Here there were dead office towers, brought to life at night by restaurants buried within that served small kegs of beer and Korean fried chicken. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The girls are waiting for us in front of the office. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Word came from the front office that there had been some complaints regarding my use of class time. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

But, despite the tension I sensed in Miss Preston’s office, they seem completely unconcerned with both the upcoming dinner party and with me and Katherine. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

His business interests were much wider than the automobile agency, but he did not get another office. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I play around with my retirement speech and decorate the waiting room of my doctor's office. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

On the walk from her office to Harold, I looked up the case report. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“But the clinic people sent me over here. They say they can’t give me the papers without authorization from this office.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adam was out of the post office and across the sidewalk to his Ford before he had done all of these things. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then they quickly get out of my office. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

It has to kill the girls inside to even step into the office, because she wrote, “With the death of my unborn child, part of me died.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

When the applications started arriving in his office, there seemed to be no increase in those from low-income students. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Outside a generator powered the lighthouse, so that each thirty seconds the beacon flashed against the glass of the office window. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Good day at the office?” she asks, pursing her lips. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was led to an adjoining anteroom—a smaller office, where some of the eight had gathered. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mai explained to the woman in the office that there was a family emergency. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

When we get to Mrs. Parker’s office, Ms. Weber says, “Shirley, I need to speak with you.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When the performance ended, he marched right to the box office and bought tickets for the next night. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She led them to the office, then shut the door behind them. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Back at the first office, my interviewer asks if I can use some emergency food aid and I explain, once again, that I don’t have a refrigerator. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one in the office detected any unusual emotion, any fear. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked upstairs to the church office and found middle-aged Mabel Shorter unusually flustered as she laid down the telephone receiver. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Leila called and got an appointment at the converted residence that the firm used for an office. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

A Saturday ago, I was in the dentist’s office, and I heard this conversation. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The trouble would be finding a way to eavesdrop on his office. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The office is quiet except for the faint hum coming from the dean secretary’s computer. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I checked my suitcase, thinking of the dead man knifed up against the kolkhoz office. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Slughorn’s office,” said Harry, leading her up the marble staircase away from all the staring and muttering. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Late that afternoon Smith went into the track secretary’s office to see the weight postings for the Santa Anita Handicap. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m waiting for Grandfather to finish his business in the necessary. He said I could go with him to the newspaper office.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ha, yeah,” said Jack, but I noticed that the closer we got to Mr. Tushman’s office, the quieter Jack got. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

They must have records in the office of that place.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They must keep them in the principal’s office. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Before leaving the office to go to lunch, I washed my hands. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I listened to all the talk of Penikese—outside the grocery, in the post office yard—and counted the hours until all those strangers tired of the hunt and went away. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I still went into the office in the city once a week, but this was where John and I lived and worked, our home—the first house I’d ever owned. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Pittsburgh office of Western Union received the cable at 9:10 P.M., and a blue-suited messenger raced through the cool spring night to bring it to Ferris. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

To escape from Filch’s office without punishment was probably some kind of school record. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The Amsterdam News and Ebony always printed pictures of blacks who worked in downtown offices or who had achieved some small recognition. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

When the exam is over, we’re called into the office at the back of the classroom to meet with the instructor. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Not for the first time, I think back to that afternoon in Father Masego’s office when I was twelve, the day he told me I was extraordinary. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Since there was no time to find a post office before the bus departed, I packed her card with my things to travel back to Sakubva. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He looks at me quizzically and then goes back to his office. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Each morning before breakfast the guard in the front office clicked on the intercom system. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I tried to imagine what it would be like if I were Ee Gee, the famous editor, in an office full of potted rubber plants and African violets my secretary had to water each morning. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She scooped up the message, the hairs, and her list and stormed out of the office. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The two men would never visit each other’s offices, she adds, but often met in secret to coordinate plans. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

We all pile into her office, which is full of beanbag chairs and has two mini love seats, a round table with a few chairs, and posters of poets everywhere. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

“There’s supposed to be a village nearby, with a post office,” I said. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Emma wasn’t sure if it was because he’d had to claim in public that he liked lima beans, or if he was afraid someone else in the school office would overhear their secret code word. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

