‘Name the terms,’ said Gandalf steadily, but those nearby saw the anguish in his face, and now he seemed an old and wizened man, crushed, defeated at last. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Scruggs would go along on one of the helicopter rides to a nearby village to provide sanitation measures and simple medical care. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

From a nearby rooftop, a booming voice yelled, ‘STOP THEM!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Ophie washed her hands in the nearby sink and returned to the center island to help Cook with the rolls. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The two warriors and a nearby fledgling who was half awake laughed obediently with their King. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

When the waiter passed nearby, she waved him down and ordered a vodka tonic. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Nausea washed over her and she stumbled, banging the backs of her legs on a nearby crate. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I recognized the male nearby as the one who sat on me yesterday. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Granny grabbed a piece of rope nearby and came to my mother’s aid. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

As young and optimistic as the characters on my cassette tape, they'll occasionally invite me to join them for an after-school get-together at a nearby cafe. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Jang was also given a coveted job on a nearby farm, where there were opportunities to steal corn, rice, and green vegetables. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

And we pray the same way at the same times, waking to the sound of the call for prayer floating in from the nearby mosque. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

At a far corner of Min’s yard he had dug a hollow just big enough to hold the bowl, and had found a large flat rock nearby to use as a cover. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

From scouting the area, they knew there were about thirty German guards at the nearby railway station. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, almost immediately, we heard another bark from a nearby crowd. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He pressed the button on a nearby empty tub and watched as the warm water flowed in through the many small openings on the sides. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had moved his young family to Durham in 1927, when C.P. was only a few months old, from a small town nearby when the mill there had closed. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dorian’s attention flicked to her two guards, who lurked in the shadows nearby—waiting, watching. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

My jab elicited laughter from a few of his friends and the other students standing nearby. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Tam Lin built a fire and stacked dry wood nearby. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The river laps calmly at the nearby docks, the masts of dozens of small riverboats bobbing gently up and down like a forest of dancing spears. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

"I'd hurry if I were you. And is there a restroom nearby?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I flipped on the computer and scanned the Google Earth view of Bhutan and the nearby countries of India and Nepal. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The kid sister tagged along, and Nately felt like the proud head of a family as the three of them ate respectably in a nearby open-air cafe. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She figured that he must have stopped at a nearby drugstore to use the telephone booth when I later told her that Malcolm X had telephoned me upstate at about 3:30 that afternoon. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel stepped off the path and plopped down behind a nearby tree. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

If I looked hard enough, I’d probably find a bottle of vodka nearby. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Lying nearby were other widows, their soft sighs and turnings like so many doves fluttering around me. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wipe my hands clean on a nearby towel, reach in my bag and take out Guillermo’s copy of Mom’s book on Michelangelo. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Non-Mormon as well as Mormon kids are given time in their school schedules—the kids call it going to “seminary”—to visit nearby Mormon churches daily. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex glanced around: some boys were hitting grounders with a tennis ball over on a nearby baseball diamond, but the rest of the park was empty; he couldn’t spot Rex anywhere. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

She was followed by people from the nearby huts. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the kids at the nearby tables were cracking up, but Adrian Morse was doubled over. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He paid weekend visits to a nearby neighborhood to check in on his constituents, often with me reluctantly in tow. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Many affluent families left Pensacola for Santa Rosa County, and military families from nearby Eglin Air Force Base settled there. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“My son has a new friend in America!” he started shouting to nearby people, some neighbors, others strangers passing through. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they were the only ones I could talk to, as their loved one lay immobilized nearby, heavily sedated or asleep. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They take him and two younger boys, sitting nearby, to a cavernous railroad shed, where seven other officers are holding twenty migrants. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

At a nearby bakery, hungry men gathered in front of the plate-glass window separating them from racks of freshly baked bread, hoping the window would implode. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Dimly, he was aware of the others waiting nearby. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weekend had been exhausting, getting their various family members to the apartments of nearby friends who were away and had given them keys. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But when he knew he heard Odysseus’ voice nearby, he did his best to wag his tail, nose down, with flattened ears, having no strength to move nearer his master. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was watching some little boys playing on the nearby patch of grass. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Before long the changing sound their footsteps made told them that there was an openness nearby, although the mist was even thicker. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I investigated a nearby pockmark and saw, in the ring of impact, the fat coil of a caterpillar. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

A sound came from somewhere nearby in the green gloom, echoing off the stones—the howl of a large animal. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

But it’s the most popular toy in the neighborhood, and when she isn’t nearby, I roll around in it proudly as the other children watch in awe. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After his appointment, Moore went to his parents’ house nearby. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The Green Door recently had been abandoned for larger quarters on nearby Portugal Place. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

After Granny and my mother left, I reclined on top of a huge boulder nearby and gazed eastward at the flickering stars slowly vanishing from a bleak eastern sky. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I soon saw that he was on his way toward the cows that belonged to the old bull sitting nearby. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

August 21 Second Rule Add an s to verbs acted by one person in the present tense, even if there’s already an s sound nearby. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The soldiers took Herold with them on a ride into a nearby town while Booth spent the night of April 24 at Garrett’s farm. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have found no freshwater springs nearby, and so we are still dependent on the river for water. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

They were probably sleeping off their first meal nearby. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, in the old mines of nearby District 2, they saw opportunity. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The sheep fidgeted nearby, uneasy with their new owner and excited by so much change. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liam looked like he was about to say something, but instead, he let out a frustrated grunt, spun on his heel, and started toward the nearby trees, in the exact opposite direction Chubs had taken. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He is first in line to the presidency, lives at a nearby hotel, and is completely unguarded. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Moving tentatively, she sat down in the nearby rocker and stared into the fire. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I moved to a nearby table as I finished my second verse and led the room in the chorus again. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I rip an armful from the nearby trees and carry it back to the beach. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

A nearby stream tumbled out of a glade. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upon seeing the size of the package, an old woman nearby quipped, “Madam must have had one of her sumptuous banquets.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rover crested a nearby dune with the trailer in tow. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A contortionist in a sparkling black costume twists on a platform nearby, bending her body into impossible shapes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“There has to be a shelter nearby. Somewhere safe we can hide.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

A car came, and Hall was driven to the top of a nearby mesa and through the gates of Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

DON’T WORRY! if the sick person’s device didn’t detect the device of someone he knew nearby. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The air was fresh, and he could hear a stream flowing nearby. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Through the wooden staves he heard men shouting, and once a horse whickered nearby. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Typically, men openly sold their votes for alcohol, but he had noticed that it didn’t happen when the women were nearby. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Choose another point nearby and connect the two. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The ground was uneven, with roots protruding from the forest floor, and when she reached out to steady herself on a nearby tree trunk she felt something move beneath her fingers. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kapasi watched as they crossed paths with a Japanese man and woman, the only other tourists there, who paused for a final photograph, then stepped into a nearby car and drove away. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Another grenade landed nearby, and shrapnel tore into him in a dozen places. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Our father had left the house that morning to watch the rally from the rooftop of a nearby building. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He and Leila had met in high school in nearby Box Elder County, and ever since, they had walked, biked, and read together, and enjoyed each other’s company, often with few words exchanged. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Brutus is within shooting distance and somewhere, certainly, Cashmere is nearby, too. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“He's staying in a nearby motel right now, but he's going to get a small place of his own. Of course, you'll still see him.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I can see Hansa, merchant ships, old fishing boats, trawlers, and even dinghies that have brought fleeing people from the nearby lagoon. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I went to the door to see if either was nearby. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

They’d be more likely to kill civilians living nearby than to seriously damage the plant. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the men working nearby would watch me and laugh. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three fires were lit nearby, and the men of the town chanted during the cremation until his spirit had left his body and a holy man announced that Sassur was dead. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

They assumed there would be activity there, that if anywhere would have a police or military presence, it would be Claiborne, the main thoroughfare nearby. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The dog in the nearby house starts to bark. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I can’t beg him to stay, and I certainly can’t say out loud that I feel wobbly and unbalanced without him nearby. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

After the storm there was a flicker ing and crackling in the forest nearby. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But you could hardly beat the shop’s setting—if you looked west, beyond nearby Brigham City, the Rockies exploded dramatically toward the sky. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

On a nearby shelf, I spotted a small stockpile of candles. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Usually it was painful and obvious when a hollow was nearby, but in a giant space like this—among hundreds of people—my warning might only be a whisper, the faintest twinge, easy to miss. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

As I stepped off the conveyor, the HR computer directed me to a nearby cafeteria that looked like something out of an old prison movie. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

All but Loo, who’d wandered off a ways, to hunt something in the high grass nearby. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I sat in the grass and listened to a cricket chirp nearby, totally at peace. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were more screams, and Julius saw that several women in the crowd nearby were fainting. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

It let her know that nearby was a waterway, which, dirty though it was, joined a river that flowed out to the sea. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had hung a pair of his underwear on a nearby bush to dry. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Just nearby, his Wellingtons were lying fallen on their sides, his football socks peeking out of the tops. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed to a young woman at a nearby table. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Hazel, how exactly were you tracking Nico? I mean, could you just sense him nearby because he was your brother?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Everyone was inside, in class, except for a few students clustered—just off school grounds—at the nearby traffic triangle, smoking. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Additional blank canvases leaned against the wall nearby, beside shelves stocked with jars of paint. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

But then I glanced at your cut lip—the proof Appa had given me that he’d keep on hurting you as long as you were nearby. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Cowslip, coming up nearby, turned toward him with his unnatural smile. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put my back to a nearby chimney and began to play. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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A dark cloud hovered nearby, but I kept playing until I was forced to stop. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

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I pull the head off a nearby rose. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

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

Our session voted to begin the evening at a nearby Hooters; later, back at “800-block,” as one instructor had nicknamed the Hojo building with room numbers in the eight hundreds, matters escalated considerably. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jeanne’s neighbors had begun to gather around the edge of the yard or loiter in the road nearby. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He turned around and saw Mad-Eye Moody emerging from a nearby classroom. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Since Auschwitz was nearby, a sister camp to Birkenau, they marched us down the road and across the fields to get there. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

She bent down, scooped up her sherry bottles, and dumped them unceremoniously in a large blue-and-white vase standing in a nearby niche. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Percy wondered if the spirit of Kronos was somewhere nearby, swirling in the darkness, enjoying this moment so much that he wanted it to last forever. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Chestnutt spread out some papers she’d brought from the Warren to study, while Gum Baby snoozed under a blanket on the grass nearby. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Three or four does were crammed into the burrow itself and nearby, in a side run, Thethuthinnang was crouching with several more. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every couple of weeks, nearby, state and local police officers conduct sweeps to find migrants. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The girl agreed to this, as she knew that nearby cave. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Some had reached out to me on Facebook, gaining access to computers wherever they could, like at internet cafes in nearby towns. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She also recalled that a house nearby had been “firebombed and everyone inside killed, murdered for their headrights.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

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Willum stood nearby, dressed in a gray suit too warm for the day. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the fire billows out of control, pouring black smoke into the air, nearby dorms’ lights turn on and the players from the other teams come running over. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

From somewhere nearby a shiny green frog emerged from the base of a bush. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

There was a white house nearby, a white rail fence, a dead horse lying in a black mound in the sun. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were other folks sitting on the edge of the stage, and Moss watched as Esperanza hovered nearby. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Behind her, the guards kept up their shouting, and she knew that if other guards were nearby they would come running. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Just before three in the morning, a man who lived nearby heard a loud explosion. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“It is dark and we are lost. We were told there was a village nearby that might enjoy our skills.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The icy-eyed man appeared, standing on top of a nearby stage as if he was about to make a speech. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I see them standing awkwardly in the living room as my mom hovers nearby. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

On the roads nearby nothing was moving now; but Sam feared the watchful eyes on the wall of the Isenmouthe, no more than a furlong away northward. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

If you were a recruiter at a nearby college with some kind of fancy musical theater program, wouldn’t you know about that? Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Lourdes could smell the air before she breathed it, the air of her mother’s ocean nearby. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We go back inside, and Mrs. Finch is lying on the couch, eyes closed, while Decca sits nearby arranging pieces of paper across the floor. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A crow sat nearby on a tilting tombstone. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

P.J. particularly loved the ospreys that lived in a nearby nest, the otters that swam close to the boat, and the alligators he could hear barking under the clear, starry nights. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The Russians led Powers to a nearby car, and then drove him along a bumpy, muddy road to what he assumed was a police station. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Graceful purple martins congregated around an elaborate miniature apartment house on a pole nearby. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finding none, she picked up a nearby sketchbook and laid it in her lap. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Poppy lived over the bridge and near the mall in a nearby town, which was fifteen minutes away by car. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Celaena backed away from the ledge as they stopped at the nearby fountain. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The nearby club members conspired in muted whispers. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Claire remembered it: the shock, the hushed voices, and how parents had kept their children nearby afterward, and warned them, sternly, again and again. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

With a stick broken from a nearby willow she searched through the reedy water, poking around and around the spot where the bag had gone down, working in bigger and bigger circles. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Paul and Joe lived in a township nearby that was a bit nicer, but nothing like this. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The area was a favored roosting site for thousands of blackbirds that were feeding in nearby cornfields. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

A stream ran nearby, covered with a film of ice. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Jenny was sharing coffee and bagels with the Dog Squad creator, Leo Espinosa, at the nearby picnic table. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A shot took off the limb of a tree nearby, clipped it off cleanly, so that it fell all at once, making a sound like a whole tree falling. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of unfamiliar food in the air now, fish caught from the nearby river, pig knuckles, hominy grits, fried baloney, black-eyed peas. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The field used one of the nearby rivers for irrigation and was deliberately flooded, the water reaching halfway up Hanako’s calf. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

There was a faint rustle in a high pine nearby. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I was young, I went to the theater at the nearby shopping center and watched a movie about a talking Volkswagen. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She is so tall that the top of her head brushes against a nearby tree branch. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Another, wearing a string of bullets over a bare chest, paced nearby. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

One showed Benton hanging upside down from a swing set as his mother sat nearby, her face blandly gazing toward him. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The little creature flops down on a nearby cushion, her legs splaying in all directions. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The other horse traders nearby jeered, and a flighty colt reared up in alarm. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

As she headed for a swooping white stone staircase, she caught sight of two familiar figures in the shadows of a nearby alcove. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Fathers shouldn’t attempt to marry their daughters off to noblemen when there’s a handsome blacksmith nearby,” Kaede said, pulling a face. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I started college at nearby UC Berkeley, where my life was a mixture of antiwar rallies and marches and beginning French and rhetoric classes. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He kept one eye on Sam Houston, who was known for his wild pitches, and the other on Lula’s older cousin, Fern Spitty, who swanned about nearby, twirling her white lace-trimmed parasol. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She and 426 perched nearby, looking at it and feeling new interest in the bridge and the river valley. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Great neighborhood” signals a buyer that, well, this house isn’t very nice but others nearby may be. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

We kept a bin of driftwood twigs nearby, perfect kindling that caught easily when I lit the paper and blew gently on the flame. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She cast an apologetic glance at the darkness beneath them, whispered, “I’m sorry, whatever you are, that I can’t help you,” and then turned around and followed Two Step to a nearby squad of dactyls. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

If the man came to and found me nearby, he would kill me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

His dæmon lay nearby, her tail sweeping slowly across the oaken floor, her golden eyes never leaving the angel’s pain-filled face. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He said he preached at a little street mission nearby. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the wind is down and nobody is running an engine nearby, Marie-Laure can stand outside the Gallery of Zoology and hear them: a mile-high purr. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know where the levees had failed, but he knew anyone living nearby would have been quickly overwhelmed. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I flipped the match safe’s lid up and down, but stopped once the nearby passengers began glancing suspiciously in my direction. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

With a nod of her head, she indicated a filled sack of flower heads on the ground nearby. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It lighted every peak, crevasse, and ridge of the nearby mountain range with a clarity and beauty that cannot be described.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lives in a town nearby and I see her now and then. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She bangs on the hood of a nearby car. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I hear a rustling nearby and squint in the half-light, but see nothing. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

They were familiar to him now: Gray’s mate, still big-bellied with kits; Runt, half her size, nearby. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The uncle had told his nephews that he was going back to his hut, but in fact he hid in some trees nearby and waited to see what happened. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

At noon, de la O took a call from the far end of Charlie Company reporting suspicious movement nearby. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

"We have a terrific community college nearby. We'll just sign you up for the few requirements you'll need to attend there, shall we?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They had a guy with some kind of oxygen-tent thing nearby that looked like a malaria net. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

After dragging the grate aside, she tied her rope to a nearby bench and lowered herself into the drain, using her flashlight to find the pencil in the darkness. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

With a disgruntled sigh, the captain grabbed a blanket from the nearby sofa and tossed it over her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

After a while even the waitresses in the nearby diner ended up calling them tinky-winks, and they called us their favorite girls. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other new Twelves clustered nearby, placing their folders carefully into the carrying containers on the backs of the bikes. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

He walked to a nearby rice field where his mother worked and asked a woman if she had seen her. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The Combat Zone was a nearby strip club. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

"Yes. So Mrs. Gershom informed us. Father believes that with the college nearby, many visiting parents will welcome such a place." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Pollard saw Howard hovering nearby, waiting for him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a yawn she sat up and saw that a low table nearby was set with breakfast for one. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most obvious place to recruit able-bodied volunteers was nearby Harvard University, which in 1919 admitted only male students. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The pilots already in the air had all been sent together to turn back a huge raid the Germans were launching on a nearby town just south of Voronezh. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

A stack of his hummingbear puzzlers sat nearby in a large willow basket. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Our mom was over by the refreshments table, retrieving her dishes, and Ray was standing nearby to make sure we didn’t insult Mr. Abbas. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

There was a moment of stunned silence nearby. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They even dropped fish hooks so we could catch our dinner in the rivers nearby. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the addresses were local, some were from the nearby cities of Raleigh and Greensboro, but many others were from small towns across the state: Mollie, Waxhaw, Piney Creek, Trotville. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It colored the nearby trees a faint violet, and glinted off the wall of mist that had gathered over the asphalt. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Neither Robert Newton nor his son Isaac ever learned to read or write, but Hannah’s brother William was a Cambridge graduate, a clergyman who enjoyed the living at the nearby village of Burton Coggles. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

