Later, when Holmes returned for more chloroform, Erickson asked him how his experiments were coming. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

‘It will be more needed where it is bestowed,’ said Aragorn. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

My grandfather did, too, only he was even more extreme. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

For more, see pages 57—58. n a u s e at e D/ N a u s E o u s. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn't know about them, but I was hoping the people of the world might be united by something more interesting, like drugs or an armed struggle against the undead. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

"What happened?" she asked again, this time her voice gentler, more worried. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

It was, after all, a job that promised to exercise my talent for public speaking, and if the pay was anything at all it would be more than I had now. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the course of conversation they discovered some mutual friends which had the immediate effect of making them more friendly and less stiff. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I opted for the longer, quieter route—anything to avoid more stares. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

A hard-faced stringy woman who everyone called Blue Eyes and who scared Nailer maybe even more than his father scared him. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lately Boori Ma had been thinking that the stairs were getting steeper; climbing them felt more like climbing a ladder than a staircase. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

But the history of domestication is much more complicated. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“But I’ve thought things were impossible before, and so far, none of them actually were. Besides, I know Eril-Fane doesn’t want any more killing. He wants to come up to the citadel,” he told her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She was having more trouble on the ladder than Caroline, for, in addition to a large purse, she was trying to negotiate a huge shopping bag. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. He says the Brits draw it out much more, while Americans make it short.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

There were project managers who knew more about the ultimate goal of the work they did, but no one had all the pieces. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

By late that evening a mob of more than four hundred whites began moving toward the poor black section of southwest Washington. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“That the Second World War, like the First, resulted in a lot of changes for women,” I say, leaning out to address Sandra, too, who is slumped on the wall once more. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Millions of people today buy designer jeans for double the price of equally durable generic jeans—because the social cachet of the designer label counts for more than the extra cost. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And because his attitude was poor, their attitude toward him was also poor, until, as time went on, his patients began seeking other, more modern remedies from other, more modern healers. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Publicly humiliating and attacking me was a bizarre way to show it. A box of chocolates might have been more appropriate.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I groan again; this one sounds a little more believable. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

M: *laughter, more frantic and fake* No, obviously not. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

The gray clouds in the sky meant more snow, but they also meant night would come earlier, and maybe an earlier end to the day’s marching. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Snape was looking right at him, and the bell that rang ten minutes later could not have been more welcome. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“Unclean, unclean! I must touch him or kiss him no more. Oh, that it should be that it is I who am now his worst enemy, and whom he may have most cause to fear.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Now that Baba is getting more gray in his hair, he’s starting to resemble his older brother more than he used to. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

They watched the waves come in, so bulbous and full, as though they had all the time in the world—and more. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

In the end Junior got more oysters than I did. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Just why Mr. Frodo was selling his beautiful hole was even more debatable than the price. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Inside were tools and cutting sand, no more. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The plants were hardly more than a gray-green shadow, and a gentle mist wafted up from sprinklers in the ground. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry opened his trunk again and pushed the contents aside, looking for the Invisibility Cloak — but before he had found it, he straightened up suddenly, looking around him once more. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Once we paint our nails, there isn’t much more we can do for a while. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I wanted to catch the unglued schizo way he looked before he got run over by misery, so I went way more abstract than usual. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Cadaver was unable to give him any more information about Phoebe’s mothers call. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

This Sunday was to be a feast day for everyone, but more especially for the twenty-four elders, who were, that day, to be gloriously banqueted at the saints’ expense and labor. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

In a more affluent community, with students gunning for admissions to selective colleges, parents might not be so happy for their children to take one of these classes, let alone four of them. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She wore a net on her head that made her hair look more like some kind of helmet, and a gold necklace was around her neck with a nameplate hanging from it. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Thanks for showing me all this, Shay. It was all really incredible. But I think one more cool thing would kill me.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She goes back to her closet and pulls out three more. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Because of his age, Jimmy Zizmo treated his young bride more like a daughter than a wife. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The few preserved African skeletal fragments contemporary with the Neanderthals are more similar to our modern skeletons than to Neanderthal skeletons. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I heard more of the radios behind him. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“The Transportation Department said it would only take a few more days to finish pouring the cement for the pilings. Then we can relax if... if she’s still there.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I won’t have you. And I don’t want to talk about it any more.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

A gong had been rung while they were upstairs, and they came down to eat the noon meal at the Long Table of the refectory, along with a hundred or more boys and young men. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Choking out a cough, Mark sought more places for his hands and feet, dropped another yard or so. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

We’ve been standing here ten minutes, and Lolo is only getting more upset, though neither one of us can tell why. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Three inches more and the water would be in the house. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Where there was one, there were probably more. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The more grammatically correct versions—I'm saying this only once\\ This food can be called only swill— only sound unnatural. reason ... is because. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tonged the iron to more advantageous heat, and he laughed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He defined reliable evidence as one would in a court of law: more than one witness, and the witnesses must be of sound mind, not partial or prejudiced. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I am afraid of seeming either to promise more than I can perform, which suggests complete irresponsibility, or to perform less than I can, which suggests bad faith and indifference. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Every Thursday afternoon, after the last serious arrow had been shot, they were allowed to fit one more nock to their strings and to shoot the arrow straight up into the air. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It probably wouldn’t be open for a few more hours, later tonight. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“I think you and your mom are more alike than you realize.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

But there wasn’t much more she could do or say. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The more we thought about it, the less likely it seemed that a burglar would have forced a door so early in the evening, when there were still people out on the streets. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He can’t decide if his Mexican blood or his Texan blood is more offended. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Some were already walking, wobbly on their unsteady legs; others were no more than a few days old, wrapped in blankets, held by their Nurturers. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was missing Raji more each day and thought seeing the river would bring him closer. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I already had received more publicity than many world personages. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaps into focus beyond my wiping arm, grinning at me, his teeth white in a face more tanned than I remember. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then you finally relent, because you were actually hungry the whole time, but it seemed more polite not to make them go to the kitchen and bring you food. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Vetch had been made sorcerer this fall and was a prentice no more, but that set no barrier between them. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Hoping he could get more information about the best escape route, he called New York City’s police headquarters. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He saw his friends’ faces more clearly again, and a measure of new hope and strength returned. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then, exhaling smoke, he put the cigarette up on the frosted-glass ledge where the old, dead cigarette was, and assumed a slightly more relaxed stance. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I am nervous. It’s silly to think there’ll ever be any more rockets. Except one, perhaps, if Edwards and his wife get through with their ship.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I check over my shoulder once more for El even though I didn’t see her in second period. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I ought not to have come. It has only made me more miserable, and him too.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'll try to open up more next time," I said quietly. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He began to curse under his breath as he climbed a few more steps, his knee obviously uninjured. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Faced with this ever-growing flood of squatters, two Shawnee brothers, Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa, began building a larger, more cohesive Indigenous resistance. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Here we are,” the giant told him after they’d been walking no more than ten minutes. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was no more than six feet by eight feet, meant for one prisoner. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Bilbo and Frodo had told it often; but as a matter of fact he had never more than half believed it. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I had to remind myself that he had not seen me in more than fifteen years, and that my appearance had changed even more in the past months. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was always being swatted away by his girlfriends, who didn’t like having a reminder of his first marriage hanging around, but that only made her want to be with him all the more. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In the end, Stanton even pushed Anthony to return to more traditional clothing. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Perhaps no community has suffered more for the sake of a beetleless world than Sheldon, in eastern Illinois, and adjacent areas in Iroquois County. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She was putting her face in his chest and beginning to cry, and without saying more, they turned and walked off the dock together, the crowd carefully not touching them. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“It’s probably not even that big of a deal. Maybe I just wanted my mom to care more than she did.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Susan’s friends laughed at this, although he wondered if it was from pity at his fumbling attempt at humor more than from amusement. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A general rule of racing is that virtually no horse can sustain his maximum speed for more than three eighths of a mile. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Sefia’s relief, they hadn’t come across any more men on the way back to Hatchet’s camp, but she kept them off the trail and covered their tracks all the same. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Show the place to me, and I’ll trouble you no more. And I’ll pay you,” I said, holding out some pennies. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie had hauled more firewood in the past month than she had all winter, and still the old woman complained of being chilled. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

At that moment I was just arriving at the tents—probably no more than fifteen minutes in front of the first members of Beidleman’s group. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Since that night when he had stood alone in his cell, feeling the high magic which Max’s talk had given him, he was more than ever naked to the hot blasts of hate. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You will always love Josh and Blake more than me, won’t you?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

And once more there was silence; and the expectancy, momentarily relaxed, was stretched again, tauter, tauter, almost to the tearing point. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Everywhere we found a window, we went through. There are more windows than we thought.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

All I can say is that at the time what I feared more than anything was that one or the other of them would stalk off first, and I’d be left with the remaining one. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see Maddy, but even more, I could hear her, hear her screaming my name as if it was just her and me in a tunnel. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Knowing that we ate at school, Mrs. Moss scrimped even more at home, often serving only thin sandwiches for supper. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The Earth is a lovely and more or less placid place. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought there would be more to it than that. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

The Interstate Highway Act brought autobahns to the United States and became the largest public works project in the nation’s history, building 46,000 miles of road with more than $130 billion of federal money. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

The tokens controversy was, I suppose, all part of our getting more acquisitive as we grew older. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“O King, mouse have no got more candynuts. Give all to great Majesty. Now you let mouse go freehome,” he said hopefully. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Kevin, you can’t come back all at once any more than you can leave all at once. It takes time. After a while, though, things will fall into place.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Every now and then, I try to remember one of his riddles, but it only conjures up more regret and guilt. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Oh, dear. Well, perhaps it doesn’t matter, then. But you’d better not say any more. Perhaps that would be all right.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He’s more a spotted knight than a white one, Tyrion thought inanely. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

That would come in three more years, when the camp’s occupancy maxed out. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Better than waiting tables in a restaurant because in a hotel there’re more ways to get tips. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Huntsman regarded her pale cheeks and wide, dark eyes, and said as kindly as he could, “If you were already sensitive, then yes, her medallion may have enabled you to see more of her.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

We are controlled here by our confusion, far more than we know, and the American dream has therefore become something much more closely resembling a nightmare, on the private, domestic, and international levels. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I was mad at our uncle but now I was more sad about him than mad at him. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then Min would shout or scold while Tree-ear stared at his toes in shame and, more often than not, resentment. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

It disappeared down his throat in one crunch and he looked around happily for more. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malachy goes to Eugene and tries to make him laugh even more but Eugene turns away and hides his face in Pa Keating’s shirt. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, however, he had more pressing worries. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The truth was more complicated, and Mom wouldn’t have approved. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

A little more than a decade later, the rosy picture was fraying around the edges. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It looked more like a block party than it did a riot. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Since readers tend to link a phrase to the words that came just before it, they will misunderstand a sentence when the writer had a more remote association in mind. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The campaign had worn us out, maybe even more than I’d anticipated. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Smiling and crying at the same time like her brain can’t make up its mind any more than Axel can make out what’s happening here. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They set out pans, big pans and little pans, and as fast as Grandma filled them with the syrup they set out more. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blade wasn’t more than a centimetre long, very small, very sharp and very shiny. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched him unravel a misunderstanding between cabin mates, take suggestions for dinner, and give his opinion on whether the security team needed more kids assigned to it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

More stones fell; more cracks spread up the walls. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The heat is subsiding a little, but I'm more woozy planting today than on even the hottest days. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But if she didn’t, would that sound like she didn’t want to spend any more time with him than absolutely necessary? When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Those people’s problems always seemed much worse, yet much more easily solvable, than her own. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But the thing is, Rae hasn’t really spoken more than a few words to me since the dinner. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The hot chocolate costs a whole dollar more. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I tried a couple more times but I waren’t getting no more explaining from the Preacher. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

But things were about to change even more. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told him he couldn’t bear to take any more money from his own son. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then a second, more powerful bomb kills them as well. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I pet him some more, and I lose count of the number of times my hand moves back and forth. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I liked him, but I had more important things to think about just then. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

One more word out of you and you’ll be in trouble. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave orders for more wine to be served; then he got up and drained his own glass silently to the health of Bilbo, and slipped out of the pavilion. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In one upper pocket of his jacket was arrayed a variety of pens and pencils; in the other nestled a lily-white handkerchief whose presence was more decorative than utilitarian. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked over to the bulletin boards, but there was nothing new, just more names on the listings of the missing and the dead. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“It means he’s seriously injured, but beyond that it’s hard to say without more information,” her mom had said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The more I think about it, the more I wonder if my mother and I are related at all. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Even though Shady was the interim Baptist minister, I think he was more of a Quaker at heart. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Stanton wanted nothing more to do with the organization, and she wanted Anthony to give up her leadership role there as well. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Even more than the last song you did.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Hoggishly he stuffed far more of the nuts into his beak than it could cope with. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I try to join in one more time, but Tressa talks over me until I give up. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

"I don't know. Less . . . less messy, and more magical." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Well,” she went on, “don’t let it. There’s more good folks than bad in the world, believe it or not. I bet they find him.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The more he browsed the University of Chicago catalogue online, the more classes he saw that he’d like to take, and the more boring his routinized office job seemed by comparison. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry and Hermione laughed, and, feeling slightly more cheerful, went off to lunch. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

At night, more often than not, they would congregate in the dark beyond her window and laugh about her. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

But the farther they got from the apartment, the more he started watching the roads. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

This, I figured, could sustain me for three or four more days if need be, but then what would I do? Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Who said I was crazy about him? I never was any more crazy about him than I was about that man there." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

But for my brother and me it's no more anything! Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Now here we were, doing the same thing once more. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Preferably more than one, because a girl needs options. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“While we were gone,” she thought, “she cried and cried until she couldn’t cry any more.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If it comes to fighting, what chance do you think we have? The Godslayer slew the Mesarthim, and they were far more powerful than we are.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

‘No, no. For something more important than the pocketbooks of our American citizens.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

One more onager redirected and they might stand a chance. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Relatives who might like to be here with you. I understand this must be quite a trial for you, but the stronger you can be, the more it will help Mia.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was missing more shots than I usually do and Mr. Stokely pulled me aside. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know any more tricks than most uglies.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Chestnutt grabbed the pencil in her mouth again and began sketching more flies. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Private Williams,” said I, “there are more sicknesses than the smallpox, and we endanger ourselves by resting in the vapors.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

There were never more than a few people at any one time—twenty at most. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took more than three years to complete. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But the further away we got from the Norfolk trip, and I still hadn’t told her, the more it came to feel like a guilty secret. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s been about more than just an individual’s notion of her own beauty. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

We hadn’t had one in more than a year. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Joseph knew she smoked more when she was nervous, and there was a growing pile of cigarette butts at her feet. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The magician’s already sagging, ruddy face reddened even more. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Maybe I needed to tone down my part in it, become more responsible, listen to Mamá—wash some dishes or do some laundry for a change. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Two more boys emerge from the soot carrying a portrait in a gilded frame, twice as tall as they are, the visage of some long-dead great-grandfather glowering at the night. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Nothing worries and antagonizes a female bear more than to have people between her and her brood. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

None of it seemed fair to Anna, but I wanted to learn more about her mother’s story. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The car began to quiver, then howl, sounding more beast than machine. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

To them, music was much more than mere entertainment. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The tops of the fences appeared again, and Joe measured how much more of the posts he could see every day. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t say that it was this sense of guilt, though, that had my fingers itching to hammer my keyboard for some more digging—not exclusively. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Mama asked her more than once when Dede set to quarreling about something. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would take Pong more than twice that long to get down the twisting mountain track, but he couldn't leave before learning how Father Cham was. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Could the Khoisan, too, have been originally more widespread until their more northerly populations were somehow eliminated? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Here, Diana, we also found a couple more small extension cords,” Rashid said behind him. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I worked odd jobs at the market, at pubs, ran errands, whatever people needed me to do, and a few more years went by. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“You’ve done everything you can right now. He might just need some more time.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

And more loose straw, falling down on them. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

