Through a narrow gap he could see a green lawn and bright pink flowers, but only enough to make him want more. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the watchman slipped out, Johnny lay on Burt’s narrow cot and felt the hard revolver through the thin pillow. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so he began, immediately and without despair, the hard work of maneuvering the spool of thread down the narrow dungeon steps. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Three doors line a narrow hallway, and Chantal points to one of them. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When I straighten out, I am on a narrow platform above what appears to be the palace’s wine cellars. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Jerome pursed his lips and narrowed his eyes. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He looked across Tab’s still form at Taisin, and he noticed how young and vulnerable she looked today, with purple shadows beneath her eyes and her narrow shoulders slumping. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When my smallest finger caresses the narrow cleft beneath his nose, sometimes his tongue slips out of his mouth and he licks my fingernail. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Devi’s place of business was through an alley and up a narrow balcony staircase behind a butcher’s shop. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had narrow hips and serious muscles in his arms. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Three minutes later she and her dæmon were standing at one end of a long corridor, where a dusty skylight let them see a narrow staircase descending at the other. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She shut out noise, shut out movement, shut out anything other than the sound of her breathing as her focus narrowed on the first target. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They came in and sat on the narrow wooden porch that ran along the whole length of Jinjoo’s house. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The boys stripped to their underwear and set out for a narrow archipelago of rocks. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

We walked along the narrow side of the road single file, holding out our thumbs and watching for cops. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

But inside were vast cavern-ous spaces where slabs of stones had been cut, hauled to the surface, and transported down slippery narrow roads to make distant buildings. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Her eyes narrowed and she got straight to the point. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Julian's face, always pale, had gone white, and his eyes narrowed. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

She led them along the narrow space between her house and next door’s fence, and stood back while they looked at the sandbags at the foot of the back door. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

They turned right onto a narrow path and continued, sometimes needing to push branches out of the way. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

How would I narrow down all of these results to the one Susan Thomas I needed to find? From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

When I awoke from my fever, I found myself wearing a clean linen shift and lying on a hard, narrow bed. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Fanning laughed again and led the way up the narrow winding stairs. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I had risen half-an-hour before her entrance, and had washed my face, and put on my clothes by the light of a half-moon just setting, whose rays streamed through the narrow window near my crib. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He remembered the narrow white beds and the old men playing slapjack in the corner. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She turned back the hem and noticed that the narrow lace edge of her slip was diamond-shaped in design. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she reached the edge of the kitchen garden, she went down a narrow stone staircase toward the sand. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A long narrow table with a steel top stood under a series of unlit lamps and two worn leather cases rested nearby. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Cottages stood on either side of the narrow road, Christmas decorations twinkling in their windows. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Their marriage bed was a narrow cot that was hidden in the dining-room closet during the day. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of these crevasses were narrow enough to step across; others were eighty feet wide, several hundred feet deep, and ran half a mile from end to end. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes narrow and my jaw sticks out. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever had caused this wound—a narrow, flat object about two inches wide—had left its telltale outline behind in the deceased man’s head. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They entered a narrow hallway that led to the rear of the house, passed a room with thin curtains, passed a narrow dark staircase going up and went into a kitchen. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sailed past Popham, through the narrows off Cox’s Head, past the lights of Parker Head, and then on up to Phippsburg, the water going more and more slack as they sailed. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

We took our usual route to the market, not along the streets but through the narrow walkways between the buildings, mostly commercial warehouses and garages, that bordered the square. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

On Friday morning, I put on my best dress, long and flowered with narrow lace trim around the neckline and a fitted waist. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew her figure now, the long slim legs, the small and narrow feet. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me try,” she said as she unlatched the narrow window at her end of the room and cranked it until it opened as far as it would go. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Together they ferried the pieces of the bed frame up the narrow stairway. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the narrow ravine a rough path descended like a steep stair into the plain. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Slender she was, graceful, taller than most knights, with full breasts and narrow waist and a heart-shaped face. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I concentrated on the curb instead, the straight, narrow sidewalk. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

We were in her car, driving down the long, narrow, wooded road that led to the ranch. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Ana’s eyes narrowed and she stepped out into the corridor, pulling her door shut behind her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the Hill on its western side they came to the gate opening on to a narrow lane. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Up in those big five-story apartment buildings and the narrow wooden houses in between people knock on each Other’s doors to see if anything is needed or can be had. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bus took a deep dip as it pulled off the narrow road and onto a smaller dirt one. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They came to a gully that split the narrow foreshore like a defense. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Between the buildings were broad roads lined with trees, wandering crookback streets, and alleys so narrow that two men could not walk abreast. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Soon the way was too narrow to carry Loki, and now they let him walk between them. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I went to the narrow window and looked out. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her long, black-and-yellow striated body narrowed some toward the head and even more at the tail, which swished slowly back and forth in what seemed like murderous anticipation. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I did have a number of narrow escapes, however, which no one knew about. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hurrying up they saw below them a deep and narrow channel. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Meggie heard him trampling up the narrow wooden staircase that led to the attic. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Fudge marched Harry along the narrow passage after Tom’s lantern, and then into a small parlor. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Pinmei looked at him with narrowed eyes, suspicious as well as angry. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

My childhood was an endless blur of narrow streets of dirt and cobblestone, my squabbling baby sisters, and the rural silence. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Miss Leefolt, she’d narrow up her eyes at me like I done something wrong, unhitch that crying baby off my foot. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Natalie stood beside him, her eyes narrowed thoughtfully, her head tilted so far to the right that her hair seemed several inches longer on one side than the other. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

A narrow path led along the side of a canyon. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he moved to stand against the wall as far across the narrow room as possible. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Even from my position across the square, I can see clearly through the plate- glass front of the long, narrow building. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Never again would she wake struggling against the pull of a narrow well. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Poor Fellows went before them, forcing men aside with their shields, walling off a narrow path. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The tunnel I'm in narrows, the walls crowding closer. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Her one eye was so narrow I would have thought it was closed shut if not for the glint in there. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

From a narrow evolutionary perspective, which measures success by the number of DNA copies, the Agricultural Revolution was a wonderful boon for chickens, cattle, pigs and sheep. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tense line of his mouth, the narrowing of his eyes. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We drove along dark, narrow streets, then stopped in front of a big, worn house. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Hummingbird’s span was barely narrower than the ship’s corridor. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Athena stood nearby to give him bulk and power, while the young suitors watched with narrowed eyes—and comments went around: “By god, old Iros now retiros.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bazaar is the best place we've gone so far—a narrow street with fruits and vegetables and all sorts of other food stalls on either side. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He set about explaining heart attacks: the narrowed artery, the blockage, the partial muscle death. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Little and I walked down the narrow aisle of his tiny church toward the altar while I explained. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The stairs empty into a narrow hallway, and the scent of something powerful rotten hits me. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She texted my mother a picture of herself standing in front of her home, a narrow building with a Dominican restaurant on the ground level and two apartments over it. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

On a narrow street we passed a British Red Cross ambulance. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

They led me into a narrow cell where I spent the rest of the night sitting in a chair. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She found a narrow space between two great roots and crammed herself into it, peering over the buttress beside her and out toward the approaching dust cloud. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

His mother’s eyes narrowed and she drew near him. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She was tall, with long, narrow feet and hands. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t move, just stared at her, his eyes narrow with distrust. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Cro-Magnon stared down at him and then narrowed his eyes. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Nabila ushered me farther down the narrow hallway and stopped at a rickety door. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He was skinny and pimply but had good teeth and the kind of long, narrow body Immie liked. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

At the far end of the plaza, a stone archway carved with lions led into a narrow street. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I felt excited, but a little panicked, too, as I sped down the creek, squinting into the icy spray and scanning the thick tangle of brown brush and newly budding trees along the narrow shoreline. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Look: I lay there, eyes fixed open on the net above me, wondering what it was, marveling at the beautiful honeycomb pattern of narrow lines. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

As darkness fell around us, the road twisted through dense forest for several miles until it came to a short, narrow bridge with room for only one car to pass. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She jammed one foot into a crack and lifted her other foot onto a narrow ledge, and just like that she was climbing. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Peering past her, I saw that the hallway, narrow as it was, divided further: to the left was a staircase going upstairs; to the right, an even narrower passage leading deeper into the house. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He narrowed his eyes like he was trying to follow all this. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

All was a blur, bloody and gray and flashes of steel; Thomas tried not to look left or right, only ahead, through the narrow gap formed by the Gladers. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

There was a little sign above the door that said the poet Edna Saint Vincent Millay once lived in the house, and that it was the narrowest house in New York. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

So the whole party set off to climb the narrow stairs of the Pele Tower. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was taking in the sweep of scenery, the narrow, zigzagging paths winding through clusters of trees, connecting one brick mansion to another. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

A narrow aisle was cleared for him across the width of the pavement to a waiting car. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Tad walked to one of the narrow windows and studied the parking lot below, looking for Frankie’s white Mustang. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Two narrow straps cut from cold-rolled sheet steel were lapped over the extended flange and used to clamp the fins solidly in place. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They leave in the shallop, the small boat they put together here in Virginia, so they will be able to navigate the narrow riverways. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

In so doing, I entered a dim and narrow hall. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

At the Ford of Bruinen they left the Road and turning southwards went on by narrow paths among the folded lands. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The torso narrowed to a long, long tail. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Sparkling stars flowed down the narrow river of sky the mountains allowed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Christina and I race down the narrow path to the tattoo place. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She pushed her head towards mine, narrowing her eyes as though she was worried about me. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

His eyes narrowed slightly as he took in Dumbledore’s eccentric appearance. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

But she was strong and moved nimbly up the narrow rocky path north of Betonie’s hogan. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The strip of mud between the water and the bank narrowed, even though it was still low tide. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

As we wind along the narrow mountain roads, I try to re- member everything I can about what happened to my cousins Zoyla and Gregoria. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face was narrow and sharp, with the perfect beauty of porcelain. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I watch the fringe disappear in the rearview mirror, distinct from the abandoned buildings around it only by that string of electric lights draped over the narrow street. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

They were face to face in a narrow lane, and but for themselves it was empty. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She narrows her eyes at me from her porch rocker. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I didn’t move, and Gully’s eyes got all narrow. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The guy has an incredible back that narrows just so into his jeans and the girl’s sandwiched between his body and the wall. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I grunt, the dam bursts, all my hurt and anger rushes through my body then narrows into a fluid, focused hit. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

We came into the town, among the two-story wooden buildings lining the narrow muddy lanes. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Bailey and Poppet take a more leisurely route, choosing platforms to climb at random, crawling up bits of white netting and maneuvering carefully through narrow passages. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The stairs are narrow and difficult for parents to climb. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We exchanged a few pleasantries as we climbed a narrow road between tall trees, he inquiring after how I had slept at the Taylors and so forth. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Also in this room is a narrow cot covered with a worn feather duvet, and a small desk with a candle on it. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

This sounded so stiff coming out of his mouth that June narrowed her eyes and studied him a second. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hum, hum, hum,” Miss Wren said under her breath, her eyes narrowing and lips drawing tight. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The street outside being so narrow, we couldn’t talk properly for a while longer, and I think we were all grateful for that. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

As one girl raised her pounding club the other girl’s went down into the narrow hole—up and down, a perfect, even rhythm like the pumping of pistons. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a kitchen, and a door beside it that opened on to a narrow flight of stairs, carpeted in a bright floral pattern. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guardsmen left their mounts out-side the walls and escorted her through a narrow postern door, then up endless steps to a tower. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The cairn was a little taller than me, long and narrow with a rectangular opening in one end, like a door, and it rose from the mud on a tussock of grass. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

A long, narrow hallway greeted them on the second floor. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He jumped down onto the rubbish and began trotting along downhill as fast as he could in the narrow lane, which soon brought him into a wider street where there were more people. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

But the old vision of him coming up the narrow track had faded like a worn-out garment. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She turns and gives me a look with narrowed eyes. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

His eyes narrowing, his forehead wrinkling as he tries to see and comprehend. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man, who I think must be Captain John Smith, narrows his eyes at me. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Before they could do or say anything else, June’s mom’s truck bounced into the narrow driveway. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Figure 2.9: Voices are as individual as faces; some altos will have a narrower or wider range, or the sweetest and most powerful part of their range in a different place than other altos. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Other vehicles raced parallel to us and formed many lanes on the narrow paved road. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Still barreling at highway speeds, it closed in on the smaller car coming the other way, the distance narrowing by the instant. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The center of balance is so narrow that if jockeys shift only slightly rearward, they will flip right off the back. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

So they left the vines and ran down to the water, single-file along the narrow path. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad replied, narrowing his eyes and taking a sip of his coffee. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Basil puffed out his narrow chest as he absentmindedly ate one of Matthias’s quince tarts. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

At dawn I was awake and saw that we had left everything behind except rock, and ice, and light, and the narrow road always going up and up under our treads. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Small, framed windows covered the wall facing Main Street School and on the opposite wall hung long and narrow blackboards. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Radar raced along the fence until he found a narrow opening and squeezed through. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Metias turns around from his place in the passenger seat and narrows his eyes at me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Each had a wide, round base and a narrow stovepipe sticking up from it. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not part of mainland Mexico, Ensenada was located on the long, narrow peninsula that hung down the western coast and was known as Baja, or Lower, California. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Like most of the buildings in Ketterdam, the Exchange had a sharply gabled roof to keep off heavy rain, so the guards patrolled the rooftop via a narrow walkway that overlooked the courtyard. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

On both floors and down narrow aisles we walked amid tables of all the things I wanted to call my own. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A narrow path led down between the yew trees into a small copse. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The narrow street opened out to a square, and against the gray wall of a building there was a high structure of timbers and a noosed rope hanging down. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We followed a narrow corridor to the service stairwell, just like we’d practiced, but we froze when we heard noises above us. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Mullet Fingers stared straight ahead, his eyes narrowing. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the skyblue Plymouth looked absurdly opulent on the narrow, pitted road. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am in a large, narrow room with a row of beds on either side. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

When he slid into her, she thought how different he felt, lighter and narrower, on top of her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A high stiff collar framed his narrow face. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

‘Fare you well!’ said Ingold; and the men made way for Shadowfax, and he passed through a narrow gate in the wall. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The dimness of these narrow places would hide me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The Dauntless and the factionless have gathered between them, a narrow divide separating one group from the other. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I quickly turned back and looked through the doors’ narrow windows. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

They walked together through the narrow streets of Tangier. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others were still coming in by twos and threes through a dark narrow door on one side. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He had a narrow face, a sharp nose, crisp blue eyes, and jet-black hair that looked as if it had been plastered down with about a quart of Wildroot Cream Oil. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I look up art schools in the area, narrow it down to three, and tilt the screen back to Jamie. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The shop was narrow, with barber chairs lining one wall and dryers along the other. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then they vanished, one by one, into the narrow passageway that opened up a few steps down from the movie theater's main entrance. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

When she pushes the button that usually makes the screen light up and nothing happens, her eyes narrow just the teeniest bit. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

It’s steep and long, ending at a narrow bend between rocks, then that short vertical drop. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her lips closed and straightened and her wide-set eyes narrowed with cruelty. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

What had from afar seemed to be one sheer mountainwall was split into several long steep ridges, separate isles perhaps, between which the sea ran in narrow sounds or channels. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Airborne creepers of ivy hang from an archway over a narrow alley. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The rest of the day is a blur of failed combat battles, curt conversations, and narrow escapes from Helene. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Soon they had to slow down because trucks were parked bumper-to-bumper up and down the side of the narrow dirt road. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He would wait near the head of the narrow corridor that led to gym class. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His shirts were white, his collars high and stiff, and he affected narrow black string ties, like those which once were the badge for Southern senators. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had a narrow, egg-shaped head that rose to a prominent point. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Captain Black laughed, his bleary eyes narrow with fatigue and his peaked, sharp face sprouting as usual with a sparse reddish-blond stubble. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

There was a tilt to his head, a narrowing of his eyes, that meant he still harbored hope. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They crossed Broad Street and took the long way home, through the narrow lanes behind the school. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes narrowed as he turned his head and looked at Rashid. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

If he kept moving the raft with the paddle he should come to where the river narrowed again, and pick up the current. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

A stream splashed swiftly between mossy rocks, and disappeared over a lip into a narrow little chasm dark under the overarching trees. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Carefully she moved her hands over the narrow ridge of her grandmother’s body until she came to her shoulders. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I focused on speeding down the narrow concrete passageway, down the stairs into a dark cellar, where one of the men walking ahead of us switched on a flashlight. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mommy said that they might have to do another bone narrow tomorrow. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Ged asked him no more he quietly bade the young man good night, and went off up the narrow stepped street above the quays. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The road was narrower, and bumpy, apparently no longer tended by road crews. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Freed pursed her lips and narrowed her eyes. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Computer: “You follow the left branch. The passage narrows.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The cry swept by him across the narrow end of the island from sea to lagoon, like the cry of a flying bird. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

A narrow scar remained, and would always remain, on Angela's cheek. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lunch was a bowl of steaming-hot potato soup, beans, narrow rashers of fatty bacon, and fresh brown bread. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But now the rapidly deepening snow obscured the narrow road and made the ride impossible. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

His shoes were black and white, long and narrow. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Feeling braced after his mad ride and the subsequent narrow escape, Cluny strode to the ditch’s edge. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

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

He had narrow eyes that often seemed lit with a secret, as if he alone were in on some long-running joke that the rest of the world would come to appreciate later on. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Here she is, merely twenty years old and thousands of miles from the pastures of France, washing out the dressings of lepers and awful miscarriages, yet she’s electrified by my narrow escape. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The street where he lived was so narrow that Mo could have touched both sides at once if he stretched out his arms. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

With the exception of Will and a couple of the others, we all share the same body type: narrow shoulders, small frames. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Cautiously she stretched her small hand, sideways to be narrow enough, between two bars toward the animal’s bicolored head. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The driver had a narrow escape, as a broken board penetrated his cabin and just missed his head. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I found out later that I travelled a narrow road, the Pacific equatorial counter-current. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was no answer, so she sat down to wait on the narrow ledge of brick in front of his door. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

