“It should be in the six hundreds with books about technology, not the nine hundreds with history and geography.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I’m seven, eight, nine going on ten and still Dad has no work. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was exactly like Rachel’s sketch—Luke around nine years old, with blond hair and a big smile and two missing teeth. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I got up and had my bath and dressed, and went down to breakfast at nine o’clock as usual. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not really supposed to use my phone after nine, but it’s way too hard to try to sleep when you’re not tired. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

She was young—nine or ten at the most, and completely oblivious to the party around her as she frolicked in the shallow end of the pool. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

What looked like the oldest boy marched toward platforms nine and ten. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The harpies washed with lava instead of water, to get that extra-dean sparkle and kill ninety-nine point nine percent of all germs, so Annabeth and I had to wear asbestos gloves and aprons. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

HP and Texas Instruments had their of fices on the back nine, along the tenth hole. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Being together in those classes, the nine of us were developing a true friendship—becoming closer knit than we might have been under other circumstances. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"They sent that four and a half minutes ago," Martinez continued, "while looking at satellite data from nine minutes ago." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only a moment before it would bong bong bong its way to nine o’clock. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The assembly met almost every month for a year, and we passed nine resolutions. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Then they all returned to where the nine giants were lying. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At nine o’clock every night, Greenwich time,” said Wemmick, “the gun fires. There he is, you see! And when you hear him go, I think you’ll say he’s a Stinger.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

We stayed in the library until they kicked us out, at nine forty-five. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

At nine o’clock his mother kissed his cheek and said she was going to bed. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

And finally, when we checked into a hotel somewhere between Annapolis and Clover around nine o’clock at night, she gave them to me. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He opened the refrigerator himself and counted about nine loose cans of beer. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

"It's only nine blocks from here to Seventy-Fourth Street, and then we just have to find the right building." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I crawled onto the couch downstairs about nine o’clock but I couldn’t sleep. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He introduced them to two of his daughters who happened to be there: Amparo, sixteen, dark like her mother, and Remedios, only nine, a pretty little girl with lily-colored skin and green eyes. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

We watched her weep as she stepped onto Pakistani soil for the first time in almost nine years. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The room was warm with the nine of them around the table and heat still rising from the turkey, the sweet potatoes, the small mountains of stuffing and green beans. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hire the workers—nine in all, now—and order much of the merchandise. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The dog trainer then had hauled him toward the fence to point out another moccasin, then another, and still another—nine in all. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not sure how I could do this without you,” he says, making me feel valuable, though at nine I’m barely big enough to be helpful. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

However, it was not until 1944 that an executioner had a chance to employ his craft; over the next ten years he was given nine additional opportunities. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all that sugar, I figured I'd be able to come up with something on how to live with Mrs. Baker for nine months. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He had had the best game of his life—seven for nine passing for 194 yards and four touchdowns. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They were just waiting till I was nine.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Ernie became the first of our people to graduate from Central High School in all its forty- nine years. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We didn’t want to skew the graph with new data, and so didn’t mention that Desdemona was actually seventy-one, not ninety-one, and that she always confused sevens with nines. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“What else can I tell you? The population is two point nine million. Between one and ten percent of people identify as Rastafarians. Twenty percent of Jamaicans live below the poverty line.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

In February, it’ll be fifteen degrees and you be wishing spring would come on, and the next day it’s ninety degrees for the next nine months. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know if it was the emptiness, the stifling heat, or the fact it was only nine o’clock, but I couldn’t settle into sleep despite how tired I was. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three times in nine days, Frederick is chosen as the weakest in field exercises. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the courtroom the nine Supreme Court Justices, wearing long black robes, sat behind a raised table. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In 1960, nine locations made the short list, but Virginia was not one of them. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Really? Wow. The curse of the nine thousand things.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Because we don’t have enough money. Each ticket is two forty-five. That makes nine dollars and eighty cents all together and we’ve only got seven dollars.” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

A successful quest for Olympic gold would require finding nine young men of exceptional strength, grace, endurance, and most of all mental toughness. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She had already been waiting at the airport for nine hours. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

For nine months, she spends night after night patiently listening to drunken men talk about their problems, how they miss their wives and children left behind in Mexico. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He would go in to see her at nine and he’d keep his ears open. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We have dined nine times at Rosings, besides drinking tea there twice! How much I shall have to tell!” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

In 1992 the fee was increased to $10,000 for a team of up to nine climbers, with another $1,200 to be paid for each additional climber. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I kept writing my memo to the Atlanta Police Department and before I knew it I had typed close to nine pages outlining all the things I thought had gone wrong. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Only nine days to decide whether or not I’d tell the truth if I had to sit in the witness chair. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Quasimodo has nine sisters and it is said his mother never wanted him but that was what the angel brought her and it’s a sin to question what’s sent. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

A quick shot of local anesthetic, irrigate the wound, nine stitches, and I was done. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

"She must have been nine or ten when that picture was taken." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first stairway consisted of about nine steps, a sharp turn, and then seven more steps to the landing of the second floor. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Eight or nine men dressed as hunters, armed with swords, staves, and spears, emerged from the side gates and began prowling through the greenery, as if searching for game. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I had grown to five feet nine inches, an inch shorter than Danny, and I was shaving. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“If that creature lives through nine hundred Baptist missions he will have quite a lot to say.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A signal. I’ve got it—how about if I look out every morning at nine, and if you can come over, you shine a flashlight at me. I’ll shine one back if everything’s safe.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

He said a guy is starting a basketball league for kids from nine to eleven. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

By nine o’clock our porch light is off. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Breakfast, which usually consisted of porridge, cocoa or tea, bread, butter, and jam, was served at nine in the morning. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, sweetness. I’m not a real science teacher. When I was growing up, there were nine planets. It never even occurred to me that that could change.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He was in jail for nine months awaiting trial while the victim was released from the hospital and was recovering fine. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Only six more weeks, and then for nine years he could never leave the chandlery or Mr. Hodges’ house without permission. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever the explanation may have been, the Queen of Air and Darkness had a baby by her half-brother nine months later. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last year, when I was nine, I sat on Mrs. Mallard. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

He walked nine miles to a small mountain town called Maengsan, where traders told him that a truck would show up near the central market. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

And number nine was that Lakeside was willing to let those kids spend their spring term miles away, writing code. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Even after being at camp for nine months, she still found it an impressive sight. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“The nymphs of this shrine. There were always nine niches.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

At nine o'clock, one morning late in July Gatsby's gorgeous car lurched up the rocky drive to my door and gave out a burst of melody from its three noted horn. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Every night, regularly, at nine, at twelve, at three, they lifted a nocturnal song, a weird and eerie chant, in which it was Buck’s delight to join. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

Camp Jupiter had only been her home for nine months, since Nico had brought her back from the Underworld. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When my mother was nine years old, she told my gran that she didn’t want to live with her anymore. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But the ghost of Salim, like the dodos, lords and crew of the Mary Celeste, vanished before we reached nine o’clock. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The primary therapist had been hired by Nicole’s mother and paid for by Nicole’s father at nine hundred dollars an hour, which is what it costs to have a psychiatrist make house calls. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“The gods made seven wonders, and mortal man made nine,” quoted the Halfmaester. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Beans seemed anxious at first, then frantic, as if not finding Farquar would condemn him to being nine forever. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The boys had built a wooden raft they kept tied up there, fourteen feet long, nine feet wide, big and solid enough to carry them out into the lake. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

AH nine of them came shooting out, one behind the other. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at nine o’clock, when Mom and Robin return from walking Justin to the bus stop, I hear her climbing the stairs. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Or he will walk nine hundred miles as he might walk five blocks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sixteen were single beds, but the other nine were very large, so large that Lupita had to keep circling them and lifting the great mattresses to tuck in the sheets and blankets. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“Why not just check some bunks? We got nine guys. You and me, that’s two, so there’s seven possibles. Do a quick body count.” The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seventy-five kilometers to the south, at the start of the occupation two and a half years ago, the German planes bombed Rotterdam, killing nine hundred civilians and much of the city's architecture. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Oily lifeguards were winding up the lane ropes for open swim and a gaggle of coaches crowded around the awards table, sorting nine colors of ribbons into thick manila envelopes. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Another nine weeks were required to make the only slightly less harrowing descent; in total Waterman spent 145 days alone on the mountain. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you know, my friend, that it is against the laws to pass here after nine o’clock?” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It all began at nine in the morning on a day in late July, when my grandmother showed up with Joey Pow and his brand-new long-lost cousin Zed. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got off the train around nine o’clock. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She was nine when we were taken; she remembers so much more about being human than we do. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My bedtime was nine o’clock or after I finished reading them a bedtime story, scrubbing their tub, and taking my own bath. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then it seemed as though all nine of the boys had turned upon me at once. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

With just nine days to go before their first game, Luma figured her best shot at getting this group of boys to bond was to make them face a great challenge together. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He and Pong were both nine years old, both orphans. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

At nine o’clock on Monday morning, my father took me to Dr. Snydman’s office on Eastern Parkway. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“It is nine o’clock: what are you about, Miss Eyre, to let Adèle sit up so long? Take her to bed.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Three days a week I’d train from five to nine p.m. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Although he was almost nine, he followed at my heels like a pesky puppy. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

When I mentioned this to the girls, who were nine and five at the time, they were not happy. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Our schoolbooks are so old, my science textbook says there are still nine planets. They’re so old, I found my mother’s name written in one from when she was a kid.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

If you cut an orange into three pieces the slices are bigger than if you cut it into nine pieces. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He had noticed before that all of the houses were empty by nine in the morning, with kids off to school and grown-ups off to work. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now here she was, nine months later, with the blindfold strapped around her eyes. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then, around nine, my parents come in wanting to Talk. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“I have seven brothers and five sisters. And a mother and father and a great-great-grandmother who’s one hundred and nine years old and a horse named Greta if I can ever find her.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Ethyne came striding out of the room with nine Sisters following behind. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I was glad that I was born nine months after my mother emigrated. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hands of the clock pointed to twenty minutes past nine. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“Bus nine. Bus nine is now loading,” the call came over the speakers. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

By nine in the morning the fake, country-wet freshness that somehow seeped in overnight evaporated like the tail end of a sweet dream. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was nine o'clock--almost immediately afterward I looked at my watch and found it was ten. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

On the way to the cafeteria five people stopped me to talk about the game and about nine or ten people waved to me. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I said it seven, eight, nine times, so many times I lost track. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“There are something like fifty-two thousand characters in the Chinese language so you can imagine seventeen messages which were nine or ten groups long each one, what a gigantic hunt would have to go on.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The wind pummeled the balloon as if it were an inverted punching bag, then tore it to pieces and cast shreds of its nine thousand yards of silk as far as half a mile away. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Catherine was not due on duty until nine o’clock. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Often when he had left my studio at four a.m. and a 40-minute drive lay between him and home in East Elmhurst, Long Island, he had asked me to telephone him there at nine a.m. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He imagined her with the Mozart on at nine o’clock at night. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It is not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Yet I would hardly have recognized it from just nine years before. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

There was a Joy Ice Cream cart and a man selling peanuts in narrow cones of paper cleverly designed to hold not more than eight or nine nuts. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, there’s the sound of a fish gasping for air, and this is repeated nine or ten times. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Look,” I said, “he’s going before the judge at nine. Why don’t you meet me at the courthouse.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Another farmer “raises hogs and for fully nine months after the broadcast of poisons, he could raise no young pigs. The litters were born dead or they died after birth.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

For nine Christmases now I’ve prayed he would be with us. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s had nine murders since 1937—about the same as you would get in many small towns.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

We slept in the same room, ate at the same table, sat for nine months out of each year in the same classroom, but none of these had made us close. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

San Diego to Miami in nine minutes, and if you missed it, it didn’t matter, because they would be back again in another ninety minutes. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She disappeared inside and came back out with a young boy, no more than nine or ten. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

“You may choose nine stones from my hoard,” he said at last, his voice hissing and whining in his long jaws. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I rubbed my belly, trying to imagine how long nine feet was and whether I had that much room in me. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

In these travels, my father sired thirteen children in all, four boys and nine girls. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Remembering how she got the name that was folded in her ear, when the nine days’ waiting was done she asked one of the women for a Bible. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, to be honest, five days is almost nine million miles. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The fighter planes started firing their guns, and more and more aircraft joined the fray, until there were nine Soviet fighter pilots battling forty Luftwaffe aircraft. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden, Mama’s face went from looking like nine miles of bad road to like somebody had left her a million dollars. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Her mother had nine children, all at the same time, four sets of twins and Wilgefortis the odd one, all winding up martyrs for the faith. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was only nine miles over easy terrain, but the blackfly made it a torment. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Aden, who was nine and had been going to school, said it felt like that because the earth was a round ball and it was spinning. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s easy to remember, because it’s the color blue, like without the e, and then three, six, nine, like, you know, you just keep adding three.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I kept clicking back to this one wall post, written two months ago, nine months after she died, by one of her friends. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Over nine feet when he stands up straight. Mostly he slouches closer to eight.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

And here he was a boy no older than eight or nine. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was only nine, but how old did you have to be to sweep up old hair? The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“After nine months, the woman gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. Now the parents’ joy turned to grief, for the law said that twins were evil and must be killed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And next to the Spider, there was a giant Ladybug with nine black spots on her scarlet shell. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until nine o’clock at night when I was in bed that a bell went off in my head. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

By nine o’clock in the morning the food was ready. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Harry scanned the moving photograph, and a grin spread across his face as he saw all nine of the Weasleys waving furiously at him, standing in front of a large pyramid. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The nine freshman boys who had beaten California would go to Poughkeepsie to race for the national championship after all. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I told you nine years ago you were becalmed, didn’t I? And you are. Your indenture’s almost over—but what can you do? Keep on working in a chandlery, like as not.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took nine separate burnings before the fire got down to the straw and cotton ticking of its insides. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

They just made me promise that Katie’s parents would drop me off at church at nine o’clock. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think there is anything else we need discuss, to-night. I shall be here sharp at nine in the morning. You will have room for me in your car, de Winter?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

In 2012, they show up for school late after this event, about nine a.m. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

But in fact it had been seven years, or eight, or nine: the summer she worked at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, the summer of Josef. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was around nine in the morning, right before she was going to go out and deliver the day’s mail. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

You could tell they were rich ’cause the car looked like it had room for eight or nine more people in it and ’cause they had movie star clothes on. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Yes, Momma. I'm almost nine. Can’t you give me a little credit?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

‘What time is it? Ten a.m. In eight hours those nine blood-thirsty brutes will be galloping off to gobble up another couple of dozen unfortunate wretches. They have to be stopped. We must act fast.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the initiates were from Dauntless, so only nine people remain. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

During one game—he was nine or ten—the score was tied in the bottom of the eleventh and one of the Yankees hit a walk-off grand slam. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I was nine years old; I didn’t yet have the gift for small talk. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly after nine o’clock, Esther of Providence, Rhode Island, switched off her radio and rolled a sheet of paper into her typewriter. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was nearly nine o’clock when Squealer made his appearance, walking slowly and dejectedly, his eyes dull, his tail hanging limply behind him, and with every appearance of being seriously ill. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

In a varsity match, only nine of the team’s best fencers compete, three in épée, three in foil, and three in saber. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She did not speak again until nine years later, when she opened her mouth to announce that she was planning to be married. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But those first nine expeditions embarked for Tibet from Darjeeling, where many Sherpas had emigrated, and where they had developed a reputation among the resident colonialists for being hardworking, affable, and intelligent. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

There were six thousand letters to date and only nine of them abusive. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

To get all nine of us, plus our clothes and the odds and ends of furniture we’d accumulated, from Owens Valley 225 miles south to Long Beach, Papa had to make the trip three times. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second labor was to go to Lerna and kill a creature with nine heads called the Hydra which lived in a swamp there. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

You know—living in a slum, his mother dead since he was nine. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

At nine p.m. on Friday, as he did every week, Habib dialed the number given to him by the U.S. consulate in Peshawar, where it was nine in the morning, exactly twelve hours ahead. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

We still had to have my party, and my brother had to get to bed by eight and I by nine—though maybe because this was a celebration, we would get to stay up later. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But now we had to navigate the more than nine hundred miles that would separate us. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Among the Catholics, the Austrians went to Mass at eight o’clock, Italians at nine o’clock, and Irish at ten o’clock. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The station was decommissioned nine years ago for lack of funds, at which time the basket was supposed to be chained and locked to the tower on our side—the highway side—of the river. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, considering I get naked before takeoff, I’d say that exactly nine months from the moment we fly over the Columbia River, you’ll probably be giving birth.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I was nine years old and still hoped that perhaps his eyes might move. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We had eleven avocado trees and nine mango trees,” Mami was saying. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Her mother opened it, and her eyes were wide and surprised to see me standing at her door at nine in the morning. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

There were nine huts in total, each equipped with four metal beds and four metal lockers. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“In need of a little focusing, hmm? If a is eleven and b is nine and x is the product of a times b, what is the value of x?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Seven, nine, twelve lines of knights, stampeding through the town and out into the bay. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

In the fall of 1952, when Bobby was nine, Regina secured scholarship enrollment for him in Brooklyn Community Woodward, a progressive grade school of approximately 150 children. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Usually gets in about eight or nine o’clock,” said Mack. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Give me the rundown of what you were doing, say, yesterday, after, say, school. From the time school got out till, say, about eight to nine o’clock at night.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The ref knelt next to Bruiser, counting to nine and checking to make sure he was breathing. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lake had been formed and dug to a uniform depth of nine feet, with small wooden boat docks fingering out from its waterless shores where the most desirable concrete slabs had been poured. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

