Frisby and the children did not ordinarily mind; Moving Day, in fact, was normally a gay time, for it marked the end of the gray weather and the frost. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The sun had not yet lifted above the hills marking the distant horizon. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the first I’ve heard Russ talk about outer space since we watched the space shuttle launch on my roof to mark his birthday. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had nothing to put there to mark it as my own, no luggage, no clothes, no sleeping bag. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

First I folded his right ear and sliced out a three-cornered gap in the top side, a mark that we called an overbit. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

By a rock on the bank were smears of blood, marking where Anna’s body had lain. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

That’s where the Augurs have left me, in this salt-white flatness that stretches for hundreds of miles, marked by nothing but angry black cracks and the occasional gnarled Jack tree. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

But Taisin couldn’t sleep anymore; her thoughts circled endlessly around Mona’s strange words, the awful vision, and the black mark. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They wore out the grass and made marks on the ground. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The walls were all marked up from people hitting them. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her short gray hair curled over her ears and forehead, which was marked with black oil as if she had pushed her hair aside with dirtied fingers. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the Magic 8 Ball and rubbed the scuff mark as I looked down into its round window. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Beside the legal pad is a biography of the author, a thick book called Divided Soul, the pages marked by numerous scraps of torn-up paper. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was like a game, to find the marks that made the sounds. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How’s your navigation? You’re not allowed to mark this airfield on your map. Takes a bit of studying before you leave, so you can find it yourself.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Her tawny breast is decorated with black marks; her back is gray blue; her head black. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stared at her notes for a few moments, brought the pen to the board, made a mark, then got flustered and made some notations in the white space beyond the graph, and tried again. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I took out a ballpoint pen and started pressing it against a piece of scrap paper, making dents in the paper but not making a mark. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The river marks the Guatemalan border, just as the Rio Grande defines the Mexican border to the north. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The Farm Patrol might not know yet that he was marked for disposal. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the royal banner that streamed atop the center pole marked it as a king's. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Even through the forest the path was well marked, because it was one that had been used for centuries. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Yet since that far cry they had seen and heard no sign that the enemy had marked their flight or followed them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She did not speak, but continued to pore over the strange mark. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It was as if her geography book had marked her to roam the country, planting her feet in each pink, yellow, blue or green state. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gog’s wolf bone had 55 little notches in it, arranged into groups of five; there was a second notch after the first 25 marks. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Those beautiful marks gave her much of her superb dignity. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked his way down about eight feet and then dropped the rest of the way with just the smothered crunch of gravel to mark his arrival. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Cole tried to imagine what kind of storm could wash such a big log up a dozen feet above the high-tide mark. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She feared she would spend her life all alone, chained to jobs she hated, marking papers and marking time. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He writes these notes in colored pencil, different colors, with exclamation marks. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There are broad teeth marks on it which are not squirrel. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

His straw hat shaded his eyes and made crisscross marks on the upper half of his face. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He nudged Rick over to his parked, plainly marked police car; there, by police radio, he put in a call for someone to come pick up Polokov. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Haukelid was awful to look at,” Nielsen later said, “with a dense beard, and marked by the tough life in the mountains.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has a question mark at the end, but you are not meant to answer it because the person who is asking it already knows the answer. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

All I can say is they didn’t leave any marks. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

As do black people on summer blocks marked with needles, vials, and hopscotch squares. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Although he died in 1562 at the early age of 39, he made his mark on human biology in two ways. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Oh, to paint those symbols with a slight brush and a quick turn of the wrist and to make a clear black mark as fragile as a piece of a butterfly wing! A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They paddled out of the racing lanes and took up a position along the bank at about the fifteen-hundred-meter mark. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A trio of zits exploded across her forehead, as if marking the days since her sixteenth birthday. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

No one with an essay in their hand was saying anything, but they studied their marked sheets and made faces before turning their papers right-side down. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Someone slips a parchment marked with the Augurs’ diamond seal beneath my door. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Ulape had two boxes of earrings, for she was vainer than I, and when she put them into her baskets, she drew a thin mark with blue clay across her nose and cheekbones. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seems fitting that the blow would leave a mark on both of us. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

A boy called Tarber tossed a handful of acorns on top of Praed's body, so an oak might grow to mark his place. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Already there was a marked difference between the two. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I mentioned the potential blood spots that Phoebe had marked with adhesive tape. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

‘She’s designing you a beautiful mark so when you are man- grown and master smith you can stamp your silver with it.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of Dauntless woke to discover the black mark of murder on them, and they didn’t even choose it for themselves. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

And just then Pax saw a movement below him—a broad-shouldered alpha with black and gray fur emerged from the brush halfway down the slope and marked a sapling beside him. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

By the time the field charged past the fifteen-hundred-meter mark, the Husky Clipper had eased from fifth to third place. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I just read the name off the screen. Some Chinese tourist marked it on Google Maps.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Some of these paperbacks have been through a lot: pages tinted brown from coffee spills, dog-eared corners, highlighted paragraphs and pencil markings in the margins. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

And when I was done, Otis would write down my time in a notebook that he had marked on the outside, “One red leather collar, one red leather leash.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I may not win anything in orbit, but I still have made my mark upon the Earth. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He would escape into the starry night and walk until he came to a tavern, or to a house that he had marked already in the long daytime of his lust. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

If the entire quotation is in parentheses, then the closing parenthesis should go outside the quotation marks. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its steep slopes still bore the marks of humanity. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She looked at her paper and saw that he’d been busy marking it up. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

In most cases, an exclamation point goes inside the quotation marks. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her letters consist mostly of banalities—we are busy; Frau Elena says hello—or else arrive in his bunkroom so full of censor marks that their meaning has disintegrated. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Tags hang by each compartment door, marked with handwritten names. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When a piece was for the starboard side, it would be marked thus—“S.” Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You going to find out one day,” she said, “you mark my words.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She turns it over, lets the dregs run down the sides, then she reads the markings. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

FOREMAN: She had those marks. 3RD JUROR: She had dyed hair and marks on her nose. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were two sets of double doors leading out of the antechamber, one marked stacks and the other tomes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The submarine had no markings, but Alex knew it wasn’t English. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Only the snick-snack of the scissors and the occasional cry of the barber’s victims marked the minutes. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lancelot rode out from the north exit, marked with the , Bon escutcheon—and immediately everybody in the amphitheatre knew that it was he, although he was disguised. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next we go into All Flesh, which is marked by a large wooden pork chop hanging from two chains. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were slow, they were thorough; none of the slapdash arrogance and sudden deviousness that marked Karhidish officialdom. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

My sister handles them gently, marks the pages with torn brown pieces of paper bag, wipes her hands before going beyond the hardbound covers. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

A ragged line of chopped nettles on the grass marked her progress, as did the stinging white bumps on her feet and ankles. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She fussed about a mark on my chin. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

In most newspaper writing, for example, all titles are in plain type, though not all go inside quotation marks. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair was slicked back, the comb marks still visible. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The laboratory lights hit a brown mark on his hand. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Those scars meant something, the kind of marks that showed who you really were. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Her eyebrows formed a question mark over her round eyes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He looked back at her, the low light touching on his scars and healing wounds, the marks of the impressors written all over his body. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

When I told him he was not so far off the mark, he continued: 'Now I got it. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

For while no slaves were freed by the bill, it marked a great change in the world. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She had no qualms about telling a saleslady that a dress marked at twenty-five cents was worth only a dime, and she usually got it at that price. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I have seen an advertisement for these: you send in your money, and you get a certificate with a star map, your own star marked on it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was buried now in the village graveyard with a small stone marker marking her place, and room beside her for Old Benedikt when his time came. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The other map was a huge one, sharply delineated, with all markings in neat Cyrillic characters. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“We have to leave our mark,” I say, getting up from my seat. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Against the full-moon sky, skeletons of burnt trees marked the fire’s path. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I keep my head down as Agent Magnus leads me through the bright lobby to a small hallway marked Authorized Personnel Only. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I did not! I marked her forehead so it appeared like she was operated on. I put her in the stables with Rosa.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I could read, I learned I could use any things or places marked “coloreds,” and I could not use those things or places marked “whites only.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

If you could tap into the Illuminated world, you could read the history of each mark as clearly as you could read a sentence from a book. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

My marks had plummeted, while the rest of the school tried to stagger on like everything was normal. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I noticed Jonas kept track of the children, making marks with a stone on the floorboard of the car. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

No, the reflections led back to Africa, back to the shanty and the ghetto, back to the fruitless struggles against the mark of blackness. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The surface of the sawdust was combed smooth, the treasures hidden beneath marks that only he, the king, understood. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They are marking us. Branding us like the cattle in those American pictures Yanek likes so much! Next they’ll be taking all our money. Mina, tell your husband.” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lazlo’s jibe that it would make him ugly had not missed its mark, but that wasn’t his only concern. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But the watercolor would account for fifty percent of his mark this semester. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If rhythms are not written as triplets, the tempo marking usually includes an indication to 11swing11, or it may simply be implied by the style and genre of the music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The tracks of the big bear were all around the barn, and there were marks of his claws on the walls. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got into bed and opened the page the monk had marked. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time he finished, she was sobbing, her neck and breasts covered with bruises and bite marks. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In our example on page 41, at every step the tortoise and Achilles get closer and closer to the two-foot mark. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was a small round sort of box with a glass top and on the glass an arrow marked. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Monday marked three days since Emily had deciphered the scarab clue. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They stood out because they were alone; the other marks paraded on and on across the paper, but these ones were flanked by white space. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

"Yet it seems to me that I know this maker's mark. This is Mik- ken's work." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Burning lines raced through his consciousness, connecting far-flung dots and filling in blanks, erasing question marks and adding a dozen more for every one erased. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I draw a little splash mark into one corner of the beach, with a shaggy form diving into it. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A scientific law marks the point beyond which there are no explanations, although further explanations sometimes come along later. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was a thing they did often—seeing which one could get as close as possible to the moment when Old Xan brought them to their families and marked them as beloved. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It’s marked on Hugo’s calendar as well as his mind. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The report was not explicitly marked “Confidential,” but nor was it evident anywhere that it was to be made freely available to others, to Franklin’s competitors, in particular. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Sean grabbed his stethoscope and touched it to the left of the mark. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She earns high marks on each challenge Du Barry assigns. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

A sweetness gathered in his breast as he saw the room being turned into a shambles, a sweet moment of triumph that compensated for all the other lousy things, his terrible marks, the black box. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

That a light you are powerless to stop will turn on you and usher a bullet to its mark. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Benji drew an invisible check mark in the air with his finger. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘I’ve five more years to go. No matter how good my work may be, I have to mark it with your grandpa’s old pellets and “L’s.”’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I used the catacomb fish symbol *=> to mark the days. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They say her face is hardly even scratched, just a small bruise on the side of her cheek, one mark on the pretty sleeper. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now there is not a great deal of unoccupied territory left, but there is still room for chord V which I have marked with a grey line. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s a bubble sheet. To mark your answers.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Deep claw marks gouged the obsidian stage where we’d just been standing. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The lifeblood would flow out of me un­marked by a final utterance. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The graffiti on the walls was marked by Deckers and their friends, sometimes the last piece of themselves the Deckers have left behind, something that immortalizes them. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

My shirt was still speckled with burn marks from the explosion. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“How wonderful! Gnome saliva is enormously beneficial!” said Mr. Lovegood, seizing Luna’s outstretched finger and examining the bleeding puncture marks. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A pause, while Fleur’s marks were being shown . . . more clapping. . . then, for the third time, the whistle. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“There’s a mass and then a big party. Everyone gets dressed up and dances a lot. It’s supposed to mark the transition to womanhood. My grandmother has been planning mine since I was, like, two.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t say much more, but he makes many check marks on his paper. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I stare at all his markings, comments on the sides, question marks, whole sentences crossed out. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was late at night when the city of Rio de Janeiro first came into view, and the ship finally passed the famed Sugar Loaf peak, which marked the entrance into Rio’s calm natural harbor. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The question marks would just stand up into exclamation points and then wilt back over into question marks. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then capo49 at the fret that marks the number of keys moved. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