And even now there is a narrow hope that Julie has gone to ground until some unknown danger passes. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He crept along the corridor below, pushed aside a tapestry about halfway along, and proceeded down a narrower staircase, a shortcut that would take him down two floors. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The draccus grunted again, and another wash of fire ran through the narrow gap below. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“It could have been so much worse,” he said, with a sense of narrow escape. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Their job was to load coal into two-ton ore cars and push them uphill on a narrow rail track to a staging area. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Dauntless soldiers with blue armbands stand on the sidewalk outside, carrying guns I’ve never seen before, guns with narrow, blue beams of light streaming from above their barrels. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She growled, flashed her teeth, and narrowed her eyes. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hurriedly, I pulled back into the narrow passageway, but peeked out, watching as the soldiers paused. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Instead he followed the light, wending his way down the narrow aisles beneath barrel- vaulted ceilings. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They stand up as we pass, hitching grubby jeans over narrow hips and muttering to each other. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was chasing him through neighborhoods, hopping gutters, weaving through narrow streets. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

With the infinite possibilities of dreaming, it wasn’t easy to narrow it down. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Jon slumped against the wall, hands around his knees, and stared at the candle on the table beside his narrow bed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The woman narrows her eyes as if trying to make out a figure in the distance. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in the narrow alleys he wasn't usually afraid, but it was different here on the wide-open square. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

His shoulders were narrow and he had a boil on his neck. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were on a narrow street of low brownstones, with the moon sitting just above them. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Malfoy’s pale eyes narrowed; he wasn’t fool enough to pick a fight right under a teacher’s nose. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

In their haste they tumbled onto the floor, their bodies pressed together in the narrow space between the seats. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Their shoulders were broad and bare, their hips narrow and wrapped in cotton shentis of purest white. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The green Volvo was at the corner of a narrow street. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The massive staff sergeant Frank Volkheimer comes down the narrow wooden stairs and ducks his head beneath the beams. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A water rat scuttled away as the children felt their way I along the narrow passage. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

But with nothing else to hope for, we lean toward Angola, waiting, while the past grows heavy and our future narrows down to a crack in the door. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you leave Mr. Kugler’s office and proceed through the long, narrow hallway past the coal bin and go up four steps, you find yourself in the private office, the showpiece of the entire building. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

They had reshaped his eyes, cutting them narrower against the light, and altered the line of his brow, drawing it forward and knitting it between his black eyebrows in a single furrow. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A narrow river of water ran down the driveway onto Smith Street. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The police had formed into narrow lines and ordered him through their loudspeaker to stop, lay his flag on the ground, and proceed with his hands behind his neck. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can still help, Bast,” Kote said as he made his way to his room and sat heavily on the edge of his narrow bed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was a narrow side street just a few yards away from them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

People thought Eleanor and I were twins, even though her cheeks were narrower and her hair was lighter. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore and Harry followed him onto a narrow dirt track bordered by higher and wilder hedgerows than those they had left behind. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Everyone was smiling ear to ear, with my mom crying tears of happiness and my nephew trying to squeeze his narrow limbs through the bars to reach me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Sits up in his seat and narrows his eyes like he’s been asking the same question. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

A few times we came upon narrow paths, and these we followed, but only for short times. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Another grew steadily narrower until it was barely a handspan across. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Something about those steps...I back away from the house and stand on the narrow patch of brown grass. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Wide brimmed and narrow, some tall, some not, some fancy, some colorful, some plaid, some plain. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Through the narrow door she passed, into a chamber awash in gloom. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know,” he says, looking at Rosie with narrowed eyes. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Across this circle, a quiet finger of water, hemmed in by concrete, marked the corner of a narrow area where people thronged, eating, talking, sitting and watching one another. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day he brought a higher, narrower log. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I hope the foxes or deer that usually rest in this spot won’t be offended,” Polly said gratefully, and she snuggled into the narrow indentation. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He narrowed his eyes at Em and flipped another switch. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her eyes narrow on me for a second, angry. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She wrinkles up her face and narrows her eyes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The celebrations were tempered, however, by the fact that Harrison had lost by the narrowest of margins, fewer than four thousand votes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The station wagon pulled into a parking space between two looming gray buildings separated by a narrow road. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

So I let go of Gale and force myself to move deeper into the warehouse, to walk into the narrow strip between two rows of beds. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

You plunge down into the darkness, down until the space gets narrower and narrower and you’re finally stuck, pinched between two ice walls, far from any rescue. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Sam and Frodo were only a few steps up, and Gandalf had just begun to climb, when the groping tentacles writhed across the narrow shore and fingered the cliff-wall and the doors. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The princess narrowed her eyes at the paper. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I can tell from the way she stops walking and stares at me with eyes that slowly begin to narrow until they’re completely shut. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

It was a narrow room with a small table squeezed in at one end. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Towers rose up at its four corners, each with narrow windows along the sides and a howitzer cannon perched at the top. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She looked at the San Francisco map on the Book Scavenger site and narrowed the choices to only show Raven’s hidden books, since the forty-nine Maltese Falcons were the only books Raven had hidden. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They stood in a bright, narrow stone passage. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

And then, of course, there was the sheer size of the library; tens of thousands of books; thousands of shelves; hundreds of narrow rows. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“We both need a drink,” she said, then disappeared down a narrow hallway leading to the rest of the house. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The streets were clogged with bicycle riders, milling pedestrians, and rickshaws popping blue smoke, all weaving through a maze of narrow lanes and alleys. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Prosper crossed to the narrow passage and put his head around another door. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I know Neil and Buzz didn’t sleep very well, cramped on the narrow floor of Eagle, but I had a good rest in Columbia. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silently, they crossed the little street together, heading toward a bank of narrow storefronts—mostly clothing and record stores—on the other side. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The captain showed his teeth in something that might have been intended as a smile though it gave his narrow face a feral look. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Crazy Horse saw a narrow dark line, the same shape as a rainbow. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

She ticked the list off on her fingers before she stopped and narrowed her eyes. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The air felt heavy, steamy, pressing in on them as they continued along the narrow path. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the alley they reach a narrow gate. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They descended the ridge on the far side, down a steep, narrow path. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

That night, after I take Mister Pugsly for a walk and finish all my homework, I try to narrow down my science project ideas. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

The tunnel behind her had already narrowed to just a few feet wide; soon it would be closed completely, and we’d be sealed in. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Her hair is middle-parted, gathered into a chignon, and she wears stylishly narrow tortoiseshell glasses. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The camp is at the bottom of a narrow, winding path that slopes to the river. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She went to the heart of the citadel and called out through the narrow opening that had once been a door. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But both Caroline and I obeyed, leaving the little scene on the dock behind, making our slow progress up the narrow oyster-shell street between the picket fences that enclosed each house. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had on a cream-colored suit, a wide-brimmed floppy hat, a black string tie, a silk vest, and narrow shoes that had weaving in the toes. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It is narrow, with two windows, a dresser, and a giant TV cabinet that looks as if it might fall on you and crush you while you sleep. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We made the two miles, but it was an awful drive on a narrow, rutted wagon road. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Banana leaves cover the dirty glass like papery window blinds leaving long narrow triangles for my eye. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bidding goes on and on, until it narrows down to a battle between two users. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He saw the bare head of a white man—the back of the head—framed in the narrow opening, stenciled against the yellow glare of the restless bars of light. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He felt the narrow orbit of her life: from her room to the kitchen of the white folks was the farthest she ever moved. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He leans in close, narrowing his eyes like he’s inspecting my face. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The boy catches it in one hand easily without flinching, though his eyes narrow in confusion as he looks from the cane to the man and back. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The street was steep and narrow, the crowds jammed together tightly. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Shanties built out of every imaginable scrap of waste—roofs of coconut thatch or gunnysacks, walls cobbled together from metal signs, wooden crates, or even cardboard taped over with plastic sheets—lined the narrow streets. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

There were men in long narrow stalls set against the sides of buildings who sold toys and different candies— one a type of sweet but hot-tasting, candied ginger that was a bright orange-red in color. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Way high up there with the sunlight falling reddish-brown on the palm trunks and the boys’ narrow limbs, they look beautiful. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His own eyes narrowed, zeroing in on Clancy with pure, razor-sharp fury. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

When the Andals crossed the narrow sea and swept away the kingdoms of the First Men, the sons of the fallen kings held true to their vows and remained at their posts. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was remarkably tall and narrow, this stranger standing there. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The narrow alley is empty except for some piles of refuse and the icy stains of someone’s dirty dishwater. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Eumaios’ narrowed eyes made out an empty bench beside the one the carver used—that servant who had no respite, carving for the suitors. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the fear of death needs to be narrowed down. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He pulled the boat alongside the narrow wharf and held it still for them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The narrow hallway was lit by an ancient light fixture and filled with the recent memory of cigarette smoke. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

At times the salmon ran in such narrow waters that men had to fish for them in sight of one another, in which case arguments brewed. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In his leather windbreaker, his shoulders were powerful, but narrow and sloping. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

My mother was watching Lily with narrowed eyes and then a faint smile crept over her lips. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

About halfway down was a narrow table covered with framed pictures. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

His eyes are almost narrowed at Miles’s dad. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I make my way toward her, meandering through the narrow path, stepping over the clutter. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

For example, as it approaches the earth, a spacecraft returning from the moon must be within a very narrow zone about forty miles high. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I follow her through the narrow, rocking corridor into a dining room with polished paneled walls. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The detective’s eyes narrow, and Justyce wonders if he’s being too nonchalant. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But eventually they relented, and we were able to cut out a small garden on a narrow patch of earth against the far wall. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cut-paper snowflakes were suspended from a narrow mantel above the fireplace, which was covered with candlesticks and knickknacks and silver jars. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

They led to ridges so narrow and so steep on both sides that straddling was the easiest solution. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was windy and he was squinting, cars driving past them on Whitney Avenue, and he turned to glance at her with narrowed eyes. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Outside, the guard struck out with his newspaper again, and below her Fenoglio tossed and turned restlessly on the narrow bunk. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And it really helps to keep the container very narrow, so that you don't have to worry about waves bouncing off the sides and complicating things. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The dining room is very narrow and it’s hard to pull the folding chairs out so that you can sit down. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It feels strange to be on a narrow, mossy ledge. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She didn’t sound like she thought it was nice at all, and her pale, fishy eyes narrowed. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

‘Fly! This is a foe beyond any of you. I must hold the narrow way. Fly!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We stopped at the hot-shop, through the narrow shutters of which flowed, in cracks and rays and arrows, the yellow light we had seen across the hills of winter. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Fairfax stayed behind a moment to fasten the trap-door; I, by dint of groping, found the outlet from the attic, and proceeded to descend the narrow garret staircase. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Katie narrowed her eyes when she saw me in the hall, and radiated loathing. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the door to the first house, I peered down the narrow building, but all I saw were thousands of yellow baby chicks peeping up a storm and crowding one another around the feeders. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The bunk is a narrow alcove above the RV’s front seats. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I feel Tris’s strong arm across my back, pulling me sideways into her narrow frame. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It winds deeper and deeper inland, getting narrower, the trees choking the road. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

She wore skirts to just below the knees, but from there down, her legs were shaped like chicken drumsticks, rounded and full at the top, narrow at the bottom. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“You’ve been planning this for a while,” Sierra said, her eyes narrowing. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“We got through by the skin of our teeth...It was a narrow escape from a grave disaster,” Roosevelt wrote. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

She turned to look at me with eyes narrowed and accusing. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It was slightly narrower than the first, but just as high. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

His limp was nearly gone now, but he carried his cane and went staggering off down the narrow walkway between the barracks, punching at the packed earth in front of him. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was narrow, cluttered, lined by stores, cafes, bars. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He paused on the narrow neck and looked down. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was the maid’s room off the kitchen, and it was tiny, with one narrow window and a bathroom that doubled as a closet. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Babi was a small man, with narrow shoulders and slim, delicate hands, almost like a woman’s. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

When Cal had finished their big ten, they had not appreciably narrowed Washington’s small lead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I cross my arms and narrow my eyes. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

His father would have been quiet for a while, watching the headlights against the narrow tar road. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart nearly stopped when I saw him at the far edge of the narrow catwalk, nearly a boat’s length away, dangling over the ocean like bait at the end of a fishing pole. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Sleeping in the narrow room were the mother, another daughter with her husband and two children, and the woman, who may not have been there. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I pondered this paradox as I lay at night upon my narrow, solitary bed. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The driver pulled up to a narrow building at a busy corner where two winding streets intersected. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Papa pulled in front and Francie and Neeley pushed in back and they began forcing the big tree up the three narrow flights of stairs. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We lived in Las Vegas for about a month, in a motel room with dark red walls and two narrow beds. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They stood facing each other on the narrow mountain path. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

If we crossed the frozen Vistula lagoon, we could then make our way down the narrow strip of land to either Pillau or Gotenhafen. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The roads were insanely narrow, winding through forests and up the sides of hills and around the edges of steep ravines. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She turns to look at me, her eyes narrowing. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

But once the wood panel was raised, the narrow steps offered up, Michael had done his part and said he had to get going. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

They said, “Whispering makes a narrow place narrower.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doorway to the stairs was on the second floor at the end of a long hallway in the vacant western wing, the door itself narrower than the rest and the knob rusted from disuse. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Then from somewhere, within the sound of the rain falling, he could hear it approaching like a summer flash flood, the rumble still faint and distant, floodwa- ter boiling down a narrow canyon. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was on a dark evening, in a narrow side street near one of the big railway stations. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Mom wipes a blond curl away with the back of her hand, her eyes narrowed with amusement. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The steps were narrow, so they had to climb in single file. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She gave me a narrow look to let me know that she knew I wasn’t telling the truth. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

With only my precious thermos bottle, my legacy from Mr. Luftig, and my blanket, I crawled onto a narrow wood shelf and lay down. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

At last he came to a narrow passage. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

For any narrow "container" of a particular length, there are plenty of possible standing waves that don't fit. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Her daily schedule, however, usually overflowed well beyond the job’s narrow duties, since the club quickly became a center for the city’s black community. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Her mother sat behind her on the edge of the narrow bed, loosed the dark brown hair, and brushed it to a gloss. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sophomores, on the other hand, had won by the narrowest of margins, and they had caused their coach a good deal of heartburn while he waited for the official results. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

With Archer’s help, she heaved open the trapdoor, revealing a narrow stone staircase illuminated from below. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He ducks away from the square and into the narrow streets. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Trotter narrowed his eyes and looked at me for a few moments. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I thought of Ben, too, with his narrow watery blue eyes, his sly idiot’s smile. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The stone’s orange glow cast a narrow circle of light, but in the deep darkness of the cave, it was more than enough. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Only once in four hundred years did someone live in the room beneath the balcony, the one with the narrow cot. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

I felt its cold touch on the back of my neck as I all but tumbled in the narrow space between the front seat and mine. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He had simply run in a direct line from their holes to his own, passing on his way through the narrow strip of woodland that lay between. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Take the boys across the narrow sea to Braavos and teach them to think kindly of me, if you would. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Until he gets down on one knee in that narrow space between the bleacher seats. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A narrow, winding path through the woods led there. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somkit led Pong to a narrow structure that looked like a garden shed at the far end of the roof and swung open the door. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The trunk narrowed under him, the slope steeper, almost straight up, and wet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t even a bed in the room, just a narrow settee where Nina curled up every night. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Two German guards, holding rifles, paced the narrow bridge. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sierra made her way up a narrow path surrounded by an herb garden and some scrawny trees. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The rush of wind made Roy’s eyes water as the flat- bottomed boat whisked across the sawgrass flats and weaved through the narrow winding creeks. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wildlings had built their watchfire in a shallow depression above the narrowest part of the pass, with a sheer drop below and rock behind to shelter them from the worst of the wind. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But Nancy stalked to the counter behind which Bill Koontz was standing, and, eyes narrowing, she hissed, “Listen, chota, you don’t talk to my husband like that—” “Okay!” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The alley was narrow and lined with stables. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Just as I kept my sidelocks trimmed short and tucked behind my ears, he favored the narrow beard and generous mustache of the Stockyard bosses. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“What about a net roller? Or one of these fairleads at the stern of a gill-netter? Are they also flat and narrow?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It slid smoothly downward, and opened onto a narrow catwalk in the huge engine room. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

She made a fine, narrow, smooth braid, using seven of the smallest straws. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would stretch their big paws through the narrow space between the cold trees and, when the food came near, try to hook it with their claws and draw it close more quickly. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He met with meditation teachers, and closed his eyes and narrowed his thoughts until his world shrunk down to a single breath, in and out, in and out. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twice a day, she lathered his face with a stiff bristle brush and with a straight razor expertly scraped the dent in his chin and the narrow space between his nose and his upper lip. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sleep in a narrow bed in the corner of the room that we share with his brothers and sisters. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her house floated at the end of a narrow pier with one other house. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Indeed, it was a tiny walk-in-closet-turned-bedroom, just big enough to hold his loft bed and a narrow desk underneath it. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She had the flat-footed gait of a barefoot peasant, a narrow waist, small breasts. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Someone nodded toward the parking lot, and I looked up to see two little freshmen guys walking toward us, their T-shirts hanging wet and limp from their narrow frames. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

At the top of the mountain, the road dropped precipitously and swung back and forth until it bottomed out into a long, narrow valley. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I remember too much: my gram’s ample bosom, her small dry hands, the dark cottage with a crumbling stone wall flanking its narrow garden. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

When Neville smiled, his narrow cheeks seemed to fold into themselves to make room for that great wide mouth. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Many of the soldiers were running, crowding together on the narrowest part of the ridge, and warriors on both slopes were firing arrows at them. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Over the narrow, bumpy path we went, his nose and eyes working. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry’s eyes narrowed as he focused on the spiders. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Hickock, too, was sharply dressed in clothes provided by his parents: trim blue-serge trousers, a white shirt, a narrow dark-blue tie. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the one not fabulous section in Brandywine, a narrow valley of older apartment houses between the dumps and the highway that bordered the next school district. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He lost his grip, but Alec held him firmly, pulling him headfirst through the narrowing gap. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Charley Bloom had once put it this way in a Voice of the People article: You walk along the narrow roads of Milagro in the spring and early summer sunshine. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its single narrow room wasn’t air-conditioned, but the cool morning air came in through the open door and was moved around by big ceiling fans. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, on his narrow hotel bed, he thought sleepily about pre-empting Comrade Pillai by organizing his workers into a sort of private labor union. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed like only minutes before they zipped into a narrow bay. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

