And me and Mong and Rondell were hiding out watching the ocean to make sure nobody came floating up in a raft to try and invade our island. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was dark out, and at first I couldn’t see anything except the massive black ocean across the street. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The ocean right next to us and the sky all orange and pink and purple. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I did cities on the ocean, cities with two rivers meeting in the middle, cities with one big river that bent, cities with bridges, crazy interchanges, circles and boulevards. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Dim light filters down from the ocean’s surface far above. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A radioactive plume of vaporized coral drifted east, covering seven thousand square miles of ocean. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Despite having lived all our lives in a seaside village, none of us had ever been on a boat, much less a ship in the middle of the ocean. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He looked out over the ocean and felt closer, this dawn, than ever before, closer to the heart of it all. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I sit there, listening to the gentle plunk of water smacking the bottom of the boat, looking out at the ocean that has opened itself before me, still and flat like black glass. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

What I remember are events and encounters and routines, mark­ers that emerged here and there from the ocean of time and imprinted themselves on my memory. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was as fierce as the one that had sent the cargo ship to the ocean floor. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And ocean salinity of course represented only the merest sliver of my ignorance. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The day had been amazingly warm, but with night a fresh breeze came up off the ocean. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The robot and the gosling watched it crawl across the ocean until it finally disappeared to the south. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

All other options, it seems to him, would have this intimate play taking place in an ocean of space. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Of course, the ocean around the continent also turns to ice. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

It was as if the ocean were completely empty of fish. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole thing fluttered in the stiff ocean breeze like a giant kite, though the board’s magnets kept it from blowing away. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I guess it was supposed to look like something from under the sea, but I don’t think there are any lakes or oceans that really have rocks that color. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Everywhere, the ocean was smooth and yellow and it lay against the island as if it were very tired. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a navigator knows his coordinates—the degree of latitude and degree of longitude he is at—he knows where on the wide, blank ocean he is. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

You can spot a hurricane as it crosses the ocean, but not know the exact path it will take or when and where it will hit land. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt a secret kinship with the ocean. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

His words washed over me as cold as the ocean floor, and my dreams went blade. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I glance around for Rémy or any onlooker before reaching for it, feeling like I'm reaching across worlds, oceans, skies, and realms. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Snow buntings whirled around the house, an Arctic tern darted over the ocean, and the waves lapped the ice that was piled high on the shore. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hours must have passed, for when I wake up again, we are in the middle of the ocean. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ocean just wasn’t living inside my head anymore. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The horse waded into the water and an ocean wave washed over it. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The sun had set, but the western sky was the color of peach skin, while the sky over the ocean was a clear lapis blue. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

On the other side, there was nothing but a vast expanse of ocean. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When Krete was out of sight astern, no land anywhere to be seen, but sky and ocean, Kronion put a dark cloud in the zenith over the ship, and gloom spread on the sea. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you must fight, take this. My mother, Pleione, gave it to me. She was a daughter of the ocean, and the ocean’s power is within it. My immortal power.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Water surged across the once-dry floor of the sink, inundating farms and settlements, eventually drowning four hundred square miles of desert and giving birth to a landlocked ocean. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We turn a corner and suddenly the ocean is just there, running alongside the road to the left of us. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I dreamed I was a mermaid, the fastest mermaid in the ocean. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I take Kalinda around the corner and alongside the gate that leads into the unpaved field and trees and pipes that spill out to the ocean and isn’t covered with concrete. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We have bravely tested the waters and have found the ocean to our liking, resonant with our nature. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to concentrate on the waves, the smell of the ocean, the sound of the tide. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Oh, if only I could swim in the ocean like the little mermaid, then I wouldn’t mind my cast so much. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

After a few announcements and some safety video about what to do if the plane crashes into the ocean, the pilot asks the crew to get ready for takeoff. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

These and hundreds more were collected in the American woods, shipped across the ocean to England and France and Russia, and received with greedy keenness and trembling fingers. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The air was full of the ocean’s saltiness, and I could feel the warmth of the sun on my bare legs. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I read anything in the encyclopedia set we could think of that concerned the ocean. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

A huge rift opened up, the ocean rushing in with a roar that drowned the seabirds’ cries. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Mother is the rock, I am the ocean. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I might build bridges that can cross any ocean, river, or stream. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Quarry? You all don’t have no sea? No ocean?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two of them sat side by side in the shallows, facing out toward the expanse of the ocean, kelp draped across their legs. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was an unusual, bird’s-eye view of our country's leaders, an ocean of whiteness and maleness dressed in dark suits. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Brooklyn doesn’t do oceans, just sidewalks, buildings, and boring rivers. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Emma recounted the whole story: how Miss Peregrine was kidnapped by Golan, how she nearly drowned in her cage in the ocean, how we’d rescued her from a submarine piloted by wights. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

We took a left at the end of our street and headed to the ocean. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Reality crashes back in like a heavy ocean wave. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

In the dark of the movie theater he first saw jungles, oceans, and deserts. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Tanvi Ma'am talks to a bunch of policemen, and their voices blur like ocean waves, because all I want to hear is Amma's soft voice again. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Leave her to drift and die alone on the ocean. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I listen to the stream trickling toward the river, which will take its water to the ocean, where someday it will turn into clouds and come down again as rain. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

They had traveled across an ocean to get here! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

If the ocean floors were ancient, as everyone assumed, they should be thickly blanketed with sediments, like the mud on the bottom of a river or lake. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

And just beyond that, he could see the ocean itself—a long thin streak of blackish-blue, like a line of ink, beneath the rim of the sky. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He became the world’s foremost authority on thermodynamics and the first to elucidate the principles of the convection of fluids and the circulation of ocean currents. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Where were the lighthouses to guide my newly built ship of knowledge just setting sail on a perilous journey upon a vast, turbulent and unknown ocean of life? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it was that we could see and smell the ocean and the tar, salt, and wood from the wharf. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like he was walking on top of a massive ocean. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He carries the scent of the ocean, and watches me with such interest, it's as if he's touching me. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

But jellyfish love a warm ocean, the chemicals don’t hurt jellyfish one bit, and they carry all the oxygen they need right inside their watery selves. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were the color of the ocean that day, the lightest green. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had seen parts of the ocean but had never stood at the shore of one this vast. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Merchant ships plied to and fro on the blue oceans, and fishermen hauled in brimming nets of cod and tunny, bass and mullet; the forests ran with game, and no children went hungry. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And several times during that long silent night ride high up over the middle of the ocean in the moonlight, James and his friends saw things that no one had ever seen before. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

We’d been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

But people felt plunging into the ocean was good for the body, promoting good circulation and overall health. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up and up they went, and soon they were as high as the top of a church steeple above the ocean. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

I hoped that he and his papi were catching baseballs and swimming in the ocean. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The fat bodies are dangling from one of the palm trees, and their previous thin bodies, wispy-looking and dressed in falling-apart bathing suits, are holding hands and walking into the ocean. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The scent that wafts from it is the unmistakable smell of the ocean, a bright summer day at the seashore. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And just when he was sure his lungs would pop, the ocean seemed to spit him back up. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the first week of May a powerful storm dropped an ocean of rain on Chicago and again caused the Chicago River to reverse flow. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She turned and showed me a photo of her and her parents by the ocean. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

This is the post-graduation beach week they yearned for—on the Great Plains, about as far from an ocean as you can possibly get in America. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

That had been hard, as I hadn’t been ready to give up my own little ocean. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“The ocean is very big and a skiff is small and hard to see,” the old man said. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like an ocean above her, full of sun. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I saw mountains of potatoes—oceans—more potatoes than you would think the world’s population could consume in a hundred years. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

To her baby eyes, it seemed like an ocean. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The strong salty ocean rushes at us in pale broken rages. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The ocean was what drew me then, and I knew it would pull me in all my life. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He believed, for example, that there was a substantial lunar atmosphere and oceans and inhabitants. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it was that we could see and smell the ocean and the tar, salt, and wood from the wharf. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he helped people set nets; sometimes he scouted the ocean in his kayak as he searched for seal colonies. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Line’s whipping out like he’s running clear across the ocean. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

This was the bottom of the ocean for both of them, the farthest away they could go from the plans they’d made. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

My vision is so accustomed to a shifting horizon, to the metamorphoses of ocean and clouds, that to see such a mass of rock, immovable against the sky, was astonishing. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Child, I’ve heard stories, but I’ve never seen the ocean before. I have heard that the water spills over the edge of the world and that only death is found there.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he could find a car and drive west to the ocean. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

MR-2, with Ham the chimpanzee as its passenger, overshot the landing spot by sixty miles and was nearly underwater when it was finally plucked from the ocean. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Andrea looked out at the ocean as if she expected to see her school sitting out there on the water. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ocean was gray, the waves were choppy and high, and the wind and the seagulls screamed. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

There, in a strange twist of nature, the fertilizer winds up poisoning the ocean. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Throughout the morning they continued to row toward these small landfalls, and then, at about eleven o’clock, they suddenly broke free of the pack and found themselves in open ocean. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

It was a postcard showing sunset on the ocean. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

A rose garden, salty ocean wind, burning cordite—the tower could convincingly re-create them all. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Then the woman and the swan sailed across an ocean many thousands of li wide, stretching their necks toward America. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of those million worlds inhabited by advanced intelligences, consider a rare planet, the only one in its system with a surface ocean of liquid water. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dim new moon shone among stars that sparkled like shards of light on the ocean. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Instead we stared blankly at the papers, or out the windows—each of us lost in an ocean of thoughts and a roller coaster of emotions. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

But the mound builders in Louisiana built these massive constructions at a time when agriculture was barely under way—it was like the whiff in the air from a faraway ocean. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He could live in the ocean; I needed the boat. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The whole ocean heaved under them, and now for the first time Leo felt as if they were totally adrift. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Their length could not be measured in years, just as an ocean could not explain the distance we had traveled, just as the dead can never be counted. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They have muscles and they move like ocean waves up and down the court. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

One could, for example, argue that far from there being one earthly sphere floating in the ocean it was now apparent that there were two. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A mosaic on the floor showed an exact map of the palace grounds and the surrounding ocean, but the mosaic moved. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

When she moved her head, the morning light caught in her hair the way the sun had when she turned her back to the ocean. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The two started to walk down to the ocean. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

There was a damp smell of wet forest and fishy ocean. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The house is nice to look at from the ocean too. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Nine steps down and she’s on the sand and the twenty thousand sounds of the ocean engulf her. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He wrote that no matter how hot the sun got, the sound of the ocean spraying against the walls of El Malecón was enough to keep you cool. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But Chubs and I were perfectly content to sit by ourselves, watching, waiting, but not dipping our toes into the ocean. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The ocean was crystal clear blue to the bottom. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The horses’ flying feet went through the low-banked clouds near the ocean as through a thin sea mist and then up and up in the clear air, climbing the height of heaven. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clouds present diffuse bands of tender grays and blues, and below them the ocean does the same. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

There was only calmwater and clear skies and those five crates lazily bobbing along an ocean current. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s a big ocean crossed by busy ships. I went slowly, observing much.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The sun, stars, ocean, trees, everything, I gave it all up for you.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I reached inside myself and remembered the waves and the currents, the endless power of the ocean. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The ocean surface had thousands of tiny white waves breaking in every direction now. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The wrinkles on her forehead are like ocean waves, her eyes are deeper and piercing, and her thin lips stretch into a weak smile when she sees me. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I choose the path winding along the shore, leading to a row of red-painted benches facing the ocean. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

About a hundred feet away, the ocean glinted in the moonlight. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Jinny swung her head and looked out at the ocean, where it vanished into the mist. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She drove herself into a speeding train/jumped without a parachute/strapped on a weight belt and dived into the ocean. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

He turned back to the ocean, took another swig of whiskey. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I am looking at an ocean so clear and so blue that when a long silver fish comes to inspect what I have just tossed in, I can see the yellow stripes on his back. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

One entire side of the room has windows facing the ocean. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Look how giant it is,” he said, pointing his bottle at the ocean. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She just cannot seem to let herself throw it in the ocean. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

They held hands as they navigated the winding streets, dodging cars and crazy Vespa drivers, squeezing through mobs of tourists, and wading through oceans of pigeons. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You are right—the ocean is higher,” said Crag. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

There was a whole ocean with fish and lobsters to catch. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hate you! I hate everybody in this ocean!” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The sky’s gone blue: azure, the ocean bluer: cerulean, the trees are swirls of every hella freaking green on earth and bright thick eggy yellow is spilling over everything. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

And for Valerie...if she did not perish in that ocean, then there is more for her to do in this life. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Maybe the ocean went on and on forever, and there was nothing for him to find out there. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The heat rises from the green hood, reminding her of the ocean the day before it wiped the beach clean of homes, God’s bits of wood. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought it was the ocean at first, but then she realized it was chanting. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

An ocean of empty space in between us. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Riding a cyclone to the bottom of the ocean definitely gave him some unexpected turbulence. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And I knew that if I found the ocean, I’d be able to see the sun. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Pistol shots cracked from the stern as pentathletes fired their weapons out over the empty ocean. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A huge ocean stretched for miles in every direction. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I feel horrible, the sick feeling still rolling around in my gut like ocean water. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Frightful’s wings cut circles in the wind that sped her southeast toward the ocean. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

But they’d only just begun when a call came in over the short-band radio: Martin’s body had been fished out of the ocean. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

And at the word alone, Will felt a great wave of rage and despair moving outward from a place deep within him, as if his mind were an ocean that some profound convulsion had disturbed. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Above the thunderous destruction, she could hear screams and shrieks, and when the old woman closed her eyes, the salt water on her face was not only from the ocean waves. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

At this rate, how long would it take for that magic to flow like water, move like streams and rivers and oceans? The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Thank you. If I took this wine and poured it into a basin of water, or a lake or even the ocean, would the wine itself be gone?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The white man had told the Thembus that their true chief was the great white queen across the ocean and that they were her subjects. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So instead of just one backboard to aim for, there was an ocean of hundreds of them in front of me. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

But the main thing to know is this: The whole time, from before any of those extinctions, from life’s origins until this minute, jellyfish have been there, pulsing their way across the oceans and back. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The stars instantly appeared in the black sky, reflecting their light on a quiet ocean. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

In an ocean trance and taking off his shoes and socks and T-shirt. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

And eventually it cleared up altogether above us and the sun even came through the clouds making this giant real live rainbow appear over the ocean. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

As she leaned against the door in the darkness, she felt her dream, her Afternoon-mare, move inside her like a rib of water rising from the ocean, gathering into a wave. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roz stood on the peak and watched the sun sink behind the ocean. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Like in the open ocean, saving someone’s life or something?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He could taste the ocean on his lips. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When a sparkling hand emerged from the ocean, Sierra nearly toppled over with surprise. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I had no idea, for example, why the oceans were salty but the Great Lakes weren’t. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

After Mom died, he came over a few times, tried to get me back on my board, but the ocean had dried up as far as I was concerned. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He ended up buying Ginny a silk scarf that showed the Golden Gate Bridge stretching across a background of blue sky and green ocean. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The sun’s temperature will increase gradually before that, boiling off the oceans and turning Earth into an uninhabitable desert like Venus. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“He went out to rest on the veranda a while ago. You know how he likes to look at the ocean.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Then, again without thought, he began to row slowly, rowing through the watchful ocean until the blue land changed to gray and then brown and green. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

But there was no ship’s deck to escape to, no glittering ocean to thrill my soul, no breeze to cool my face, no one to talk to. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

They would seize the oceans, the farthest stars, the deepest secret rivers in Hrothgar’s name! Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Earth is all magma and continental crust and ocean. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The words were a quiet punctuation to the larger sounds of the ocean and coast outside: gulls calling, the surf, the creak and shift of the wrecked ship. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The boundary of a weather pattern, often moving across an ocean or landmass, is called a “front,” just like the line that marks out the edge of an invading army. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The surface of the ocean separates the two worlds of hot air and cool water. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Only rain, marauding waves of black ocean and the flotsam of tragedy. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was pleased to be able to see the ocean and hear the waves breaking. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Thiazi hauled the boat down the strand into the cold waters of the northern ocean and rowed with huge strokes out into the sea. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I had never flown over an ocean before. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The eastern shore of Maryland, where Crisfield was, was on the land between the bay and the ocean. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spread his arms wide against the ocean sounds: the rush of the waves, the manic giggles of the gulls, the sighing of the sea breeze against the granite. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

It appears only for a second before it’s gone again—a streak of white, like lightning arcing across the ocean floor. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I had never even seen the ocean; I could only imagine the waves, the wind, the brine. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

When they returned, it was like an undersea cave, blanched by the ocean. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man knew he was going far out and he left the smell of the land behind and rowed out into the clean early morning smell of the ocean. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent all the time I could on deck, watching the ocean stretching in all directions. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He swallowed so hard it looked like he was choking down an ocean liner. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

We stay in this other family’s driveway in silence, staring out at the ocean, where the sun has made its gleaming road to the horizon. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Or I would say, “It is a beautiful day. I have never seen the ocean so calm and the sky looks like a blue shell. How long do you think these days will last?” Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hoped he played baseball, because these high glory days of summer were baseball days if any days were baseball days, with blue skies, warm seas, and high clouds lazy above the ocean horizon. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Then she catches it and skips it into the ocean. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Of course, Christoffel would have passed it to the real Amalia, not the girl pretending to be her in an inn by the ocean. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Had never worried about drowning in the ocean, even in heavy surf. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