If his productions are merely almost transcendent, when the possibility of true transcendence exists somewhere nearby, waiting to be attained, then there is something else that must be done. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I don’t have any,” I said, grabbing my pants from a chair nearby, in case he should have ideas. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A game between two older girls’ teams was winding up on a nearby field. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Seating himself in a nearby chair, he unzipped his briefcase. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Without a glance at the sleeper, the woman stooped to bring the fire to life, and set a pan of water to heat while her dæmon crouched nearby watching over the path. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

All around him was the sound of movement, and grabbing the side of his head, he thought he heard music faintly coming from somewhere nearby. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The same old boys showed off trading cards and clowned around nearby. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

A Vietnamese baby, which lay nearby, was a roasted peanut. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fire burned on the stone hearth, and nearby was a rocking chair and a cradle. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She snaps at a nearby servant, "Go and fetch Madam Claire. Tell her that her hospitality is lacking, and I don't like to be kept waiting." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He became a woodworker, apprenticing at a nearby shop owned by a broad-minded Unitarian. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Aly, who was waiting nearby, refilled his glass and slipped away again. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She was living nearby, in Harlem, where she had lived for about a year working as a nurse at a hospital. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A muezzin gave the last call to prayer of the day over a loudspeaker from the nearby mosque and all the relatives rose up in unison and turned their backs on Liyana’s family. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He removed the chickens to the shade of a tree nearby. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She watched as an elderly couple in matching pastel shirts and Bermuda shorts tottered through a nearby garden. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

A feathery white fog threaded through the cars and nearby trees. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Auntie Seema lived nearby then and taught art at a studio. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I tell her I can take her to where Marv’s working, but she asks me to stop at a nearby playground. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

David and I managed to flee into one of the nearby yards, jumped its fence and ran all the way to school, where teachers told us to go home immediately, for police were raiding schools. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Princesse was away for the night, attending a choir concert in a nearby city. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“You’ve never liked her and always accused her of ripping you off!” the vendor from the nearby fruit stand shouted. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

A squirrel bounces playfully from branch to branch in a nearby tree. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He paused, and something crashed to the floor nearby. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Their canoes, drifting nearby, were sound, and the weather overnight had been calm and mild. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Even these might be sorted out and pieced together by an advanced civilization on a planet of a nearby star. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hot liquid splattered a girl who was standing nearby. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Next week and next week and next week . . . but if my sister's nearby she shakes her head. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

He took one branch in hand, reached for another nearby, and skillfully tied the supple ends together. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I made it to the fields of a nearby farm. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He picked the dying boy up, and carried him to a yard nearby. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited inside the house with my denim bag always nearby. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I leaned against a nearby locker and crossed my arms. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Then she turns, snapping pictures of the evergreen trees at our backs, the boulders we climbed across, the nearby tide pools. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

What would have happened if Helene and I hadn’t been nearby? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Flux’s Time Suck was startled by the flash; it shuffled side to side, knocking down nearby Clock Watchers. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

We can’t find any bakeries, so we settle for a nearby grocery store, one of those fancy ones where a bag of organic apples costs more than our rent. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In a period of a few weeks, the Arecibo Observatory could transmit to a comparable observatory on a planet of a nearby star all of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere nearby - past those rows of cruise ships, past those hills crowded with buildings - they would find the Acropolis. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

If dropped to the floor by a child or careless adult everyone nearby could be splashed with the same chemical that has sent spraymen using it into convulsions. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

They snuck back to the classroom to pick up coats, then hurried out the door and across the school yard to a nearby store. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

This is an interesting kind of problem, made to order for computers if they came in sizes big enough to store in nearby galaxies. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere nearby, a wall crumbled with a sound like an artillery blast. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I glanced around, expecting one of our neighbors from a nearby farm to be fishing on the water’s edge. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The two of them walked on, Reyna’s gold and silver dogs roaming nearby. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They tracked her down in a nearby store, hiding in the back, and when Morrie went in, she burned an angry look at him. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

From a nearby crab apple tree, a small ball of confused bees hung like a ragged skein of yarn. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Auntie Yeabu, the youngest wife of Uncle Abdullah, helped my mother bandage the man’s stump while I stood nearby, shaking with fear. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t speaking loudly, but Malcolm knew that everyone nearby—and his father, especially—would be listening intently. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Ma Charles, who had been sitting on the porch in the pine rocker her father made, called out to the bloodhound and joined the noisy welcome, shaking the tambourine that she always kept nearby. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The voices sounded nearby, but I dared not lift up my head. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, Angelo, is that all?” the patrolwoman asked, eager to get to a nearby school before the morning speed zone hours ended. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nox couldn’t find a hold on the stone wall, and without a nearby ledge or gargoyle to grasp, he had nowhere to go but down. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A number of the officers and generals who were nearby were killed or wounded. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I join in, accepting a paddle from a nearby security-bot lady. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The resulting lines permit us to tell that stars millions of light-years away contain the same chemical elements as our Sun and the nearby stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A shotgun blast exploded nearby and Magdalys jumped out of the way. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The herd boys worked for a nearby farmer who kept many cows. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

There was nothing he could do during the night, as there were lions nearby, but the next morning all the men went out to search for the first girl. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

One guy standing nearby pulled out his wallet and gave her some cash. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Repopulation of course followed from nearby islands, but as a pilot project the test was successful. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The nearby city of Ceuta had grown faster than Tangier, and business had fallen off. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She might tell this buyer about a house nearby that just sold for $25,000 above the asking price, or another house that is currently the subject of a bidding war. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Through my good eye I saw a figure in a livid green mask standing nearby. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He snagged a roasted onion, dripping brown with gravy, from a nearby trencher and bit into it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Now it was quieter and die nearby cannon were no longer firing and Lee came forward out of the smoke and the nightmare. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry said, so loudly that several owls in a nearby tree took flight in alarm. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

About the same time, on the nearby island of Cos, Hippocrates was establishing his famous medical tradition, now barely remembered because of the Hippocratic oath. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The following night, our host decided to take us to a part of the Atlantic Ocean that was nearby. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Praba’s mother had given us perfectly good bananas and bags of banana chips, but from a nearby stall, I bought a doll with bright black hair you could comb. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Addison padded over to the little owl, who was perched on a branch nearby. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The news anchor always said, “Parents, send the children out of the room if they’re nearby.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

One of my friends in Kakuma got to leave camp and spend some time in the nearby country of Uganda. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I believe he knew that he was in his own bed, that his books and his notes and his small hibiscus plant were nearby. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for my own parents, they still kept the telephone nearby at all times, refusing to leave the house together. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

All afternoon, the natives come back and forth to our ships in their canoes, bringing sweet-smelling fruits and other food from their island, which sits, green and lush, nearby. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I knew she was hovering somewhere nearby, but at least for now I was free to say what I wanted. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I make out a table, a long cold stove, a few chairs around a nearby fireplace. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

For the following eight months, the congregation met to worship in the nearby L. R. Hall Auditorium. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Save the peregrine falcons!” a cluster of nearby kids echoed. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It cast long shadows over the street, and the nearby freeway roared with traffic. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

When I heard unknown voices nearby, I broke out of my paralysis. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

According to a clock on a nearby church, it was almost midnight. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

As a teenager, Nguyen found odd jobs to do for the Americans on the nearby base, digging ditches and fixing potholes in roads. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

In the nearby trees, the harpies shrieked miserably. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

People from the neighborhood and the nearby boardinghouse had heard the commotion and were now pouring onto the church property. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Two hours later, when the van finally pulled into the Second Chance Ranch, Fred could actually smell the nearby ocean. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The American introduced himself as Paul Farmer, a doctor who worked in a hospital in a nearby town called Mirebalais, helping poor people. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

As Madam Pomfrey led Harry to a nearby bed, he caught sight of the real Moody lying motionless in a bed at the far end of the room. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The water monster nudged his nose into the edge of a nearby shadow. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She works as a paralegal, is applying to law schools nearby. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing unnerved rural black settlements more than rumors about nearby Klan activity. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He fired twice as they came over, one bird plummeting into the water and the other landing with a thud on the shore nearby. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone laughed nearby, and two girls, both juniors, ran out of a thicket of trees. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Crossing her yard to a large rust-colored stump, she quickly drove the two nails side-by-side into the block, then sat down on a nearby sawhorse to sharpen her ax with a file. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His grandma was on the settee, holding on to his mum, rubbing her back as she threw up into a small bucket they kept nearby just in case. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

She paused by the empty loom and waited until a nearby worker had stopped to reset her shuttle. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a nearby village I appeared for a local medicine man charged with witchcraft. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted the president to expand ground operations into nearby Laos and Cambodia, and massively increase bombing of North Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Residents are quick to acknowledge this: People who are restless, unusual, or ambitious get out quickly, sometimes heading for more forward-looking Nampa nearby, more often for booming Boise down the highway. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie has captured the attention of some people nearby, and soon they start dancing around my brother. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

She patted my arm condescendingly and reached for a length of plastic tubing that hung nearby; it was connected to a pipe that ran up the ladder to the surface. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The baby was nearby, in a high chair. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I described the aspen grove where she was buried and told him about the river nearby. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

She just happened to be picking berries nearby. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He looks around at the trees, the long frosted willow branches cascading down, the topiaries that line the nearby path like ghosts. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He thought of the cub hiding somewhere nearby, far from her mother, scared and lonely. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

As we approach, a wilted little girl with blond hair and cuts on her face looks up from a pad of something and scurries into a nearby room. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Human involvement can easily explain why the wave of extinction obliterated the terrestrial megafauna of Australia while sparing that of the nearby oceans. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took each one to be an angel announcing nearby land. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a story about a woman in a village nearby who turned to cannibalism. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The manager still lingered nearby, but Felix ignored him and got into the SUV. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Florah, standing nearby, shrieked with horror as I lifted the axe. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chronicler sat at a nearby table, making a pretense of finishing a bowl of stew. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As Oshiro lay on the ground with blood soaking into his uniform, he heard the reassuring whup-whup-whup as the medevac landed nearby. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She waves to a nearby servant, who steps forward to remove large sections of Charlotte's hair. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The SS took the women and children to a nearby barn, where they were held for a day, and then they, too, were executed. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

There were no cars nearby, no phones, no means of getting him to the clinic. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took a step toward me, and Johnson — I hadn’t seen him nearby — stepped next to me. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first of these acts of violence took place on May 8, 1919, in Charleston, South Carolina, after a fight between local blacks and sailors stationed at a nearby naval training station erupted. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Dandy and Poteet sat nearby, shivering and quiet except for an intermittent whimper. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

There, on the inmost shore, an olive tree throws wide its boughs over the bay; nearby a cave of dusky light is hidden for those immortal girls, the Naiades. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up a padded stick and struck a nearby bass drum six times. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

If the wind blew this deadly fallout into rain clouds, it could literally rain down on nearby towns. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A spring of water flowed from a ravine nearby. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave his rifle to an officer who had been disarmed in the fight and escaped with Amaranta through a nearby street to take her home. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

But then I heard bonobo shrieks nearing, and before I knew it, the group had descended on us, drinking from the stream and ripping away their own mangoes from a nearby tree. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

John is rinsing a washcloth in a nearby basin. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Hale and Ernest picked him up in a spot nearby and returned him to the jail, where the other deputy sheriff snuck him into his cell. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, Father left to buy some vegetables from a nearby greengrocer for our dinner. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Lady Constance’s voice, and she sounded both cross and quite nearby. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He sensed Alec nearby, also sucking in air to catch his breath. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

A woman nearby fell to her knees, sobbing. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Like the voices of the women in houses nearby singing “Go down, go down, way down in Egypt land...” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She still occupied rooms in a nearby boardinghouse. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The local people who lived in the area did not like having the refugee camp nearby. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before either of us had a chance to answer, a Volkswagen roared in the distance and all the people walking on the road ran into the nearby bushes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the sleeve of a man nearby. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She placed a big basket of extra blooms nearby, so that others could use them to make garlands. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped as a man nearby broke into a fit of coughing. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

De la O and the rest of his platoon were sent out in jeeps and trucks to search nearby villages. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Jackson and his mother hustled him into a nearby cafe that was already packed with people seeking refuge. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of them lit nearby on a stem. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He’s confused... rubbing his head... staring up at Frank, tall and thin, and then at Gimpy nearby, massive, hairy, gray-faced Gimpy with bushy eyebrows that almost hide his blue eyes. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Student leaders were chosen to lead the march to other schools in the area, where we planned to pick up more students for a rally at a nearby stadium. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our next-door neighbor and her sons had set up a table on sawhorses nearby, and a caldron of water bubbled over the fire in the pit, tended by some people I didn’t recognize. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Just as we were drifting off, I heard footsteps in the grass nearby, and opened my eyes to see no one at all. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, his very next words were, “Do you and Georgie live nearby?” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

At the time, he had just dropped out of college and was living on nearby Long Island, working as an electrician. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Gradually, things began to resolve around her: There was the large empty room, the demon-painted wall, and Robbie standing nearby, looking shocked. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The older children worked on nearby farms, so they were still together, as a family. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I instructed it to activate its cloaking device as soon as it dropped out of hyperspace, then locate me on the planet’s surface and land somewhere nearby. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

American soldiers found Germany’s entire supply of uranium at a nearby farm, freshly plowed under the soil. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

So out they went into the courtyard, where Sticky and Constance now sat on a stone bench under the elm tree, while Kate and Reynie sprawled on the ivy-covered earth nearby. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Some or all of these centers may actually comprise several nearby centers where food production arose more or less independently, such as North China’s Yellow River valley and South China’s Yangtze River valley. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“She always drags me past the bars around here and makes us wait nearby while she listens to whatever anthems they’re playing inside. I don’t know. Must be a girl thing.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Each shelter had a nearby privy, a good water source, and a picnic table, so we could prepare and eat our meals in a more or less normal posture instead of squatting on damp logs. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

For nearby stars, we can measure their apparent brightness and their distance, and so we can work out their luminosity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slaves were disappearing all the time from the nearby farms and plantations. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon he had enough money to buy a second hot dog cart, which Margaret often ran by herself, selling food and counting change while their daughter slept nearby in the car. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

At the nearby Normal School, for example, the number of women applying to become teacher trainees was said to be many times the usual. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

From a screened window nearby came the sounds of sizzling food and the clatter of pans. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

There are several computer monitors at a table, with drum pads, keyboards, and speakers nearby. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

They paused in their preparations to watch it climb higher and higher, now black against the rapidly darkening sky, until it vanished over a nearby mountain. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

My coat was lying on the ground nearby. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The players on the home team—a group of thirteen- and fourteen-year-old boys from the nearby Atlanta suburbs playing with the North Atlanta Soccer Association—gestured toward the sky with awe. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

On some vacant land nearby, he could while away long summer days by digging elaborate underground tunnels—cool, dark, subterranean retreats from Spokane’s sometimes searing dry heat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Theodora said nearby, and she heard the sound of the doctor’s feet running along the veranda. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

A collection of imposing metal instruments lay on a nearby tray. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Sir Charles has graciously agreed to allow the citizens of Chatham, Buxton, and nearby environs to witness for themselves what they have only read about in the nation’s finest newspapers. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The sound of giggling nearby snapped me out of my Elle haze. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Marmalade pointed to a nearby booth, where an ordinary man with wispy blond hair and a gap in his front teeth was regaling his tablemates with the story of Lady Delune. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He is suddenly very interested in the moldering bricks of a nearby building. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

During a car trip to nearby Aurora, they “talked over the impossibility of our union....The reasons we both enumerated very calmly—and they seemed weighty indeed.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I really only started to pay any attention at all when he happened to mention that until his retirement three years ago, he had been a butler of a nearby house. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The firefighters now directed all their attention to adjacent buildings, hosing down nearby roofs with fire retardant. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She pulls off the bag, ties it up, and tosses it into a nearby bin, then pets her dog as if he’s done a good job. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I make my way back to the bus stop, then use a nearby phone booth to call a cab. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

See if they build a provisional nest nearby. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Six wooden crates the size of picnic tables were stacked nearby, and they were rattling. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

‘He lies nearby in this House, and I will go to him,’ said Gandalf. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He had wooden legs that he got around on with the help of his walking stick, which leaned against the wall nearby. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

His three bubbles lay nearby, stuck together in the form of a triangle. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

At a nearby pavement cafe, half a dozen people sipped coffee in the shade of patio umbrellas. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I can clean them later, but I do take a minute to shoot a few into a nearby tree. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It came to a rest by the group of gentlemen nearby who were watching us with appalled expressions. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Elowen turned her head just slightly, as though she sensed a presence nearby. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Deer inhabiting nearby forests sometimes had abnormal pigment spots and precancerous warts. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Whether they like to pretend the fighting’s nearby or they simply don’t have any other way to express their joy, I don’t know! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The police in that nearby town had surely circulated our general descriptions. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon they began building Muslim-style sugar plantations on the islands, some of them staffed by slaves purchased from nearby Africa. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Still others had fallen against nearby trees, or crashed to the ground, popping up root systems. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Perhaps her cry was meant for a nearby neighbor, or was simply an expression of fear. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Brunelle came from poverty in a nearby village, and was so good at her job that my mom hoped she would one day head the sanctuary. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

When the boat docks we step off the gangway and ask a cabdriver to take us to any nearby motel. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the hum of cars on nearby streets disturbed the still air. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then she hid nearby in a clump of elephant grass. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was staring at a shrub of silver-veined leaves clustered near the roots of a nearby tree. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I stood nearby, waiting for him to acknowledge me. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of machine-gun fire and artillery shells falling nearby pushed them forward. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It used to be that she’d fuss if she didn’t see me nearby. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

After he was done, he walked down the hill to a nearby mosque. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

As young animals grow up in such a herd, they imprint on the animals that they regularly see nearby. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The guy pulled a rosy apple from a nearby tree and polished it on his dirty overalls. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Another time, he found an abandoned house nearby. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Some had transferred to a nearby Catholic school, but many had left the neighborhood altogether. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Then I went to him without haste, without any sign of the eagerness or relief I felt at having him nearby again. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Darley and Batson met with a group of seminarians, individually, and asked each one to prepare a short, extemporaneous talk on a given biblical theme, then walk over to a nearby building to present it. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nancy sat against the trunk of a nearby cottonwood. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two teenagers on top of a nearby boxcar dozed. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Carefully, quickly, she pulled their bodies into a nearby ravine. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Haupt couldn't beat his chest because a nurse was standing nearby, but he did hold his breath. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