His eyes narrowed again, just like they had narrowed at me before, right after I’d refused to hand him my phone. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I looked all around TJ, at the ghetto buildings and the narrow bridges and the run-down shops and beat-up roads. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He took a long swig, coughed, wiped his mouth on the sleeve of his uni- form, and glared at Crow with narrowed, watery eyes. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since Elizabeth told me Mr. Montgomery’s nickname, I can’t help but picture him as a truck with a narrow, expressionless grill plastered on its front. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

When the cart was ready, we dragged the mattress down the narrow staircase and laid it in the cart. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rummaged through a stack of lumber, brought several long, narrow pieces over to a pair of sawhorses, and began sawing them into paired lengths. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

His shoulders were white and narrow, and his trunks were royal blue. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

So that last summer, before the war, he got up before dawn and rode the bay mare south to the spring in the narrow canyon. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

What worried him was that where it did so there were only very narrow verges of short grass, offering no cover. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her chin was narrow and pointed like a shovel, and her smile was missing several teeth. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How did you get Dauntless without using the knife?” says Will, narrowing his eyes at me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Baby, trust me when I say that the man market narrows as you age. No matter how well maintained you are.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

There was no sign of Tashbaan; the desert, unbroken except by the narrow green crack which they had traveled down, spread to the horizon. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

If I angled myself a certain way, I could trace the coastline and glimpse a narrow seam of the South Side with its low-rise rooftops and intermittent stands of trees. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

People, oxen, and carts jostled one another in the narrow streets; the houses were so close together that Tree-ear wondered how their residents could breathe. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

My father gazed at me intently, his eyes narrowing. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Floor coverings spread across the floor: narrow hardwood boards in the living room, asphalt dies in our bedrooms, advancing row by row. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You,” she says, focusing her narrowed eyes on me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were narrow with concentration, like she was picking apart each leaf. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

We followed a narrow, unpaved street downhill to the Thames, and I was suddenly presented with a whole different aspect of the city. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

June tapped her chin, her eyes narrowing in mischief. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Mo just nodded and pushed Meggie out into the narrow hallway. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“On this bench and that, being drawn, or hammered, or—” His eyes narrowed with anger as he seized the boy’s arm. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Mama narrowed her eyes but let the subject drop. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“How old is she?” she asked, letting her eyes go narrow. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

They looked like a tug nudging at a clumsy tanker in a narrow dock. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I climb the narrow stairway back to my classroom, trying to avoid getting jostled. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

A little way on, Gwydion stopped, raised his shaggy head, and narrowed his eyes toward a distant ridge. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The streets were narrow and Lyddie stepped gingerly around the refuse and animal droppings, lifting her skirt with one hand and trying to balance her new trunk under the other arm. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Adam’s attention narrowed to the Bordoni ranch a few miles south of King City, almost equidistant, in fact, between San Lucas and King City. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was well-worn but narrow enough that we had to walk single file. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Now there was only a few yards between the line on the right and the line on the left, and Chamberlain walked the narrow corridor between, Kilrain at his side, always at a crouch. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slowly turns in his chair, his eyes narrowed, the curl of a snarl frozen on his lips. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He leaned forward and pressed his forehead against the narrow opening so that he could see everything. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The most direct way across the canyon was on the narrow fifteen-hundred-foot suspension catwalk swaying over the river. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Caroline, meantime, had skipped quickly around the narrow deck and jumped lightly to the dock. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Climbing, coming very slowly, he had almost reached the narrow platform. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Between them was a narrow space, and there upon a floor of polished stone, written with strange signs, a man might stand five hundred feet above the plain. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Both were looking down upon Karkaroff, and both were narrowed in intense dislike. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The driver closed the door, and they watched him maneuver out of the narrow taxi landing. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The tile man was staring at her, eyes narrowed. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A slim woman dressed in the fashion of the time: long, loose chemise, narrow shoes with sharply pointed toes and high spiked heels. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a two-story brick house with black clapboard shutters and a trio of narrow cement stairs leading to the front door. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Violet light seeped from an orb lantern and illuminated a long, narrow face with lively eyes. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

First she drew a tall, narrow box—a building. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was located on a narrow strait leading into a bay that was large enough to hold Mark Antony and Cleopatra’s fleet. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Next to one of the churches sat a narrow piece of abandoned land, which Miss Josie always talked about making into a community garden and Oliver wanted converted into a basketball court. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He was worried at the thought of the narrow escape that she had had, but he was relieved that she was now safe. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Joff would need to punish Father, the lords would ex-pect it, but perhaps he could send him back to Winterfell, or exile him to one of the Free Cities across the narrow sea. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Soon the road narrowed to two lanes and we were surrounded by the groves, surrounded by the beauty of it all. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pools of the stuff dotted the narrow space between the buildings and the line of poles. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I want some twilled silesia, a paper of number nine needles, and two yards of narrow lavender ribbon. Have you got your thick boots on, and something warm under your cloak?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man scrutinized Mo's face until he turned his head away and looked out of the narrow kitchen window. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But their eyes narrow as they look around the room. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The streets were tangles of abandoned cars and the sidewalks narrow paths between high shoveled walls. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And like hollyhocks they are narrow, tall, and still. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

A narrower track, barely wide enough for an oxcart, continued on, straight toward the mountains. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Something flat, narrow, and hard enough to fracture his skull. Like the gunnel of a boat, Horace? Is that possible?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Thinking, still, as he wheeled his bike into its narrow port beside the door, he realized that frightened was the wrong word to describe his feelings, now that December was almost here. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at me and smiled widely, and such a wide smile on her narrow face might have looked goofy were it not for the unimpeachably elegant green in her eyes. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The man in the yellow suit narrowed his eyes. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

From time to time he got up and looked around the cave, and Ama, getting cramped and uncomfortable in her narrow hiding place, wished ardently that she’d waited outside and not gone in. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I stood in the narrow room for a few minutes before leaving to look for Aunty Ifeoma. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

After a good hour they turned off the coast road and followed a narrow, winding lane through a valley gray with buildings. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

His large ugly face came nearer, with the eyes a little narrowed. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The flickering light cast a topaz glow over the narrow verandah, over the stubby gray hairs on Papa-Nnukwu s chest, over the loose, soil-colored skin on his legs. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Computer: “You crawl for one hundred yards. The passage narrows.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It stood at Old Main’s junction with the narrow, single-lane Route 17, and one dull, squash-colored light hummed atop a pole in the parking lot. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

His legs were already spindly and his taut, distended belly, like his tiny mother’s goiter, was completely at odds with the rest of his thin, narrow body and alert face. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She's got narrow shoulders and slender arms with delicate wrists, graceful hands with long, thin fingers. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His dark eyes narrowed as he turned his gaze to me — not to my body, but to the me that hovered above the ground, and he offered a subtle smile. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I narrowed my eyes even more as Vega studied one of my Lego kits on a shelf. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“Who done that?” she said calmly, but Malcolm could see that her nostrils were flared and her eyes narrowed. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

His blue eye narrowed, a calculating look entering it, and the cotton branches began to squeeze me again as he grew even more excited. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Both the square itself and the narrow alley to one side of Capricorn’s house were bathed in light. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Earl was backing his van into a narrow parking spot, and brothers and sisters, already late for work, rushed toward the subway station on the boulevard. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For sure,” Mapper said, narrowing his eyes at the drawing as if a master attack plan would materialize if he just squinted it into existence. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She tried to narrow them, but remembered that was not right either. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I would have to go slowly, for if I hit a bump, there were likely to be groceries all over the narrow street. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had climbed on to a narrow saddle between two higher points, and the land fell steeply away again, only a short distance ahead. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She stands quickly, hands on her hips, eyes narrowing, the Fifi we know and love. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Before we quite entered the town, we turned off the road and down a narrow lane to a substantial house surrounded by a high hedge. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

They say that salmon have been narrower near the tail ever since. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Everything about him, from his nose to his fingers, was long and narrow. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“He’ll be in a wheelchair,” she says when we reach the end of the narrow hallway. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

For half an hour they dug, laying open a narrow trench along the tunnel. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The room whirled around him, all bare walls and dark shad-ows, with a single narrow window. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I ran hard, with abandon, into the narrow swatch of the clearing, darker here with the closer trees. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Kapu was staring at her, his eyes narrowed, his ears thrown forward aggressively. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, he looked at me and my crew, and his eyes narrowed. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The wheels screamed on the steel rails, and wind rushed through the narrow space, hurling dust and loose papers down the platform. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Every step of the way removes him from experience and narrows it down to only the experience of himself .. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were several attics, leading out of one another, through little, narrow arches, like catacombs. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

But Austronesian languages are spoken in a narrow strip immediately on the north and southeast coasts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes narrowed, and he had to look away. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned his weight on his elbows and narrowed his eyes. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The door was narrow and very low to the ground. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the narrow aisles between them are people, mostly children, selling things from trays, or carrying buckets of water, or cooking over open fires. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Afterward, Mother Lucy narrowed her eyes behind her thick lenses and scanned the fines. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They slipped out of the kitchen and down a narrow passage-way to an uneven staircase, which wound its way, zigzagging up through the house. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

With my own narrow shadow for a boat I navigate the streams of moonlight that run between shadow islands in the date-palm grove. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Pineville tapped his pencil against his desk, his eyes narrowing. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He had narrow shoulders and a hint of dark circles around his pale hazel eyes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

At best, it is an unpleasant sensation, scaly and cold, similar to holding on to a small, narrow snake. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was dominated by twelve narrow wood bunks stacked in tiers of three, each with a thin bare mattress and a grubby bare pillow lumpily filled with shreds of Styrofoam. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

As I crossed a narrow ravine crowded with low trees and bushes I got very close to a beautiful red-gold bushbuck—a forest antelope about the size of a long-legged goat. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

In any case, there they hang, their backs and mouths stiff, their breasts constricted, their faces pinched, their caps starched, their skin grayish white, guarding the room with their narrowed eyes. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was slow going; the steps were cut high and narrow, while his legs were short and twisted. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Goddard narrowed his eyes, not quite to a glare, but close. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

They galloped across a wooden bridge, a dark creek, then up a narrow farm road. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In accordance with the latest fashion, my waist tapered to a narrow point, and my train trailed two feet behind me. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes are narrowed and he is smiling at me with an idea. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Snow fell that morning outside the courthouse windows, four tall, narrow arches of leaded glass that yielded a great quantity of weak December light. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

If I was tall, my narrow build would be described as “willowy” instead of “childish,” and he might not see me as a little sister he needs to protect. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The park’s roads are comparatively few and they are kept intentionally narrow, partly to slow traffic, partly to preserve an air of picturesqueness, and partly because of topographical constraints. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

His eyes narrow, and for a second he just stares at her. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He was squarely built, with narrow eyes under heavy eyebrows, a broad nose, and full lips fuzzed with a pencil mustache. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Her safety goggles looked like bulgy fly eyes against her narrow face. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

When he was out of reach, he lifted his chin and looked down at me with narrowed eyes. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Eyes narrowed, she thrust the flyer back at me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The high narrow kitchen faced on the yard which was a flagstone walk surrounding a square of cementlike sour earth out of which nothing could possibly grow. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Morning light, mote filled and yellow, streamed in through the narrow glassless window. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The first Ionian scientist was Thales of Miletus, a city in Asia across a narrow channel of water from the island of Samos. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they looked out into the whiteness of the world the wind flung it sharply at their narrowed eyes and foreshortened their view of everything. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

So I drifted off to the side and sprinted to move ahead before the trail narrowed. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Perfidy” was certainly the word that was in Despereaux's mind as the mice finally approached the narrow, steep stairs that led to the black hole of the dungeon. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Outside, it’s cloudy and overcast, Amsterdam winter, as I ride my bicycle down our narrow, haphazard streets. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He seemed to know that the narrow silence was reserved only for times when the three of them were alone together. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes narrowed as she studied the boy. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Through a blur of tears Nat saw a narrow bed with a patchwork quilt, a washstand with a bowl and pitcher, a small table, and a chair. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know what to say, but he put his hand against the side of my leg and we just rode like that until the cruiser stopped on the narrow street between our houses. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Instead of scrambling back through the brush, we decided we’d take the narrow path behind Horn Rock down to the main boathouse road. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“See yonder?” he pointed to a deep narrow cut that ran across the road. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She pursed her bright red mouth, painted to a fullness beyond the narrow line of her lips, trying to suppress a smile of triumph. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matilda went after her and found herself in what seemed to be a dark narrow tunnel. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Silently, she leads us through narrow streets, turning left and right. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The east side of Epidram was a maze of shacks and narrow alleys cluttered with old lobster cages and lines of damp laundry. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I dash full tilt down the narrow hallway. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I followed still, up a very narrow staircase to the attics, and thence by a ladder and through a trap-door to the roof of the hall. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The breadth of his activity and experience is narrowed by the limitations of his relatively weak, sluggish body. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In my mother’s house the kitchen was dark and narrow, and nothing you cooked there ever had any taste or color.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Herding them into the VW bus, she set off gaily enough, heading south on the highway and across Strawberry Mesa for a ways, and finally into the narrow, pretty gorge. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second scroll is a long narrow photograph of the graduating class with the school officials seated in front. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I narrowed my eyes as though thinking hard about that. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the tall, narrow women dressed in their sarongs returned serenely from the fields, they toted it in huge parcels impossibly balanced on their heads: manioc-root bundles the size of crumpled horses. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bear that she had thought all these years was outside herself, but now, truly, knew was in her own narrow spirit. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The narrow, empty room once belonged to Cool Papa and Grandma Irene, but she died first and all of her things had been taken away. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Past the stairs the hall narrowed, and at its end there was a back door that we went through. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Cuckoo stopped at this, her eyes narrow and bright as a snake’s eyes, and her voice smooth as oil flowing from a vessel. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

It was a narrow, crowded bazaar in a neighborhood that Rasheed said was one of Kabul’s wealthier ones. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

They marched along a narrow road, under a sunny sky. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes narrow for a second, and then: “Okay.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

We shuffled to our narrow slats along the wall and leaned against the cracked and taped vinyl panels. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I decided to spend the night there, on the narrow crest, sixteen hundred feet below the summit. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wound his way in among the fields upon the narrow path. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The channel grew narrower and the River swifter. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The second floor, essentially an attic, was even narrower than the first, the house tapering under a slanted roof. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I rose from the bench and mounted the narrow carpeted staircase. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

But if you looked on either side of these pretend-pagodas, you could see the streets became narrow and crowded, dark, and dirty. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hillside path which they were following became narrower all the time and the drop on their right hand became steeper. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The forested trail lets out onto a two-lane highway with a scary, narrow shoulder. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

We duck onto a narrower dirt path and keep going, no longer side by side. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The Augarten proves a thorny place to search, full of narrow streets and tall apartment houses. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We hustled to a narrow clearing at the far end of the bluff. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Which was more like a narrow river, but people in Logan didn’t like to name things in a boastful way. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Harrison looked at the narrow spring bed in the corner, the table and chair, the shirts hanging on nails stuck to the wall, the two pairs of shoes arranged carefully on the floor. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The streets became narrow and unpaved and they were not empty any longer. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Ryan looks down at it and up at me, and then past me at Roamer, who narrows his eyes in Finch’s direction. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Sansa kept her tone cool and polite, yet even so Joffrey's eyes narrowed as he tried to decide whether she was mocking him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The road narrowed sharply and the crowd thickened. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

So they sailed on their narrow course over the wide forsaken waters. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Ma sewed hats for Mary and Laura of the finest, narrowest braid. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calder and Petra lived on Harper Avenue, a narrow street next to the train line. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Asmodeus’s eyes glared through the narrow hole in front of him. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was just big enough for a twin bed and a narrow desk. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When sleep finally overcomes me, the morning light creeps through my narrow window and forces my weary eyes open again. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He pointed to a ladder of iron bars that ran up a narrow concrete hole. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He shook his head, turned up the radio, and leaned morosely against the blackboard with his arms seized against his narrow chest. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Giggling was a form of mutiny to the nun and she quelled it with a wintery narrowing of her eyes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I made a sharp turn and went along a narrow hall. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was a narrow street and we kept on the right-hand side. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

And then I ran from her, down the long narrow passage to my own room, tripping, stumbling over the flounces of my dress. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

After a time he brought them to the brink of the narrow gully that they had struck before; but they were now further from the hills. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Established in 2001, the tortilla store is an innovative attempt to preserve one of earth's greatest cultural and biological assets: the many local varieties of maize in the narrow “waist” of southern Mexico. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He flew through the moonlight streets, clattering over cob-bles, darting down narrow alleys and up twisty wynds, racing to his love. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I pull back the curtains and this little slice of Detroit opens up to me—an empty paved road and small houses with only a narrow space separating one from the other. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Holding his lamp up high, he pointed down a narrow, winding earth track that disappeared into the thick black trees. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The Nightbeast lowered its head and looked at her, its eyes narrowed. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Presently he noticed a man, clad in black and white, coming along the narrow street from the centre of the citadel towards him. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Around his forehead he wore a narrow band of gold, set with a single blue jewel. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Each rod had a threaded end that narrowed to a point, and the other end was shaped to fit into a carpenter’s brace. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Still, she had successfully narrowed the field from billions of records to millions. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

When I open it, I find myself staring into Hammie’s narrowed eyes. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Colonel Cathcart began tramping back and forth reflectively in the narrow corridors left between his bushels of plum tomatoes and the desk and wooden chairs in the center of the room. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Beyond the narrow tunnel, the earthen walls opened into a long field with gently rising slopes on either side, like seating for spectators. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