James compared her Surly Wombat card and the Babbage card for a second more before handing them back to her. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Which he’s learned from this trip means so much more than he knew. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“I think women are more tolerant of pain and discomfort than men anyhow,” he said. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Henek, the youngest, who had no time for me, and Max, the next step up from Izio, who had already started an apprenticeship and smiled more often than he talked. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Do you think she likes them more than us because Isabella and I aren’t Asian?” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The second time we were much more careful. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among viruses, only rabies, ebola, and HIV are more certainly lethal. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He had gone for his checkup, and Dr. Grossman had been satisfied with his health, though he had suggested that he get more rest. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

For those first few days, I woke up furious and went to bed even more livid. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

There was more, but I bought the candy.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watching Taylor, sun- kissed and bronzed and effortless, Petra felt jealous and more than a little out of her league. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

About a hundred more monsters marched behind them. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Sure, but why not more poems about the sun? The sun is also a star, and it’s our most important one. That alone should be worth a poem or two.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Thoughts of home, and more thoughts of home settled down. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stalin has stolen more than land, Hannelore, he has stolen human dignity. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“You’re doing a great job, son, but no more sneaking around at night—especially with your sister. You hear me?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

We could do without any more news coverage of the “big-time reporter comes to hick town” genre. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

By moonlight the whitewashed pavilions and boardwalk were even more picturesque than during the day. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He was getting tired; the more he came to himself, the more a sense of fatigue seeped into him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Brother Jacques used the word “environment” five more times in the next fifteen minutes. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In some cases there seem to be two or more asteroids in tight mutual orbits. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved my new job even more than I loved my Park Avenue address. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I remember my dad saying, “Everything will turn out OK. In the United States, there are more opportunities, better jobs, and no terrorism.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The cows are much smaller, but they make more noise than the bulls, screaming and barking through the whole day and sometimes at night. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along with fuel, the driver buys more beer, and the Blazer rolls into Dallas about noon. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

As more victims disappeared from hospitals and institutions, family members realized what was happening to their loved ones. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nhamo made her way to a stand of thatching grass to fetch more bedding. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tells me in some camps, there are more than a hundred thousand refugees living there, so the wait is much longer. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm going to get more caviar," said Clyde. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

With shaking hands, I clutch the blanket more tightly around my shoulders and let Locke lead me into the woods. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There were more, and larger, villages, and more people on the roads. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“If you are buying nothing more,” he said at last with much impudence, “you will have to pay rent for the stool.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Inside the Unique Hair Essentials house, there are more fancy ladies. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Good. Today will be something more strenuous, I fear. We’ll work all three looms together, all right? Until you feel quite sure of everything.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if I would ever in my life feel more mortified. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

By the last session, I honestly don’t know who’s wishing more that we hadn’t shown up—me or Mrs. Gardner. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

They weren’t smarter or more focused or more serious. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

But it is no more than a half truth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It had been more than eighteen months since either of the Sorensons had visited. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I have noticed more visitors coming since he and George added the picture of Ruby to the sign. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Being a branch on the same family tree as Leo made sense to him, and this strange new history made Joseph suddenly feel more alive, more real, and not quite so lost. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

With each class, I learned more about the huge world outside. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There are two more men hanging on it, killed for leaving the ghetto to buy from the outside. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was easier to do this at lunchtime, when children spent more time coming and going between the tables and the counter, where bland-looking adults served equally bland food. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

They will sleep two more hours, at least. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s interesting how you did this,” he says, peering more closely at the painting. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He was more nervous than usual walking toward Harvey’s, and he tried to make himself laugh by thinking of the beer cans as weapons. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

It would get quiet once more, but even so, somehow I always ended up feeling a teeny bit guilty. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Or the people could have united in larger and more disciplined social units for the sake of ambitious group efforts that no loosely organized tribal society would have been able to achieve. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The distribution of class schedules was more complicated than usual this year, for Professor McGonagall needed first to confirm that everybody had achieved the necessary O.W.L. grades to continue with their chosen N.E.W.T.s. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The man’s more frequent trips to the Bronx are a result of the way the trains are scheduled. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A moment more and Volta loosened his grip. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Lyra was almost more fascinated by this than by the changing landscape below the airship. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Mother and Daddy hurried toward us, calling our names, eager to hold us once more. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

But there was a more recent author and public figure whose work spoke to the core of a new set of issues I was struggling with: the Bronx’s own Colin Powell. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I could tell from the set of his lips, he would say no more on this subject. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I won’t listen to that cat suffer one more instant! Are you with me or not? If not, I’m going by myself!” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of them had the strength to do more than stare at me in the weak lantern light. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cough up more gunk, which makes my head spin, which makes me cough more. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

There was something in his father’s manner that frightened him more than open anger. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

What mattered more than how hard a man rowed was how well everything he did in the boat harmonized with what the other fellows were doing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I’m obviously aware that they share a bed when he sleeps over here, but the more often I sleep over here, the more I get the impression that he’s here on nights when I’m not. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Jaime had various strange habits that became eviclent around that time and grew more pronounced over the course of his life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

These meetings are supposed to make me feel more powerful, and in some ways they do. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Emma, finding her so determined upon neglecting her music, had nothing more to say; and, after a moment’s pause, Mrs. Elton chose another subject. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

But much more extraordinary than his color is his size. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Plus Salim had given me his savings, so I had more than enough to buy two London Eye tickets. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

It never quit fighting, but the more effort it put in, the tighter it trapped itself. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

And more, was this all some elaborate ritual to get an angle on me? Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

And everywhere he looked, it seemed there were more horses than people. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Fist sat with a few of the more alert vlei people and applied himself to a mountain of food. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Grants have been married for more than twenty years and have endured many long separations due to military life. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You did, and there’s nothing more you could have done,” I say, and kiss him on the cheek. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Finally the grapes stopped shivering, and I had a feeling that somewhere inside there, the manticore was no more. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

But my parents were more gentle than strict. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

What if Javier wanted more than playing video games that evening? Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Even when their bellies seemed about to burst, their mouths craved more and they drank on. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

If the entire tidal-locked habitable zone looks like this, I can’t imagine a more beautiful new home for humans to live. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It seemed to Lina there were more Believers than ever these days. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He said that way we could talk a little more. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

By the time the game gets under way Bryce and Aurora have shifted to right in front of the TV, but they still only pay attention for commercials, when it’s “more fun.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“This is good. Quite detailed. Why don’t you let me hang on to this and reformat it into something more acceptable?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I remained in my room more and more each day. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They looked more like giant fingers attached to his waist. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Jesse was more outgoing, increasingly restless, almost desperate for the books I’d occasionally send, or for word of a new movie. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still have one more seed left in my mouth, and I think about spitting it at Webb. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

His visage would be more frightening than that, cold and black and too terrible for any man to gaze upon and live. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And the more I twisted the facts, the more they pointed to a single inescapable conclusion. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

By the end of the battle, more than 20,000 were dead. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt that what I wanted that scene to say to the reader was more important than its surface reality or plausibility. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was a simple, moody piece that sounded more difficult than it was. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You think the moon’s all there is? There’s a whole lot more for us to see. Haven’t you ever heard of New Zealand?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“My walking stick can test more than soles.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

You might be more annoyed with them for the damage they did or the noise they made. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex smiles back, the anxious bubble in his chest shrinking slightly, but there’s one more bomb to drop. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

In recent years, many of the stacks had grown to a height of twenty units or more. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

What’s more, this was Germany, the land where classical music was born. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

This meant that I’d have to pay more attention for a few weeks. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The old tight-buttoned fool never realized he was only making Cade out to be a bigger, more martyred hero in the hearts of his classmates. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

She clambered on his back again, and he set off down the broken slope, walking steadily and not pacing any more. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

They circled above, a dozen of them or more, swooping down to shoot and soaring up again, and Lyra swore with every word she knew. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

While scurrying water rats squeaked from the walls, pistoled their water, and ran for more. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Small science had not quite emptied its quiver: it would produce a few more spectacular successes, again somewhat at the expense of the Rad Lab’s reputation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He seemed genuinely sceptical, perhaps because I wasn’t making more fuss. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1956, astronomers discovered that Cepheid variables were more variable than they had thought; they came in two varieties, not one. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Motorists certainly had a more cossetted, looked-after existence than we did. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“The trousers—” he began, but there was no time to say more and he stopped short, confused and stammering. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

It shook its good hind leg, which did no more than explain the ori­gin of the previous night s knocking: it was the hoof beating against the side of the boat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

But I was nevertheless persistent and I raised the matter once more at the national conference in December 1951, where the delegates dismissed my view as emphatically as the National Executive Committee had done. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is dead, I say to myself, he must be dead, he doesn’t feel anything any more; it is only the body that is gurgling there. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That is more difficult. The English, they do not stab. You are right there. I incline to the view that someone else dropped the pipe cleaner—and did so to incriminate the long-legged Englishman.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over her shoulder Mrs. Stubbs called back, “I hope this puts an end to the entire unfortunate business. And I don’t want any more interference from you, Mrs. Dowdel!” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was even possible that we COs would be victimized in more deliberate ways. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d probably make her eyes a more intense shade of green. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“You!” he barks, his accent more Flemish than French. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

She talked fast, and lots, and always seemed like the sibling go-between, more patient and willing to play with me than my older brothers. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

There never were seven more silent human beings in the back of a truck, we were too stunned even to cry or speak. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most scholars now accept that the content of the Library was nothing more than what was accumulated on all the bookshelves in the Museum. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The more familiar overwhelming means just what you think it does—“too much!” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing to be sorry about. Please don’t say any more.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I am,” he says, and no more than that. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Still, I knew a little more English this time around. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The meal of beans and milk was carried through in silence, and as they left, the strip of hidden wall rose up and formed an unbroken surface once more. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Osborne stayed only a few months; Lawes, more than twenty years. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Though we must check the trap for a more accurate number.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Harry asked weakly, and when nothing happened except that Ron and Hermione gripped each other still more firmly and swayed on the spot, he raised his voice. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The crying girl whimpered and wept, but when Hot Pie offered her a bit of goose she gobbled it down and looked for more. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The Hundred Years’ War had progressed to approximately its twenty-sixth year with no indications of anything more than periods of uneasy truce. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I felt that Allah would be more inclined to help those who helped themselves. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Circumstances will change and things will be fine, just hold on a little more,” he said, tapping my shoulder again and nodding. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But the less money we spend on food, the more we'll save. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He usually took his pay in trade: flour, coffee, spice, dried beans, and canned goods; or put it on account for a day when we needed more than lobsters would buy. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Right now I had forty-six different ones, and tomorrow morning I would probably get some more. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

And I did feel a little more relaxed as a result, which I suppose was what he had intended. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I begin to suspect that more may be required. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Preparations for Hardtack proceeded in a frenzy made more difficult by the unpredictable spring weather at Eniwetok. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She then fills the banchan plates with more of my favorites. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Although Harry watched his two friends more closely over the next few days, Ron and Hermione did not seem any different except that they were a little politer to each other than usual. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

But the East Enders stayed in the east and the West Enders stayed in the west, and the less they knew about each other, the more they invented. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Death of the Fruit Tree Blossoms, a ritual that took place every spring, had been known to drive some people more than a little ding-y. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was referring to a situation where you have more than one person in need of serious medical attention, but your resources are too limited to treat them both. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

But he was persistent, and more clever than his father. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

That was a lot more recent than the Holocaust, and already half the people in Chokecherry claim it never happened. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Although we know that the chemicals have almost certainly undergone change during the long period of transit, we do not know whether the altered chemical is more toxic than the original or less. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Don’t ask me why, but I feel like he deserved more than this. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Lord Roke left with him, making no more noise than a shadow. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Since we have a lot more to worry about right now, I think it’s best we set some protection that will last a long time and only need touching up once in a while.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He realized he had to be more careful. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Of the two possibilities I think humiliation would be more likely than the achievement of our objectives—even after we had paid terrible costs.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And every morning she looked a little more nervous. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“And what’s more, I’m shutting down all nonessential flights until the present crisis is past.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

In the morning I was stiff and sore and starving—but I was alive, and more determined than ever to finish what I’d started. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She was drinking some, maybe more than some, spending hours playing video games. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The river ran more slowly now, and ice began to form along the edges. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Already I had killed five of the pack, but there were many left, more than in the beginning, for some had been born in the meantime. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, in real life, things can get considerably more complex. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

For this reason, more than for any other, she abandoned her workshop. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He's managed to pull together donated clothes that are more appropriate to his upbringing. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, Dullah and his family were home, but they were more than a bit surprised to see us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His remaining clothes were cut away, carefully, so as not to cause him more discomfort. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then he deleted that question and started with something a little more important. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

But it was more that he couldn’t tell her what was wrong, or even if anything was wrong—he couldn’t really talk to anybody about it because nobody understood what he meant. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe a bit more, and that had taken forever. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But I give one more wave and a thank-you to the lady, who just tried to be nice. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“I don’t hear an apology. You’ve already lost five minutes from your screen time today. The longer it takes, the more you’ll lose.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

"You have her face. I can see it in your cheekbones, and your jaw ..." "You remember more of her than I do. It has been a long time." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Building a soap box derby car was an apprenticeship in engineering, and the earlier a kid got started, she knew, the more likely they were to fall under its spell. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It was more than anybody could believe who hadn’t seen it for herself. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Nina returned the bow with considerably more panache, and let him lead her away. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Then she smiled, lowered her voice, and said, “Now I wish I’d given you more playing time.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She fiddled with the lock for a few more seconds and then smiled a big smile. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Matthias realized there was no more to be said, so he decided to have a rest too. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“So...it’s more like twenty-seven signatures,” I said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

It was a fact—we had all compared notes—that our men got more romantic the longer they were in prison. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Think of what you would lose with a union: first, your dues money, which could be $20 a month “and sometimes much more.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to invert the equation, suggesting one dollar and five shots of vodka would be more appreciated. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Conner stood abruptly and crossed over to his desk, a more comfortable distance away. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Far from being ubiquitous, it could only be used simultaneously by no more than twenty people in a single city. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I just need one more piece of information on Dray that I can give to Detective Stevens. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure I can think of several more.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Still, the waitress took their order as though she’d be more than glad to stay as long as they liked. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the evacuation failed and the ports were bombed, more than half a million people would die. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I take the seat with the better view because I've always cared more about what I'm looking out at than she has. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The sound was much more audible at night, I realized. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hugged once more when they said good-bye, and he whispered that he missed her. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

They did not become alarmed until the third day, when no one felt sleepy at bedtime and they realized that they had gone more than fifty hours without sleeping. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I guess he knows more about Cajuns than anyone living, but I remembered with longing other gifts of Doctor St. Martin. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tucker had one more idea: he was going to volunteer to go over and swipe two dollars from the lunch counter. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ruth told me how, by the time she left the Cottages the autumn after me, she and Tommy had more or less drifted apart. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most Ravenclaws seemed to think that he had been desperate to earn himself a bit more fame by tricking the goblet into accepting his name. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She just gives me a little smile then and sets about making my bacon crisp, the way I like it, and we don’t say any more about Judd’s dog. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus the students already at risk, already suffering, have become suspects, linked in various thoughtless ways to mass murder and—consequently—more alienated than before. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's more immediate with yours than your sisters', or even Arabella's. Even with only a few drops of their blood mixed with yours, I can see what they do." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He said he was working more hours at Flat Face Pizza in order to save up for a trip to Germany, where he hoped to scatter as many of his atoms as possible. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

They make it seem so easy, but for me, finding the good is sometimes hard and I worry that no matter how much good we find, there will always be more bad. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As the pressure grew, Johnson’s angry outbursts became more frequent. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

What’s more, the workshop’s stone floor rose and fell in a gentle pattern of peaks and troughs to guide the spills toward those drains. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was more successful than her research on the Wyrdmarks had been. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Theoretically, as the uranium nucleus split in two, more neutrons would break free and fly off on their own. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even spiders must nod, he supposed ... or was the eunuch playing a deeper and more subtle game than he knew? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Even if they skipped more meals, there was hardly enough left for two weeks. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The view from the top was even more breathtaking at night. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose they seemed more sensitive and introspective. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Aliases will only make this more complicated,” I say. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Among my explorations during these months, there was one more, final venture into Catholicism. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told me much and more, but all in riddles. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She usually had more luck with her sharp lance, but claimed that out of hunger her arms were weakening and her aim with the razor-keen instrument was off. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Afterward, she could never say what had distracted her attention from the whirling torches and the showers of sparks, making her look up once more at the house and its windows. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A minute or two passed in silence as Thomas processed the information; they made a couple more turns. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I think about it some more, and finally grab a marker to write. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