No one can say what causes the oceans’ chemistry to change so dramatically from time to time, but the opening and shutting of ocean ridges would be an obvious possible culprit. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then he’d go back to the house on the hill to tend the animals or repair the fences or study the ocean through the telescope. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was universally accepted that dry land was confined to one hemisphere, the rest being covered by ocean. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They traveled the length of the island with an air of disregarding it and being set on other business; they were less a progress than a momentous rise and fall or the whole ocean. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

As the tide pulled out to the ocean, they bobbed and bumped against each other. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

That "something” is that, according to Daniel H. Sandweiss of the University of Maine, "the incredibly rich ocean off this incredibly impoverished coast was the critical factor.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the middle was the quadrangle—an ocean of angry asphalt roiling in the summer heat. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“There’s an ocean full of fish out there if we could find some way to catch them.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

As for the sea, there is no rhythm to the waves anymore; no reason to the ocean’s temperament. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The smell of salt air made me wonder if I would ever see the ocean again. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

By 500 million years ago there were vast herds of trilobites, beautifully constructed animals, a little like large insects; some hunted in packs on the ocean floor. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

See a lamp, a clock—11:42 a.m.—and a framed photo of me and Jupe standing at the edge of the ocean. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

In the summer of that same year, Johnny got the notion that his children were growing up ignorant of the great ocean that washed the shores of Brooklyn. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The late September sun was very hot on her back as she and Salvador turned west toward the ocean from the main street. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Part of him wanted to head west to the ocean. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I said, “The ocean and people’s eyes are special too.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The ocean swallowed her, filling her lungs, freezing her heart so that she couldn’t cry out... Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

When she’s standing beneath a tree, for instance, listening to the leaves vibrating in the wind, or when she opens a package from a collector and that old ocean odor of shells comes washing out. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They’d walk among the mountains and across seas, like the adventurers and outlaws that filled his daydreams, all oceans and sailing ships and pops of gunfire. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I am reminded of a beach, an ocean. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

There were only two small hospitals in Seosan, his father’s and one on the other side of town, near the ocean. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“It reminds them of the big salt—that’s the ocean. Since ghosts can’t cross water, they stay away from the color.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But they did not seem to be part of my relationship with the ocean; they seemed separate in some way. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The room—if such a space can be called a room—was voluminous, as if it could hold the whole of the ocean. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“But my dad was the best fisherman in our village. He’d bring home ten times as much as the other fishermen. He used to call the ocean Kadalamma. Ocean Mother.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The ocean is a fine place to live for an octopus. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was a long way from California to Hawaii with a lot of ocean in between. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s pitch-black everywhere, like Moreau’s cage is floating in an ocean of shadow. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Here the world was enormous, all endless horizon; her words arced and disappeared as though into a wind-chopped ocean. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The biting got so bad I had to slip into the water and stay there for a bit, much as I hated being in the ocean in the dark. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind’s pummeling me, the salty spray nicking my hot face, the ocean below drumming as ferociously in my head as out of it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

They will find their way into rivers and streams, and even travel for miles out into oceans, where they will choke fish and endanger marine mammals. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Another mountain range of ocean was rolling at us. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now all Arm could see was an ocean of cloud, glowing with the last rays of sunset. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

They floated around the ocean like fluffy pillows, trailing enough venom to paralyze a swimmer. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smelled like soapsuds and catnip and the ocean at night. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He was stronger than me, but for the moment I felt the power of the ocean in my arms. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t a trip across the ocean every morning tiring?” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Soon she simply wished that the ship would be taken by the storm and sunk to the bottom of the ocean. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Atlantis: Named after a boat that sailed more than a half million miles in more than 30 years of ocean research. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

It's so much like the ocean, but warmer, like it's mixed with toasted sugar. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

In this picture too my mother’s eyes are big with what they held—reaches of oceans beyond China, land beyond oceans. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It reminded me of Edward’s request — that I not fall into the ocean. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and concentrated on the waves lapping against the hull, the ocean currents, the winds all around me. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She saw the ocean stretching to the horizon in every direction. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

After being on the ocean for three days, I am at last staring at the glorious sight. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once we got past Doheny and wound through Pacific Palisades, Sunset slid into Pacific Coast Highway and the ocean majestically came into view. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was because the ocean was so close, because the air was so heavy with water that it let it fall too soon. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then you go through the backyard to a covered shed on piles over the ocean and here are the tanks for the larger animals, the sharks and rays and octopi, each in their concrete tanks. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, throughout the 1950s oceanographers were undertaking more and more sophisticated surveys of the ocean floors. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The ocean wasn’t home, then, and neither was anyplace else. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our hotel sits right on the beach and we can see and smell the ocean from the small open-air lobby. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I found Osh sitting in the sand, staring at the ocean, Mouse in his lap. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Their voices faded in and out of focus, dissolving into a din like the roar of the ocean. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Astern of us the island coastline faded, and no land showed anywhere, but only sea and heaven, when Zeus Krom'on piled a thunderhead above the ship, while gloom spread on the ocean. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trying to collect his wits and courage, Vetch spoke the Revelation-spell, watching between each slow-syllabled word for change or tremor of illusion in this strange drying and shallowing of the abyss of ocean. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Hitler’s aggressive actions made war seemed almost inevitable, and battleships and submarines started patrolling the oceans and coastlines. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“He’s on a boat in the middle of the ocean! What else does he have to do?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even know so much water could be inside a person—like he was hiding an entire ocean beneath his skin. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I don’t like the ocean too much after I fell out of Mister Lochana’s speedboat, but with my dad, I always feel safe. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

This is not the lush farmland or forest of Europe, but desert and wilderness, with hot, salty ocean wind that sucks the moisture from our lips. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Over to the left, the waves of ocean were breathing, sucking down, then boiling back over the rock. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Like a stream running down into the ocean, the line veers toward a distant fog, out of which rises a tall, smoking chimney. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Wait just a second. This is quite interesting,” Teddy said, without raising his chin from its resting place and without taking his eyes off the ocean. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Plucky sailing vessels from half a dozen European nations dispersed to every ocean. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

At their feet, pools and streams of glacier melt came running forward to meet the ocean. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

"Can you track de paths of the fishes as they swim? Every fish? In every river and ocean?" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

With a flutter of wings, Margalo rose into the sky, carrying Stuart along, and together they flew out over the ocean and headed toward home. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

On this last word “ocean” the child in the middle quickly rushes around trying to find a partner and leaving one child “out” who is now the one in the middle. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I latched on to it, tightly as a life raft upon a churning ocean. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

My father had read in Sunset magazine that this was a good place to catch ocean perch. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

JoJo’s too, but I don’t think he was looking out into the ocean as much as looking away from what was happening to Stef. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The importance of isolation is most obvious for Hawaii and Tonga, both of which were separated by at least 4,000 miles of ocean from the nearest societies with writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

To Arm, the world was a seething ocean of human desires that he tried to block out. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, despite feeling like the moon had just crashed into the ocean and been swallowed, I managed to give the reporters what they wanted. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

There was no sign of them at all anymore— they’d broken up and, over the years, washed away into the ocean. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Bursts of rain and thunder crash into the ocean and create large waves that threaten to swallow our boat. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all stood in a half circle, facing the ocean. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He saw the water begin to pull back from the rocks below him, saw the seaweed sucked out in long green tresses, saw the ocean yanked away from the dark, sharp mussel beds. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

With that, Lev climbs down and jumps into the open ocean. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She warned us because it was the same war still going on years after she crossed the ocean and had us. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought I smelled the ocean on you, Percy Jackson. I’m also a son of Neptune, you know.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“This is a crystal set. Through this we can talk through walls and across the city. They’ve already talked across the ocean.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Seeing the shark this way doesn’t do her justice. They really are powerful when you see them swimming through the ocean,” Robin said. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Some lied and said they’d gotten rich, or sent pictures of themselves as younger men; at any rate, wives came across the ocean. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

For several days the pack closed in tight again, and they could no longer detect the movement of the ocean. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

At his neck, leaping with the power of an ocean wave, was Amaroq. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the relative darkness, the whole thing looked like some alien vessel rising from the abyss of the ocean. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

All morning they scanned the ocean around them, searching for open water as their floe was whittled down to the size of a tennis court. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Rain sluiced down it all, making Thomas imagine a huge beast cresting out of the ocean. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

An ocean liner compared to a rowboat with leaks. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard that the ocean has gotten higher,” said Chitchat, “but I don’t see how that could be true I mean where would all that extra water come from?” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Josh decided to write a piece about ocean kayaking instead. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

The ocean sound that was always in my head had been getting louder. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

She speaks lightly, her voice echoing: “You need to tell me, is it in the ocean? It must be in the ocean.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The sun was falling into the ocean and the sky was warming up for the colors. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was, really, the first time he had ever moved into the wide ocean. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

On account of the heat, there are still a few actual bathers on the beach, but I am content to sit in shorts and T-shirt and watch the ocean pummel the sand. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared at the parlour that was dead and grey as the waters of an ocean that might teem with life if they switched on the electronic sun. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our ancestors risked their lives to cross the ocean, to escape those socialist countries. And what do you do? You turn around and go back?” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then she stood up and looked at the ocean. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And after a while, I dozed off to sleep, but every time there was turbulence, I would jerk awake, thinking the plane was falling out of the sky and into the ocean. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

You don't really know how attached you are until you move away, until you've experienced what it means to be dislodged, a cork floating on the ocean of another place. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It’s an island in the middle of the ocean where people speak English and Spanish and sometimes a mix of both. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“A little like the ocean, a little like gasoline,” Gilbert said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lowell deduced that when the planet’s oceans dried up, the Martians built a system of canals thousands of miles long to move water from the polar ice caps to dry areas. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

But from afar, a galaxy reminds me more of a collection of lovely found objects—seashells, perhaps, or corals, the productions of Nature laboring for aeons in the cosmic ocean. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smelled fresh, and a bit like the ocean. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I am always thinking of my daughter and the line of generations that will follow her. Humans have a great impact on the ocean. There is still time to reverse what we’ve done.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“What were you doing carrying these scraps across the ocean ?” Brave Orchid took what was useful and solid into the back bedroom, where Moon Orchid would stay until they decided what she would do permanently. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

George got out of bed and knelt by the small, round window that looked out on the ocean. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

We show up to a restaurant that is so close to the ocean that when I look out the window it feels like I'm going to fall onto the sand. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

We eat lunch on a driftwood log, facing the ocean. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Beyond, he could see the mouth of the bay where the ocean disappeared into the dull, rain-misted sky. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She saw herself on an island, sitting by the ocean, sipping a cool drink. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Best to cut your losses on an old man who won’t survive a trip across the ocean. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The infinite was as vast and cold as the ocean spreading around die ship, and in all that emptiness what Milton felt most acutely was the reality of his own buzzing mind. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t seen the ocean for about a year. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He cried because he knew that no matter how much time went by, a part of him would still be out in that ocean. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

Molly’s room is on the second floor, facing the ocean, down a long hall at the opposite side of the house from Vivian’s. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

In the interior of Jupiter, where the pressures are about three million times the atmospheric pressure at the surface of the Earth, there is almost nothing but a great dark sloshing ocean of metallic hydrogen. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think of the ocean, the darkness—feeling her there with me. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There will be no more life in the oceans, where the Midgard serpent writhes. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

This was no island he was on but a mere reef, a bit of sand in the midst of the ocean. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was like the main hallway was the river that led into the ocean of backpacks, ball caps, and braids. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“The island. Johnny and Mirren. The houses and the sound of the ocean. You.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“Hey. I don’t know the guy. I want to feel him out. I wouldn’t loan my car to a stranger. You think I’d send off my son? Out on the ocean, no less?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The air carries the salty tinge of the ocean. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But there were other times when he became alive and animated, like a child gingerly touching the edge of the ocean before plunging in, displaying a curiosity unique among kids who lived in Odessa. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was it really possible that they were crossing oceans? The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crew looks out and sees only dead things, floating and rotting on the surface of the ocean. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The barreling ocean waves were a silvery blue. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It was as if he suddenly owned the world—he and the Frog owned the ocean, owned all of the ocean and the world was mostly ocean. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And the ocean? It’s right across the street!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Ever since I found out I was sick I feel like I’ve been fighting,” he said, staring out at the ocean. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

After that, it would be three long days on the highway back to Earth, then through the fire of the atmosphere and into the terrestrial ocean below. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The Holy Spirit was calmed, like an ocean after a storm. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The clinic is a few streets from the ocean, and in the summer sometimes Mom and I walk to the waterfront park while David has his appointment. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

There in front of us, glinting in the morning light, we saw the ocean, the rocky shore, and in the distance, winking in the sunshine, the glass towers of Cape Town. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dark it was difficult to see where the ocean ended and the sky began; I could pretend the sky curved down and around, and that it was possible to walk on the clouds. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It makes everything on earth fall in love—how the ocean kisses land, how land nestles trees, how swaying trees always whisper sweet nothings into our ears. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

My tummy felt wobbly, rough as the ocean during a storm. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

No one could persuasively explain how it had managed to cross two thousand miles of hostile ocean but then failed to find its way around the corner of a 200-mile-wide island. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She was closer to the ocean than she thought, for the skua is a bird of the coastal waters of the Arctic. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They flew extremely high, keeping the ocean on their left. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

A sail perhaps on ocean, next time, for Jonas had a memory of ocean, now, and knew what it was; he knew that there were sailboats there, too, in memories yet to be acquired. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Guys, wait,” JoJo said, pointing to the opposite side of the ocean. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could navigate it effortlessly, as if the oceans were splitting into glossy liquid roads for him. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Farther, to the horizon, majestic ocean ray-like creatures glide in the air. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As soon as we got there, Michael changed from his suit to swim trunks and went sprinting into the ocean. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“So you are coming back, then? You’re not going to decide to stay on that island out in the ocean with your what’s-it bird?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

If he ran a line just south of the channel islands and rocks, there was nothing until the Philippines, nothing until Japan but ocean, and that was where Owen wanted to be. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many, especially the baleen whales, are placid browsers, straining through vast volumes of ocean for the small animals on which they graze; others eat fish and krill. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both transverse and longitudinal waves cause a displacement of something: air molecules, for example, or the surface of the ocean. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Could she and Nonna have two homes with an ocean in between? I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

He saw himself on the island in the ocean, making a campfire. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was really bright, with the blue of the ocean and the white of the clouds being what you noticed most. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned against one of the bigger rocks and looked out toward the ocean, said: “And that’s where he went out in the water.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Lies, lies, my father laughed, through your body runs the salt water of the oceans. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We veered off 127, away from the ocean, and drove to the edge of the woods. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

We enjoyed swimming, until the mystery of tides was explained in such a way that the ocean seemed nothing more than an enormous saltwater toilet, flushing itself on a sad and predictable basis. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

His uniform has enough badges and medals to sink him to the oceans bottom. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But he was not watching the ocean now, or not the ocean that Vetch saw, a waste of heaving water to the rim of the sky. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He includes no address, but it reaches its destination across the ocean nonetheless. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I was so afraid he might die in some alien ocean thousands of miles from home. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he too went stiff as he looked over the ocean. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Too nice. What actually happened was that the ocean mother’ took my real mother away. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Her Jorge did not resemble the huge, buoyant man on the ocean, the gentleman with silent words she could not understand. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road went up and down like an ocean. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“No, boy. It was the demons’ other ocean.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She concentrated on it, mentally letting the ocean hands know where she needed to get. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Word of my arrival spread as soon as I walked out of the ocean. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I wanted to know how the moon could drag the ocean in and out from such a distance, when it couldn’t stir the milk in Miss Maggie’s tea. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

They had finally escaped from the pack, but the open ocean had proved too much for their small fleet. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

When the tumblers clicked, it popped open; Lefty crawled on top of Desdemona and the two of them hardly even moved; the ocean swells did the work for them. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“These situations can be very stressful, very difficult. We are looking for something so specific for E.T.: The Musical. It is a movie that is beloved across seas, and oceans.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I can smell the ocean and feel the salt air making my clothes cling to my skin. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ahmad was a ship captain, had been for thirty years, piloting tankers and ocean liners in every conceivable body of water, and he knew as much as anyone about storms, their trajectories and power. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

So the vast ocean had its will with Aias, drunk in the end on salt spume as he drowned. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a spyglass and was surveying the ocean, on the lookout for pirates. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s beautiful,” my mom said, staring out at the ocean. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

From the gray waters of the ocean, the green earth will arise once more. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Sharks, because they eat dead things in the ocean!” said one of the boys, a kid named Reid, and Mr. Browne wrote down SHARKS. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Now there’s a trail to it from the road and a bench by it that overlooks the ocean, but when the artist carved it, there was none of that. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I could pretty much move however I wanted to underwater, just by willing the ocean currents to change around me and propel me along. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was at the end of The Little Mermaid when Ariel got legs and left her dad at the bottom of the ocean. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I’d slice through the ocean, and Ruth and me would walk on the sand all the way home. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or the time I got caught in a rip and she and Dad had to drag me out of the ocean in front of a whole beach of surftards. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Which, shortly, also ended up in the ocean. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Grief is an ocean, and guilt the undertow that pulls me beneath the waves and drowns me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

