I learned to cook so well that I could smell if the meat stuffing was too salty before I even tasted it. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The meat, crisp and split, ignited into a small flame, which found new fuel in the spots of grease upon the stove. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francis thus never had reason to envy those college fellows whose High Table food was undeniably better than their wives’ drab mixtures of tasteless meat, boiled potatoes, colorless greens, and typical trifles. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

In her basket she had some fat meat, potatoes, and a small bottle of vanilla flavoring, which she had bought with the money she got for her walnut kernels. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trick was to bathe the meat in smoke without actually roasting it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was cold, like a slab of raw meat. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Only Sparrow shared Sarai’s hesitation, though they both ate, because meat was rare and their bodies craved it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Honey and grease ran over his fingers and dripped down into his beard as he nibbled at the tender meat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Molly has learned to pick around the meat—even in a dish like this, where you can hardly tell what’s what and it’s all mixed together—because Dina refuses to acknowledge that she’s a vegetarian. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Some of the men went off to hunt and came back with meat to roast. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came back staggering under the load of meat. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

That eliminates gorillas and elephants, even though they are vegetarians with admirably nonfinicky food preferences and represent a lot of meat. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The anger rose up in her mouth and tasted like rotted meat. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I knew what always happened at the meat counter. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Whatever. It’s meat, right? M-E-A-T. I feel like I’m about sixteen already. I can feel myself growing.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was the sound of singeing meat, and a curl of smoke rose up from his skin. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Now he seemed shrunken, the muscle and meat melted off his bones. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

For several minutes, they were both content to sit in silence while they nibbled on their dried fruit and meat. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

This was me, the conquering hero, marching into camp with more meat than all of us could carry, taking the others back to field dress this gift. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Following this, we retired to the wedding feast, which, there being no meat for the Ethiopian Regiment for two days, consisted of pork bones boiled in water. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

But now he kills as many as he can, cuts them up, dries or smokes the meat, and then sends it on a truck to the towns. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the end we all crept home with our meat, feeling hunted ourselves. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sapo led me inside the old tenement where the storefront butcher shop Casablanca had been been serving up meat to the neighborhood for years. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

"Just for some meat-" "And for hunting," said Ralph, wisely, "and for pretending to be a tribe, and putting on war-paint." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He next shoved a frozen meat loaf, which was supposed to be low in calories, into the microwave. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

But it had to be done, and still does if you want to eat hog meat. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was fine because we’d watched him have a second helping of meat loaf that night. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Then, very slowly, he ate the piece of meat roasted with onions, the white rice, and the slices of fried bananas all on the same plate together. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Pa feeds us young children slices of the rabbit meat. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was, for a long time, in spite of—or, not inconceivably, because of—the shabbiness of my motives, my only sustenance, my meat and drink. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

‘Then—us’ll have these nice collards and some hoecake and coffee. And I going to cut me off a few slices of this here white meat and fry it for myself.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The rat continued scrunching bits of sinew and meat. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

None had blood on their chins, except when they ate rare-cooked meat. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Strips of meat, buzzing with flies, hang from the windows of butcher stalls. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

There were small roast birds and pastries glistening with honey, cubes of meat in fragrant sauce, and curled crustaceans impaled on sticks. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

"You certainly took care of that piece of meat," said Spoon. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bunny sidled up to me and whispered, “Did you see the big meat cleaver tattoo on his chest?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

My belly rumbles, sick on their sour meat. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother would drive all the way across town to buy kosher meat, for instance, only to serve it with a cream sauce. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Wondrous aromas of potatoes, onions, smoked meat, and spices mixed to warm our faces and tease our nostrils. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

What if my parents force me to live in their dirty house without rice or meat or books or a TV? The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joe had piled his plate high with meat loaf and potatoes and creamed corn. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We stare at that bit of meat and wonder who will get it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He was certain that she went to her grave worried about his addiction to compilation meat dishes. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Peach took a bite of mashed potatoes instead of meat loaf, chewed thoughtfully, and then swallowed. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She drew the meat forth a moment later, cooked, served on a plate for him. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they managed to kill a deer or antelope, we’d make a fire and roast the meat. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sniffed the delicious odor of steak and meat loaf and baked potatoes. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The seijeants were looking for fresh meat to fill their ranks before they sailed for Slaver’s Bay. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Would we become like the orphan child we often saw in the village streets, begging for bread and eating scraps of meat like a wild animal? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The red thing bulging out of the inside of his mouth that I thought was his tongue wasn’t nothing but brain meat oozing from inside Pap’s skull. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Because real Mexicans love cilantro and hot sauce on everything. Especially meat.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Fresh meat was expensive and had to be saved for special occasions. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m making meat loaf,” she said to Luke. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The cooks served up great slabs of fresh horse- meat, charred outside and bloody red within, with roast onions and neeps ... and for once, the common soldiers ate as well as the lords and knights. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got potatoes and root vegetables in the oven,” he said in a low voice, “for those principled ones among us who don’t particularly feel like eating dead meat.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Oh, I'd serve them well and I'd make invisibility felt if not seen, and they'd learn that it could be as polluting as a decaying body, or a piece of bad meat in a stew. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

This work, they thought, would provide them with more fruit, grain and meat. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The good meat went to white people’s butchers. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They climbed aboard, laughing as they recalled their meal of horse meat, and how, on the horrible march to this last camp, they had been the horse. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Other than one ration stamp each for cheese, meat and bread, all she received from us was a jar of jam. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She took her sharp knife and cut the slice of salt pork in half, the crisp sound of the meat making my belly rumble. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

There was meat in the soup and fresh bread every day. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They are unaccustomed to eating cooked meats,” Penelope answered, trying not to sound defensive. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

There were extra rations of fresh meat, and during the hot part of the afternoon he and the others were served chilled fruit juice or chilled chocolate milk. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The stripling had been stronger than he looked; his blade bit through die lobstered steel of the captain’s gauntlet and the padded glove beneath into the meat of his palm. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

On the third day, juicy pieces of meat were served with supper. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, Bertha made a special supper of meat loaf and lima beans, fried green tomatoes, and sweet potato pie. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He ate his breakfast meticulously, spitting the tiny bones into the fire circle once he had chewed the meat from them. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Some days more than six hundred families stood in line for a handout of rice, oatmeal, potatoes, flour, and coffee, along with a little meat if there was any to be had. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Guys, it is! Think about it. You get protein, calcium—” “Protein is meat,” DeVante says. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

My gorge rose at the reek of rotten meat permeating the air. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Happily, she brought the meat to Mama and Grandma to prepare. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The wonderful smell of frying meat fills the air. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She must finish smoking every morsel of meat. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she could find them in the monkey meat, that would be another confirmation that the monkeys were hot. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A smell of burning meat filled the room. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I figured if he stole more of our meat, Mama would have to see that he was too sorry and no account to keep. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I looked for the barrel of smoked meat, too. And baskets of dried oysters. Gone.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Without human inventiveness, all of us today would still be cutting our meat with stone tools and eating it raw, like our ancestors of a million years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The leap had shattered one of his legs, and a jagged piece of pale bone jutted out through the rotted cloth of his breeches and the grey meat beneath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I put in the meat and roots, swap in fresh rocks, and go find something green to spice it up a little. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Along the south part of the fence where the sun shone most of the day, I built long shelves out of branches and put the meat up to dry. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before going to the checkout line, Dicey drifted by the meat counter. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we had fresh meat, and I ate so much I was sick in the night. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Human beings evolved to survive and be healthy on a diet of wild meat and plants. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Some vendors were setting up to grill meat along the side of the street. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Been hanging around here for months. Bertha keeps putting table scraps out for him. He don’t mind eating her meat loaf, but he don’t want nothing else to do with her.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He said men needed more meat than women did, and that it wasn’t a superstition and he wasn’t being a jerk, studies had been done. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nguyen’s father told her to kill, pluck, and cook one of their chickens, so everyone could have rice and a little meat. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Hugh blows the yucca pollen off his blackened shrimp while I push back the sleeves of my borrowed sport coat and search the meat tower for my promised potatoes. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

There was a crisp easily broken shell and the soft sweet meat inside. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were packets of split, dried fish, a makuk of special powdered fish, moose meat, a little manomin traded for with deer meat, smoked fish, and a bag of dried pumpkin flowers to thicken soups. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“And the hamburger meat that your mother gave you?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Supermarkets in Denmark have experimented with adding a second bar code to packages of meat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Ghosts poured from the angel’s huge metal hand, wielding knives and meat hooks, and the Tizerkane fought them off blow by blow. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

One of them came over and prodded her here and there with the end of his rifle, as though he were testing a piece of meat. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Or, worst of all, when she and Julie spread a rumor at school that Soojin’s parents served dog meat at their downtown Milwaukee restaurant, Park Avenue Deli. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

They'll have loads of food at the concession stand, but I don't believe in mixing meat with my movies. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

In Saint-Malo, people are fined for locking their doors, for keeping doves, for hoarding meat. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

What delighted him— what he kept begging Park for—were stories about food and eating, particularly when the main course was grilled meat. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

There were always a few more eggs at breakfast and a little more meat at dinner. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

After all, 534 and his pen mates were bred for their meat, not for their memories. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

And like in the United States, the way we celebrate is with great parties filled with lots of music, dancing, and delicious grilled meats. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

"Head, then, for you, with the luscious eyes and brains, and the crispy-crunchy ears of him. And I'll have the rump, with nothing but dull meat to nibble." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t remember the last time he’d seen so much meat passed around so casually. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

As suddenly as an old dog drops a shoe when he smells raw meat, Macon Dead dropped his pleading look and flared his nostrils with some new interest. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of another meal of raw meat made Amari feel utterly queasy. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stinky meat kind, not even the fruit goo. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want the meat. I want Shiloh.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Grote has become even more distant, up at the crack of dawn to go hunting, then skinning and smoking the meat at night. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Bridge and Tab were silent while he fed her with his fingers—a piece of bread and then a piece of meat from the foil-covered plate. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

One day, a packet-ship arriving from Nova Scotia with meat, thus alleviating the city’s starvation, I purchased a salted ham-hock with Sally, and, by her side, stripped it for cooking. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Oriana’s current maid, a hairy, wizened creature named Toadfloss, brings tea and cakes, meat and jam, all piled on a massive silver tray. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Papa said, “I intended to butcher a hog. We’re about out of meat.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fill up on the meat then, why don’t you,” I said. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The meat was already beginning to freeze, making it hard to cut. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shukumar had been going through their supplies steadily, preparing meals for the two of them, measuring out cupfuls of rice, defrosting bags of meat day after day. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The crew received a scant meal of hardtack, a strip of dried meat, and a half-pint of water. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I bought some meat for my mother after asking the cook to fry it once more and then sprinkle it with spiced cabbage. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The babe within me makes me long for cider and sweetmeats, roast meat, rich milk, and apricots. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

There was blood on the chopping board, the room smelled of raw meat, the steak was still sitting out on the countertop, turning grey. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex’s childhood was perfumed with simmering peppers and onions and stew meat in a cast iron pot for caldillo, fresh masa waiting on the butcher block. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I have not had any kind of meat in such a long time. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They tempt them with delicious meats, saying it’s the only way to heaven. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

One of the gulls squawked as it stole a stringy piece of meat and skin from another gull. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Ma scraped and cleaned the head carefully, and then she boiled it till all the meat fell off the bones. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was plenty of fresh meat to last for a long time. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had seen the smoke from our fires and smelled roasting meat, so they had come looking for us. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, no, boy. I’m talking about arcanists. Not some poor chill-charmer who works his way back and forth across caravan routes, trying to keep fresh meat from rotting.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He laid trenchers of bread before them and filled them with chunks of browned meat off a skewer, dripping with hot juice. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We ate the smoky venison meat except Fern, who ate a piece of bread. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baxter gave us green beans and this thing with meat and potatoes all mixed together. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He was shaking and saliva dripped out of his mouth as the smell of smoked meat, dried fish, and various stews wafted out from the cooking huts. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They were driving slowly up the lumpy road of the home draw under the oak trees when Lee said, “We forgot to get meat.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When a plate was brought filled with fried meats, he asked what was on it. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

She talks for five minutes to Sid in the butcher’s shop but doesn’t buy any meat. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

A fat and happy army, roasting meat and fresh bread, telling stories in the dark. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Take the meat loaf,” she said, nodding to the still-steaming pan. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Our dad puts so much cheese into his meat sauce that it leaves a hard, sticky residue on everything. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

They grated plantains, green bananas, yautías, and yucca, into bowls, seasoned the mixture, spooned mounds of it onto roasted banana leaves, and dropped chunks of savory meat into the centers of the mounds. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Huge, dripping slabs of bloody whale meat meant for dog food hung from the rigging out of reach of the animals. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

"Irri, go to the bazaar and buy fruit and meat. Anything but horseflesh." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They ate long and daintily, spearing out pieces of chicken, holding the dripping pieces until they cooled and then gnawing the muscled meat from the bone. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We slaughter a cow for its meat only to mark a big occasion. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Salva had his own opinion of how the fire should be built and how long the meat needed to cook, and so did each of the others. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tim, butcher the cattle. Let the meat freeze and hide it in the loft under the hay until you need it.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He still played with it and romped with it, and he alone fed the wolf its meat each day. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

But all the rest gave alms, enough to fill the beggar’s pack with bread and roast meat. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wrestling coach had been on him to eat meat. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I stopped by the window, breathing in the scents of stale beer and roasted meat. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know for sure. But his meat doesn’t look that different from a squirrel’s. He ought to be cooked. . . .” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I savor the taste of meat and gravy and doughy bread. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cat drops off my arm and pounces on the meat. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Roots and rain water have been my meat and drink.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

They think any use of animals for food is morally wrong, not just killing them for meat, but using their milk or eggs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

When the man brought him water he drank eagerly, and later bolted a generous meal of raw meat, chunk by chunk, from the man’s hand. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look, here,” he would say, “this meat of yours, it’s very lean and hard, not properly cooked at all. I’m not used to meals like this.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I shall eat no more meat of any kind while I am so closely confined.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Every other day, we received a small piece of meat with our porridge. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also took a large hide of rhinoceros, some raw meat, and a strong rope. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

They turned, their faces like blanched meat, streaming sweat; he beat their heads, knocking off their helmets and bringing them down on themselves. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever we fed Buster scraps of meat, he turned his head sideways and stared at us out of one angry-looking yellow eye. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the big grey wolf wrenched free, he took most of the creature’s throat out in an explosion of pale rotten meat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

These you sucked inside your mouth till all the flavor was gone, and then you stripped the moistened meat away from the seed. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It flames high at once, as if hungry for the coarse, lean meat. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d go to church, come home, have a nice meal with good meat and lots of custard and jelly. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Once there was enough of an opening in the nuts, we would pull the sweet-tasting meat from the shells, doing our best to keep each half in one piece. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

First I go down the street to the corner store and ask Mr. Wallace does he have any sort of old cheese or lunch meat he can sell me cheap. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t think there’s any meat in a Finkle, but she won’t eat them anyway because of all the chemicals and preservatives. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Now that the trip was delayed by a minimum of several months, the ship’s stores had to be supplemented with fresh meat. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The meat was laid on a board in the backdoor shed, and every piece was sprinkled with salt. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Manman pulled the meat and plantains out of her pocket and started eating a piece to fill the silence. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

In most big plants expensive machinery is used to remove or kill the bacteria on the meat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

One of the short arrows of the Lamb Men stuck through the meat of his upper arm, and blood covered the left side of his bare chest like a splash of paint. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was filled with what looked like graying meat. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Many of us gave him some of our share of eggs and meat, and so he has been eating well for days. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

It made my stomach turn —- the DNA in that meat was almost 99 percent the same as human DNA; it was nearly cannibalism. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

At one point he managed to scavenge meat from a diseased caribou that had wandered into the lake and died. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a loaf of bread, some meat, and an apple, I did just fine. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It makes sense that their meat, milk, and eggs would be better for us. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

There is no evidence that people traded staple goods like fruits and meat, or that the existence of one band depended on the importing of goods from another. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that owl stank of rotten meat so I do have to say, Good riddance. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that having to eat crow when you were once proud and right was like swallowing a hunk of tough, chewy crow meat that wasn’t about to go down easy. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

No more bowls loaded with fluffy white rice hiding small pieces of meat. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen they had grits and grease and side meat and coffee for breakfast. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Already I was beginning to feel like an especially toothsome steak in a meat market. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think not. “But — but —” “My sons and daughters do not harm Hagrid, on my command. But I cannot deny them fresh meat, when it wanders so willingly into our midst. Good-bye, friend of Hagrid.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

With a swift motion, I threw the venison to the ground and the dog fell upon the meat. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Then there were cabbage leaves stuffed with ground meat and rice, cabbage leaves of such a toughness that they were almost impossible to cut without spattering ground meat and rice all over the carpet. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The raw muscles inside twitched like live hamburger meat. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Bree makes me a plate, collecting different meats and vegetables from all the carts. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

At the river, he dropped the ham and gulped down a meal of the salty meat. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I nod and take a bite of my keema, remembering the time my uncle told me that the spicy minced meat was his favorite dish when he was a kid. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“If I had meat in my soup,” Papa Nnukwu said, “I would offer it to you.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was her job to keep smoothing and arranging the coals into an even bed for baking the meat, but Tallow’s eyes on her back made her itch. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

After the tail was cut off—as a trophy for the conqueror—nothing was left to waste: the meat was dried, the heart smoked, the intestines made into sausages. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My body wanted the blood in the meat. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the money we got selling the meat one afternoon, a few weeks after the government man’s visit, we bought some potatoes and some eggs. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pewter bowl of cold meat, carrots, and potatoes sat beside the bed. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the meat spoiled in two days, and after that they only had bones to pick at. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The carnival booths fell behind, the smell of fried meat and beer died away, and they came to the base of a hill. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crisp skin crackled under his knife, and hot juice ran from the meat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She could chop fish, meat, and vegetables on a butcher-block cutting board—all with one hand. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I did, she had me carry in two of her meat pies plus a tankard of ale, which I set before Bear. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mostly she tried not to think about the meat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