BOOK: The first is the fourth, a disappointing mark. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

During heavy rains, river water flowed in a greasy plume far out into Lake Michigan, to the towers that marked the intake pipes for the city’s drinking water. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, Antony survived and Cicero was marked for death. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

She passed a pallet of crates marked 24-CARAT blue topaz rings, then another labeled silver friendship bracelets. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He watched as the right wall reached the end of its journey, its connecting rods finding their mark and entering without a glitch. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Above her, a circle of neon lights marked the docking zone. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

A mark of mystery, and a source of fascination for those who viewed the family from afar. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The New York Times marked the occasion with a front-page story. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I think of all of the red marks that cover my papers from teachers. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

About six weeks before I first arrived there, he had shown X-ray diffraction pictures of DNA which revealed a marked absence of reflections on the meridian. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Wearing their Racal space suits, they laid out a trail that wound into Kitum Cave, marking the trail with avalanche poles so that people would not get lost. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed that whenever I got a C or a D in conduct, which was usual, it would drag down all my other marks as well. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She wondered whether Sidhean and his kind marked Yule in the same way that humans did. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, the mark of tragedy became, with time, a mark of glamour. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She draws four boxes, one for each marking period, then writes “GOALS” in each box. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She placed the flesh in his mouth, her fingers streaking dark red over his lips, and she marked his cheeks as well with crimson slashes. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And even when you drive at high speed, the hills that mark the boundaries recede before you. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you mean? Are you a marked sage?” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“As I walked behind you, I noticed that you are marking your path with rice!” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Craning their necks, they peered up at the dusty orange bricks of city hall, to the tall clock tower that marked the time at exactly 10:04. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The coffee table is stained with circular marks from mugs of tea. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I pictured Papa’s steady steps marking the sandy path. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The few skeletons belonging to mature males bore the worst marks of violence. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the full stop is surely the simplest mark to understand - so long as everyone continues to have some idea what a sentence is, which is a condition that can’t be guaranteed. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

The road ahead of us is long and straight, marked with cracks and swollen patches. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The figure was marked “Characteristics of Flow Passage for Subsonic and Supersonic Flow Expansion and Compression.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Patsching, which is done on the lap, and snapping can have markings indicating which hand should be used, right or left. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Nothing but a spit mark on the dirt. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

How funny, Reynie thought, and marking down his answer he felt somewhat cheered. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the sun reached center stage, a punctuation mark in the cloud-lined sky, I was miles into the woods. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It was a sharp drop down, with only a thin cable strung between occasional posts to mark the edge of the road. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

One of his sleeves retracted and I saw marks on his forearm—I’d seen those same tracks on homeless people living in grimy alleys in San Francisco. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There he smelled caches of game buried in the soft earth, but they were marked with powerful warning scents, so he did not dig them up. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

"You two, cut it out and get back on your mark. Save that drama for the other teams on Saturday." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

His teacher insisted on calling him “Elder Antain” in a breathy fawning voice, even though he wasn’t an elder yet, and gave him top marks no matter what kind of work he did. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

There are no red marks on my carefully chosen words and sentences and quotes from books on Chantal’s shelves and from the internet. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He had never seen a wizard work things out like this, simply by looking and touching; but Harry had long since learned that bangs and smoke were more often the marks of ineptitude than expertise. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

But there were any number of things that would seem incredible about Dumbledore; that he had once received bottom marks in a Transfiguration test, for instance, or had taken up goat-charming like Aberforth.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

So we always marked my birth on whatever midsummer day felt right. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I saw the fence—every inch of it—marking off the lines of my claim. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

As the bow of the Italian boat sliced across the halfway point at the thousand-meter mark, a bell began to toll, signaling the spectators down at the finish line that the competitors were approaching. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Earning a high school diploma in East Africa marks a man as smart and successful. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled Immie’s hand toward her until she was close enough that she could loop a rope underneath the arms, making sure to keep it loose so it wouldn’t leave a mark. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

This sounds like vaccinated, something that’s done to you and leaves a mark. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The other two were nationals, one with tribal marks on his cheeks, the other with marks on his hands just like the one my grandfather gave me to protect me from snakebite. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“A minute ago you told us you never saw the mark on the stone properly!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

For many years, once I was sensible that she exaggerated or fabricated the tales she told me, I bore the humiliation of this mark of her disesteem. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Each marks a time, a place, and an occasion that is miles out from the one before. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A few bright yellow markings decorated his glossy black body. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I saw a few tall stone slabs—steles—engraved with cuneiform and other unintelligible markings. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She had looked forward to receiving the sage’s mark on her own skin since she was a child, but remembering her vision, her face burned. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I did pretty well, but it never interested me much. Remember Marcus? He got such high marks in math! He’s in engineering studies now.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It reminds me of Eid, how happy we all are to dress up, worship, and give gifts to mark the end of Ramadan. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

But there was no time to even hope it would reach its mark, for Elowen flung it aside with a fistful of energy. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The page she’d opened to appeared to be a map of Turkey, though no roads were marked and no borders indicated. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

When Bert Lewyn, the Jewish teenager forced to work in a Berlin munitions factory, discovered that he was also marked for deportation to a concentration camp, he went into hiding. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It had been there two hundred years almost, and its detachment marked it out from the rest of the land, and it belonged to her more than to anyone else. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

That little 'un-" gasped Piggy-"him with the mark on his face, I don't see him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

She pumps her fist and laughs at me and marks down her now-insurmountable score. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The ticking of the clock seemed to taunt her, as if it was marking out the time she had left. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

There’s a scatter of my clothes in the comer, empty cups dotted here and there, on the work counter, by the window, marking my daily trails, claiming space. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She could take in an item at a glance and note immediately whether it was something to mark. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another manual advised me to be silent, but not always so, that I might cultivate the art of witty but modest conversation that was the mark of a court lady. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But the markings here were strong: the challenger hunted this territory, and the threat in his scent was unmistakable. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

At least now her grave is properly marked; she’s not all alone by the train tracks. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most people couldn’t even see ’em anymore, the scuff marks, but I could. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Hades traced his fingers along the nearest column, leaving bleached white marks on the old bones. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

A glowing mark appeared—a Greek A—and the wall slid aside. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

What percentage of the lifetime of a planet is marked by a technical civilization? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His scrawny stomach bowed right over it and his sharp black elbows pointed down toward us like punctuation marks. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Marq Mandrake, whose pox- scarred face had a hole in one cheek where a slave’s mark had been burned away, wore a chain of golden skulls as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Miss Watson made a mark in her book. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Her pink housedress was covered in scorch marks and smears of ash. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The doors open, and I follow her down the hallway to the door marked roof access. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Their graves were marked with white stones that formed two necklaces around them. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Only thing is, it went trampling around in agony and squashed half the real eggs — they took marks off for that, he wasn’t supposed to do any damage to them.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The guns had just gone off on the ships to mark the evening when Corporal Craigie appeared and ordered us form into rank. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

And that marks the rest of the night for them. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

In what other ways they had made their marks upon me, I had no way of knowing. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She started sniffing around, and I was afraid she might mark her territory, but Nico said, “It’s okay. She just smells the way home.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“At one time they were a mark of subversion, but now they're relics.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

You have no idea where the accent marks go. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He was tall but bent like a walking question mark, and he was short with words and patience. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

There’s a cave marked on it, just about where I am sitting. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shuddered and touched the scars on his own face—livid marks made by Grendel's claws—as he thought what the monster would do to that simplicity. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s lying on her side facing away from me, and I can see the dip of the blanket at her waistline preceding the rise that marks the curve of her hip. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“That’s why you burned him. You had to have a mark to use the Vision on.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The exact mark the type made on the page also depended on the amount of ink and pressure used. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Her face is covered with scars that look like razor marks. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“It lies in your eyes and the mark is on your face. What is it?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There was no water in his lungs. And there was marks on his neck where the rope had been.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

None of us could read English, but I learned later that those curving marks that twisted like worms were the letters of the man’s name: Mr. Reamer. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I left three of our rabbits in different places to mark the way back,” he explained to Bigwig. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I noticed the red marks of ropes recently removed from their throats. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Some few minutes before total immersion. Dr. 09-01 — mark that Venus is half way to its first internal contact... half way ... now.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

His features are arresting, almost Illustrian, but his clothes and the dark shine of his eyes mark him as a Tribesman. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Now they did strip off their shirts, for no other reason than to stay cool; their backs and ribs were marked where the fencing wire had whipped and stung them. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Ear’s wounds healed until you could hardly see a mark, unless he opened his ears wide, and only then with the sun behind them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He can't afford a bad grade—or a bad mark—in his Party record book, because that would keep him from getting a good job later on. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The long beach was a flat crescent that marked the edge of a shallow cove. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fled to the garden; I fled to the stone Bono had marked out for me to worship. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Groundsel was the first Chief Rabbit; but he had Strawberry and Buckthorn to give him advice and he had learned better than to mark anyone or to order more than a very occasional Wide Patrol. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could not concentrate on her marking and pressing. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were dozens of other marks, hundreds of other words, just on that one sheet of paper—and on the next, more marks, more words...and the next and the next and the next. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

But there was a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out: there was his size, and attractive appearance; and most obscurely, yet most powerfully, there was the conch. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

As her right arm rose, the dark green silk of her robe’s wide sleeve fell back, exposing the sage’s mark on her forearm. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

‘I wish we could feel sure that he made the marks, whatever they may mean,’ said Frodo. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Each of these Cogs is laser marked with initials and dates spanning hundreds of years. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Give me two minutes!” she begs, and when he nods, we hurry toward the 200-meter mark as fast as I can. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

After allowing them to disperse about the lake, we catch another hundred fish and see what fraction of them are marked. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a black eye and red lines on his face that looked like a slap mark. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Janie was leaning on the counter making aimless pencil marks on a piece of wrapping paper. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

In fact, time does funny things when there are no little surprises to mark it off into memorable chunks, and I sense that I’m already several years older than I was when I started. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up his marking book and I saw him write down a big red O next to my name. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even as I spoke with you, I drew nearer to the mark, and so deliberately shot wider. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Which was peculiar ’cause when you studied Ma’s face real good you saw waren’t no scar nor whelp nor mark of any kind. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have to kill them with a bullet marked with a cross,” Lloyd added. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As each boy landed, a new mark was scratched. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the guards rolled him into the earth, they marked the grave with a circle of stones, and the caravan departed. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The only remnants of the wounds was a half-moon-shaped scar between her thumb and index finger and little bite marks from the ridderak’s lower teeth. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Basta stepped back, examined the blade of his knife closely as if he had discovered a mark on it, then rubbed it clean on the hem of his black jacket. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Come to find out, he’s a perfect mark. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I only have one mark against me. You have two. You also stepped over the railing.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“Once the poison is gone, you will not see me. You will not see the demons,” said the queen, sketching marks on Celaena’s brow. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Above the Kell, the Great Wood continued unabated to the northernmost edge of the map, which was marked with mountains: the Northerness. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her most favorites were marked up with hearts and exclamation marks and other reading notes in the margins, so she would never part with those. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He ran quickly to the right, away from the main trail; for he had seen footprints that went that way, branching off from the others, the marks of small unshod feet. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Their ways and accents often marked them as Californians, Europeans, Yankees, even, God forbid, “New York Jews.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Vowel sounds were not written out in Ancient Hebrew, so the accents and markings around the text indicated correct pronunciation and instructions for chanting. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The ragged scar that marked her chin and continued down her neck to her broad shoulder was said to be a remnant of a long-ago battle with one of the forest creatures. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the only one of Tantalus’ descendants not marked out by misfortune. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