In the distance the ocean was azure blue beneath the ice floes, reflecting the great arc of the sky above. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He loved ocean currents and architecture and Charles Dickens, and his variousness made her feel limited, overspecialized. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Finally, after the last supply bag went over the side, and just when I was wondering how far a drop it was to the ocean, we began to pick up speed. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He was haunted and tormented by the vast, boundless ocean. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Fern: “Black oceans separate us tortured cries songs of black greatness Still echo in my canal.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when he reached the crack in the mast, it gave way completely, and he fell into the ocean. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I could see no better from the rock because the sun was low and the whole ocean was covered with light. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alone Jake felt himself sink downward, slowly in wavelike motions downward into a shadowed ocean. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Far away. Over ocean. Under sky,” she replied in English. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Max kisses her head and says that when the war is over, he’s going to take her to a beach, where she can feel the sand and play in the wide and salty ocean. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Johnny was standing ankle-deep in the ocean, his jeans rolled up. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I can see the outlines of the ocean from our window. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

She might as well have been swimming across an ocean. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had his easel set up by the ocean. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

We snuck around to the small cliff that stood between the ocean and the highway where the car was, peeked around at the cop. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I tell her about his ocean eyes and calloused fingers. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He stops at the ocean’s edge, smiles almost shyly, as if he fears disturbing her, and stretches out a colossal hand. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hoped that they never smelled of sea salt, that they never heard the urgings of the ocean, that they were so lonely that being a stranger in them hardly mattered. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

But his blues harp might as well have been an ocean away. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I slip off my shoes and walk the ocean’s edge, the way I used to with Lolo. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“And that’s a totally cool idea! We could do the colors of the ocean and all the different creatures that live there!” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

From time to time, the shed slipped its anchor and drifted aimlessly among inbound and outbound ocean liners while the Pococks slept. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Her black hair unfurled, a tangled banner streaming in the ocean breeze. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Over the breadth of an ocean the smallest miscalculations would become magnified so that ships often missed Bermuda-sized targets by dismaying margins. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

All that day, all that night they went driven by the powerful wind of magery over the great swells of ocean, eastward. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Waves are disturbances; they are changes in something — the surface of the ocean, the air, electromagnetic fields. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

If there were too many young sharks or too many old sharks in the ocean, this signaled a problem. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Lola’s house sits in a pocket not far from the ocean, in a neighborhood where the homes have the teeniest of front yards. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The new instruments and the oceans of printed books opened up new experiences and destroyed old authorities. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

After a few days’ travel down the coast, a dark and threatening mountain of clouds appeared over the ocean. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She stared at her face in the window and thought, Here is me, going to England; here is me, crossing the ocean; here is me, a dot in the sky. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Every day, the whale would swim across the oceans and rise up out of the sea at sunset, making a great leap into the sky with drops of water still clinging to its skin. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She shrieked, jumped off her floor mark, and crashed into the ocean. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

He smokes a smoldering pipe stuffed with seaweed skimmed from the ocean. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She flies all by herself in a small plane across the ocean. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She dropped closer and closer to the surface of the ocean. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Hundreds jumped from the cliffs near Marpi Point or waded into the ocean and drowned before our shocked Marines could reach them. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the squadron, in the demon pass of jets, edged offshore high above the green blaze of ocean, Lillian watched and listened from her second story veranda. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though no one in my family has ever been to Long Island or fished or likes the ocean—too deep, too scary. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

From where she was, Brave Orchid could not see what her sister had chosen to carry across the ocean. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Docked at the North End waterfront, it was a fireboat, ready to spray tons of ocean water on the many fires that often took place on the wharfs that extended out into the harbor. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The sun lights a path for my balloons as they hover above the dark ocean, careful not to get swept into the masts of large imperial ships. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“The tradition never would’ve survived. He grew so stubborn in his old age, your abuelo. So hardened. So I came here; the ocean is a sanctuary for all ancestral spirits.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She glanced around and saw that most of the slaves, and some of the sailors as well, had difficulty adjusting to land after such a long time journeying on the ocean. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Strange scenes swirled in my ocean of pesadilla, and each one seemed to drown me with its awful power. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

What a wonderful feeling it was, to be alone like this, on top of the ocean and beneath the sky. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

We’d be riding donkeys from the train station to our house on the beach when, halfway up a hill, the ocean would suddenly come into view. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the east, that first blue lake increased to an ocean. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could put the ocean where I wanted. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She could feel how this country far across the ocean pulled on her and lived inside her despite her wishes to the contrary; it was something she could not deny. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She dreamed of oceans of ink and forests of quills and an endless bog of words. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Once my feet are free, I get up and throw my body into a run, into a sprint, my feet quick on the stone, the red moon in front of me, the ocean gone. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Malachite was dancing alone, her robe billowing in satin gusts, the wine in her glass a red ocean. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Today it takes a few months to cross the ocean of the inner solar system and make planet-fall on Mars or Venus, which are truly and literally new worlds awaiting us. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gentle breeze carried the smell of spring turned to summer—fresh-cut grass, the ocean, and wildflowers newly bloomed. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

We launched at a motel ramp on the ocean side of the island. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I pictured sharks in the ocean, calling out their own names as they swam by. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It was as vast and blue as the oceans on the movie screens of my childhood. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It comes up from underneath the fish with its mouth wide open, soars upward, nabs the fish, and then falls back into the ocean, almost on its side. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Tally saw that it really had been the ocean she’d glimpsed from the roller coaster. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“You know which animal in the ocean is a real fighter? And your mom’s favorite, Delsie?” he says, pointing at the ring on my finger. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

It’s a slight movement, but suddenly the distance between us is as wide as the ocean that usually separates us. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Eventually, there were deserts and more forests and mountain ranges and even an ocean, all accessible by large networks of roads that unwound this way and that, like great spools of yarn. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

There was a short period of time when I was obsessed with the study of the ocean, since it takes up more than 70 percent of the planet. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Sergio points to a large rock at the edge of the water that extends out into the ocean. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Let’s be on the other side of the ocean and feel lucky.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When I look behind me, I realize that there is nothing but open ocean on the other side of the walls. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The ocean is made of salt water, and I wonder for a moment if it’s possible that we were actually born of the sea and crawled ourselves onto these islands. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Climate change causes the glaciers to melt, which causes the acidification of the world’s oceans, resulting in the death of most sea life. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

This is especially relevant to the large animals of the oceans. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was heading out with day workers to Santa Monica, which was supposed to be on the ocean. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sleep and the moon and the sun sleep and even the ocean sleeps sometimes on certain days when there is no current and a flat calm. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leave her to float and die on the ocean. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We didn’t do anything, except watch. For days. The full moon came and raised the tide. The deeper water helped the shark swim back into the ocean.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Worsley had little confidence that they could take to the open ocean in only two boats, and he pestered Shackleton every day about returning to Ocean Camp for the Stancomb Wills. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

We’ve swapped bright and sunny Old San Juan, where you can hear and smell the ocean from the streets, for these winding mountain roads. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

In a little while the town would start to come alive, and the fishing boats would sail out of the bay into the ocean. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I was very cautious not to lean too far over the little ocean ponds. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They sped across the state of North Carolina, across the oceans. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Then the land birds vanished and she saw only birds of the open ocean, the albatrosses and snowy terns. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

There was no ocean, no dock, nothing nearby at all, just streets and parked cars and darkness and snow. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

However, if a hotel or high-rise along the ocean leaves its lights on, the turtles will head toward the brighter light of civilization and never make it to the ocean. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

All I could do was scrub out as much pus as I could with the ocean water and use the same filthy strips of towel to cover his wounds. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dallas, up in his imaginary tree in Kangadoon, had spotted a ship far out on the ocean. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I turned to the ocean and watched the waves crash. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

My head pounding in my ears and buzzing with the sound of the giant ocean. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was just that she was away from the ocean, the salt water with its tides and turbulence, that made her sad. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wife asked me, “Why are people in the world starving when America has so much surplus food? What do they do, dump it in the ocean?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined if I lived someplace on the very edge of the continent, like California, that the wonderful ocean breeze would set me free. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They had winter gardens and salons, dining rooms that could seat 200, and porches like the promenade decks of ocean liners from which guests could drink in the wholesome air and survey nature’s craggy splendor. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Now I can see that those streaks of light are actually glowing trains, racing across the ocean floor. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Even for men accustomed to a hard life in a terrifying ocean, they could hardly believe what Shackleton and his men had endured. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The son nodded and started immediately to walk to the ocean. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I decide I am in love with the ocean. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It’s what made the river flow, the ocean swell, and the tide rise, but it was a silent power, intractable, indomitable, indisputable, and thus completely ignorable. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m struggling in a black ocean, a life jacket across my chest, an anchor on my leg. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

David knew about plankton from biology—they were also called krill: millions of tiny, some almost microscopic, shrimp-like animals that filled the oceans of the world. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I jab a spoon in my cereal, which has absorbed so much milk that the pieces look like bloated life jackets bobbing in a speckled ocean. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

This morning she was thinking about how to construct a device that could retrieve a rock after you had skipped it into the ocean. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

People passed stories from mouth to mouth like kisses, or plagues, until they flowed down the streets, into gutters, streams, and rivers, down to the ocean itself. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Now a wind was rising, the kind of biting, steady wind that could bring an ocean of sand into camp at any moment with almost no warning. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

It deposited me at the edge of the ocean proper, where the sand bank dropped off into a huge chasm. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, and dig this. To show how much he cares about the ocean, he offers to throw a big fund-raising benefit for the Save the Reef Foundation on the Coral Queen.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

But eventually it had to subside, and the ocean was a little calmer after the convulsion. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It felt like the ocean was rising from her tummy, shoving its way through her chest, and trying to explode out of her face. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

If you’re on the ocean side of the islands, it can sneak up on you from behind, which happens a lot to tourists. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then he watched as they took another rock and used it to hammer the stone deeper into the ground than the deepest ocean. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I see nothing but an ocean, and water at low tide.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the outset of their voyage through featureless ocean and anonymous ice pack, the officers and crew of Endurance had been able to track their exact location and chart their zigzagging progress on their maps. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I stood in the middle of the cabin, listening to the gurgle of the saltwater fountain and the ocean waves outside. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Once we were upright again, some swimmers, who had been dropped into the ocean by one of the Hornet’s helicopters, surrounded us and tied a life raft to our side. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ocean retreated, exposing the bones of the shoreline. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

There are almost waves today, like the bay is trying very hard to be the ocean. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ocean is still and calm, with a sparkle where the rising sun catches it. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

They spread apart after they were out of the mouth of the harbour and each one headed for the part of the ocean where he hoped to find fish. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could smell salt in the air, which brought back memories of going to the ocean with Ellie and Sol as a littlie. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Gogol darts in and out of the ocean, making faint, temporary footprints, soaking his rolled-up cuffs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And when I woke up the sky above the ocean was completely clear and the sun was blood-red and falling behind the surface of the water. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“And our city is right by the ocean, in case you forgot. Water drains downward.Ya know, gravity and all that.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The familiar constellations must have been reassuring in the midst of an unexplored ocean. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The frigid wind from the Pole increased steadily, driving them northward until, almost without warning, they burst free from the pack and into the open ocean again. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He’s supposed to be at the bottom of the ocean. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The sand is so warm beneath me, and the ocean and salt spray and plum-colored breeze is so calming, that I tell him the story about my uncle. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Animal fossils repeatedly turned up on opposite sides of oceans that were clearly too wide to swim. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

There was the green of the headlands, the white, red-roofed villas, patches of forest, and the ocean very blue with the tide out and the water curling far out along the beach. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Miles and miles of ocean expand on both sides of the bridge. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The filmy enchantments of mirage could not endure the cold ocean water and the horizon was hard, clipped blue. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

An arm made of water extended from the ocean and grabbed it. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Then they were steady to see across the ocean which was rough now with the increasing breeze. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They broke above the ocean surface a little later. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

They swam up slowly and so close that I could see their eyes, which are large and the color of the ocean. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forest and pine and kelly and grass, all flowing together like a green ocean. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He was a long-distance ocean swimmer, one of the best the world had ever known. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He tried to get that image of the blue ocean back in his mind, but he couldn't picture it for some reason. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

What had seemed like not a big deal at the time now seemed like the first wave in a terrible ocean tide. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes, hoping the plane isn’t going to skid off into the ocean. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Ever since he had expelled the children from the house, José Arcadio was really waiting for news of an ocean liner that would leave for Naples before Christmas. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Like sunken treasure dredged up from the ocean bed. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kinda weird that he would hang over the ocean, tagging sharks in the name of science, but he wouldn’t call a biologist to dissect the one he caught, right? The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The bedroom has the stamps of lovely landscapes you might discover in your dreams, and the bathroom has stamps with oceans and rivers and rain. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Just when we considered ourselves fully prepared and were fixing to depart, lo and behold, we learned that the Pan American Airline would only allow forty-four pounds to be carried across the ocean. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of these traumatized common people, and their descendants became the settlers who would cross a vast ocean, drawn by the promise of their own land and higher status. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The damp, raw wind swept in from the ocean and entered through cracks in the walls of the hut. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The stage was massive, with vast red- and-gold curtains drawn back to reveal a magnificent make-believe forest with a rolling painted ocean at the back of the wooden deck. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Edward appreciated the courtesy of this small gesture, but he was heartily sick of the ocean and would have been satisfied never to set eyes on it again. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Miss Sandra says, with her voice like the bottom of the ocean. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But when they are grown up, they break away from the seafloor and are free to pulse through the ocean. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He was rowing steadily and it was no effort for him since he kept well within his speed and the surface of the ocean was flat except for the occasional swirls of the current. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ocean smelled weird, and so did the food they were selling on the boardwalk, like funnel cakes and cotton candy and hot dogs. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Storm? Oh! You mean the sound of the ocean! I don't suppose you've ever seen the ocean, have you?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I still hadn’t looked away from the ocean. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They had marched, long-haired and ferocious, an ancient writer tells us, “sword in hand, against rivers in flood or against the storm-tossed ocean.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I treaded water and looked all around the ocean and out at some boats and back at Rondell. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know that she’d been built in a factory and then stored in a warehouse before crossing the ocean on a cargo ship. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I looked at the row of seashells on the window ledge, knowing how truly they belonged here even though we were a hundred miles from the ocean. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m no longer floating in an ocean, but standing in a cavern encircling me, trapping me in. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

An alternate reality where people talked in drumbeats and always made time to look at the ocean—and I mean really look at it too, the way Mong did. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

When we got to the ocean, we walked to an inlet where the sea wasn’t rough. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Shackleton hauled on his end of the rope, but one man’s strength was not equal to the force of the ocean pulling the floes apart. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Pedro Cabral was trying to sail around Africa to Asia to buy spices for his native Portugal, and the ocean current took him to Brazil instead. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

All that power—the great surging ocean of it—was leaking out. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“That dot covers all the places we’ve ever been. You could cut that piece of land out of the ground and sink it into this ocean and no one would even notice.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He felt like he was shipwrecked in the middle of the ocean. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

The weight of the ocean pushing down on his heart. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

And then I thought how the ocean would always buzz like this. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

And salt spray blows in from the barrier where the ocean waits for its rising-tide strength to permit it back into the Great Tide Pool again. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

No. He gestures in the direction of the ocean, says to Fry, “Hell with this. Let’s grab the slabs and head out.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

While the crewmen pass out our food ration—two balls of rice and six ounces of water—I sit and watch the sunset in the middle of the ocean. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For 99.99 percent of the history of the whales, there were no humans in or on the deep oceans. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why doesn’t the motion cause the oceans to slop about, producing great tidal waves? The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

It’s cheap stuff, probably made from those bland sea grapes that grow in ocean water. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

All around, the ocean was a glittering mirror. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s sitting in white sand leading to a clear blue ocean that stretches out to the horizon. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Hanako knew exactly what was happening: the ship had left the harbor and was now in the ocean, and she was seasick. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes and I see hers, the color of the ocean the day we met. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took the train down to see the ocean. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she woke up, she said she’d dreamed that she was swimming happily in the ocean. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The ocean thundered on, oblivious to Sierra’s plea. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The girls move inside like a wave in the ocean, taking Rabia with them. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She remembered white cliffs towering over the ocean, swarming with seabirds nesting in high caves. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It’s about some kids floating around in the ocean far away from land, and there are sharks—so many sharks. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“We meet again,” the folding man said, his voice deep as an ocean trench. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The storm was so powerful that it lifted Edward off the ocean floor and led him in a crazy, wild and spinning dance. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Oscar Danilo Blandon, the so-called Johnny Appleseed of Crack, may have been the instigator of one ripple effect, in which by his actions a single person inadvertently causes an ocean of despair. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

These were poor men, who could no longer afford to live by the ocean, who had long ago sold their one-story homes for the valuable sand beneath them. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

But as the weeks dragged on and the winter locked up the ocean around Elephant Island, they knew they were stuck until spring. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The sky was a mere block to allow a visual effect on the horizon: sunlight flooding the ocean, the vertical edges between light and shadow perfectly distinct. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It brought everything back, that same feeling of sinking in the middle of the ocean. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She swam parallel to the sharks, just another creature in the ocean. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She nodded and looked back at the ocean. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Below my rising panic lies an ocean of regret. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

So, instead, I wrote this lame thing about how I used to be afraid of the ocean when I was little. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The hoverboard was the tricky part Its unfolded surface had gotten wet, covered with a fine layer of ocean spray and dew. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, in the distance beyond the shanties, past a long mound of rubbish, we could glimpse the sparkling blue ocean. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The rows of green cornstalks had grown to over five feet high, and in the morning breeze they seemed to form ripples, like waves in the ocean. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The president felt as if “he was himself again” when he saw people swimming and walking at the beach, boats sailing on the ocean, and the soldiers pacing the perimeter of the cottage lawn. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Cora's grandmother had never seen the ocean before that bright afternoon in the port of Ouidah and the water dazzled after her time in the fort’s dungeon. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A salty breeze blew in from the ocean, and it was cool even in the sunlight. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Henry stands behind him with a slight smile and the ocean reflecting off of his glasses, and I feel thankful for him. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

