Once she lapses into talking about Constantine without my even asking. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

This was not one of those whats that was asking What did you say? Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m telling you this because it will take me some time and I’m asking you to be patient. Boys are not patient creatures, as a rule.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She met his eyes, asking him a silent question. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I leaned forward to see Mother’s face, wanting her to look at me, to see the question I was mentally asking her, because I didn’t understand, not at all. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He took my other hand without asking, and held it lightly in his own. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I remember asking God to not let it be what I thought—knew—it was. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” I said, thinking he was asking if I was calling about his wife’s cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but I asked you a long time ago. Refore everything happened. Before we knew stuff. So I’m asking you again. Come to Reardan with me.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Jack Franklin is not being tried by the media. He can't be. That's a job for a court and a jury. The media is simply asking questions that law enforcement should be asking." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m asking you as a friend. You know she’s dead. You can tell me.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tayo was used to him talking like that, going over his ideas and plans out loud, and then asking Tayo what he thought. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But those who sit around her go on asking the old questions— a few who miss their master still, and those who eat his house up, and go free. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My voice sounds confident, but on the inside I’m asking myself a million questions. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I take the note from him, all the while asking Helene to wait. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“All right. But I don’t want to ask him. I don’t want to hear what he has to say about it. You know what I’m asking.” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A short time later he received letters from little boys asking for his autograph and from little girls asking him for dates. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t have his file so she started asking him a bunch of questions about why he was there, and his background. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Now he knew without asking that Crane-man had hobbled down to the beach and lurched about on the sand, so treacherous to his crutch, only to come away empty- handed. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

She felt ill now, too, looking into the burning eyes of the little girl who’d given her a life, and asking herself how...how she could just stand by and let her start a war. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And Mrs. Alexander said, “Why are you asking me about Mr. Shears, Christopher?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

But Ruth expresses interest, asking about his visits to Calcutta. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I act like the fact that I’m asking if I can drive her car, when I haven’t driven in a year, is no big deal, but my mom is staring at me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But when he watched Guitar’s face as he described what could be had almost for the asking, he knew right away he hadn’t guessed wrong. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She began to look for her through friends and by asking the various delivery men who came to the house and might have come across her, but no one had seen a trace of her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think I laid in bed all week but I remember Mrs. Mooney bringing me food a few times and asking if I was sick. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

When the food science teacher made the fatal mistake of asking the class if it knew the meaning of the word condiment, Don immediately answered with “lambskin, sheepskin.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He starts out by asking me how I’m feeling, when I last had a drink. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The time was past for asking the white folks what to look for through that door. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Nay, you are not You saw at once why I was asking you those questions.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He was always asking you to do him a big favor. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

After a moment, Kvothe took the pen and completed the list himself, asking the dumbfounded Chronicler to correct him if he made a mistake. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Soon as I could get away from the customers who pressed around, asking more questions, I ran back to Aunt Loma’s. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I nod, feeling like a lout for asking such a personal question. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I said a prayer for each of them by name, asking that if any of them got drafted, they would all come back to their homes and families. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Name?” he said, like he was asking a question. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Maxine didn’t tell me how I’d feel like some kind of celebrity, the way everyone keeps coming up to me, asking, “Are you the young lady who made that art piece? It’s lovely.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Some climbed to the stage, asking the occupants of the president’s box what had happened. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said the only reason that I was asking was that the information would help me to instruct her more efficiently. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Then what is it about, if you don’t mind my asking?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Where is merciful God, where is He?” someone behind me was asking. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Helmuth could kick himself for raising his hand, for asking that question. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Okay, so she didn’t pick up when I called to talk about it, but this was progress—at least she was asking now. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Though Jonathan kept asking questions about the battle, his father only shook his head, while his eyes grew clouded. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s why I’m asking you. Look, it can be anybody. He can even live with his parents — ” “Oh, please, let’s go to sleep.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

We were convulsed with hysterics at the thought of our hippie asking Mr. Kasigi to convert the water fountains to Gatorade, and to erect a bullfighting stadium in the parking lot. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I wish I had just told him something about school instead of asking him to tell me stuff instead. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

No matter what you’re talking about, even if you’re not asking her a question, she has a confused look on her face, and there’s a sort of blankness in her eyes I can’t explain. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In desperation, he called the Times Boston bureau chief, asking him to hurry to the copy shop with six hundred dollars in cash. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Newt was cleaning it with a wet rag, gingerly, asking questions in a whisper too low to hear. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They followed me around, asking me to play. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

An announcer’s voice then came over the public address system, asking the sellout crowd of eleven thousand to rise for the prayer, which everyone eagerly did. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She didn’t till I told her. She told me about him because he’d been asking her about the nuns.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I am so excited I almost can’t stand myself And don’t you go asking me about it neither. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I remember asking her when she sat down next to me. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It meant asking people you’d never met to give you a bit of their time or a tiny piece of their paycheck. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He saw Dobby’s face in the crowd and shouted out, asking for help, but Dobby called, “Harry Potter is safe there, sir!” and vanished. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

And maybe she was embarrassed about asking, too? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Then I shall have to go alone. But what I’m asking you to do is to come and save Hazel’s life.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Papa is asking what kind of white man is this? Why did he come here and what is he doing?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She led the congregation in prayer, asking the Lord to comfort all the families who had lost loved ones in the protests and riots. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“What kinds of things do you plan on growing here, if you don’t mind my asking?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Creatures crowded around, all asking the same questions. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“He kept asking if I knew where you were.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Jeannette, I haven’t asked you for a lot of favors, but I’m asking you for one now. I wouldn’t if it wasn’t important. But this is important.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been going door-to-door all day asking for donations for my Operation Save Fig bike ride in two weeks, but I don’t think I’ll ever raise enough to keep Sir Fig Newton at home. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Dimple really wished she could do this ice breaker thing with someone else, someone she’d be working with for the rest of this project, but asking him to leave right away would just be cruel. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When we finally got to the hospital they were asking me all sorts of questions—“How old was your mother?” and “Who was her doctor?” Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chickens kept asking me how I’d gotten out of my cage. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I am very sorry for you,” he said, “but I am asking for you to leave my hotel, please. This is bad for my busi­ness, very bad.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“No. I kept asking for them. And I only had two!” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Her voice was mild, as though asking a perfectly reasonable question. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Here's a letter I meant to leave for you if you weren't in. There's a question in it you can answer by mail. I don't feel like asking you about it right now." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was not long before his officers were asking to be allowed to lead patrols. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barack had to make a difficult call, phoning the pastor and asking whether he'd be willing to step back from the spotlight, giving us a private backstage blessing instead. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

His dream is to frost her tips while asking behind-the-scenes questions about Sommersby. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I feel like asking her that. If she doesn’t like it, be like Miriam. Miriam goes around everywhere without hijab, even the mosque.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“However,” she added, “we are asking you to put off children for a few more years.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had had it as long as he could remember, and the first question he could ever remember asking his Aunt Petunia was how he had gotten it. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I polled about half of the companies on the Fortune 500 list—the list of the largest corporations in the United States—asking each company questions about its CEO. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

They had sat with him for the better part of twenty minutes, waiting silently for him to explain, and when Joaquin didn’t—couldn't—explain, they started asking questions. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he pretended to talk to his mother on a play phone, asking her to “come quick.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s no good asking her. She knows everything, but she never tells,” said Jane. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I heard Bobby Gene asking the gray suits. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was probably asking himself yet again what he had done to deserve this strange, creature he called his son He wasn't as big as him, as interesting, as disciplined, controlled, dependable, or reasonable. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was just asking Charles to accept the love of Jesus, whom she saw as the kind, sweet, loving son of God. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, recently, without her even asking, Minerva had confided to Dedd that their old friend was alive and kicking. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Listen, who they got—I’m asking you, who they got besides great groundskeepers? Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone in Momma’s book club is Black, and they’re always asking me stuff like this. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

She even started asking me what I liked for sandwiches and drinks, and at noon, she’d sit down with me to chitchat for a few minutes while I ate. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

But she seems absent, asking how Marie-Laure and Etienne are doing with perfect courtesy, saying good morning as if they are strangers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They never stopped asking us about goings-on in the city and about the world of white people. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the Red Cross ladies were asking my opinion now for color combinations for the patchworks they were making to send to the soldiers. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

For the first time, someone is asking if I want the light on or off. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He dared to strike a stranger who was asking for hospitality. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Old Chao, asking me to come work,” he volunteered when Helen poked her head in the door. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom always led the conversations by asking a million questions about our hopes for the new school year. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

And the mellow eyes of the man began to search the boy for answers, answers that could be found without asking questions. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that he wouldn’t have read it, even if he could, without asking first. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I do mind your asking,” Mr. Curtain said coldly, but then he collected himself and said in a friendlier tone, “We both know you’ve had similar experiences, do we not, Reynard? For being different?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Grover looked straight at me, and I knew he was asking for my benefit. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I can tell he’s not asking this idly, or even asking for my good. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Think about what you are asking for,” he said to the crowd. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Oh sir. Don’t do anything that—” “I am not asking again.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Without asking Molly’s assistance, Vivian orders some new clothes for herself from Talbots on her laptop with a credit card. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Man, ever since he caught me writing something in Daddy’s notebook while I was waiting for Mama, he’s been asking me the same question all the time. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

She leans forward and whispers in my ear, “Please, please, you must stop asking questions.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I won’t apologize, but I’m not asking for an apology, either. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I was just asking myself that very question when the girl took her shirt off,” Colin said. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

He was unleashing a stream of curses, asking the driver to let us inside with his family, and to let as many people as possible hang on to the tanker for the journey to Jordan. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Now, looking at her mother’s set jaw and flat eyes, she knew there was no sense in asking any more questions. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

How could the letter Ms. Hussey was asking them to imagine sound so similar to that one about art and crime? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He’s always asking me if one day we can play a duet, him on air guitar, me on air cello. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Man, she’s sitting up in his office fixing to cry and whatnot and he asking some stupid mess like that. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, but I plan on asking when I see him.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

"Oh. I... I'm so sorry, Mr. Borden. I hope you don't mind me asking, but this is pretty important. Do you think your daughter's death had anything to do with the electric blanket?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard the officer, his voice tired and uninterested, asking his obligatory questions. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“This is just asking for trouble,” the sheriff said. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took Stanley a moment, but then he realized Zero was asking about Clyde Livingston's shoes. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

There was something hopeless in Erics e-mail, like this response to my asking if he was liking work any better. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m asking because Pa has a lady friend who lives in Brownsville. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the noise woke Tony up, but when he arrived at Mary’s bedroom door asking what was going on, she snapped her fingers and hushed him, telling him to go back to bed. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Come in,” he hollers, expecting it to be Sonia in her pajamas, asking if she can borrow his Magic 8 Ball or his Rubik’s Cube. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

His father walked off to his own bedroom with Chip’s mother a few steps behind, still asking questions. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And then Hilly is surrounded by women, faces upturned, asking questions, arms out like they are trying to protect her. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“You keep asking her about Khalil, like he’s the reason he’s dead. Like she said, he didn’t pull the trigger on himself.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I told him about Hawaiian-ish pizza, asking him if he also liked pepperoni with pineapples. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He had found it without asking anyone the way and had moved in and begun to put it into repair as though he belonged there. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father listened carefully, asking only a few questions. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Citra smirked at Rowan for asking—as if she hadn’t been worrying about that herself. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She stopped asking questions, drew Poppy onto her lap, and gazed in silence at the glimmering landscape. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Several journalists, at my suggestion, posted messages on Slashdot, asking kids to contact them. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A clergyman, who must have borrowed his voice from Mr. Edel, concluded by asking God to take care of the Jews, all those in concentration camps and prisons and everyone working in Germany. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“So I got out of the habit of asking questions,” she recalled. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In the office, nice ladies type on computers, asking if I want water. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

That's the equivalent of asking someone with a beer gut for tips on how to get a defined six-pack. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I was asking Headmistress if we could be relocated, and she looked at me and started laughing. We are the last. All the schools in Umuahia have become refugee camps or army training camps.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But I wouldn’t be able to ask that without him asking about my history and how I was caught. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“That’s the whole point. People don’t look for you when you’re dead. Old enemies don’t try to settle scores. People don’t come asking you for stories,” he said acidly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"Why you keep asking me who I do things for?" Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“She is asking me how fast I can run,” I tell Richard. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“You’d better be calling me to say that there are eleven naked honeybunnies in your house, and that they’re asking for the Special Feeling that only Big Daddy Ben can provide.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Sir,” the animal salesman said, “our asking price is already a thousand dollars under book. Check your Sidney’s; I’ll hang on. I want you to see for yourself, sir, that our price is fair.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The best solution he could see would mean dispatching her to Eastwatch and asking Cotter Pyke to put her on a ship to someplace across the sea, beyond the reach of all these quarrelsome kings. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The flyers were asking people to come out and vote in the December 6 election. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In the letter, your grandmother talks like this is something that’s going to happen soon. Him asking you, I mean.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Olinski waited until Ham reached the front of the room before asking, "Jared Lord, would you please join Mr. Knapp?" The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t wait for an answer before asking something else. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sloth, his crewgirl, made fun of him whenever he washed the mask, asking why he even bothered. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Spacetime is usually explained by asking you to imagine something flat but pliant–a mattress, say, or a sheet of stretched rubber–on which is resting a heavy round object, such as an iron ball. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

That kept the agent from asking any questions. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She didn’t have a number for the Homeland Security man who had called; she cursed herself for not asking for a way to contact him. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Three men suddenly accosted them, asking loudly all at once if they wanted to sell their rations for yen. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

All around them, people were asking one another the same question: “How did be get in?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry about me. Just make sure you get through your junior year. And stop messing with Bad Leg. And don’t go around asking about that white girl. Please.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When the state Welfare people began coming to our house, we would come from school sometimes and find them talking with our mother, asking a thousand questions. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But John knew by the weary, impatient set of Roy’s young mouth that his brother was asking that none of this be held against him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

"No," I say, "but who said anything about asking? If they've got it, then we go and take it." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark was quiet for a few seconds before asking, “Are you afraid of what will happen if you say yes?” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m a stranger here. I’m asking you where Harlem is!” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I breezed through many of the questions, but Hemme was openly hostile, asking questions with more than one answer so that nothing I said could be correct. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They admired her and were always asking her advice about men. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I suddenly remember Sophie asking if I was a saint and me replying that I’m just another stupid human. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

They seemed to be asking about an object.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I am asking myself this now as I stand on a narrow ledge six stories above the ground. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Eh? So I don’t count? Has Eugene ever asked about your aching leg? If I do not count, then I will stop asking if you rose well in the morning.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“No, but...she asked without asking. And when the One comes along, there are things we must sacrifice.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I decided that to be safe I’d better get the cream puffs—even if it meant asking for an advance on my allowance. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The nurses and doctors kept asking me questions: How did you get burned? The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

My mother shrieked when she heard my voice and I laughed at hearing my father in the background dashing to my mother in alarm, asking what was wrong. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He was always asking people in his cab about how to get rich. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in yet another experiment, his team is asking a question related to distracted driving. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I miss getting in my car and just driving without anybody telling me what to do or how loud I can play the radio or asking if I’ve practiced piano.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

A few times I tried asking for information. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Cooper from the candy store and her daughter, Thelma, arrived next, stepping into the bucket line and asking how to help. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mom at first said no, she didn’t, but Dad kept asking her again and again, and when she finally said yes, the fight disappeared from both of them. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice kept going up on the end of her sentences, like she was asking if the things she was saying were really true. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Who would fill those mouths that are always asking for more? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Over a hundred million years,” Kavita replies, even though I wasn’t asking her. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Some of the best talks I have ever had started with someone asking, “This might seem rude, but can I ask about your face/nose/scars/bumps?” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He tried asking the egg questions, shouting over all the wailing, but nothing happened. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He had no friends, no other relatives — he didn’t belong to the library, so he’d never even got rude notes asking for books back. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The whole way home, Baby Girl is asking questions bout them pots. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

President Senghor was a scholar and a poet, and he told us he was collecting research material on Shaka, flattering us by asking numerous questions about that great South African warrior. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know this will be nothing good, either: it will be Cathy, perhaps, asking me ever so nicely to maybe give the booze a rest this evening? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s for your children that I’m asking you for money.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She makes a big deal of asking them what they want, of getting them to recite for the company, and trying to get sullen little Fifi to smile for the obnoxious fat man. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Mam says, Oh, I can’t afford sausages, and he says, Am I asking you for money? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

For a moment she thought of asking him about the captive child below, the Singer of the future, who was being forced to learn the interminable Song. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know that what I am asking is impossible. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

At this point I didn't even know why I was asking. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