August hands me the buckets of meat, one at a time. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Then I suggested meat loaf, which made June gag. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Jojen Reed nipped at his own joint with small bites, chewing each chunk of meat a dozen times before swallowing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I could hear the sizzle of meat frying on the stove and the open-and-close of the oven as she checked the biscuits or corn bread or pie or whatever she was baking for supper. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

So you eat all dairy one meal and all meat the next. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room smelled like cooking meat, and then like feces. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Ralph-we need meat even if we are hunting the other thing." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Here! Eat yourself silly,” Matt cried, shoving fistfuls of meat inside. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"That must be fun like Bill says and as he's invited us-" "-to a feast-" "-meat-" "-crackling-" "-I could do with some meat-" Ralph held up his hand. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

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

Her nostrils quivered at the smells of roasting meats and fresh hot bread and pies stuffed with pork and raisins, but her guts still trembled with excitement, and she was content just to smell. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their meat has a ratio of about 14 omega-6 to 1 omega-3. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It was relatively small, weighing perhaps six hundred or seven hundred pounds, but it nevertheless amounted to a huge quantity of meat. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would put her on her stump with a long leash and step back a few feet with some meat in my hand. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cut off long, thin strips of meat and laid them on her smoking-platform. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any of the friends could have handled the monkey or the antelope meat while they were bouncing around in the Land Rover. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should have guessed from the way he wasn’t meticulous about packing up and almost left behind a precious tin of canned meat, like it was nothing. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

‘They were out hunting in the woods all day. The only things they caught were squirrels. At night they made camp, and the guy who could eat squirrel meat started cooking it over the fire.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The smell of the raccoon meat brought her back to the celebration and she pulled her arm away. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Gaps in front, the newly dead, piles of red meat. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad often bought us a fresh piece of lamb or goat meat from the butcher shop. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The Paqo told me that these guesthouses were normally stocked with corn, potatoes, and dried strips of llama meat, as well as wood for fire. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The air was fragrant with the smell of roasted meat and spices, and a slave girl with a turtle on one cheek was pouring pale green wine. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Fish was light meat and he was sick of them. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he took the meat out of the pot with his two fingers and threw it upon the ground and was heedless of the younger lad’s howling. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The moment he had cleared his plate he turned to the boy next to him, asked him for his leftover meat loaf, and devoured it just as rapidly. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Butchers cut meat on the street next to office buildings. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could dress a cow from start to finish: skin it, split its bones, gut it, and cut the meat into pieces. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Soft, salty bread and white cheese, slices of spiced meat, and quarters of some big, globed fruit that tasted of sugared rain. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know where I’ll store this meat,” complained someone who was lugging a whole carcass of a sheep over his shoulder. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If it happens, I’m saying. We can’t waste anything. If we get enough meat in the water we’ll have a good shot at drawing the bigger fish.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

After an hour, Sefia took the meat out of his hands and stuffed it back into her pack. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Grace,” he grumbled, and picked up his meat by the bone and took a big chomp, then chewed, mostly with his mouth open. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“If you were starving and somebody gave you the choice of one kind of meat to save yourself, what would you pick?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I loved the combination of flavors when I bit into a burger—the soft, sweet roll, the crunchy pickle, the tasty moistness of the meat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

So that evening the people of three worlds sat down together and shared bread and meat and fruit and wine. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

When a lord had a feast, he served meat on bread—instead of using plates, people ate on “trenchers,” which were just slabs of stale bread. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

And then my stomach rumbled at the thought of all that fresh and innocent meat. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

You could actually peel off fillets of meat with your fingernail. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dropped portions of meat numbly into the simmering lava. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amari carefully pierced the meat with a stick Tidbit had triumphantly brought her, and after the fire had been built up again, each girl took turns slowly turning it until it was cooked to perfection. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had learned to eat sweet and carefully prepared foods, also fish and meat and fowl, spices and dainties, and to drink wine which made him lazy and forgetful. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like a slab of raw meat studded with teeth. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nessy chile, you done changed. You losing the meat on your bones.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The meat locker was a very safe shelter. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he seemed to be standing his ground against the old giant Thoon, who had somehow reattached his hand and found his meat cleaver. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I’m casually rearranging the food on my pretty flowered plate, pushing the meat around, wondering if I can slip any into my pockets and throw it out later. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in California, when Papa wanted something really fresh for the restaurant, he sometimes took them with him to a farm, where he bought butter, milk, or meat. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Clayton did the next best thing to giving an answer, and chewed until meat fell out of his mouth. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

On graduation day Dee-Dee and I opened up the store, set out the meats, stacked the fresh vegetables, and I worked behind the counter until it was time to go. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The meat is rotten and the vegetables moldy, but they haven't fed us since we got thrown in here. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Simmon and Sovoy groused idly about the food, making grim speculations as to what manner of meat was in the stew. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

One had caught the meat of his biceps and gone all the way through to the other side, the filigree orb bobbing up and down with his frantic motions. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t afford a drab for an apple and meat pie, so I had snuck some barley bread and a gristly sausage out of the Mess. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Our bodies, from our teeth to our brains, evolved to help us hunt, cook, and eat meat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I offer Jaimito another spoonful of mashed potatoes, eyeing their plates heaped with rice and meat and rolls, this fancy food I’ve spent my life craving. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Keeping our Nightbeast well fed is quite difficult. The meat of other monstruos will only go so far, but every so often, we are willing to accept a sacrifice. Namely, the three of you.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She comes out with a tightly tied bag of chicken meat lined with cloth rags. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The slap made a loud smacking sound, the palm of his thickfingered hand connecting squarely with the meat of Laila’s cheek. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Bull sighed, placing his meat on his plate and lifting up a fork with mock delicacy. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Simon, sitting between the twins and Piggy, wiped his mouth and shoved his piece of meat over the rocks to Piggy, who grabbed it. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Dinner was at a big dining room table that was generously covered in platters of meat, bowls of mashed potatoes and corn on the cob, a teetering plate of bread, and a tub of butter. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Speaking of sheep, how we doing for meat?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sashimi, spicy soup, the grilled meat, fried fish. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to keep on collecting cans, enough to cover some money for meat and bones from the grocer down in Friendly. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rotten vegetables carpeted the bare concrete and maggot-infested meat smeared the brick walls. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I’m like a piece of meat unearthed from the back of the fridge, suspect until proven otherwise. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Sir, I thought we might break out rations of gin and meat and whoop it up a bit.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fern cheered when she saw that our snack was a slice of pie and warm milk and had nothing to do with animal meat. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The two cats, gurgling and purring, pounced on the organ meat when I set it down for them. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The gravy on the meat loaf has already formed a skin. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother spent a long time at the meat counter. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though one book after another repeats this myth, the popularity of spices had nothing to do with disguising the taste of meat or fish that had gone bad. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Mounds of meats and vegetables in rich and fragrant sauces. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I say, did you get a good piece of meat?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was walking through the market one day when he overheard someone ask a butcher for his best piece of meat. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

But when his day’s meat was brought to him, he found out. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The shamblers are frantic now that they got the taste of fresh meat. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t ready to see it as meat, though. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She rendered goat fat into something like butter, and pulverized antelope meat into hamburgers with a device I think had been rigged from the propeller of a motorboat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them chewed raw seal meat to swallow the blood and ease their parched throats. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I imagine eating rice and meat and fruit and cakes and pies. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, if the wolves did not bring her some meat, she might not eat for days. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's mostly tins of meat and potato hash I stole from an airship's cafeteria, and an old pair of shoes with intact soles. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

We ate the meat all right and were glad to have it, but the trinkets she sequestered in her bedroom, out of sight. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When all my folk are safe behind your Wall, we’ll share a bit o’ meat and mead. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“If someone told you every type of meat was going to be taken away from your diet except one, what would you keep?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

However, he was only a hundred miles from his destination— Omaha, Nebraska, the headquarters of the large meat packing company for which he worked. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

One man was trying to read a letter by the firelight, another was roasting a small piece of meat at the end of a stick. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you kill some of them? The tails make good meat. I could show you how. We learned in jungle training when I was in the army.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had happily attended their receptions, she had eaten rice and meat and coleslaw, food tainted by fraud, and she had eaten knowing this and had not choked, and had not even considered choking. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He was gentle to ride; you could pack in fresh meat on him; and he was willing about pulling a plow. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dinner, Raymie’s mother watched in astonishment as Louisiana consumed four entire pieces of meat loaf and all her green beans. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

He continued to find cans of meats and vegetables, jars of fruit and peanuts. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I wonder if there is something, some food or herb or medicine, that I can bring him that will heal him this time the way the eggs and meat and wine healed him before. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The hotel brought a breakfast to our room that, much to my delight, featured deli meat among many other denials of American breakfast constructions. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She rolled onto her back and gripped the meat in both paws as she ate it. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

They boiled meat until it was as strong as whiskey. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No wait, dark meat, please,” I said, nervous. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be teeth stuck into the meat, and pieces of jagged skin hanging over the hole. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

No morning passed that he didn’t freeze a ton of meats, vegetables, and lemon cream pies, enough to last ten years, until the rockets came back from Earth, if they ever came. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

A serving boy ran back and forth with skewers of meat while Masha drew beer from the kegs, chewing her sourleaf all the while. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“What are they?” asked Bronwyn, undoing the cloth to reveal a hunk of brownish meat with little tubes shunting out of it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The cow had knocked over meat racks and bumped into an old woman. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Smoked meats and sausages hung from the rafters, along with a wizened crocodile carcass. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The red shells hold the sweetest meat and are best for drying, though the green ones and the black are also good. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight for dinner they had been brought meat in a thick sauce. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he washed his hands, threw the oilcloth over himself, and before midnight he returned with a few strings of dried meat, several bags of rice, corn with weevils, and some emaciated bunches of bananas. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

In particular, a tribal big-man’s role in dividing the meat of pigs slaughtered for feasts points to the role of chiefs in collecting and redistributing food and goods—now reconstrued as tribute—in chiefdoms. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Because there was no meat, she’d used a tin of tuna. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Sometimes poor people take the venison for their winter’s meat, but most of the time the carcasses rot until their skin hangs like ribbons over their bones. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I can see her swallow hard, her eye flickering to the meat. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Soon they were all seated, and their hands picked up the meat and bread. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shot away chunks of meat below the ribs. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She received more than just meat from the family. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Now will I not eat this meat!” cried Wang Lung angrily. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Jello had not found the meat in it. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

This giant ate no meat at all, though he was a holy terror when served a basket of roots, crunching onions and turnips and even raw hard neeps between his big square teeth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“What is this?” he said, his fingers working the meat off a bone—the spoon-and-fork charade was abandoned a week after he married the girl. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Our mother's wearing white—as she has for the last six months—no makeup, no jewelry, eating no meat or fish. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Soon after, she decided our nightly mealtime battles just weren’t worth it, and she started to puree my meat and serve it to me with noodles. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Sam and Alice were sitting around a small fire, cracking hickory nuts and putting the meats in clay tureens for the winter. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“We’re stuck with that thing now, you know? It’s ours. Yes, we have a nasty hammer, but no way it’s just going to swim away from a boat full of meat.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jemmy looked up and barely made out a long, bony face with hollow cheeks and a nose like a meat cleaver. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was more interested in the encyclopedia than in the domestic problem, even when he had to content himself with a scrap of meat and a little rice for lunch. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He smelled like spiced meat and car oil, which already was an unsettling combination before a whiff of cigarette smoke was added to the mix. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I was desperate for bread, meat, anything that wasn’t green. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

But in the hardest winters, when the scavenging was poor and the hunting was worse, Nin had taught Sefia to pick locks, pick pockets, and even steal huge hocks of meat without anyone noticing. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Then Bull, in an expansive mood, shouted, “Chow down, troops,” lifting a piece of roast from the platter and biting into it before the meat even touched his plate. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They will give us a taste of fresh meat that we all crave,” Cherrie wrote in his diary. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

He hacked up the meat and shoved it into the chopper. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

You finish the grilling yourself, the way you like it, and then wrap the sweetened meat with rice and paste in leaf lettuce, and eat quickly with your hands. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He called for bread and meat until he was sated and threw the unfinished scraps to the dogs who slept by the fire that roared in his hearth. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“I have to be home by ten. Also I don’t, um, eat meat?” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The butcher must have known the bones were for us and not a dog because he left more and more pieces of meat on the bones each time Mama went back. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

A half hour of slow chewing later the meat was gone. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

High lords with old names, fat rich men dressed in velvet, knights puffed up like bladders with their honors, yes, and women and children too— they're all meat, and I'm the butcher. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She told me that she was going to do nazr for me, a vow to have a sheep slaughtered and the meat given to the poor if my book was accepted. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“They will share the meat with the whole pod.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He had cooked squab in soy sauce so that the skin and meat were a deep, deep brown all the way to the bone. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She couldn’t cook. She burned everything, including water. She had a hard time opening a can of beans. She couldn’t make head nor tail of a piece of meat. Six.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I get a whiff of meat frying, the smell most likely coming in through the few open windows. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She used lean-cut meat, dark kidney beans, carrots cut small, a bottle or so of dark beer, and freshly sliced hot peppers. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

When it is my turn, he gives me the piece with the most meat on it, the breastbone. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since sugar and meat were both in short supply, and since it was rumored that infants had died from saccharin mixed into formulas as a sugar substitute, these charges were widely believed. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

She got up, stored some of the smoked meat in her pack, spread the rest in the sun to pack later, and hurried out to the caribou hide. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Can’t get nothing for small crab, nobody wants it, too hard to pick the meat out, but I don’t care. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

"This is not Winterfell," he told him as he cut his meat with fork and dagger. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Most notably, they provided meat, milk products, fertilizer, land transport, leather, military assault vehicles, plow traction, and wool, as well as germs that killed previously unexposed peoples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Still, it took some work on my part to uncurl the ball and get to the tasty cooked meat inside. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ate bread and jam and slices of salty meat. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

With every step up James’s staircase, the smells of spices and roasting meat grew stronger. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She eased the bird inside her warm sleeping skin, cut off a small piece of caribou meat, and held it out. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was punctured with a half dozen arrows, some along his arm, the last one cutting through the meat of his neck from one side to the other. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I wish I could tell her that I’m not a hero, that I was using him as a shield, like a wall of meat. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The cage smelled of dogs and raw meat, and indeed it did look like a kennel. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

If we had more strength, and more courage, we could go into the forest to hunt and bring back fresh meat. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The meat had always been so overcooked we could cut it with a fork. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

But despite this apparent munificence, the meat he’d been killing was very lean, and he was consuming fewer calories than he was burning. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wants the sale of his eggs and meat to help other local businesses, like small shops and restaurants. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Pearl glanced at the shelves above the stove and pushed a box under them; she took down bread, cheeses, dried fruits, meats, and a bag of oats and sugar. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How can I run the place if I don’t eat meat?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The Point Prospect camp-ground south of Rose Hill was said to be swarming with soldiers who made forays on chicken coops, pigpens, and smokehouses where winter meat was hung. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he felt it was safe, the dragon tore at the sheep’s flesh with his teeth, leaning his head back and coaxing the meat down his gullet. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

My mind flooded quickly with the tastes and smells of food I had not eaten for the past month: canned meat, beans, crackers, soup, cookies. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Three days later the smell of rotting meat infected every shop in the city. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘No. For purely private reasons I am a vegetarian, but it does not matter if you wish to cook the collards with a piece of meat.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

No other country raises and slaughters its food animals quite as cruelly as we do. to see what is going on in the meat industry. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Jon had just been thinking that all the meat in the world surrounded them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The meat gives off a curdled-sweet smell that turns my stomach, but it’s better than going hungry. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He had eaten no more than half a day past, but there was no joy in dead meat, even deer. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Soggy chunks of bun and meat were visible between clenched fingers—she had squeezed the sandwich so ferociously that it had disintegrated. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps I’ll get you some rotting meat so you can have a proper feast.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He remembered remarking to the pathologist, as he cut up the little pink chunk of mystery meat in the tin foil, “Good thing this ain’t Marburg. ” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bran did not care, j It was meat and it was good. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Commanded me to skin the impala and bring the meat down to the village. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The festival is what is sometimes indelicately called a meat market. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

And almost every day they ate blood stew, thickened with barley and onions and chunks of meat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Did you cure your own meats in America?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Tayo finished the meat on the mutton ribs and threw the bones to a skinny yellow dog that came out from behind the hogan. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She learned to choose a piece of meat at the market and season it with herbs from her own garden. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He said to himself, Given that this was a piece of mystery meat sniffed out of a monkey carcass, I should have been a little more careful. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the only meat we had was a packaged meat you could buy at the butcher called “sawdust.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The Indian woman stroked him gently in reward, then ladled some of the meat from the pot onto the grass. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see their faces -Greasy Sac and Madge and even the Peacekeepers who buy my meat cheering for us. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I had a bit of money that I had saved and decided to splurge on some fresh meat, something I had not had in a long time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a man in a balaclava sitting at the table, eating a meat pie with sauce. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It means cheap animal feed to produce cheap meat and cheap high- fructose corn syrup for soft drinks. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He was one of the more wizened residents on the farm, late from North Carolina and the massacres, and preferred his meat melting soft. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I could still choke on the memory of goat meat if I thought about it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl picked up the packet; the odor of the dark, sticky meat made her want to vomit. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He unpacks the embroidered handbag, and some good sausages come to light; Lewandowski takes up the knife with a flourish and saws the meat into slices. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cordell circled the boy, sizing him up like he was an animal, or a cut of meat. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She had just set some knives to work, chopping up steaks for Griphook and Bill, who had preferred his meat bloody ever since he had been attacked by Greyback. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She could not move, recalled nothing, and had no idea where she was or what had caused the intense pain that had reduced her to a heap of raw meat. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were piles of meat on green leaves near him, and fruit, and coconut shells full of drink. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Uncle laughed as he watched Salva gobble down his first piece of the meat. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