She pries open my head and my fists and crams into them responsibility for time, responsibility for intervening oceans. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few miles, we finally see the blue from the ocean in the distance. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

She is beneath me, her ocean eyes terrified as I pin her scim arm down. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

But the ocean was turbulent and unpredictable, with dangerous currents and constant wind. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We talked longer there about the sad state of the oceans, when suddenly he stopped and looked at the feather on the mast. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A cold wind off the ocean blew up the chasm, goose-pimpling her arms like the chill of death. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Aunt Pearl sailed serenely past the nationalist rally, the three girls clustered around her like starched white tugboats escorting a blue cotton ocean liner. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

For as far as I can see, the ocean lights up, like it’s trying to outshine the starry night above. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was a black night, a black ocean. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In the weak starlight, as their small barge moved back and forth on the rising ocean swells, they’d have to leap for the cargo net. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

All of the noise and pointing toward the ocean tells me there is something to see, so I sprint back, running where the water meets the sand. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

She turned to face the ocean of weeds again. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He flew in airplanes and crossed the ocean in ships. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Look, just forget it for now. Lets pretend we’re a couple of normal people. We re out for a drive, and were watching the ocean, and it’s nice to be together.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

As I drift to sleep, I think of Pa. I know his spirit can travel over land to be with me but worry if he can cross the ocean to America. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no arguing with Doña Charito over the color of the vermilion coral in the umber depths of the aquamarine oceans. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

If it could break like a wave and flood a room with all the force of the ocean, it did. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It starts to get cold once the sun is down and the trade wind kicks up from the Arctic over the ocean and comes right into the condo. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Instead I find myself staring into a pair of oceans—one perfect, the other blemished by that tiny ripple. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It takes me a while to leave the ocean. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

We take other fish from the ocean—too many fish. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She tells us she's seen the ocean, how the water keeps going long after the eyes can't see it anymore promises a whole other country on the other side. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

He said he wanted to be able to see the ocean every day. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

It’s so vast it has waves like an ocean. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was like listening for the ocean in a seashell and not ever hearing it. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

In one tank sharks swim overhead, just like we’re actually looking up from the ocean floor. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Inigo pursued him, hurrying past the poisoners, the spitting cobras and Gaboon vipers and, perhaps most quickly lethal of all, the lovely tropical stonefish from the ocean outside India. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The ocean was ruddy, as were they, and some passed into the sea from the shingle, and others rose from the sea and waded to shore. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

We rolled without letup as we were dragged into the lightless ocean depths. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

At one point, they lost sight of all land altogether and might have been out on the ocean. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I brought the stack of cards to my lap, sifting through the images before deciding on a Japanese woodblock print with white foam like snow atop the blue ocean waves. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He turned the binoculars to a different part of the ocean. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I tried to speak with you at Herr Thiessen’s funeral, but you left before I could find you, and then you took the circus across the ocean. You’ve been avoiding me.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In the short traverse from mountain to ocean, travelers pass through twenty of the world’s thirty-four principal types of environment. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But he was adopted by a missionary who taught him English, and then he worked for various English people in Calcutta before signing up for his indenture and traveling across the ocean. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Soon after, the swollen ocean will swallow the ashes as it washes across all the land, and everything living will be forgotten under the sunless sky. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Goodness me,” the little bird cried, “I didn’t know you had skates hidden in your shirt. Toss those heavy skates away quickly or we will both come down in the ocean and perish.” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

But behind us, over the ocean were evil-looking black clouds that seemed headed our way, made me think it might rain soon. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The strange, redheaded sailor taught Amari the words “ocean” and “ship” and “man” and “floor” and “wall,” as well as many other simple words and phrases. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The river, the ocean, the deep forest belong to you. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

They didn’t care he was half black and his kind of Indian was the kind from the warm oceans. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The girl drew her blankets around her like a cloak and looked out at the moonlit ocean and the far waves. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her white dress dances with the ocean breeze, her silver wings shimmer in the sunlight. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Werner can hear the Austrians two floors up scrambling, reloading, and the receding screams of both shells as they hurtle above the ocean, already two or three miles away. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I want the thunder of ocean, a day that's cold but dry, the feeling that comes with heavy clouds in the distance. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The serpent would grow beneath the gray waters of the world ocean, grow until it encircled the earth. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Who wouldn’t want to be out on the ocean in a windstorm at two in the morning?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sea-foam white lace bloomed from the sweeping neckline, washing upon her breast from the powder-green ocean of silk that made up the dress. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

One report places him on an ocean liner bound for London in 1934. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A block away, past a line of hibiscus bushes, the ocean churned. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I nodded and looked back to the ocean. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I ask the man, watching as the ocean disappears, then the horizon. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Hatsue would remember on the day of her wedding that her first kiss had been from this boy, Ishmael Chambers, while they clung to a glass box and floated in the ocean. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

For the rocks to be clean, for the creatures in the ocean to eat the rest of it, for a three-thousand-pound shark to dissolve. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“The ocean is big,” said Declaration, standing a little ahead of us with her arms crossed. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He smelled bad, all right—but ocean bad. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

We know from the fossil record that the origin of life happened soon after, perhaps around 4.0 billion years ago, in the ponds and oceans of the primitive Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the right, the vast turquoise ocean bit at the shoreline, gobbling small mouthfuls of sand. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Nicasia’s hair is the blue-green of the ocean, crowned with a diadem of pearls. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The everlasting indigo blue of the ocean surrounded them day after day. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sookie hung over the ocean, yards beyond the boat with the harpoon in hand, waiting for the white shark to swim underneath him, so he could tag the fish. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The ocean sang and spit; it threw itself on the deck. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Even out on the ocean,” Bill said, “Father Sky will be above us. We will never be forgotten by the sky.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ocean perked up a little from the reflection of these colored slivers in the sky. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she sat back, Minli began to wonder, “How is this stream salty? I am far from the ocean. This is very strange.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Back at the truck the boys built a little fire when it got dark and the chill crept up from the ocean. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had seen his sisters in the dream, Maya and Grace standing on the edge of the ocean, calling for him as the waves crashed harder onto the sand. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It was an ocean of black, like someone had opened a tap and all the black had come pouring out. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It’s a steep, short set of steps leading to a balcony with a wooden guardrail, which overlooks the ocean and Tatoosh Island. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, this is the end of the road for devils like you. Out there in the ocean, even you rascals cannot survive.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Far out on the horizon, a clipper ship skated the ocean, its high sail unfurled. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Think back, recall our little nation fringing the oceans, torn with complexities, too big for its britches. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Living next to the ocean, they had to. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that, the audience applauds, an ocean of clapping and whistling. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would the boats be separated when they took to the ocean? Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Then she takes off her raggedy skirt and runs right into the swooshing ocean in the long, frayed T-shirt she's wearing. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

And I look at a bright blue sky and where it touches the ocean, and I hear a voice tell me that I don’t belong anywhere. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I decided to dive into the ocean and, for a moment at least, forget it all. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

There are no swamps, no oil fields, no seltzer oceans. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the western ocean it harried the sea flat, lifting water bodily out of water and carrying it as spume. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fish in my pocket for my phone and snap a picture of the ocean. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

As they stepped onto the boardwalk, the whole ocean seemed to spread out before them. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Nations such as Russia, Poland, and Finland also experienced disastrous economic times and suffered from oppressive governments, leading many to risk the long, treacherous ocean voyage to America. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Through the trees, a flash of ocean showed, blue and bright. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I stood at the edge of the ocean, letting the water wash over my feet. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

In both instances, I’d reveled in the soft air on my skin and the simple buoyancy I felt anytime I got close to the ocean. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They had met in an office that was in a high-rise building, so high that Joaquin could see all the way to the ocean. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He smells like ocean and sandalwood, even though we’re miles away from any coastline. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Like there’s a whole big beautiful open ocean of freedom inside me. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

There it is again—the pull of the ocean, the song of the universe. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Maybe I was across an ocean, on another continent, reading Hume under a stone archway. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In Afghanistan, I had only seen the ocean at the cinema. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The glass floor hatch glowed from the ocean below—a green expanse of light and shadow that seemed to go down forever. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We knew we had to cross a great huge body of water, an ocean, and some of the Lost Boys said the water could pull the plane down into it. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is our rudder too, essential for the ship’s orientation in the dark of space, to find our way through this unexplored part of the cosmic ocean. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind will blow them across the ocean thousands of them in giant boats swarming like larva out of a crushed ant hill. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The ocean was warmer than the air, but I didn’t love swimming away from the boat in that dark water. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only between them, no magpies formed a bridge across the oceans. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some stories were picked up and passed from mouth to mouth, crossing kingdoms and oceans, while others perished quickly, repeated a few times and never again. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It could be hiding anything—an ocean, a bottomless pit, an army of monsters. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Our family is together again, but I think spending the summer on opposite sides of the ocean stretched us thin. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

At dawn, as Rontu and I went down the cliff, I would watch the ocean for their sails. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the Ice Ages, so much of the oceans’ water was locked up in glaciers that worldwide sea levels dropped hundreds of feet below their present stand. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were also giant crocodiles in the swamps and rivers, man-eating sharks and poisonous jellyfish in the ocean. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a place far, far away from here, across many oceans.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He meant the immortals who ruled the oceans back in the days of the Titans. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

There’s Noah and me walking along the path the sun makes on the ocean but in opposite directions. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Closing my eyes, I pictured the ocean stretched out the color of fresh-polished silver, the white froth on it, light scattering everywhere. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

After sharing my slice bite for bite because Jude forgot her plate, she says, “I thought Grandma would tell us something awesome in her message. Like if heaven has an ocean, you know?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

When dinosaurs roamed the Earth, Denver was part of an ocean bottom, many thousands of feet lower. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

But no one planned to go into the ocean above their ankles anyway, so it was okay. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe there were some virtual fish in the virtual ocean below. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

We have the beach to ourselves, the ocean to ourselves. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The American biologist Roger Payne has calculated that using the deep ocean sound channel, two whales could communicate with each other at twenty Hertz essentially anywhere in the world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Attempts to quarantine Georgia are unsuccessful, and the new Fixers, whose sole function is to replicate, consume the entire planet in three days, leaving behind nothing but an ocean of gray goo. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She waved at the drowned ruins, and a flash of ocean. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

These islands to the northwest were at the very end of the Antarctic Peninsula; beyond them lay the open ocean. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The light of rising or setting stars bouncing off the ocean? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He walked across the land until he fell in the ocean. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Our story begins on the ocean, with wind and rain and thunder and lightning and waves. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Hence those seas became dry land during the Ice Ages, when much ocean water was locked up in glaciers and sea level lay at about 500 feet below its present stand. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then she took out her glue and showed me the envelope where she'd put the pieces of countries and oceans and mountains that had broken off. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“But if you take the risk and trust where the story is leading you, you might find the ocean you must cross.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Hera, enraged at this honor to her rival, persuaded the God of the Sea to forbid the Bears to descend into the ocean like the other stars. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taking a shallow breath, I drew in the scent of brine, though we were hundreds of kilometers from any ocean and the purification bath was filled with clean rainwater. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The most glorious moment of the whole year was when I first caught sight of the ocean. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I drew in a breath, I caught a whiff of the ocean breeze. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I saw an ocean of people, many of them waving little American flags. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She daydreamed about Crisfield and a farm; but she had learned her lesson about believing in daydreams, learned it from Cousin Eunice and her house that wasn’t a big white house by the ocean. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where the weather is balmy, the ocean breeze sweet, and the architecture unique.’ Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

It happened that way, sometimes on the ocean. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The field was an ocean of snow that needed to be crossed—but there were no other footprints in it. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I was looking at the ocean and waiting for the steward to bring me a cup of beef tea. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

On March 9, for the first time since entering the pack, the men felt the swell of the ocean slowly lift the ice under their feet. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He lowered his chin and sent his dino-bird swooping into a dive, then leveled it out when it was just a few inches above the video ocean’s churning waves. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

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

Even when he was young, in Wisconsin, Fadi had never seen the ocean. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

She watched the sun set in the ocean, and she knew she had less than a week to live. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The school is actually located in a safe neighborhood, just a few miles from the ocean. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

We anticipate underground oceans of slush and water in these moons, a hint, before we have ever seen the surfaces of the Galilean satellites close up, that they may be very different one from another. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has ocean eyes: just waves and waves of blue-green. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

At the same time she taught us the Puerto Rican national anthem, which said Borinquén was the daughter of the ocean and the sun. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

When I open my door and look out, I see a thousand little plank-and-cardboard houses floating at every conceivable tilt on an endless ocean of dust. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a picture of a storm on the ocean and a sea gull being dashed through the air by the wind. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I willed the ocean currents to aid me. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then he gave Tyson a big octopus hug and waded out into the ocean. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Oh yeah it does, most definitely it has an ocean, only it’s purple, and the sand is blue and the sky is hella green.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I had reached the no man’s ocean of darkness. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t live to please the starfish, especially when their happiness is at the expense of yours. That is not love. That is narcissism. There’s an entire ocean out there, Kiko—swim in it.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The primary danger to the whales is a newcomer, an upstart animal, only recently, through technology, become competent in the oceans, a creature that calls itself human. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don’t know nothin’ but what we see. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

When I dream that I am wire without flesh, there is a letter on blue airmail paper that floats above the night ocean between here and China. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a broad-shouldered being made up of water that smelled salty and fishy like the ocean. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The ocean of shadows swayed in a mad dance around her. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I asked the Holy People to remember me and help keep me safe on the ocean from the monsters that hid beneath its surface. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sipped some rose water before asking, "You know the tale of how I found the flower of immortality in a cave at the bottom of the endless ocean?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

During my first three days in the tropics, slathered with sun-screen, gazing out over the ocean with a rum drink in my hand, I felt I’d successfully left Sing Sing behind. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was it the fields of sugar cane they brought to mind, or the endless reach of the ocean to meet the sky? The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The whole thing seems carved out of the bottom of the palace, opening up onto the ocean like a great mouth. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He spit in front of him, said: “When you look at the ocean, like you and me are right this second, you realize how small we are.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was bigger than a horse or buffalo and it was a dark, dusty green like the color of sand dirtied from ocean foam. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

In another I was drowning again, this time in the middle of an ocean as the water raged around me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“And they’re camouflaged. Their black back blends in with the ocean if someone is looking down on them, and their white belly blends in with the sky if someone is looking up.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

In an open lead of water, Clark spotted some jellyfish, another sign of open ocean. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Stoned out of our minds, we navigated through the long madhouse days of the voyage as if crossing the ocean in a floating sanitarium. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“I used to think the ocean teemed with fish, but it’s like the land. Everybody wants to live in the prime spots, and the rest is desert.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The frame was a clear ocean aqua, with the crank arms for the pedals and the handlebars painted pale yellow. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

There were three landing cables that could stop a plane from rolling off the carrier deck into the ocean. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But not even the ocean breeze is a match for the heat today. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I saw the Japanese wood block of the ocean waves and shifted the loose stack with my fingertips. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

As the landscape faded into darkness, the top of this small hill felt like an island in a great ocean of night. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Inside is a casual black suit and an ocean blue shirt. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Soon the sun was alone in the sky, and the ocean was a smooth skin reflecting the light with a million mirrors. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

If she isn’t home, I walk down to the end of the historic cobbled street and find her standing on the sea wall in her raincoat and no shoes, glaring at the ocean. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face was pale, her eyes as sad as when she looked at the ocean. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Those weren’t lakes going by the window, those were oceans! Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything was on the other side of the ocean. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The teacher had described the ocean during the first two or three lessons, and that was what nearly everybody started with. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

But when he was done he just looked right back at the ocean, smiling like nothing happened. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The ocean, throwing up foaming sun-sprays across some nearby rocks, was winter cold. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Night after night Kennedy kept swimming out into the ocean to try to spot any Allied ships, but he had no luck. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Telling her a story that I think must be about the ocean since I hear him say the word “shark.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I don’t take chances when it comes to Noah and the ocean. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

That was why Dicey always ran along the sand beside the ocean, as if she had to race the waves. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gaps between the buildings revealed alleyways that led right to the ocean. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The ocean proved to be a treasure chest. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ocean that had chased them back and made them flee for the shelter of the ice pack is the worst ocean on the globe. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

If that is the case, beneath its surface ice Titan probably has oceans at various temperatures, including those that nurture life deep in the earth’s oceans. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Nate thought of what Papa used to say as they would stand together on the deck of his ship, looking out over the ocean. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The wind was strong and the roar of it in the trees was like an ocean. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They snaked around a giant ocean tank like a school of mottled, neon-colored fish. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But die pilot had put his headset back on and the gratitude was lost in the engine noise and things went back to Brian looking out the window at the ocean of trees and lakes. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today the water looked perfect, the way it was a million years ago, before people started using the ocean as a latrine. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

If my love were an ocean, there would be no more land. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

She thought of all the things she couldn't pack, imagining the slim green locker she would have had at high school next year if she weren't moving to the other side of the ocean. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe while you’re standing there, you’re looking at sparkles of white light on dark ocean, wondering if it’s worth, getting your hair wet again. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Truth be told, I am greatly concerned about things on my ship, boy. Not the ocean without, but the tides within.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He only stopped when you ran down to the ocean, got a pail of water, and dumped it on their heads. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She goes flying through the air, landing with a splash in the churning open ocean beyond the wall. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Underneath was an ocean of fiery, molten rock. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