These supposedly “Western” clothes marked them as identifying with infidels in the eyes of Fazlullah’s followers, so, for their safety, he had the boys switch to the traditional tunic and pants of the shalwar kamiz. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Yes, they were all there, the unmistakable marks of a hunting hound. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, after the word Spokane, there was a question mark. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It has recently been learned that the genes for the marking of self by cellular antigens and those for making immunologic responses by antibody formation are closely linked. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cowlick at the back of his head stood up like a question mark. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Selma, the president continued, marked a turning point in American race relations and American history. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

During Kaede’s first year, she had been assigned a task suitable for a Chancellor’s daughter: sitting in the library and marking down the names of every student who came and went. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There was nothing to tell Jinny where the island lay, nothing to mark it. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It fell to the floor revealing the high bald forehead with, in the very middle, a round stained mark from which something had trickled. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

On a table in front of the altar was a wreath with four candles stuck in, one of which was lit each week to mark the coming—the slow, slow coming—of Christ. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was buried with her people in the cemetery behind First Congregational, straight in front of the headstone that marked the family plot, not far from her grandfather of the perfect picket fence. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I mean, not a mark on them and not a lace twisted. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

It is covered with clean snow-white linen, that even has got the marks of the iron still on it. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember kicking it there solo, listening to my pop preaching about the army, staring at all the black scuff marks his boots left on the court. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Two dots an inch apart, as small and tidy as punctuation marks at the end of a sentence none of us could read. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pickers hurried their last flats in and waited in line while Mrs. Nitta put marks beside their names and paid them from underneath her umbrella. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was still as vigorous as ever, though, despite the fact that she had celebrated her half-century mark the previous winter. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But as the herbicides rain down on forest and field, on marsh and rangeland, they are bringing about marked changes and even permanent destruction of wildlife habitat. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

This ceremony marked the end of the long celebrations. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you think this is?” she asked the princess, pointing at the mark etched into the tile. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The tub had a skid mark where the water drained out. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He lifted our kite, red with yellow borders, and, just beneath where the central and cross spars met, marked with Saifo’s unmistakable signature. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But the idea that it could have been Finn who’d scared her made that mark in the center of his chest throb. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Taking a breath, Sefia searched for a mark that would allow her to focus her Vision—the scars around the porter’s mouth. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I suspected there was a great tally board in that methodical mind of his, carefully marking down the hours each person worked. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Harry got a new suit of the finest dark navy wool, perfect for the young man about to make his mark in the world. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“You are lucky the spirits have touched you so. Every girl here wishes she were the one to have been marked in such a sacred manner.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Another possibility came to her, and the idea that the Council might have stripped Mona of her marking made her look at the greenwitch uneasily. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Gideon walks over to a map marked with colored pins, removing his hat and hanging it on a nearby hook. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

"When you stop behaving as one! Drinking and gaming until all hours is not the mark of a man!" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Wednesday had drawn all over the maps in bright marking pens, fluorescent greens and painful pinks and vivid oranges. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

If you think you are ugly, you will be ugly, mark my words. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here there was a marked break in her voice, and she began to be very attentive to Bloomberg again. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Strictly by accident, Goober happened to look up as Brother Leon marked down Santucci’s report. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes if you look a word up in the dictionary, you’ll see some definitions marked as obsolete. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He put his ear to the door, down near the scuff marks. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know he’s secretly marking this as a turning point for me. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

And then, separated from the rest of the scribbles by a few blank pages, like he’d wanted to remember these things specifically, were short one- or two-sentence declarations, marked with the dates they’d been written. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

It is a lot faster to tally the number of marks in groups than it is to count them one by one. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She nodded and marked something on her attendance sheet. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Anything times zero is zero, so all the tick marks are at zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

These types of signs usually mark longer repeated sections. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

His great jaws clamped shut, tearing off the gauzy wing of a fairy with markings like a ladybug. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

A slur is marked by a curved line joining any number of notes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Swarms of flies followed the carts, so the dung slaves had flies tattooed upon their cheeks, to mark them for what they were. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

By seven that morning it was already in the eighties, and our bangs stuck to our foreheads, our faces red and dented with pillow marks, gray crud in the corners of our eyes. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The opening quotation marks always go right before the first word of the quotation: “Can we talk?” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

No obviously bad effects were noticed from these ill-advised unions, but one or two old maids or gardener boys marked a weakening of faculties and a disposition toward eccentricity in some of the children. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

"That will mean only one thing. War. That warmonger wants to make his mark on history." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps it will, perhaps not. If I strike it sharply will it not mar the surface even more? See the hammer marks there already.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

When class was over, I waited until everyone had left the room before I approached her, folding the paper in half to hide the red marks. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

As he started to mark down the answer, however, Reynie hesitated. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was curious to study the markings on its front and back, but after the space of two breaths, my arm was numb to the shoulder, as if I had slept on it all night. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He’d be in a room with her tonight, and the body he had seen, the moles, the pallor, the strawberry mark, would be concealed inside her clothes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Check to see how comfortable you are with Italian tempo markings by translating the following. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

We slaughter a cow for its meat only to mark a big occasion. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He too had had a hard life, a life marked by loss and sad turns of fate. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Will was tall and lanky but had terrible posture, so to me he always looked like a question mark with floppy dirty-blond hair and thick eyebrows. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The leather is cracked and flaking, the thick shoulder strap leaves a brown mark on my blouse where the leather stain is rubbing off. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He made a split on the top and fitted a crosspiece on for a mark. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the mile- and-a-half mark, Clark called for another big ten, but by now Cal’s boys had given everything they had to give, and Washington’s boys hadn’t. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The orderings are marked with an A or a B to indicate in which instances these strategies result in her getting her first choice. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was equipped with an excellent diaphragm, and the presence of overtones in the sound unit robbed him of much of that metallic flatness that marks the usual robot voice. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

And the next time your pipes spring a leak and a panel truck marked ''Licensed” Plumber pulls up to your door, don’t say I didn’t warn you. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it was the future the mark portended. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Again he thinks of the night he was nearly killed, the memory of those hours that have forever marked him flickering and fading in his mind. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the other side, the police car and hearse had left their tracks, but not one footprint marked the snow on the road. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

It's just that everyone'd give him a hard time if his marks were too good. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“We hit the ground, me and Lieutenant Carroll will mark off the squad assignments. And don’t go shooting at nothing until you see something to shoot at! Let’s go!” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The princess traced a mark on her hand, her fingers pressing into Celaena’s skin. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I wanted to make some mark that would last a little longer, something next year s first years could look up at and think about, and the first years the year after that, too. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The woman who came out had slender tribal marks on her face, two lines on each cheek. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In thinking about this recently, it seems possible that that odd incident the evening Miss Kenton came into my pantry uninvited may have marked a crucial turning point. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

In two small portraits, however, there is a black thumbprint on her forehead, as if someone had inked in bangs, as if someone had marked her. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could play games with the boys in the courtyard, shooting at a mark, hide-and-go-seek, and duck on a rock. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

A venerable, old book, the shape and size of a headstone, with yellowing pages that bore marks of the multitudes who had consulted them before me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Yes, that must be right. There’s a stone marked with E, and down the riverbank at that point there’s a ledge. I think we’re getting it.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The cat curled the high tip of its tail into a question mark, and tipped its head to one side. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

His scars were like pale lines that someone had drawn on his cheeks: two slightly curved marks on the left cheek, a third and longer line on the right cheek running from ear to nostril. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But the eye of Cuckoo marked it first and she saw the maid slipping at dawn out of his court and she laid hold on the girl and laughed, and her old hawk’s eyes glittered. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

There was no formal celebration to mark the occasion. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She saw Kaz and the others gathered near the great stone arch that marked the eastern entrance to the Exchange. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

One stack of papers was a copyedited manuscript—basically a printout from a computer file that had been marked up in colored pencil with a bunch of edit marks. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe if Leo had a few years, he could decipher the markings and figure out the right combination, but he didn’t even have a few seconds. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Hertzoon had probably been running the con on multiple marks at once. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The new century seemed to mark a shift in the women’s movement. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

As she walked, she affixed shiny doodads from her bag to the trees to mark her passage. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

My heart beats so hard it marks each second for me, but the rest of me is numb. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

In front of the dark mouth of a cave, a scrawny, bearded man in shackles stood next to a big wooden wheel marked with what looked like drawings of little animals. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Far below was the beach, and there was the boat she had rowed, a dark mark against the white. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But I must have had one because my name is clearly marked on the side panel. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

There had been three scratch marks down his cheek. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

She pinched the bridge of her nose, as if there were a mark there that she wanted to rub out. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It had a bright-blue line running through the letters and a tiny star—the mark of someone who has been officially released. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Every sage who took the vows was given a mark just above her wrist: a stylized symbol slightly larger than a gold coin. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I caught her on the windowsill in the hospital wing. Look very closely, and you’ll notice the markings around her antennae are exactly like those foul glasses she wears.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They should cook their first dinner in Illinois, a proper one, to mark the occasion. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the pencil marks couldn’t be erased, but at some point, you could decide to turn to a new page. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

His environment had left its unlikable marks on him, but in the antebellum South, I could have found myself at the mercy of someone much worse—could have been descended from someone much worse. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I had to read measuring markings on my machine, and sometimes I simply couldn't; the fine lines on the instruments looked like tiny wiggly worms. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Most treasure maps have landmarks and dashes and an ‘X’ to mark the spot where the treasure’s buried. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Well mark my words. I just don’t want you to be disappointed. I can still remember how disappointed I was when I was a little girl and Santa Claus skipped my house.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around: There were a number of large white stones, smoothed by the sea, marking the edge of the flower beds. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It begins with a disturbance off the port bow; a patch of bubbling white water marking something beneath the surface. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The big events in Jesus’ life were marked with reference to the moon, while everyday life was ruled by the sun. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The boys don’t seem to resent this habit of hers; they take it as a mark of distinction to get hit. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was marked by two tall white posts that suddenly loomed up on their right. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

When my own experiences fall short of the mark, I just go out and spend some of his. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

His words distort the scars on his face—a slice across the bridge of his nose, and another jagged mark that goes from his ear to the bottom of his chin. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The man stepped into the light and the farmers’ excitement was smothered by the sight of the piecemeal leather armor and heavy sword that marked a mercenary. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Toomer had stopped, hunted for a stick, and with great deliberation had marked a large “X” across the track of the snake. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We pass an indoor garden, a marble bathing onsen, and a series of offices, until we stop before a white door marked with a white rose snaking through a four-pointed crown. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“You may call me Aunt Faintly. Here, have a punctuation mark.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Aina, the cook, was delighted to discover another of the Benin nation among the visiting maids, both of them being marked on the face with the scars of their kingdom. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A smoke- colored cat curled itself around my ankles, its tail in the shape of a question mark. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the last stop I left the car and went down a stretch of marble hallway until I found the door marked with the trustee's name. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carefully you marked out the openings; then you took one boldly, as if it didn’t matter what people could see. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

What they called Rovers, consisted in going for a walk with their bows and shooting one arrow each at any agreed mark which they came across. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom always bought the dented cans, even if they weren’t marked down, because she said they needed to be loved, too. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I am pinching the inside of my arm, making little red marks, because I suddenly can’t feel anything. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Finally she heard a satisfying click, and the window swung open on a deserted office, its walls covered in maps marked with trade routes and chalkboards listing share prices and the names of ships. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Where the cauldron had been, there was a scorch mark on the ground. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In history we are divided into groups of four and told that each group will have to present a big project at the end of the marking period. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