You remembered the time you slept over and Vinny wanted to stay up “all night” even though you were only nine. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

We nine have come from our homes around the world. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where is the man who dispatched armed soldiers to keep nine children out of school, who bet his life and his career that he could halt integration? Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose it was because even at that age—we were nine or ten—we knew just enough to make us wary of that whole territory. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tricky part was getting onto platform nine and three-quarters, which wasn’t visible to the Muggle eye. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

At nine in the morning he eased off on the tiller, let the bowsprit come up into the wind, and the Frog slowed to a standstill. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aaron, who ended up in eight out of my nine classes, got a 100 on the start-of-school reading quiz. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She sleeps like a corpse, so unless she’s woken up in the past nine minutes, Jupe has no idea I’m gone. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

That year, Louis cleared a profit of twenty million dollars, up from nine million before the war started. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

For example, any pants with a leg narrower than eight inches for women or nine inches for men would be considered fourolds. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father always said when you want to go somewhere you’re not supposed to be, just walk in like you own the place, and nine times out of ten, you’ll get in. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

What would he do with the next nine years? Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“After ice, I was one of nine, and after waddle I was six of nine.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

By nine A.M. , an estimated six thousand persons thronged the nearby blocks, behind police barriers, and faces were in every window of the apartment buildings across the street; some stood shivering on fire escapes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s something like nine or ten rows of feathers. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The bandits tell the nine other men, including Wendy’s husband, to strip to their underwear, then lie facedown on the ground. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He was to go to the guy’s house at nine and get a package to take downtown. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I shut the closet to conceal the strange, wraith-like apparel it contained; which, at this evening hour—nine o’clock—gave out certainly a most ghostly shimmer through the shadow of my apartment. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Curfew isn’t until nine, but I have nearly half an hour of walking, and Januka has more. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Groups of five prisoners were pressed into cells measuring nine feet by seven feet; the cells were filthy, with poor lighting and worse ventilation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the ref got to nine, he leaped up, grabbed Joey’s arm and raised it above their heads. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The composer’s name was John Williams, and his bio said he composed the score for nine Star Wars movies. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

They flew over the nine lakes, silver baubles in green alpine bowls. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he had come to his senses—after nine days God gave him the power to tell her this thing could not be. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Don Apolinar Moscote had trouble identifying that conspirator in high boots and with a rifle slung over his shoulder with the person he had played dominoes with until nine in the evening. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

A dark blue number nine in the corner. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

At about half-past nine Napoleon, wearing an old bowler hat of Mr. Jones’s, was distinctly seen to emerge from the back door, gallop rapidly round the yard, and disappear indoors again. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

It had to be eight or nine feet. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Ms. Udell then distributed nine pink cards to girls who raised outstretched fingers and mouthed numbers to each other. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“They’ll have eight or nine thousand. A lot of fan interest down there for this game. “I want you to to keep in mind why we’re going. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of being born after nine months, I was born after six. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was still fairly early by the sun, something between nine and ten, and the hobbits turned their minds to food. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Balder the beautiful crossed this bridge nine days ago. He went to Hel’s great hall.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Uncle Leang and his wife have six children, so with the nine of us it makes seventeen under one thatched roof.Their house would not be called a house by city peoples standards. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The legacy of slavery very much shaped my grandmother and the way she raised her nine children. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

At nine o’clock, the previous Sunday’s scenes were repeated. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because there were nine of us, the pancakes were never cooked all the way through. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

For nine years, Ames delivered to the Soviets a steady stream of secrets, betraying more than one hundred CIA operations against the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In my family, with four of us packed into less than nine hundred square feet of living space, we’d never had any privacy anyway. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He was slim, five foot nine, and just under 170 pounds. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Plainly that was what he thought of “nine.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But it samples the air from nine small vents that pipe back to the main unit. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Think: we were there nine years, and we tried everything, all stratagems against them, up to the bitter end that Zeus begrudged us. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I spend my days helping Lelia with her speech kids, then nap for a few hours after an early dinner until I leave at nine for the nightly work with John Kwang. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the three New London churches, there was a funeral every fifteen or thirty minutes from nine o’clock in the morning until after eight. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Have them meet us at the Imperial Marquis Hotel at nine.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

You had to take those pieces of paper with you when you went shopping, though by the time I was nine or ten most people used plastic cards. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

At ten minutes before nine that morning, Ishmael had spoken with the accused man’s wife on the second floor of the Island County Courthouse. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It took a bully nine straight months of riding me to cause my thermometer to boil. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was nine years old when the letters made my parents, who are rocks, cry. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's nine thirty," I say, catching a glimpse of the screen of a cell phone. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When Tom was nine years old he worried because his pretty little sister Mollie had an impediment in her speech. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Right to nine. Left to four. Right to three. Left to seven.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“So you’ll be aging out of foster care in . . . let’s see . . . you turned seventeen in January, so nine months. Have you thought about what you’re going to do then?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

About 6,200 students attend Bristol Township’s public schools, either at Truman High, the district’s lone high school, or one of its two middle schools or nine elementaries. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

To exaggerate a bit, the one-in-eleven figure is a little like saying that nine out of ten people will develop age spots, which doesn’t mean it should be a major preoccupation of thirty-year-olds. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just before the court hearing where Governor Fau- bus would be called to account, the nine of us were summoned to Mrs. Bates’s house to meet with the press. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time he said that I was nine, and he’d just told me and Trey that he had diabetes. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Kat had convinced me that theory nine, that Salim had never got on the pod in the first place, was wrong. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten! Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I only got to three times nine is twenty-seven before she and Janet started laughing and I started yelling again. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the ninety-seven faces staring back, only nine were women. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The brown leather collar that belonged to the family dog who died when Bailey was nine. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The other Low Cuts watched Bit the hustler, Bit who could turn ninety cents into nine bucks—into ice cream—turn into a son. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Eight boxes only out of the nine, which we sought! Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Another thing, Joe Starks hadn’t been dead but nine months and here she goes sashaying off to a picnic in pink linen. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Besides his captives, Ser Gregor was bringing back a dozen pigs, a cage of chickens, a scrawny milk cow, and nine wagons of salt fish. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was nine years since West Indian Archie and I had been stalking the streets, momentarily expecting to try and shoot each other down like dogs. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mentions of Mack had grown fewer and fewer until the morning Kitty showed up at nine o’clock at Duke’s Barbershop. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Besides,” Ruthanne added, “kids spend nine months of the year trying to get out of school. I guess they don’t figure anyone’s going to sneak back in.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

That, and the fact that none of these jobs paid over nine dollars an hour. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I also want to know which is the seventh step because there are nine steps on the stairs and I’d like to know if you count from the bottom or the top. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“When they say a cat has nine lives, I thought that God gave me ten,” he said. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

For the first part of the day, from nine in the morning to three in the afternoon, we studied only Talmud. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It’s a castle out of a storybook: eight or nine stone buildings sheltered below hills, rust-colored roofs, narrow windows, spires and turrets, weeds sprouting from between roof tiles. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

More than nine million people a year come to the Smokies, many of them to picnic. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He had been shipwrecked on Bermuda for nine months until new ships could be built from the remains of the Sea Venture. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Shaker Heights was officially a city; there were nine elementary schools and a new redbrick senior high had just been completed. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

So I twined my arms and legs around it in the gale and stayed afloat nine days. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hardware store opened at nine. Want to go?” she asked. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“A fine big breakfast is what Mrs. Dudley certainly agreed to set out at nine,” Luke said, waving a fork. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was older than Mitt, maybe nine or ten when Mitt was six, and we often saw him at the town pool. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We black children—seven, eight, and nine years of age—used to run to the Jew’s store and shout: Jew, Jew, Jew What do you chew? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The number of people who lived in the home at any given time fluctuated between five and nine, which made for tight living conditions. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Is that why you keep rolling into the office at nine fifteen?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It was only about a quarter to nine when we got back to the dorm. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Slowly the nine masters stopped talking among themselves and turned to look at me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Eight of the nine intakes for the regulator were still bagged, but this one would at least tell the truth. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

What you had to do was walk through the solid barrier dividing platforms nine and ten. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

No one hardly ever guessed the joke, except when it was a super-easy one we all knew anyway, like “seven ate nine.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the end, only nine of us were actually the first to integrate Central High School My hopes and dreams were all tied in one package as I approached Central High on September 4, 1957. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Halliday had put this Tempest machine on Tournament settings, so I couldn’t start the game any higher than level nine. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

"Car number three cost one hundred and eleven pounds and sold for nine hundred and ninety-nine pounds and fifty pence." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Until nine or so. Then it started burning off—was mostly gone by the time we set out in the launch, if that’s what you’re driving at, sir.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The crunch came during my second term when I was exactly nine and a half, and it happened during evening Prep. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the nine days of work, Tree-ear had not once touched clay. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The Grimes family arrived in a body, always a little late, usually in the middle of Sunday school, which began at nine o’clock. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It happened a little over a year later, when I was just nine. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Manderlys are no northmen, not down deep. ’Twas no more than nine hundred years ago when they came north, laden down with all their gold and gods. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Behind followed nine tenths of their horse; knights, lancers, freeriders, and mounted bowmen. ^ took hours for them all to cross. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I threw off my double layer of blankets, went to my window, and looked down to the street, nine dizzying floors below. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

At its height, I had a small farm with nearly nine hundred plants; a garden far grander than the one I had on Robben Island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the past nine years she’s been in over a dozen foster homes, some for as little as a week. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was almost nine o’clock when I yawned dramatically. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good thing the Quiz Bowl doesn’t start till nine o’clock in the morning,” cracked Kojo. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Washing cars, like I was doing every day when I was nine, ten, eleven, you get to know the people who have cars in the town. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frey walked alone into Odin’s hall and clambered up onto the Hlidskjalf, the throne from which Odin could see everything that happened across the nine worlds. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Again he saw the paper that had sealed his fate for nine years: Nathaniel Bowditch—Indentured. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Center Valley’s strawberry fields lay under nine inches of powder and were as fuzzy through the snowfall as a landscape in a dream, with no discernible hard edges. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

With a record of one and one, it was also the first time in nine years the team had been at .500. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Mr. Lome, needless to say the Observers will meet tonight. There are private decisions to be made before the mass meeting tomorrow at nine.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But we are the original nine, Jason Grace, the ones who attended the birth of your father.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It grows between the nine worlds and joins them, each to each. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

"All I got left is these in a nine." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

For instance, in 1975 I was crowned Little Miss Central Florida Tire and received a check for one thousand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“If you hadn’t already missed nine meals in the last two weeks ...” he broke in. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each of the nine slaves had died with his throat cut by his fellow’s blade. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

"I got an eight and a nine, but no eight and a half." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

In 1855, when he was nine, the family moved to Chicago, where his father established a successful wholesale drug business. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“He had nine brothers and sisters,” added Andrew. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

And nine months later your father and I had our proof of citizenship, a baby boy, your big brother Winston. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lincoln hastily pulls a card from his jacket pocket and jots a short note inviting Ashmun to return at nine in the morning. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Thor is a good nine feet away from it when its head crashes to the ground, but that is not far enough. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He was fourteen, looked like he was nine. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Hours, nine to five-thirty, half an hour for lunch, salary, seven dollars a week to start. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart sank as we nine eyeballed one another with grim expressions. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I love the way you can be exhausted and sweaty and running with nine other guys, and yet, at the risk of sounding overly Zen, you are still so wonderfully alone. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

That doesn’t seem like a long time now, but when you’re nine, it feels like an eternity. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“This is really last-minute, Silas. It leaves us with only nine players for tomorrow.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

For nine years she had battled the cancer in her bone marrow; now the contest was ending. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam killer, was in the Box at Sullivan for nine years. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eighteen months to my nine years, thirteen years to my twenty. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t deal with the even-numbered problems that awaited me on pages nine and ten of my algebra book, so I pulled out my zine supplies instead. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Maybe nine thousand dollars is quite reasonable for a watch with real diamonds. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

People jostled him on their way to platforms nine and ten. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Gay added, “Ashley was in foster care for nine years, and she wouldn’t have been adopted if it wasn’t for her child advocate, Mary Miller.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

‘It cannot be more than nine o’clock,’ he thought. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The hunting party returned near evenfall with nine dead wolves. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When I was eight, nine, and ten, I slept in my bedroom closet with the door closed. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Staff Sergeant X was in his room on the second floor of the civilian home in which he and nine other American soldiers had been quartered, even before the armistice. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

And when the nine dogs of Napoleon’s own bodyguard, whom he had instructed to make a detour under cover of the hedge, suddenly appeared on the men’s flank, baying ferociously, panic overtook them. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

She has at most nine hours left—and she’s a very slow reader. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m figuring about two point seven-five feet per step. That would be”—he made a quick mental calculation—“nine hundred and fifty-seven feet.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

You may wonder how a small child, only nine years old, can know these things. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is about five feet, nine inches tall and his skin is exceedingly black. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But the College could’ve boughten her at any time after she showed: seven months, eight, nine. Any.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

First, when she was eight, going on nine, her mother had died, an event not immediately recognized by Elizabeth as a disaster, since she had scarcely known her mother and had certainly never loved her. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

We nine acknowledged one another with nervous smiles and a very few whispered words. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fall! why, that is like a baby again! Can’t she manage to walk at her age? She must be eight or nine years old.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

‘No. He had not when I departed; but that was nine days ago,’ answered Glorfindel. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I don’t care that it’s not yet nine o’clock in the morning, I’m frightened and I don’t want to have to think. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was over nine years since Frodo had seen or heard of him, and he had begun to think that the wizard would never return and had given up all interest in hobbits. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

"Yeah. Whiskey bottles. They didn't hit each other, but they hit this guy and he had to get nine stitches in his head." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some nine or ten soldiers were milling about it. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Otherwise, Charles and his team would not have been able to find the nine clues they’d already picked up. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The Far Western restaurant was about nine miles from downtown Santa Maria. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Eight or nine other people were scattered around the summit, including one youngish, rather pudgy man on his own in a very new and expensive-looking windcheater. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

At nine o'clock I drank me a tall glass of water. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm starting class nine in New York, not Mumbai. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I remember being nine years old, translating newspaper articles for my mother about my father’s murder. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In 1928, when I was nine, I belonged, with maximum esprit de corps, to an organization known as the Comanche Club. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The first graders cut out the flames for each of the nine candles, and together they put a menorah on every classroom door. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“They have killed twenty-two guards and nine of the staff, and they’ve set light to every part of the buildings that still stood. They are going to destroy it completely.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

And that’s what I was, according to my fourth grade teacher, way back when I was nine. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“I suppose you’ll work that way at first. But nine years is a long time. You’ll get mighty tired of sailing by ash breeze.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally the score was tied nine to nine, and the family on the sidelines readied themselves for a denouement. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

All this takes a long time, and it was nine months before I was finished with the T-6 and ready to try jets. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guests at the Crawford House could choose among nine daily newspapers from New York and Boston, shipped in specially. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

But Mary Charlene died one night when she was nine months old. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She held a little wooden puppet about nine inches high. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They were wonderful, the sound and feel of a machine after nine days of nothing but wind and wave slaps. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coach told me to try to run one hundred meters in nine seconds and fifty-eight milliseconds—Bolt's time. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

There were about nine diamond rings on just her right hand! Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Eight or nine seconds was an eternity on top of an angry bull, but Roy imagined himself hanging on so tightly that the animal couldn’t shake him no matter how furiously it tried. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our plane departed Houston on Tuesday night, July 26, 2016, at nine p.m. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I work for a living! I’m asleep by nine o’clock every night, and I—and I—” Jack whips his baseball cap off again. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

From nine to eleven he planned to dig a hole, or trench, and possibly find something good to eat buried in the dirt. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

He was eating a light supper at nine in the evening when the front door cried out in the hall and Mildred ran from the parlour like a native fleeing an eruption of Vesuvius. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had now missed nine days of school. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He tells himself that it’s the stress—she’s been studying for her orals, holed up in her carrel at the library until nine o’clock most nights. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s almost nine. Why don’t you go ahead with Richard, Charles. Tell Julian not to wait.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I told you I’d be there. .. . Yes, nine o’clock on the morning of May 6.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Lucas’s father left them in the middle of the night when he was nine years old. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

She sat there, dusty from nine hundred miles of driving, and refused to move another inch. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He would call at Barnard’s Hotel Tuesday morning at nine o’clock, when if not agreeable please leave word. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

In downtown Manhattan, black cars line up outside Goldman Sachs’s headquarters every weeknight around nine. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Leon Sadoff’s father ran a kiosk on Amsterdam just off 125th Street, and we got nine plugs of chewing tobacco from him. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

After a certain age, maybe nine or so, Bengali girls are never seen naked by others, not even by friends. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You have about nine thousand dollars left and the ranch.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

At nine o’clock in the morning on June 24, Strauss and his charges were ushered into Eisenhower’s presence inside the Oval Office. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Pa rose in the dark for work and was asleep by nine. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Six hundred feet, down at nineteen . . . Four hundred feet, down at nine . . . Three hundred feet . . . Watch our shadow out there,” called Buzz, repeating new numbers every few seconds. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We watched each other’s back for nine, ten months.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