When the milkman grabbed a nearby policeman to arrest the men, the policeman shrugged him off, saying he was “too busy” and “it is all right anyway.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We hid in the nearby bushes and listened to gunshots and the screams of men, women, and children. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was all by itself in the woods, with no other houses nearby. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then some nearby stars will seem to move out of the constellation, others will enter it, and its configuration will alter dramatically. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The actors gathered around a nearby microphone where they could watch Welles’s hand signals. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Celaena turned just in time to see one of the larger Champions—one of the discharged soldiers—shove a nearby guard, knocking him to the ground. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I find a nearby tree to hide behind, and I go! Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

For a while they ate thoughtfully, sitting in the dark, heedless of the cries and sounds of battle nearby. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

We ran into the nearby coffee farm and lay in the dirt watching the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

In the summer of 1876 in Montana while George Armstrong Custer and his troops were being cut down at Little Big Horn, Cope was out hunting for bones nearby. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Neel switched it off after making sure a long, still log nearby didn’t have teeth and eyes. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Patients arrived from a nearby institution packed in a train car. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Sohrab left his arm resting on my shoulder as he pointed out the other buildings nearby: newer, smaller mosques, and bazaars, and farther away, looming over Yazd, the mountains we were going to visit soon. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Here, the mountains and woods were just backdrop—familiar, known, nearby, but no more consequential or noticed than the clouds that scudded across their ridgelines. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

No one was nearby, but she knew the others must be waiting. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A small, roundish shape scattered along the ground nearby. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The wreckage of a fallen chandelier glittered nearby. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The only phone nearby was in the other direction from the church, up at Ma Paulie’s store. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got a coaching offer at a nearby college starting next month. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

So whenever my family was nearby, my mother would bring me some milk. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took Jon's cup from the table, filled it fresh from a nearby pitcher, and drank down a long swallow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It arced above their heads and landed in a nearby clearing with a huge bang, scattering dirt as high as the treetops. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Better than being chained up by Captain Smith again with no slop bucket nearby. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Somewhere nearby a meadowlark and a redwing blackbird sang their bright, cheery songs. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

A soaking wet cop stood nearby, watching the ambulances fly down Broadway. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

There Serafina Pekkala settled on the highest comfortable branch, among the open flowers drinking in the Dust, and the two birds perched nearby. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

When the test was finished, the driving inspector said, “Thank you. Would you please park the car over there,” gesturing to a space nearby. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a river nearby, where she could draw water, and the family’s cattle enjoyed the sweet grass which grew by the riverside. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

We went to a shallow stream nearby where she abluted me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marine transport helicopters swooped down, landing on the nearby tennis courts. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“In the south and west part of the city. The zoo is nearby, and the university too.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She'll probably be hanging somewhere nearby, seeing what she can scavenge. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I gaze around, searching pale tired faces nearby. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

This particular old woman, though she was often nearby, never glared at the group of boys, as others did, or chided them for their behavior. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They knocked together, and a bird sang nearby. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

As practice for the event of encountering a possible suitor, we urged her to engage in small conversations with nearby men. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

After she explored the nearby waterways, it became clear that she would have to carry the pike through the forest and across the Great Meadow to the nearest bend in the river. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I watch the thief turn the dead person’s pockets inside out and abandon the body, slipping into one of the nearby buildings. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Taking one of the lanterns from a nearby sconce, Reed approached the crate cautiously—or at least the mate thought he was approaching it. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

This uncertainty applies, incidentally, to relatively nearby things as much as to the distant edges of the universe. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The cloud necessitated the hasty evacuation of nearby Marshall Islands residents to Kwajalein Island, four hundred miles distant, where they were treated for radiation sickness. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They learned that in nearby Cleveland Heights and Warrensville and Beachwood, residents placed their discarded belongings at the curb like ordinary people, and they learned which days were garbage days on which streets. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Many people in the village are risking their lives to steal corn from the nearby fields. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On hot days we swam in Elsinore's river where it meandered through a nearby wood, and we captured frogs and salamanders on its grassy banks. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

If Candice was nearby, she would turn to her and wink—like it was a shared secret between them. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A few years later, she took them to a nearby park, a nearly daily activity. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He didn’t find it under any of the trucks nearby or in the middle of the sage bushes. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Frank looked around to make sure there were no campers or Lares nearby, but the main gates were still a hundred yards away. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Instead, I listened to the sounds around me—the rumble of ice from the drink machine, the ding of a cash register, the murmur of voices, and the occasional burst of laughter from nearby tables. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He recognized a dead pine tree that had been split by lightning in a nearby clearing. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She made me feel less afraid of the world because she was always nearby if I needed someone to hide behind. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She barely makes it into a nearby chair. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He moved to the edge of some trees, where suddenly a couple of mismatched, beaten chairs appeared, courtesy of some nearby women. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

People were running on stairs somewhere, but I couldn’t tell if they were nearby or far away. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Here in Chennai we speak Tamil, but my parents grew up in a nearby state where they spoke Kannada. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

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

After dinner, Ma takes us girls to a nearby pond, which is already crowded with people washing their clothes and naked children, tentatively putting their heads under the muddy water. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, he was observed at a nearby Howard Johnson’s restaurant, having dinner. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Just as she said, the door to the house opened and a bit of food was handed out, this time a chapati, which I quickly ate though a small child stood nearby watching hungrily. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I think she said this extra loud when Ms. Griegson was nearby, which I guess was nice of her. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He lifted up a stick that was lying nearby and he brought this down heavily on his mother’s head. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The wet grass glittered and nearby a nut tree sparkled iridescent, winking and gleaming as its branches moved in the light wind. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yells sounded from somewhere nearby, but everything seemed to move in slow motion. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

So I swipe a Priority Mail envelope from a nearby rack and drift toward his counter. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Lester placed the spotlight at the base of a tree nearby. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

There was no water nearby, so he spat on his palm and wiped it as best he could, clenching his teeth against the pain. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Volpe’s classroom is filling up with a musical theater section, so they adjourn to a nearby empty classroom. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Maya’s dad dropped her off out front, after she had sworn numerous times that she didn’t need him to come in with her, and drove to a nearby Starbucks to wait for her. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Val had been standing nearby, but now she was right in front of them. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Beatty flicked his igniter nearby and the small orange flame drew his fascinated gaze. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we hear a shrilling whine before another rocket ruptures nearby. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Africans who had worked in sugar quickly left the plantations and tried to farm or moved to nearby towns. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

In time, the reader would look up and see the deserted streets, hear some nearby cry for help. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I look around as if I might see him right now, but it’s just me and the kids who are laughing and hollering from someplace nearby. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I started working on weekends, carrying luggage for people at the nearby bus depot. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Frightened by visitors, the deer bolted for the nearby for­est, which had its own herd of wild roe-deer and could support more. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Gabe knotted the rope around the slender trunk of a nearby sapling and glanced back at the small, leaky failure of a boat that he had been so proud of a short time before. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When he got closer to me, he reached for his glasses, which were lying on a nearby table. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Jumping up from the floor, I ran to the nearby exit and looked outside. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Well now, what have we here?” says a sultry voice from somewhere very nearby. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Look!” cried Lyra, pointing up as another shell burst nearby. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

At the nearby drinking fountain, I pressed one finger over the hole, making the water squirt high in the air. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Eyes watched from nearby windows and doors, but no one was about to intervene. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Henry does Web stuff from the barn they converted into a home office and Willow works at a nearby hospital. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were cloaked in a haze of flies, and the stench coming off the demons made the nearby leaves curl. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The cities of Germany are completely independent, they control little surrounding territory, they obey the emperor when they please, and they fear neither him nor any other nearby power. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Even now, they stood nearby, watching him relentlessly. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The bonobos still in their nests kept shrieking while those of us nearby gawked at Pweto, He stood still in the clearing, his crippled arm lying in the dirt, and his chest heaving from exertion. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

They spent the rest of the weekend trout-fishing in the nearby river and roasting their catch on a fire of brambles, exploring the hills like children, and talking about the past. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jacob runs to a nearby tree and begins pulling up the moss at its base. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Yet always there would emerge, nearby, new growth. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A group of young women got permission from Aleksandr Gridnev to swim in a nearby river—and the following day their legs and backs were covered with strange burns. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Odors of sweat, tobacco, coffee and damp stone surrounded us, overladen always by the smell of fish and nearby salt water. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The top hat which featured prominently in his performance sits on a hatstand nearby. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Jenny looked down into the nearby basement and saw the angry dogs. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

They chirp from the nearby jacaranda but don’t budge from their perches. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

A few gray jays, so tame they would eat from his hand, landed nearby and started hunting for sandwich scraps in the flattened grassy area where the posse had been. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

From a penguin colony nearby, gentoos waddled down the beach to stare at their visitors. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Though officers were nearby in both cases, none of them, surprisingly, appeared to be in much danger. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

American planes took off from nearby aircraft carriers and made sixty-four sorties over North Vietnam, bombing their torpedo boat fleet and a major oil depot. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

And Dear Imam, are we allowed to pray in a barn if there are pigs nearby? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

When demand for steel increased during World War I, streams of white workers moved into the nearby town of Dundalk, and Bethlehem Steel’s housing barracks for black workers quickly overflowed, pushing them into Turner Station. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Within a week, he confessed to dumping chemicals in a nearby river. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The pitiful sounds coming from the circus and the sight of dead fever victims did not exactly “dispel the gloom” of the households nearby. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

She sang when she was in the fields or working in the nearby woods. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the foyer, two uniformed officers sitting at a table asked for identification, took my letter, and nodded toward a mountain of luggage nearby. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He paints outside, scenes from their neighborhood in Montmartre, buildings, people strolling in nearby parks. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

From somewhere nearby I hear water trickling, and I pick my way toward it, guided by the moonlight. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

A third man stood nearby and seemed to be in charge of everything they did. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be lovely to cuddle up beside her while Georgie sat nearby, building block towers and pretending not to listen. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

During her last visit to the States, we decided to take a walk together to a nearby Persian market. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The two were taken to a nearby military camp. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, the two scholars looked up from their climb to watch the three griffins flying up a nearby slope, carrying the royal party. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Thomas almost laughed as Newt turned to an older boy standing nearby, whose face had turned bright red. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Skylarks sang in the fields around them, but every night the air raid sirens wailed in the darkness as the Luftwaffe planes tried to bomb the nearby city. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

There’s a guy in a tank top letting himself into a nearby apartment building. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

At a nearby table, a thick man with heavy jowls and rough hands stands up. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Under wild conditions those are members of their own species, but captive young herd animals also see humans nearby and imprint on humans as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Another cliff-ghast and then a third fell in the stream or on the rocks nearby, stark dead; and then the rest fled, skirling and chittering into the dark toward the north. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ari-Eil stood nearby, as unaffected by the tilt as he was by gravity or the need to breathe. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The tattoo artist sat before him on a stool with his pan of inks nearby. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then there were all the people James mentioned in one sentence—a great-grandmother, auntie, cousins—all right here, nearby? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Free of Mr. Flux, it proceeded to graze in a nearby field. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

We all hovered around our parents, preferring to be nearby instead of playing in the basement like usual. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

When you’re lost in Brooklyn, the next corner store should only be a block or two in any direction, and they’d always be able to point the way to a nearby train. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

They wondered how many other eyes were in Count Olaf’s house, and whether, for the rest of their lives, they would always feel as though Count Olaf were watching them even when he wasn’t nearby. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Exhausted, frustrated at again having no real chance to confront the enemy, the Americans marched into a nearby village. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She wanted to see fear on that boy’s face, and to see his friend crumpled over on a nearby bench. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Snow had also sent a dozen archers to the top of the Wall, should any foes be hidden in the nearby woods. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Some scientists toyed with the idea that the spiral nebulae were not distant island universes but rather nearby condensing clouds of interstellar gas, perhaps on their way to make solar systems. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there appeared to be less common sources per unit volume of space for the nearby sources than for the distant ones. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"That were no proper unhorsing," complained a drunken archer nearby, a Tyrell rose sewn on his jerkin. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Charlotte liked to do her weaving during the late afternoon, and Fern liked to sit nearby and watch. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

At some point that morning, Barack went off to play basketball with Craig and some friends at a nearby gym, which had become a kind of Election Day custom. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

After we got yelled at, we decided to spy on him from up in the nearby trees. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I grab for anything nearby—there is a discarded petticoat on the floor that I can use to stanch the blood. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There was a small rocket ship reclining upon a hilltop nearby. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He quickly opened a bottle nearby and put a few drops in the tiny bottle in the automaton’s hand. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I had no intention of taking a whipping if I could avoid it, and I was sure Kevin could protect me if he was nearby when I needed him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Hecate stood nearby, her form shimmering as if she were about to dissolve. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I could go to a phone booth at one of the nearby stores, but all the store owners know the Doctorita and are prone to gossiping. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inigo suddenly threw his body against a nearby rock, rebounded off it with stunning force, lunging with incredible speed. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I scream and cover my ears as another mortar explodes nearby. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were taken to a nearby banana farm, where we practiced stabbing the banana trees with bayonets. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He’d spent his childhood climbing and skiing in the nearby mountains. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the quiet of the cell I was planning my strategy for the next day, when I heard a cough from a nearby cell. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she was old enough she stopped working on the farm and got a job at a factory in a nearby town, She worked on a sewing machine making school uniforms. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He didn’t live nearby at all, but walking was safer than riding with me. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Horatio, who stood nearby as always, bowed to me and surprised me by speaking. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

On the first day that she spent at Kumalo's house, people came from all the nearby hills to look at the beautiful girl. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Some months later, Pitipiti was ploughing her fields when she heard a cackling noise coming from some bushes nearby. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Her marido was from a nearby barrio and worked for the electric company. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Julian said, "I am assigned to Mrs. Olinski, Room Twelve. Are you nearby?" The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two iron rings had been fastened to the wall; hanging nearby were a number of the whips, known as the cat-o’- nine-tails, and—according to one inmate account—a gag. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A robin sang from a nearby branch into the disapproving silence of the abbey. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The wind god settled on a nearby wall with his basket of fruit and spread his russet wings in the sun. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A nearby reporter was yelling into her microphone: “Officials are describing this as a structural failure, Dan, though no one seems to know if it is related to the storm conditions.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

In a nearby room lit by dim red lights, she had watched another gloved worker look through trays of stacked fertilized eggs. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Seeing Leopard’s children nearby, they went over to them and very quickly overpowered them. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Aunt Jimmy’s people came from nearby towns and farms. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they had hidden the treasures in a nearby cave they separated, she to summon Telemachus home, he, whom her art had turned into a shambling ragged old man, to seek the swineherd. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the cows wander far enough to sniff the odor of lion urine, they know a killer is nearby and run in the opposite direction—right toward the waiting lions. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The land didn’t end beyond those nearby communities. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

He could smell fresh-cut hay and alfalfa; their immediate next door neighbor, Eusebio Lavadie, was on a tractor nearby starting his second cutting. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A wave rose and crashed on a nearby island. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Silvertongue looked up at the nearby mountains looming dark behind their foothills. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A few other women worked nearby, weighing dried leaves or straining tinctures. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The great majority have lifetimes of billions or more years in which they are shining stably, providing a suitable energy source for the origin and evolution of life on nearby planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Netherlands and nearby Belgium are known for their great art masters and their reverence for painting. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Beowulf grabbed one glass of champagne after another off a nearby serving tray and tossed them at her, until her dress was sopping and her hair dripped in wet tendrils. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“Honest, it was this exact place, this leafy tree with the branches hanging down, and the creek nearby. What an odd thing, that it’s a real place.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Each screen has a couple drones hovering nearby to answer any questions passersby might have. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The suicide rate in 2008 was two and half times higher than in the United States and significantly higher than in nearby Japan, where suicide is deeply embedded in the culture. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Father was somewhere nearby, because I could hear him yelling about Moses and the Egyptians and the river running with blood and what not. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll wait here if you don’t mind,” I took a seat on a nearby bench. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was holding myself up with my hands on nearby desks and hopping on one leg. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I could hear the rattling of lizards crossing the road to climb the nearby mango tree. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Exactly. One-thirty. And at two, a terrible poisonous fog begins there,” I say, pointing at the nearby jungle. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They stepped out onto MacArthur Boulevard, the sound of traffic on the nearby freeway roaring in their ears. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Only one man was set to guard it, but she knew there would be sentries up in that tower as well, and others nearby walking the walls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Late in the afternoon Mo took her out for a meal in a little restaurant nearby. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

His mother is seated in a cushioned chair nearby, with her young daughter balanced on her knee. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But the radar observations had been made nearby, not in the Chryse landing site itself. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone turned around and punched the bus driver in the face, the bus driver ran to a store nearby and called the police. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

At dawn, our beloved Elf King—may he reign forever and so forth—will meet upon a nearby field with Ghohg the Evil One. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The mechanics and armorers felt a fierce sense of competition with nearby men’s night bomber regiments doing the same job, and the women wanted to prove they were just as capable as the men. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“I heard him talking to Cain,” said a timid voice behind them, and they found Pelor, the youngest assassin, standing nearby. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Four days after the carriage accident, Lincoln walked from the White House to Seward’s big brick mansion nearby to check on Seward. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

His jeans, sneakers, T-shirt, and Flamingos jersey lay in a messy pile nearby. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

There was no cover nearby, nothing to hide it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A couple of kids standing nearby screamed in terror, and their parents looked alarmed for about one second—all the time it took to assess the situation. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The annual reunion of my people was held in nearby Syracuse, New York, and my brother Alex and I started a project that would change the course of my life. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I heard the sudden crunch of footsteps on gravel and, hardly aware of what I was doing, turned away spasmodically and pretended to inspect the trunk of a nearby tree. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

