When, by evening, the crowd on the neighbors’ deck began dancing, she looked up their number in the phone book and asked them to keep it down. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“So you finally decided to visit your neighbors. Get you a drink?” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Past the wavering band of blacktop, the outline of our neighbors house ran against the sky like watery paint. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I became a member of the Students Christian Association and taught Bible classes on Sundays in neighboring villages. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A loved one, a friend, or a neighbor had accused them of causing the death of a child, A few other people agreeing with these stories was all that was needed to have them arrested. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Until puberty Fernanda had no news of the world except for the melancholy piano lessons taken in some neighboring house by someone who for years and years had the drive not to take a siesta. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Especially when I’m not their neighbor, I’m their daughter! P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

This year’s skit tells the story of a boy in the Philippines whose bahay kubo gets caught in a flood, but the neighbors help his family escape by carrying the house to safety. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

As though it might be another, as though a presumptuous neighbor or a young ghost with bad skin might be there instead. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bryan’s neighbor, though, spotted him returning home at sunrise. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A crowd of neighbors, including Mr. Jones the postman and Mr. Ritchie the Christmas tree guy, stopped in, along with Mr. Van Hooten, who pulled out his violin and started playing holiday music. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I scanned the streets for cops and nosy neighbors as I reached into his bag and pulled out the can with the white top. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

My father has left a note on the table telling me that some neighbors took pity on him with Mama out of town, and invited him for dinner. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe their neighbor is Muslim; maybe they had a Muslim classmate. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Wedged between a movie theater and a submarine sandwich shop, the Golden Fleece did what it could to distance itself socially from its neighbors. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Denied a bed and hospitality for the night, Booth and Herold continued to search for transportation at the house of one of Stuart’s neighbors, a man of color named Lucas. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a world of trouble waiting for a man who sold his neighbor some sickly hobble, but what was the harm of swindling one of the filthy, thieving Ruh? The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It pushed in all directions, and the edge of his car door dug straight into the side of the neighboring van. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Victor was just about to answer when the door opposite opened and his aged neighbor, Signora Grimani, popped her head around the door. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hence social scientists continue to debate the specific reasons why receptivity changed in Islam, China, and Europe, and why the Chimbus, Ibos, and Navajo were more receptive to new technology than were their neighbors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“No, she was our neighbor when we were kids. She’s Abnegation,” I say. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

As the water had risen the day before, Frank had moved it from the driveway up to the porch and then to his next-door neighbor’s porch, which was higher. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

My closest neighbors were a good horse ride away, but I wasn’t interested in having a social life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t risk asking a neighbor’s help, so even though I didn’t have a license, I had to drive Link’s car downtown. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the benefit of neighboring rooftops she strutted and shrieked; with each proclamation her audience expanded. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The lane was clear, but the neighbors were out in their yard. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of my disgruntled neighbors had the audacity to say, “If you love black people so much, why don’t you just marry a monkey?” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Through the backyards of the neighboring houses I ran, ducking under pine branches. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He simply did not see them, and before long the neighbors stopped driving up the road under the oaks. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

“You’d never in a million years believe this guy was a spy,” one neighbor later said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“You came looking for my neighbor, and I was telling you where he is.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Smith, my assistant principal and neighbor, had seen my strengths as a student and furthermore trusted me with his own kids. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Some of his neighbors found out what I was doing and offered him fatherly advice. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she thought it was Ms. Hildebran, or one of the other nosy neighbors, because she stomped to the door and threw it open, her mouth ready to cuss out whoever was standing there. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I was well supported by my new boss, given the freedom to build my own program, creating a stronger relationship between the hospital and its neighboring community. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The neighbors on the long walk to and from home were no longer friendly; they no longer offered me a drink of water on a hot afternoon or a dry porch when it rained. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Holding the receiver up to my mouth, I'd look out across the garden and into the orderly homes of Valencia's neighbors. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The neighbor had caught him, but instead of reporting him to the cops, he made Brian eat the entire jarful as punishment. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

One night neighbors found me wandering through the trailer park alone and kept me until my mother returned home. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Miss Jackson, our neighbor, has a bunch of dogs that are barking like mad. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

My neighbors grew bolder as the encounter dragged on. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The mother tells her next-door neighbor, who tells another neighbor and another, the story changing, becoming worse and worse, until it finally, almost always, makes it to Doris Brooks. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I love the way my neighbors celebrate their big holiday. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

They are glad to have a neighbor they can talk to in Spanish and they tell him he’s always welcome to come over for a Cuban coffee. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Ah, yes. Your next-door neighbor. She told us that by the time she managed to get into the room, the man was already gone.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t think of any animal that liked to eat roaches, so I suggested we buy roach spray, like all our neighbors did, but Mom was opposed to chemical warfare. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Farid had told me on the way there that Karteh-Seh had been one of the most war-ravaged neighbor­hoods in Kabul, and, as we stepped out of the truck, the evidence was overwhelming. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He even bore carelessly the first day of the New Year when his uncle and his neighbors came crowding into the house to wish his father and himself well, all boisterous with food and drink. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

For the next three days, alone or in numbers, families mourn their children and their neighbors’ children. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine why neighbors would harm me or my sisters and brothers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“His parents were executed in the street. The neighbors saw it,” I said, glad we were speaking in English. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In response, the neighboring oaks step up their tannin production the better to withstand the coming onslaught. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“And keep your voice down,” Jesper added, glancing at the tourists and sailors seated at the neighboring tables. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

True champions learn to dance through the storm.There are so many friends neighbors, Dad’s teammates, and family members packed into our living room that I have to go outside just to breathe. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

I laughed at the thought of Mrs. Dorn keeping a tally of everything her neighbors purchased, and tried not to be jealous that Audrey got a car because of a game of wealthy one-upmanship. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Men who had rowed with one another for a lifetime had begun to turn their backs on their former crewmates and neighbors. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

With all the support I’d received from neighbors and strangers today, I was strangely upbeat. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She told my mother, when she brought the backpack to our door, that she's not just our landlord, she's also our neighbor and friend. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Most of Rose Hills neighbors weren't so fortunate. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Jule leaps from the roof to the branches of a neighboring tree and breaks off a sharp stick to use as a weapon. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Had not Mama warned her: “Don’t let the neighbors pick on you.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny’s mother, the Rommelys and some of the neighbors sent flowers. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yesterday I discovered a new pastime: using a good pair of binoculars to peek into the lighted rooms of the neighbors. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Wilkins found an X-ray diffraction machine in the chemistry department and housed it—“in solitary splendor”—in a lead-lined room under the embankment wing, just below the level of the neighboring river Thames. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

"I wouldn't say that I met people. I had a lot of neighbors. Some of them became familiar." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

My mom and dad fed the stranded neighbors and allowed them to sleep in our house. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

They will never breathe the air of a damp New England morning, see smoke rising from a neighbor’s chimney, shiver in a car waiting for the glass to defrost and the engine to warm. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

My gaze moves across the faces of my neighbors—and I think how every one of them has helped me in some way this summer. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

While Baba was in Malaysia, a drunk neighbor banged on our door shouting, "Marry me, my Indian princess!" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Finn started calling out the names of all the closest neighbors he could think of. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“We’ve realized we can hear your neighbor in there,” Max says, his voice still low. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Grandma’s next-door neighbor, Mrs. Purcell, has the only wireless in her lane. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Seeing you out there in the evening calm, smiling or humming, might give your neighbor an idea to coerce you from your claim using methods of intimidation, various provocations. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

While his neighbor was trying to persuade him a violent racket broke out overhead. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Mom sat with two neighbors in the back. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She was on her hands and knees on their flagstone walk when their neighbor Arthur Smith strolled by. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gen’s dark eyes shifted to the neighboring sign on the rug. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Never told that the mirror, like shooting walnuts at the neighbor’s dog, was always my idea. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They sat silently all day in the darkness of the house, and they could hear the neighbors speaking of them. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought and thought, but he had no friends to ask, and the neighbors were already suspicious, and the only person he thought he could trust was Mrs. Cooper. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of her new neighbors didn’t speak English, and some of the ones who did frightened her. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I think back to the way our own neighbors handled the division of those water bottles, and how so many of them were ready to turn against me, the one who brought it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The neighbor downstairs had been awakened by the clatter of their shoes on the floor. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Muff was their neighbor, and while they ate the fried chicken and mounds of potato salad and fluffy white biscuits, she talked about people that she knew, people his daddy knew, too. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Not everyone could afford to shop in the Market; most people bartered with their neighbors to keep their cupboards slightly less bare. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The volunteer fire department was called out by a neighbor, but the pumper truck driver, Edgar Paulsen, lost traction on Indian Knob Hill and had to halt to put on tire chains. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She probably looked crazy to the neighbors, she thought, sitting out there on the steps in the dark, but for once she did not care. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I can hear the neighbors screaming at each other downstairs. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Our neighboring world turns out to be a dismally unpleasant place. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sure wasn’t the big brick building that his parents landscaped and fixed up to impress the neighbors. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

People were very willing to help, but Eva felt she would soon run her welcome out; winters were hard and her neighbors were not that much better off. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Terryl would call them, or a neighbor did, but she felt hopeless, and, like Danny, had it covered: He told the officers that it was a family matter. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Feels kinda nice, but also kinda alien and real embarrassing ’cause some of the neighbors are watching. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe she could teach him, if not to relate, at least how to defend himself when his neighbors started shooting bullets or chucking spears. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were always tons of people—relatives and neighbors—and lots of confusion. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

And while we stay here for Anatole’s teaching and organizing, and live on the next-to-nothing that work earns, we still have a measure of privilege incomprehensible to our neighbors. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally he blurts out, startling me, “The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything...” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

When employees from neighboring floors heard about the bagels, they wanted some too. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Explaining why her best friend was freaking out at empty air seemed like a conversation Jam didn’t want to have with her neighbors. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“When Deborah didn’t come back like she said ... well, I had to know what happened, so I called your house. A woman answered, said she was a neighbor.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He followed the noise until he saw the windows of a neighboring farmhouse. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you going to do something for my neighbor Deborah?” she asked. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It is worse, I think, to be turned over by your own neighbors than have your name drawn from the reaping ball. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I woke in the mornings to the sound of the neighbors chipping ice from their windshields on the street. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Ma and Ba said nothing when their neighbors paused awkwardly. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Twice the midwife refused to come to laboring mothers who had nothing to pay, and so the unfortunate women had to bring forth their babies with none but a neighbor to help. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neighbor after neighbor, many of whom I’d seen pass by over the years. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He should know she was not going to be beholden to the neighbors for anything so trivial as her own comfort. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

But I’d have to wait to reread it because our neighbor, Señora Oralia, was sitting on a rocker on the porch. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

In the past, if my father didn't have enough money to cover the fees, he'd borrow from neighbors or people at work and pay them back. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

This was my neighbor, who had sat on his porch in his undershirt for most of my life. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Though they were nice, my immigrant neighbors could see no connection between their personal habits and the armies of mice and roaches aggressively occupying the building. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The wizened witch who had flitted into her neighbor’s painting when he had joined the champions downstairs was now sitting smugly beside the Fat Lady. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

My neighbor didn’t eat anything—just drank water. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this is supposed to be a “family gathering,” hosted by our neighbors next door. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

To judge from modern parallels in the Middle East and elsewhere, it is unlikely that the natives approved of having foreign interlopers for neighbors or absentee landlords. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“You know my dad, Tom, and that’s my neighbor, Mr. Patterson,” I said, pointing to them at the edge of the rocks. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He was bothered by the people who cheered him in neighboring villages, and he imagined that they were the same cheers they gave the enemy. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Richard felt slightly overwhelmed by the warm reception, by the neighbors who trailed in and said, “Good afternoon, nno, welcome,” as if they did not even think about minding that he had come uninvited. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

By repeatedly rebuffing the friendly advances of her new Wizarding neighbors, she soon ensured that her family was left well alone. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He stood motionless, staring down at the path of dirt we’d worn into the grass between his place and the neighbors. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

They watch their neighbors for signs of misfortune, and only then do they laugh. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if Wilfrido didn’t recognize me, every neighbor in this room would. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They agreed on what to tell the employees, and what to tell the neighbors, and what to tell Chuck. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was shot and killed by his white neighbor just as he stepped out of 8800. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“All right, then! Why don’t you call the college, instead of bothering his neighbors? He wouldn’t be in his cave anyway at this time of day—you know that.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Many of those sitting around Yaxley looked impressed; his neighbor, Dolohov, a man with a long, twisted face, clapped him on the back. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I turned to see that some of my neighbors had gathered, a few sitting in our lawn chairs, a few standing around talking. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like I’d just taken a picture of the neighbor’s lawn. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

That occasion also was memorable because of the remarks of a frank neighbor, who watched the blaze from his yard. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Everyone is in a blue fit of terror,” wrote Henry Adams, “and each individual thinks himself more ruined than his neighbor.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The neighbors nodded and made polite clucking noises as they walked to their iron ponies. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It’s possible that the wind had shifted momentarily and Claire’s neighbors did not feel in any immediate danger. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

He told me he had broken into a neighbor’s house and stolen a gallon jar of pickles. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not, I don’t think. His dad survives by constantly surrounding himself in a booze haze and setting the hell hound loose on the neighbors.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Dozens more lay rotting on the slopes, and every third or fourth tree, it seemed, was leaning steeply on a neighbor. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

When we run out of polish, I hopefully suggest that I could go borrow some from a neighbor, but Mama triumphantly produces another jar. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Your neighbors, unrecognizable in the thick layers they wear against the cold, keep their faces down to avoid the wind. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He’d crawl through the damp tunnel each morning with a pick, filling buckets for his family and neighbors so they could keep their houses warm and stoves burning. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She'd mentioned our neighbors, the priest, and several of the actors we saw each week on television. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Big Ma waved her arms but only to tell her neighbor, “Stop that waving.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He says he has to call a neighbor but when Mrs. Robbins comes over he forgets to ask her what closure means. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Friends and neighbors,” Pa Schillinger called out, “get you something to eat and then let's talk about why we’re gathered together tonight.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He stops and watches as the birds shoot up, then land simultaneously on two neighboring bare-branched trees. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Still, I remind myself that today is special, and I won't let those new neighbors moving in mess that up. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Expenses for books, clothes, and social events would be more than they could handle, and in any case they needed the money that Marian could earn by doing domestic work for neighbors and by singing. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

He dashed over to a chemist friend in the neighboring lab to show him Pauling’s structure. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I didn’t disappoint, walking down the church aisle in my socks while everybody nudged their neighbor and snickered. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. King spoke of the love Paul describes in Romans 13:10—the love that “does no harm to its neighbor.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

You couldn't trust anyone in Kabul any­more—for a fee or under threat, people told on each other, neigh­bor on neighbor, child on parent, brother on brother, servant on master, friend on friend. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

However, for some sets of neighboring paths the phase will not vary much between paths. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the gar-den's greatest benefit, I feel, was not relief to the eyes, but to make the eyes see our neighbors. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was his own neighbor, the very woman who had made clothes for him when he came. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

In Torrance in the early 1920s, Italians were held in such disdain that when the Zamperinis arrived, the neighbors petitioned the city council to keep them out. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

During the killing season, after the first frost, all neighbors helped each other to slaughter hogs and even the quiet, big-eyed cows if they had stopped giving milk. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I need to be concerned about my neighbors, too? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The neighbors to the south of us moved out and their place is in foreclosure. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

During dances with the boys from the neighboring camp, she waved a hand in front of her face as though holding a fan. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Statement upon statement echoed the cry of one real estate agent, who challenged neighbors to “stand together block by block and prevent such invasion.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

One morning Mrs. Hoffman asked me to go to a neighboring store—it was owned by a cousin of hers—and get a can of chicken a la king. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept careful track of her the same way as I used to mind the neighbor’s bull when I took the milk cows out to pasture. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, when the Italian arrived at work, he found a knot of children and neighbors making fun of him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we grew older, we organized matches against boys from neighboring villages, and those who distinguished themselves in these fraternal battles were gready admired, as generals who achieve great victories in war are justly celebrated. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They say: I can't figure out why she hangs out with that weird neighbor girl. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Still, I went out and knocked on the neighboring door. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want my neighbors to think I’m being arrested again.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Poor people couldn’t flee to comfortable country homes like their wealthier neighbors, but at least they could escape the most squalid and plague-ridden sections of town. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

A man was hanging out wet laundry on his balcony while calling out threats to his neighbor. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

We awakened from this to find neighboring friends arriving; they brought a large pot of chili con carne, made from a family recipe, the best I have ever tasted. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

We struck up conversations with our neighbors, the musicians. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bushes were just high enough and in a perfect rectangular shape to block her neighbor’s “junkyard.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

In that way, the kid in the bloody T was a lot like the guy he was following across the well-tended lawn of the Kites’ next-door neighbors. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, you might not like your new neighbors.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Through the window, Mariam saw neighbors milling about, chatting excitedly, transistor radios pressed to their ears. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

His neighbors kept their distance, claiming he had El Ojo, the “evil eye.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Burnham said no, but he did leave, to check on Root’s wife, who was in a neighboring room. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They were my family’s friends and neighbors and coworkers, and before, their presence would have encouraged me to be quiet and self-effacing. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It will be a world of compassion, of neighbor loving neighbor, of student loving student or at least treating one another with respect. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I know it’s unlikely that Mama will come back soon, so I drop onto the front step of a neighboring building and try to come up with a plan. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

She speaks to them, sounding the way she does when talking over the fence to a neighbor. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was not as rich as the richest man in Holcomb—Mr. Taylor Jones, a neighboring rancher. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a Catholic school in neighboring Lansdale where the girls wore dark green skirts and the boys wore slacks. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

In the two weeks since we’d been in the apartment, many of the neighbors—mostly the women—had stopped by to introduce themselves. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Let us be good neighbors and build communities where the pursuit of happiness is the purpose of life, rather than merely staying alive just so we can cower from fear.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He decided to try a few words of English out on his new neighbor. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“They’re about to wipe the memories of all our friends and neighbors. They’re responsible for the deaths of a large majority of our old faction.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Many of those awake were holding their mirrors out and chatting with their neighbors. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then it sunk in with Terryl that the neighbor had a backhoe. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“My neighbor had Alzheimer’s. She got out all the time. The police a I ways brought her home.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Moon, his neighbor and classmate who later lost her big toe in the mine, had been knocked out. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“I was talking to one of our neighbors,” Mom says. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

They can obtain their remaining necessities by trading with neighboring bands during intervals between band warfare. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Over the hedge, she could see the Jamaican nanny of the neighbors’ children, walking down the driveway, the one who always evaded Ifemelu’s eyes, and did not like to say hello. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“But she’s sick, all right. I better get some more of the neighbors.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beside me on the couch, Jason’s elderly neighbor is going on about his problem with chipmunks in his cellar. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, they met back at the Nest and told the neighbors all about their brush with danger. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Want me to run up to the house and ask your neighbor to open it for us?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My son will go to school,” he said, and the neighbors were hushed. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Neel, hurry! Go meet your baba—he should be returning by now. And bring sweets, too. Rupa, bring Headmaster some tea. And then go tell the neighbors our good news!” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