A narrow scarlet sash, emblem of the Junior Anti-Sex League, was wound several times around the waist of her overalls, just tightly enough to bring out the shapeliness of her hips. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me. Are you okay?” the woman behind the register narrowed her eyes as she peered at me. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Alby s eyes narrowed; his mouth pulled into a tight grin that didn’t look like it had anything to do with humor. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She straightens up, lifts her chin, and narrows her eyes. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The lead guard’s eyes narrowed, but she nodded to her comrades. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Unable to dig its way in, apparently the draccus had breathed fire down into the narrow passage. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Now we were walking on a narrow garden wall. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond it went a winding road that descended in many curves down to the narrow land under the shadow of Mindolluin’s precipice where stood the mansions of the dead Kings and of their Stewards. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

In intermittent beats she can see the stage, and the singer with his narrow hips and long hair. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Mafoday shook out his arms, put his hands on his knees, and stared into the narrowing eyes of the Valiants sharpshooter in shiny black and gold before him. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Dusty fingers of sunlight reached through the skylight and the narrow slates of a gable vent at the opposite end of the room. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Her eyes narrowed with suspicion, the judge watched Sandy collect the clues. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tunnel-like space was narrowed by many more roots and branches than the last time he’d been here, but it was still visible. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The bookshop was narrow with tall bookcases creating tunnels that twisted and turned. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“But they’ve got battle lines and the approach is real narrow and the army’s at least the rest of the day away, maybe even tonight, too, and I swear that can’t be a thousand men.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Though very narrow, they cast an even greater stench than the main thoroughfare. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I took a turn too early or too late, then tried to compensate by cutting through an alley like a narrow chasm between two tall buildings. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Seema asked, returning from my parents’ bedroom with the iron and narrow metal board. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I extended my arms to feel my way through the narrow “hallway” of the tent. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

His slate-gray eyes and narrow face, the well-groomed mustache. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He stopped on a landing and slumped against a narrow barred window, trying to catch his breath. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

"Maybe . . ." "Well . . ." she said, "I've narrowed it down to people who don't like me. . . ." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Walking back through the narrow, winding streets to find their car, Poppy said, “Great idea you had, bringing up Saroyan.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of the cobbled square in Monaco, and the house with the narrow window. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Fifty steps to the ramparts, a hundred or so more along the base of the walls to the mouth of the alley that grows ever narrower. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It is a long narrow swale between two ranges of mountains, and the Salinas River winds and twists up the center until it falls at last into Monterey Bay. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the narrow market paths, she maneuvered between small boys carrying large loads on their heads, women haggling, traders shouting. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I bet you anything they have something to do with all this,” Seven said, narrowing her eyes at the memory of Pixel being dragged through the snow. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Merely tasting the possibility reminded him how much had narrowed and died. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

From across the narrow street there was the sound of a woman singing. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It had occurred to Bigwig that in the narrow run even his dead body would be a considerable obstacle. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a straightaway, a relatively easy stretch, though narrow. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

His view of the law was broad rather than narrow, for he believed that it was a tool that could be used to change society. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat alone in my narrow room, watching the sun sink slowly in the chilly May sky. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

An uncertain wind buffeted their faces, forcing their eyes to narrow. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The hallway was so narrow that though Lefty had his back against the wall, he had to draw his knees up toward his chest. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had an amused air about him, and a way of narrowing his eyes as though he was trying to read a faraway sign and had forgotten to bring his glasses. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shady Brook was on a narrow road that veered off sharply from the highway and twisted along for many miles, over bridges, past farmland and horse pastures and fields. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Occasionally men passed along the narrow street very close to him, talking in monotones to each other, a cloud of dust rising around their feet with each step. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

When he reached the neighborhood where he lived he passed through a certain narrow street that was flanked on one side by a smoke-blackened brick warehouse. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was located on the long narrow stretch of land, owned by the Widow Cane, that ran alongside the mine. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

His eyes narrow, and somehow his perfect posture becomes even straighter. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She followed him down an unfamiliar narrow lane. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moss narrowed his eyes at that, surprised that this guy seemed to know what he was talking about. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Ere long they were hemmed in in the narrows of the gorge, and all were slain or driven shrieking into the chasm of the Deep to fall before the guardians of the hidden caves. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It was another narrow spit of land, with a penguin rookery and a glacier nosing down the mountainside nearby. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

To hide for decades inside this strange, narrow house! All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He was going to be armed with his wand — which, just now, felt like nothing more than a narrow strip of wood — against a fifty-foot-high, scaly, spike-ridden, fire- breathing dragon. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They entered the familiar, circular room, with its five four-posters hung with red velvet and its high, narrow windows. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He saw nothing ahead except the endless ribbon of road unfolding in twisting narrow curves. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Several feet from the entrance, he was able to see a narrow slice of the room beyond. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

If he hadn’t been so eager, maybe he could have found a narrower part to cross. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hands shook as she poured rice into the boiling water and, as she watched the narrow basmati grains begin to swell, she wondered if they were failing at this, their reconciliatory meal. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The band might next have corralled the herd into a narrow gorge in order to better control and defend it. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kid’s narrow eyes widened “ IS aw you never,” he said. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The narrow path had opened suddenly onto the edge of a great black lake. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Her slightly narrowed eyes were fixed upon Fleur, who was gazing down at Bill with a frozen expression on her face. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She stared hard at me, her large eyes suddenly narrowed. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She braved the climb only after discovering that the other end of the corridor narrowed into a glum dead end. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Grunting, he raised himself up from his chair and motioned them into a narrow hallway off to the side of the main hall. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Wrinkles angle outward from the narrowed corners of her eyes. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

His eyes narrowed, like he was shooting beams of light out of them directly into her soul. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Taran blinked and tried to lift himself from the low, narrow couch. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The shadows climbed up the walls of the jumbled buildings and fell across the narrow alleys. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

They crossed the narrow wooden bridge over the Rio Grande, chugging through a swarm of olive green and russet-colored swallows that had mud nests under the bridge, and started the bumpy climb out. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was made from a very small gourd with the pointed end of a twig sticking out from the narrow side and a fan-shaped bit of bark wedged into a slot on the opposite end. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They undressed silently and showered together, pressing against each other in the narrow bathroom and then clinging together in bed, their bodies still wet and their movements slow. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was narrow, with old brick buildings crowding in close on both sides. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Roshan narrows his eyes and brings his forearms up in a bracing cross. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As I wake up out of my months-long sleep, I find the course of my life has narrowed right down, and I feel myself rushing along it like a flood of rich, red mud. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very slowly, his eyes as narrow as he could make them and still see, Harry edged forward, his wand held high. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Soon they struck a narrow road, that went rolling up and down, fading grey into the darkness ahead: the road to Woodhall, and Stock, and the Bucklebury Ferry. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Slipping and stumbling, they followed Hagrid down what seemed to be a steep, narrow path. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I feel the ghost of where his hand was, his fingers long and narrow. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The swab low looked down at its wrinkled talons, narrowing its eyes. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The line between hostility and acceptance, in other words, between an epidemic that tips and one that does not, is sometimes a lot narrower than it seems. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road was narrow, the ruins so positioned that any enemy coming up from the south must pass beneath and between them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Gods do not forget, and still the gales came raging up the narrow sea. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Bodies are pressed up against one another just like they do on the narrow, crumbled sidewalks of Delmas. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She looked at the San Francisco map on the Book Scavenger site and narrowed the choices to only show Raven’s hidden books, since the forty-nine Maltese Falcons were the only books Raven had hidden. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Something in my voice makes him stop chewing and regard me with narrowed eyes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There was a narrow, dimly lit hallway there and two bedrooms. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The lights were still off, and the narrow windows didn’t let in much of the morning sun. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Inside, he would sit down on a narrow bench, put his ear to a small window, and listen to all who wanted to tell him their sins and clear their conscience. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Doctor Copeland slid his nervous hands up and down the sides of the narrow bed. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We waited in the narrow passageway outside the door, whispering among ourselves. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Hermione’s eyes narrowed dangerously again, and he added swiftly, “But it’s the best plan we’ve got, so full steam ahead, I say.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He spat contemptuously, narrowing his one good eye. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It’s narrow and has no railing, which makes it seem really dangerous if the trains start again. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know which way to go through the labyrinth of narrow, dark passages, and a primitive fear was inevitable in this place, where every corner held a dealer in death. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The street we’re on now is barely more than an alley, so narrow that I could nearly touch the buildings on either side with my outstretched arms. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was cold and dark beneath the ice, in the narrow tunnel that crooked and slithered through the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As part of the university’s contribution, Sproul turned over to Lawrence a two-story wood structure on campus, just across a narrow alley from Gilbert Lewis’s chemistry building. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

We went along a broad, carpeted passage, and then turned left, through an oak door, and down a narrow flight of stairs and up a corresponding flight, and so to another door. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, the wedding day, I wear my other favorite dress, a light blue one with pleats that fall just below my knees and narrow sleeves that stop at my elbows. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the path reached a rounded angle where the mountain-side swelled out again, and there it suddenly entered a narrow opening in the rock. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The government has the rebel survivors narrowed down to the five of us. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Somehow, Tiny Cooper manages to contort himself so that his massive head cries on my narrow shoulder. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Now she watched in awe as Arthur and Brutus, using two small, sharp, long-handled shovels, dug the narrow tunnel down to her living room. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Maxie narrowed her eyes at me as she scooped up the calling lists. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The paths out of the narrow gorge fell steeply. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He had sensed rather than heard it: someone or something was standing in the narrow gap between the garage and the fence behind him. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The streets were narrow and unpaved, and every lot was filled with dozens of shanties huddled close together. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dogs trot along the narrow street, before the doors of the houses people stand and follow me with their gaze as I pass by, dirty and heavy laden. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I plunged along a different narrow way, taking one turn after another, not daring even to glance back to see if I were being followed. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

A narrow but well-worn path branched from the main road, following the river’s shore into the forest. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The cliffs loomed higher and ever higher overhead as he approached the mountain-root from which they sprang, and the lane of water grew narrower. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The guy—I’m pretty sure he’s Rock—switches off his clippers, narrows his eyes, and stares at me. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The following day they crossed the river by a narrow iron bridge and entered an old mill town. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

That night Aru had stayed awake dreaming of narrow winding streets and gardens so fancy that even their flowers looked haughty. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The rest of the Lysene fleet had been scattered across the narrow sea. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I tense slightly as he comes toward us down the narrow aisle. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The man’s narrow face reappeared in the crack. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He is glowering already and when he sees me, his eyes narrow further. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“You had what appears to be a narrow escape.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

On the other, across a narrow alley, was a tall billboard that pretty much blocked the view, but by leaning forward April could see the facade of a long low building. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Radio telescopes generate, in narrow frequency ranges, signals so intense they can be detected over immense interstellar distances. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although the trees and bushes offered concealment and protection, the paths were narrow. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

In due course, they moseyed off into the nearby narrow roads and alleyways. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hold my torch high and see three long, narrow passageways leading into the dark underworld. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Director Horus narrows his eyes and strokes his chin. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The space was too narrow for him to turn and look back, but he knew Kayser was behind him—he could hear the man’s breathing. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shadrach’s long, narrow room was cheerful and attractive in spite of its roughness. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel reached the hedge, crossed a narrow turf verge on the other side and found himself looking straight down a long, shadowy aisle between two rows of beans. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside was a narrow hallway crowded with boxes. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He pulled open the door, ran up the narrow stairs, and took a deep breath. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Backing away from the door, I managed to climb the wall and moved hurriedly along the narrow alley toward the street. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The streets are so narrow, and the buildings so tall that you feel hemmed in when you walk here. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

His narrow face looked worried and relieved and ashamed and glad, all at once. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She narrows her eyes and I think she’s about to tell me to leave her cousin alone. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

However, too many schools have succumbed to funding challenges or embraced a narrow focus on tested subjects, resulting in minimal, if any, arts experiences for the children they serve. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He reached up and grabbed Styx’s narrow wrists. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

When the doors opened, we followed Christoph single file through a long narrow hall, its walls and ceiling vibrating with a deep whirring sound that grew louder as we walked. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They wandered down narrow streets lined with narrow houses and up broader streets where the houses were grander, where the street-level windows rose from floor to ceiling of the rooms within. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that is when you narrow your eyes. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It is long and narrow, the walls covered with shelves that bear identical blue- gray books, thick and heavy as dictionaries. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

‘The road under the mountains is a dark road, and there are places narrow and steep which he cannot tread, even if we can.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He flailed his hands and even stamped once with his long, narrow, elegantly shoed foot on the plush carpet. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The fact is, Fischer’s first win over Spassky was more than a narrowing of the gap. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The dogs came out, barking the moment their heads were free, and struggling as you’ve seen them do when they are getting through a narrow hole in a hedge. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The path narrowed to a ribbon, the ground rising sharply on our right side and dropping away on the left, a carpet of green tree- tops spreading beyond it. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He could feel himself trembling, and braced his legs against the sides of the narrow cut. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and another girl glanced at each other excitedly as they reached a different deck and sprinted down a long, long, narrow hallway. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

There was a narrow path, but it was very overgrown. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I looked at her narrow shoulders and wiry arms working over our dinner, and I realized that I had always counted on her for other things besides food. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Anborn grunted and led the way down the winding stair to the landing, and then up the other stair, until at last they came to a narrow opening shrouded with thick bushes. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Down a long narrow veranda they went, the roofs supported by delicate carven posts, and into a hall the like of which Wang Lung had never seen. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

As if to answer, a hole appeared in the wall, and a narrow beam of light struck my face. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Her fish trap was useless without a narrow channel, and no birds ventured this far from shore. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the car swerved through narrow roads, the conversation picked up again and they talked about other trips, game, kills, misses. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we approached the doorman, he leveled his chin and regarded us through narrowed eyes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Over the past weeks in Paris, in the hours between other tasks, he has narrowed a list of seven lapidaries to three, then to one: a half-Algerian named Dupont who came of age cutting opal. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Grandpa, wore out, was sound asleep on the narrow daybed in the back hall. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I follow the number of steps and turns out of the entrance, and then burst through the front tent flaps to find myself deposited back in the narrow alley. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He pressed his lips together, staring at me through narrowed eyes, deciding again. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“See how narrow this doorway is, like a neck that has been strangled. And the kitchen faces this toilet room, so all your worth is flushed away.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She's got a narrow face, and her brown hair is pulled back into some kind of twisty thing. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was so narrow we had to walk sideways to get through. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

On the third day the forest pressed close around them, and the rutted roads dwindled down to game trails that soon proved to be too narrow for their larger wagons. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Once more, fallen stones blocked their way, but this time there was a narrow, jagged gap. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Part of the way you can. But the road is narrow and messy back up in there,” said Vernell. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was about to give up and go back for Ricky when I spied a narrow corridor of freshly stomped palmettos not far away. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but what were you doing with your little narrow butt jumping into a fight?” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

There were men’s voices out in the narrow hall, and Madame came out of the darkness behind us, crossed the room and went out. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed his chin at the springs and around at the narrow canyon. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The lights come on, revealing a long, narrow room with busted brick walls and a cement floor. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The lady looks up into Mom's face, her eyes slightly narrowed, her lips pressed together. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wandered among them, entranced by the narrow streets, the iron-grill balconies, the green plants and vines glimpsed in lighted flagstone courtyards. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He returns to bed, squeezing in beside Maxine’s warm, sleeping body, and drapes his arm around her narrow waist, fits his knees behind hers. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The three sat in silence, looking upstream to where the water rushed through the narrow gorge. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Finally, I came to a place where the crevasse narrowed down to a thin gap only about two feet across. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I ducked around the corner into the narrow passage with the fence post. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

All I can picture are Tess’s hunched, narrow shoulders and wide eyes. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

All the soldiers were past the narrow ridge now, hurrying after the fleeing warriors. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The way she narrowed her eyes at it, you would’ve thought it was the door she was mad at. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

A mere ten days ago, after rooting around on the Internet for a little while, Molly located a cache of adoption registry services, narrowing her search to the one rated highest among users. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

A familiar modern example is the narrow failure, on July 20, 1944, of the assassination attempt against Hitler and of a simultaneous uprising in Berlin. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"He would say that even a million Dothraki are no threat to the realm, so long as they remain on the other side of the narrow sea," Ned replied calmly. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The passageway grew narrower and narrower, and when I turned around I could just make out the torches near the hole I’d entered. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I followed the narrow path parallel to the river for a few minutes until I recognized a place under an old cypress tree. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Stopping before the narrow garage, he sniffed the fumes from Paradise with great sensory pleasure, the protruding hairs in his nostrils analyzing, cataloguing, categorizing, and classifying the distinct odors of hot dog, mustard, and lubricant. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They climbed the last few feet up to the foot of the cliff, where a narrow defile led a little way into the shadow. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Dad finally navigated his way to Aunt Maureen’s an hour later, after driving on about seven hundred narrow dirt roads and passing about two hundred cows. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Miss Skeeter kind a narrow her eyes up, something she do when she thinking about something important. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The main corridor was a narrow tunnel that led in a hard, clatter-footed stretch along a line of rooms of no interdistinguishing features. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Victor’s eyes narrowed as he recalled the moment. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

People laughed happily as they twirled around in front of the narrow mirror and saw themselves in their new clothes. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

She narrowed her eyes, with a little smile, but said nothing. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He studied me silently, his eyes slightly narrowed. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yessir, she doing alright,” I say and narrow my eyes at her. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A pink jump rope lay coiled like a snake near the foot of the narrow twin bed—evidence of her latest obsession. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He pointed his wand at the wall of books behind him and with a bang, a hidden door flew open, revealing a narrow staircase upon which a small man stood frozen. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Across the room, Izzy slowly pushed herself up on her elbows, eyes narrowing. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The house was narrow and had not been painted for many years. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then, narrowing her eyes, she located the hoofprints in the soft earth and marched into the jungle. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Boots lay down, but, feeling excited, he stood up again and began to prowl, round and round in his narrow prison. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Once or twice he looked up quickly, and his eyes narrowed. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The seats are narrow and jammed together on these commuter airplanes, and you notice everything that is happening inside the cabin. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing under the narrow arch I glanced up, wondering if that keystone too was mortared with bone and blood. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Helmut waited, car lights on, until I had disappeared down a narrow, twisting path that led into an unpaved street bordering Alexandra to the north. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, look, everybody says I talk too much when I’ve had a few but...” the Senator narrows his eyes at me, like we are old conspirators, “I want to tell you something.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