There are holes in the ground, and a mark where a perch fell and was dragged, probably by the coyote as she went off with the sharp-shinned. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Numbered squares were marked off on the sidewalk and the game was turned over to the girls who hopped on one foot pushing the potsy from square to square. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In jest, Boseman imitated Jasper’s singing, to mark the change in mood; the black scenery had worked on them more than they knew. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

There was also, poignantly now, a slender, hardbound history of Centralia, prepared to mark the town’s centenary just before the outbreak of the fire. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The result was Polaris, a weapons system that marked Livermore’s “coming of age.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Madame Hoo marked an X and her husband filled in her name and position. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

A naked sword hung down her back, one of the last to bear Mikken's mark. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She thought about adding an exclamation mark, but decided against it. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“I know my flannel skirt has a dirty mark down the front, but I’ve never walked bare-foot with a stocking round my head.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was rectangular in shape and made of thick, soft, yellow plastic, with calibration marks on one side. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph reached into his jacket pocket, where he produced two more envelopes, one marked Barbara Bloom and the other marked Harry Bloom. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

My brown curls stood up on my head like a field planted with question marks. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Imagine that there are two envelopes, marked A and B. Before you are shown the envelopes, a flip of the coin determined which envelope has money in it. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“All that from a few scratch marks on a lock.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I glance over my shoulder to see my fire fade away without a single burn mark anywhere. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

She left a question mark in the air. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The bodies were pulverized into stock and marked with insurance. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Mirrored in her face were the same deeply etched lines of work and worry that marked his own face. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Part of each day was spent with Adam the yeoman shooting at a mark. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The stairway came to an end at a door marked “Main Tunnel.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She shows us, after school, up in her room: she pulls up her skirt, pulls down her underpants, and sure enough there are the marks, almost like scratch marks, not very red but there. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I find it just off the main street, marked only by an ornate iron T hammered into the door. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He’d practiced fast getaways, fantasized he was revving a powerful engine that left a skid mark and dust behind. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Her voice is soft, my name sounding like a question mark. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Abuela marks a V at the back seam of Tia’s pants. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Since there was no way of marking it, I would simply make every knot sit tightly against the last. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The claw marks were deep—a quarter of an inch at least. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She looked up at him, but her eyes were unfocused, and he was sure she was still thinking about the mysterious mark on the book. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

No one saw the pity of its position, hanging there in eternal meaninglessness, silently signalling to those with eyes to see, “I’m a legitimate punctuation mark, get me out of here.” Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

“Technically it isn’t. I know some people don’t understand, but Kaz told me...he said it was my choice, that he wouldn’t be the one to mark me again.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t see any knife marks in the rubber. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tie is not really an articulation marking. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

A patch of blue dye marks his forearm. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled a long tape measure with silver markings out of his pocket. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

There was no path through the forest, so I kept the map in the corner of my display and followed it to the skull-topped hill that marked the tomb entrance. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Flowers, Hill, Rivers, Snow ... we give such names to base- born children to mark them for what they are, but they are always quick to shed them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then Chess saw that Emma had the cursor hovering over a file marked “FOR THE KIDS.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Indeed, if Barack Obama had been elected president back then, I would have argued that his election marked the nation’s triumph over racial caste—the final nail in the coffin of Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A concentrated dignity, previously absent, marked her features. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Now damaged by the sun it is marked with scars and pimples. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if to mark his disregard of all such courtesy, Gollum was scrabbling in the mould at the foot of a tree. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The year 1943 also marked a milestone in Marian’s personal life. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

We walked awhile more, and then he let loose of the arrow, and it screamed forward, piercing its mark cleanly. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She saw a kitchen garden below, planted in neat squares marked off in red brick; a profusion of herbs staked out territory directly below her window. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When his eyes fell on her own second-grade school picture with two missing front teeth poked into the corner of Sitti’s picture frame, he pointed and made a question mark with his hand. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Normally she buys boxes of cards, marked fifty percent off at department stores in January, always forgetting, by the following winter, exactly where in the house she’s put them. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed to the back of Bod’s hand, at the black mark the graphite point had made. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I do not even ask you to tell me whether I now speak nearer the mark. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The schools led to a marked decrease in use of Indigenous languages, but in recent years, Indigenous people have been working on language revitalization programs. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Monday marked the third week of Mr. Quisling’s cipher challenge. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Farquar spat on his own fingertip, rubbed the tip in dirt, and with the resulting mud—“Move”—made a mark on Palmer’s arm where Beans’s finger had been. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Daringly, they touched the tips of their tongues, and it was then she made the falling, sighing sound which, he realized later, marked a transformation. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She said my mark would ensure I stayed out of trouble. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The perimeter of the camp was marked by intricate patterns of barbed wire barriers. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oct. will not reply, but informs me that it is a hidden Place, & that when he leaves me—mark this!—leaves me—he shall fly to them. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

This is what happens: A hovercraft marked with the Capitol’s seal materializes directly over the barricaded children. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“She had marked down the engagements as I said she would. Here they are on the date she died.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I see no castles marked there. No roads, no towns, no villages.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We could see his teeth marks on the pile of potatoes, our dinner, on a plate on the stove. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He rubbed the marks trying to restore circulation to his hands. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you ever met a demigod like us before? A guy in a purple shirt, with marks on his arm—” “Hazel.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She steps back farther, putting a hand up to her face to cover her mouth, her eyes sending asking marks at me. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The bartender touched the strawberry mark with his fingers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A carpenter soon arrived and nailed the master into a large crate marked CHEESE. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t have to mark a dog to hurt him, I’m thinking. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The South Carolina chains were of new manufacture—the keys and tumblers marked by regional design—but accomplished the purpose of chains. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Lazlo only smiled, as the condescension marked a return to familiar territory. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Back at the house, when the youngest tried to clean his forehead, he discovered that the mark was indelible and so were those of his brothers. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Other dogs stayed on their porches, happy to mark his appearance and departure with passive earsplitting symphonies. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It would help, but I’m pretty sure I have the waterways memorized. There’s a map with the aqueducts and drainage channels all marked up in our garage.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Over by the spotlight was a bronze box with a bunch of gears and levers and a big Greek letter fita on the side, the mark of Hephaestus. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She could tell the marks of the leopards—who always drank at night—and the tiny marks of the duiker, who came shyly down to the river just as the sun was rising. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Figure 1.85: A slur marking indicates no articulation — no break in the sound — between notes of different pitches. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The Prince kept the dial by the twenty mark long long after it was necessary, until the Count said, “Done.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

And by the time the curve of the moon touched the opposite window frame, Fyrian’s breath made a bright red mark on the side of Luna’s hip, leaving a blister there. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

How Jake had seen them and, since they weren’t labeled or marked in any way, gobbled them down. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

And I remembered watching my mom erase those marks on our old kitchen door, getting ready to sell the house to move here. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“Today marks the beginning of a determined, organized, mobilized campaign to get the right to vote everywhere in Alabama,” he told the crowd. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom and I approach a wide boulder, flat on one side with markings etched into it. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

A wave of weariness crashed over me at the thought of serving Madam again, of allowing her to see her mark upon my face every day. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see any markings on either side. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Stitch marks and stray threads pocked the inside where she had sewn in our valuables. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Then twice in a week there were chits marked “S” and bearing her own special code name—just an alert to let her know she was “operational,” as it were. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Soon after she’d landed on the Argo II, her pegasus Scipio had collapsed, overwhelmed by poisoned claw marks from a gryphon attack the night before. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“What’s more important—football and your marks or the lousy chocolate sale?” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each evening, at dinner, she allowed herself one glass of wine—red, which the news said was most beneficial for your heart—a faint scratch in the wineglass marking the right level to pour. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Hammer marks on the end, sure enough,” she said. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

They weren’t hers; they never made a mark on her, and she would miss no one. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was a mark of the man that he listened to what I had to say and did not argue with me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were faint, black marks of a rubber plimsoll, between the metal ribs. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Two cakes, one marked chocolate and one vanilla, rest in bakery boxes on the counter. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“He says wounding or hurting someone else leaves just as big a mark on the attacker,” she went on. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“You must be feeling better,” he observed, without a question mark. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gone the ink marks from legs and face, all my creations and accumulations of the day gone, and replaced by goose pimples. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some tallied up numbers like card players: four marks down and one across, like little gates. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Twenty-five marks was cheap for a Rola radio—even cheaper than the People's Radio. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

There were sharp claw marks on the cliff wall and broken rocks scattered around the churned-up earth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As they crossed the two-and-a-half-mile mark, Washington remained in the lead, though its advantage had shrunk to about ten feet. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He planted his paddle there and banked the damp earth around it so that it stood and marked the place where Evil had been vanquished. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Carlisle was born in London, in the sixteen-forties, he believes. Time wasn’t marked as accurately then, for the common people anyway. It was just before Cromwell’s rule, though.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He says once you are marked, that dog will keep coming back. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

My big teeth marks have left a dent in his hand. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

His hair was dark and curly, his features strongly marked. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its limbs were long and veiny and covered in bite marks and slashes. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

And the introduction of a new word, or a new meaning for an old word, often marks the point at which a concept enters general use and begins to do real work. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

At ninety-nine they began to call him well-preserved; but unchanged would have been nearer the mark. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The gossip energy alone could power the building’s electricity for the rest of the marking period. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

When I reached the red borderline that marked the edge of the school grounds, I glanced around to make sure no one was watching me, then stepped across the line. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The mark is not a guarantee of which person will win. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When one quotation appears within another, enclose the interior one in single quotation marks. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It reads the ultraviolet barcode on the inside of everyone’s wrist and marks each internee as present, flashing our camp mug shots for a moment on the scanner’s screen. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Between the flashing oars of Sceptre and Faithful, Davos saw a thin line of galleys drawn across the river, the sun glinting off the gold paint that marked their hulls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The heavy dookie-brown doors slammed shut behind me like a period marking the end to that dream. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He took a while in Jajas room, though; I knew he was looking through each individual subject score, checking to see if any had decreased by one or two marks since last term. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“But twenty-five? Are you looking for big stones or unusual piles of stones, or are you marking any old stone you see?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Minutes passed, and she scanned the walls for any engravings or markings, but saw none. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Notably, the bite marks were almost entirely gone too. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

General Peckem’s attitude toward all the personnel in his command, officers and enlisted men, was marked by the same easy spirit of tolerance and permissiveness. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Across his biceps, the werewolf claw marks were still swollen and red. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In the carriage house there was what is called “signs of a struggle”—in this case a broken box, a shattered carriage lamp, scraped marks in the dust, and straw on the floor. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The motion asserted that “there was no debris found, there were no skid marks, scuff marks, or gouge marks, and no evidence which could support the preparation of a diagram.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