But love, which had, perhaps, like a benevolent monarch, swelled the population of his neighboring kingdom, Death, had not himself descended: they owed him no allegiance here. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He did not know how he would face the neighbors if word spread. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

She got up to go visit her neighbor Edna Whaler; she had always wanted to get to know the pretty black American woman who sometimes brought her cloth-covered plates of American biscuits. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

You called in a midwife, a neighbor woman, or your mother, and you got through the business secretively and behind closed doors and kept the men out. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They set trashcans on fire, they knock on people’s doors and run, and they turn their neighbors’ water hoses on in their backyard so it will flood. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Of course, I’ve told that family story before. You probably heard it from a neighbor.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

One man was dancing with his neighbor’s wife. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Did your husband ever mention him as a neighbor, an acquaintance from his youth?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

A bunch of my friends from school and our neighbors come over, too. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

She just talks to the neighbors and cries. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Maybe,” Mom says, “but our new neighbors might have a long drive, and there’s always last-minute things to do when you move.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

We figured that if we were all in the yard acting like the fighting was no big deal, maybe the neighbors would feel the same way. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In a few weeks’ time, my neighbors will come to help thresh my grain. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Pastor Curtis came to the house with an even bigger Bible than Big Ma’s black Bible and married our grandmother to her next-door neighbor in the living room. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

They can hear the call of a male vervet and recognize whether it comes from their own group or a neighboring group. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mate saw one of the oldest trees in the grove topple, groaning, branches grasping at its neighbors as if they could stop it from falling. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The neighbor kids With candies In their mouths Come running To ask, “iQue cs?” Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the curtains were drawn at the next-door neighbors’, turning the panes of glass into blind rectangles. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

We are just a few feet away from the next house, but for all we know of our neighbors, it might as well be a mile. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Positioning one atom the proper distance from its neighbor often caused a distant atom to become jammed impossibly close to its partners. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe he wanted to get Maribel and me away from the apartment so that none of our neighbors would hear what he was about to unleash on us. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I pick up the food the neighbors have left. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Sullivan ambled down the stretch of land between the O’Learys’ and their neighbor, crossed the street, and sat down on the wooden sidewalk in front of Thomas White’s house. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The neighbor’s daughter, Cindy, who was exactly my age, stood beside me as I walked right up to the concession stand to buy popcorn. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this moment, fortuitously, their neighbor Mr. Wilkinson intervened. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even back on the farm, surrounded by friends from school and neighbors from town, he felt like he was still drifting on the dark ocean. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

Harry wasn’t bothered about what the neighbors would think, but he was anxious about how rude the Dursleys might be to the Weasleys if they turned up looking like their worst idea of wizards. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She experienced pleasurable erotosexual sensations by positioning herself by the water jets of a neighbor’s swimming pool. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“We wouldn’t have to worry about neighbors if we practiced a little more compassion,” his wife comes back. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The two laughed and talked for a while before deciding to walk around the hall to meet some of their new neighbors. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The three orphans spoke of pleasant memories of their parents and about Justice Strauss, who they agreed was a wonderful neighbor and in whose library they planned to spend a great deal of time. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

With some pomp and circumstance, Wallace stood in front of the Crowell house and gave a brief speech to the crowd of black spectators, white reporters, photographers, and our neighbors. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And now, weeks later, they all had to “exchange papers with a neighbor” for “peer editing,” which was embarrassing. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

All of our neighbors had driveways, some with fancy, cast-iron gates. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Some years ago my neighbor was Charles Erskine Scott Wood, who wrote Heavenly Discourse. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told the neighbors and passing strangers about God in her backyard. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The boys and girls had traveled by train and on foot from all over Germany and neighboring countries. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The neighbors have been complaining about some of them, who want to use their upstairs to look in on Kwang’s house, some even asking if the basements might be connected. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or I could settle down somewhere friendly, with neighbors close by on either side, and never move anywhere again. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The neighbors kept sweeping their doorways, hanging their laundry, and preparing dinner. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The fire had been put out by neighbors almost as quickly as it was started. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I made the days we had spent there seem like years, and the showgirls I’d seen from a distance seem like close friends and neighbors. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He made formal calls on all of his neighbors, the old-timers who remembered how it used to be and how it was. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing I really came up with was the importance of preventing the close encounter between my Polish neighbor and his John Deere from happening. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Let’s see, there’s grain, the biggest export—a thrasher goes from farm to farm, and neighbors get together to bundle the shocks. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“And our neighbors, the ones to our right, they’ve been here for, oh, maybe twenty years.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The neighbor would give me fare for the streetcar, but instead of riding, I walked the short distance. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Once a neighbor complained that a Gilbreth had called the neighbor’s boy a son of an unprintable word. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

They now lived in Baltimore County, which sits on the northern, eastern, and western borders of Baltimore City, a horseshoe that fits around its more well-known neighbor. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Soapbox what?” some neighbors and Bethel AME parishioners and Girl Scout troop members had asked when Mary told them about her and Levi’s mechanical exploits. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The distance between close “neighbors,” even if it were considerably less than the average, would seem to preclude frequent popping in for a chat. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stella watched Spoon Man wander over toward where the neighbors, like moths, were hovering over the warmth of the fire pit. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Joey, why are your neighbors getting their houses tented?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to believe you should love your neighbors as yourself and the Kingdom of God is within you. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Romans had already threatened Egyptian borders by seizing control of neighboring Syria. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

I noticed some of our neighbors standing on the sidewalk, many more than were usually out this time of day. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Say what you like, but you can’t convince me that a jury box of poverty-level Vermonters would have the remotest bit of pity for four college students on trial for murdering one of their neighbors.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He tells Signora Divino, his neighbor, “We will bring all the children from all over the world and we will live in harmony!” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

As poor as they were, the two neighbor women cooked supper and brought it to the Torres house. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Already you are studying the foreground for a way down to the stream over the steep rocks and wondering if that notch ahead will get you through to the neighboring valley. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m your neighbor across the hall. I locked myself out, and I wanted to use the fire escape to get over to my window.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t have dared so far to expose himself to the gaze of his neighbors. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

All the other people being herded into the theater seem to be with others—families or neighbors. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Inmates in neighboring cells snickered at this and imitated Brereton in low tones. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A neighbor gave her clothes to wash in the river twice a week. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The neighboring businesses were still there when I was a kid. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Outside the parish, we spoke to neighbors and friends, but only momentarily because Special Agent Gonzales came over to offer us a ride. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It’s sad news that our neighbor to the east, Mr. Berringer, has been overrun. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

In the brush houses by the shore Kino’s neighbors sat long over their breakfasts, and they spoke of what they would do if they had found the pearl. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Welch, the Pentecostal neighbors provided for her, and now in New York, with her long blond hair and wide blue eyes, she found various men who were willing to help out. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Her fingers trembled around the stem of her glass, and then she said, “That was the neighbors. My mother said the neighbors did that. People are always jealous.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

But for my twin who now teaches school and murders tree trunks I have heard various words applied by our neighbors, none with much fondness. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Participating in mushaira, poetry concerts; working late at school; helping neighbors settle disputes. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Would Rashid Uncle’s neighbors even be mad that we were here? The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

If they’d known more about the nature of the work behind the noise, and the successes being chalked up by the strange folks next door, the neighbors might have asked for a tour. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But it is only a little exaggeration to claim that everywhere that liberty is cherished—Britain to Bangladesh, Sweden to Soweto—people are children of the Haudenosaunee and their neighbors. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They found good schools, safe streets, neighbors they like, and a big house and a yard. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

One day a neighbor brought her three small birds for dinner. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Our neighbor Mr. Spencer was out mowing his lawn and threw a nod in my direction. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

That mission was supported by McKissick’s neighbor and colleague the Reverend Douglas Moore, now a board member of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, influential Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They scraped together what provisions they could, stealing freely from neighbors they now knew to be dead, and made it to the railroad station. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

If my mother didn’t cook, we’d go to a neighbor’s house to get a plate of food in exchange for good neighborhood gossip. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Some in the crowd smile knowingly, while others frown and look questioningly at their neighbors. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Jesus wanted his disciples, and all of his followers, to love their neighbors enough to even wash their dirty feet. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would sing, but not too loudly so my neighbors couldn’t overhear me. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Your neighbor could be a salesperson of illegal chemicals of recreation. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

A neighbor who was raking leaves next door called to her. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our friends and neighbors resented not only the school closure but most especially the negative economic impact our presence in that school had on our community. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A scout from a neighboring school that will play Marshall in several weeks has his binoculars trained on the game. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Be that as it may, red-eyed and dully cringing in his doorway, Herbie could only stare helplessly at the sexual holocaust taking place in his neighbors’ pen. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He soon found a few others and brought them out, washed them, and called the neighbors to come in and see them. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the New World the ability to write was confined to small elites among some peoples of modern Mexico and neighboring areas far to the north of the Inca Empire. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We also now have evidence for several other black holes in systems like Cygnus X-l in our galaxy and in two neighboring galaxies called the Magellanic Clouds. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Japan’s rising dominance and its sometimes touchy relations with its neighbors make it more important than ever to strip away persistent myths and to find answers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Because Abel had started running an unlicensed business in a residential area, one of the neighbors filed a petition to get rid of us. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Concerned that the neighbor had spent so much on our enterprise, they decided we should go and give half of it back. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

At his mother’s flat on Amherst Street, where his uncle’s family lives now, neighbors look from their windows and roofs as Gogol and his family emerge from the taxi. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You can talk to your neighbor. She seems to think we’re stealing your cinder block. She bit Arthur in the leg.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s true, it’s true! ” another neighbor chimed in. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

One neighbor recently had been hauled out of his house in the middle of the night by the Ku Klux Klan. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Tea flowed once more and music played until the neighbors called the cops. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They waited among their bags in the cold while their hakujin neighbors stood staring at them where they were gathered on the dock between the soldiers. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, and but why do they seize my neighbor, who is as innocent as I who have never heard of this new war?” asked Wang Lung in great consternation. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The neighbors sneered at you, knowing that you were “racetrack people.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He could totally be one of those mass murderers that you hear about when they interview the neighbors and they’re like ‘Oh, he was always quiet. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

In Narewka everyone knew their neighbors and knew what they did for a living. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

It’s a hot Wednesday, and surprisingly there are no questions from the neighbors as I get on the Tatupus’ front porch and stand on a large overturned pot. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

At that very moment, more than a quarter million Chinese soldiers massed on the Chinese side of the Yalu, preparing a surprise attack in support of their Communist neighbor. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She watched the sky darken, the shadows engulf the neighboring housefronts. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

IBM had relocated a great many northerners, and together we made relentless fun of our new neighbors and their poky, backward way of life. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

When she pulled away from me a bit, she saw one of our neighbors. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

In the human world, we children were always in the neighbors’ yards, swinging and swimming and jumping, but the rules here are nothing the same. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

All of the neighbors hoped that sudden wealth would not turn Kino’s head, would not make a rich man of him, would not graft onto him the evil limbs of greed and hatred and coldness. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the judge suggested that it be moved to a neighboring county so that witnesses wouldn't have far to travel, Chestnut remained hopeful. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She was talking to her neighbor Miss Cissy, who was calling to tell her about something happening right down the street from Mrs. Baylor's house. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

We picked mangoes from the neighbor’s trees and traded them for lengths of wire, which we used to make axles and attach the bottle cap wheels. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

She’d never painted a mural before, just filled notebook after notebook with wild creatures and winged, battle-ready versions of her friends and neighbors. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t know that I’ve always been on my own—except for Mama Ya-Ya and the neighbors who watched me grow for a long time. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

And she had arranged to rent a red palanquin to carry me from her neighbor’s house to the wedding ceremony. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I settled down to scrape the rabbit skins of the day, my neighbor the skunk marched right into the campground and set to work on the smoked rabbit. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the month of September was out, Philadelphians found themselves surrounded by scared and hostile neighbors. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

A few years after the war ended, Elizebeth made a surprise visit to one of her neighbors—a woman she barely knew, who was ill. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Radios, maybe one per hundred thousand residents. No telephones. Newspapers as scarce as hen’s teeth, and a literacy rate made to match. They get their evening news by listening to their neighbors’ drums.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As her voice grew more shrill, her neighbors did come to listen and look. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silence this stigma engenders among family members, neighbors, friends, relatives, co-workers, and strangers is perhaps the most painful—yet least acknowledged—aspect of the new system of control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And then walked away while the neighbor registered a double take. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they got home, they found that the neighbors had been in and straightened up the flat. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They recorded their history in fabulous tapestries that hung on the palace walls, and had skillful knives and swords and such, which they used to conquer the neighboring tribes and enslave them. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the poplar trees had been chopped down—the trees Hassan and I used to climb to shine our mirrors into the neighbors’ homes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He came forward and sat down on the porch steps, as one does to chat with a passing neighbor. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

His downstairs neighbor knocked his immediate protest with a broom handle. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpa Portman never mentioned that one of his neighbors was blind. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

His own Agriculture Building, he wrote, “must suffer by comparison with its huge neighbor opposite, whose volume—215 feet high—off the main axis, is bound to swamp us and everything else around it.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We didn’t have many neighbors to give them to, so Dad put them in a burlap sack and drove to a pond made by the mining company to cool equipment. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The judge agreed to move the trial to Canandaigua, New York, in neighboring Ontario County. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

But an empty bed and house always greeted them, and the footsteps always belonged to a passing neighbor. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Even if the Stewarts weren’t deliberately trying to hide their race, they probably didn’t speak of it one way or another with their new neighbors. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“They’re used to make pork sausages. Our neighbors cook meat in spices and then they stuff them into the pig guts. We had some yesterday, remember?” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

When the evening came, the neighbors in the brush houses sat eating their corncakes and beans, and they discussed the great theme of the morning. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d heard all the horror stories—many of them true—but I also knew that my neighbor had thrown rocks at a grizzly that was in her garden and it had run off. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Tata Ndu spoke again but was drowned out by the wave of our neighbors that rolled forward, parting and closing around him. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Haiti, with all its problems, there was always a friend or a neighbor to share in the misery. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Each star system is an island in space, quarantined from its neighbors by the light-years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not to mention my friends, teachers, neighbors, customers... City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

His mother was right behind him, following him much like their neighbors’ pit bull did whenever Moss walked by their yard. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

All the campesinos had run off, and there wasn’t a neighbor willing to lend a hand. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To climb the rocky hills at the peak of which our neighbors’ porches rose even higher, their balustrades festooned with potted plants, the zinc overhangs sparkling in the midday sun. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Billy glanced dully at the coats of his neighbors. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Olanna stood aside as they passed and, back home, she was furious to see Ugwu standing in front of the yard, talking to some elderly neighbors. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Janssen's neighbor or delivery boy must have given this one to her. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And the American and Soviet police had publicly stated that Mercerism reduced crime by making citizens more concerned about the plight of their neighbors. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He staggered down the street and into a neighbor’s house with Joe close behind, then collapsed facedown into a pool of his own blood, yelling, “Oh, I’m dying—call an ambulance! ” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The event was reported quickly with drums, across our province and beyond, and some of our neighbors even ran there on foot to try to help their captured leader. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He visited Disciples of Christ meetings in neighboring Vermont and New York, often preaching for money to pay his college expenses. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

That evening I looked through the window into our neighbor’s cabin. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Like chimps, they are territorial and may kill hyenas from neighboring clans. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Harrison was in charge while her husband was away on business when a black janitor passed along a tip: Word on the street was that neighbors were planning to bomb the Harrison house. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The neighbors on the Cliff, doubtless concluding that one of us had fallen down and had had to be destroyed, watched our actions through binoculars. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“God knows,” answered her neighbor on the left. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The yard was filling with the chatter of neighbors and the shrieks of children running around under the kuka tree. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A TV goes on in the neighbor’s house. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house in question burned to the ground before the neighboring fire departments arrived on the scene. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

So the son left his mother in the care of his neighbors and went in search of the embroidery. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

All our neighbors came around, and they were just squeezing me to death. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

In the houses of the neighbors the subject that would lead all conversations for a long time to come was aired for the first time to see how it would go. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pascal and Patrice helped me scratch up a little plot that eventually produced a few bleak, dusty bouquets of spinach and beans, which were gobbled up one night by our neighbor’s goat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I got tired of listening to the same stories told many times before, I watched our neighbor’s goldfish. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In that particular flat-building and all the neighboring buildings, creaky shutters were closed and tied with petticoat strings to the window bars. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

So he could screw her without the neighbors knowing it? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liyana licked custard from a cream puff and stared at their familiar, rumpled neighbors in their summer clothes. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Along with some other cousins and neighbors, we split into teams of five, then hunted one another in the maize rows and across the dirt courtyard that separated our house from Geoffrey’s. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

As a rule, my family had always ignored the Easter celebrated by our non-Orthodox friends and neighbors. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The pond separates our yard from Mr. Bender’s, and the small creek that feeds it separates our neighbors’ yards to the south, like a natural curving fence. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

They were silent for a while, watching the vultures hovering overhead; the neighbors had killed a chicken. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

My mother and father were more annoyed than intimidated by those two or three neighbors who tried initially to make us unwelcome. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He don’t leave our house until night. Then we never see again. We don’t talk about to neighbor. It better not to know.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

All the time there’s the roar of kids and cars and neighbors and dogs barking. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Despite the order to shoot anyone who ventured outside, Senator Trueba crossed the street to attend a celebration in his neighbor’s house. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were also a couple of neighbors Joel sometimes hires when he needs extra hands on processing day. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Ma was still crying with happiness, the goats bleated, chickens crowed and clucked, and neighbors began gathering to share the joy. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mama Oji shrugged and then told her that all the neighbors were accomplished thieves. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I try to be a good neighbor like that. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

So I went door-to-door, begging neighbors to buy candy bars.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

But she didn’t want Aunty Ifeka, or Arize, or even the neighbor to know that the smoke irritated her eyes and throat or that the sight of the cockroach eggs nauseated her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Since he is the only neighbor I know, I learn things about him. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I earned enough to keep from going hungry, which was more than a lot of my neighbors could say. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And the brush house was crowded with neighbors. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our next-door neighbors’ names, the way the house smelled, what school was like, the holidays, the taste of icing on birthday cakes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A middle-aged neighbor, Cole Cannon, had come over one night seeking to buy drugs from Evan's mother. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