‘We must go at foot-pace, if you guide us; and I doubt not the way is narrow.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Within the room was a great canopied bed, a tall wardrobe decorated with erotic carvings, and a narrow window of leaded glass in a pattern of red and yellow diamonds. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baylor stared at it for a moment, then got out and went around to the back house that sat at the end of a narrow driveway. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

A quarter mile to the east, pinched between the Nuptse Wall and the West Shoulder of Everest, the Khumbu Icefall spilled through a narrow gap in a chaos of frozen shards. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

A block beyond the synagogue where my father and I prayed, we made a right turn into a narrow street crowded with brownstones and sycamores. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Mya helped her mount one while a guardsman in a sky-blue cloak opened the narrow postern gate. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I stare at the camera until my vision narrows and it is all I see. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It had smooth lines and narrow taillights that made it look cool and futuristic. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Callie helped me pick out some of it, but I need you to narrow it down so I can return the rest.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He found Nina tending to Wylan in a narrow cabin, her hands drifting over his arm, knitting the flesh of the bullet wound together. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

To get to the Sea Tower on its crooked pillar, he had to cross three further bridges, each narrower than the one before. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“But—” She tugged on one of her curls and narrowed her eyes. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was just leaving the stile; yet, as the path was narrow, I sat still to let it go by. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The staircase swayed terribly and was so narrow that we could only proceed in single-file, crouching so our heads wouldn’t hit the steps above. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The house presented two pointed gables in its front; the windows were latticed and narrow: the front door was narrow too, one step led up to it. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He moved behind the desk and quickly closed it with narrowed eyes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Inside the dim, narrow shop lined with racks of merchandise, the smell of pelts fills my nose. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She put her hands on her hips, that familiar gesture of exasperation that always made her seem larger, and I saw the unnatural diamond shape formed by her elbows and narrowed waist. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was another brittle-looking Vermont house, white of course, with long and narrow windows like New England faces. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They exited, then drove through an underpass and onto a narrow two-lane road. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Before too long, Mr. Poe drove his car down a narrow alley lined with houses made of pale brick and stopped halfway down the block. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Around the perimeter, the branches of all the trees grew into a narrow, uneven staircase. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

And she longed to be out of this narrow boxy cabin. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Books were stacked on every available surface; the tables were cluttered with papers, ashtrays, bottles of whiskey, boxes of chocolates; umbrellas and galoshes made passage difficult in the narrow hall. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A thin white belt snaked around her narrow waist, and a small diamond cross glinted in the hollow of her neck. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Reaching the crossroads, she turned into the narrow lane whose twisting curves mimicked the shoreline. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although the big scar and trembling hand were a constant reminder of his narrow escape from death, Cherrie didn’t let it bother him. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

And as Courtney Cooper’s best friend of over a decade, I can see in the set of his jaw and his slightly narrowed eyes—it bothers him. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

She ran across the narrow street and down into the alley where the vans unloaded goods for the covered market. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Valley narrowed her eyes at her but sat up a little straighter, at least. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

John lay on his back in the narrow street, looking up at his father, that burning face beneath the burning towers. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

A long narrow room on a different floor of the hospital. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Sally narrowed her eyes threateningly at Zane, but she scurried off just the same. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The western side of each ridge was steep and difficult, but the eastward slopes were gentler, furrowed with many gullies and narrow ravines. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She pointed toward the far edge of her garden, where the woods began and there seemed to be a narrow overgrown path. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dark orange sandstone formation held springs like this one, all along the base of the sandstone where wind and erosion had cut narrow canyons into the rock. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The tunnel through the Wall was narrow and twisting, and many of the wildlings were old or ill or wounded, so the going was painfully slow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The slate gray sea roiled, scraping the narrow strip of sand rhythmically, tugging at beach grass, digging and sucking loose the rocks at the shore's edge. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They were speechless at first, and Njemile tilted her head, her eyes narrowed in suspicion. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

After their narrow escape, the chilly, musty old place felt like home: safe, familiar, and friendly. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

When they turned into the narrow courtyard outside the main entrance of Bayside Press, all the city noise seemed to hush. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Next to her on the narrow bed, Gramps was lying on top of the covers, stroking her hair. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He occupied a cell that measured nine by fourteen feet, with a narrow barred window high in its outer wall and a single electric lamp, which guards extinguished at nine o’clock each night. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Next to the fireplace there was a small stove with four burners close together, a narrow counter with shelves underneath, and a deep sink. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

After an hour of steady uphill walking, Jody turned into a narrow road that led up a steeper hill to the ridge ranch. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Helmuth hears it in the crackling gray ice floes that drift through the rivers and narrow canals. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Aileen was sitting on a narrow tree that had fallen and was propped up by two other trees. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Half a mile from my uncles’ fields the narrow wagon road turned into the road that crossed the bridge and led into town. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

So there she was, in the library on her knees in the narrow fiction stacks, with three copies of the novel, two paperbacks and one hardcover, on the shelf in front of her. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

And if I am wrong and the realm does not rise for us, we can always retreat back across the narrow sea, as Bittersteel once did, and others after him.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Between the two of us, we push and drag and tug that coffin out the narrow door, upend it, turn it around, and put it in the room next door. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The actual site of the duel was a narrow ledge, about ten feet wide and forty feet long, located only twenty feet above the water. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

According to Meeks, all kinds of people set up shop in the Central Port, using a network of catwalks and rickety wooden planks to connect their barges and narrow boats. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

We walked down the narrow aisle single file, carrying the popcorn and looking for a seat, Tommy first, then Liz, then me. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pressing in on the crowded, narrow streets were looming walls of close-built buildings, structures two, sometimes three, stories high, with slate, not thatch, roofs. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

She narrowed her eyes at me for a moment and then shook her head. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She opened it more and saw a narrow set of steps leading up to what looked like a trapdoor above. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The bed was very narrow, and it hurt to move even a few inches. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The floor was a long narrow mosaic with seven pictures in a row, like a time line. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The kid just continues to stare at me, and then after a while he narrows his eyes, squinting. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The narrow streets of the Quarter awaited me. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he had wanted this, a narrow room with a tall window. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Even as he spoke, he could feel the bigger kids pushing up behind him down the narrow aisle. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

After dropping my bag in the closet of my narrow room on the fourth floor, I sit on the bed and bounce a few times. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Their footsteps made echoing, slapping sounds on the narrow rim of rock that surrounded the water. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I hoped that if I kept to the narrow trail-roads running between villages, I could avoid any soldiers until I reached the river. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

But the one with the narrow face was agitated and angry. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about going with them and returning to our narrow hiding place in the rafters of the shed, but something stopped me. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

His neighborhood was a series of walls surrounding a narrow dirt path that turned into a long and winding road from the main street. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Nearly three feet had fallen in the last storm, so that for a week people had to walk single file, in narrow trenches. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Juanita’s eyes narrowed as if she was trying to put together a word puzzle. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He narrows his gaze on the door, and what surprise might be behind it. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

A ragged skin had been hung across the narrow window to keep the damp out, and a slab of peat smoldered in a brazier. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Thereafter, except for a narrow band sprayed in 1956, the whole upper watershed of this branch was excluded from the spraying program. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The backs of his hands were puffy and his eyes were almost swollen shut from the mosquitos, and he saw everything through a narrow squint. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the houses looked empty as they passed, going down alleys so narrow that Meggie felt they could close in on her. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

That seemed fair enough, so April shut up, but she kept her eyes narrowed warily as Toby explained. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twice it seemed to disappear, but she kept on straight, and both times she found herself at the top of steep, narrow stairs, the torch glimmering far below her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Smoke snaked from the chimney of the cookhouse, and the smells of stewing pork and fresh bread wafted from its narrow door. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

We watched while Kimki paddled through the narrow opening in the rocks. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put my hand around Nia’s waist and felt her warmth and how narrow she was. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She was driving, and the road was narrow and snowy and worrisome. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I practice drawing perspective, angling the lines of the corridor narrower with each door to pass. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

They waved and smiled and climbed aboard buses and were driven through narrow streets to Hamburg’s Rathaus, its old city hall. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Caesar’s eyes narrowed as he made the same calculation. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I’d made the narrow rodent eyes at everybody for a few days, and over the next week every single one of the men who had been in attendance that night bought me a drink. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Mona’s eyes narrowed and she leaned down so that she was peering directly into Taisin’s eyes with her single good one. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Four turns around and walks backward a few steps- backward, on a narrow path with no railing. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

They were in a narrow cell where the walls dripped with damp, and there was one stone bench for furniture. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then he saw what he was looking for: a narrow gully leading back between jagged walls, and at the entrance, a large, low boulder. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The hallway narrowed and tightened with oncoming passengers. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I followed the bailiff down the narrow aisle, my eyes on the nightstick dangling from his belt. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The hard edge of the narrow pew bit into her thigh, in spite of every gingerly effort to shift her weight. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Long-legged and short-tailed, with relatively long, narrow wings and flat head. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would the man lunge forward with his own narrow blade? Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Fresh, bright blood trickled in narrow rivulets across his feet. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was half in, half out of the narrow passage. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

He shoved through the crowd on the narrow sidewalk, his hips swinging each way free and slamming people aside. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one case, about six years earlier, Baird had prosecuted a twenty-one-year-old man who had been driving a small Toyota pickup through Logan Canyon, along a narrow, sometimes dangerous road. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I narrowed my eyes at his baggy Medford Middle School Basketball T-shirt. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The alley grows narrower and narrower until they must walk single file, the walls close on either side, and then they stop. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Since both the crate and the cushion were very narrow, we were sitting quite close, leaning against two other crates; Mouschi kept us company, so we weren’t without a chaperon. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

They walked through a long stretch of narrow tunnel; the sound of their feet echoed loudly in the stillness. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jinjoo narrowed her eyes and glared at Shinae, noticing how the older girl had taken two of the largest pieces of corn for herself and eaten them all. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The movement was defined—by blacks and whites alike—using the narrow and simplistic language of race. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

George took the steep steps onto her own bus and shuffled along the narrow corridor, her feet sticking to the rubbery floor. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

We park the truck at the bottom of a hill because it won’t fit through the narrow streets. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

His tightly curling hair was cut short, and he had a narrow, short beard along his jawbone. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

With one hand, he's pushing a beige cart with narrow drawers. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I shield my eyes with one hand and follow Uriah to a long, narrow room with beds on either side. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

His eyes narrowed a bit when I didn’t answer. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The dark, narrow strips of ground between the stacks were clogged with the skeletons of abandoned cars and trucks, their gas tanks emptied and their exit routes blocked off long ago. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She narrows her eyes at me, opens her mouth to speak, and then clamps it shut. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

For a while, he stands on a narrow ledge at the end of a fuel tanker. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Elongated and narrow, like pieces of blackened leather, the tongues were threaded along a length of copper wire, one tongue overlapping the next, the tips curled upward as if caught in a final shrill syllable. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When all the initiates stand on solid ground again, Lauren and Four lead us down a narrow tunnel. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

There is the humility of being a father to someone so powerful, as if he were only a narrow conduit for another, greater thing. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A large branch was washed up into the bank, and he hauled it up to the narrowest place and laid it bank to bank. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Her eyes narrow, and I quickly look away because it gives me the type of goose pimples people get in horror films when they sense the approach of the murderous antagonist. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

He gestures for her to wait outside, and a moment later, he locks the door behind him and leads her and Max down streets narrow and sloping. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Now the companions halted, and stood in silence at a narrow neck of the swamp. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

My mom narrowed her eyes, but instead of pressing, she sat back in her chair and said loudly, “Well.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

If I stood on my tippytoes, I could just see into one of the narrow windows. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps they were waiting to make some ambush in a narrow place? The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I stood my ground in front of my captor, keeping my gaze narrow and pinned on my reflection in his shades. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Excitement and sadness made me feel as if my heart would explode if I waited any longer, but on such a narrow path I couldn’t walk past all those in front of me. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

His eyes became even narrower than they had been before. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d never get them back through the narrow opening in the fence line, but we could get them off our property. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

She was staring at him through glasses that were too big for her narrow face. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She searched the wreckage of the stairs until she found part of the railing—a narrow board about four feet long that could serve as a crutch. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A huge throng of handcuffed black men and women, numbering in the hundreds, filled the narrow street from side to side. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once inside Ford’s, Booth wanted to cross behind the stage to the other side of the building where a door led to a narrow passageway that ran to the front of the theater. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bent down to pick up a grass stalk, narrow like a green needle. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

These have a narrow flexible rubber sole with treads though. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He carried them over to a table, then set to work, searching them by the narrow beam of his wand, occasionally checking his watch. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I tell her yes and look at May, her face as yet wrinkleless, so round, her full cheek pinching her narrow eyes, the color and curve so durably Korean. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Valley’s eyes narrowed, and Thorn and Seven turned to follow her gaze. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She looked at Despereaux through narrowed eyes as if she expected him to disappear entirely. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

It crashed over rocks and through narrow channels, catapulted up into moonlit sprays, split apart, rejoined, and dropped down into boiling cauldrons at the bottom of steep falls. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Stone bridges spanned swift, narrow rivers, while small farms spread in rings around holdfasts walled in wood and stone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A group of children run down a narrow path with no railing, so fast my heart pounds, and I want to scream at them to slow down before they get hurt. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

When they began the journey the first time, following the narrow dirt road that turned up from the racetrack, they probably looked very young and somewhat breathless. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were eyes painted on the church door, narrow red eyes, and ugly stone demons the height of a man stood on either side of the entrance, their teeth bared like savage dogs. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was narrow—the first floor of the house was only as wide as two windows and a door. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The defeated army was running up a corridor that was bound to narrow, and soon must be cut off. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It bubbles around the crowd, and narrowed eyes set on King. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

It took both Ruth and me, working together, to get it out of the narrow opening of the cluttered storage shed. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

At last they came to a narrow gate in a thick hedge. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

He crossed a yard and followed a fence that led into Darling Street where Pilate lived in a narrow single-story house whose basement seemed to be rising from rather than settling into the ground. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

From a thick pile of dead leaves beneath a holly tree, Hazel looked down a narrow path lined on either side with fern and sprouting fireweed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ledge we were sitting on was narrower than I’d realized. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lefty squeezed through the narrow paths between the cocoons, holding his own sack. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The path was narrow and strewn with rocks like cannonballs, so the Sicilian had a terrible time keeping up. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The driver slowed, weaving his way through narrow alleys toward the crumbling buildings that rose in the distance. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Rosaleen’s eyes grew even narrower, if such a thing was possible. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He crossed the empty square and turned into a narrow street that was abruptly quieter even yet, and stopped before a frame house and went up the flower bordered walk to the porch. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he seemed to remember something, and his eyes narrowed suddenly. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

This might mean working with broad categories of Chinese, Indian or West African music, or narrow sub-cultures such as hip-hop music, Motown sound from the 1960s, or even the sound of an individual singer. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He stands there blinking his narrow eyes at me for a long moment. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was said that the children of the forest had carved the faces in the trees during the dawn centuries before the coming of the First Men across the narrow sea. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was a narrow road painted with a solid yellow stripe, with one lane of traffic in either direction. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

For a moment I didn’t realize what he meant; then the world narrowed and wobbled. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Eliza didn’t say anything, just shook her head and hurried me along until we reached the narrow street where she lived. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you really think going there could help?” my mother said, narrowing her eyes at him as if readying herself to hear the unvarnished truth. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She awoke in a narrow bed, with that comforting engine rumble deep below. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

On her left, she saw a long, narrow stretch of grass in the middle of a kind of courtyard of houses. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ummmm,” she whined, and when Sister turned around she narrowed her eyes and showed her white teeth. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was half-turned in anticipation; I had to hurriedly correct and dash across the narrow drive, back to the sidewalk. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He gestured to the head of the alley and a narrow structure two stories high. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The right fork is narrower with higher bushes on each side and even tho it’s night you can just tell it’s dusty. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

They were tense, their faces peaked, their eyes narrowed. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

We rode on the narrow street, past the big white Congregational church and the Art Association. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

To my other side stood rows of snow-burdened cypress trees peppered among flat-topped clay houses—no more than mud shacks in most cases—separated by narrow alleys. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

At several points the brook was narrow—not much wider than a rabbit run. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually the side streets grew too narrow for the four-wheel drive. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

They slipped through the narrow paths and alleys, over jutting roots and hard-packed dirt, turning left and then right and then left again. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“It feels like magic,” her grandmother had said very slowly, her eyes narrowing. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Ivy narrowed her eyes at June, but June just grinned back. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

If Hodor slipped on that narrow bridge, they would fall and fall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

By midday, however, people began to join us on the narrow road. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I remember the woman who explained the pros and cons and price differences of various brands, how she measured my foot and told me I have an exceptionally narrow heel. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She gazed at Luna with a narrowed eye. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Some had narrow, pointed snouts, like columns of new lipstick. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The crowd sitting on the floor scooted aside to make a narrow lane for the two boys to reach the front of the room. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The Cumberland Plateau is a wild and mountainous region of flat-topped ridges, mountain walls five hundred to a thousand feet high, and narrow valleys, some wide enough only for a one-lane road and a creek. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I held down a narrow flap of skin while he cut into the fat behind it, leaving as much of the creamy white layer as possible. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It was a gloomy room with a little light coming in from the window on the narrow street. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The conductor, a narrow man in khaki, slid towards them on the bus rails. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had climbed up a narrow shelving ravine, but they still had a long way to go before they could even come in sight of the last craggy ridge. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Dark hair slants steeply across his forehead and is plastered to either side of his head, and there is a disturbing, vaguely supercilious smile set into long, narrow lips. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The world narrowed to a man and his horse, running. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cutting between them was a narrow line of sea - the Straits of Corinth. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Two arched, narrow, plain glass windows were set into the side walls. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They marched slowly down the narrow train aisle, Jelly Bones holding out his cap to anyone who cared to throw in coins or a dollar. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