All my life, I’ve lived with sheep, drunk their milk, eaten their meat, washed their fleece, carded their wool. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Every night his leader trotted over the snow, bringing him meat until he was well and could rejoin the pack. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air smells like pipe smoke and fried meat and gas lamps. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Dream meat could not nourish her, she had learned that early on. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then he cut up the meat, and sprinkled salt over the pieces as he laid them on a board. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. van Daan, clad in his wife’s apron and looking fatter than ever, was working away at the meat. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A couple of days ago, Shay had explained that the plump meat in the stew was rabbit. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He was lopping off its head with a cleaver — ruining the meat! the servants yelled. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I might have been sick of mangled meat loaf and puked-up sloppy joes, but Dad’s guilt was not the way I wanted to get edible food back in my life. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The smell of the meat had made Pax too hungry to rest. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

These offerings, with strips of meat, were laid upon the fire. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the zoo the adult lions and tigers ate on average ten pounds of meat a day. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They’d cook all the meat that remained, and have some grim semblance of a party on his roof. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Sure thing, Beans. Give me a few minutes to butcher some meat for you.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dropped the meat into the oil, added a few more sticks to his fire to get a raging boil, then threw in a handful of sliced potatoes. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I felt that until I had worked out exactly how I felt about these issues, I had better give up eating meat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I wear trousers underneath and tuck it up half the time just to move faster or climb up a tree with my bow to shoot a little meat, which I’d say they’re happy to have. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were served heaping piles of meats, bread, and cheese. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

By the fourth day, the porridge was glistening with fat, and great hunks of meat and colorful vegetables were steaming on top. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A traditionalist, he refrained from meat, alcohol, and sweets, in order to purify his soul and receive divine inspiration. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

While electrician at Auburn prison, he designed both the first electric chair and testing procedures for it that involved large slabs of meat. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have two great strikers in Tommy and Gino, one great goaltender in me, and a freezer full of dog meat. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Kabul’s dogs, who had developed a taste for human meat, would feast. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The boy merely looked at her and put a narrow piece of meat in his mouth. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Glancing back at him, she was reminded of Plum’s face when he managed to get the meat out of a walnut all by himself. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He told the lady running it that he had a rare medical condition and couldn’t eat cooked meat so he’d like to buy a raw hamburger. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Tyrion had skewered a chunk of meat on the point of his dagger and brought it to his mouth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He spit out her name like a piece of spoiled meat. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I was almost grown before I could eat meat. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oiling themselves like roast meat on a spit, and bare backs and shoulders, on the street, in public, and legs, not even stockings on them, no wonder those things used to happen. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He paced his cage vigorously, and even ignored the scraps of meat that were given to him to whet his appetite. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I leaned against the glass of the big fridge Mr. Charles kept the deli meats in. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

So long as the meat was seared, they gulped down several times their own weight every day, and at last began to grow larger and stronger. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know the first thing about transforming raw meat into dinner, so I sat at the kitchen table and leaned over a copy of the Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He taught her the proper way to gut a trout, to clean it, to lift the meat off the bone in one motion. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He wanted to see everything, of course, and he did think it unusual, but he got over it in a hurry and settled down to helping me prepare the meat for turtle soup. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Presently, the enticing smell of raw, warm meat filtered through into the old dog’s senses. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He filled his stomach three times a day with the roasted meat that he and Park had fantasized about in Camp 14. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

We don't hunt them on purpose, but if you're attacked and you take out a dog or two, well, meat is meat. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It did not know what humans are; or perhaps you could say that it knew only too well what humans are: it knew that humans are meat. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joe took up the big meat knife and selected a piece of side meat to cut. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Plus, Jean-Pierre offered me some cuts from his pig, so I had some meat for my meal. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Must we either take part in the crime of factory farms or give up meat? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They made an alabaster trench in his mouth, and his pink-purple lips peeled bade over them like the meat of a conch shell He had a big welt, like a scar, on his left cheek. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It did not seem as if he were after meat right now. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She always made three tiny meatballs with the last dab of the meat. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I whistled, held out a piece of meat, and hoped she would not get her leash caught in a treetop. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He just kissed the tips of his fingers and said, “Because it is the most delicious meat. And there is nothing that tastes so good as boar prosciutto.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

A good boil, they say here, a good boil purifies the rotten meat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a guest, if I forget to tell my hosts in advance that I don’t eat meat, they feel bad. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Nor do zoos’ efforts with rhinos, although rhinos offer up to over three tons of meat on the hoof. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then I shrug and stab a piece of meat with my fork. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

When the fire became calm again, I saw the rabbit had turned into meat, browned just right. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The waiters came out of the kitchen with meat cleavers, toasting forks, iron pots and frying pans to arm everyone. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Though I follow the rules and routines of convent life, Angelina will not allow me to abstain from meat, as the sisters do. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Members of a friendly tribe on the Sudanese side gave us a blanket, some elephant meat, and some advice. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was the same one who’d said the meat was grey. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Some of the ravens were still eating, long stringy bits of meat dangling from their beaks. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Tie a piece of meat to a string. Hang it out in front of him. He’ll chase it for miles.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I know that I'm eating meat bits that escape this tragically simple procedure, but the principle of my decision is intact, even if the reality is compromised. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

A fly lands on a tiny piece of meat. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Inside was a rough wool blanket, a full waterskin, some dried meat, and a dozen wickedly sharp crossbow bolts. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was making enchiladas de carne one day with some near-expired brisket I had found on clearance at the meat market. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Many hours later she opened her pack, spread her skins, and took out a strand of smoked meat. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A school bus is a science lab—hot dogs and baloney are the same meat. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

At least Gay did not spice my portions and stopped wincing when I dumped steak sauce over every meat. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

But to judge by the greasy faces, the meat eating was almost done; and some held coconut shells in their hands and were drinking from them. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

After a while she returned to the lucky-beans and ate some of the dried meat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mam says it’s a good thing payday is Friday when you can’t eat meat because the smell of bacon or sausages in other houses would drive her out of her mind. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

"Take this-" Ralph felt a chunk of meat pushed against him and grabbed it. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“See, you’re going against natural instinct. We were meant to eat meat.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I’ll give him the belly meat of a big fish,” the old man said. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Various meats were on display behind a dirty glass window. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Fearing the smell of meat will draw unwanted predators -fresh blood is bad enough -I make a good meal out of the greens and roots and berries Rue and I gathered today. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When the people around her move on, she smiles and waves to me with the meat mallet she is using as a gavel. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

In the end they skewered bits of meat on branches and held them in the flames: and even then almost as much boy was roasted as meat. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

"You didn't look to be eating it," Bronn said through a mouthful of meat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He looked directly at Olive and said, “It would turn you to cat’s meat, darling.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

An inmate reaches over and takes STEVE’S meat with a fork. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was because of the howling and snarling and fighting of the wolves lured to the place by the scent of the roasting meat. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My meat ration for a month,” I offer him. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

‘Another reason I’m a vegetarian. Anyway, the second hunter, who wasn’t allowed squirrel meat - he was starving. He just sat there clutching his stomach while his friend ate. Finally the first hunter started feeling guilty. “ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

With any luck, the territory would contain flint, jasper, or chalcedony, the raw material for spear points, meat scrapers, and other hunting tools. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The women were boiling eggs, roasting meat, preparing cakes, sewing backpacks. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She only rolled her eyes as she raised a small portion of meat to her lips. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And then he yelled something in Arabic to Mike, who stood behind the meat cutter holding a turkey breast in his arms like a football. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Only the tail end of a marsh rat held any meat at all. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Looking for all the world as he had seventeen years ago when he had called her pig meat He was twenty-one then, she twelve. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Inside my first brown paper bag: a white meat sandwich, an apple, crunchy curly things sprinkled with salt, and a cookie dotted with chocolate raindrops. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

In spite of two hot meals a day, they were hungry for fresh meat. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The texture of the meat can be shocking to the average American tongue, but I like it. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Emily holds out her sandwich in my direction, and I peer at the meat squished inside the bread. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“If he eats meat he sure isn’t thinking about where it comes from.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

At the table, Mom and Dad would dissect them with precision, leaving no meat to waste. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He was going to butcher her, skin her, and give the carcass to the Webbs for stew meat. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, to lose the only meat we had left from last winter’s hog butchering was bad enough. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a rough scarred face, the kind of man who would be most himself in the middle of a pack of loud men, eating peppery meat, drinking beer, and watching Arsenal. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He rips off a hunk of meat and starts to chuckle. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Pong watched entranced as the flames licked the sticks of meat. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“The heart, the liver, chunks of meat, rice, spices, and some blood.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Now dump that meat in, so we can eat!” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

We sit like that for a few seconds until Belén comes out of the store with the sack of meat we have to take to Mamá Jacinta for dinner. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I was carrying the smoked meat in a small bag that I waved in the air to increase the speed at which we kicked our feet from side to side. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

After that there was some meat and fried potatoes. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

After a moment he said, | “Parchment. What good is that? It’s cheese we need, and meat.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was silent another moment, collecting himself, before he picked up the dropped knife and meat hook from the floor of the silk sleigh and hurled them away. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The smell of the cooked meat hung on the still evening air. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had always heard sharks were attracted to blood in the water, blood or meat or garbage, but there wasn’t anything on that side of the boat to attract a shark. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She chopped the meat fine with her chopping knife in the wooden bowl, she seasoned it with pepper and salt and spices. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, in her best broken Elven, she said to her guest, “Take part! I demanding you plant you face in meat and starts to bite!” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The enamel bowls contained flaky fufu and watery soup bereft of chunks of fish or meat. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The meat warmed through the bread in my hand. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Animals were sacred to me, and even if we had to go a year without eating meat, they were never killed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also campaigned for mandatory meat inspections in Germany, designed a sewer system for Berlin, and founded a nursing school and hospitals. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

That trick really gives “meat” to my lower notes, she says. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He reached up through the little door and hung meat on the nails, as far up as he could reach. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

One, two, three, four...Counting them over and over, as if that would replenish the empty water kegs and meager slabs of salted meat. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I mean like I know in China they eat cat meat and dog meat.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I grab thigh meat and a bone for Spot. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Not that I know of. If you see that man again, tell him to lay off the red meat. He’s just a coronary waiting to happen.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The pizza was good, but what was even more amazing was eating meat on a Friday without anyone making a big deal out of it. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

At first it was all wine and roast meat, and Theon was making japes and eyeing the serving girls and having himself a fine time . . . until he noticed that the room was growing darker. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A particularly large white man dressed as a butcher, with a blood-spattered apron and a meat cleaver, stopped in front of them. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Again the meat had not even been warmed by the heat of the fire. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I figure that life will have its share of dry bread; and that when there is meat sauce on the table, I should eat it. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He was a devout Buddhist who ate no meat and so few vegetables that I doubt if a grasshopper could have lived on what he ate. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The villagers ate a lot of fish, of course, and hippo and crocodile meat as well. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the men shared the meat among several households, and the rest was given to the women to be cooked for the feast. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

We have forgotten that meats used to be as seasonal as fruits and vegetables. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

This time he threw pieces of meat in front ofjackal, who ate them all up. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Clydas was with him, carrying a bucket of chopped meat as they shuffled from cage to cage. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I helped Art haul in plastic totes the size of laundry baskets laden with meat and produce. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I try all kinds of ways to figure how I could get that rabbit meat off my plate and into my pocket, but Ma’s watching every move I make. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They blinked weakly at me like pheasants that have been raised in the dark for soft meat. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Just one more piece,’ urged the jackal, holding up a chunk of meat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the city hospital we had drunk out of paper cups and had no knives to cut our meat. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I imagined Bud in a meat grinder, then said, “Try to find a buyer first.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the freezer are boxes of pizza and waffles and frozen meat wrapped in plastic. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then it felt like her fingers were being shoved through a meat grinder as the gun let off an ear-shattering BANG! and smoke poured out. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Still, she couldn’t get out and mark hogs or kill meat or swing a chopping axe. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our fridge is stocked with all sorts of goodies: fresh fruits, meats, and vegetables. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Daylight streamed through the hole onto a mound of splintered floorboards and broken glass from which rose coils of silty dust, pieces of torn carpet plastered here and there like scraps of desiccated meat. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I hung the doe in the liveoak tree that grew beside the house and began skinning it and cutting up the meat. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other men with jobs are home already and having eggs for dinner because you can’t have meat on a Friday. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It bleated meekly and the soldiers gathered, excited at the thought of meat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

An enormous pair of round eyeglasses is sitting in the deli meat drawer. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The chunk of meat is blackened on the outside but well cooked inside. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Let him be king over charred bones and cooked meat," he said to a man below him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The way Ma had cooked meat pies for supper. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The pleased butcher went into the icebox and returned holding up a gleaming white bone with creamy marrow in it and shreds of red meat clinging to the ends. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your call. Clive’s cleaned out the cats. He wants us to bring the meat.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“We will eat meat that we can buy or beg, but not that which we steal. Beggars we may be but thieves we are not.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He closed his eyes, saw a sudden shocking memory of death, tom flaps of skin, the black rotted meat of muscle. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sold one sheet to a tribe of people who lived outside the camp in return for some monkey meat. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then O-lan came forward in her stolid fashion and she picked up the meat and washed it off with a little water and thrust it back into the boiling pot. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

By February he’d run out of food and starved, apparently without making any attempt to save himself, despite the fact that there was another cabin stocked with meat just three miles downstream. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tons of whale meat, bone, and scrap blubber lay rotting around the station. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Dareon, I am told that you sang at many a high lord's table and shared their meat and mead. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“We come bearing new meat — in return, of course, for a drink or two.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh yeah. Nothing like rotting meat to improve the day.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“It would have made good meat,” Musa said. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The cow had been butchered and the meat given away to old people. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Having drawn gleaming, sharp knives, meat cleavers and tomahawks, the tsotsis began carving the man as he howled for mercy. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this moment the boys who were cooking at the fire suddenly hauled off a great chunk of meat and ran with it toward the grass. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

We sit on chairs with red velvet seats and eat meat loaf with an egg cooked into the middle, chicken croquettes, black beans and white rice, fried plantains, and a salad with avocados. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I hate the bereaved,” Rand said, as she stabbed a fresh piece of meat with her fork and dragged it to her plate. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I imagine the more they bleed me, the more I become like jerked meat—a dried bull, a hard leather. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The desire to eat meat may be an instinct, something that is in our genes. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They prepare an elaborate meal, fish and meat bought one bitterly cold morning at Chinatown and Haymarket, cooked as his father liked them best, with extra potatoes and fresh coriander leaves. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had the unpleasant suspicion that he knew exactly where the meat had gone. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a handsome bird and didn’t eat meat of any kind. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

"I asked the old hag if the new bit of meat was any better and she said it was perfectly delicious! She said it was really tasty!" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

He ate them as he walked, cracking the shells one by one, working the nut meat loose with his tongue. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Most people can eat feedlot meat because they just don’t know where it comes from. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

To scar so much high-value breast meat would be bad business. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Those machines, like a lot of things required by the USDA, are way too expensive for a small, local meat processor. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The meat was delicious, and there was a great deal of it. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Once the wasp grub hatched, it would feed on the tarantula meat. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We dipped them in the creamy soup, thick with onions and bits of roasted meat, and jammed them between our lips. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Fat dripped from the hare's open gut, hissing and sizzling in the fire, which gave off the twin aromas of cooking meat and of wood smoke. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Many items are rationed—meat, cheese, butter, lard, coffee, sugar, silk, nylon, shoes; our entire way of business changes as we work with those flimsy blue booklets. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

We set like that, Minny staring at the brown moth pressed up on the wall, me staring at that flap a red meat, left dry in the pan. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I was raised on meat and potatoes, and I’ve made it to thirty-five.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Ash brought food for them, and they would spread out their cloaks in a sheltered spot in the Wood and eat bread and cold meat and cheese. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lodges, lodgepoles, and meat racks—everything seemed to be on fire. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Aymo had a basin of spaghetti with onions and tinned meat chopped up in it. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It wanted to crawl up my throat and drop out of my mouth, onto the meat. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mamá Jacinta says that she used to clean the meat in the river, but it became so polluted that she had to start washing it in an outdoor sink. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Only after the heroes had bathed and refreshed themselves with meat and drink could King Æetes ask them who they were and why they had come. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sulked and felt sorry for myself all the time I worked with the meat. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The meat hook fell from her grip, though she never loosed her hold on it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The meat had been chopped into pieces no larger than a finger Joint. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When smoke stopped coming through the cracks, Laura would bring more hickory chips and Ma would put them on the fire under the meat. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rice, boiled plain and white, with no meat or sauce, was a rare treat now. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Around me was the sound of the victors celebrating and the smell of meat they roasted for their supper. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t know what Judd done with the meat—rented him a meat locker somewhere, maybe. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such meat grows tight in texture, smelling of meadows and tasting sweet. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Your meat is tough. You have a low regard for our cooks.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Chicago companies slaughtered and packaged only enough meat to satisfy the needs of local residents. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Sorrel appeared with a tin plate, a steaming slab of meat. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere off to the right, another voice sang counterpoint to hers, some baker’s boy shouting, “Meat pies, three pence, hot meat pies here.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Like you had your dairy meals and your meat meals. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She watched them clean and gut it and build a cookfire on the far side of the stream, and the smell of cooking meat mingled queerly with the stench of corruption. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Thanks to CAFOs, meat is now so cheap that many of us eat it three times a day. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The meat tasted like metal and dirt, but it was fresh enough. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I swear, by Jesus’ name, there was more meat than the whole kingdom could consume. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“They killed a goat and roasted its meat. ‘Do you know what would be really funny?’ suggested the chief baboon. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept one eye on the window, watching for a Society member carrying bread or dried meat for them. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And to the wife of the second son he said, “Well, here is a good stout red radish from the country—a piece of sturdy red meat!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He cut off a big chunk of chicken and opened a can from the store-box, some kind of meat. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