In the center of the room, beneath a gigantic chandelier, twenty-eight tables are dressed and ready for the sit-down dinner to be served at nine. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Ten, nine, eight...and in walks Colin, with that fake limp of his, and that cheesy grin as if he thinks he’s God’s gift to girls. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Instead of sleeping six to a room, as they had the year before, they now had to find places to stretch out eight or nine of their long frames in each room. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But seeing the brick building makes it official: Summer is over, and this is where I’m going to spend most of my life for the next nine months. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

There were two fifteen-minute rest periods in the work shift and half an hour for “lunch” at nine o’clock. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for the songs from musicals, we choose nine distinct renditions of "Over the Rainbow," including a reggae one. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

I can do nine keys, even ten, to make a chord, but to be honest, that sounds weird. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The boy, with curly chestnut-brown hair, is maybe eight or nine years old. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I nearly forgot. Mrs. Gause wanted me to give you this. I checked it out of the nine hundreds room.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the nine o’clock twilight, as I approached the school building from across the street, there was a light on in the orthopedic appliances shop. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

They gave him his nine nights of wake. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

In thirteen seconds they fired sixty-seven rounds, injuring nine and killing four. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. I didn’t even know they had it until I was nine...when my father was killed.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Leale and his stretcher bearers carry Lincoln up nine short, curved steps to the front door. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Me, who had a night-light in my room until I was nine. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Over the years nine children were born, four boys and five girls, and with each birth another quarter-section was added to the ranch, and that makes eleven quarter-sections, or seventeen hundred and sixty acres. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were only nine weeks left until the final duel, and some of the others, including Nox, were doing well enough that those four spots were starting to seem rather precious. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Look. Ignatius. I’m beat. I’ve been on the road since nine o’clock yesterday morning. As soon as I mailed you that letter about the Peace Party routine, I said to myself, ‘Mvrna. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

JimmyTrotter wouldn’t let me forget the eggs I dropped and cracked when I was nine. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I can assure you that when I went to bed at nine, my legs were still shaking. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The wait from nine when the staff came until ten when the public came seemed long. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

On October 2, 1932, nine months after Herbert’s death, Adolf Hitler addressed 70,000 Hitler Youth at a special rally in Potsdam, a suburb of Berlin. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

As she fell, Annabeth thought about Hesiod, the old Greek poet who’d speculated it would take nine days to fall from earth to Tartarus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The Professor took away one copy to study after dinner, and before our meeting, which is fixed for nine o’clock. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

As I knew later, we were crossing the Sembensyens that night, and must have gone up over nine thousand feet on the passes. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the first half ended, Winchell had thrown nine passes. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

From eight to nine, Wilbur planned to take a nap outdoors in the sun. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Mommy dusted it off with a whisk broom, set out eight or nine bowls, poured oatmeal in each one, left instructions for the eldest to feed the rest, then ran a comb through my hair. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be much easier to pick on a single plane than on nine, whose pilots and navigators and tail gunners were all furiously firing their own guns and hurling grenades out of their cockpits. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

And it’s the biggest nine- and ten-year-olds who get the most coaching and practice. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I’m seventeen and the streets mess with me and keep me nervous, and he’s only nine. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I left at nine, when it was pitch-black out. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The slave sailors off the Selaesori Qhoran, sold singly, had gone for prices ranging from five hundred, to nine hundred pieces of silver. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Every business in Garden Heights gotta close by nine. And nobody can be in the streets after ten. Lights out, like in prison.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The great festival, in September, came only every five years, but it lasted for nine days. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s almost nine thirty, a half hour away from the audition sign-up, and I press call to connect to Libby, but immediately my phone powers down. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I imagined being Luke sitting at this table, eight or nine years old, and just beginning to realize that my mother wasn’t all there. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It had nine golden hands, and each of them was engraved with one of the Weasley family’s names. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A brother from Ningbo who makes his sister cry with joy when he returns nine thousand dollars plus interest. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

You repeat the prayers for nine days in a row, and by the end you’re supposed to see a merciful shift in whatever situation you’ve been praying about. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In no time, the nine children were eating a fine omelet and the sweet roasted plomms. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Shin was nine years old when the North Korean caste system knocked him on the head. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He knows what he’s talking about. 4TH juror: The boy talked with his friends for about an hour, leaving them at nine forty-five. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You listen here, if this was a game, I done won it nine time o’er!” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The music, sports, comedy, and drama programs helped them forget the money troubles they’d had since the Great Depression began nine years earlier. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“But there’s one thousand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars to win,” said Louisiana. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

It didn’t dawn on me till after he left that I still didn’t know any more about ladies having babies than I did yesterday when I was just nine. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

"Mom? Mom, it's me. I got home fine, and now I'm fixing some food ... it's about nine, I guess. So ... say hi to Dad, and I'll call you tomorrow. Or you can call me. Bye." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

By February 1922, nine months after the murders of Whitehorn and Anna Brown, the investigations into the cases seemed to have reached a permanent impasse. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

That’s when the sperm hits the egg and it grows and there you are nine months later. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

By nine, Cousin Eunice would have been home for almost three hours. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men in suits and ties hovered in the lobby, eyeing me suspiciously as I walked into the visitation room at a little past nine. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He’d served nine months in prison, and the few people who visited him said he looked wretched. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I ended up working nine years as a housekeeper. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

You went from the weir, or you jumped off the bank into nine feet of water. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

In a 19-3 Cotton Bowl loss to Nebraska, he started at safety and was in on nine tackles and intercepted a pass. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“On Christmas night the general led a surprise attack on Trenton. He beat the Hessians—killed a handful and took more than nine hundred prisoner.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suspected bad karma sneaking up on me with a nine iron. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

There were nine grownups and five children, fourteen in all. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

We’d rolled the windows down — the Suburban was a bit claustrophobic with nine people in it — and I tried to absorb as much sunlight as possible. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You have nine days until the new moon, Pandavas. Less than that, perhaps, for time runs differently here than in the mortal realms,” said Urvashi. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Membership, it was said, never at any point rose above thirty and much of the time remained closer to nine or ten. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

At nine years old they towered nine fathoms tall, nine cubits in the shoulders, and they promised furor upon Olympos, heaven broken by battle cries, the day they met the gods in arms. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little after nine in the morning we were walking together down a logging road cut into a steep hillside. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“You said there’d be charter boats all over the place. You promised somebody would find us by nine o’clock.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Our most spectacular fight, and our most audacious tactical victory—the Battle of Little Hobart Street—took place against Ernie Goad and his friends when I was ten and Brian was nine. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

By nine o’clock the sun was already high and blazing. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

And she nodded because she’s read more books in nine years than most people read in a lifetime and I said Well, as long as we’re together that’s what we are. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, nine months later, Rosa Parks was embraced by a community ready for action. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

"I know you will. Until tomorrow then. You'll meet with the executive committee of the Harlem section at nine A.M. You know the location of course?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, at least nine in ten truckers here, one trucker at the stop says, refuse migrants. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The fourth believed that this was true in nine out of ten cases, but granted the possibility of the exceptional black individual. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not even nine, but the sidewalks are jammed with commuters. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“See how the spinner is divided into ten different-colored sections numbered zero to nine?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

"It is starting to vurrrk at exactly nine o'clock, vhen the child is arriving at school!" shouted The Grand High Witch triumphantly. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Bliss conferred with the nine other doctors in the room. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you are thinking it would be easy to escape into the darkness. There are nine levels. Three hundred kilometers of tunnels. Maybe you are thinking we would never find you.” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Children, tonight an early supper,” Mami is saying, as if Mundín and I are six and nine instead of twelve and fifteen. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

As I walked along with Ben and Phoebe, I remembered a time when I was nine or ten. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

All nine Little Baldy Bear Lakes were visible now, and at the uppermost lake a pair of campers in a bright yellow rubber boat were fishing. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took the pencil back from Kat and crossed off what she’d written for theory nine. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also has two daughters whom he has not seen in nine months. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was almost nine years since he last had it in his hands. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

There were six well-trained efficient men working on each giant and within ten minutes eight out of the nine giants had been trussed up like chickens and were still snoring contentedly. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holder released nine states, mostly in the South, from the requirement that they must seek advance federal approval before making any change in their election laws. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can serve yourselves. I clear up in the morning. I have breakfast ready for you at nine. That’s the way I agreed to do.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was nine years old when my mother threw me out of a moving car. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When the solar system is all explored, we will probably have evidence for impact catastrophism on all nine worlds, from Mercury to Pluto, and on all the smaller moons, comets and asteroids. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She answered the question in his eyes before he asked it: “I'm thirteen, Maybeth is nine, James is ten.” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I am lucky—that at the age of nine I was given the ghosts of my parents’ best selves, and at twenty-three the ghost of my true love’s best self. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

A mighty campaign was announced, in which the federal government in cooperation with the afflicted states would ultimately treat some 20,000,000 acres in nine southern states. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Seducing pubescent girls, as he had done “eight or nine” times in the last several years, did not disprove it, for if the truth were known, most real men had the same desires he had. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Consider the island of Manhattan shrunk to this size: This Manhattan could easily hold nine million viruses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d arrive at the pool around nine o’clock in the morning and stay till four o’clock in the afternoon. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Around the back side of the room, opposite the stairwell, nine alcoves were carved into the wall. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was bursting with pride as people said nice things about my courage and about what we nine were doing for future generations who would be able to attend integrated schools. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Altogether, of his nine listed wards, seven had died. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

His accent was slight—he'd lived in San Francisco since he was nine—but when he sang, he became unmistakably Irish. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I shouted, ‘I called nine- one-one and I’m recording everything. Let her go.’ Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

But he refused to travel by airplane or accept packages COD, lived in fear of unexpected visitors, and had not been abroad in eight or nine years. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Rachel and every other person I’ve known for nine years continue to ignore me. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I took my bath while she dressed my baby brother Andrew, who was nine months old. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Before we young Akhaians shipped for Troy I led men on nine cruises in corsairs to raid strange coasts, and had great luck, taking rich spoils on the spot, and even more in the division. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The sign read, don’t buy from jews,” said Gaston, who was nine years old at the time. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He hung from the world-tree, Yggdrasil, hung there for nine nights. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was beyond even rudimentary, infantry, truck-driver jailhouse swearing—I know he condemned me to eight or nine slow deaths. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When I was eight, I found it weird how she was credited as a “beloved” mother when the only mothering she did was carry me for nine months; ten years later, I know much better. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

All the way to Mr. Walsh’s house Nat’s feet seemed to beat out the words: Nine years...nine years...nine years... Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rick Kingsley, back when he was showing me around the Washington Correctional Facility, had remembered Sing Sing as the worst nine months of his life, his stint in Vietnam included. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered if he should get out his wand and start tapping the ticket inspector’s stand between platforms nine and ten. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The enemy was out there and there may have been nine of us and one hundred twenty-one of them, but there was no doubt in his mind that we had to engage them. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

She had gotten to campus a little after nine, after having dropped off the couple’s two daughters: three-year-old Cassidy at day care, and Stephanie, who had just turned seven, at school. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

To be honest, due to my nine months of experience, my shifts fluctuate from night to day week after week. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was around nine o'clock that I crossed the border into Cornwall. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I first started butting heads with Dad in 1948—I was only nine—because he dragged us away from Mississippi. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Blake had the nine o'clock news on. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Now I have nine hours instead of eight, and although one of them is an unpaid dinner hour, I have a net half an hour a day more on my feet. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh sure, I just arrived nine days ago and I’ve already staked him out.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

On the evening of the march, with more than nine hundred arrested children filling Birmingham’s jails, Dr. King held a mass church meeting. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was nearly nine o’clock when Mrs. Richardson finally filed her stories and arrived home. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We went back, caught nine more fish, and skipped home, whistling. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Their bus-driving leader left the Gladers in the hands of a small staff—nine or ten men and women dressed in pressed black pants and white shirts, their hair immaculate, their faces and hands clean. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten! Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

—Well, the game was over ’bout nine- thirty and we was till in a good mood ’cause we won big—by something like forty points, so we was gonna celebrate. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time was on television, when I was eight or nine. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will you want me just as much when I’m fifteen feet nine inches? All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She just looked at the clock on the wall and when it was exactly nine o’clock, she tinkled a bell that was like the one my mother used to call the servants. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“With the release of the bomb, the plane was instantly nine thousand pounds lighter,” Tibbets said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nine of us walked up the sidewalk toward the Federal Building at a brisk pace. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joey was back on the phone with me at nine o’clock. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In January 1997, when I was nine years old, our family experienced a sudden and tragic loss. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The long strip of a building had nine rooms, side by side, with doors that led out onto a narrow veranda. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

As the clock struck nine and Jo proposed bed, Meg suddenly left her chair and, taking Beth’s stool, leaned her elbows on her mother’s knee, saying bravely... Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when families have spent a million years making nine in the hope of saving one, they cannot stop making nine. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

At nine o’clock on that Friday morning, he put on a surgical scrub suit and a paper mask and went into the Level 3 lab where the flasks were being kept warm. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, he was now a young man of nine. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I was nine years old, and I still thought of the police as the good guys. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The party’s supposed to start at seven, so I know I have to wait until nine to show up, so there will be enough people there to hide my presence. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m still nine. I am not going back to eight.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

How many of the nine thousand things could be waiting to surprise you after fifty years? Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

There was the orthodontist to see, and I needed new legs made every nine months or so as I outgrew them. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“That was the synagogue office. They say to get to the temple by nine on Saturday morning.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Small wonder the clansmen had left nine bodies on the ground. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

At nine o’clock they went to bed and lay quietly, hand in hand, he fifty-five, she sixty, in the raining darkness. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 313, just nine years after the Ptolemaic forces were first invited in by the aristocratic faction, the people were already in revolt. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

I decided to go the whole nine with her, flowers and everything. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just you wait,” Big Ma said when I was nine, mopping her wet brow. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“The sheriff arrived; it was nine thirty-five—I looked at my watch. Mr. Ewalt waved at him to follow our car, and we drove out to the Clutters’. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Day before Hallows’ Eve, thirty- nine years ago. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

At the opposite shore, we sat on the edge of a dry-rotted wooden boat dock and dangled our feet over the Mars surface of the dead lake, which was nine feet below us. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

A year later, when I was ten and Ellis was nine, we moved. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

They know they will come here and live eight or nine to a room and earn ten dollars a day, maybe save five. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every one of them looks classy, dressed to the nines. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the matter is to be a “nine days’ wonder,” they are evidently determined that there shall be no cause of after complaint. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He elaborated on it nine months later during a week of daylong interviews with me in Seoul. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

When Bod was nine he had been exploring in just this part of the world when the soil had given way beneath him, tumbling him into a hole almost twenty feet down. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

When tail fins disappeared, I was nine; when power antennas arrived, eleven. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t bring this up to tell you about a dumb stunt I pulled when I was nine. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in 1957, at age nine, I was stunned to see on television and in the newspapers the hate-filled faces of Arkansas’s white women— mostly mothers—angrily protesting the “Little Rock Nine.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The train was due in at nine o'clock from San Sebastian, and, if Brett and Mike were coming, they would be on it. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The Occupation itself lasted only nine months; by Christmas that first year it was over. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the train pulled out of Hangzhou the next day, the Hsus found themselves depleted of some nine thousand dollars’ worth of goodwill. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thor could not help staring: the old woman had nine hundred heads, each head uglier and more terrifying than the last. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

They hired him when he was nine and kept him on until he was dispatched with a single note. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The 1968 Democratic National Convention turned bloody as police went after Vietnam War protesters with batons and tear gas in Grant Park, about nine miles north of where we lived. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They could return at nine o’clock in the morning if they wished to know where matters stood. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Looking at Prim’s face, it’s hard to imagine she’s the same frail little girl I left behind on reaping day nine months ago. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wear a size nine dress and a size six shoe, which my mother finds em­barrassingly big. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles the Fifth had no less than nine hundred and ten volumes, so that his personal collection was about as big as the Everyman Library is today. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Me and my dad went to the Sea, Air, and Space Museum together once, when I was nine. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

His mother tried to wean him when he was nine months old but Gussie wouldn’t stand for it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kathy was one of nine children, and had grown up with very little, and Zeitoun, the eighth of thirteen children, had been raised with almost nothing. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She was the oldest of nine children, only three of whom were married. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He occupied a cell that measured nine by fourteen feet, with a narrow barred window high in its outer wall and a single electric lamp, which guards extinguished at nine o’clock each night. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Mind you, we were in grade nine at this point. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“But my very educated mother just showed us nine planets! That’s how Mommy said people remember the planets in our solar system.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Act like you’re in control, the bodyguard had said, and nine times out of ten, you ’11 get away with it. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he gave me a problem such as nine times seven, I would have to say “sixty-three” at once. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Eight rings, nine; then, to my relief, Charles’s sleepy hello. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I started to count all the places I had lived over the past nine years and ran out of fingers. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Second, Third and Fourth avenues were inhabited mostly by Coloureds, the mulatto race which came into being nine months after white settlers arrived in South Africa in 1652—without women. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes after nine o’clock, the light on the camera facing Nixon’s desk glowed red. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Every earth-digger and mechanical contrivance in the country had been mobilized to dig the colossal hole in which the nine giants were to be permanently imprisoned. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was about nine in the morning when Mammachi and Baby Kochamma got news of a white child’s body found floating downriver where the Meenachal broadens as it approaches the backwaters. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Against the far wall were a dozen stricken-faced boys, from probably ages three to nine. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

And for the first time in nine years, I start to cry. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I’m coming into the clearing. I have nine others with me.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

More and more competitors were arriving, and soon the clock would strike nine—the time when the Test would begin. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Number nine is not part of our Annex family, although she does share our house and table. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Speechless as they went to bed at nine o’clock. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