George Naylor is all but going broke— and he’s doing better than many of his neighbors. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Oh, are you gonna tell me your neighbors weren’t like these people? Fine, upstanding citizens, until they started eating their young?” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he had used the neighbor’s washing machine after her gleaning. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The woman in the neighboring car had biscuit crumbs on her mouth. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had seen a neighboring family put out of their house when General Howe decided to set up his headquarters there. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bryan later told the neighbor not to say a word to anybody and gave him money to keep quiet. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She had laid four eggs, smaller and not as white as the ones our neighbor Doña Lola gave us from time to time. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Outside, he could hear the squeal of children and the shouts of the neighbors, for his friends thought he might be inside the burning house. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were in the same grade and had been neighbors practically our whole lives. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Others had walked hundreds of miles to neighboring countries to be able to get on a plane. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She shrieked aloud and the neighbor women rushed out of their houses to see and to hear. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Yes, you did, it was a bargain between us. I was to finish the crayon of Beth for you, and you were to go properly with me, and return our neighbors’ visits.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No spoon on earth has ever felt lonely or forgotten, Olive. But Henry? We must remind him and Ruby that we are their neighbors and friends.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Amy said, “Everyone seemed waiting for something, and couldn’t settle down, which was queer, since Father was safe at home,” and Beth innocently wondered why their neighbors didn’t run over as usual. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

My “old hen” neighbor—her own label for herself—is sought after like a debutante at a grand ball for her horse-training skills. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Say nothing to your sass, but come to me each evening when she is talking in the courtyard with the neighbor women. I’ll help you to learn to read and write.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

My parents spoke of getting a neighbor to stay with her, and each offered to remain and let me go instead. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew we had it to do, else we couldn’t tell our hogs from those of the neighbors. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

And just like that, the robot was meeting her neighbors. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He got so desperate, he asked Mother if she’d thought about going over to visit the new neighbors, to welcome them to the area. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I see some of the neighbors moving in the streets. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

We go until the music stops, until someone turns on the lights and says the party is ending, that the neighbors have complained and the police are probably coming. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

We can slap at the flies and the fleas and kill them but there’s nothing we can do about the neighbors and their buckets. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

On one day, Louise discovered that Louie had impaled his leg on a bamboo beam; on another, she had to ask a neighbor to sew Louie’s virtually severed toe back on. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Samuel’s hands were so good and gentle that neighbors from twenty miles away would call on him to help with a birth. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Seldom had I felt such warmth from my island neighbors. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

So what, that one of their neighbors kept a gun? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

His white next-door neighbors, the Peppers, thought he was smart and capable. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Jeanne’s neighbors were spilling into the sunlight, adjusting their brown woolen tunics, stretching, scratching their oily heads. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

And remarry he did, to a princess from a neighboring kingdom, a practical union that made both kingdoms stronger. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Not so long ago H. Wayne Huizenga, the billionaire founder of Blockbuster and owner of the Miami Dolphins, wanted more elbow room and bought a neighboring house for $2.5 million. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I saw your next-door neighbor, the lady whose husband died before we were born and who sometimes let us swim in her pool. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

That year, the conversation about boys had turned from hypothetical dreams of rappers and movie stars to realities of neighbors and classmates. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In September the average number of deaths per day began to rise at an alarming rate, and relatives and neighbors hurried anyone they suspected of having yellow fever off to Bush Hill. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

It was a place where neighbor loved helping neighbor, based on a long-standing tradition that ranchers always left their homes unlocked because you never knew who might need to borrow something or cook a meal. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, he liked the idea that his neighbors envied him for having this distinguished guest at Tres Marias. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember, it was six o’clock in the morning, the neighbors sleeping…” He shook his head. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

So we both went and peered over the fence at the neighbors’ grapevines. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Across the street a neighbor’s sprinklers come on, hissing loud enough to drown out the ticking of the clock. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

A crowd of our neighbors are standing around, watching. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

And hearing the cracks of his stout fan and the cries of the pupils, the neighbors said, “It is a worthy old teacher, after all.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“That muskrat was dead a while. When was the last time your neighbor got the boat out? Oh right, you have no idea. Awesome. Okay, then when was the last time you borrowed it?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The first thing to remember,” Max whispers, so the neighbors can’t hear, “is to be on the defensive before you are on the offensive.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

When Charlotte read the notice in the newspaper, she hurried from neighbor to neighbor, encouraging others to join her at the convention. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It required mapping strategy and listening to your neighbors and building trust in communities where trust was often lacking. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We watched the news report on television, and that night I overheard my mother talking with a neighbor on our front porch about the missing men. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I recognized those tracks from the many winters in Piatra Neamț where I had stumbled out onto the frozen pond with a neighbor friend, dull blades tied to the bottoms of our shoes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

One of my neighbors argued with Shaukat over bruised zucchini and squash. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

One day, one of the neighbor boys put a snake in her shoe and taunted her for crying. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

No color at all, save for the neighboring trees and the grass of the surrounding fields. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She did not care if all the neighbors on Montego Drive could hear her. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

They rushed home and wakened family members, knocked on neighbors’ doors, roused children from their beds, spreading the news. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that all the friends and neighbors filed by—it was still more like a funeral than a wedding party—and shook hands with Grandpa, and either hugged Miss Love or clasped her hand. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The diners and drinkers at neighboring tables have, over the course of the innkeeper's tale, let their own conversations fall to the wayside and have begun listening to ours. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Within a month the disease had spread into almost every province of Haiti, including Port-au-Prince, as well as the neighboring Dominican Republic. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

"After that,” she told her Fairfield neighbors, with a knowing nod, "blood will tell.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thinking about the robberies I’m going to do when I get out,” he finally said, with the candor of his neighbor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In contrast to its neighbor’s militant position on segregation, North Carolina made cautious moves to comply with the Brown v. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Among Africa’s five groups of people—blacks, whites, Pygmies, Khoisan, and Indonesians—only the Pygmies lack any distinct languages: each band of Pygmies speaks the same language as the neighboring group of black farmers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A group of friends and neighbors stood around my dad and grampa, and when they saw the Remingtons approaching, they closed ranks, blocking them from the circle of mourners. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“No danger is to be apprehended,” Wright wrote, saying that revolution had not flared up in Georgia or “in the proceedings or designs of our neighbors of South Carolina.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The neighbor’s Internet is slow, but at least it works. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Perilee had planted the notion that there were two or three bachelor neighbors who might pay me to do their laundry. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

They had to drag him into the house, and all the neighbors and the boarders were out to see the commotion. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, you the upstate homeboy, CO,” chimed in his neighbor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grace is over by the drinks table, her parents talking to their other next-door neighbors, her hand entwined with Rafe’s as he stands by her side. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He holds the door open from the outside while I grab the notes for my neighbors and my keys. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

For centuries it stood on equal ground with its neighbors, the rising Maya states to the east and Teotihuacan to the north. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Dursleys shuddered to think what the neighbors would say if the Potters arrived in the street. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

After Woodhull found the report, he would take out his telescope and check the clothesline of his neighbor, Anna Smith Strong. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer, and, above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The magistrate was said to have the ear of the emperor's most trusted advisor, and his own son was king of a neighboring city. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She questioned everybody, starting with Malvonne, an upstairs neighbor—the one who told her about Joe’s dirt in the first place and whose apartment he and the girl used as a love nest. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It occurred to me that it was a jarring sound for them, given that we didn’t have neighbors, let alone neighbor dogs, at the White House. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“You can keep an eye on the neighbors from here. Spy on the Woolmeres and the Castles.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

However, once food production had arisen in one part of a continent, neighboring hunter-gatherers could see the result and make conscious decisions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The neighbors, watching Kino’s door through the crevices in their brush houses, were dressed and ready too. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

They developed locally dense populations chronically engaged in ferocious wars with neighboring populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Serenity Suite began to fill with our damp friends and neighbors—our Snapfinger family. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He mourned the dead girl all that day, fraying the nerves of the whole family and all the neighbors, who came running at the sound of his shipwrecked howls. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why not? God help my family and my neighbors if I had fought the Indians!” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

What sort of calculation would their neighbors make, weighing all the promises of their new circumstances against the allegations and the truth of their own pasts? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He told her that he and his wife had adopted a black child and their neighbors looked at them as though they had chosen to become martyrs for a dubious cause. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We returned to the schooner with our spoils, as we feared that the owner of the place even then sought out his neighbors to repulse us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

How faint she felt, just listening to the stories other girls told — about a neighbor’s daughter, for example, who walked all the way home from Hangzhou, only to be sent back. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They suggested, tactfully, that Mia not go out; she must be tired, they said, they didn’t want her to slip on the ice, but she understood: they didn’t want the neighbors to see her. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They asked neighbors inside and outside the building if any had seen Julia or Pearl, but none had. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Not far from Kigoma is a refugee camp where people have fled from the violence in the little neighboring country of Rwanda. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had just closed my eyes when I heard Carlos, our neighbor, shouting outside. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

However, where personal space is at a premium, tensions are apt to spike much more quickly than in a place where one’s battle cry reaches maybe ten neighbors instead of a hundred. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Martin and Ethel would invite a neighbor or two for cake to dispel any gossip or speculation. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Outside New York City, Gerta was putting her son to bed when her neighbor knocked on the door. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“You have to earn it,” our neighbor said. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“So,” I said, “were you just going for a walk to see the moon, or were you honestly trying to meet your epileptic neighbor?” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

"Do you have information for me? Perhaps you know somebody who is breaking the law? A neighbor or relative or teacher, perhaps? Something you've overheard? Some suspicious activity?" The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Always working to show the neighbors what a good wife and mother she was. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Under his rule, peace came to the land of the Danes, because none of the neighbor countries dared to fight with such a giant. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, I would wrap my doll in the lace from my first Communion and I’d show her off to all my neighbors. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My little crowd of nurses and neighbors waits to see what I’ll do next. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

From those nuclear areas, hunter-gatherers of some neighboring areas learned food production, and peoples of other neighboring areas were replaced by invading food producers from the nuclear areas—again at widely differing times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Through the walls of the house they could watch their neighbors raking through the ashes to find the bones. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the strangest thing about Momma, the thing that made some of the neighbors smile tightly and alienated all the rest, is Momma's rumored penchant for field hands—the stronger, the darker, the better. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He was to call the neighbors in case of an emergency, and to let himself into the beach house after school. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“The issue is how to relieve Malaga Island of the girl, her family, her neighbors, what she would call her house, what they would call their town.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He offers a kind of backhanded compliment: There’s a “snob factor” at Truman’s neighboring high schools that does not exist here. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

As we have seen, the inhabitants of neighboring towns were—to borrow a modern euphemism—“incentivized” to resettle there. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

She asked her brother, Cody, who was eleven, and their thirteen-year-old neighbor, Bobby, where they wanted to go. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Or what if a nosy neighbor sees me buy them? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The lady in black was reading her morning devotions on the porch of a neighboring bath-house. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But when your other neighbor was here—" I cut myself off. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mom never hears rumors at church about our neighbors having nowhere to watch the parade, after all. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, I didn’t even ask if you were a neighbor—but of course you must be. Which farm is yours?” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

It was the story of a poor girl who is forced to marry a fisherman from a neighboring beach, though she loves someone else. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

I looked outside the window and saw one of my neighbors standing almost naked. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Chester explained that when he looked out the window, he saw Professor Mickelwhite, our next door neighbor, playing the violin in his living room. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess being a good neighbor is better than cash,” I said brightly, trying to be charming. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She even went around to all the neighbors asking if anyone had seen Fluffy. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The neighbors came over because of all the screaming. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Our neighbors had all gone here; our older brothers and sisters. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The new house was taller than it was wide, as if it held its breath to squeeze between the neighboring homes. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Neighbor greeted neighbor with "Good morning" or "Good evening" or a friendly smile, and grappled with small problems behind closed doors. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

We lock Helena inside, and I go partway down the stairs, making sure there are no neighbors to see a man coming out of my apartment. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then one day his neighbor showed him his bedroom, and on the walls were pictures of bands Kenna had never heard of. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

We lapsed into silence, staring across the street at my neighbor’s bright green lawn. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

As Dell pulled his car away, he could see neighbors coming out onto the sidewalk. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Finally the police got so many complaints from his neighbors that they told him he couldn’t shoot off any more rockets in that neighborhood. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No problem. My old neighbor, Mrs. Bowman, used to talk a lot, too.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her upstairs neighbor, the one with the tattoos, promised to feed her cat. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, neighboring Hungary opened its border with noncommunist Austria—creating the first open border along the Iron Curtain since the start of the Cold War. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“See? You can see the icicles coming off of the neighbor’s roof, right?” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

When they passed Werfel’s neighbors, he didn’t even stop to insult them. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

She could see him, white-faced, stunned; but preferred to see him red-faced, red-necked, cleaver in hand, bellowing so loud the neighbors would call the police. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were going to the next place where neighbors had stacked their wheat and wanted the machines to thresh it. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

On my way upstairs, in the dark, I ran into old Salamano, my neighbor across the landing. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Shaking with anger, he shot a nervous look through the window, as though expecting to see some of the neighbors with their ears pressed against the glass. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Are those our new neighbors?” my mom asked. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred, and there are few notions more stirring than the idea of a neighboring planet inhabited by intelligent beings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

One girl, Magdalena Nogueras, who at sixteen was caught stealing a pig and a wrench from her neighbor, went on to become a principal actress with the National Theater Company of Cuba. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our neighbor Mr. Castle walked on from the wings to take the last chair. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Women suffered the assaults of their neighbors climbing towards freedom. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Crow had entered into a sort of border war with Bob Timmons, his neighbor to the north, claiming that Bob’s grove of western hemlocks actually grew on his property. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Used to be an inspector himself,” the neighbor said. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

There exist many actual cases of hunter-gatherers who did see food production practiced by their neighbors, and who nevertheless refused to accept its supposed blessings and instead remained hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Your mother and I thought we ought to go down to the neighbors and pay respects.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“My neighbors are all eyes, and men coming in and out of my apartment...Well, you can see how that would look.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The first bite Is in the alley, The second bite In a tree, The third bite On a car fender Of a neighbor who Has yelled, “jAy, Dios!” Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calpurnia in her electric coat was the envy of her friends and neighbors. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It was another neighbor, Dandelion, who had now brought the talk back to the Threarah and his indifference to Fiver’s fear. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only cow in town, hidden within a neighbor’s courtyard, let out a loud Moooooooo. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

So really, I’d gotten what I wanted, seeing how I’d practically become a lawn ornament over at my Polish neighbor’s pad. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

When Vincent arrives at the neighbor’s house, the man has already died. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Several times that day, Laila banged her fists against the walls, used up her energy screaming for help, hoping that a neighbor would hear. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I survived, but just barely, and two neighbor women named Birdie and Mae took me in. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Not just because it has always been a fantasy of mine to blast our neighbors with my paintball gun—but because whether my dad knows it or not, I saw what was coming next. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

"Now we must fear what we say to our neighbors, what we say in our own homes, what we say over the telephone, what we write." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed like a former neighbor or babysitter who just happened to know about my childhood. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“One day man will release and control its almost infinite power. We cannot prevent him from doing so and can only hope that he will not use it exclusively in blowing up his next-door neighbor.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Music from a neighbor’s stereo was filtering through the walls. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then came our neighbors who couldn’t help their curiosity. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Through the walls I could hear my neighbor’s stereo: David Bowie. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A neighbor gently urges his goats along as he guides them home along the tracks. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She wanted to wash them before she ate so she asked her neighbor where the washroom was. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I grabbed some cherry cobbler and opened the big book on architecture that my neighbor Steve had gave me. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Perhaps as far as the Livingston spread, the mayhem encompassing the neighboring farms. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Each day at lunchtime we were permitted to sit outside in the spacious garden of a neighboring vicarage where we were supplied with a meal cooked by the redoubtable Mrs. Thayanagee Pillay and her friends. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now, I had a new way to persuade him: My sister and I loved playing with our neighbor’s dog, Bo. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I was mad that no one asked why the neighbor had been looking in the window. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Our neighbors around us had their own parts of the saltwater inlet too, where they would also go fishing. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

A neighbor, an old lady, told me that Samuel and his father had taken a job sheepherding for the rest of the summer. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their new neighbors who didn’t yet know they existed. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

We drove away down Seminole, past our neighbors’ houses, already saying farewell to Indian Village. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Some of the neighbors helped Alice bring out her piano and set it down near the banana trees. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I passed my boards!” she screamed to neighbors fumbling for their house keys. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The eyes of some animal peer at me from the neighboring tree -a possum maybe -catching the firelight from the Careers' torches. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

But the space between zero and one is all the world, and everything in it, so they aren’t exactly neighbors in my head. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Moreover, vast tracts in the West had already been promised to the Indians, whose response to a population of black neighbors was likely to prove uncharitable in the extreme. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

My mother and I always watch the fireworks from the rooftop of our building with Ms. Raz and our other neighbors. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The neighbors looked me over one last time before retreating back into their homes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I asked the feedlot manager why they didn’t just use the liquid manure as fertilizer on neighboring farms. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Hours later, the ice cream’s been eaten and the Peach has dropped and my neighbors have finally used up their fireworks. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He got up and went out to the verandah; the sudden hot air, the roar of his neighbor’s generator, the smell of diesel exhaust fumes brought a lightness to his head. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

God wants us to love our neighbors as he loves us—all our neighbors, whatever their walks in life. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When William was eleven, rioters in his hometown of Kishinev attacked their Jewish neighbors, killing forty-nine and injuring over four hundred more. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I heard the conversations of our neighbors and the whispers in our own house. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“We don’t want the neighbors to hear. Don’t worry too much. When I feel better, I’ll go to the theater and ask.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You mustn’t be afraid to go down and ask the Quaker Stevens for help, Lyddie. They mean to be good neighbors to us, no matter what Mama says.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mama picked up the kitchenware and some silver she had stored with neighbors in Boyle Heights. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would stand for hours on the doorsteps of neighbors’ houses listening to their talk, learning how a white woman had slapped a black woman, how a white man had killed a black man. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papi isn’t here to see him, and Mama and my sisters are visiting with neighbors down the block. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I was her assistant a few days back when a young neighbor boy fell and broke his arm. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She looked from side to side at the neighbors’ unfortunate, decaying houses. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

All his neighbors were leaving then, sadly pulling up stakes, moving on. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A kid from Louie’s neighborhood was deemed feebleminded, institutionalized, and barely saved from sterilization through a frantic legal effort by his parents, funded by their Torrance neighbors. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

To give you an idea, the owner of the neighboring house was the New York Yankees baseball club owner, Dan Topping. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Oh, a neighbor could be napping, and I need to peel the beets for lunch," she protests. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

People of goodwill have been unwilling to see black and brown men, in their humanness, as entitled to the same care, compassion, and concern that would be extended to one’s friends, neighbors, or loved ones. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

On The Brady Bunch, kids play together peacefully in their backyards, all the lawns have green grass, and neighbors even go camping together. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The result, with the arrival of Western technology, is that the more entrepreneurial societies are now exploiting Western technology to overwhelm their conservative neighbors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As I near my block, I see Jake helping my neighbors into their trailers. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Often I have to write threatening letters to neighbors and friends of my mother and I worry they might discover me. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Races back, though it doesn’t have the thick down of its neighbor, the well-armored talons of the grouse. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

One neighbor had called them “louts” after they wrested plums from the tree beside her cottage, then squashed them in the path. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