But five minutes later he broke a rule, and of course he couldn’t help it because they said his brother who worked in the meat market had brought Bones up on raw meat. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were all Jews being shipped around occupied Poland like coal or meat. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had starved herself for a day and a night before the ceremony in the hopes that hunger would help her keep down the raw meat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The melon was jagged, and hunks of rind and red meat scattered on the grass. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

While he ran on, Odysseus with zeal applied himself to the meat and wine, but inwardly his thought shaped woe and ruin for the suitors. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I surveyed the meat, vegetables, and dough Mama had set out on the counter. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Fossilized pizza, snack puddings, lunch meat, and a wide array of condiment packets. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Before the Pleistocene, the Americas had three species of horse and at least two camels that might have been ridden; other mammals could have been domesticated for meat and milk. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Great Hall of Winterf ell was hazy with smoke and heavy with the smell of roasted meat and fresh-baked bread. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Clutching the cooking pot to her breast, Miyax excitedly waited to see her bring back meat for the pups. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is this horse meat? Because it isn’t a hamburger.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I pulled up to the table; Maddy was peeling fat off the meat. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

He knew that each of the jerking bumps of the shark had been meat tom away and that the fish now made a trail for all sharks as wide as a highway through the sea. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ask Sara on Friday as we make a mixture of ground meat and spices for today’s project. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I was standing at the meat counter, waiting for some rib lamb chops to be cut. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The noise was so pervasive that I even thought I heard the movements of those giant presses in the walls and the ceiling, as though the building itself were a vast meat grinder. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“And as long as you work well, you will eat well. You will even eat meat every day.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

These were always happy occasions for Ann and her children because they were given the old—but still wholesome—meat when her employers cleaned out the freezer to make room for the new beef. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if she can smell the meat and onion in my clothes and hair. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He then produced a large chunk of bread from inside his shirt along with a slice of meat wrapped in paper. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Each page had rows of red folds like an accordion made out of meat. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“I will take her this portion of meat and some cakes.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The serving girl cut the meat on Lady Seymour’s plate before setting it down so that the weakness of her arm would not hinder her. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the out-of-work men had apparently worked there after me and he said, “I used to feed and wash these dogs every day. They love meat.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually before leaving Antonapoulos waddled gently to the glassed case in the front of the store where some meats and cheeses were kept. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The gray squirrels have the most meat, he tells me, but are hardest to see in the woods. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She didn’t like the idea of raw meat. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pa had shot the deer the day before and Laura had been asleep when he brought them home at night and hung them high in the trees so the wolves could not get the meat. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It struck her on the leg and tumbled to the street, and the half-cooked meat left a smear of grease and blood down her thigh. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But every time my eyes closed, I saw the phantom brakeman with hamburger meat for a face, swinging a ghostly lantern through tree branches like skeletons. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He shook his head slowly while he turned the meat with a forked stick. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a burger place right around that hill. Fries are pretty good. Unless one of you, um, doesn’t eat meat? Or fries?” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t be able to smoke them out—her five remaining matches had perished at the same time as the kudu meat—but perhaps she could use a long stick to fish out the honey. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sucking on a slice of lime, I force the meat to stay down because I know that there is no more food for me if I spit it out. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is an essential tool to have around a virus lab be cause you can use it to make a photograph of a tiny piece of meat and find viruses in the meat. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Ah," said Madame Semele, and she nibbled a sliver of the meat. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

At first he thought it was leather, but in the sunlight he saw it clearly to be dried meat. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He didn’t need much—a blanket to curl up with and some dried meat—and Kin had a nice backpack that fit Håkon’s blanket plus Anya’s bag of clothes. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Even as he crammed meat down his throat he starved. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked and saw that there were many tiny bits of walnut meat scattered about; some of them had been smeared into grease spots on the clean, white pine boards. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had originally thought about filling a cooler with Polyface meat and bringing it home with me to California to cook there. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Sitting down together around the fire, they ate roasted ears of corn, sweet blueberries, and picked the delicate meat off the tiny bird bones. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He had a little turtle meat, a dorado head, and even—a supreme treat—some biscuit crumbs. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were lemon wedges to squeeze onto our meat, and tiny glass dishes overflowing with bright ruby sumac, which was for sprinkling over everything. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

They were eating boar meat, ladled out from an enormous cauldron. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Most livestock was shipped live to be butchered in branch houses located near the households where the meat would be cooked and eaten. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He cleaned off a leg of lamb, readying it to hang on a ceiling hook along with the day’s other fresh cuts of meat. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Memphis Minny get to singing on the radio how lean meat won’t fry, which is about how the love don’t last. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

What he does is make a couple of cuts to see the quality of the meat, and then he uses a little tool to take a sample of the fat content. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Now we were getting into the real meat. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Ivan didn’t say anything to them as he dove for the food, cramming meat patties, boiled eggs, and fried, flat cakes into his mouth. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He tweezed out a piece of dripping meat and tried it. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He would have given half his fortune, if he had one, for a nice piece of raw, red meat, instead of the usual breast of chicken or scrambled eggs with asparagus. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Let’s not have any mastodon meat in our icebox,” said Lee. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I promised every new client, “We can provide the sizzle for the meat.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we got it right, the shell would pop open and we could pull out the soft, jiggly meat inside. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Lamb,” says Mrs. Demir, setting down meat pierced by silver daggers. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

No easy meat hung this night, but the tables were piled high with vegetables and breads. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Inside the meat was a hard stone that no child had ever been able to break open. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I can tip the meat out, his huge jaws chomp down on my arm. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The guards got the choice meat in their soup, and Moniek and Jack added the rest to the prisoners’ soup. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Felice still buys Okeh records at Felton’s and walks so slowly home from the butcher shop the meat turns before it hits the pan. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Try them with a bit of the white meat. They’re delicious.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Does this place look like a meat shop? I did not come looking for meat.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Instead they rounded a turn and stopped at a forlorn, ramshackle cottage, gray like chewed-up meat. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Cooky and Aly loaded them with enough provisions to fill their packs to the point of overflowing: smoked meats, dried fruit with supple flesh, and enough hardtack to last for weeks. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The Polish girl’s pink hat bobbed like a candy egg amidst hundreds of gray faces all so tired and drawn, they looked like boiled meat. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When there’s meat they cut it up for me ahead of time, as if I’m lacking manual skills or teeth. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of walking steadily on or even eating, I faded into dreams about the meat meals my mother used to cook, my monk’s food forgotten. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It got so bad that I actually spent hours lying on the couch watching Grandma knit, plotting ways to sneak into the kitchen and steal some meat. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they would behave themselves in captivity, grizzlies would be a fabulous meat production animal. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Roy’s mother bustled to the refrigerator and retrieved the package of meat. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was blowing on his meat loaf to cool it. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

By late afternoon, I decide to build a small fire to cook the meat, betting that dusk will help conceal the smoke and I can quench the fire by nightfall. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

One with thick slices of bread and actual meat. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Food stands line the street, with blue and orange awnings and wooden stools and plastic chairs and heaps of salads and steaming meats on display. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stacked more meat into his canoe and went in search of the other animals left behind. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Insulin injections encouraged Woolf to gain weight, and to manage his diabetes he needed to consume regular, high- protein, low-carbohydrate meals—meats were recommended—which also added pounds. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the makeshift camp, the guerrillas set up their tents and open cans of pinto beans and pressed meat the color of dung. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyrion reached a thumb and forefinger into the salt dish, and sprinkled a healthy pinch over his meat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was true of course, though sprinkled with little inaccuracies that added to the story, making it strong meat for the hundreds of readers who wanted value for their pennies. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Claude is not so little anymore. Even I can see his family gets more than the others: more meat, more electricity, more butter. I know how such prizes are won.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Bring me bread, fruit, and whatever meat you have ready in the back,” I said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The little girl at the meat counter is gone, and I can’t quite see the polite face of the little doll on the plane. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

She looked up to see her father holding a spoonful of rice and meat. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The men I talked to seemed to me not moved to a riot of seasonal slaughter but simply to be going out to kill edible meat. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shouted again, for she needed every bite of that meat. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I opened it and ate the meat offering to share with Stew Cat who didn't seem interested. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

You see, me and my wife and kids, we’re tired of eating stewed tennis shoes instead of meat. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sat on the meat, just as though it had been invited to dinner, and rubbed its hairy paws as it gloated over the meal. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As well as smoke, a miasma of rotting meat drifted toward them—more slaughtered cavalry horses, hundreds of them, in a heap in a field. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He'd never have got us meat He isn't a prefect and we don't know anything about him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The food was surprisingly good, with meat at every third meal. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The lunch was a spaghetti dish of some sort because Bill’s girlfriend doesn’t eat meat. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

But at least twice yearly Momma would feel that as children we should have fresh meat included in our diets. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, this,” I said when Yan Chang brought me the same sweet meats as the day before. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman trudged back down the aisle to the meat counter. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Furiously the butcher hacked off a bit of meat and slammed it down on the paper after weighing it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the cook scrape the meat off the plate and slap another bit on. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Then she dips the first piece of meat into the breadcrumbs and drops it, spattering, into the oil. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He’d also avoided Lily, who had returned to lessons with red, puffy eyes and a scowl you could hang meat from. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Both Miss Trotter and Ma Charles called any meat roasting in an outdoor fire “barbecue,” when barbecue to us was sauce from the grocery store or sweet and spicy red dust on potato chips. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

A rat scuttled from the shadows, dragging a glistening chunk of meat or viscera. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

For one thing, the food at Pollsmoor was far superior; after years of eating pap three meals a day, Pollsmoor’s dinners of proper meat and vegetables were like a feast. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men suffered from a diet that consisted almost entirely of meat. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“What the hell you want to play football for? You need more meat on those bones. What the hell you trying to play quarterback for? You’d make a better end. Maybe.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crew raced back and forth from the trees to the ship, bringing meat and eggs, heads of wild cabbage and casks of freshwater. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I made spaghetti with catsup and any kind of cut-up, leftover meat from the night before. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I saw the waiter who had come in earlier with the complaint about tough meat coming in again. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Still he knocked, until finally a tiny girl perched on a stool in the fresh-killed meat store said, “Yes?” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You cut a pig's throat to let the blood out," said Jack, "otherwise you can't eat the meat" "Why didn't you.?" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

She’s all into meditation and raw vegan food, I suppose as a way to cope with how much she hates cleaning meat out of people’s teeth for a living. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He slashed off a piece of white fat, let it fall to the floor in revenge, picked it up and slammed it on the mound of meat. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, it’s mostly cans but we find a dry loaf of bread, some bruised fruit and a few strips of dried meat. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The first sip tasted like ink and spoiled meat, foul, but when she swallowed it seemed to come to life within her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

All I had to do was look at the piece of curled-up rind lying in the dirt beside him, with all the meat gnawed off. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, the rules assume that there will be bacteria in the meat, because in a giant slaughterhouse, there’s no way to avoid it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Salva could not reply; he was too busy stuffing another chunk of the delicious charred meat into his mouth. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mariners are protected by geography and the vast amounts of spices, meat, and iron they trade. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And all the while Master Wingfield eats his meat and drinks his wine. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

My feet felt like raw hunks of meat, and the jacket I’d needed when I first left the house was now tied around my waist. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

‘My pack will be delighted to have goat meat for dinner.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Then you broke the crab in half, like a turnover, and picked out the meat from between sections of cartilage. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What part of the animal does that meat come from?” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Nelson sometimes found oranges and manioc and even meat in our kitchen house when nothing was there the night before. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His nose twitched to the smell of roasting meat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As he was sucking the meat off the bones of his quail, he asked Illyrio about the morning’s summons. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Fern lifted her turtle head and pushed the meat to the rim of her plate. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He slipped into his chair and cut his meat. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I can’t get enough meat with my sling, I can, and may have to, earn money. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abuelita, I know a farm is a cycle of life and death, and I know where meat comes from. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Their grandmother picked crab meat and chewed and listened. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma was assaulted trying to get Geak a bit of chicken meat. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Helen served the meat; the rest we passed. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

After the chopped meat deal they went to Hassler’s for the soup bone. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our new lunch boxes were the kind we had always dreamed of: bright aluminum with two removable trays, one for rice and one for a meat or vegetable dish. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are filled with bread, corn, fish, meat, squash, and berries. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Daddy always has the air conditioning on high in the spring and summer, turning the house into a meat locker. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

As the meat charred, Cole ripped off chunks and ate. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“He doesn’t cut the meat, he just eats it.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Moments later wheeled carts arrive, chock-full of pastries, eggs cooked in every way, grilled meat, petit-pancakes with sugar dust, and bowls of colorful fruit. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

One evening a stranger from one of the houses gave me a piece of meat pie, and I brought it home without eating it. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I already know how to bake challah and some other breads, but my older brother says he needs meat to put meat on his bones. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She was halfway through her meal, shoveling meat and bread down her throat, when the dining room door opened. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

This strange hulking presence gnawing its meat was like nothing she had ever imagined, and she felt a profound admiration and pity for the lonely creature. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re like kebabs, but the meat has a creamy texture. All the Pakistani joints sell them.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He hunted for meat—he gave the venison to members of his family—and then, when he had got the meat he needed, he hunted for trophies. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gwenforte lies at their feet, gnawing on a mutton bone, her strong yellow teeth scraping away the last scraps of meat and gristle. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Telemakhos looked at her and replied: “Our friend here. A man who shares my meat can bear a hand, no matter how far he is from home.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we got hold of some hamburger, it came to the table more bread than meat. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom would have to fight with the bigger kids to get a handful of meat or a sip of the gravy or even a bone from which to suck out some marrow. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The two women sat by the fire with the others, and the sweet smell of charred meat reminded them that they had not eaten since that morning. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tables groaned under joints of venison and pork, smoked fish, and meat pies. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

There were jams and bundles of herbs and dried meats studded with spices and cracked salt. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

His nose twitched as the meat loaf smell drifted his way. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

"We have both been up all night and half the morning with Rebecca. She almost died from stomach sickness. It seems she ate some bad meat." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

In her hands was a bowl with meat in thick sauce. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

It would be better to gut the dolphin a little later to save the blood in the meat, he thought. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

People on pay phones and the smell of burnt halal meat and dog mess. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

It was mostly soft, small bones and gristle with only the memory of meat. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Victarion had gone ashore a dozen times, hunting fresh meat, and had yet to see a cedar. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The wolf cub ate its meat raw, but it spoke as a man would speak, in the language of men and the gods, and it was proud. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Chris picked up the hunk of meat and took a big bite right out the middle of it. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Once she had fed him morsels of charred meat from her own hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You’re sick. No shape to be in the freezer packing meat.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Now they had 1,000 pounds of meat and at least two weeks’ worth of blubber. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I slowly rolled the spicy yellow mixture of rice and vegetables and meat into little balls with my fingers and licked the sauce off my hands. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I had made him promise earlier to teach me how to dry and smoke meat so we could keep it longer when the hunt wasn’t so good. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Afterward Matt discovered a writhing mass of worms living in the meat, and he watched them grow and eventually turn into buzzing flies themselves. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She melted butter in a saute pan, then tossed in pieces of the gnarly meat. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

To Leathers he said, “I’ll send out a bushel of vegetables for him and meat for you. Start a fire.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He shows me how to make a gallimaufry, a stew of diced meat, onion, and vegetables, with mustard, ginger, and vinegar. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The only way she could store the meat was inside her round belly. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What if one day you skipped the beans and bought a half pound of meat instead?” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“She thinks of herself that way. She doesn’t mind being meat.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I yanked the refrigerator door open and took out a foil-wrapped slice of meat loaf and ran back out to the yard. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Oh yeah, I put a little meat on my bones, got some color in my skin, and those pimples even went away. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

So I would whistle, show her the meat, and after many false flaps she would finally fly to my hand. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very softly, she said, “This meat is cooked.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She prepared fish and soup every night; meat or pork every other; at least four kinds of namool, prepared vegetables, and then always something fried. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the years the odors of liquor and vomit, boiled cabbage and burned meat, unwashed clothes and mouse droppings have intermingled into a stench that brings tears to my eyes. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then came the carving of the quarters, and they spitted morsels of lean meat on the long sharp tines and broiled them at arm’s length upon the fire. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We made due with the last of my now-stale flatbread, dried meat, and the last potatoes baked on the edge of the fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Several times a day, the guerrillas would stop to rest, and dip into a dirty cloth bag holding cooked rice mixed with some kind of fish or meat. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He smeared it all over his meat loaf. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Humans evolved to eat meat from wild animals, animals that ate little or no grain. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“If they had a little more meat on their bones, I figure they’d be the best-lookin’ hounds in Tyler County,” I tell him. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shadrack stared at the soft colors that filled these triangles: the lumpy whiteness of rice, the quivering blood tomatoes, the grayish-brown meat. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Packingtown had grown over the last half of the nineteenth century as part of a massive transformation in the way America’s meat was processed. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He cut a green willow fork and held the fish over die fire until the skin crackled and peeled away and the meat inside was flaky and moist and tender. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just the meat, no bun, but the meat was all Fred wanted. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