To secure the loan, the Athenians demanded a deposit of fifteen talents, or approximately nine hundred pounds of solid gold. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Before he was nine years old he could talk with one hand in the American way—and also could employ both of his hands after the method of Europeans. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He cut nine hairs out of the mole of her head for luck and went off happy. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

One of those extinctions, the Great Dying, killed off nine out of ten species on Earth. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

"Must bathe. He doesn't get in till nine." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

We figure we can get there in nine months. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Malcolm X left me at around two A.M. on that occasion, he asked me to call him at nine A.M. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just take the train from platform nine and three-quarters at eleven o’clock,” he read. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

We lived in that one room for nine years, and those nine years were the happiest years of my life. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s almost nine by the time I get hack to Blenheim Road, and as I turn the corner I see her, coming towards me, pushing the buggy in front of her. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was doing fairly well in most of my meets, but until I began competing at levels nine and ten, no one paid much attention to individual wins. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Why hadn’t they been able to get onto platform nine and three-quarters? Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

On a shelf opposite Werner sit eight or nine plaster heads, the purpose of which he cannot guess. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Look for anything that starts with a nine.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

He stopped a passing guard, but didn’t dare mention platform nine and three-quarters. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

This was going to be a short fight, and those cats were going to use up their nine lives pretty fast. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I mentioned that the offices at the Center were closed now, and I suggested that he call at nine when they would be open. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went to withdraw money from his savings account, in order to continue his steady assault on all nine hundred and ninety-nine possible permutations of a three-digit variable. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He loved introducing me to special tidbits, and by the age of nine I had developed a passionate taste for cold vichyssoise and caviar and anchovy paste. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Eight, nine, and ten are Dauntless-borns whose names I barely recognize. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I went to the nine o’clock mass every Sunday with my family. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over nine years later, the irrigation was completed. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Oliver, who was nine years old and wise to the ways of the world, put down his book and squinted. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Before the night ended, the New York Times received nearly nine hundred calls about the invasion. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The largest and most cosmopolitan city in England, the symbol of freedom to thousands upon thousands of country youths, compelled its citizens to be off the streets at nine o'clock? The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not likely, Jeth, not before nine or maybe later.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pashtun kings ruled this country for almost two hundred and fifty years, Laila, and Tajiks for all of nine months, back in 1929. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was an amazing spectacle, those nine helicopters winging through the sky, each with a trussed-up fifty-foot-long giant slung underneath it. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without a compass a man will steer himself in a circle, nine times out of ten. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was the one teeny-tiny reason he’d been excited to move precisely nine hundred and one miles away from Florida to Washington, DC. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The only noticeable thing was that he would come home much earlier than usual, maybe four in the afternoon instead of the usual eight or nine. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"This was found in a telephone booth in the Luisenweg-Süderstrasse at nine o'clock in the morning." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“My meeting is at nine o’clock but it’s all the way downtown,” her mother told her. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

From the rooftops I could already tell that there were about a dozen bars that matched the location and his description—here on the ground, I count out nine of them. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“No. 7 berth—a second-class. The gentleman has not yet come, and it is four minutes to nine.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

A more careful examination of the data revealed that Manson was not only too small, but also nine million years too early. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

In fact, we didn’t see him again for nine years. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Judging by the sun, it’s about nine in the morning. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

If she arrived one minute before nine, she was a free person. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was in grade nine, three Chinese kids transferred to Sandringham: Bolo, Bruce Lee, and John. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We were to return no later than nine o’clock. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He’d also invited the group known as the Little Rock Nine, the nine black students who in 1957 had been among the first to test the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Soon he was keeping to a steady eight knots, surging to nine and ten when she surfed and slid down the waves. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

All nine of us had been friends prior to our adventure together, and had known one another since elementary school. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The talk did not die down in nine or even ninety-nine days. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A nurse asked me about the pain, and I couldn’t even speak, so I held up nine fingers. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Mendez is always dressed to the nines, and every guy in the neighborhood gets all spit-mouthed when they see her. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Bus nine. Last call for bus nine,” the loudspeaker announced. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

By noon on the twelfth of August, Marie-Laure has read seven of the last nine chapters into the microphone. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The place already reeks like sunscreen and burning charcoal, even though it’s barely nine o’clock. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

When I am nine, I will be issued a Delayed Certificate of Birth, but at this moment, according to the state of Idaho and the federal government, I do not exist. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I left at six or seven in the morning and returned at eight or nine in the evening, depending on the distance to water and grass. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here. Take this note to your grandfather. Ask him to sign it so you have permission to go, and I will pick you up Saturday. Let’s say nine in the morning?” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

If you cut it into six pieces the slices are bigger than if you cut it in nine but smaller than if you cut it in three. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I walk in the kitchen where Sugar’s counting out her nine dollars and fifty cents, the money she earned at the Benefit last night. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“And how do we get him to swallow nine or ten Tylenol?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“She survived alone for nine days, Mom. Made it through a brush fire.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Number nine was he liked to sit on couches and sleep in beds. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

After nine years of suffering, I finally decided to take the step I feared most—speaking out. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Complaints, complaints—your sevens look like nines, Cochran. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

From there it’s still a long walk to Zundert, about nine miles. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She remembered the first time she had ridden a galloping horse: She had been a child, barely eight or nine, trying to keep up with her older brothers. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Harmonics three and four; six and eight; nine and twelve; twelve and sixteen; and so on. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

So the score is now set at Woodland: nine, Spaulding: eleven. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

John and I arrived around nine thirty and sat down on the benches at the entrance. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Number nine had smokestacks, like a tiny factory. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Before nine, I think. The generators are still on.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

His nine daughters are the waves of the sea. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The one room had twenty-one desks and nine benches, not nearly enough for the 150 children who were usually there. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Seven pounds and nine ounces didn’t sound like a lot to me, but what did I know? Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

They were in a huge underground chamber big enough to hold nine or ten Homesteads. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“I am thirty-nine, my wife is thirty-six, and our son is nine,” the man told Mengele. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were mixed kids in South Africa nine months after the first Dutch boats hit the beach in Table Bay. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

So if I treat myself to an outing in the tiny fenced-off area beside the store, the only place where employees are allowed to smoke, I get about nine minutes off my feet. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was nine he ran away from a fight. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I smile and kiss her forehead the exact same way I did when we lay like this for the first time nine years ago. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The island, which was about nine square miles, had a thick belt of quite dense bush around the edge. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

They crisscrossed the country for eight or nine months of the year, speaking about suffrage, as well as other feminist topics. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Of the nine pigeons that live on our roof, Billy is the worst. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The runners pushed through laps seven, eight, nine. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

We were sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment with hard labor, but the sentence was suspended for two years. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what astonished me was the full-house crowd that rushed in between, say, six and seven-thirty in the morning, then rushed away, and by about nine, I would be the only man in the house. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Troops Take Over at Central High; Negroes Told to Wait —Arkansas Gazette, Tuesday, September 3, 1957 Tuesday afternoon, School Superintendent Virgil Blossom called a meeting of the nine of us students and our folks. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Then get cracking!’ the Queen said, ‘You’ll need nine helicopters, one for each Giant.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom: You were best friends for nine years. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

The messenger was a boy of eight or nine, so bundled up in fur he seemed a bear cub. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As one of the Divergent, I have the power to let Je&nine kill one of them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

There's no way for nine amps to get through that without tripping all three in rapid succession. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naheed knew that she, too, had probably sounded exactly that way when she was nine and had first started wearing the hijab. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

When I was nine I briefly wanted to be a lawyer. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Since Big Ma counted on me to look after my sisters, my bedtime began to shift and slide past nine. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, tourists from all over the globe came flocking to gaze down in wonder at the nine horrendous man-eating giants in the great pit. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a few seconds, the nine galloping giants were out of sight. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘This apartment that we’ve lived in for nine years, because you think your ship is going to come sailing in any day now, is your house?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

His advice may have been superfluous, for when it was fully assembled, nine of the Lawrence panel’s twelve scientists were from Livermore. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Climbing to twenty thousand feet, he rendezvoused with nine other Skyhawks headed for North Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

For nine years victory wavered, now to this side, now to that. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That was”—I glanced at my wrist—“nine hours and twelve minutes ago.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was nine o’clock, five hours after daylight, before he rolled over, opened his eyes, and was awake at once. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think how much bread nine thousand extra zloty would buy. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Eight, nine, ten, I count the flute players as they return to their seats in the audience. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Grandma Nanny, my mother's mother who lived in North Carolina, had nine children! It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

These Americans employ about nine thousand personal chefs, up from about four hundred just ten years ago, according to the American Personal Chef Association. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

My friend Jennifer had eight letters in her name, and Elizabeth Brewster had nine in hers, and yet their names weren’t “too hard.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

But the other fellows didn't care too much for me either, and there were nine of them. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I do not remember instigating the investigations, the Mosses later claimed that I had called in nine “false” abuse reports using the hotline number. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

But after eight or nine at night, it’s a different crowd. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around nine o’clock, darkness set in with its inherent cloak of anonymity for the lawless. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My narrative finished, and their questions exhausted, I then produced Miss Havisham’s authority to receive the nine hundred pounds for Herbert. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Adah and I were nine then, too old to be jealous of a baby, but still I had to wonder if she had ever loved me that much. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s one of the A group, just as you expected. Number nine. I’m keeping notes on it.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Miss Tandy? Two policemen are on the way up to your apartment right now. I couldn’t stop them. They got a nine- one-one call. It’s an emergency. That’s what they said.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

They had eight or nine of the eleven-year-olds trained to hand over their pocket money every week. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The Muses were nine in number, the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, Memory. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I cannot do the work of your nine men,” said Bolverkr, “then you need not pay me. But if I do...” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I had no correct answers out of nine kids after one clue,” she reported. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had won nine games without me, and they had played to one scoreless tie. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Herpo the Foul’s Basilisk is believed to have lived for close on nine hundred years. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been a Methodist for the first nine years of my life, before my father died and we moved and turned Unitarian. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Oh, really? Well, if x is greater than or equal to zero, then x to the fourth power minus six times x squared plus nine equals the absolute value of x squared minus three.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

I got my own reasons for moving on when they about eight, nine years old. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Hugo! This is your nine a.m. wake-up call. I will be there in an hour. Go make yourself purdy.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

My mother spread out an old striped bedspread, which flapped in the wind until nine pairs of shoes weighed it down. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was a good deal of comment at the time—nine people out of ten thought Seton was innocent and that the judge's summing up had been vindictive. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“So he took his Bible studies,” his father interrupted, to his wife’s annoyance, “and got baptized at nine years old.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

One example, which we have already considered at length, is plant domestication, with at least nine independent origins. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t think so because six parts of nine is smaller than two parts of three. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t have needed to stretch more than I did through those nine hundred miles—although Vonetta’s legs were growing longer. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Young Day was what the Lacks family called a sneak baby: a man named Johnny Coleman had passed through town; nine months later Day arrived. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It had already been nine years since Ralph had touched foot in the United States. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe nine or ten months ago. What about it?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

FINN: In eight or nine hours, we will be more than half a million miles away from exactly this spot, no matter which way we go. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

If that worked out they would begin integrating grades seven through nine, the junior high students. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In drawing after drawing, a nine never appeared. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Well, there you are, boy. Platform nine — platform ten. Your platform should be somewhere in the middle, but they don’t seem to have built it yet, do they?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Which was on the Indonesian island of Bali, some nine thousand miles away from me. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I had meant to sleep only a few hours, but I woke with a start the next morning to find sunlight pouring in and the clock reading five of nine. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

That fertile valley is cooled by sea breezes, making it an ideal spot for growing lettuces nine months of the year. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

As the nine of us turned to go our separate ways, one by one a soldier followed each of us. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chad has twelve living units, only nine of which are currently being used. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Fewer than nine people in the town remembered when Eva had two legs, and her oldest child, Hannah, was not one of them. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

"Sometimes we're nine feet tall, and strong enough to walk through walls. Sometimes we fight gangs. Sometimes we find treasure. Sometimes we slay dragons and drink from the Holy Grail!" Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

They owned the northeast with nine of every ten towers flaunting their brand. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The cups and lemonade mix had cost nine dollars. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Hermod the Nimble rode for nine days and nine nights without stopping. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The sound of the nine o'clock news filled the hallway as the living room door opened. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I have been in my domain for nine thousand eight hundred and fifty-five days. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Mary Fernandez started a photo album for me containing the pathetically few pictures I had managed to accumulate over the past nine years. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I asked, because the numbers nine, five, and eight meant nothing to me. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The holly shivered just as Saint Gabriel's chimed a quarter to nine. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

In Chiapas, do not take buses, which must pass through nine permanent immigration checkpoints. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Nothing did he eat for nine days or nine nights, nothing did he drink. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

No longer could zero sit to the right of nine, just as it does on the top of the computer keyboard; zero had a position in the number line that was all its own. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s eight-thirty here. That means it’s already early Saturday morning in London. Summerhill offices are closed until nine A.M. Monday, Greenwich Mean Time.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went wearily to the telephone and said, “One one nine.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“A good long time. Over nine years. Until I got that teaching job I told you about. We still kept up after I left, though.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the same age as me, nine and a half, and a nice fellow. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was thin, five foot nine at most, with a carefully manicured mustache. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Try me. First nine elements of the periodic table. Go.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

While he struggled within himself, Allen and nine others were ordered to go out in the jungle to spend the night. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It looked like a six or a nine, or maybe a geometric snail. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

All my friends could say it, and they were all only nine years old like me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

But at nine, then ten, then eleven the bedroom door’s still closed. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It was the move back to New York, nine years later, three months after my mother died, that threw me, and threw me terribly. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Here nine hundred food scientists spend their days designing the future of food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

At nine o’clock, Bull pulled a clean uniform from a clothes bag that hung in the car. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fizz asks after Aliya puts on some music and I scoot my chair over to nine o’clock. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

In all, a total of nine Democrats would throw their hats into the ring. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

One particular letter came from a schoolteacher in Pennsylvania who taught a special class of nine children; every child in the class had suffered the death of a parent. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was about nine, the ancient half-sister got engaged to be married. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of these fifteen diversions, just three appeared to be still in existence nine years later. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Two years, nine months, seven days, and two hours after Fixers are approved for public use, the world experiences its first full day without a single death. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

By nine o’clock Darling had eaten a raw egg and half a pint of whipped cream by herself. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was also accompanied by her that I had, nearly nine years ago, walked down the path I was now ascending. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The pay is $6.10 an hour and the hours are nine in the morning till “whenever,” which I am hoping can be defined as a little before two. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Going out to drink gets him out of the trailer, where nine people live and Enrique must sleep on the living room sofa. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

At nine on the nose, the man in the wagon beckons forth the first person, a roustabout. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I could never get all the way down there before nine o’clock.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next nine years, knowing that I’d earned it, I made myself a fat peanut butter and jelly sandwich for breakfast each morning and consumed not a single egg. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“No. I was an only child. My parents died when I was nine.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

With a three-by-three grid and the numbers one to nine, the solution was always fifteen. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Have I done the work of nine men?” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

At nine, he learned to remember scriptures by singing them in his head. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He measures twenty inches long, weighs seven pounds nine ounces. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few months later, I tested up to level nine. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

ONE NIGHT, when I was nine years old, I was aware of a commotion in the household. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This year, you were asleep on the couch before the ball dropped. In New York City. Which happened at nine o’clock in our time zone.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

This had become his uniform since he had decided to take some time off from fixing up houses—stripping floors, dry wall, the whole nine. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Behind her followed nine bands, four mounted brigades, more than twenty floats, and more than five thousand marchers. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Mr. Pignati had some sauce left in the refrigerator, and there were three packages of number nine vermicelli, so I decided to let the little homemaker go ahead with it. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

There were nine of them lying there by the spring. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most valuable domesticable wild species were concentrated in only nine small areas of the globe, which thus became the earliest homelands of agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sing how it passed down through nine generations, gathering invisibly within the polluted pool of the Stephanides family. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

At quarter before nine the scholars had gathered in School Number Seven. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Five nine,” he gasped, still fighting for breath. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was feeling nine ways at once, and they all ended up at the touch of her hand on my ear—until Kevin reached over and yanked the same earlobe. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

When the gong sounded for breakfast at nine o'clock it found everyone up and awaiting the summons. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

At nine or ten, he stands with a hunting rifle and a duck. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He saw a candlelit room with a vast white-counterpaned bed, and himself, a boy of nine or ten, sitting on the floor, shaking a dice box and laughing excitedly. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Once, when she was eight or nine, her father took her to the Pantheon in Paris to describe Foucault’s pendulum. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“My friends appreciate the things I do. I can do the work of nine men, and I will work tirelessly and without complaint.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

All he could do to keep down fights and get the white men out of colored town by nine o’clock. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Men with no work drinking from nine to five instead, down there in the lot. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

About eight or nine boys and girls were standing in a circle. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which means that nine in ten people won’t get water today. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

As the aurora australis flickered overhead, Wild came in a dog’s whisker ahead of Hurley, with a time of two minutes and nine seconds. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

We all had our birthdays on Easter, all nine of us, or at least, that’s when we celebrated them. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Hamilton had not held national office for nine years and the Federalist cause he had championed was well on its way to oblivion. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I was shuffled like a hand- me-down toy for the next nine years. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He understood about Esther, during those nine days: that she considered his fear and trembling fanciful and childish, a way of making life more complicated than it need be. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Slowly, I made out the barrels, eight or nine standing, a couple tipped over. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