We went down a narrow curving road shrouded by hedges, and parked beside a clump of sycamores. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where it crosses the downs, the line is marked by Caesar’s Belt, a strip of woodland as straight as the road, narrow indeed but more than three miles long. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reed put his hand on the second mate’s narrow shoulder and squeezed. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

As the road narrowed, the branches of immense oaks arched across it. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Mother narrows her eyes behind her reading glasses. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Poillon, concerned that Berkeley’s broad patent claims might provoke a messy interinstitutional fight, pleaded with Lawrence to narrow his claims to avoid controversy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“I made a scrape—an open box with a narrow strip of wood to keep the eggs from rolling out. I’ll put sand on the bottom.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Only that whatever made contact with his head—whether it was moving toward him or he toward it—was flat, narrow, and hard enough to fracture his skull.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Right away she jumped back into the narrow space in the bow. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Benny’s frown turned into a full-blown scowl and his eyes narrowed. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He was narrow of face; his eyes were unusually large and bright, and shone with the intensity of his thought when he spoke. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

From there I looked into a narrow alley in which people were passing, one or two who looked up at me with nothing more than idle curiosity. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

On Sunday, Mr. Trepid turned off the main highway and drove down a narrower side road and then onto a bumpy dirt road which led into Ruby Holler. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed about to say something to Danny, then changed his mind, turned stiffly, went up the narrow aisle, and found a seat. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The front door with its narrow glass panes opened into a musty lobby that smelled of everybody’s life mixed together. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had no sense of balance, and when we had to walk down a narrow board with our hands out and a book on our heads in gym class I always fell over. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

His features—the broad face, the flattened nose, the narrow, pleated eyes—looked so elegant. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the histories were interesting, Gabe thought, especially if they involved danger and narrow escapes. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A little frown occupied her forehead, and her eyes were narrowed. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The three women crowded together on the narrow stairs. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

At that point he stood up again, and the thought occurred to me that in such a narrow cell, if he wanted to move around he didn’t have many options. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Which is drawn linearly, long and narrow. Do you see?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Lynn wedges herself under one of the metal structures and climbs quickly, keeping the narrow girders beneath her as she works her way to the middle of the bridge. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Adam swarmed on him as he came down the narrow stairs into the lobby. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The mountains that surrounded us allowed only a narrow sliver of sky to view. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

And we all moved on again, out of the park, down a narrow lane and into another lane to Grandma’s house. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He sat astride a roan mare, a lean and nervous steed speckled red and yellow, with a long, narrow head, whose expression was as ill-tempered as her master’s. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Shirt, cap, overcoat, Ignatius put them on blindly and ran into the hall, careening against the narrow walls. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We trudge after the Turks along a narrow road. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He climbed out of bed slowly, irritable, his eyes still half-masted when he picked up the phone in his family’s narrow hallway. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Sam looked up towards the orc-tower, and suddenly from its narrow windows lights stared out like small red eyes. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The bed was modern, but the room was old with beams running across the ceiling, a stone fireplace, and narrow windows in an ornate wooden frame. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Hall had booked us at the Garuda Hotel, a friendly, funky establishment in the heart of Thamel, Kathmandu’s frenetic tourist district, on a narrow avenue choked with cycle rickshas and street hustlers. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was an enormous, echoing chamber, perfectly spherical, all smooth, curved metal, with a narrow walkway wrapping around its circumference. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She looked at him with narrowed eyes as he grinned at her. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

In spots it grew so narrow it was hard to convince the garrons they could squeeze through. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Come,” he said, and led me to a narrow stairway made of wrought iron. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The floor slopes slightly downhill, and the hallway is so narrow that Beth and I have to walk single file. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The military wagons must all funnel into a narrow line and cross one at a time. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

We were turning in now at the lodge gates, and down the long twisting narrow drive to the house. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He switched on the flashlight and crawled through a narrow loft till he came to an opening. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He began forcing his way along its narrow length. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Stan threw her bag out after her and rammed the doors shut; there was another loud BANG, and they were thundering down a narrow country lane, trees leaping out of the way. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She inched around them, turning sideways to squeeze through the narrow space, and crept forward, holding the candle out in front of her. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Escorted by security guards down a long, dark, and narrow hallway, Bobby demanded to know what was going on. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Swinging the bird forwards, Matthias pushed her through the narrow aperture, squeezing through after her with great difficulty. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

My aunt uses a cane to get from the living room to a narrow archway leading to the kitchen. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

John Henry narrowed his eyes, and I did the same. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

In the winter, the river was blue-green in the narrow fast-moving spots. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet at the same time, the thing that once was a person seems narrow and strangely weightless, swaying slightly in the breeze. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

So what if I suffered from full-fledged panic attacks every time I drove our beat-up '88 Camry through the winding, narrow roads to my new temporary digs? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was on a forlorn stone wall facing the mesarthium one, and the alley was too narrow for Lazlo to get an angle on it from a distance. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Tanin narrowed her silvery eyes at him in warning, but he was too drunk to notice. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

His eyes narrow and a smooth, tight voice snakes out, It is always why with you. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

In the dark hallway I met Henry, in his bathrobe, fumbling with his glasses; he was holding one of his kerosene lanterns and it cast long, weird shadows on the narrow walls. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“If the passageways are that confined and narrow, how did the cabin boy ever drag the pirate’s treasure down to the chamber in the first place?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The bluffs forced the river to a narrower width, deeper, and at the same time aimed it through some boulders that had split off either side and dropped in the middle. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The cousins’ mother appeared at the door, her arms crossed, her eyes narrowed, a smug smile on her face. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“What did he say about you being too narrow in the hips?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when our little vessel slipped between two small islands, the channel was so narrow we could almost touch the rocks on either side. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shivering in my wet clothes, I am cramped in the back on a narrow seat, next to other wet and desperate ones. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

He led Ned out a rear door and across a narrow yard, back to the cavernous stone bam where the work was done. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t anything warm or lively to attract them—merely long, low, narrow sheds by the thousands, with no lights inside. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes narrowed: whether from our long association, or from many dealings with human beings, and whether one kept silent or spoke to cloak one’s thoughts, he always knew the heart of the matter. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were led through a small wooden door, then up a narrow spiraling staircase whose stone steps seemed numberless. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He shoves me down a long and narrow staircase. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

After our narrow brush with the drippy Miss Goodacre, the house stayed discombobulated for weeks as Harry mourned and moped. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

We closed that entrance entirely and dug another, longer and narrower—our back door. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes narrowed as he realized I wasn’t going to let him pretend he didn’t know what I was talking about. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Chucha narrows her eyes as if trying to see something that has been a long way off but is now coming closer. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He studied the sky all the rest of the way up; the mare had only one direction to go because the trail had become too narrow even for her to turn around. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The door to the attic was just as Ophie remembered it, narrow and ancient, covered in dusty white paint. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She cracked her knuckles as her eyes narrowed. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

She is a sprightly, spidery woman, with a narrow nose and piercing hazel eyes as bright and sharp as a bird’s. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

In times of action her face took on a sudden new composure, almost serene, the fuzzy blue eyes narrowing into a tight, intelligent focus. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept quiet for a second, feeling my lips tighten and my eyebrows narrow. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

There were two long narrow windows in one wall. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her lips, narrow and compressed when she was awake, were looser and fuller in sleep, and almost smiling, like her sleeping eyes. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

My best friend’s narrow face, almost buried under his chestnut curly shag, filled the screen in the video-call app. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He narrowed the search to those who worked for private families. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He stood up and held the book closer to the faint gray light coming through the narrow window high on his wall. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Under the leadership of a vigorous new tlatoani, Cuitlahuac, the Indians forced the invaders into narrow alleys where horses were of little advantage. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Climbing the narrow iron stairway was intoxicating—going higher and higher, around and around, looking down, clinging to the slim iron railing, looking far far down onto the stone floor. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was sixty-four years old, with hair in a knot no larger than a walnut, and she looked almost as narrow from the front as she did from the side. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I crave to stop bearing all the wounds of this place on my own narrow body. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

For years I had heard about the Golden Gate, a narrow stretch of water connecting the Pacific Ocean to San Francisco Bay. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than a hundred buildings nestled dramatically on the rocky slope, linked by a maze of narrow paths and catwalks. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“A meat hook?” she repeated, eyes wide, then narrow. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Men and women are standing on narrow platforms, scraping the sides, working without safety straps or helmets. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Main Street, as it was called, ran down a valley so narrow in places that a boy with a good arm could throw a rock from one side of it to the other. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The closest thing Nathan could think of was an anteater with a long tongue that could slither down narrow crevices. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A huge step up from my narrow bunk in the Mews. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It stretched out before him, narrow and stony and pocked with weeds, a road of no particular promise, yet die sight of it filled Jon Snow with, a vast longing. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Everything looked the same: the narrow cot, the colorful picture of Jesus’ bleeding head crowned with thorns, a palm frond nailed above it, the simple table and chair. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then she looked at me, her eyes bright behind narrowed lids and raised up and struck me where it hurt. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know it’s a long way from Ted’s narrow path; still, salvation is what he wanted, and it seems to me salvation is what went down. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The street is too narrow; she will have caught him staring. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They strode down the narrow road through the village, past people bustling about. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But at this moment their guide came back and, beckoning them to follow, led the way down the narrow street between the houses. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The broad bottom of each pyramid spread the load and reduced settlement; the narrow top supported load-bearing columns. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She crawls along the center beam, from which the narrow planks of flooring emanate, toward the stone bulk of the chimney at the far end. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

There were narrow windows slotted between each section of bookcase, and he caught glimpses of the summer sky as he rolled past them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Only then did he toe off his sneakers and lie down on the narrow bed. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the Depression, when wrenching need narrowed the parameters of experience as never before, the liberation offered by the racehorse was, to young men like Pollard and Woolf, a siren song. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I may not be the most straight and narrow sheriff in town, but last I checked I’m the only sheriff in town. And no cocky city sheriff’s going to come in and run the show.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I narrowed my eyes but didn’t say anything. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I settled back onto my bed, spreading the paper’s narrow pages in front of me. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

She felt the thick layers of ash coating her hands and knees as she worked her way along down the narrow chute. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She had now moved beyond my parents in the narrow street and was walking backward, the better, I suppose, to observe me. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His evil eye grew narrow as he grinned. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there is a rutted dirt road, followed by a narrow mud and clay trail that zigzags upward. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

As they traveled farther into the maze, the glass lamps became scarcer, until only a stray torch or a narrow boat’s dim lantern lit the rotting boardwalks. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Harder to see much of anything, and the channel is still too narrow to make a turn, so we reverse back the way we came. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

His narrowed eyes were the unremarkable color of wet hay, and even though he was a scrawny, hunched little man, he was still terrifying somehow. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He knelt at the edge of the thicket, looking until he found a narrow winding trail through the fringes of oak. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Tanin’s eyes narrowed at a flicker of movement on the dock. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The doctor would suck his teeth and narrow his eyes at Hassan. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The entrance to our building was off a narrow alley. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It was Zu,” I began, already well aware of the narrow line I’d have to walk between the truth and what I could actually tell them—both for myself and for Zu’s sake. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

In the narrow street the dark houses of the village gave us some shelter from the wind, but the water of the Bay was already washing across the crushed oyster shells. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the long narrow driveway down which they drove Robbie away, into the whiteness. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

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

They sighted her in the narrows between the Isle of Cedars and the rugged hills of the Astapori hinterlands, just as the black priest Moqorro had said they would. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The mass returns quickly, filling in the spaces on each side of the narrow cordon of police. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They followed Grandpa up the stairs and down a carpeted hall to the foot of a narrow wooden staircase leading up to a white door. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The door led into a narrow corridor, just as it was on the floor plan. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were waiting in a narrow defile when their brothers appeared, leading their garrons. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She lived in the narrowest house in New York. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

These tracks were distinct, narrow and rounded, with deeper indents in the dirt near the heel and toe. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

An aide seated by the chalkboard narrowed her eyes and craned her head toward the windows. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The bomb line was a scarlet band of narrow satin ribbon that delineated the forwardmost position of the Allied ground forces in every sector of the Italian mainland. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

We were in a hallway so narrow you felt you’d be able to touch the walls on either side just by stretching out your elbows. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She described the torturous climb up the cliff at length, feeling the need to relive it inch by inch as Einar had told her he had, remembering each handhold, each precipice and narrow ledge. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was bald, with tattered ears, a narrow chest, a pot belly, and shriveled, spindly limbs. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“This is the strip,” he said, pointing to the long, narrow, red rectangle on the floor. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

And then I do this thing I picked up from Leah, where you kind of cut your eyes to the side and narrow them. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

There was a Joy Ice Cream cart and a man selling peanuts in narrow cones of paper cleverly designed to hold not more than eight or nine nuts. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I touched the page where the square section jutted out, narrowing the back part of the room. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She would always glance out of the narrow door and toward the horizon as she said that. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Biff Brannon sat on the bed, his knees crossed, his eyes scanning the group before him and then becoming narrow and fixed. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As we drove down the narrow, two-lane road, we passed vineyard after vineyard. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I pick up the pad and look at the drawing I did of him, his broad shoulders, his narrow waist, long legs, the trail of hair on his navel going down, down, down. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I narrowed my eyes to let her know this was no breakthrough. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They got back on the curb, and Nick followed Janet, putting one foot carefully in front of the other on the narrow concrete curb. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I passed my clipboard back to Lizzie, wondering why her eyes narrowed at me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They ate without speaking, first wolfing it down, then savoring each bite, chewing on the narrow bones, eating every scrap of potato. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to see his narrow green hawk eyes, see them enough in my mind. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Already at 6 a.m. people in Phnom Penh are rushing and bumping into each other on dusty, narrow side streets. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Browsing in one of the art galleries, we run into Granddad’s lawyer, a narrow, graying fellow named Richard Thatcher. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Closing the door behind them, the porter led them down the narrow hallway, and the only sounds were of their own breathing, and their footsteps along the corridor, and the snapping of the fire. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Even if they overlooked private property and sheriffs writing citations, most of the highways feature narrow shoulders, in a landscape that gets so pitch-black at night, any car rushing past would likely kill them all. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It is tall, almost as tall as the acrobat tent but narrower. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Except for a slight narrowing of her eyes, the judge’s expression never changes. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Wasting no time, I plunged down the narrow passage between the buildings, clambered up the wall, and slipped down into the garden a second time. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The woman named Narcissa gained the top of the bank, where a line of old railings separated the river from a narrow, cobbled street. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The bed is narrow, covered by a solid brown quilt. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He lay down timidly on the narrow bed, wrapping his arms around her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Larkin straightened up tall and proper, narrowed her eyes, and said, “Arthur Devlin, you and my husband may have been in the same grade, but you were never in the same class.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Soon afterward Hazel, limping ahead with Fiver near him, found himself on a narrow green path that divided the wilderness from the riverbank. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the street curved and narrowed, the steady traffic along it sounded louder and the warm fumes blew into her face. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She kept her wings folded as long as Bo was still in the narrow alley. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

We’d get a piece of cardboard and go tobogganing down the depot’s narrow staircase. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Kennedy’s eyes narrowed, then widened, and she bolted toward the door. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And him showing up is all I hope for tonight—a clue, a starting point, a narrower direction, something personal about this boy criminal. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

A task force of over two dozen Philadelphia police officers, Baltimore City and County police officers, and ATF and FBI officials flooded their uncle’s narrow three-story row house. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

They were wasplike, thorax and abdomen joined in narrow waists, wings like blades, and stingers longer than a child’s arm. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In relief at the narrow escape, they vent their emotions in impatience and criticism of the unlucky cripple. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The job had sounded impossible when he arrived fresh off his first year of college, looking to make some summer money, still a skinny teenager with sandy blond hair and a narrow, freckled face. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Its long narrow counter filled one side and long narrow benches ran along the other two sides. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her mind, she had narrowed down the possibilities of her secret admirer. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Our street is narrow, and he's not being quiet. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

My hands shake, and as I read, the world narrows to a pinprick of light, all sound fading away until only the roar of my heartbeat fills my ears. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

At once the bricks began to whirl and spin: A hole appeared in the middle of them, which grew wider and wider, finally forming an archway onto the narrow cobbled street that was Diagon Alley. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A dark figure crept through the narrow opening like a cat and reached back in for a coat and a pair of shoes. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He narrows his eyes at me, like he’s trying to read something but the print is too small. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

His narrowed eyes widened into something that looked very much like pity. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She looked from me to the rock to Fang, standing off to the side of the car, his back to us, hands on his narrow hips. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

As for Hester, she sat taciturn in the bow, her long ears flat against her skinny back and her eyes narrowed. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone was coming in, walking along the narrow path toward her. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Malala describes her childhood village in the mountains of Swat so clearly I can imagine the crisp clean air, waterfalls, and jagged cliffs with narrow suspension bridges. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He narrows his eyes and shakes his head. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I came in exhausted—I’d not had a proper night’s sleep for ages—and just collapsed onto his narrow bed, pushing him against the wall. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Buddy threw open a brown door, and we filed into the narrow room. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The fallen horses were well behind us when the soldiers ordered us to turn off the main road and down a narrow farm lane. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Alex was saved only by a narrow ditch in front of him. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I call again, this time looking at the girls as I say it, smiling and narrowing my eyes at them. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He was a tall, narrow man, like one of the marble pillars, except that, sheathed in sweat, he gleamed more. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went through the narrow belt of trees and came into the field where Holly had called Bigwig in the dark. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But here, narrow eyes watch me pass by. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She jumped up the high step into the wagon and then realized she’d be squeezed between Luke and Charles on the narrow seat. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He eased through the same front doors he’d entered the night before, but instead of following the corridor that led to the worship hall, he took a narrower side stairway up to the dormitories. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Magdalys narrowed her eyes, leaning forward even further, her face just inches above Missy’s slick hide. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The narrow strip of sky showing above the houses would stay light for many hours yet—long enough for him to make up his mind whether or not to go to Capricorn’s festivities. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