So Ruth rose up and out of her guileless inefficiency to claim her bit of balm right after the preparation of dinner and just before the return of her husband from his office. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I called the office of the OIC and asked for him. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Akers, a prison administrator, had me mop and clean his office, too. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Has your mother ever worked in an office? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Cas looked down at the gun in her hand as her mother yammered about firefighters and police officers and some friend of Dad’s who worked in the mayor’s office. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Listen. Go around to the back of the hospital to the guard’s office. It will say ‘Emergency Admissions’ on the door, A-D-M-I- S-I-O-N-S. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got off the sofa, crept into my daddy’s home office, and eased the door closed behind me. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It was all so familiar: the long hallway entrance, the offices lining the white walls, and the white tiled floors. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Biddy’s first triumph in her new office, was to solve a difficulty that had completely vanquished me. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s going to the office to watch the feed from the security camera in the gym. You’ve only got ten more minutes. If he’s hny kind of basketball fan, you’re golden.” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

Leaning back in the soft chairs of their offices with plenty of time on their hands to talk and reflect, they said they had come to grips with the hard reality of the world. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went into the kitchen and called the sheriff’s office. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Tuttle’s next appointment, a toy exporter from China, was waiting on him outside his office. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The white man started a conversation with Royal at an antislavery meeting; impressed, Wheeler told him to come to his office the next day. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

My dad and I got to the office early—I was the very first patient. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“So we hustled back over to the office, right? Dad had Gates write out a letter giving me special permission to play soccer at Tangerine Middle School.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were two telephones in the house—one in the room her father used as an office, another in the kitchen. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I need to take care of some paperwork with the state’s attorney’s office.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Back in my office taking a most restful nap. What began as flexibility became detachability once I touched the Crystal Ball those many years ago.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

For weeks, it seemed, he had sported a big shiner, courtesy of an inmate he’d angered, who one day had marched straight into Rufino’s tiny office and popped him in the eye. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m worried about tomorrow enough already, so my stomach flips and pulses when Coach calls me into his office. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nixon liked the idea of having a precise record of everything that was said in his office. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Across the hall from his office is a law firm, affiliated with Kavesh and Gau, that handles wills and living trusts and all other legal matters related to financial planning. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, I thought I might've had a bit of respite before I was going to be marched into Miss Preston's office. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The other counselors came running from the office, the tents, or out on the lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I would buy their lunches, take their suits out to have them pressed, pay their light, telephone, and gas bills, and deliver notes for them to their stenographer girl friends in near-by office buildings. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room beyond it is an office with no windows. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

When Max telephoned upstairs that I was here, Sir Lawrence came down from his office, let me say a few words, and then retired for a private conversation with Max. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Just after I finished that line, the secretary tapped me on the shoulder to say she had to lock up the office. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He cut the tape around my wrists and ankles, moved me into his office, and gave me a towel, but he refused to let me go home. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was hot in his stuffy little office and as I stared at him, I could see that he was sweating up a storm. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

There was no necessity for the chocolate roll call now because most of the students were bringing their returns directly to Brian Cochran in the office. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll leave your stuff at the front desk in the main office,” she answered, turning on the ignition and looking behind her as she started slowly backing out of the parking space. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

"Can you please send Patina Jones to the office? Her uncle's here to pick her up." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Then squires removed his armor and Joff fastened the Hand's chain of office around his neck. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Dr. Howard’s office is actually running early today. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

In keeping with tradition, Barack had gone out to play basketball earlier in the day and had since settled into his office to put finishing touches on his remarks. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She used to have an office downtown, but David got kicked out of day care, so now she runs her tax- preparation business from our spare bedroom. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Generally he wore a gray business suit if he was working in his office, or a white lab coat if he was working with animals. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the spring of 1925, when White was still based in Houston, Hoover expressed outrage to him that several agents in the San Francisco field office were drinking liquor. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Four months after he took office, Ndadaye was assassinated by Tutsi radicals. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Officer Delinko gave Curly a card with the address of the police department’s administration office and the name of the clerk in charge of filing the incident reports. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Doc’s just sore because Willis Taylor strangled to death in Doc’s office the other day. The Doc killed him by checking his throat with a tongue depressor,” Hobie said pouring Bull a cup of coffee. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had no idea why it had been nearly a year since I’d sent him work, so when we met in his office one overcast July afternoon, he suggested that I quit. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The principal, Mr. Pajolli, has got Daphne by the arm and is telling her to come to his office. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