They walked and went deeper below the ocean line. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“The ocean, Mexico, anywhere in the world. Only one thing.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rabbit went on an ocean journey and fell overboard and was rescued by a fisherman. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Mama left a shell, polished smooth from the ocean water running over it. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He puts the receiver up to his ear and goes, “I hear the ocean!” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It made him wonder if some of the muck from the ocean floor had gotten inside his china head and damaged him somehow. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

We weren’t supposed to come anywhere near the ocean today. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along the coast. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Seawater in southern Spain is way colder than the ocean in Miami.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

If Dray and Donna’s love is like a tornado—wild, dangerous, and unpredictable—then this thing between me and Kasim is like the ocean—deep, deep, and as wide as the endless earth. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Fern: “Black oceans separate us tortured cries songs of black greatness Still echo in my canal.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It now seems likely that the volcanoes of Io are tapping an underground ocean of liquid sulfur, melted and concentrated near the surface. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt that he would never escape them, never see anyone he loved again, never see the ocean waves again. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“What happens in the ocean, affects the life on land. It’s Darwin’s theory.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I tried with the ocean a few more times, but after a couple seconds I’d be right back to peeping Mong again. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I looked down the beach at Mong, though, just standing there in the water, staring out at the ocean in one of his trances, and I could actually see it. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I am thankful the ocean will stop you from traveling too far from us. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Thunder grumbled over the ocean and lightning lit the underbellies of the clouds, flashing from sea to sky and back again. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Far below, the gray ocean defined the word “forever.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The ocean, as blue as a peacock’s breast, appeared in two shades, depending on the depth of the water. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The parts of our legs that stayed in there too long puckered and bled heat into the ocean. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s no place to go. There’s the ocean to stop you. There’s a line of old men along the shore hating the ocean because it stopped them.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

It isn’t totally dark yet, so I can see the ocean rumbling against the rocks and the beach up ahead. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Instead, it smelled of frangipani and the tangy bite of the ocean. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Keep moving and stay in groups, ” said Mrs. Baker, which is the same strategy to use if you’re floating in the ocean and surrounded by sharks. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Across the ocean, at a German listening post, an erfasser, or a radio monitor, listened to the news and translated it from English to German. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I was scared, seeing the ocean act so strangely. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I want to walk into the ocean until I’m neck-deep in the Pacific, its waves lapping at my shoulders. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The girl was standing in a large field, bright green grass surrounding her like the ocean, and she had her hands lifted to the sky. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The air does not smell like the ocean. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sails were still up, were catching the moonlight and must be visible for miles as a white triangle against the ocean. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blood beaded on her fingertip, and she sucked it away, spitting it into the ocean. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The words from across the ocean were beaten out of them over time. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He’d been going on like this since the day before, throwing out one theory after another about how horseflies could end up in the middle of the ocean. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she says, “I want to go to the ocean. I want you to take me to the ocean.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Then the mood, like the evening ocean fog now clouding the street lamps, closed round her. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the rock was a clear place about ten steps across, which was sheltered from the wind, from which I could see the harbor and the ocean. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

All York wanted was to hold on to that feeling, that feeling when you stand at the ocean, letting the water rush up to your feet and run away again. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Many miles of ocean away, the call-boards lit up at The Corporation Network. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Sight and smell, which work well for mammals on the land, are not of much use in the depths of the ocean. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is the firewood okay in the ocean like this? Does the layer of air around you protect it?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As we hit the ocean, we bumped once, twice, skipping like a stone, then we were whizzing along like a speed boat, salt spray in our faces and nothing but sea ahead. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He zipped up the bag and then went to pack his backpack, which still smelled like an ocean, even though he had returned from the Third World three days ago. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She would keep running, into the ocean if necessary. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He understood that the land of my own heart was there, far across the wide ocean. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could taste the salty breeze from the ocean on my tongue as we got closer to home. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

There was, for instance, a photo of two young women posed before a not-terribly-convincing painted backdrop of the ocean. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I draw a very small fish swimming in the ocean and realizing it's filled with planets and stars. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Mohammed was now indisputably the best ocean swimmer in the world. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

At the end of the breakwater, there was a field of yellow reeds to the right, and dunes beyond, and the ocean behind it all. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

On Tuesday, September 20, the sun rose in Elberon over a calm ocean. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The ocean surrounding Puerto Rico looks like it’s made of blue crystals. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He was lucky to have a mask at all, even if the microfibers were beginning to shred from repeated scrubbings in the ocean. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I have never seen the ocean but this, too, I can imagine—blue water pouring over red dirt. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

He could almost hear her, just as if she were sitting in the boat with him on the lonely ocean. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The Liars swim out, past the edge of the cove and into the open ocean. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He felt like a castaway clinging to a barrel in a stormy ocean. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

“If I don’t take a risk, I can’t cross the ocean.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The restaurant sits right on the beach and our table faces the ocean. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I let the kid with the pass share my umbrella as we crossed over the ocean of mud and ducked into the building. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It follows the ocean’s shoreline, and I look for snowy egrets standing stick-still in the salt marshes and osprey circling, hunting fish. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was wearing jeans too, but hers probably cost more than my mom made in a month, and her silver halter top sparkled like the noon sun on a calm ocean. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

There had to be money for bribes—tea money, Uncle called it—at both ends of the ocean. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could he be thirsty in the middle of the whole ocean? The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not until the plane was less than ten feet from the ocean that, miraculously, Alcock was able to pull the aircraft out of the stall and avert certain death. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The only thing on it was a small drawing of a black bird in front of a bridge and ocean waves, and a short string of numbers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“How can the ocean get high? It can’t inhale. I know a lot about it. My platform is called Don’t Do Drugs Because They Make You Dumb,” Brittani explained. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I open my mouth and close it, like a fish that’s just been pulled out of the ocean. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

It’s on vibrate, and it goes off at two in the morning, dragging me from what feels like the bottom of the ocean. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I open Daddy’s notebook instead and read a story about a little girl seeing the ocean for the first time. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

At last the ocean ended, and the ship hiccupped to a halt at the harbor. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

But when it is in its proper place it becomes weightless: when you swim in the ocean you cannot feel the weight of water on you. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The colmado is the only store on this settlement, a litde island of shacks in the middle of an ocean of cane. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the oceans warm, it is likely that the Irukandji, like other jellies, will continue to migrate over greater distances. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A lot of the time I’d get that feeling like I was in the middle of a huge black ocean, or in deep space, but not in the fascinating way. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“If the ocean keeps rising the island will be swallowed up by the waves and I don’t even know how to swim!” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“A ship is a large vessel used for ocean transport.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He expected the bear to stop when it reached the shoreline, but the great white animal waded into the water and swam with powerful strokes out into the bay toward the open ocean. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

It was a dry, bright Saturday, the mid-July heat tempered by a steady ocean breeze, ideal weather for sightseeing. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I tried not to think about the fact that shipping things like that across the ocean must cost a lot of money. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He also could not seem to rule out the possibility for himself Over the course of many letters back and forth across the ocean, the two friends discussed God and design. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down by the harbor, the ocean was rough and high on the piers. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, they could see the ocean: intense, cold blue dotted with ice floes. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She whispered La Siren’s name over and over again, praying for the beautiful mermaid to rise up from the depths of the ocean and save us. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Finally, at the end of all our wanderings, we return to our tiny, fragile, blue-white world, lost in a cosmic ocean vast beyond our most courageous imaginings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere beyond it all, the ocean was still beckoning, a distant and urgent cry, but the terrible voice saying Sierra’s name drowned out almost everything else. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“There’s time for just a short swim,” and before I could say anything he was trotting down the beach, shedding clothes as he went, and into the ocean. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leading South America’s slow, grinding march toward Australia, its coastline hits the ocean floor and crumples up like a carpet shoved into a chair- leg. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Soon after the Cambrian explosion, the oceans teemed with many different forms of life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sailing across the ocean among half a thousand perfect strangers conveyed an anonymity in which my grandparents could re-create themselves. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The sky was at its bluest and seemed to curve down and join with the ocean in the distance. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s only eighty-five degrees and we live a block from the ocean. But thanks.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I still hear the whoosh of the ocean even now. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now her family was on this gigantic ship, going across the ocean to live with her father’s elderly parents in Japan. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Two plesiosaur artillery units had peeled off after her; she could see the glow of their lanterns shivering in the ocean breeze and hear their riders yelling back and forth. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It sits there like a beached ocean liner, the prow cutting through swells of green turf, windows without number. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“People spend so much time on trivial things they forget to look at the ocean. Look at it, Mexico.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The ocean was calm on this day and we were able to hunt abalone among the rocks. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

A shower of arrows whistled over our heads as we free- fell toward the ocean. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The jewel tones shift from ocean blues to cobalts and magentas, from crimson reds to sunflower yellows. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

And then there’s nothing, just ocean and waves. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Oceanus slipped back into the deep ocean when it was clear Kronos had lost. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He discovered a never-before-seen jellyfish in the darkest part of the ocean. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They chant that they want to kick every last one of them back to where they came from, kick him back with them, let them drown in the ocean with “Smuggler Kwang.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In the ocean. Like near England or something?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not an ocean, where you can drown if you swim right after a meal. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Only if I take the risk and bring them with me, am I truly crossing the ocean. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was the hole in the ocean of desire Arm had noticed in the Starlight Room. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

They’ll feel how I do when I think about how the oceans are changing in all the worst ways, and how jellyfish will starve even whales. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When we hit the open ocean, Henry turns on his GPS and fish finder. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“They must have grabbed us when we fell in the ocean and dragged us...wherever this is.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

One in the ocean, one to the darkness beneath the earth. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The shark would have looked powerful swimming in the ocean, but it seemed freakish hanging in a loop on the dock, bunched up in some places and stretched out in others. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The moon rose, casting a silver stripe over the ocean. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We pedaled down Smith Street and the ocean came into view. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Ajarry died in the cotton, the bolls bobbing around her like whitecaps on the brute ocean. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The green palms, the warm turquoise ocean rolling in to white beaches meant nothing to him. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“He says the moon pulls the ocean back.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He summoned giant fists of water from the ocean to slam into the larger waves before they could reach the deck, so it looked like the ocean was hitting itself repeatedly in the face. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I held my breath and thought about calm, quiet things, like ocean waves. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“The ocean wave reminds me of California, because I was born in San Francisco.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Like Reid is known for really being into marine life and the oceans and things like that. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Even the ocean quieted to a gentle purr. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The boat bobbed gently on the ocean waves curling onto the shore. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Up and down, back and forth he went until the storm wore itself out, and Edward saw that he was beginning, again, his slow descent to the ocean floor. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

I’m going to look at art schools and see the ocean for the first time. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Once he had sworn never to leave the ocean, convinced that his soul craved sand and the green expanse stretching all the way to his ancestral home in Europ>e. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around them lay the vast black ocean, deep and hungry. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mother and Adah keep saying they might come over to visit, and if they could cross an entire ocean, you would think Leah could stoop to taking a bus. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to imagine what it would look like stretched out, moving through the ocean, but when I drew more sharks on the page, I couldn’t get them right. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It was the ocean of his blood, stretching in all directions, grainy and mysterious, faintly glowing with green. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This sedentary lifestyle was made possible by the diversity of resource-rich habitats available to Jomon people within a short distance of one central site: inland forests, rivers, seashores, bays, and open oceans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

His rage was dreadful and yet Harry’s grief for Dobby seemed to diminish it, so that it became a distant storm that reached Harry from across a vast, silent ocean. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Maybe the Sea of Flames never existed at all, maybe curses aren’t real, maybe her father is right: Earth is all magma and continental crust and ocean. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He worked the plunger once and about a half a cup of water spurted out into the ocean. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never heard from him again ... but I did hear that he was put in the ocean and I knew he couldn’t swim. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shadows around the moonlight rippled like an ocean wave and Darkness’s body formed in front of Nathan. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

And some really big boats like ocean liners or tankers—those would be rich or powerful people, whose lives engulfed many other lives and carried them along. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way you could watch a thunderstorm brewing across the ocean and find it lovely. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The ocean, the perfect endless ocean, was her only hope. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Come on, Duke! Let’s go see the ocean!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

On one side of the road was nothing but sand and ocean, on the other it was these steep green cliffs full of baby trees and wild bushes. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was a steamer rug made especially for ocean voyages. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In fact, I don’t hear anything at all. Not even the ocean.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Have we crossed the wide ocean only to be shot by the natives the minute we set foot in Virginia? Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

And then the aquarium, the entire ocean spread before him like a moving painting. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Anna had fallen in love and was to be married, but she left her fiancé in Norway and crossed the ocean. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Three weeks after everyone else had left, Bobby was still at the Miramar, just steps from the ocean, surrounded by gardens and palm trees, breathing in the pungent smell of eucalyptus. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Okay, if she knew about the kiss, I was going to throw myself into the ocean. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

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

He took another sip of whiskey and then just sat there, staring at the quiet ocean. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He flipped the camera over, unsnapped the back, pulled out the film, and tossed it over his shoulder into the ocean. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He didn’t burst out of granite like Noah or have oceans break inside him like I did, but I can see that the storm in his face has quelled. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

One day I watch as a long line of people edge toward the ocean. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We began to descend towards the coast, the roadside growing more populous, the smell of the ocean in the air. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking out across the glistening black expanse was like looking across the dark ocean, and he could see his reflection in it. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Yes, everything was once water, but the Earth formed out of the oceans by a natural process—similar, he thought, to the silting he had observed at the delta of the Nile. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look boy, I’m not just another person. I got them from the bottom of the ocean.” The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

A bright circle of light beamed out of the ocean, filling her with warmth and energy. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

It was raining over the ocean, the wall of it so heavy that it appeared nothing existed beyond. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

This shifting front of rich ocean, about twenty-five miles wide, is the most fertile ecosystem in the world, supporting awesome numbers of fish, seabirds, seals, and whales. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I rest my head on his shoulder and we watch the near-dark ocean together. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Were not supposed to be passing the ocean, are we?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

They place you on a pile of logs and blackrock, dry brush and kindling, and they send you burning onto the ocean. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Through the first, Aru could see the depths of the ocean. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

All up and down the coastline, female turtles come out of the ocean and paddle their way across the sand, dig a hole, and lay eggs—about a hundred at a time. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

If Fred squinted hard, he could see the ocean on the far side of Atlantic Avenue. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Lee Scoresby looked down at the placid ocean to his left and the green shore to his right, and shaded his eyes to search for human life. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that part of the world, it was called the sirocco, because it brought moisture from the oceans to the east. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d been left there ages ago when the ocean was practically everywhere. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The dragon lives in the sky, ocean, marshes, and mountains; and the mountains are also its cranium. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

For many of the lines, these short trips were even more profitable than their ocean crossings. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“And may God grant that you never have a child who dies in the ocean.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Those poor fish didn’t even know there was such a thing as a giant ocean tank in an aquarium, let alone an entire ocean. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Because I’d wanted to show her the snow on the ocean, the thing that had made my mom fall in love with this country, and I had wanted to make Maribel fall in love, too? The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

We watched the dark ocean like it was TV. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

"Well, then, who ever took a sword to kill the ocean?" Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thor took Hymir’s fishing line, rammed the ox’s head onto the hook, and threw the line and the head into the ocean. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

‘I wish we was at the ocean. On the beach and watching the ships far out on the water. You went to the beach one summer—exactly what is it like?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And intermixed with the ocean froth, his blood. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She could be in Ayortha by now, or soaring over an ocean. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

But mountains did as much for a soul as the ocean, and they were more mystical and more alive, and more accessible, too. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once inside, I sleep on the couch in my casual black suit and the ocean blue shirt. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Huge ocean rollers swept toward them, and the three boats began clawing up waves whose faces were a quarter of a mile long. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

There’s Dad emerging from the ocean like a sun god and morphing into a body made of ashes. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I show them the ocean, sloshing around in seaweed. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Had she crossed the entire ocean by herself with that crying baby? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“When it was set loose, it ranged everywhere, from the mountains and plains to the towns and cities; rivers and oceans never stopped it.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It fixed him with its eyes, and the next gout of poison came so close to Thor that he could taste it on the ocean air. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The partners let go, and circle in opposite directions until the words “lose your partner in the ocean.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I paint three faceless people—one becomes the sky, one becomes the ocean, and one becomes the sun. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Once they reached the ocean, most of them were dead. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Deep blue swirled among lighter shades, like ocean draped in sky. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“People only think of romantic love, but that’s just one kind. Love can be anything. Since I was a little boy, staying here every summer, I’ve been in love with the ocean.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I was thinking that it was very strange for me, a boy from Virginia, to be lying beside this giant Negro out on the ocean. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

His parents go off to watch TV, and we sit outside on the deck because it’s so warm and beautiful, and I can see the ocean from his backyard. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The boulders show and seem to rise up and the ocean recedes leaving little pools, leaving wet weed and moss and sponge, iridescence and brown and blue and China red. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gallons of ocean water fill my lungs, the saltiness tearing up my insides something good. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The feeling was less like flying than like being alone in a boat on the ocean at night. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman who emerged was a trifle thinner, a great deal wiser, an ocean sadder. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

That same afternoon Blanca and Jean took the train to the port, where they boarded an English ocean liner. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the same salt waters of the oceans are drawn by the sun to the heavens, and in turn become again the waters of the moon. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other times, the buoys broke away altogether, leaving us to dive for the pots on the ocean floor. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

As Wild oversaw the preparation of the boat, Shackleton and Worsley climbed up a small hill they used as a lookout and surveyed the ocean. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I looked at the sky and the ocean and knew that it was around six-thirty. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