If it rains, Mrs. Palmer knows neighbors will take Mr. Palmer inside. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Dad found a cheap upright when a saloon in the next town over went out of business, and he borrowed a neighbor’s pickup to bring it home. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to be home when Richie and I finished school every afternoon, and she wound up getting a job as an elementary school teacher in Central Bucks School District in the neighboring county. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The neighbor thought it was the work of a juvenile delinquent at first, which is sort of funny if you think about it awhile. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even Mr. Spencer, our quiet neighbor, donated a check for fifteen dollars. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Is this what my neighbors have been brought into? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know many of the neighbors, and when we met, outside on the street, we were careful to exchange nothing more than the ordinary greetings. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the big oak trees of my place at Sag Harbor sat Rocinante, handsome and self-contained, and neighbors came to visit, some neighbors we didn’t even know we had. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not snooping. I need to know about my neighbors.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

His voice is loud enough for him to still be talking to the neighbors. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

A neighbor brought him a blanket and a sandwich. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Fire ran along the dry grass and leaves, and took hold of a neighbor’s fence. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her name was Mrs. Jones, and up until then she, like all of her neighbors, had kept her house spotlessly clean by using a broom and a mop. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Did you hear that Rick Sher- lund, a Goldman Sachs partner, annoyed some of his neighbors when he hired Jackson Browne to entertain at his anniversary party? Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Every minute she wasn’t at school she spent on the phone, or having tea, or just dropping in on neighbors we hadn’t talked to in years. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone who lived and worked on the farm was in attendance, as well as the families from the neighboring colored farms. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I’m getting better at ignoring the neighbors when I hear a ping coming from outside. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the neighbors or students ask me my nationality, I tell them I came from a country that no longer exists. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My neighbor wants to start something with me—don’t worry, it’s not going to be at my place but his—and I'm all for helping people. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

A family on a neighboring block had twelve children. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The old neighbor offered me a cup of coffee, and I took it. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though the Puritans’ slaughter of the Pequots was devastating, they continued to fear retaliation by the surviving Pequots who had sought refuge among neighboring nations. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Emily snapped back inside, fearing Ms. Lee would pop out and yell at her about touching the neighbor’s building. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Their mother didn’t approve of heathens or abolitionists, and since she considered their Quaker neighbors a bit of both, she forbade the children to have anything to do with the Stevenses. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She put her hands on her hips, threw back her head, and called on all the gods and neighbors to come and witness the dog- things in their midst. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Staring too hard was never an issue, as I was too busy trying to copy my neighbor's drawings. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She opened the door, prepared to admit three neighbors; instead, she discovered two strangers—men who tipped their hats and flipped open badge-studded billfolds. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

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 seven-step stoop, an old-school buzzer box, and Christmas lights in one of the neighbor’s windows that I could tell had been there all year long. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A pack of stray, skinny dogs followed us, barking at the wheels and waking up the few neighbors who did not work on Sundays. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Evenings we sat in the alley with the neighbors and listened to stories. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the child picked up the bomb and it detonated, Herbert ran across the street and found himself in a circle of grieving neighbors. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

His neighbors drove up into his little valley, and every one of them would have understood anger or sorrow—and so helped him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The neighbors, knowing my parents were the Deans, often referred to me as Walter Dean. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Now, if I were back in Chicago, I’d just stuff a pillow over my head to block out the noise, figuring it was a neighbor. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

We found Wojek, the kind gentile who had sold my father's suits, and we connected with a former neighbor on Przemyslowa Street. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Then I strolled to the camp to relieve my neighbors of the inconvenience of my miserable cur. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thick books dog-eared from the handing down from neighbor to neighbor. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Having invited all these neighbors, I was now faced with the problem of getting rid of them. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doors opened immediately, and inside the elevator was another of our neighbors. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

She’d expected this stranger to say, as if she were a neighbor, “They’re as good as my own. I’ll make sure they don’t misbehave or be an embarrassment to the Negro race.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in the United States, Liyana’s classes had oral history assignments where they were supposed to go home and ask their oldest relatives or neighbors what the world was like long ago. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“If you come over,” Mom told the neighbors, “don’t start the rumor I’m running a liquor joint.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Near the beginning of World War I, the Williamses discovered, from returning neighbors and kin, the possibility of living better in another place. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Writers need to look in both directions, and shunt phrases around to keep them from dangerous liaisons with an inappropriate next-door neighbor. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I thought of this book when Hugh and I attended the Festival of Saint Anne, a local fair held in a neighboring village, not far from our house in Normandy. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Then I take a few careful steps to a neighboring tree, pull off some moss, and without examining the wound further, tightly bandage my arm. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Willikers were their nearest neighbors, with a house three miles down the road. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Colonists in Jamestown broke off from complaining about their Indian neighbors to complain about the depredations of the rats they had accidentally imported. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then, we went outside to put up luminaria, which is an activity where all our neighbors fill brown paper bags with sand and line the street with them. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Behind us, a group of women was carrying on a conversation, criticizing a neighbor’s wife who, upon leaving Haiti, had turned from a sweet Haitian wife into a self-willed tyrant. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Six or seven neighbors set out in automobiles to round up those who were missing. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next-door neighbor’s cat coughed up a hairball one day and the hair was not the cat’s. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

After he died, Vincent van Gogh was remembered by Zundert neighbors as both the boy who took long walks alone on the heath and the boy who stayed inside reading all the time. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He’d worked out a theory about what fighting was for, and now he no longer fought with his six closest neighbors. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandfather and his Jewish friends had assumed that if the Nazis made any move against them, their non-Jewish neighbors would defend them. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some of my neighbors were already afraid to talk to me. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

But he oppressed his own people; he made war on his neighbors; he quite rightly feared invasion. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No,” Rick said, once again closing the panel covering of his electric sheep; he straightened up, turned, and faced his neighbor. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Our neighbors turned to stare at us, because Miles Richter laughing was one of those things that the Mayans had predicted would signal the end of the world. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Most of our neighbors still felt that way about that house, and I think now the reason why is mainly because of Ms. Janice. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The neighbor handed over the money and we handed over the grapefruits, happier and richer than we had ever been in our little lives. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

His neighbor keeplocks would cheer in support; they were his chorus. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Obsle’s attention had been taken up by his other neighbor, and most people were listening to Slose at the head of the table. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

They milked Hazel’s refrigerator for all it was worth, then went door to door collecting from their neighbors, dumping their spoils into the plastic pool. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

My mother would later make an observation about the Stewarts and their new community, based on the fact that almost all of their neighbors on the street seemed to be white. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Her mother emphasizes that the United States is a cold place, where neighbors barely know one another. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Our neighbor’s house had a larger yard than ours, with what looked like good grass. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

I lay the board across the gap between houses, to the roof of our neighbors’ apartment, where I’ll have a perfect view of the dance. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the way through I had expected my parents to stop her, invoking, if nothing else, the nearness of the neighbors. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The neighbors’ radios were all silent, and his mother hadn’t yet risen to fix his father’s breakfast. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Hanako had paid the neighbor her entire savings of twenty-seven dollars, earned through working at the restaurant when she was six and seven years old. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The neighbors nursed my mother day and night, fed us and washed our clothes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was one of those days when a man feels good, feels like speaking to his neighbor, is glad to live in a country like ours, and proud of his government. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

However I might pretend I was their neighbor, they knew better. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he kicks the ball so hard, it smacks against his neighbor’s fence. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Tanaburi was a small, ordinary village, and it was the ordinary things that he liked to watch the most: people hanging their wash out to dry, sweeping porches, chatting with their neighbors, cooking breakfast. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Those who knew the song made soft exclamation to themselves, while those who didn’t asked their neighbors what the stir was about. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Forty years it had taken, rising like a great shadow on the shore of the lake while Harren's armies plundered his neighbors for stone, lumber, gold, and workers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But perhaps it is also raining, a cold, slanting, merciless rain, with thunder and lightning playing on the neighboring hills. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever neighbors or relatives came to talk about the bad things white people were doing, it was like adding height and weight to this monster that lived in my mind. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Whatever we do, we’re very afraid the neighbors might hear or see us. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

After the explosion, my family and all our neighbors ran out into the street. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Women and children worked in the neighboring sheds, twisting hair, weaving hair, plaiting hair with thread. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Some escaped illegally across borders, slipping into neighboring countries. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Also, I need three of your best breakfast goodies for our upstairs neighbor.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Big windows adorned three full walls, so you could sip your hot drink and use the nosy-nelly spell, chisme, to observe your neighbors at the same time. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

One of their neighbors was the director of the U.S. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She mortgaged her property and borrowed money from a neighbor for her journey. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

People drop by, neighbors come for dinner, there are three meals to get, the shopping to do, the cleaning to accomplish. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trotter was crossing our neighbor’s backyard and heading toward our garage. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ran across the street to a neighbor’s house. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Prisons reconvene old neighbors as well as people with even deeper connections. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew that friends and neighbors—even old friends and good neighbors—couldn’t fill the emptiness in his heart. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Hitler Youth even persuaded their friends and neighbors to donate skis and bicycles for the war effort. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s Phoebe who is the neighbor—” “Is that right?” he said, opening the car door for Mrs. Partridge. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Meeting a neighbor coming from the village as he passed through the town gate, he answered the man’s inquiry, “This day I am back from my sons’ school.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and felt the hardness and the happiness of my neighbor shivering through me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

This map shows the homelands of the Pequot Nation, relative to neighboring nations in what are currently called the states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Becoming friendly with your neighbors will end up getting your house robbed. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

His neighbors did not find his action hasty. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Stanton and her neighbor, Amelia Bloomer, copied the design. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to have neighbors. What do you think of that?” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Even neighbors sat on their stoops as if they hadn’t moved since we had gone. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I would never have to eat rationed food, or obey curfews, or watch riots from my rooftop, or hide neighbors in water tanks to prevent them from being shot, as she and my father had. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“This is my neighbor and dear friend, Cissy. Miss Cissy to you two. This is Sophie.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

They used that advantage to settle scores with neighboring tribes that were their traditional enemies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Yesterday, some of the neighbors stopped by wanting to know what Mama Ya-Ya was going to do, believing her special powers gave her special knowledge about the storm. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

But Ivy’s fourteen-year-old neighbor, who’d seen the whole thing, said Joe had walked right up and stabbed Ivy in the chest, then tried to stab him again in the back as he staggered away. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I don’t tell him TaShon is our neighbor from across the street. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“They were different than most of their neighbors in appearance, in the foods they ate, the things they loved. But they were willing to accept and share with others.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

During the Vietnam War, John and Marti Peterson spent three perilous years together in neighboring Laos, where John trained and advised a guerrilla army to fight the communist insurgency there. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Since that midnight visit from the drunken neighbor, Starry's not allowed to go outside by herself at all anymore. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The neighbor women were right in what they had said about Papá’s death at sea saving them money. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

If any group of individuals had reason to ignore the sufferings of their neighbors, the elders of the Free African Society certainly did. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

We ate wild verdolagas and rabbit and birds, which Papa hunted with a rifle he borrowed from a neighbor. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

A fireman, a neighbor, some German soldier hunting food? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When he graduated from law school in 1978, he had hoped to get a job in neighboring Midland instead of Odessa. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever he got close to finding the jar, his dad would put on this Mexican mask a neighbor bought him and he would throw Mateo onto the couch for an epic fight. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But when Mother set out from the village on foot she’d asked some of our neighbors which way led to Léopoldville and they’d all agreed, upstream was the best. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew he should be trying to win over the Beiderman, but how would the upstairs neighbor even know that it was him writing the note anyway? The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“You tell them what a bad neighbor Ray’s being.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then, one day not long after Ken and Toby returned to the land of Egypt, a neighbor’s cat got into the Chungs’ apartment and killed Petey the parakeet—the only pet Elizabeth had ever owned. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Official propaganda films like He May Be a Communist warned Americans that their neighbors might have thrown in their lot with the Reds. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

We realized that now our neighbors knew, now the whole Dallas-Fort Worth area knew. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He recognized one of his uncle’s neighbors, a man who had grown up with Jack’s mother and his uncle. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was about to finish off the rest of the house when Aureliano asked the neighbors for help. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Grace and Wayne will be along, too,” she continued, ticking our neighbors off on her fingers. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Knowing that was 80 percent of surviving with Steve as your neighbor. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Or hear my neighbors mourning what they lost. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Some of his neighbors, traditional live- stockers, didn’t like him much, but he was the prototype of the new breed of western man. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Following Mom’s instructions, I went to a telephone kiosk a few blocks from our alley so the neighbors would not overhear me asking about Dad. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Darin’s eyes were sharp as a cat’s, I was always the one stuck stealing apricots from the neighbors, or pouring cold water down the back of Nan’s shirt. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

They decided to do a thorough check of Uptown, to see if any neighbors were left, if any help was needed. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She put small wooden chairs in the living room and established a nursery with other children from neighboring families. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I’ve wrecked the boat, I’m nowhere near Zimbabwe, and my only neighbor is a big, hungry crocodile.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took my buckets to the fountain, headed to the end of the line, and joined my neighbors in their fight. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m a neighbor. I found out about her, and I started coming over, when I could.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You can just see what a wonderful mother she is,” one of the McCulloughs’ neighbors said a few minutes later. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Their next-door neighbors are there, too, mostly because Mark and Linda were afraid that they would call the police because of all the noise, but they seem to be having a great time. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They explained to the neighbors that they were raising money for Tommy Segovia and his mom, Zelda, to come home because Tommy’s new stepfather had deserted his family in New York. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The settlers were largely Protestant, as compared to their Mormon neighbors. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

As the Model T bumped down Eagle Rock Way, heads popped out of the windows of neighboring houses, dogs raced into the woods with their tails between their legs, and babies started to scream. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother liked to take the phone out to the verandah, to make sure the neighbors overheard: “Ifem, how is the weather in America?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was probably a neighbor, waiting to pick someone up, and driving around the block while he waited. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had to walk down the road a ways to get to our nearest neighbor, but if somebody got sick, or was in need of a hand, folks were there to help ’fore you knew it. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Nearly a dozen of their neighbors were shot and killed after being caught in the crossfire of gun violence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She pulled herself onto the railing and leapt soundlessly to the neighboring balcony, then the next, tracking Kaz and the others around the square, staying as close as she could. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Mama Santoni got first prize. She was my neighbor and often brought over some bread or pastry for me to sample. She said she needed a mans opinion.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

From the neighboring field across the creek he could hear the shouted commands to the plow horses as Matt Creighton and his two older sons got on with the spring plowing. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had grown up with the Ten Commandments— including “Thou shalt not bear false witness”—and with the injunction to love your neighbor as yourself. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their numb families mourned in silence, with pots of stew and nourishing foods heaped into their kitchens, while the comforting arms of neighbors circled around them to ease their bereavement. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

That sound attracted the attention of its neighbors, and a whisper began to spread throughout the chamber, a moving wave of voices that Kaede realized, with a sinking feeling, she had heard before. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He lived out there, eight miles from any neighbor, in masculine solitude in what might be called the halfacre gunroom of a baronial splendor. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our neighbors in room 205 are awake, and they are watching an action film with car chase scenes. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Early in 1938, Germany merged with its neighbor, Austria, to form a bigger and stronger state called “Greater Germany.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“But these are bad times when one wishes all one’s troubles on one’s neighbors.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when they heard the first radio announcement he simply said, “Excellent, excellent,” and later he watched the dancing neighbors with a blank expression. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And yet to a casual observer, the Gangulis, apart from the name on their mailbox, apart from the issues of India Abroad and Sangbad Bichitra that are delivered there, appear no different from their neighbors. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Chattana had always been isolated from its neighbors, but the destruction was so great that no one could have helped them anyway. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Must be nice. My mom might work all the time but she’s got the neighbors trained to keep an eye on me. Whenever I sneak out I know she’ll hear about it.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The neighbor lady won’t check the closets, you tell yourself, but your body is a statue just in case. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The Clock Watchers looked left, then right, measuring the reaction of their neighbors. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Our downstairs neighbor comes out, her two kids hanging tight to her. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Michaelis was astonished; they had been neighbors for four years and Wilson had never seemed faintly capable of such a statement. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The gunshots woke everyone, and I joined my uncle and neighbors on the verandah. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t make it across the street or to a neighbor’s house. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The Stoeckleins and their three children lived in a house not a hundred yards from the main house; except for them, the Clutters had no neighbors within half a mile. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the second stop, they heard the grateful cries of their neighbors as they were led from the other boxcar. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran into the hallway and called a neighbor. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

One was talking to what I assumed was a neighbor. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

On that Thursday the elders of the society assembled to consider something extraordinary: Would they use their association members and their skills to help their struggling white neighbors? An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

We sank in our seats, laughed until tears rolled down our cheeks, and, more important, until we were sure the neighbors weren’t watching anymore. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The distances between islands of the Tongan archipelago, as well as the distances between Tonga and neighboring archipelagoes, were sufficiently modest that a multi-island empire encompassing 40,000 people was eventually established. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But teachers said nothing about North Korea’s geography, its neighbors, its history, or its leaders. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The icicles hanging off the neighbor’s roof have gotten even bigger in the last few days. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

My neighbor and friend Terri Johnson had gotten in, and so had my classmate Chiaka, whom I’d known and been in friendly competition with since kindergarten, as well as one or two boys. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And there is no better way to prove to God and neighbor that you were there, that you are there, that you are human, than to build. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Then, since I just happened to be in the neighbor- hood, I stopped by the Oaken Oar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"Are you a fool? Do you want the neighbors to hear?" The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

They told her not to trust her weird neighbor, Mr. Rice, who the police carted off to jail. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

As neighbors and family members clapped him on the back or tossed strings of flowers around his neck, Neel glanced at the sundari trees. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

But maybe they’d have done nothing, or acted like our neighbors and schoolmates, who did worse than nothing. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

At first the neighbors stayed in the street, a safe distance from the house. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The neighbors would see him water- falling down High Street, carried by the momentum of his speed, and they’d cry out, “Going for the Olympics, Goob?” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was dragged fighting and protesting downwind and forced against a neighboring pier, and we could hear her hull crying against the oaken piles. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

At twilight the sky turns a pale but intense blue, and the trees on the lawn and the shapes of the neighboring houses become silhouettes, solidly black. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

"She had a kid when she was in ninth grade and sold it to a neighbor." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

A neighbor knocked on the door and came in with a plastic container of aku, anara leaves, and red peppers. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’d slide this awful story off my shoulders, flatten it, sketch out our crimes like a failed battle plan and shake it in the faces of my neighbors, who are wary of me already. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grocer showed up, and the postmaster, and the principal of the village school, and the neighbor, Abu Mahmoud, who grew famous green beans, and all of their wives and babies and teenagers and cats. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Here’s why I ran the number: Scott Pierce, Gonzaga’s neighbor, reported just now that his Windsurfer was stolen, along with his boat. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