If a factory was nearby, he’d explain how you used a plumb line to get the chimney straight and why the windows had been placed a certain way to let in the maximum light. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hollister stepped away from the counter and fiddled with books on a nearby shelf, straightening some, pulling a title off one shelf and moving it to the row below. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I set the tables and diagrams down on top of a nearby crate. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if it didn’t work, at least at the train station he had it nearby. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

When the nurses came to change her, she kicked her thumb-sized feet and hollered so loudly the babies in nearby incubators woke and joined in. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They sat in the kitchen and rolled dough, chopped green onions, minced garlic, offered bits of cucumber to Aziza, who banged spoons nearby and played with carrots. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

But put aside two broadswords and two spears for our own use, two oxhide shields nearby when we go into action. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I move into the shadow of a nearby pavilion as the door opens. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

A few knights sit nearby around a cheerful fire. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Today there are 5,000 deer in the park, all descended from those original thirteen or others that migrated from nearby. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was noisy in the room, but the girls nearby had heard, so there were soon four or five of us staring admiringly at the pencil case. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a nearby sandpit, a dozen high school-age kids and satyrs played volleyball. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Luke has no memory of who dialed 911, but says there were men working in a nearby mill, and he suspects that one of them called immediately after Shawn fell. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It drifted over a calm spot just beyond the waves, and, thankfully, no fires were burning nearby. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The gym instructor was a short, chunky man in his early thirties who taught in the mornings in a nearby public high school and supplemented his income by teaching in our yeshiva during the afternoons. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

They were sent to a temporary camp nearby, then a permanent one in Jerome, Arkansas. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Thirty-nine years old and described by friends as “a very good, efficient drudge,” the hard-drinking Spangler often sleeps in either the theater or a nearby stable. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

And there was also the possibility that the Indians were still nearby, hiding and watching every move the men made. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

And three or four of the neighborhood mothers set up lawn chairs nearby and talked and ate pretzels while their kids ran through the water. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

He hesitated, worrying about all of the people nearby. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Remedios the Beauty and her startled friends managed to take refuge in a nearby house just as they were about to be assaulted by a pack of ferocious males. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The place was only visible from; the belfry of the Chapel of the Holy Penitence nearby; it would do very well. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“The Olympic Range here, up and down the Coast Ranges on occasion. We keep a permanent residence nearby. There’s another permanent settlement like ours up near Denali.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It might not be so peaceful even if they did get round to it, because of the big road nearby. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The jingle of ricksha bells blended with car horns, the come-ons of street peddlers, a woman’s laughter, music from a nearby bar. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

In one swift movement, Hagrid seized the front of KarkarofFs furs, lifted him into the air, and slammed him against a nearby tree. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

"Maybe if I found someone who lives across the street, or works nearby. Maybe they would have seen her go in." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Two Secret Service agents shoved Reagan into the presidential limousine, which sped to a nearby emergency room where the president received immediate life-saving treatment. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

That same day, similar riots broke out in cities all over Germany and in nearby Austria, where a large number of ethnic Germans lived. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan unlatched the lock and the horned toad sprinted away to a nearby ditch. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

In the morning Papa Andrew left us with Uncle Sulaiman and the aunties while he walked to the nearby town. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d hoist the biggest can onto the top of my head or ask someone nearby to help me, and then carry a smaller can in my hand. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were just starting on it when two larger rabbits came running across from the other side of the nearby cattle wade. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The surf breaks nearby; water purls past her shoes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

To minimize the evidence found on him when the police habitually came his way, he set up loot-stashing sites around town, including a three-seater cave that he dug in a nearby forest. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

They were still gazing at the far-off bit of gray when they heard something moving in the brush nearby. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I climb to the roof of a nearby building. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Pacheco swung clumsily at another pretty moth sucking on a sweet pea nearby and stunned both himself and the lawyer by catching it. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gangplank led to land and the nearby Blue Bird Inn. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Joyce was nearby, and that was a consolation. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

One statue of some Ancient Roman dude seemed to be pointing to a nearby McDonald’s. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if it was the smoke from the campfire that calmed me, or the sudden reappearance of Zu, who had come back from scouting a nearby campsite, making sure it was deserted. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He was sitting nearby, his hand held loosely on his knee and still slowly dripping blood, his face scorched by the sun and pale under the burning. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most people did not kneel to receive communion at the marble altar, with the blond life- size Virgin Mary mounted nearby, but Papa did. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The nearby pens are usually okay, but on still nights we make the eejits sleep in the fields.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever Knapp was anywhere nearby, all my senses were on alert. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Those nearby saw in Hillari’s shoulders and eyes a flinching: she was waiting to be struck in reply. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

As we walk, we hear leaves rustling in the bushes nearby. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure. It’s nearby, and Sherlock needs a walk.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Malcolm cut a thick slice for himself and another for Alice, and carved some cheese to go with them as the woman Doris Whicher woke up nearby and looked around blearily. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The voices of children playing cricket in a nearby open field floated over to us. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

My job is to search for wild vegetables and mushrooms in nearby woods while Chou guards our tents. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each family had found a new home, all in nearby trees on the same block. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Grandmère found her initials scrawled in a little nook in one of the horse stalls, which is where she would hide under piles of hay whenever the Nazis were nearby. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I hear Taryn call uncertainly from nearby, and I stagger away from Locke. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“They asked me to confirm people’s professions. They asked me to list the teachers, lawyers, and military who lived nearby.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It took a few seconds to realize that the screams weren't coming from nearby, but farther off. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Not you! If the knights are anywhere nearby, they’ll spot you from a mile away. Gwenforte, too. Stay here with her. Jacob and I will find out where the inn is, and be right back.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The doctor tells a soldier in the room what he needs and orders the soldier to obtain the items at the Lincoln General Hospital, a nearby military facility. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The teams followed her from the third-floor railing to the nearby Electronic Learning Center. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Though my feet ache I decide to go for a walk in the nearby fields. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had found a camp for them beneath a huge old oak tree and had made himself comfortable nearby, his head resting on a great boulder. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Nhamo stumbled off—the music still made her ears ring—and squatted in the shadows nearby. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had hardly passed us when other trees nearby started to quiver with a frightening vigor, as if someone were shaking them. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t really have a plan beyond finding the fastest way to the Hubbard Glacier, but Percy smelled something cooking nearby— sausage, maybe? The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Herold rode into the nearby town of Bowling Green with the Confederates to purchase, of all things, a new pair of shoes. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The river nearby flowed, as the priest had said, from the northern part of the mountains in Tibet all the way to the Arctic. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The askari sat on a rock nearby, bouncing the machine gun on his knees, looking bored. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ray had fired the fatal shot from the bathroom of a nearby rooming house. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

One of the tenets of our instruction here at Miss Preston's is to attain enrichment beyond the schoolhouse walls, an endeavor that often takes us into nearby Baltimore. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

So Roz plucked pinecones from the nearby branches and lobbed them down at the bears. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A nearby mission objective, a sun that may have planets, is Barnard’s Star, about six light-years away. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobbing in the water nearby were several fishing boats, manned by Vietnamese militiamen with rifles. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

If Jamison was nearby, if she could find him at one of the workplaces, she wouldn’t have to search the Council Edifice. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Get the physician,” I roar at a nearby Cadet who cheers with all the others. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I stirred slowly one morning, hearing the braying of nearby animals, my eyes blinking open to see my parents staring down at me. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The shadow-thing that was Cain stood nearby, watching, his burning eyes his only distinguishing feature. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A squadron of Sixers marched down the loading ramp of a gunship parked nearby. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t any time I glanced at the scattered projects on the nearby worktable, looking for anything that could be of some help. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Chills danced up my spine as I sat in the big green living room chair with Mama and Grandma nearby. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama had already set up the dreaded frame of branches and there were strings of hide nearby that she would use to tie the skin up tight so that it could be worked. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

On Saturday nights they played at a dance hall in nearby Blyn, where a farmer had turned, with the addition of some strings of electric lights, his chicken coop into Sequim’s most popular dance venue. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Old Eurykleia saw him first, for that day she was covering handsome chairs nearby with clean fleeces. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many whined overhead or struck the water nearby; but there were no more hits. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of cases of water and MREs were readily available for the guards and prisoners, while those stranded nearby were fighting for food and water. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Facing him was the sad but stubborn heroine with the count beside her, and their horses, tethered to a nearby oak, were neighing and pawing the ground, impatient to be off. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Instinctively, I know something is after me; it is looking for me in nearby bushes, looking to kill me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you use it? It seems such a bother, when the stream’s so nearby.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I run errands, Antonio always seems to be nearby, waiting for me, smiling at me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Me and Ty'ree stared at the TV, feeling Mama somewhere nearby, and the house and my head chock-full with things we weren't allowed to talk about. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

But their well-tended vegetable gardens, small frame houses, and privies were blackened with soot from coal-burning steel plants nearby. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Two other soldiers stood nearby, hanging on his every word, laughing when they were supposed to. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was about a half mile away, just off Carrollton, a nearby road lined with warehouses, chain stores, and gas stations. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She washed with a thorough briskness at a nearby basin. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I sat down at the keyboard and leafed through the stack of typewritten articles on the nearby tray. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

One of the girls on a nearby cot began to thrash and moan. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Like other boys who don’t live nearby, Vincent boards with a local family. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Then, when she was firmly tied up, he went to a place nearby and began to make a fire so that he could cook the girl and eat her. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

"These are your chambers"—Madam Claire motions—"and your imperial servant will be in nearby quarters." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun still feared getting near his office on Dublin—the armed men were likely still nearby—so he and Nasser had no set itinerary this day. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She heard heavy footsteps clomping the pavement on a nearby street. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Lyra looked around quickly, saw no one nearby, and took out the alethiometer. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, careful there, honey,” the nurse exclaimed, throwing a protective arm over Dolores’s head to block her from a nearby IV stand. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

But I saw Father walk over to a nearby oak tree. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger hurried to the high wall behind which Capricorn's garden lay: vegetable beds, fruit trees, and herbs, protected by the wall from the cold wind that sometimes blew from the nearby mountains. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Nat went on talking, trying to make a far-off star seem more important than Lem Harvey’s nearby glare. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The angel came closer to the man, and, with tenderness, led him to a bench nearby, where they sat down. “ The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not the time Apa, with a distant edge in his eye, took us to see the new houses being built on a nearby hill and said, We shall see. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

After two hours on a narrow ledge seven stories above a concrete parking lot and gathered crowds, Mr. George Pollucci let himself be helped to safety through a nearby window by Sgt. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I tossed and turned for an hour, then got dressed and went outside, walking down the road toward the nearby wharf. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said I didn’t like to think that the person who killed Wellington could be living somewhere nearby and I might meet him when I went out for a walk at night. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

At some places, an anbaric cable looped down from a bracket and provided enough feeble current to power a naked lightbulb or two, strung out over the nearby huts. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mami goes to a nearby Catholic school and asks the principal if we can sit in on any class till we go back home. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

A locust’s lazy rasping sawed the air from the nearby oak trees. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a sofa nearby, reclining comfortably in curled-up positions, there was a Centipede and an Earthworm. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

My chest was about to explode, hurling matter and antimatter out until they annihilated everything nearby. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The pile of papers on a nearby desk shifts and shuffles until a single business card finds its way to the surface and sails across the room. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As soon as we reach the sidewalk, Boomer leaps toward a squirrel, which scampers up a nearby oak tree. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The nearby gym was occupied by fellows either practicing basketball or boxing calisthenics and the walls echoed with thuddings, bouncings and whistles blowing, like a grotesque sound track. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Voices rose and fell in a nearby room, and from another direction someone coughed. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a major battle nearby, and a number of wounded were brought back to the camp. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recognized a few others: the librarian, the owner of a nearby hotel, and several men I had seen Papa speaking with on the street. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Whether he had slept by himself in some hole nearby, or had wandered restlessly prowling through the night, he did not say; but he returned with the first glimmer of light, and roused his companions. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He hardly noticed the Mississippi River flowing by the town, or the rich farmland nearby. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I followed her to a nearby house, where she didn’t knock, but rather stuck her head in an open window and called out. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The place smelled of clean hay and wood, and not of animals, although he could hear chickens nearby. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I wish the evangelist would stop saying that,” my mother told a woman nearby, alarmed by the confrontational tone of the sermon. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He still believed his original instinct was correct, that Howard was in Indianapolis or somewhere nearby. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We hadn’t seen one sailing nearby, either, so I expected we’d have the place to ourselves. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

We were worried that the police would find his car abandoned and his body nearby. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I note that he has managed a much better coordination of shirt and tie today, although the jacket slung over the back of a nearby chair is a disaster, haberdasherily speaking. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to tell Vikus about that, but a score of spiders were descending around them, and perching in nearby webs. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When James was eighteen months old, a fast-burning fire spread in the nearby woods. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Later he took his horse to drink from a small creek nearby. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

But Mr. Yang was a good man, she felt; he worked very hard, driving a school bus to Laurel Academy, a nearby private girls’ school, and working as a handyman. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Scientists fished for trout in nearby streams, or climbed mountains and discussed physics while watching the sunrise. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat down in his father’s old arm chair and motioned me into a hard Windsor chair nearby. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Welcome to Mobius. I’m the Director of our camp, which takes its name from the Mobius Arch Loop Trail nearby.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Soldiers who have been stationed nearby on guard duty in the neighborhood come running. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

A man sitting nearby leaned forward and touched Johnny’s arm. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an Osage trading store, and nearby was a grubby rooming house and a blacksmith shop with an immense pile of horseshoes. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Rick crouched nearby, painting a black line around the edge of a hay bale. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The closest thing I have to a friend down here is Tyrell Waters, a junior point guard at nearby Weequahic High School. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

One day I came across a newspaper article about the retirement of an English professor at a nearby state college. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Claire, listening from where she stood in a small grove of trees nearby, smiled at the sweetness of the children. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She does not notice the figure concealed in the nearby shadows until he speaks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The nearby city of Hue had fallen to the Communists the day before, March 16. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Added on to the ex-cons living in halfway houses around the way, there were the addicts who used the drug clinics nearby. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Their voices grow to a feverish pitch as they recount the bodies they saw in the fields nearby their villages. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She came out of the brush so quickly that she must have been waiting nearby to see if I would return. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even nearby civilizations could spend millions of years in such separate or joint colonial ventures without ever stumbling upon our obscure solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Second: The existence of certain varieties of heavy atoms on the Earth suggests that there was a nearby supernova explosion shortly before the solar system was formed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We knew that the leopard, who had not eaten very much, was somewhere nearby. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

She lived nearby and often visited the couple in their Astor Place home. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

As an afterthought, he pinched a cucumber loose from its vine nearby, and pulled some leaves from a clump of basil. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I could see papers scattered untidily over one of the writing desks nearby. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

And the nearby uranium mine made their radar/sonar machines go nuts, so they couldn’t see that way, either, so they never made it to the bottom. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mother was in the dining room while I did my homework nearby. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

C.P. was anxious about finding another job, but during a conversation with the owner of one of the stores on his route, he learned that a nearby service station was for sale. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps some thieves were stealing livestock from the nearby farm, they said, explaining away the distant sound of gunshots. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

There was a Japanese outpost at Cape Torokina nearby, but our scouts thought it had only about a hundred men. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, this tool sprouted propellers the moment it left Petey’s hand and hovered to a designated spot on a nearby rack. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I stayed curled up till the roar of the Harriers finally sank under the hum of distant cars and nearby trees. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

James and Richard are nearby, and they come closer to listen. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

A little round table was drawn up nearby, and on that table stood a crystal goblet filled with golden liquid. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I remember her being nearby all of the time. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

We’d stopped for smoothies at a Jamba Juice pop-up booth in the mall, and had found a seat at one of the nearby tables. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

As a going-away present, the ranch manager gave Shin a map and took him to the bus station in nearby Helong. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Two Sundays ago, my brother watched as the other kids on the block hunted multicolored eggs in nearby bushes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The other people passing through the bus station, to the extent they noticed me at all, took me for a student at a nearby boarding school. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The tailor shop at Plaszów, a nearby labor camp, needed more workers, we were told. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He reached over and grabbed his trumpet, which he always kept nearby. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing no vines nearby, my father instead ran over to Phiri and wrapped him up in his arms. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

He walked to a nearby dark shadow that was cast from the brightening horizon. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I believed it when I was a little boy,” he told an old man standing nearby. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I’ve even checked airports in nearby cities. There are no flights out of the area until this evening. I have plenty of seats on our seven o’clock flight if you’d like me to book you.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

When he reached the farm fields, he said, a family from a nearby home brought him the clothes to cover his body. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Then he let go of the door and grabbed the back of a nearby settee for support. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

On trembling limbs, she grappled onto a nearby tree and hauled herself upright again. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

If their families were nearby, the child would invariably be shooed away by a mortified parent, and the interaction would be over. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

There was a small grocery store nearby where my father, before his arrest, had maintained a simple charge account. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her little body was lying across a busted-down doll carriage in the cellar of a nearby house. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowds nearby cheered, and some people threw money toward it. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The irony was not lost on me when I climbed out of a bunker one morning and found a dud Russian 122-mm rocket buried nearby. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He heard a rustle in the nearby bushes. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Ajay would head to the secondary school on a nearby island and keep muddling along for a few more years of schooling. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

A group of tribal men nearby heaved their massive chests in anger and clenched their fists. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, shi—” Moss uttered before he felt someone jerk him into a nearby office. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Finally, on a whim, I went to the back door of the nearby inn and spent my final penny on a mug of strong beer. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Woods, who lived nearby, kindly agreed to show us around. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

You hardly ever saw the eagle—a pair of them lived nearby—let alone heard one. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

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

Basil slunk wordlessly into a nearby seat like a whipped dog. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ekon dodged just in time, rolling away over leaves as it struck at a nearby tree and splintered the wood. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They came up to him without speaking and began to nibble the short grass nearby. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

From somewhere hidden, but nearby, a woodpecker worked with a rat-ta-tat. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

He saw a rifle by a dead man, the man missing a leg and the leg nearby, bent and chewed at the knee, and the rifle clean and new and cold. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frustrated and suffocated by the confines of the domestic sphere, Stanton joyfully accepted an invitation to tea with friends in a nearby town. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