In most places people ate small portions of meat, though not at every meal. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“That’s all right, my boy,” August says cheerily, slinging a bucket of meat at me. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Steam rising from an open belly, rich with the smells of blood and meat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I reached up and took the fatty part of her cheek, not dough, but meat, between my thumb and finger. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tossed his drakon meat into a hanging pot that seemed to be made from an old monster skull, then picked up a ladle and began to stir. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He ripped at the meat with his teeth, cracked the ribs to suck out the marrow from the bones, and shrugged at the mention of Jon Snow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Well, Granny saw to it that Mary Toy and I had our share of hog meat. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Schiem showed his true gentlemanly nature by refraining from any crude comments as he lay a thick slice of steaming meat atop her piece of bread. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe somebody was out there taming her with raw meat. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is coming with us, and lies in the cage before her saucer of meat, and purrs. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

His head bucked as he fought the awkward weight of the meat. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he put a ladder against the log, climbed up to the top, moved the roof to one side, and reached down inside to hang meat on those nails. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

"There's hard news, m'lords, and a cmel way to pay you for your meat and mead, but the man as asks the question must bear the answer. Stark's gone." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Ah, Crispin, the blessed saints were kind when they guided you to me. For my part, I love meat.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I want fresh meat. I will demand that I be let off to hunt.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

They ate every little bit of meat off the bones, and then they gave the bones to Jack. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She passed through a street that smelled of linens and soaps, one full of strung-up meats and animal hides, and yet another filled with artisans and pottery work. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

You cook the meat in animal fat over high heat to sear it, then add potatoes and vegetables and the rest. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Wednesday morning I drove into San Francisco to pick up the meat from Angelo. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

How had she gone her entire life without noticing the awkwardness of arms, the way they just hang there from your shoulders like links of meat in a shop window? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

His boy would feed him bites of this meat, dripping with fat. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“We need to find someone who will sell us some bread and meat.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I filled his cup and heard him belch and removed his plate with the meat half gnawed from the bones. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

There was the butcher, hanging up a big hunk of meat to cure outside his store. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He pulled the fleshy meat hook and wiped it on his already bloody apron. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

And the meat she was talking about was dog’s meat.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would stab a piece of meat with his knife from time to time and flick it onto the ground, to be eaten by one of his wolves, Geri and Freki. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Dinner was some kind of stewed meat and vegetables. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

If you did this without breaking the stem in half, you’d have meat for dinner waiting for you at home. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Armpit could smell the slow-cooked meat as soon as he stepped out of the car. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“How do you get the meat out of this thing?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Then said, ‘We have to pick off the meat It doesn’t matter about the insides, we won’t come to them.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He said she eats foul-smelling meat from a can. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Roasted meat, the kind his humans sometimes cooked over a fire in the yard. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then he grabbed my arm, and with three quick pinches, tested the meat on me. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had fun watching him put the meat through the grinder: once, twice, three times. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He wears a white apron like a butcher and his face looks like a raw piece of meat, pinkish and maybe angry. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Massey cut his own meat into chunks and stabbed one with his dagger. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I stayed on the bed all morning, telling the fierce little bundle of feathers in my hand that there was deer meat in store for her if she would just wait with me. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the household went like clockwork and the shop had earned money for butter and butcher’s meat once or twice a week. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mrs. Bates asked, “Do you kids want white meat or dark meat?” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This meant putting up hooks for hanging the meat in the barn. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am sorry! I was so pleased to find you awake at last. I will go now, but you must drink this water and eat some bread. Shall I bring meat?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He didn’t care that the neighbors would want to come around with cakes and platters of cold meat, and drink ale to the rememory of Miss Mary Finch of Tew, Rhode Island. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ate smoked venison, nut meats, and hawthorn berries. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robin was careful to find bones from the joint with juicy bits of meat still clinging to them, and soon he was Robin’s friend. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

They led him into their encampment, and they gave him roasted meat to eat, and strong drink to quench his thirst. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Philadelphia was the smell of the summer sun, of burnt asphalt, of sizzling meat from food carts tucked into street corners, foreign brown men and women hunched inside. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Far from the meat, and farther from honor. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Mama holds out a plate with a ravioli-like dish with meat inside and, when everyone refuses, scrapes the last of it onto her own plate. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He sought out experienced hunters around town and asked them for tips about stalking game, dressing animals, curing meat. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was shady, but foul with rotting vegetables and debris from the meat market. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I crunch in, and juice from the veggies and meat bursts in my mouth. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The stew was made out of dandelion greens and a couple of potatoes and some small wild carrots and some crawdads and a couple of little chunks of meat. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Only dragons and men eat cooked meat, he had said. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

No longer must people till their own gardens to eat, or hunt for their own meat. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I gathered a dozen cans of assorted meats, vegetables and soup and a bag of flour. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He held his left arm behind his back and waved the other stick of meat out in front of him, like a wand. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

When they smelled the meat, frozen though it was, they began barking wildly, their tails wagging. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

No meat tastes as good as the stuff you’ve caught yourself. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The others all walked around Dragonwings while Father explained things between bites of meat dumpling, trying to convert the jargon of aeronauts into common speech. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celia sat among the cheerleaders, like a hyena in front of a bloody haunch of meat. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Ralph stood among the ashes of the signal fire, his hands full of meat, saying nothing. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He would later say, quoting Henry Austin Dobson, that “fame is a food that dead men eat /1 have no stomach for such meat.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In human societies possessing domestic animals, livestock fed more people in four distinct ways: by furnishing meat, milk, and fertilizer and by pulling plows. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Those “unnatural” feeds make chickens with mushier and blander meat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I saw the delicate, pink-mottled claw meat poking seductively through its blanket of mayonnaise and the bland yellow pear cup with its rim of alligator-green cradling the whole mess. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I wanted to live under the safe protection of somebody who wore decent clothes, bought meat from the grocery store like the Good Lord intended, and cared about others. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing Kathy kept the freezer stocked with meat and vegetables, he leaned down and removed two steaks, quickly closing the door to keep the finite cold from escaping. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I stuck my arm elbow-deep into the bird to excavate any meat clinging to the rib cage. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The people who had died in Germany, he knew, had been handling raw, bloody monkey meat. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she asked “What’s this?” he rolled his eyes to the ceiling, mock moaning, “Goat meat. Kid goat meat.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now the lions, hungry for fresh meat, begin the hunt. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Afterward they gorged, though the meat was rotted and half-frozen, and moved even as they ate it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I get up from the table finally and put some of my meat loaf and half a potato on a saucer. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I push the meat from one side of my plate to the other, through the sweet potatoes and back again. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We shall take fire from the others. Listen. Tomorrow well hunt and get meat. Tonight Ill go along with two hunters-who'll come?" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

"Ahh, he's as full of lies as an egg is of meat," Jack, the cannoneer, said. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not hard. Here, slice off some pieces of meat. Not too thick,” he said, handing her a knife. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But you know I don’t like dark meat.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

She picks up a cleaver and hacks at a bloody slab of meat waiting on the worktable. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Just the smell was enough to make the slaver run from between his jaws, and when it did Bran’s mouth would water at the thought of rich, dark meat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“How did the pontoon happen to encounter a meat hook?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He broke the coconut against the sink and let the water out before he began to nudge the white meat off the shell with a knife. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I knew she was just teasing him, but Noodles bit like a pitbull on raw meat. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Let a boar hog get grown without cutting his seeds out, and his meat is too tough and rank smelling to eat. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nhamo, who hardly ever got meat, had to control herself to eat politely. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the last few weeks, Percy figured they’d earned a good meal together—really anything that wasn’t firewater or drakon meat soup. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He walked on tiptoe from room to room, because his feet felt dirty, and as he did so he grew increasingly determined to please Master, to stay in this house of meat and cool floors. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We call them smileys because when you’re done eating all the meat off it, the goat looks like it’s smiling at you from the plate. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The mother immediately appeared in the door with a dish of meat and right behind her the sister with a dish piled high with potatoes. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the day Zuraiq was weaned, we begged Father to promise he would not sell him or kill him on a Friday like a chicken, or for sacrifice meat on the Eid holiday. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

It looked ripped up and blackened, like burned meat. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then every hand reached out upon good meat and drink to take them, driving away hunger and thirst. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"His hoodlums would attack and denounce the white meat of a roasted chicken." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Pomodoro of the rubbery face has thick, black hair, and he has long bones with not much meat on them. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

We scrunched up our noses at the smells of bloody fresh meat and musty dried fish, and lowered our heads from the bees that buzzed in thick clouds over the sheds of the honey sellers. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t eat meat, and they didn’t use butter. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

As a prisoner, Shin was not allowed to eat pork or the meat of any livestock raised on the farm. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

There would be stew with some biscuits and maybe some meat and potatoes for dinner. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The restaurant was warm and clean, full of the fragrance of roasting meat, freshly baked wheat-flour bread, and strong, rich coffee. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Garbage. Restaurant-dumpster quality. Day-old meat mingled with bruised bananas. Quite a heady bouquet.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The emergency supplies of food and medicine would last only a few days at most, and most of the storage facilities for grain, meats, and beverages had been destroyed. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Its natural consistency is a bit gelatinous and pasty, really, but whipped together with a soup^on of remoulade and spread upon white meat, it’s quite palatable.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

In gratitude to the crocodiles, the father put out some meat on a rock where he knew that crocodiles liked to sit. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I said to her, “Would you take this piece of meat to one of your older sisters and ask her to cook it for me?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A carver lifted cuts of each roast meat to put on trenchers before the two. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a great lump of quivering gray fat and the only sign of corned beef is a little nipple of red meat on top. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then I squeeze ketchup and mustard on the meat, and take the whole thing to Char. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

He tore at the sweet meat, the warm blood running over his lips. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They turned back, and when the schoolteacher arrived home, his wife stewed the antelope meat, and everyone in the family ate it. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking into Sookie’s cooler, I thought about the choking factor of the rubbery meat, but lobster was one of my favorite meals. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She looked belligerently at Trotter, but Trotter was so busy making the meat platter and the salad bowl switch places that the expression was wasted. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

She brings Enrique a bowl of hot broth, filled with bits of meat and potatoes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

"What if you show me what's edible around here and go get us some meat?" he says, mimicking my tone. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She sits at the table with a pot of tea, cups and saucers, plenty of bread, butter, cold meats of all kinds. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The raw meat has a strong animal smell, and as you slice and slice, the tissue inevitably gets under your nails, and the scent lingers on your hands for hours. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Crocodiles could eat meat that had rotted in the water for several days without getting sick. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had expected someone flamboyant, someone older trying desperately to look young, someone who viewed me as a piece of meat to be prepared for a platter. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Blanca’s religion didn’t allow her to eat meat, so she had to get her protein elsewhere. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I found him at meat with his young princes and his lady, but there beside the pillars, in his portico, we sat down silent at the open door. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though the topi was a small one, there was more than enough meat for everyone in the group. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Roy remembered the heat and the humidity, which on some days seemed to suck the very meat out of his lungs. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every few days they come in canoes laden with meat and bread and com as gifts. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The stromboli is a staple in Pennsylvania cuisine, essentially consisting of a pizza folded on itself, a bread, dairy, and meat concoction held together with copious amounts of grease, classic adolescent comfort food. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Why, this old stray dog has come and eaten our middling meat clear up,” I said. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There will be meat enough for you to chew on,” answered Gwydion with a grim smile. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

They were in a big outdoor pool, and two attendants were throwing huge chunks of meat and bone right at them. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

With delight, our orchestra played our first concert after the restitution of meat. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The public read about his diet: milk and rum; toast softened in milk; slivers of woodcock-breast meat. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And the people no different from animals: Leah and all those men licking their lips, already tasting roasted meat in the smoke of the fire. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was bubbling with a meat stew chock-full of carrots and onions and beans and potatoes in a thick brown broth. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

However, despite the lingering meat fumes, my grandma never fed me anything other than bananas, rice, applesauce, and toast, in consideration of my illness. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go upstairs to notify Garrett that he won’t be put up for adoption, sent to a forced labor camp, or cooked into meat pies—but he’s nowhere to be found. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“What’s wrong?” he asked, not looking up from dipping his meat in the bubbling lava. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day my tongue lay like a lump of meat in my mouth, the next day it was articulating words that hadn’t been spoken in over a year. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The man picked up the skewers of meat off the smoking grill and piled them onto a wooden dish. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The waitress brings a platter of the marinated meat and starts cooking it. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Whitlaw had provided thick sandwiches with meat from a fat bird which the demons liked, a turkey I think it was called. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father used firewood lavishly and we shared around the meat dumplings and cups of steaming tea. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a meal they couldn't have eaten in Nazi Germany with the strict food rationing and meat shortages. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Our raid is applauded as a success; the choicest of the meats have already been disbursed among the galleys of the wealthiest among His Lordship’s supporters. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He accepted a piece of half-raw meat and gnawed it like a wolf. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Just bones and a little wrapping. It is easier for us if we have more meat to work with.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I had lots of meat, so what she caught those days was all hers. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rice and meat offered him were gone. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around, raised his hands, and whispered something in the direction of the meat. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

"It's the dead they've come for. Cats can smell blood six miles off. They'll stay near the bodies till they've eaten every last stringy shred o' meat, and cracked the bones for the marrow." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I was so hungry I would have fought one of the bears for that meat and eaten it raw—steak and bear. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

She wiped up the puddle of wine-colored foul water that had leaked to the floor and then brought out the bags of meat and laid them in a bowl. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They would either eat her now or smoke her body to sell the meat. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Amaroq,” she called softly, “I understand what you said. Can you understand me? I’m hungry—very, very hungry. Please bring me some meat.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ate the stale grey bread hungrily, but not the meat. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He flourished meats and bread baked the day before, dusted a table, invited himself to sit, and ate until he had to go find a soda fountain, where he ordered a bicarbonate. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Returning, he picked more meat from the skeleton. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Then she took my hand and we moved toward the meat counter. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The air smelled of grilled meat and fresh-cut flowers. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She watches me and makes sure I eat every last grain of rice, every last crumb of bread, every piece of gristle on the meat. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They want black men to believe that they, like white men, once lived in caves and swung from trees and ate their meat raw and did not have the power of speech. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

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

The moans of the shamblers seem farther away now, like they’ve lost interest now that fresh meat isn’t in the immediate vicinity. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

To see all those hungry kids in the Seam running around, waving cans of applesauce, tins of meat, even candy. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It started with boiled meats, moved on to grilled meats, continued with fried meats, and ended with cheese. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Like pipes his nostrils jetted crimson runnels, a river of mortal red, and one last kick upset his table knocking the bread and meat to soak in dusty blood. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our fridge was considerably less loaded with meat and milk, the phone line no longer tied up by girls calling to chat him up. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"Some dear sweet friend who often shared meat and mead with him, no doubt. Oh, but which one? There were many such. Lord Arryn was a kindly, trusting man." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, we’d take the welfare packages, with their bundles of meat and cans of things. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several times he crept to the very rim of the fire bed, found the smell of meat laced with the warning scent of the war-sick men, then leaped back. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

For dinner the houseboy brought us one thing after another until I thought I’d burst: real meat, orange cheeses wrapped in red wax, canned yellow asparagus. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The minute I opened the door and looked up, I saw that the meat was gone. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

At first he was a guard dog—all eight pounds, well, nine and finally ten when the raw meat kicked in—and then he began to make judgment calls as well. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When he’s finished, he carefully layers some meat on the table. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Momma opened boxes of crispy crackers and we sat around the meat block at the rear of the Store. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of his field trips was literally a trip to a field where the class watched a wrinkled man fill his mouth with rotten goat meat and feed it to a pack of waiting hyenas. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The smoke of a fire was drifting through the air, with various good smells of meat and gravy, and the sound of quiet voices. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

They pass shops stuffed with hanging meats and a drunk with a broken mandolin on his lap and a trio of streetwalkers huddled beneath an awning who catcall the boys in their uniforms. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She picks up her plate with the white meat and charges through the swinging door. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

My parents killed a chicken and steamed it whole, as if they were welcoming home a son, but I had gotten out of the habit of meat. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Threw piece of turtle meat in front of nose. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Technically, Gale and I could be whipped on a daily basis for poaching in the woods -well, technically, we could get a whole lot worse -except all the officials buy our meat. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The smells of cabbage, potatoes, and meat on top of burnt cornstarch, lavender, and metal from an afternoon of ironing saluted me when I walked inside Ma Charles’s house. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

When they’d found a stash of dried reindeer meat at the bottom of a travel pack in one of the camps, it had been like some kind of miracle. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He had retrieved the cached ham and watched with pride as Bristle and Runt ate the meat, but he hadn’t touched any of it. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“We pult it off, the company was kind ’nough to notify our families and supply each one of ’em with a great big crispy piece of meat in a box for burying. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

At that point he gave up on preserving the bulk of the meat and abandoned the carcass to the wolves. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You wagered a ham sandwich against a piece of cake? Boy, you know how much that meat is worth?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He said quietly to Magister Spurge, “There is nothing better than being with friends, is there? As our hostess put it, planting you face in meat and starts to bite?” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He speared iguanas and roasted them on open fires, claiming that their meat was tastier than chicken. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Without strong friends or allies on the beach, she was just meat. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Unnumbered evenings later, when most of the meat was smoked, Miyax decided she had time to make herself a new mitten. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched her lift the giant lid of the pit and fork out a great chunk of meat. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was about three tons of monkey meat—a biological nuclear reactor having a core meltdown. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To find coolness and a way to avoid mosquitoes unable to fly that high up or unwilling to leave the tender neck meat near the street lamps. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a city whose economy was built on slaughter, kosher meat remained an unobtainable luxury. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He had been trying to organize a Kitchen Workers’ Union and had recently charged the camp’s chief steward, a Caucasian, with stealing sugar and meat from the warehouses to sell on the black market. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first the smell of the meat made Lupita’s mouth water; then it made her feel sick to her stomach. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“The meat won’t spoil in the cold. For long storage, it’s better than salting.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It’s enough to tell you that we’ve divided many things like meat and fats and oils and are frying, our own potatoes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“I saw it with my very own eyes. Poor Gloria was the soul of kindness. I remember Gloria gave me socks and luncheon meat.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t understand why, if the state was willing to give us packages of meat, sacks of potatoes and fruit, and cans of all kinds of things, our mother obviously hated to accept. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we stopped asking her to join our games and stopped offering her the best cuts of meat. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Then came the smells, unlike anything he’d ever known, a sickening combination of vomit, body odor, and rotting meat. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