For every man’s a sinner, And he wants his neighbor’s grain. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Folks informed on business rivals, ancient nemeses, and neighbors, recounting old conversations where the traitors had uttered forbidden sympathies. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Our street was a quiet one, with respectful neighbors who were friendly, attentive, and churchgoing on Sundays. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The houses on our street were all very close together, but none of our neighbors came over and introduced themselves. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But you could hear, if you and your neighbor got in the corners of the cages nearest each other and spoke out through the wire front. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Young John Garrett, back from an errand at a neighboring farm, reported that the U.S. government was offering a $140,000 reward for Abraham Lincoln’s assassin. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My family and neighbors never challenged the status quo. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I yelled, but they were driving off so fast, I had to cut across the neighbors’ lawns and through their backyards to keep up with them. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I see a few people out walking their dogs or talking to neighbors, and even one guy starting to put up his Christmas decorations. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

She reasserted herself as the power broker among the leaders of the neighboring states, forging alliances and drawing up agreements. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Mudd introduced Booth to a neighbor, who sold Booth a peculiar one-eyed horse. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We talk about how Rabia’s neighbors all have Christmas lights strung on their houses in the most intense competition she’s ever seen. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

We believe this to be the fate of another one of our neighbors, the Sarrin family. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We quickly realized the footsteps were those of a stream of people from neighboring villages fleeing their homes. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He peeked into the living room and saw that it was their neighbor Fannie. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even now that she knew for certain, she cared for her neighbors all the same. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

These wiggling atoms bump into one another, getting their neighbors to wiggle as well. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“The police were called to a house party because neighbors complained about loud music. The cops are saying when they came to break up the party, she was insubordinate.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Knowledge can be a very powerful and, for some, frightening thing, Kyle. Especially when it’s shared with the whole world, including your neighbors.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Baachan also obtained a little seaweed from a neighbor, as well as what looked like about a hundred tiny sesame seeds. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“This war’s making folks forget what it means to be neighbors.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I choose my doll, once lent to a neighbor who left it outside, where mice bit her left cheek and right thumb. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

A dozen or more loons from all the neighboring ponds fly in, and they all swim around together for a couple of hours for no discernible reason other than the pleasure of being together. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, he sometimes envied his neighbors whatever it was some of them still possessed—call it cultural integrity—that he had mostly turned his back on by accepting the sheriff s job. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered Daddy saying our neighbor was a member of the segregationist Capital Citizens Council. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Keep your voice down, Anthony,” I say, “the neighbors are probably sleeping.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes a neighbor would stop by and bring us food or money. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A neighbor was boiling corn, and once in a while, when the water frothed over, the stove fire hissed. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Kino and Juana strode side by side through the stone and plaster city and down among the brush houses, and the neighbors stood back and let them pass. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her parents, Sicilians lately come over from the other side, had shut up the girl in a dark room so that the neighbors could not see her shame increase. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Delphine. What do you mean by this noise? Waking up the neighbors. Lord, here he comes.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

When the volunteers ran up, pulling their hose cart, there was nothing for them to do but wet down the roofs of the neighboring houses to keep them from catching fire. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Because we don’t want to disturb the neighbors,” Dad says. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Leo looks like a neighbor man who remembers every kid’s birthday and dresses up like Santa for the Salvation Army. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

And then there are some neighbors I haven’t met before, or have only seen around the building a few times. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I finally remembered that my neighbor was called Jessica, a perfectly common name. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

"Yeah, it's her hobby. We don't even eat them. She just likes to make them and then give them away to our neighbors. I like cupcakes better. What's your dad's favorite recipe?" Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“When it comes down to survival you don’t have neighbors!” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Some of the neighbors hurried out to spit and aim stones and jeer at the backs of the women. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Reach an accommodation with our neighbors and, most of all, stop activities that will force their wrath upon us. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Friends, neighbors, and cousins of cousins also regularly turned up on Euclid Avenue and planted themselves in the living room next to my father in his recliner to tell stories and ask for advice. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s a good place. But you could have better neighbors.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Beyond that was the yard of Mrs. Wheeler, our neighbor from the next street over. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And why are you fighting with the rebels on the rooftops? With Lyme, who was your victor? With people who were your neighbors, maybe even your family?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Since she moved into her mother’s hut, Enrique has rung at the neighbor’s house only five times. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Ferula’s neighbors had gathered in the doorway to discuss the news of her death. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many neurons have thousands of connections with their neighbors. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the neighbors would feed us or a dollar bill would come in the mail from my grandmother. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you have all these weapons, why did you take our knife that day you came to glean my neighbor?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

As a result the region for most of its history was a jumble of small- and medium-scale cultures, isolated from all but their neighbors. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Your neighbor’s a millionaire, and he’s not smart enough to keep his boat in shape?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He complained to her about work, the kids, the food, the noise, the neighbors. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

But I’ve made it clear that eating your neighbors will not be allowed while I’m in charge. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

After three years in our desert ghetto, at least we knew where we stood with our neighbors, could live more or less at ease with them. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama and Tidings and I cut flowers so Mama could fill orders in her shop from all the neighbors who had called to send bouquets. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The neighbors came and got her as soon as I got out of bed. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides the cards, there was a ton of flowers and balloons that came in everyday, from neighbors and friends. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Valencia was a striking, tightly wound Colombian woman with a closetful of short skirts and a singular talent for appalling her neighbors. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Surrounded by their admiring neighbors, they reenacted the more dramatic moments of the afternoon and speculated on how they might do things differently the next time. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He might grant a tour to a visitor, a distinguished neighbor or curious planter from another neck of the woods, but it was rare. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

When he drinks too much, he becomes overexcited and unpredictable, saying and doing things that scare his neighbors. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Sky Witness may have thought that Mutal was becoming a dangerous neighbor and decided to take preemptive action. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Helen once found a burglar hiding beneath her bed in a rental place, but the neighbors didn’t respond to her screams because they assumed that screaming was the normal mode of discourse for racetrackers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an all-around curious way of doing business, but Momma was rich enough that the neighbors didn’t say much. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Eventually she acquired enough vocabulary to be able to shop and to talk with the neighbors. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The neighbor found him in his barn the following morning and made a deal with the farmer to trade Dutchy for a pig. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Ms. Rochambeau pulls the neighboring student desk over and sits down in it. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

We can do with all the neighbors we can get. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

No wonder the neighbor women frowned in our doorway when we pulled out the linings of our pockets as evidence of our poverty. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They look like regal queens but also like my next-door neighbors. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Outside her window, Sierra could just make out the dim haze of the neighbors’ backyard lights. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She constantly called out neighbors on overgrown grass, inappropriate paint colors, and too bright Christmas lights. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

"The Nazis tell us what to think, what to feel. They tell us to hate and we call it love. They tell us to denounce our neighbors and we call it patriotism." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I am terrified, especially at the beginning, of being recognized by some friendly business owner or erstwhile neighbor and having to stammer out some explanation of my project. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The neighbors might notice the smoke and report us.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Been here months now, and we still only know one neighbor by name. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Foreign bootlegging of minerals is so thorough that our neighbor the French Congo, without a single diamond mine in its borders, is the world’s fifth-largest exporter of diamonds. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t hear all the neighbors yelling and screaming at each other like you do!” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Some of them were trophies for their parents to show the neighbors like ribbons or gold stars. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The neighbor lady who had driven me to the hospital was surprised that I didn’t run in the opposite direction from any fire I saw. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The smoking zone passed under the highway and fanned out through a neighboring woodland and up towards St. Ignatius Catholic Church on a knoll above the town. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve never been in any of my neighbors’ houses, but I pack my smile with cheerful innocence, and the policeman grins back. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“She belonged to an old Khazar family. They escaped the old tsar’s slaughter. Fled north, like yer babushka. They had neighbors who...” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Panting heavily, his jaw bruised and his leg bleeding, the agent crawled toward the beauty queen and smeared her mouth with the Mind’s Flower fruit, torn from a neighboring plant. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I climb a neighboring tree and leap precariously into the maple, almost losing my hold on the slick bark. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I could hardly leave in the clothes I came in — what would the neighbors think?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, neighbor, I’ll let you be about your business. See you over to the homestead!” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

And the Soviet Union, Germany’s geographic neighbor, was very worried about it. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

My aunt Geneva's sister was Vanna White's neighbor and arranged the meet and greet. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Later we saw a new loquat tree most similar to ours in a Chinese neighbor’s yard. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The neighbors were horrified when they watched her skipping rope on the street with other children, heedless of the yet-to-be-born baby who was now an almost unwieldy bulge. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted a name from the Bible, and also Martha was the name of an old neighbor. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My preserve is a secret. I have all the necessary licenses, but if my neighbors complained, those could be revoked. You must not tell a soul, not even your parents.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I bet the neighbors wondered what the Weird Watsons were doing this time. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father had paid human traffickers twenty thousand dollars, the family’s entire savings, to get them out of Afghanistan into neighboring Pakistan. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

And then she touched his cheek and he fell down in an enchanted sleep and did not awaken until his neighbor discovered him. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A neighbor had called the fire brigade, and the sirens were on their way. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I crept from bed and found the neighbor’s house empty. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward, we trooped to the neighbors’ flat on the topmost floor and stood on their verandah, to see if we could catch a breeze. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Through the window, I see the homeless man offering a baklava to his neighbor. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The neighbors might have been the ones to reveal the family's secret hiding place. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I, too, have had a chance to share my bounty with my neighbors. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Guards escorted me to a small room filled with Bobby Cherrys family members, neighbors, and friends. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

No neighbors ever appeared at the door to bring us up-to-date. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want my neighbors to be surprised or worried when I’m not answering.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I should have come to call on my neighbors,” he said quietly. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The new house was taller than it was wide, as if it held its breath to squeeze between the neighboring homes. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes a neighbor sent word that the family was coming to spend the day. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It breaks his heart that his neighbors have ganged up on him. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When momma had me grab the Bible after dessert to read a few passages to the neighbors, the major's simmering temper exploded. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The neighbors found out about Gussie and discussed his pathological state in hushed whispers. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He yelled something, loud enough that his next-door neighbors opened their curtains to see what was happening. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She squints at me through the screen, and then opens it because we’re in the country and this is Indiana and there is nothing to fear from our neighbors. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The owner of the adjoining pasture, his conapt neighbor Bill Barbour, hailed him; he, like Rick, had dressed for work but had stopped off on the way to check his animal, too. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“It sounds really nice. You probably know your neighbors, huh? And you get to go to school with all the same people.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I remember best going with the younger daughter, Helga, to visit the neighboring farms, eating thick, dark bread in farmhouse kitchens, and learning to wear clogs. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

A neighbor down the road had a mean goose and hogs, whose manure Mother toted home daily like a good African in two balanced bushel pails. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he overslept often and several times the fire went out and someone had to be sent to the neighbor’s for live coals. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

When Jorge’s corn was done, it would be his turn to help his neighbor. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several neighbors rode by and saw my “progress.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

"I heard the German army isn't doing well in Stalingrad," I say, quietly so the neighbors won't hear, my contribution to this awkward dialogue. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

There are lights on in my neighbors’ apartments. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

One of my neighbors, Mrs. Carmella Jobson, taught the course, and I loved going into her class to cook and bake things. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“That’s loving our neighbor better than ourselves, and I like it,” said Meg, as they set out their presents while their mother was upstairs collecting clothes for the poor Hummels. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

My paternal grandfather was known as Jacob the blacksmith, and our neighbor was Lansman the tailor. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

It tumbles down and clatters against its neighbors. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was like wind rushed through a noisy tree in fall, every leaf muttering something to its neighbor. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The Ungers were my neighbors on the other side, though their house was at least a hundred yards away from mine on Overlook Road, which put it close to two hundred yards from Charlie’s house. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The British have brought our neighbors here for a visit. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There are two workers on my roof, right over the bunker in the attic, and a little crowd of neighbors in the yard, watching the spectacle. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Excited to live in a place of their own, the family loaded their belongings—including a horse named Mack—into the back of a neighbor’s catde truck and pushed off for Alabama’s capital city. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Of not being able to trust your neighbor or the girl who brings you eggs. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I heard about them in histology, neurology, pathology; I used them in experiments on how neighboring cells communicate. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Celia watches, dispirited, as her neighbors file out of the auditorium, already merrily expectant for next month’s “love motel” case. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyrell hung out at Finn’s house so much that a neighbor had asked once if they were twins—even though Tyrell was black and Finn was white. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Sweet and low so neighbors wouldn’t report them to Ms. Byrd, or to the police for disturbing the peace. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The neighbors peek out the window through closed curtains and keep to themselves. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Würzburg isn't a big town; somehow they must remember that we're their neighbors. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The musicians fiddled, tooted, and banged as if they enjoyed it, everybody danced who could, and those who couldn’t admired their neighbors with uncommon warmth. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to a note we left for Mr. Goldschmidt, she was to be taken to the neighbors, who would give her a good home. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

And there were the timid children of the neighbors, boys and girls to whom my brother and I felt superior in worldly knowledge. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because now the sun is out and there are little nubby buds on the trees and your neighbors have taken off their heavy coats. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The farmer had been in his cups, moaning about how his and his neighbors’ cane fields had been flooded. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He reminded me that they hadn’t known their neighbors in Idaho either. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The SS man I saw going in the front. I wouldn’t want him for a neighbor.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“A neighbor. A Japan man. He lives alone. I do not know him.” Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The grumpy old farmer who lived there was their only neighbor. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“From men who live with demons for their neighbors? Even the best dog will bite that has been kicked enough.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Lyddie didn’t care one way or the other about the neighbors’ radical ideas and peculiar ways, she minded mightily being beholden. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

They ran a full hundred yards and ducked into a neighbor’s backyard, where a frozen dog barked at them. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He nodded to neighbors as he passed them, and waved to some he saw farther along. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I wish that in Limerick they only knew The kind kind neighbors I came unto. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Thanks for the invite, neighbor,” he calls over his shoulder. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

At home, we would occasionally get a knock on the door from a neighbor, and my father would step outside to talk, then drive off to bail someone out of jail. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The breeze she gets on rainy evenings charms her, and she’s taken a liking to her neighbor’s cat, Chloe, that wanders the halls and is scared of mice. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Some sweet oranges a neighbor sent over yesterday,” she said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There would be trucks, the neighbor women said. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Traft Martin, a neighbor, asked to take me to church, but I declined. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“We have to go ask our neighbors for help.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

This is what Manman had done for our neighbors who survived the big earthquake. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Hopefully the rest of our neighbors will agree to come help, too. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He has the volume up so loud, I am sure the neighbors can hear. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Not even when behind his back all his neighbors spread the terrible rumor that anyone with even one droplet of Wispy Whiskers’ blood was forever cursed by the gods. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

He noisily, laboriously drags an entire bench from a neighboring table over to the children's. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

In fact, I don’t even borrow sugar from my neighbors. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“All those neighbors will look out their windows and kick themselves when they realize they slighted the head of the northern SIM!” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t want to flaunt our electricity to the neighbors any more than we already have,” Kelton’s mother says too calmly. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was probably still mad because the neighbor’s cat had snuck up on him and stolen two of his tail feathers. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The King of Abomey was just delighted to find out he could trade fifteen of his former neighbors for one good Portuguese cannon. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wait for her!” one of the neighbors said. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Others dropped to their knees in wonder, and a few joined the crowd and embraced their neighbors. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Lavender Brown, Harry noticed, glared at Hermione from a neighboring table through very red eyes, and Hermione immediately let go of Ron’s arm. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I’ve said that my mother was the one who whipped me—at least she did whenever she wasn’t ashamed to let the neighbors think she was killing me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door to the roof opens and a neighbor emerges, the oldest of the three Bengali wives in the building. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I raced home and found my mother hanging clothes to dry on the wires strung between our house and our neighbors. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Ruth May had the bizarre idea that our neighbors desired to eat her. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old friends of the family and close neighbors are included here, too, so that’s where Dad and I end up. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Porches fill up with curious neighbors who’ve come outside to see what all the commotion is about. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Some of our neighbors would come, and Papa would smoke cigars or his pipe with the other men outside on the veranda. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He got there just in time to see the fire taking hold of his neighbor’s shed and fence, while the breeze blew a rain fire on his property. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Emily snapped back inside, fearing Ms. Lee would pop out and yell at her about touching the neighbor’s building. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Helping one’s neighbor is a value that exists.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Devastated people were scattered across the fields, our friends, neighbors, and relatives, facing unthinkable grief. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Then one of our neighbors in the back of the van started shouting, “I’m not a soldier! I’m not a soldier!” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In the hall, outside the apartment door, was a lavatory we shared with our neighbors—a childless German couple called the Schatzmans, the landlord told us. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

At home, I would borrow a burning twist of paper from a neighbor when all the fires in the house were cold. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or had one of us, one of his neighbors, gone to the Gestapo and sold eight lives? The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I knew that a black neighbor of mine was stealing bags of grain from a wholesale house where he worked, though he was a stanch deacon in his church and prayed and sang on Sundays. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I only have one page left, and I position myself at the window so I can use the neighbor’s porch light. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

There he coined the term physical education and took his appalled young charges on brisk rambles of thirty-five or forty miles over the neighboring mountains. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I memorized the separate sounds that she had uttered and went to the neighboring store. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the neighbors must have called the police, because two cruisers had pulled up, flashing their red and blue lights. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Her keening was so loud and continuous that Fish worried the neighbors were going to think he was harming her and call the police. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt boxed in by the town and by neighbors who didn’t approve of her. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

We cheered, the boys and Anatole and our neighbors all jumping and screaming in our yard, when the radio said the planes had come into Luanda. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some chatted with neighbors, some looked up at the gilt ceiling, some studied the pattern of the Oriental rug. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The neighbors wouldn’t say what the trouble was. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and Uncle Antonio would go to Mass the next morning with their neighbors, who would honor their own dead. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“For are we not all neighbors and friends? Are we not all brothers and sisters in God’s eye? Are we not ...” “All will be taken care of,” said the Nazi colonel, interrupting smoothly. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

For drinking water, sometimes Mom managed to get a jug of tap water from neighbors, or I would be dispatched to sit beneath a leaking pipe connected to another home. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We lived once again in married student housing, a plywood apartment complex set among pine trees, and the singular topic of conversation among our young neighbors was the inadequacy of these rattletrap tenements. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I will never give my neighbor Perilee any competition in the baking department, my cooking is downright edible. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

When a neighbor in the brick house up the hill calls down that Enrique is on the line, Maria Isabel sprints over. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Some neighbor girls in the old mill village had played with those same grass dolls. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ridgeway was in the vicinity to visit a neighboring planter, offering as proof of capture the heads of two runaways in a leather sack. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

As we were not permitted to bend down, we took out our spoons and ate the snow off our neighbors’ backs. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

At times of famine, a single blepharisma will begin eating its neighbors; it then enlarges to an immense size and turns into a cannibalistic giant, straight out of any Norse fable. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the hood, gangsters were your friends and neighbors. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Then, Hanako had leaned against her family, thinking not about them or where they were going but about her cat, Sadie, whom they would be leaving with a neighbor. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She and her neighbors thought the whole thing very odd. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

After a seizure, I usually need to sleep for twelve hours or so, just to give my atoms a chance to settle in and hold hands again like good neighbors. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