After that he followed them around, talking and asking questions. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the third sip of soup he was asking me what the devil, was I really born on some other world—what was it like there—warmer than Gethen, everybody said—how warm? The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s been asking us a lot of questions, in fact. He just won’t answer any. Every time we ask anything he just says, ‘No.’ We think he might have seen more than you did. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll admit my question was a rather obvious way of asking what I didn’t have the nerve to say directly to Julia Bishop. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“It is an insult that you are even asking.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

After stopping at several places and asking for work, we found a rancher who still had a few cotton fields to be picked. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He could remember the very feel of the smooth-worn wood under his elbows, the heat of the lamp on his cheek as he learned with his eyes, with his memory, asking countless questions. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“I won’t start any asking. But if someone else says something...” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Dr. Mitra makes small talk, asking after Mom and Aunt Tara and my grandmother. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Now that Mom and I could talk more about things, about Amanda anyway, I thought of asking her just how the garden helped her. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

But he did not know what he was asking. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he started asking God to look out for Brew’s soul. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father appeared a moment later, looking down at him, asking if Shamsoun was all right. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I chew on my lip for a moment before asking, “Did you know her?” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I miss telling her about what I’m reading, what I’m thinking, asking her about work, listening to her carry on about Aunt Joan and whatever drama she’s gotten into. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mummy, her face tight, asking, “The black pearls?” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She was blond and tan and too tall—almost my height—and without even asking I knew she was from California. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Ana colored, asking unconvincingly, “Why would I do that?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was called Joe and he started hanging around trying to get my attention by telling stupid jokes while we worked and asking totally duh questions like What’s it like being a Yank? How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said she knew he’d been sending her those anonymous notes all those years, but it wasn’t a woman’s place to do the asking. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It would never have lit the night like the one the emperor keeps asking for.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Jasmine whispers to me, like she’s asking for permission to cry. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Mom goes into the kitchen to make dinner without asking me how my day was, even though she knows I’m here. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

We quizzed everyone we met, from pastors to professors to the manager of the neighborhood McDonald’s, asking them to identify the most interesting young people they knew. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Victor could not stop himself from asking, “And what urgent appointment does the dottore have to keep?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the girls I've dated spent more time asking me insecure questions than actually enjoying our time together—Do you think I'm pretty? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I contemplate asking to switch uniform skirts with her since hers is too short and mine is so long. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Always asking me what to do today. Can’t you amuse yourselves with your toys? Or with each other? I have work to do.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

And forget about asking me to read it. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She did not want to expose her ineptitude by asking among the nurses or porters. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I think the asking is whether we get back up again.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure if she is answering the cop or asking for permission. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, I was thinking about asking my father to let me run the ranch.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They kept asking me to go other places, too. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

But if he kept asking, she was bound to tell him. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The only other choices I can think of are knocking her unconscious or asking Vivi to glamour her; both are terrible. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I knew that he was asking where I wanted to go. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“What did I say? Your own people are asking for a ball. If you don’t care for us surely you care about them.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She and Grace are solicitous on the way home, linking their arms through mine, asking me how I feel. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

How much of that had crept into my voice yesterday when I began asking him about the Jack-and-Jill bathroom? Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For days and days I kept asking her, but she kept saying “No!” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

At work, I met with the partner in charge of my division, asking to be given more challenging assignments. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Finding the right answers usually involves asking the right questions. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was asking him to leave the door open. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re not staying for dinner, Ky. Drink the coffee, take the cigarettes if you want, but then leave, please. Actually, I’m not asking you to leave, I’m telling you to leave, do you understand?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Diego escorted me to my new class without asking, and I didn’t tell him how grateful I was. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“But you’re not hungry now,” I said confidently — stating, not asking. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Why, Jonathan kept asking himself, is he looking for me? The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I hesitated a moment before asking, “Are you sure he didn’t really commit suicide? Because his avatar had been killed?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

We knelt in the Negro aisles of the Meeting House asking for deliverance from what was to come. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Baby had walked to the front door to look out, asking Ugwu when Mummy Ola would come back, and then cried out at the crumpled form on the steps. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In essence, the tribe was asking us whether we shared its feelings; if we refused to join the church, it was equivalent to saying no, to placing ourselves in the position of moral monsters. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Besides, a guy who starts playing solitaire in jail is just asking to get depressed.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

And the smell of a cunning Englishman ghost, sickled to a rubber tree, asking courteously for a cigar. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stands in front of the bulletin board, asking me about the people in the photographs. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She had been asking him this question for some time now. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

You realize what you are asking me to do? The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Why was Tom asking that question when he himself had done the crime? The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t think Maxim could have borne it, with Beatrice sitting here, staying in the house, sincere, anxious, and affectionate, but asking questions all the time. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

As if asking my age or my name. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I was halfway home before I realized Dorothy had diverted me from asking her out. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They noticed his pallor, and Ellen’s eyes were tender as she recognized the signs of tears, but they would not shame him by asking if the trip had been too hard for him. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Shame on you. Grown woman like you asking me that.” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Providence, residents phoned the electric company, asking it to switch off the lights “so that the city would be safe from the enemy.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“How did she die? If you don’t mind me asking.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Mr. Pajolli comes rushing out of his office, asking Juju to quiet down. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Chess Federation sent a communiqué to the Icelandic Chess Federation asking about the disposition of Bobby’s body, presumably wanting to bring him back to the United States, a move that Bobby would have detested. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Why would I waste time asking ‘How are you?’ Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The caretaker came across the courtyard and told me that the director was asking for me. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Calista was like, “Are you asking in terms of sex appeal?” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to head him off by asking him something, anything, but he was too fast for me. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you’re asking me whether I ponder my death every day,” she said to the woman, as politely as she could, “the answer is no.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Confused and worried, he sat reading the subject lists with his tongue poking out, asking people whether they thought Arithmancy sounded more difficult than Study of Ancient Runes. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Emilika knocks at the door three more times in the next two days, asking if her advice has solved Danuta’s problem. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Maybe he hadn’t been just asking to see her drawings the other day. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

More soon; she’s trying to peek into this diary while also incessantly asking me questions. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Alabama newspaper and television reporters began to telephone me, asking for interviews. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Or I was on long-distance to Mr. Muhammad in Chicago, reading from my notebook and asking for Mr. Muhammad’s instructions. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was asking if the guy on the other end of the phone wanted us to go to the backup position. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

For his voice asking Mami to forgive him, or for his footsteps outside the house. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“A Negro’d be asking for the rope to get himself mixed up with white women.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He nuzzled her arm, murmuring contentedly, as if asking, More gold? The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I think about what Pastor Dames said about reaping what we sow and so I pray one more time inside my head, asking God, Please don't punish me for misbehaving. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It would be asking too much of her to serve Ripred and the roaches. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Safer’s mom and Pigeon pretty much carry the conversation, asking me questions about my family and school. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I heard he was singing again, but tonight I didn’t feel up to asking him where or when. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes asking for help makes things worse,” I respond. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He was asking her to please move back to the house. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Bigger felt that if the preacher kept asking he would leap up and strike him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember to give the person you’re asking the chance to answer one question at a time,” says Ms. Rochambeau. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was a gloomy day and we kept asking Saidu if he was okay all the way to the next village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“But I am hoping that you will forgive me, just this once, for asking if we can reconsider our previous decision to remain uninvolved.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

What made the incident particularly frightening was Holmes’s manner as he made the offer—“about the same manner one would expect from a friend who was asking you the most trivial question,” Bowman said. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Refusing or asking why would just make the deputy angrier than he already was. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Reassured, he stands again and starts asking the adults questions about what happened. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I am not asking you for any money!” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Prince Dain, soon to be the High King of all Faerie, asking me what I want. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The policeman was asking him to be an informant: a snitch on his own classmates. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another cop car pulled up and then another, then all eight cops started asking the crowd to disperse, only holding a few people back to ask questions. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

This was the nearest she could come to asking outright for help. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chapter 17 ends the book by looking at Montaigne’s scepticism and asking whether we are entitled to claim that we know more than he did. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He thought about asking her what he should do in case of an earthquake but didn’t want to sound like a wimp. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was useless to think of asking Dad. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And to answer yer asking, there’s shallow crossings a couple days’ traveling upstream but there ain’t no bridges for a good distance more either way.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

His gaze fell on the Little Comic Con flyer on the dresser, and he felt a strange warmth come to his cheeks when he remembered Dimple asking if she could come with him. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Give me a few more days, and he’ll be asking you to Fall Ball before you know it.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I remember my mom asking people for a bathroom for what must have been an hour. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The little boy approached and held up the earless rabbit, asking if he too could come to Gotenhafen. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Asking to see my genes feels a little like asking me to strip down. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“My father got me one. As a surprise. So I guess he wants me to learn clamming. So I’m asking you.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

So the director started asking about MDR in a different way. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

But Lexie appearing at her elbow, Lexie asking to come over to her house, Lexie asking to spend time with her—she felt like Cinderella looking up to see the prince’s outstretched hand. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The twins keep asking me chatty questions about music and movies and Ben, but I can barely form words. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to circulate a petition asking for a special election to recall the board members who voted for the teacher purge,” Dr. Agar explained. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was awful, everybody crowding around like I was a side show, asking how’d it happen and what was I doin’ on the trestle anyhow, and what you mean, ran over? Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I knew that if she saw all the new clothes, she would start asking questions, and wouldn't stop asking them until she got the truth. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“But is everyone pulling their fair share? That’s the question I’m asking.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He had been asking me since the first day I came. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as they were far enough away for me to conquer my fear, I dashed home and babbled to my mother what I had seen, asking her who the strange men were. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you see,” I ask, not really sure why I’m asking, “when you try to remember your parents together? What’s your best memory?” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was always asking Papa to help him out. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I didn’t pay any attention; he was always speaking when his thoughts were somewhere else, asking rhetorical questions and echoing other people’s words. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

We put up flyers asking people to donate their “gently worn” coats by dropping them off in plastic bags in a giant bin we left in front of our brownstone. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She still felt bad about asking Maya whether or not the adoption would be invalid. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But since I also couldn’t explain how Millard had known exactly when those planes were going to fly over, I didn’t bother asking. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She had no difficulty in procuring Isabella’s invitation; and she was fortunate in having a sufficient reason for asking it, without resorting to invention.—There was a tooth amiss. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“They’ll be asking us that question soon, too,” he warned them. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The mischief-makers planned to return to the scene of their tricks the next night, Halloween, dressed in costume, innocently asking the neighbors for treats. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He sat back down not even asking why. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The master of ceremonies made the introductions with the flare of a circus ringmaster asking the audience to direct its attention please to the center ring. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Alabama, asking to change venue was an essentially futile act. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“All we’re asking you to do is to report back to us,” Blunt said. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“If you don’t mind me asking, what will I be doing?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or without yelling my head off for asking her something so ridiculous. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m not a ‘cultured American’ so that’s asking too much of me.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“That’s funny. I don’t remember you asking if you could use my book.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

If you go late in the morning they’re liable to be cranky after seeing hundreds of men women and children sick and asking for help. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

How I went around from painting to painting asking each to eat me and each did. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Now, if you was asking me, one day was okay, but I don’t think I would ever need to see it again. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I honestly hadn’t thought of asking Maylene, but when the girls brought it up, that thing happened where someone plants the idea in your head and it changes your perception. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He gave me a bit of a look before asking about the Peppers concert. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Neubauer had been in the hospital when he received a letter from Kappe asking him if he wanted to go on an assignment to America. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Agnes arrived immediately, nearly falling over herself with joy that Gilly had not only invited her over but was actually asking for her help in carrying out a secret and obviously illegal plot. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

They knock on every door, asking whether any Jews live there. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I’m aware that Rachel is still talking, she’s asking me questions. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And suddenly I understand what Gramps was really asking Gran. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bookcases filled with complete sets of Tom Swift, The Bobbsey Twins, The Hardy Boys, and Nancy Drew were in the grade-school hallway and available to any student for the asking. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Although Charles discussed religion and science with Gray and other close friends, he demurred when strangers wrote to him asking what he believed about God. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think she is really asking why, but I don’t care. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first I thought it was Monsieur or Madame, and I was real afraid that Madame would be angry with me for having used a whole bottle of her perfume without asking. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“I’m not asking you to be your brother,” says Mama. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

That was all he said; then he smiled and walked away, asking the other soldiers to strip us of our military equipment. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“He was here asking for opinions about the Abnegation leadership, and Christina told him there were more important things for him to be doing.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I’d put off asking anyone until it was too late, telling myself it didn’t matter because true rocket scientists didn’t have time for such things. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

‘He doesn’t get any closer. When I tried to go over there, he disappeared. Not sure if he’s a threat, but he seems to be asking for you.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“So did Lauren, but you kept her,” Maya had pointed out more than once, but the joke had worn thin by now and she had stopped asking for a dog. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She’s the one who agreed to the scholarship without even asking me if I minded. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Oh,” I said bitterly, “I know what they have to say about the matter. Why do you think I never get out of the kitchen anymore? That’s why I’m asking you.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He sent to die 83rd to tell them of his move to the left, asking if perhaps they couldn’t come a little this way and help him out. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ignored her greetings, was angered by her wide-eyed look and her asking, “What is it, Ugwu? What did I do to offend you?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Francine would have my hide if she knew I was asking you this.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Then she was shouting, asking what was wrong with me. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

They were always really nice to him, and Joaquin called them Mr. and Mrs. Brown even though they kept asking him to call them Judy and David. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

My mom turns to my dad and nods toward the cabinets—her silent way of asking him to set the dining table with the good china. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

But then Mrs. Hopper started getting headaches and kept asking them to be quiet and not to touch things. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’d be rushing out to practice and some guy would stick a microphone in my face and start asking questions. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody but Ty Carson, who bolted out of class, probably because Mr. Davanzo couldn't stand people asking to go to the bathroom. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Gay wanted me to taste the food she’d make before asking for an alternative dinner. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Gauguin writes back, asking Vincent for one of his paintings—sunflowers on a yellow background, “which I regard as a perfect page of an essential ‘Vincent' style.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

People started asking about the Marvels, and Joseph loved refilling the teapots and putting out the halfeaten food for all the members of the invisible family, who he always said had just stepped out. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

So instead of asking her what was wrong, he said, “I have some good news.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

After the battle, before the smoke had died from Hardred's funeral pyre, the Geats sent again to Beowulf, asking him if he would be king. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept asking myself if I felt different, if I was different. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

How I could never answer any of the questions, yet the reporters kept asking more and more. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I’m asking you to save one of them. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

I wanted them to think I was mature and grown-up, but I couldn’t help asking, “All those letters. Aren’t you scared?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know that, he forgot, I suppose, and, as your grandpa was poorly, I didn’t like to worry him by asking, though I did want some.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reporter asking the questions was from the Lambert Trader. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the past I had put up with her tantrums and said nothing when she'd yelled at me in front of the deadbeats, but this was asking too much. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He sent word to the White House, asking to see Garfield. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I waited for him to finish asking these three guys in suits to help our basketball team. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Three very big men step out of an alley and start asking me for things. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I developed a habit of pointing to male mannequins in shopping malls and asking if they were my father. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Hearing the ringing, a steward yelled into the office, asking Farrell if he would pick up the phone. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you don’t mind me asking, did she ever tell you why she was let go from the city?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

His father kept asking Master to have some kola nut, palm wine, a stool to sit down, some water, and Master kept saying no, no, no. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

As far as they were concerned, young kids wandering aimlessly around a mall were just asking for trouble. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I’d been asking her to meet me at Listening Rock for three weekends straight, ever since school had started again, and finally, she’d said she could. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

After asking Zannikos for advice, he bought a one-third share of a Greek diner in Jamaica, Queens. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I felt like a poor person in a tenement building, when someone has died, asking if I might see the body. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel felt bad asking them to take care of her, but she’d woken up parched and exhausted, as if she’d lived the last few hours in both the past and the present. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Harry, Ron, and Hermione went up to the Owlery after . breakfast on Sunday to send a letter to Percy, asking, as Sirius had suggested, whether he had seen Mr. Crouch lately. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

And Milton was asking himself a few, pertinent questions. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. and Mrs. Hernandez just kept asking the same question, which was this: Was he sure it was Cade he found? 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

And it, too, helped answer a question I’d been asking myself. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I had to write a note to my mother asking her to buy lunch bags, bologna, and little containers of applesauce. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Chess looked down at his sister, and it felt like they were coming to understand the same thing at the same time: Mom doesn’t want us asking questions. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Without even asking, my mother knew that meant including the Jongs’ children: their son Vincent, who was thirty-eight years old and still living at home, and their daughter, Waverly, who was around my age. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m asking for something now,” he says, as if we’ve just established that he’s a saint who’s never asked a single person for anything. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But now he started asking me about college. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