They planned to move their office to their home. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I did not see Mr. Crane or the stenographer in the office. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had the sheriff’s office on the phone—the Garden City sheriff—and he was telling him that there was ‘something radically wrong over at the Clutter place.’ In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Settling scores in the deputy principal’s office might seem like a good idea to some, but Dad had always taught me it was better to face things head-on. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Get Captain Brannon to my office pronto. He’s out on the flight line. And pass the word that there’ll be a meeting of all officers in the ready room at 1500 hours.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the night of September 3, the Plumbers ransacked Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office, hoping to find something embarrassing in the files on Ellsberg. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I planned to check on my next visit to his precious office. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She led me through an unmarked door near the principal's office, into a small, windowless room furnished with two facing desks. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It was the first time I had witnessed a head of state go through the formalities of his office, and I was fascinated. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Habib was located, the two men disappeared into the manager’s office. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

She hammered the door again and now also the wall between the vault and Harry’s breeze-filled office. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She hung up with him and placed a call to the county clerk’s office. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

There, she dug out the key to a side door that opened into her office. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, I visited the office of a friendly, thoughtful man named Art Sussman, who was the in-house legal counsel for the University of Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And the black symphony in the doctor’s office? Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

This was in the old days, back when test results arrived via the post office. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She could smell the presence of animals, and there were scurrying sounds as they walked through the office. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t even have a gas station, and the post office is a trailer. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s up in the hills. It’s not large, but there’s a post office and even a small schoolhouse.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Up in the humming cool of her office, Mrs. Treski read the letter through once. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

She had gone to the administration office and asked for Cecilia’s address. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Five men had been arrested in the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate complex. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Had the couriers' office noticed a flaw in the seal? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He quit his job at Floyd’s Foods and Dr. Blankenship hired him to work twenty hours a week filing and cleaning his office. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Hahn wrote to Meitner at her new office in Sweden, describing the strange results of his experiment. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her office has a bookshelf, like all shrinks’ offices. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

It is headquartered in the prestigious office building known as Black Rock. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Closer, closer, and then right past us on the way toward the office. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Each weekday he went to his office near Wall Street, where he worked with a team of British physicists. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we’re within a couple of blocks of the office, Marge turns to me with what looks like compassion. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time Barack and I left his office, we felt a bit more connected. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Did someone move it to a new spot while I was inside the dentist's office? You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

That night the Voice of the People offices were routinely burglarized, the three rented electric typewriters and the enlarger stolen. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

One spring day, Dr. Greenfield—the addict turned psychologist and addiction specialist—got a new patient in his Connecticut office. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

When I start that job at the post office I’ll buy him shoes so I will. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Her office was the same as it had always been. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I paced around Gay’s office as I chattered on. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

But Dylan must’ve come to the office to tell the truth. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I was the one who got sent to Mr. Kasigi’s office. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“Welcome to human resources,” Craig said as he led me to his corner office with views that showed off the impressive New York City skyline. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Then he typed up careful instructions for feeding and handling, and sent Mary to the post office to ship them to Scherer in Minnesota. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Chess, what did you do to get the bookshelf back in your Mom’s office to move?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

When a School Board official refused to listen to her and tried to throw her out of his office, Ann grabbed the telephone from his desk and hurled it at his head. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Chris had instructed the post office to hold them until August 1, apparently so we wouldn’t know anything was up," says Billie. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Crane turned and called Pease and Reynolds into the office. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of spending my days underground, I was studying or working in a law office where the only physical activity was running errands or putting files in a cabinet. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bail out, dress the dead, pay the rent, find new rooms, start a school, storm an office, take up collections, rout the block and keep their eyes on all the children. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