They watched as the base of the wig joined itself to her scalp, and then Sif stood in front of them even more radiant and beautiful than before. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

If I got more punishment or a whipping, I’d hold on to that fact. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I said it with wonder, for I had imagined something more exotic. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

It made her even more thirsty, but she didn’t want to drink any more of their limited supply. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Here, although I was only a couple hundred miles away, everything felt more sterile, like I'd just walked into an office building. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Kendra pushed at the water with both hands, a churning motion that generated smaller but more focused splashes. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It’s always the old folks, who don’t get asked to go many places and are mad that there isn’t more heat. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He thinks more painters will start using it again, just as the old German, Italian, and Flemish painters had. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He clearly could have done more than that. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Immediately we could see that the solution to DNA might be more tricky than that of the a-helix. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Figure 3.5: Since the sounds are travelling at about the same speed, the one with the shorter wavelength 11waves11 more frequently; it has a higher frequency, or pitch. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Dimple didn’t know what had brought on her parents’ sudden change of heart about Insomnia Con, but maybe she was having more of an influence on them than she thought. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Some of the more intelligent ones were striving to keep deadpan faces. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“See, that’s why I’m giving him a raise and a promotion. He’s got more than a strong back. He’s got a brain, too.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

But I knew well enough that if Miss Fi-Fi was involved the necklace was more than what met the eye. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I heard more about it on the car radio on the way home that evening. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

She looked so young at that moment, so confused and vulnerable and lonely, and this, more than anything, made Mia feel she’d failed her. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The term of a commanding officer was usually no more than three years, and we had been through several by 1970. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, I think it’s better if you don’t tell Mom or Dad about her superpowers until I find out more. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Or was it more likely, as Paul had guessed, that they were only worried about rabies? Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

For every one he killed, it seemed that hundreds more swarmed in to take its place. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put his hands on my shoulders, and said, in tones facetious, “See, Prince O., we’re alike in more than just our skin.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Good. Learn to use your ears more and your mouth less, or your reign will be shorter than I am. Wanton brutality is no way to win your people's love ... or your queen's." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

For now, though, he had more important things to worry about. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Will heard his mother getting more and more distressed, and finally he ran into the room and told them to go. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Great Chicago Fire took nearly eighteen thousand buildings and left more than a hundred thousand people homeless. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Either people were healthier midtown or the body collecting was more efficient. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“The more you grumble, the more pleased you are with yourself.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

I held the phone so she could hear, but it was my turn to speak and I had nothing more to say. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

But I cannot leave it at that; there is more to it than that. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

But they were all past hunger, she thought—she knew she wasn’t hungry any more. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I counted over seventy cars at the Pinkham Notch Visitor Center lot at 8:10 in the morning when we arrived, and more pouring in every minute. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

We are told that we will board even more passengers but I don’t know where we shall fit them. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I debated skipping practice—there was nothing I wanted to do more—but Coach would make my life hell if I did, and hell would make it harder to hang out with Aileen again. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

They had gone little more than a mile into the forest when they came upon another stream flowing down swiftly from the tree-clad slopes that climbed back westward towards the mountains. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

As more than a few flame-scarred drug users could attest, chemistry is best left to chemists. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

There were more alongside it of various heights and widths. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Now they could move ahead— but under standards of military secrecy even more stringent than those of Briggs, about which Lawrence had groused constantly. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The group also requested “an audience for not more than two minutes in Washington as soon after your arrival as possible.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“Only you would get more excited over a blue toilet than the sights of Rome,” moans Gat. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

But that would be the least of it—an enemy of Kyrria could put the curse to more awful use. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

To Kilanga’s hungry people Our Father promised at summer’s end the bounty of the Lord, more fish than they had ever seen in their lives. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She watched a few minutes more, and when the men didn’t return, she drew in a long inhale and exhaled slowly. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Nothing much more but the earthshaking report that Henry Hahn’s gray mare had wandered off again. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Flowers, candles, stuffed animals, and cards were in the pile, but more than any other item, there were books. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But at least no one tried to sabotage their planes, and in general they were treated with more gender equality than their American counterparts—possibly because the ATA included both men and women. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It will take a lot more patience and more strength from me, but it’s going to work. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm here on a temporary basis, but each day gives me more time to adjust to my new reality. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The self-regulating machine is not just a crucial step towards a whole series of more advanced technologies. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Holly, in whom loyalty was second nature, had said no more to queer the pitch. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you don’t want to lose more of your people, we must try,” I pleaded. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It is true that the Maya were numerous; archaeologists agree that more people lived in the heartland in 800 a.d. than today. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And indeed the ghosts were moving more purposefully now that they were out of sight of their own village. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Since my return, I seen there was more cars and even more paved roads. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the time came to enter the dining room and pay their last respects to Rosa, everyone trembled, for if anything her beauty had grown more remarkable in death. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth held the stare for a moment more and then lifted the receiver. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I wanted to say more, but I could feel Nan straighten next to me. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The original German expresses a more subtle and complex idea than the English words in which it is so frequently quoted. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Someone might see him, probably he ought not to damage any more. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Stealing is a vile crime on Winter; indeed the only man more despised than the thief is the suicide. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Even if Illyrio is the friend you think him," the knight said stubbornly, "he is not powerful enough to enthrone you by himself, no more than he could your brother." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I jumped up a little in my seat and bounced on the board a bit more. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

This means that some carbon-14 dates are more dubious than others. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

When he crawled away from the flaming wreckage, I imagine he looked more like a corpse than a living man. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I said, “you know I love you more than anything in the world. There has never been anyone but you. You are my father and my brother and my son. All those things.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The creature held Håkon by the throat with one hand, and with the other he continued peeling Håkon’s skin off his arm, revealing even more scales. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

She finished the little bit I'd poured in her cup and asked for more. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I tried, persistently but in vain, to reach out for his love and understanding, and each time he reciprocated by becoming more distant and inscrutable, more morose and frightening to me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Osage ward Mary Elkins was considered the wealthiest member of the tribe because she had inherited more than seven headrights. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The nicer he pretended to be, the more it scared the hell out of me. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Barbed comments hurt more when they come from a neighbor or a friend. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Passing the checkpoint safely, we walk a few hours more until the sun goes to sleep behind the mountains and the world becomes a place of shadows and shapes once again. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stirred some more and blew into the container to cool the food. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

She touched the granite, trailed her fingertips over a few names, then a few more. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

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

Of the two, Frederick was the more anxious to get hold of it, but he would not offer a reasonable price. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Each time he returned with more crackers and beans, he told her how little money there was left. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I’m trying to figure out how to lose sweaty boy, not be more connected to him. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

So I decided to do some more detection on my own. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She looked taller, even more fearless, in a red wrapper and high heels. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

For if its democracy looks less democratic than ours, its courts look far more so. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Why didn’t they make him die more slowly?” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dismay immediately detached himself from me and scuttled for the grand front staircase to find Tidings, who was bigger than I was and who offered more protection. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I once had a zit that looked like you. Then I popped it. And then it looked even more like you.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mean, I say, “Basketball. Nobody plays baseball no more. Black kids play the court. Want to be Jordan. James. Curry. Lame if you can’t dribble and throw.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

He did wish the man would come out more often with his wife. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t gotten dressed up so nicely to attend a street fair with me, it had been to go to the real fair, the World’s Fair, with someone more special to him. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

C.P. felt a few more cold drops fall on his bowed head. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

A new section that is not a repetition will usually have noticeable differences in more than one of these areas. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The other, more vaguely imagined, looked something like her mother. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We get to the top of the watchtower only to find more soldiers waiting. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Some of those fishermen looked for more than fish. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

We remain pressed together as more people flood the dance floor. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The sun was hidden by the clouds, and he was not aware any more of the color of the land. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Never in my life have I felt so lifted up and more than myself than when I met you for the first time. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Once, during the darkest hour of the night, I wandered away from the fire to gather more firewood. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Ohmae’s company even has contracts with more than seventy thousand housewives, some of them specialists in medical or legal terminologies, to do data-entry work at home. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

I think no more of the dead man, he is of no consequence to me now. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seldom–perhaps never–has science been driven forward more swiftly and successfully by animosity. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

There are police officers and men dressed as the Avengers standing underneath the giant subway sign that’s lit up like the billboards for Broadway shows, American Eagle Outfitters, and more. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The child is ‘moderately endowed,’ intellectually mediocre, Hoggart supposes—though it may be more pertinent to note the special qualities of temperament in the child. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, sir,” the operator said, once more on his screen. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

To take a recent example, historians are still debating whether blueprint copying or idea diffusion contributed more to Russia’s building of an atomic bomb. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Chinese shattered MacArthur's armies, causing thousands of casualties and forcing the Americans back beyond the 38th parallel in barely more than two weeks. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The men who flew and worked with the women of Marina’s regiments, more often than not, treated them as “little sisters.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

This time, at least, Luke was more interested in Matthew’s leg cast than in harassing me, but it was hardly the birthday party of my dreams. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

"And the colored stripes tell time, which is very handy if your electric clock stopped. Each stripe burns exactly one-half hour, more or less. Twelve stripes, six hours." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He imagined there were thirty or more boats out there, all hidden and silent in the dense sea fog, moving to the same tidal rhythm that moved under him, keeping everyone equidistant. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She played with her straw, shyly, not meeting his eyes, and it took him a while to realize that she was reacting more to him than to the situation. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He said, “Orleanna, the human body is a sight more precious than a pair of khaki trousers from Sears and Roebuck. I’d expect you to comprehend the difference.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then pointedly she turned away and addressed herself to the more sporting man on her left. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my father hung up, he looked much more like my old dad, my pre-October dad. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It shatters with the first blow—not an explosive sound, more like the popping of a light bulb, followed by the patter of safety glass pellets. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You still need two more dollars and eighty cents.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Grandpa, I’m going to try to be more like you. I’ll try to be brave.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It had been more than thirty minutes since they were pulled over. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Juanita came back into the room, looking more like herself again. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Between Deepwood and Dagmer lay long leagues, rugged hills, thick woods, wild rivers, and more northmen than she cared to contemplate. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She glances up and makes a laughing sound that’s more like a snort or a bark. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sleep became more precious to me than food. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The buildup to a lunar landing would demand many times more people than could be reasonably supported by Mother Langley. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I tried to listen, but I had a hard time, because next to me Mother was getting more and more nervous. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to hear more about the aliens.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

"You are more ignorant than a child, ser knight. There are no shadows in the dark. Shadows are the servants of light, the children of fire. The brightest flame casts the darkest shadows." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I shared every detail with Tamika, from Sir Fig Newton’s no more oomph to the inconclusive test results. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

"Better?" he asked, half sincere, half hoping there was one more booger left and that it was somehow making a mean face at Jasmine. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Tally wanted nothing more than to fall asleep, but acting on her decision couldn’t wait. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

‘There is dillions more but my arm is getting tired holding you up.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thread — which was really now more like a thick silk rope — seemed to have divided itself into a long strange web, reinforced with bamboo stalks. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The lie about the soldiers got old one-leg moving much more quickly. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was more activity than usual for this time of the morning. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In times of plenty people had a few more children, and in times of need a few less. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time he was more of a carouser and spendthrift than ever. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Well, I was determined to do that and more. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Smith had said she always asked for more, to go big. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

All that medical magic would give me a new face that was more acceptable to society. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

But the harder I fell for him, the more I wanted to protect him. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Well, I must say I marvel at the sight of you: your manner of speech couldn’t be more like his; one would say No; no boy could speak so well. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Byron got one more dirty look in at me, then looked down at his desk. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t sink but spun and leaped one, two, three times more before disappearing into the water. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the door was shut once more he turned to his companion. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gathered up two more stones and dropped them one by one into her open palm. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Because there’s more good than evil in the world and we’re surrounded by what she calls “opportunities for joy.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Outside, the far-off boom of artillery, then, more closely, the stammering of a long string of gunfire, followed by another. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She closed her eyes for a moment and breathed in the smell of the forest, and perhaps because her eyes were closed, she heard the approaching footsteps more clearly. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Hagens, who had been foster parents for more than twenty years, had decided to close their foster home. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

"Here is three and there is four and eight more lie dead below. The debt is paid." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The circus functions in approximations more than exacting details. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He stood, too, cap in hand, wanting, she knew, to say more, but not knowing quite how. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

With tears in my eyes, I said, “You’re more than welcome, old fellow. In fact, you could’ve stayed here as long as you wanted to.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they pulled out of the gorge, Flossie poured a touch more into her glass. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scroll down to some of Harriett’s earlier posts, where there are fewer selfies and more pictures with friends. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Breaking out of the paraprofessional status of computer or math aide presented a challenge for all women, more so for the black women. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

And he saw that in her simplicity she thought he accused her because for more than seven years she had not conceived. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Its foot claw was missing on one side and an eye on the other, which somehow made the thing all the more horrifying. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Instead of the usual one to two hours, speed chess often takes only ten minutes to complete; five minutes or less if the players want to challenge themselves even more. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She did not bother to take off her nylons or her shoes that she says are more comfortable than clouds. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They were more than happy to wield their weapons while Goddard inhabited his role as the Angel of Death. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I found I disliked him more when I left than when I had entered. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I can still hear what happened more than sixty years ago. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She still said nothing, but worked more slowly now, conscious that he was watching. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Neither of them bothered to point out that baseball teams cost way more than five million dollars. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I knew that one more night of exposure would do for some of them.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“Then stay. But don’t talk any more. Please close the door and take the lamp away.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The stark gray sky and bare tree limbs feel more suited to her than the uncomplicated promise of sunny spring days. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

What is more worrisome is that the others did not cut themselves, yet the virus still entered their bloodstreams. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started to walk away again, but then when I had all but reached the doors out to the corridor, I heard Miss Kenton say: 'Mr Stevens,' and thus turned once more. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The guerillas claimed they had planted the bomb because the pharmacy represented only “crumbs for the poor”—a mere token of assistance when in fact more substantial changes were needed. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Pattie has just come home from work and she seems more worn out than usual. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He even had a job, a sinecure, more highly paid than his old job had been. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I tried to turn around and they gave me a push in the small of the back but I saw they had their guns out and they were looking more tense with every step. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

For more about while, see above and page 113. all ready/already. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, Denny’s was located on a narrow out-of-the-way street—really more an alley than a street. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

And there is broad consensus that the greatest of these threats is climate change, or, more specifically, global warming. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She grabs two more cookies and goes to answer the door. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I tried wrapping my arms ’round her to pull her close, but that jus’ got her more and more vexed. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

‘They think I might make two more weeks,” Owen said, shrugging, his bony shoulders like two hooks. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, it did seem as though the longer she lived in the city the more spirits she saw. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Pa still hadn’t said nothing, but it was like I could hear him frowning as the talk went more and more. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

But hiking has always been a marginal pursuit in America, and within a few years the AT was once more largely forgotten except among a few diehards and eccentrics. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

"My words were courtesy, nothing more. You need not join us. The men of the winterlands are made of iron and ice, and even my boldest knights fear to face them." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Fulvia and Plutarch spend more time studying and less time adjusting me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He propped himself up on his elbows, more himself now that the worst part of the story was over, and peered into my eyes. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

He seemed to think it made it more in order. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One more quick question. Why can we see them?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“He’s dying. I don’t think he minds any more.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had never felt more grateful for any kindness in words. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Not to put a bad rap on our town, but, more often than not, not everyone on the sports team was living their religion.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

"I don't know. The closer we get to District Twelve, the more confused I get," I say. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But he could still fix the shelter and make it—here die words “safer” came into his mind and he didn’t know why—more livable. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Polly wondered if Negroes from Africa had feelings and intelligent thoughts or if that gibberish they spoke was more like the screaming of monkeys or the barking of dogs. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought that normally he’d feel guilty about that, but it would be more guilty by far to keep Lyra outside in the cold and the wet. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Back in first grade, Kelly and George had decided that saying one-tivo-three-zoot was a lot more fun than saying good-bye. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