What she should be asking is if I can afford to shop there. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Here was an ugly little girl asking for beauty. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Warren pulls on my shirt as a way of asking me to finish what I started. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was along about this point Rosaleen started asking me what did I think I was doing—auditioning myself to get adopted by the calendar sisters? The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just thought I should ask because you don’t look okay, but when I think about it, asking whether or not you’re okay seems really stupid right now. Of course you’re not okay.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“If you don’t mind my asking, sir, why did the other children torment you?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She saved me with never asking questions, with instead reading to me about bees and botany and evolution. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I hadn't been around to witness the defeats, only his victories, while I ran behind on my little legs, trying to catch up, asking him to wait up as he sprinted off on his adventures. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Before we end this gallop through early astronomy, it’s worth asking why the ancient Greeks didn’t achieve more in their study of the heavens. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

This was a first: An art scholar had become a thief and was asking the public for help. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He is asking if Gina understands something now because of her. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Penny wakes every morning asking for her "Doodle" - a soft, brown stuffed animal that might be a monkey or maybe a squirrel. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Yes, him. They weren’t asking about this sort of thing, were they?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“A few weeks ago, Dr. Benjamin Rush wrote to Reverend Allen asking for help.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy had even stopped asking for her notebook. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

That don’t stop her from asking me to answer the question, though. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I heard Dad hauling in the anchor and Mom zipping her windbreaker and Abbey asking if she could steer back to the dock, but still I couldn’t take my eyes off the sky. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

"She's been sent to replace you at the Chrysanthemum Teahouse. Stop asking about her." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Rab did not criticize him, but he had a way of asking him why he did certain things which had a great influence upon Johnny. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you asking me for a story, whateffer, with his reverence here among the ashes!” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sent my photograph to these police stations and he sent a memo to his franchise operators, asking them to post my picture at every Hercules restaurant. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

All morning long, students I hardly know are asking me to run for class president, begging me to join their clubs, their sports teams, to sit with them at lunch. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too busy asking him about Hudson, I write. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

As I open the front door, I hear Mom’s voice from somewhere down the hallway: “Please stop asking me, David! Dad’ll pick you up at five o’clock, and that’s the ladt time I’m saying it!” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which would explain the three million texts from Camila and Mya and Poe asking about how last night went. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

But it’s like one day you asking for some Batman sheets for your bed, and the next day somebody telling you Batman is for babies. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Where we come from,” Emma said haughtily, “you don’t question people who come to you asking for help.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

If they never get an answer from me, they stop asking. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Linda would never have considered asking me to abandon the sport, but the announcement that I intended to quit had reinforced her decision to marry me. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

It’s angry and asking and Noisy as a fire, so uneven I can’t make hide nor hair of it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I gave him what he was asking for. What I imagine you want from him as well.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I nodded and couldn’t figure out why he started out asking what he already knew. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then Muhammad: “He’s asking you to tell him what the Qur’an says about Jesus.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She encouraged us to love each other, but that was like asking Beyoncé and Becky with the Good Hair to hug it out. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

And I don’t know that I’d be asking her to wait for any other reason than me. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It was a tense moment and, at the time, neither of us saw any irony in a prisoner asking not to be released and his jailer attempting to release him. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my early correspondence, I was timid about asking such forthright questions because I didn't want him to think I was stupid for not already knowing. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Pacheco was forever knocking on front doors and back doors and outhouse doors, asking after his sow. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad always got on Spoony, asking him why he wasn’t inspired to make something of himself since he dated such a smart girl. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

None of this has made any sense to me at all, but I limit myself to asking what the product is, assuming there is some kind of product involved. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old Rit said drearily, “They keep asking him questions about it. Every time he goes up to the Big House I’m scared he won’t come back.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But I believe there's a small matter of introducing the reaping winner and then asking for volunteers, and if one does come forth then we, um . . ." she trails off, unsure herself. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Yoyo begins by asking him if he's ever heard of Mary Wollstonecraft. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

But Harry, Ron, and Hermione kept on asking, and finally, Fred said, “All right, all right, if you really want to know ... it was Ludo Bagman.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A clear box appears, asking me to accept a shared view. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Honestly, Gen, do you ever stop asking questions?” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

And third, and most urgent, there was a question she had been asking for a week: Where was the acorn? The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Noah, I’m asking Dad for a divorce. I’m going to tell him today. And I want to tell your sister myself.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

You had to keep asking and asking before she would believe you really wanted to know and weren’t just being polite. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as he’d recovered enough from his surgery to travel, Gey began contacting cancer researchers around the country, asking who was doing research on pancreatic cancer and needed a patient to experiment on. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“You remember asking me if I miss my dad?” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

But asking him to wait with her didn’t seem very mature. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

By afternoon, their temporary masters, disturbed by their absence, sent messengers to Dr. Thompson, in Caroline County, asking about them. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was around seven, I stopped asking about it because I kept asking like kids always do and my Aunt Helen started crying very hard. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

After the third asking Tehlu sprang across the line and he struck each of them a great blow, driving them to the ground. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was walking toward the Hub, and there was a crowd watching him run from guard to guard, frantic, asking questions about his boyfriend—where he was, when he’d return. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“There’s always some one there. Who would be asking the question otherwise?” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t any of my business, I knew, but I still felt like asking her. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Not to go asking anyone about who killed that bloody dog 4. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Why do you keep asking? I told you, they’re all dead. Probably hundreds of thousands.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

‘If you had to choose between being a stiff and never asking another question, which would you take?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The day after the fight, Bobby penned a letter to the Tournament Committee, asking them to expel Benko. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Do you deny you were asking Dobson for help with your work?’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He never accepted because he had a sneaking suspicion Mrs. Cormaci would end up asking a lot more questions than he would. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They and others pressed around me, asking questions. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Shortly afterward, Harriet had someone write a letter to Franklin B. Sanborn in Boston, asking for a bloomer dress because long skirts were a handicap on an expedition. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yo’ teacher called here this morning, asking to speak to your mama.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He dried his face and hands slowly, without answering her, because they both knew what she was really asking. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll walk with you a ways,” he says, not even asking if it’s okay. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

My dad must’ve spoken to Miss Joe, and together, they decided to sit me down—lie to me, get me to stop asking questions. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

‘Tell me, if my asking does not seem foolish, who is Tom Bombadil?’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Soon the BBC showed up in Turner Station, asking locals about life there in the forties and fifties. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

"Oh, God, Phoebe, don't ask me. I'm sick of everybody asking me that," I said. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Dad asks, and I know he’s asking for me. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I do not look like an orphan,” I said, picturing Oliver Twist asking for more porridge. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Singleton: “I’m asking if cell phone records show the crash happened at that time—” Phill: “Objection. No foundation. Don’t answer this question.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He was looking at Naima, almost as if he were asking her a question. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how much you know on the subject, if he just starts asking all sorts of unexpected questions, your mind and brain seize up like a pump in the winter. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The man walked away, not before asking where he could find food and water for his stallion, which was called Svadilfari, which means “one who makes an unlucky journey.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, it seemed to dawn on her that Mrs. Baylor was asking all these questions because she was worried. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

And so, after asking where there might be close at hand a ship where he might purchase ship forms, he departed. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I suppose it’s no good asking you not to go?” he said. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that case, stepping off in a strange town where the sheriff didn’t know me, and then walking down the road all day, was just asking for trouble. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He eyes me curiously, and I regret asking my question. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They waited until the Pacific populations were stable before legally asking for permission to resume this ancient tradition. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He didn’t bother asking the priest if there was any more word from Puerto Rico. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I am asking you to bring your father home. Now hurry before the sun goes up.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was on the verge of asking her to take it back and give me a refund when the clerk emerged from the back room carrying the puzzle box all wrapped in pink paper. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

All that afternoon Blanca went to each of their special meeting spots, asking for him, shouting his name, even looking for him at the house of old Pedro Garcia, his grandfather. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be like asking a stone to understand mortality. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was smiling at me, as if asking, Can I help you? The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I kept asking him about what happened. Lots of times. But he wouldn’t say. Not a word. Anyway...I buried them. Thought it was right....” The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Water was everywhere, swirling, freezing, black, and there was Dismay, paddling for me, paddling for his life, depending on me, asking me to help him. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You know that! Why do you keep asking me?” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“She had it on. And all hips. She kept asking me if Seymour’s related to that Suzanne Glass that has that place on Madison Avenue—the millinery.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

There’s no point in asking why, even though everybody will. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me,” said one ghost girl, “but where’s your dæmons? Excuse me for asking. But...” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Vincent writes to him every other day, worrying, asking him often how he is feeling. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She could imagine Maya toddling after her, annoying her, pulling her hair and borrowing her clothes without asking first. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The sea breeze found him and twisted around him like a cat asking for a bowl of milk. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I was a serious prayer, asking for help in this and that, and blessing about everyone I knew, but Delphine just whipped through the Lord’s Prayer and jumped into bed. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Presently, with an excuse, he left me, asking me to put all my papers together. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

She did not understand why Laura looked up so much information about Nigeria, asking her about 419 scams, telling her how much money Nigerians in America sent back home every year. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The bride’s father was an air vice marshal, it was rumored that the Head of State might attend, and Aunty Uju joked about asking him to make her medical officer at Aso Rock. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“J.D., the man was looking at the hill and asking questions.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was Ruthie who said, “This child needs to sleep. Everybody needs to stop asking her questions and let her go home and sleep.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Then Babi was in the hallway, calling her name from the top of the stairs, asking her to come up quickly. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Simmer down, buster. I’m just asking her to help me count.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then . . . you were asking them to die. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All through the flights he was addressing his navigator, asking, ‘How are the girls?’” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The whole thing reeked of secrets, a smell Ivy knew very well, so she didn’t bother asking why. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

At first he asked for rice water and cried because there was none, but later he gave up asking and merely cried. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Will sometimes gave Drew a hard time about it at practice, asking why Drew could never manage to make his girlfriend smile. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I’m asking for something that no politics is going to provide, something that probably you only get in preschool. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mom always had this habit of asking me how something felt on a scale of one to ten. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The priest seemed to be asking for forgiveness, or explaining his actions. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He finished eating and left the cafeteria without waiting for the bell or asking permission. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Luke still looked conflicted, as if Toby was asking him to choose between life and death. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

On the bus back to the West Side, he kept asking me about the game and what his team could have done better. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He agreed, asking her to come along an hour later. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I love science, and I love nothing more than asking question upon question to figure out the way things work. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Besides, she was the one who was doing the asking and all I was saying was yes. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if Lily is asking me if I am inquisitive or odd. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Harry and Ron had given up asking her how she was managing to attend several classes at once, but they couldn’t restrain themselves when they saw the exam schedule she had drawn up for herself. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was not only their tongues curling around toothpicks that kept Helene from asking information of them. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“We should just beat him up and go back out and play,” the sister remembered thinking, but after a while everyone got interested and started asking him questions. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

She spoke first, asking if he had a cigarette paper. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I can hear the drive- through cashier on the speaker asking if they want to add fries and a drink. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He's got these big eyebrows that make it hard to see his eyes and that's fine, I don't want to see them, looking at those eyes is asking to have a bad dream. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

He felt embarrassed for asking, and went on quickly: “How many flights of stairs is there?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He keeps asking me all these gory questions about every little detail. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She tried to stop herself from asking the next question, but her curiosity was too great. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

It meant passing through villages and people asking questions. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

So I’m guessing you still blame yourself for my situation, despite my earlier e-mail asking you not to. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Some people are asking for your removal on the grounds that you are incompetent,” he said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was at that fun stage, wanting to try new things and constantly asking “What’s that?” and saying the most hilarious things. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dell moves closer to the big-screen TV, asking: "Do you watch a lot of sports?" Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Now I sit here, asking myself what I have to do next. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I nodded even though I could not see myself asking around for someone I didn’t know. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“Wait, how do you know about the trial? You been asking about me?” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The other men on the site started running over, asking what had happened, offering to help. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

"Goodness, I don't know what came over me, asking for Dr. Rosen’s home address. I guess people will do anything when they have a sore tooth. Tomorrow, one o’clock." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I am told you have been asking after me. I am—” “—Jon Snow.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Few Karhiders, even the fishermen and farmers with whom I had spent my first months, had been willing to satisfy their curiosity—which was often intense—by simply asking. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if he had asked about us, Jaja and me at the same time, like asking about two things that went together. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I glance over at Yolanda and she gives me a little shrug, but she also smiles, so I think she’s okay with Coach West not asking her to join the track team. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

And I don’t want them to start talking and asking questions. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

What you did—if you were one of these Juniors—was to follow back and forth from the storeroom the two men in overalls carrying the big cardboard boxes, asking them what was inside. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Are you asking me to be your girl? The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

My cousins’ friends stare at me and start asking too many questions. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He refrained from asking questions, but explained that Mayor Morrison had a good reputation for fairness and the Negroes were hoping he would get elected governor. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why are you asking all these questions? He’s the Kamba’s bull. That’s all you need to know. However, we call him Head Buster.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“What I’m asking from you is to grant an old man his dying wish,” he said gravely. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And then I guess she got tired of asking nicely. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He was also really good at asking open questions, making other people talk about themselves so he wouldn’t have to say anything about himself. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The dusky woman knew what he wanted without his even asking. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I thought about asking Mom if we could check it out, but I didn’t. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The Russian prime minister, Leonid Brezhnev, wrote to Dr. Verwoerd asking for leniency. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she looked at Malcolm and said, “Who was asking me about Andrew? Was it you?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It sounded like the singer kept asking, “Did you stand by me?” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t understand this because I’m sure angels would never leave a sick baby on the seventh step.There’s no use asking Dad or Mam about this. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Lee writes another letter to Grant, asking for “a suspension of the hostilities pending the adjustment of the terms of the surrender of this army.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He knew what he was saying, he knew what he was asking, but his voice—he was pleading. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I wet the brush and rearranged the tube of paste to prevent my parents from asking any questions, and fell asleep with sugar on my tongue. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

And then one of the dudes on the court started yelling, asking me if I was going to play or not. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

At Dad, for not even asking my opinion before yanking me out of Westside and hauling me off to Chumley. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

It takes me a second to work out what she’s asking. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

In the prison movies that provide me with a mental guide to comportment, the new guy doesn’t go around shaking hands and asking, “Hi there, what are you in for?” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am so sick of people asking me that,” I grumble. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Please, ma’am,” said Alyce, who had learned that ma’ams and sirs served her well even with cooks and stableboys when asking favors. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kenya and DeVante follow me, asking about fifty million questions that I don’t have time to answer. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He realized asking Rishi to commit to an engineering program was like asking him to live in a nicely decorated cage for the rest of his life. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The only minor distraction was Holly Deblin, the new girl, asking if she could go to the sick bay for a bit. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Diego sent me a handful of text messages, at first asking where I was, then begging me to let him know I was all right. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He was right, and those people quickly began asking questions. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But Raymond told me he didn’t think he could write the kind of letter it would take and that he’d thought of asking me to write it for him. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe Baba is trying to make up for being late, but he won’t stop asking questions. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Otherwise, they go on and on, asking the most impertinent questions. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Norwegians at the whaling factory crowded Sørlle’s house, asking the manager over and over again to repeat the story Shackleton had told. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

"There's folks gathering in the square, Y'Grace, asking to take refuge in the castle. Not a mob, rich merchants and the like." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Soon, Hsu wrote a letter to Lawrence asking if she could send a nurse out to Hagerstown to collect samples from Zakariyya in prison. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Were they really asking him, of all people, to go to the Third World? Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Robbie elaborated upon his circumstances, then ended by asking politely about the parents of the other fellow. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Adam Trask refused to buy in a hurry, and Bordoni was asking a big price and using the selling method of pretending not to care whether he sold or not. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I know what I am asking. It isn’t fair, and you have Hela to think of. I will understand if you say no.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was the question she was always asking, one way or the other, and I was always avoiding. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And now it’s Friday night, and I’m on my second plate of hash browns, and Martin won’t stop asking Abby questions. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Maxim and Frank kept asking me about my costume. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I know. You may also ask me one question. But please, don’t waste your question asking me, ‘Where is the alternate exit?’ because I do not know.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Maya came but ended up asking her parents to come get her that night. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