News I sit in Mom’s office for an hour, reading brochures and pamphlets about the Air Force and the Marines. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Jule printed it out at the business office of the hotel. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When White left the Tribune offices, fires were burning on all sides, but, aside from blackened scorch marks, his building stood tall and proud. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, the outbursts are sometimes held in check by the “soup eaters,” the people from the office who come up to have a cup of soup for lunch. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“He said you two were fine, you didn’t see each other after you left my office.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I’m not exactly sure what I’ll do when I get to the office. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Then attend to it, Cattermole, and if my office is not completely dry within an hour, your wife’s Blood Status will be in even graver doubt than it is now.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The unit has been retooled into an office. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Had no idea Benjamin Franklin had invented all that stuff—a stove, glasses of some kind, the first post office, and his own university. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was a small private space, like her own little office, where Cara could just sit and read, think, and write. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

‘Will you please tell me where the judge’s office is located?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Morales, I have a message for you from Father Franco at St. Margaret’s. He asked you to come see him at his office as soon as possible.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

On December 11, 1931, White was in his warden’s office when he heard a noise. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“The first step is completed. Now we will have to get you the visa,” Mr. Kamara said as we walked out of the passport office. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He gave me what almost seemed to be a look of hatred, then brushed past me, went to his office and shut the door. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was not unusual to see them sitting on the Big Store or post office steps during the day, quietly hacking up black spit. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I looked again around my office at the stacks of files. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They pushed open the vice principal’s office door and found Mr. Lyons tied up on the floor. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, we need her to call the main office right away. Can you tell her that?” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I walk into town to the post office and call Dean Wilkins. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It had taken her eight years to reach the seat at the front of the office. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Nearly everyone in town is within a level, easy stroll of the post office, library, and stores. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He led us all into the hall outside the main office to listen to the radio. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sipped his drink and remembered the incident of Mr. Reilly’s dumping all of those examination papers on the heads of that freshman demonstration beneath the windows of the faculty office building. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they showed up at Goodale’s office, their eyes were swollen and red. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They climbed the stairs to the second floor and started down the dark hall toward the office of a psychiatrist named Lewis Fielding. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The army chaplain said a few words and a councilman from the mayor's office thanked the soldiers for their service. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

On Monday I follow the funeral to the graveyard on my post office bicycle. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

On Tuesday the manuscript was sent up to Bragg’s office and on Wednesday, April 2, went off to the editors of Nature. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I am back at the National Police Headquarters, an office we did not see yesterday. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I continued down the street, it dawned on me that I was only blocks from the Arbeiter-Zeitung’s office. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The tank clattered and clanked over the cobblestones, swinging right and left over curbs and back again to avoid the few pedestrians, then sped into the harbor district, past taverns and shops and shipping offices. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Inside the main building, we walked past empty offices in a long, empty white hallway, saying, “Hello?” and “Where is everybody?” and “This place is weird.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

We arrived at her office, which was decorated like the cockpit of an airplane and from which she ran her incredible organization with the efficiency of a banker. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the district attorney’s office made him a job offer even though he didn’t have his license yet, and he accepted it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” I said, “I was wondering if we could get into the main office and check a student’s file.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

They brushed past his secretary— told her it was an emergency—and sat down at a conference table in his office. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he first ran for office, his advisers told him that he had to get Hale’s endorsement, and so he made several trips to Hale’s ranch. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“He does work for the government, Lester. I’ve bragged on him a million times. This is my sister’s boy. He works in the governor’s office...the assistant to the assistant.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Like Jefferson—indeed, like any self-respecting statesman of the era, save perhaps Burr—Adams had no intention of campaigning for the office. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Betsy,” she said as she was buzzed into the office on Thursday. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you square away the launch and meet me back up at the office? I’m going to walk up with Chambers here. Me and him’ve got things to discuss.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Male chimps cannot gather in a constitutional assembly to abolish the office of alpha male and declare that from here on out all chimps are to be treated as equals. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we headed for the district office I wondered what Brother Jack would say about the fight. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, she organized a picket outside of the DSS offices, and while workers were distracted by the commotion, Ann went inside, located a copy of the department’s thick regulations manual, and smuggled it out. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The children followed him into his tiny office by the door. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