But still, the small fraction who do add up to an annual total of more and more costly, dangerous youthful criminals. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She, in turn, suffered more, having no one to help her keep the younger ones in line. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was at this point that the first thing of all, the rather peculiar thing that led to so many other much more peculiar things, happened to him. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

‘And always polite to everyone and very well dressed? Not like someone from this town—more like a Northerner or maybe a Jew?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A more evil, vicious, and self-serving man could hardly be imagined, Esperanza had written in her book on the land of Opium. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few inmates were still out but, much more ominous, Wickersham was now at Robinson’s end gate, talking into his radio. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was sure he was about to praise me more, but Janina interrupted. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The busier he was and the more patients he could see, I observed, the happier he was. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I tried to say it without crying but I couldn’t and I could see Mrs. Jones getting more and more upset. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry let go of the Cup, but he clutched Cedric to him even more tightly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“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

“Neither you nor I must ever do that, any more than a suicide.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Ah!” he screamed, feeling more of the rock scrape against his bare skin. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He had time to make himself that much more like his father. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought Love Simpson would marry Son Black. I know his mother don’t approve, but he’s not gettin’ any younger, and they been courtin’ a year or more.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It caused quite a flurry in a family with a history of more births than graduations. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“My uncle died when he and my dad were little. My dad has a sister in Baton Rouge somewhere, but they don’t speak no more. It’s just me, my dad, and Mikey.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Actually, I was, too, at first, but when he asked for more books, I couldn’t help but give him a hug. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“The French are no more capable of a republican government,” he insisted, than a snowball can exist a whole week in the streets of Philadelphia under a burning sun.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“The lease has more than a year to run,” Adam said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

While he couldn’t give me particulars about the attack itself, it meant he would be more willing to talk about the events leading up to the wedding. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Knowing he could be there is more than enough to get me going. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Her very fingers!” he cried; “her small, slight fingers! If so there must be more of her.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I have to see you more often, darling.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She stopped, looked more closely at Shadow’s face. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I wanted to shoot Miles in the kneecaps more than ever. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He spit into the water no more than a foot away. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

When Buckland speculated on the antiquity of an Ichthyosaurus skeleton he could do no better than suggest that it had lived somewhere between "ten thousand, or more than ten thousand times ten thousand" years earlier. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

‘Teddy. Darling. Let Mother sleep just five minutes more, like a sweet boy.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“I asked you a question. I know you understand much more than you let on. You do like me, don’t you?” he implored quietly. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The closer he got, the more liquid I became. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

‘And of course I’ll come back soon: it won’t be dangerous any more. There is a real king now, and he will soon put the roads in order.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

There were five practice exams in the book, and after I did them all, I was thrilled to discover an ad at the back for twelve more Bernard Lutz test-prep books. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

You have to stay there for fifteen more minutes. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I wish more than anything she were here with me now, holding my hand, singing the song. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I do not dare to leave the house for more than a few minutes at a time. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

More and more small valuables and family keepsakes belonging to the mice and their woodland guests vanished into the thief’s sack. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Two more cowboys had to hustle in to drag him out. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they had beds, they usually slept two or more on a twin mattress, lying head to foot, forced to crawl across a sea of sleeping bodies to reach their beds. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The raid cast a shadow over my last day in Cape Town, for it signaled the first move in the state’s new and even more repressive strategy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meaning: “He who does what he can isn’t obligated to do any more.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A passing taxi driver leaned out of his cab window, alerting them to a group of rowdy white youths massing nearby, which sounded like a lot more fun to them. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Crackheads getting high right in front of me, and drug dealers making more money in one day than a stockbroker makes in one week. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And then they followed us to the restaurant and delivered more. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I feel the cold more than I usually do. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

She just hugs me some more and tells me she loves me, and after a game of gin rummy Mom gently informs her that it’s time to go. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

How can invisible men make themselves more lonely by being seen? A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Lewis Strauss, determined to keep President Eisenhower on the path to thermonuclear supremacy, would demand more from Lawrence: more counsel, more public support, more time and effort. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The King, whose face had begun to look more haggard, sighed and retained his patience. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

My feelings were hurt, and I missed them more than I would have admitted. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“What? Hello, but I’m afraid I don’t have any more peppermints, dear.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It was so much more likely that a sickly child would die from even a common illness. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even more remarkable was the kind of computer Lakeside bought. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Shouldn’t they be more concerned about the approaching war? Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“They had more fighting in a juke joint outside of Fort Eustis than I seen all the time I been over here.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was more than enough evidence to get her and Hall executed for spying. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They laughed when Obinze said, “I don’t understand why fox hunting is such a big issue in this country. Aren’t there more important things?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They do more gathering than sharing, and we never see most of the stuff again.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

"Clearly there was more to this than the seeming." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Another shiver of panic rattled through her body at the ominous words, and more questions darted through her mind. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The carved chest that she had brought across the narrow sea was more than three-quarters empty now. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When we use wishful language to talk about the past, we sometimes make it more complicated than it needs to be. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the Please was more like a command than a request, and then she gave her brothers a look like, I couldn’t help it! How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t mind scouring old newspaper articles—they were still forms of history, just slightly more recent than I was used to. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

One thing is for sure, though: the more I watch him, the more I understand not only what Rae sees in him, but also how much I've taken for granted. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“The school I’m in is more advanced than my old school.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish the hell we had more information about what’s going on out there,” he said. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He sees her hollow eyes and her protruding stomach as she loses more and more strength each day. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the cold water that woke me, more than the woman’s soft voice. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I thought about the botched execution of Horace Dunkins a month earlier and became even more distraught. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Is there any more beer in the icebox?” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“We are the ones who have more training in medical emergencies,” Gideon had explained. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I had been there more than two years and I hadn’t missed a day’s work. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told me he’d learned more working with me than with several veteran officers who hadn’t taken much time with him. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They said that I had manipulated the order of the three glasses to make it more difficult for them. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He counted the fifteen new bills once more, and they were so crisp they made a sharp, cracking sound. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It seems to me that my blood is more or less ready to start circulating again, which wasn’t the case lately in Paris, I really couldn’t stand it any more,” Vincent writes Theo. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She took a few more steps, leaving at least twenty meters between us. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It had seemed like more in William’s fist and bulging in her jeans. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Day after day, there’s more and more proof. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t think they would have more luck than hundreds of policemen, and his shoulder throbbed painfully. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He thought about the words he had just said and felt more tears splash against his neck. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one more kind than Ms. Feidler, who meets me at the door each morning, takes my hand from my sister's, smiles down and says, Now that Jacqueline is here, the day can finally begin. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

By comparison with similar transitions elsewhere in the world, the second or third theory seems to me more plausible than the first theory. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And then, after several more turns, the music began to play again, brisk from its fresh winding, and merry. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walking down 125th Street, I missed him more than anything. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Catch sight of him in the hotel garden and he is wolfing a Dairy Milk Bar and has two more sticking out of his trouser-pocket. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

And he was savvy enough to understand that the more attention he got from the news media, the easier it would be to coax corporations to open their checkbooks. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Exactly three hundred years later, in 1919, the United States experienced more labor strikes in one year than in any other year in its history. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“There is a floating battery olT the shore at Cambridge. They are more likely to spy us there than if we approach the city from the south.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Once the girl was out of earshot he said, “Dumbledore said we wouldn’t be having any more lessons until I got the memory!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

That was more people than Boston or Charleston. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t sure why, but they were one more resource, and not too heavy. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I yanked away, but he grabbed me once more and wheeled me around to face him. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“They’re all good ones, Mr. Mac. Some of them just need more support than others.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the evenings he trudged back up the mountain to the schoolhouse to chop more wood, do his schoolwork, and sleep as best he could. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Once more the three sat staring into the flames, each lost in thought. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The conversation that follows involves more creative coercion than outright job offer, and there are several deviations into the subjects of the ballet, modern fashion, and Japanese mythology. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

His afterlife is definitely more impressive and thoughtful than Dad’s—Dad believes in the usual golden-gated island in the sky. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The coach put in Glen for Tony Fornay and he moved a little more than Tony did but not enough to change the game. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I drop the spoon and push more phone buttons. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I wanted something nice because there was still a chance my brain looked more like scrambled eggs than a honeycomb. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She realized that a much greater charade, with even more serious consequences, was being played by her Jewish friend. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe it will even be a place where I trade my guns and knives for more productive tools, screwdrivers and nails and shovels. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Probably more of a coward. Very well, Jude, kingmaker. We will gamble with you. Put the crown on a head other than Balekin’s and I will help you keep it there.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He smiled, then led us back downstairs and into the backyard, eager to show us more of the work he’d done. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I drink more draft beer than I should, and then the lights flicker on and off and it’s closing time. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The men climbing the slope had fanned out and were moving more slowly, because they saw the problem as well as he did. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

By game time more than fifteen thousand fans had emptied into Ratliff Stadium, where a full moon, luscious and plump, sweetened the languid desert night and turned the sky an incandescent blue. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, Mrs. Reilly took her son’s arm for support, but, as much as they tried, they moved forward very slowly, although they seemed to move sideward more easily. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she finished, we stomped on the floor and whistled and shouted for more. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I heard him mumble “cow” as he wrote more notes. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I close the notebook, missing Max even more. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As for food production’s more sinister by-product of infectious diseases, we cannot specify where within the Old World most major diseases of Old World origin arose. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, every day they got more rights. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

As you can see, mortar is a simpler and more reliable route for holding bricks together. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Well, I wish I could be more help with that,” she said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Me and you, we might be equals, but I’m more animal.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

They were old cargo manifests, which sounded marginally more thrilling, from a time when the palace had been the royal residence and goods had come from every corner of the world. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The fat tallow candles on the tables gave off more smoke than light, and the wine that Davos ordered looked more brown than red in the gloom. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Like Darwin, he collected beetles, but he lacked his cousin’s plodding, taxonomic mind and soon gave up his collection for more ambitious pursuits. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

"The vessels help the sangsues filter and share more of their purifying secretions with you." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Vonetta looked more like Frankenstein than a flower girl, limping and lugging her white-casted arm while Fern imitated her so there would be two Frankenstein flower girls. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Soon, there were more bulletins and the secretary of the interior’s speech. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“The same kind of house, more or less,” Anatole finished for me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

All Saturday evening and through half of Sunday, I got more and more nervous. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Those Irish! Too many children in too small a space. The only surprise is that this kind of thing doesn’t happen more.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The Dothraki .would respect him more if he looked less a beggar, she hoped, and per-haps he would forgive her for shaming him that day in the grass. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She saw another hallway and more closed doors. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Chaol always came for lunch, and afterward, she joined the other Champions for a few more hours of training under Brullo’s watchful eye. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The tears are more than a threat now. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“There is a more serious weaving,” said Gwydion, slipping the net into his own jacket. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

In May 2009 the American Civil Liberties Union, several breast- cancer survivors, and professional groups representing more than 150,0 scientists sued Myriad Genetics over its breast-cancer gene patents. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I was peeved enough at Roy Lee to not answer, but then I figured it would aggravate him more to tell the truth. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Geeks, perhaps more accustomed to free expression than their non-wired peers, increasingly and disturbingly refer to schools as “fascistic” environments in which they are censored and oppressed. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For more advanced groups, try dividing into three parts, with the melody in one part and sung ostinati in the other groups. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Moving the glasses around, he saw more of them. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had said this more or less to himself, but then we heard, as though in reply, a voice call outside: 'If s George Andrews. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, Adam would choose to dress up for the symphony and a 1960s sharkskin suit could’ve just been his cool take on formal, but I knew there was more to it than that. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right,” he said softly, more to himself than to me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Long rows of reclaimed hardwoods and softwoods line the fence in short stacks, too many for me to name since there are more than one hundred thousand kinds. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“How kind of you to worry. A governess would be much more expensive. And I haven’t the time to interview governesses. In two days, you shall go to finishing school with Dame Olga’s daughters.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

According to the estimates of this chapter, one of them is the sun of a civilization more advanced than ours. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, prison enabled me to study far more intensively than I would have if my life had gone differently and I had attended some college. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a way, she was doing the same thing now, abandoning him once more. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But as more and more men came out of the water there was still no resistance at all. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are two more hours before the sun sets and maybe he will come up before that. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I flushed hard and shoved more mush into my mouth to break up the smile that pushed its way onto my face. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He decided that he could not have gone more than three or four miles from home, and that the best thing he could do would be to sit still and listen. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the star contracts, the gravitational field at its surface gets stronger and the light cones get bent inward more. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Which means that no matter what, you’re stuck with me for eight more months.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I mistrusted her no longer, I was afraid of her no more, but the sight of her sobbing there, dry-eyed, made me shudder, made me ill. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you realize you are spending more time now reading than you used to spend on games? Do you know that your arithmetic grades are actually getting worse?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She told us a wonderful story that day, made even more real by her gestures and changing voices to match the different characters. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I wish I remembered more of her visit. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“True, but unless you’re in his shoes, don’t judge him. It’s easier to fall into that life than it is to stay outta it, especially in a situation like his. Now, one more question.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Wouldn’t heels over head make more sense? heated argument. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ran more and more slowly—more and more heavily. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It didn’t matter that Maddie had a good deal more experience than a lot of boys; there wasn’t a place for her. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

A red cross was just a more visible target for a sniper. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same pride one takes in more consequential tasks outside of prison one can find in doing small things inside prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The problem for Bobby became that, since his teeth no longer had fillings, they also no longer had any support and became more fragile. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Soon after, Mrs. Reed grew more composed, and sank into a dozing state. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“If the alternative is to wait and just hope—that no more hollows come, that the headmistress gets better—I say that’s no alternative at all.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The smell was more than the queen could stand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We drink more tea, eat way too much ice cream, and then Emery has to leave. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“And if he needs more than I can give him, we’ll take him to the mainland as soon as we can.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

But to take Father’s gun was pretty bad; Father was right here and he seemed a lot more real to me than the British did. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we arrived home, there was more silence because there was nothing more to say. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The union was meant to create a more powerful bloc, one that might grow to include Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and others. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

At the same time I was worried about Mother Lois, who was becoming more tense with each day. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I give her a kiss, hoping she doesn’t ask any more questions. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The main feeling was that inmates were like a contagion—and the more you kept a professional distance, the better off you’d be. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Derek worked up and away from the lake, looking for more berries as they moved. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

There are no more comments about tumbled buildings, who we are, were, or the strain between us. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

At first there appears to be no more than a small cavalry force. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

"Take whatever you want. Now that I've got a bow and arrows, I can get more. Plus I've got snares. I can show you how to set them," I say. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The notion that juvenile offenders are fundamentally different from adult ones lasted for more than eighty years. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Her hip pained her, and so did her leg, while her feet were becoming more and more sensitive. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

When Arya flinched back, startled, he opened his mouth wide and waggled his tongue at her, only it was more a stump than a tongue. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She talked Jamaica, more song than words, and brought bitter tea to my mouth and made the world smell of lemons and told me to sleep. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Moss admitted they had received more than $265,000 in tax- free subsidies, plus Social Security checks for some of the children they had adopted. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Traditionally, vocal music is more likely to be described as polyphony and instrumental music is more likely to be described as counterpoint. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I kind of thought then that the car was leaning a little more than the slant of the road would be, but I never found it out until I got in and started off. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cleaned the house, got ahead on my homework, and wrote my mom more bogusly cheerful e-mail. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She took a cautious step or two and seemed more or less satisfied. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I felt stupid, but more than stupid I felt ridiculous. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The red priestess closed her eyes and said a prayer, then opened them once more to face the hearthfire. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It is a movement away from the industrial food chain and toward a more local, organic food system. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Proceed in a fashion more in keeping with the dignity of your office and this Court, Mr. State’s Attorney.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The remarks grew ever more debased and treacherous so that Mr Charles - at least so he claimed - was obliged to intervene with the suggestion that such talk was bad form. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mary MacLeod Bethune, A. Philip Randolph, Charles Hamilton Houston, and so many more had built their life’s work on Du Bois’ foundation. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I’ve spent a lot more time trying to figure out if she feels the same way, whether her comments about girls being “cute” mean anything. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But what added to the confusion—I can see it more clearly now—was the fact that the guardians were themselves confused. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I discarded my high-necked blouses and began to wear more fashionable cuts—fitted, often sleeveless, with less restrictive necklines. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Each time it did so it was louder, more insistent. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Drum towers and half-moons held up better against catapults, since thrown stones were more apt to deflect off a curved wall, but Raventree predated that particular bit of builder’s wisdom. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I miss this. I want more of this.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was smaller than Mychal, but he took up more room—Davis’s gangly limbs occupied space like an army holds territory. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Developing more positive attitudes about teaching students with behavior disorders goes a long way to reduce the stress of teaching them. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what to do with her any more than Mama had, so I only said, “Let’s stay here tonight.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A few more hops and she crashed into the undergrowth. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I come to with Miss Lumley’s face looming inches away from me, scowling more than ever, as if I’ve made a mess, with a ring of girls around her jostling for a better look. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The cooks said the food would have a bit more flavor. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And behind them, as the dust cleared, more and more of the ghosts were gazing in horror at the abyss. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Frightful watched his spectacular sky dance twice more, then she flew off the bridge and traced the same design in the air. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He wondered if Willis could hit a pitch thrown honestly, and tossed another rock, more fiercely, that skipped five times. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