That very afternoon he was at her house, asking again. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I have tried it already, in an unscientific way, by asking around among my friends. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was asking,” Octavian said like he was talking to a three- year-old, “if you have a plan for the quest. Do you even know where you are going?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She was shoving me, both her hands at my back, not letting me pause to say hello to the alarmed neighbors who kept asking if I was all right. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh no, et tu, Brute? You were my last hope. With By and Joey and your mother popping up every few minutes asking ‘Are we there yet?’ it’s been like a stuck record.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment, Naomi thought he was asking about San Antonio. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Carla is also always asking about my diary, but it still hurts too much to read it over by myself, much less share it with somebody else. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He messaged me last night to see how Poe was doing, asking about his bronchitis. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to talk about anybody’s death, not my own near experience that everyone keeps asking about. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe he’s remembering when I used to tag along after him and Metias, asking them inane questions about how the military worked. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I am annoyed with everyone asking what I do and don’t remember. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I remember asking Madrina when she was trying to teach me this tradition why the color of love isn’t pink, or red. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Another e-mail came from a corporation in Pennsylvania, less formally written, telling her a local professor had identified her as a provocative race blogger and asking if she would lead their annual diversity workshop. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They are asking questions, looking carefully around the laundromat. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I must’ve been sitting there staring into nowhere, because Kasim’s hand is on my shoulder shaking me and asking me if I’m okay. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Shadow thought about asking for his hands to be untied, but decided against it. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He just walked beside me, stiff as a two-by-four, asking “Are you okay?” every couple of minutes. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy asks, but I don’t think he’s asking me or Momma the question. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

‘If you took this thing on yourself, unwilling, at others’ asking, then you have pity and honour from me. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I was so awestruck that I couldn’t think of anything to ask Mr. Matthews, but Sara was right by my side asking the questions she thought I might want answered. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The landlord keeps on calling me and asking me if I have the money for rent. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She's facing the water, as if she might be asking her question of the ducks. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t have dared to bother the man who could do what he did with “Daydream” by asking him for fifteen cents. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How could you possibly know that, Jupiter? You just sat here asking me what I want and when I tell you, you say I’m wrong? How is that your call to make?” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“We’re asking God to forgive any sins we might commit by mistake.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” she says, not asking for Anthony’s ID or anything, selling me one ticket. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Link was asking her, “Who are you? Where do you come from?” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beatrice Taylor...Last night she had dreamed of Beatrice—dreamt that she was outside pressing her face against the window and moaning, asking to be let in. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I think about how asking Isabella for her top wasn’t really that nice, especially since I know Isabella has such a hard time saying no. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The cop started asking him a bunch of questions, but the guy kept shaking his head and saying he didn’t understand. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I told my psychiatrist about the book and Bill and about Sam and Patrick and all their colleges, but he just keeps asking me questions about when I was younger. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

From that point on, I just stopped asking. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Barack sometimes referred to me as “Joe Public,” asking me to weigh in on campaign slogans and strategies, knowing that I kept myself happily steeped in popular culture. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Pa Anozie said something and Emeka asked, “Papa is asking will you not take photo of him? All the white people that have come take photo.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I swayed in my hammock dreaming about Margie, determined to talk my mother into asking Papi to bring her to live with us. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I'll ask him questions, personal ones such as he is always asking. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He would go to his death a knight, asking only that they take his head before his hands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“That really is a long time ago. And it’s odd that you should be asking about that one, of all my books.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She sent a letter directly to Premier Nikita Khrushchev, asking him to extend an invitation to Bobby for the World Youth Festival. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had written asking for a milliner and Miss Love was available, so that’s all there was to it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

After a while she just stopped asking and zoned back in to the TV. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

They thought she was a secretary; they kept asking her what she did with all her money. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Again I hollered at Rainie, asking him to come and help me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The British soldiers at the Neck were asking more and more questions of any known Whig, and sometimes, for a whim, would refuse to let him pass and often again delay the trip. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary Poppins and Jane and Michael could not take their eyes off her as she flickered from one of them to another asking their advice. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I pull her to her feet and realize the impossibility of what I’m asking. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She says, "Oh. I see. Do you mind my asking where he is?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Darren knocked on my door, asking if I was okay, but he understood and left me alone. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He passed the suggestion on to a fellow general, asking the man to raise the subject with Army Chief of Staff, General George Marshall. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He didn’t make a move. Stood quiet. Kind of blinking. They took the gun away, and started asking questions.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hate telling people what to do, or even asking. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

My mother had written to family and friends, asking them to help her however they could. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He had his daily meetings, but instead of asking me to leave, he had me wait on the other side of the white curtain, where we were now conducting most of our practice sessions. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“DD’s been asking for a lot of that electric stuff. There’s a big market for electronics, you know.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I refrain from asking where she was last night. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She stood long enough to tie her bonnet properly and catch her breath before asking another. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was weird that he would be asking me this. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I thought maybe Jennifer S. was asking me to the dance. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“This is Ben,” I say, trying to raise my Noise to block all the askings coming from the men. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t know that I’m already asking for the moon by demanding they spare Peeta’s life. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I now saw a world leap to life before my eyes because I could explore it, and that meant not going home when school was out, but wandering, watching, asking, talking. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ve been here how long? And still asking about people’s hometown.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like nothing ever happened and she was just asking me a question about something back home. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Numerous researchers had appealed to HEW, asking that collection of blood and tissues be exempt from the new law. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“He’s asking us to leave the castle at night and he knows security’s a million times tighter and how much trouble we’d be in if we were caught.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I look at him and wonder, asking what? The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

It’s silent in the Impala except for Tupac asking who do you believe in? The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She said, “This will be a time of asking questions and not rushing to answer them. A time of poking holes in your own theories. A time of thinking and not knowing.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

She said it with an edge to her voice, letting me know I was being disrespectful by asking to leave when we hadn’t even eaten. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I was just asking if you wanted to stop for a minute to eat and maybe look at the map to check our progress? Its nearly midday.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She sighs and gazes toward heaven as though asking for help. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

For years, I’d seen him call my grandmother in South Carolina almost daily, asking for her news. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Now, boy, you started making me uneasy. You can get out of this mess without no one really gettin’ too riled up and no one asking too many questions. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go upstairs, through the old building and its room full of lamp-lit tables and people softly turning pages or asking hushed research questions, reading glasses on noses. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Presently there came a loud ring, then a decided voice, asking for ‘Mr. Laurie’, and a surprised-looking servant came running up to announce a young lady. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Isannah had wandered off because a passing clergyman had seen the sunlight on her hair and was asking her to say the shorter catechism as proof that she was as pious as she was beautiful. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was probably too old to be trick-or-treating, even if I was asking for spare change for the homeless. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She went into a scary, turned- inside place, asking me gray-lipped questions: Who had I witnessed killed? Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

But not before asking Granny to promise to be by my side at all times while we were in the white world; she agreed. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we were to stop asking questions, then how would we ever uncover the unknowns of the universe? Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

When I heard Dad on the phone downstairs, asking someone to come over, I thought it was Dr. Doris. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They hung around day and night, asking Smith if he really thought his horse could win. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if it will work, but when the television crew’s all assembled aboveground, I ask Cressida if she could start out by asking me about Peeta. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

This was opened by a man dressed in his shirt sleeves, wearing no tie, but who, upon my asking for the chauffeur of the house, replied cheerfully that I had 'hit the jackpot first time'. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

"All right, then we'll go," he said and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if, suddenly overcome by humility, he was asking fresh permission for this decision. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The patron saint of community service is asking me when I did something for myself?” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why I say this, but I don’t want them asking me what he means or what this is, especially when I’m not really sure myself. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I considered asking for milk on mine, but I didn’t really think it would help. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

That’d feel like asking her to be my girlfriend or something. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

During dessert, a chocolate mousse that Benton did enjoy, Isadora began asking him questions about himself, his family, and his life as a missionary. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I soon made myself a nuisance by asking far too many questions of everybody. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lieutenant says, “Still, I will be asking.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“It means I wasn’t asking it for an answer, but to make a point.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Often I would lock myself in my room, and I could hear him asking Mama what I was doing. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I stared at the yellow light at the front of the plane, waiting for it to turn green; I spoke with God, asking Him to watch over me and the others in the plane. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I felt worse when I read Miss Bell’s note at the bottom of the paper, asking me to see her after class. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“The stores are asking for more books, Aibileen. Missus Stein called this afternoon.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I wrote him a letter asking why he hadn’t told me, and I told him that from now on he was as good as dead to me. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

They haven’t figured out what I am asking them to do yet. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Oh, and I forgot to say: a woman was asking about you earlier. Or maybe not you. She might have been confused.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Bod was pleased with himself, and glad he had thought of asking the Poet for advice. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Dad, meanwhile, was saying he was not asking me for the money; he was telling me to give it to him. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I excused myself for not asking him in. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“I was asking you about how your grandmother was,” he said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He had found a bar close by; only last week, the bar owner had come to the house asking for him because he had not paid his balance. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“He’s asking for you to come,” she said. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Jinny suddenly had the odd feeling that Ess wasn’t actually asking her a question so much as she was daring her to answer. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

People will be asking things, well meaning but nevertheless poking their fingers where it still hurts. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Voorhies sent samples to colleagues all over the western United States asking if there was anything about it that they recognized. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I have to speak choppy English to talk to a doctor but he keeps asking who I am and when I’ll come see her. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We used to share one big bed, but two years ago I raised a fuss, asking for my own bed. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Where were these boats going, what were they looking for, if not for residents of the city asking for help? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I pictured both Yoshotos coming to me in the morning and asking me, begging me, to hear their secret problem out, to the last, terrible detail. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Well, Muhammad was up asking it, praying with this look I’ve never seen on his face. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Other boys his age have begun to court girls already, asking them to go to the movies or the pizza parlor, but he cannot imagine saying, “Hi, it’s Gogol” under potentially romantic circumstances. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The manager of the Sandstone Ranch, a nudist retreat, remembered two men showing up and asking questions about Ellsberg. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care what your reasons were or whether you regret it or not. I’m asking if you and Dad split up because of him or because of you.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

This might be his way of asking me if Mirjam needs to be buried in a Jewish cemetery. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t tell if he was angry at me for asking or mad at himself for being caught off guard. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

When I walked back by the cell of the stinky bug, he was handing a fresh Newport to his neighbor, who was asking him quizzically, “Hey, how’d you get these?” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ashish sighed and looked upward, like he was asking the gods for guidance. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He considered asking Mrs. Das for a sip of water, then decided against it. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was even Chess or Finn asking that question. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

On May 6, Eisenhower and his advisers doubled down on their cover story, as reporters in Washington began asking questions about Khrushchev's accusations. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The principal nodded slightly but gave his sternest look before asking for one hundred dollars. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Without asking a single question, the Mother Superior invited Anatole and me to spend our last night together in my little blank room. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She will come to me, asking for my forgiveness. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Noah said, "Why would they call it a cattle call, if they are asking for dogs?" The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

One minute Mom and Bridget and I are bribing him to take showers and the next minute he’s asking Mom if he can buy his own clothes for school. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Maya and Hailey call, asking about the store, the house, my family, me. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The boy, Ronan, eyes me the way you would an alien stepping out of its spaceship and asking for pie. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I was also the subject of a lot of questions people were asking my mother. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The reader is probably asking: Why would anyone go to Camp Green Lake? Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I hope Elizabeth isn’t asking this because she doesn’t think Dad will wake up to tell her himself. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Soon, not yet aware that they were in the presence of a prodigy but realizing that Bobby was someone exceptional, the club’s players started gathering around his board and asking him questions. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Because I’m asking you to promise to stop being lame, and you’re asking me to promise to stop being awesome, which I cannot, in good conscience, do.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She left a message asking if we planned on doing a love poem duet for assembly in a few weeks. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had gone as long as I dared asking Ralph yes/no questions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Woolf dropped low over the saddle and called into Seabiscuit’s ear, asking him for everything he had. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though he is asking to be my husband, I don’t know him enough to trust him completely. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Those not going were asking others to pray for them at Mecca. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Alex, I know I...completely destroyed your faith in me, so I don’t blame you for asking me,” he says. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I am leaving her alone. I am just asking if she prayed today,” Uncle Iman said, and they all walked into the kitchen. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

And when you can imagine we’re at home, then take the road into the city, asking directions to the palace of Alldnoos. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because the sponsors and the benevolent associations would start calling her, asking, shouting, pleading to make me play again. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could see the older girl’s eyebrows arch and her lips purse—“But wby are you asking?” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, he stops asking for food or water and wants only to lie still. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ostrowski was always asking us—the whole class, I mean—what our dreams were and what we wanted to be. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was Roy merely asking him to bring his passport to make the dismissal easier for him, to give him an exit, or did Roy really believe that the caller had been wrong? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I went from room to room, asking the same questions, but the house had no answers. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Come on, Ruthanne, you jumped on me for asking a dumb question. What about Billy’s?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

After a few moments of amicable silence, Bailey works up the nerve to ask a question, one he’s not sure he ’ll be comfortable asking once they meet back up with Widget. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Uncle Abdullah only grunted in response, so I didn’t give him the satisfaction of asking again, but I couldn’t stop my tears. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I notice they don’t have shame in asking each other for money, so I write it down. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He was asking about Pantalaimon to put them off the track: so he didn’t realize that Will had seen his own dæmon. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Feeling as if they’d just been given very bad news indeed, Reynie had to stop himself from asking what the good news was. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was asking me if I would ask you out FOR HIM. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She looked hysterically at us, asking with her eyes where she was and what had happened. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s not like I was asking you to buy me an F-8, Mama. These things only cost a few bucks.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began asking myself: Why was it a crime to be without books and a proper uniform? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet the memory of the harsh sound of his murmured speech in the room below prevented Kira from asking him about the singing child. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around my table, and everyone seems completely fascinated as Ms. Smith introduces the book, telling us about Fitzgerald’s life and asking us for a definition of materialism. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I must have interrupted something real important because as soon as I sat down Momma acted like I’d disappeared and started asking Grandma Sands more questions. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How are you doing with that exam?” the Mrs. Franklin look-alike was asking. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Bobby rejected six tables as inadequate, before asking for one from the 1950 Chess Olympics in Dubrovnik. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And she would have to subdue the guilt she felt about asking him to spy; there was nothing about this business that was comfortable, nothing at all. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I can almost hear them asking, What took you so long? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I spent half my time wandering the halls, asking people directions to rooms they’d never heard of. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“Ms. Devereux, I’m asking you to redeem yourself and solve this problem for us on the board.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ma’s sighs made Minli wish that every rock of Fruitless Mountain were gold and she couldn’t help asking, “So how will Fruitless Mountain ever grow green again?” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He'd written me this note asking me to stop by and say good-by before vacation started, on account of I wasn't coming back. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He told about thumbing a ride to Bluefield, and, when he got there, going up to a gas station attendant and asking which way to the ballpark. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was quiet there, except the banging on the door and asking us to leave. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had no problem finding other people and other things to occupy him—men were always climbing the stairs asking for him, and he was happy to accompany them, leaving her alone. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said I had to pray for that evil white man, pray every day for twenty-one days, asking God to forgive him and teach him right. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

While she waffled between asking Ham and not asking him, she never gave a thought to asking Julian Singh. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

"I can’t," I begin, but I feel more people pressing in, more voices asking for help; it's confusing and disorienting and everyone's faces are dark and shadowed. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

How she is a good observer, always noticing my mood and asking if I’m okay. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Without asking permission from The Giver, because he feared—or knew—that it would be denied, he tried to give his new awareness to his friends. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Of asking to see James and having him reject her. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When another customer came in and gave her a bundle of scrap fabric, I couldn’t resist asking. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I wait to hear Nora’s dad’s voice come out of the little speaker, asking who it is. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Between the weed he's smoking and the weeds that just live in his idiot head...I don't know if he can even do what I'm asking. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He is always asking me what we could be doing for Jasmine. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Compared to Ron, Adria was brief and to the point: “Whatever, Simone. Do what you want. Just stop asking me what I think!” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A masculine kilo of feminine tomatoes presents a sexual problem easily solved by asking for two kilos of tomatoes. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

For once more Yankee Doodle was going to town on a spanking stallion, with that forlorn feather in his cap, asking those unmilitary questions. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks at me like I’m asking really stupid questions, which I suppose I am. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

"I am asking for your help, my lord," she said humbly. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

None of the boys started asking for proms like they were supposed to do. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I've done the same thing at home when my mother's asking me to get out of bed or if I've finished my reading homework. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Harry, meanwhile, felt a rush of excitement: This last mention of his father had reminded him that there was something he had been looking forward to asking Lupin. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“It is my question. The asking is mine.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Dandelion looked at Pipkin and realized what it was that Hazel was asking him to do. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thanks for asking him. Should be fun sleeping on this cold floor.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“I am never, ever asking for one of those Extreme Challenge dealios.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