As she felt his narrow shoulders shake, the fury she had felt earlier began to build once more. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above them was the triforium, a row of arches that went up another twenty feet in front of a narrow passageway. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

The man who guided me did not speak as we moved along narrow alleys and lanes. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He took his foot off the gas pedal and looked for a place to turn around, but the road was narrow, and on either side the ditches were muddy and flowing with the run-off. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

We were each assigned a narrow cell with a cot, a crucifix on the wall, and a fount of holy water at the door. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The narrow boat rocked underneath Scipio's feet and he nearly stumbled. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

So deep and narrow was that chasm that the sky was dark, and in it small stars glinted. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He crossed his arms over his belly and narrowed his eyes at Jinx. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Others hid in narrow trenches as Allied tanks passed overhead, and then leaped out fearlessly, blasting the tanks from behind, even though they knew it meant certain death from the next tank or foot soldiers. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The senior police official, not in uniform, blue-eyed, with a narrow, flaring nose and inexpressive lips, eyed Rick, then reached for Rick’s briefcase. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

His eyes got narrow and he stared straight ahead. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at me and narrowed his angry eyes. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They found a narrow road leading upward: high ground ahead. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she looked up again, and her gaze narrowed on Sefia. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

On opposite ends of the pit were two wooden doors notched and spattered with dried blood, and behind them, in narrow stone chutes, were two boys. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She leveled the gun at Z, who looked at her with narrow eyes. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Bonello turned off and followed him and then Piani worked his way out and we followed the two ambulances ahead along the narrow road between hedges. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Backing off on the throttle, Dad carefully maneuvered the boat through the narrow channel along the sandbar. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He became a familiar sight in Ayemenem, coasting importantly down the narrow road in his wide car, looking outwardly elegant but sweating freely inside his woollen suits. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept my eyes on the narrow tracks ringing my throat so it was easier to pretend the call hadn’t pried me open a bit, that it hadn’t made me think. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Days could sometimes go by without us seeing a vehicle coming down that narrow road, and the ones that did were usually vans or lorries bringing supplies, gardeners or workmen. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The furnishings were sparse: a narrow bed, a rickety nightstand, and a secondhand trunk for clothes and books. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Her eyes opened wide, but she narrowed them almost at once. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Her ankle-length marigold skirt and white blouse were pinched together with a large leather belt, giving her the narrowest waist Percy had ever seen. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The servants’ steps were the quickest way down—not grand, but steep and straight and narrow, hidden in the walls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He pointed his Transvice at the broken window, where a man’s arm had snaked through the narrow gap and was groping along the walls. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Wealthy knights from Houses old in honor did not cross the narrow sea to sell their swords, unless exiled for some infamy. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Reaching the corner of the anchor, he peered around it and saw a narrow alley that dissolved into rubble. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We walked through the narrow passages, admiring the artworks and shivering to see chunks of bone sticking out of the walls. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Newt’s eyes narrowed as he looked out toward one of the entrances to the Maze. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He even caught a glimpse of the sentry along the narrow ridge just where he had so lately escaped by the door in the wall. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

But eventually the river narrowed and deepened again, and soon ahead of them began to rise the mountains of the great central Asian plateau. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Britten came close to Bigger and narrowed his grey eyes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The road narrowed to more of a path before I began to see some houses. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I climbed a hill and turned right into pine woods on a smaller road, and turned right on a very narrow road and turned right again on wheel tracks on pine needles. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

One by one we were taken from our cages, held gently but firmly by Dr. Schultz while Julie fastened around each of our necks a narrow ribbon of yellow plastic bearing a number. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ayanna gripped the carved end of her staff and narrowed her eyes. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Inside, Ekon was surprised to find that what he’d always assumed was just a broom closet actually contained a set of narrow, inclining stairs. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The aperture was so screened and narrow, that curtain or shutter had been deemed unnecessary; and when I stooped down and put aside the spray of foliage shooting over it, I could see all within. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then I saw the bright little ball, moving majestically across the narrow star field between the ridgelines. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Long and narrow they were, with a dark sleepy look in them, and in the middle of that dark sleepiness a wakeful light glittered like a jewel. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

And then soon after that, Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic, And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

They zigzagged through narrow cobblestone walkways, past courtyards with potted hibiscus trees and white stucco buildings with butterscotch trim and wrought-iron balconies. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

At the end of the street, a set of narrow stone steps led to the water's edge. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He scans his card at a heavy door on our left, and we walk down another hallway, this one narrow and lit with pale, fluorescent light. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The room contained two narrow beds, and a thick layer of dust covered everything as per usual in Daffodil Manor. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Stella saw her mother’s eyes narrow, but she switched subjects again. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And why did I see them now as behind a veil that threatened to lift, stirred by the cold wind in the narrow street? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We talked about physics,” Oppenheimer recalled, recognizing that Ernest’s intellectual interests were narrower than his own and that he might not be especially receptive to wide-ranging symposia on Eastern philosophy and Western art. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It was just a metal tube, with two seats on each side of a narrow aisle. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks at me through narrowed eyes, the kind of look a mother gives when she's figured something out. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Carmen practically flew up the narrow staircase that led to their apartment. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Catherine was lying in the narrow bed wearing a plain, square-cut night-gown that looked as though it were made of rough sheeting. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The reason they could not be seen was that sunlight was flooding the inside of Columbia, which meant that the pupils of our eyes automatically narrowed until only very bright objects could be seen. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She narrowed her eyes and felt the vision rising around her. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The narrow hallway was painted white, but the paint showed some stains. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marshall seemed content to sit and listen, so the game went on with daring adventures, narrow escapes, tragic illnesses and even a romance or two. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is striking, for instance, how many different professions and disciplines have a word to describe the particular gift of reading deeply into the narrowest slivers of experience. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

They turned left down the hall and ascended a narrow staircase. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the high narrow windows of the Red Keep's cavernous throne room, the light of sunset spilled across the floor, laying dark red stripes upon the walls where the heads of dragons had once hung. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The clearing narrowed, but there were none of the tangled bushes here, it was possible to walk upright. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

To the east was the Rio Puerco Valley, where the river had cut a deep narrow arroyo that now carried the water too low to benefit the valley land. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes would narrow until all I could see was the blacktop racing under me, and I’d hold on to the rage. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The orc-band began to descend a narrow ravine leading down into the misty plain below. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t take long to run out of paved road, and soon I’m driving down a narrow dirt trail, looking up, which is what Myra told me to do. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There were stairs at the back, narrow and rickety, and occasionally missing a tread, and down we went into the basement. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The bedroom was furnished mainly with a large double bed covered with an eiderdown comforter for the big Greek and a narrow iron cot for Singer. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A stomach-churning stench hissed through the narrow gap between the dumpster's lid and rim. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I narrow my eyes and shove her as hard as I can. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Turner did not know how he and Nettle came to be here, in this particular narrow street. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

In a critical sense, the police officers whom Klinger describes performed better because their senses narrowed: that narrowing allowed them to focus on the threat in front of them. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Flames light the rocky hillside on our right, making the ledge even narrower. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

By clinging tightly to what she believed she knew, narrowing her thoughts, reiterating her testimony, she was able to keep from mind the damage she only dimly sensed she was doing. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The railing is narrow and made of metal. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Amil rested on the ground, propped up against a narrow tree trunk. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She paused again, and for a moment she seemed to be inspecting us carefully through narrowed eyes. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yo, hurry up,” I say to Sneaky in a whisper, noticing some older kids watching us with narrowed eyes. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

His feet zigzag down two narrow, brown- paneled hallways. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Citra had traveled by air and on standard maglev trains, but the narrow, claustrophobic nature of a hypertrain made her uneasy. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The path was well maintained, though narrow; the dirt was hard packed in the center, and tufts of brown grasses grew along the edges. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Omar waited for me by the narrow stream that sliced through the length of our village. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was not the inadequacy of the machine but the Rad Lab’s inattention and its narrow focus that prevented the lab from winning credit for them. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He was staring over his shoulder at us, eyes narrowed. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The two weasel diggers thrust upwards in the narrow confines of the tunnel. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

His gaze narrowed as it dragged over tree trunks and up to the lush green canopy where sunlight filtered through. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Its narrow beam traveled from black trunk to black trunk, illuminating the ground. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He could barely see her face, but from her tone he knew her eyes were narrowed, as if trying to focus on a distant object. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then he mounted and rode alone back to his camp to begin the turning of the army, all the wagons and all the guns, down the narrow mountain road that led to Gettysburg. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is the ironwork too narrow for him to squeeze through? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I wrote to Albus, describing, perhaps insensitively, the wonders of my journey, from narrow escapes from chimaeras in Greece to the experiments of the Egyptian alchemists. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The cave narrowed into a long tunnel, which terminated in a small, cavernous room. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

A light snow began falling as the car wound its way up a narrow dirt road carved into the side of a mesa. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We scoured the entire lower level of the house, from the dining room to a narrow, dirty kitchen to a living room with the ugliest orange shag carpet I’d ever seen in my life. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She looks out the window, her eyes narrowed in thought. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

They were safely harbored in the narrow waters, with a long, rocky island to starboard and the sheer white cliffs of the mainland to port. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The narrow space outside the cells was stuffed with inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother sighs, narrows her eyes at the spaniel, Shelby, licking his nether parts. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The house is tall and narrow, eleven windows in its facade. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He studies the screenshot, his eyes narrowing on the dark silhouette perched in the dome’s maze of beams. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The plateau narrowed gradually to a valley and the valley to a pass between long ridges. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nhamo wriggled out and stood on the narrow ledge at the mouth of the cave. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes narrowed under his bushy red brows. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The bridge is supported by four curved metal structures that secure it to the stone wall, and by a maze of narrow girders beneath its lower tier. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The gravel road was getting narrower as we approached the bottom of the hill. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She told me about narrow streets with crowded bazaars. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went along a dark, narrow hallway until we reached a door, which he unlocked. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had been the one to suggest sitting on his narrow bed. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

What it would be like to spend ten years in this tall narrow house, shuttered from the world, studying its secrets and reading its volumes and looking at this girl. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

People make shortcuts through narrow tunnels in the vegetation called furos. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The narrow strip of light at the edge of the closet door widens, and your breath stops. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

She narrows her puffy eyes into a warning. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry saw Mad-Eye Moody limp into sight through the narrow gap between their heads. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Through the middle of the synagogue ran a narrow aisle that ended at the large podium. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She thought her brow too wide, the chin too narrow, the lips too thin. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Come on,” Max says, and charges up the winding narrow stairs, and Jutta huffs along behind, each quarter turn presenting a narrow window of blue sky, Max practically hauling her up the steps. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Magdalys narrowed her eyes and ran harder, slamming into the dactyl’s back and wrapping her arms around its neck like Bernice had said to do. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ray narrowed his eyes at his brother. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Caruthers sat up in her bed, covers clutched to her chin, her eyes narrowed with suspicion. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got it narrowed down pretty much to either Royal Danish or Rambler Rose.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

All through the day, the heavy thump of the locomotives’ steam pistons thundered down our narrow valleys, the town shaking to the crescendo of grinding steel as the great trains accelerated. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the spring he had longed to plant begonias and zinnias in a narrow bed around his tent but had been deterred by his fear of Corporal Whitcomb’s rancor. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

And soon the path became clear again: It was narrow but hard- trodden, and the trees parted from it willingly. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He led them along a very narrow passageway. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t exactly a choice,” Mama said, but Cook ignored her and continued chattering on at Ophie as they walked down the narrow hallway to the servants’ quarters out behind the house. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

But he must have a remarkable memory or reliable instincts, because he leads us up through a maze of twisting staircases and increasingly narrow halls. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I soon realized he could never be a kindred spirit, but still tried to help him break out of his narrow world and expand his youthful horizons. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The trio dashed up a narrow pathway to where they saw the robot extending its quadruple-jointed mechanical arm to pluck a flat metal box out of a slide-in compartment. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Will set off at once toward the sound, and Lyra followed behind as he plunged down a narrow alley shadowed from the moonlight. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty-three Delta females, long-headed, sandy, with narrow pelvises, and all within 20 millimetres of 1 metre 69 centimetres tall, were cutting screws. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to read his face but was met by a look that was indecipherable: the cheerful, cretinous grin at odds with the narrow, half-desperate look in his eyes. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

A narrower gate stood closed on the riverbank side. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

While they were setting up camp at the foot of the rapids, Rondon and Kermit found a deep and narrow stream entering the River of Doubt. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

She raised Laila’s burqa and placed the wide end of the instrument on her belly, the narrow end to her own ear. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He furrowed his brow and glowered at Colonel Korn through eyes narrow with suspicion, his fists clenched on his hips. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

And between these, the tail feathers were even sharper, and they narrowed and narrowed, like scissors. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But instead of this a narrow ledge of rock, a few yards wide and perhaps fifteen long, continued the island out into the sea. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The manner in which the Farewell Address was actually composed, as it turned out, served as a nearly perfect illustration of its central message—the need to subordinate narrow interests to the larger cause. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Dr. Legs narrowed her eyes and tilted her head. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Since our cottage was at the village fringe, the priest and I bore her remains along the narrow, rutted road that led to the cemetery. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The system was to bring everything down the new road and take the empty trucks, carts and loaded ambulances and all returning traffic up the old narrow road. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Mariam passed the girl on the stairs, in the narrow hallway, in the kitchen, or by the door as she was coming in from the yard. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

My usual time to arrive was after lunch, and I’d come up to find Tommy stretched out on the narrow bed—always fully clothed because he didn’t want to “be like a patient.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, with my fingernails, which I never bit because why bite something that didn’t hurt, I would pull the skin off in narrow strips. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As I passed the building I discovered a narrow passageway running by its further side. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Horrible pictures formed in Harry’s mind as he heard: “Oooh, narrow miss there, very narrow”. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He held up his wand, muttered, “Lumos!” and saw that he was in a very narrow, low, earthy passageway. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Its narrow, crooked streets were transformed into a sea of black and brown uniforms. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

By February 1955, the tunnel was nearly done—complete with its own ventilation system and trolley for moving men and materiel along the full length of the narrow passageway. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Lyseni was a sleek, smiling man whose flamboyance was a byword on both sides of the narrow sea. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Padva says, turning the form around and regarding the train with a narrowed eye. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The short, wiry man had the narrow face of a ferret and what I can only describe as psycho eyes. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

His eyes narrowed, his mouth worked strenuously; for the first time that afternoon he was intent. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind dropped and the sun narrowed to a single beam, bright enough to light just one small front porch in one small town. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The house was square, with a narrow, covered engawa wrapped around it. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her hair had been hacked short, so its iron gray curls burst helter-skelter all over her narrow head. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The path is narrower here, so we go single file. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes narrow at me and she gives me a gentle warning look. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

A narrow weirwood door stood between two slender marble pillars, a crescent moon carved in the white wood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was too narrow for us to descend side by side, so I followed Helen, who seemed to be in no hurry, and complained at one point that she had a bad knee. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The pearl buyers’ offices were clustered together in one narrow street, and they were barred at the windows, and wooden slats cut out the light so that only a soft gloom entered the offices. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boulders blocked the way to a narrow strip of sand, with more rocks beyond. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Most of the time, though, I exult, and think I have had a narrow escape. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He immediately regretted the remark as her eyes narrowed. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The teachers herded us into a narrow, sandy courtyard where, I heard a veteran schoolgoer say, morning assemblies were held. announced the principal in a loud, excited voice. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night she lay in her narrow bed upon the scratchy straw, listening to the voices of the living and the dead whisper and argue as she waited for the moon to rise. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Jane is small—I can see her upper arm narrow as she flexes her muscles. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

He veered right, then ducked into a narrow alleyway as the sounds of more warriors neared. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The man they wanted was all the way at the top of the hill, in a huge house of timber and plaster whose upper stories loomed over the narrow street. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Witnesses believe there's a wide road and a narrow road. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

She is halfway down the narrow front walk when I ask her my first question. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The margin was so narrow, however, that he believed that if Harrison ran again, he would win. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Places like the caves at the narrow end, and the breaks in Lalao’s fence, and the shortcuts through the woods that led to the next barrio where all sorts of pocavergüenzas took place. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He led her slowly up the narrow stairs to the kitchen door, his hand circling her waist and the tips of his fingers feeling the soft swelling of her breasts. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The visitors came up the narrow road through the forest from the south; they filled the spare-rooms, they bunked out in cow byres and barns. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair was still wet with her agony and her narrow eyes were sunken. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Her eyes narrowed and her lips drew back fiercely over her teeth as she said the word. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here,” Eleanor said, but the door she chose led onto the narrow passage to the little parlor where last night they had sat before a fire. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He photographs the narrow sidewalks, the dark cobblestone streets, the mansard roofs, the ancient, shuttered buildings of pale beige stone. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A medium-sized room had been divided to make a narrow strip of a kitchen and, presumably, a bedroom next door. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She strived to maintain a link with outside reform work to avoid being “wholly absorbed in a narrow family selfishness.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She could not have said how she got back to Flea Bot-tom, but she was breathing hard by the time she reached the narrow crooked unpaved streets between the hills. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I slide up so I am sitting at the head of the narrow bed with my feet tucked under me. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The big spearwife narrowed her eyes and said, "If the crow would join the free folk, let him show us his prowess and prove die truth of him." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There’s one huge hall laid with light-green carpet for praying, a long and narrow dining room laid out with rows of tables and plastic chairs, and another smaller hall for Sunday school. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Something about the long, dark tunnel he felt narrowing around him. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

This one's got a long narrow planter with chili pepper plants. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The trail narrowed to pass through a thicket, and as I folded myself through I saw Otto at the far side of the clearing, dangling between two trees. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

As I stepped into the house she sat down on a wooden bench positioned at the bottom of a narrow carpeted staircase. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Instead, I backed away and scurried down the narrowest of alleys, the walls so close I could have touched either side by stretching out both arms. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