In the nine weeks he’s been in Auvers, he’s made seventy paintings and thirty drawings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But here, I’m sweating through my button-down, and it’s not even nine in the morning. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Daddy bought it when I was nine after the former owner, Mr. Wyatt, left Garden Heights to go sit on the beach all day, watching pretty women. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Perch struck me as the kind of guy who probably had acted badly since he was about nine. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

GINNY: All you have to do is walk straight at the wall between platforms nine and ten. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Even if all nine giants were to stand on each other’s shoulders, the topmost giant would still be some fifty feet from the top of the hole. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That is a king’s ransom. That’s an untold for tune! Do you know how much tuna fish you can buy for one thousand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars?” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

It’s weird to me and she wasn’t even inside me for nine months. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

On the night of June 13, just after nine o’clock, another abrupt storm had struck the fairgrounds, and this one also seemed to single out the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Would they believe my side of the story, nearly nine months later? Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Apart from the white man we had first seen—who owned the tannery and lived by himself—there were some nine or ten Muslims under him. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Palmer’s mother lit the candles, nine of them on the chocolate cake with chocolate icing. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Thanks to Mr. Freeman nine years before, I had had no pain of entry to endure, and because of the absence of romantic involvement neither of us felt much had happened. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Basketball would be great if all you had to do was shoot foul shots, but most of the time you’re on the court with nine other people bumping and shoving and running way too much. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Hie ship stayed in Coal Cove nine days. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I wanted to do was to be a doctor and have a nice crib, and a Benz, the whole nine. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A third rail ran along the line, providing nine hundred volts of electricity to the trains. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

At first he was a guard dog—all eight pounds, well, nine and finally ten when the raw meat kicked in—and then he began to make judgment calls as well. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Since I had already gone to nine different schools, I was skilled at being a professional acquaintance. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

They could wait all week, wait nine or ten days for the plane to come—or he could. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

“What you’re suggesting is a one in a million chance, and that means there are nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand other chances to die.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It made her think of Mini and Boo, her mom, and all the incredible things she herself had done in just nine days. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Horace went into the sheriff’s office in the old county jail about ten minutes after nine. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Matthew, Mark, and Luke were twelve, ten, and nine, old enough to keep themselves loudly amused. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

For nine years this room had been his home. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you doing?” she’d asked Lefty, eight or nine at the time, and gripping the post, moving his knees up and down. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Despite that worry, we nine enjoyed one another as friends, once outside the pressure we shared at Central High. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know, I know, it’s been nine days and I haven’t written a word. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

In response to the Southam situation, the NIH investigated all their grantee institutions and found that only nine out of fifty-two had any policy in place to protect the rights of research subjects. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When I came to the customs demons, I was to say I was eight, in the demon fashion, instead of nine as I truly was. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It happened that Jessie and Bluebell had both whelped soon after the hay harvest, giving birth between them to nine sturdy puppies. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

After several people died in skirmishes, nine workers among them, state militia arrived, armed with Winchester rifles and Gatling machine guns. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

He was a completely normal kid until he was nine, when his dad died. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

At nine, there was steak and eggs in the dining room. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

And it’s true that I got ten out of ten, again, and Grace only got nine. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

At nine o’clock we went home, ate dinner, finished our homework, and went to bed. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

At nine o’clock Monday night, July n, 1938, the Mercury Theatre broadcast its first radio drama. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

And if my original ten percent really is enough, what if it had been nine percent? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Captain Newport goes off exploring with eight or nine gentlemen and a dozen sailors. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

For the next nine years, Desdemona complained of the cramped quarters and of the pain in her legs when she descended the stairs; but every time my father offered to move her downstairs, she refused. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He gave nine before the match ended, not counting brief comments that were made jointly with Spassky after each game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

According to the CIA, the bombing campaign was costing the United States nine dollars and sixty cents for every one dollar of damage inflicted on North Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

"Exactly, and they act nine. I ain't got time for that." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“But he did nine in jazz flats at the competition in Virginia Beach, didn’t you Shawn?” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I guessed Denna at eight or nine stone, eight to be on the safe side. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

On nine occasions, he also asked for directions to be repeated. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Like maybe three long years ago, when I was, like, nine years old and just a kid. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“You ain’t got but nine hairs atop your head,” he said to another. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The ice was probably eight, nine inches thick, my father said. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Tired and hungry, Wild devoured a seal steak as he described their nine hours of searching the coastline. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

As I turned to face him, the short, bulky man at his side went through nine tenths of the motion of landing an uppercut on my chin. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing five foot nine in his cowboy boots, tipping the scales at one-forty-five, he had a bland, regular, and slightly good oP boy face and a bland, regular, slightly good ol’ boy way of speaking. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was only nine years old when I was molested, but it took me another nine years to talk about it. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Our major project this quarter is an interactive learning initiative. Over the next nine weeks you will become an expert on an individual from history, learning enough to become that person and assume their identity.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

She was only nine when her father passed but they had been real close. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why are there nine girls sitting on the side of the road? Provide your answer in the form of a question.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Hey, Mom, do you remember when I was nine, and we went on vacation to South Carolina? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not only because of what happened nine months ago. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Another mother, Belinda Caceres, twenty-nine, prays that her children, ages twelve, nine, and two, will have enough to eat and will not get sick while she is gone. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Shackleton let the crew sleep until nine thirty the next morning. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He and his ships were driven across the sea for nine days. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Eight days, maybe nine. And night is falling." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And you must remember that nine years ago, when I last saw you, I still knew little for certain.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Its waterproof face told me what I needed to know at nine thirty-five in the evening. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

At twenty past nine they walked across the street to the newly opened Westminster Abbey Cabaret. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

And all that woman could say was, “I’ve raised nine children and didn’t none of them choke when I put them down with a little bread to chew.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The terrified passengers—nine freedom riders and five regular passengers—remained glued to their seats as the mob tried to pry open the bus door and began to slash the tires. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not long after he first arrived, he was attacked by another prisoner, who stabbed him nine times. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Newspapers across the country started carrying a series of articles and profiles on the nine of us. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lie in bed and listen to nine people breathing. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He had nine brothers and four sisters, all living together in three small rooms along with the family goat. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

When he awoke it was half-past nine, and he sallied forth to the restaurant car in search of hot coffee. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a white person is saying a neighborhood is diverse, they mean nine percent black people. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Doña Charito took the lot of us native children in hand Saturday mornings nine to twelve to put Art into us like Jesus into the heathen. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Here, you need to work on your nines.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It’s close to nine o’clock, and I can sense I’m not getting a single crumb of that cake. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

This 1846 lithograph by Currier & Ives shows the nine steps of “the drunkard’s progress”—from having “a glass with a friend” to the decline into criminal activity and “death by suicide.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“The troll approved it. Took care of everything. But Reggie is unavailable on Monday and Wednesday mornings between nine and noon.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were nine seconds left when the ball came across the midcourt line. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

It suddenly dawns on me that I have to get up again in six hours in order to get to the university by nine o’clock. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

They all walk in a line—nine years old down to five. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Soon, all nine of them were on their feet having the most almighty free-for-all. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked myself these questions when, after spending nine months in France, I returned to the United States for a five-week trip to twenty cities. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Rather impious of mortal man to do the gods two better, but there you are. The stone roads of Valyria were one of Longstrider’s nine. The fifth, I believe.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Luke had nine problems and four minutes to do them, already an impossible task even without Toby yammering. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Clearly, the proprietor of the Secret Garden has not read or watched the news in the last nine months. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It’s a banner headline in the Star Tribune: 1,450 hotel workers, members of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union, strike nine local hotels. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Six times nine is fifty-four. I could never remember that one!” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They don’t need to worry about me and my overhalls long as Ah still got nine hundred dollars in de bank. Tea Cake got me into wearing ’em—following behind him. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. About nine? I had just gotten to work when they called me from the hospital.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Okay, besides Clean not being a brainiac he was also like nine shades of serious wack. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was nine and still in the second grade. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was coming up on nine o’clock, and growing dark. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Soon after taking command of the Continental Army in July 1775, for example, he learned that his soldiers had only 36 barrels of gunpowder—about nine shots for each man. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hetera smelled vaguely of cinnamon, and at nine years old I found her fascinating without exactly knowing why. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I learn that Mama has had me, Pop Pop, and Daddy on her list for nine years. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Their deaths brought the official murder toll to nine—quite a large number for any footpath, no matter how you look at it—though in fact there probably have been more. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

France, Austria, Spain, and Russia fought England and Prussia for nine years. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“You told me Pluto was one of the nine planets!” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Instead, Ben silently served up nine bowls of root soup, and then, finding himself out of bowls, poured his own dinner into a pewter mug and drank it down. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She placed her note on top of a stack of bills—nine hundred dollars of her saved-up wages. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The only other choice, as far as I can see, is to climb Federal Hill and it’s nine hundred feet almost straight up. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I start with what I should have told the police nine months ago. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

No one else has had a sister die in childbirth and then been lied to about it for almost nine whole months. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

In the fall of 1957, after nine years of classes in the Coalwood School, I went across the mountains to Big Creek, the district high school, for the tenth through the twelfth grade. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was nine p.m. on July 20, 1971, and Bobby Fischer had achieved what no one else had ever accomplished in chess: winning two grandmaster matches without drawing or losing a single game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Three days after the event, he was to go to a certain bar in Queens between eight and nine at night. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

That fall, when I was nine, I went with Mother on a birth. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At last, on April 23, nine days after the assassination, John Wilkes Booth and David Herold set foot on Virginia soil. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sophie, peeping out from her pocket, examined the nine sleeping giants. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been nine weeks in bed, and the muscles had gone lax and the laziness of recovery had set in. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly after nine that night the hurricane began to decrease. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

At twenty past nine, there was a knock at the door, and she opened it at once and let in the man who was waiting outside in the rain. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The pitcher just did his best and knew he had to last nine innings. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scanned the table of contents in nine different Cat Fantastic magazines from 2013 until I spotted the words “The Silent Cat Killer.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The ship was capable of doing nine to ten knots under steam. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Already they had discovered nine burials, one body placed in a big funerary urn, all apparently interred at the same time. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

By the summer following passage of the law, nine thousand blacks in Dallas County had been registered to vote. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a knock on the door of their compartment and the round-faced boy Harry had passed on platform nine and three- quarters came in. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Re’lar Ambrose to be fined nine talents and six. Does any master oppose this action?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After Joe said “Gee,” he didn’t say another single word until he had eaten nine pancakes in a row. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I know a good place. Meet me Sunday morning at nine, corner Gates and Broadway.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s get you dressed—the ceremony begins at nine.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“And I believe that ship, in basin number nine, the very big one, is ours.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Every single one of its nine hands was now pointing at “mortal peril.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The next day saw nine out of ten over the fever. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

We are studying American history for the ninth time in nine years. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

‘Gale-force eight or nine. A fog would be more likely to ground the planes.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baby and the small family dog were taken out of the house before the spraying was done about nine o’clock one morning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I figured nine was a good time, because that would put us at the party around nine thirty. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I was nine years old and had not seen her for many years. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d get to the market right when it opened at nine a.m., so we could see the best selection. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

But now he can’t get home before nine p.m. because of the long commute from the city. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The restaurant closed at nine p.m., but Mama would come pick Hanako up at eight o’clock and take her home. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Minos invaded the country, captured Athens and declared that he would raze it to the ground unless every nine years the people sent him a tribute of seven maidens and seven youths. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Pattie gets back with the potting soil, we are going to plant nine different types of sunflowers. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Once, when I was a kid—I think I was about nine—I was with my mom at a grocery store,” I tell him when we pass the cleaning supplies. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I called it a nine because I was saving my ten. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“You are a little shrimp of a thing. How could you do the work of one of my servants, let alone nine of them?” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Come tomorrow at daybreak, then. Three days it took me to make that box, so you will give me nine days’ work in return. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Most gunshot victims don't die after nine months, and it was surprising that the state was seeking the death penalty in this case. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“There’s a law that says you must go to school...and I guess you should. You are nine years old. And I must go to war. The government is fighting somewhere.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had to be at this house by nine o’clock, and no maybe either. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Soon all nine demons were tearing and clawing at each other. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Nine, Tom Barleycorn had said, and nine there were, but two were dead and one so weak he might have died by morning. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He slapped both of the chase guns at the bow—nine, ten—and turned down the starboard side. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

We still do not really know why there are only nine planets, more or less, and why they have the relative distances from the Sun that they do. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll do the nines then,” I said, rummaging in my purse for a pen. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t remember. Seven, eight. No, I believe it’s nine.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“The queen of the gods, Turner. Write it as though she is telling the story. This is Juno here, regina deum, line nine. Thirty minutes seems about the right amount of time.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

We discussed the proposal among ourselves, and each of the twenty- nine accused — we were now minus Wilton Mkwayi — was able to express his opinion. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did you know he’s got like nine thousand followers? Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The men, about eight or nine of them, were carrying full garbage bags from the stations office and loading them into a boat. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I’m not even nine yet I still have baby teeth, even. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In just nine years, from a base of zero, he became the leading authority on American plants. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

In 1865, nine years after Sikhdar’s computations had been confirmed, Waugh bestowed the name Mount Everest on Peak XV, in honor of Sir George Everest, his predecessor as surveyor general. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was the power of nine hundred girls striving. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He planned to go to every one of the nine job sites to gather or tie down his equipment. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t even notice when I pinched it Three SpagBols a day for nine days. I could hardly stomach the stuff after day two, but you get so hungry.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

We were to write in on a piece of paper, pray devoutly for nine days, and if we’d prayed well it would be answered. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hotel’s fourth floor, where garden rooms with French balconies open directly onto the ramparts, has become home to an aging high-velocity anti-air gun called an 88 that can fire twenty-one-and-a-half-pound shells nine miles. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Her town house is in one of those complexes with about eight or nine other places. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I had this sudden memory of when I was nine years old. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Even when I was nine, she was still trying to hold my hand. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Three thousand nine hundred weeks. So. You tell me your greatest fear is that Ma and Pa'll be mad at you for one of these almost four thousand weeks. Or two. Or three.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

And just as she sang this, the Master Archer pointed his magic arrows and shot down nine suns which burst open with blood. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the pub's taproom the regulars sat in awkward proximity to the visitors, speaking so: "It's only every nine years." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Wheat brought in only a tenth of what it had nine or ten years before. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Tic-tac-toe had nine squares, but then why not mark an X to start the game? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He could take care of Loo, and she could give him his Elder lessons, and then maybe life could continue as usual, just with ten on the island instead of nine. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“There’s nine hundred and fifty bucks,” Dad said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

By nine the next morning, the Richardson house was nearly empty as well. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“That was when I was like nine years old,” I say. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The nine hundred remaining acres were the core of the original Sanchez grant, and the best of it too. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily, she had two pieces of paper with her, crumpled, dirty scraps, much too small for all the words unspoken over nine years. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He was about nine years old, with a wide grin and no scar on his face. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I have nine pairs of these exact same shoes.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There all my shipmates, friends were drowned, while I hung on the keelboard of the wreck and drifted nine full days. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you keep your own body out of sight, you could be nine years old again. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

She says when boys go from the one number year, which is nine, to the two number year, which is ten, they’re changing and prone to the nosebleed. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The old prison wall was studded with nine of these towers; there was a total of eighteen towers, including the ugly new square ones around Tappan. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You need a hot meal after nine in the morning. And you need to stare wistfully into my eyes and blush when I try to hold your hand.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I think her mother said she was nine,” Caroline said. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bit passed them down so that each of the Low Cuts had one, then handed the ice-cream man the nine dollars. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

On the ground, two boys of about nine or ten years of age were gathering discarded beer bottles and mashed fruit. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was a simple matter of walking straight through the apparently solid barrier dividing platforms nine and ten. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“And by nine? He’s going to be a star!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

We nine, along with thousands of others, came together to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the integration of Central High. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There was maybe eight or nine kids around when she said it, too, including Caleb. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I was hired by a florid-faced white man at the rate of fifty cents for nine holes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The commuters stared curiously at the owls as the family wove its way toward the barrier between platforms nine and ten. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Dicey gave him the money she had left, nine dollars. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I only slept till around nine o'clock because a million people started coming in the waiting room and I had to take my feet down. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The guard is relaxed once every nine years, on May Day, when a fair comes to the meadow. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then we heard the Muses sing a threnody in nine immortal voices. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The southerners, by contrast, were downright deferential in normal circumstances, stepping aside with more than nine feet to go. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Check over my bow and remaining nine arrows. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The field was crowded, filled with well-known names, but Mohammed not only finished first, he did so in record time: nine hours and fifty-five minutes. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

On school nights, he’s in bed by nine thirty exactly, and allows himself a half hour to read, lights out by ten. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Governor Faubus is just trying to find a way to get around the integration order. It’s going back on all the progress those nine students made last year.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Three down, nine to go,” said Charles, winking up at the closest security camera. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

According to the log, he had been the guardian of nine Osage, including Anna Brown and her mother, Lizzie. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

One day she bought a small plant, an African violet in a plastic pot on sale for ninety- nine cents at a drugstore. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“I was six, and then Bruce married my mom when I was nine.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Our team has taken nine shots and made three—they’ve taken two shots and made one,” she told the boys, her voice sharp. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

For nine years he would belong to the Ship Chandlery of Ropes and Hodges. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could slip this one past the bug boys, who hadn’t gone to school long enough to know that the Bolsheviks had put an end to poor Nicholas when Pollard was only nine. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

On my politely bidding him Good-morning, he said, pompously, “Seven times nine, boy?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