And so every time an interesting new virus appears in the meat factories, the scientists take samples and craft them into viruses that can infect humans. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

President Wilson needed a steady production of meat from the Stock Yard to feed the hungry troops. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She told Dad the zoo did not allow the sale of uncooked meat, because foolish people tried to feed it to the animals. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Falcons, hawks, and owls swallow fur, bones, and feathers as well as meat, then regurgitate, or “cast,” the unused parts in tidy pellets. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crazy for standing on her principles: no buying on credit, no giving up her children, no eating of unclean meat. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Real slow, I get to slicing, slicing, slicing the meat off that loin. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

No meat once the fish and dried venison from the meat cache were gone. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Connelly, who had an aptitude for the cat-o’-nine-tails, would have stripped the meat off Calvin’s back if she hadn’t concocted his defense. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

That night in the great hall the victors feasted on roast meats and fresh-caught fish, washed down with rich red wines from the castle cellars. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“We have to prepare some meat and fish,” she would order the four cooks, who hastened to have everything ready under the imperturbable direction of Santa Sofía de la Piedad. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Webb even said they would cook some real meat hamburgers just for me, or I could bring my own. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Somewhere on the other side of this rocky wall there would be a dark circle, a glowing fire, and meat. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

A dozen different sorts of meat and fish were served: camel, crocodile, singing squid, lacquered ducks and spiny grubs, with goat and ham and horse for those whose tastes were less exotic. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

What used to be his back is a raw, bloody slab of meat. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dad’s cooking dinner—pasta and meat sauce, from the smell of it. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Too bad Mama didn’t trust him about chopped meat. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is braised short ribs that have been stewed in a delicious marinade until the meat falls off the bones. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“You think I don’t want to buy you meat?” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Another second, and the monster would’ve turned me into a hundred pounds of delicatessen meat. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Rachel’s opinion of goat meat notwithstanding, we could sure use a good old feast, because how else were we going to eat now? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They give us milk and blood and sometimes meat to eat and hides to wear. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made duck with the skin parted and crisped and the meat salty and rich and good. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It might have been monkey meat— people in that area hunt monkeys for food—or it might have been the meat of some other animal, such as an elephant or a bat. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kapu sat down and watched with wrinkled forehead as she scooped the meat into the pot. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was a shallow excuse, for he did not believe in eating meat either. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We feed pure meat to the sled dogs—well, all dogs, as far as that goes, cut-up chunks of bloody beef heart. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“That’s the problem with the wasting disease. The whole forest was littered with carcasses that year, just rotting away. We couldn’t do anything with them. Their meat and hides were useless.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

For ten days following his father’s death, he and his mother and Sonia eat a mourner’s diet, forgoing meat and fish. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He put one knee on the fish and cut strips of dark red meat longitudinally from the back of the head to the tail. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rather than domesticate animals for meat, Indians retooled ecosystems to encourage elk, deer, and bear. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I found the mess to consist of indifferent potatoes and strange shreds of rusty meat, mixed and cooked together. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The eagle flapped its wings hard, creating a wind so strong it almost knocked the gods over, and it dropped the meat. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

For $5.50 each, we got “meat and three,” a trip to the salad bar, and dessert. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Would seagulls land on him and peck bits of warm meat from his body when he could no longer fight back? Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He hopped a little closer when Omakayas tempted him with a bit of stew meat. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

But Mom says the bones in the chicken take up too much space and you don’t get enough meat for your money. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

"My lord father taught me that it was death to bare steel against your liege lord,"-Robb said, "but doubtless you only meant to cut my meat." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She liked to eat meat and salt and chocolate and grease. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He gazed into the flames, a spit of darkening meat roasting there. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Blunt cut a neat slice off his meat. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The smell of roast meat rose to her nostrils. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Soon, then, knowing us back from the Dark Land, Kirke came freshly adorned for us, with handmaids bearing loaves, roast meats, and ruby-colored wine. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stayed in the yard, smoking her little pipe, while they made a fire outside to roast the meat over the coals. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He had to stop and add the meat to Tony’s account. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

"All they had. Pick around the meat. Smelled a little rancid." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He drank quarts of warm milk and ate all the meat I had in the house. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would have to carry food—johnnycake, smoked meat, dried fruit, a bottle of water. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I turned the carcass upside down and scraped off the jellied fat and meat flecks with my fingernails. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She even sends us sometimes to bring back meat from the butcher marché, a place where Rachel will not set foot on account of the intestines and neatly stacked heads. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says,The doctor told me keep warm, have plenty of rest and nourishing food, meat and eggs three times a week. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Finally, my mother went to the kitchen and made plates of cold meat and leftover potato salad, which she brought to the three of us hunched about the set. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning, when he woke, big, egg-shaped pots of corn- and-bean mash would be on the fire, simmering with meat, vegetables, or dried fish to make a slow-cooked dinner stew. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

My complaint was that I did not dare light a fire and cook that wonderful meat. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He handed the scarred man a packet of meat. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Only stale bread and wormy meat, hard cheese, a little milk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She munched a strip of dried kudu meat and choked down some of the horrid, tasteless water-lily bulbs as she made plans. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A squire brought meat and bread to the two guarding the storehouse, and later two more men joined them and they all passed a skin of wine from hand to hand. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I ate my meat loaf and green beans and then went into the living room and watched a little television. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

She saw them eat undercooked meat, and they smelled like cow’s milk. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The meat was stringy, but so rich he thought | he might be sick. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The meat of grass-fed cows also has the same healthy balance of omega-3 and omega-6. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Women picked out the seeds for the smallest ones and broke off little bits of the meat for themselves. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Fern had so little on her plate, Big Ma came around with the meat platter and dropped a piece of ham and a strip of bacon before her. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

And that’s exactly the balance in the meat of wild animals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Then they let the fire go out, and Pa took all the strips and pieces of meat out of the hollow tree. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dim yellow light through The rear window of the bar showed a vast pale form crouching upright and gnawing at a haunch of meat which it held in both hands. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

They cut all sorts of capers and whiffed the meat as it slowly came to perfection with the seasoning penetrating to the bone. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Miyax dressed, cut off a piece of meat, and held it out to him. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You going to eat that meat, or you just playing with it?” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The church ladies were warming up behind me with a few hallelujahs and Praise the Lords and Amens, and the preacher hadn’t really moved into the meat of the sermon. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘So one of the hunters,’ she continued, ‘he wasn’t supposed to eat deer meat. The other guy wasn’t supposed to eat squirrel meat.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I have a headache so deep it feels like someone pummeled my brain with a meat tenderizer. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Something else ate the meat, and whatever ate this meat is still around somewhere.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“But think about it. The food is cheap, right? That means the owners can’t spend lots of money on good, fresh ingredients. What if we’re not even eating real meat?” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I see flaky crust with minced meat, onions, tomatoes, and lettuce. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I was the first meat, the second bone! The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Honeyman sold meat to the British and to the Hessians, so called because they came from the Hesse region in what is now Germany. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is tempting, but he is more bone than meat, and she is such a morsel,” said Shed. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Possession is nine tenths of the law, and the Army had the meat and the agent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll tell him it just came out of woods. There have always been poachers back up that way. He can dress it out and we can use the meat since he’s leaving for a while.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The keeper opened a basket he had on his back and took from it a small piece of raw meat. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“No sense letting meat waste if the power goes out.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Cathy was chewing a piece of meat, chewing with her front teeth. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It could multiply in many different kinds of meat. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ate fish, drank hot coffee, and enjoyed canned meats and vegetables from America. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“No—she’s good all the way through. I’ll tell you— if we don’t have meat to cook with the beans, why she just goes ahead and cooks the beans anyhow.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They opened the pit, but the meat was still raw and bloody. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She made a pretext of cutting up my meat, and as she cut, she whispered in bite-sized phrases: "Please...Señorita...Sandi...you must...come to...my house." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Like rotten meat, with a hint of papaya. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The cub lay down and began chewing on the meat. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

After a long time, the man shook her by the shoulder and handed her a strip of dried reindeer meat to chew. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Or she would skip the meat and cream altogether and serve crab cakes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The rest of our friends helped by chopping eggplants, onions, meat, and the like in the kitchen. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He took his sweet time walking the cart back into the store, relishing the brief moment spent outside before returning to the air-conditioned cold and slight smell of rotting meat and spoiled vegetables of Floyd’s. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He imagined a chicken in his hands, the practiced snap with which it became meat, a routine, a carcass to pluck to goose bumps; but first the blood must be let. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted meat—for himself and for his weakened companion. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“The stew. It’s goat meat with spinach and lentils. It was a recipe of my mother’s.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The old man could see pieces of the meat of the fish spilling white from the corner of his jaws as he bumped the fish and closed his jaws. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Karolina offered to hook her up with the cousin who worked in the meat plant. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She does not have to fight for the smallest chunks of seal meat and penguins and worse. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He wanted to hang the deer in the woodshed, where the meat would stay cold and cure properly. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

His little cups of fruit, of pudding, of bits of meat, both cooked and raw, continued in the icebox. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Oak giggles and picks up his meat with his fingers, tearing at it with sharp teeth. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He told some people he was protesting racism and others he was protesting the consumption of meat. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They have dim apprehensions that such propositions as ‘God does not exist’ are somewhat dubious at least in comparison with statements like ‘All carnivorous cows eat meat.’ Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Christmas and New Year’s, she kept the gate open so that anyone could come in and have a meal of rice, meat, and beans. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

For this that his mother gave up meat on Wednesdays. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I remember one time we ran out of meat—” His voice dropped to a curious low sing-song, dropped into a tonal groove the story had worn for itself. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

My body’s thinner than it’s ever been and my battle against hunger is so fierce that sometimes the animal part of me gives in to the temptation of buttered bread or roasted meat. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Thor sat at the table beside Tyr and picked up a lump of charred whale meat and chewed it resentfully. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Crops grow, and cattle and goats are well fed and produce lots of milk or meat or babies. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

They knew we were fresh meat, and in this setting there was no accountability. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cleaned and cut up the six beasts, hung some of the meat to freeze, stewed some for our meal that night. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

She found it back by the meat department. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The canoes are filled with bread, fish, and meat: turkey, squirrel, deer, and raccoon. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

But Josiah said they would grow up heavy and covered with meat like Herefords, but tough too, like the Mexican cows, able to withstand hard winters and many dry years. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

"There isn't more than a ha'porth of meat in a crab." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

She could have built her own hut to shelter from the rain and devised fishing lines to satisfy her need for meat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He climbed to the top of the mountain and waved the piece of raw meat. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Vegetables became more abundant, and chunks of meat began to appear in our soups and stews. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaz tracked Nina’s gaze to the top of the ring wall, high above the courtyard, where five men had been impaled on spikes like meat skewered for roasting, backs bent, limbs dangling. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

One of the corpses was so fat that the ship’s cook had to cut his fingers off with a meat cleaver to claim his rings. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They tore open the food stores, snarling and growling and tossing their great cruel beaks high as they swallowed the dried meat and all the preserved fruit and grain. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They were content with just food and water, and, in exchange, they generously gave of their wool, their company, and—once in a while—their meat. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meera Reed rose, her frog spear in her hand, a chunk of smoking meat still impaled upon its tines. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Isn’t it more important to be happy than to follow some thousand-year-old law about not eating meat? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

"My lord father would be most honored if you would share meat and mead with him in the castle and explain your purpose here." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The bear smelled the morning’s moose meat stew Omakayas had eaten, the wild onion seasoning and the dusty bit of maple sugar from Old Tallow stuck to the inside of her pocket. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I walk over to the corner of the hut and proceed to pick the meat off until finally there is no more. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After drinking their fill they went to work on the steaks, gnawing on them until the meat thawed. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Otis dumps the rest of the meat at the tree line, leaving it in a heap that buzzes with flies. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He stared for a moment at the piles of fruit, bread, and dried meats the yumboes had packed for him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Cows have more meat and, locked up in pens, are easier to catch. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our playmates’ families exchanged their unwanted food for sugar, coal oil, spices, potted meat, Vienna sausage, peanut butter, soda crackers, toilet soap and even laundry soap. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the roof that night, Zeitoun and Todd and Nasser barbecued the remaining meat, noting that it was the first time any of them had been at any sort of social event since the storm. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Lee got up and pulled out the pastry board and laid out the red meat and a flour sifter beside it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of fried meat and grilled onion makes my mouth water. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Grandma usually made fresh biscuits and vegetables for us even when we were only having a tiny speck of meat. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He folds the shaved meat and peppers into the pita and takes huge bites of the roll. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men were seated around the large oak table, which was crowded with bottles of wine and liquor, with dishes of rice and meat and salads. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Rumors of an army are a powerful thing,” I say, not chewing my dried meat well enough before I swallow and coughing up a little bit of it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

That week I managed the snares and dropped off the meat with Hazelle. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It looked and smelled pretty good, with a nice crust and a bright white inside that looked sort of like chicken breast meat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He methodically peels off the shells, piling the meats on a leaf. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Will you not stay the night and share our meat and mead, Uncle?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Beside the bar there was an ice chest that cooled a few pounds of pickled meat and sausage. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The iron weight looked like something borrowed from Sarah’s kitchen—a heavy little hooked thing I’d once seen her hang meat on to roast. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma India was preparing more stews and casseroles with less meat and lots of rice and potatoes. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The charred meat and bones under the damp ash might have been anonymous save for the shapes of the skulls. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Farmers have to use a lot more land to produce one pound of meat than to produce a pound of—what's it called?—soybeans.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’m just saying that giving up meat is not something that comes easily, at least for me. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

From the tail, I pulled that nice piece of meat that everybody misses. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I put my eyes down and worked at what was left of my meat loaf. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But there was a generous decorative lettuce leaf under which much of the goopy meat and greasy rice could be tucked away. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“He needs to be more compliant with his medications. He has to really go on a diet, which is grains, no red meat, no fat. No fat at all.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Instead of eating kosher, using different table settings for every meal and eating all meat or all dairy dishes, I just ate what I wanted. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Markets in the city were booming with abundant supplies of dried, fresh, and processed foods, including milled rice, tofu, crackers, cakes, and meat. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He gnawed around on some of the deer’s leg bones that Mama threw away; but not once did he ever even act like he could smell the meat we’d hung up. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chiggen grinned, showing yellow teeth, and swallowed the raw meat in two bites. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Greasy Sae had intervened and sent us with our deer to the butcher, but not before it'd been badly damaged, hunks of meat taken, the hide riddled with holes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Rocky tried to tell them that keeping the carcass on the floor in a warm room was bad for the meat. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t mean we’d keep an old ugly dog like that. One that will come in and steal meat right out of the house.” Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other courses are more enigmatic, concealed in sweet sauces or spiced soups; unidentifiable meats hidden in pastries and glazes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

"See our lord of Lannister to a tower cell, and bring him meat and mead." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He eats a good meal at noon, and one in the evening, with two helpings of meat. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Even warring khalasars put aside their feuds and shared meat and mead together when they were in sight of the Mother of Moun-tains. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Near the Obangui River, they stopped at a roadside market, where the schoolteacher bought some fresh antelope meat. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Freedom, in Shin’s mind, was just another word for grilled meat. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I found him at daylight when Mama told me to step out to the dog run and cut down a side of middling meat hanging to the pole rafters. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she made me take the rotten meat up to the dump. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then he took a thick needle and thread and, with deft, quick strokes, he sewed it up, like a man stitching a baseball: the cadaver transformed from meat into girl once again. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

It is the fastest- growing chicken ever, turning corn into meat faster than any other bird. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Printed on it are processed meats, cold cuts as tall as he is, reds and pinks, gray at the edges, garnished with parsley sprigs the size of shrubs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“We should have brought them, so he can cut the meat.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you like meat?” he said, seeing me with my mouth agape. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Park whipped around and saw Eleanor standing by the meat case with all four of her redheaded brothers and sisters. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She roused herself, skinned the carcass, and made a stew with the meat and some more greens Prim had gathered. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know if her poor children even know what meat tastes like.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Rhaegal and Viserion were fighting over a scrap of meat, buffeting each other with their wings as smoke hissed from their nostrils. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Sandwiches arrived from outside, strange granular bread, the butter on it liquid, some sort of beige meat paste that hinted of ptomaine. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was mostly smoked meat, bread, and those sweet potato things. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly millions of Americans gave up bread and other carbohydrates and started eating mainly meat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Better the butcher than the meat. All kings are butchers. Are queens so different?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

So number 534 was doing a good job as a meat machine. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

We, the humans, were being trained as well in that we added special bits of meat for the ravens so the dogs wouldn’t go hungry. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He picked up the remaining piece, lush with meat and fat that would nourish Gray for days, and carried it over the fallen trunk. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Swiftly opening her pack, she took out some meat, chewed it to thaw it, and gave it to the bird. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watched while the man deftly patted flour onto the pieces of meat and then added the rabbit to the pan. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

In my travels I had learned a lot about where our meat comes from. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Their leftovers are a feast! White rice and chicken! Look Pa, there’s even meat left on the chicken!” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After his first heart attack, in 2000, he quit smoking; but once he was feeling better, he stopped taking several medications, drifted back to red meat and fried foods, and let his exercise program slip. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I know what you want,” she called, holding out a large piece of cooked meat. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s from loudspeakers up in the main settlement,” Viola says, taking a plate of cold meat outta the fridge. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