When I hand in my composition, Sister Mary Joseph reads it over, marking pencil in hand. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Nobody ever would have guessed that this morning marked the beginning of Cole’s yearlong banishment. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He will apologize, put the book aside, a small corner of a page turned over to mark his place. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The camera is marked twenty dollars, which doesn’t seem like too much for a digital camera that works. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking about the walks I’ve taken through North Portland and all the signs that mark the journey of Lewis and Clark. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Is this what you mean? This dirty mark?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the millions of stars that may mark the location of advanced civilizations, we have so far examined by radio no more than thousands. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ruling marked a significant victory for freedom of the press, and it liberated media outlets and publishers to talk more honestly about civil rights protests and activism. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“The prophecy Ella gave us— about the child of wisdom, and the mark of Athena burning through Rome... do you know what that’s about?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I don’t like the sound of “for now,” or how Lucinda makes those quote marks in the air again when she says “we’re safe.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Once again both boats beat the previous course record, but Washington beat it by a good deal more, coming in at 15:56.4, a commanding 37 seconds ahead of the mark. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Aye, she has the mark. Like all Borrells, for five thousand years. My daughter’s daughter. Not the one who makes the stew.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I caught a glimpse in the hearth mirror of a girl with a mark on her cheek that trumpeted her shame. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I've never known our father to buy anything not marked reduced for quick sale. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Henry kept his eye on the revolution-counter; when the needle touched the twelve hundred mark, he threw the helicopter screws out of gear. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within, there are overlapping metal hoops marked with numbers and symbols suspended from the top, hanging amongst the visible gears and a series of stars falling from the filigree cap at the top. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The gypsy moth programs were marked by many acts of irresponsibility. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He went without reply then to the wall and felt for the roughness which was the mark of the hiding place and he removed the clod of earth. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She had told him once that this put the mark of the Savior on each sprout and made sure the Devil couldn’t get in. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She stepped forward and took the arm of her son, whose face, with the marks of the stag’s blood like dark slashes in his cheeks, was downcast. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Rest assured you have all received marks that are fair and representative of your work throughout the past year.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

A fine red line of a scar marked Angela's check, but she looked content and lovely as ever in her pale blue bridesmaid's gown. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

His coat markings were identical, but not as vibrant. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The semicolon is one of the most useful but least used punctuation marks. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He presses a button marked 39, but nothing happens. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Or a homework tracker,” Tamika said, “where you enter all your assignments, the steps to complete them, and due dates, and then mark them off when finished.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Mine was marked by aloof boys, prepping for the SATs, and a looming fear of deportation. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He planned to call in the decorators, and to turn out the attics, even to give a Sunday morning cocktail party, marking the beginning of his era as master of Warings. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Patches of orange lichen made the only bright color, and a high-water mark on the cliff walls showed that their landing site was not at all safe. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Some of the animals had noticed that the van which took Boxer away was marked “Horse Slaughterer,” and had actually jumped to the conclusion that Boxer was being sent to the knacker’s. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

One notebook was marked on the top with red crayon—PRIVATE. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

One of our teachers told us that in Africa “the gap” was considered a rare and enviable beauty mark. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I look at my palms, tracing the remnants of the tiny crescent marks that I pressed into my own skin. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It was a mark of the strength of their friendship that Ron did not laugh. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

When I finish the model, hours later, Guillermo inspects it and then uses it to pencil different reference points on my practice rock that mark where I’ll cut in for “shoulders” and “heads.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Above the entryway was a design with markings on it that looked like a shield. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

It leaves a circle of light on the target, marking the impact site. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Percy hadn’t noticed before, but she had a tattoo on the inside: the letters spqr, a crossed sword and torch, and under that, four parallel lines like score marks. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Your heart hasn’t taken on the chill of the sea. Plus, you have talent. Talent, talons, tally, envy—your talent will turn the ship green with envy—mark my words!” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

But I did not think it fair to avoid reporting the prefect and mark down the fifteen others, so I simply tore up my list and charged no one. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the sentence continues after the question, don’t use a comma after the question mark. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

To begin, one man warned me, “There ain’t never been a mark yet that didn’t want something for nothing.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She started by making the same marks over and over again, repeating them aloud as she did: This is. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I copied the date into my notes with a question mark, but as more photographs flashed across the screen, it became clear which century the professor meant. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The man in the grey suit will not say, though the move clearly marks the end of formal lessons. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But if it did, there would at least be an event, a signal of some kind to mark my exit. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

His janitor’s uniform was slashed with new claw marks, but he looked delighted. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Generose, whose fair skin and narrow facial features marked her as a Tutsi, fled the city with her boys. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

But if either evaluation had a black mark on it, the seven-year sentence would stand. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The Jews’ identity cards and passports were marked with a “J” for Jude, the German word for Jew. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Now that he was dead, they marked his passage to another plane in impersonal and almost tribal fashion—chanting, weaving mandalas, beating on drums, performing their own inscrutable and mysterious rites. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Under the constant pounding of countless feet the whole area that had been marked out by the moles suddenly sank into a trench. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He lies there still, but no headstone marks his grave. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is resting peacefully in the slave burial grounds and we made certain he had a Christian service and paid fifteen dollars for a marked grave. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The cloud itself is essentially just a zone of statistical probability marking the area beyond which the electron only very seldom strays. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to mark the ones where we know the Gamemakers’ weapon follows us out past the jungle, so we’ll stay clear of those,” says Peeta, drawing diagonal lines on the fog and wave beaches. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

We had reached the hill that marked the edge of our grazing lands. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is little marked upon how much skill must be exercised to produce the most piquant malformations. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Noticeable burn mark scars on his hands and legs. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

From where she stood, Kira could see the markings that he was examining. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I carefully peeled it off, the contact patches made tiny popping sounds as they pulled free of my skin, leaving tiny circular marks all over my body. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The first year of their marriage was marked by uncommon prosperity and joy, but it was also their last. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a half an hour, we were approached by a whaleboat, also marked with a lantern upon her, and the two drifted without words until they were joined in comfortable parallel. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Not before he discovered the meaning of her mark. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The time-honored solution is to create an outline, which is just a tree lying on its side, its branches marked by indentations, dashes, bullets, or Roman and Arabic numerals, rather than by forking line segments. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Most farmers wear a trucker’s cap marked with the logo of an agribusiness giant. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The black skin glistened with water, the white markings so defined they looked painted by an artist. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was convinced that the low marks were merely an error of judgment on the teacher’s part. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I may force their words to stand between quotation marks. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now she was merely marking time, as it were, and preparing herself against the moment when her husband’s anger would turn, full force, against her. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

There were fingernail marks on her face where she had been clutching it in fear. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

"I already graduated from school. Not with marks like yours, but they gave me a diploma and everything." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

At the halfway mark, where I usually passed him, he was still ahead, and I still didn’t know if I wanted to win. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“Rest a little longer; the marks are still livid.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

On some you could see the black marker where I’d marked their feet when I first learned to write my name. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor double-checked the list of diseases I had marked on the form earlier. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I think in the end we must have absorbed quite a lot of information, because I remember, around that age, a marked change in the way we approached the whole territory surrounding the donations. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the boycott marked the beginning of a national campaign against the Jews. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The Lord’s going to work with him in a mighty way, you mark my words.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Beneath that was a map of the state of Washington, with a blinking red dot right in the middle marked Wenatchee. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

At the top of the mountain was a white pole marking the border between Elfland and the domain of the goblins, defiantly flying the flag of Ghohg. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

She wondered often if his grave were marked—if there stood over it, as in pictures she had seen, a small white cross. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The government symbol, a black Zimbabwe bird on a green-and-red background, was clearly marked on the side. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were many marks, from the roof to the floor. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out to be the high-water mark of the antislavery effort in the House. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was just ahead of us, marked by a vertical line painted on the tunnel wall. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

His sickness had left its marks on him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It’s marked all over with my fingerprints, and warm from my constant touch. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“How nice my handkerchiefs look, don’t they? Hannah washed and ironed them for me, and I marked them all myself,” said Beth, looking proudly at the somewhat uneven letters which had cost her such labor. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it does not, and while I couldn’t crunch the numbers or plumb the history back then, I sensed that the fear that marked West Baltimore could not be explained by the schools. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She pointed at the mark engraved on the slate. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The first all-Navajo platoon had scored the highest marks ever on the pistol and rifle range. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could not see to mark the walls. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I see. Well, you’ll get good marks, all right. I’m sure you will.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had already marked out a score of crosses that seemed to say You Are Here. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been helping Mom mark and cut out patterns for as long as I can remember. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We put stones on top to mark it. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The varsity and junior varsity were to continue racing to the three-mile mark. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

On the eleventh day they invite their friends to mark the end of the mourning period. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He touched the edge of the blade to mark where the blow must fall, and Ygritte shivered. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The one sure thing that would produce a beating in my house was a report card with a red mark in conduct. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

That mark on the bridge of my nose is a chicken pox scar. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sight of it filled Taran with dread, for he knew the strange symbol must be a mark of Arawn’s power. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Number two for was exciting; number two against was crazy, question mark. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Here and there he spots a mark that looks familiar. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Jen kind of sighed and pull her paper hat off her head and rub at the place where the elastic make a red mark in her forehead. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Anyway, he left a marked impression upon me; maybe it was because I longed secredy to be like him and was afraid. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The—the marks are beautiful,” I say in a choked whisper, dropping one of the hairpins. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A bottle of black, black ink, a pen and a pad of paper marked with double and single lines, and a paperback book. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the center, a lone golden feather, the mark of a new shaman, stood tall and bright. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Most of the tents have prominently placed signs in painted wood, and entrances that are clearly defined or marked. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The demon’s mask the slavers had burned into his right cheek to mark him for a dangerous and disobedient slave would never leave him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As the preacher finished the Twenty-third Psalm, he looked at Grandpa with a question mark on his face. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I let the arrow fly, see it hit its mark and vanish, pulling the thread of gold behind it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He knew it had happened, because he heard slight movements around him that suggested frail bodies shifting their footing on the earthy, twig-strewn ground that marked the outer edge of the forest. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It looked like Carlisle was marking bases, but could they really be that far apart? Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“In The Gold-Bug a beetle marks the spot where the treasure is hidden.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They have to mark the neutral bit “IRELAND” in big letters made of whitewashed stones, hoping the Germans won’t drop bombs there thinking it’s the UK side of the northern border. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

There are diagrams, numbers, lines and charts—strings of words with terminal punctuation at the end—some are periods, some question marks, and none of it makes sense. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of miles of barbed-wire fence marked boundaries and kept the cattle and horses from wandering. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I clasped my hands to hide the bite marks dimpling my knuckle. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

But I kept a piece of ear from every pig I marked. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The terrier would carry no identifying marks, either, as he had been registered in England. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the chime of the front door marked his friends’ exit, he waved them off and stayed with Dawn, who didn’t even remember to pretend she needed something from the store. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Just north of Mole’s Town they came upon the third watcher, carved into the huge oak that marked the village perimeter, its deep eyes fixed upon the kingsroad. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Other notes may be marked with a combination of articulation symbols, for example legato with accents. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

When I got my paper back, I was disappointed to see the red marks again. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I studied the scuff marks on the floor. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“If you can mark the score without your glasses, you can take this test. I’ll show you some pictures and ask you several questions. Meanwhile—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I hurried past the stone fence that surrounded the white graveyard, to the split-rail fence that marked our ground, and stopped outside the gate to pick a handful of chilly violets, wet with dew. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

A feast that was especially welcome at Small Eid, which marks the end of a month of daytime fasting for Ramadan. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The mark assured me that he was the only white man who did not feel like that. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the sight of purple teeth marks on Velia’s forearm, I lost it. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It’s almost as if he had been here and left his mark, he thought. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She fumbled with the thing and cut way away from the mark. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Between the two marks and directly under the suspended rock, we laid a stick. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the map they were marked as not far from the Shenshey Bogs to the south, and from Guthen Bay to the east. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘Can you see any markings on it?’ he asked. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Seldom traveled, it isn’t even marked on most road maps of Alaska. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when I inspected her, examining every visible part of her body, there were no scratches, no marks of any kind. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

But in all my life I’d never gone past the boundary crosses, which marked the limits of our village. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