At nine hundred pieces of silver, the bidding began to slow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The nine pilots in their helicopters suddenly realized they were being left behind. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The zero becomes a ten...minus three, equals seven...and the other zero becomes a nine, minus seven...so it’s one dollar and twenty-seven cents!” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

My kid sister Phoebe goes to bed around nine o'clock-- so I couldn't call her up. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

For nine days she neither slept nor ate. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The alteration — for example "flat five" or "sharp nine" — is listed in the chord symbol. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Between her murmurs of appreciation during Chaol’s brief tour of her rooms, she’d counted the windows—twelve—the exits—one—and the guards posted outside her door, windows, and balcony—nine. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She’d also had three cups of tea, and thus nine cubes of sugar, which meant she had enough fuel to power an electro-plasma system. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

They had fought against it for nine hours. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Arriving, she realized she had just missed the nine p.m. bus. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In just the past decade, the time devoted to advertisements in a typical hour of network television has grown from six minutes to nine minutes, and it continues to climb every year. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But only nine months after Tommy was born, Luke arrived premature. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It made him proud to observe that twenty- nine months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

We lived near this market—my father, my mother, my nine sisters and brothers and I—underground in a big pipe that had once been part of a storm sewer, but was no longer used. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

His mother thinks he’s nine years old, but she has a poor memory that the drink has rotted; he might be eight, or ten. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

In this way, Edwin Hubble worked out the distances to nine different galaxies. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You were at your Aunt Ophelia’s for more than a summer. You were there for nine months.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The kill rate in humans infected with, Ebola Zaire is nine out of ten. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

FOREMAN: The vote is nine to three in favor of “guilty.” 7TH JUROR: Well, if that isn’t the livin’ end! Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I've learned here in nine years from my mother and my teachers is not enough to fill the gaps. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The Lycian king received him with antique hospitality and entertained him splendidly for nine days before he asked to see the letter. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had nine classes: mathematics, accounts, biology, computer science, and physical science were easy. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A girl who couldn’t have been more than nine years old chopped onions but paused to smile at me. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Together they managed to restrain and tie up nine of the skrewts, though at the cost of numerous burns and cuts; finally, only one skrewt was left. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Hair of the dog, Jacob! Hair of the dog. Come by at nine.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

And a few months earlier, Charles had spent some time with another cousin, Emma, who was just nine months older than he was. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Engine, engine number nine, running down Chicago line. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my mother was my age, she was just about to have me after I’d spent nine long months growing inside her. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

My first semester I had only nine students. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

After the first day, they had learned that the staff worked from nine a.m. until five p.m., a work schedule just like their father’s. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even then, at nine years old, I wanted to live inside her body. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

After dinner, all nine kids gathered around the fire. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Gentlemen,” said Mr. Jaggers, deliberately putting down the glass, and hauling out his gold repeater by its massive chain, “I am exceedingly sorry to announce that it’s half past nine.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

First, you take construction paper and cut it into strips about two inches wide and eight or nine inches long. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Brother Khoi gets an old bicycle to ride, but Mother says I’m too young for one even though I’m a ten-year-old in the fourth grade, when everyone else is nine. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It was still clutched tightly in his hand as he, Ron, and Hermione stepped back through the barrier of platform nine and three-quarters. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Most of them were black but nine or ten of them were white. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ve drawn too much water from that well. Wait. Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience. What is that herb by the path?” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

But Wilmington had no subway and only the very poor took the bus, which stopped running at about nine P.M. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d been at it for eight or nine hours, and they were already behind us. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

At nine years old, he felt as if the weight of a mountain were on his shoulders. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lemme ask you something: If you send a normal kid to a group home with a bunch of dummies for nine months what’s more likely to happen? We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She would have never done such a thing nine times, nor my mother two times. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“Brings sorrow on anyone who carries it. I heard all nine previous owners have committed suicide.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, they showed the worst movies in all the nine planets.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

When her sort-of stepbrother fell asleep around nine, she asked Park to call her back in fifteen minutes, so she could put the kid to bed. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“They changed Pluto’s planetary status in 2006. It’s no longer considered one of the nine planets in our solar system.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She had seen her son for the first time, in this place, when he was a child of eight or nine. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And all this maneuvering to arrive one minute before, instead of after nine! A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom grabbed my sister, my aunt, and me, along with two of my little cousins, Musore and Rusengo, who were six and nine years old. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Only five thousand to go—or four thousand, nine hundred and ninety to be exact, as Brother Leon pointed out in that fussy meticulous way of his. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to come out of nowhere. and killed nine out of ten people it infected. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he spoke, at least eight or nine more people sailed onto the island from every direction possible. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

So how does she hold up for an eight- or even nine- hour day? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just like that time, when you were nine, you survived, and you emerged from that pool a stronger and wiser person. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But we moved to London when I was nine." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I can’t half sleep for him raving bout clubs and clothes and forty- nine brands of beer. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Come to my place tonight, and I'll prove the Nazis are lying. But wait until after nine, after my grandparents go to bed." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

She told me her mother passed away in 2002, at the age of eighty- nine. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She had to be at that house by nine sharp and there was no time to waste. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

No, he had not gone out after nine o’clock. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

That’s because, as we saw in Chapter 5, there were no more than nine areas of the globe, perhaps as few as five, where food production arose independently. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

If each player acquired nine wins, the match would be considered a draw, and the prize money would be shared equally, but Fischer would retain his title as undisputed Chess Champion of the World. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“He was talking to me before lunch, and he noticed my sweater and asked if I got a sleeping bag. And he figured that after nine days getting here I had too much SpagBol left.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She carried the gun to protect herself and had to use it once when, having climbed nine flights of stairs, she found some strangers playing cards at her kitchen table. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

When he got off the Manhattan, he weighed twelve pounds more than when he’d gotten on nine days earlier. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then I have to slog through nine choices until finally I'm asked to hold for the next available customer service representative. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mama, I been up since nine yesterday morning,” he explained, sounding irritated and tired. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

By nine o’clock, I was light-headed with hunger, so I sat down with Josephine in the kitchen of the steakhouse and ate a bowl of beans. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

"The baby was born exactly nine months and ten days after the wedding." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I scored nine points in each game, going 3 for 10 on three- pointers in the first game and 3 for 15 in the second. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was nine in the morning, and Wes hadn’t seen nine in the morning since his summer break started. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

But for nine years, South Carolina has operated as if this law did not exist. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She was a celebrity now, newly elected to the Red Guards Committee, one of only nine people elected by all the Red Guards in the school. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s been telling me he’s sorry for nearly nine months. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Playing nine against eleven was not the way to win soccer games. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

We only have to survive here for nine more days. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

In fact, Hevelius lived for another nine years, so he cannot have been that frail when Halley saw him. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

My dad tells me he started working for the resort about nine months ago. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The only tremor of emotion I can find in his life is when he was nine and his dog April died. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Since waking, he’d traveled nine hours without thinking of rest once, but now the stunning immensity of the distance ahead drained what was left of his energy. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Ford was barely a year old and I was only nine. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

For nine years he would not leave by Day or Night without permission. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ninety-nine point nine percent of them were black—and then there was me. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Square by square, she searches the night skies for adversaries then scrutinizes the ocean, which is roiling with nine straight days of unseasonable April rains. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. The present Mr. Rochester has not been very long in possession of the property; only about nine years.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Three hours later, just after nine o’clock, the Carpathia docked in New York City in a thunderstorm. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

At twenty minutes to nine we were not half through dinner. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“I mean, we have two-plus hours and were through with nine parts.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

On one such night, Ammu, aged nine, hiding with her mother in the hedge, watched Pappachi’s natty silhouette in the lit windows as he flitted from room to room. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were the dinkiest owls that Officer Delinko had.ever seen—only eight or nine inches tall. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole season—nine months of preparation—came down to just two major races. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But if we weren’t finished with our morning chores by the time school started at nine, we weren’t allowed to go. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bahar, nine years old, who had fallen in the Uzumark three years ago and still wore the sodden clothes of her drowning. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They weren’t just nine guys in a boat; they were a crew. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There were just nine colored women out there, the same nine that had been in the other one. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I will meet him on the isle Barri for the wedding, nine days from now. Go and tell him.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The nine girls in her group kicked up their right legs in unison. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“This is a reminder that when your child is going to be absent from high school, a call is required by nine a.m. . . .” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

On this occasion, we nine ascend the stairs amid a group of reporters and dignitaries gathered here for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People convention. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Divorced nine years ago, they had one child, Miranda, who lived with her mother and stepfather in the suburban Boston area. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My German-speaking father, dead since I was nine, came from some manic-depressive hamlet in the black heart of Prussia. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I actually know where I’d be: outside this hospital, probably crying and holed up somewhere hoping I make it to nine. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When he came back, I started to count, with Sherman on the phone to Quentin keeping up with me, “Ten—nine—eight—seven...” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Rabi stitched together the new lab’s sponsoring consortium, known as Associated Universities, from nine large Eastern research institutions that would have been hard pressed to compete individually in the multimillion-dollar world of postwar high-energy physics.* Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“And lucky you are that I did. For I can do the work of nine men.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

But I was nine years old and I knew better. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Mr. and Mrs. Birdsong and their nine children lived upstairs. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The sledge-meter, ignoring the hard uphill work we had done all day, said we had come only nine miles. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course you can be prodigy, too,” my mother told me when I was nine. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

For her husband, she knew, was a mystery to her, and had been ever since he’d returned from his days as a soldier nine years before. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Number one down was a word for beggar, beginning with m and nine letters long. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The punch being very nice, we sat there drinking it and talking, until it was almost nine o’clock. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The only bus after that didn’t leave until nine at night. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was about nine years old, there was a bad drought in our region. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am getting a bit wobbly because no one has let me eat or drink since yesterday and I have been writing for nine hours. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

It had been eleven months and nine days since he had first set foot on the African continent. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five children and nine grownups pushed their ways in—and oh, what an amazing sight it was that now met their eyes! Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

It must be nine, ten—nearly eleven years since they had parted. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I guessed him to be about nine or ten years old. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

At nine thirty Lupita heard the rattling sound of Lucky’s car pulling into the yard. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The nine men spent then- time doing experiments that increased our knowledge of the sun, the surface of the earth, and the human body. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

An American battery, its slogan offering nine lives. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

My head pounded as I tried to recall the tiniest details about my time in their home nine years earlier. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Snape looked no more than nine or ten years old, sallow, small, stringy. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

At nine o’clock, Hagrid walked them back up to the castle. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He had been playing since he was nine. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Altogether I found nine men, three women and five children. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you’d-a put a smock on him and shrunked him down ’bout eight or nine sizes, they was one in the same. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kapasi led them next to one of the wheels of the chariot, higher than any human being, nine feet in diameter. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The family lived at Robert Taylor for nine months. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Bathe with these herbs for nine consecutive nights. Add the holy water and a drop of ammonia, then light the candle. On the last day, you will know what to do.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the nine nights lasted she did not once leave the side of Mauricio Babilonia, who mingled with the crowd that invaded the house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Bates was in the first car with four of the nine, and a man introduced as C. C. Mercer. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the proof was obvious to everyone when a new girl came to school when I was about nine. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t been in a space like this since I stopped making dens with blankets and card tables at about the age of nine. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

We were within sight of where the two blast furnaces and the nine open hearths had been—where the “pig iron,” a product of iron ore, was melted into steel. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Every year, for nine years, he started school sometime in January, after the cotton season was over. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

It meant he and Tom could be infected with Ebola Zaire, which kills nine out of ten victims. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he’s only nine and still in school. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Very petite to begin with, in nine months she gained only eight pounds and never even wore maternity clothes. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At half-past nine, gentlemen,” said he, “we must break up. Pray make the best use of your time. I am glad to see you all. Mr. Drummle, I drink to you.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

He’s got nine lives—looks like he used up about three. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stand up fast Then we have to go NOW because it takes almost nine minutes to get to school. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was looking at the map, and I figure we’re maybe about eight or nine hours away from Chicago. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Judging by the quality of light, it was already eight or nine in the morning. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I quickly found and ate all nine, gaining 90 more points. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I eye the empty IV pole warily, knowing my first of many rounds of antibiotics over the next month is exactly an hour and nine minutes away. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“At the end of nine months, I’ll review your records,” she warned. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

They added more rooms as the family grew to include twelve children: nine girls and three boys. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

But no, Grandfather Rommely had died when she was nine, a week after she made her first Communion and, as she remembered, Christmas still had seemed far away at that time. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

From a scrap in the street the jam was jumping to nines. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grandmother with nine hundred heads killed each ox, skinned it, and tossed it into her enormous cooking pot. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Park should have gone inside to change after taekwondo, but his dad said he had to be back by nine, and that gave him less than an hour to show Eleanor. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

"You were just an ant of a thing," she said, picking me up like I was still two instead of nine and squeezing me to her. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

It’s almost nine o’clock, and I gotta run down eight flights of stairs. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Ten...nine...eight...I remembered my Short-Circuit Scientist moment with Thomas and the exploding grapes. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Behind it he fumbled among the little heap of silver and he counted out nine pieces. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He repeatedly crashed through the gate, delaying the start for nearly nine minutes. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Andrew had turned nine, and in my world I was counting down until he turned eighteen, thinking that would finally free my mom from this abusive man. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I stopped drinking and smoking, went to all of my appointments, ate right, took my vitamins, the whole nine. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

As he rapidly read its contents Francis became furious, for he noticed that part of the argument depended upon a theoretical idea he had propounded some nine months earlier. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

"I went to the last market, nine years ago. I was only a boy," admitted Dunstan. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“But, Chester, them was nine and a half good years, real good years, years we didn’t have no right to nor ’spectations from. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

As my daughters approached this age, the age of nine, I watched them anxiously. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It has only been nine months since he died, and now my teacher wants me to open the floodgates and lose control of my emotions by writing a book? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Nikki is seven years older, so in the picture she was nine and I was barely two. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

If the virus killed nine out of ten people it infected and there was no vaccine or cure for it, you could see the possibilities. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At a time when nine out of ten students never even graduated from high school, she was aiming at college. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The announcement meant that nine of the state’s ten largest banking organizations now needed an aggregate sum of money from public and private sources well into the tens of billions to stay afloat. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, over the next nine weeks his weight fell from 168 to 115 pounds, and the warden was warned that forced-feeding alone could not keep the patient alive indefinitely. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

They strapped the lunches and bathing-suits to the fenders and were gone before nine o’clock. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And until I turned nine and turned to video games, that was what I wanted to be when I grew up: a mapmaker. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

And Paul, their nine- year-old, had fallen out of a tree. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naheed’s very first hijab had been a gift when she was nine years old, from her mother. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

When we were nine, Papa took us on an overnight train ride to Bombay to see Gandhi. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I live in a subtropical area where even the inactive can expect to be moist nine months out of the year. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

My dad gave me the silver dollar as a birthday present when I turned nine. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

For nine years she was so happy that she felt no need to speak. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piles of bear scat on the trail and, at one point, a set of fresh grizzly tracks—each print half again as long as a size- nine boot print—put me on edge. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said my rosary, thirty times a day, for nine days, and for nine more days after that I waited. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He exceeded all plausible expectations of landings, putting us just nine meters from the target. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was born on the nineteenth of August and Billy Campbell told me the father and mother have to be married nine months before there’s a sign of a child. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

There were nine or ten new homes there. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the nine of us compared notes, we discovered we were all facing an increasing barrage of injurious activities. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten...nine...eight...A bright yellow spark hissed, right at the bridge of skin joining the two halves of the grape. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

A child emerged from a pool of darkness, a pale boy in a ragged robe, no more than nine or ten. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Among these living carriers were fish that had hatched nine months after the last DDD application, grebes, and California gulls that had built up concentrations of more than 2000 parts per million. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He was sixty years old, with a wife and nine children to look after. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“The record is nine days, actually. And I didn’t realize you were on the Morality Police Force!” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

That morning Zeitoun woke after nine, exhausted from the howling of the dogs. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She must be about nine and is almost an exact replica of Rue, down to the way she stands with her arms slightly extended. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The clock struck nine deliberate strokes and they were swallowed up. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was eight or nine at the time. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

About nine seconds later, a blond stewardess rushed over to our row and said, “Sir, you can’t smoke on this plane. Or any plane.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The train did not leave until nine in the evening and he had the empty afternoon before him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The leg holes are too tight—he is nine, afterall—and there’s that gross extra pouch in the front, which I don’t even want to think about. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“But wait until after nine when my grandparents are in bed.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They sat together until nine o’clock, when the lights came on. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Around nine, M. Yoshoto took off his glasses, got up and padded over to my desk with a sheaf of papers in his hand. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

That morning we got there just before nine. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At nine o’clock the whole school had to go to their desks and spend one hour writing a letter home to their parents. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

One belonged to a boy aged about twelve or thirteen, and the other to a girl of about nine or ten. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time they reached the thirtieth game, Bobby had won nine games and Spassky five. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

With just nine hundred Jews in the village, this meant every able-bodied adult male had to work. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The strange heartbeat of time when the nine kids on the shore peered into the boat. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I myself have been under the able tutelage of a boy just turned nine; without Chase’s wisdom, I might not have made it through even my first day as a honyocker. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