But more and more pigeons descend from the angry sky, and soon we’re surrounded by a sea of cooing birds. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

She’ll hide in the library with me at lunch, and then there are just two more classes to get through. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“May I have some more?” said the Pea. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

It’s too bad we can’t simply drink the petroleum directly—it would be more efficient. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The Yao arrived in Malawi more than a hundred years ago from across the lake in Mozambique. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“But this way it looks more like an acorn...What’s that?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Give me five more minutes. Come on, don’t be like that.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“This cringing bit of filth would have seen you die too, without turning a hair. You heard him. His own stinking skin meant more to him than your whole family.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Seems like you don’t want to hear any more about anything these days,” I snapped back. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

A gleam that made Thomas suddenly more scared of him than he’d been minutes earlier. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Something else occupied my mind even more along the march: Uri. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He stomped away again, shouted at the unmoving clouds, came back in a more reasonable state of mind. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

In another area, however, I had a bit more insight, and that was mental illness. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What's happening," she sighed, “is that the world is slowly coming to an end and those things don't come here any more." One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The farthest may be ten or twelve or more billions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laundry felt like a luxury at this point, something that people with fewer worries and more time did for themselves. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Embarrassed, I did as I’d been told, being much more careful this time. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I slow down even more, allowing the gap between us to widen. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Johnson says we have free time and can look up any topic we want to learn more about as long as it’s not computer games. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the inside I was more like Dante. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Driven by the desire for gold, Columbus would make two more trips. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Ellsberg could see no more than a few feet in any direction through the tall plants. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I had more than 15 on my string. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would have been impossible to find three more contented animals that night. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We go to Golden Gardens after dinner, which only makes their guilt more obvious. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

So you see this means you, nothing more, just you. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure who was more surprised, Daddy or the protesters, when the firemen turned the hoses on. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

By executive order President Truman desegregated the military in 1948, raising expectations among black Americans that conditions would improve even more. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The last thing I wanted was for Cletus to have an excuse to hang out at the trailer any more than he already did. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile the much stronger and more centralized Zapotec empire collapsed completely in about 800 a.d. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

No, I didn’t mean it, but I’m more angry than tired now, and I don’t feel like telling him the truth anymore. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral strength that many succumbed to the spell of an imaginary reality, one invented by themselves, which was less practical for them but more comforting. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Running with a drowsy child of Hades was more like doing a three-legged race with a life-size rag doll. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Although his body had begun to heal, Cole knew that many more months of therapy lay ahead. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Spoken Japanese is full of disrespectful insult words that can be much more cutting than mere vulgarity. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is no one more beautiful than you, Akeelma,” he said. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

But I discovered that, with my eyes closed, I saw more. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Their stories comforted me at first, but then they made me miss my dog even more. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They wouldn’t care if the soil was more porous. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Because he loved you more than anything else,” she says. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Diminished as she already was, my news reduced her even more. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Lexie, that would never happen. We raised you to have more sense than that.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

By the time he reached the area near the door and started climbing over the broken tables and chairs, he was feeling more confident. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“That’s a different story,” interjected the bird a bit more amiably. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t clear whether he was more taken aback by William’s size or the unexpected hue of his skin. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

There was a lot more music on the radio than usual, and fewer words. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“These troops know how to shoot and kill, and they are more than willing to do so if necessary, and I expect they will.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She cherished her chickens more than those children and coveted Cora’s land to expand her coop. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“You need my help,” she said, more to herself than to me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“But our Savior is much more pleased with a bride whose virgin seal is unbroken by man,” Marguerite persists. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She seemed more concerned with devouring the food. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry heard the door of the hall creak open again, and more footsteps. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Did these people know that such sycophantic behavior would make a scythe want to glean them even more? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She liked the idea that there was more in the world than the eye could see, that Allah had put us here with purpose, and she was devoted to honoring her newfound relationship with Him. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the town was more or less affected by the skater. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were already people around, wandering the municipal gardens—now in midwinter, little more than a large grassy field with, here and there, some steps, a shrub, a statue. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

In that case, the more distant the galaxy, the earlier in its history we are observing it, and the more likely it is that we should see it as a quasar. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around the room there were more girls now, mostly on the cardio machines, headphones on, pumping away on the treadmills and ellipticals, but some were lifting weights just like I was. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The possibilities were endless, and the variety of stuff available seemed to grow more twisted every day. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

For more than ten days he’s had a temperature of almost a hundred and four. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The high oceanic temperatures will release more water vapor into the air, increasing cloudiness, shielding the Earth from sunlight and delaying the end a little. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I was on my flight to Los Angeles to tape The Ellen DeGeneres Show, though, I forgot about my noble cause and started to feel more nervous excitement about meeting Ellen. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Immediately. A twelve-year-old boy doesn’t need to spend more than ten dollars a day. Ever.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“That most of the people around Rufus know more about real violence than the screenwriters of today will ever know.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I slept well, being by now much more accustomed to my surroundings, and, besides, I was tired and pleased from my day of space walking. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such difficulties as these tend to be all the more preoccupying nowadays because one does not have the means to discuss and corroborate views with one's fellow professionals in the way one once did. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I am still in contact with Mary Miller, my Guardian ad Litem, to whom I owe so much and appreciate far more now than I did when I was a child. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I suffered at the hands of both, but I resent the schools more. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I started gluing more of my little treasures to that dollhouse. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

But our education system is two-tiered in unintended and damaging ways, and the new standards and emphasis on accountability often make it more so. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He would rather spend his time worrying about more important things, such as the number of owl hoots he’d heard in the night or how many spiders he’d sighted scurrying across his path. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The weather couldn’t have been more different from their match against Hufflepuff. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

During these cold winter days, I grew weary of being indoors because that is when my friends seemed to tease me more. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But soon there was more space, and he fell, slumping to the floor with the others who had died on the trip. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“No smoking pot” became “no smoking pot in the house," before it finally petered out to “please don't smoke any more pot in the living room." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“As you might have guessed by the ease with which you were able to get through our gates. We thought it best to let you kick up a fuss somewhere more private.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It looked eerily similar in design to the boys’ locker room at Burnt Mill Creek High School, except this one was just a little more battered and abused. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I knew every man must compliment her, bury her in flattery more cloying than roses. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’d been to the Big House attic three times before, which was three times more than I wanted to. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Many and more of the worshipers were wearing some scrap of red cloth pinned to their sleeves or tied around their brows. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Stokes,’ said I—but I had not time for more.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

He saw farther and more clearly with his one eye than he ever had with two. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Do not involve more people than necessary, it said. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He’d go on with his sermon for too long, five minutes or more, preaching about the evils of hate and reminding me how hate had hurt folks back in our old home, the Mississippi Delta. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

If he had kicked my butt a few more times no telling how far I could have gone in life. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most sergeants were more like support personnel, there to set you straight when you erred, but mostly to help when you needed a hand. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She used her feet more than her hands when she sparred with an opponent, because her hands were delicate. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a time I was safe, isolated; for a time I owned the space around me, though it was scarcely more than that of a coffin. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he picked it up, he heard more footsteps. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Well, not much more than an old wagon path, to be honest, but it was heading in the right direction and would be easy walking even at night. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He had filled out, from the slight boy of their university days to a fleshier, more muscled man, and perhaps because he had filled out, he seemed shorter than she remembered. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He dared more than any other man ever dared for his love. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

"What? You wanted honest and intimate. That's way more honest than 'Scottish.'" Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Layla barely took a breath before she launched into more reasons why Mackenzie was the “antichrist in eyeliner.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I can afford to linger with these two for one more night, until I heal enough to return to tracking down information about Day. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

If there were more cars on the road, we’d have totaled the truck by now. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“So the cops called for the fire truck—and more police.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

You who made them must have considered them lovely even as an idea— how much more lovely is the manifestation of that idea. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Though some have more control over the where than others.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Greater demand on attention puts more demand on the attention networks. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

On the second day, we noticed that our portions were larger and a few more vegetables accompanied our pap. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Encanis was out there too, in the traditional black mask, making more serious trouble. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You don’t need to watch any more of that mess,” she says. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

It was laughter, more or less, and she sat back, relieved. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

He walked five more blocks and saw no “For Rent” sign. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

So he commanded Ching to ask no more but to do the work well, and it would be enough. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The baker caught her by her hair, and the midwife began shouting about how apprentices with nothing to do but spy needed a beating and more work. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But we still have so much more work to do.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I walk eight more sidewalk lines, noticing city sounds more than before: the beeping of a backing-up truck, the one-sided cell phone conversations, the rattling of tires over potholes. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The first describes the way a speaker establishes—both overtly and more subtly—his bona fides as a speaker and his connection with the audience. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

On Monday we got our spelling tests back, and I got eight right, more than I’d ever gotten. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Here's the summary of what happens next: hugs, kisses, some tears, some hot chocolate, more hugs, and a lot of talk. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could hear Cedric yelling “Stupefy!” too, but his spell had no more effect than Harry’s — Harry raised his wand as the spider opened its pincers once more and shouted “Expelliarmus!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It had grown increasingly more difficult and depressing to check up on the people on his list. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

This finding alone would have ensured Hubble’s reputation, but he now turned to the question of working out just how much vaster the universe was, and made an even more striking discovery. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe, as an outsider, she could see a bigger picture, take more risks. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Now that we were actually leaving, her manner became more cordial, the stiff unfriendliness she has displayed had gone with the fear that we might have come to stay. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s more I want to tell you, and more I want to hear from you. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You have made progress. This is more relaxed, this line here.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Except that he looked me over some more and backed off again. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this year, I don't even get to wish for the year to be over quicker, because that means no more Lydia. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He left the baby on the doorstep of a home on the other bank and returned to his waiting wife, and the prison doors clanged shut, locking them in once more. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Admitting you can’t trust yourself makes you all the more trustworthy.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Afore I could do any more worrying, a curtain on the stage got whipped aside and a tall, round white man in a long black cape was standing right in front of us. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Are you sure that’s a giraffe? I was thinking more along the lines of a deformed cat.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

There were more demanding problems than figuring out where he was or how long it took for him to get there. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The least I could have done was to have had the decency to have turned out a little more like him. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed a little more mature; he noticed the shimmer on her cheeks, the more defined curl of her hair, and knew she had made an effort with her appearance. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first week of Twelfthmoon, on the far side of the Elmuthaleth, and Strange the dreamer—library stowaway and scholar of fairy tales—had never been thirstier, or more full of wonder. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I stared at her, becoming more aware each minute of the terrible simplicity of her life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her bell rang softly, and Dany found her thoughts returning to the Palace of Dust once more, as the tongue returns to a space left by a missing tooth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There was so much more she had wanted to say, but she couldn’t find the words. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The asphalt had split in a lightning-streak pattern, and more tangles of weed sprouted through the fissures. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s way more fun to say my own words instead of the words someone else wrote for me. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Joe didn’t want babies either so all those miscarriages—two in the field, only one in her bed—were more inconvenience than loss. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Bobby was becoming more involved in the world of chess, he attracted the attention of a wealthy and unusual man named E. Forry Laucks. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The viruses, instead of being single-minded agents of disease and death, now begin to look more like mobile genes. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I couldn’t come up with eight more jots for tuition, I had nowhere in the world I could go. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of thousands of African American men and women worked long hours in defense factories throughout the nation to supply the military with arms, provisions, and more. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m giving you a lot more in exchange, Mike!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sounds good to me,” Grandma said, and I shook a little more paprika into the mixture. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

June always said that most people bit off more than they could chew, but August chewed more than she bit off. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to be in the middle any more than I am,” Harriett says. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I checked my suspect list: “jealous classmates” was too unfocused a target to dig into without a lot more information. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“And I don’t wanna be called Lolly no more,” I told my mother. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Often, the younger guys, the more recent arrivals, were more talkative. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can tell by how he pulls his chair in more, like he’s getting ready. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

It'll give us a lot more time to get the supply mission together. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Blue one is sort of a cerulean, and blue two is more of a sapphire.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

What Protestant and Counter-Reformation reforms meant, more or less whoever you were, was a simplifying of church music so that the words could be heard more clearly. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I knew the balcony was not meant to hold more than one person. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

But in the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Styx talked like this, I had to know more. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I thought that what I needed was to have something more in the World than I had. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They worked it out with their coaches, because as the shows got better and the drama program gained more status, there was pressure on those coaches to make accommodations. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Shadow was puzzled to realize that he was far more concerned with breaking the rules by climbing onto the Carousel than he had been aiding and abetting this afternoon’s bank robbery. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“I mean, I knew it was messed up here, but it feels so much more obvious now.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It became more difficult to see, as if there were a fog rising, and just when the horses seemed to be nearly upon her, her lantern went out, leaving her momentarily blind. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

What we had saved had been taken from us, there was nothing more...nothing left to sell; neither youth nor strength left to barter. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was so much more to talk about. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You showed me more kindness than your wife, but you did not treat me the way a father should treat a daughter. You never treated me like a daughter, either of you.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was also true that more time wouldn’t make a difference. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He could have gone back, taken more courses, but he was married by then, a father—oh, who's he kidding. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad stared at me for a few more seconds. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she didn’t act all look how great I am about it; it was more like she cared that I learn the right way. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The conclusion was even more blunt this time: “Kenna, as an artist, and his songs lack a core audience and have limited potential to gain significant radio airplay.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I thought I’d try one more time, with Tristan, and boom, same thing. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“You’re literally the worst,” Alex says, and undercuts it by leaning up to kiss him once more, gently, then deeply, long and slow and heated. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Ere long, I became aware that some one was handling me; lifting me up and supporting me in a sitting posture, and that more tenderly than I had ever been raised or upheld before. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

While all those types of information were also transmitted by other means in preliterate societies, writing made the transmission easier, more detailed, more accurate, and more persuasive. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled his note out of my pocket much more often than necessary to absorb the two small words he’d written. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m amazed at the sight of her getting stronger and more cheerful every day.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The remaining Fivers return to Blackcliff, receive their masks, and spend another four years as Cadets and then two more years as Skulls. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Lula thought some more and said, “She does get paid real money of her own. That would be nice, real money of your own....” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Gritting my teeth, I forced in more air and something inside me relaxed. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Presently she sat up wearily and pulled on her socks and shoes, and they set off once more. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Whatever she was plotting, it was a whole lot more devious than I had given her credit for. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Both are way more practical than dissecting literary symbolism.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“We don’t have much, but we have more than a lot of other people,” Mom says. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Would ancient Sapiens have been more tolerant towards an entirely different human species? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We use a more advanced version of the simulation here,” he says, “a different serum, no wires or electrodes for you.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She'd heard their excuse—different versions of it—time and time again, but they were always so entertaining that she was game to hear it once more. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The toxic river water was still possessed of its death-dealing power after passing more than 200 miles downstream. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Some of my questions were actually answered, but there will always be more. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The fact that the public wanted more was a satisfaction to Charles, though it didn’t sell as quickly as that anonymous book, Vestiges, had done. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He listens when I need to vent, talks when I don’t want to, and knows more about literature than anyone I’ve ever met. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“You did, and there’s nothing more you could have done,” I say, and kiss him on the cheek. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