She looks up at me and narrows her eyes. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Along one side was a wide shelf of rock, which ran out to the sea through a narrow opening. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shrill voice of Helen, a narrower edition of her mother, and Nancy, her horrid little child. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, it was a narrow way—and John stirred in his seat, not daring to feel it God’s injustice that he must make so cruel a choice. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

This four-lane concrete highway slashed with speeding cars I remember as a narrow, twisting mountain road where the wood teams moved, drawn by steady mules. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a building unremittingly unrevealing of what it held inside, with thick, featureless walls pale blue in colour and high, narrow windows impossible to look in through. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The emotion of their reunions exhausts them so that they often nap together under a tree, or in Ivanito’s narrow bunk bed. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her focus narrowed to the small, black dot in the center of the target. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I still saw the print in my textbooks as a red blur, still saw my baby brothers spirit strung together by narrow lines of blood. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

A tall man with narrowed blue eyes paused as he was exiting the door. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

She stood with her back pressed against the paneled wall of the narrow hallway between her bedroom and the kitchen. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

They rode in silence across the narrow Callidian Strait, with only the sounds of the water rocking against the boat to accompany them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Or passing them in narrow halls where they try to jump you, steal your shoes or money. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

His eyes narrowed and his square jaw tightened. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Isaac was always telling me I had a narrow perspective. Anyway. Borrow anything you want.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

My pace quickened as we were ushered past all the people milling about, through a very narrow, dimly lit marble hall, where our voices and footsteps echoed. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To squeeze the body into a narrow, hand-dug grave, he had to push the limbs together. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Amá’s jaw tightens, and her eyes narrow in a way that tells me I'm not going to win. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Miss Larsen’s room is tidy and bright, and about the size of a storage closet—barely big enough for a single bed, a tall oak dresser, and a narrow pine desk with a brass lamp. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I don’t have to evaluate whether every thought I have or choice I make fits into a narrow ideology. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

His right eye turned bright white as he puffed out his narrow chest, sucked in a mouthful of air, and blew a stream of cottonseed-filled air at the door. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Vehicles shrieked their horns, carving a narrow path through the sea of refugees. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

We walk down a flight of narrow stairs where the echo of our footsteps layers over itself, dissonant and hollow. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He climbed up to the attic bedroom Elinor had given him and lay down on the narrow bed with the crates of books towering around it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

His frame was delicate, his wrists as narrow as mine, with knobs of bone that looked like they could be broken off like hard candy. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

And here we are, face-to-face in the narrow passage. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Soon after arriving in the deserted village Capricorn had had gratings fitted over the narrow niches where long-dead priests slept in their stone tombs. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

An epidemic of pneumonia raged through the wet, narrow streets, and for a week Doctor Copeland slept at odd hours, fully clothed. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Ten years ago, Tyrion had read a fragment of Unnatural History that had eluded the Blessed Baelor, but he doubted that any of Barth’s work had found its way across the narrow sea. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her eyes go narrow, like she’s trying to see if I’m joking or not. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We ran outside, some of us falling as we crowded through the narrow door and gathered around our teachers for safety and comfort, like chicks around a mother hen. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Just down-stream from where the trail met the river, the Teklanika erupted into a chaos of boiling whitewater as it accelerated through the narrow gorge. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even after stumbling into his narrow bed, rest had not come easily. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m not sure that we settled on an exact—” Terry narrows her eyes and frowns. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He could hear a rabbit moving behind him, but the run was so narrow that he could not have turned even if it had been safe to do so. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth looks at him over her knitting, sizing him up with narrowed eyes that remind him of his sternest teachers, though he stands much taller than she does. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He shapes it into a narrow cylinder then rolls the paper, licking the edge with the delicacy of a preening cat. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But on Thursday afternoon, in that narrow window between school and rehearsal, I finally see her stepping out of the bathroom near the atrium. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He narrowed his eyes and surveyed the territory. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He wiped sweat from his forehead on his coat sleeve, slipped off the narrow black tie that hung open around his collar and put it in his pocket. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Simultaneously her right hand picked up a narrow strip of dark green tissue paper. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without a word, but with lips tight and eyes narrowed, the girl and her daemon left and went to bed. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The creek it crossed was only a reedy trickle, narrow enough to step across, so I decided to go that way. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was stuffed to plumpness, most of it, with a narrow neck ending in a golf ball-size head. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

But his narrowed eyes bounce off me, glomming on to something beyond. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I had to keep the scope of my situation as narrow as possible or risk falling apart. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Like waves breaking on the narrow beach down at the river. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He whistled an old song, and as he descended the narrow stairs the tune left a broken echo behind him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He studied the scene with narrowed eyes as if he could sense that I’d just come dose to death, the way a wolf can smell fear. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He was almost as tall as Ekon, built like a stack of boulders, but his long, narrow face had the twitchy likeness of a meerkat. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“You have no right to do this. Any of it,” Seven’s mother said, her eyes narrowed at Mr. Pepperhorn. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

We took turns bathing in the narrow bathroom, with halffull buckets of water, warmed for a while with a heating coil plunged into them. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She gave a narrowed eye to the crow, wrinkling her lips into a frown. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Varney had narrow, undemonstrative eyes, gray eyes, as though they were issued by the Marine Corps. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

John closed the door behind him and stood in the narrow church aisle, hearing behind him the voices of children playing, and ruder voices, the voices of their elders, cursing and crying in the streets. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I undressed in one of the bath-cabins, crossed the narrow line of beach and went into the water. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

But this may be too narrow a view. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lifted Robin and carried him to his own cell and put him on the narrow cot. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The parting in his short gray hair was almost unnaturally straight, and his narrow toothbrush mustache looked as though he trimmed it using a slide rule. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The sentry unbarred the door, and his terrier dæmon quivered as the three figures maneuvered their burden with difficulty through the narrow entrance. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The long strip of a building had nine rooms, side by side, with doors that led out onto a narrow veranda. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Alby’s eyes narrowed; his mouth pulled into a tight grin that didn’t look like it had anything to do with humor. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

Charles narrowed his eyes and chilled his hushed voice. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The handle, etched with narrow, parallel lines, was surprisingly cool. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The bridge was narrow but sturdy over the river. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Redemption dragged the bench over and levered half of it so it was at a right angle, a narrow L. Pet lifted Hibiscus easily with one hand and deposited him in the seat. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She narrowed her eyes and curled her lacerated fingertips into her palms. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

We made our way down the narrow path and stopped in front of the tombstone. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The actual debate in the House in the fall and winter of 1795 proceeded under Madison’s more cautious leadership and narrower interpretation of the Constitution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I was walking along a narrow flagstone path. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Behind the big glass windows, on a narrow wooden stage, stood the prize to end all prizes. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

From this he carefully unfolded a narrow ladder that made Bridge think of a tongue reaching out to taste the floor. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The buildings are narrow, closely built, as the city’s perimeter is longer than it is wide, stretching two miles along the Tonle Sap River. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night before William left, he lay in his narrow bed in the dormitory, staring into the darkness. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The river was low and there were stretches of sand and pebbles with a narrow channel of water and sometimes the water spread like a sheen over the pebbly bed. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I found myself in a narrow lane, hemmed in on either side by foliage so that I could gain little idea of what was around me. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

It showed clean river with narrow banks where he guessed the lake was and if it was inaccurate about this one thing then it might be wrong about all things. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Just when I was sure the tunnel would get so narrow it would squish us, it opened into a huge room. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Horan’s team was sent to one of the new fortified villages north of Saigon, reached by a narrow, pothole-filled dirt road, barely passable in their open jeep. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I was standing on a narrow stone walkway in the middle of the air. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

There were only two windows topping each sidewall, narrow rectangles of pebbled blue plastic that gave a bit of a death-glow pallor to the faces around me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The way was narrow and steep, the steps worn in the center by centuries of feet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She narrows her eyes at me, ready to debate. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I narrow my eyes with envy and hatred. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they found the cove, they left the manager in charge of the boat, crossed some railroad tracks, walked gingerly across a narrow trestle, and headed uphill through the woods. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Her eyes narrowed and he changed his mind about the twelve dollars. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shined his flashlight into the narrow space. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

They gathered such small boulders and broken stones as they could find to hand, and under Gimli’s direction the Westfold-men blocked up the inner end of the culvert, until only a narrow outlet remained. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

His narrow eyes were puffy with crying and as he sniffled, dozens of rings tinkled along the lobes of his ears. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

His black open palm swept upward in a swift narrow arc and smacked solidly against her face. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A narrow smile; a flash of yellow teeth. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She tried to crawl into the narrow crowded closet to nail it down but her voluminous nightgown got her tangled up. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The long, narrow windows let in the sunlight, and I sit in one of the pews and look around, thinking: What now? All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Relaxed and unhurried, he resolved that he would walk through the narrow streets of Tangier. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound that had awakened Kira was not shouts and jostling but simply the tread of feet as the people streamed up the narrow lanes and moved into the throng waiting to enter the building. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks at me, and her eyes narrow in confusion. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The telephone poles stood firm, but the pines, both narrow and thick, had fallen, like soldiers in ugly army green had been shot up in the road. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Turning to the left and skirting this huge hedge Treebeard came in a few strides to a narrow entrance. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

On her face was the panicked look she had worn ever since they had arrived in New York three months ago after a narrow escape from the secret police. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I found my clothes laid out on her narrow bed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing in the world,” was the reply; and, replacing the paper, I saw him dexterously tear a narrow slip from the margin. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I narrow my eyes, focusing only on her and Jay, who's riding on her shoulder as unruffled by the commotion as she is, and we finally make it to the other side. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

German pilgrims, Italians humming hymns, and Japanese travelers wearing small purple caps converged on the same narrow pathways. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually we came into a narrow side-street that had the occasional shop, but was mainly just ordinary houses. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t believe it was a rodent because the holes were narrow and directly atop the seeds themselves. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She looked around and, noticing the empty shop, narrowed her eyes at them. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit was accelerating, his rhythm building, his mind narrowed down to his task at the urgent call of his rider. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I backed through the door as noiselessly as I could and ducked into a narrow space between the tavern and the building next to it. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

We snaked our way among the merchants and the beggars, wandered through narrow alleys cramped with rows of tiny, tightly packed stalls. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then a head peeps through the narrow opening. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

But his eyes were narrow and far away. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

As he pushed his cart down the narrow street, lively children dressed in gay colors flew toward him like a festival of silk kites. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was still rows of narrow beds, but here they weren’t stacked two high. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“How long have you known this?” he says, narrowing his eyes. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She looks up from the Almanac, narrows her eyes at me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Despite the many shacks, a few narrow, dark, rat-infested alleyways still remained. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had the same standard tin roof, the same cement floor, a narrow kitchen, and a bucket toilet in back. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes narrowed and I could feel beads of sweat forming on my nose once again. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I ascended the narrow access ladder mounted between the adjacent rows of capsules, then stepped onto the short platform beneath the hatch to my unit. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I can barely make out that narrow window. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

My mom calls it a galley kitchen because it’s a narrow room with the cabinets and appliances on either side. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

It was a narrow room with a small table squeezed in at one end. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“The Poet ,” he said with emphasis, and narrowed his eyes on the baby, “says nothing about Witches and babies.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They were at the very bottom of the hill, across the narrow road that led to the entrance of his grandparents’ property. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Frozen cars occupied the road, nearly bumper to bumper, only the narrowest of gaps between them. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I train my narrow vision on the tiny heads peeking over the edge of the nest. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

We cross out all the ones we absolutely hate and narrow it down that way. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Fenoglio narrowed his eyes and looked at Mo with great curiosity. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

To survive in this steep, narrow hodgepodge of ecosystems, Andean communities usually sent out representatives and colonies to live up- or downslope in places with resources unavailable at home. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The colonel turned and stared down at Dunbar suspiciously with a narrow squint. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Barb’s eyes narrow at me and I shrug innocently. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

It was a relief not to be writing out the she saids, or describing the weather or the onset of spring or her heroines face—beauty, she had discovered, occupied a narrow band. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The narrower their lives, the wider their hips. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

And so they turned, battling in the narrow room, and the odor of Elisha’s sweat was heavy in John’s nostrils. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He fed himself and made his way, but his world had grown dark, narrow, and lonely. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Epler was egg-shaped; narrow at the top and bottom, bulging in the middle. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I find a room with narrow windows in the stone walls and give myself permission to take a small break. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

With a quick clasp of Kit’s hand she was gone and Nat, shouldering her trunk in one easy motion, followed her along the narrow dirt road. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the steps came around the corner and into the narrow hall, and then Oscar stepped inside the closet and ran his hand over the hanging suits and dresses, then stopped cold. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Shadow and Jacquel wheeled the loaded gurney to the narrow flight of stairs. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Something is sparkling on a narrow ledge about five feet below the cliff’s edge. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The lowest deck was packed with cargo, forming narrow walkways in the hold. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He let in the clutch with a roar and leapt up the narrow street. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Her eyes narrow as she walks closer, and then stops directly behind him. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The trail comes down to the riverbank just upstream from a narrow gorge, through which the Teklanika surges in a boil of white water. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever that place was, it wasn’t his room, which was long and narrow and slanted downhill. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The path through the wreckage to the Red Cross tents was narrow, and then it was gone. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sharp points Nhamo had thoughtfully carved at the narrow end discouraged them. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took a glass from a narrow shelf and filled it from a faucet. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He read our sign over Uncle Grady, and his old pink eyes narrowed. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It held nothing but a narrow bed surrounded by crates of books towering up to the rafters. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The companions made their camp in a narrow gorge, glad for the chance to sleep even on the muddy ground. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

For one thing, Lancelot arrived, at the last moment, by a still narrower margin. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old tires and nail-studded logs were strewn across most of the road, leaving only a narrow space. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The marten was sitting on the narrow sill, looking in at her with sleepy eyes. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The sound in my ears narrowed until all I could hear was that psychotic cackle. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I felt blood rushing through all the narrow parts of my body: the wrists, the throat, the backs of my knees. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His head turned swiftly, eyes narrowing, and in what seemed like a single motion he was by her side, a hand on the back of her neck. he said. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The barracks they were assigned had a long brick oven along one end and deep trenches on the sides in which sleeping shelves were placed, like triple bunk beds, at impossibly narrow intervals. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In contrast, the Mediterranean zones of southwestern Australia and, to a lesser degree, of South Africa and western Europe offer a narrower range of altitudes, habitats, and topographies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We walked up the stairs, back into the dim corridor, and up a second narrow stairway to the floor above. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I snort out loud, and he narrows his eyes. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

For long days and nights, stories flew over my head as I slept in my narrow bed at Bush Hill. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They valued Mary’s help for this task, as she on her own could squeeze into narrower gaps than the mulefa, and, with her double hands, work in tighter spaces. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Between the rows of old houses and the canals, the sidewalks were already too narrow for the crowds jostling one another and stopping to take pictures. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I go to the window and sit on the window seat, which is too narrow for comfort. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The darker man narrows his eyes and studies Yolanda a moment. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Reynolds came over and stood blocking the narrow passage between the benches; he folded his arms and stared at me solemnly. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stop in the doorway, staring out the window across the narrow hall. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

His guard was sprawled bonelessly across the narrow steps, looking up at him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The three windows in the room were narrow. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Then he narrowed his eyes and said, “What’s the one thing I value most in this world?” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Even under the soldier’s helmet, Pinmei could see the emperor’s eyes narrow. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It took her more than an hour to find the low narrow window that slanted down to the dungeon where the monsters waited. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He drank his way across the narrow sea. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was standing on a narrow track made up of loose gray pebbles that crunched under his combat boots when he walked. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Even on the narrow path, she was constantly shoving past branches and twigs, tripping over roots and rocks. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The Sixers had narrowed the search area for everyone. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Against the sullen redness of the eastern sky a cleft was outlined in the topmost ridge, narrow, deep-cloven between two black shoulders; and on either shoulder was a horn of stone. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He is unaccustomed to the banality of domestic flights, the narrow cabin, the single bag he’s packed, small enough to stow overhead. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The man nodded, staring at me with his narrow idiot’s eyes. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the very look of the man’s eyes Bigger saw his own personality reflected in narrow, restricted terms. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

For example, any pants with a leg narrower than eight inches for women or nine inches for men would be considered fourolds. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trail was so narrow that they were riding single file. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

This narrowing, which was above all a stripping away of identity, began weeks before she had even heard of Sister Drummond. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The day before I returned to England, I drove seven miles along the mountain range, then turned onto a narrow dirt road and stopped in front of a powder-blue house. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He folded his blanket carefully and draped it in a narrow strip over his left shoulder, and now they were ready. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the flowerbed was a clear footprint—three large toes and a narrow heel. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She narrowed her eyes, giving me one of her nonplussed stares. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Still, I remind myself to be calm—so I narrow my eyes at him and put my hands on my hips. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

To my great surprise the opening had narrowed. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was broad down by Cambridge, but narrower up above, and would be easy to cross, she guessed, remembering the little river they’d camped by. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She narrowed her eyes and nailed them both with her fiercest glare. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around the corner, the road hit a bridge over a narrow river. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The men stepped to either side, allowing us a narrow passage. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

She pulls him by his arm as she begins walking down the narrow ledge. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

In the days and weeks that followed Willie’s shooting, Whitiker made perhaps the most painful decision a mother could make in order to keep her family on the straight and narrow. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She was beginning to see how narrow her scientific horizons were. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Connor grinned at me, and I narrowed my eyes at him. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Once past the flower fields the lane narrowed to a path that meandered through the thickets edging the river. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He made his way through the narrow city streets, turning blindly, terrified he’d freeze to death before he found shelter. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I obeyed and found several tall green stalks ending in white velvety petals, narrow and pointed like swords, and flecked with gold. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Bennie narrowed her eyes in a pretty good imitation of her mom’s suspicious face. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Woolf saw the white cap slipping out of reach and feared that this narrow path would be his only chance to break loose. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for the comics I spent most of the summer on the straight and narrow. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z