All their hopes were now pinned on getting safely to the open ocean before the floe they camped on broke into pieces. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“It tastes like that too, a little, but it’s not even close to as salty as ocean water. I actually think it might be working, our little distiller here.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every so often, a rush of breeze blew in off the ocean and across the marsh. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The stars popped in the night sky like distant firecrackers, and beyond them the great streak of the Milky Way came down out of heaven and draped a swathe into the ocean beyond. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The captain and Reynolds spread out maps, looking at the depths of the ocean. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, yes, for old man I have powers—my feet have traveled across the ocean until now this girl has my same feet.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

South of the city was where our dead were buried—but not my mother, whose ashes returned to the ocean that killed her, which was also the ocean she loved. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

And then she was in the middle of the ocean, carried by warm currents, the water changing from sea green to midnight blue as she sank from the surface into the depths. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I could sense his power in the cool blue paper, as if the envelope itself had been folded out of an ocean wave. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Square by square, she searches the night skies for adversaries then scrutinizes the ocean, which is roiling with nine straight days of unseasonable April rains. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pinmei could not even see a faint shadow of it as they began to walk over the lake...or was it an ocean? When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He stands at the water’s edge, looking out over the ocean. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Newton seems to have believed that the Earth’s oceans are of cometary origin, and that life is possible only because cometary matter falls upon our planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Very much. Every cupful. Like Julian on the ocean." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just as my stomach rumbles with gaseous unpleasantness, so does the ocean beneath the hull of our ship. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Then in 1960 core samples showed that the ocean floor was quite young at the mid-Atlantic ridge but grew progressively older as you moved away from it to the east or west. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It took some doing, but right around the time California was swallowed back by the ocean, they were fenced off, too poisonous for use.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Outside, the yard was an ocean of green grass, punctuated only by a clothesline, a barbecue, a hedge along one fence, and an assortment of fruit trees and vegetable patches. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The bay was even smoother than the ocean—it looked like pale blue silk. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Beyond that, Luna knew, were farms and more forests and more mountains, and eventually an ocean. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“They don’t move across the ocean at anything like that speed. You know how it is when you spin a top? It goes around very fast, and gradually moves across the floor?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined us zipping across the California sand and planting our toes in the ocean. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Many Eurasian societies developed large sailing ships, some of them capable of sailing against the wind and crossing the ocean, equipped with sextants, magnetic compasses, sternpost rudders, and cannons. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And she briefly remembered her trip to Nantucket at the end of summer last year and the salt of the ocean on her tongue. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

His voice reminded Grace of the ocean, of sand being sucked back into the sea. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Most of them were on land, but some were in the ocean. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The ocean was like a mirror, which made it hard to see the bottom, even with polarized sunglasses. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

On that day I would feel the presence of the Holy People, even though I was an ocean away from my home. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph watched as the dining room turned itself into a tropical island in the middle of an ocean. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

On the wall are topographical maps: the world; the United States; the oceans, Earth, and moon. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I happened to glance down at the ocean as we passed a scenic curve, and I saw something that made me jump out of my seat. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I was glad that I was now on this side of the ocean. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she, too, is smiling now, happy to see her baby brother who lives all the way over in Far Rockaway where the ocean is right there if you look out your window. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Out in the ocean, waves crashed over broken fists of treacherous- looking black rock. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

We walked to the end of the peninsula and made a loop past the break wall and the wide ocean. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Here’s this skinny Chinese boy in jeans stepping into the ocean. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“And yet,” pointed out Byerley, “you have a Machine of your own, and you are certainly under no economic pressure from across the ocean.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Jason’s eyes snapped open, and he saw the ocean’s surface hurtling toward him. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It tugged the floating carton toward the ocean, which, at high tide, had crawled across the beach and was making the far side of Atlantic Avenue foamy with surf. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

But looking ahead, Nate felt like he had to cross an ocean. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if the gravitational pull of the earth had been multiplied; or as if he lay on the bottom of the ocean, all the massive waves weighing on him. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole rest of the page was an ocean of white. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was almost as if they were out in the middle of the ocean now, so far off shore. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The square grows so quiet, and the sounds of the ocean swell. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The cool ocean air mixed with the exotic smells of Chinatown. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

To the west, you could see all the way to the ocean, where an old-looking ship rigged with giant, complicated sails glided down the coast. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The biographies were closest to the ocean and were especially moldy and not as desirable for the thieves. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

But she had been sick all the way across the ocean, prostrate, clench bellied, and vomiting. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Believe it or not, after crossing thousands of miles of ocean to get here, we had to prove that it was O.K. for us to come into the U.S.A. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

John Joly, also of Trinity, decided to give Edmond Halley’s ocean salts idea a whirl, but his method was based on so many faulty assumptions that he was hopelessly adrift. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He spreads his arms as wide as an ocean and I rush right in. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

But—also sooner or later—my namesake, James Donovan, would have joined his fellow Titanic passengers on the bottom of the ocean. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Well then,” he said, feeling a scope of possibility as immense as oceans. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It may have been due to changes in the general circulation of the oceans. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right then, the work didn’t matter much one way or the other, but I went so as to see the ocean. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jason thought about the Argo II’s journey across the ocean, the dozens of encounters that had nearly killed them. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Nate grew up crisscrossing the ocean with Papa and his crews. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

He started writing to her on the first train that took him out of Riverbank, and he wrote still more as he crossed the ocean. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

To top it all off, his room smells like him—like the ocean and warm sand and crisp leaves. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Dusty was like an ocean that changed unexpectedly with the weather. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

So fate had found its way to me across the ocean, tucked in an envelope. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

As darkness fell on the ocean, the three boats tied themselves together, and the Docker put out a sea anchor to keep them turned up into the wind. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Through the small window, I watch the ocean roll, the rickety Oasis breaking up as it smashes against the rocks. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I put the ocean in there, to represent his hometown, Bensonhurst, which borders the ocean, where he hooked up with all those girls way back when. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

It felt like being in a rectangular lunch box floating on the ocean. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Even the chaos outside now sounds muffled, covered by calling seagulls and the crash of the virtual ocean. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

August had said everybody needed a seashell in her bathroom to remind her the ocean was her home. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought the ocean was one big waste. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A box in the ocean—what kind of a start is that? What, really, did we have in common? We didn’t even know each other.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

We took a bus to the ocean where all the skyrise hotels stuck out of the sand like a row of white teeth. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

When I look closer, she has feathers growing from her hair, too, like a mythical creature from the ocean transforming into a bird. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The bell rang at Brookshire Boys Academy, and an ocean of testosteronies crashed into the hallway, green ties swinging like polyester tails coming from their throats. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

In the photos Bedi Ma'am showed us, the ocean looked so peaceful. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

If a thousand giant octopuses had squirted ink at the same time, at the bottom of the deepest, most sunless ocean trench, it could not have been blacker. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Weakened and in trouble, they churned the ocean to get the nectar of immortality. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We had rolled up against a menacing chain of sharp rocks that stuck out of the ocean like a shark's lower jaw. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Dicey woke from a dream about a big white house that faced the ocean. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s always in a big, blue ocean that’s too deep for me to see the bottom. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Were those really the same stars that had burned so brightly above the black ocean that night? I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

Its waters sometimes ran contrary to the ocean. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun’s light increased, a golden wave reaching across the ocean. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some people could look at a mud- puddle and see an ocean with ships. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Not the beach or the sparkling blue ocean. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He was very fond of flying fish as they were his principal friends on the ocean. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a few moments, I couldn’t see anything outside the smooth walls of my sphere, then my pearl broke through on the ocean floor. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Yup, but then we got here, and instead of the ocean they had pools. I don’t like chlorine.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to imagine that I was dragging the ocean all the way to Denver. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The problem was that the ocean was big, Bermuda small, and the navigational tools for dealing with this disparity hopelessly inadequate. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The ocean makes its music; the wind does its dance. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The ocean, which just a few weeks ago in England was its usual black-green, has completely changed. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

By midnight they were at the top and looking down at a long ocean bay. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“In my day, I built a bridge. I called on my friends to help. We gathered rocks and threw them into the ocean so I could get across,” said Hanuman. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Blanca would hold her head in her hands, not understanding how we could get so excited about a war that had nothing to do with us and that was taking place across the ocean. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weird thing was, when I turned the thermos, the side facing the ocean— north—was always the cold side.... The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

We live, he wrote, under an ocean of air. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Hassan did get up, but he just stood there, looking dazed like a man dragged into the ocean by a riptide when, just a moment ago, he was enjoying a nice stroll on the beach. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We are taking you to a place where you will have your freedom. You will be able to move around; you’ll see the ocean and the sky, not just gray walls.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This makes accurate clocks indispensable on ocean voyages, but it wasn’t until the eighteenth century that accurate clocks became a reality. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He was born ambitious to be a great cook, way back in another time, way back in America, which was now across the ocean. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Normally I would have gone with her but I hadn’t had a chance yet to get my fill of the ocean. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell a quick tale about Viking and Egyptian explorers traveling across the oceans. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

No clouds in the sky, so the blue that is the color of the ocean reflects off of the leaves, turned honey by the yellow sun. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He lay back and breathed in deep draughts of splendid Norwegian ocean air, and in another minute or so, he was sitting up again and was on the way to recovery. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She considered the lines that were roads, the green patches that were parks, and the flat blue of the sound, so different from the tumultuous, gray-faced ocean, where she had grown up. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just then the fish jumped making a great bursting of the ocean and then a heavy fall. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face is smooth for her age, but the wrinkles on her neck are like ripples in the ocean; the tiny brown spots above the neckline of her white dress are like small, muted suns. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Farmer, goatherd, cattleherd, hunter or artisan, the landsman looks at the ocean as at a salt unsteady realm that has nothing to do with him at all. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Decides he must be close to ocean and elects to try and work way through swamp to sea. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I don’t cry, I turn red and hear the ocean. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

But in his preface Gilbert presents himself as sailing on a quite different ocean, an ocean of books. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“What do you think of my walls, mi amor? I painted them blue and green, like the colors of Veracruz, my hometown, which is next to the ocean.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

It had been a frightening moment when two days ago she realized that the tundra was an ocean of grass on which she was circling around and around. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Travelers had occasionally come to her village, so she had heard tales of the blueness and vastness of the ocean. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You boys must come here every night to put your feet in the ocean. This way you will be healed in less than a week,” he said. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

For five days it pressed westward, parting oceans of fans and newsmen at each stop. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The only real swimming is in the ocean.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ocean was flat then, but when the waves came the body would wash off the board. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men lay down to sleep on a floe that rose and fell at least a foot with the swell, and some of them felt seasick after so long on a motionless, frozen ocean. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Light, the deep purple of the ocean and a reminder of the Pleiades Corporation, illuminates a stairwell spiraling downward into darkness. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

"Everyone knows that. We knew he was lost in the ocean. It was in the newspaper. We just didn't know how it happened." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Or in the foreign country of Norway by the gray winter ocean. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She coaxes them past the shelter’s threshold to go to the ocean, which most have never seen. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

As her eyes adjusted to the light, Amari cast her eyes for the first time upon the ocean. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not like they just dump that water into the ocean. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

This happened the day he did a U-ey on the beach and instead of heading up the bluff, he took the two of us, perched there on his shoulders, back into the ocean. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, we’ve been to the ocean and to the mountain and to the woods. So I thought this time we’d try...dinner and a movie.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

But in the following days I was often sad, as if I had moved across the ocean, not merely across the courtyard of Elsinore. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

If I jumped in the ocean wouldn’t I come up all bloated like the man Bailey saw in Stamps? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We need to make a plan. How are we breathing? If we’re under the ocean, shouldn’t we be crushed by the water pressure?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I sit in between Rani and an old woman whose hair shines like moonlight on the ocean. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Because life wasn’t really an ocean, and she wasn’t really a little boat bobbling about on it. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind was coming in from over the ocean and the palm trees were swaying. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I write about lost sisters and the Great Rift Valley and my barefoot mother glaring at the ocean. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Punch me in the face if I ever compare them to the sky or the ocean, because they’re much cooler than that. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Seven miles of ocean about to come down on my head and a doomsday demon just a few feet away: Why not just leap into its mouth right now? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The sun set orange-red on the ocean, and in seconds it was night. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Like Bruno, he thought the oceans would be brighter than the land. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The stiff ocean breeze blew the hats off and there was much laughter when the boys pulled the skimmers back by the cords. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the ocean had an ugly side . . . this guy was it. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The ocean always made her restless; so even Provincetown, even their own remembered kitchen, wasn’t home. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone else reached the Shores of Sleep, but I remained oceans away. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the windowsills, Tyson had set out water-filled vases with sea anemones and strange glowing plants from the bottom of the ocean, more beautiful than any flower bouquets the Demeter kids could whip up. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I’m just one more happy, shouting voice, we’re like waves in the ocean, one on top of the other, impossible to tell apart. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“It was night,” Alex said to the group of us sharing stories as we sat looking at the ocean one evening. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The earth’s primordial ocean, which came into existence not long after the earth was formed, about four and a half billion years ago, may well have contained microscopic life forms based on rna. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wrote something about oceans and the balance of nature— I don’t honestly remember what I said—but I won first prize: a trip for six to the new downtown aquarium. All expenses paid. Stupendous!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He said that if she wasn’t up to her elbows in the guts of a newly dead animal, she was in the ocean, looking for live ones—salt and microorganisms flowing through her hair. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

As commercial and military vessels became more abundant, the noise background in the oceans, especially at a frequency of twenty Hertz, became noticeable. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk over to the window, flip the shade so I can see the ocean. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Mong just stared out at the ocean without blinking like he was meditating. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was understood that water evaporates from the oceans and becomes rain, and that the rain feeds rivers which flow to the ocean. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Crisscrossing the ocean, ships brought bodies to work the land and to breed more bodies. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The finale was supposed to be a couple of hundred-foot-tall Spartan warriors who would crackle to life above the ocean, fight a batde, then explode into a million colors. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Early editions of Archimedes come with illustrations which show objects floating in a vast ocean of water, an ocean which stretches right around the globe, and Galileo drew such sketches in his own text. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

When Cicero writes of the orbis he sometimes means the habitable dry land, a disk rising above the waves, and sometimes the whole globe of land and ocean. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Stairs here, mind yourself, one down, two, there you are, easy as cake . . .” The ocean. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“We did not wish the ocean to roll between us,” Elizabeth wrote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“You know what, I shouldn’t be teaching math. I should teach geography. I could tell your boys about the oceans and cities and all the wonders of the world!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Part of the ocean,” he says, “part of the ocean.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The corresponding surface pressure is 90 atmospheres, 90 times the pressure we feel from the Earth’s atmosphere, the equivalent of the weight of water 1 kilometer below the surface of the oceans. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take their supple young hands in mine, the backs of which wave like the ocean. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

If a meteor crashed into the ocean and caused a tsunami, I don’t think either of us would even notice. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But we seek the dominant intelligences, the grandest creatures on the planet, the sentient and graceful masters of the deep ocean, the great whales. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second most ultimate thing was the way the sun glittered off the ocean. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

There goes Madison Square Garden again, and with it—with any arena, anywhere—an ocean of Anthony floods over me. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

But in this game, there was nothing except the two other pterodactyls, the ocean, and the distant volcano. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I lost the stars and the oceans too,” I tell him. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I certainly did look forward to the three months we spent every summer in Peitaiho on the ocean north of Peking. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Conch was easy to harvest from the ocean. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look back at Olly’s ocean eyes and I’m drowning, surrounded on all sides by water. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, no. At last you come to the ocean.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slam the car door and run down the street, my speed picking up as the road slopes down, blocks and blocks, straight to the ocean. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

A mirror bright ocean, almost white with its intensity. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She’d run into the ocean if I asked her to, even if she had nice clothes on. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

She took us to the ocean, to a windswept place of sandy islands off the Georgia coast. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

McCandless stayed with Westerberg for three days, riding out with his crew each morning as the workers piloted their lumbering machines across the ocean of ripe blond grain. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re not going to be able to stay up on the foils much longer. Not with the ocean running like this.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The water was shot through with what looked like white roots; briefly, a great celestial tree stood in the ocean. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the narrator abruptly cut to footage of whale sharks in Saudi Arabia, far away from Mom’s ocean, Dad said, “Play it again.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

When I peeked close, the carvings were of water and ocean waves. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I peer up into the unmasked face of Guillermo Garcia, who now looks like he just got out of the ocean, his black hair slicked back and dripping, a towel thrown over his shoulder. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

One of the peaks of the migration came when they passed a rock-cliff of the ocean. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bright tropic sunlight and ocean salt breezes bathed him. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The sunny morning was over, and gray water-bearing clouds sailed in over the mountains from the ocean, and their shadows slid under them on the bright earth. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

You said it softly, slowly, like you were waiting for them to interrupt you, like you were dipping one toe into the ocean to test the water. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The storm had made a mess of the beach, dredging up everything in the ocean and dumping it on the sand—seaweed, logs, and trash. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I’m wearing a white dress and turban and I can hear the ocean nearby, only I can’t see it. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the same way I feel when I’m waist deep in the ocean and I think I see the outline of a shark. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mary Lou’s throat hurt from screaming, but no one could hear her down in this cave near the ocean. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The ocean parted, leaving a path that led downward. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Seventeenth-century scholars sometimes felt they were drowning in an ocean of books. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“The ocean is like that too, and people’s eyes.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Pong had seen a picture of the ocean once, in a book. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

June wedged the cello between her legs and played “Amazing Grace,” and the Daughters of Mary got to their feet and swayed together like colorful seaweed on the ocean floor. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