It got dark and we could feel the country hot and sandy and dark outside of the window, and about nine o'clock we got into Bayonne. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Grandpa is one of nine children, and he grew up in the housing projects in Cleveland. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There was trouble with my delivery because Mom was tiny and I was nine pounds. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smelled like cut grass and sweat, already, at nine in the morning. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I am to need a cleanup on aisle nine, please.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I know of no physical injury to any of the nine students. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she discovered that she had nine months to go before the baby came, she felt like a reprieved criminal. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Actually it was not a lodge at all, just eight or nine tiny yellow cabins clustered on a peninsula that jutted northward into the Rainy River. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was some legal jargon, but I grasped this: She committed J.T. and Digger to the custody of juvenile services—to nine months in a forestry camp for juvenile offenders out in western Maryland. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The Antifederalist opponents of the Constitution made precisely these points, but they were outmaneuvered, outargued, and ultimately outvoted by a dedicated band of national advocates in nine of the state ratifying conventions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Salva counted nine men, all of them collapsed on the sand. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were nine, all roughly of the same age and size. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Tic-tac-toe had nine squares, but then why not mark an X to start the game? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was early, not yet nine, and Perry was the first customer at the Washateria, a self-service laundry. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

So after nine o'clock, I switched on the reading lamp and read Watership Down. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He spoke into the stone, calling all of his nine sons and daughters and his twenty-seven grandchildren and his eighty-one greatgrandchildren to meet Windrider again that night at a feast. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a double fence, actually—two high chain-link barriers topped with spirals of gleaming razor ribbon and a kind of no-man’s-land in the eight or nine feet of ground between them. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last time I saw my grandmother I was nine years old. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry,” Herbie bleated hysterically, leaping to his feet, “but 1 better leave now if I wanna catch the nine o’clock bus!” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I figured it was eight or nine in the morning. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Over the last 12,000 years, agriculture arose at not more than nine places over the face of the earth: China, the Fertile Crescent, and a few other places. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"And don't forget we're going up in the hydroplane tomorrow morning at nine o'clock." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

What were nine miles to a young man?—An hour’s ride. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“Not a problem. Phones are right there. Dial nine.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

It used to astonish us that everyone here has so many children: six or eight or nine. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, the family emerged onto platform nine and three-quarters, which was obscured by thick white steam that was pouring from the scarlet Hogwarts Express. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He’d been here a total of nine seconds, and already he couldn’t keep his hands off her. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

‘Kat, you know the theories? The nine theories?’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t blame you, dear,” she assured Harry, tipping eight or nine sausages onto his plate. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He wheeled a cunning rolling rack of stacked lanterns up next to the Plant and lit them, nine lanterns in all. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Like that day in July, almost nine years back, when the beautiful men were cold. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But here again, I can remember very little about the two years I attended Llandaff Cathedral School, between the age of seven and nine. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was how, a week into her new duties, Mia came to be in the Richardson kitchen when Izzy wandered downstairs at nine thirty in the morning. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“And also J for Jew. And 1 for me, alone. I am very, very much alone. And 9 is for . . . well, in English it is pronounced ‘nine,’ which is like the German word for no. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the lights were off, as they were between nine at night and six in the morning, the city was so dark that people might as well have been wearing blindfolds. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Left to nine. Right to four. Left to three. Right to seven.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

At nine, he was two years older than me, but he was one of the few boys my age who always seemed to be outside the same time I was. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

On the wall with the rolled-up carpet, I discovered nine thumbtack holes in the cracked and paint- peeled wall. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

One two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty twenty-one twenty-two twenty-three twenty-four twenty-five twenty-six twenty-seven twenty-eight twenty-nine... The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

By nine thirty the crew of the Docker still hadn’t found a beach, and there was no sight of the other two boats. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Now, if that receptionist had told me there were going to be nine people in that room, I'd have walked out on the spot. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

At nine, he woke up with a feeling of coming trouble. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t care: He’d just accomplished what the finest players in the world had been unable to do on twenty occasions during the previous nine months. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Kindly escort Mrs. Chiltington and her disruptive son out of the building. And whatever you do, don’t let that woman anywhere near the nine hundreds room!” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I mean, nine months of hero training or nine months of sitting in a classroom—duh. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was nine inches long and down to the clean, white bone. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One night is so long. Two nights are even longer. How will I manage to cope with three nights? Four days feel like a month to me, and you expect me to wait nine days?” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

After about nine meters, I reached a wall of boxes filled with wood wool. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Even so, it took them nine years to reach Uranus and a dozen to cross the orbit of Pluto. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She had agonized about what to wear, tried on and discarded nine outfits before she decided on a teal dress that made her waist look small. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

With difficulty, owing to their bulky backpacks, the nine of them crowded around the old boot held out by Amos Diggory. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Clarke had the heartbreaking task of writing a full inventory of the damage; by half past nine in the morning, her hand was already starting to cramp. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“But it’s barely nine, there’s still plenty of time...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

With expert motions the women slipped tortillas—thin discs of cream-colored flour perhaps nine inches in diameter—onto the hot burners. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Joe, now nine, standing by her side, felt again what he had first felt in his aunt’s attic in Pennsylvania five years before—the same coldness, fear, and insecurity. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Here ya go, Ma,” I said, and handed her nine dollars from my Johnny Cakes earnings. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

But to go from nine to nine-and-twenty in a single night... A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They quickly found that of ten cell lines thought to be from nine different species—including dog, pig, and duck—all but one were actually from primates. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He stayed with Gorges for nine years, after which he went to New England with John Smith. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They slaved fourteen hours a day, from six o’clock in the morning until eight or nine o’clock at night, with starvation-level rations, little sleep, beatings and other forms of torture, and daily executions. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

All nine of Mama’s remaining students turn to stare at me. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Around nine o’clock the temperature had risen to almost one hundred degrees. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

So there we were, the nine of us: my father, my mother, my two sisters, four brothers, and myself, so confident as we walked along our first beach. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Visiting hours resume at nine. Nine to nine. Catchy, right?” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I remember him clutching the curtains in his living room, about nine years old, wearing gray, his dark eyes shut. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Only nine players had shown up, two short of a full team. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Volkheimer has taken to switching on his field light and focusing its frail beam into the far corner, where eight or nine white plaster heads stand on two shelves, several toppled onto their sides. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They already had sixteen—the original seven plus a second group of nine. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stole it from Cassie’s room when we were nine, but I could never make it work, no matter how the stars lined up. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

All the men in the store shouted, “NO.” “—eight, nine, ten.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were larger rocks and some scraggly bushes eight or nine yards to one side of him; it was all op>en on the other side. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of the twelve passengers in that coach, nine have been proved to have had a connection with the Armstrong case. What next, I ask you? Or, should I say, who next?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The planes gained altitude steadily and were above nine thousand feet by the time they crossed into enemy territory. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I was nine, maybe, and eventually even I began to think the mouse wasn't real. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He always arrived around nine or ten at night carrying his flat tan leather briefcase which along with his scholarly look gave him a resemblance to a hard-working lawyer. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

After three firm knocks, the door swung open and there stood Leon Leep, all six feet nine inches of him. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They made inquiries about him and discovered how poor he was...the very clothes he was wearing had been passed down by all nine of his brothers. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

A year in Vermont, according to an old saw, is “nine months of winter followed by three months of very poor sledding.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Papa had lived in Japan from when he was nine until he was eighteen, and he was thirty-five now. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

At nine o’clock Earth seemed to explode, catch fire, and burn. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Nine hours here, and now nine hours back," the guard grumbled. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Real. Less than nine hundred of you made it to Thirteen alive.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Today, around nine a.m., as I sat in chemistry, there was a knock on the door, and Miss Warren, the guidance counselor, stepped into the room. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

At nine o'clock, he turned off his radio and went to bed. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

By the time Walter was eight or nine, he became too valuable for picking cotton to justify the remote advantages of going to school. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I was probably eight or nine, and it was dark outside. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

We were out of the courthouse by ten after nine. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There was partial recovery but about nine years later a fatal leukemia developed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Possession is nine tenths of the law, and the Army had the meat and the agent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Me: "The rule of nines. If you add up all those numbers, the body parts, you get ninety-nine percent. What's the other one percent?" Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He was sentenced to nine months of hard labor and sent immediately to a prison in the northern part of the state. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Look at the decisive battle of Brenneville in which a field of nine hundred knights took part end only three were killed. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

At nine in the morning, there was nothing more than a light chop on Lake Washington, a typical gray, late fall day with light winds out of the southeast at perhaps five miles per hour. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He and his wife lived over on Riverside Drive; he was headed home now; they’d been married for nine years; they’d met as high school sweethearts; they didn’t have any children. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The dessert was not carried out till after nine; and at ten footmen were still running to and fro with trays and coffee-cups. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

To hear him you would think he’d never left Jamaica, that the past nine years never happened. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Curfew wasn’t until nine o’clock, but even the Polish police, who did what the SS told them, would find any reason to stop a Jew. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

But I did not see why I had to choose between him and a brother who might be just nine miles away. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Beatriz, dressed to the nines in a red checkered skirt and white sweater, diva-strolls into the cafeteria, taking a seat at the center table, which everybody knows is reserved for her. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They went to law school, and no less than nine of their grandchildren ended up as doctors and lawyers as well. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The tumblers who came next failed to move her either, even when they formed a human pyramid nine levels high, with a naked little girl on top. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I been here nine months. I got sick, and they sent me to the hospital over in the Philippines. You ever been in that hospital?” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not least from his own feeling of vigour and hunger, he suddenly understood that he had slept the daylight away, nine hours at least. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“What? But that’s preposterous. He’s nine. He’s just a boy,” the woman said. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

My tenth birthday came and went away, like all the other nine, uncelebrated. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Vogel," Lewis continued, "how far can we deflect in thirty- nine minutes with the ion engines?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has a certain charm, especially if you happen to be nine. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had talked to a reporter once before, when I was nine and a newspaper did a story on me being one of the youngest kids in Maryland to have a commercial crab license. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Sal’s basketball was going strong by about nine in the morning. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

She’s the most positive person in the world, and amazing and fun to be around, but in a strange and happy way sometimes she seems to be about nine bricks shy of a full load. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Mom promised to pick us up in front of the hospital at nine o’clock sharp and left us there to brave the meeting alone. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He waited only till he had his breath back and then called, “Six I have seen, five slain, nine are told of: come out, worms!” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I was nine when I bothered my dad about love,” I say, looking through the postcards again at places in my own city I never visited. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

With the other boys his age, eight and nine, he had joined the crowd watching a contest. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She knew something was up—she knew something was happening at nine. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

So after eating breakfast, with full stomachs, the saboteurs attended classes from nine o'clock until noon. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

There are nine perfect yogurt containers lined up on the refrigerator shelf. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Lisa had been with us for some eight or nine months - and I had largely forgotten her existence by this point - when she vanished from the house together with the second footman. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d say you’re sixteen. And in case you were wondering, five foot nine . . . brown hair. Oh, and ugly as fried liver on a stick.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

There were nine other knights, from France and Danemark and Ireland: and the lady from my ship was there as well. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he couldn't find any nine and a halfs for Noodles. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“It looks like a place I used to go for dance lessons — when I was eight or nine. It was shaped just the same.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

All nine flight crews survived the June 2 battle, and while they’d been in the air they shot down four of the enemy fighters themselves. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“I have the slip here. It’s marked nine thirty-seven.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“It must have been about nine o’clock, sir, last night. That or a little after.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I was nine, they’d decided that maybe it was for the best. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their mother had passed away shortly after Maeve was born; their father, when the children were nine and twelve. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But nine years is a long time, and Meggie saw how careful they were with each other, like people on a narrow bridge crossing a wide, wide void. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The fall classic was typically a best-of-seven series, but because of enormous post-World War I interest, baseball’s commissioner had extended it to the best of nine. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“Gave me that photo right before he hopped in that Chevy and took off. I was nine years old.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Sure. But you know that stuff Emily said last year, about her parents and the nine thousand things? It doesn’t seem like that could happen to your parents.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He closed the doors but did not lock them and by nine o’clock was on his way. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In other words, I was making about nine out of ten shots, ninety out of a hundred. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Below them, to the west, they could see the nine Little Baldy Bear Lakes, tiny and almost unbelievably beautiful, each lake pocked with hundreds of silver circles from the feeding fish. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d put in extra hours to make up for the time she’d be taking off, working until two or three on the nights she closed and arriving at nine to open the next morning. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When he was nine, he once told one of his cousins, “Ask me a question in Latin and I will answer you in Greek.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I was nine the first time my dad took me to a hardware store, and I’d thought the place was so cool my brain just about exploded. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Can you believe Bunker Tower had been standing for nine years by the time I was born?” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

The difference between ‘this world’ and ‘the world-to-come’ comes out to nine. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Once, when he was nine or ten, his father had fallen ill. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is, indeed,” said James, gazing at the beautiful scarlet shell with the nine black spots on it. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The men experienced reduction in the dopamine transporter, a protein, as compared to a control group of nine men who were not compulsive Internet users. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In addition to practicing for almost three hours after school every day, Monday through Friday, we also had practice on Saturday mornings from nine a.m. to noon. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

At the time, I was nine years old and not very strong. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a canary-yellow two-piece bathing suit, one piece of which she would not actually be needing for another nine or ten years. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

There are only eight or nine people here besides us, packed onto the couch and around the kitchen table. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

It then quoted her as admitting she had been in the barn on Sunday night at nine- thirty and that a cow kicked over the lamp. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Hidden underneath all of those junk sprites and garbled graphics were nine more dots, worth ten points each. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t go dreaming about a big white flower he’d put on my wrist, and him telling my father he’d bring me home by nine o’clock. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The typical day in the courtroom lasted from nine thirty in the morning until five o’clock in the afternoon. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There were about ten of us team members—mostly level eights, nines, and tens—waiting for instructions. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

At nine o’clock everyone got excited, waiting for movement to begin, but nothing happened. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

At this there was a terrible baying sound outside, and nine enormous dogs wearing brass-studded collars came bounding into the barn. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I was nine years old when it started. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Which she received,” I struck in, “when she was dressing for her marriage? At twenty minutes to nine?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Excepting in nine of the larger cities of the state all postmasters are registrars for their respective districts. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

At ten minutes of nine someone opened the doors for air, and I could see Digger and J.T. standing on the front steps with their families. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I gather the next two tapes, blue nail polish labeling them nine and ten, eleven and twelve, and hide them in my inside jacket pocket. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Papa and more than two hundred other men were imprisoned in the stockade, some for as long as nine months, without a hearing or trial. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“What? I was nine! Who wants a garden when they’re nine?” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

If she kept her eyes closed, she could almost fool herself into thinking she was nine years old again, curled up in her bed with her stuffed crocodile tucked in beside her. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“It would be doing what the segregationists wanted—setting up separate schools. Not to mention that it would be betraying the nine Negro students at Central who suffered through last year.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been bom on Dragonstone nine moons after their flight, while a raging summer storm threatened to rip the island fastness apart. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Above these again were the playrooms where, the weather having turned to rain, nine hundred older children were amusing themselves with bricks and clay modelling, hunt-the-zipper, and erotic play. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The AT had no murders in its first thirty-six years and nine in the past twenty-two. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not nine or seven and given to squealing or oohing like Vonetta and Fern. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane was nine miles from the explosion when the bomb’s shock wave hit. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miranda, then nine years old, had been too frightened to eat the cake. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Her grandparents had returned to Japan when Papa was nine, more than twenty-five years ago. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I put my hands down on the tread behind me, raise my foot to step nine, and push myself up backward. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

We do not, cannot, know the meanings of all their words, for we are nine and ten years old. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know this is where I’m supposed to laugh, but I seem to have used up my pretending quota for the day, and it’s not even nine thirty yet. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Eight, maybe nine at most, judging by her size. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

That helped a little, for there were only five, not nine, when your camp was attacked. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

For nine years I had done everything I could to survive. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Yet when a new Archmage was chosen, nine Masters met to choose him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

By nightfall the neighborhood was under nine feet of water and Zeitoun could no longer go downstairs. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It was nine in the morning, when all the world is sleeping. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I was nine years old at the time. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The expression 7.39842 x 1010 is more comprehensible and legible than seventy- three billion nine hundred and eighty-four million and two hundred thousand. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You missed the vidcall this morning. Miss Wild told me; it came through the switchboard exactly at nine.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe eight or nine steps into the living room before reaching that door. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

‘That means,’ said Sophie, ‘that somewhere in the world, every single night, nine wretched people get carried away and eaten alive.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jasmine was born nine months after one such visit, and now the Delanys owned two slaves. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

At eight or nine digits, the local telephone number would exceed the human channel capacity: there would be many more wrong numbers. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

By nine a.m., my father was off to a gallery for a private showing. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He was plenty scared now, with nine venomous snakes crawling around his feet. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A whipping that would outdo my last whipping at age nine for letting Vonetta and Fern get into the grape jelly. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

In the big white house facing the Common, the tall clock struck nine. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm five ten, weigh 160 pounds, my social security number is nine randomly selected numbers, and I turned twenty-two last month. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

I take out nine candles and, trying to move as mechanically as possible, carry them past the guards. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The past nine months flashed before my eyes. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And as they rode the elevator up to their separate floors—Simeon on seven, Kenzi on nine—Simeon looked at Kenzi, knowing what he wished for. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I know. But if we’ve misunderstood something about this quest, and we only have nine days to find the master bolt. . . .” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Moving every six to nine months had made me an expert at doing new things. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s nearly nine o’clock, Seven. People will begin arriving soon,” Thorn said. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I was at the recruiting office in the Bishop Building on 125th Street at nine o’clock on the morning of my birthday. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“And in that spirit,” he goes on, “be at the temple by nine a.m. Saturday and we’ll do this right.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

