| 单词 | nut |
| 例句 | Bull Sparra pecked nut morsels from his feathers, his eyes gleaming craftily. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z It lists Abraham Lincoln, Ernest Hemingway, Winston Churchill, Isaac Newton, Sylvia Plath, and a bunch of other smart people who were kind of nuts. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z By late afternoon the ringing phone, the hot weather, and my confinement were driving me nuts, so when the phone rang, I grabbed for it. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z After a few minutes I become aware of a smacking sound behind me and turn to see Mags peeling the shell off one of the nuts and popping it in her already-full mouth. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He’s nuts\\ He swears that his university professor had him locked up. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z A few days later, my storehouse rolling with nuts, I began the race for apples. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z When they started munching on a few beer nuts, it was too much for Chester to swallow. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I wanted to ask her if she thought I was nuts for writing to Fred, but I didn’t. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z The video then transitions to a montage of scenes with Grandma coming over to feed Grandpa, taking away his salty nuts or candy, bringing him his medicine and vitamins, laughing at him, nagging him. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Now I brought out the stores I had put by month after month—rice and dhal and ghee, jars of oil, betel leaf, areca nuts, chewing tobacco and copra. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked searchingly at Granny, who was pounding millet with pestle and mortar and mixing it with sorghum and nuts for an African delicacy. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “The pilau there, such a lovely smell, and it has roasted nuts in it—or no, I think the fritters will last longer....” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Zohra hands me the bowl of nuts, but I wave it away. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Back in his bedroom, Harry fiddled aimlessly with his rucksack, then poked a couple of owl nuts through the bars of Hedwig’s cage. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Rambling through the Southeast in the 1770s, the naturalist William Bartram observed Creek families storing a hundred bushels of hickory nuts at a time. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Only a few of us were in the locker room, so it’s nuts how people who weren’t even there have so much to say. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z “My mom drove me nuts with her citizenship test. She doesn’t know even the basic facts, like each state has two senators.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z The bats in his chest were going nuts. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z I make preparations for the trip by filling my belt pouch with nuts and smoked venison. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Candied sweet potatoes, creamed onions, cranberry nut salad, corn pudding, gravy, cheese bread, and not one but two kinds of stuffing. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z I put one of the nuts on my palm and offer it to Jay. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z This seemed to suggest that the Earth was splitting apart at the seams, like a nut bursting out of its shell. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Mam says, Because ’tis Christmas and he has sore eyes and the nut is good for the sore eyes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The next day, on the way home from school, I ate my very first sundae with three kinds of ice cream, pineapples, nuts, chocolate sauce, and marshmallows. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I halfway thought I was going nuts, and that kind of thinking seared me a little. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z She browned some onions, then rubbed a big nut on a grater. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z But the walk made him hungry, and it was then he realized there weren’t any street vendors selling pretzels or hot dogs, roasted nuts or souvlaki. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “My parents are going to go nuts about missing this.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z “I’m sure you probably think I’m nuts sitting here crying over a lake. I know it’s not a person. It’s not Stan. It’s just that were so careless, and...and...” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Farid and I walked past street peddlers selling cigarettes, pine nuts, and biscuits. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z From the top, I could see the sprawl of people selling oranges, avocados, packets of nuts on brightly colored pieces of material or small cardboard tables made from overturned boxes. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Ordinary people, ordinary girls, teenagers like myself, would think I’m a little nuts with all my self-pity. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z She watched as a passing car ran right over the still-green nut. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z He wiped the louvers until they sparkled in the afternoon sunlight, paid attention to the tiny cracks in the bathtub, polished the saucers that he used to serve kola nut to Master’s friends. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I’d know the scent of you, like I know how Papa always smells like hospital soap, smoke, and the pistachio nuts he carries in his pocket. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z They were delicious—the nuts and candy of the Arctic. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When, at training’s end, I suggested in a feedback session that some inmates be brought in to talk to us, maybe to participate in IPC workshops, everybody looked at me as if I were nuts. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Now he’d go nuts on me, and it would be my own fault. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z And when I grab hold of my nuts, I want the manager to run over with the jock powder, cause I’m gonna have a powerful itch.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z More precious foodstores—cases of nuts, boxes of sugar, crates of barley, flour, and jam—were sledged back to the new camp, dubbed Ocean Camp by the men. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “No thanks,” I said, even though my glass was empty and my back teeth were packed with chewed nuts. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z They soon realized that the woodland on this left bank was lonely, thick and overgrown—denser than the nut copses and bluebell woods of Sandleford. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But I figured Sookie would think I was nuts, so I said, “What made you call the biologists?” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z “Same thing happened last night about this time. But it didn’t wake you up. Some nut on the other end of the line, laughing away like it’s the biggest joke in the world.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He wrote to friends and colleagues saying, “Someone should coin a contemporary phrase and say, at least for the moment, ‘The world has gone nuts over tissue culture and its possibilities.’ The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Why does everyone assume I’m an antisocial nut job? Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Huge platters of fowl stuffed with savory fruits and nuts. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I reported this to Malcolm X, who snorted, “He must think I’m nuts! What am I going to look like going speaking with a devil!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The cookies she had served for dessert were crisp and studded with dried fruits and nuts. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z They must pass messages along to each other—messages that tell what kind of nuts and where the trees are.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Since our tree made papershell pecans, Jay and me would take two of the oblong nuts in one hand and press them together until the shells cracked. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He read: “ ‘Residents of Delhi, in the Catskill Mountains, report that a wild boy, who lives off deer and nuts, is hiding out in the mountains. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z All around us, the manticore s minions were still acting completely nuts. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Boomer’s tail starts going nuts when we step up to the door. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z There was sawdust on the floor, and the air was filled with the aroma of spices, fruits, onions, nuts, and potatoes. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Shiloh goes nuts trying to uncover my face, nudging at my. arms with his nose, tail going ninety miles an hour. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “Know what I wouldn’t be surprised? If this wasn’t done by a lunatic. Some nut that read about what happened out in Kansas.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Even modern European plant geneticists have failed to develop any crop except macadamia nuts from Australia’s native wild flora. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Quite calmly he climbed into the palm and feasted on its nuts. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The branches were mostly bare of leaves now, and the squirrels were in full-fledged autumnal hysteria, frantically seeking nuts and burying them everywhere their tiny one-track minds could think of. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z And as a reward for my first major acting role, I have a whole plate of chocolate-chip macadamia nut cookies to myself. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s going to be trouble with that robot. He’s pure nuts!” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z I think my little brother was driving my dog nuts, too. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z His godchildren came from many miles on his saint’s day, and brought him kola nuts and black hens. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z So he wouldn’t think I was a nut. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Tristran ate fruit and nuts from bushes and trees and he drank from clear streams. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z She knew it wouldn’t be another puzzle-loving computer nut with a cowlick sidekick. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Yeah. It reminded me of some crankheads we busted in the twenties when martial law was declared. Those people were just as nuts— bloody hell-bent psychos, they were. Come on.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “Those are rabbits down there, trotting along like a lot of squirrels with nuts. How can that be right?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z If Barack got hungry, a valet would bring him a small dish of figs or nuts. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I dug where squirrels might have come, stealing one or two nuts at each place. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought that there would be mansions and orchards everywhere and that nuts and fruit would fall down and roll through the streets whenever the wind blew the trees. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z With baskets of palm nuts and orchids from the forest. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But Mom just looked at me like I was nuts. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z I had not eaten the nuts; I was sorry that I had called her Aunt Addie; but I did not want to be singled out for gratuitous punishment. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “You should be helping me out around here,” he said, “instead of working for that nut who’s got one foot in the grave.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She knew how tardiness drove me nuts—how I saw it as nothing but hubris. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “What’s nuts is that despite the fact that my score was one of four that didn’t change, Bryce ratted me out as the mastermind.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Reynolds smiled, showing black teeth from chewing betel nut. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z She might as well have kicked me square in the nuts. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The sleeping pills that had been for the plane were still in their plastic cylinder, and also in the duffel I had a liter of pond water and a handful of foraged nuts. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “I’m ready,” I answer pointing to my belt pack stuffed with the venison and nuts I put there this morning. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Doing CPR. Everybody was going nuts. Dad started running up to his car phone, dialing 911.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I did the best I could for a small, nearsighted kid and each year got to be a little tougher nut to crack. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She lowered her tray and he took one, cracked it between his fingers, and chewed the nuts inside before he asked for two cups. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I watched the food slide down his throat, struggling to get past his sagging Adam’s apple, which pushed out of his neck like a wrinkled nut. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I throw a nut directly in front of me and hear it sizzle in confirmation. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z In the middle of each table there are two china dishes, one with salted nuts, the other with mixed candies. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “He is a rare nut, is what he is. A nut of the type that never falls far from the tree! Where I come from, sir, that is what we call a witch doctor.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I can only imagine how nuts that makes President Snow. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z When Francie brought a ticket and a dime back and pushed them across the counter, he gave her the wrapped shirt and two lichee nuts in exchange. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z If these fossils really thought he was going to live in that shack for a whole year, they were nuts. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Ebersole snarled into the jury mike: “And a nut roll for all.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z James had a single-dip cone for seconds, another scoop of chocolate nut. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z And then under her breath she said, “I mean, God. Grow some nuts.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z “I’ll go nuts if we do that. We found a workpad with a map of where that Berg came from. Let’s gather supplies and get out of here— maybe we can learn something.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “Do you both want whipped cream and nuts on your strawberry whirl?” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z “I’m very fond of sugar. And I think it’s a good idea to put nuts on top of things, don’t you?” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z The innkeeper was back with a plate of thick brown bread studded with nuts and raisins. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “Twinkle’s a bit of a peanut butter chocolate nut,” Sahil said. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z All I have left are Rue's roots and nuts, the boy's dried fruit, and one strip of beef. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I look at the nuts all neatly peeled and recognize the handiwork of a white-footed deer mouse. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of it, such as the variation in berry size or in nut bitterness, would have been readily noticed by ancient farmers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When I reach Dad at his office and tell him, he almost goes nuts. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He hurried to the root cellar and packed his rucksack with enough nuts, venison jerky, and big potatolike Jerusalem artichoke roots to feed himself for three or four days. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Immediately Matthias scrambled about on all fours, hastily trying to stuff nuts back into the basket as he muttered clumsy apologies, avoiding the stern gaze of his elder. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Not surprisingly, the kids began to go a little nuts. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z For prehistoric humans the most productive forest was the deciduous leafy forest because of its abundance of edible nuts, such as walnuts, chestnuts, horse chestnuts, acorns, and beechnuts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The boy scooped up a tin pail of nuts from the big box under the stove and went out to the flat cracking stone. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z What with the nuts, pears, apples, and bananas that had been thrown in to him, he did fairly well for supper; out it wouldn’t be true to say that he passed an agreeable night. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Inside, it’s crunchy with nuts and sweet with syrup. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z It was good hearty bread, filled with raisins and nuts. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z But there was a story he’d heard about, maybe read about in the paper, that was running around his head—making him nuts. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z When became back, Lesage fed him, with squares of nut milk chocolate, piece by piece, out of a blue tin. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z One of the soldiers said quietly, “I think he’s gone nuts. She’s not a young woman.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She loved the way her feet sank into the carpet, the bowls of salty soy nuts, the way their cat snuggled with them on the couch. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z They looked at me as though I were totally nuts, then they let go of the door. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Everywhere he looked there were buckets of loose metal bits, tiny motors, gears, springs, nuts, bolts, and brightly colored tin. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z “But even so, they’re going to go nuts when I finally announce my success with T. melvinus. I’m going to be the next Jonas Salk!” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z “What I mean is, Coach O would give his left nut to have you on the football team. What’d you play?” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z In an unconscious gesture of television-enforced democracy, mistress and servant both scrabbled unseeingly in the same bowl of nuts. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Got a kitchen, orchard, cherries, apples, peaches, ‘cots, nuts, got a few berries. They’s a place for alfalfa and plenty water to flood it. They’s a pig pen—” “An’ rabbits, George.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s got it all changed around. New kind of a boat. I guess he’ll take it apart and change it. Doc—is he nuts?” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z They just thought he was some old nut. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t have any drachmas for an offering, and apparently the goddess Iris wasn’t interested in nuts and bolts. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Most jockeys would have thought me nuts,” he told Alexander after hanging up. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “But why does your uncle need all these books? Is he some kind of squirrel nut?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Bill asked, ‘i’d hate to let another one like that ax nut get off here.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "You riding back here in the Jim Crow just like me. Besides, you're a nut." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Ifemelu took tiny portions, pleased she had snacked on some nuts before they left; she did not like soul food. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The old one who did a terrible job of opening nuts and occasionally bumped into things was Ikwa. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I made Mr. Taft’s card into a squirrel, and when I finished, I wrote “I’m nuts about you” on the heart, though that wasn’t all that true either. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Native Americans of the eastern United States domesticated no locally available wild pulse, no fiber crop, no fruit or nut tree. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z After that she would squeeze the almonds from the fat ends, so that the nuts would pop out of the skins. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She looked up and squinted in concentration as though looking for a ripening pod on the kola nut tree was more important than what Master was saying. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “The moment the lower-status aspirant thinks he has located the nut under the shell, it has actually shifted, and he is too late.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Because we have not tasted the sacrament of palm nuts? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a tough nut, but she could be so sensible sometimes. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “I don’t expect you to understand, Manny. You run through girls like underwear. Wouldn’t know true love if it kicked you in the nuts.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Shaking his old grey head, yet trying to hide a smile, Abbot Mortimer bent and helped to gather up the fallen nuts. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Not even Charlie's unending nut punches and nipple twists ruined the mood. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z There Jerome hung, skinny, sunken-chested, as white as a saltine, his face scrunched up and one hand clutching his nuts. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z One minute we’re all going nuts with pure joy at hitting six million, and then we all get quiet as we remember what that number represents. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “You must take the last piece of kola nut with you,” Nnaemeka’s father said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z And I love to watch the boys climb up palm trees to cut down the oil nuts. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “How ’bout you free these nuts for you and your klan-cestors?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “I’m freezing my nuts off. I better go get JP before they shut it down.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The game disappeared, taking shelter from the rain, and the men began foraging for whatever they could find: blood-drop berries, hard-shelled nuts, flightless birds with white-and-gray wings. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Brian found a clam bed and they had actually eaten one meal—clams steamed around the fire, nuts, and berries—that left them full. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z They were still sitting over their port and cracking nuts. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Michael says,Will the nut make his eyes better? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Now she was moving away to a land she knew little of, except the skillet of olive oil with crumbles of garlic and pine nuts browning on the stove. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z She unfolded her dirty tunic to reveal several light brown nuts tucked within its layers. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I recall the nearly empty hickory nut and groundnut baskets. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A woman sold popcorn and candied nuts on my left, and a band played under the rotunda to my right. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “It interferes with being nuts. Just concentrate on moving that Celestial bronze. Echo, you ready?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “No pizza, no gooey brownies with nuts, and no Cool Ranch,” I said. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Any physics nut will tell you that there's never nothing. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “He didn’t go nuts, but he was down there a really long time.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z I tell him he’s doing me a favor, that it drives me nuts to sit around all day. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The whole of it was eventually picked clean in the way a forest tree gets gleaned by leaf-cutter ants: nuts, bolts, and anything that might serve for roofing material trailed off into the jungle. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just don’t barf in here. My mom will go nuts.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z We went on our way into the wonderland of nature gone nuts, and you will have to believe what happened. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z A few nuts were gone, to the squirrels, I thought. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “Has a nut come loose in your head, gbo? You are not going anywhere.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z He was a nut, known for his lack of inhibitions, his complete disregard of the rules. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama was humming a song, and the tune was cracking my skull open like a nut. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z It was fun to gather the large round walnuts and the smaller hickory nuts, and the little hazelnuts that grew in bunches on the bushes. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z There were only two feed bins in the barn built to keep out mice and I’d already stacked one with potatoes and the other halfway with nuts and com and cabbages. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Ambrose Spike, now sufficiently recovered, sat in the storeroom taking stock: lots of nuts and preserved berries from last autumn; apples and pears aplenty. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z When he got to the Port Authority, he saw a vendor on the street corner, selling bags of nuts. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z I go forward, wondering about Finnick, who saved old Mags but will let her eat strange nuts. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Sam returned to his mountainside camp and ate a breakfast of nuts and dried apples from his root cellar on the mountaintop. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “Stop bothering Maria Isabel. You are driving me nuts. Stop criticizing her,” she tells the women next door. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “I call them Nacho Crunch. No nuts and no dairy.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Wherever I wanted to be, that’s where he was—squeaking the porch swing, or hogging the kitchen table, eating those organic soy nuts Mom bought for him. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z This southern group, pleased with the wages and social perks courtesy of Louis Swift and other employers, was a tougher nut to crack. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Now everybody was referring to this array of nuts and bolts and circuits as he. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z One major food category was nuts, especially chestnuts and walnuts, plus horse chestnuts and acorns leached free of their bitter poisons. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Two-hundred-year-old pecan trees were commonly chopped down just to make it easier to harvest the nuts on their topmost branches. 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 Much later, when we were getting ready for bed, Caroline said, “I’ve got to get away from here before she runs me nuts.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “When I think of the swell time I could have without you, I go nuts. I never get no peace.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Charades at least might go over well, as long as the tableaux did not involve any reference to small, bushy-tailed animals that stored nuts in their cheeks. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z I’m silently freaked out, but Oliver goes nuts. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Maybe I had better stop thinking about it before I go nuts. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z He felt trapped like a worm in a nut. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And the first man said, “Perhaps we should feed him some nuts.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z As soon as the two Army officers appeared in space suits, the healthy monkeys went nuts. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have written over it. As one of Oppenheimer’s students put it: “Everyone sort of regarded him, very affectionately, as being sort of nuts.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a high hedge of hazel on either side and you could see clusters of ripe brown nuts in their green jackets. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z When passenger pigeons found an area with grain or nuts to eat, they formed a long, linear front that advanced forward, heads peck-peck- pecking at the ground. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z People would think I’m nuts if I try to explain it to them, so I don’t. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Inside it was filled with a grey dust, soft and fine, in the middle of which was a seed, like a small nut with a silver shale. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He snapped open a pistachio shell and popped the nut into his mouth. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “Yeah. Everyone knows he went nuts—some shank even accused you of killing him when you ran out there yesterday.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z "One morning his skin went all greyish-yellow. Then it became hard and crackly, like the shell of a nut. By evening, the boy had turned to stone." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z He had heard the neighbors talking about her; the story was that her parents had given her to a visiting army officer, as one would give kola nut to a guest. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Janet took her pen and looked at him like he was nuts. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He chewed every nut into a paste before he swallowed, trying to make each one last as long as he could. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The sundae was O.K., covered all over with chocolate and nuts and cherries. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I will not ask about this crush even though I feel like I just caught a knee to the nuts. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z The little silver nut he planted in the Party Field where the tree had once been; and he wondered what would come of it. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z She found an old cashew nut in a dim plastic bag. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They got to the front of the line, and Benji ordered popcorn, nuts, eight different candies, and soda. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z “Patience! Have patience, or you will make yourself nuts. You can become really unhappy or you can go deep inside yourself and know God loves you as you do your personal best.” March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I guess they are holed up and eating their stored nuts, too. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew it wouldn’t be another puzzle-loving computer nut with a cowlick sidekick. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z This guy named Hoffman has kidnapped Alicia and locked her away in a tower, and I'm going nuts looking for a way inside. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nobody runs around with Empire State. He’s a nut. He just stands around with a broom, dribbling spit. He can’t even talk.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He sat down and dug into his backpack for the trail mix of nuts, raisins, and chocolate that Nali had packed for him. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Rue's pack holds my sleeping bag, her nearly empty water skin, a handful of nuts and roots, a bit of rabbit, her extra socks, and her slingshot. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z She took a piece of bread from a loaf shaped like a clover leaf, and it was salty and rich and studded with nuts. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d asked her as we left, and she gave me a look like, Are you nuts? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I slowly peel and eat a handful of nuts. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “He had a crack on the nut, like you did, only worse. Audrey thought he was dead, but he en’t. Just keep still now.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I open the minibar and take out the bottled water and the macadamia nuts. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Except it's a pretty wild idea, and I don't want her to think I'm nuts. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And the baby food jars filled with nuts and bolts in her father’s garage. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Twenty- four hours of big-time wrestling or the home shopping station can drive a person nuts! Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z It was like trying to eat the ice cream around the nuts. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I finally fall asleep and dream that Santa has arrived in a black Volkswagen filled with cousins carrying baskets full of apples and raisins and nuts. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Maybe you’ll think it’s nuts that the brother of a cancer patient would feel lucky, but at that instant, I most surely did. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I almost said, “Are you nuts?” but for once I managed to keep my thoughts to myself and I said, “No, not really.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z She's gathered quite a collection of roots, nuts, greens, and even some berries. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z But in the morning our shoes were filled with nuts and candy, and each one of us had a small gift wrapped in green paper tied with ribbon. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z It was stuffed with chopped nuts and fruit and cheese, the crust flaky and still warm from the oven. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Humans also had a far easier time chewing and digesting old favourites such as fruits, nuts, insects and carrion if they were cooked. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Going to tell him I’m a nut job, right? Thanks a bunch, Doctor.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Mr. Randolph flattering the fat woman, and the fat woman eating it up like hot- fudge sundae with all the nuts. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z My resolve is almost immediately broken at the first table, which has twenty or so soups, when I encounter a creamy pumpkin brew sprinkled with slivered nuts and tiny black seeds. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z It was the kind of thing that just drove her nuts. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Mrs. Weasley had sent him a scarlet sweater with the Gryffindor lion knitted on the front, also a dozen home-baked mince pies, some Christmas cake, and a box of nut brittle. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z At the center of each is a mass of honeyed raisins and nuts, their sweetness enough to bring tears to my eyes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z So I brought in a bunch of pictures from home and James went nuts. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z “Frolic won’t eat it, but you and I can. And there are berries and nuts. So we don’t have to save this. Eat all you want.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z "With nuts and whipped cream, and bananas, and hot fudge." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z I figure it’s because of the boys all going nuts. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Some gifts were only small packages of nuts or raisins and others were boxes almost too heavy for a man to lift. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z In the outskirts of the central Amazonian city of Manaus, a researcher let me whack at a big Brazil nut tree with a locally made replica of a traditional stone ax. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I cracked walnuts, hickory nuts, and beechnuts, then began a pair of deer-hide moccasins to be lined with rabbit fur for Bando’s present. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “These squirrels are specially trained for getting the nuts out of walnuts,” Mr. Wonka explained. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z After Master broke the kola nut and passed the saucer around, Dr. Patel always took a lobe and put it into his shirt pocket; Ugwu had never seen him eat one. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Webb’s going to go nuts the first time you do,” I say. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z They speak of small things: the intoxication of kola nut, or how no food hath tasted right for these twenty years without palm oil. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Dimple was sure she’d go nuts if he didn’t spill the beans soon. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “You told the truth—your dad’s a peaceful, well-meaning guy who occasionally loses a wing nut. Anybody who reads that story can see how much you care.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z He dug one hand deep into his pocket and pulled out a handful of nuts and a dead grasshopper. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Not so long ago, they’d been lean and strong, able to crack a nut with a pinch, able to press a seed deep into the earth with one stab of a finger. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “And chocolate-covered macadamia nuts. And one of those dresses for myself.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “With his uncle. Useless man. Off his nut, as they say.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I would have hickory nuts in the fall. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z In the window there were trays of nuts and bolts, worn-out chisels, penknives with broken blades, tarnished watches that did not even pretend to be in going order, and other miscellaneous rubbish. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Do I really want to keep walking toward you just so you can kick me in the nuts again? Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He fed the sparrow some more of the candied nut. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z And why do I feel like he just told me I have to saw through my nuts with a plastic butter knife? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z The plop of nuts and the flutter of partridge removing their beaks from their hearts. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z "If word spreads," says the first squirrel, "it could jeopardize our eons-old plan to harvest nuts here on planet Earth." Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Locals dubbed them “brain busters” or “NACA nuts”; the less polite called them “weirdos.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z We have a stack of roti, dal, nuts, dried fruit, and a few bags of dried peas, lentils, and rice. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He broke his kola nut in half and smiled before putting a piece in his mouth. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z In the pockets, he felt a cold hard kola nut and warm thick blood. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Sam and Alice were sitting around a small fire, cracking hickory nuts and putting the meats in clay tureens for the winter. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z She pledged to collect palm nuts also, even though these taste to us exactly like candle wax, however much the Congolese children seem to prize them. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a nut about the car, like his father said, and couldn’t bear to stay home and was always driving around. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other hand, I was concerned that my parents might go nuts and trash the whole idea. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z While they talked, they drank the chai that Mustafa and I made and mindlessly chewed on tea biscuits and dried fruit and nuts. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z There was a white linen cloth laid on the grass, with bowls piled high with food—she could see salads and sandwiches, nuts and fruit, jugs of lemonade and water and thick chocolate milk. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Ranofer liked nelumbo nuts, but figs were food for the gods, and to him rare as rain in Egypt. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z It was one of those places that custom-creates the ice cream, mixing the base with candy or nuts or fruit. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z He went off his nut from studying too much at the university. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Loki closed his talons on the nut, hopped up to and between the bars of the window, and began the journey home. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z At the bottom of this tube, kids could scoop out blocks and pay for them by the pound like you would grapes or nuts. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z They started with a creamy chestnut soup, crusty hot bread, and greens dressed with apples ami pine nuts. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Anyway, they fell in love right away, on account of they're both so nuts about Charles Dickens and all, and he helps her run her publishing business. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z I’m still leery about the nuts, but Finnick says Mags recognized them from another Games. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “The destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Thanks, that’s—” “Hush. I’m not giving you compliments; I’m stating facts. And I wasn’t finished. This ‘certain type of girl’ is often nuts. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The wide aisles were lined with bins of nuts and dried fruit, baskets of apples, and clothing racks with tie-dyed shirts and gauzy Tinker Bell-type dresses. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I'd spent the morning competing with the squirrels for nuts and the slightly warmer afternoon wading in shallow ponds harvesting katniss. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Once we were both in the kitchen and out of sight, she rolled her eyes at me and twirled her finger at her temple to indicate that she thought our grandmother was nuts. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “The day my mother packed Oreos in my lunch. She’s a health nut. It was supposed to be a nice surprise.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Tiny Cooper doesn't have the nuts to walk into a place like that. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z Liyana ate a mound of rice and onions and sizzled pine nuts, but steered clear of the lamb. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Hoggishly he stuffed far more of the nuts into his beak than it could cope with. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “But he’s a fine-looking nut. A sharp nut. Our nut.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Day by day she sat beside her tom gunny sack selling handfuls of nuts and berries, growing progressively older, more ragged, less healthy. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z And the nearby uranium mine made their radar/sonar machines go nuts, so they couldn’t see that way, either, so they never made it to the bottom. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The man’s gestures as he broke the kola nut apart into five lobes were eerily like Nnaemeka’s, as was the set of his mouth, with the lower lip jutting out. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z There were hundreds of coquitos, weeds that had a small brown nut at the end of their roots. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Daddy Rachpaul had told me that the reason this corner was so nuts was that all different types of people met here. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z The mouse dropped the nut, which fell into the brook and was carried away, to be swallowed by a salmon. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z “For Christ’s sake, let me go! He’s nuts! He’ll kill her!” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Ma grabs the other double chocolate chip because she’s never been big on anything with nuts or raisins. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z It sat up with a nut between its paws, nibbling busily. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “You must think I’m nuts. And even if those pills work, look what they’re supposed to do. From what I can tell, ‘cured’ means being a jealous, self-important, whiny little ugly- brain. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z We dined on these occasions in the kitchen, and adjourned, for the nuts and oranges and apples to the parlour; which was a change very like Joe’s change from his working-clothes to his Sunday dress. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z But I was so nuts I couldn’t tell you the difference between a corner and a circle or a square. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Ugwu placed his hand on his head and struggled to remember what Mama had looked like the last time he saw her, standing by the kola nut tree, refusing to leave home. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Ben is allergic to nuts so they skipped those. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z This was his regular move, a kind of holier-than-thou decision process that drove Toby nuts. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “Bring that old bag here? Are you nuts? I don’t want a reminder of Levy Pants snoring in my den. She'll wet all over your couch. You can play with her by long distance.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z However, these early fruit and nut trees were still the easiest such crops to cultivate. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Either that, or she was sure that Noodles wouldn't allow it, or I would lose my nuts and steer clear of trouble. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z On this side of the lake the forest was more open and the plums and nuts and berries seemed to thrive in the light and heat. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z The voice drove me nuts at first, but I gradually got used to it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It’s John Jr., carrying in a tray of rice crackers wrapped in roasted nori, salted nuts, strips of dried squid. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom and Dad were home by now, probably going nuts trying to find us. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Something in his chest hitched, broke, as the warm scent wafted up toward him, honey and nuts and vanilla. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He just got here an hour ago, and he’s already trying to get a date in a part-time nut house—it’s almost funny. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z From time to time one or another would begin to scrape in the gravelly bank, or venture a little way in among the trees and nut bushes to scuffle in the leaf mold. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He gazed out the window, watching squirrels scamper down the trees, hiding nuts in the lawn. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z That’s the one thing besides hitting them that makes them go totally nuts. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z She’d been alone since she was ten, when she begged her mom to stop sending her to stay with Grandma Huberman, the religious nut, who told her God could see into her wicked, wicked heart. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Birdsong accompanied us, along with the scuttle of fat-cheeked squirrels searching for nuts among the trees. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “This is going to be nuts,” I say. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z Swiftly I made piles of cracked nuts, smoked rabbit, and crayfish. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z We had to dig out the nut, otherwise the weed would sprout again. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z “In case I eat any nuts by mistake, this EpiPen makes sure I don’t die.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Flames roared within ten feet of Junipers tree, and Juniper and Grover were going nuts trying to save it. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z There’s another thing for which I will feel guilty forever: Jeffrey was driving me so nuts with his need for attention that I was often relieved when he went back into the hospital. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Asta perched on the table as a squirrel and toyed with a nut. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Roger did not consider his escape, but looked from the nuts to Henry and back again. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z As the wheel began to turn, loose nuts and bolts and a couple of wrenches rained from its hub and spokes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I find a bunch of nuts and make everybody wait while I move slowly up the slope, tossing the nuts ahead of me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He meant to refuse meat but his past diet of fruit and nuts, with an odd crab or fish, gave him too little resistance. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Kate brought the bottle and pushed a little ball of saturated cotton into the tooth with the point of the nut pick. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “We both have the same problem. Moms who need to study for the citizenship test. Moms who are driving us nuts. Moms who have already met once.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z I have been just too busy gathering nuts and berries, smoking venison, fish, and small game to keep up with the exact date. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just kidding—Mrs. Newman’s bracelets were driving me nuts.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z When the door swings shut by itself, it usually doesn’t lock, which drives Mom nuts and is one of the things the landlord won’t fix. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z Each square contained layer upon layer of white cream and blintz-thin cake, the top adorned with crumbs and chopped nuts. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z They were four clean- cut kids who were having lots of fun, and they were driving Yossarian nuts. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z A couple of my friends thought I was nuts, but everyone else, especially girls and female teachers, thought I was ... ummm ... “soooooo sweet!” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I might be nuts by the time we arrive to Sagan, but I’ll be the best kind of crazy storyteller known to humanity. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Walnuts and hickory nuts were dropping to the ground in the Big Woods, and squirrels were scampering busily everywhere, gathering their winter’s store of nuts and hiding them away in hollow trees. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I was wandering around between shelves of nuts, bolts, hubcaps, chrome, and heaven knew what else checking other people’s work. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “But moving the houses is driving Miss Volker nuts. She loves this town and can’t stand to see it die off.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Hawkers descended on our car, pushing boiled eggs, roasted cashew nuts, bottled water, bread, okpa, agidi into every window of the car, chanting: “Buy from me, oh, I will sell well to you.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The beechnuts are abundant this year, and so are the hickory and butter nuts, but the acorn crop is poor. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z For variety I ate a quarter of the nuts and roots raw. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Never been arrested or anything but what a nut. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Ah,” he said, chomping busily on his nuts. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Quickly, but gently—I knew you had to handle cold people carefully because of their hearts, their hearts can go kind of nuts and not beat right—I rolled him onto his left side. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z I’ve seen a look in dogs’ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Thomas felt fidgety, like he’d go nuts if he didn’t move. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Annie launched into the entire story, going all the way back to Wednesday when Sean Russell Flaherty stepped on my nuts at rugby practice and I went to the doctor for it. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z This drives him nuts, and I love it. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z Watching the amazing fish leap and slash dive and basically go nuts just out of range. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z She even went out to the car and brought in a package of marshmallows she’d meant to roll in nuts and chocolate for Christmas candy. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Emma looked at me like I was nuts for a second, but then got the idea and began to stomp and sway along with me. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z We know that to criticize Mobutu, even in private, is to risk having your head cracked open like a nut, which naturally would discourage one’s hopes entirely. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z George looked at the monocle and the beard at his elbow and said, “Get the hell away from me before I kick your nuts in.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad,’ he said to me, ‘Dad, you ought to see this nut they gave me for a roommate.’ The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Some animals and plants, such as camels and cashew nuts, were domesticated even later, but by 3500 BC the main wave of domestication was over. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I pull out a box of metal brackets, nuts and bolts, drill bits and nails—things that clank together as I set it down. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z He gobbled down grass and berries and nuts and leaves. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z She had told him stories, sung him songs, fed him bananas and corn bread and, on the first cold day of the year, hot nut soup. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “The plane shook violently,” he later said, “rattling and clanking as if someone had thrown a bucket of nuts and bolts into the engine.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In it were a few half-melted, charred wheels, nuts, cogs, bolts. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z His mother kept looking up the kola nut tree. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The camaradas also found a large pile of nuts that they gorged on. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z “What if Ben had gotten down here right before he went nuts and attacked me?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Neither Harry nor Ron bought any ingredients at the Apothecary, seeing that they were no longer studying Potions, but both bought large boxes of owl nuts for Hedwig and Pigwidgeon at Eeylops Owl Emporium. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The beetle’s an attractive bug, with a body like a glossy nut. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z It was nuts—everybody wanted me to be two different kinds of people all the time. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Whipping out the packet he selected a nut and popped it straight into the open beak of the astonished ruler. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z It drives Alex nuts that Henry thinks he gets to have the last word, and without thinking, he reaches out and pulls Henry’s shoulder back. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “You didn’t tell me he was nuts,” he says. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z We all bunched up together by Momma’s door but she didn’t get out, she was still honking the horn like a nut! The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z "Who said anything about doing nothing? That's what drives me nuts about talking to you sometimes. You twist everything around and run it through a grinder, and then shoot it back at me." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Hazelnuts, walnuts, chestnuts, almonds mounded in her basket and stirred her hunger with thoughts of hot roasted nuts on cold winter nights. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Her roommate, a male friend, has begun hitting on her, driving her nuts, but the rent would be impossible alone. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It ran wild in the Big Woods, living on acorns and nuts and roots. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Mags seems fine, though, and she’s been eating the nuts for hours. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z No more feeling cramped like a worm in a nut! A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I take the nuts and replant the roots. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s nuts. Imperfect skin is a sign of a poor immune system.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z With an inward sigh of relief Matthias swept up the packet of nuts. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The basket contained only hard nuts, locked tight within their shells. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The chickens were clucking and flying up into the kola nut tree, where they would sleep. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The effect was to remove competition for tree nuts. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Now I wanted to make peanut butter banana pudding and “Everything but the Kitchen Sink” cookies filled with crushed-up pretzels, chocolate chips, toffee bits, and nuts. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z She brings me homemade pumpkin nut muffins and hot chocolate and nudges Boomer over so there’s room for her to sit next to me on the bed. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Every year when it starts to get cold, the squirrels come out in full force to make sure the nuts they buried over the summer are secure. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Annabeth looked at me like I was nuts, but in the next second, the air was filled with whistling sounds of ropes being snapped taut, canvases unfurling, and wooden pulleys creaking. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Kate looked into the open mouth, then went to the nut bowl on the fringed table for a nut pick. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “But 1 figured, what the hell, if I showed it to the old man he’d probably drop a nut or lose a good night’s sleep, so why bother?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z First, she pulled off a lump of the rice dough and molded it into a small pocket filled with sugar and nuts and sesame seeds. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z He set another nut on the ground by his feet. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I open the orangutan’s door and set a pan of fruits, vegetables, and nuts on the floor. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The kitchen table was still laden with breakfast: a basket of toasted bread, bowls of nuts, jars of jam, a platter of cheese, and a few slices of some sort of melon. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z If you can’t wait to get to the nuts and bolts, by all means skip ahead. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Kochu Maria looked at her as though she had gone mad, and grabbed more than her fair share of nuts. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z My grandpa hums slightly as he gathers a pile of nuts. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Fruits and nuts were ready to be picked in some times but not in others. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They slide into synchronized splits and the crowd goes nuts. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Then there was silence, except for the vendors who were crying nuts and gingerbread. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z After a few minutes of smashing my nuts every time the horse trotted a step, I had to ask Nicole if we could take a break. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z His sweet moment of triumph spoiled by this nut and his ridiculous chocolate sale! The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “My luck, Doctor No-gloves will want to check out my nuts again.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Pottery’s northward spread followed the northward spread of deciduous forest rich in nuts, suggesting that the food explosion was what permitted sedentary living and the pottery explosion. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile Nicolas had gone to fetch Amanda in old Covadonga, which still ran, though it barely sputtered along on its remaining nuts and bolts, lost in a black cloud of burning oil. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Schindler knew little about the nuts and bolts of manufacturing and wasn't interested in learning. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z As he spoke a tawny shape, dog-like, sprang out of the overhanging nut bushes as silently as light from behind a cloud. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z If she concentrated very hard, she could feel the gravitational pull of that dense nugget of power, smooth and hard and sealed off like a nut. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The rare nut, Our Father calls him, a thing, a seed to be cracked. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In competition, there will always be routines happening simultaneously, and the crowd is always going to go nuts for the home team. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He was going to think we were all nuts. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z There were apple and mince and dried-berry pies, little spicecakes with maple sugar frosting, candied fruits and nuts, pitchers of sweet apple cider, and great mugs of steaming flip for the men. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z HARRY: Just give it a go — come on — this is your chance to go nuts in Honeydukes without your mum knowing—no, Albus, don’t you dare. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z The night my father phoned I went to the cabinet where he kept the whiskey and nuts and took out a bottle for their arrival. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Sloan unwrapped it and immediately tore off a bite, chewing hard, and closed his eyes, holding the jerky in both hands near his mouth, like a squirrel with the last of the winter nuts. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z “This is bloody nuts, you know that, right?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “She’s driving me nuts!” the children told each other in English. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Search me,” I said, “I’m not a nut. Let me warm up your coffee.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Beneath the tunic, hanging diagonally across my chest, is a soft leather satchel filled with flatbread, nuts, and fruit sealed in oilskin, along with a canteen of water. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “From deep inside. Not like this stupid cut. Like a deep oh my God you are nuts’ kind of throb in my belly.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z His visit home suddenly seemed much longer than a week, perhaps because of the endless gassy churning in his stomach from eating only fruit and nuts. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The little shed was lined to the ceiling with shelves full of nuts and bolts, wires, tools, jars filled with shards of glass and broken bits of sheet metal. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Malachy and Michael complain they didn’t get a nut and why is it Frank always gets the nut? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z There was also fresh lemonade, gingersnaps, and fresh fruit, and nuts which we cracked between rocks. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I remembered when we first arrived in Georgia and I saw all the mansions and all the fruit and nut trees. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z And if it was Ground-Daddy’s, I guessed it would be so big she would need both hands to hold it up and it would have a bullet the size of a hickory nut. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z James got a double-dip chocolate nut cone, explaining that nuts and chocolate were both rich and filling. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Fried bananas rolled in crushed nuts, dipped in coconut, and topped with caramel sauce. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “Are you nuts? You said she tried to kill you.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Fox nut, pounded into a pale powder, for life energy. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z People began to assume it was all just an outlandish hoax perpetrated by a rich nut job. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Laura and Mary went with Ma to gather walnuts and hickory nuts and hazelnuts. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z That conclusion is clearest for the eastern United States, where less than a dozen crops were domesticated, including small-seeded grains but no large-seeded grains, pulses, fiber crops, or cultivated fruit or nut trees. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A giant was ripping up trees in Bryant Park while dryads pelted him with nuts. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Lorena and the girls go nuts over a song I don’t recognize and run to the dance floor. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Well, you’re totally nuts, but this is going to be awesome.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “The trampoline park is going to be nuts.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z But I see the force field almost immediately, even before a nut hits it, because it’s only about fifteen yards away. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “Anybody saw you make a birthday cake for a dog that he don’t even know when’s his birthday would think you were nuts.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Jenny is looking especially nuts today—her eyeliner has curlicues at the edges. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z I also check out a moist pocket by the stream for groundnuts and am rewarded with a string of three- inch nuts on the roots of one plant. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, I’m not nuts,” Dobbs roared furiously back in the ward, in what he imagined was a furtive whisper. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I looked at her like she was nuts. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The worst crime you could commit as a Persian human is to not have hot tea, pastries, cucumbers, nuts, and a basket of fruit at the ready when someone enters your house. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z In addition, once the fire died down, Stone Age entrepreneurs could walk through the smoking remains and harvest charcoaled animals, nuts and tubers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s Ms. Wyman’s hand on my shoulder and her voice in my ear saying, “Well done, Bobby,” that wakes me up to the fact that the place is going nuts. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z “Yes,” Nnaemeka’s father said; he fixed his gaze on the enamel bowl that held the last lobe of kola nut. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The crowd went nuts, yelling complaints and throwing rocks. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Which was exactly when Petey clocked him hard in the nuts, cackling as he ran away. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I went to the kitchen and found half-a-box of raisins and a full can of mixed nuts. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t bad, with a flavor that reminded me a little bit of nuts, lettuce, and artichokes—all mixed together. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think they’re nuts, I guess,” offered a clearly buzzed friend. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z West Africans were chewing the caffeine-containing nuts of the latter as a narcotic, long before the Coca-Cola Company enticed first Americans and then the world to drink a beverage originally laced with its extracts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Her hair covered by a white scarf, she stood next to the nut bins. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z She picked me up early enough to go to Safeway to get snacks: chocolate pretzels, cheese and crackers, mixed nuts. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z His father kept asking Master to have some kola nut, palm wine, a stool to sit down, some water, and Master kept saying no, no, no. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Those crops prove to be ones like West African yams, oil palm, and kola nut—plants that were already believed on botanical and other evidence to be native to West Africa and first domesticated there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Not until all the districts are secure. Good news is, the fighting’s almost over in all of them but Two. It’s a tough nut to crack, though.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z But since that’s all made up, I cut down a bunch of hard nuts that hang like grapes from a nearby tree and toss them ahead of me as I go. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Second, oak trees evolved to make nuts of a size and taste suitable for squirrels, which we’ve all seen burying, digging up, and eating acorns. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He used the point at infinity to prove a number of important new theorems, but Desargues’s colleagues couldn’t understand his terminology and concluded that Desargues was nuts. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Then I draw a line in the dirt a few feet from the force field as a reminder to keep back, and Peeta and I settle down to roast nuts and sear cubes of rat. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z It’s creamy and rich and there’s a nut in the middle. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I mean, nobody goes out and kills someone without a motive, not unless he’s just plain nuts. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z A moment later, between the nut trees, they saw him running off into the field. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They shared some of the nuts and berries and tried to sleep. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “But we better hurry before the nut jobs swarm over us and break in somehow.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Last year I had a mite infestation that drove me nuts. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “So, why did he go nuts?” he says, depositing glass shards on top of the nearest book. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z If it’s for me, I’m a hard nut to crack; and I take it standing up. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Everywhere he looked was a nut, and it was all a sensible young gentleman like himself could do to maintain his perspective amid so much madness. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z On the same rock, the nuts were cracked after they had dried for several weeks in a tin box under the stove. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Some are packed with white cheese or walnuts or pistachio nuts. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, it was my frog that went nuts,” I said. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z A little more sunshine to ripen the nut, then, not a boy’s impatient shake, but a man’s hand reached up to pick it gently from the burr, and find the kernal sound and sweet. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z He smiled and said, “Then you must be some kind of nut.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He smiles and imitates my voice: “The trampoline park is going to be nuts.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z I step back onstage to find the whole place going nuts. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z There were ripe palm nuts on that tree for another five days, and David Greybeard visited three more times and got lots of bananas. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z He ate them as he walked, cracking the shells one by one, working the nut meat loose with his tongue. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I always thought hospital people would be real health nuts, but these guys eat junk food like it’s going out of style. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z The vendor ladies squatted, scowling, resting their chins on their crossed arms, behind fortresses of stacked kola nuts, bundles of fragrant sticks, piles of charcoal, salvaged bottles and cans, or displays of dried animal parts. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Fish, nuts, and vegetables are good and necessary, but they don’t provide enough fuel for the hard physical work we do. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Alex is a nut in my book,” wrote a resident of Healy, the hamlet at the head of the Stampede Trail. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s an awesome soccer player and he has a severe Brazil nut allergy. Do you have any Brazil nuts in your lunch? Because they could literally kill him.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Still, I wrote “Palm nuts” in my book, to prolong the list. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Sammy and I walked across the street, to a pecan grove, and picked up nuts from the ground. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z When the song ended, everyone looked at me like I was as nuts as Joe claimed. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z The chief examined us for a while, and when he caught my eye, I gave him half a smile, which he dismissed by spitting on the ground from the kola nut he chewed. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z There’s no telling what some nuts would say to an old man whose grandson might testify on the wrong side of a local murder trial. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Andeg also hunted in the woods for seeds and nuts cached by squirrels. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z She brought back a wild-food cookbook from the library last week and mentioned that one of the recipes called for lots of nuts. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Some were photographs—Momly always went nuts with pictures, and Uncle Tony always went nuts with camera filters, and together they had the nerve to get cell phone pictures printed—and some were drawings. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z “He says tablets are bitter, but you should taste the kola nuts he chews happily— they taste like bile.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I did finish the sluice but stopped working on the wheel because Alice and I had to gather the nut crop. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Fish, roots, berries, nuts, rabbits. There’s a lot of food around the woods if you look for it, I guess.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z She asked, “What makes you so nuts about rabbits?” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “Better go out and crack nuts for the night’s pickin’ before dark,” she said to the boy. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are you nuts or something? What the hell do you mean, there’s no one inside?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I recited, looking over the choicest slices before picking a wedge plump with sweet dates and nuts. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Instead of the densely wooded wilderness Europeans depicted in literature and art, the real American landscape included cornfields, berry patches, and groves of nut trees that contributed to the food supply. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Their teeth were stained red, too, because they were always chewing betel nuts. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z So everyone had some nut cookies and hot tea. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The whole school goes nuts when Michael makes the announcement—but not for very long. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z There was the greedy joy in the tangy taste of wild hickory nuts. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Put her in an asylum, Helen. It’s the humane thing to do,” Mrs. McCraw said between bites of cinnamon nut cake. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I would save the roots and nuts for hard climbs, the places where nothing grew, the emergency should I not find the hut. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z "He sounds like someone just kicked him in the nuts," Jane says; to which I respond, "If he doesn't stop soon, someone will." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z “October 28 “I have been up and down the mountain every day for a week, watching to see if walnuts and hickory nuts are ripe. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Somehow I’ve almost blocked from my mind that I’m an assemblage of nuts and bolts and carbon graphite. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z “What happens to the bad nuts? Where does the chute go to?” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Large rodents nosed among the roots and munched contentedly on fallen nuts. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “No big deal? That dude is nuts. He sells teeth that he says are famous people’s!” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z We’ve nicknamed the mountain the Nut since I relayed Plutarch’s “tough nut to crack” comment to the weary and discouraged rebel leaders here. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Whenever a nut hits the force field, there’s a puff of smoke before the nut lands, blackened and with a cracked shell, on the ground at my feet. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Mom, who was busy cleaning the house at the time, looked at me like I was nuts. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Then chow mein with pan-fried noodles and cashew nuts. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Under her hands her nipples wrinkled and hardened like dark nuts, pulling at the soft skin on her breasts. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘You mean, she drives him bananas the same way I drive you nuts?’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z I dared not offer him the walnuts in my pocket, for too much had been written about that boy living off nuts. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom and I would always stop here on the way home from soccer practice to get a Powerade and corn nuts. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The Squirrels bombarded him with volleys of nuts, but he only covered his head with his hands and tried to keep out of the way. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z I stored the fact that they were real glasses in the corner of my mind the way a squirrel stores a nut. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z They spread them in the sun to dry, then they beat off the dried outer hulls and stored the nuts in the attic for winter. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z One who empties men of their strength As a nut from its shell. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z A next stage of crop development included the first fruit and nut trees, domesticated around 4000 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Ha, he had eaten all the mouse’s nuts too! Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The nut tree, wide above my head, stretching its cool black limbs to take the sun, sends darkness down my chest. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “Like a nut. About the size of a nut.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z A band of Homo sapiens gathering mushrooms and nuts and hunting deer and rabbit did not all of a sudden settle in a permanent village, ploughing fields, sowing wheat and carrying water from the river. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He moved closer to the lake to a stand of nut brush. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Everybody looks at us like we re nuts. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z I found her in her room, digging in a little box like a squirrel looking for nuts. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z And right then you’d hear gunfire behind you and your nuts would fly up into your throat and you’d be squealing pig squeals. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m that rare thing, a Christian left-wing nut,” she had told Ifemelu when they first met. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z We drive in silence for a while before I say, “My mom’s a total nut. I’m sorry.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z "You're nuts. I'm a dynamo of energy. I come to charge my batteries," one of the vets insisted. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z More tears, the size of lychee nuts, rolled down the dragon’s face. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Frequently the Ancient joined them, bringing nelumbo nuts and his cackling laugh, and his sly, wise teasing. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Mags has also plaited several bowls that Peeta has filled, with roasted nuts. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The boy was straw-blond and wiry, and his skin was nut- brown from the sun. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s so weird,” Kendra said, taking a bite of what now tasted like banana nut bread. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Despite catching two big piranhas that were divvied up with the previous night’s dinner, along with two spoonfuls of wild honey and a handful of the ever-elusive Brazil nuts, the men woke up hungry. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z “I am a farmer of wild foods—wild rabbits and pheasants, wild cattails and hickory nuts and walnuts.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Something about Derek walking around all day looking for berries and nuts, carrying a briefcase like a business executive, seemed ridiculous. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z The Ancient, who was sitting beside them cracking nelumbo nuts, glanced up at him. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Seventy pairs of monkey eyes fixed on a pair of human eyes in a space suit—and the animals went nuts. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “And nuts? We must not run short of nuts.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z When Abbey was a baby, she had a nasty habit that nearly drove us nuts. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z A sliced green pistachio nut has been pressed into its center. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z “There must be something wrong with him up-stairs,Dad remarked, and tapped himself on his noggin as if to say that Mr. Spizz was nuts. “How can you tell if he’s cracked?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She had a delicate, chiseled face, black eyebrows angled like a soaring seagull’s wings, a small straight nose and luminous, nut- brown skin. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But the extra visitors left just as a huge tray of dinner appeared, hunks of baked lamb surrounded by rice and pine nuts. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Then I went to the kitchen, stuffed my pockets with handfuls of pine nuts, and ran outside to find Hassan waiting for me. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Newspapers referred to him as a subversive, a commie, a Red nut, a Soviet sympathizer, a freak. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But the nut lying in the middle of the cracked sidewalk didn't squish under her foot. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “Know something? Fella camped here, kind of a nut. So I came to kick him off. He said something funny. He says, ‘Trespassing ain’t a crime and ain’t a misdemeanor.’ Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She filled it to the brim with clothing, nuts, and dried fruits. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Then she took a handful of nuts and berries and seeds from a wooden bowl and placed them inside the cage, which she hung from a chain in the middle of the caravan. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z “Are you nuts? Don’t you remember anything that just happened? The cat is gone. There’s nobody to break in and free.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z “My dad won’t stop feeding me,” she said, taking a handful of nuts. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z “You must be nuts to ride all the way over here,” Dana said, “just so you can get stomped to a pulp.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “There was no they, just the one we thought was dead. It went nuts and stung Alby, but then ran away.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The cattail rush basket in which we store the hickory nuts is almost empty. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Tom said it was too thin, and I thickened it with mashed up nuts—I had run out of acorn flour. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Now and then they found nuts and berries in the forest, but hunger lived with them every day. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The King munched and chomped greedily on the sweet nut, eyeing the packet covetously. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “If you think my hair’s voluminous, you’ve never witnessed my cheeks after I ingest some nuts.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Not the nut brown of the Summer Islanders on their swan ships, nor the red-brown of the Doth- raki horselords, nor the charcoal-and-earth color of the dusky woman’s skin, but black. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "He'll be fine, Nood. He's not dumb. The syndrome don't mean he's nuts. Just different, but not really even that much different." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z The hum of the electric motor deepened by fractions of a tone as he turned the nuts. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z As they worked past the northern end of the lake they came on low brush filled with small nuts. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z The clown showed us to a table stacked with food—the same boiled nuts and roasted meats that had tempted us at the carnival. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The newcomers began to hunt the deer and gather the nuts and berries that were the Neanderthals’ traditional staples. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Before he ate each nut, he examined it—soft-boiled, light purple, shriveled—and tried not to think of the crumpled pages in his study, until the train arrived in Port Harcourt. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Ashe allowed his eyes to close again, “You’re nuts, Bogie. You go speak to Herbie; I want to stay here and go to sleep.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z In fact, I made it because Jessie once opened the door with her little handlike paws and helped herself to venison and nuts. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I break the acorns open and stuff the bitter nuts into nooks of the tree trunk so the squirrels won’t go hungry. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Native Americans continued to depend mainly on wild foods, especially wild mammals and waterbirds, fish, shellfish, and nuts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t hear her but I’d bet a million dollars she was shouting, “Why?” over and over like a real nut. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever Ugwu brought out the kola nut, Master would say, “Doc, you know the kola nut does not understand English,” before going on to bless the kola nut in Igbo. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Dessert was mango parfait dotted with toasted macadamia nuts. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z My little cheering section in the back, in the darkest corner of the auditorium, is going nuts. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Safer looks at me like I’m nuts, “You’re joking, right? I’m not talking about a robbery. I’m talking about falcons or hawks—don’t they teach you about birds of prey at school?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z This reverie was broken as more bolts and nuts bounded down the superstructure onto the car’s roof. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The other boy's face was very small, and brown as a nut, he looked peculiarly old. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z I had to tie it pretty loose, because the fake-jagged-cut bottom barely covered my nuts. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “My goodness, she is a bad nut after all,” said Mr. Wonka. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Some sort of production of palm oil had taken place here; there were the remains of palm nut seeds everywhere. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “That’s the kind of response I expect from Dad’s usual dishes. I don’t understand what happened. He said there were no nuts or dairy.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z “He just went nuts. I don’t know how else to describe it.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He could make intricate toys—tiny windmills, rattles, minute jewel boxes out of dried palm reeds; he could carve perfect boats out of tapioca stems and figurines on cashew nuts. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now then, let us barter. In exchange for a fig or two I will share my nelumbo nuts, the best you ever ate.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z The crowd went nuts, but I didn’t care. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Squatting on his haunches next to her, Salva shelled the nuts and ate them. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z This lady had been driven nuts by hatred. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z One of those times, I worked on a ship unloading Brazilian nuts and coconuts. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The apple floated and spun right above the boar’s nose, and the boar went nuts, straining to get it. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I would eat mounds of it on my hard acorn pancakes, which I improved by adding hickory nuts. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no way to share such a tough nut of sweetness. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The wet grass glittered and nearby a nut tree sparkled iridescent, winking and gleaming as its branches moved in the light wind. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of them even tasted like baked goods, like blueberry muffins and banana nut bread. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Those same problems of slow growth and fast squirrels probably also explain why beech and hickory trees, heavily exploited as wild trees for their nuts by Europeans and Native Americans, respectively, were also not domesticated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Oh yes, they live in a wonderful city called Reality,” he announced, smashing into one of the smaller trees and sending a cascade of nuts and leaves to the ground. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z After the broth came a salad of apples, nuts, and raisins. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The boy thought there must be two pounds of nuts in the pile on his mother’s lap. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think this moving stuff is making her nuts.