So Will lay down on the warm sand, and somewhere nearby, he thought, the angel was keeping watch; but that was little comfort. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

My shoulder against a nearby tree for balance, I examined my smelly moist sneaker, doing my best to ignore its odor. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I take a seat nearby, watch Emery’s leg twitch now and then, and listen to the buzz of the ink scratching into her skin. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then, 2,500 years ago, there was a glorious awakening in Ionia: on Samos and the other nearby Greek colonies that grew up among the islands and inlets of the busy eastern Aegean Sea.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are not safe if a single human is nearby. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She gave it to him and then squatted down nearby. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The Feeling had stabilized, which meant they weren’t getting closer or farther away, but were probably sniffing around nearby. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The boy picked up Urim and Thummim, and, once again, had the strange sensation that the old king was nearby. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Bell Labs in nearby Murray Hill, New Jersey, two engineers had been testing out sensitive microwave-detecting equipment. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

There were a couple of birds roasting on a spit as well, and as Will came to sit nearby, Serafina Pekkala flew down. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am also visited regularly by the skunk kits who live underneath the front porch of a nearby house. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

There was woodland nearby and they could vanish into it, keeping more or less together, and simply continue on their way. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last thing he wanted to know was that his father was nearby and making no effort to reach out to him. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Fumbling with a key while trying to steady his candle, he unlocked the nearby door that led to the king’s lodgings. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

In Cuba, the air seemed to taste sweeter, as if there were mangoes growing nearby or your mother had just cooked your favorite dish. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Amari could hear laughter of men on boats and slow, sad chants of slaves working in the rice fields nearby, finishing up their labors for the day. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Curious squirrel peered in bright-eyed wonder from a nearby tree, clucking softly to itself. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walking toward the elevator, I freeze when I hear a familiar voice pouring out of a room nearby. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Danielle was nearby organizing the arts and crafts materials that she and Anna had been working tirelessly to create. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The men on the Comer were southern working men: plumbers, carpenters, painters, drunks, con artists, retired army lifers from nearby Fort Knox, tobacco workers for Brown and Williamson, and some just plain ol’ hustlers. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abbey and I hid nearby, on one of the deep-sea charter boats. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I walked to a nearby farmhouse and explained in English to an elderly white lady that I would like to buy some petrol. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls of the projects and the buildings nearby were covered with graffiti. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The nearby pond was bathed in a silver sheen, parts of the sandstone wall reflecting back a wavery bluish light. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Their guide gestured to a nearby building that appeared to be abandoned. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Two open boxes and ripped Christmas paper lay on the floor nearby. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It looked like only dead-end jobs out there for someone like him, working in a gas station or on the assembly line at a nearby tire factory. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The lights were on in the office, but whoever was in charge of processing IDs hadn’t started yet, which meant that everyone had to wait outside in the atrium or somewhere else nearby. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He saw Dean and Seamus sitting in a group nearby: This meant that the dormitory must be empty, or nearly so. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The force of the water was so great that it stripped the bark from nearby trees. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In a stroke of luck, they also had an idea where Willie Jett might be headed: Jett had been courting a young lady whose father kept a hotel in the nearby town of Bowling Green. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A black man nearby had hoisted his son onto his shoulders, and the son was laughing, his mouth full of milky teeth, one missing from the upper row. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They were quarreling passionately, but in subdued voices, because of the quiet in the square and the people who were wandering past nearby. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he put it into the box and, lifting the green leaves, began to hunt for squash nearby. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

There was only a second between when we first heard the rattling in the nearby shelves and when Liam jumped in front of me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I look up and down the street but see no one, and anyway, Tiny never shuts up, so I would hear him if he were nearby. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Draco Malfoy was standing alone nearby, leaning against a tree, looking utterly relaxed. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Before the boat docks, the captain lowers the gangplank, hails a legionnaire patrolling nearby, and relieves him of his horse. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Sometime in the late 1920s, after extraordinarily heavy rains, swollen streams running off the nearby mountains backed up into a ravine, then exploded over the banks. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Torn from a nearby tree by the constant wind, it was crowned with a thicket of leaves. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There was even a brand-new hospital nearby: Whittaker Memorial opened earlier in 1943, organized by black doctors and constructed by black architects. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It’s safe from the natives because there are none living nearby. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

With no further preamble Kilvin tossed the vial into a nearby firewell, and there was the sharp, clear sound of breaking glass. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I thought about ducking into a nearby stall and waiting behind the stuffed animals, but decided that would be too weird, even for me. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I looked for a vine I could grab on to, but there were none nearby. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Check it out,” Soraya said, and this time she was pointing to a guy selling kites from a stand nearby. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I wave at Miss Duncan in acknowledgment and hop over to a nearby stoop. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Bryan and Anna had stopped at a nearby speakeasy and stayed there until about 10:00 p.m. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

There was no one else nearby, after all, and certainly the Gallivespians wouldn’t be able to use it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was good to have a backup nearby. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The island’s central river had crested its banks and spilled into the nearby fields and forests. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Pedalian was squeezing between two nearby tables, where students were wincing and crying out as he passed. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The dead ruffians were laden on waggons and hauled off to an old sand-pit nearby and there buried: in the Battle Pit, as it was afterwards called. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Or, rather, Owen, our mother, and I sit down—Owen and me on the couch, our mother in a nearby chair. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jackson’s office was nearby, so I walked over, part of me hoping he wouldn’t be there. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

If there are discarded food wrappers nearby and if the wrappers are not covered with ants, the tracks are brand-new. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Seed Collector then crawled under a nearby shadow. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The tired rabbits fed and basked in the sunny meadow as though they had come no further than from the bank at the edge of the nearby copse. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And at once he saw that they weren’t alone in this world, because the little spies were there, too, with their packs laid on the ground nearby. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A bus crammed with passengers had pulled up at the nearby stop. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

With hot food in my stomach and the open fire nearby, I was having a hard time staying awake. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ammonia reek of human urine rises from a nearby oleander hedge. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned around and saw Henry opening his locker nearby. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She put it away, saying, “Iorek? Is he nearby, Will? I thought I heard you call him, but then I thought I was just wishing. Is he really?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

When Lorena realizes that Bailey has no red, she surreptitiously removes a rose from a nearby floral arrangement to tuck in his lapel. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The opponent was the Triumph, a mostly white team from nearby Tucker, Georgia. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It seemed to him a very strange location to choose for a house, or else an odd decision to leave the trees growing nearby, blocking all light and the view of the valley below. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

A loud rustling nearby made Richard tense until a redheaded lizard crawled out. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

After digging out three smoldering logs, he carried them into a nearby larch forest, scraped away the snow from the ground, found some kindling, and managed to start a campfire. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

At around ten they spotted it twinkling on a nearby ridge. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

That she died with those who loved her most nearby? The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Water drips nearby, running into the gutters and pooling in potholes. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Nguyen kept her family going as night settled over the jungle, and the nearby shelling continued. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He found most of what he needed growing nearby. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I pull a string on a nearby wall. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Two women nearby fanned her with their handkerchiefs and sat her down. hit her, was returned to her by Florah, who was sitting alongside. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up to see a boy of fifteen or sixteen, crouching nearby. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Yishan took out the knife again, and it glinted as it caught the light of a nearby campfire. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The main street must be nearby, Cora thought, funneling the town. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But in the end Janis found a place for them, a garden apartment nearby. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no key hanging nearby, and he couldn’t tell whether the door was locked, even by looking closely. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I see my mother in the huge bed nearby, bleached and pasty, arms limp on the orchid-figured comforter, raising her head anxiously. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Hagrid launched himself forward on top of the skrewt that was cornering Harry and Ron and flattened it; a blast of fire shot out of its end, withering the pumpkin plants nearby. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Instead, Alys found a comb carved of bone on the shelf nearby, and began to unsnarl and smooth the wet, salt-stiffened hair. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Do you live nearby?” she managed at last, letting go of his hand reluctantly. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tugged the sleeve of a nearby sailor. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

One time the factory owner selected my father to attend an advanced course in tool design in the nearby city of Białystok. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Some areas that are ecologically very suitable for food production never acquired it in prehistoric times at all, even though areas of prehistoric food production existed nearby. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But as she spoke her eyes went to Aragorn who stood nearby. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The young flight instructor was dozing in the sun after a swim in the river when she heard a radio announcement coming from a nearby stadium. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

In any case these people—Roosevelt called them the Paituna culture, after a nearby village—had ceramic bowls, red- to gray- brown. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We also liked to swim in nearby Lake Tanganyika, one of the biggest lakes in the world. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

His girlfriend and Dan follow the neuroscientist’s gaze to a group of three people standing nearby in the middle of the packed room. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It met in a classroom at the nearby high school, and it was so popular that although I arrived ten minutes early, a new student had already taken my place. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The adults were afraid the government-backed militia that had attacked us could still be nearby, and they wanted to keep us moving as fast as we could away from our village. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He set it aside and sat down on a nearby rock. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, she was standing there, taking in the whole scene: Nathan on his ladder, me nearby questioning him, Lily on the chaise. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

They’d roam the nearby forests and meadows, gathering mushrooms, digging up edible roots, catching frogs and occasionally running away from tigers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the antiaircraft guns stopped firing—a sure sign that Luftwaffe planes were nearby. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

A peal of savage barking broke out nearby. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He ran over to Shin, grabbed him by the hair, and dragged him to their nearby teacher. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

That morning Ruth had got a chair behind a desk, and I was sitting up on its lid, with two or three others of our group perched or leaning in nearby. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says that people from nearby communities come to her for dental work, since she is the best dentist for kilometers. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fields at Clarkston High School and at nearby Georgia Perimeter College were booked for the fall. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

A trailer was parked in one corner of the lot, and nearby was a flying-jinny partly covered with canvas. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As workers piled mountains of fresh lumber beside each building, jagged foothills of sawdust and scrap rose nearby. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A noise nearby caused them both to freeze momentarily. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

To propel herself forward, Mariam clawed at necks, at arms and elbows, at hair, and, when a woman nearby hissed, Mariam hissed back. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

A dog barked nearby and now she could hear arguing: a hubby shouting at his wife, a tyke being slapped. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two other giant men stood nearby over a bronze brazier, studying images in the flames. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He set his hat upon a nearby chair and leaned in to drop a kiss on Mrs. Caruthers’s wrinkled cheek before straightening. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He sprinted for cover behind a nearby tree. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

But Bess was the only one who lived nearby, and the only one with enough kids to fill the bedrooms. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She reminds me about a place nearby, called Townsend’s, a drugstore and soda fountain, where I can get friendly with teenagers my age. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do I care if you kill one another? You’ll all be dead soon enough anyhow. You. And you,” he said, pointing to two of the prisoners watching nearby. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

And if Hugh had been dumb enough to follow us—if the bee flying up and down our line meant he was nearby-—then they’d kill him, too. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see the Galluzzo house from the kitchen window, but it was hovering nearby, as if it, or everyone in it, was waiting for me just beyond my view. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We lay there together, sweating in the sun, listening to the birds make their rapid calls over the drone of the insects, to the singing coming from the farmers from the nearby village. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Wary of approaching Hamlet, I hid myself beneath a nearby table covered with a long carpet. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

There was a sort of scuffling sound nearby, and Dimple opened her eyes, startled. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A window went up with a bang somewhere nearby, and farther away other voices began to call questions. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere nearby an incongruous sound shook the dark, an air hammer pounding like a machine gun. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The swamp’s stillness was disturbed only by the croaking of a frog and the splash as it leaped into a puddle nearby. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

In 1943, a strike at the R. J. Reynolds factory in nearby Winston-Salem brought the always present but rarely discussed class divisions within that black community to the surface. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He walked stiffly in the direction of the pool nearby, passing on his way the cat, who Was crouched over something held between his paws. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If there’s a loop entrance nearby, this tale may tell us how to find it. It’s a short one, luckily.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

When he first found Mom and me in that trailer park, I was working under the name Robert Johnson at a nearby Staples. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The tall stone marker was nearby, and several white markers were on the slope. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

With no ready source of sorrow nearby, she had nothing to restore her. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

And as the Doctorita explains—with patience the first time, and exasperation by the fifth time—I hang around, sweeping or mopping nearby. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

An explosion shook the walls, and glass fell out of a nearby window. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Con had been standing silent nearby, watching Kaede kneeling before the Fairy Queen as if entranced, and a sense of disquiet filled him. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

As the delicious smell of meat cooking drifted through the air, everybody worked together, and soon we had a small house with mud walls and a thatched roof and a garden for vegetables nearby. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a sound of water falling nearby. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

As the others grabbed chairs from the nearby tables, Jason leaned in and squeezed his friend’s shoulder. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, he mopped the bathrooms while Somkit sat nearby, jabbering away. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Something was slithering over dead leaves nearby: it sounded like a cloak trailing along the ground. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Lyra watched helpless nearby, nursing Pan, rocking him against her breast. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Workers in white uniforms were hauling crates from a nearby storage shed and loading them into a big truck. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

We trudged over a low rise, through a nearby field, to a little brown shed with a rectangular animal pen beyond it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

At the hotel, there’s better lighting, and tables and chairs, and plenty of people nearby to help with hard math problems. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rachel pointed to a hole in the side of a nearby hill—a tunnel that was boarded up and chained. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He landed on the ground with a grunt, his gun clattering against a nearby patch of rocks. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Their oldest son, Logan, round and berry-brown from a day in the sun, is digging a hole nearby, while the newest addition, Luke, lies on a quilt wearing a swim diaper. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

It skidded to a stop nearby, cut its siren, and a driver leapt out. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

When you set those traps up you’re supposed to hide somewhere nearby, so you can put the dead down real quick. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I noticed how, nearby, the roots to a big sweet gum tree, exposed by erosion in the riverbank, suddenly looked like a swarm of snakes slithering into the water. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

We are staying with the Garcías in Queens until we find our own place nearby. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

From a nearby, smaller fire, she lifted a kettle from its hook and carried it into the cott. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother, Jeer, had been born in Africa and loved to tell her daughter and her friends stories of her childhood in a small village by a river and all the animals who lived nearby. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Then we would meet the other families and go to the empty lot nearby with our lawn chairs to watch the sunrise. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I know a place nearby. Do you need to be back at work right away?” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just then he heard some dogs and knew hunters were walking nearby. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we learned about a nearby village that had been overrun with screechers, we created a new incentive for hunters. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

His sister already knew most of his friends, since they either lived nearby or went to mosque together. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I thought I heard people whispering, in the distance, then nearby. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

John Root lies nearby, as do the Palmers, Louis Sullivan, Mayor Harrison, Marshall Field, Philip Armour, and so many others, in vaults and tombs that vary from the simple to the grand. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

So I do not go home, but to a nearby village of no consequence. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

We moved Haye to a secluded bank by a nearby brook. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He was either sleeping in the shade of the canoe or running up and down the sandspit chasing the pelicans that roost there in great numbers because there are numerous fish nearby. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kate was already working on it—she pointed to a large petrified tree limb lying among the stony rubble nearby. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

In Soweto, even if she was banned, there were friends and family nearby. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Washington, Lawrence and Alvarez planned to fly to Ottawa for a look at the Canadian government’s heavy-water reactor in nearby Chalk River, a design they thought might be adapted for tritium production. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Instead of staying in the house or finding a nearby apartment, Candice and her mother had moved to Lambert for the summer. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Rain slashed down in wind-driven sheets that stung his face, and lightning crashed ominously nearby. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He literally didn't recognize the place, and not just because Pattie was asleep on the new Salvation Army couch and Quang-ha was sprawled out on the carpet nearby under a red blanket. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“But they were expecting us. Apparently, several truckloads of Estonians were dumped in a nearby village a few days ago.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The ambulance took my grandmother to nearby Princeton Hospital, and we followed by car. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She finished folding and grabbed a nearby chair. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Out of the nearby trees came the dragon. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Hungry Mother State Park in nearby Virginia was a popular destination for miners and their families, and also the Smoky Mountains farther south in Tennessee. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nick’s leaning against the wall nearby, flushed and smiling. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

A separate consequence of a settled existence is that it permits one to store food surpluses, since storage would be pointless if one didn’t remain nearby to guard the stored food. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She reached for a nearby piece of wood and turned it over in her hands, measuring its strength and its straightness. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When both together took a few slow hops down one of the runs nearby, Hazel followed and little by little they all three moved out of the hall. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they rolled to a stop, a dozen men streamed out of a nearby door and surrounded the cart. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Somewhere nearby, her father slept, gathering strength to return with his newfound daughter to the village where healing people lived in harmony. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he were nearby, surely I'd have had some suspicion of it. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Butler called nearby Klan units for photographs and other materials related to Klan life. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

You wouldn’t think a simple headscarf could cause so much commotion, and yet I’d frequently have to look over my shoulder to see if Jack or one of his friends was lurking nearby. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Like sometimes at school, he could feel the Bull nearby, even though he couldn’t see him. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I looked around for Rufus, knowing that he must be nearby. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sonia is staying on with Ashima, thinking of getting an apartment in Boston or Cambridge so that she will be nearby. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a sudden, deafening roar from somewhere nearby. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The question that naturally occurs is "What would it be like if a star exploded nearby?" A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Stumbling on painful feet, they explored the cliff faces nearby. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“A white woman gets her house egged and the police find a colored boy nearby, that’s all they need to know.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fiddle with metal instruments on a nearby cart. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

One plane seemed to be right above us, seeding the ground around us with bullets and bombs, and as it trailed off into the distance, it set nearby patches of the darkness afire. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Beginning to feel he was in actual danger, the secretary jumped off the car, pushed through the crowd, and sprinted toward a nearby building. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Now he let himself fall against the back of a nearby chair, on the edge of which he braced himself with his thin limbs. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two small figures stood nearby, Valentina and Polina, waving a white cloth at the small plane that buzzed over their heads in the wilderness. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It was the only sound in camp, the only sound in Owens Valley, the mess hall bells, their gongs echoing between the Inyo Range and the nearby Sierras, their furthest ripples soaking into dry sand. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the phone calls started again, though — again — he looked in the phone book, found out where Pinkus lived, and took a room as nearby as he could afford. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad talked with Robin quietly while June hovered nearby, worry all over her face. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Okay, until some guy got up on the stage and started shouting what he and his aces were going to do to the white communities nearby. Then some fool started yelling, ‘Burn, baby, burn!’ It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The money was laid out on a nearby table and soon there was a crowd around it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“No, I know why they took him,” she said, as heads clustered close nearby. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Stay nearby,” he told Volta quietly, which is exactly what Volta had intended to do. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Then I lay the rope over the ceiling hook, pull it taut, and fasten it to the leg of a nearby chair. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning, we beat up people from the neighborhood who were on their way to fetch water at a nearby pump. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I wake up many hours later to the sound of people whispering nearby. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A stone fountain fed by a nearby stream had survived the fire. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I'd heard trains and seen the flashing lights of engines on nearby tracks, but our tunnel had held only rusty tracks and broken cars. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