"About a month ago. You know the nine hundredth text and phone call you decided to ignore?" We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then began a sixty-second countdown, with maybe a hundred voices jumping in by the end: “... nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had counted twenty- nine deaths out of a shipment of a hundred monkeys. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has stayed for nine months for free, working and saving money to continue his journey. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The Simplon Orient Express arrived at Belgrade at a quarter to nine that evening. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I learned that the majority of the slaves worked in the cotton fields from six in the morning until nine or ten at night with only a fifteen-minute break for a meal and water. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Comer had already gained 125 yards on nine carries. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s Maggie, the dog we got after my level nine Westerns, and then there are her puppies Lily, Atlas, and Bella, who were bred at the same farm where we found Maggie. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He slept in a good house on Mars Avenue, rose mornings at nine, bathed, and idled to town for ham and eggs. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. I’m a research assistant. Have been for nine years. This is my lab.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

He’s ushered into a courtyard encircled with razor wire, where eight or nine other Germans sit in their high boots holding battered canteens, one dressed in women’s clothes in which he apparently tried to desert. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

After nine years of the government’s apparent lack of interest in pursuing him, however, he really didn’t feel like a fugitive. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Hall was born into a working-class Catholic family in Christchurch, New Zealand, the youngest of nine children. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Gilded harpies stood atop the center poles of each of its nine peaked roofs, shining in the sun. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the end, there were only nine seats in the first freshman shell. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Gill nets, by law, must be on board by nine o’clock—is that right, Sheriff Moran?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

More than 90 percent of the school’s nine hundred students were black or from an ethnic minority; a fifth of them were the children of immigrants or asylum seekers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“It has been nine days and your debt is discharged. If you came to hear me say it, you can go now.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Even after the end of the Emergency, the trial continued for another nine months until March 29, 1961. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry was used to getting onto platform nine and three-quarters by now. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

But by nine, when the boys finished work—during which they noticed nothing amiss—the sun had risen, delivering another day of pheasant-season perfection. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washingtons men had spent the dark night and foggy morning rowing all of the troops back to New York Island-some nine thousand men, folks said. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have to be at the DA’s office at nine thirty,” Momma says. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Though I was nearly nine years of age, I had not had a single, unbroken year of school, and I was not conscious of it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother and father were as good a fit for each other as an adult’s foot in a child’s shoe; even at nine years old Kendrick recognized this. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It took nine days for the Moscow group to travel to Engels. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He was eight, maybe nine, Big Time thought. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Winston woke up the hands of the clock had crept round to nearly nine. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

They redesigned the spacecraft, fixing flaws that had been exposed by the disaster and redoubling their focus on every possible detail of the next nine missions, each a step in the stairway to the Moon. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“No. My mother called around nine; I couldn’t talk to her. Told her I was writing a paper.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Probably the closest I ever got to a spiritual sort of experience was during my mom’s O Brother period, which coincided with me being about eight or nine years old. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

One evening in May, when we’d been saving our money for almost nine months, I came home with a couple of dollars I’d made babysitting and went into the bedroom to stash them in Oz. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes drop to the gaping wound in his stomach, a wound I put there nine years ago. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Especially since Jay helped raise her—their mom was killed when Aunt Pooh was one and their dad died when she was nine. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was just before nine o’clock when the door opened and two guards came in with Mr. Grin behind them. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was now nine o’clock and The Goober sat on the floor, his head against a desk, angry at his damp cheeks. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You are still a child of eight . . ." "Almost nine!" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“You will meet me at this address tomorrow morning, precisely at nine.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She picked up his discarded nine—the second one he fed to her, as if he didn’t know she was collecting them. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Seeing as how we’re wrapped in vines nine hundred feet in the air, you might want to talk nice. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

By nine, they might be able to trace the Tillermans, and maybe find them, and stop them. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can name the nine Muses and the seven loves of Zeus. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

This was back in Huntsville, back when he was nine and ten years old. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m nine and Malachy is eight and we know all the songs. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

We nine can’t understand how you three are still so sure. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three days later President Eisenhower trumped the state, federalizing the states guard and sending in US Army troops to escort the nine through the school’s doors. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She would go fairly late, between nine and ten o'clock, when Matilda was sure to be in bed. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

To get to work, scientists struggled through the mud to the half-finished Tech Area, which housed labs and offices and was surrounded by another fence, nine feet high, with barbed wire strung along the top. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naheed was only nine then, but she knew the answer to her mother’s question. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“In the darkness,” he said, “there were ten; not nine. There was a stranger.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

No one came out, not at “nine,” not at “ten,” not after “ten.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She used nine larger straws for a wider braid, and made it notched all along the edges. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have a little sign in every room telling guests they are expected to complain at the office between the hours of nine and eleven A.M. daily. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was because already, at the age of nine, I was very nearly as tall as he was. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Vivian would never have agreed to start this early. She has a routine. Gets up at eight or nine, comes downstairs at ten.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Even at nine, I knew being the only speck of brown on the field was a lot. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

I’m sure he’s gone forever and I wonder if that happens when you go from nine to ten. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I was nine, and it never dawned on me that I couldn’t be Pippi, or anyone else for that matter. Not just on Halloween but whenever.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“At your peril you advertise! I wish I had only offered you a sovereign instead of ten pounds. Give me back nine pounds, Jane; I’ve a use for it.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Clara, who had spent nine years without speaking, knew the advantages of silence and asked her daughter nothing, joining in her efforts to erase all memory of Jean de Satigny. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a big plastic number nine over one platform and a big plastic number ten over the one next to it, and in the middle, nothing at all. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It was past nine o’clock and the Sunday bells were silent now. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“What I said nine months ago? When I told you not to think of me that way?” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Hogwarts Express will leave from King’s Cross station, platform nine and three-quarters, at eleven o'clock. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s done now. Your grandmother will come to pick you up at my office tomorrow. I’ll come about nine to get you.” iomorrow? The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

After being corrected and printed, the one thousand five hundred pages reduced themselves to six hundred, yielding a voluminous treatise on the ninety- nine names of God and formulas for attaining nirvana through respiratory exercise. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose she took marks off for your shoulder. Mr. Crouch came next. He shot a number nine into the air. “Looking good!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was after nine o’clock, and Sticky had still not shown up. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was a whole layer of dynamite inside, nine or ten sticks. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reports that she knew as many as nine languages fluently and could move from one to another without effort may be exaggerated. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The only problem is that sentries man the bridge and no traffic is allowed in or out of Washington after nine P.M. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I figure it’s probably the costliest portable item in the entire Clearview Inn, so I hesitate to leave it in my room for the nine or so hours while I’m away at work. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Be out front of your building. We'll pick you up at nine." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Volt meter’s down around nine somewhere. Alternator belts were loose, I guess. I got ’em tightened up better now, but meanwhile I’m dead in the water.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Someone else offered seventy-five cents, then a dollar, and before too long it was up to nine dollars and ninety-nine cents. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

"Will you live another eight or nine years?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Tidings’s voice drummed up the stairs, sounding as commanding as General Robert E. Lee’s at Gettysburg: “It’s nine o’clock! Visitation’s at three! Let’s move-move-move! Where are the hedge clippers, Mama?” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“And the leader—Sorrento, we think—is running just nine minutes behind you.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And then, "Now let's go back to one. Ten, nine, eight..." Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I was nine years old, and I was very worried that my father wouldn't attend. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Even so, it is unlikely that a large cat could survive in sufficient numbers to breed not just in one area but evidently all over New England and escape notice for nine decades. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The biggest hostage was six-and-a-half feet tall but had a baby’s face; the smallest was a runty boy who claimed nine years but looked no more than six. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the front of the room, Ellegua, god of the crossroads, inhabits the clay eggs in nine rustic bowls of varying sizes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told Kathy to call anyone she could and tell them to be at Hunt the next day, at nine a.m. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He held up two fingers, one eight or nine inches above the other, to show them. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anthony was an unmarried thirty-one-year-old headmistress and temperance worker; Stanton was now thirty-five and the mother of four boys, ages three months to nine years old. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I am nine years old and holding my father’s meaty, sweaty hand. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It is the first time in thirty years that we nine black alumni have entered this school together. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I first became interested in flying when I was about nine years old. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My final year playing slow pitch, I was nine. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

A girl about nine years old was tending the flames, poking the coals with a stick. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

A peek through a window revealed a Remington rifle, a plastic box of shells, eight or nine paperback books, some tom jeans, cooking utensils, and an expensive backpack. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I came to this country from Syria nine years ago and have since then earned American citizenship and am assistant manager of the Pizza Pad on Highway 6.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

On her return, at about nine o’clock, she met a man who asked her if she had seen anything of the child who was lost. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our apartment on Euclid Avenue was about nine miles south of the Chicago Loop, which with its glittering skyscrapers and crowded sidewalks felt otherworldly to me. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Zeus, greatly angered in his turn, condemned Apollo to serve King Admetus as a slave—for a period which is differently given as one or nine years. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Branwell’s mother was killed in an auto accident when he was nine months old. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, nine years later, Maria Teresa, his final desperate attempt at a boy misfiring. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Fifteen, twenty, thirty- nine," I counted out, until I was back at the water fountain. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

According to family stories, she “could keep nothing on her stomach” for a full nine months. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“You’d think those salesmen would wait until nine before bothering people.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Theo threw a complete game, striking out nine and giving up only two hits, just like the ace of a staff is supposed to. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The other Navajo men of the first twenty- nine had been sent on assignment overseas, but he and John Benally, another member of the Navajo 382nd, had been given a different job. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silk, chiffon, and all decked out to the nines. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

By July 11, nine days after the shooting, it was ready to use. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

My arm is clipped by bag nine and it nearly knocks me off balance, but I’m just barely able to catch myself. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The clock in the hall downstairs strikes nine. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are to go down to the Quidditch field tonight at nine o’clock, Potter,” she told him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Each time Pac-Man died on this final maze, the nine hidden dots reappeared on the deformed right half of the screen. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Good luck charm or not, the word on the street is that this kid is shooting five hundred foul shots a day and making nine out of every ten. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Our new girl,” said Captain Fleery to the other messengers, a cluster of nine people who smiled and nodded at Lina. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Madge watches while I write down nine times four equals thirty-six. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

At seven, Belky wears a white First Communion dress and long white gloves; at nine, a yellow cheerleader’s skirt; at fifteen, for her quinceanera, a pink taffeta dress with lace sleeves and white satin shoes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I went onstage at about nine o’clock and faced a crowd of happy, smiling, cheering faces. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My guess is that it went on for about nine months, a year even, around when we were seven, going on eight. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We—all of us—got up around nine. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

In the case of Mars, the trip can take as long as nine months, following a curving arc approximately 460 million miles long. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horse even had his own parlor game, the first of at least nine. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorry. Strike that. All nine masters are present. Present your grievance, Master Hemme.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I went down to the lounge about half-past nine on the pretext of getting luggage labels and he was not there. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Uhmma points to the girl, who looks about nine or ten. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

After nine days, they could be in Florida or Nova Scotia. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

You were only going to have that belly for nine months, and then it’d all be over. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Only eight of the nine of us made it through that year. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I was nine and a half, and at that age one is ill equipped to tackle a grown-up man with flaming orange hair and a violent temper. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘The theories. The nine theories. I think I know the right one.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Viola sounded the gong at nine o’clock and woke me. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Given that the average American male is five foot nine, that means that CEOs as a group have about three inches on the rest of their sex. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

At nine o’clock, Father had not come back. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A clock in the schoolroom struck nine; Miss Miller left her circle, and standing in the middle of the room, cried— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Let’s see, the tangent of forty degrees is about point eight-four. Call it point eight. Multiply that by nine hundred and sixty...” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In July 1845, about nine months after Charles read Vestiges, George Darwin was born. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did a quick count: two iron halfpennies, nine shims, and a drab. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I will be at the voter registration office at nine a.m. when it opens. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Surprisingly, Peru has more arable land above nine thousand feet than below. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“One summer when I was about nine, my dad went off to rehab for his dryer sheet addiction. He used to huff ’em down in the basement, box after box. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Besides, anybody who started for church at nine in the morning on Sunday and didn’t get home until after twelve thirty had to be peculiar. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Take out for gas and bait, I’m still ahead by nine hundred dollars, and next week looks to be better, everybody says so. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

That morning, around nine o’clock, she was moved to the state colony’s infirmary. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

His long absences were quite bearable for Helene Wright, especially when, after some nine years of marriage, her daughter was bom. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

A delegation of nine hundred women from Cleveland. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“When it turns at nine o’clock,” said Herbert, cheerfully, “look out for us, and stand ready, you over there at Mill Pond Bank!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Giles de Retz had been found to have no less than a ton of children’s bones, calcined, in his castle, after having murdered them at the rate of twelve score a year for nine years. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the light of the moon, she saw all nine of those monstrous half-naked brutes thundering across the landscape together. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw one girl, about nine or ten years old, melt from the side of a maple tree and come skipping up the hill. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Political detainees all across the country had held a successful hunger strike, persuading the minister of law and order to release over nine hundred of them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was after nine o’clock when the doorbell rang. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Anyway, it sat in my desk drawer for about nine months, but then I thought, Why not? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A month ago it would have been unthinkable to drink coffee at nine p.m. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Me and Mom always get shrimp fried rice, Aunt Sophie gets crab sticks, which I always thought was a weird choice, and King nine times out of ten orders a cheeseburger with two egg rolls. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Age of first filibuster: nine, at SeaWorld San Antonio, trying to force an orca wrangler into early retirement for, quote, ‘inhumane whale practices.’” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

More than seven hundred of them shelled out two dollars apiece to sit in nine special open-sided viewing cars; the rest paid a dollar fifty for regular coach seats. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He gave an example of a Texas family where one member had exposed nine others to MDR. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

For a time it seemed the girl might be fine, but eventually her wounds became worse, and she died, just nine years old. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I always leave something at school, and nine times out of ten, I have to go back and get it. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

A four-feet-eight-inch ball of nonstop energy, I liked to say I was four feet nine just so I could feel taller. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We’re back on platform nine and three-quarters and time has ticked on mercilessly. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Or as an American friend put it to me much later: “Look, if you draw a two thousand-mile-long line across the United States at any angle, it’s going to pass through nine murder victims.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just another nine or ten hours' run along the way. We should reach it by next moonrise. Then we’ll have a party, eh? Celebrate you being made into one of us!” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

To their number the fleet had added nine new prizes taken on the seas, so the sum was fifty-four... but the captured ships were cogs and fishing boats, merchantmen and slavers, not warships. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Wow,” she said after almost a full ten seconds, during nine of which Joaquin questioned his decision to bring Birdie up at all. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Baugi had nine slaves, giants like himself, and they were cutting the grass for hay with huge scythes, each scythe the size of a small tree. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Eight, maybe nine, months he gave her of widowhood, and then she'd find someone to grow old with on his life insurance. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

But Genter, who had dreamed of going to the Olympics since the age of nine, decided to swim anyway—without medication. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have a son. He’s only two. My daughter’s nine.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

By the time Johnny Pleasant shipped Henrietta off to live with Grandpa Tommy, she was four and Day was almost nine. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I was almost five, and she was almost nine. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll take you down to the school a little after nine, hear?” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Of these, nine had distinct patterns of small mutations that the researchers could 'not find in any databases or in the literature.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Frederick was a gifted translator who spoke eight or nine languages, but in America he had to take whatever job he could get. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

A little after nine in the morning, Saigon time, when the embassy was finally secured, General Westmoreland arrived to show reporters around the battlefield. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Among nine men he looked incongruously small, Ugwu thought, as they walked along. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But I was also impressed by the boycott’s effectiveness: after nine days, during which the buses ran empty, the company returned the fare to fourpence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a three-by-three grid and the numbers one to nine, the solution was always fifteen. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Never say you are five feet nine when you are five feet eight and a half” was the first one I encountered. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I used to caddy once in a while, just to make some dough. I caddy'd for her mother a couple of times. She went around in about a hundred and seventy, for nine holes." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Of the seventy-five names, an astonishing fourteen are Americans born within nine years of one another in the midnineteenth century. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“So get your pencils sharpened and your desk in order. School begins at nine o’clock.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went up by six, and then by nine with a minute to go. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I’m on the second nine when I feel his foot punch the base of my spine and I go sprawling forward onto the grass, the wind knocked out of me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fenoglio sat down at the table with a purposeful look, put the first sheet of paper in front of him, folded it, and then tore it neatly into nine parts. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“You're nine years old now. A young lady. You can hold yourself in.” March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Werfel said, “My house is surrounded by soldiers. Eight or nine. On the lookout. They’re waiting for us to come back. They know it was you. Whatever it was you did.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He was making seven knots, about nine miles an hour. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, at half past nine, Mother smoothes her skirt, folds a blanket slowly and perfectly, like a cherished letter. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Some parts of Oaxaca go up nine thousand feet,” T. Boone Hallberg, a botanist at the Oaxaca Institute of Technology, told me. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I woke about nine o'clock, had a bath, dressed, and went down-stairs. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The pilots throttled back the engines and all nine helicopters landed safely on the great yellow wasteland. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s a perfect sample of the luck of the Bobos; a million and nine trees out there in ’em woods and Pap had to go pick the only one that was toting a invisible shield. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Having got the address from the school records, Miss Honey set out to walk from her own home to the Wormwood's house shortly after nine. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

That had been many years ago—nine years, or nearly. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

But nine times out of ten it was just some grown-up who wanted to talk to Mom or Dad. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z