All the while, neighbors and relatives popped in to say hello to the younger Obamas and to congratulate us on our engagement. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We went swimming in the river, and we helped Yar with easy chores, such as sweeping our compound or collecting fire for cooking from a neighbor. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get to my door right as Ty is headed from our neighbors to us. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She saved for things she wanted, and this meant that the neighbors had new gadgets as much as two years before we did. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He glanced over at Daddy, but he was engaged in a conversation with a neighbor and wasn’t listening to us. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They must have been hearing all the neighbors outside and that man getting ready to drill right above their heads. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Let’s just say there’s not a thing you can’t find on the Net, and I’ve made it a point to know my neighbors.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

My feelings became divided; in spite of myself I would dream of a locked cupboard in a near-by neighbor’s house where a gun was kept. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The neighbor was too terrified to press charges and fled the county. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I looked back at Zed, who had been studying me with the same look that I see in the neighbor’s cat’s eyes when she watches baby birds learning to fly. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I took a stick and drew lines on the ground from my sleeping place to the spring where I had met my new neighbor, the snake. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She would borrow a lawn mower from a neighbor, and she and Terryl and Michael would groom the front yard. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

His parents lived just down the road, and he had read that I was at the neighboring university in the Alumni Bulletin. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

But it was cooler here than in the smoke-filled kitchen, where three neighbors were cooking at the same time. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“When the neighbor arrived back home,” I continue, “she snuck to the house of los Viejos at night and dumped the jar of atrocious bugs into their kitchen window.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Still, the little parrot hopping around on the neighbor lady’s shoulder and burrowing its beak into its feathers is pretty cute. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

An almost naked Indian was very slowly climbing down the ladder from the first-floor terrace of a neighboring house—rung after rung, with the tremulous caution of extreme old age. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a few of the neighbors stood by Mami—Doña Ana, whose daughter watched us, Doña Zena, whose Christian beliefs didn’t allow for envy, and Doña Lola, who valued everyone equally. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Pretending to be the Old Hermit of the Szythian Mountains, a man with missing teeth exclaimed over the exquisite footwear of his neighbors and fluttered his fingers along their buckles and aglets. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

People are in the street, too, kids from the party, kids trembling in their swimsuits wet from the hot tub, neighbors coming from their houses. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In their panic, the healthy fled from the sick, carrying the disease with them to neighboring communities. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

If it looked like I was stalling, the neighbors would snitch, and she'd jump down my throat and tack on another week for lollygagging. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Good. My neighbor said you would do a good job.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At a recent reading the daughter gave after her long silence, the mother's neighbor was the daughter's lover. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s more of a feeling. My family’s from a part of the world that people associate with spices. It’s a whole stereotype. Someday I’ll tell you about my neighbor Mrs. Miles.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The gun in the neighbor’s house came to my mind, and the cans of fruit preserves in the storehouse of the college. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was pretty quiet except for a sudden burst of canned laughter from the neighbor’s TV and the occasional buzzing from an annoying mosquito. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Even Miss Anderson is too busy with her own wine glass to see that her neighbor is panting, laboring under the change his body is going through. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

And it was nice to be with our neighbors and friends, drinking lemonade and talking and singing along with my parents. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Dad honked the horn impatiently, something he never does since it’s rude to the neighbors so early in the morning. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then the sludge was scooped up and poured through a sieve into a neighboring pit. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The only neighbors were family members living in other trailers. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

After several relatively peaceful years, J. T.’s gang got involved in a turf war with a neighboring gang. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He annexed neighboring Austria in 1938, then demanded a huge region of Czechoslovakia. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another neighbor says a migrant hugged and tried to kiss one of her twin daughters. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I go get onion from neighbor,” Jiichan said, his face lighting up. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Each sentry could reach his neighbor in a matter of moments; and the appropriate stamping signal—for they had more than one—would bring out the officers and the reserves. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I arrived in my neighbor’s kitchen, my backpack slung over my shoulder, ready to test my theory that music could fix Dad’s mood. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I was in charge of the younger kids, having been told to stay in the yard and out of the house until Doña Ana, our next-door neighbor, came to get us. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

At dinner he is asked by his neighbor, a middle-aged woman named Pamela, at what age he moved to America from India. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Neither did I get to witness a military coup in which forces sympathetic to the colonel arrived late at night to assassinate my next-door neighbor. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Bella was unfazed and, in fact, began to sing the theme from Mr Rogers’ Neighborhood: It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood, A beautiful day for a neighbor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were our neighbors with whom we shared the outhouse and garbage cans and the only ones at the ranch who had a phone. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

It started as a self-defense practice used by the wise men and women who lived on the neighboring mountaintops. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Doctors’ families do tend to complain that they receive less medical attention than their friends and neighbors, but they seem a normal, generally healthy lot, with a remarkably low incidence of iatrogenic illness. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Berkeley, he moved into the Faculty Club, a haven for bachelors where Ernest Lawrence—at twenty-eight, Oppenheimer’s senior by nearly three years— was his neighbor. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She never cared to socialize with our neighbors. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The seriousness of what had happened was that if word of their daughter’s powers reached beyond the walls of the house and the priest began his own investigation, all their neighbors would find out. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Poles who had pillaged our neighbors' apartment had tipped them off, telling them that we were Jews and that my father had refused to hand over the key. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe it belonged to a neighbor or maybe it was just a stray. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Bloom was afraid of these neighbors, feeling simultaneously superior and less of a man. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he plucked his hard thumbs out of his neighbor’s throat. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then Juan Tomas told among the neighbors, “Kino is gone. If he went to the sea, he is drowned by now.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Running into a neighbor’s clothesline saved his life. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“For Alice. And don’t tell the neighbors what we have. If they ask, say an old friend sent books to your master.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Our neighbors are equally terrified of Mobutu’s soldiers and their opposition, the Simbas, whose reputation is stalking northern Congo like a lion itself. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, car horns honked, the front door swung open, and neighbors gushed into the house. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

If the nosy neighbor weren't here, Mrs. de Vries would insist on inspecting the contents of the parcel. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And I still don’t know our neighbors or relatives well enough to attempt to chat about the goings-on in our village. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a second-floor walk-up office in the neighboring town of Bristol. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

But as the screaming continued, neighbors started gathering on the street. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

The beggars went back to the church steps, the stragglers moved off, and the neighbors departed so that the public shaming of Kino would not be in their eyes. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The neighbors didn’t seem to know each other. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Our neighbor Mr. Sera was cutting yellow roses from his garden. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

My neighbors will turn me away, fearing for their own lives. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Remarkably, even in communities devastated by mass incarceration, many people struggling to cope with the stigma of imprisonment have no idea that their neighbors are struggling with the same grief, shame, and isolation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She just disappeared, not even telling her neighbors that she’d left. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the inevitable chain of cause and effect, as soon as the first black family had moved onto the block, the white neighbors immediately put their houses up for sale. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Hagrid, who was invited to the wedding the following day, but was far too bulky to sleep in the overstretched Burrow, left to set up a tent for himself in a neighboring field. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Mr. Smiley got on his phone to notify the neighbors, and soon enough a crowd of happy friends arrived at the Vanderbeekers’ doorstep to celebrate. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But I do wonder, as he does, what harm it is for our neighbors to worship God in their native language. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I walk outside to dump the water and wave at my neighbor, who’s boiling peanuts in a hubcap. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The garden could only be reached through a dark, covered alley, which at first glance looked like little more than a black hole between the Casa Spavento and the neighboring house. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sheed was hiding, or maybe stuck, or maybe tossed in the neighbor’s pool. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mao offered moral support and—more important—the promise of military backing to his North Korean neighbors. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I watched the Katrina coverage with a knot in my stomach, knowing that if a disaster hit Chicago, many of my aunts and uncles, cousins and neighbors, would have suffered a similar fate. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In Sequim your butcher might also be the volunteer firefighter who saved your house or barn, as well as the neighbor who helped you rebuild it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Aloof and—if books could act that way—a little judgmental of its neighbors. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She spotted A. C. James, her across-the-street neighbor who had come to lend support. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

As conditions worsened, allies from neighboring kingdoms left to join Octavian’s side. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

When I was in school, we had to memorize this little rhyme: Use i before e, except after c, Or when sounded like a, As in neighbor and weigh. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went to the Chinese shopkeeper in a neighboring town. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Mom said she was thinking of baking some bread if a neighbor would loan us some flour. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A neighbor had given us the table, and our uncle had given us the chairs. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Scanning through the h’s, I find no Henkles listed in town, or in the neighboring towns. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

One of the neighbor girls down the street saw him and came over and stood as close to him as she dared. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I want him to be our neighbor,” declared Laney. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Our neighbors seemed fairly indifferent to our reduced circumstances, as they were occupied with their own. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the scythe moved to the door, the knife still in his hand, leaving no question as to the method of their neighbor’s gleaning. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

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

Almost all of their neighbors, and even some of the white folks, came at one time or another to complain of Gabriel’s wrongdoing. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

If Helmuth were a detective, he'd arrest real criminals, not the ordinary men and women who criticize Hitler or the Nazi Party and find themselves denounced by friends and neighbors. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I could already hear the chatter of my neighbors before I stepped inside the produce store owned by Hafsa's family. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When I was twelve, and could handle a horse as well as a plumbago pencil, the doctor set me off to neighboring parishes each Sabbath to copy other rectors' sermons. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

A “horizontal desire,” coveting a neighbor’s goods, has been replaced by a “vertical desire,” coveting the goods of the rich and the powerful seen on television, Schor said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I stayed outside with the collection of neighbors who had come to see what was going on. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Nearly every kid there that day had lost someone—a friend, relative, neighbor—to a bullet. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"But you see I'm just on my way to bed for a good day's sleep. Hullo, neighbor!" The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The wife insists we keep out of her neighbors’ eyes. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Detective Geyer, now galvanized, told Ryves to meet him in front of the neighboring house in exactly one hour; then he and Cuddy sped to the home of the realtor who had arranged the rental. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When I was nine years old, our neighbor Mrs. Miles told everyone she was moving away because she couldn’t stand the smell of curry at all hours of the day. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The neighbors were tumbling from their houses now, and they watched the falling sparks and stamped them out to save their own houses. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of our neighbors in the village is a widowed mother of three. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their mothers were neighbors and were pregnant at the same time, so the two of them met while they were still in their mothers’ bellies. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The only time I went soft at all was right at the end, when the Pastor asked the mourners to offer comfort to their neighbors. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

A student who was a neighbor of Sasha’s had heard they were in the hospital, but didn’t know why. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

To boot, our nearest neighbor was an older man without any kids or kids’ games. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Never-Ending Mountain? The Old Man of the Moon? Changing your fortune?” the neighbors said. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Some neighbors had simply closed their doors, while others had given them as much as they could manage. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

When neighbors didn’t want me to birth their babies anymore. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Within East Asia, China’s head start in food production, technology, writing, and state formation had the consequence that Chinese innovations also contributed heavily to developments in neighboring regions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We know through knocking with our neighbor cell that our “serenades” really help raise the men’s spirits. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw a neighbor watching, but I didn’t care. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at my neighbor across the chessboard. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

As I run up the porch steps, he asks wearily, “Did you invite our new neighbors?” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a neighbor asked, we said the chicken was a gift from our uncle in Harare. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

None of the neighbors who answered their doors knew anything about the family, and they all had enough problems of their own without taking in the child. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually you get a cow and slaughter it and your neighbors come over and help you cook. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I walked past my neighbor, still staring out the window. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

For some time, neighbors kept finding bits and pieces of the boys. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

"The eldest children died in a fire," they say, the villagers of Burlington, the neighbors in Cambridge, the private-school parents of lower Manhattan, and the senior citizens of Boston. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I had old school friends and neighbors who came, people from Princeton, people from Whitney Young. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“We’ve never lived in a place like this. No neighbors. Just woods and fields and that scary old house. I don’t know if I’m going to like it or not.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

My neighbor in The Lords says it’s the Chinese. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow is trash day and our neighbors’ trash cans line the street. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

After Southside’s funeral, my mother’s enormous family piled into his snug little home, along with a smattering of friends and neighbors. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“All right now, Starr,” one of our neighbors calls out. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

We go now to assemble our neighbors in the order that the prophecy dictates. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Long ago, Gonzalez’s neighbor heard a migrant knock at his door. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The neighbors saw their return and all crowded around as if they were selling good luck. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“It was rabbit fever,” and the illness lasted many months, during which the family had depended upon church assistance and the charity of neighbors—“otherwise we would’ve starved.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is little in the way of small-town ties or big-city amenities—grandparents and cousins, longtime neighbors, vibrant boulevards, homegrown shops—that let roots sink in deep. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

What would have become of Holland and its neighbors if England had signed a peace treaty with Germany, as it’s had ample opportunity to do? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A steady flow of men and women from East Bengal—those who had sensed the early political convulsions before their neighbors—had already started to fill the low-rises and tenements near Sealdah station. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Upstairs, Ivy heard her and looked to see what caused the thick music that rocked her neighbor’s breasts. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The neighbors would not see too much if they took Ignatius away during the night. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ji-yong and Ji-yun huddled together at the bathroom door, while Mom and Dad went downstairs to bring his bicycle into the building before the neighbors could see it. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t lived there long, but the closeness of the homes allowed Wes to get to know the neighbors and their idiosyncrasies well. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

One of the accessories we had inherited from a neighbor was a little jail. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was nothing special, a riding mower like some of our neighbors had, except older and broken. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The Vanderbeeker home was filled to capacity with neighbors and friends, all swarming in to congratulate and celebrate. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

A thin curtain separates me from the moans of my new neighbor. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

So I ran to our front door, but there wasn’t nobody there but our neighbor Steve. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Eventually a vigilant and humble neighbor catches on. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She looked at the neighbors for confirmation, and they nodded their heads solemnly. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was placed in her care by some neighbor. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Each hamlet was involved in a kaleidoscopically changing pattern of war and shifting alliances with all neighboring hamlets, regardless of whether the neighbors were Foré or speakers of a different language. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"This Mr. Gatsby you spoke of is my neighbor----" I said. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Another way is to rent more farmland, maybe from your neighbor who has given up. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

A neighbor dropped me off after school to wait for Grandma to come home from work, so my birthday celebration could begin. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Crouching in the house of Juan Tomas, they heard the shock go into their neighbors’ minds at the news of the broken boat. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d gone to other farms at night, down to the marsh, even along the main road to the houses of a few neighbors. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

A neighbor’s boy had been sent for her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He attended high school in a neighboring town, but he was in my Sunday school class. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In wartime, that spy could be your neighbor. The chump sitting next to you at the pool hall or even at church.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

One of my neighbors plays baseball, although she is a chicken. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

And soon he’s going to be my neighbor. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Thomas realized that only that wall was moving, heading for its neighbor to the left, ready to seal shut with its protruding rods slipping into the drilled holes across from it. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

"We can telephone him now if you want. But I'm going to stand in this hallway until you let me in. I'll say hello to all your neighbors." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Go and wake the neighbors,” said my father. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

His exaggerated motions acted out the confusion shared by all but one of the heirs as they looked around at the stunned faces of their neighbors to confirm what they heard. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rarely stayed on the sidewalk, veering onto neighbors’ lawns to hurdle bushes. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

She asked her neighbor for help studying Greek, a subject most often studied by boys. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She says you wouldn’t want the neighbors to know what you have in the way of a wash but there’s nothing like the sweetness of clothes dried by the sun. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

We have nothing but bread and tea and she doesn’t want the tormenting neighbors to see us with our tongues hanging out, suffering over the lovely smells floating up and down the lane. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Flanked by his obeying friends, he walked the neighbor­hood like a Khan strolling through his land with his eager-to- please entourage. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Della Mae Justice stands before the jury in the Pike County Courthouse, arguing that her client’s land in Greasy Creek Hollow was illegally grabbed when the neighbors expanded their cemetery behind her home. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Most housewives, madam,” he said acidly, “would not bother with herbal trifles in their garden when there are mouths to feed and neighbors to look after. Why not grow something more substantial?” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Out on the decks, women cook food in clay ovens and converse loudly with their neighbors. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All his neighbors, though, were certain that it was a sign from heaven of his ill fortune. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

But in her case, neighbors had kept their distance, believing she was destined for an early death and anyone she touched would be forced to accompany her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice was too low for our neighbors across the table to hear. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Until one afternoon when she was playing catch with Taylor, who threw the ball high, too high, and it fell into the thicket near the neighbor s cherry tree. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Anything living that could abandon its home, some of our neighbors included, had migrated westward, in the direction from which we heard drums every night. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next thing you know, some nosy neighbor calls the grouper troopers and then, Houston, we’ve got a problem.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Before Norma: the arguments that weren’t about money or impressing the neighbors were about me—that I should be let alone instead of being pushed to do what other kids did. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“One time during war we run out of food and eat nothing but our neighbor onion for three week. I never like onion after that.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

With no children around and not much to do, this neighbor spends her time exploring other people's business. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Today, while events in neighboring South Africa command more of the world’s attention, Namibia as well is struggling to deal with its colonial past and establish a multiracial society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Mine, too. Of course, in the Overland, spinners are small, and we don’t call them our neighbors,” said Gregor. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The volume titled Silky Mischief, in which Rainbow’s gentle influence saves an ill-tempered pony on a neighboring farm from a gruesome fate, left an especially lasting impression. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Inevitably, as Mathew Carey realized, the fear in Philadelphia began to excite “the terror of the inhabitants of all neighboring states.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

But neighbors, friends, and family knew better than to protest, knowing and fearing that they would be next. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

They can unearth a piece of hot dog buried at the bottom of a neighbor’s trash can. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The neighbor lady stops at the old-fashioned kind of phone. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I remember once shortly after we were settled in Los Angeles, I tried to describe to a neighbor what it was like to be starving in the ghetto. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

When I got home I stood by our window and stared at our neighbor’s goldfish for the longest time. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Several neighbors reported the flyers to the police, who began an investigation. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Working telephones ring in the houses of neighbors. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But this war took place between people who were neighbors, whose homes adjoined, whose farms had common boundaries. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some neighbors watch curiously from their porches and yards. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Surrounded by grandparents and dozens of aunts and uncles and cousins, in a community where neighbors counted as family, pitching in when relatives couldn’t, Dorothy’s children’s lives would change very little. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

"Look at that," the grandmother says to the young man at her side, who is looking at the baby in the neighboring cradle. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

For as long as I can remember, our house had been full of people: neighbors, relatives, and friends of my father’s—and a never-ending stream of cousins, male and female. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

While I went about my usual tasks, she spent most of the day in the courtyard with Sass, so Sass could brag about Chandra’s good fortune to the neighbor women. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The policeman told us that some of the neighbors had reported seeing kids shooting guns at each other, and he wanted to know what had happened. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They held their breath and walked with care, and this made them who they were inside, constricted and small, good neighbors. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She is like Maddy’s parents, like our old neighbor who complained that our house smelled, like every person who makes my family feel like outsiders. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Across a low cement wall is the upper level of our neighbor’s apartment, whose glass doors also open onto the terrace. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Melita especially liked the sports, when the girls’ groups competed against neighboring girls’ leagues, playing games such as “capture the flag.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