In the park nearby, grass creepers edged out into the graveled paths. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl leaped to her feet, ran to a nearby building, and called out, “Papa Andrew! A man and a pikin are here to see you.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

My answer was a gunshot ricocheting off a wall nearby, followed by another that slammed into the floor at my feet. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Ophie walked back to the house, kicking a plate tucked under a nearby rosebush. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The kitchen door was shut, but nearby, along the wall, there was a hole above the drain where a brick had been left out. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aware that in nearby villages women have been hanged as witches for something as simple as showing too much interest in “evil vermin.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There were no houses nearby, so he broke the lock with an ax handle he found on the ground. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

In those hours, Ma and us girls wash our clothes in a nearby stream, but without detergent they are not very clean. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ann was right behind them and saw them run over to the pile, scoop up a few bricks, and lob them through nearby store and car windows. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But they manage to find some pieces of wood floating nearby. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

An emerging technical civilization, after exploring its home planetary system and developing interstellar spaceflight, would slowly and tentatively begin exploring the nearby stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnson wanted to know if American planes from nearby aircraft carriers were in the air supporting the ships. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I usually came home at night with the nuthatch that roosted in a nearby sapling. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was so grateful I had the privilege of being nearby so we could spend her last days together. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Here, it was as if I was sealed into a noiseless box, and even when I opened a window, all I could hear was the rhythmic whisper of cars driving on the nearby road. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Unbeknownst to us, an inmate from some nearby cell—we never found out which one—was tossing lighted matches at the heap. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just then a ball jerked loose from the basketball game nearby and rushed toward her. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

People at nearby tables had halted their own conversations and were sitting in silence, listening to ours. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A number of times he halted to gawk at the transparent and magnified moon balanced atop a nearby mountain like a ball on a seal’s nose. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In place of petrochemical fertilizers, Greenways’s organic acres are fed with compost from a nearby horse farm and by poultry manure. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The beds nearby were filled with boys snoring into the crooks of their arms. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Tiles in the ceiling of the elementary school would shift like they were made of paper, and for weeks after, debris would be discovered scattered across nearby backyards, roped off with yellow police tape. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I felt uneasy without him nearby, but I wasn’t sure why. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They took Yossarian’s clothes away and put him in a ward, where he was very happy when no one was snoring nearby. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

We followed the other workers into a nearby building. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She can hear a fountain bubbling nearby and turns down the now grass-covered path to find it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We sometimes do see the odd boat passing by, but only carrying people from nearby villages exactly like this one. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mien wavered from severe, when she watched the men loading the wagons, to smiling when she spoke with a girl standing nearby. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

One splash spooked a bird in a nearby tree, and it flew away with a rustle of feathers. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Allie and I went to a nearby shop and bought medicine, but Uncle’s fever grew worse day after day. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

While the authorities had kept my whereabouts a secret from her, she might be living nearby, hoping I would find her. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The village men say the Khmer Rouge soldiers are all around us, some even hiding in the village or in nearby woods. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve walked around the campuses nearby, seen all the buttoned-up students with their books and their satchels and their studious expressions. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Towns mean a real bed in a motel, too, unless there’s a campground nearby to park the RV. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Together, Ivy and Shilling made a place for Gran to lie in her favorite glade, where the ground was soft and covered in clover, and nearby ran a gentle river. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Matthias had not long to wait before the small door in the wall nearby grated open on its rusty hinges, and Constance peered cautiously out. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She bounces the ball over to Colin and the group of guys at the nearby basket. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

As I lifted the lantern’s shade to access the wick, something clattered nearby. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

We had been taking turns climbing up and down its back and when my chance came I jumped on and the donkey bolted into a nearby thornbush. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing on a floating island nearby is Max. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Albert, whose hair reminds me of a bird’s nest, stands nearby. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

A woman sitting nearby held her infant out to me and screamed. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But on the hill, you could see beautiful things, like the peach orchards of the nearby farms, and the terra-cotta roofs of the town center in the distance. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Hungarian police had entered the ghetto and were yelling in the street nearby. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The square was deserted, save for a lirkmunk who chittered in annoyance at the smell and ran for the safety of a nearby thicket. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Thirty minutes after settling down for the night, wind-driven debris from the fire ignited the dry grass nearby, forcing them to abandon their things and retreat farther north. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, my parents went to church in a nearby village and left Tabitha and me behind with my father’s cousin, a woman named Nyanriak. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Life Is Life meets on the grounds of the arboretum in a nearby Ohio town, which shall remain nameless. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The air was thick with the familiar smell of diesel, bread, and kebab mixed with the stench from the nearby stream, where everyone dumped trash. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

During reproduction, the helices separate, assisted by a special unwinding protein, each synthesizing an identical copy of the other from nucleotide building blocks floating about nearby in the viscous liquid of the cell nucleus. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spider jumped out of the backpack and onto a nearby rock. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Candice took one side of it and helped carry it to a nearby table. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Jack’s aunt, who lived in a nearby town, was expecting a baby and wanted Jack’s sister, Jadzia, to come help her. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mary stood close to the mound, with Atal nearby for reassurance; but she sensed all their eyes on her and felt as if she were a new girl at school. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In Kinvara, poor as we were, and unstable, we at least had family nearby, people who knew us. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Like The Beast it is dangerous but not as dangerous as the big city nearby. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

With Joe’s help, he dug a ditch to divert water, illegally, from an irrigation canal flowing out of the nearby Dungeness River. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The new arrivals to the nearby towns, the rowdies and low whites, started fights when residents came for supplies. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was nearly supper time, and many of the strikers had gone home or left to partake of the nearby taverns. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A painful throbbing had started behind her eyes and a mosquito was buzzing nearby and she felt suddenly, guiltily grateful that she had a blue American passport in her bag. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Most people never really observe their surroundings; ask anyone what the person sitting nearby was wearing, and chances are good that they can’t tell you. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Fried mung-bean pancake with spicy sauce, wafting in the air with the bricks of pungent soybean paste hawked by a nearby merchant, so strong you could taste it. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Then he took off his own armour and hung it neatly on a nearby tree with the shield on top. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were told there was a village nearby that might enjoy our skills.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Students had gathered on the hockey field nearby, burning paper effigies of Gowon around a glowing bonfire; the smoke curled into the night air and mixed with their laughter and chatter. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Georgie glanced at Nero sitting nearby, licking his paws and scrubbing his face. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I finally approached the table, and Mitra hung around nearby to observe the moment. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

All of the fathers worked at the hatchery in a nearby town. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Cherrie, who was resting nearby in a hammock, could hear the conversation. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

As Hrothgar had done, this younger king was systematically burning and plundering nearby halls, extending the circle of his tribute power. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the people running the bulldozers and shovel contraptions were stripped of their shirts, while others standing nearby even wore ties and coats. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were tufts of sparse grass, a few bushes and rocks, and nearby he could see an area of thicker vegetation: broad, low trees outlined against the sky. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Half a dozen young women in black trouser suits stood nearby, comparing notes on their tablet computers. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I figured out that this meant she didn’t want me anywhere nearby. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a week of living under the tree, the nights become cold and our stomachs too empty, so Kim asks a family camping nearby to let us live with them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Bailey climbs out, Poppet and Widget are both waiting on the path nearby, Poppet sitting on the edge with her legs dangling over the side. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The last thing she was aware of was seeing something thud to the ground nearby. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Tao jumps down from his stool and grabs several spices from a nearby cupboard. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He was halted by another grenade that exploded, causing his remains and blood to sprinkle like rain on the nearby leaves and bushes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He picks up Celia’s only doll from a nearby chair and drops it to the floor, the porcelain head cracking open. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I’ve heard rumors of Scholar thieves lurking in the catacombs, popping through grates to grab, raid, and usually kill whoever is nearby before dropping back into their lair. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Someone in a car nearby is blasting Bruno Mars, and it’s right then that I remember tonight is the talent show. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Then Lynn was hospitalized in a nearby, bigger town for part of October. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

And then there were all the people James mentioned in one sentence—a great-grandmother, auntie, cousins—all right here, nearby? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Ten days after the church bombing, on September 25 at 2:31 a.m., another bomb exploded in a nearby black neighborhood. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was no ocean, no dock, nothing nearby at all, just streets and parked cars and darkness and snow. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

A single pedestrian wanders down the sidewalk, and a gardener is carefully trimming a nearby hedge—but aside from the faint clip-clip-clip sound of his shears, it’s quiet. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

By nine A.M. , an estimated six thousand persons thronged the nearby blocks, behind police barriers, and faces were in every window of the apartment buildings across the street; some stood shivering on fire escapes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Pa pointed to a big rock nearby, and there we sat. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The Russians were targeting German ground troops nearby. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Marigold smudged the window with her nose as she peered into the nearby brush. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Odd, irregular lumps rose and fell despite the fact that there weren’t any other rocks nearby. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Cricks and creaks came from nearby and distant quarters, as if the house were twitching in a sleep of its own. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Twice I’d found the pie tin in the trap empty but I hadn’t seen him anywhere nearby. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Granddaddy hummed Vivaldi and puttered nearby with his straining net. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Gunshots erupted nearby, and the soldiers began to move, taking the six of us with them. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

While the general listened to a briefing in a nearby tent, Caputo and his men sprayed water into the trailer. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Men on a nearby ferry are laughing; the sound is eerily loud though the boat is far away. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would paddle over to a nearby rock or the shore so he could do his business. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

One night, early in the spring, we woke in the barracks to the sound of explosions nearby. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

An official came out of the unfinished terminal building nearby and shook Richard’s hand. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We cleaned up in silence, tossed the trash in a nearby bin in silence, and climbed back into the cab in silence. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He glanced around at the people seated nearby, realizing they were the ones to whom X-Ray sold the tickets. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Four Anasazi pots were carefully arranged on a rock nearby. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before he left, Schindler asked that we not take revenge on the people in the nearby town, since they had helped him to keep us alive. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“If you don’t take it, I will!” someone nearby shouts. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Upon arrival on the New York side, he was carried to the nearby home of James Bayard, a longtime friend and political disciple, where Hosack administered liberal doses of laudanum and waited for the end. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

She listened for any change in her surroundings, but the nearby trees were silent, their leaves motionless. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

By now the children had gotten up from the table to look at more monkeys perched in a nearby tree, so there was a considerable space between Mrs. Das and Mr. Kapasi. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mist drifted over the fields at the foot of the nearby hills, and Meggie felt as if the shadows of the night were still hiding among the trees. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

There the guards awaited him, and heralds stood, and all the lords and chiefs were gathered together that remained in Edoras or dwelt nearby. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Supper was a handful of wild radishes Ross found, a cup of dry beans, water from a nearby brook. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As I came out of class one day, a helicopter swept over campus and released a wide arc of tear gas meant for a nearby rally. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

For some unknown reason, I was fearful of the place and wanted to turn back, but the sight, nearby, of shirtless, muscular impis engaged in mock fights using spears and knobkerries made me stay. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But here, it was hard to focus when Cain was nearby, taunting and sneering, waiting for her to make one mistake. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But Tally saw one nearby, Croy's maybe, that had only been unfolded once. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Somebody from the house nearby screamed, “Enemy plane!” at the same time as Special Julius shouted, “Take cover!” and leaped across the veranda, overturning the palm wine. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He could hear the American tanks firing over the nearby explosions of grenades, rocket-propelled grenades, and small-arms fire. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Three other guys stand nearby, laughing and talking. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

‘Here is a mallorn-leaf of Lórien, and there are small crumbs on it, and a few more crumbs in the grass. And see! there are some pieces of cut cord lying nearby!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Among them I recognized the weavings of some of the nearby villages. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

One Friday afternoon, Zeitoun was checking on a nearby job and decided to stop at home. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

On the morning of January 21,1970, Scruggs was in one of the mortar pits getting ready to clean his gun when a truck loaded with unused 81mm mortars pulled in to a nearby pit. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She looked again at the word she had written, then erased it with her own toes, stamped the sand firm, and tossed the stick into a pile of glistening kelp nearby. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Else would linger nearby, begging for a spoonful of rose petal jam. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

This must be one of Finnick’s fancy nets, positioned to trap me, and he must be nearby, trident in hand. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The room is pitch black, aside from one single day-lantern tied to a nearby door hook. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The winged man from the ice cream stand was leaning against a nearby column, casually tossing a small bronze hoop in the air. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Her mom, Mrs. Thompson, is a vice principal at a nearby high school, but not the one we will go to. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

As Sheriff White tried to quell the riot, his children ran to the nearby courthouse, calling for help. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Some students were arrested while others left school and united as one in a nearby park with all of the other high schools. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Any other insects she found nearby, such as flies, wasps, or beetles, she also included as part of its plant-insect community. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Sefia scurried up a nearby tree, where she could survey their whole camp. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“It is as it was meant to be. Is Brother Alf nearby?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker were sitting comfortably in deckchairs nearby, sipping tall glasses of fizzy lemonade and watching him to see that he didn’t stop work for one moment. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to find a stream. Is there one nearby?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

None of the other Champions nearby bothered to do anything, though Pelor paused for a moment before easing around Grave. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The nearby Check In Check Out deli had just been looted, and the police were looking for anyone who might have benefited. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Now everything was quiet except the gentle lapping of the water on the nearby shore and the occasional cry of a water bird. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This appearance of a second outlaw seemed to overwhelm Professor McGonagall, who staggered backward and fell into a nearby chair, clutching at the neck of her old tartan dressing gown. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The quarters of all the nearby plantations were thoroughly searched and no small number of slaves beaten on principle. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

From government buildings nearby white people who headed the Tembisa city councils hurriedly stepped out, jumped into cars and zoomed off under police escort. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pain nearby was losing its fear of him. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ocean, throwing up foaming sun-sprays across some nearby rocks, was winter cold. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked along the cornfield and surveyed the nearby desert. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

There’s probably a pay phone at the nearby subway station, and the library isn’t too far away. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

But there was another castle nearby, vastly larger and impregnable. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Darius? Is that you?” his mother calls out from a nearby room when we reach the second floor. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The bodies of the children were supposedly scattered and buried nearby, but Alexei’s body was not found. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

And for all he knew, she had friends nearby, or was just playing weak so that they’d walk away and leave her alone. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

His sister sat nearby cradling a jug of water. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The shadow of a nearby dune bent and then morphed into the shape of a human that was nearly three times Nathan’s height. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She leaned in closer, as if someone might be hiding nearby, listening to our every word. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The sea was rushing against rock somewhere nearby; Harry listened to it while the others talked, discussing matters in which he could take no interest, making decisions. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Two girls much older than us are standing nearby. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Ma’am sounded to me like an older woman with a proper purse, good posture, and sensible shoes who was maybe sitting somewhere nearby. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was her favorite stopover that summer because of the Bellamar caves nearby. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and others crawl along the top of the train to a nearby car. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He had had an unpaid internship at a small architecture firm in Cambridge, where he’d run errands at Charrette for the designers, been sent to photograph nearby sites, lettered a few drawings. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They had fine furniture, and Anna filled their home with flower cuttings from the garden and nearby fields. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Like Teddy, he lived nearby because his mom was a domestic worker. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Two British doctors happened to be in nearby Rawalpindi, and the army brought them in to consult. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m just going for the nearby Buchanan State Forest, home of old-growth hemlocks.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

As he was rebuttoning his pants, there was sudden motion in the under brush as a dark shape thrashed its way free of some nearby bushes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Those of us who worried about such things assumed the wights were nearby, somewhere below us in that German submarine, waiting. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

In a falling elevator, try to climb up on the person nearby so their body will cushion your landing. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cluster of birds flew up from the nearby trees, hitting the sky at the same moment I began beating out a faster, more insistent rhythm. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He thought he saw Ginny look around as he passed, and wondered whether she had sensed someone walking nearby, but he did not speak, and he did not look back. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Even if Ms. Parker thinks I can do the concert without earmuffs, I’ll keep them nearby just in case. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

He punctuated this last thought with such a deep sigh that a house sparrow singing nearby stopped and rushed home to be with his family. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The fire popped and hissed, buckling under a steady stream of water from a nearby hose. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Will didn’t know where the spies were, but he was perfectly sure they were nearby. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

We stopped at the back door of a small cigarette shop nearby. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They eat well, them white people,” said an old man nearby. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She leaves the satchel on the floor nearby. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

China’s coastline is much smoother, and only the nearby Korean Peninsula attained separate importance. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sirens scream nearby, and Brickz and other dogs bark in response. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Children stopped their playing on the grass to stare, and nurses at the nearby hospital came out on the roof to watch, their white uniforms glowing in the now unveiled sun like lilies. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the nearby train station, people crowded elbow-to-elbow, the air filled with a multitude of voices. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A white man standing nearby spoke up in her defense. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

They were built of logs that had been cut from the nearby forests. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A child’s voice, coming from behind a nearby bush, made the sound. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I bought us cider at a nearby pub, using mine to wash down the nahlrout, trying not to grimace at the bitter, chalky taste. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sirens go off nearby, and it’s as hazy and smoky as the rest of the neighborhood. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Your brother and I were defending a union supply area at Milliken’s Bend as part of General Grant’s siege of the nearby city of Vicksburg. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I struggled in his thick arms while Mom hovered nervously nearby. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Trampita and I watched tadpoles and little fish in the nearby reservoir. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