A pathologist at the Institute had inspected the meat very carefully and had given it a tentative diagnosis of simian hemorrhagic fever—harmless to humans, lethal to monkeys. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

During Lent, they noted no meat passed my lips, not even a steaming broth when a bad catarrh confined me to the infirmary. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It began to dissolve, leaving only scraps of bone, meat, hide, and a new drakon skull whose open jaws ringed the oak tree. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Then Ma put on the boiled potatoes and cabbage and meat, the baked beans, the hot johnny-cake and the baked Hubbard squash, and she poured the tea. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

After welcoming their sisters, they triumphantly displayed a table set out with such cold meat as an inn larder usually affords, exclaiming, “Is not this nice? Is not this an agreeable surprise?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

I gnawed on the meat around the pig’s feet and sucked the bones until the salty, slippery membrane slid out and swished around my tongue. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The smell makes my mouth water, even though I haven’t eaten meat in years. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They gave off a pungent smell, like meat gone to rot, and were filled with white pools. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Thus he established an alternative to spontaneous generation—the notion that life could rise, in fermenting grape juice or rotting meat, entirely independent of preexisting life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not soy-based, like the dehydrated meat in her SpagBol, but real animals from the overcrowded pen on the edge of the Smoke. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The elders say that eating dog meat increases body heat, thus increasing energy, but you shouldn’t eat too much of it or your body will burn up and combust. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She takes an armful of fruits and breads and puts them in the bag, then another armful of dried meats. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Tentatively, my teeth crack the shells and dig into the soft, oily meat. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men had to eat their meat raw. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Granny’s favorite dish was a peanut roast which she made to resemble meat, but which tasted like something else. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed around the pail of stew, using pieces of bread to scoop out the meat and to soak up the chili. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The butcher stares then takes our meat to the grinder. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The cooks were serving the meat course: five suckling pigs, skin seared and crackling, a different fruit in every mouth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We all were violent in our disturbances; but once ejected, the meat’s evil influences seem to have passed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

And I’m like, ‘What do you mean, meat?’ Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A small portion of the meat I took above-stairs for Dr. Trefusis, who, notwithstanding his frequent repetition of tags regarding vacancy and doom, improved tremendously. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Once Kapugen had told her that some wolves had tolerated a lone wolf until the day he stole meat from the pups. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d cooked up some antelope meat and tried to make fried plantains that turned into something like black horse-hoof glue in the pan. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of all that meat made her reckless. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Maybeth picked out the meat and put it in a bowl in the refrigerator, for lunch the next day. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

His only response is to pop open another beer and attack the thirty-five pounds of meat with his tongs like it’s in danger of rising up and devouring us all. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They don’t ship their vegetables and meat across the country or across the globe. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s the only way they could have kept all that meat.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to hate a man who treated him like the meat rather than the lettuce. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The suppers were TV dinners in floppy aluminium containers with separate compartments for the stewed meat, the boiled potatoes and the peas. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. van D. was trying to do everything at once: learning Dutch out of a book, stirring the soup, watching the meat, sighing and moaning about her broken rib. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

All those delicious goodies would cook that way for a time and then she would add the meat to the collard greens left over from last night’s dinner. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The hot lunch is pasta with meat sauce. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I drive 150 miles one way in order to get clean meat for my family.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The meat and wine turned to lead in Jason’s stomach. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The smell of rotten meat burned my nostrils. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Her crisp meat pies and cool lemonade, when joined to her miraculous ability to be in two places at the same time, assured her business success. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Does she stay because she loves him as meat loves salt? We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

They were laying off sugar or carbs or caffeine or meat or dairy, but maybe a little butter was fine now and then. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Odors of meat, vegetables, and something freshly baked mixed with a scent of Fels Naphtha. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

And every year they took the leftovers—the fat pieces of meat, the rice and beans, the bottles of soft drink and maltina and beer—home with them afterward. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Bertha ran after me, calling, “I knew it! I knew my meat loaf would do the trick.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He swung at him and hit only the head and the shark looked at him and wrenched the meat loose. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over traveler’s bread, cheese, dried meats, and sweet cider, he told me about his mission to help King Jerrold. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Happy that the meat business was over, Francie bought two cents’ worth of soup greens from the green grocer’s. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to leave his bag, but I ... dumped him out... on the meat. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hurry, loaded bow in one hand, a hunk of cold groosling in the other, because I'm famished now, and not just for leaves and berries but for the fat and protein in the meat. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Blood spattered, frightened children wept, and the man with the gun offered the teacher and bus driver some meat from a freshly slaughtered goat. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She gave him a small piece of meat from Lena’s bundle, and he promptly fell off to sleep, his head resting on Hushpuppy. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The meat came out in fresh red spirals. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have actual tickets, and food in our satchel—cold meat and bread. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Inside the wooden bucket, bits of meat, cut carrots, potato fragments, and onion floated in a fragrant yellow broth. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“I thought you said they don’t eat meat,” Denna said, looking around nervously. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He hunted around with his fork and knife for the edible parts and finally located one entire bite of meat. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The diary entries following his return to the bus catalog a bounty of wild meat. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was everything from beans and meat to fruit cocktail—-just like those canned goods we Navajos had gotten together on our food drive to help the poor earthquake victims. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Fridays people ate fish or vegetables with no meat because of God. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

When pushed, she shoved; sold a bad cut of meat, she’d march down to the butcher, frying pan in hand. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Say, Lee, I want you to read an article. It says they’ve dug up a mastodon in Siberia. Been in the ice thousands of years. And the meat’s still good.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Before he went, he put some more of the canned meat in Faro’s plate and set it out. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was the same way I felt when he smiled, his face breaking open like a coconut with the brilliant white meat inside. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

So they switched over to calling to the bonobos: “Animals, animals, give us meat, meat!” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I don’t think you understand. I don’t believe it’s sus-tainable—or ‘organic,’ if you will—to FedEx meat all around the country. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I know her. What they tell is she fills you up with soup so you can’t eat much meat.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

For three days, villagers from across the district feasted on the meat of the terrible beast that had taken so many lives. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Let me get honey-glazed on a roll. Lettuce, tomato, mayo, provolone, sweet peppers, oil and vinegar, black pepper, meat and cheese, hot,” I rattled off like naming brothers and sisters I don’t have. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She plodded out from behind the meat counter and walked heavily down to the cash register at the front of the store. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someday I’m going to buy me one of those meat pies — one that’s hot — and eat the whole thing, all at once. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

The crew survived on a steady diet of tortoise meat, with every island yielding a seemingly unique variety of tortoise. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

My sisters gave us an elegant lunch—meaning our meat came from a tin instead of the slaughter shed—on a clean tablecloth in the apartment they shared three stories above the street. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I’ve never tasted dog food but I’m sure this was worse—brownish squares of congealed meat fat from rusted tins, which, lacking utensils, we dug out with our fingers. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

But if I can hold down Greasy Sae's concoction of mice meat, pig entrails, and tree bark -a winter specialty -I'm determined to hang on to this. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The good housewives, their arms filled with bags of vegetables and brown paper parcels of meat, seemed to have little to do that afternoon. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time I had brought along large meat-filled dumplings and other smaller pastries filled with various kinds of ground meat and shrimp. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slopper pumped his fist in the air, being a huge fan of fresh deer meat. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Women knelt with their knives to skin the meat, even before the hooves stopped beating the ground in panic. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did have a few cans of meat—three to be exact—and also some canned hash that he would have eaten in a pinch. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The bowl was filled with vegetable rice, and the tray held meat pastries. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Eating meat used to be a special occasion in most American homes. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Two ravens sat on Odin’s shoulders, and he would give the ravens scraps of meat as well, while they whispered to him of things that were happening far away. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He talked nonstop, out of control, in a mix of Igbo and English, like soft meat and thorny bones. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Palms held out, in the beggar’s gesture, he received the bread and meat and put it down before him on his knapsack—lowly table!— then he fell to, devouring it. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Certainly Joe had never seen his father kill anything, except for meat, or unless it was poisonous—his father would swerve a truck almost unconsciously to squash a rattlesnake or a tarantula on the road. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we mix herbs with the bad meat to hide the taste. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If good fortune blessed us there might be a little meat at Christmastide. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Rose hissed like a recoiling snake, her hand reaching to cover RiRi’s eyes in anticipation of Miig dancing an electric jig, sizzling like a piece of frying meat. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

But there was a small worm that kept attacking the drying meat. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ate a fist-sized piece of fish meat at each meal, accompanied by dark green leaves, rigid as cardboard, that Wello foraged for us out of the underbrush. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

They built a fire in the stove and made tea and feasted on vegetables, fried potatoes, and canned meats, eating so much, they feared they would get sick. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The year before he was looked after by a university student named Abby, a slim, freckled girl who read books without pictures on their covers, and refused to prepare any food for Eliot containing meat. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Iorek ate his meat raw, of course, but he spitted its joint on a sharp stick and laid it to roast across the fire for the two of them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But what he really wanted—and could obviously smell—was the meat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took the opportunity to stuff the blanket and the dried meat into my travelsack. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Those high- rise terraces full of grazing animals isn’t where most of our meat comes from. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The air was thick with the smells of roasting meat and curdled, fermented mare's milk. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He prodded a larger piece with a serving spoon to make sure the meat slipped easily from the bone. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He swung the broken sword wildly, knocking the hand away and notching it deep into the meat of the mercenary’s arm. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The factory farms take the raw material, corn, and turn it into another product—meat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

A man just ahead was selling skewers of roast meat from a cart, and die procession halted as the Poor Fellows moved him out of the way. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He dropped to all fours again and went on gnawing his meat. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The sun’s fully up now and the sky as blue as fresh meat. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

On the plate sat a steaming brown lump of mystery meat. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Poppy recalled, “When I saw a sign for hot dogs, I thought they were made of dog meat. It scared me. I thought the big shiny trash cans were mailboxes.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Without a hunter as part of their family, she and her mother had not eaten meat except for the occasional small creature that they could catch within the boundaries of the village. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roy held the package of meat on his lap, covering it with both arms like a fullback protecting a football. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clutching her food, she ran home, banked the fire, and put the last of the meat on the coals. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Derby continued to pick at her food, and her husband sometimes stopped his conversation with Clay to cut a small piece of meat for his wife so she would eat it. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was so much meat he couldn’t believe it. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Someplace where they fed kids raw meat and beat them with sticks. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was still enough meat on it to fill his empty belly, and after that was done he cracked the arm bones for the marrow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Andy got six kinds of meat, ten dinner rolls, and four pieces of apple pie. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d open up the store at seven a.m. and Sam would saw lumber, cut ice, stack the meats out, stock the shelves, feed the cow in the backyard, all before we Ieft for school. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She helped herself to white meat and gravy and grits and a few raisins and mixed them up together on her plate. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I could not think about meat loaf or ranch versus Thousand Island dressing. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

On the outheld hand of the colossal seraph, ghosts stood guard with cleavers, and some with meat hooks on chains. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

No meat, no cheese, not even a slice of pickle. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They’re the deep color of raw meat, and blisters are already bubbling. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

His thigh and calf were sanded raw as a T-bone at the meat counter. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She would sometimes unlock the smokehouse so Teenie could choose a smoked meat if nothing fresh was available. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she reaches for a spring roll and asks, “There’s no meat in this, right?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Then he lured a glorious, buzzing fly to a piece of spoiled meat. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

You need a little meat on them bones.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no variation in our meals—no greens, no meat, no fish. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The owner decided where and when the hunt would take place, and in the event of a kill, he’d receive the choicest portion of the meat, usually the hindquarter. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Any horse that went down was butchered on the spot for meat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Is it moral to eat meat from a slaughterhouse like National Beef? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She tiptoed in, late and limping, her cheek raw as red-brown meat. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grill was balanced between two big sandrocks, where the hot coals were banked under the spattering meat. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The air smelled of wet grass, smoke, and grilled meat. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Papa said they generally started out by feeding on the carcass of some deer or cow that had died, then going from there to catching and killing live meat. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shook her head and sent the meat flying against the rocks. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The clown showed us to a table stacked with food—the same boiled nuts and roasted meats that had tempted us at the carnival. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

But when you got extra meat on your bones, you don’t feel a doggone thing. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

My dad was already sitting in his spot as my mom placed meat loaf, mashed potatoes, peas, and salad on the table. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Gitano ate very slowly, cutting tiny pieces of meat and arranging little pats of mashed potato on his plate. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My valve will not tolerate luncheon meat, I’m afraid.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The meat she put on her bones in South Carolina melted away. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Yet supermarkets sell “spring lamb,” which is meat shipped in from New Zealand. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you’ll learn to like it so much, you’ll travel with me,” she said, and threw him another chunk of meat. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She carried an Okeh record under her arm and a half pound of stewmeat wrapped in pink butcher paper in her hand although the sun is too hot to linger in the streets with meat. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had no taste for these intrigues, but he was beginning to realize that they were meat and mead to a man like Littlefinger. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Clouds of smoke billowed up through gaps in the platform, adding flavor as well as preserving the meat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If there was even just a whiff of rot, no matter how fresh the meat looked, it couldn’t be trusted. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He studies my face, and I feel self-conscious, wondering if they’ve noticed I’ve only had two bites of meat and a quarter of a potato, and worrying I’ll somehow get in trouble. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She played tag and grass ball with them and she pried prickly sea urchins off the rocks, to eat the sweet meat inside. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although the birds did not provide much meat, their skins, lined with a thick layer of fat, made a good fuel for the blubber stove. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Mr. van Daan used to be in the meat, sausage and spice business. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Since the whites had refrigerators, their butchers bought the meat from commercial slaughterhouses in Texarkana and sold it to the wealthy even in the peak of summer. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No rain will come, nothing will happen until the wedding is over,” he said, when Ugwu took him a plate of rice and meat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I threw my arms around Big Ma, happy that we’d be eating barbecue in late October when Big Ma only smoked and barbecued meat in the summer. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

One fella had a fisherman’s net, and the other had a small chunk of meat. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bears and the witches alike were used to their conversations being scavenged as well as the meat they’d finished with. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I could shoot a squirrel off a branch if I had to, though there wouldn’t be enough meat left for a toddler. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

And we, even if we had no meat or even grass to gnaw, still boil our water to kill the invisible creatures that would like to kill us first. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one triangle was rice, in another meat, and in the third stewed tomatoes. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I knew my fear was getting the best of me when I started wondering why they don't sell cuts of meat in vending machines. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He never got meat, though I was craving chicken or mutton. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There was even chunks of meat in the stew. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first I thought that I might have found a surrogate father in the czar of sausage, the mogul of meat. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of Alexandra’s poor flocked to Mr. Green to buy various parts of cattle —heads, entrails, hooves and heavy bones with scraps of meat on them. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The days and the nights were so cold that the pork in a box and the bear meat hanging in the little shed outside the back door were solidly frozen and did not thaw. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

We eat our potatoes with plenty of salt and I eat my fat and pretend it’s that nipple of red meat. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Rogers went round the table collecting the meat plates. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Ginnie Sue scraped the meat into a bowl, mixed it with mayonnaise and Cheez Whiz, then crushed a handful of potato chips and added them. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Alaskan hunters know that the easiest way to preserve meat in the bush is to slice it into thin strips and then air-dry it on a makeshift rack. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through my bedroom window, I watched Ali and Has­san push the wheelbarrows loaded with meat, naan, fruit, and vegetables up the driveway. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

If Mr. Blake's face appeared in any of the windows, I was dead meat. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She hauled the meat into the trees and laid it out. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minimum damage to the flesh and no last-minute tension to toughen the meat. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The natural seasons for red meat are fall and winter. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She gave him a piece of cold meat pie, a flat loaf of rye bread, dried apples, and ran down cellar to fetch him a flagon of cold ale. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shelves were stacked with slabs of white meat, cans of oil, and sacks of meal. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

In my family, the funeral meats have always furnished the wedding tables. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Behind him, Lyra turned the meat over on the fire, and Will looked at his wounds, to see how they were healing. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The dog still held on to the last bit of meat as it disappeared among the bushes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I noticed right off that they ate more meat than I got at home, but then again the biscuits weren’t as good as my mama made for us. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the fire was going, Will ate two oatmeal biscuits, some dried meat, and some Kendal Mint Cake, washing it down with gulps of cold water. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

As we watched, the thing that used to be Susie stood there, all meat and blood, and shook itself like a wet dog, then stretched its arms up to the sky. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Everybody was surprised when he served the meat. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two men were squat ting on their heels, eating their evening meal, shoveling rice into their mouths with chopsticks, dipping into the large bowl of vegetables and meat that sat between them. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tool shrugged, scooped up a handful of rice and meat chunks. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

There are specialty stores where they sell dog meat but at a very expensive price. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I’d be dead meat if the lid fell off, so 1 dug my fingernails into the wooden slats to keep it in place. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

And the following morning I get to go to school with my mother’s letter and a rice sandwich because we don’t have lunch meat. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

His ice cellar was stocked with meats and vegetables. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it had something to do with all that hamburger meat,” she speculated. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The barrel-vaulted ceiling was stained black with soot, the floor was hard-packed earth, the air smelled of smoke and spoiled meat and stale vomit. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then I think of a couple winters ago we hardly had any meat on our table, and I guess I can see how a father with three kids could shoot a deer. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vonetta’s politeness lasted only until we were out of Miss Trotter’s sight, and then she taunted Fern with the pan of cooked meat. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

In a tin bowl, in the captains lap, steams a cylinder of boiled gray meat. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It’s more like one of those divided metal plates with separate sections for starch, meat, and veggies. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I brought you more meat loaf,” I said. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