There are a lot of angry noises coming from the hut of one of our neighbors. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our neighbor’s house, the massive Tudor, is dark and quiet. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Last month, after Esperanza’s mother found out about her crush on the neighbor’s son, she wouldn’t leave them alone together for two seconds. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had heard the neighbors talking about her; the story was that her parents had given her to a visiting army officer, as one would give kola nut to a guest. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He invited our new neighbors, and my father stood up during the ceremony and said, “I pray to the gods and ancestors that my family will always be together.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t never worked for this lady, but I had done gardening for her neighbors. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is easy to overlook, lying as it does in the shadow of a neighboring high-rise, which was then only a frame of reinforced concrete. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Mr. Bender said there isn’t a thing you can’t learn about your neighbors there. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

She looked familiar—perhaps our paths had crossed at the market or she was the relative of a neighbor or a friend. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

My parents didn’t own a telephone, so Mom rushed next door and asked the neighbors to call my father, Vince, home from work. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Chickens poisoned by aldrin used on a neighboring farm have passed on the chemical to their eggs; hens experimentally fed DDT laid eggs containing as much as 65 parts per million. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

As the cool breeze of night set in, neighboring families pulled up plastic lawn chairs to conduct “chair committee” and casually meander over the day’s events without rancor or argument or constant one- upmanship. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, it was her mother’s fault, to so eagerly tell the neighbors her mentor story. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“He’s had nary a word of human feelin’ fer what happened to that little girl, nary a word of thanks that Matt saved his worthless boy from his neighbors. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I couldn’t miss an opportunity to interview another one of our neighbors, no matter how distasteful I found him. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

He kneels beneath the cell window, closes his eyes, and prays for the soul of his neighbor. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

In summer, the music would float out on the evening air, reaching the neighboring houses. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw it in my mother’s stubborn belief in our neighborhood, her decision to stay rooted even as fear led many of her neighbors to pack up and move. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I remember that some small-minded neighbor put it out, and children would tease us, that we ate “fried grass.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two men went out into the alleyway, where neighbors were beginning to gather. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room was dark, the ceiling filled with shadows from the dinnertime lights of neighboring flats. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I stood there recalling the very first time we’d come as a family, the new neighbors, to the DiAngelos for dinner. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Werfel’s neighbor called out to him, “On your way to embarrass yourself at court, you dismal little toad?” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Old men were beaten, women were pulled out into the street by their hair, homes were robbed by our own neighbors. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When they arrived at their block, Jessie paused to get a signature for the petition from their neighbor Charlotte and her son Joseph. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And in the process, he’d murdered my aunt, along with several of my neighbors, including sweet old Mrs. Gilmore, who had never hurt a soul. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Hannah simply refused to live without the attentions of a man, and after Rekus’ death had a steady sequence of lovers, mostly the husbands of her friends and neighbors. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Insults hurled at the new neighbors were a daily affair. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A neighbor was building a wood fire in one corner and despite the slanting openings in the roof, the smoke choked the kitchen. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In contrast, a neighboring highland people with whom I worked for eight years, the Daribi, are especially conservative and uninterested in new technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

All our neighbors have these great maga- zine-cover yards with flowers that match their shutters and expensive white rocks that border fresh mounds of mulch. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The white woman walking in from the parking lot now was Mrs. Stockton, one of our neighbors down the road. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

On dark nights when hope was scarce, she would sing an old Irish tune, mixed with a newer, Italian song that she had learned from a neighbor. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The flat was filled with neighbor women who stood around praying and reminiscing about their own child-bed experiences. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have never seen him with a visitor, not even a neighbor. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

But such measures never got far in Europe, where any country that temporarily swore off firearms would be promptly overrun by gun-toting neighboring countries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m here with my dad and John. Our neighbors call us the three boat bachelors.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

And what if your neighbors are mistreating their dog? My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Without a screen, the window should be sensibly closed at night, meaning no air, unless I’m willing to take my chances with the bugs and the neighbors. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Stockton, one of our neighbors and a friend of Mom’s. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few neighbors stood on their porches or waded through their yards, assessing damage. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I rode out to inspect my lands, paid a few visits to the neighboring haciendas, kept my eye on the tenants. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The neighbors stopped by to greet her, the daughter back from America. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“This morning, his neighbor called. She is a good woman, Nwamgba, she went all the way to Ukpo to find a phone.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He is trying to get along with his Arles neighbors. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

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

And sometimes, I would be sent to a neighbor’s house to ask for help. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Several of the neighbors had watchdogs, which barked at the slightest disturbance; surely, these animals would signal if the intruders returned. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

To scrub the hundred years’ war off this white skin till there’s nothing left and I can walk out among my neighbors wearing raw sinew and bone, like they do. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to me, someone was trying to awaken his neighbor, his brother, perhaps, or his comrade. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I duck out of the backyard and through the neighbor’s lawn and onto the street, my elbow wrapped tight in a cloth bandage. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

According to reports from the neighbors, boys ran alongside the car, holding onto the door handles from the outside, while my brother drove really fast. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, a nosy neighbor had mistaken the escape for a burglary in progress and had notified the police. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our neighbors had always been so friendly, but now they peered at us without their usual smiles. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take my sketchbook and head for the porch where there’s a good view of the neighbor’s driveway. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had no idea you two were neighbors.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

West Virginia’s Governor Homer Holt saw the writing on the wall: the choice was to integrate or, like its neighbor to the east, dig in and contest the ruling. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

What will the neighbors think of our smoking chimney? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Her mom actually kissed Eleanor good-bye at the door and told her to have fun, and to call the neighbors if things got weird with her dad. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Daddy Bailey and the neighbors he was visiting responded to the screams and crowded around her. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sure would of tickled him to see all the neighbors on his front porch staring with their mouths open as Loomis drove the mule team towards the street. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“We listen at parties; people talk about their plans. Ask neighbors to watch their pets.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

People throughout the country were scared it would spread, including the Wedgwoods’ neighbors in Staffordshire. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The neighbor men, a good twenty of them, were saying goodbye, clapping one another on the back, making their way out. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Though none of my neighbors knew it, baseball was something I could do. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

But a month later, the same neighbor who had awakened Thom from his enchanted sleep came across the farmer again, except this time he would not awaken, for he was dead. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We coasted past our neighbors’ houses, dumped our bikes in my driveway, left Dad behind. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

One of Ethel’s neighbors told her about it in the market and Ethel fainted dead away, pitching into a row of preserves. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Your father probably got fed up because Safa unlatched a neighbor’s chicken coop again. You know you’re the only one who can keep up with her.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The neighbors were shocked but Mary knew that marriage was the best thing that could happen to her highly sexed daughter. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

At every House table, Harry could see people either gazing raptly at Dumbledore, or else whispering fervently to their neighbors. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Dad was drunk all the time except when he was in jail; Mom had completely withdrawn into her own world; and Maureen was more or less living with neighbors. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nor were all his friends and colleagues as taken with the proton merry-go-round as his neighbors at the Berkeley Faculty Club on that first bleary-eyed evening. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In the village where Jack’s sister, Jadzia, had lived with their aunt and uncle while caring for their baby, Jack was able to learn his sister’s fate from neighbors. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Our neighbor have baby granddaughter. They mash up onion to keep her alive....Yes, I have many memory of life. When I die, will be gone. So deshō.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

At the height of the American chestnut blight, every woodland breeze would lose spores in uncountable trillions to drift in a pretty, lethal haze on to neighboring hillsides. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She was the nosiest woman in the world and spent most of her life spying on the boring, law-abiding neighbors. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t texted her that the new neighbors had shown up, because I wanted her to see them for herself. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Winston whined and grizzled, made futile demands for food, fretted about the room, pulling everything out of place and kicking the wainscoting until the neighbors banged on the wall, while the younger child wailed intermittently. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But I was unsure which commandment my thoughts had broken—Honor thy father and mother, or not coveting thy neighbor’s parents, or even something more vague about being true to your own race and kind. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was this gusting, swirling wind that drove the flames from the O’Learys’ barn into neighboring yards. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Angel stayed with a neighbor until Gerald got home, but he didn’t like to stay out too late. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In these and other areas where food production depended on the arrival of founder crops from elsewhere, did local hunter-gatherers themselves adopt those founder crops from neighboring farming peoples and thereby become farmers themselves? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A neighbor from across the road—how did she even know that anyone had died? Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Mina leads me through the back exit, which leads to a small courtyard, and then through a gate belonging to a neighboring building. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

My neighbors filled the aisles, sifting through the vegetables and fruit. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Soon, she was able to see into the neighbor’s yard with each lift into the sky. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

One evening, a neighbor who lived a few doors down from my uncle s house was listening to a pirate radio station that accused the new government of committing crimes against civilians. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

And I thought of a mean neighbor boy who had tiny pits in his cheeks, and it was true, those marks were the size of rice grains. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My neighbor and I were having tea. You don't have anywhere to be, do you? You can wait in the kitchen until we’re finished." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He had hanged himself with rope from a beam high up in a neighbor’s barn. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

As older brothers, fathers, and neighbors were drafted into the service, younger boys and girls took over various jobs. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Not long after the Crowell house bombing, another close neighbor, Mrs. Ryles, came home from teaching school one day and saw a mysterious brown paper bag lying in the bushes by her front porch. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

After delivering the water home and snapping green beans into a big pot to steam with a cinnamon stick, Sitti took Liyana to meet a neighbor who was stringing orange beads on nylon thread. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

But as the forest, in a process out of Heart of Darkness, stripped away the layers of civilization, they became indistinguishable from their neighbors. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Also, Dad was always dropping by to visit Mom, but then they got into such screeching arguments that the neighbors banged on the walls. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Harry had never been camping in his life; the Dursleys had never taken him on any kind of holiday, preferring to leave him with Mrs. Figg, an old neighbor. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She had suspected her neighbors of doing the things Tehlu said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She went outside to the bathroom, saying “Good morning” and “Did you come out well this morning?” to some neighbors as she went. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Once upon a time there was a couple with many cattle, but only one son. Their neighbors became jealous, so they hired a witch to put a curse on them.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chou and Kim thank our neighbors as we leave with our new family. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Were there more and more spheres, each larger than its neighbor? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

A neighbor offered to drive them and off they went, leaving Milkman to buy his wine from Hagar. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The broken, dirty arbors served as a refuge for wild animals and a garbage dump for the neighbors. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Family and neighbors waded through the field to pay respects, and all the while, the rain kept coming. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

How is it possible that she can help her neighbors and be of no use at all to her children? Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

If ’tis neither one nor the other, then ’tis neighbor against neighbor, or ’tis the lord of the manor against the peasants, begging thy pardon, young master.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Or learn more about my neighbors the way Mr. Bender does. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Of those three neighbors, Aboriginal Australians remained hunter-gatherers with almost nothing to offer New Guineans that New Guineans did not already possess. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Anatole goes to our neighbors’ houses, one by one, offering his condolences for our village’s lost schoolboys. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first thing she did when she got inside was head to her little kitchen to make a batido from fresh mangos that had fallen from the neighbor’s tree. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She wrinkled her nose and cast a contemptuous look through the window at the crumbling plaster of the neighboring houses. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few neighbors were already racing out of their homes, grasping buckets and rushing toward the Spencers’. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Acting on their own, countless sympathetic Germans risked their lives to help their Jewish neighbors. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

While I was learning to swim, Irene had spent her summers building fences, moving cattle, branding, and helping the neighbors who bordered her parents’ ranch, and their neighbors. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

They seemed like nice people, these Wrights—nice people who had been through a lot, nice people who could have been her neighbors in Shaker Heights. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A man of his size, Horace thought, must take it as a duty to imply no menace or risk that his neighbors will be wary of him. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Their neighbors attack them with baseball bats and machetes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since neighbors were already gathering, he drove the horses around to the back door, where my daddy was waiting. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Pa and our neighbor, Mr. Highgate, both were carrying rifles and told us to walk in line. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

But how often had she seen television interviews of next-door neighbors saying: Can't believe he killed thirteen people, he was such a nice kid. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was jolted awake by the sound of gunfire in one of the neighboring stacks. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They had to turn the child over to a neighbor and take the mother away for burial. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gazed for a moment at his neighbors’ houses, then continued. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The university was then almost as much of a physics backwater as Berkeley had been when Lawrence first set foot on its campus, especially in comparison to its Cambridge neighbor, MIT. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She said she wanted to live somewhere removed, detached, where neighbors wouldn’t stare at her belly, point at her, snicker, or, worse yet, assault her with insincere kindnesses. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

At a stroke, the village hosting the Westerners would gleam with wealth; its neighbors would seek a share of the undeserved bounty; conflict would explode. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Immediately I felt angry and frightened at the same time— angry that my neighbor had rushed to judgment and scolded me, but also because I knew she was right. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma put on her slippers and went upstairs to talk to a neighbor. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

We stood against the chain-link fence in front of the dead man’s neighbor’s house watching the gargantuan canine panting and licking his chops and whining inside the car. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“However, we continue to hear truly inspirational stories of wizards and witches risking their own safety to protect Muggle friends and neighbors, often without the Muggles’ knowledge. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But whenever somebody started a song, Mama Oji would clap, insistently, loudly, in accompaniment, and soon all the other neighbors would join in the clapping and Alice could not play. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He turned to his other neighbor, who didn't have a pen either. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

You wouldn't catch our neighbors scraping mold off their strawberries, but to our father, there was nothing so rotten that it couldn't be eaten. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He had asked his male cousin, the young son of his uncle, and his uncle for his father’s sake, and three neighboring farmers who lived in the village with him. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I talk about the woes of living at Fairchild Towers for the rest of lunch period with Tats acting out the more colorful neighbors. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Or maybe she simply could not hear him past her own breathing, so loud in her ears the house seemed to resound with it; she thought the neighbors must be able to hear. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The word was passed out among the neighbors where they stood close packed in the little yard behind the brush fence. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The neighbors looked at the pearl in Kino’s hand and they wondered how such luck could come to any man. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neighbor was merry with neighbor, and those who had wealth set out food and drink before their houses for all who passed by. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I run across the dark terrace, climb over the wall, and head toward the neighbor’s glass doors. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The neighbors were used to this behavior, since they'd been to dinner at Rose Hill a number of times. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t angry, like I was back in our house when I almost turned a shotgun on our marauding neighbors. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

And I wanted to promise him I wouldn’t lie or steal or associate with persons of loose morals, or covet my neighbor’s wife, or anything. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baby’s stillbirth might have remained a private tragedy for Marsha and her family had it not been for a nosy neighbor who had long been suspicious of the Colbeys. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The radio comes back to life, and the neighbor shrieks with delight. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But as the night got later, as people showed up and left, and the music got turned down because of the neighbors, and the alcohol flowed and then ran out, I kept seeing Courtney's look. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Papa was about to continue when Dona Maria, our next door neighbor, interrupted him. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They constantly shifted configuration, some expanding by swarming over their neighbors, others imploding when their constituent villages seceded and joined other polities. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

If one state did not pursue some particular innovation, another did, forcing neighboring states to do likewise or else be conquered or left economically behind. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It is a small reminder that Indians were neither the peaceful, love-thy- neighbor types envisioned by some apologists or the brutal, ceaselessly aggressive warriors decried by some political critics. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was known among the neighbors in the brush huts, among the pearl fishermen; it was known among the Chinese grocery-store owners; it was known in the church, for the altar boys whispered about it. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

A good many of the neighbors’ husbands were no better than Johnny, of course, but that was no standard for Katie. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As far as the neighbor was concerned, it was William who was the distinguished member of the family. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Jimmy knew Grandpa Nyles hated barbed wire, but it did keep the neighbors’ cattle out of the horse pastures. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

I felt embarrassed to be seen by our neighbors, especially the girls. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Standing higher than its neighbors, at an altitude of about eight thousand feet, is a wide pillar of rock with a rounded, convoluted top that vaguely resembles the rounded, convoluted top of a human brain. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Killed by a drunk college kid while he walked home from his neighbor’s house. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Before Jessie and Isa could talk more, a new batch of neighbors came out and the twins got busy getting more signatures. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Like any celebrity, Ignatius had attracted his fans: his mother’s jinxed relatives, neighbors, people Mrs. Reilly had not seen for years. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were killed in their own home by a neighbor. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The most they could do, however, was to lock away Harry’s spellbooks, wand, cauldron, and broomstick at the start of the summer break, and forbid him to talk to the neighbors. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Tom just happened to be the neighbor Granddaddy had given his only extra frontdoor key, in case he ever locked himself out of the house. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the glow from the neighbor’s motion-sensor porch light, I can make out their faces. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

If you could feel every atom in your body simultaneously release its grip on its neighbors, expand outward so that each particle becomes a new center in the universe, it would feel exactly like this. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

But he lived well and he had the respect of all his neighbors. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Gestapo relied on informers to report friends, family, and neighbors. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lawlessness has run wild, common decency between people has disappeared, every man is armed against his neighbor.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were our neighbors, the people we saw while standing in line at the bakery and the hardware store. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Mobile bands of hunter-gatherers are relatively egalitarian, and their political sphere is confined to the band’s own territory and to shifting alliances with neighboring bands. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The trees shushed their quiet night song and Rodrigo, her neighbor’s cat, strolled by. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Our neighbor, Mrs. Feringeld, bought one and framed it in the pieces from an old thread box, then hung it over her table. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

As we move out away from the sun, our nearest neighbor is Mars. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smallest glance from a neighbor can make her wonder. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I still don’t want the neighbors to hear. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The door opened and out popped the head of Mrs. Henning, my neighbor, wearing an absurd feathered hat. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of a child being shot through the chest with a neighbor’s gun is gruesome, dramatic, horrifying—in a word, outrageous. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

She had lived in our alley for over thirty years without a single disagreement with any of the neighbors. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Hill found the stove sufficiently strange that she mentioned it to her neighbors. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Most mornings, after the beach, she makes the rounds with Madame Manec, going to the vegetable market, occasionally to the butcher’s, then delivering food to whichever neighbors Madame Manec decides are most in need. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you run over and invite the neighbors now, so I’ll know how much food to prepare?” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know to say goodbye to our house and our barrio, nor to wave to the neighbors who looked out curiously as we wound our way to the main road. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I hear our neighbor’s new parrot, Prophet, through the open window. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Our neighbors are the Kecoughtans, our friends, and the Warraskoyacks—I know everyone in the village by name. I can trade if we run short of food....” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Still, without planning or discussion, as more and more neighbors arrived, a bucket brigade had begun. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Lots of places to hide bodies, neighbors say, but I don’t buy it. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The neighbor with the creepy cat still calls me Amelia after living next door for five years. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Dozens of additional lynchings had taken place in neighboring counties—and the true power of those lynchings far exceeded their number. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