They had come to the door of the office. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Before I pulled out of the tube by his office, I looked back at her, standing by the door. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I came to on a cot in the stables office. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Jackie had called the sheriffs office because she needed a copy of the police report from the accident to process Jim’s life insurance policy. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Dad comes home from work early and drops his briefcase beside the desk in his office. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“There was only one law officer in town, and when the Hell’s Angels came to town, he would crouch down in the back of his office,” Mark Langan remembers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

In 1961, when Kennedy had taken office, there were seven hundred American military advisors in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

If that was the post office, where was everything else? The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Each press is like a question,” explains Dan Bernstein, a professor of psychology at the University of Kansas, where he has an office down the hall from Dr. Atchley. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Dad was peeking at the arrival from behind a curtain in his office. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took him to his father’s office and left to return to the front desk. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Before I was born, she worked as an office manager for a doctor in town. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

We did our homework in Paul’s father’s office, which was a small private room in the back of the building. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He told me to come by his office after Mr. Barber’s class—Mr. McElroy already knew I’d be late for world history. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I had to go to Mrs. Huckaby’s office to report the incident. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting in my office, drying my tears, reflecting on my brokenness, it seemed like a laughable notion. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Because my mom was a secretary and I spent hours at her office every day after school, I’d learned a great deal about business correspondence. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I heard my office phone ringing as I finished my rounds at about 11:45 P.M. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet his mind was keen, and if he had finally allowed himself to be made Director-Emeritus of Research with Bogert as acting Director, it did not prevent him from appearing in his office daily. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I heard Dad’s whoop and looked up and saw him on his office porch with two other men. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Why are you so happy about it now when you are so sad in his shirt, in his office, in his goneness? A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“You can go over to the Forest Service office and hitch a ride with either Carl, or—what’s that new man’s name?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, not long afterwards, he told her she had an interview at an office in downtown Baltimore, for a position in public relations. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But I wonder who in our office delivered Helda’s honor, if there was one at all, whether it was air-posted to Germany in a handsomely twined bundle of vellum and silk. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says, “Okay. Thank you,” and walks out, and the office ladies make that snort noise to each other that means, “What a pain, right?” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Following Eisenhower’s order, Strauss summoned Oppenheimer to his Washington office for what he expected to be a decisive encounter. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Kino stared into the dimness of the little office, for his eyes were squeezed from the outside glare. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had already established ANC offices in Ghana, England, Egypt, and Tanganyika, and had made valuable contacts for us in many other countries. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoon light made mirrors of the windows of the office and lunch room. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get to his office and hold my breath for a second before walking in. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

There’s a crowd of cooking-club girls inside the principal’s office by the time I get there. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Grace nervously bounced her leg in the waiting room of the therapist’s office. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Though Johnson escaped removal from office by one vote in the Senate, Stanton was the clear winner in the case. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Right before I walked into the office of the Good Night, Sleep Tight, I saw a crow sitting on the roof, looking down at me. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I set three golden drachmas on the counter, part of the stash I’d found in Crusty’s office desk. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“To class or to the office,” Miss Saunders calls after them real loud and steady. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I have some valuable cargo in my office that needs to go to Miami. My client is anxious. I don’t want to disappoint him. Which is where you come in. I’ll pay you five dollars.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I returned to my office, we began a deeper investigation into Mr. Jenkins's background. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The chamber opened onto what the archaeologists believed “was likely the chief executive’s office for conducting statecraft,” the Andean equivalent of the Oval Office in the White House. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

"I was thirteen, and that morning I couldn't eat. The nerves made my stomach a mess. So when I marched into his office, I took one look at him and passed out." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Shirley could not know that it was Sunday, a day when everyone stayed put, except to go to Church, and the tall buildings held only offices. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I went back to the office and, pretending I was getting a brochure, put it back. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“General Scheisskopf?” he inquired unsuspectingly of the sergeant in his new office who brought him word of the order that had come in that morning. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The great buildings of central Mishnory, government offices, schools, Yomesh temples, were so blurred by rain in the liquid glare of the high streetlights that they looked as if they were melting. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