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z And then, just after midnight, I went kinda nuts. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z The nuts twirled out on his command, collecting in a neat pile on the ground. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Her face was all wet and twisted up and she looked like a real nut. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z When the hickory nuts, walnuts, and acorns appeared, I was going to need a bin. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look, suppose a cop whacks me over the head and I suffer a brain concussion. Suppose I’m nuts after that? Can I write then? What will I have proven?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Once there was enough of an opening in the nuts, we would pull the sweet-tasting meat from the shells, doing our best to keep each half in one piece. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z In the middle of each fruit was a nut that, broken open, produced three edible seeds. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z To a worried Maa Kamala she explained, “It’s her stomach. It was the monkey nuts. We bought a whole paper full, and the greedy girl ate most of them.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The Land Rover parked under the kola nut tree, and her mother climbed out. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “This some creep? Some flaky nut? Some stupid jerk?” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Some, including African rice, have remained virtually confined there; others, such as African yams, spread throughout other areas of sub-Saharan Africa; and two, the oil palm and kola nut, reached other continents. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I picked up and counted my walnuts and hickory nuts. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been assigned to work the "nut desk" and didn't know who to expect on the other end of the line. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “I don’t come in the jungle often, but...well, I was trying to find kola nuts.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The continuous, gentle rustling of the beech leaves was unlike the sounds to be heard in a copse of nut bushes, oak and silver birch. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “She comes in with the attitude that we are going to cut his nuts off—basically, this isn’t a time for crying, this is a time to make sure he’s punished for what he did.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z There were small nuts and bolts, and screws, and tiny fragments of metal and rubber. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The Brazil nuts they had been counting on to sustain them were in short supply, and the piglike tapir, with its prehensile snout, was elusive. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z I did not give in to my sudden urge to kick him in the nuts, call him a jerk, and berate him for lying to sweet Claudia with the perfect tan and ridiculously long legs. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Hastily he slipped them into the haversack, hiding the nuts from Warbeak. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The thought of Scout worming his way through my hole in my fence and finding my ball makes me nuts. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Ugwu went into the living room and his hands worked mechanically, serving kola nuts and alligator pepper, uncorking bottles, shoveling ice, laying out steaming bowls of pepper soup. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Springing to my feet, I pushed myself up by putting my left hand firmly down into his nuts, and JP groaned and doubled up, letting go of the ball. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Or he’d shake hands solemnly all around, and when you took your hand away there’d be a nut chocolate bar in it. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z This was a small but handy nut of knowledge, and I stored it away for future use. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “Could this be Alice?” he asks, bringing the nuts to me. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought she was nuts until my mom informed me that is how it is pronounced. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The ship was being crushed like a nut, and Shackleton knew there was nothing he could do to stop it. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “A good nut year means a good baby year,” the midwife said as she sent Alyce and her nutting basket to the woods to see what kind of a year it would be. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Oh, mothers can drive you nuts, but mothers know you. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z She takes out serving dishes from the cabinet, and I pour the pretzels and nuts into separate bowls while she arranges the crackers around the chunk of cheese in the middle of a small tray. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z She took a handful of nuts, the biggest and hardest and heaviest in her basket, and heaved them at the boys. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Zu helped him place the nuts back in their sockets and slowly crank the car back down. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “Are you nuts? Do you even know what you’re saying? My god, what are you on?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The people of the Capitol are going nuts, showering us with flowers, shouting our names, our first names, which they have bothered to find on the program. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z That's when I notice that some of the nurses are crying and looking at me strange and all of a sudden I just go nuts. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z In the nut-rich forests of northern Japan, nut storage pits were especially important, along with seal hunting and sea fishing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We would race to see who could open the most nuts the fastest, but it didn’t matter who won, because we all would have some of Mama’s pecan pie after dinner. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Raisins and nuts and dried ber-ries, but no lemon, that was the rankest sort of southron heresy—which was queer, since he always took lemon in his morning beer. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She guided me to a quieter spot behind the roasted nuts tent. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “I better be careful about talking to you at school, or people will think I’m nuts.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z To her, the word no is a challenge, and I get why she drives teachers nuts. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “He’s a bit of a nut job. Even you have to admit he’s not Joe Average.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z When Abbey was a baby, she had a nasty habit that nearly drove us nuts. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I punch my finger into the dirt to make a small hole, and I drop in the brown nut. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Somehow there are plates of sausages, and thick, crusty bread, and even a brown cake with nuts. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Of course, there had to be somebody to run these machines, to check the nuts and bolts of executions, to study it like an art. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the warming water I put roots, nuts, and the fungus of immortality. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she sent the squirrels and chipmunks running boldly through the forest, collecting and hiding nuts. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Weird thing about military schools: the kids go absolutely nuts when there’s a special event and they get to be out of uniform. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z They made camp in a sloping pasture rimmed by enormous oak trees and pines and nut trees, a stream moving down through the center, over steps of rock. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z I stay in the lead, occasionally chucking a nut to my left, but we’re well out of range of the force field now. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Could I live in the woods eating berries and nuts, sleeping out in the cold? Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z The outside can become hard and wrinkled, for all they care, like the shell of a nut. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Plus, he’s always been a sports nut, just like me. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He tells us to each put the nut in our balloons before we blow them up. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z She felt like a nut inside a shell, between a gnome’s molars. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Pieces of nut falling from his beak littered his breast feathers. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I was lying on the ground, holding my nuts as tenderly as a squirrel holds his nuts, when Rowdy walked up. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z I reached for my candle, slipped on hundreds of nuts, and fell. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He had this look on his face, the same disappointed look he had when I told him about how Fatty Bolger had replaced my bicycle’s seat with blue truck nuts. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Why should I get upset just because some wing nut put a swastika on the wall? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Also, kicking someone in the nuts and then running is a coward thing to do, but I guess there isn’t a country for I-rack, I-gloat. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Salads of sweetgrass and spinach and plums, sprinkled with crushed nuts. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I waited for her to tell me I was nuts. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z A merchant had given her one nut fresh on its sprig of narrow leaves. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “The nuts and coconut complement that floral tea flavor.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z It was better: a honeyed pastry filled with pale-green nuts and rose petal jelly. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Aside from the residual tenderness in and around his nuts, Colin's entire body was sore from a day spent walking and running and shooting and getting hit. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Sixty feet above Roger, several nuts, fibrous lumps as big as rugby balls, were loosed from their stems. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “You told the truth—your dad’s a peaceful, well-meaning guy who occasionally loses a wing nut. Anybody who reads that story can see how much you care.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I always thought she was being mean for limiting his favorite salted nuts, but she was trying to keep him healthy. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z He examined the bushes, the branches, the ground for a berry, a nut, anything. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Leave it to Pouncey to cap off the conversation with something nuts. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Patrick is totally unprepared when I knee him square in the nuts. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The only thing that’s saved me from going completely nuts is bowling. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Since Mags seems to have no ill effects from the nuts, Peeta collects bunches of them and fries them by bouncing them off the force field. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The sea scallops look good until I'm told they're served in a broth of malt liquor and mummified litchi nuts. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z As I finished the broadcast, I heard Art3mis say, “Dude, are you nuts? I was kidding!” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I ate smoked venison, nut meats, and hawthorn berries. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sammy. You are nuts, man. Weren’t you the guy who was telling me what a big coward he was just a little while ago? Anyway, that might be his wife in the car.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It drives me nuts sometimes that you don't get to have more say in your life. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I responded, a little nervous, just because whenever someone asks if they can ask you something, there’s always a sucker punch in the nuts right behind it. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z "Plunge outside, turn his back . . . Otherwise he might kill somebody, go nuts." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “A person would have to be nuts to go up in it.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z They must have some kind of nut radar. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Many of those trees were my friends, creatures I had known from nut and acorn; many had voices of their own that are lost for ever now. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “Those nuts are for that poor little sparrow. Leave them alone, you great glutton,” she scolded. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z |
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