We stood in the ruts of an old wagon track while Millard studied the map, turning it sideways, squinting at its microscopic markings. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The room-sized machines were remaking the old models of aeronautical research; their ascendance marked the beginning of an era that promised to be even more momentous than the one ushered in by the flying machine. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It had been slashed and stabbed and partly burned, and it was so stained with black and other dark marks like old blood that little of it could be read. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I’d lose track trying to count all of the beauty marks on her face. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Her stench was strong, and I was aware of the mark on her face. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Like a question mark that drifted through the pages of a book and never settled at the end of a sentence. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along the plain to the south of the fortress glimmered thousands of lights, marking the camps of those who had arrived from far off. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Would the arrows find their mark and lift the siege? The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The gunshot healed, leaving a char mark on my stomach. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Olive ran her hand over the rough markings. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

They were strange, a main center line up from the lake in the sand with claw marks to the side leading to a small pile of sand, then going back down to the water. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Raymie squeezed in the word YES right after the question mark. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Yes, I was still writing, but the marks on paper made less and less sense to me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The Internet—given that its tribes don’t have any geography to mark out their separate identities—sees decorum operating in a dramatically exaggerated way. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Her armor had long slash marks in front from the claws of a gorgon. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When the reports were good, she beamed as if she herself had earned the good marks. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The storekeeper helped Stuart up onto the counter and found some letter paper for him—small paper, marked with the initial “L.” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

We rescued a big floating plank and carried it up the beach above high-water mark. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was sure it was the same one; it had the same markings around its eyes. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Pretty soon he could begin to make out the markings on the plane. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Navy, Penn, and California left the mark, all rowing hard and high. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Absorbed in my rebellious thoughts, I did not mark where my wandering steps took me and found myself in the foyer where I had lately suffered Hamlet's rejection. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He was thin and weak and hollow-eyed; his illness had left its marks on him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The passage of time could be read by the marks the beam had cut into the plaster: a path of suffering, a trail of pain. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The burn marks on Burger's hands and legs were hard to miss. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He must have somehow put it all together: the epileptic boy with the two-colored eyes and the Lazarus Door mark along his spine. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

They set up shop on the bluffs that mark the edge of high water—close enough to the river to fish, far enough to avoid the flood. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A number of the authors’ names have been starred with penciled asterisks by previous readers, but there is no sign or mark by Nikolai Gogol’s name. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He said a first draft isn’t meant to be marked on, because it was an “idea paper.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She perches on the edge of the desk, her skirt pulling away from her knees, which are crossed with stretch marks. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I had a month of detentions and a black mark on my permanent record. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The sun disappeared behind one of them, and its shadow fell across the green grass like an ugly mark. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

There were half circles under her eyes, and other, subtler signs that mark an acutely troubled young girl, but nonetheless no one could have missed seeing that she was a first-class beauty. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

He did not wait for her to sit down before opening the account book and paging through to a section marked with a ribbon. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Maesters and septons alike agreed that children marked by greyscale could never be touched by the rarer mortal form of the affliction, nor by its terrible swift cousin, the grey plague. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“And I also see that Ms. Cadence already has one guest inside and has not marked down that she’s expecting another. Now unless you can produce your ticket, I’m afraid I must insist you leave.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I stared at the mark, rubbing my thumb over its raised surface. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They made such an entrancing sight that Tyrion almost waddled right into the steaming pile of dung the elephant had left to mark its passage. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The greenish light still seeped from the marks on the floor—marks Cain had etched with his own blood—illuminating the creature who stared at her with those starving, relentless eyes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They soon arrived at two black carriages, their doors emblazoned with the mark of the King, and Kaede and Taisin were quickly ushered into the second one. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

If you want to emphasize the overall question, put the question mark outside the quotation marks. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For larboard aft, it would be marked thus—“L. A.” Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

The endpapers are covered in an exquisitely detailed drawing of a tree covered in symbols and markings. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Yellow rags fluttered from railings and door knockers—pus yellow, fear yellow—to mark the homes of the sick and the dying. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We didn’t keep track of time at Thurmond in the usual way; I recognized seasons passing, but somewhere along the line I had stopped trying to mark it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“If I see one boot print—Izzy—or one cleat mark—Trip—on those carpets, you will lose your allowance for a year. Understood?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“As you know, this is county fair week,” Mrs. Weidenbach said, “the annual opportunity for oar small community to make its mark.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It marks the point where we stopped running and hiding and waiting, and stopped and stood our ground. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I placed my finger on the jagged mark. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

She gazed out at the fields of white, marked by sparse groves of birch. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He swiveled around on the rim of the sink and, craning over his shoulder, spotted two matching thumb marks on the nape of his neck. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when Boyle coined the phrase experimentum crucis to honour the Puy-de-Dôme experiment he was marking the beginning of a new era in which philosophical disputes would be resolved by experimentation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

If you’re not comfortable using an expression without apologetic quotation marks, you probably shouldn’t be using it at all. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I did remember the first grade teacher calling out during a test, while students marked X’s on a girl or a boy or a dog, which I covered with black. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was no longer walking around with a giant question mark over my head. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

We both got a piece of chalk and we marked where the shoe landed. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I noted that they had clean, smooth trunks, with none of the countless tiny marks on their bark made by climbing meerkats. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at his wet, black hair and the dark gray eyes which looked back mistrustfully from the mirror at him, looked at the marks on his coffee-colored skin. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Yet nearly none of them had earned marks equal to mine. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But just how far they will go to destroy the mark Jeanine Matthews left on this city, I don’t know. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

And probably a little black mark next to his name on the seating chart. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your mark was on the crates at camp. Quintus got his scorpions from you.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I think I will stop putting quotation marks around Nothing’s name because it is annoying and disrupting my flow. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“When you first came and I began making those marks, you were in perhaps your second year—already on two legs and able to talk.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“He’s marked thirty-five to one in the quotes,” I said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The far shore of the lake marked the southern boundary of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

After marking the spot with an upright branch, I turned and followed the road back the way I had come. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Lawrence’s move into the wood clapboard Rad Lab in 1932 marked an administrative, financial, and intellectual break between the lab and the Berkeley Physics Department, its putative parent. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Turns out,” High John answered, “that despite Anansi’s ultimate insult, the bearers of his mark are welcome beneath the branches of the Mmoatia.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Seven pulled out her flora field map, where she’d marked all the places they could find the flower beyond the Cursed Forest. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The marks of the doctor's hand stood out red on her cheek. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

We were careful not to use public toilets or to drink from water fountains marked “whites only.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

That’s what a lie looks like, Cora thought, and marked it. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The burst vein sealed itself, but nothing remained of the monsters except a row of scorch marks. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She spent her last morning at the Bureau marking Help Wanted ads. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Quisling never saw the Maltese Falcon cipher, but it would be easy enough for him to open The Gold-Bug, find the typos she’d marked, and put the pieces together himself. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Frank, a graduate from a black college and a commercial artiste-volunteered to help me with arithmetic, in which I had received my lowest mark. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Can you tell the jury exactly what it means to "leave your mark" on somebody? Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph was kneeling by the remains of the fire like a sprinter at his mark and his face was half-hidden by hair and smut. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Armstrong's body had been dragged above high water mark. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

It was a miserable day, gray, damp, and somewhere around the zero mark. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the nova marks, quite precisely, the beginning of the Revolution, as the death of the archduke marks the beginning of the war. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She’d decided to mark him rather than search for the Snitch herself.... Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Only two skeletons showed clear marks of violence. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I listen to my heart, wave upon wave, salty and red, continuing on and on, marking time. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He marks them with sticky notes and reads passages aloud. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She started out calling names of students she didn’t recognize, marking those that she knew. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Later that day, the campaign hosted a picnic in an open field with views of the spiny mountains marking the Continental Divide. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

No distinguishing marks to identify where in the sky it could belong. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Inside, the gold light from the candle illuminated old furniture, boxes, wrought iron signs, and empty trunks marked for Christmas. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It’s just kind of awesome to be marked as part of the ensemble. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Using the alphabet he’d written on the board, Mr. Quisling drew a hash mark under a letter for each time it appeared in James’s message. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Like, on my calendar at home, I would mark this as being one of the most horrific days of my life. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He started counting, measuring the river as it turned through each five-kilometer square, marking each ten kilometers in the dirt with a line through it, then the next set of ten. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I was there when Matthew described it to Caleb in painstaking detail earlier: a black box with a silver keypad, marked with a strip of blue tape with a model number written on it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Most of the judges,” and here, Bagman gave Karkaroff a very nasty look, “feel that this shows moral fiber and merits full marks. However . Mr. Potter’s score is forty-five points.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A long trail snaked through the property, marked with different-colored mile markers. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

And also because the vague suspicions — expectations, really — that I’d been forming all day, as Alice tried to transform me into a beauty queen, were so far wide of the mark. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Guiteau was determined to make his shots hit their mark when the time came. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Slow- moving and dignified, it defined the city, marking the boundary between worlds. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

In the direction that Skardebek flew, the sheer wall of the mountain in front of them was marked by a ribbon of cool silver. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He's wearing a white dhoti instead of a lungee, which marks him as one of the few remaining Hindus in Poshora. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t been to visit yet but knew to follow the path to Vida, a path Rooster Jim had freshly marked with his sledge. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was a natural choice; the waxing and waning of the moon in the heavens was hard to overlook, and it offered a convenient way of marking periodic cycles of time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

And I answer if they are lying—if you mark—it could only be for such a reason and on such a point. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pluto may be the last object marked on schoolroom charts, but the system doesn’t end there. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Fell down on my face. Do you see the mark where I cut myself?” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead he walked up the side of the hill to where a picnic some thirty years before had left its mark in the shape of a large apple tree. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

In this company no one marked my own strange speech. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Lifting a leg and marking the trees would keep no men away. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then the water evaporated and the earth rose, so that not even a small depression marked the terrain; and nowadays nobody knows in which field the befuddled sheepherder dug his fabled hole. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I entered the first grade, I found myself in a community of boys from all over the town, and it became apparent that, as my father’s son, I was marked by his position. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A little way off, beyond a line of scattered juniper-trees, which marked the pathway to the church, a white, dim figure flitted in the direction of the tomb. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

There is a whoosh and a thud—the arrow hits its mark. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

As they left, the man with the tribal marks said to Aunty Ifeoma, waving a stubby finger with a curved nail in her face, “Be careful, be very careful.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When the laws for the Games were laid out, they dictated that every twenty-five years the anniversary would be marked by a Quarter Quell. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The passing of the moons now had come to mean little, and I only made marks to count the four seasons of the year. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are four X marks on the stage. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Their sides were painted white to mark the route around the shallows. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The passing of the regent removed from the scene an enlightened and tolerant man who achieved the goal that marks the reign of all great leaders: he kept his people united. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus the informal Torricellian network marks the effective beginning of the institutionalization of science, driven by the conviction that collaboration and exchange would lead to more rapid progress. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There it was, hanging in the sky above the school: the blazing green skull with a serpent tongue, the mark Death Eaters left behind whenever they had entered a building...wherever they had murdered... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He had a kerosene stove that left black marks everywhere. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In an hour they passed a sign marking the limits of a town called Sound View. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other part is looking at those marks and applying the judgment needed to ensure that the narrative that flies by your mind’s eye will be recognizable to an independent reader. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Everything she said ended in an exclamation mark. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Pain marks you, but too deep to see. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seven slash marks indicated his years of service - more than any presiding officer, including Reyna. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The bark was greyish green in colour, thin and smooth, and soft enough that I could mark it with my fingernail. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She'd worn a corrective brace for the first two years of her life, and wherever she roamed she left a trail of scratch marks in the soft pine floor. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