And he had to admit that he was kind of enjoying himself even though he had protested when Archie approached him this afternoon, asking him to take charge of the raffle. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he followed, asking with an air of sympathy, “Did you have a bad time?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Quit asking questions and do what you are told,” she said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Popper and Captain Cook continued their walk, with quite a crowd following and asking questions. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most times, knocking on somebody’s door in this neighborhood, this late, is asking for trouble. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Maybe Bryce will stop asking for a real one,” my mom jokes. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Bigger ” “I ain’t asking you but once more to shut up!” he said, pushing the knife out of the way so he could write. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“She asking about angels and monsters and things,” Bitter called over her shoulder, her voice a blend of amusement and pride. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Nobody is asking you to do that,” Tai says. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

They had been asking each other variations of the same thing for weeks. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the kind of question that had no answer, the kind of question that adults seemed to be overly fond of asking. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“I thought the chap was asking to borrow a pair of tweezers. Bit of a strong accent.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Mom’s been asking her to clean out her closet for months. You’re lucky—there’s some really good stuff in there. I guess.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They did not want to give offense by asking for breathing equipment, not at this delicate moment, not when they had finally gotten their first chance to look at the building. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turns to Aunt Nancy, takes a deep breath for courage, and readies his mouth to say the words, to ask the question that needs asking. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“You couldn’t have found out who it was without asking?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I went from person to person, asking questions: “Are you going to the ghetto?... Will you have a nice house in the ghetto?... How much farther to the ghetto?” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He seemed to be asking me what else he could do. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I know she’s only asking because faction rules dictate that she does. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

One officer got angry when recruits started asking him for pens—few people had brought them, because we hadn’t been told to. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember Mrs. King asking the class: "How does this book make you feel?" Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“But if you are asking whether they all have a connection to an Otherworld...Yes.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

At recess, Howard followed me around, reminding me he was my Backpack Buddy and asking questions a mile a minute. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Professional historians still disagree about the solution; most are no longer even asking the question. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You are asking for her, who knows nothing and fears to try and does only what little I bid her and that none too well?” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like asking Terrans why all our vehicles must go so fast; we answer “Why not?” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Coach called asking if you were here. I’ll just give him a ring back now to let him know where you are.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is too busy examining the goggles, asking my dad if he remembers the days he used to send her things when he was trying to convince her to go out with him. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Women were “supposed” to wait for the assignments from their supervisors, and weren’t expected to take the lead by asking questions or pushing for plum assignments. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I thought of Susie’s words, asking if I felt like a part of me was missing, and I felt that now. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

After a long time, the applause finally fades, and I hear people asking each other, Who is that girl? The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I saw it all, Ta — ” “Shut up! I’m asking Sapo!” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He cracked open his address book and began calling reporters, asking them to announce that he’d gladly meet Riddle’s sum, and War Admiral, anywhere and any time Riddle wanted. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grayson, who was not comfortable asking questions, was even less comfortable waiting for answers. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think about asking him why he was at the library instead of at work, but instead I mumble, I do not remember. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t dressed any differently from anyone else, and when I kept asking the question again and again, all he finally said, with a big grin, was, “I’m a meddler.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which is his playful way of asking me to pour my heart out. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Just stop asking me that, please. If I had something really hot to say to her this morning, I would. Just stop asking me.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“If you don’t mind me asking before I leave...what was that all about?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Wondering who it was that had been killed, and why his death had aroused so much anger and grief, I began asking questions of some of the older boys at school. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I know we're asking a lot, but you have to find a way." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The simple expedient of always asking oneself: “Percentage of what?” is a good one to adopt. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She posted a flyer around campus, asking students if they’d like to be subjects in a psychology experiment, and got plenty of takers. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Dad comes in, asking, “How are the study buddies?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

But, of course, we had no power to restrain the other members from asking questions. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went on stirring and muttering, and telling Fern to stop asking about things no one needs to know or there would be no cake for her. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Keep asking questions, but make her tell you. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He kept springing this question on her, hoping to startle her into a response by asking it when she least expected it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

As soon as the tables are cleared, Yo starts asking if we can go out. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m not asking you to try to love me. But just as one human being to another, just because I’m miserable and don’t know where to turn, I just need to be in your arms.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“They still had enough to eat, and I would beg for bread or they would slip some to me without my asking,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Once Newcharlie'd caught him asking me questions about my daddy dying. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, kid, but it’s like you’re asking for it. Don’t make yourself a target. Things are complicated in the world right now. People are scared. Do you understand?” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Nobody was sure that Camp’s asking God’s forgiveness before he pulled the trigger counted as much as if he had lived long enough to repent after doing the deed. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I divided into two, with the Ted half asking the Salim half what had happened. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They don’t mind what they ask of me, the subordinate; but you’ll never catch ’em asking any questions of my principal.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you asking if he’s close to endorsing, or if I know what strings need to be pulled to get him to endorse?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Soojin slaps her hand on the table, leans in, and whispers, “Are you asking because of that guy?” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Accepting my environment at its face value, trapped by my own emotions, I kept asking myself what had black people done to bring this crazy world upon them? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It kept Buddy from asking me what I knew he was going to ask, and what he finally did ask, in a low, nervous voice, at the Belsize afternoon tea. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Mary Surratt spends the night of July 6 in prayer, asking God to spare her life. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” I said, thinking he was asking if Deborah knew I was calling. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And ever men looked northward, asking: ‘Where are the Riders of Rohan?’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Devine let out a weighty sigh, asking quietly: “Where the hell did that thing come from?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But like how?” somebody had asked him, probably Michael, who didn’t really want to go anyway but would do things like this every so often, just so nobody stopped asking him altogether. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Why was it that she kept asking how when the man could do anything with this place, including turn it upside down when it suited him? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“You don’t need to be voting! You are wasting your money, boy! Next thing I know you’ll be asking for charity to feed those children.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Since Christmas vacation, Miss Riley had stopped standing during class, teaching instead from her chair behind her desk and asking one of us boys to come up and perform her experiments. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But he looks into my eyes and raises his eyebrows as if asking me if I'm okay. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Does my face say to people, ‘Trouble is my friend’? I’m asking you seriously.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I was just asking because we already took the team photo for yearbook,” Jessica said. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Then they would pray, asking God to reward Sister Beatrice s generosity, and add more blessings to the many she already had. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, you can always start the ball rolling by asking for a light, which I have to do anyway when the wind is up. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The detective that wasn’t asking the questions started looking around. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t about to add fuel to the fire by asking questions about things that I should know, like my mother’s name. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Arctic mostly, so they say. But you remember what the lord chancellor was asking about?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I feel stupid asking, but I want to know. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“That doesn’t matter. Look how you are wounded. Look at your valorous conduct in asking to go always to the first line. Besides, the operation was successful.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

"Is there word from the Eyrie? I wrote to Aunt Lysa, asking help. Has she called Lord Arryn's banners, do you know? Will the knights of the Vale come join us?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Or maybe her dad just took them without asking. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

It was asking the reader to figure out the difference between them. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

So, instead of asking him about the war, I asked him if he ever dreamed about Bernardo. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“You’re trying to trick me into asking questions,” I pointed out. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Rickets, a woman of medium stature with blond hair pulled to the nape of her neck, began asking questions. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By midnight we were both a little high, and I decided there was no harm in asking about Martha. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But not like what you’re asking. I used to annoy him about girls, but he never gave up any info.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I wasn't sure if I actually said something funny, or if he just found Noodles and me asking for nice clothes so outrageous that laughter was the only possible response. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The poems almost always came back, and I would send them out again, asking no more than that by their absence they would offer the promise of immortality. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I drew the till owls asking their one and only question: Who? Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He slid his glasses to the end of his nose and looked me over, asking if I needed help. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

You were just over at my apartment asking about the key. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She’s been asking me a billion questions about food, clothes, music, and places. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Barack had kicked things off earlier in the year with a government-wide audit, asking each agency to find new ways to support military families. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And the cadets insisted on asking our commander why I didn’t ever have breakfast!” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She kept asking me to call up my father and ask him what he was doing tonight. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

A handful of other men were also interested, and the questions were many and good when Clevinger and the subversive corporal finished and made the mistake of asking if there were any. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Shouldn’t we be asking people’s permission? I mean, if we’re putting things in their heads, shouldn’t we ask them first?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

In New York City, frantic people rushed into police stations asking where they should go for the evacuation. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He stared past her, when he felt like getting up, walking up to her, and asking her to please lean away so he could get a good look at the subway map. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“No, some girls were asking if I respected the emperor.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“They just keep asking,” she said and stressed the “they,” to exclude herself from the marriage clamor. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Anya nearly answered in the affirmative—that was like asking if Ivan knew what the moon was—but then she stopped. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“What I’m asking is would you want one?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

And now, here was Matilda sitting in the classroom with a curiously exalted look on her face and asking if she could have a private talk. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dimple didn’t answer the question he wasn’t asking. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I was asking Ludo about that,” said Mr. Weasley, frowning. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A couple of tough boys tried to be smarty and kept on asking her name over and over. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He was asking too many questions and he was asking them too quickly. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was already disappearing behind the hedge separating the Bernoffskis’ yard from the Connellys’ when she called out, asking if I wanted a drink. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“You had good rhythm; you got people moving. Ah, I hope you don’t mind me asking this but...why are you here? You seem pretty, you know, good.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, I’m well aware there is little profit in asking for sympathy for sticklers. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

While I was in Kakuma, I had written letters to the International Red Cross, asking for help in finding my family. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

What did she mean by asking all these questions? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Judge Harry Lemley of Hope, Arkansas, had been named to hear the Little Rock School Board petition asking for a postponement of integration for public schools. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tomorrow. They need to know if someone’s been asking questions about ’em.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

And I had glanced at Arturo, who was across the room pulling his boots on, asking him with my eyes what he wanted me to tell her. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

"You mean all these years, I’ve been asking about this stupid prophecy, and it’s been right there around her neck?" The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you think I know that? But she asking for you. It’s Brenda.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She wanted to seem casual, but not too casual, like she normally spent the weekend knocking on strangers’ doors and asking if they were her mom. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Was she actually asking me to criticize her? Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

This is a favorite technique of his, asking me questions to which he knows the answers, or other answers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, when it’s time to tell the class who my character is, I begin by asking everyone what their favorite color is. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t tell him that when he was asking you to marry him.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Strangers came to the house asking my father questions about his friends and his family. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I had stopped asking for a monthly allowance. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“No ma’am, she just... asking do I want some old clothes,” I say and it sound like I’m down in a well-hole. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And because Spoony was tired of explaining himself, and Dad was tired of asking him to change, they kept their conversations short and sweet. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Izzy was not used to asking favors, but something in her voice told Mia that this was a need, not a want. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The police press him, asking about Powell’s address and place of employment. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Nah, it was my mom, just asking about dinner. You heading back home first, or do you wanna come over now?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Children should pick first. But I very thank you for asking. All right, I will take one.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“If you’re asking me,” she said, “I say make the money first and worry about your happiness later.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I nodded again, not sure if he was really asking a question. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

We’re close to asking her a few times just where ours has vanished to, but we know that will only serve to make us wait longer. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I thought of Soraya asking me a few months ago what his voice sounded like. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody was messaging me about Carlotta’s comment, asking me what I thought, and being outraged for me. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I thought of asking the man to my left what day it was, but he seemed absorbed in his card game. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Or just asking about what they did in school that day. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Classmates got so annoyed they actually signed a petition asking him to allow others to speak in class. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought about asking Mr. Stine if he’d gone down to the basement to check the heaters in the wood shop, but then he snuck a look at his watch. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I'm sure she regretted asking to see it. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The cops have been around to the father’s, asking him whether he knows anything about all this. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Clara understood that there was no point in asking any questions. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Girls never seemed to care about the state of my hair, but guys had been asking me this question forever. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Gran keeps asking Mum when I’m going to enlist, and did I know Philip had already served a year by the time he was my age. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I start asking other adults in my village to be my representative, and by the afternoon, I’ve found a kind young woman who will do me the favor. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smiled at Harry, who understood that he was not being snubbed, and that he had permission to keep asking questions. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I understand the question he’s asking and respond with the warmest smile possible. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

When I was ten, Daddy tried to install one in the tin kitchen ceiling without asking Constantine. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Eventually, I said: 'Excuse me for asking, sir. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sensing the agent’s belligerent energy, my mom stood next to me and tried to deescalate the situation by calmly asking the security officer what the problem was. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He was very fond of his map, but on the other hand, he was extremely relieved that Moody wasn’t asking where he’d got it, and there was no doubt that he owed Moody a favor. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It’s not that I feel a deep connection or anything to him already, but the idea of watching anyone die makes me sick and sad and angry—and that’s why he’s asking. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Mother, I’ve got to talk to you . . .” It was going to kill me to have to ask her, for in the asking wouldn’t it be possible that suspicion would fall on my own normality? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to scream out, asking why The scattered stars shower down like icicles tonight, but nothing soothes me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

My dad kept a file, and at least four or five times a year he would write to Washington, D.C., asking someone to please help get his father’s coffin back to Florida. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Passengers coming up from the lower level paused before asking the policemen for directions. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not any of your—” “I’m just asking.” Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Finally, she understood he was asking if she was Surly Wombat. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I figured she must have had trouble finding a babysitter if she was asking me, the brother of the twisted criminal mind. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Still, she eventually stopped asking the questions, and the only issues she ever brought up with Aunt Eva herself had to do with everyday things. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If couples aren’t aware of how they sound, how much value can there be in asking them direct questions? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Instead of singing,” he continued, “some of us are asking, 'When, O Father, are we going to live in peace?’ Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before leaving, Ashima had stood, her head lowered, under her late grandfather’s portrait, asking him to bless her journey. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Let her understand what they were asking of him. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Sharpe addressed him directly, asking if the boy were capable yet of ratiocination, or was become dumb. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

If I saw that face on somebody walking down a highway intersection asking for money, I would’ve locked the car doors. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

This was incredibly annoying, because I was trying to read in the living room, and she was in one of her moods where she just kept asking Whyyyyyy. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She kept telling him not to be crazy and asking him what he was doing with his life. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

We watch them back not asking what it feels like not to have a mother because our grandmother warns us we know better than that. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

They were too fat and they talked too much and they did not think twice of asking a man to die for them. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I am honest—which is not, of course, what Mr. Sorenson is asking of me—I will say that I simply need a warm, dry place to live. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Others did not, but their faces were pinched with the strain of not asking, not saying. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

My parents want to make sure that I'm on the bus, and my sisters are asking for pictures, especially of the cute boys on the Howard campus. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I don’t have anything to suggest. That’s why I’m asking you to help.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Because Robert Frost,” he said, slowly shaking his head in disbelief as if I was asking something real stupid, “is a major American poet.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He told me then, without my asking, that we were going to a park. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“He was asking about water, and I told him you knew more about that than anybody around here.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

So someday, I will be asking you to forgive me, and I hope you will. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smiles, asking, Did you have a good time? A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Erin tries to get everyone talking by asking what each of us is thankful for. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile Link seemed nervous, asking me each day what had happened. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flora Lou and Cleontine let the doors fly open and the words tumble out while I type as fast as I can, asking them every five minutes to please, please, slow down. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Bobby ultimately sued Reshevsky and the American Chess Foundation, seeking a court order to resume the match and asking to have Reshevsky banned from tournament play until the matter was settled. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I was very much flattered by his asking me to dance a second time. I did not expect such a compliment.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

But now so many folks keep asking me why, at 101 years old, I walk just fine without a cane, I eat what I please, I have all my teeth, and my memory is fine. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I don't want to figure it out someday. I want to see a movie I can figure out while I'm watching it. Only reason you asking me is 'cause nobody else'll go with you." Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Are you asking because you’re curious, or...because you think you know where it came from?” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes begged me to stop asking questions. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She traveled from city to city, telling people about the low wages and unhealthy working conditions at Marx & Haas, and asking them to support the striking garment workers. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

But now that he had done the latter, and was facing the prospect of asking a girl to the ball, he thought he’d rather have another round with the dragon. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I was dumb not to thinly of asking. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

After asking several widows, I found the government building where pensions were given out. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

My irritation at her asking me instead of you vanished when she thrust a bulging bag into my hands. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

But that was too close to asking him for a ride and a lesson. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you really think asking me deep, philosophical questions is going to make us fall in love?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“A tiger cub escaped, sir. We think she may be hiding here, and we’re asking the islanders to help us find her.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

We needed to keep a low profile—if movies are to be believed, dockworkers have a reputation for punching first and asking questions later, if at all. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Up in the apartment, as I pick up the phone, I’m already asking myself why I’m dialing the number. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Why was he asking me to climb into the tub? Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Once Hazel had made the mistake of asking the townsfolk, but they had stared at her like she was crazy. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Everybody was asking that, as if I was ever going to tell them the truth. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