From here I looked down on the harbor and farther on along the coast to the spit that thrust out like a fishhook into the ocean. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can see the ocean peeking through the other rooftops from where I’m standing. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Safe enough to sink into a strange dream where I'm bobbing up and down in a stormy ocean that carries me far away from Amma. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

At first he didn’t see anyone else in the shop, but then, like a mermaid rising from an ocean of paper, the girl emerged across the room. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Together, we waded through the ocean of yellow chicks, both of us stopping here and there to pick up the dead or dying ones, adding them to the bag. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you will. If we have to run, maybe we’ll all be skating the ocean.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

My stomach still felt sick as hell, so I handed it all to him, and we wandered into this campsite area that was on a cliff overlooking the ocean. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Lupita, shivering in the nighttime breezes that came in with the fog from the ocean, heard coyotes howling that night, but none came to the ruin. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

For one, it was an ocean away, foreigners hurting and killing other foreigners, and the Nazis weren’t Americans; they didn’t have the principles of freedom and democracy that we had. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Massive thirty-foot ocean rollers from the northwest spooled through the pack, lifting the ice and letting it fall again at half-mile intervals. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

His blue eyes might be crystal bright, but he was still a calm ocean. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“There is more than one pearl in the ocean,” the fish said. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Noah, you understand why I sunk the Coral Queen, right? Every time Dusty empties her holding tank, it’s like flushing a hundred filthy toilets into God’s ocean!” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“A name like George is a good one on either side of the ocean.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the hospital, I could see the blue ocean in the distance, the same ocean that my brother and I used to play in. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And just like that he turned to mist and was swept out the window on a warm ocean breeze. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She wore a flowing white strapless dress, and her matching white shawl flapped around her like wings in the ocean wind. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

They were probably the same boys who said the ocean could pull a plane out of the air. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drifted into a story about his biggest concern on the ocean being pirates, not police. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I am thankful for the way laughter swells up mighty like the ocean, then settles like soft waves and comes again. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Tonight she had understood for the first time what her aunt had seen in that fierce man to make her cross an ocean at his side. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when I was old enough, we’d swim at the Wynnum Wading Pool—a massive ocean pool on the coast fed by the water coming in at high tide. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Can thoughts travel and reach even those who are far across the ocean? Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

With red eyes inflamed by wind and salt spray, they stared ahead into the ocean, anxious for a sight of land, licking their cracked lips. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“To five so close to the ocean and not to have so much fish.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He knew the depth of the ocean and which way the currents were flowing. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As Gilgamesh and Enkidu then become friends, and embark on a journey, my mind is transported out of the ship’s pod to the forests, oceans, and great deserts they travel to. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I look out at the clouds forming over the ocean. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Mother keeps her head turned the whole time toward Africa, with her eye on the ocean, as if she expects it might suddenly drain away. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found it hard to be bad tempered on the top of a hill with ocean all around, the western sky like a painting still wet, the wind soft and warm. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The crowd was roaring deep in its gut, ocean waves that lapped at the ring, that drowned all pain and all feeling, drowned all sound but the drumming of leather against flesh. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, the disapproval of First Congregational stifled him like the silence a fog brings upon the ocean. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

When I got home, Mom had already cremated him and scattered his ashes on the ocean she loved. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

There is a tale told in the East Reach of a boat that ran aground, days out from any shore, over the abyss of ocean. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Down in the Shadow Lands beyond Asshai, they say there are oceans of ghost grass, taller than a man on horseback with stalks as pale as milkglass. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But it was maintained that rainfall alone could not explain the size of the rivers or the existence of springs emerging from underground; springs were fed directly, it was argued, from the ocean. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

My guilt is an ocean for me to drown in. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The picture in his book, the book he had borrowed from Jonas, showed the lone man in the ocean, lying doomed in his small boat. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Like sea things retreating with the ocean’s tide, water snakes and muskrats went back to the green areas along ditches and in the dampest vegas. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sweet, slow-moving Cal, with his hipster bangs and his ocean eyes. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

They lived near the water and had grown up, like all Grosse Pointers, pretending that our shallow lake was no lake at all but actually the ocean. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The ocean of people stretched farther than I could see— waves of people ebbing and flowing, shoving the sawhorses and the policemen who were trying to keep them in place. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she knew exactly what had happened—the ship was no longer in the ocean. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They stood there a while longer, gazing up at the black clouds now coming in over the choppy ocean, pointing. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The day was sparkling, and it seemed impossible to be anything other than grateful for the chance to stand in the ocean, looking out at the horizon while the salt water smacked them around. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Now, through the memories, he had seen oceans and mountain lakes and streams that gurgled through woods; and now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I follow his gaze to the spiteful ocean and direct all of my hate toward it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Anyway, Patrick started driving really fast, and just before we got to the tunnel, Sam stood up, and the wind turned her dress into ocean waves. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

She kicked at a shell and looked up at the dark clouds over the ocean. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Sitting in his throne, I felt like I had the entire sea at my command—vast cubic miles of ocean churning with power and mystery. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

After 10 minutes they present to Alex a route which apparently will take him to the ocean. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took a few more steps, felt the chill ocean breeze. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

But as I sat in the evening wind and scanned the ocean going slowly gray, I wondered why I felt so sad. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I remind myself that she’s a California girl and probably grew up swimming in the ocean. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

El Jefe will be walking down from his mother’s mansion, past Oscar’s house next to the Italian embassy, all the way to the avenida by the ocean. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Night was coming, the sun setting over the ocean, turning the water bloodred. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It’s like the pinging of wind chimes at dawn on the Gulf of Mexico combined with the sound of ocean waves against the shore. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Behind them glittered the astounding ocean with its heaving storms, flying fish, breaching whales, and curls of phosphorescent waves. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I saw a man at the airport once who had art painted on his prosthetic leg. It was a sunrise and the ocean. It looked really cool.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s warm enough for the park today,” I say, glancing across the parking lot to the strip of sun-sparkled ocean gleaming between Coastal Marine Supply and Otis’s Hardware. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d never liked the ocean, the sense of the unknown beneath his feet, that something hungry and full of teeth might be waiting to drag him under. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Who probably swam a mile in the ocean every morning before breakfast? The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

And then it pulls back again, so you can see the pond is really the ocean? Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

At Pier 41 the transpacific ocean liner President Madison snapped her hawsers and careened into the steamboat Harvester, sinking her. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Searching for something to draw, not even the ocean seems enough. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was lying on solid ground, the sound of the ocean far distant. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was a warm sun and a refreshing wind working together to bring the tang of the ocean around each corner. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Pima’s mother told him and Pima to use the masks no matter what, and for sure there was a lot of black grime in the filters when he immersed them in the ocean. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

However, the rocky coasts of Easter, Pitcairn, and the Marquesas, and the steeply dropping ocean bottom and absence of coral reefs around those islands, are much less productive of seafood. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They wouldn’t survive unless he found a way to transport them to the ocean. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

No sound but the ocean and my own heartbeat. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Venus, they proposed, had a vast ocean of seltzer. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d sent in Harmony Grove to name a new park over in England and it won him a five-hundret-dollar prize, but over on this side a-the ocean, folks thought it sounded tacky and countrified.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Looking at Rani, I can see that her anger that swelled up as fast as an ocean wave disappeared just as quickly. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Made oceans of oxygen for people to breathe. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

That’s how I learned about eyes, sky, and ocean: the three special, deep, colored, see-through things. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The photo Conner framed was a candid one Mr. Lassiter had taken of me standing at the railing, gazing at the ocean. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Shallow-draft Mississippi river boats with their stubby sails were being loaded with luxuries from across the oceans. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Smelling the salty ocean and seaweed instead of bus exhaust. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The ocean swirls around me, the spiraling force of the water keeping a vertical tunnel of air open like a wormhole. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Tally shivered in the ocean breeze and pulled her soggy jacket tighter around her. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Miles looked relieved, but my stomach sank to the depths of the ocean. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

It was as if they’d fallen through a hole in the ocean and come out on the other side of the earth. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

Behind us the ocean hummed and sometimes crashed onto itself with a slapping sound like if a long line of people all hit their knees at the same time. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Pet’s footsteps were singing through the floor like mallets striking an ocean of drumskin, and they were heading straight for her parents’ bedroom. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He looked searchingly at the towering mountains—ridge after ridge after ridge until at last there was the ocean. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whales are recent arrivals in the ocean. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He insists that knowledge comes not from books only, but from the study of things; yet the simple truth is that the ocean of books is as important to his researches as are the oceans. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The ocean buildings were dirty and crumbling and leaning in different directions. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

For most of the four billion years since the origin of life, the dominant organisms were microscopic blue-green algae, which covered and filled the oceans. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sierra’s limbs were barely moving; ancient rivers gushed through her body, an ocean raged inside her heart. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

But interhemispheric diffusion made no contribution to Native America’s complex societies, isolated from Eurasia at low latitudes by broad oceans, and at high latitudes by geography and by a climate suitable just for hunting-gathering. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As we strolled along the beach, Mama pointed across the water and said, “I first met you there, on the other side of the ocean, in Africa.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gat waved at the sand, the ocean, the sky. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

In a wind the waves roll in with the crash of oceans. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He took me by the arm and led me to a big rock near the ocean. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew how far they were from the nearest land; he knew when they had crossed the Antarctic Circle; he knew how many miles of forbidding ocean still lay between the crew and their home. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Piper tried to imagine Jason becoming a god when he died, standing on some beach guarding the gates to an ocean long after Piper and everyone else he knew in his mortal life were dead. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Sybil was sitting insecurely on a huge, inflated beach ball, facing the ocean. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

She glanced back to where the invisible hulks of the wrecked ocean vessels lay along the beach. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Looking out at the ocean, I don’t know how anyone could be anything but lonely. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Our bathroom is painted ocean blue and is large enough for Penny, Butterscotch, me and Mom—and my chair—without feeling crowded. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Tourists descended onto our beach, sat in our usual places, so we borrowed Ana's car and crossed the Golden Gate to find a tiny piece of ocean to have for ourselves. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

All around the island the ocean was a deep azure blue, and the colors here were so bright and crisp that Kaede had to squint. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

This was as close as he would ever come to the deep ocean. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I had the feeling of scuba diving through the ocean. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel? The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we can go take a dip in the ocean?” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun’s pouring in through the glass windows, and the trees outside are whipping with the ocean winds, like they’re fighting to feel the warmth we’re soaking in. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I had retreated, fled across an ocean and allowed my father to tell my story for me, to define me to everyone I had ever known. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I don’t need an ocean—” “Boys,” Annabeth interrupted, “I’m sure you both would’ve been wonderful at killing each other. But right now, you need some rest.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

No chemicals means no toxic runoff into rivers and oceans. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The only thing on it was a small drawing of a black bird in front of a bridge and ocean waves, and a short string of numbers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Instead, I say, “I can’t stand the ocean washing them away.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

A ship didn’t carry me across the ocean; instead, a series of cars conveyed me across a continent. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“The ocean current is like a treadmill beneath our keel,” the captain tells me. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It can get foggy in the summer when the ocean air rushes in and pulls the mist across. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Gullies of water ran down the sides of the enormous garbage pile, into an ocean of water that looked and smelled like raw sewage. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She sat on a rock staring out at the ocean, her face full of misery. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Outlaws used to have principles. You could claim your ship, you could claim your spoils. But the ocean was for all of us.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was not a great presence but a great absence, a geometric ocean of darkness that seemed to swallow heaven itself. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I never realized how much bigger a bluefin tuna looks when it’s alive in the ocean instead of dead on the dock. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Magdalys yelled as the smell of salt water reached her on the ocean wind. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The ocean puddled at his feet as he reached for the broken gun. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It would be an ocean of wood with a dun rim of humanity. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A girl who lost her mother was suddenly a tiny boat on an angry ocean. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I dived in and rode a couple of waves, but they had reached that stage of power in which you could feel the whole strength of the ocean in them. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like looking at the ocean: some days, you could tell what mood it was in. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Your brother got a harder head than your husband did, Janey. His split open the first time I hit him. Made such a mess, I threw him into Charleston Harbor for the ocean to bury.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Lily would remember Lydia’s pool party and all the fun and the music and the cool guys, and I would remember this: laughing and feeling as if I could fly out over the ocean. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

When I was in the zone on a high-speed classic like Defender, I felt like a hawk in flight, or the way I thought a shark must feel as it cruises the ocean floor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I looked at the ocean for a few seconds, tried to think how to put it. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I feel my gut sinking down like it's swimming in the ocean deep, and I learn the truth: I like her. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

I'm not quite sure how to describe this band's music, except to say that it sounds like a hundred thousand weasels being dropped into a boiling ocean. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

All around walls and miles of cane, blowing in waves like the ocean off Port-au-Prince. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The morning weather report had spooked everybody else off the ocean and, except for the lighthouse, the horizon remained empty and endless. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

They galloped back across the robot gravesite, flopped into the ocean, and raced through the waves just as fast as they could. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I know that is crazy because Mutare is nowhere near the ocean or even a lake, but still, I had nightmares about it. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

For much of the year the ocean air is cold enough on winter mornings to make fog roll into the valleys a hundred feet deep. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He had floated in the ocean with whales. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

And when he was sure he was going to die, swept up forever into the boundless blue ocean, that’s when the water spoke to him. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Just the memory of those glittering trains lighting up the ocean sends a rush of excitement through me I can’t explain. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

David brought her up a bit more into the wind as he sailed between the two breakwaters made of huge stones, two retaining walls that stuck out into the ocean. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then it went dark and we climbed up onto this locked-up lifeguard tower and leaned our backs against the wall facing the ocean. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

All the waves and water hastened, suffering, towards goals, many goals, to the waterfall, to the sea, to the current, to the ocean and all goals were reached and each one was succeeded by another. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I feel like I’m floating in the ocean.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

And the great whale swam freely through the ocean and the sky, untroubled by men.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The captain was already at the rail, staring out over the ocean. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It also explained why ocean floors everywhere were so comparatively youthful. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Memory is an ocean and he bobs on its surface. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her blond hair was tucked into a ski cap and her gray eyes were the same color as the ocean. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Far out on the horizon, the oily black of the ocean turned blue, reflecting sky and sun. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was hot and sticky, my feet hurt, I wanted just one tree and a small patch of shade—or the ocean, better yet—and I was hungry for my pocket lunch. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The view of the ship and ocean disappeared, hidden again by the emerald tangle of blurred trees and vines. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Caves across the ocean in caves of dark hills white skin people like the belly of a fish covered with hair. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Whales communicating across the oceans must have experienced increasingly greater difficulties. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I take it back. Taking a bath is relaxing. Being in the ocean is scary. It’s wet and cold and salty and deadly.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

We drop farther and farther, and a tower and the ocean come into focus. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The land seemed sunk into the ocean, little rectangles of green surrounded on all sides by canals. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He said he was protesting the destruction of the oceans and rivers by “ruthless greedheads.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He simply stood beside me while the moments passed and my anger drained into the ocean. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I could picture shaking Jamie’s hand, walking with him to the edge of the ocean. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Eventually, we reached the ocean, and then our island, and then our pond. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I remember how Jude gave up the sun and stars and oceans for my drawing of him. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It gave birth to galaxies and stars and moons and suns and planets and oceans. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Piper felt like the boat was back on the ocean, rocking under her feet. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He could feel the power of the ocean just over the horizon. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But when the ocean finally gave up the secret of immortality, the gods tricked the asuras and took all the nectar for themselves. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

To the Dothraki, water that a horse could not drink was something foul; the heaving grey-green plains of the ocean filled them with superstitious loathing. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Mother Water Monster stood in the ocean and said, “You may drink my waters to regain your strength. Then be on your way, Nathan.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It stood on a snowy cliff overlooking this big frosty forest on one side and the gray churning ocean on the other. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I can't imagine that there are many oyster shells in Afghanistan either, since the country doesn't touch the ocean. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We sit at a table outside, the ocean just a few hundred feet in the distance. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They would eventually reach the edge of the pack and have the ocean in front of them. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Henry figures that cat doesn’t know it should be terrified of the ocean and maybe just loves the smell of striped bass. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Others said he came from the jungles far across the wide oceans. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

After Uranus it will plunge on past Neptune, leaving the solar system, becoming an interstellar spacecraft, fated to roam forever the great ocean between the stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be offended, but you seem to be one of those people who just attract accidents like a magnet. So . . . try not to fall into the ocean or get run over or anything, all right?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The Neighborhood Terror Threat Level drops as I pan with Dad’s binoculars from the forest and street on the front side of our house to the bluff and ocean in the back. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

When she opens her eyes, they are standing on the quarterdeck of a ship in the middle of the ocean. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

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

Behind them, palm trees swayed before a burning red sky, and beyond that churned a wild ocean full of beautiful dark-skinned mermaids and swirling dragons. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

It was a cold, soundless night, black as obsidian, and Ben could only follow the sound of Sammy’s insistent plunge toward the ocean. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His skin smells like the ocean and something else, some indefinable thing that makes him Olly. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The vision went like this: Benton stood alone on the shore of a vast, menacing ocean. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

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

“You’re the stupidest person in this ocean. Did you know that?” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

You don’t really understand the ocean until you are in the midst of it, nothing but ocean on all sides, stretching away endlessly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She had whisked her sister across the ocean by jet and then made her scurry up and down the Pacific coast, back and forth across Los Angeles. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had dinner at a hot dog stand, with our backs to the ocean and its now cooler wind, our faces toward the heat of the cooking range. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were an exuberant, restless people, wandering across the ocean of the plain. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were always plenty of other children for him to play with, and there was the sandy beach for him to run about on, and the ocean to paddle in. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