We are welcome to continue our conversation in the principal’s office, or we can stay and be quiet. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I was going into the office to take a look at the nightmare felon, no sense pretending I wasn’t. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Harry bowed obediently over the Pensieve and felt his feet leave the office floor.... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He turned the key, and we stepped into the office. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Styx was waiting for us at his office with three towels. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then he called me into his office at the back of the house and closed the door. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He was in his office near the station when someone dashed in to alert him about the attack on the president. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She found the Owner slumped at the small desk in the back office, his head in his hands. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

At Oppenheimer’s office on the Berkeley campus, they began designing the atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d found his office imposing when I first saw it, but its quiet elegance had, over time, made the stronger impression. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Since being tapped by Arthur Compton in June to supervise the theoretical work on bomb design, Oppie had been working out of his Berkeley office with a small group of trusted colleagues. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

We opened at six a.m. to fuel the office workers with fresh pita and Turkish coffee thick enough to stand a spoon in. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

There is no answer at his office or at his apartment and so she tries the number she has written down for Maxine. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I never realized that Arthur went into the post office just to follow me in. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Let’s step into my office,” Joe said as I led the way to the bathroom. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Then the door opened, and one of the largest men that Mr. Gonzalez had ever seen entered the office. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A driver picked him up and took him not to an office but to a remote cottage outside Moscow. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lyons’s office on the other side of the stadium. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was after 3:30 now, and the door to Schmidt’s office couldn’t open soon enough. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The door to the office had been pushed to; no one outside could see in. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But like she had back in her office, Ms. Taggart gathered herself. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Miep asked him to remove his coat, so the yellow star couldn’t be seen, and brought him to the private office, where Mr. Kleiman kept him occupied until the cleaning lady had gone. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

When I arrived in the school office, I scanned the activities schedule and found what I was looking for right away. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

While the sisters were incarcerated, the police raided the Weekly’s office and destroyed their presses. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, perhaps twice a week, he went to a dusty, forgotten-looking office in the Ministry of Truth and did a little work, or what was called work. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Finally he went into his little office, pushed a litter of brake linings and fan belts and catalogues aside, and from underneath dug out a telephone. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

David comes on Tuesdays and Thursdays to see Stephanie, a woman with kind eyes and an office full of games, swings, a trampoline, and more balls than I’ve ever seen outside a school playground. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was calling from his office; Rick saw the familiar desk, the litter of documents and papers and kipple. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

A steady stream of overcaffeinated office workers scurried across the lobby and in and out of the elevators and exits. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

We stop underneath the metallic lettering of the post office. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Marco arrives at Mr. Barris’s London office only a few minutes before his scheduled appointment, surprised to find the normally well-ordered space in near bedlam, full of half-packed crates and stacks of boxes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

After a day at the office, I would usually have meetings of one kind or another. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The news of the approach of the procession ran ahead of it, and in their little dark offices the pearl buyers stiffened and grew alert. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want an agent from Room H to drift to the front of the building and get into the offices. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With an eye on the office door, he ran after her. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

The beaded curtain announced Barbarossa as he entered the office. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Like a fairy forest hidden in the center of a New York office building. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Gestapo use the ground floor and two mezzanines for their own accommodation and offices, and it is all kept in beautiful condition. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I locked the door and hobbled to the manager’s office in the lobby, one hand clutching the rail along the walkway for support. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

One Friday afternoon, just before closing time, I heard a scratching sound at the front door of my office. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

The manager took her and Hazel back to a little office and talked with them. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She was faintly queasy when she walked down the hall to his office. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

If you pass the exam you’ll stay in the post office nice and secure the rest of your life. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“They say we must report to the kolkhoz office immediately.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The lady who had showed us into Tuttle’s office had said to help ourself, but Ma and me didn’t want none. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I knocked on his office door quietly, as if I hoped he wouldn’t answer, and soon was sitting silently across from him. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

This was to be Bateson’s fateful journey: by the time he reached the society’s office on Vincent Square, his mind was spinning. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He takes a cab from his office to her neighborhood, getting out at a liquor store to buy a bottle of wine. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