All this time she’d been looking for an apartment, testing the water pressure, asking a Realtor if heat and hot water were included in the rent. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I was just asking. I thought we were cool.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I come so close to asking what she thinks about it all, but I already know the answers. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Ho sent a series of messages to President Harry Truman, asking the United States to recognize the independent nation of Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

People quickly began asking if they were on the list. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He seems almost embarrassed to be asking me the question. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But John kept making mistakes and asking us to start over. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

So their voices would search me out, asking me questions. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kept asking why she had been separated from her family. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all picked up the refrain, asking again and again in a rising plea: Mother May I? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The questions you were asking them about the camp,” I explained. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He rode his horse slowly through the long stretches of green that separated the pastures, asking after her as he went, until he spotted her on the path that led to her hut. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry felt an inexpressible sense of gratitude to Dumbledore for asking the others not to question him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Every time Ophie tried to get a moment alone with her great-aunt there the cousins were, telling a funny story about school, or asking to help with dinner, or just being a general nuisance. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“But excuse me, sir,” said Lyra, “I hope you don’t mind me asking, but how can we have come this far if we en’t dead? Because this is the world of the dead, isn’t it?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Not like at home, where Mom was always asking me to calm down, keep quiet, or act my age. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t wake Lorenz by whining or scratching the door—her usual way of asking. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Like saving up two weeks of pizza- delivery tips to take me to Yo-Yo Ma instead of just asking me out on a regular date. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was just asking who this one was.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fang did attempt to make contact, and for a while there he tried to get in my way at my locker after school, looking all pathetic and confused, asking me if I was okay. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

When I got home, my cousins were asking me what happened. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I knew that without asking him,” Jason said. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Get this—I was even thinking of asking J.T. to come with us. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I can’t believe he’s asking me what I’m doing in our own living room! Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I remember his asking if I had had any heroes growing up, figures actual or imagined that I cherished, admired. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mustafa had a conversation with my parents earlier, asking for their permission to post it. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I figured out after our last two chats how you keep asking me questions so that I'll ramble on, and then you don't have to write so much. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother, working with mentally ill people every day, noticed I was acting funny and started asking me questions. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Shadow could not decide why the man was asking. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Some you can find only by looking them up in a book or asking a knowledgeable teacher. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘You is asking me to tell you whoppsy big secrets,’ he said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

White light from the kitchen stretches into the lounge room, and the Doorman’s paws reach out and lightly scratch me, asking for a pat. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“You have a hell of a cheek coming in here and asking me for favors!” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“My ladies are always asking for something new and different.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“She was just asking about the man with the three-legged dæmon.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He pulled out four menus as he was asking the question, too, like he was expecting you to burst in the door any minute. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I stopped asking the bush to give me gardenias but continued watering it and clipping its branches. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Even though I was desperate for these answers, I wanted Amil to stop asking questions. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His near-expulsion actually seemed to shake something loose in her brain; she was maybe more surprised than anyone that Ocean had voluntarily broken someone’s nose, and, suddenly, she was asking him questions. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

His tone was urgent, and Will didn’t waste time asking why. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

That night six maids in the book call my house asking has anybody said anything. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

My mom, however, can talk small for hours, and so she extended the awkwardness by asking them about their rehearsal schedule, and how the show had gone, and whether it was a success. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I can’t imagine it’s easy. You know, asking that question or having to worry about it.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I had no idea what I was really asking. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I am not used to peoples seeing me, and I am especially not used to peoples asking me questions. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

She talked to herself nearly all of the time now, and there was a crowd of new white people entering the picture—always asking questions. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is talking nonstop asking about Friday and Saturday and Sunday like it isn’t only Monday morning. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure, but I thought he was asking both of us, me and Gillian. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, I’m not asking Charlotte out,” I said. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Paolo walked over and put his hand on her shoulder, very, very gently, as if asking permission. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

This ‘King’ you’re asking about, I hear many people—those that went to school and can read newspapers— say that he was a God-fearing man who died fighting to set his people free. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she would pass by Pitipiti’s fields and jeer at her, asking her why she grew crops if she had no mouths to feed. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

That was like asking me to walk down the street in my underwear. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ximena, who probably hasn’t said more than thirty words to me all year long, is asking me if I like Jack? Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s probably some loser’s way of asking me on a date because he’s too afraid to ask me to my face.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

So when Justin starts asking the obvious questions—how do Rhiannon and I know each other, and how come he hasn’t heard about me before—I have to jump into the breach. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

"Or however many your guild can spare, without in-terfering with production. It's empty pots I'm asking for, understand. Have them sent round to the captains on each of the city gates." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I was not sure if it was because the woman was asking for the dress or because she had brought up America. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Yet Con believed the Queen was asking them to undertake a suicide mission, though Kaede argued that he couldn’t predict the outcome. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Everybody starts talking at once, asking her questions. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Isioma was asking why their son was not yet doing much of mathematics and English. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

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

“I’ve been sitting here for . . . almost half an hour now, just asking myself that question. What am I supposed to do with you? What choice are you giving me?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We drafted a memorandum to the commander asking to know our rights. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept asking for my mother, but nobody ever explained why she did not come for me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Once it’s offering time, the deacons stand at the front of the church asking the congregation to rise and follow the ushers from the rear. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And he wasn’t sure if he was asking after the horse or the girl. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

They spent an hour looking at it and then asking me questions about my village and kinsmen. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m so wrapped up in the moment of him actually talking to me that at first I think he’s asking about Julia, because I had wondered the same thing. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Martin shoots me a look like he’s asking me what the hell this is all about. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

A bill was written asking for approval of citizenship for Bobby Fischer, and an Extraordinary Session of Parliament was called for Saturday, March 21, 2005. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know who did this to you?” the officers kept asking Sasha. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

That was what people did in stupid films about cops and robbers—the police were always asking for reinforcements. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Lyra was profoundly curious about she-bears, because she knew so little about them, but this was no time to wander about asking questions. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

"If you don't like the idea of asking Ethan, would you like to ask one of your friends from the old neighborhood?" The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Stopping for a coffee, asking directions, depositing money in my bank account: these things were out of the question, as they involved having to speak. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

And Coach had just left after asking my mom if I could go to the newbie dinner, and she said I could, but the smell of Salisbury might've changed her mind just that quick. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

We hadn’t been driving for a minute before he started asking a whole slew of questions. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I was thinking about asking Royal, but— Bobby: I don’t think that’s a good idea. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you ever get tired of me asking?” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“Now tell me,” I said, “what was Mom asking Mr. Shine about?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I even considered asking him/her to give it up. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Like I said,” said Mini, clearly annoyed, “it only makes you wise until the thing you’re asking wisdom for is done.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I can just imagine him reading this and wondering why we’re asking such things,” she said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

It’s also used with / and we in some kinds of questions—when we’re asking what another person wishes: Shall we dance, or shall IJill your glass? Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I even get private messages asking about it. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

We began looking for people we knew, asking the “veterans” which work Kommandos were the best and which block one should try to enter. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father said that he didn’t know what kind of heart attack she had and now wasn’t the moment to be asking questions like that. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Just making sure, honey. And I remember asking you to stay inside tonight and work on homework.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Behind me, I heard the same man asking: “For God’s sake, where is God?” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They moved on with the flood, speaking to anyone they could find, asking about the canoe and the boy and the girl. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I know I am asking a big thing here. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Save the female libber stuff for your Women’s Institute friends, Helena. I'm asking you nicely. I’ve had a very long day.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Kainene sat next to him and said little throughout dinner, once sharply asking a steward to change a glass that looked cloudy, once leaning over to ask, “The sauce is nauseating, isn’t it?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t looking at her when I apologized for asking my question. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“We have decided that this Khmer Rouge will be executed for his crimes. His blood will avenge the innocent people he has slaughtered. We are asking for volunteers to be the executioners.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have to consume everything he says and try to do what he’s asking.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Next thing I knew, Coach was standing in front of me, telling me to pick my head up and look at him, and asking me what happened on Saturday. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Are you going to stand around asking stupid questions when you could get your answer just by walking into the kitchen?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

When we get out of the bus we should do so only after asking the conductor or we will be injured and make the doctors have a busy time. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is asking, but I can tell there is only one answer. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

He sipped some rose water before asking, "You know the tale of how I found the flower of immortality in a cave at the bottom of the endless ocean?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

People coming to him, asking for things, money changing hands. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up to that point, our encounter could have been interpreted as a respectful inquiry, one man asking for the whereabouts of another man. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They sat down across from him, holding hands, and Joaquin knew immediately that they were asking him to leave. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Then he went to Tortoise and told him of his misfortune, asking him to help him to bury his mother. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The moaning, mewling mound spoke, not, as Alyce expected, frantically or madly, but calmly and reasonably, asking for death. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually it became obvious when my classmates started asking me questions—the sort of questions Mom and Dad usually answered for me—and I didn’t know what to say. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I’d called Kathy Anderson, the university’s press officer, and sent her the magazine piece, asking if she could help put me in touch with the admissions people. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think about asking for their advice: Is there anything wrong with being nice to him? The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

And the policeman said, “Hang on. I’m asking your mother.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

So what I do, I just shrug and smile and wait, because I know she'll get tired of asking and move on to the next. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

“But there’s no use even asking him. He’s not going to leave Zella. She’s going to have a baby pretty soon.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“The man in charge was Igbo, and Madu said he was keen to give the contract to a fellow Igbo. So I was lucky. And he’s asking only for a five percent cut.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“How can you be asking me these things? Who put them in your head?” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Whenever I would go see him, he spent most of the time asking me questions. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m probably a jerk for asking that, so I’m sorry for putting you on the spot.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It’s a party car—I wasn’t asking him to go bungee jumping or skydiving. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I’d been asking to go for months, reminding her that Maria had seen a dozen births by the time she was my age. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The prisoners had taken over the prison and were asking for amnesty. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Neville, can you be that cool godfather that does his goddaughter a solid without asking too many questions?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“I’m asking you to try working for a change. At your age I was working hard, not floundering around in a fool’s dream world.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Without knowing she did so, and taking no note of the answer, she kept asking the time. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered why the man was so suspicious, and whether any one had been asking for news of a party of hobbits. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

As an experiment she pretended that she was reading the alethiometer, and imagined herself asking: What does this woman know about Dust? The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also was removed from the tank without asking, at 10 hours and 35 minutes. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced back at me and nodded, knowing without asking. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Cops hand us paperwork, asking us to sign. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I knew Sapo didn’t like me asking him about any of this. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The sound of the lady’s voice on the other end asking “How may I help you?” almost makes me hang up. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Where is this coming from? Why are you asking about this now?” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“When a soldier died, I felt as if he were looking out for me as well. So I was stuck between blaming God and asking for his help, his grace.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I thought about asking Ariana to take my picture, but I didn’t want to seem like an amateur. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Even if she did deserve it, because of signing me up for math club without even asking me. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “Look, son, do you really think you should be going around asking questions like this?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“She thought your dad was a beggar asking for free food. What he should have said was ‘sal,’ which is the word for uncooked rice.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

What I like about Maribel is that she doesn’t even bother asking why I need it. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Then maybe Tab will stop asking me what I think it means.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Mark, to his credit, managed to eat half the bowl before asking another question. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Boe’s point is that we could predict precisely the order in which every country would finish in the Math Olympics without asking a single math question. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I needed to lay in a store of good feelings as well as stovewood before asking permission to go camping. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Immediately, five young women flocked to him and began asking him to dance, how he fared, if he would attend the Samhuinn ball. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I ask, asking the dumbest question I can think of. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

"I've never heard of someone giving someone a pet for a present without permission and then choosing that pet's name without even asking." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

At one point Bobby had both Protocols and Nature's Eternal Religion mailed to Jack and Ethel Collins, without asking whether they wanted to read them. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Why are you asking me? The General doesn’t tell me anything. Oh, my! I can hear the limo now. I simply must fly.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

All day I’d been asking myself what I was doing at the Academy for Scholastic Distinction. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they got angry at their brothers and sisters for asking. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prosecution cast suspicions on Wes’s argument that he’d taken the trip to Philadelphia without asking his brother what he was on the run for. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“You did a good thing. Plus, Dennis has two first names. He was asking to get in trouble.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had been tricked by it himself, but he had extricated himself without asking or receiving help from any man; let anyone else who might be so imposed upon do the same.— Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s more askings than there is anger of the Matthew Lyle sort. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She prays to the Virgin of Guadalupe, asking her to bring all the children on the train safely to their worried mothers in el Norte. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Miss Celia got all serious, asking me what to cook if they come over. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Why are you going to Mattru Jong, if not for school? And why do you look so skinny?” she continued asking, but we evaded her questions. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He looks at me like I’m an imbecile for asking. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Can you make yourself free to come tonight?” he could not prevent himself from asking. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The faded note she’d found at her locker all those years ago, asking her to meet at the park. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The white people in meeting audiences would throng around me, asking me, after I had addressed them somewhere, “What can a sincere white person do?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we were at Whooton, he'd make you describe the most personal stuff that happened to you, but if you started asking him questions about himself, he got sore. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Yesterday Uriah was transferred from his secure room to a room with a viewing window, I suspect to keep us from asking to see him all the time. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“No. I’m not asking you to count them. I assume you can count. I’m asking you to remember.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I had worked on fund-raising for the Southern Prisoners Defense Committee almost as soon as I started there, so I had some experience asking for money to support our work. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He knew what the man had been trying to do in asking the questions. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He wished the man would not keep asking him questions, as if to engage him, as if the man were the host and Richard the visitor. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

As though her feet might suddenly decide to leap off the cliff without asking her head for advice. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

So we went to pick up eggs, and Dad got distracted pretty fast, asking all these questions about the egg drop, etc., etc., etc. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s a question I end up asking myself quite often,” he says. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She kept asking me if my father had a date or not. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I hope you don’t mind my asking,” I say to her one day, “but are you Jewish?” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I keep asking myself, Why is Char taking that from her? The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I supposed that was what Julia Bishop laughed about—the thought of her walking up to me and asking, Hey, Finn> by any chance are you a Jew? 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Also, I’m doing okay, all things considered. Thanks for asking.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“I do believe I sent out an asking to a partickalar pair of pups,” says the voice, “and I am a-waiting on my answer.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Pastor Dames ends his sermon with a prayer, asking God to give us all the strength to continue to do good even in the face of pain and injustice. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t hear them, but I knew Lily was asking her if she knew where Mrs. Baylor lived. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“The farm rabbits can’t be expected to go; and I’m not asking anyone who went the first time to go back again.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can't bring myself to say that I thought it meant she didn't really want to see me, when really she's asking to see me more. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

To-day the waiters did not leave you alone all morning to read without asking if you wanted to order something. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Miss Honey now decided to ask a question that normally she would not have dreamed of asking the class on its first day. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

That makes me laugh, a fine and proper gentleman like Captain Keelson asking my permission to help. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Tells me there’s a giant wearing a mask out in the yard, asking for a place to sleep. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

And what she was asking for was not the kind of story that would lend anybody strength. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice asked him hard, not telling him he had to sing, but just asking in a nice way. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

And she kept getting calls from top govern- ment and military officials in Washington asking about hotel rooms in the area. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe. I need to get better at asking questions.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Despite how sick he was, Roosevelt always made a point of asking about the others on the expedition. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

He wrote to Charles immediately, asking him to come to Malvern. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started asking questions—about my relationship with my family, about why my friends were concerned about me. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Scarlett made a noise that was half gasp and half wail, and Bod saw something, and he knew without asking that she could see it too. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She treated me like an adult, asking for my thoughts, listening keenly as I described the various worries and administrative tangles students had brought in. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I already know, by looking at him, the question he’s asking, and I want to explain it all to him, everything that Nita showed me and told me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The building came alive with rushing men, shouting and asking questions, running for their horses or their wagons. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

"Why are you asking me? You're the one who had tea with him." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, there was a man asking about homework and where Nicholas and Willie had been. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I remember asking my father for a pet dog when I was young, and now, staring at the ground in front of the dog’s paws, I can’t remember why. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

One after the other, pretending to have an aching tooth, asking at each one for Dr. Rosen. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Moss sat there and listened to her call up one person after another, asking how they were and if they had any time this upcoming Friday evening to help her out. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Now you’re telling us when you did say it. I’m asking you to tell us when you didn’t say it.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I know what he’s really asking, but I don’t take the bait. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Coach Rockford dropped me off after practice, and since it ended a little early, I still have time before I get the text from Mom or Dad asking where I am. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

So she’ll just keep chattering on or asking questions until the person walks away. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She felt, as always, the loss of her mother, but she knew that was not what Gwen was asking about. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then if you kept asking: “But is it a bumper crop?” they’d sooner or later smile and say: “Oh, I’d say so, sweetheart. A real bumper crop,” bringing a thrilled cheer. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Uh...great, thanks for asking," the man replies with a chuckle. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