That was true, but I was crying for more than that. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old Chao said this pointedly; but then as if remembering himself, continued in a more amiable tone. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Whats all this about respectable? Its not respectable I’m concerned about. I’m more concerned that you couldn’t—or wouldn’t—tell me about any of this.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

His father used to tell him, “Being a leader in the faith is about more than simply proclaiming the Word, you must be a student of the Word.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He questioned Fuchs several more times over the next few weeks. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I bet you’ll make a lot more money with a dog.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Our host has graciously provided two more heaps of moldy straw.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Many more escaped through front and side doors. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A more reasonable assumption might be that we are in the middle, which would make us stupid indeed, compared to life on some of the more advanced planets out there. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had trudged no more than a few yards through the night when it was gone and they were cold again. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

These swells were more like a rising in the water, a lifting that seemed to come from the earth itself, as if a hand were cradling and holding the Frog. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under all the bunks except the forward double one were bins for more storage—no wasted space on a boat—and under the double was a water tank which David thought held twenty gallons. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

With each impact more and more splinters popped from the fresh floor. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

They have given me a Jewish prescription pad to use until they find something more sensible. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

There were more of them than he would have guessed—forty-seven in the Gatehouse Tower and another eighteen in the Drunkard’s Tower. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Thomas Jones, Captain Cox, the Garrett sons, and many more were seized and taken to prison. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, on earth, mixing two or more molten metals is difficult because the light ones float to the top while the heavy ones sink to the bottom. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He led me over to a dog crate that was covered with more burlap. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Just don’t throw any more stones,” she tells me. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When it was clear that Chavez had no more push-ups to give, the instructor told him to stand up and then dismissed us. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I pretended that I hadn’t, because it was more important that I thank the photographer properly than that I tackle Paul. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I’d have asked her more but was thrown off when she held up a pattern for a bib apron with a ruffled hem. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Yet, in a way, I was seeing my grandmother more clearly than ever before. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

A trucker requires many more thousands of miles of good service than a passenger-car owner. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In some ways, my silence was more telling than anything else. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I love you, too, Bella. Try to be more careful when you walk, honey, I don’t want to lose you.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Etty said, “She kept a sorrowful wish to believe more, and I know it was an abiding sadness to her that her faith was less vivid than it had been in her youth.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brother Ugo was looking at him more carefully now, as though seeing something for the first time. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But if Nan found out I’d asked for even more help, she might break her other ankle pitching a fit. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The sight of Bigwig—Bigwig of all rabbits—at the end of his tether, half unconscious, playing no part in this desperate exploit, lowered his courage still more. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Manhattan was only a few miles west, but each of the boroughs had its own unique identity, and none more so than Steinway Street in Queens. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I think I need to add more liquid,” she says, pouring water from a teakettle into the pan, causing her glasses to steam. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

During the next couple of weeks, Saleem made several more attempts before the handkerchief disappeared and he stopped ringing the rickshaw bell. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

The show has to start out easy — to give the viewers confidence — and then get progressively harder and harder, challenging the preschoolers more and more, drawing them into the narrative. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No more at present, sister. Try if she can speak now—ask her her name.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Plus, if he’d-a took his hat off and used it to scoop up the water, he coulda got a whole lot more on him than the splashes his tiny hands was cupping up. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Nor did she wish to know more about the work that kept him late at the Ministry. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Tonight I have to get some more water into the cave and to cook some stuff. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The closer it got to St. Nicholas Day, the more we all thought back to last year’s festively decorated basket. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Frodo felt every step more painful and he gasped for breath. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

On yesterday’s trip, a Sunday afternoon, there were no less than six checkpoints to get through, more than one every 10 miles. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

What more did you want me to say?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

He stood there for a long moment in silence, and to her astonishment he had never looked more like an ordinary man — with his head bowed and his shoulders slumped, he seemed almost weary. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jesse has spent more time in this world than in any other for much of his life—since the fifth grade, he guesses. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she knew all along that even dead, Charlie would like me more. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was the product of a mind similar to his own, but enormously more powerful, more systematic, less fear-ridden. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“If your immediate answer isn’t Coin, then you’re a threat. You’re the face of the rebellion. You may have more influence than any other single person. Outwardly, the most you’ve ever done is tolerated her. ” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Maybe there would be more left for him now. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I, myself, do not care for the sound of it. How about something more melodious?” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

When the inmates returned from chow around eight-thirty, I saw several more I was familiar with. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t help her chance of survival that she was more than ten miles from the mainland when the captain signaled the Coast Guard and turned the boat around. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

But the more they talked about it, the angrier Nixon became. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Catelyn would have been hard-pressed to say which man was more unsuitable. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She looked disappointed, but only for a second, and really I was feeling so much more tired than polite that I hardly cared. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time, there were more cases of pneumonia, typhus, and gangrene among button factory laborers than in any other industry. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

He ran away twice more—the second time in a blizzard, when it was a miracle he didn’t freeze to death. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Yet even after accounting for thirty-five nonracial variables, the researchers found that defendants charged with killing white victims were 4.3 times more likely to receive a death sentence than defendants charged with killing blacks. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Powdered isinglass was pasted on the roof and it glistened more brightly than real snow. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We should have been more alert to her condition before placing any foster child there. I should have been more alert.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Ever since they’d entered the fens he had been more and more good tempered, as if the savage gloom his face showed outside were only a disguise. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t have any,” adds Ray, cartwheeling and rubbing the beige tufts, embarrassing me more. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Plus, I want to be up bright and early, before the Dewey decimal doors reopen. We have more clues to find. See you guys tomorrow. Unless we have more team business to discuss?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

It was late, noon, afternoon maybe; I reached for my watch on the night table and started again, more violently this time. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But there was no more north in my heart. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

‘Some folk have all the luck,’ they said; but it was not until Frodo approached the usually more sober age of fifty that they began to think it queer. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to risk waking the old woman fully and inciting her anger, but Ophie desperately needed to know more about Clara, and this might be her only opportunity. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

First Turkey asked, “Is there any event in particular that you can summon to memory that might shed more light upon this illness?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I want to say more so he doesn’t leave. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

His laughter had come more easily as they’d traveled, as if he were becoming fluent in a new language. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The glare of sun on sand made it hard to see more, until Dany raised her hand to shade her eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I always kinda wished Mom was more like Mrs. Houck—easygoing, not so obsessed with work, not so concerned with what people say about her. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

They sat down on the blocks on either side of me and at first they didn’t say anything more than “Hey.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Because of the piles of newspaper it was impossible to take more than two steps in any direction. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

Over the next ten years, all over the world, aircraft designers competed to make early planes safer, more powerful, and more efficient. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“But you don’t know that’s what would’ve—” “I was a pregnant, Untalented young woman,” her mother said, and she sounded much more serious now. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I was the bleached academic—more white than the anglo professors. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know where we went wrong with them,” said Mrs. Weasley, putting down her wand and starting to pull out still more saucepans. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It seems a more fitting punishment than death, anyway. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

And just at that tense moment when I was afraid Dad was going to pull the trigger and shoot the deer, a thought shot even more quickly into my mind—a very inspiring thought. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The more specific term i.e., short for the Latin id est, means “that is.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the day went on, the story behind the picture grew more elaborate. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Those who excel in this position may be promoted to Senior Agents, Surveillance Agents, Special Agents, and more. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Five minutes, ten minutes, twenty minutes later, his leg was stiff, the backside of his jeans damp from the grass, and the graveyard hadn’t revealed itself to be anything more than a graveyard. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But as soon as it did so there came two more lions' roars, immediately after one another, one on the right and the other on the left, and the horses began drawing nearer together. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

So she set herself to learning more about the mulefa, with a cheerful heart. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But perhaps you would like to know just one < t two things more. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

A more careful examination of the data revealed that Manson was not only too small, but also nine million years too early. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Being on the outside of something annoyed him—more than it should have, really. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Since darkness was coming on, there seemed no point in wasting more of her time. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I look at the floor because more tears are coming. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

As soon as you were better, I needed to do more than just dream about finding a school where we could both study. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Nothing more happened that evening, and by the time I went home, the lunatic did not seem quite so threatening. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

There always seem to be more of them in the room than there actually are. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

After that, a layer of concrete mix, then more water, more mix, until the hole was full. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

A button off was more than sloppiness; it was a sin. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What could be more dangerous than a fake quarantine and a town-sponsored bootlegging operation?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

We all regained our composure and tried to reposition ourselves for more waltzing. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I clicked down one more jot and waited. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“So, I have some good news too, I guess. A little more of a plan for when I graduate,” Dill said. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Frank and Bill didn’t like the chaperone job any more than the girls liked having them for chaperones. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The darker it becomes, the more difficult it is to take your eyes off our flickering. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He knew he had more than enough horse under him to last to the wire. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the vantage point of the Night Zoo, she’d only ever seen the barest glimpses of Lkossa’s namesake temple; up close, it seemed more than a little daunting. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

That happens to be exactly the same way people describe jellyfish, by the way—more than 95 percent water—but this doesn’t matter to me yet. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The stationmaster, sensing something more than just two dogs and a boy, waited in silence. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t understand any more about taste than he did about talking. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He continued on, though, following Rameel into seven more huts before they returned to their tent and settled in for the night. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

In some states, Department of Motor Vehicles offices in minority neighborhoods have been shut down as well, making it even more difficult to obtain appropriate ID. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“One more thing: I’m really sorry, Craig, but I accidentally fell in something on my way back from the interview.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Azor Ahai captured a lion, to temper the blade by plunging it through the beast's red heart, but once more the steel shattered and split. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Maybe more. We need more wood. We have to make it through the winter.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Of course, the closer you got the more reality came into focus. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I knew I had been harsh, but I did not want to capsize the whole ship of negotiations, and I ended on a more conciliatory note. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three more had been knocked over by a tail swipe, and the leader was swinging his billy club uselessly at the tallest raptor. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Frankie poured some more bourbon into his tumbler, took a sip, reconsidered. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He could hardly imagine her being more dexterous if she’d had two hands instead of just the one. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They may have been no more than sharp ridges in the walls of the passage, but to the slave, alone and frightened in the dark, they seemed alive and snapping. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Specialization increased on larger, more densely populated islands, reaching a peak on Samoa, the Societies, and especially Tonga and Hawaii. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It would lower her morale, making her more susceptible to his mind games. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

When I’ve read until the very end, and Jack and Sarah are tucked once more into their own beds, I creep out of mine. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

My father has eaten everything on his plate and is digging for more stuffing in the cavity of the turkey, which resembles a trussed, headless baby. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ancient Greek parents were no more prone to call their sons “Crow” than modern ones—and would anyone called “Crow” have the brass neck to teach the art of public speaking for a living? Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Father thought it more prudent if I did the shopping in the Tang people’s town for a while. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it did not seem as though Mary Poppins were going to say any more—though she sniffed a great deal—Jane, too, remained silent. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

‘But,’ said opposition members, ‘let us be more specific.’ Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

And there is nothing more woeful and soul-saddening than when they are parted. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

They had added more stock and a few more acres to crops. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby himself had given the Church more than $60,000 from his Icelandic winnings, and ultimately his tithe would be close to $100,000. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Tally spun head over heels twice more, and then the jacket lowered her to the grass. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“This ordeal was the most terrible torture,” she said, “as it prevented my sleeping for more than a few minutes at a time.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“No way can I improve on those quizzes. I’m too tired to study any more than I already do.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I walked out of his office feeling less nervous about school and more excited than ever. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Oh my God, more skip tracers? What, were they having a freaking convention? You realize what would have happened if we’d been caught, don’t you?” he railed. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

"Even our dancing requires more rhythm and grace and beauty. Which reminds me, we are needing to leave in fifteen minutes, Shanti." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She’d thought of a good one: Where the wet things are between art and science, encrypted in her and James’s secret language to make it a little more difficult. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I sipped at my soda obediently, and then drank more deeply, surprised by how thirsty I was. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

One more wrong guess, and she'd show Yoyo, pointing with her pencil to the different highlights of this incredible new wonder. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

At first the people in the town were frightened; they knew Shadrack was crazy but that did not mean that he didn’t have any sense or, even more important, that he had no power. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

And the orator need know nothing of medicine himself, hmm? socrates: Then, when the rhetorician is more persuasive than the physician, the ignorant is more persuasive with the ignorant than he who has knowledge? Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I’d handled plenty of chicken guts on Joel’s farm, but this was different and more disturbing. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

But I think I’m suffering from more than jet lag. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

But that could just be from living in Arizona, where there was more sunshine. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

There was suddenly a lot more work than I’d ever had at my old school, and no matter how much I studied, I wasn’t quick enough. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Colonel Komi” The chaplain’s cry made Colonel Kom stop once more. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, all that and more,” I say at last. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

So much cinnamon and so much nutmeg and so much honey, not a drop more. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Was it one of these people, each and every one of whom she could swear loved Redemption more than their own life? Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jeffries had apparently learned his lesson and didn’t make any more pleas for help on my behalf. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

An hour later, there were more footsteps, and a family of hares shuffled into the Nest. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, what do you expect, Kevin? You think he’s going to keep taking what they’re dishing out and ask for more with a smile?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The Salvation Army was starting in on “Bye Bye Blackbird” at which they were far more adept. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

His father’s face, always awful, became more awful now; his father’s daily anger was transformed into prophetic wrath. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Also there were full-page pictures of new models, each one grander and more shiny than the next. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing more important to him now than the two ideas around which his life revolved: the education of American Jewry and a Jewish state in Palestine. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Flying came more naturally to Harry than anything else in the magical world, and he played in the position of Seeker on the Gryffindor House team. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

With the advent of DDT and the even more toxic chemicals to follow, the populations of the vedalia in many sections of California were wiped out. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t have been more than three years old. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He said one more word as he waved goodbye. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

As we walked, we took more long pulls of water, our heavy jugs refilled from the rain. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He's always shoving his way to the food as if he's got more right to it than anyone else. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I felt a tingling blush in my cheeks, and the embarrassment made me blush more. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You should really get out more, Wade. It’s not healthy to spend all of your time indoors.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She looked back on the drunken episode as an infantile adventure and it seemed so funny to her that she told Aureliano Segundo about it and he thought it was more amusing than she did. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

But Pascal is always more interested in poking through the flour sacks, and he sometimes takes small handfuls of Carnation milk powder. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course,” she said without hesitation, as though nothing could be more natural. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the past year things had gotten more and more frightening. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Before he could say more, a bell rang, and Jo flew up, exclaiming with alarm, “Mercy me! It’s your grandpa!” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

They reacted to the truth about themselves even more hotly than the devilish white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, in September and October, there were more developments on the legal and personal front that underscored the numbing effect, the purgatory. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The notion was not shown to be all that mistaken, nor was it in conflict with any other, more acceptable view of things. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It probably wasn’t colder in the orphanage than it had been in the movie theater, it was warmer more likely, but Hornet felt chilled to her bones. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The local chieftain was an expert in hand-to-hand combat, using an offshoot of what was more popularly known as Brazilian jujitsu. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Ma says even back then I was a fra-gile child, and the more he tossed me, the more she was fretting. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I ask Kimberly, which is more or less the opposite of asking her to leave. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Every time they looked at one another they saw that their faces had changed yet more and that their teeth were longer. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Our approach is more conceptual. We like the children to explore their environment during the first year,” the headmistress said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He touches my arm—more knuckles than fingertips. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Yes. After all, I get to be a baby one more time.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Maddie was more of a backseat driver than a stooge. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, with each of his team’s shots, the North Atlanta coach shouted more commands. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It may be more comforting to believe what the newspapers say, that the drop in crime was due to brilliant policing and clever gun control and a surging economy. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He moved the lane next to the house farther away, to provide more privacy. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of our tanks and trucks were more than second-hand by the time they reached us. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in that few yards I began to see even more clearly the mistake I had made, and also why Mr. Loomis had tied Faro up. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She tapped some keys, paused, then tapped more keys. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Shivering and frightened and full of pain as he and Lyra were, they had more authority than the whole mass of the dead put together. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

For every bad judgment, the fine was no silver-wrapped Kisses, the sweet chocolate drops that I loved more than anything in the world, except Bailey. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walked and talked even faster and with more purpose than Aunty Ifeoma did. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