If I seem to be ridiculing Charley, look you at what I was doing in the next half hour and also what my neighbor was doing. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the powerful president of the University of North Carolina in neighboring Chapel Hill was not immune from these attacks. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I took the stairs two at a time and rushed into the street and hugged and kissed him like the kind of woman the neighbors think I am. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I used to have a neighbor, a sleek and thoughtful seal, who could balance a ball on her nose from dawn till dusk. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Our uncle even went south to talk with our old neighbors, to find Father’s old friends. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

But all over the countryside, neighbors, leaning against slanting porch posts or standing in open cabin doorways and listening, knew that it was Sounder. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Have your neighbors lock up that dog on Saturday. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

As he passed the home of Mike Nash, his neighbor and fellow gospel singer, he noticed that the car was still in the driveway. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The child of a barely known glove maker from the Midlands—“born of parents not distinguished from their neighbors”—could grow up to be the most prominent writer of the English language. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Sneaks, have you been holding out on me? I didn’t know you knew our new neighbor.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

No midwife attended her, and no relative or neighbor gave her comfort. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Or if neighbors throw out stuff, they let my mom go through the bags first. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

All of Sierra’s neighbors were out on their stoops, taking in the warm summer night. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“We aint got the room we use to have. He cant stay out in the yard, crying where all the neighbors can see him.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

My neighbors here at the Big Top Mall know many tricks. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

His condemnation was severe and wide-ranging, while his praise seemed like a grudging afterthought: Hundreds of blacks had come to their white neighbors’ aid, so why not say so? An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Ma sold her pies, Mrs. Charles played cards with neighbors, while Monday and I ran around, eating hot dogs, dancing by the DJ booth, and playing in the bouncy house with August. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Down two flights our neighbor on the second floor has her apartment door open and the smell of eggs and bacon frying in the skillet on the stove makes my stomach growl. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

People were covering their mouths and leaning over to whisper to their neighbors, before doing these close-chested little points at me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

On her way to get the moss she saw one of her neighbors, a lady mouse named Janice who, like herself, had four children. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He thinks of the people who could not see him as a neighbor, as a countryman, as a human. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

There’d be no nosy neighbors watching, no motorcycles and cars, no sheets and towels and laundry. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

After some pleasant conversation, each neighbor would choose their spot, leave their droppings, and be on their way. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I have thought that my family, having settled among immigrants who had also been their neighbors in the ancestral land, needed to clean their name, and a wrong word would incite the kinspeople even here. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could get help from his neighbors, from the patrollers, probably even from whatever police officials the area had. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was within calling distance of shrews secreted a short distance away, as they were of their neighbors farther along. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Her neighbors despise the creatures that fascinate her. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At least one of Uncle Carlos’s neighbors is looking. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

More than one hundred thousand Krahn refugees flooded into neighboring Ivory Coast, even as Doe’s Krahn soldiers committed atrocities of their own. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“It must be those dirty neighbors you play with, those dirty neighbors.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“So I naturally thought of you. After all, we’ve been neighbors these many years.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Pure carbon, each atom linked to four equidistant neighbors, perfectly knit, tetrahedral, unsurpassed in hardness. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Tall apartments rose overhead, their open windows overflowing with orchid plants, laundry, and chatting neighbors. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

For a neighbor to have recognized a face among them might well have been sufficient reason for getting a bullet between the eyes; these men meant to take no chances with an informer. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, I felt terrible when the neighbor’s dog died, never mind if a baby had died. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Now the neighbors knew they had witnessed a great marvel. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could have friends over and not feel embarrassed about the roaches or the creepy neighbors. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The two of them were speaking quickly to each other, their gaze darting around the room at the neighbors, who avoided or ignored them. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The only problem was that he never asked for permission, so when neighbors heard music and saw kids going in and out, they called the police. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Savo, you are a poor example to your young neighbors.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She tells me to go to the housing department to fill out an application, and how much she would like to have a nice young girl as her neighbor. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“After the Roodveldts disappeared, the neighbors might have tried to save some things from the apartment.” Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

“Go rip out the neighbor’s sprinkler heads. Kill the snakes.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The neighbors said oh and shook their heads. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He says there isn’t a thing you can’t find out about your neighbors on the Net. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The comrades acted like a group of neighbors sitting in judgment upon one of their kind who had stolen a chicken. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the land floods during typhoons, villagers help their neighbors by hoisting the house onto their shoulders with wooden poles and walking it to its next spot. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

What a terrible thing when neighbors can’t look at each other without kind of wondering! In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ball bounced down the street and into a neighbor’s front yard. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Juan Tomas went out among the neighbors to divert their suspicions, and he gave them theories and ideas of what had happened to Kino and to Juana and to the baby. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oliver heard a sliding door opening and their next-door neighbor click a lighter for a cigarette. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Working at your neighbors while he’s sleeping? That sounds illegal. Anyway, log on, Lauren’s posted you.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Nothing but the occasional gust of wind and the shuttered windows of our sleeping neighbors. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When their father died, she says, he told a neighbor that “dying is hard, but living is harder still.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My neighbor Mrs. B raved about living next door to an online celebrity and said she’d talked me up at her Mommy and Me class and forwarded my flyer to her friends at NASA. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“My neighbor lets us borrow his boards,” she said. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matty noticed the young couple who were neighbors down the road from the house he shared with the blind man. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

There are some neighbors out here, no one Mateo ever shared any stories about. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The flat was scrupulously clean; the neighbor women had attended to that. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eyeing their nation’s resource-rich neighbors, Japan’s leaders saw the prospect of economic independence, and something more. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

We just ran as fast as we could alongside our neighbors. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know that his neighbor Alma was pointing at him or that he was snoring. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

At the same time, the call went out to neighboring Mississippi for white men to come to the aid of their fellow whites in Phillips County. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Most intriguing was the possibility of a chain reaction: if neutrons emitted in fission struck neighboring nuclei and caused them to split, they might in turn emit even more neutrons, producing more fissions. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He bounded across the yard at top speed, jumped the neighbor’s hedge, then hit the ground and kept on going. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

According to neighbors, when they were finished, the pair calmly walked to their squad car and drove away. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Some of the houses were entirely dark and the families sat on their front steps with only the reflections from a neighboring house to see by. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

“Now you’ve had your lesson. You don’t have to go back to that awful school anymore,” our neighbor Mrs. Floyd said as Grandma ushered me past her. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They move in and act like strangers, not neighbors.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

In our new home we have no time to get to know our neighbors, visit other villagers, take walks, or hold conversations with anyone outside the family. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mam had Maisie there were plenty of neighbors on Elizabeth Street who’d been through it before, and all I had to do was watch the younger kids. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

When neighbors ran into each other, they did not stop to chat but just nodded and hurried on. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment it seemed to Shadow as if the man was insubstantial; as if the plane had suddenly become more real, while his neighbor had become less so. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I never knew that neighbors could be so interesting. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The house was filling with people and the hours passed in a dreadful streaky blur of relatives, neighbors, crying children, covered dishes, blocked driveways, ringing telephones, bright lights, strange faces, awkward conversations. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Don’t take all.” whispered her neighbor, a young lady of great presence of mind. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

That means we share one phone line with two of our neighbors. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

David is waiting for me at the pool house in his neighbors’ yard. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

At the age of two, he got up in the middle of the night, found his way outside without waking his parents, and entered a house down the street to plunder a neighbor’s candy drawer. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stole a neighbor’s coffee percolator tube, set up a sniper’s nest in a tree, crammed pepper-tree berries into his mouth, spat them through the tube, and sent the neighborhood girls running. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

It’s no wonder the neighbors called us the Weird Watsons behind our backs. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there at least you know your neighbors. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Whitlaw did not want to impose upon her neighbors again and ask them to watch their things. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And for my own. You’ll be my nearest neighbor. I’m dying for some woman talk!” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Without silkworms to tend or mulberry trees to pick, without neighbors to gossip with or goats to milk, my grandmother filled her time with food. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A mix of neighbors, teachers, and kids that had a study hall or two with him. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure it was just the neighbor’s cat, Ugwu,” she said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Don Pancho, one of our neighbors, knew how much I disliked emptying the bedpan and teased me whenever I ran into him. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Your neighbors will laugh and, worst of all, you will not be able to plant as much corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He was found three days later when one of his neighbors discovered his horse tethered near a wooded copse down by the river. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, the earth shakes violently as crackling yellow, orange, and red flames devour a neighbors hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks before, our neighbor had had to travel for business, and he’d asked our parents if Adria and I would feed, walk, and play with Bo while he was gone. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Miss Whitlaw had already folded her tent with the help of some of her neighbors, and carted it off to the temporary army depot. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

More neighbors have joined in on cleaning up, and they form a line that moves trash out the store and into the trash cans on the curb. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He walked back to his chair smiling; I could tell it made him feel good to help out his neighbors. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Each of the hundred thousand tiny grains of sand in her fists grinds against its neighbor. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The neighbors took up a collection because Pilate and Reba had spent everything getting Hagar the things needed to fix herself up. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bo sits in the neighboring lane, waving his arms, pointing at my window. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The radio purrs and the woman laughs and Herr Siedler looks almost nothing, Werner decides, like his neighbors, their guarded, anxious faces—faces of people accustomed to watching loved ones disappear every morning into pits. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

So, we did what we had to; my sister moved in with the neighbors and I’m living with a cousin who offered to take me in. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The neighbors slipped away to go to their houses, and Juana squatted by the fire and set her clay pot of boiled beans over the little flame. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

She does that when gunshots are fired outside, when our upstairs neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Lyon, are fighting, yelling. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Susan is there, and some of our old neighbors, and rows of wooden tables as long as the room itself. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

So many people came, many of our neighbors, my uncles, my aunties, my cousins, Dr. Ahmed and his family. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Granted, I wouldn’t be looking out at a quilt of sprouting grain as I survey my flax and wheat fields had my neighbors not intervened. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Their suspicions about their neighbor and their teacher suddenly seemed overwrought and childish. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She told us about the neighbors who always had a hot meal for you and looked out for you if your parents weren’t around. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

There was the all-night ache in my stomach after I had climbed a neighbor’s tree and eaten stolen, unripe peaches. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the map at school, I saw they are next-door neighbors to Illinois. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

But as a resident, I have special access to my neighbors. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

She said no, they were neighbor kids who had begged to come along because they wanted to see the girl from China. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the prayers, hymns, and stories that neighbors stood up to tell, Peach moaned every time the word death was used. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma and I woke up the next morning to a bunch of neighbors on the front lawn taking pictures of our house. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tadas said they took his neighbors away in a truck. They re arresting people.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Our Cuban neighbor, Mrs. Ruiz, was hosting her large extended family in the yard next door after a Sunday christening. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The screams of the baby brought the neighbors. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a neighboring village, there was an African dance-hall known as Ntselamanzi, which catered to the cream of local black society and was off-limits to undergraduates. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the well-intentioned neighbor next door ensured that I would never go to church. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

"We must have new neighbors; I'll have to drive up there with a housewarming gift; they may need some decorating advice." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, fences were constantly being snipped accidentally so that skinny cows, horses, or sheep might wander off their owner’s mini-dustbowls into their neighbors’ less parched fields. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many helped their neighbors fight the fire or drag furniture and clothes to the safety of the street. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The neighbors they searched for him but we could not find him. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Once a month, the neighbors sit in our living room and complain while Mom takes notes in shorthand. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have friends coming over every day—we lived too far out to have any white neighbors. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

So she kept Menda close by her, and when her friends and neighbors came to visit, she sent them away. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

This year the station was packed, not just with students and newsmen, but also with parents, siblings, uncles, aunts, grandparents, cousins, next-door neighbors, and utter strangers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

His friends and neighbors could have come to pay their last respects and for nine nights in a row say the rosary for him. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

It was getting like Bogart Street where the neighbors knew too much about the Nolans. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A survivor of the brutal pogroms that had spread across Russia over a decade ago, Motke had seen the faces of the dead and broken everywhere he looked—his wife, his friends, his neighbors. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

But even as she defied the neighbors, she knew that they would have to move as soon as the month was up. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little Tilly was the four-year-old child of neighbors whom he had never met. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What good reason is there to treat neighbors—someone like Karl—like this?” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Poppy whispered back, “Who knows? Maybe they think he’s our next-door neighbor from St. Louis, since he’s only speaking English. I just said he was our friend.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was such a long time ago, when we visited my uncle’s and aunt’s farm in the countryside and I played with their neighbor’s daughter. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is no sitting on the front porch, no saying hi to the neighbors, no kids running back and forth between houses. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A huge crowd, filled with old neighbors and new friends, had gathered, it seemed, to see me off. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

That the neighbor testing his sprinkler line isn’t really looking for a leak. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Whenever the riots broke out, all our neighbors would wisely hole up behind closed doors. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He dug tunnels under stumps in his neighbors’ pastures and pried them out of the earth with long iron bars. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

More rashly, I announced my intention—told friends and neighbors, confidently informed my publisher, made it common knowledge among those who knew me. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Father spends his days making rounds through the village, trying to strike up chats with the idle old men, or venturing farther afield to inspect the state of grace in the neighboring villages. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he stands at the door of his hut, shouting insults at his neighbors in a loud harangue, he is city addressing another city. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The supermarket did not carry mustard oil, doctors did not make house calls, neighbors never dropped by without an invitation, and of these things, every so often, my parents complained. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I follow the good example my neighbors set me,” was Laurie’s answer, as he swung himself out of the room. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom told me her neighbor back home had pigeons who could do full loops or fly with their bellies up. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Using the mattress as a stretcher, Grandpa and an uncle had lifted Granny from her bed and had rushed her to the safety of a neighbor’s house. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The neighboring toy store sells a combination pack with two balls and three blocks in it. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

After dinner that night, Grandma played her phone messages, which were mostly neighbors and friends saying hello. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And most native societies in what is now the United States and Canada did not have the written languages, monumental architecture, or wide-ranging aesthetic traditions of their neighbors to the south. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was a fear of my neighbors. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They swim in the dark water, under the moonlight, weeds catching their limbs, out to the neighboring dock. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It had something to do with the way neighbor women asked her questions about Papa and Mama and Sissy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone reacted to that, and he continued, “He’s one of your neighbors, Jack. He’s sitting outside in a lawn chair, all night long, with a shotgun across his lap.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not that the West Computers were hatching plans to invade a neighboring table; they just wanted dominion over their table in the back corner. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She remembers the voices of their neighbors in Paris when she lost her eyesight: Like they’re cursed. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She appealed to her neighbors: “She’s always just taking that dung and piling it up on top of her, isn’t she?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

If this was a neighbor or friend, he didn’t want to see him this way. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I’ll bet you my whole store it’s a matter of time before everyone starts buying cheap fiddle-faddle from SmartMart rather than paying a little more for something from their own neighbors.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He enlisted five Haitians who were his age—he required that each had at least one year of junior high school—to go from hut to hut in Cange and two neighboring villages. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Besides, it's going to take more than a few scented candles to ward off our neighbors.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

"Built around 1780...a two-hour train ride from Paris...the neighbor keeps his horses in my backyard...pies made with apples from my own trees..." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

In Liberia, a neighbor would always look after her kids if she needed to leave them to run an errand or visit a friend. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I went over to our window to look at our neighbor’s goldfish. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

But the neighbors can’t see, because my father built a fence around it. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“We don’t have many neighbors in our new home—unless you count the njuzu. I imagine there are a lot of them around here. I’ll make you some tea, and we can talk.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our nearest stellar neighbor, as we have seen, is Alpha Centauri, 4.3 light-years away. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“We couldn’t think of taking money from a neighbor.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard her talking with our next-door neighbor while we were shelling pigeon peas. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

In the city, at least, our neighbors wouldn’t shoot us. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The crowd, which had gone noisily wild during the butchery, were now sinking back, satisfied, with smiling faces, exchanging remarks with their neighbors. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Finally, Jordie worked up the courage to knock on a neighbor’s door. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Eva wouldn’t hear of such a thing, fearful the neighbors would gossip about her daughter’s morals. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

My mother had begun working in neighbors' gardens and doing pickup work as a maid in town in exchange for mealie meal. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It must have been one of our neighbors who was the victim this time. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He asks about neighbors and members of our church, but for the life of me I can’t come up with a single name. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Oh, you can’t cook it yet! Jiichan went to get an onion from your neighbor. He said onion makes everything taste good.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Folks from neighboring towns stopped in to sample the variety of foods. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Standing outside the courthouse that morning, E. D. Nixon looked around the crowd of his neighbors and friends and felt proud. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

When I was in the almost completely dark backyard, it occurred to me that if any of the neighbors happened to be looking out their window, I’d look very much like a thief. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It could have been a neighbor, watching our car pull out from the driveway in the morning, acting on a hunch, tipping them off for a gold star on someone’s list. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Green went from bust to boom in weeks, buying up whatever tobacco was available from his neighbors and shipping it off to New York, Kansas, Ohio, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Maine, California. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Their neighbors are the Johnsons, the Mertons, the Aspris, the Hills. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But then perhaps my faceless neighbor, afraid of being among the first displaced, simply wanted to get rid of me, to free my bed, to give himself a chance to survive . Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I feel as if there had been an earthquake,” said Jo, as their neighbors went home to breakfast, leaving them to rest and refresh themselves. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Ollie and I needed to, we could knock on a neighbor's door, pretending to borrow an egg, and one of them would probably let us in. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A bunch of people from the neighboring trailers gathered around, craning their necks to see what George Finkle looked like in person. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Woody and White Boy looked up at the neighbors’ windows and saw unhappy eyes staring back at them. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He gives me this big grin and says, “Good morning. I’m your new neighbor. My name is Penn Webb. What’s yours?” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Gray rose to his haunches, agitated, and shared the behavior he had seen: A human turning away a starving neighbor, acting as if there were no food in his larder when it was full. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I broke out in goosebumps, remembering the white-eyed neighbor I’d seen watering his overgrown lawn the night my grandfather was killed. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Harry bellowed, and through the window he saw the next-door neighbor, who had paused to restart his lawn mower, look up nervously. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

What Trepid hadn’t reckoned on was that Z had known Tiller and Sairy most of his life, and that Z’s cabin was over the far side of the holler, which made Z their nearest neighbor. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was a renegade, almost suffragette thing to do, and the neighbors and would-be women friends surrounded Vera Louise with as polite a distance as they could manage. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told her my son was well liked by all the neighbors, and their kids. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was raised by a black nanny and his constant playmates as a boy were the children of a neighboring black family. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as I’m at the door to the neighbor lady’s apartment, I hear the birds, and it only gets louder once I get inside. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

What if some nosy neighbor had told her that a boy had once walked me halfway home from the library? When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The trilling of our neighbors’ tongues set loose knives that cut the flesh from our bones and made us fall down with our shame and our love and our anger. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said good evening to Mr. Szymczak, our new neighbor downstairs, buying a German newspaper on the corner, and he just shook his head. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A small parade of neighbors passed by with flashlights. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

One of our neighbors, Mr. Miller, once explained to me that trailer parks like ours had originally consisted of a few dozen mobile homes arranged in neat rows on the ground. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z