And he hung with the guys who lived for hurling insults at Rashid whenever he was nearby. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There were two other teachers standing nearby, so although he growled at me, threatening that he would get me before the day was over, he kept walking. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Parents and teachers nearby started cheering me on, and I finished the race feeling like a winner. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“You en’t thinking of trying to get in and rescue her?” she said, sitting down nearby. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Her nobleman husband lies sleeping in a nearby room, his head on his arm, as if listening to his heartbeat. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We can make ourselves invisible. Their vision slides over us and over anything nearby. You were quite safe. They can’t even see the island.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

A car sped by and crashed into a nearby tree. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The summers were warm, and there were creeks and inlets and streams in the nearby woods where they could catch fish, surreptitiously, of course, because they weren’t supposed to. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once we’d reached the top of a nearby hill, I sat down on the dirt. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Butterscotch slept nearby, and Dad’s favorite jazz station played a saxophone snoozer. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Around town, around the nearby townships, always carrying the book, keeping it in perfect condition. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why pick it when there were Japanese katanas racked up nearby? City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

A nearby US aircraft carrier launched fighter aircraft to patrol the skies. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I hear the rush of the creek at the bottom of the incline and the rustle of something else nearby. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Whatever had slain the kudu wasn’t visible, but it—or they, since it must have been jackals—had to be nearby. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has thumbed through the padded folder of nearby restaurants. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Some of the men nearby were beginning to look at him with awakening curiosity. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He nodded and I pointed to the nearby apothecary. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She wrapped her own self in a woven blanket, sank into a nearby chair, and slept too. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Setting the jar on a stone bench, he settled in the grass nearby, lid in hand. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

From nearby, Mapper let out his own battle cry, and then Two Step’s carbine started blasting away right behind her. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

A high-pitched whine came from the nearby shore. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Then they walked out of the courthouse in the November sunshine and stopped for coffee at a nearby sidewalk cafe. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Some of our most powerful sources are radar transmitters; a few are used for radar astronomy, to probe with radio fingers the surfaces of the nearby planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is her habit, like a self-anointed preacher, to choose a moral tale from her memory and tell it to those nearby, whether or not they wish to hear it. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Imagining that I must have been nearby, playing in the sand or lying on a blanket. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The rector from the nearby hamlet of Berwick came looking for an apprentice and, thanks to Mistress MacGregor's praise, settled on me. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

All I want is to lie down on a nearby green plush sofa and go to sleep. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

As I stood debating what to do, my eyes wandered about, and fell upon several placards, in red ink, impaled upon a nearby fence. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when there was no planting, weeding, or harvesting to be done on the nearby farms, the number swelled to 260, bodies cramming the benches and overloaded desks. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“No, I don’t live nearby, and no, I don’t come here often. Just passing through. And thanks, I’m glad it’s all right with you.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For several span we will have this in the shop,” he said simply, gesturing to the metal container that stood nearby. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He heard the change in the sounds around them, too; the howl of the wind, the engines turning over steadily to generate power for the lights, voices from somewhere nearby giving orders. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A few nearby dockworkers started toward her, but she glared at them with such malice that they raised their hands and backed away, shaking their heads. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I helped myself to another martini from the nearby sideboard and continued my sermon. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The boy doesn’t wait for an answer, just pulls me to a nearby street, one that isn’t yet flooded with people. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Long ushers a student through the metal detectors, as if he never left, and Tate checks a backpack nearby. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

My friend Alex was standing nearby, and I stole a glance in her direction, looking for some guidance on what to expect, but she just shrugged. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Hence early farmers either had to find mutant trees not requiring cross-pollination, or had consciously to plant genetically different varieties or else male and female individuals nearby in the same orchard. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment Meggie thought she could hear the sea breaking in the distance, but perhaps it was only the traffic on the nearby highway. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Pig droppings nearby clinch the identification, and then, looking around, I see Crystal’s tracks in the soft loam. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, there was an eerie silence, interrupted only by the sound of far-off gunfire and the nearby trickle of plaster from the ceiling. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bigwig could hear a worm moving in the earth nearby and faintly down the tunnel came the sound of some small creature pattering through the grass outside. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, under physiological conditions, there would always be positively charged ions like sodium or magnesium lying nearby to neutralize the negatively charged phosphate groups. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

On a sideboard nearby there was a little chafing dish and a basket of poppy heads. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear sat up and wiped his face with the edge of his tunic, hearing nothing but the sound of his own panting and the rushing river nearby. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Often they heard nearby Elvish voices singing, and knew that they were making songs of lamentation for his fall, for they caught his name among the sweet sad words that they could not understand. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He chanced a sudden glance to check if Jess was nearby. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

If there are intelligent beings on the planets of fairly nearby stars, could they know about us? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sheriff Clark and Colonel Lingo sat in a car nearby. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still clad only in her underwear, she hurriedly draped a tattered black shawl, which had been lying on a tin chair nearby, over her shoulders, but the shawl didn’t cover much. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the nearby open-air market, she bargained for fish, chicken, rice, vegetables, and salt. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The Marali family was a huge clan, scattered over many of the nearby villages. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

In his box nearby, Samuel Riddle lowered his binoculars, turned to the Howards, and smiled weakly. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They seized two large sticks which were nearby and drove the other boys away, telling them that it was wrong to surround such a bird and torment it. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Battles had been fought nearby, and the wind reminded the boy that there was the language of omens, always ready to show him what his eyes had failed to observe. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lingered at the aerie, hunting the nearby fields. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I have to go and find out if there are some family shelters nearby. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Although Mesopotamia had the wheel in about 4000 B.C., nearby Egypt did not use the wheel until two thousand years later, despite being in close contact. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Dust rose smothering the air, as from nearby there marched up an army of Easterlings that had waited for the signal in the shadows of Ered Lithui beyond the further Tower. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

But the job was so dull that I was almost dozing off and could hardly respond when the radio of a nearby officer loudly blared out the emergency tone. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she watched, a woman darted out of a clump of nearby trees, glanced at Kira, and then brazenly began to pull carrots from the garden that Kira and her mother had tended together. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The buildings had always seemed more impressive because they were the only buildings to receive regular paintings; usually, the nearby houses and cabins were left untouched to become the dull grained gray of weathered wood. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy noticed that the owner of the bar stood nearby, listening attentively to their conversation. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

That day, the bullets of the Boers were too much for the assegais of the Zulu impis and the water of the nearby river ran red with their blood. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although organic chemists in Alexander Todd’s nearby lab thought this the basic arrangement, they were still a long way from chemically establishing that all the internucleotide bonds were identical. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“I read somewhere there’s going to be a shortage of them soon—you could open your own practice nearby. Live near home. Wouldn’t that be cool?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

One of the boys by the fire looked up at the sound, his hand closing on a stone, but the woman nearby spoke sharply, and he waited, watching intently. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Women came from the nearby villages, and we danced to their singing and clapping. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

From their point of view, all nearby star systems are more or less equally attractive for exploration or colonization.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reporters in vans linger in traffic nearby, tailing us. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They start snickering again, and I eye a nearby window, seriously considering a leap. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Arms full, he stepped nimbly around Shep and began to arrange some items on a nearby table: a bowl of hot water, shears, some clean linen, a few glass bottles, needle and gut. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Some blacks started looking beyond their neighborhood for places to play in nearby white areas. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He hopped up into a nearby seat, sprang forward, and vaulted over the tops of all the other seat backs like an Olympic hurdler. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I tug the silk threads from a nearby tapestry. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

By then, the demonstrations had spilled over into nearby towns. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I was uneasy that a dog was loose and there were kittens, seven mouthfuls, nearby in the shed. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

My sewing machine was on the floor nearby, and an open box full of all my other supplies—many spools of thread, pins and a pincushion, envelopes of needles—sat beside it. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

They fell at once to swearing as I ordered, and when the round of oaths had ceased, we found a halfmoon bay to beach and moor the ship in, with a fresh spring nearby. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was pushed against a nearby wall on which height markers had been written by hand, from five to seven feet. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Man nearby, lying on his back, one hand groping upward, oddly reaching for the sky. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pariah kites dropped into nearby trees, to supervise the supervision of the last rites of the dead elephant. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

That summer I worked in the sun may have made me physically indistinguishable from the Mexicans working nearby. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chattering of a squirrel nearby echoed like thunder in the silence. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He wondered if there was a nearby quarry. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The faint moonlight provided just enough light to help guide them into the sheltered doorstep of a shuttered tea shop nearby. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

They decided to team up in the search and go to other nearby hotels. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

It is called the Tchimpounga Sanctuary, named for the nearby village. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

At a nearby waiting area, I noticed a television running a news clip of a beach full of people holding up cameras and phones. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Celia helps him move Poppet to one of the velvet benches by the table, while on a nearby shelf a cup of tea pours itself, steaming and brewing instantly in a flowered china cup. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

This did not happen on nearby untreated areas. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The two spells combined did what one alone had not: The spider keeled over sideways, flattening a nearby hedge, and strewing the path with a tangle of hairy legs. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The night we were there Robert Motherwell and Franz Kline were having a conversation at the bar, and Andy Warhol and John Cage dined at a nearby table—not that Bobby noticed. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She guzzled her drink and filched a glass of bourbon from a nearby table. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She saw Pol sitting up nearby; he had taken the second watch that night. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When a stranger lurks close—maybe a drug person slinking toward the nearby train—Guapo runs him off with deep growls and bites. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Three months earlier, two young white girls who lived nearby in Alcolu, a small mill town where the races were separated by railroad tracks, had gone out to pick flowers and never returned home. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As we had for the last six years, we took time on Christmas Day to visit with service members and their families at a nearby Marine Corps base. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The man would have picked her up nearby somewhere. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shooting broke out in the neighborhood, and artillery exploded nearby. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Phineas ventured a little way along it, holding a thin nearby branch for support. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d designed the hull to resonate every few seconds, sending waves through the Mist and alerting Festus to any nearby monsters, but it only worked in one mode at a time: water or air. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Carmen was sprinting to a nearby shed when she noticed her eyes were watering. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

There was a park nearby that had giant banyan trees that you could lie under and curly grass that tickled your toes when you ran through it. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

A high, thin chirruping sound came from somewhere nearby. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Later, she and her parents moved into nearby Huntington, where she went to high school. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Her friend the able seaman was nearby, and he paused as he adjusted the canvas cover of the forward hatch to look out at the little girl’s daemon skimming and leaping with the dolphins. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Harry seized it by its rubied hilt and touched the tip of the blade to a silver flagon nearby, which did not multiply. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Curly was afraid that the moccasins were lurking nearby in some secret subterranean den, waiting for darkness before they slithered out to begin their deadly hunt. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bushes nearby exploded with startled buffalo, who had apparently been sheltering under the wrong tree. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fat Cheeks, who was lounging nearby, rose to his feet and roared a counter threat: I am the chief here! A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, well, this is a good start. I’m going to talk to some of the other people seated nearby at the concert. Maybe they also bought their tickets from Habib.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He had brought many men with him; indeed all the survivors of the foray were now gathered on the slope nearby, two or three hundred strong. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They were holding a great flying-meet way up over the heads of the mourners and some of the nearby trees were already peopled with the stoop-shouldered forms. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He also stole fruit to eat and to give away to some poor people who lived nearby. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once they were in the Botanic Garden, Pan ran away over the grass chasing a mouse toward the wall, and then let it go and sprang up into the huge pine tree nearby. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

From the washroom nearby came the sound of running water and rattling basins. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the gala ended, they all went to a small party in his honor at a nearby restaurant. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

She was on her feet in a moment, and her eyes flashed fury at the men nearby. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, it scares off the nearby game. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The main pack of infected were farther down the road, but there were enough people nearby for the two to be wary. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I write some there, but even with only my sister nearby the words don't come as easily. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A roll of toilet paper was stashed nearby because they dared not leave it in the shared bathroom for someone else to use. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Any picnic tables or playground equipment that might have once stood nearby had been swallowed up in dense, thorny-looking bushes and trees. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

While they were eating, they heard the slow tolling of the big bell on a nearby Congregational church. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

People were in and out picking up snacks all day, but on the plus side the coffeepot was nearby. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The parents, who were sitting in a nearby tree, did not move. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of us sitting nearby froze, though we must have had the same exact thought: she’s fainted. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He sat out the war as a technical inspector at the Kaiser shipyards in nearby Richmond, California. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Hollister stepped away from the counter and fiddled with books on a nearby shelf, straightening some, pulling a title off one shelf and moving it to the row below. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They told him they would not live at Riverbank, but in the nearby town of Geneva. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Stump, an alpinist of world renown who died on Denali in 1992, had just completed a difficult new route on a nearby peak, the Mooses Tooth. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a tree nearby, Maria discovered an enormous striped caterpillar. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I’ll keep it like this, thanks. He tried to sit up, but the pain was terrible. He heard a familiar clicking noise nearby. “I don’t want a photo of this, Colin,” he said loudly. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Mouse followed me, though not in a straight line, and then sat next to my head and licked her paws until something scuttled through the grasses nearby, and she gave chase. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

They rushed in on us, two squad cars with headlights off and cops in the front and back, engines roaring, tires squealing, while we scattered like flies into the junkyard nearby. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Snuffy picked up a stone, chucking it aimlessly at the nearby pile of pinon. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It ate whatever was warm nearby, and then the coldness settled in permanently. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When they saw Ash standing hesitantly nearby, the man asked, “Whose child is that?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chandresh makes to turn to another box of files nearby, but something pulls him back to the locked drawer. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In March of 1941, after three serious breakdowns, Virginia Woolf wrote a note to her husband and walked to a nearby river. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Each afternoon Mrs. Sen stood in a grove of pine trees by the main road where the school bus dropped off Eliot along with two or three other children who lived nearby. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He is directed to sit in a chair across from a desk, while the man stands nearby. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Bree sets it up on a nearby cart and begins the process of unhooking its compartments. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

As I was doing this, the Copper Gate reappeared, embedded in a nearby wall. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Her eyes landed on the fire alarm on the far wall, and the stringy, gray-haired woman nearby who seemed to be having a similar thought to Marigold’s. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I was strolling down a poorly lit part of Newhall Lane when something blunt struck me on the back of the head and I was bundled off into a nearby alley, half-senseless. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His brother, once in car sales, had become a CO, too; and many family members lived nearby. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And to those nearby, and finally to Beans himself, it became clear that even now, even this close, still—still—she would not look at him. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Finally, the leader scratched his chin—so spirits itched?—and gestured at the diviner standing nearby. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A kid on a rock nearby shouts, “Okay, Round Five! Let’s roll!” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

And, now, a few nearby people apparently do. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Tallmadge was “at a tavern called the Rising Sun,” getting a report from the egg seller when he was warned that British cavalry were nearby. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the third night of torture, overcome by asphyxiation, he went to Aureliano's room to ask him the favor of buying some powders to inhale at a nearby drugstore. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She lugs heavy tomes from the shelves and sets them on a nearby table. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She had become a teacher, and she taught five- to six-year-old children at a nearby school. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The baby was lying on a nearby table. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hair on the back of my neck stood up and the wind was snaking all around and the weird nature sounds made me wonder what else was nearby. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Some people watched, horrified and weeping, from their windows, but a surprising number kept their heads and were forming a bucket line from the town’s cistern atop the city hall to a nearby burning building. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Lizzie looked around to see if anyone might be nearby, half wanting to show off, half wanting to be sure that no one had seen Preacher Griffin’s granddaughter throwing a hatchet around. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

But the blissful thought vanished as a figure splashed nearby. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Steel and other nearby industrial giants that are two decades gone. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Nancy settled nearby with coffee, sipping quietly from the cup, her alert eyes fixed on the tube. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the evening, I sit on Meng’s lap as he reads and translates to me stories about America from an English book he bought in a nearby store. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an ancient tree nearby with many well-placed branches and rough bark that should give my feet traction between the slick patches of moss. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Two days later, Francie received a reply on an exciting letterhead: a pair of shears lying on a folded newspaper with a pot of paste nearby. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of the Lacks children could hear much unless the person speaking was nearby, talking loud and slow. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In the morning the men took out their maps and compasses, checked nearby landmarks . . . and realized the British plane had badly missed the intended drop target. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nero sat nearby, watching me, his tail flicking. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

She turns to a young man standing nearby, who Bailey had not even recognized as Poppet’s performance partner. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Before someone could enter and notice, Celaena swept a foot over the tracks, destroying any trace, and stuffed the flowers into a nearby satchel. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Though crowds made her uneasy, she scouted populated areas for signs of the woman in black and her mysterious companion, asking after them in nearby villages and in lumber encampments in the forest. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Their gravity drew to them substantial quantities of nearby gas, growing clouds of hydrogen and helium that were destined to become clusters of galaxies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were silent for a few minutes before an explosion sounded nearby, then another. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In response to Davis's beckoning finger, a man detached himself from a nearby wall against which he was leaning and came up to them. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The large satchel that Poppet had placed on the floor nearby suddenly falls to its side with a soft thump. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We showered, put on such clean clothes as we could muster, and eagerly repaired to a popular nearby bistro called the Georgia Mountain Restaurant. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Taft sends a soldier to search nearby boardinghouses for an empty room. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The nearby outhouse apparently stood in good stead, since six or seven men waited in single file. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He looked around to the nearby houses where, through parted curtains, curious eyes watched. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sword in Finn’s hands writhed and he dropped it to the ground, where it twitched like a cornstalk in the wind and slithered into a nearby tent. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I moved on to a white man in a white coat standing nearby, a needle in his hand. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Torches are burning nearby, the flames flickering and wavering in the wind. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Neighbors sat on their front porches fanning the humid air while children played in a small nearby park with a recreation center. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Francis’s coat whipped out behind him in theatrical billows; he kept glancing furtively around to see if his inquisitor was anywhere nearby and from time to time he emitted a faint, self-pitying cough. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

To make it fancier, she also had hung a cracked oval mirror on a nearby branch. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Nails were popping off tin roofs, and they flew, landing on nearby thatched roofs, increasing the wrath of the fire. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The original conspirators still gather for dinner occasionally, particularly when the circus is performing nearby, but this has become more and more infrequent. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We decided we’d set up shop nearby, so you wouldn’t have to walk far in the rain. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

There were four nearby, three in Boston and one in Providence. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