No, it more resembled a giant’s quilt—white, of course, because of the several feet of snow—spread out over an enormous bed. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was large enough to hold five hundred men ... and more than ample for two dragons. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He pulled himself once more up the bank to the tall tree without branches and sat again with his back against the rough bark. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he stared at her, he realized once more how truly beautiful she was. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Hard work—more than education, natural ability, or the right connections—is regarded as crucial for getting ahead in life. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I had twelve to fifteen kids in that class, and they needed more than that. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shirley finally asked, hoping not to appear ignorant, but hoping more that the thing would not escape the confines of the tub and test her resolve. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

A bell tower rose from the long roof, making the building seem even taller and more forbidding. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Its emissaries had boasted to Congress that the city could deliver a grander and more appropriate setting than anything New York, Washington, or any other city could propose. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Reader, I am pleased to tell you that the Pea was a kind person, and perhaps more important, she was empathetic. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was the first time I’d ever seen my parents suffer, and the sight of it frightened me more than any magic ever could. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t decide if they seemed more like one of those quirky sitcom families or a bunch of weirdos who make a good first impression but flip out behind closed doors. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“But we need to do more than just avoid getting into trouble. We need to focus on how to make the right decisions so you aren’t in trouble in the first place.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elaine, who had never been more than an incidental part of the muddle, had achieved a peace of her own. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The glare of the television lights immediately bore down on them, making the bags and circles around their eyes even more noticeable. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Care to join? We’ll talk more about this wee house of yours.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Once in London, and then two more times when Jenny and I snuck out of school in Flushing to catch a matinee. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Thus, we possess much more information about past states and their formation than about past chiefdoms, tribes, and bands. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You seem to be describing plans to commit a crime. I don’t want to hear any more about it. As a lawyer I can’t be a party to it.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Then for quite a long time neither said any more. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it’s better that he’s buried here. He would want to be in as large a crowd as possible. I bet there are more of his friends here than in the cemetery.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It required, however, no more than the blurt of the doorbell to alert me to listen to sounds all over again. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

After she had obliterated three years with that sentence they could decide upon the more practical measures to be taken. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

But he’ll touch you all right, if I have any more of your mouth.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

And, what is even more magnificent, you might see both. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The language of genetics might be used in some such way to describe the genetics of language, if we knew more about both. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t feel my face, and my feet felt more like blocks of ice than part of me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t remember,” Momma says, getting up for more water. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Even now, I wouldn’t doubt he had something a bit more dangerous than a watch hidden on his person. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The refugee woman in the boat had also covered the little boy with her arm, which was no more use against the bullets than a sheet of paper. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The more Sticky won, the more excited his parents grew. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

His function is to act as a focusing point for love, fear, and reverence, emotions which are more easily felt toward an individual than toward an organization. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

And I could no more have gone to Gallatoir’s for an omelet and champagne than I could have danced on a grave. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes more than one. Only the living can make change.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

His face was thinner and more chiseled, maybe because he hadn’t been eating. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I hope there isn’t any more trouble,” she said. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They have gone through this cycle at least twice, possibly more—rising to awesome heights, eroding away to nothingness, rising again, each time recycling their component materials in a dazzlingly confused and complex geology. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

At first it had been merely a whisper, as if a feather were lightly brushing against her, but now it came more insistently, like a child pulling at her hand. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I think when everybody started going Greek, he kind of pulled back from his old friends and got more heavily into himself.” Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It will get better with practice,” she said gruffly, anxious to get the stilled looms roaring once more. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Computers were finally powerful enough that they could handle more than one “appointment” at once. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“The more scared you are, the bigger Pah gets,” the girl said. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He shuddered once more and then was calm. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

They were more logical and systematic than Van Riper, and they knew more. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The next morning it’s not snowing exactly, more like icing, and the wind is squeezing between the tightly packed trailers. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

And because we were only a team of four, being the one person left out when the other three gathered was all the more hurtful. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

So they stoned the dame and married two more wives apiece and lived happily ever after. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

These are visible aspects of any culture, but there are not-visible aspects that are more important. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

We could go maybe six or seven more hours without water now. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

They scoot over to give us more room. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

They were suddenly aware of great hunger, for they had not eaten anything since breakfast; but they dared not make more than a frugal supper. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She had a suspicion, but she needed more info first before she could be sure. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“We’ve used every scrap of construction paper in the whole district. And there’s no money in the budget to purchase more.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

White people had preempted that point of elevation and there was no more room. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Caruthers talks about her sometimes in her sleep. Maybe she would be open to the idea of hiring more work if they were like Clara. She seems to have really liked her.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“You never had a problem before,” I answered, giving her a little more than half a glass. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The more distant circles of the hall kept up their convulsions, but the central one had altogether frozen. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The family came back, this time not as close but more menacing, and when I was able to sort out one coherent question, “Quien es?” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a long silence, the man asked Shin if he wanted to go to South Korea—a question that made Shin even more anxious. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

In more temperate regions of France, where temperatures in the winter rarely fell below freezing, the same pattern held. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

What’s more, the one-eyed man pointed in the direction Bear had taken. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Actually, it had mostly been Mom’s idea, but she thought it would be best if I brought it up so Connor would be more open to it. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I shall miss his friendship more than I can say, but my loss is as nothing compared to the Wizarding world’s. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I will give her anything she asks for and more,” Balekin promises extravagantly. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Your Grace, I know where you might find more men. Give me the wildlings, and I will gladly tell you where and how.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But the more we washed them the worse they looked and Dad ended up going back to the Yankee Store and buying some brown-and-white seat covers for the front seat. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our first winter was just about over by then and we were all feeling much more settled. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has more than 2,500 miles between her and what’s coming. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go over it a few more times.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy would trot home slowly and there would be more easy laughter. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

All too soon it was gone, leaving him only the craving for more. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

‘Yes, he will come,’ said Gandalf, ‘even if he comes too late. But think! At best the Red Arrow cannot have reached him more than two days ago, and the miles are long from Edoras.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It had upset her more than she could tell. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

To a man of honor like Butler, this was almost more than he could bear. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

She'd brought them here, shoved them through the gap in the nearly closed door and turned to race back for more. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Shiva took me under his wing, just like Alex used to do, and introduced me to some of the neighborhood kids, helping me feel more at home. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He never visits it more than once or twice a year, and even then, he never stoops to entering a Red village like mine. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

Even though today he was going with Nali to Gallup for more food, he wanted to be left alone to read his book. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“She is cruel. She is more powerful than anyone I have ever encountered, except for the Fairy Queen herself.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the photos, Jim’s head lies back, his eyes closed, a crisscrossing of red blood across his head more suggestive of a bar fight than a fatal wreck. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“So you still pay a price for your disobedience, but you get one more chance. I might be able to live with that. Seth?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I determined to waste no more time pursuing vain paths of possibility. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Perlstein had a fair complexion; his pal, Proctor, was similarly proportioned, seemingly more human, and dark-haired. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But more than that was the feeling that things were different, that the present moment was different from the previous present moment. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Such exchanges in the Andes, Alps, and Himalayas not only increased population densities in those areas, by providing people at all altitudes with a more balanced diet, but also promoted regional economic and political integration. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It would be all the more of a mystery to her that the woman submerges herself. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

If you ask that once more,” said Harry, “I’m going to stick this sprout — “I’m only checking!” said Ron. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m coming to find you,” I say to the air, air that’s started to move more and more with the wind. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Three more dots appeared on the red wiggly line between Wenatchee and Spokane. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It made me more determined to be with him.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

They wanted grievances and more grievances... well, yes, armed warfare. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And if you like it, like it, and don't start trying to bug my other customers. This here man's done more for the community than you'll ever do." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the legends were true, their quest would become ten times more dangerous. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Moss wished more than anything at that moment that he could force the hand of the Oakland Police Department. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

One day in the trading center, more than three hundred Gule Wamkulu appeared on the road carrying empty coffins, promising to fill them with anyone who didn’t support the Life President. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

They are more human and more brotherly towards one another, it seems to me, than we are. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that point, she knew he was speaking more to himself, and when she didn’t respond, Nox stopped talking. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Before she can answer me, I hear, “I’d be more than happy to show you. If you’d break the boycott, that is. Give it a go, anyway. Even if you are barking mad.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

When you consider that more than 100 million Americans live within a day’s drive of the Appalachian Trail, it is hardly surprising that 2,500 sleeping spaces is sometimes not enough. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Forty wonton, eight people, ten each, five row more,” she says aloud to herself, and then continues stuffing. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just six demigods on the ground and one more in a burning ship above the Acropolis. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The flowers I’m trying to capture are more delicate than this. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s more like the verbal runs, which is gross. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Your house is even more extraordinary than I remembered,” said Barbara. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I exaggerate, perhaps. The American, Hardman, and the German maid—yes, they have added something to our knowledge. That is to say, they have made the whole business more unintelligible than it was.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were a few more thunks, and then a last, long, piercing scream that ended in a wet, gurgly burst. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

But I was unsure which commandment my thoughts had broken—Honor thy father and mother, or not coveting thy neighbor’s parents, or even something more vague about being true to your own race and kind. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Things might suck down there, but at least you’re closer to the ground. That has to give us more options.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Coming from her small, innocent mouth, it seems like even more than that. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Combinations of chemicals seem to do more harm than separate applications. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But there’s something more important we need to discuss: What is it with you and disco? The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She may have been only sixteen, but Claudette had more experience than anyone else when it came to challenging Jim Crow on the Montgomery buses. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Somewhere, somehow, sometime during those weeks, without even realizing it, I'd started thinking there was more to the madness than just everyone was going to die. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Only then I worried this was some kind of Therapist Trick to make me more comfortable, and then I had no idea how to feel. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Inside my backpack are the first four tapes, which are one or two more than I’ll probably have time to Page 19 listen to tonight. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

There was another, more reasonable bed tucked in an alcove behind the dressing room. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow's trials concerned her more than yesterday's triumphs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Before the lion could stop gagging, I shot in two more flavors of ice cream and a freeze-dried spaghetti dinner. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know how much more clear he could be.” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Axel hates blood, but he hates secrets even more. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And I suffered all the more because I believed I was alone.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even though he’d clearly mentioned his ex-girlfriend—possibly to make sure I knew he wasn’t into me—I am more confused by him than ever. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

No one can force me to do more than that. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The Prime Minister felt it himself; people really did seem more miserable than usual. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I know what an ordeal this will be: no more school, my hair gone, hours of labor, washing the bedsheets . Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The more I talk to him, the cuter he gets. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

In a more perfect world, perhaps, everything would have worked out as Quentin hoped and we would have all gotten scholarships because of our win. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In Haiti, TB still killed more adults than any other disease, but no one in the catchment area had died from it since 1988. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I found myself saying: “Actually, I like it too. It takes a lot more effort than you’d think, making up these posters.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way I look at it, love does not necessarily make for a happy ending any more than winning does. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

As the minutes passed, Constance’s voice grew more cracked and strained, her cheeks redder and redder, her strength closer to failing. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

There are many such stories, they are mostly far more bitter. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It got used up on housing, I tell him, which was more expensive than I’d expected. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And more importantly, why had she never heard of them before? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Good! I only have a few more scenes to write, but then I have to go back and fix a lot of stuff.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Ron gave a huge heave and more slugs dribbled down his front. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Other tempo markings are verbal descriptions which are more relative and subjective. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

But he was careful to make sure that Bobby never knew how much more he might have won. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sam and Frodo now feeling eased and greatly refreshed were able to go at a fair pace, and with only one brief halt Aragorn led the Company on for nearly three more hours. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The birds have more sense than the Irish. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Constipation and flatulence, or “squeaky gut,” as the men called it, made them even more uncomfortable than they already were. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Maybe he was more important in the warehouse than I had thought. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

After all, Sadi Carnot finally produced a satisfactory theory of the steam engine only in 1824, more than a hundred years after Newcomen’s first engine, and sixty years after Watt’s. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She knew now they plotted her child’s death in her own hall, for once more Medon, who had heard them, told her. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have only two more months left of instruction in this school,” he told all the Class Five students. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

I follow him down a long, dim hallway, away from the front, where I entered, threading our way past more rows of cots, some with men asleep on them. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“You know what? I actually like Patrick more now, in a way. He’s like—a person now. His parents’ divorce was way worse than mine. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

As my tears dried and the silence spread between us until I thought there was nothing more to say, I turned to leave. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Can’t you see that I am more disappointed with my life than you could ever he? Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“But womenfolk mostly trust what they feel more than menfolk. It’s called intuition. Think hard now, Jezebel. Did you feel, somewhere deep inside, that it was going to hurt you?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was as if the more time had passed, the more her faith had leaked away. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In their eyes, the Soviet Union seemed to be a new, more equitable model, a beacon for a more hopeful future. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The thought crossed his mind that he ought to handle this thing himself, because after all he more or less understood and had sympathy for the situation. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I guess lately, more and more of them are mine. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I reasoned that I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew from past experiences not to question Sam because that would make him more upset. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Finally, after more woods and fields, the plain square house was before me, its downstairs windows full of yellow light. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The hand holding Harry thudded to the floor, and Snape moved no more. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The veterinarian had warned her against giving Franz more than that for fear he would get too heavy. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

If my family was a square, then Barack’s was a more elaborate piece of geometry, one that reached across oceans. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“You deserve some of Mother’s time too. I’m taking more than my fair share here,” I say through gritted teeth. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“The more you work at it, the better you get.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Even so, we find it hard to avoid the conclusion that Atahuallpa “should” have been more suspicious, if only his society had experienced a broader range of human behavior. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In his nervousness he accidentally pressed the shutter on his camera; the whirring noise of the advancing film excited the monkeys, and the one with the stick began to beat Bobby more intently. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I intend to draw Miss Trixie out rather shortly; 1 suspect that this Medusa of capitalism has many valuable insights and more than one pithy observation to offer. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kept digging into their lives, getting more and more desperate, until the front door opened and Scythe Faraday returned. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I glanced out the window at Trevor helping Simon bring more camping stuff inside. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Okay, good talk,” I mumbled, feeling even more pathetic than ever. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He hopes his brother will see his own way to the solution, but he should remember that their father loves him more than this woman does. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The icy touch froze his bones, and he remembered no more. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The fighter planes started firing their guns, and more and more aircraft joined the fray, until there were nine Soviet fighter pilots battling forty Luftwaffe aircraft. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But at that moment Mr. Butterbur was called away by a demand for more ale and his last remark remained unexplained. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She didn’t like the idea of leaving both the money and the ticket there, but she was afraid he’d ask more questions if she protested. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Back then, I would have told Twig everything, and Twig would have said, Tell me more, and we would have talked and talked until my throat was scratched and raw with honesty. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

‘Is there more in it than surprise at seeing four hobbits, not to mention the rest of us, where people are so seldom seen or heard?’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

No more delightful place for a bath could be imagined. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother and aunts hurried to the kitchen and prepared cakes, cookies, and sweetmeats with more care than ever before. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, they decided to pressure Myers to produce more incriminating details. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The first response is that disadvantaged kids simply don’t have the same inherent ability to learn as children from more privileged backgrounds. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

We had made out a few more times, hiding in the shade of a tree, or up against the back wall of the science building. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I thought people were going to care more than they did. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I always want my mother to tell me more, but she shakes her head each time. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I wanted to make him even more special than he already was. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Will Shiloh—can he, even—leap that fence to try and go somewhere it’s more dry? Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she was more concerned about what was in the rucksack. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celia reaches into her straw handbag for more red lipstick, then darkens the mole on her left cheek with a black eyebrow pencil. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there was, at that moment, nothing that was more beautiful to her than America. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Not long ago, I had been gliding through the crowded center of New York City, wanting nothing more than to make enough money to keep myself off the streets. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Soon after, the study erroneously credited with the notion that listening to classical music, particularly the music of Mozart, made you more intelligent. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Besides, it gave me some more time to think. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Three more servants pitch in, getting between us and grabbing my arms. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Seven more years, and then maybe Faerie will be a safer, better land. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, anyway, you made more fuss about being thirsty,” Alice whispered. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air of collective displacement, the impermanence of life in wartime and the gauche personalities of the more recent arrivals tended to dissipate my own sense of not belonging. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited for five minutes and then five minutes more, before finally I went downstairs and back to the peephole to make sure he’d made it to his feet. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The questions now were coming from Rindlisbacher who, curiously enough, had taken on a bit of the good-cop routine, with Singleton asking the more pointed questions. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“We should get you on painkillers more often if you’re going to start cracking jokes. Oh, and to answer your question—I beat her up.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It was real hard to find one that would give much more than her calf could take. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I would love that no more than I love this.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Emptiness and disorder were the primeval, natural state of the cosmos, and there was always a nagging fear that at the end of time, disorder and void would reign once more. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I tried out some more of my acting on Ma that night. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