James slid over a sheet of paper filled with various hash marks. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They marked the place with Tayo’s T-shirt spread across the top of some scrub oaks. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“These markings will transfer to the cast,” he explains. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Just as he couldn’t know that when she’d checked under her bed before dinner, there were fresh chalk marks for her to wash away. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The separation of our parents left marks on us that were visible to the youngest child in our town. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Hermione therefore removed the enchantments she had placed around the clearing, while Harry and Ron obliterated all the marks and impressions on the ground that might show they had camped there. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

There are passages in it that have been marked. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Explained the system of labelling—a T for the males, a circle for the females and for those who were destined to become ffeemartins a question mark, black on a white ground. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The method as here applied seems to have marked advantages over the conventional broadcasting of insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“He'will meet with you on the morrow, by the spice market. Uook for a door marked with a purple lotus. Knock twice and call for freedom.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The black eyes and purple jaw were accentuated by an arrangement of scratch marks on her forehead. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Did you listen? Cain bore the mark not to destroy him but to save him. And there’s a curse called down on any man who shall kill him. It was a preserving mark.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Each minaret is a thermometer with money amounts replacing the temperature marks. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Accents are markings that are used to indicate these especially-strong-sounding notes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Naomi stopped in front of a grave marked only with a thin metal nameplate. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Eurasia and the Americas also differed with respect to plant food production, though the disparity here was less marked than for animal food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then I scoot after them, wiping away any marks we made in the dirt, and carefully lifting the board back into place. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It is natural to describe key events in terms of the work of individuals who made a mark in science—Copernicus, Vesalius, Darwin, Wallace and the rest. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The holes in it marked the progress of his emaciation and the leather at one side had a lacquered look to it where he was used to stropping the blade of his knife. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Ivy used the few seconds to look for some obvious sign of betrayal, like it would show up as a red mark on June’s forehead or arm or something. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Israel handed the letter over with a marked lack of enthusiasm. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The party towers were already lit up, and snakes of burning torches marked flickering pathways through the pleasure gardens. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“You shall be able to interpret for me all of these marks...recalling the songs.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Lady, this one’s been marked down to a buck,” he said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In Miss Penelope Lumley’s day it was often said that the mark of a good servant was to do his or her job with brisk efficiency while at the same time remaining “invisible.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

If I had to say what my marks meant, it would be this: Straight-faced guy looks at his reflection in a still pond. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when they emerge, they mark a house by painting a big red X on the front door. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I wish the world were like this, if I just woke up and marked the food I’d be eating and it came to me later in the day. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Any fascination could mark a newborn: melons, rabbits, wisteria, rope, and, more than a shed snakeskin, a wild woman is the worst of all. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I marked the position of the voice by ear now, turning so that I could see Maceo, the agitator, and the customers blocking the door. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most enduring mark, however, lay outside the walls. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

‘Anyway,’ Frank took over, ‘Reyna and I agree this marks a new era of friendship between the camps.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Taking the pen, Kvothe made a few marks of his own on the page. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She puts the scissors away in her desk drawer and opens a file on her computer’s desktop marked “Sunshine Buddies.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He found it hard to concentrate on Snape’s Potions test, and consequently forgot to add the key ingredient — a bezoar — meaning that he received bottom marks. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Her touch was soft and curious as she followed the mark down my face to the corner of my mouth. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

You can tell when someone’s received orders because they’re given a very short haircut, the mark of a person going into battle. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She walked toward it, along the rail fence that marked the edge of Grandma’s land. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

From the bergschrund at 23,000 feet that marked its upper end, this great river of ice flowed two and a half miles down a relatively gentle valley called the Western Cwm. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He closes his eyes and clasps his fingers over the marks left by his spectacles at the sides of his nose. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except much worse, if it’s possible to imagine: a strange pattern of dark, round burn marks all along her cheek. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

We marked a spot in our rows, about a third of the way in, to see if we could reach it without straightening up. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The house was dark and shabby, and the greasy shoulders that had left their mark in Mr. Jaggers’s room seemed to have been shuffling up and down the staircase for years. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I will count the people and make marks on the stick,” he says. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The vibration was considerably more marked and the ground below shuddered uneasily. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, as soon as Annabeth put her hand on the mark, it glowed blue. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Rab had gone into one of the many stalls and backed out a tall, slender horse, so pale he was almost white, but flecked all over with tiny brown marks. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps that is because, sometimes, when Uncle was giving her a good clout to the ear, he missed his mark and delivered a good clout to Mig’s nose instead. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Use the construction paper to create personal touches, like eyelashes, beauty marks, even a bow tie. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

When they televise the replay of the reapings tonight, everyone will make note of my tears, and I'll be marked as an easy target. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It seemed like magic to me when I put on the headphones Tsalig handed me and heard the famous trumpeter of Kraków marking the noon hour with his horn, hundreds of miles away. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

She was a student at the Academy of Sages; she was in her sixth year, nearly ready to receive the mark. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He had a stack of newspapers with him and was going through them meticulously, occasionally marking things, and smiling mysteriously. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

A double bar line, either heavy or light, is used to mark the ends of larger sections of music, including the very end of a piece, which is marked by a heavy double bar. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Okay, just the dismount left, I thought as I positioned my feet against the chalk mark I’d made on the beam earlier. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I turn the page and discover a folded piece of paper marked with my name. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe that is how death worked with all things: someone would come upon your trail, your markings, and violate them with an “X.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the mere knowledge of this mark breeds fear. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

You got to pass it or you get bad marks. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It would be reasonable to suppose that Richard Owen’s petty rivalries marked the low point of nineteenth-century paleontology, but in fact worse was to come, this time from overseas. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

When Matty was new to Village, he had sometimes found himself staring at the man because he had never known any­ one before with such a mark. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Another writer tells us that punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

She adjusted the paper’s date on her press, inserted the slug containing the name, city, and state of the newspaper and printed as many slips as there were items marked. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She drew thirteen evenly spaced marks along the circumference of the circle and used them to map out the points of a thirteen-pointed star. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He just said that tree over there as if one of the trees had been marked with a sign that said this tree, dummy. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Lady Seymour curled her fingers around the teacup, her gaze marking first Madam, then Ruth, then me. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally they confer, but mostly Monica makes one of two marks on her clipboard—either a checkmark, I think, or just a line, a little dash. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

On it roughly cut and now much weathered could still be seen dwarf-runes and secret marks. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He inhabited a gray winter fog on a distant elk mountain where hunters are lost indefinitely and their own bones mark the boundaries. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The deaths of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony marked the end of the first wave of the American women’s suffrage movement. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It is clear from the red marks on his face, cheeks, and legs that Kim suffers abuses from his new “friends” who spit at him and beat him. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

How would you do that, wear shoes without a mark on them? Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Her face marked her as being of middle years, dotted with freckles and pox scars. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lucky Girl did as she was told, her face frozen as she drove her own thumb into his palm and marked him well. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Leslie gets marked down and has to take the class as a study hall, but I don’t care. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Gunshots rang out, and one of the white boys hit his mark, wounding Lieutenant Browning in his leg. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In her palm was a silver bracelet with a scythe charm, the mark of Kronos. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

‘But there are other marks, very strange marks, which I do not understand. I wonder if we can see anything from this ledge which will help us to guess which way they went next?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

"Yes, my lady, can I help you?" the woman says, her facial expression marked with confusion. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The children tried desperately to read it, but there were no letters, no words, no sentences, just random, disconnected markings. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

She took a deep breath, as though bracing herself, and said, “It’s that mark, the mark in Beedle the Bard. Look at this!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The shrews are multiplying and are spreading out over the island, some marked individuals having been recovered as much as ten miles from the point of release. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was big and mostly black with some bright red marks, and awesome gross red eyes. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I push past the shoe boxes full of dream books and no-good lottery tickets and fabric scraps, and go for the one marked with my dad’s name—Gregory. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I saw the marks on Minerva’s throat; fingerprints sure as day on Mate’s pale neck. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Time for the youngest racers to take their marks." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My homework papers came back all marked up by Mrs. Willibey in red pencil, with notes like “See me” and “Try again.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I think about the curling g's and c's she was so proud to mark on her pages and show Du Barry when we were little. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He had never known until she told him that he had a widow’s peak, which she assured him was a great mark of beauty. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike bites, werewolf claw marks wouldn’t transmit lycanthropy, but Reyna knew firsthand that they healed slowly and burned like acid. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“It s a grievous wound. Someone tended it, stitched it up. There are the marks.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The trick is at the other end, where the closing quotation marks go. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was already dark, but when I looked up at the sky, I saw a big old moon like God’s own halo hung up there as a mark of his covenant. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would he realize right away that I was no longer hidden in his parents’ closet, using his queen of hearts to mark my place in The Swiss Family Robinson? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

She gripped the pencil so tight, it made a mark on her middle finger. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She had understood nothing about how people could come to mark off her life. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

This shows that, indeed, Achilles is getting arbitrarily close to the two-foot mark as the race progresses: two feet is the limit of the race. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Its hooves made no mark on the soft ground as it stared at Harry with its large, silver eyes. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Even the wagon horses left no mark, their droppings instantly scooped up by uniformed street sweepers. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Three levels underground I pushed upon a heavy metal door marked "Danger" and descended into a noisy, dimly lit room. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Groups of people begin to peel off into marked doorways and still Boggs directs me downward, until finally the stairs end at the edge of an enormous cavern. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She marked the way the tight boards were chafing the hard brown wrists. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

This was worrisome, for they marked the coming of autumn, the snows, and the white-outs. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The livid marks on her neck had stolen her voice away, and now she lay unconscious in his arms. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked- off. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A building was burning to his left, and one walkway was littered with the dead, marking the passage of one of the scythes. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

As the need for precision grew, they scratched marks on the tokens as mnemonic devices. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It involved throwing the ball as hard as you could at one of the other players, hopefully leaving a lush red mark on some painful but visible part of their body. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Don’t know. I don’t put a private mark on them, you know.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tradition mostly. But some people say they marked old roads—” My father’s voice changed and became Ben’s voice, “—safe roads. Sometimes roads to safe places, sometimes safe roads leading into danger.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Phoebe marked the spots with pieces of adhesive tape and collected the hairs in an envelope. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I could see the last mark on the ground, and thought, “I bet I can beat that.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two days ago I found it, and followed it over the Bridge; and today I marked where you descended from the hills again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was in a musty crate covered with cobwebs and sealed with the Alacran scorpion mark. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don't know if I'll ever get this notebook back to her, but I reach into the bag and pull out a pencil with tiny bite marks in the wood. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She had walked straight through McGarrity’s front door disdaining the deviousness of the side door marked “Ladies’ Entrance.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have the slip here. It’s marked nine thirty-seven.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He tasted his plums, and broke the skin, and left his mark. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

That place is marked by a large sign with one word on it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark Antony’s boyish charm helped set an informal tone that marked how he and Cleopatra would communicate with each other. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

There was a pink mark upon the handkerchief. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

In all of my previous examples of bad writing I picked on easy marks: deadline-pressured journalists, stuffy academics, corporate hacks, the occasional inexperienced student. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He was sitting in the seat marked Nineteen. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Every hidden book was marked with a star on the map, and the closest star to where they lived was in an area called Nob Hill. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

In my daze, I noticed that my sooty thumb had left marks on the letter. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Aragorn walked behind him, grim and silent, stooping now and again to scan some print or mark upon the ground. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The road was all a turmoil of mud and snow marked with dozens of hoofprints. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her punch found its mark but barely seemed to daze him. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I marked Miles’s parking spot so I could find his truck again tomorrow morning. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Finally he was so close he felt the chill of Encanis’ passing and could spy places where he had set his hands and feet, for they were marked with a cold, black frost. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She ran a shaking hand through her hair, staring at the center mark. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Now an outcast and a marked man, I seldom travelled alone at night. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is marked with the sign for peaceful rest.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It’s just like they give the ghosts a treasure map and instead of there being a big pot of gold where X marks the spot, there’s some poor kid that’s sound asleep. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I put a Post-it into each of the invitations that had a cat's paw mark. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