And surely you know about the dangerous journey we took across the ocean in order to make a new life in America? The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The gods had not churned the ocean by themselves—they had needed the help of the asuras, the demons. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He could almost smell the salty ocean wind. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

This is the place, a kind of imaginary line in the ocean, where all ships going east add an extra day to that week and all ships going west drop a day. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And for traditional Hindus, leaving India and traveling on the ocean—it was called “crossing the black water,” the kali pana—was forbidden. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

According to the map this canal should bisect the Wellteco Canal, which will turn south and flow all the way to the ocean. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he reached right across that ocean and took my hand. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

For example, we are learning more efficient ways of catching fish, and that is good because it means more people can be fed from the oceans. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the nation split during the Civil War, Northerners could no longer get cane from those plantations along the Mississippi, so they had to go across the ocean—to paradise: Hawaii. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“No, no. I just wanted to show you. It’s not for rivers anyway. They sailed them once on oceans. I think we learned about it in history class.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He looks over to the cliff where people, mostly teenagers, are leaping into the ocean. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I can trick myself into thinking traffic sounds like the ocean. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Celia settles in her wicker swing to watch the ocean, jumping with silver light. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just a finger, inching across the ocean of shards. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I can see the rain coming down out over the ocean—a curtain of water. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Together, as the Gangulis drive, they anticipate the moment the thin blue line of ocean will come into view. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

All water is potentially part of the ocean which surrounds the earth: in a river it flows downhill in order to realize its potential. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Longing to be walking through the streets or swimming in the ocean or living life in a way I’ve never really gotten the chance to. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

If the ship was on one of those long sea voyages, they’d be killed immediately, their bodies left in the open ocean without ceremony. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

But the ocean is violent, angry, and pulls me back. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Luxury hotels and ocean liners—among them the Titanic—installed batteries of rowing machines so their clients could stay in shape and emulate their rowing heroes. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At that instant another huge, foaming wave washed over the deck, and the child disappeared with it as it fell back into the ocean. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rain soaks me through even more than when I was in the ocean. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The ocean seems to laugh, but not in a mocking way. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

From where they sat, they could see the ocean. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ginny will never believe it, he thought as he took a breath of ocean air. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The ocean is clear as noon in winter. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The flower of immortality lies in a cave at the base of the Rock of Nisir, the only feature within the endless ocean. Wherever you might be, you will be able to see it." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It still looked the way it had when he was alive, except the ocean was rushing in to fill it. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

In the window in Molly’s bathroom, also on the ocean side, a light cotton curtain dances constantly in the breeze, sucked toward the screen and out again, billowing toward the sink, an amiable ghostly presence. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Timothy looked at the deep ocean sky, trying to see Earth and the war and the ruined cities and the men killing each other since the day he was born. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

We carried the casket to a sand dune between The Shoe and the ocean, where Dad and Tom dug a shallow grave. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked the seaweed wrapped around the sushi roll: how tough it was to chew, the subtleness of the ocean water. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Mom walks to the edge of the ocean in her silk dress and stockings, her pleated skirt ballooning like a spinnaker, and flings the picture into the sea. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

June scooted over all the papers, plowing through them like a boat through ocean waves, until she was right next to Ivy. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The moon was coming up and the ocean looked like the desert, wave after wave of shifting silvery dunes. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had come across an ocean to get left behind! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Albert said something else, but the words were lost to Joseph as a ghostly voice called to him from the attic, and the angel reappeared with outspread wings above an ocean made of fire. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It's about the girl who wants to venture out into the ocean, away from the starfish, so she can feel like she matters. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

My arm and leg wounds had healed—just being in the ocean can do that for me, given enough time—but I still felt like I’d been trampled by a Laistrygonian soccer team in cleats. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

A big lake or an ocean was different. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how any reporter, in good conscience, could have cabled that across the ocean. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

This suggested that as the molten Earth had cooled, it had become wrinkled in the manner of a baked apple, creating ocean basins and mountain ranges. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I feel like a funny-looking rock in the middle of the most beautiful clear ocean when I read the kinds of things you write to me. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

To the west now was open ocean, the full sweep of the Pacific, and the boat pitched and rolled on a twelve-foot westerly swell. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

JB ’s eyes are ocean wide, his mouth swimming on the floor, his clownish grin, embarrassing. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

I compare each set of numbers, sometimes adding a negative in front of a number whenever it ends up in the middle of nowhere or in the ocean. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She thought of Alice again, tossed in the bottle and riding through the storm on the ocean. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He was splashing in the ocean; he was running through the hills. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The waters in the lake and out in the open ocean churn furiously now, turning choppier as a storm approaches from the horizon, black and threatening. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Percy, despite being exhausted, searched the ocean for their missing friends. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The boat had been scooped up and dropped into a boundless ocean. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was nothing there but what had always been there: empty ocean the color of pewter, tarnishing to black now as night fell. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And through that microscope, for that moment, all she could see was an ocean of her mother’s cells, stained an ethereal fluorescent green. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

As I speak of the ocean and its waves, Feathers’ brow furrows. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mami misses Cuba, where we had an apartment with two bedrooms and a balcony that looked out at the ocean and let in the breezes and the sunshine. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“These other materials are very scarce, found only on the bottom of the ocean.” The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I had brought the ocean to this hillside. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

A girl, pixie haired and smiling, was floating above the ocean, rays arrowing out from behind her, where a brilliant red-orange sun was rising. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As the sky went into a perfect sunset over the ocean, more and more people started joining in. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

We walked closer and sat at the edge of the sand and stared at the ocean, admiring the display of the waves in succession. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The other mother’s wet-looking black hair drifted around her head, like the tentacles of a creature in the deep ocean. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The sailors babbled in their own languages, afraid to die on the wrong side of the ocean in a world far away from people who knew their names. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was in a valley I could see nothing and when the canoe rose out of it, only the ocean stretching away and away. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The buildings in the distance start to get bigger, and I can see the ocean touching the edges of the land. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The ocean looked dead too, dead gray waves hissing mordantly along the beach, which was gray and dead-looking itself. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have been to an ocean together, and a forest. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Mr. Reilly pointed out, “You can see the ocean from here.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As the light faded, deep blue gaps of night peered through like an upside-down ocean, bottomless and cold. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She felt the darkness clamping down on them, and heard a noise like the ocean in her ears. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Violet took her eyes off Mr. Poe and stared out at the ocean. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

We cross over a bridge and I get a full view of the ocean. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I knew Tyson would have an awesome time under the ocean. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

If the Lord had ever allowed her to cross that swelling ocean she would have gone, among all the millions buried there, to seek out his grave. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

For about a week, we stayed in a borrowed apartment belonging to family friends and made trips every day to the ocean, to swim and laze about in the sun. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The bird could have reached South Georgia in a matter of hours, if it chose, while the men in the James Caird were crawling like a beetle over the surface of the ocean. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“Not the same kind, probably. Mine painted portraits, the ocean, that kind of stuff. My dad has some of them still hanging in his gallery in Delray.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

There were no oceans, just a few dozen large lakes placed here and there. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Her instincts were urging her to move away from the ocean. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Miraculously it survives the humidity and our moves, with only a few unwarranted archipelagos of gray mold dotting its oceans. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They describe the conditions on the ship, the lack of plumbing, how some of the passengers died during the 12,000 mile voyage and were wrapped in plastic and cast into the ocean. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Cyclopes! I tell you, Stheno, when I destroy Neptune and take over the oceans, we will renegotiate the Cyclopes’ labor contract. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

For three days and two nights we ride the ocean waves in the Gulf of Thailand, swaying and rocking as if in a wooden coffin. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead lay the scalloped ocean and the abounding blessed isles. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Lonely women dance in the mirror, she texted Robbie. the mirror = the ocean -> coney isl. we on the way. c u there? Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Sweet, unfettered ocean air pours through a gap in the wall he cannot see: the air throbs with it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The light breeze tickles the palm trees, and I can hear the crackle of the ocean from down the coast. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Perilee had said it would look like the ocean, all bloomed out in blue. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The first, at 1 per cent of the present level, shielded out enough ultraviolet radiation to permit cells to move into the surface layers of lakes, rivers, and oceans. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dark, she knelt beside a giant shark that had spilled out of the ocean and beached itself in the sand. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The caged Miss Peregrine that Golan had thrown into the ocean—that had been the real one, while the one we “rescued” had been her brother. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I park the car and we head to the ocean. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

We had taken a blanket to sit on, but it had gotten chilly, so we wrapped it around us and cuddled and talked until there wasn’t even a sliver of sun left over the ocean. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

How easily the ocean must have swept him away. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The outer walls were of rough gray stone studded with pieces of seashell and coral, as if the slabs had been hewn straight from the bottom of the ocean floor. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Carefully she split her attention, beaming half of it to the ocean, into the water to keep him afloat. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

For several miles the tracks hug the ocean, which is close enough to touch. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The dry breeze from inland coupled with the cool ocean air was perfectly soothing. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Without the waters of the moon to replenish the oceans there would be no oceans. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He goes down and stares off west over the ocean.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t even look at the ocean. Not after...” I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then there she was, gliding along three feet above the ocean, spirits all around her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I could smell the honey that had dripped on my hands, the damp ground under me, and the salt of the ocean. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had stayed in a small hotel by the beach and spent most of our time swimming in the ocean. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

We were going to watch the sunrise over the ocean, listen to the Boston Pops, drive up to Canada for a cup of coffee and turn around and drive home. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

She walked a straight line to the ocean, for the pools had frozen and she could follow her compass without deviating. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It goes some- how against the grain to learn that cost-benefit analyses can be done neatly on lakes, meadows, nesting gannets, even whole oceans. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They moved fast toward the shore, like claws ripping through the ocean. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Toiling alone and newly single in an ocean of pain so that some light may be brought into your lives ... Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The ocean was green and white, and was rimmed by fur, for she saw it through Kapugen’s hood as she rode to sea with him on his back inside the parka. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex thinks their main shared life experience is probably wishing they could set that quote adrift on the ocean between them and watch it drown. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And the giant Polybotes... that giant had given him a feeling the opposite of what he felt when he stood in the ocean. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The ground where she stood was frozen white, but twenty feet away, cold blue ocean lapped at the jagged shore. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It began not as the gorgeous fanfare over the ocean I had expected, but as a strange gray thing, like sun- shine seen through burlap. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ocean is warmer than what comes out of her pipes, but I’m getting used to cold showers. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, after the initial excitement of the ocean swell, the men began to grow even more restless. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I dipped into the ocean to cool off. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond that the ocean vast and cold and shifting heavily like a slowly heaving vat of slag and then the gray squall line of ash. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Humanity was still waiting to crawl out of the ocean and evolve. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Only seventy million years ago their ancestors were carnivorous mammals who migrated in slow steps from the land into the ocean. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And these sea monsters,” Kate narrated up ahead, “can grow five hundred feet long in the deep ocean. They have over a thousand teeth. And these? Their favorite food is demigod—” “Demigod?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I pedaled my bike in the dark to the end of Smith Street, turning onto King, the road that ran into the ocean. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Rondell smiled big and nodded his head some, and we all three of us kept walking along the wet sand, a half-moon pasted on the sky over us and shining in the black ocean. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

When I arrived, I would be less than a mile from the ocean. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They’re fake bumping into each other, not paying much attention to their group leader, who is telling them about the percentage of salt found in ocean water. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I’m not the same Niamh who left her gram and aunties and uncles in Kinvara and came across the ocean on the Agnes Pauline, who lived with her family on Elizabeth Street. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Well, with game like this that’s where me and JB are headed.The new girl comes up to me after the game, her smile ocean wide my mouth wide shut. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Endlessly, the weeks stretched out, like mile upon mile of ocean. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will finally be at sea, traversing the waterways into the oceans, like the adventurers you so love to read about in your precious novels. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“The vision was very clear, but it was also quite limited. I only saw the beach, and the ocean...and you. You were important.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Bubbling, churning, even leaping onto the land, it seemed to Amari that the ocean was reaching out to grab and devour her. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She skirted the edge of a massive diff that overlooked a huge, black ocean. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He could not see the fish’s jumps but only heard the breaking of the ocean and the heavy splash as he fell. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Welcome to the planet Earth—a place of blue nitrogen skies, oceans of liquid water, cool forests and soft meadows, a world positively rippling with life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had just one more hurdle to clear, that of landing safely in the ocean. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s like a living black hole,” I told my classmates, “a real live black hole inside the ocean.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He must’ve been surprised when I tightened my grip, the ocean filling me with extra strength. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The first morning he has his license, he drives to the ocean to watch the sunrise. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Because it was only my spirit swimming in the ocean, and not really me.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Or play soccer or act in plays or swim in the ocean or do whatever I want.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Small doubts rained on him from time to time, but mostly he floated in hope, fabulous hope, a private ocean, gentle and green. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

These masses of ice form glaciers that reach the edge of the continent, where every year 5,000 to 10,000 icebergs “calve,” or break off, from the ice sheets into the surrounding ocean. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The twin, Burnham knew, was at that moment carrying one of his closest friends, the painter Francis Millet, over the same ocean but in the opposite direction. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The ocean breeze swept away the muggy heat of the summer afternoon, and it was pleasantly cool under the shade of the palmetto trees. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Normally, the light they head for is the horizon on the ocean. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

A cruise ship surrounded by tiny boats in the ocean called middle school. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Having serious conversations on balconies while looking out at the ocean.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s four oceans—Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic. They’re different from each other.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Far ahead, there were mounds of dunes that rose and fell like frozen ocean waves. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The Paqo explained to me, “The runners deliver fish from the ocean all the way to the capital city. The emperor enjoys eating freshly caught fish at least once a day.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

But this real ocean is a giant snake that never stops hissing. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

In an unknown ocean they could determine their latitude, but not their longitude, by observing, night after night, the position of the constellations with respect to the horizon. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We live 3 hours from the ocean. I’ve never even seen a sea lion.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was stupid, but I resented him for going on that ocean voyage, for not having the guts to marry my mom. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the men tried to create some excitement for the biologist, Robert Clark, by putting some pieces of cooked spaghetti into one of his specimen bottles of ocean water. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He swung her around by the wrists and said, “Jeez, it’s like a movie. Can you believe we’re in London? Everything we know is on the other side of the ocean.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

‘But, uh, the Jupiter guy saving the Poseidon guy at the bottom of the ocean . . . maybe we can keep the details to ourselves? Otherwise I’ll never hear the end of it.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I examined the girls at the ocean’s edge, wondering if I would recognize them now. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I look at the ocean and take a deep breath. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

But I decide to include it because anything that can start out floating around defenseless in the ocean that size—and then defeat the odds to grow into this powerful creature—has to mean business. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Churning ocean and muffled shouts fill my ears. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Seagulls were flying over the ocean’s surface together crying out their seagull cries and flapping their wings every few seconds. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden it gushes up, and I clench my lips, but it's like trying to hold back an ocean. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

When T. Ray turned back, he fastened his eyes on me, and there was nothing in them but an ocean of hurt. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her dress is so cool—it looks like she’s wrapped herself in sparkling blue ocean. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

There are no mountains, valleys, volcanoes, rivers; no boundaries between land and air; just a vast ocean of dense gas and floating clouds—a world without a surface. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The highway ran for miles along some of the most magnificent beaches I have ever seen—white sands, a beautiful ocean; and opposite the beach, splendid homes. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Hess’s readings showed that the ocean floor offered anything but the gooey smoothness of ancient silts. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I lie on my bed imagining an ocean breeze on my face as I travel the world on a ship. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Someone was playing a piano nearby, and the music drifted slowly in and out of my mind like the ebb and flow of ocean surf. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

"A year ago down in Mexico,” he told Gallien, "I was out on the ocean in a canoe, and I almost drowned when a storm came up.” Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he could smell the salty musk of an ocean. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

If she tells him that they ought to throw it into the ocean? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But we turned a corner and the ocean disappeared behind the hills. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She smiled then, a smile as bright as the blue ocean. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The cold green ocean and a hot gold strip of sand. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Admit it, Jupiter: your love for me runs as wide and as deep as all the oceans combined.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The ocean sends another wave toward the sand before pulling it back again. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

As she always had been, Lynn was obsessed with the ocean, especially the ocean by California. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

A whirlpool spins up from the ocean bed. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

One was of a blue ocean against an even bluer sky in the first room. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As Jerrie and her boss, Tom Harris, talked before that day's events at the Air Force Association conference, two men who had just had a swim in the ocean were headed in their direction. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even the ocean isn’t big enough to hold all my fears. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Growing up near the ocean, you learn about some strange superstitions. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Her voice chilled Amari even more than the brisk wind that blew off the ocean. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ocean nymphs who visited Prometheus on the crag in the Caucasus spoke only the most ordinary common sense when they said to him:— Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ocean is on the other side of that busy street! Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Grandpa turned back to face the ocean, and his eyes got that faraway look again. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The cold air masses created by this icecap clash with the warm winds from the ocean to churn up a storm belt that surrounds the continent, making the Southern Ocean the most treacherous sea anywhere. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The paper crumbles and the ocean of ink fades away, leaving only a circle of chairs inside a striped tent as Marco collapses to the floor. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She stopped for a moment and said sadly, “We even had one section over there that did nothing but put the sound of the ocean into sea shells. This was once such a happy place.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few miles away it was joined to the ocean, so that its movements were governed by unimaginable factors like the Gulf Stream, the Polar Ice Cap, and the moon. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It keeps the oceans liquid and life possible. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ocean here felt different—still powerful, but freezing, slow, and primal. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z