My mom even texted me asking if I wanted her to bring my favorite winter hat to Hina’s so I would have it for school. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Cold kiss of the stethoscope; she was doctor and patient both, asking and answering. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

At any rate, she certainly had been carrying on a witch-hunt in the brown kitchen recently, asking him all sorts of questions concerning his political philosophy. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if I were asking for a fiesta. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I remember asking everyone else in my life for forgiveness, but I realize I never asked myself. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Well, he’s here asking for you. You need to come down and talk to him.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Everything Eric did—sitting here, asking about Four—suggests that they are, but the way Four sits, tense as pulled wire, suggests they are something else. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Oh! no; I was pleased with my own perseverance in asking questions; and amused to think how little information I obtained.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

He heard a warning being issued to Peanut Abbott and he felt the hands of his teammates grasping his shoulders and asking him if he was all right. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like every kid in the cafeteria was at my table asking. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Complied with! I am only ashamed of his asking so little.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“What I’m asking is, are you all right?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Countless people come to congratulate Gogol, saying they had seen him when he was so little, asking him to pose for photographs, to wrap his arms around families and smile. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Holly started asking, and her mom held up my sleepover bag, then put her finger to her lips. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The Plymouth looked like an angular blue animal in a zoo asking to be fed. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man who had been asking the most questions was called Inspector Grant. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are asking me? I said you should come on come out!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I am not all right, but he can’t know that, and he shouldn’t be asking. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It's an answer I already knew, but I sit back down and tell myself that I won't stop asking questions until I get in. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“We have to get her out tonight and take her to the reserve in Baba’s nauka. Without asking him.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Down the street we came, my white teacher and me, with all my friends looking at me and a few asking if it meant I was going to get a beating. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I told Sherman I thought maybe we could catch a ride over with Jim since he had the Buick, but by the time I got around to asking, he’d already taken off. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about asking Cecilia if she had a phone we could use, but the reporter’s somber face on the television screen caught my attention. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She didn’t get to have an opinion; they had sent her here without once asking what she thought. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He has been asking for fifty dollars to buy a bicycle. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, in the middle of the night, two policemen knocked on our door, asking for Robert Leon Irby. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

We eat without complaining or whining or asking our mother when there will be syrup, butter, milk . Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Yes. She keeps asking us when we will get married.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Lily said in a near whisper, as if she was asking only herself, not anyone else. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“And so when they take my food away and eat without asking, they are leaving my little sister hungry.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I felt like asking him, “Why didn’t you stop and help them?” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t plan on flat out asking these questions, but I did think that by getting inside the Pastors’ house and meeting Ginnie Sue, I’d come away with some idea of the answers. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

That night I asked my mother how to spell the words and left a note on my door asking my father to wake me up before he went to bed. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

But he felt most like an idiot for asking Claire to join him and then ignoring her completely. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

He had never had to try to make a pleasant impression on a stranger before, never needed anything from a stranger before, and did not remember ever asking anybody in the world how they were. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without asking their opinion, Severo made them marry, and, despite the predictions to the contrary of Nivea and her friends, they were very happy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not that I haven’t considered telling Daddy Uncle Jack’s story, and asking if he knows anything. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

All the same, his coming up like that asking for a private talk was pretty embarrassing and threw me off balance. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dimple got the feeling Rishi had told them what happened from the very obvious way they were not asking about him. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He looked as though he had a question but knew there was no point in asking it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But I brought the paper to him and said, “I’m asking for forgiveness, and this is what I learned in school.” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But you know best whether it’s worth asking him.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother kept asking the doctor what she could do, and the doctor kept saying, “It’s all under control now.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then he had little more to say, asking Ged nothing of his voyages or of the enemy that had hunted him here; nor had the Lady Serret asked anything of these matters. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay, Travis. You can start asking questions now. The spell is lifted.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I find myself whispering long, never-ending sentences to God, begging for Mother to feel some relief, pleading for good news about the book, sometimes even asking for some hint of what to do about Stuart. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

You said You’d heed prayer, Lord, and I’m asking this in the name of Your son.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Strangers are asking me where the bathroom is and how come there ain’t no toilet paper. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I had several tense conversations with my mom, asking why it was that Dad wouldn’t go to the doctor. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He ends the letter with a plea: “I am asking you for a recommendation in my search for a situation, and to keep a fatherly eye on me should I find such a situation.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He was weak and could barely talk and kept asking me if I was taking care of myself. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Yolanda nods and then totally shocks me by asking me, “Will you bring me one?” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Almost every time she expresses an idea, or explains herself, she checks whether she is being understood, asking, “Does that make sense?” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Me: I thought Mychal was asking me out so I tried to let him down easy but he was not asking me out. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I know what I’m asking of you, I want to say. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Warriors were coming, lots of them, chanting songs, asking our warriors to wait for them. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone was asking someone else to ask a question, and it was about measuring something, but more than that was hard to work out. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I was in the middle of asking her whether there was anything I could do to help out when Rufus began to scream. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

We look at earwax, or snot, or dirt from our toes, checking first to see that there’s no one around: we know without asking that such things would not be approved of. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was remembering the odd way Raven had greeted them—asking if they needed anything in that really formal way that made James joke about her being a butler. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Young females in tiny dresses, their breaths and bellies sucked in, trooped across to say hello to him and to flirt, asking if he remembered them, Ashleigh's friend from high school, Ashleigh's roommate in college. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

No voice spoke out of the water this time, asking for a deposit. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

As the first sunlight burned through the thin, blue mist and radiated off the blades, a prayer leader said that the Osage were a “humble people, asking for your help.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later, on the way out the door, Jaimito is still asking me questions about oysters, when Nino Carlitos looks me over from head to toe, and says, “Virginia stays in the house.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this same war movie, the American soldier goes home and he falls to his knees asking another girl to marry him. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they were finished, all the students were given a short questionnaire, asking them questions about the quality of the songs and the effect of the shaking. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rachel nods and proceeds to admire the three choices I’ve set aside, asking me questions about what details I like and if my room is like this. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

In Cairo and again in Accra, the American press wire services reached me with trans-Atlantic calls, asking whom did I favor, Johnson—or Goldwater? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Charley, I wonder if you’d do me the favor of taking this boy’s team down to the livery stable for water and feed. I’m asking him to have dinner with me.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

"That is what you do not know. I was asking you what you do know." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

But he cut me off and urged me one last time, drawing himself up to his full height and asking me if I believed in God. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

From which reverie he was awoken by Hassan asking, “So how the fug did a perfectly good Austrian Archduke end up in Shitsberg, Tennessee?” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m fine,” he’d say, as if the question were never worth asking. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Without asking any questions I undid my seat belt and slipped down in front of the seat. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Thus unburdened we made our way, asking directions a couple of times, not into the town but to an outlying farm. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

June asked it so casually, like she was asking if Ivy preferred dark or milk chocolate, that Ivy couldn’t tell if there was anything behind her question. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The question, the one we’ve all been asking since girls stopped being gross, the question that is too simple to be uncomplicated: Does she like me or like me? Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She left the room without asking directions, as though she knew from former lunches at Sickler’s just where to go. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

It would be like asking her to zip up my fly or hook my bra. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks disappointed in me for asking such a thing. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He did this for me, asking an American woman who was a social worker at Kakuma. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

That way, halfway through the movie, they’d come back out asking for more. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I considered my name, and the signature on cheques, to tradesmen, and in letters asking people to dinner. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

After hours of wandering, asking for directions and getting conflicting answers, I find the side street where the buses to Yana Urku pass. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn’t. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“They were clearly upset about other stuff. A song didn’t make them do anything. All these people are using me as a cop-out instead of asking what the real problems are.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“No, I’m asking you to marry me, you little fool.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Before the actual cops come and start asking questions.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Okay, I figured out what I’m asking,” I say. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Smith walked over to the Wheatley barn and presented himself to Fitzsimmons, asking to see the horse of whom Howard had spoken. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment she thought he was asking if that was the student she was meeting. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I’m asking for a slap in the face, but Dad don’t say anything, just gets out and goes up the boards Judd has laid out in place of a sidewalk. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why are you asking me this? You sound like Mom.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I try to jump-start her by asking, “So did Vanessa dominate the four hundred?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

He considers texting Nora, asking her if he can come over to finally have some big epiphany. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m only asking for one night. I’ll pay for it if you want.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Coach this time asking all four of us. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Kalinda looks at me, putting her hand on the side of my arm, shaking it and asking me something, but I don’t know what, because all I can hear is that boom against my chest. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

"I have one bottle left of a color that’ll be just perfect for you. It’s a little more red than what you were asking for, but it’s just right for a young lady growing up." The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

There was no point in asking what that meant. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Now he pictured Shoba with Gillian, in a bar with striped velvet sofas, the one they used to go to after the movies, making sure she got her extra olive, asking Gillian for a cigarette. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Farmer’s gentle doctor’s voice comes from behind me, asking how I feel. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Since you’re asking so many questions, I assume you know Marion Allen, Russell’s oldest—the one missing an eye—ran him out of the city.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Pa’s voice didn’t leap toward mine, asking me how my sisters and I were making out and such. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I’m following Momma out of the kitchen, asking her to talk to the teachers and make this thing right again. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

"You look beautiful. My parents have been asking me to bring you home for weeks. No more excuses." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I spent six years not asking that question. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I scrunch up my forehead, just starting to get what she’s asking. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“You wouldn’t be asking us to recommend that Reverend Buckminster be asked to stay. We already decided that last fall. So it must be that he be asked to leave.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

For a few moments he considered asking her to his room, but instead he laughed and told her how back in college he’d almost done something very brave. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I wrote to my loyal assistants at my newly formed Muslim Mosque, Inc. in Harlem, with a note appended, asking that my letter be duplicated and distributed to the press. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyler is smiling and stuttering at me and asking me if I know about some video game. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

A youth pastor named Jonboy used to roam around the buffet with a group of high school kids, smiling for the old ladies and asking if any of them needed work done on their lawns. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Piggy moved among the crowd, asking names and frowning to remember them. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

We went in for another round of interviews, and this time, we were all separated in different rooms, with officials asking us questions individually. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she gives me signals, like asking me what we’re cooking in Mama’s class. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Why was he asking her all these questions? The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Jenna has been asking me to come over for weeks now, so I put on warm clothes and scribble a Post-it note for my parents. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

His mind wanders, like it sometimes does, to images outside the walls of the school, even while his teachers are asking him to think about things inside the school. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And him asking if she wanted another star, and her saying yes but in a different color. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He must be telling her about my injury, asking her if it’s safe to keep me out here alone. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Sergio is a good guy, but he never strikes out on his own. He’s always asking Darma for advice. I take action. Anyway, that life is too slow for me,” he says. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He had given each one of us a quiz, asking us to answer questions on the catechism lessons or to recite prayers. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They jumped without asking and Luke caught both, one in each arm. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

"You don't know what you're asking, Jon. The Night's Watch is a sworn brotherhood. We have no families. None of us will ever father sons. Our wife is duty. Our mistress is honor." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Even as I’m asking the question, I see Michael shaking his head sadly. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Papa would say, “You don’t need to be asking those questions. Keep focused on following the rules so we can stay alive.” March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Most of my prayers, when they weren’t for the Dodgers, were quick ones in the middle of a game, asking God to let me win. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Once we arrived in San Francisco, Fern stopped singing “I saw something,” and we stopped asking her to tell us what she had seen. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He can tell someone is approaching, but doesn’t know the difference between you or his father right now. Either way, he’s asking for food.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I don’t have any help. In fact, I was planning on asking her about that too, if she could pass along the name of somebody good.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But I’m asking now—again, a third time, to be sure he’s heard me. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I change the subject by asking them to tell me what college was like for them. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Very soon you will start to adopt an American accent, because you don’t want customer service people on the phone to keep asking you ‘What? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I basically bothered my 2nd-grade teacher all day long asking for more math problems. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

As Brandon approaches, she is on lunch break, reading a textbook and eating french fries—which he leans over and samples without asking. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The coded talk was so transparent even she could guess what her sister was asking about. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A new patient had come to him asking what she could do about the spidery veins on her cheeks. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Asking what happened to the ancient Maya is like asking what happened in the Cold War—the subject is so big that one hardly knows where to begin. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I don’t even know why they tried to come up to me, asking me where I was from. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m just asking because I promised I would.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’s the leader of the duo, always asking demanding questions. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Mother ran after him asking what he meant. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But the question I’ve been asking myself lately is, are they true? “ The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And now, here Genie was, with someone who wanted to hear all his questions, who was asking him for questions, and for some reason he was nervous. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I’d seen Her Majesty’s face dozens of times before, in history books, on television, and on currency, but here she was in the flesh, looking at me intently and asking questions. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And Mom’s distraught, and for the first time in a long time is actually asking Heidi for advice. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Oh, and I'll never forget asking Fish why they called him Fish, since he didn't look like...a fish. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m bargaining with Him up there now. I’m asking Him, ‘Do I get to be one of the angels?’ Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kids were asking him about the bus-driving incident and the Halloween dance, and hanging on his every word. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I knowed what she was really asking, but I didn’t know how to answer her. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The elders said that he could not try but the boy kept asking again and again for their permission. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Last Christmas, he couldn’t keep himself from asking if I’d liked the desk organizer Momma sent. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

One day I would be asking who he was. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I thought about calling Mtisha and asking her if I should cross multiply, but I didn’t want to hear her mouth if she had an attitude. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He’d upset the balance of everything by asking out the only colored girl in school. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I heard her asking old Job if I was there. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t blaspheming, I was asking for information. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Most times kids really do want to know what they’re asking you. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

And by the time that cran-apple pie did come around, Mom was smiling and eating and asking Grandma questions. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe Benji was asking because he didn't know what to do for a change. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He began asking questions and I could hear myself replying fluently, though inside I was reeling with swiftly changing emotional images that shrilled and chattered, like a sound-track reversed at high speed. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought I would only have trouble with the Candor asking too many questions,” he says coldly. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He wanted a way out of the memory, so I tried to help, asking, “Can you show me odds like that?” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then—he later wrote Theo—“they came to tell me that someone was asking after me.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I whispered to Khalid, asking why I couldn’t be in the kitchen, too, just because I was on my way to being a man, and he told me because that’s just the way it is. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I stopped asking because he rolls his eyes every time I ask and says, “Albie, I told you.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s been asking my mama to marry him for the last year,” Peaches said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Have* you ever,” asked Lancelot, putting the question which all young men are always asking, and without noticing that it had anything to do with the drink, “have you ever been in love?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toby made everybody take a solemn oath not to tell where they’d been, even if they’d been missed and people started asking questions. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

His old fellow party members, to whom he went asking for help, hid so as not to receive him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It got to the point where I couldn’t tell who was asking anymore. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I was so emotional about wanting to meet Ashe that it did not occur to me that I was asking Wilfred the remotely possible. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to stop myself from asking another question, but I can’t help it. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Though one or two of the men called out, asking who I was, she did not answer. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

At school, people kept asking Phoebe about her mother’s business trip to London. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Yes! Stop asking me that. C’mon, let’s go back out there and stop them from talking about my brother, ’cause you know they’re talking.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She put up with me going off on adventures, but now I was asking her blessing to do something that would probably get me killed. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I was asking him to shut the door.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I know Momma isn’t asking me a real question, and I decide to change the subject before I get into trouble. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

But those recruiting posters—the ones asking men if they were tough enough to be a Marine—called to him. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

All of the men talked at once, shouting questions, asking to take pictures. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

My mother and father kept asking Deputy Billy Gruber the same question, which also was this: Was he sure it was their son he was talking about? 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He kept asking what it felt like? dull or sharp? an ache or burn? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The old man’s voice sharpened, and at once Ekon regretted asking. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I don’t hide my surprise that he’s asking. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Shoot, I knew I couldn't wear that outfit ever again because I couldn't have Doris and Jazz asking me where I got it from. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

When they reached the section devoted to race tactics, Woolf dutifully recited his line asking Pollard how he should ride the race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the emails are the same—planning when to meet, Olga complaining about his wife, Olga asking when he’s going to leave her, him promising that he will. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The little one looked at his big brother to see why I was asking all this stuff. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it had been Tom asking for the kiss, no one would have cared. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m acting stupid, asking to hear again what TaShon just told me. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