More and more of the villagers came out to touch Grumman’s hand, to mutter a few words, and to receive what looked like a blessing in return. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you won’t come there’s plenty more in the town who will,” said another. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

"On the side of Mount Calamon a grove of glass flowers grows. The journey there is perilous, and the journey back is more so." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Chase and Fulton like to use her when they’re hunting. She doesn’t do a lick of good—poor Princess cares more about her curls than tracking pigs—but they enjoy it.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

LeAlan: When did you first start seeing more and more young people coming into the courts? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kapu sniffed the meat, gulped, licked his jaws, and whined for more. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as most people spend more time in cars than in airplanes, most of us have a lot more experience swimming in pools than shooting guns. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

There is more angry discussion, and by the end of the day it is decided: Captain Ratcliffe will no longer be our president. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Newt nodded, and his smile became more genuine. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The thickening woods made it hard to see more than just a few yards ahead. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Writing was more like trying to chew an unripe apple—bitter and hard and not worth the effort. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Vonetta surprised me by saying, “Not too much money, Delphine. We don’t need candy. We need thirteen more dollars for the concert at Madison Square Garden.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun assumed it was more men like himself and Nasser—people with boats who were roaming around, trying to help. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

A little girl who can’t be more than two or three. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

They also saw more deeply into each other. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

You asked me to tell you more about my everyday doings. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I’d expect that you more than most boys would know how hurtful teasing can be.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

We played a couple more races, and then I led the two guys to the storage shed. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The more she knew about what this killer wanted—why and how he was killing—the better. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“She was afraid of people more than anything,” says Ruth. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

But for girls, the more our bodies matured physically, the less easily we soared and flipped and twirled through the air. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I was crying because I knew five or ten or fifteen more Spokanes would die during the next year, and that most of them would die because of booze. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Food was more costly every day, whilst the price of flesh grew cheaper. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It traveled with nothing more to interrupt it and broke against the shore of Lanheedron Island just before two o’clock in the morning. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

His sister says his name more urgently, and he presses the earphone to her ear. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He had been explaining to me—really, it was more like preaching—how you never go over nobody’s house empty-handed. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They were home to more than three score living singers and the bones of thousands dead, and extended far below the hollow hill. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Since leaving General Woundwort, he had become more and more deeply entangled in all the age-old terrors of the conspirator. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The distance of the circus feels more pronounced despite the tenuous contact through paper and ink. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

‘But we call it lembas or waybread, and it is more strengthening than any food made by Men, and it is more pleasant than cram, by all accounts.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

As farmers produce more corn, the price falls even more! The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

‘But he shall not turn us back! Halt we must once more; for, see! even the Moon is falling into gathering cloud. But north lies our road between down and fen when day returns.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The truth about Genovese, however, turns out to be a little more complicated — and more interesting. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s more to paradise than nice buildings,” Viola says. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The black world was expanding before me, and I could see now that that world was more than a photonegative of that of the people who believe they are white. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I had never seen a woman look more beautiful. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Look at the picture on the cover. There are more pictures of her inside. And guess who read her out of it.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He was, in truth, more of a Renaissance man than a modern scientist, and still thought in terms of vital forces, an abstract conception of perfection and spirits that kept the body alive. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

This, he wrote, made it more important than ever to provide a counterbalance of “dense, broad, luxuriant green bodies of foliage.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

My father knew I understood more than I could say. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was more convinced than ever that the government was behind much of the violence and the violence was impeding the negotiations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I might have had more fun if the meetings had been in my neighborhood. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I miss Constantine more than anything Ive ever missed in my life. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I know what Dad means about feeling overwhelmed, and he's right—it's a relief to have a few more people on the official Save Bobby Phillips Committee. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if they used a bit more salt than necessary those first few weeks, much to the chagrin of the neighborhood’s ghosts, the mother did not complain. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

But Frederick says nothing more, and both boys lie motionless a long time, watching the blue spokes of moonlight rotate through the room. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too will end, that peace and tranquility will return once more. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I see now what the stakes are for her and how she wants nothing more than to break out of the delicate little box her parents have built for her. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I spooned more cholent into my mouth, thinking better than to confess she reminded me of a walking sunflower with her yellow wardrobe. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Far more common are examples of ridiculous misunderstandings made by male soldiers, or men treating the airwomen like children or inferiors. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Since then, Pax managed an exploratory visit to the kitchen counter every time he was left alone, looking for more of them. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

For more than two decades, the church members have been led by priests who have fought for the rights of workers and the poor. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

So in this unplanned visit he tries to tell me more of what I need to know. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“Master Underwood,” Silenus announced, “we will give you one more chance.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I open my mouth but the words won’t come, just more coughing. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

What was it about the Americas and Africa that made the spread of food production more difficult there than in Eurasia? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I weave as I run, to make it more difficult for the Dauntless traitors to hit me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The waitress was back with two more Cokes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I stood up and put two more chunking stones in my hand then walked over toward the dog. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Paul explained the situation and begged for more officers. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He had left the theatre and not returned, and there was little more than an hour until performance. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was similar to the cramping I had experienced for the past few days, but more severe. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

His motorcycle is more than a transportation vehicle; it is a girl magnet. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could it be, for example, that Jennings is just more expressive in general than his colleagues? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They collected themselves sufficiently to pull up short of the wood and make a more dignified approach to the bank. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m so ready for this all to be over. Three more days.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Sizwe was always popular, but his reputation really took off when he beat up one of the more infamous bullies in the school. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the truth can hurt more than you expect. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

But was he hurting them more by participating? The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Next day Dad comes home with more news—good news to him, bad news to me. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And in another three or four years, they’ll need to do further surgery that will make you look a lot more normal,” she said. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Well,” he said, lifting his shoulders and tilting his head left and right, “it’s a little more than that.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Then you mix the blood with milk, more milk than blood. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just when you think you’ve got a handle on ’em, more of ’em show up on deck.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

As the silence grew longer the tenseness between them became more strained. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Shouldn’t we direct scarce resources to battles that are more easily won, such as affirmative action? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

There was more leisure too, inexperienced though the animals were. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

After several speeches and more singing, the crowd splintered into dozens of small groups, which entered segregated businesses and sat down in protest. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

‘But let us speak no more of these things upon the open road!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

But the closer she gets, the more obvious it is that she isn’t excited. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He might consider being a little more friendly to me from time to time. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Blood dripped from his smarting skin, ulcers formed, and Siddhartha remained stiff, motionless, till no more blood flowed, till there was no more pricking, no more smarting. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere, I had already heard of Harvard—though I didn’t know much more about it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Koffi let Baaz’s stories about the Night Zoo’s creatures—some true, most fake—blend together as more animals were summoned one by one. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Although both were unshaped, formless things, Nel seemed stronger and more consistent than Sula, who could hardly be counted on to sustain any emotion for more than three minutes. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“The army’s gonna be more interested in us than it is in them.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

When F. Scott Fitzgerald pronounced that the very rich “are different from you and me,” Ernest Hemingway’s famously dismissive response was: “Yes, they have more money.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She walked over to her jam jar and glared at me and bawked some more. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

In my more desperate moments, I even considered running away on my own. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

And I guess how you live matters more than how long you live. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I have never been more aware of the heat beating down on my own head and the dryness of my own throat. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It sounded deep, but it really meant that once you found it, why would you look in more places? The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I saw half a little black mustache—it seemed to be dripping out of his nostril—a scrawny neck, a head that seemed more dumpling than stone. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Now that I know more about Jacob, I understand why—I’d never seen a Jew and a Christian holding hands before, either. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He paused to fish more bread out of the fire and handed two clumps to Rose and me. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Take it easy; anger won't help any more than blackmail did. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maya picked up another shirt and started folding it with way more intensity than necessary. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She seemed to be dressed more for a fancy ball than a luncheon, but Ophie knew very little about rich people. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Now, preparing to jump off a moving train is nothing, because I have done more difficult things in the past few weeks than most people will in a lifetime. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She does not want to inconvenience Mrs. Song more than she believes we already do. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Now I know, whatever your burdens, to hold yourself apart from the lot of more powerful men is an illusion. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know. He’s nothing more than a big spoiled puppy,” the young man said, stepping forward. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

So most of the electrons and antielectrons would have annihilated with each other to produce more photons, leaving only a few electrons left over. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile she graduated from ba-ton twirler to song girl, a much more prestigious position in those days. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we entered this city, our minds were filled with the remembrance of the events that had been transacted there more than a century and a half before. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once more I press my mouth to his and force the water out. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

"I know what the commander said, but if I need a few more meters, I want you to cut me loose. I have an MMU, I can get back without a tether." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wounded though he was, he wanted to make sure there were no more lions around. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I knock a third time, but more tentatively, because maybe this isn’t a good idea. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The image of her looking more and more lovely every day made my heart tighten in my chest and I had a moment of sisterly, almost maternal, pride. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The response from inmates is coming in more slowly. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her proctor had more information about the program, he told Cora, and was available to talk about any concern. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Loose-joint breaking-point colors, and whether you find them beautiful or find them appalling, they do make the women seem more festive, and less exhausted. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bought in secondhand shops and sold to other secondhand shops for a few coins more. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

For the moment nothing more had been seen of the woman who had first come to tell them about it, and absolutely nothing had been said in the newspapers. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“They look more like donkey ears, if you ask me.” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

In another study, researchers at the University of San Francisco appear to have found more evidence of the cost of constantly consuming information. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Alby leaned over to look in her face once more before they carried her off. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

"Not sure. A museum, I think. And more buildings." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

My gray desk began to fill up with papers and my shelves with books as I learned more and more about all these problems. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those that achieved more, I thank God for. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, the world is more than it seems to be. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The emptiness was very deep inside him, and after a while he glanced up at the window once more and started down the dark sidewalk where they had walked together so many times. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was, oh, a year ago, no more, Jon Arryn was still the King's Hand, and I went to the city to see my sons ride in the tourney. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s only going to get more dangerous from here.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

When the dance finally concluded, she bowed to the man with relief, for she did not enjoy the feeling that her shoes knew more about dancing than she did. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he acts as if he thinks I am Edward, but more often he stares beyond me, as if I am not there at all; he is looking at someone over my shoulder. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“You look like you need this more than I do. You keep it. Let’s go home to your ma.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Even more remarkable was Scheele’s failure to receive credit for the discovery of chlorine. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Now, even more important, let us see what we earned.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He could send a man up after it, but the monkeys seemed to like that game and had proved themselves more agile than his crew. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He ate seven spoonfuls and then said, “No more. Too sick.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The work was difficult—more difficult than she felt it should have been. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“I’ll do more tonight,” she promised before grabbing her coat and entering the living room. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They knew more or less what would happen to them if they got caught. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had more ducks than anything else, and their most exotic showing was a crusty old pony that had recently celebrated its fortieth birthday. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Viruses may seem alive when they multiply, but in another sense they are obviously dead, are only machines, subtle ones to be sure, but strictly mechanical, no more alive than a jackhammer. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the bottom line was that we were far from poor and our future was promising, maybe even more promising for the fact that it couldn’t easily be planned. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Since such a tiny thing as a flower in a brown bowl at the library had thrilled her so, she expected that the great city of New York would thrill her a hundred times more. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had access to many unremembered mysteries and detective novels and all the works of Daphne du Maurier, but litde more. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Very well. I will wait,” the emperor said, and in a more satisfied tone: “What is another moon when I will have eternity anyway?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It made more sense to keep both of your feet on the hard concrete. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was followed by another, even more beautiful, and then the last ox, even finer than the first two. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

In the darkness he tells me more than I want to know. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I’ll be reporting that man, he’s more concerned about litter than proper security if you ask me... But why are you out here, Harry?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I walked quickly to catch up, though I was still more or less of a third wheel. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The street we’re on now is barely more than an alley, so narrow that I could nearly touch the buildings on either side with my outstretched arms. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I have to get this. But...don’t worry. We’ll talk about it more, I promise!” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The Venetian braccio was longer than the Florentine, which would have made Galileo’s measurements much more nearly accurate. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

That says The Beast once more, with a jolt, is leaving. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I would do no more running downtown, nor would I accept any program that they sent up without consulting the Harlem committee. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were tasks that, more and more, she did at the clinic where she’d recently, finally, started her practice. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the word “freedom” echoed through her once more. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

For her part, Safaa spends a fair amount of time staring at him, or more particularly at his bad leg, but with none of the hostility she reserves for the rest of us. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Day of Sacrifice was weeks away, but there would be no more births in the ensuing time. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Pike, though, told agents one more thing that was startling. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I glanced up at the clock and realized I only had thirty more minutes before my first bout, and I was sitting on the ground feeling like a sloth. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I pulled free, too humiliated to say more. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

A subsequent study conducted by the attorney general of New Jersey found that searches on the turnpike were even more discriminatory than the initial stops—77 percent of all consent searches were of minorities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Bran knew he would never be a lord, no more than he could be a knight. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, so I was wondering if you could tell me more about what Olga said when you saw her? Do you remember what year it was?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The more you look like a samurai, the better are your chances of survival. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm not as good as my father was, but he'd had more practice. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Mami’s blind enthusiasm is one of her more predictable and annoying qualities. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It is punctuated by more than fifty rivers, which channel Andes snowmelt to the sea. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In a class so small, it just looked all the more obvious who was who. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“They paid me with these. Maybe if I get a few more, we could get some fish, or something good.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

After a few more questions and answers, she winks at the camera and says her catchphrase: “Shine on, stargazers!” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“We’re going across the street to the restaurant. If you hear or see anything more about the hacking, we’d sure like to know.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knowed right off something was wrong ’cause with that toady-frog added to it, her sweater weighed ’bout five pounds more than the last time she touched it. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

But she maintained that cell phone use was happening more and more, becoming a regular part of driving, and probably dangerous. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Samuel, I’ll ask just once and then no more. Have you heard anything? Has there been any news of her—any news at all?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, hill land was more valuable now, and those black people who had moved down right after the war and in the fifties couldn’t afford to come back even if they wanted to. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell him he’s wrong. War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Reading about galaxies and cosmic microwaves helps me to breathe more easily. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The other possibility is, if anything, more grim. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Both,” I say, too sleepy to say more. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he got up now, he’d lose his place and add a half hour or more to his wait. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Hagar had given him this last and more drama than he could ever want again. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this place great quantities of food were stored, so much more than I had seen at the Green Man. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

There are more important things on my mind. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

In between times he went off on more ambitious hikes of his own. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I may have been there for no more than a hundred sideways miles, or it may have been a hundred thousand. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Seventh grade. Six more years at Middlefield. I suggest you learn to get along.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The fact that we have met here now for years is no reason in itself why we should not seek a more convenient arrangement from here on.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

One way to help that along would be to use more color. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The Girl's voice becomes more pleading, even urgent. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Amazing how it’s the same two bodies as three weeks ago, but the kiss couldn’t be more different. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

We cannot see any more, or feel, or hear about them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s amused us more than once by trying to pass on the news he’s just heard, since the message invariably gets garbled in transmission. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

His mouth drooped like a hound dog, and his expression was more worried than scary. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Sefia nodded...more because she had to than because she wanted to. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Much older and more solemn, the lawyers in dark suits who in other days had flapped about the colonel like crows had returned. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I loved my times with Papa more than I loved the stories he told. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Please say no more, for I have forgiven you.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Between ninth and twelfth grades, their reading levels increased at a rate of 20 percent more than a cohort of similar students—as measured by academic ability and socioeconomics—who were not getting arts education. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I began to look away, too, only to find my gaze drawn helplessly to the mikveh once more. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Caruthers froze, looked at the group of people gathered in the hallway—which had only grown as more people came to see what the commotion was about—and laughed. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z