As we already noted, the first farmers on each continent could not have chosen farming consciously, because there were no other nearby farmers for them to observe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You got to know how to tell animals are nearby. How would you do that? Anyone?” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

When the federal government sent ground troops, and bomber planes landed at a nearby airfield, the strikers surrendered. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

My sisters wished me well, and George promised to come to Ellis Park after he had caddied at a golf course in a white suburb nearby. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaves the Pennsylvania House and walks across the city to nearby Georgetown, where he makes the unusual gesture of calling on Lucinda Metz, an old girlfriend. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“After all, I thought, they probably come from New Canaan or some other nearby town. They’ll have to unpack the basket sooner or later. Little did I know!” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frantically I looked around to see if there were any adults nearby who could be trusted to help. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shin moved on to a nearby brick house, where he asked another Korean Chinese man for help. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Mr. Gideon walks over to a map marked with colored pins, removing his hat and hanging it on a nearby hook. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

A funeral for one of the victims of their last attack was being held in a nearby building. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

At the end of September, Lemos found the burden of caring for all of these dependents overwhelming, and, reluctantly and tearfully, she placed four of her children in the nearby Half-Orphan Asylum. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

As Mona rocked nearby, Taisin stared at the iron pot in the fire, wondering if she had been right to let the greenwitch take her blood. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I helped myself to an apple and saw another smartphone nearby. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

How quickly the nearby sea could make the weather change! Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

You may find yourself inspecting a nearby ponderosa pine, perhaps, or an aspen or sweet gum, puzzling out the magic. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

From one of the dark porches nearby there was the sound of a guitar. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I took my small loaf of bread with me, drawing a few odd looks from the nearby students. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Even though he knew the blind man wouldn’t see his gesture, he pointed to the nearby wall, which was decorated by a colorful wall hanging, a gift from the blind man’s talented daughter. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

My father grew up in a nearby village, and while his family wasn't wealthy, they at least had goats and chickens. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The constable stood nearby, looking irritated and anxious. “... told you. I don’t have a license. I don’t need a license. Does a peddler need a license? Does a tinker need a license?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The more conservative American Woman Suffrage Association was eventually given a small space inside the exhibition, but the National Woman Suffrage Association had to rent office space on Chestnut Street, nearby. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Inej cast a quick glance up at Kaz, then looked over her shoulder to make sure none of the crew was lurking nearby. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He glances at the nearby drone, then turns his eyes back to me. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

As the sensitivity of the neutrino telescope improves, it may become possible to probe nuclear fusion in the deep interiors of the nearby stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We is sorry you had to see that, sirs and miss!” squeaked a nearby elf, shaking his head and looking very ashamed. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

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

After severely beating the young black man, they hanged him from a nearby tree, where his lifeless body was discovered several hours later. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They piled extra ammunition and a sack of grenades nearby, and made sure their machetes were within easy reach. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know if it was coming from the dog or the nearby dumpster. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once I had run away to the Strategic Air Command Base in a nearby town to see if they would allow me to become a pilot. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And because he was in Midtown Manhattan, there were major medical centers nearby, all licensed to do the latest in emergency cardiac care. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

A bird shrieked from a nearby tree, making all the girls except Taylor jump. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

In a bedroom that last night I packed the big brown valise, and my mother sat nearby sewing initials onto the clothes I would take. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no leading them anywhere, unless it was to a nearby clearing for fragrant leaves. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Water dripped from somewhere nearby, and the sound echoed off distant walls. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

For suddenly...WHOOOSH!...and they looked up and saw a huge four-engined plane come shooting out of a nearby cloud and go whizzing past them not more than twenty feet over their heads. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed with his nightstick to the police wagon parked nearby and said, “Into the van.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leaning far over, Stephanie sucked his limp nub into her smoky mouth . . . just as another snap! and death struggle took place in the nearby kitchen. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the boy hid it in nearby shrubbery until its wounds had mended. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elisabeth grabs a luna pastry from a nearby breakfast cart and pops it into her mouth. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

A cannon shell burst in the air nearby, raining fragments in the wet leaves around him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fire away,” he said, glancing at the nearby kiln. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ekon found a nearby tree to sit against and held it balanced on his lap. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The villagers kept a watch nearby that night, hoping to surprise the panther and kill it, but it never appeared. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He told Nathan of how years and years ago, before the excavation of the nearby mining cave, this land was green, and grass would grow as tall as Nathan’s knee. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

August sits nearby, in top hat and tails. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

At a second, louder whine, several cats appeared from the barn nearby and glared at him with tiger-eyed resentment. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then it seemed to Gimli and Legolas who were nearby that she wept, and in one so stern and proud that seemed the more grievous. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He led her to a bench nearby and sat down with her. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

They went out to the courts behind the nearby elementary school. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wouldn’t hold out forever with so much fresh meat nearby. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Chisamba Singles was like a small city—more than ten thousand people lived there, either in shared houses or small shanties built from scraps of metal and wood nearby. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He stopped hearing the grunts of the wrestlers, the shouts of the crowd, the barking of dogs, the music from the fiddlers preparing nearby. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Sister Fenella’s squirrel dæmon, sitting on the back of a nearby chair, uttered a meek “Tut-tut.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Abigail stood nearby, flashlight in hand, watching as the machine scooped out pile after pile of rubble and dirt. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In order to prove this, he needed to determine the distances to these other galaxies, which are so far away that, unlike nearby stars, they really do appear fixed. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Wonka pointed to a line of gigantic covered vans parked in a line nearby. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

They are mostly oblivious of the extended Croteau family, and have barely met the Croteau cousins, who are close to their age and live nearby but lead quite different lives. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Once more, I submitted myself to the judges while the other boys hovered nearby. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The fish in all the nearby lakes and rivers will be safe today, because it seems like every fisherman in the state of Maryland is here at the funeral. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Are you going to open my presents, or should I look for an orphanage nearby where there are thankful children?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

One day when I was on the reef filling my canoe, I saw a herd of otter in the kelp nearby. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

When news spread of the gold of the Aztecs in nearby Mexico, farming could not hold the interest of Spaniards. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

If the fighting was nearby, the electricity went out. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We put my laptop on a nearby shelf, and make sure that I’m on camera. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I look around, in case there’s anyone nearby, but I only see a couple of kids playing catch down the street. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But since that’s all made up, I cut down a bunch of hard nuts that hang like grapes from a nearby tree and toss them ahead of me as I go. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He starts to shout—shout loud enough that a woman passing nearby looks over at us. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

On a nearby porch, other ghosts snickered as Vitellius paced back and forth, tripping over his toga and hiking up his sword belt. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Supper was a boiled goose that Smiley shot on a nearby pond after the sun came out. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

One or two pigeons do their jerky walk nearby, hoping we’ll toss them some crumbs or something else to eat. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Slipping on the pudding, she lost her balance and landed heavily on the substitute teacher, who was sitting nearby. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled into the nearby McDonald’s and they all ordered lunch. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few women turned and dashed into nearby compounds. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of sitting among the dead bodies, the bundles of food, crates of ammunition, and bags of drugs, we took cover in the nearby bushes and guarded the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

We walked to a nearby bar in the same manner we always seemed to walk, with me a step forward and him a step back. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Long streamers of ebony fabric flowed from the spectral woman, entangling nearby fairies. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“There’s supposed to be a village nearby, with a post office,” I said. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The flaring light illuminated the books stacked around the trunk nearby, and as the shadows leapt over the bindings, she began to wonder what was in them. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They were eating dinner from the nearby pavement cafe. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Well,” I looked at Belle grazing nearby, “unless I expect Belle to drag me home by the reins, I guess that’s my only choice.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The prisoners I had glimpsed that morning were working nearby. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each morning, she arrived early by bus and streetcar from her nearby village to brew the coffee, filling the apartment with its strong aroma. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were birds outside, and some kind of cricket, and Mary was breathing quietly in her sleep nearby. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

First we ran around the building for a few minutes, and then we began to learn how to crawl in the bushes nearby. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was the police, and they accused her of looting a nearby store. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

We have hard and painful work to do, you and I. “Please sit down,” he said, and gestured toward the nearby chair. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

It vanished into the nearby woods, properly defeated. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Every morning he goes out to a nearby river and fishes while Chou and I guard our things. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I dreamed again about the sea and whales nearby and a dark, rocking world full of stars. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

From his opened briefcase he fished out the Voigt-Kampff apparatus, seated himself at a nearby rosewood coffee table, and began to assemble the rather simple polygraphic instruments. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Prendergast walked to the nearby Desplaines Street police station and calmly told desk sergeant O. Z. Barber, “Lock me up; I am the man who shot the mayor.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Liam stood and stumbled over cans of sunscreen and bug spray from a nearby display. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Ms. Banks settled her load of literature onto a nearby shelf, crossed her arms over her chest and leaned up against the book stack. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He could see Mars Bar’s bike veering for a nearby puddle to splash water on him. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marco lifts his hand to a nearby rose and his fingers pass through its petals with only a soft resistance, as though they are made of water rather than ice. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Ranofer picked up the ingot, which was now cool enough to handle, and carried it to the nearby workbench on which the drawplate stood. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Large kettles were set up outside the White House and in nearby Lafayette Park. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

During one very hot summer the workmen’s huts caught fire and before it could be put out it had spread to the timber stacked nearby. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dubonnet and his union leaders stood nearby, their arms crossed, contented smiles on their faces. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Using his knowledge of the ways from the First World to hide himself, he folded a nearby shadow like a blanket and draped it over his furry body. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Immediately he ran to a man who lived nearby who knew all about finding people who had been lost. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Tool pushed Moby a little ways away, both of them bedding down in the nearby bushes. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Henry picks Esme up and swings her around while Ruby jumps up and down nearby. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Sierra felt a distant flurry of motion erupt somewhere nearby. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

A theater nearby was just emptying, and crowds milled around the lighted foyer, calling for cabs, wrapping coats around their shoulders. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I was alone on the reef but somehow I always felt he was sitting on the beach nearby. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A corner of newspaper over a nearby corpse waved in the breeze. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He had a search warrant for my office in town, where we were now headed after dropping off the two other policemen in a nearby area. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning the girls invited that girl to go swimming with them in a river nearby. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I could hear cows mooing in a far pasture and bees buzzing in a nearby clover patch. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was also a nearby Container Store and a Chipotle, which made things even better. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The thief had thrown both vases from the same spot on the cliff; the other one should be somewhere nearby. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

It hovered by a nearby branch for a moment before flying over several beautiful orchids and out of sight. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“Would you let me down here, please, captain? I live nearby.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put a sign on the door, and they went to a small cafe nearby. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see nothing that accounted for the meerkats’ fixed curios­ity, and I might have given up on solving the mystery had squeaking and barking not erupted at a pond nearby. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I placed them on a nearby wooden park bench, painted green and flaking. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Rain came down around us like an afterthought, running down through the gutters of the nearby buildings. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

My heart flutters like one of the nearby lantern candles. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

A nearby servant rubs her back, and whispers something to her. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. and Mrs. van D. had seen a red glow through the open window, and he thought there was a fire nearby, while she was certain our house was ablaze. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

We let go of one another’s hands and hid in the nearby bushes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

That meant Mrs. Kennedy was lurking somewhere nearby. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Sometime before dawn he became aware of movement and sound nearby. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Stadium floodlights borrowed from the football field nearby. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sand they stood on was soft, and the slope of the dune nearby was inviting. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I finally took it out of my tree and cached it under a rock ledge nearby. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She watched the domovoi shoving the goats into a messy herd while Babulya stood nearby with her shawl clutched around her shoulders and Kin sitting at her feet, coughing. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

She met lots of young people, many attending college at nearby USC. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The minister snaps her fingers at a nearby servant. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He was pretending not to know that his wife was so nearby. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the nearby fields, the war elephant frolicked with Mrs. O’Leary, and children played tag around the statues of Terminus that lined the city limits. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Two figures walk away from the city into the nearby countryside. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Some eight of those nearby had been jerking their bills, which he had imitated as if the act were catching, and now, with these same eight, he found himself on pinion in the horizontal air. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fish jump from nearby fountains, changing from ruby to teal mid-flight, teasing onlookers. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He looked around, confused for a moment, then headed into a nearby store, dripping blood all the way. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bird calls in a nearby tree, and one in the distance answers it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I always looked around to make sure I could see him nearby, because he was our little soldier; he made me feel safe. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

On a well-worn rock nearby, Enrique’s grandmother washes musty used clothing she sells door to door. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Mama took the three children to the market with her, on picnics in the nearby forest, and on outings in the mountains surrounding Gdynia. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the candlelight, Isabelle hadn’t yet seen the mechanical man sitting nearby. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Six thousand militiamen were put on standby in nearby armories. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Finnick’s hand comes up and hits me so hard, so squarely in the chest that I go flying back into a nearby tree trunk. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

And the thing was, Sookie had offered me the chips twice, but I didn’t have anything to drink and I knew I couldn’t swallow them without a lot of liquid nearby. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Two small buildings—a house and a barn made of rough wood and logs— stood nearby. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tehlu bent and with great effort lifted one edge of the wheel and set it leaning against a tree that grew nearby. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her friends were nearby, and Herbalist was sitting in the corner. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

From these memories I made it after many errors and many hours of work, sitting on the floor while Rontu slept nearby and the storms beat upon the roof. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whiskers that protected his sensitive nose and warned him of objects nearby, twitched as her breath touched them. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watched a bird flutter in a nearby tree, and noticed that it had a twig in its beak. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

If somebody’s got a piece, security puts it in a bucket nearby and returns it once the Ring lets out. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

"I don't know," she pants, then motions to a nearby servant. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Especially as the guards, some in their late teens, had all been laughing nearby. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We snuck onto the nearby Conrail/Long Island Rail Road tracks and broke into freight cars, robbing them of bicycles, television sets, and wine. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I was telling this story, a pregnant woman stood nearby, dabbing at her face with a tissue. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Calista’s shuffling got so loud that it made a squirrel jump into a nearby trash can. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The white farms nearby grow some of the most amazing fruit—mangoes, lychees, the most beautiful bananas you’ve ever seen in your life. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A low bush nearby had blossomed in tiny gray balls. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The next day I woke late, washed in a nearby stream, and made my way west to the University. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A few nearby third graders turned their heads in the direction of George’s shout. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

She ate it at the kitchen table, while Taylor sat nearby writing in his homework sheet. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

You sent one of your sons to work in a nearby village for a relative. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Although he was not present at Ford’s Theatre when his father was assassinated, he was an eyewitness to Garfield’s assassination in 1881 and was nearby when President William McKinley was assassinated, in 1901. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

A nearby carriage slid sideways across the cobblestones, its horses rearing up in panic. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A glass case nearby held a withered hand on a cushion, a bloodstained pack of cards, and a staring glass eye. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She walked over to a nearby dresser and boosted herself onto it, sitting atop and crossing her legs. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

But Maryland has been declared one of the safest states, on account of our work patrols and the very active militia, with Washington, DC, being nearby. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He was standing close by and the men nearby were backed off in deference and had not heard him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the train is under us, there must be an entrance nearby. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Some small critter skirts through the undergrowth nearby, rustling through the leaves. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

War Admiral was growing so violent that he was endangering himself and everyone nearby. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shells were falling on the ridge nearby and bullets were slicing leaves, but Reynolds sat astride the horse in a motionless calm, looking out toward the fight, picture of a soldier, painted against the trees. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sets the water on a nearby table. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

His scalp was split open, and a police car came and he was taken to a nearby precinct. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

With my profits I buy lollipops and bananas from Otavalo and spend weekends at soccer and basketball games in nearby communities selling my sandwiches and candy and bananas. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They point, take a couple photos, then head over to the nearby giraffes. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Emma was eager to see the stone monuments and the Cathedral Church at nearby Salisbury. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the pasture nearby Hazel could see scattered, russet-and-orange-colored fragments, some with feathery light green foliage showing up against the darker grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There Booth and Herold quenched their thirst and sought a ride south, across the Rappahannock River to Port Royal, then on to a nearby railroad station. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ron and Tonks should have been back first, but they missed their Portkey, it came back without them,” she said, pointing at a rusty oil can lying on the ground nearby. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He gently steered me behind a nearby shack. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The pops are lightning hitting the ground nearby. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Garbage from the city and ash from a nearby crematorium floated past on the water’s surface. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There is no lake nearby, no mountain, no view of anything much except houses and apartment buildings. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

After Ivy had been alone for some time, she felt the sudden presence of someone nearby in the forest. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The residents who lived in the nearby stacks knew that if the fire spread, they were in big trouble. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The river and nearby Lake Mareotis, located south of the city, provided a steady supply of fresh water; and sea breezes kept the air circulating. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

I heard Golan scream a spectacular array of curses, and then something clattered down the stairs, landing nearby. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

In recent years, infrared observations have revealed a number of likely preplanetary disk-shaped clouds of gas and dust around some of the nearby stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He approached the group of nearby women and there was a low murmur of discussion. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A scrape and cry from nearby made her stomach clench. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I was sitting nearby, watching television, trying not to scream from the pain each time I breathed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I resigned myself to the fact that Grandma wouldn’t allow me to visit Thelma or Minnijean or any other friends who lived nearby. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frank was a member of the nearby Wynnum Bowls Club but had come to the neighboring club to help out. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The soldiers and guards nearby were on edge. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It was our usual gang with perhaps a couple of outsiders loitering nearby. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad talked about moving there, finding an apartment nearby. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

One time when I brought coal to the nearby orphanage, I said to Doctor Korczak, “Do the orphans ride the merry-go-round?” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

They had said that they needed to do some shopping nearby, but Maya was 99 percent sure that they just wanted to scope her and Grace out for themselves. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The black deputies who had hovered nearby ushered us toward a back door that led downstairs, where a throng of reporters waited. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

If Dimple were home, Mamma would be bustling around, cleaning the kitchen while Dimple sat at the counter nearby and drank her tea. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

If the temperature was freezing, she did not let us leave the house unless we promised that we would stay nearby. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

She tensed as Cain came to stand nearby, half-hidden in the shadow of the clock tower behind them. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They waited and waited and finally got up when they heard the revving of a car engine and rising voices from nearby, “My money is gone! My money is gone!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Conversation at nearby tables stopped as people listened in. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

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