| 单词 | mound |
| 例句 | Through the late afternoon and evening, the wind sculpted the snow first into low mounds and then into strange, sharp shapes. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Nose still in his book, he scooped a mound of flour from the barrel into Cady’s container. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z They began to throw down their tools and leave the rubble mounds. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I drove into a little canyon out of the wind and parked by a mound of broken bottles—whisky and gin bottles, thousands of them. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z At the base of the tree was a huge sandy mound. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Father and I were working on a mound next to the house. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “There, there,” said Slughorn, waving his wand so that the huge pile of earth rose up and then fell, with a muffled sort of crash, onto the dead spider, forming a smooth mound. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z She chopped up old termite mounds and used the clay to make pots, firing them in heaps of coals. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He stuck his stick upright in the little mound and then asked for water. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z There are rows of tables with mounds of black on them. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Father deliberately chose to work on one mound which stood under a wooden wall. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Strawberries like fleshy hearts, mounded in little baskets. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z My eyes darted from one mound to another, wondering what to do, but you solved the problem yourself. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The grey moss grew thickly here, covering the fallen stones in great mounds and bearding all the towers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The bug sprawled untidily on a mound of squashed letters and Tock, his alarm ringing persistently, was buried under a pile of words. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z I do as he says, carefully molding the mounds of light. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Then Turner took a vial of ashes from their own hearth and sprinkled them across the mounded grave. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Among the maize fields in the Midwest and Southeast, mounds by the thousand stippled the land. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I could swoop down and knock some sense into them with a big old club, maybe even send them sailing on home to land in a hay mound or something. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z So I told her everything, from finding Aunt Florentine’s head resting on the mound of marigolds, to the bees buzzing around her and Tidings running for the hearse. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z To his chagrin, Willey quickly recognized that the natural “knolls” were, in truth, human-made "temple-type platform mounds," evidence of a more materially advanced culture than he had imagined possible for the era. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I take slices of red pepper Mami has roasted in the oven and green peas from a Green Giant can and arrange them on the mound of arroz con pollo. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z So we did, not by digging a grave, but by covering him with a high mound of leaves and stones and twigs and earth. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z He knew Kira would have made a pie, and there would be thick cream swirled with honey to mound on top of it. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z As the island retreated from view, Hercules’s head broke above the mound of goodies. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He looks like a homeless guy begging for change on a corner, but instead of an empty can, he’s holding a pie plate buried under a mound of whipped cream. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z She brushes out the giant circular mounds on my head. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He just sprawled out, a mound of silent black flesh. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Although the San Francisco Bay was a swimming pool in comparison to Lake Michigan, with mounds of land on the far side that looked close enough to swim to. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z She kept chopping a mound of herbs the size of a basketball. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I think this: All of us need to check every mound of grass and make sure none of those is Calvin. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z And they saw that in the midst of the eyot a mound was piled, ringed with stones, and set about with many spears. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z A white wooden cross was erected on the grave mound with a placard that read: Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t a ball at all, it was a frog, and McNab was on the mound cackling away, and the kid at the plate was bug-eyed. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The storm had buried every hut and hovel beneath a mound of dirty snow, and the drifts would soon be deep enough to engulf the longhall too. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Why do you need a mound of dirt with rocks on?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The crowd, however, was craning at the white mound, which was wheezing loudly, and declined the invitation to elegance. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But they never discovered or disturbed the mound where the old man lay buried. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z He turned once for a last look in the direction of Spiral Castle, Gwydion’s burial mound. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Nineteenth- century writers attributed the mound complexes to, among others, the Chinese, the Welsh, the Phoenicians, the lost nation of Atlantis, and various biblical personages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z There was a rope fence around a mound on the side of the hill. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z A peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich, two carrot sticks, a mound of lime gelatin, a tin cup of milk, served on a cafeteria tiay. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Mrs. Hameed walks over and puts a mound of them on our counter. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Its focal point was the great mound—Monks Mound, it is now called, named after a group of Trappists who lived nearby in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They looked back and saw the top of the old mound on the hill, and from it the sunlight on the gold went up like a yellow flame. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He came to a small mound of brick, where the upjutting ridge of the building’s flat top joined that of the other. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The little hole was slightly enlarged and its edges whitened from the sucking, but the red swelling extended farther around it in a hard lymphatic mound. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun was low and the great mound was casting a shadow that looked long enough to reach the Allegheny Mountains. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Around the little peak of the tent lay the snow, mounds, hillocks, swells, slopes, all white, untrodden. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z After a flurry of more “gung-shis,” the servants left and there were the three of us in front of a huge mound of packages. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When I turn to face my team, everyone is high-fiving, and Coach Nat is returning to the mound like nothing happened. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Hazelnuts, walnuts, chestnuts, almonds mounded in her basket and stirred her hunger with thoughts of hot roasted nuts on cold winter nights. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He turned and faced Alby, still propped against the stone wall, now only a mound of shadow in the darkness. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z As we worked to clear the mound, we saw five old demons and demonesses hobble down the steps of Miss Whitlaw’s house. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The slaves had mounded the com up, higher, higher, higher, dark hands lifting the ears of corn, slight rustle from the ears, two or three hundred slaves moving around the great stack. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Regardless of whether the engineers conducted a test in a wind tunnel or in free flight, the output was the same: torrents, scads, bundles, reams, masses, mounds, jumbles, piles, and goo-gobs of numbers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z In front of one mound, like a one-eighth scale model of Stonehenge, was a ragged circle of wak’a: sacred stones. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Giant mounds of mud and debris had formed below the cliffs. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I peek over my shoulder, and sure enough, Coach has left the mound and is headed toward the dugout. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z The smell from the thick mounds of excrement beneath the terrified pigs and the high-pitched squeals of terror as they awaited death made Kira feel dizzy and nauseated. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked over toward him, but again, he was just a shadowy shape, a large mound. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The gaily dressed young people sat in a circle around a vast mound of silk-tasseled corn, and already the husking had begun. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Then we heaped his barrow, lifting a gravestone on the mound, and fixed his light but unwarped oar against the sky. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Baylor went out to the yard and then backed through the door with a mound of peaches in her apron a while later. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z The mound of provisions that a minute ago had looked so pleasingly abundant and exciting—all new! all mine!—suddenly seemed burdensome and extravagant. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Adam picked them up and laid them back on the mound. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They brought their caddies in mounded up, she marked them off and paid out. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Sure enough, Mrs. O’Leary was curled up in an enormous black furry mound in the middle of the stadium, chewing halfheartedly on the head of a warrior dummy. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z A picture on the menu showed crispy fish, moons of lemon, mounds of rice. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z A puckered dirt mound was the only evidence of the portal between realms. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Paul took the ball and headed for the pitcher’s mound. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z There’s now a huge mound of medicine that is slowly starting to overflow. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z A mound of colorful, shiny presents was on the table beside her. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z A stone- lined path ran along the base of a broad mound of dirt about five feet high. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z More than anything in the world he wanted to play King of the Mountain and have them push him down the mound of dirt and roll over him. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Even when Indians built causeways, not all mounds are connected to each other, a fact Erickson was hoping to use to decipher the relations between groups. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Silver arched her back, her neck rippled, and she choked up a big mound of meat. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They tossed mounds of candy in my lap that I chewed for hours. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Susie kicked at a mound of fine dirt, and a flood of reddish ants poured out, but she walked through them without a blink. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z They had autumn peaches picked from the trees and sliced in golden cream, mounds of wild honey, and apples that Nancy’s little boys had polished until they gleamed rosily against the white cloth. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Hesitantly, I prodded the mound closest to me. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z I left the mound and the green grass growing on it among the white shells. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The white rose had landed on a mound of dirt. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The cavernous storage space is already half full with mounds of paper links. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z He watched with a sinking heart as the mean-looking boy swaggered up and down in front of the mounds of dirt. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z As we passed the groaning trestle tables of food, I saw Sul Ross head for the trees with two mounded plates of cake. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z One of the mounds at Cahokia is believe to be the largest earthwork in the Americas to have been built before the European invasions. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Sefia skirted the clearing while the boy stood beside the ashes, staring at the smoking mound as if he couldn’t quite understand what it was. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The horse had melted into the white landscape, but the mound of luxurious gray-and-blue silk on the ground reassured them that it had not been a dream. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Further away, not far from the river, where it came streaming out from the edge of the wood, there was a mound. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I turned and ran back toward the mound, thinking I might hide myself in it. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Once his tortoises were fed, he stuffed himself with mounds of spaghetti and fried sausages. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z We talk about the birds and fish we roasted on Nevis, and I tell him again about the mounds of peas, squash, and venison at the Werowocomoco feast. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z As if to lend them support, fields of maize rippled out from the mound almost as far as the eye could see. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Get this one,” Ernie said, stabbing at a gross mound, still stinky. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Almost all that can be known with certainty about this initial group is that it belonged to a diverse, four-thousand-year-old tradition characterized by the construction of large earthen mounds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Then came the bang and the smoke, the screams, the falling, the exit doors opening, the sensation of tumbling through the air and landing in a mound of warm sand. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z She passed old vendors with leathery faces sitting under the shade of plane trees, gazing at her impassively behind pyramids of cherries and mounds of grapes. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Everyone joined in, running back and forth between the two mounds. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z A wild-eyed horse, its bridle tom and dangling, trotted frantically through the mounds of men, tossing its head, whinnying in panic. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, Head Buster spun around and kicked one of the mounds to smithereens. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z He left that place and he never went back; and late at night when his mother was gone, he cried because he saw the mound of pale yellow sand in a dream. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Percy stared at the mound of books around her. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z At my feet are mounds of burned-out candle wax, fistfuls of dying flowers blown by the wind and roughed by the ravages of the street. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He’d dropped out his sophomore year after his son was born, because his wife was sick and there was a mound of medical bills. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z So he lumbered off the mound after the frog, which was now hopping down the third-base line. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z On the table, there were mounds and mounds of walnuts, and the squirrels were all working away like mad, shelling the walnuts at a tremendous speed. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z We tossed mounds of dirt on that weird sleeping bag. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Hundreds of destroyed fetterlings lay in mounds around him, like a fort made of defeated enemies, and yet several hundred more live ones circled him. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z He flicked on the squad car’s headlights and there, on a grassy mound marked by a freshly planted survey stake, stood a pair of burrowing owls. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Daylight streamed through the hole onto a mound of splintered floorboards and broken glass from which rose coils of silty dust, pieces of torn carpet plastered here and there like scraps of desiccated meat. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z In her gentlest but firmest way, she gathered up the surviving demons and set them in work crews to clearing the mounds from which people were calling. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He had the feeling that if he simply touched that red oblong mound with his finger it would cave in and Mary’s body would come into full view, unburnt. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The dirty and clean rice were in two careful mounds on the enamel trays before us, with the stones placed on the mat. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Wilson's drumstick came down in a mound of cranberry sauce. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandma, Carlos, and Kim are joyful, decorating my tombstone, laying chicken legs and cornbread on my mound. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z He scooped a little hollow and laid the puppy in it and covered it over with hay, out of sight; but he continued to stare at the mound he had made. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Near the dead tree there w'as a slight mound of earth and a leaning Celtic cross cut from plywood. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On board were two benches, some steel wool, an old cooler, and a mound of frayed rope with one end tied to the mooring. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z When they open up, you can see a fleshy little mound, no bigger than the top of my thumb. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I came to the mound where my ancestors had sometimes camped in the summer. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z In the context of the village, the mound, visible everywhere, was as much a beacon as a medieval cathedral. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Bill raised his wand, and the pile of earth beside the grave rose up into the air and fell neatly upon it, a small, reddish mound. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The men who had carried Saidu began placing rocks around the grave to hold the mounds of earth. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I was aware of the mound beneath her cutoffs rising toward me, just a little, rising and suggesting itself. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “We have one set of people constructing the ring ditches and another set of people constructing the causeways and mounds,” Alvarez told me. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The roofs of the cabins were heaped with snow, and dirty mounds of it were piled up on the sides of the streets. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Granddaddy stopped every now and then to peer at a leaf, a rock, a mound of dirt, things I didn’t find terribly interesting. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Wreckage everywhere, mounded bodies, smoking earth, naked stumps of trees. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z My focus shifts from the forms of Michah and the girl, and I notice the mound of their discarded clothes, scattered paper bits, maps full of pinholes. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The wind howled around each mound and hillock and floe, piling up enormous drifts of snow. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “La Negra’s watching her figure,” he says, and reaches over to pat the mounds of flesh spilling from her waistband. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The Ouachita mounds as they may have appeared at their creation, 5,400 years ago. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The flowers had been laid evenly to cover the mound of new-turned damp earth, and already the wind had frayed the blossoms and flung the smaller bouquets out into the path. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z ‘This one is pineapple, mango, orange and banana, buried under a mound of shaved coconut. I call it the Hercules!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z A giant mound of oily, slimy fat and protein lay on top of my practice pinnie and shorts. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z There were holes everywhere, and of course the mounds of dirt dug up alongside them. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Rex leaped the pitcher’s mound in one stride. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z A mound of loose white sand was visible at the entrance. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly the proud, reasonable Joan became again the moaning, mewling mound. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Camels, llamas, zebras, and horses stand behind low ropes slung between iron stakes, their heads buried in mounds of hay. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “And what’s this?” he asks, wiggling his finger over a mound of what looks like dead grass in the middle of its many legs. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Atop the mound was the temple for the divine kings, who arranged for the weather to favor agriculture. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He gathered mounds of fried potatoes, canned sweet corn, and Spam with Nali’s fresh tortillas. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z They throw up a mound for the funeral pyre, for whatever arms or legs or heads my haste has left behind. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z When they entered, she was seated on a mound of cushions, her dragons all about her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z And a small animal like a woodchuck sat on each mound. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad and Leo are pawing through a mound of paper on the breakfast table, the contents of three or four fat folders from the cabinet above the wall oven. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They circled the pitcher’s mound, and squared the batter’s box beside the plate. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z He went to Freedom Square to see the mound of blackened books that the vandals had emptied out of the library and set on fire. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z In the back gardens the gophers push up the morning mounds of fresh damp earth and they creep out and drag flowers into their holes. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She saw cloth bags in knobby mounds; they looked like gnomes but were not gnomes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z After these first mounds the record is sparse. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A giant couldn’t eat half a leg of deer plus a huge mound of wild rice and eight of the fifty quail eggs and go back for dessert. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The sun penetrated the graveyard, and as we stood there, a slight breeze blew, causing the trees surrounding the mounds of earth to sway gracefully. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The fire burned on the stone hearth and the cigar fell away into a mound of quiet ash on its tray. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z At the taxicab station for Jericho, Father bought a box of marshmallow-chocolate mounds. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z I heard Mama scrabble around in the kitchen for a bit, and then she came out with a mound of folded tinfoil that she handed over to Susie. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Then when they had laid their fallen comrades in a mound and had sung their praises, the Riders made a great fire and scattered the ashes of their enemies. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Having mounded them up, I shuffled through them, discarding some upon the floor. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z A small burial mound in the middle of Nathan’s garden, where vines and flowers have long since unrolled to feed insects and children. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere in there was a very strange Christmas, where Jeffrey got a mound of presents that was nearly taller than our tree. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z His mother laid down her hoe and followed slowly, picking her way over the mounds of plowed earth that Jethro’s feet seemed barely to touch. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z There are little pockets inside the mound where the people are trapped. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day, a large mound a dozen feet away from him that at first looked like cow dung started moving. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z On this mound, among the grasses and the plants, stood Rontu. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z At one end a trapper skinned his raccoons and at the other Florence scraped dirt from a mound of sweet potatoes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The cave opening vanished and the mound flattened again. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Pond charged up a mound, and at the crest Nathan could see a huge amount of the desert. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Håkon arched his back, and a mound of earth rose up, then split apart. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z And McNab was still on the mound, even though the official game was over. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Even if, inside, I was a trembling mound of teenage insecurity. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z All there was now was a mound of orange steel. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Bright, blinding searchlights flashed on, aimed at us and at the mound of food, so that when we tried to run away from it, we could not see where we were going. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z She used the heel of her sneaker to kick at a mound of dried grass in our yard, our avocado-colored yard. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z These mounds had been flagged as possible ruins for nearly a century but never excavated because they seemed to have no valuable gold or ceramic objects. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z At one corner of the field, a mound of bushel baskets waited. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Stepping onto the cairn mound, I told everyone to button up their coats. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Then we hid behind a mound of rubble that had once been a house. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “You must have a mound of stuff in the park,” Father said. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z By an hour after dawn the first flats were mounded over, and the foreman, a white man, stood writing Roman numerals in a black book beside the name of each picker. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z There were mounds of cans, heaps of clothes, rows of jars and bottles, stacks of light-bulb packages. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Tendai couldn’t see what until they stepped back to reveal two mounds of dirt the size of small anthills. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z When the story was over, she sent the boy to bed and continued picking out kernels and adding them to the neat mound in the folds of her apron. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z A searcher pointed to a smoldering mound above the voice. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z ‘And when their spears have rotted and rusted, long still may their mound stand and guard the Fords of Isen!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Once that was done, she took one last look at the bottle mound and sighed. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The heads lay curled in a big spaghetti-like mound on the grass, all the eyes closed. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Mariam saw small mounds of flyblown garbage littering the street here and there. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The states where it was most abundant considered it a nuisance, chiefly because it builds large nests or mounds a foot or more high. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z As for the others, mounds of food got left on their plates. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z In its southwest corner is a pair of mounds, one conical, one square. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z When she felt Jaime’s gaze she covered her right nipple, but that revealed her mound. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But his arms simply grabbed her as if scooping up a mound of snow, and his cruel laughter boomed in her ears. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z At the mouth of the bowl were three mounds in a rough semicircle that faced a fourth mound. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I lay on my back on the raft, spread-eagled so I looked like a brown X, my hands and feet stuck in mounds of sap. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z ‘It came out of the mounds that lie on the borders of my country,’ said Pippin. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The bra fit fine, but now my chest rose to mounds and was pointed. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Laborers moved quickly to the stage with brooms and swept away the mounds of discarded hair. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Ma rubbed the carrot across the roughness until she had rubbed it all through the holes, and when she lifted up the pan, there was a soft, juicy mound of grated carrot. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Did this mean if I told May about T. Ray’s mounds of grits, his dozens of small cruelties, about my killing my mother—that hearing it, she would feel everything I did? The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I unlaced my right tennis shoe, wriggled my foot out, and removed the mound of tens and twenties Pa had given me. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Rontu did not move from where he stood on top of the mound. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z There, resting on a mound of blanket rolls, is a silver sheath of arrows and a bow, already strung, just waiting to be engaged. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Equally important, Woods says, the mound city was in large part an outgrowth of the community's previous adoption of maize. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They would bring their catch back to shore, a mound of silver, the sardines dying slowly. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z We have abundant evidence from the garbage that they left behind at hundreds of thousands of excavated archaeological sites and huge shell mounds distributed all over Japan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Because Adena mounds served as tombs, researchers know more about their deaths than their lives. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z When he finished, the hall was as quiet as a mound. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z I dragged one of the crates over and upturned it on its side, spilling out mounds of sodden wood shavings. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Haas, Creamer, and Ruiz had decided to drive through the area because they suspected that the mounds might be more interesting and numerous than had been realized. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z At the foot of the walled hill the way ran under the shadow of many mounds, high and green. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z If I stop being angry, I’m afraid I’ll fall apart until I’m just a warm mound of flesh on the floor. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She had reshaped our garden overnight into eight neat burial mounds. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There isn’t any snow, just dirty mounds of ice on the ground. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z Slowly, frame by frame, the mound turned green with weeds, covered in brushy grass and scrub and, eventually, a small shrub clinging to its peak. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The train wasn't coming back, and standing there was achieving nothing, so I struck out toward the biggest mound. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Most of the mounds were small—their summits barely top the water—but a few were 30 or even 60 feet tall. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z With Judge Robert E. Lee Key's peculiar comments still running through my head, I went through the mound of records until I found the transcripts from Walter McMillian's trial. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z His eyes were locked on the small mound no bigger than a teddy-bear bump under the covers. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z He climbs over a grey mound of snow left from the plows and catches up with me. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z I picked up a rock and sent it clattering down the slope of the hill-like mound. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Daily we dug for “hidden treasure” about the mounds of rotting dirt. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Die this way, die that way; pass out at hard labor, or get shot shuffling from one mysterious mound to the next—what's the difference? What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “You idiot! He just insulted your motheA Those mounds are your mother’s breasts. He just kicked one of them!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I've shoveled about halfway through the mound when I realize no one's talking. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z We have grown them the way Namontack taught us, planting the corn and beans together in a mound, so that the bean plants can climb the cornstalks. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “I looked out my side window and saw the field rushing up. We had landed on grass strips before, hut this one was dotted with mounds that looked like waves undulating toward us.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z She had seen the gaping holes anteaters carved into the sides of termite mounds, although she hadn’t seen the creatures themselves. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And mounds of earth, as if someone had been digging for potatoes or carrots, though I didn’t see anything like that growing here. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z ‘Seven mounds upon the left, and nine upon the right,’ said Aragorn. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z For situations where mounds are numerous and mechanized methods are desirable, a cultivator which first levels and then applies chemical directly to the mounds has been developed by Mississippi’s Agricultural Experiment Station. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z To visitors today it seems obvious that Cahokia and the many other mound sites in the Midwest and Southeast are the remains of Indian settlements. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z That night, the snow came thick and thicker, heavy and wet and piling up so quickly that Turner could watch it mound itself up from his bedroom window. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z It was in gathering material for this mound that Justin made the second discovery. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z He stepped over the mounds and looked into the first hole. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z But you have to be careful not to make the mound collapse on that pocket or on you. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d seen kids sitting in a mound of snow, blue in the face, and without a single blanket to cover them. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z It was sunken into the field, choked like the bed of a stream with mounded men. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z To keep the fall crop of daikon from freezing during the cold months, North Koreans sometimes bury them in mounds. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The archaeologists had begun opening up the largest of the mounds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He urinated against the side of the oak tree, next to which was a small mound of droppings, certainly not produced by any human being. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z She’s built like a brick house with mounds of blonde hair, though I’m sure she dyes it that color, because the roots are black. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z She handed Pinmei her plain bowl, the cooked grains shining like a mound of pearls against the dark pottery. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The Trivium, who had discovered a mound of pebbles which needed counting, followed no more, but stood at the edge shaking his fist, shouting horrible threats, and promising to rouse every demon in the mountains. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z And then she stood up and started walking across the sandy beach as though it were a solid paved path, and I was trying to follow behind, struggling and stumbling in the soft mounds. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She puts his framed picture on the table and plants birthday candles in the mound of maleeda. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z All Dell really knew with certainty was that now someone was steaming mounds of spinach in a kitchen that had never under his watch seen a vegetable in its raw form. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z In addition, the sand lets rainfall drain away from the mound, preventing it from swelling too much. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z His mother rocked as the mound of kernels grew in the fold of her apron. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She squatted by the mound, closed her eyes. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z With his head bent over in the lamplight I could discern a slight mound in his brow above the eyebrows, the faint bulge which is usually believed to indicate mental power. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The corn had been stacked in a great mound. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Standing, he patted the mound in front of him. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Liyana noticed another handsome young waiter watching her as he rolled silverware into white linen napkins and stacked them in a mound. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I was wretched looking, damp from rain and dust-covered and squatting in a mound of debris. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Like the oblong mound of fresh clay of a newly made grave, the red coals revealed the bent outline of Mary’s body. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Leo looked at the mound of broken cookies. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The great mound of ashes in the barnlot was soon beaten into a hard-packed mass by driving rain and the heat of spring and early summer. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The night was not dark enough to hide what lay on the lawn outside: a shapeless mound of ashes, pale gray in the moonlight, gray as moth wings, gray as burnt paper. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Each of us chose a trough and dug into it like a dog excavating a prized bed of flowers, our cupped hands scooping mounds of ice onto the floor. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z He glanced over at the pushcart peddler eyeing us suspiciously over her mound of used clothes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The earth was still mounded above his coffin. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z She took a mound of rosy Jell-O out of the icebox, cut it in half and slid a portion on another plate. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z As with Gothic churches, which had plazas for the outdoor performance of sacred mystery plays, the mounds had greens before them: ritual spaces for public use. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It wasn’t a mole—moles made big mounds in the middle of the yard. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z A hush fell over the soldiers as everyone stopped to stare at the small group of men that had gathered near the pitcher’s mound. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Under the low red glare of sunset, the beacon, and the gibbet, and the mound of the Battery, and the opposite shore of the river, were plain, though all of a watery lead colour. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Returning to the ashes, Cole noticed faint smoke curling up from one mound. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The Talib, looking absurdly like a baseball pitcher on the mound, hurled the stone at the blindfolded man in the hole. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I lay flat as I could on the bumpy mound of potatoes and kicked once at the boards of the bin. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z They both had mounds of white hair piled in flat puffs atop their heads like melting snowballs. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I squint at the drained milkshake glasses and mound of empty chocolate pudding cups taking up practically the entire space. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Later, when the sprouts have come up and are strong, they are taken from these beds of ash and transplanted, each to its own mound. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Spinning on his heel, the Owner crackled across the broken mounds of glass, flung himself inside his car, and left in a screech of tires and dust. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z They was good, but I couldn’t help but wonder that my brother Johnny, if he wasn’t colored, could be a big help on the mound. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And among them, right in the middle of them, was the one I was looking for—a mound of blond hair and a flame-colored pullover. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z A mound of thick gauze, cross- hatched by shiny white tape, occupied the center of his piggish face. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The entire formation—a kind of immense mound—was white, from the dun desert floor to the blue of the sky. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z In the long rows of tobacco mounds, children stood in the sun and watched the turkeys eat the hornworm and the devouring beetle off leaves. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The sand she had dug with her hands was still damp on the mound. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I would eat mounds of it on my hard acorn pancakes, which I improved by adding hickory nuts. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The little boy was buried under a mound of blankets—if the bare mattresses around it were any indication, the other boys had gladly donated theirs to his pile. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Wild violets, rooster heads, and mountain daisies had completely covered the two little mounds. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He walked to the top of the mound and lifted his head and gave a long howl. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z And, as before, the ground was all holes and mounds of loose dirt. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Standing in the freezing mound that was thickening around his numb feet, Jonas opened his own tunic, held Gabriel to his bare chest, and tied the tom and dirty blanket around them both. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Then he vanishes in a flash of light, leaving the viewer to gaze through the open doorway at the glittering mounds of treasure that lay beyond. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z At the top, a wide, flat plain dotted with huge ant mounds stretched for a mile, and Joe left the dirt ruts to slalom between the mounds for a ways. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The most important conclusion of the most important biochemical paper of the decade was buried, like a polite cough, under a mound of dense text. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I filled it up with the rocks and dirt and stomped the mound down, then gathered leaves and spread them over the dirt. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The mound of riches she’d summoned sank back into the earth. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They lugged the bush to the opposite side of the yard where there was a mound of dirt, and they replanted the bush. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z I asked him hopefully, viewing the tall grass and underbrush between the road and the mounds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z To the left stood a great mound, covered with a sward of grass as green as Springtime in the Elder Days. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The trick is to not dig away the whole mound, but to work tunnels to those pockets. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He hopped off the dactyl, careful not to land in the massive mound of pteropoop, and hurried over, satchel open. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z A sloping mound of rocks and dirt, floor to ceiling, cut off the tunnel. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Carter charges off the mound and picks it up. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z The moaning, mewling mound spoke, not, as Alyce expected, frantically or madly, but calmly and reasonably, asking for death. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Tino and his crew had dumped a thousand small mounds of dirt in here. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A termite mound rose not far from where she was sitting. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Afterward, as he crossed the darkening courthouse square, pensively scuffing through dry mounds of unraked leaves, Dewey wondered at his lack of elation. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z She drove her bread to the bottom of the container and scooped up a drooping, goopy mound of it. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Of particular interest are the “effigy mounds” in the shape of animals, presumably the totems of the tribes that produced them. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually they covered her and all he could see was a mound of tangled tulips bent low over her body, which was kicking to the last. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He got up and went out through the back and sat on the mound of cement blocks beside the house. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She tosses me an exasperated look and points at the twins, who are poking a fire-ant mound with a stick, practically begging to get swarmed. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Whether by some virtue in these sheaths or because of the spell that lay on the mound, the blades seemed untouched by time, unrusted, sharp, glittering in the sun. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The Orcs were piled in great heaps, away from the mounds of Men, not far from the eaves of the forest. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He stopped wiggling, and another mound rose up. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z In the middle of this bright green cave rose a small mound, eight inches tall, in the end of which was an arched entrance neatly lined with stone, like a small doorway without any door. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Nehemiah drove his shovel into the mound of dirt and pitched some into the open grave. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Webb brought him in to pitch the final frame, but by the way he trudged to the mound, I knew he didn’t want to throw. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z She recognized the tall spikes of yarrow and its dense clustered blossoms; around them twined the flopping stems of coreopsis, above a carved base of that plant’s mounded dark and feathery leaves. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The men of the West were trapped, and soon, all about the grey mounds where they stood, forces ten times and more than ten times their match would ring them in a sea of enemies. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z During the day, Shin followed teams of teenage thieves to the outskirts of the city, looking for isolated houses with telltale mounds of dirt in their gardens. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Nobody's talking about a mound of dirt. Rockeries are made of rocks. And a water feature, I was thinking of.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I pulled Jonas away from the crying woman and the snow-covered mound. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The tallest was furthest away, standing alone upon a green mound. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z She heaped a mound of it in the middle of my plate, where it quivered, its watery edges green where they met the blue. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Barefoot atop the peach- colored mound, their faces smeared with dirt, they quickly scoop the sawdust into rusty tin cans and dump it into big white plastic bags. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z She spooned porridge into her mouth, found it to be bland, and scooped four heaping mounds of brown sugar into the gray mess. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The trees were dry and stubby, the mound was barren, and my attention was arrested by a water faucet sticking two feet out of the sand, like some subterranean periscope. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z And was that crumbling mound of cinders all that was left of her clothes? When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z She traces her finger through a mound of flour, starts spelling her name. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Small green shoots were forcing their way up through the red earth of Dobby’s grave now; in a year’s time the mound would be covered in flowers. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z For a while they sat without speaking under the shadow of a mound of slag; but foul fumes leaked out of it, catching their throats and choking them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z "Wh- what . . . what do you . . . ?" His Jowls were quivering like mounds of suet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z ‘You won’t find your clothes again,’ said Tom, bounding down from the mound, and laughing as he danced round them in the sunlight. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Lana Lee asked hopefully, studying the mound of white material lying in the street. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They heard of the Great Barrows, and the green mounds, and the stone-rings upon the hills and in the hollows among the hills. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z In places there were ruined works of stone beside the path, and mounds of green topped with slender birches, or fir-trees sighing in the wind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The game of Twister collapsed into a mound of crushed bodies, bent arms, and wriggling feet. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Peach Fuzz nods as though he understands and the two of them build a mound of bubbles. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z They gathered shellfish on the rocks and ate them here, leaving the shells which after many summers had formed a mound. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Nathan lost track of time, and before he realized it, he had chopped a large mound of firewood that needed to be stacked. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The head was in the midst of about fifty large, artificial earthen mounds—the ruins, Sterling concluded with excitement, of a previously unknown Maya civic center. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Lourdes helps herself to a mound of creamed spinach, dabbing it with a quickly diminishing loaf of sourdough. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “I got it!” he said as small clouds of smoke drifted up into the air and a low flame started blooming on the mound of sticks and leaves. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Computer: “You snake crawl for thirty yards. A trickle of water runs down your body. You reach a mound of small rocks blocking the passageway.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Because that mound separates the road from the Oise River, don’t it? The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The hills were enormous mounds of old cars, appliances, and other scrap metal. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z He drops to the mound like he’s been shot. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z I marched toward a mound that looked like it had lots of glass and tin. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z There’s the cemetery with the mounds and the black crosses. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I came to the top of the mound, reached out with my gloved hand, and touched the ceiling. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Thomas Jefferson removed a slice from a mound on his estate, examined the stratigraphic layers, and announced that Indians had made it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z An ant mound of people suddenly kicked to life. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He had ripped open the feather mattress in search of valuables, littering the floor with mounds of horsehair and goose down. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He argued correctly that the craters are depressions rather than mounds. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There are still mounds of bodies waiting to be buried, like cord wood or piles of matchsticks. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I saw an arm sticking up from the mound of rubble and the hand was twisted at an impossible angle from the wrist. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z At last McNab was back on the mound, fingering the ball in his glove, a demon’s gleam in his eye. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The door opened and he came in looking like he’d been hay jumping—leaping from the hay loft into a mound of hay—all mussed up hair, hay bits, and twisted up clothes. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z The reddish mound of earth that covered Dobby lay ahead, and Harry walked back to it, as the pain in his head built more and more powerfully. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Kochu Thomban had finished his ceremonial rounds, and lay tethered to a wooden stake next to a steaming mound of his own dung. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Mary stood close to the mound, with Atal nearby for reassurance; but she sensed all their eyes on her and felt as if she were a new girl at school. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I watched for a few seconds while Ariana started piling the fondant back up until it looked like a mound of clay again. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z This woman put him in mind of the biggest mound he had ever seen: in Shandong, that was, Confucius’s grave. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He glanced over and saw the puppy sound asleep, curled into a mound of undyed yarn heaped near the door, as if the soft pile were a mother to doze against. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z The plastic bag of supplies was a mound against my back, but I couldn’t muster the energy to untie it. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Walking on that mound of money felt weird at first, but at least I knew the money was safe. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z We each turn our attention to our soy sauce, Mom taking a whole mound of wasabi and stirring it in. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z That whole winter, Hassan and I took turns wearing the hat, and belted out the film’s famous music as we climbed mounds of snow and shot each other dead. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Inside a grove of trees the mothers threw themselves on mounds of dirt that covered their children. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The mound of green plastic bags grows taller than the wringmaster’s neon pink cap. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z The mound, a marvel of solidity for a decade, was uprooted whole and began to shudder along in one murderous mass. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z At the edge of the papaya grove were ten low earthen mounds that the team had identified as human-made. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Roberto made a small cross from sticks and laid it on the mound. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Galen and I raked this into a broad rectangular mound about the size of a double bed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Bioloaf Boy from the party approaches us holding a tray mounded with square sections. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It takes me only a few seconds to realize that they are photographs of suffering: narrow, pinched children with huge eyes, ditches full of bodies, huge mounds of burning papers. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z She stood at the foot of the mound of black soil, a thin old woman with white hair bound in a braid that reached her hips, her face a finely drawn map of lines. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Hoping to turn up others, Stirling was walking that January morning to the far end of the mounded area, where a workman had noticed a large, flat, partly submerged rock: a second stela. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She came back to her duties just as I finally spotted a purple glitter pen and was retrieving it from the mound of treasures. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Around a stump, over a mound of leaves, past a cedar tree—there were the saplings, and there lay the rat, still on his side. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Papa’s white shirt, with its perfectly tailored lines, did little to minimize the mound of flesh that was his stomach. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “In there,” I pointed excitedly at the huge mound where I was digging. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She should have been exhausted by noon, when the mound of belongings by the front door had grown waist high. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The coat fit across her in a great mound, and flapped when she moved. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z When the corn was mounded up, the best singer among the slaves, the one with the highest, clearest, truest voice, climbed to the top of the stack and led off the singing. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z There was low coarse grass on the plain and here and there a little mound. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He pointed to a spot halfway up one of the dirt mounds. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The mound of embers and charred wood glowed brighter until a single solitary flame licked up, followed soon by another. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The old woman was neatly strapped in under a mound of blankets. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z It suddenly felt like a mound of clay was sitting in my gut. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z They bristled from the side of the dig in a profusion that reminded me of the Beni mounds, hundreds of miles upstream. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The two dogs were trotting back and forth along the foot of the mound, watching Rontu. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Her footprints led to a mound of stones. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Her dirty wrapper was not knotted properly, and one end trailed in the dirt as she walked, carrying a tray mounded with bits of fried beef. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The lake was so full of holes and mounds that it reminded Stanley of pictures he'd seen of the moon. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z The hummingbird on her Hawaiian shift plunged its swordlike beak between the mounds of her bottom. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “No sculpture, no carving or bas-relief, almost no painting or drawing—the interiors are completely bare. What we do see are these huge mounds—and textiles.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The fourth, northern side opened onto a third mound, larger than the small mound but nowhere near the size of the big one. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z One morning, near the Peak, I came upon him squatting on a termite mound. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The bulldozer hauled up a final mound of dirt and then puttered away to make room for the forklift. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Mounds and mounds of junk and waste stretched out like a mountain range. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Only I see the growing mound when I bathe myself. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z As he heads to the mound, Webb waves to Ben-Ben and Malik and then points to me. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z A mound of dough sat off to the side, rising in the warm kitchen. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The spotted dog had reached the top of the mound. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama says from the corner of the room where she’s dumped out a mound of laundry. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z The reek of the mound is great, and at first though my belly is empty, I retch. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z His family gave him a traditional Zande funeral and left his body under a mound of stones in a clearing of elephant grass. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The people of these “mound builder” civilizations dispersed before the European invasion, but we know their descendants today as the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee Creek, and Natchez Nations of the Southeast. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z She set them in a pit in the middle of the fire and heaped live coals around the balled mound of mud. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Father had already bent his will to Africa by remaking his garden in mounds, the way they do here. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Along one side of the square stretched a long row of mounded earth. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Her jeans left a mound of pulpy flesh above her waist that disfigured her T-shirts, as though something alien were growing underneath. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Together they rolled off the mound, yet Rontu did not let go. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He was propped high with pillows, and a mound of home-devised bandages covered his left breast and shoulder. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The Indians were so filled with fear that they climbed on top of one another, formed mounds, and suffocated each other. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When I opened the door to my chamber, I saw that my blanket was slashed, and tom, and the clothes I had mounded beneath it were thrown about the room. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I went back to help clearing the mound. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Down below me, I could see the graveyard, and the fresh mound of dirt. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The fields are flat, the wood is too distant and dangerous—the only cover is the graveyard and the mounds. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She worked as fast as she could, around the mounds where zucchini and yellow squashes spread out. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z And so in this place and that, by burned homestead or barn, upon hillock or mound, under wall or on field, still they gathered and rallied and fought until the day wore away. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The food was good, and it came mounded on steaming plates, more than any one person could eat. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z And every morning, Hassan placed a flower on the little mound by the sweetbrier bushes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Although the San Francisco Bay was a swimming pool in comparison to Lake Michigan, with mounds of land on the far side that looked close enough to swim to. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z A mound of sort of fluffy mashed cattail tubers, mushrooms, and dogtooth violet bulbs, smothered in gravy thickened with acorn powder. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z With these words the travellers passed the silent mounds. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “Probably because folk around here haven’t ever seen a real barrow, just heard about them in stories. When they find a hill with big mounds on it . . .” I pointed out the oddly shaped hillocks. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Next to the mounds of fruits and spices at the fairs were piles of a medicine that the Italians also bought from the Muslims: sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The three girls moved to a mound of palm fronds, carefully removing them to reveal a rickety wooden trebuchet made of bamboo and counterweighted with coconuts. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Liyana ate a mound of rice and onions and sizzled pine nuts, but steered clear of the lamb. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z It came topped with a mound of canned vegetables: peas, corn, carrot coins, potatoes, and diced turnips. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The market is overflowing with a dizzying array of goods—rows of glittery bangles in every color imaginable, bolts of silky fabric, and mounds of beaded slippers, hair accessories, and evening bags. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z There, piled into enormous mounds that reached almost to the ceiling, were not only diamonds and emeralds and rubies but also sapphires, amethysts, topazes, moonstones, and garnets. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z I’m sure the red fem has grown and has completely covered the two little mounds. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z No one wanted the empty seat next to the huge mound of a homeless man in dirty clothes. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z He looked around at the dark trees, the boulders, the men hunched before him in blue mounds, waiting. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She found herself surrounded by a knee-high mound of treasure—Roman denarii, silver drachmas, ancient gold jewelry, glittering diamonds and topaz and rubies—enough to fill several lawn bags. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They’ve left behind fresh white brick and a mound of black dirt. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z Rats scatter in front of us with squeaks of terror, and I see only their tails, slipping between mounds of waste, empty trash cans, soggy cardboard boxes. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Stones had been arranged on the mound, and some low trees still shaded it and made an arch above the path. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Gitl had been working in the sorting shed, where mountains of clothes and shoes, mounds of books and toys and household goods from the suitcases and bags were divided up. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I sit down on the ground, near a mound of red ants, but I don’t care. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He stood under the clock in the cold, the wandering boy playing in a mound of snow near his feet. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It looked like a wild bush had grown up and practically covered the two little mounds. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The sandstone and dirt they had taken from inside the mesa was piled in mounds, in long rows, like fresh graves. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z A group of boys were already at work on the mound. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The mound-building habit of the fire ant makes the chemical treatment of individual mounds a simple matter. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They grated plantains, green bananas, yautías, and yucca, into bowls, seasoned the mixture, spooned mounds of it onto roasted banana leaves, and dropped chunks of savory meat into the centers of the mounds. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The city’s focus, its Eiffel Tower or Tiananmen Square, was a 103-foot-tall clay mound, a bulging, vertically fluted cone somewhat resembling a head of garlic. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Afterward they mixed the garbage into the mound, incorporating the celebration into the construction. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z There was a kind of science to freeing the demons from the mound. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z There was furniture overturned, the mattress was ripped open, bureau drawers upside-down on the floor, their contents strewn and mounded. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He had nearly given up hope when he came upon a little mound of shards. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z All our neighbors have these great maga- zine-cover yards with flowers that match their shutters and expensive white rocks that border fresh mounds of mulch. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z They walked among the lentil fields to a mysterious mounded shrine encircled by large smooth stones. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Sure enough, in the distance beyond the shanties, past a long mound of rubbish, we could glimpse the sparkling blue ocean. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z And she heads to the mound without another word. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z I see him try to stop himself once he clears the mound. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z After the Ouachita mounds, there is a gap in the record of more than a millennium. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z When I came back I looked down at the huge black mound of human body that is Rondell, laying there all curled like a baby. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z We stumble across in the dark and as though he had been spat there every man lies glued behind a mound. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Two men in ballooning skirts and balding velvet blouses, vaulting over littered moons and mounds of dung, circling around the hulk of a sleeping elephant. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z All except for Herbie Goldfarb, that is, who stood on the mound, mouth agape, more or less terrified, and wondering what God had wrought. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Laila sat on it and watched the un- moving blanketed mound that was her mother. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Based around the Mississippi and its associated rivers, these societies scattered tens of thousands of mounds from southern Canada and the Great Plains to the Atlantic coast and the Gulf of Mexico. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z At the center of the little village there was an open space next to the jetty, where boats had been drawn up, mounds under the snow. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She pierced her mound of hair with the pointier end of the hairpin. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Luna kissed the lady on the cheek, as was customary, and quickly touched the mound of belly, feeling the child leap inside. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Even better, Emma was there waiting for me, sitting on the edge of the mound casting stones into the bog. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z But once we’ve changed sides and their pitcher is on the mound, she and I make eye contact as our first batter heads for home plate and takes her stance. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Fried eggs covered with grease, fresh-squeezed orange juice with seed and pulp floating in it, thick hand-cut bacon, a white-hot mound of grits and biscuits. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Their relics are the great mound sites of the Mississippi Valley. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He stepped off the mound for a moment, turned and motioned his center fielder to go out some more, and waved his left and right fielders out against the lines. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Nico waded through the last group of Earthborn, slashing them into mounds of wet clay with his black Stygian sword. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He was out there pushing his garden up into rectangular, flood-proof embankments, exactly the length and width of burial mounds. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of us, when we think of volcanoes, think of the classic cone shapes of a Fuji or Kilimanjaro, which are created when erupting magma accumulates in a symmetrical mound. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He leapt back over the mound and ran. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Then we could hear the hissing of gas from the broken pipes, like dozens of angry snakes, and people, trapped inside the mounds, began calling. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Omakayas and Angeline admired the intricate way that the snow trimmed the dried reeds of cattails and the brown furry heads were capped with tiny white mounds that made them look... The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z They came from opposite sides of the mound, ears laid back and teeth bared. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no glittering mound of gold to be seen. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Gold was piled on the biers of dead kings and queens; and mounds covered them, and the stone doors were shut; and the grass grew over all. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “The faster we can clear this stuff away, the sooner we can leave this mound. Maybe we can even get away before the wall collapses.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z So it was all worth celebrating over a huge mound of ice cream in the student center. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Close by, fresher petals spilled across a newer mound—-the grave of Bonnie Jean Ashida, the Ashidas’ elder daughter, who while visiting Garden City had been killed in a car collision. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z To climb the grassy mound behind Uncle Cándido’s house and grab a pink pomarrosa from the scraggly trees that were forbidden to everyone but family members. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “Stheno, you fool!” she gurgled as her half-made face rose from the mound of dust. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z However you looked at it—whatever the ijji had been, and whatever had killed them, angels or not—this mound of bones was an epic mass grave. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He shoveled mounds of food into his mouth, chewing for a few seconds and then washing the large lumps down with gulps of bottled water. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z There were great loaves of brown bread, mounds of turnips and sweetcom and pease, immense hams and roast geese and trenchers dripping full of venison stewed with beer and barley. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He peered above the dirt mound he was behind. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A little farther along, an entire apartment building has collapsed and lies in a mound under the gel. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z They were down in the dirt firing slowly, carefully from behind splintery trees, piled gray rails, mounds of raw dirt. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A shadow came out of dark places far away, and the bones were stirred in the mounds. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The gasping pits and poisonous mounds grew hideously clear. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z On top of the fridge stood tonight’s pudding: a huge mound of whipped cream and sugared violets. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The dump keeper, who had hidden behind one of the mounds of rubbish, took us by surprise. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z On termite mounds Nhamo discovered jabvane bushes with purplish black fruit, and in dense thickets near the water grew brambles with dark, sweet berries. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There are fluffy mounds of scrambled eggs, shiny sausage links, a bacon extravaganza. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Squatting close to the ground, he followed the long shadow cast by the continuous mounds of mining debris. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z She scoops it out spoonful by spoonful and creates a huge mound on a long oval platter. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Some built new mounds or maintained the old; others hauled wood for fuel and houses or carried water in leather pouches or weeded the maize fields with stone hoes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The temple, for the mound was surely built for religious reasons, was laid out in a wide, shallow U about 150 feet long and 60 feet high, with a sunken plaza between the arms. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And the sled itself seemed to be poised at the top of a long, extended mound that rose from the very land where he was. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z However, she faltered as she beheld the mounds of bone-colored rock at the far end of the compound, and the small figures going in and out of the many mouthlike holes cut into the mountains. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Because the ribbon had been strung too close to the mounds of dog food. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Directly across the lake from it, at the inside comer of the L, was a mound of sticks and mud rising up out of the water a good eight or ten feet. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the mound centers were in the middle of trackless mangrove swamps or up narrow, unmapped rivers choked with water hyacinth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z With that the company said farewell to the island and the mound, and passed over the river, and climbed the further bank. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Håkon, unencumbered with a bag at all, took time to investigate every tree they passed, every little puddle, every mound of dirt. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z She used it to push the broken ceramic of the milk bottles into a mound by the wall, and then she picked up the tools and returned them to their spots. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z When we had work crews at every mound from which there was a voice—about fifty people in all—we tucked our clubs into our belts and joined them. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d knocked over the crib, spilling out the mound of stuffed animals within, and I couldn’t get to him before he punched a hole in Diego’s mural. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z After walking about half a mile, I reached a giant mound of old cars and trucks piled haphazardly along the stacks’ eastern perimeter. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z They rambled over my growing body, they touched the plumping of my chest, the mound of my belly, and on down. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Heap up the mound there, and implant upon it the oar I pulled in life with my companions.’ The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He poured a mound of grits the size of an anthill onto the pine floor. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost twenty people were working on the Huaricanga mound, shoveling away the obscuring loess. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Here and there an islander tried his hand at milling sawlogs on his own, leaving fragrant heaps of sawdust and mounds of cedar bark at roadside. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z After staring about for some time, they ran across to a little mound some way away and looked again. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She pointed to a small mound of dirt under the bank. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z The structures were clustered near the top of a small hill—another ancient mound. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The wind blew them about, up, down, and into small mounds of snow. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a true tower—not like the Towers of Silence, which were more mounds than anything. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z With an effort, I swallowed my words and the bile that had risen in my throat and stepped farther into the mound. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z He couldn’t have been more than the distance from home plate to the pitcher’s mound. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Rontu again licked his wound and this time he did not watch the two dogs moving slowly past the mound. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw the mounds of dirt that surrounded them. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Presumably shamans recounted their stories to attentive crowds; almost certainly, they explained when and where the gods wanted to build mounds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Arnold’s photograph of the aftermath showed a Lilliputian man, possibly Burnham, standing before a great mound of shattered wood and tangled steel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z As she lay there staring up at the stained canvas, she could have sworn she saw movement out of the corner of her eye: Nin stirring beneath the mound of clothing. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z And so I kept showing up every morning in downtown Chicago, at the corporate ant mound known as One First National Plaza. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He passed a hospital wagon, saw mounded limbs glowing whitely in the dark, a pile of legs, another of arms. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He dug miniature graves, put live captured caterpillars into little match boxes, buried them with informal ceremony and erected little pebble headstones over the tiny earth mounds. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a mound of soiled clothes, surrounded by knotted plastic bags, bundled newspapers, and a falling-apart suitcase, stuffed with who knows what. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z It seemed to depict a mound of spaghetti with numbered meatballs. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z On my last Day of the Dead in Yana Urku, everyone gathered in the cemetery, as they did every year, among lopsided, blue wooden crosses on dirt mounds, where the dead people slept. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A column of dust rose from a mound of rubble, which I realized was a collapsed skyscraper. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z About mid-day they came to a hill whose top was wide and flattened, like a shallow saucer with a green mounded rim. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z In the shadows stood vats and barrels and mounds of dark matter, possibly soil. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Minli, used to the spare harvests of her village, couldn’t help gaping at the tall mounds of food for sale at the Market of Green Abundance. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Muthu prodded a broken bottle at the base of a mound. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Willis, standing easy on the mound, threw the ball into his glove over and over, watching Turner. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I saw rows of coral mounds that must’ve been hastily made graves. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z It felt good to use all of one’s muscles, with the sun at one’s back, and there was simple gratification in building up mounds of stone and lime. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no trace of the small mound nor the elegant arched entrance. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Father pointed to the mound behind us, from which the ghostly voices were calling. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z They gathered the silver to them, mounding it around, piling it high. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z One was asleep, curled up tight and buried beneath a great mound of skins. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I was horrified when I saw the apricot syrup seeping through my little mound of rice. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z None of the mounds in any of these places cover burials or contain artifacts or show signs of use. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I used blue painter’s tape for the diamond, flattened shoebox tops for the bases, and a balance ball for the pitcher’s mound. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z In poor neighborhoods garbage mounded in alleys and overflowed giant trash boxes that became banquet halls for rats and bluebottle flies. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z "You should have retired, Ishtar," says Nergal as he crawls over a mound of pale corpses sniffing for juicy morsels. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The mound of rubble in the center made the cave resemble the curving roof of a mouth. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘We have not the time or the tools to bury our comrade fitly, or to raise a mound over him. A cairn we might build.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The composition was stable, with his body right in the center against a mound of grasses—also in the center. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Soon they had a large mound of mussels waiting beside a crackling fire. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Before the wall’s foot the dead and broken were piled like shingle in a storm; ever higher rose the hideous mounds, and still the enemy came on. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He passed a black mound which seemed strange in the dark: lumpy, misshapen. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I sit down on the mound of unwashed pajama bottoms and sweatshirts and dig out the phone. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z I tied a strip of fabric from her apron around the handle, and we set it on the mounded dirt. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z As I watched, he picked a blade of grass, poked it into a tunnel in the mound, and then withdrew it. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z They had not long passed the mounds at the Fords of Isen, when a Rider galloped up from the rear of their line. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Larry was sitting happily on a mound, staring at the sky, singing “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a white house nearby, a white rail fence, a dead horse lying in a black mound in the sun. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She recognized it under mounds of snow and ice and lifted her feathers in pleasure. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Nali said, looking at the slight mound in the middle of both corn groups. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z It just wasn’t possible that a huge, silvery figure could drop out of the sky and stomp Kelli flat, trampling her into a mound of monster dust. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But I can make out the lump beneath a mound of bedding that’s my mom. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z He circled the mound and stared at a faded blue rag partially uncovered, quivering in the wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The island, which of course was no longer that, was a long mound of smooth grass, like an immense ancient barrow, where rhododendrons and other shrubbery were growing. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Deep freeze, armchair, film tapes, circuits, beds, and all like skeletons thrown in a cluttered mound deep under. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Kofun tombs are up to 1,500 feet long and over 100 feet high, making them possibly the largest earth mound tombs in the ancient world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Muff was their neighbor, and while they ate the fried chicken and mounds of potato salad and fluffy white biscuits, she talked about people that she knew, people his daddy knew, too. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He trots to the mound and faces me. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z A few poles remained of the village that had once been there, and a few pumpkin mounds with vegetables gone wild. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw that Beowulf had left his sword stuck in the top of the mound. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z She leaps over this mound of dirt that runs along the side of the way. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Great-great-aunt Florentine’s grave was mounded with fresh dirt and flower arrangements from the funeral. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z They piled jackets and hats and gloves into a damp mound beside them. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z We sent return communication in a similar way, wrapping notes in the same plastic and placing them at the bottom of the mounds of dirty dishes that were routed back to the kitchen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But there, in the highest mound in the far corner, lay the figure of what used to be a man. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z She cracked the tip off a pod, pulled the string, snapped the casing open, slid her thumb inside the slithery shell, and added the peas to the mound in the bowl between her knees. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z She gives Chicho a huge helping of black beans and a huge mound of white rice and fried steak smothered with fried onions, and an entire plate of sweet fried plantains. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z The books lay like great mounds of fishes left to dry. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z He merely held out a bowl in which he had placed a small mound of rice and a little pile of boiled greens. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z “And you’ll still sprint in from center when I go out to the mound.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z At the front was a sweating yellow mound that had been a cow carved out of butter before the sun got to it. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z At the side of the mound, almost a part of the turf itself, rose a low cottage. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z At one shop pilaus were being sold, mounds of saffron rice on buttered plantain leaves, glistening with ghee and garnished with red chillies and curling strips of fried onion. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked vacant, not like a person but a person-shaped mound of flesh, and whatever had made him Harison, whatever had made him cringe and mutter and laugh, was gone. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z With the sun resting above the peaks, the wooden skeleton of the great ship stood out sharply against the mound which nearly enveloped it. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Far ahead, there were mounds of dunes that rose and fell like frozen ocean waves. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z A third lifts the nightgown, pours baby oil onto her mound of stomach, rubs downward. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The lid of the second revealed a mound of potatoes. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, as the angle of incline lessened, as the mound— the hill—flattened, nearing the bottom, the sled’s forward motion slowed. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Hosteen Mitchells fingers delicately sprinkled golden grains to make the figure of Pollen Boy on the mound where everything was prepared. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z A tiny mound of animal bones erupted from the dirt. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The direwolf moved toward the meat, a gaunt grey shadow sliding from tree to tree, through pools of moonlight and over mounds of snow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The illuminated castle rose from the sleeping city like a mound of ice and steam. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Oh, still my go? I do math problems in my head, like all the time. Even on the pitcher’s mound.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z For reasons unknown, Indians heaved up a ring of eleven irregularly sized mounds, most of them connected by a ridge, on a hill overlooking the course of the Ouachita River. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He tries to scrape a mushy orange mound onto my food, and Russ screams, “WE ARE NOT RABBITS!” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Ant mounds on lawns or playgrounds may create a situation where children are likely to be stung, but this is hardly an excuse for drenching millions of acres with poisons. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The marker is straight ahead—a wooden stake poking up out of the ground in the middle of a pile of stones, no wider or higher than a pitcher’s mound. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The coach had taken the mound and was tossing puffballs. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I asked Petersen, a ceramics specialist, how many plates and bowls and cups were in the mounds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Omakayas ran at him without a word and threw herself on him, buried him face first in a mound of snow directly beside the path. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The covered mounds were shaped like human heads. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Now the whole infield’s huddling on the mound, and then the outfield jogs in. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Kutti nosed through a small mound of garbage, searching for a scrap to eat, his coat glistening. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Snowdrifts covered the stretches of grass that I had walked every day of my life, the mounds of garden earth that I had turned with my bare hands. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z In the dawn light, billowy clouds mounded against the far horizon like a snowdrift. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z I waited for him to approach home plate, but then I realized, as he took his stance, that he was already there — farther from the pitcher’s mound than I would have thought possible. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Edward was far out in left field, Carlisle stood between the first and second bases, and Alice held the ball, positioned on the spot that must be the pitcher’s mound. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z My brain feels blank to everything, like a mound of clay, smooth, uninterrupted, and shapeless—without scars or memory. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z I did, but it was uncommon for him to say such a thing and as we sat with our backs against a mound of potatoes, I waited. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I wheel Sarah along the street in her stroller, avoiding the mounds of melting slush. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Useless burned-out fireworks bobbed in it, but I spotted a precious bottle poking out of the trash mound. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z They are each a mound of clay, and the potter that is the portly, shiny-faced commandant is throwing four hundred identical pots. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The city rulers encouraged and rewarded the workforce during construction and maintenance of the mound by staging celebratory roasts of fish and achira root right on the worksite. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z McNab almost fell off the mound, he was laughing so hard. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Treading through seaweed mounded in pools, we slithered and groped, that we might retain our footing; and on occasions, we fell, Dr. Trefusis’s hands bleeding from the roughness of rock and incision of barnacles. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I'll sometimes have dinner with a group of happily cured cancer patients, but for the most part I tend to keep to myself, ignoring the great mound of social invitations heaped upon my desk. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Peach Fuzz scratches his head and leans forward to see if the mound of bubbles has disappeared. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Even as he thought the word “mound,” his new consciousness told him hill. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z The ground was dotted with stunted trees and wart mounds. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Next to the barn was Papa's mound of hay for bedding, nearly as tall as the barn, covered with canvas to keep the rain from rotting it. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z The mounds cover such an enormous area that they seem unlikely to be the byproduct of waste. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She screamed and flailed, toppling sideways off the mound. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z We had already pulled four people from the mound. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The mound rose at the south end of a rectangular, hundred-yard-long pavilion that was bordered by two knee- high berms. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He got up and followed and came upon Ben squatting before a small mound of earth. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I laid the flowers on the fresh mound of earth, and then turned around and scooted for the timber. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The hair beneath her arms went next, then her legs, and last of all the fine golden down that covered her mound. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But soon she draws away, and her hand caresses briefly the small, firm mound of my belly. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Beneath him, Loki saw a huge grave mound, and sitting on it, plaiting a dog collar, was the hugest, ugliest ogre of a giant he had ever seen. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z He thought of the burial mounds that dotted the Chinese countryside — the small mounds for nobodies, the big mounds for big shots. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Keeping a mound of earth between himself and Brother Rufus, Matthias silently looped the rope around a projection at the edge of the parapet. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The roars grew louder as they headed straight for our mound. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z While they were eating Tom went up to the mound, and looked through the treasures. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He slashed off a piece of white fat, let it fall to the floor in revenge, picked it up and slammed it on the mound of meat. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Scattered almost randomly around the top of the mounds are burned, oxidized chunks of rock—hearth stones—in drifts of fish bones and ash. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z How could I leave them alone with a giant turkey and mounds of inedible cranberry sauce? Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z We covered the little mound with leaves from the poplar trees. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z But the mound builders in Louisiana built these massive constructions at a time when agriculture was barely under way—it was like the whiff in the air from a faraway ocean. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Chamberlain could see nothing but smoke, the blue mounds bobbing in front of him, clang of ramrods, grunts, a high gaunt wail. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There were more mounds of rubble where some houses had been; others had lost their fronts or sides, revealing their insides like gutted animals. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z And that was when Turner saw them: great mounds of water moving between him and the shoreline, following the coast. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z She was inside a camouflaged mound of earth, commonly known as a fairy fort. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Building a ring of mounds with baskets or deerskins full of dirt is a long-term enterprise. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Around me was the mound city and nothing but the mound city. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Anishaa,” she breathed quietly, standing again, holding in her palm a tiny mound of tobacco. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z At the head of the grave mound, the candle still burned. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z These situations can easily be handled by individual treatment of the mounds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Steam hissed up through the smothering mound of snow. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z We approached a mound on the side of the road. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She sat down on a mound of hay, and the tears started again. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The term is misleading, since these mounds vary greatly in shape and purpose as well as in date, ranging from about 2000 B.C. to the time of the Europeans’ arrival. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Discovering the Louisiana mounds upset this view: they suggest that at least some early Indians were stay-at-homes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z |
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