There are punch marks in the walls, a shattered window. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

In 1911, he produced a strange novel, entitled Kantsaywhere, about a future utopia in which roughly half the population was marked as “unfit” and severely restricted in its ability to reproduce. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“There’s no blood in these claw marks,” she said, twisting her head to look over her shoulder at Chaol. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

When I pinch him, a red mark stays behind, and his cry is high and tinny a sound that hurts my ears. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“The E! At least it looks like an E. It must be an E, though you wouldn’t know it if you weren’t looking for it. “You mean the rock marked with an E? The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The camera slung around his neck, with an impressive telephoto lens and numerous buttons and markings, was the only complicated thing he wore. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Round the castles was a complex of marks, tracks, walls, railway lines, that were of significance only if inspected with the eye at beach-level. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

When the stone is speeding, it is aimed, one string is released, and the stone zings to its mark. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama looks as exhausted as I feel as we file off the plane and get into a line marked US CITIZENS. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Stanton and his lieutenants assumed that all the cabinet heads had been marked for death that night. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Janie dozed off to sleep but she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The one to the right was not as marked. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

This invitation marked the first time she ever really looked at him—he realized it then, and was to remember that look for many days and nights. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Nunu pointed: the dog had his leg up, leaving his mark on a mail box to alert the world that he’d been there. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. Trepid made his way to the last stone marked on the map, kicking dirt clogs ahead of him, and smashing his shovel into tree trunks. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

When she opened her eyes, the ground all around her was marked with hoofprints. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought on their hypocrisy, too easy a mark, even, for argument, so howling it was — that I had been apprehended as slave through the capitulation of those who fought for liberty. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Our shadows toppled over the sidewalk’s wooden slates, long and black, like soot marks. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A bronze plaque at Grovers Mill marks the site of the imaginary Martian landing. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I knew I was nearing the gate marked PERDITION, and sure enough, there was what Charlotte had called Miss Sadie's Divining Parlor. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

At the fifty-second mark, he looked over his right shoulder at Jenny Flick and raised his eyebrows. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She could only stare at the white line of chalk that marked the ring. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He paused for a few moments, motionless, and then began slamming the stone against the markings, harder and harder. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Not a stem rippled to mark his way. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of the marks here matched the three she’d spotted at Xavier’s murder site, but there had to be some connection. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Ralph's lips parted in a delighted smile and Piggy, taking this smile to himself as a mark of recognition, laughed with pleasure. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I know Miss Stewart has a sick mother because she had me mark some typing papers illegally and drop them off at her house after school one day. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

But Jack surges ahead and says, “Yep! X marks the spot, bud. This is a treasure map! Are you ready to see where the treasure is hidden?” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

One of the legionnaires I've slashed pushes down past me and marks Hel's sword arm. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

All summer, I marked off the days on a calendar that hung on our kitchen wall. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I followed the trail of tire marks and glass, but I only found Truck Driver. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Any freedman who became too prosperous or too outspoken was marked for death. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The wooden keep was gone entirely, rotted away a thousand years past, with not so much as a timber to mark where it had stood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When a prisoner was released, the prison crossed out their mark with a line and added a little star symbol. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I say nongrave, because his remains are not under the headstone that marks the spot. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It was the first time either had worn the insosuits—which marked one time more than either had expected to upon their arrival the day before—and they tested their limb movements uncomfortably. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

If so, they would perhaps have noted that the white hoof and horn with which it had previously been marked had now been removed. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He’s in a wifebeater and pillow marks zigzag across his face. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The mark was too perfect, almost as if someone had stenciled it carefully. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her defender picked up the stack of papers on the table before him; Kira had watched him marking these papers meticulously as he listened to the accuser. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m hongry. You hightailed it out of here after breakfast, and I ain’t seen hide nor hoof mark of you since.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

True, I marked down that I liked the outdoors, but who doesn’t? Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

This distinction also marks a seminal transition in the story of the gene. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Like maybe I could make the same kind of mark in New York, somewhere that might actually understand me. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s marks out of ten from each one,” Ron said, and Harry, squinting up the field, saw the first judge — Madame Maxime — raise her wand in the air. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

In the back of the truck she was just sitting on is a stack of crates marked apples and flour and corn. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It had a bunch of pen and pencil marks scratched on it, keeping track of how fast the children in the house were growing. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The murderous mark of the fiend’s grasp was on her neck, and the breath had ceased to issue from her lips. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1906, looking for a place where Harry could make his mark on the world, the young family had left Williamsport, Pennsylvania, headed west, and settled down in Spokane, Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Adam said, “Don’t you know your own arrows? We used to mark our arrows when I was a boy.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The science lab is different from the other classrooms—it has these old thick wood tables with black marks burned into them, and metal stools to sit on. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the canal, evenly spaced, white-painted stones marked out a path to a hut being used as an orderly room. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She forgot pain, forgot fear, forgot the tyrant who stared at the burning mark on her head with dark eyes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

When Conor started having that nightmare, that’s when Harry noticed him, like a secret mark had been placed on him that only Harry could see. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“And a mark upon his throat, as though he had been strangled.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He wore a plain canvas jacket and a checked shirt, like many gyptian men; there was nothing to mark him out but the air of strength and authority he had. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the stairs, they came out into the main tunnel and walked down the path to the west until they came to the marked rock. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

At last, with a pelican wing, I brushed away the marks of my feet. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother, in this home movie marked “Easter ’62,” is two years from turning forty. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He is drenched from the rain, but I see the unmistakable color of blood on his clothes and marks on his muddy face. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shady studied Jinx, letting his words find their mark. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The PTA mom at the door table smiled up at me, checked off my name, and gave me a red paper heart with my name on it from the shoe box marked 6-3. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He set the book on his lap, finger still marking the place he left off reading. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today will be marked as a day of mourning. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

We circled around the drive and pulled up by the wide floodlit entrance marked Emergency. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Harry was now marking Malfoy so closely their knees kept hitting each other. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

They are not so much lines as marks. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time, however, Sister and Father were highly formal terms of address— they were tides, marks of formality like a salute or a curtsey. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Sukey dried and Johnny ate his pie, Mr. Adams watched him, noted him, marked him, said little. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nailer took out a bit of powdered paint and spit on it, mixing it in his palm, before smearing it over the mark. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Kaede watched numbly as tiny red marks erupted on her hands where the Queen’s tears struck. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Dawn was beginning to make its mark, the sky seeming to have lightened considerably even in the last minute or so. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Some of their friends and families watched as that bus headed southeast in the direction of Tsoodzit, Mount Taylor, the sacred peak that marks the southern boundary of Dinetah. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had had a taste of it lately, having been entrusted with taking a pulse and temperature under supervision and marking the readings on a chart. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Proofreading marks and drafts go hand in hand.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Emoticons are combinations of punctuation marks people frequently use when they don’t really know how to express themselves with real words. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He tore the joint apart and buried two large hunks in the sandy soil at the river’s edge, and then marked the caches. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

That was the mark they put on me, a mark I would have for as long as I lived. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“She released some of the splendor from the earth and used it to wreak havoc on Lkossa. The marks of that destruction are still infamous today.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I received lots of wet lipsticked-kisses on my cheeks, which made me feel disgusted and loved as I turned to secretly rub off their marks. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He stands at the head of the table, which is covered with paint drops, crayon marks, and ink smears over uneven wood. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I ripped off a chunk of my tie-dyed T-shirt, which was already falling apart from all the bum marks, and used it to pick the eyeball off the floor. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I lift it, and a red mark is there. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

It marked the end of the power struggles that caused so much civil unrest. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

I remembered the huge black question mark above the caption “Where is Nwankiti?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I figured we could mark the places we look and it will help us keep track.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

And the marks on the wall that showed how much she had grown. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

"You are a troublemaker. I should mark this down in your Party record book, but I will not. Instead, you have earned the class an extra homework assignment." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

When Dumbledore straightened up, he was holding a familiar shallow stone basin etched with odd markings around its rim. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Others came upon the Road & the Gentleman, knowing them, directed them to proceed, or to take some several Barrels which had been marked for them. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He’s going on, now about what its scratch marks look like on trees. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

More ruins lay beyond it—an old well, and some circles in the grass that marked the sites where hovels had once stood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The discovery of carbon-14 was the high water mark of Kamen s career in the Rad Lab; its publication was the beginning of his painful journey out of Lawrence’s good graces. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Then they tried to get up without spoiling the marks they made when they fell. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face was angular and brutal, marked with old knife scars. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She didn’t like it a bit when I started out to catch and mark all the pigs that our sows had raised that year. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like I’m gonna be climbing out of the one marked “dumb jock” all my life. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sarah came in to see him—and to hug me—and she was more alarmed at the marks of his beating than at his ribs or his fever. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The trail the bleeding Runt had left when they’d moved was still strong enough to mark them as vulnerable. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Instead, Rowan’s blade hit its true mark, and ran Scythe Goddard through, all the way to the hilt. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Finally, four months after the earthquake, Father came by and found me helping to mark off wood for Hand Clap to saw. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember the night that set this all in motion, the night I saw the soldiers mark my mother's door. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Putting marks on paper is always only a part of the writing process. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It’s covered by a large stack of folders marked Classified and a sleek silver laptop. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

To create the possessive of something that’s normally in quotation marks—for example, the title of a poem, “The Raven”—you would have to put the apostrophe outside. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And for that, he said, he was marked. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, his older brother got out of there the second he could. His shoes left skid marks on the doorstep,” Dad says. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He showed me how to place the arrows and where to put the dimension mark. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Before Donna covers the left side of her face again with her fake hair, I see the swollen scratch marks. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Soot stains marked some of the arrow loops, and here and there a crack or a missing merlon could be seen in the curtain wall, but it seemed little enough from this distance. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Plenty of music has no articulation marks at all, or marks on only a few notes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Germs were question marks even in the minds of many doctors. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t seem to stop, though for each lapse the discipline wand came again, escalating to a series of painful lashes that left marks on Asher’s legs. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at the word card with its big question mark. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It contained his own notes on Spassky’s games, jotted in pencil, with comments and question marks designating poor moves, exclamation marks designating good ones. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They had been permitted to sit up till after the ice cream, which naturally marked the limit of human indulgence. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Sex—top marks! devil Now make it more personal... a bit more fulsome, please. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Arachne had the body of a giant black widow, with a hairy red hourglass mark on the underside of her abdomen and a pair of oozing spinnerets. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

No peace officer with any sense, even in dire circumstances, punches where it will leave marks. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their presence marks the beginning not of discovery itself but of a culture of discovery, a culture which was now shared by government-office holders and sophisticated clergymen. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

My hands were in the dirt, amidst the traces of him—he who was my father, my grandfather—and I lifted that dirt to my face and put his mark upon me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Octavian’s mark was a harp, the symbol of Apollo. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

While he was obviously not a progressive man, he was courteous and reasonable, in marked contrast to his predecessor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think of the big black “X”s that marked off the days because all I wanted was for them to be behind me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I lined up with Lu, who had now dropped into his "on your mark" stance. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He continued to make marks in his magazine and acted oblivious to her being there. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Their daughter, Pearl, became commensurately more difficult to manage, her behavior marked by periods of sullen withdrawal and eruptions of anger. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But then, finding that this position, by raising him above the heads of everyone else, made him a mark for every arrow from the Narnian bows, he decided to jump down again. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

She was a sleeping animal—a mountain cat or a dragon—and her markings of power were everywhere. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z