She looks at me, asking me to take her side. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Lance,” she had. said before the tournament, asking her strange favour humbly and childishly, “now that we are together, you will wear my token at the fight?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not like him the first time, asking Rebecca....I must not think of that. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I say: "We're not asking for money. We're not asking for anything but permission to remove an eyesore and transform a communal place. It would be an improvement." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Tidbit jabbered all the time, asking questions, making little jokes, playing tricks on his mother and the two girls. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know he’s just promising to stop me from asking again. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of asking Ms. Parker to excuse me from music, he called a meeting after school with Mr. Skerritt. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they have here, keeps asking me if I'm going apply myself when I go back to school next September. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

To create her formulas, Mother took up something called “muscle testing,” which she explained to me as “asking the body what it needs and letting it answer.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Hey—ever heard of asking before you barge into a lady’s dressing tent?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I can’t help it; I keep asking myself, What if this, what if that? Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I was just asking about cooking club. It’s not like we're friends or anything.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Then Cilia was asking him to close and fasten all the heavy shutters through the house. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was especially active during the oral argument, asking me lots of questions about the propriety of correctional staff engaging in medical procedures. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She keeps asking if I’m in love or something. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Everyone chattered anxiously in my ear, asking what was the matter, was I okay. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

By the time I was four years old, I was asking questions neither my mother nor grandmother cared to answer. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she patted the purple comforter, she considered the question Brandon hadn’t finished asking in the hallway. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We kept asking, and finally she said, “If I had anything to say about your father, I would say it, but I don’t. End of story.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“People are asking why I’m awake so early.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

For over an hour everyone took turns asking me questions, even Poppy. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Then the men continued through the people, asking questions and frowning. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I asked, trying not to be too obvious about why I was asking. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She looked unfinished, as though the hair itself, short and stubby, was asking for attention, for something to be done to it, for more. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“But in this case you’re asking me to bend the rules. And I’m not about to. You may think it’s the right thing to do, but I do not.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

People always coming and asking for mail at the wrong time. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Though crowds made her uneasy, she scouted populated areas for signs of the woman in black and her mysterious companion, asking after them in nearby villages and in lumber encampments in the forest. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

My mom’s asking me about my feelings, Dad’s turning it into a joke, Alice is getting political, and Nora is keeping her mouth shut. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

But why else would she be appearing there, asking to enter? Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Those two ranked above asking drivers to slow down and reduce drinking and driving. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I thought about asking Grampa if I could use the phone to call long distance to talk to Mom and Dad, but I didn’t know what I’d say to them if I did. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I sent a text message to everyone asking them to meet at our table in the cafeteria on Friday. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

At White’s suggestion, telegrams were sent out to prominent members of the musical community, asking them to protest the DAR’s ban on black performers. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Students in the audience lean forward, absorbed, maybe asking themselves if they would have taken such risks, and wondering how they would have held up under such pressure. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I couldn't tell what he was really asking or whether he was being hostile. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Maybe I crossed a line by coming to look for Monday, asking her questions and talking fresh to grown-ups, as Ma would say. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Shay had fallen asleep in a small crevice after, complaining about the dampness and her hair, asking when they were going to take her home. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Petitions arrived in the governor’s office, asking him to commute her sentence to life imprisonment. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blacks had been alternately asking for and demanding such a body for more than a year. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Staying with friends on the South Side, Elizebeth went to an agency, asking for openings. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I think she’s about to sneak upstairs, which she’s started to do again, but then I hear her on the kitchen telephone asking for Miss Hilly. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I think maybe we all do. And I don’t think that’s the asking.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I can almost hear him asking her to turn him loose. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Ambrose yelled, looking around as if he couldn’t decide who he was asking. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He came to our home and talked with us, asking questions about our life. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The next thing we knew, Proud was back, and we got a letter asking for cattle to pay for a murder. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I consider asking where they got the money for a house, but I know better than to talk about money in public. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Why do the ends of their sentences go up as if they're asking a question? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Following Mom’s instructions, I went to a telephone kiosk a few blocks from our alley so the neighbors would not overhear me asking about Dad. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But today, a judge would hear a petition Du Bois had filed asking the judge to send Richard’s case back to juvenile court. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Scorpius, we’ve checked you for hexes and curses—there were none we can see—so I’m asking if there’s anything I can do — to restore you to what you were . Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Meggie enticed it over, speaking to it gently, until it put its head under her arm and purred, asking to be petted. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“That makes me remember something strange in your language. People are always asking me about the road to Tinue. Endlessly they say, ‘how is the road to Tinue?’ The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She and Lourdes spent days washing clothes along the Usumacinta River in exchange for food, asking every smuggler who went by if he would take them through the mountain pass. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He dressed in his church clothes—black pants and a button-down shirt, a brown belt, his cowboy boots—and walked into store after store, asking for applications. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I opened a back door, jumped in, bounced on the seat, and started asking Papa questions. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I’m not asking for the world—I just want to be heard, by the one person who is supposed to listen. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Am I bothering you, asking so many questions?” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Jem drew the service to a close by asking all who wished to be united with Christ to step forward. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In addition to the dress, I would be asking a boy to the dance. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I kept asking them, Is this a real contest? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jason couldn’t quite believe Piper was asking after Reyna’s health, but it made him glad. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

People are uncomfortable asking a kid that question. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Here was Cade Hernandez, in exile at the back of the classroom, asking a perfectly reasonable question about a figure from history. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Afraid of dying, silly. Now stop asking questions and go do your homework.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hi, this is the front security gate. Iesha Robinson is asking to visit your residence.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I thought of asking the waiter for a paper, but I could not concentrate. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Salma Auntie is asking Baba as we creep into the room and stand behind the sofa. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Now it seemed as if he was just asking for trouble. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Instantly he heard the Whisperer asking his name. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

But I knew she wasn’t asking about my social life. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He felt like asking why it did not think things out in advance—the annoyed feeling which people have on seeing a job being badly done. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Polly said slowly and with genuine sorrow, “You must go with Tidbit. Master Clay is asking for you.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat up, asking, “Where are we? Where is my mother?” The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were making all these plans without even asking if it was okay with me. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

As for asking Tam Lin, Matt didn’t know how to bring up the subject. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A smile flickers for a moment before he says, “I shouldn’t have kissed you like that. Without asking.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Alex keeps asking if she can detect a lust for blood. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Emma was not asking Charles to believe in everything as it was written in the Bible. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept asking, “Are you sure you want to do this?” and “How’s your blood pressure?” and “Does your doctor know you’re doing this?” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Me too, Scoob-a-doob. Those officers started asking questions, and I could tell they were suspicious. Jimmy wasn’t the only contraband I had on board.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

That was as near as I dared to come to asking what had happened to my would-be enslaver. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re asking for volunteers with flexible travel plans who are willing to take a later flight.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lewis flipped through her file and kept asking her questions, and she knew what the notes in the file said just as surely as if she was reading them herself. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

She’d back away, facing me, asking, “Any ghosts behind me, Ruth? Is it clear?” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d had only a hard-boiled egg on the train, but I was here under his hospitality and I didn’t feel right asking for food so soon. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He held out his hand, as if asking for a handshake. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I said it the other day when I couldn’t find my science notebook and she told me I was silly for asking a saint to find my stuff. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I thought about him asking me if I’d ever been in love. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

And how most of the time when you tell somebody “what” you’re not really asking a question, you’re just saying something while you try and think up something better you could say later. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

When we get home, I bide my time before asking if I can use the computer. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

"We do, my lord, and thank you for asking." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Since I was the youngest grandson, I had the nerve-racking honor of asking the four questions traditional to the holiday service. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“He called here this morning, asking for her.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She gave me gummy bears at lunch without me even asking. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You look at the Pepsi Challenge, and you have to begin asking about taste.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Patria lifts her eyebrows as if asking, “How are you holding up?” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, something must have happened because he right away wrote her name down asking was it ski or sky. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Amaka was asking him about his missionary work in Germany, but I did not hear much of what she said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was so knocked out by this bourgie dude asking for crack that I slept the real deal. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I suppose it’s no good asking “what way do we go now?” The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He’s smiling such a goofy smile that I’m afraid he’s asking for it. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m not asking you to be my friends,” I said, “or have anything to do with me. Just let me keep my job. Mr. Donner says it’s up to you.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The dogs submitted to being harnessed to it, and before she knew what was happening—there was still something wrong with her sense of time—the Huntsman was asking her to dismount from her horse. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

"I’m asking Dan,” he said, "you older children stop showing off and...” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever it was, here, without coming out and asking for it—and revealing his secret ingredient—he had only his own, and he had drawn too much. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“No, sir. He’s colored. But why are you asking me all this?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without really following what he was saying, I heard him start asking me questions again. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Taryn’s mom, Mrs. Bishop, ended up calling Ivy’s mom, asking if Ivy could stay the night, and of course Ivy’s mom said yes. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Why did I sign my name to the paper saying I lived near Central and wanted to go, without asking their permission? Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom follows me around the house and Dad keeps asking me who I’m hanging out with. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“But you’re asking me to give you my story, but you don’t give your papers away,” I said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those moments never lasted long, and they always ended with Deborah asking me to promise yet again that I’d never hide anything from her. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then things got real confusing ’cause ’stead of greeting the people and making ’em feel comforted the way it happens most times, Miss Duncan-the-first started up asking questions. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I didn't feel up to asking him if there were any other ways to have babies. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Everyone started asking him if it was okay, if they were going to be okay. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I started asking around about opportunities in entertainment law, thinking perhaps that it might be interesting and would also spare me the sting of a lower salary. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Obinze pulled every strand of story from her, going over details, asking questions, and sometimes he would laugh, the sound echoing down the line. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Are you asking me to comment on this as a Mexican kid? You know that’s racist, right?” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“That’s asking too much of Susanna. She’s already doing us a big favor—we don’t want to inconvenience her any more than we have to.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, why are you asking about this then? Rachel, if you know something . . .” “I don’t know anything,” I say. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spends the short time rifling through papers, asking simple questions, but not taking any notes. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was getting tired of people asking this. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“That doesn’t matter. We need to focus on now. I am asking for help. You need to get me help.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

She felt bad asking him to do something so impossible. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

His grandma had finally gotten his mum to bed and then had gone into Conor’s bedroom and shut the door, not asking if he wanted anything out of it before she went to sleep herself. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

His horrified expression seemed to be asking: How could you? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I wandered the aisles, getting myself lost, asking people if Dr. von Braun was nearby. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Please . . .” asking the driver and the young man to end their attempts to get her a seat. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1918, asking that soldier’s permission to take tissues for this kind of future research would have been impossible, Korn says. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But they are driven by the humans pressing the buttons, asking for a tiny piece of the fractured spotlight. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The first entry reads: David keeps asking me to write down what I experienced. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I heard her asking me to help with dinner. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Now the people gathered at its doors like ants, asking questions and passing on rumors about what happened last night. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They spoke to each passenger, asking questions and giving instructions. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Ben looks at Manchee, then back at me, his eyes going all soft and asking and full of concern. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He thought about asking him to give it back, but decided that would be unfriendly. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did someone really cut this out by hand?” the children kept asking. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are asking me to sell out Mandy. We were sisters— at least for a while.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Farmer started by asking what I was going to say about Che Guevara. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Shackleton did what he could to encourage his men, going from one tent to the next and asking how they were, or starting conversations on topics totally unrelated to their present dangers. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I didn’t really feel like asking Dad about it. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Reynie’s eyes swiveled to the Executives, who, having been disappointed in Kate’s shoes, were now asking her to show her empty hands, then checking for stickiness under the edge of the table. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She loved the way I would keep asking her questions. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

She knew I was asking a really stupid question with an obvious answer. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“The nerve of that kid! Always asking questions—it’s what got him sent to the Waiting Room last time, you know. I thought he’d learned his lesson.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’m asking for help because I cannot do this alone. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t risk asking a neighbor’s help, so even though I didn’t have a license, I had to drive Link’s car downtown. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Doesn’t involve destruction? That’s like me asking you not to be a mealy-mouthed poltroon.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Faith waited until I got up the nerve to look at her before asking, “When?” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Stop asking questions. Do more. And stop collaborating.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

On the first day of October, Emily got a text from a boy asking for a picture. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Mom’s calling Robin and asking her to come stay with you,” Layla said. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I mailed Stan a letter asking him to please send a letter of recommendation to Princeton. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Palmer yowled with laughter—just as his mother came in, asking, “What’s so funny?” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I’m asking you for a favor, which may also help you. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Boy, I am sure asking for trouble with that one. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why did they insist on asking if she knew Nollywood actors? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“La garra. Now stop asking so many questions and get to work.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was like asking a cat not to kill a bird. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

While they danced, she got the conversation started by asking if he lived in Santa Fe. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, his mother had been there, walking down the drive and up the path to the front door, seeing everything, asking questions of Fielding's mother, intruding and spoiling. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

We did not understand him and replied in anxious, loud voices, asking him what he needed. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the day, you could see little groups of people asking each other, “Did you write about me?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

One day in a clinical class, she recalled, the teacher went around the room asking students how their patients were doing. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Instead, it’s me bleeding out all my neuroses, looking for answers to questions I have no right to be asking. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“I know that, but he doesn’t have your kindness. And when I have to go—the sheriff is going to begin asking questions and I’ll be all alone.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

After asking if I were a “nice man,” he offered to let me bunk with him. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Keep them asking,” he said, “and exit clean and sharp. Thank you and good afternoon.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scramble to my feet, riffling through my closet for a clean skirt and pulling off my nightgown without even asking for the privacy I usually demand while changing. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Diego grabbed my sandwich without asking and peeled back the plastic wrap. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Amazed, I could not help asking, “Where does the coolness come from?” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Stop asking why, you fool,” my mother said, her face working up in anger. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could remember thinking that she was asking for it. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He alluded to last night only by asking how Phineas was; I said he seemed to be in good spirits. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was keen to witness what the others now asking after him would say at the sight of him. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it was Noodles, we wouldn't really be saying too much, just asking if the other person was there. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

When I mentioned about Ben asking where my mother was and my saying that she was in Lewis-ton, but that I didn’t want to elaborate, Gram and Gramps looked at each other. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

As long as it stopped her from asking questions, I didn’t care. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Now you tell me! When I started asking him questions about them tests and my mother’s cells, he just handed me a copy of this book, patted me on my back, and send me home.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

So tired he could barely move or focus on the questions the deputy was asking him. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Neighbors gathered, giggling, muttering words of pity and astonishment, asking my mother how on earth I could have learned so much so quickly. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Ted got round to asking God to heal my brokenness and to fill me with joy, I was feeling pretty low. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I was self-sufficient, I could travel the world over, never needing a penny, never asking anything of anyone. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as if Archie was trying to bargain with the kid, asking, for crying out loud. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He goes to a pool hall without asking permission. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

My mom wrote to my gran, asking her to send the price of a train ticket, about thirty rand, to bring her home. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She had heard that traveling scythes would show up at people’s doors asking for shelter and food for the night. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I slide out of the van and grab my lucky ball from the back and warm up while Papi says hello to his friends, slapping their backs and asking about their families. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Were they like us—daily asking God to show them the right path? Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I never stopped asking questions about when he would be coming back. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t exactly pleading, it was asking questions. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Am I making this weird? Should I stop asking you these questions?” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m not asking you for permission; I’m informing you of my decision. I am going to New York in August.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, I was telling you, not really asking your permission.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The woman asking the questions touched her ear. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Just the same, they kept asking questions that I didn’t feel like answering. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Throughout the day, as news of the hurricane grew more dire, clients called Kathy or Zeitoun, asking them to secure their windows and doors. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Instead, he lifted his chin and said, over the cardboard flap, “I’m fine, though I appreciate your asking.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I hope you don’t mind my asking,” Douglas said, “but I noticed the statue outside, and are you guys Christian? I thought you were Indian.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

‘That is not what Captain Hardcastle says. He says you were asking for help with your essay.’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than two hundred of Holm’s fellow athletes signed a petition asking that she be reinstated. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

After what he had seen and survived, he was asking if she was all right? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But Ernie was always on him about asking too many questions, so Genie just nodded. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She was on tour, and asking for help now meant she’d have to give that up—or that she wouldn’t. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m not allowed to have a phone yet. I’m asking for one for my bat mitzvah.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Smart people have been asking questions for quite a few centuries now, so many of the questions that haven’t been asked are bound to yield uninteresting answers. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I think about going to their house and asking to see Jesse’s room one last time. He had to have left something behind explaining why he killed himself.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Here is the school photograph he gave me, casually asking for one of mine in return. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But I can hear the hinges of the door, and I can hear Helena’s voice, and a man’s, asking her questions. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Without even asking, he was reckoning on her as deliberately as he calculated his growing pile of lumber. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m asking the questions,” said Scrimgeour, shifting his chair a little closer to the sofa. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

At lunch, I’m asking April to be my girlfriend. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Are they asking the president to stop the Games?” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z