And after that, when we fed Old Yeller cornmeal mush or fresh meat, he ate it and did well on it and never one time bothered our chicken nests. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

They drink wine, eat cheese, cook with butter, and eat red meat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Even if I was headed off to eat bologna—meat of the county home, food of despair. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The gulls would then swoop down to the rocks and pick the meat from the broken shells. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed at the coffeepot in the sand at the edge of the coals, and then at the meat. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They devoured the poisoned meat, much to the jubilation of the crowd. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When he is drunk asleep ...” The knife for the meat was lying on the floor near the fireplace. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he gulped the meat, ash-gritted but still warm, the rustle of canvas startled him. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

As Jenner had predicted, there was a big freezer, well stocked—bread, meat, vegetables, everything—and a whole room full of shelves covered with canned food. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

This was one of the things he’d liked best about Nina—she savored everything, whether it was a toffee or cold water from a stream or dried reindeer meat. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Six monstrous huge aurochs had been roasting for hours, turning slowly on wooden spits while kitchen boys basted them with butter and herbs until the meat crackled and spit. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Did you get a good piece of meat?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cutting the meat up in small pieces, I fed it to my pups. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lion licked the last of the hamburger meat off his lips and looked at me hopefully. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“And what makes it worse, she thinks of herself as meat.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reminded her where she had come out of the house and given me my meat and drink, and she said, “I don’t remember.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I said you don’t run so fast or catch so good, but you’re a big piece of meat he could put in the defensive line.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“I was a guest beneath your roof and ate of your meat and mead,” she said. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Some said they grew from old things—flies grew from old meat, moths from old wool. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I yell excitedly, staring at the juicy shreds of meat still clinging to the chicken bones. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a dog munching on the last bit of the smoked meat. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I watched him pull the chicken meat from around the bone with his fork. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baby’s screeching rose and fell like a cleaver on meat. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The next day Tyr went to take the wolf his meat. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Dead, tormented bulls produced a very popular meat. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

It’s disgusting, but it’s not like I’ve sworn off meat, so I’m not one to talk. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Mastery of grilled meats is an essential component in the makeup of a Teutonic Übermensch. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Kem, the ghost footman, said it had been the butchering room before, and the channel was for blood and the big hooks on the ceiling were for hanging meat. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Second of all, there was no way her bird gullet would tolerate meat. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Give me the second meat, you take the first bone.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

In addition to these sledging rations were powdered milk and cocoa, sugar, tea, potatoes, tobacco, canned meats and vegetables, liquor, flour, and a dozen and one other staples and delicacies. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The woman’s sorrow was raw and palpable, like spoiled meat. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she ate her bread and meat, she kept one hand curved about the cup enjoying its warmth. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flowers by themselves, plates of fruit and cuts of meat, with or without lobsters. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, the only thing that appeared three-dimensional about Boori Ma was her voice: brittle with sorrows, as tart as curds, and shrill enough to grate meat from a coconut. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

They dropped a piece of raw meat in the mud between two men and told them to fight for it, and they did. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Thanks for the meat loaf, Mom,” I said. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

With every step up James’s staircase, the smells of spices and roasting meat grew stronger. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Any day now the black ducks come,” he said, “and the mallards. Then we will have good meat.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll have to make her come to the table every meal. Then I could give her an extra piece of meat every time.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt like rushing forth with the meat knife and chopping off the offending hand. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He felt himself toughened, like meat hung to cure, and though he hadn’t seen his reflection for weeks, he had no doubt that Master Hyrrokkin would be satisfied. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I think one of them works at a meat company. He said he could get me a job if I want to stay longer.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was good eating; but I’d had my appetite whetted for fried middling meat to go with it. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re being ridiculous. It’s fine. It meets all the food requirements. The burger has bread, meat, and cheese. And you get veggies from the fries.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“You give me the first meat, Sister, you take the first bone.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I kept stealing glances at him across a plate of antelope meat and stale Potato Buds, which I guess just goes to show you how unaccustomed to the male species I have become. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I can see what you have. I will help you out for two or three loads of meat. Otherwise . His voice trailed off and the hunters started whispering among themselves. “He knew some Spanish. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He washed them with seawater and trimmed out the salvageable meat. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wall brought to my mind the bleeding slabs of meat Rosaleen used to cook, the gashes she made up and down them, stuffing them with pieces of wild, bitter garlic. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden I was not the person Golde was putting his arm around, I was Mo, I was the cell line, like a piece of meat.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

While they are largely omnivorous, anything as rich and full of energy as straight heart meat could not be ignored, and after a week the two birds left. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“He just needs to put meat on his bones!” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The sight of them makes me wonder whether I’ve been living over an underground meat factory all this time. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“They lost their way but don’t want to get back on the path. All they want is meat.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

After the deer meat had been salted several days, Pa cut a hole near the end of each piece and put a string through it. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I like taking these walks during dinnertime because of the dinner smells wafting from the houses—toasted chiles, stewed meat, boiled beans. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They eat appreciatively, commenting on the tenderness of the meat, the freshness of the beans. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tyrion saw a slave being whipped, blow after blow, until his back was nothing but blood and raw meat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’m the lucky one, even with this extra meat on my bones. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The Red Cross brought plastic tarps and blankets from its headquarters in Saigon, as well as a little water, rice, and meat, but not nearly enough. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Sarah was there chopping meat with that frightening speed and coordination of hers. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Hubbard rushed out of the corner, swinging his left like a meat hook. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he tells me that hamburgers are cow meat. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

At this the suitors, while they dressed their meat, began to exchange loud mocking talk about him. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fish and meat served side by side, so many courses that people had to eat in shifts, the food still in the pans they were cooked in crowding the table. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Paco says his mother has locked her up in their house. She has heard that Dorotea met me the day before yesterday when she went out to the meat market.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

At various times Dad had been a meat worker, a cane cutter, a forklift driver, and a lawn-mower man. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

This time they buried the meat in the firepit with a good heart, and they waited. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“The soup’s always on, and you’re more than welcome to join us for a meal. You and your brother need to put some meat on your bones. You’re so thin and pale, both of you.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

"So you see," said Ralph, "we need hunters to get us meat. And another thing." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

She stopped once or twice more to give him meat to chew and a few sips from her canteen, but otherwise, they walked without speaking, and almost without sound. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The smell of cooked, seasoned meat fills the air, mixing with the peppery gunpowder from all the fireworks. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He is paying farmers near Cancale to butcher lambs and rabbits; Claude buckles the meat into his wife’s matching vinyl suitcases and carries them himself by train to Paris. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Today we will teach you meat cooked in a special pot called a karhai.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“And do you agree that I am leading your fellow villagers to partake of the meat of a rotten corpse?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fellows over there are well looked after; they fare magnificently, as against us, poor starving wretches, with our turnip jam; they can get all the meat they want. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Muff taught her to fry chicken legs and turn the small bits of dark meat into chicken and dumplings. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, she clapped her hands and rubbed them together in anticipation when Big Ma unwrapped the meat. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“And here are some salchichas Americanas, so you can put some meat on those bones.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The little creatures were cunning and hard to catch, but their meat was tender and rank. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Even the meat scraps between their teeth had been washed out. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then I stuck a piece of meat loaf through the wire near him and waited. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Pa then separates the meat from the bones and cuts the flesh into very thin slices to soak in the lime juice that Ma has prepared. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she drank the rich juices and popped the tender meat in her mouth. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later, Beatrice herself was at the store with Jeremiah when she reached for a package of bacon at the meat counter. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

More to the point, Joel says he doesn’t need this machinery because his meat is already clean. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Homesick, I sighed and moved the mass of meat loaf around my plate. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“God, you’re making my choice look so bad. I’m starving and I go with the meat that will probably give me a heart attack and kill me anyway.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Flushed and sweating, they were also resigned to the fact that there was no escaping an odor of meat and vegetables, which was wafting through the windows from the market stalls outside. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

With the fish, he had just cooked them whole, left everything in and picked the meat off. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as I do, another dog emerges from the kitchen, having smelled the meat. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The cottonmouth bit her twice, in the calf and deep in the meat of her thigh. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It also saved the pennies that would otherwise have paid their fare on the streetcar and instead could be used to buy a better cut of meat for Sunday dinner. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He gathered his meat and slid down the bench, away from us, to the engine, which he used as a table. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, I talked about a sick grandmother, and her sick, wealthy friends who were willing to pay extra money for extra meat. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile the spits were taken off the fire, portions of crisp meat for all. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A poxie launched himself at us, mouth frothing and a wicked meat cleaver raised high for some skull splitting. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

But Abuela stops mashing the meat with a mallet and turns to me. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He would look up in the middle of trimming a hedge and say, “That is good meat,” and then walk to the goatskin bag tied behind his bicycle to rummage for his catapult. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They can afford to buy butcher meat in town, although none of us likes it any better than fresh game. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Other cars zoomed, and soon the pigeon was meat and feathers, flat. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Tom Geisbert had heard about the sick monkeys in Virginia, and he wanted to take photographs of the meat to see if he could identify any simian- fever-virus particles in it. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gregor said, “I don’t really know. It’s two slices of bread with meat or cheese or peanut butter or something between them.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He spent the morning cutting it up, separating the good from the bad and packaging the meat. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“A meat hook?” she repeated, eyes wide, then narrow. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The grilled meat smoke still hung heavy in the air, but Pax could only get a general scent of the humans. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“You take the chicken out after two days and cut it off the bone and put the meat back.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They wouldn’t hold out forever with so much fresh meat nearby. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had a bowl of meat in front of him but did not taste it. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She had one fish trap still full of kudu meat, and a few yams and tomatoes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Annabeth gazed around the hut, trying to imagine how many eons Damasen had been exiled here—slaying the drakon, collecting its bones and hide and meat, knowing it would attack again the next day. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Butcher them and hide the meat. Or sell it. You can get a good price for the hides from the troops. Sell what you can. I promise you, the stock will be stolen.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We drank every drop of the coconut milk, and feasted on the fresh meat. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It smells like meat, like hamburger defrosting on the counter. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I could not tolerate anything with a sauce or any foods combined, so Gay would separate the meat and vegetables for me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I learned how to chop fish, meat, and vegetables on a butcher-block cutting board from her. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair looked like chopped meat when I was done. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Following this, Travis had driven us, and the fair organizers, mad with his obsessive checking and rechecking that Bunny was entered in the rabbit/fur competition and not the rabbit/meat competition. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

They burnt the great thighbones and feasted at their ease on fresh roast meat, as in their midst the godlike harper sang— Demodokos, honored by all that realm. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not wanting to waste the seal meat, he lifted the carcass in his teeth and flipped it onto the back of Lee Scoresby’s larger sledge before donning the armor. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He winced and said savagely, “It’s the meat.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The air was uncomfortably hot and smelled of sulfur and charred meat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

While James sat aside, silent, they roasted the fish as they had the hotdogs and peeled off the hot meat with their fingers. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It reeks of bits of old meat pickled in rum. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

And now I know: There is meat and eggs within the walls of our fort. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He wrote letters to doctors in England, spent his evenings reading casebooks at the library, gave up eating meat on Fridays in order to appease his household god. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She remembered what Daario had said—that all kings must be butchers, or meat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the house the godling grudgingly accepted cheese and bread and cold meat and pie and coffee and a piece of chocolate cake. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A half inch in, the meat was pink and then dark red. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tidings was already finishing his first helping of meat loaf. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He takes a cube of rodent meat, skewers it on the tip of a pointed stick, and lets it fall into the force field. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She laughed at herself, went back to her camp, and ate a piece of smoked meat. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

After fourteen months, her stomach corrupted by monkey meat and snake stew, Úrsula gave birth to a son who had all of his features human. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The result didn’t taste as good as salt, but it was better than nothing, and the same residue could be used to tenderize tough leaves or meat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My knees looked like raw meat, and my back ached from bending for hours. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Cora had seen starving slaves with more meat on their bones. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She has to live up high in his nest, dirty and ragged, eating rotten meat. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Well, my grandma was convinced that meat and veggies were part of a healthy diet, and she’d insist I clean my plate. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They might eat food from the belly-basket for weeks before they were brought chunks of meat that Miyax could share, and so she went out into the grasses again to look for buntings. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The following night, many people came to see that family to help them eat the elephant meat. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

They ate roast whale meat for dinner that night, in a hall filled with many-headed giants, all of them shouting and happy and most of them drunk. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Eyes watched us from the trees as we dragged our burden of meat down to the village, piled it up, and gathered around in a hungry knot. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sure that if he were planted down in the middle of the desert, in half an hour he would have gathered together a supper of roast meat, dates, and wine. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then added, “Can you pass the meat loaf?” I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

When I was little, we ate meat only on special occasions. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Man could talk a dog off a meat truck.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“There won’t be a second coup. There’s a little tension in the army, but there always is a little tension in the army. Did you have the goat meat? Isn’t it wonderful?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

People took note of which states he visited, which diner he showed up at for breakfast, what kind of meat he ordered to go with his eggs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

One white union man accused a black laborer of threatening to split him open with a meat cleaver. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Big steel trolley freight cars were crushed as if eggshells and their piled-up cargo of boxes and merchandise minced like so much sandwich meat. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The fresh and dried fish; the fat, oil, or meat from beaver, beluga, caribou, moose, oogruk, polar bear, and walrus; cranberries, salmonberries and wild rhubarb all had so far escaped contamination. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He learns to love the food she and her parents eat, the polenta and risotto, the bouillabaisse and osso buco, the meat baked in parchment paper. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, meat hung above tables heaped with onions and potatoes—a bonanza for his taking. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Again the butcher gathered up the meat, slammed it down on the paper and glared at Francie. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I perceived that I was sickening from excitement and inanition; neither meat nor drink had passed my lips that day, for I had taken no breakfast. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Perhaps they had found their way to the kudu meat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's okay," I managed to say, but I felt like someone had reached into my chest, pulled out my heart, and dropped it in a meat grinder. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He scratched Summer idly behind the ears as the direwolf tore at a haunch of meat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what kind of food he carries in that wagon, but whatever it is, I’m sure there is no fresh meat, or fresh anything. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He went back to his chair, and Abra sifted flour over the steak and pounded the meat with a big knife. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The Butcher’s coming out to give us battle. Up, unless you mean to be his meat.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Whatever demonic force moved Othor had been driven out by the flames; the twisted thing they had found in the ashes had been no more than cooked meat and charred bone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Better cut the corpses up and give the meat to the tigers. Dogs is one thing, but if we lose one of them cubs, we’ll be dog meat ourselves.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

She's inside preparing it—and the smell of meat and broth is so good that we keep the door propped open a little so we can catch a whiff of it out here, too. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But when he asked for another portion of venison, Medwyn gave a long chuckle and explained to the amazed Fflewddur it was not meat at all but vegetables prepared according to his own recipe. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Still, the chunks of white meat chicken had only a faint chicken taste. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The combination of olive oil, hearty vegetables, and cheese that comes from goat's milk, mixed with decent servings of fish and meat, had been shown in numerous studies to promote longevity. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He would have been less alarmed if Harrison had cooked with the orange itself, but to cook with the peels was like choosing the hairy skin of a goat rather than the meat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Silas sits at Lydia’s feet as they eat, and at one point Lydia slices off a generous portion of her meat and feeds it to him off of her palm. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But wherever we were, we Navajos were better at finding real meat than any other Marines. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were certainly meat, but they were more. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Afterward, we passed the fruits around, biting into the juicy meat and letting the sweet syrup run down our fingers. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

A wash of sudden heat assaulted them, heavy with the odors of ash, brimstone, and burnt meat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They had been hunting gophers in the dark, and although the four cats were full of gopher meat, they sat in a semi-circle at the back door and mewed piteously for milk. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women got together the sweets and the men looked after the meats. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I recognized him as one of the meat- heads who held my head under the sink water before Dave Bendix stood up for me. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Yolanda eats several right on the spot, relishing the slightly bumpy feel of the skin in her hand, devouring the crunchy, sweet white meat. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

And as their lips touched, her blade slid through the meat of his neck, just below the ear. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He sucked at the raw meat and tried to spit out the leg bone, but it only dribbled over his lower lip and tangled in his beard. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

One moment she was bent over a boiling kettle, then turning meat in a sizzling pan, then hovering by the table as she baked, battered, and tossed several different foods, seemingly all at once. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Jones sent up w'hat looked like a cloud, a radioactive one which gradually sent some fallout down onto the bar and the cooler filled with pickled meat. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered it shimmeringly—as follows: He was down in the meat locker on the night that Dresden was destroyed. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The table was set with cold meats and salads so no one would have to fetch and carry food from the kitchen. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

A school bus is a tank reshaped—hot dogs and baloney are the same meat. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

But thank God we did not see any of these, only humpbacked lizards as big as your arm which the people here catch and eat They love meat. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Splendid meals were served twice a day, but Siddhartha only ate once a day, and neither ate meat nor drank wine. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was better fed this time, for Libby had provided me with all manner of victuals—fruit, meat pies, clapbread. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Moisture forms all around the edges of the plate, where the meat heats the surface. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He thought about the reasons behind different beliefs—no pork, for example, came from the old days when pork was the first meat to spoil. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then working servants helped him to his meat and the mistress of the larder gave him bread. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first week he vomited daily from the stench of the feces and offal and rotting meat. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They left him the rest of his clothes, his dried meat, and a half-eaten loaf of incredibly stale rye bread. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The stink of horse dung was heavy in the air, mingled with the woodsmoke and the smell of cooking meat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She knew they were going to stomp me into hamburger meat. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

That side of meat had been a big one, but now there wasn’t enough meat left on the rind to interest a pack rat. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He brings in the butchered dirty meat and washes it in the sink with detergent and hot water. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I stepped into the store and was greeted by the rank smell of cat litter and cooked cold-cut meat. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z