All I really wanted was some time with Zach and to expand my world by visiting the office of a real-life lawyer. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On his way back to class, he stopped at the office to get a pass. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad watched the live stream on the computer, and I listened from outside the office door. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Yes. It’s very discreet. As are the conversations in my office.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Then I rode the Greyhound to Atlanta and limped into the admissions office. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited for my half hour and when I finally got into Principal Peattie’s office, he looked like he wished there was room on the moon shot too. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There’s a loose windowpane in the bottom of the third fixture of the south-facing wall of the housekeeper’s office. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s stupid even thinking about it. As stupid as wanting to work in that office up there. We’re all way beyond that now.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

With an impatient gesture he waved the children into his office. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

But when I walked by the office and found no one standing in line, I thought…what the hell. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Needless to say, I had only the vaguest appreciation of all this as I left Nandan’s office that day in Bangalore. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

But it was merely an office with a desk, a couple of filing cabinets, shelves full of papers and books. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I would then take the bus to the trial, or make an early morning visit to my office. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moments later the two of them were in Mr. Curtain’s office, poring over a chart of Morse code, hastily scrawling a transcription of the distant honks. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

A large crowd of students from our school had gathered outside the school committee offices and shouted nonstop: “We—want—to be—Red Guards! We—want—to establish—revolutionary ties!” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the meeting progressed—and grew heated—the attorney who previously had wanted to accept Holmes’s mortgage stepped out of Chamberlin’s office and entered the room where Holmes waited, ostensibly for a drink of water. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if I’ll be able to sleep in his office, but I would like some time alone, so I say, “Thanks.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also opened a bank account, rented a post office box, and bought a plastic bowl and a spoon at Woolworth’s, a store whose name I recognized from London. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It’s the first time we’ve acknowledged that we were both in that vet’s office when his dog was put to sleep. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He left office in March of 1797 with the resounding cheers of his huge army of supporters and the howls of that much smaller pack of critics echoing in his ears. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Text of cable sent from the FBI’s New York office to FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In halls and offices people are sitting around thinking future thoughts about projects and bridges and fast-clicking trains underneath. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

White liked to interview a subject in a place that was unfamiliar to the person in order to unsettle him, and so he had Lawson taken to a room off the warden’s office. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I tilt my head back to find office furniture floating above me. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Larger office space was acquired and more staff were engaged. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Linton, like the others in his office, didn’t know much about the subject of texting and driving. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Near the front, next to the roller door that opened onto the street, there was a tiny office built out of drywall for doing paperwork and such. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I made copies,” he said, handing them to Wanda, “as much as I could before I left the office today.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He died of a heart attack in his lawyer’s office. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prince must go in person and perform the office of captain himself. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

I am no longer travelling to my imaginary office. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milo was Major Sir Milo Minderbinder in Malta and had a gigantic office in the governor- general’s building. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

So after the two movies, I slinked into my manager’s office and asked to be moved to evening hours on weekends. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Then you must go to the factory today,” the office manager agreed enthusiastically. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Reverend Hughes’s large office, the sun filtering through the stained glass heated up the room to a sweat-inducing temperature. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Because I seemed to remember a sort of cabinet, or safe, or some thing, right behind the desk in the room Mr. Clutter used as an office. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her uncle remained seated in the office’s sagging visitor’s chair. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The 3:30 quitting time turns out to be a myth; often we don’t return to the office until 4:30 or 5:00. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I realized that I was standing in a re-creation of James Halliday’s office, the room in his mansion where he’d spent most of the last fifteen years of his life. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“But no one has ever taken something directly from the headmaster’s office,” Freddie added. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just that I’m your Sunshine Buddy. They assigned me to you in the office.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The light in the office was dimming, but it was not yet too dim to obscure the flush of frustration on Alfred Lanning’s face. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

A number of my former students now worked with the public defender's office in New Orleans, and they, too, had come to court and were cheering. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The porch was separated by French doors from the parlor and by windows from the office. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, Elizebeth herself had a commercial Enigma machine in her office so that her team could study it. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Daniel and Axel help Ms. Dale straighten up the office. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was time for the roundtable meeting with all the lawyers in the office of the Cache County Attorney’s Office. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I’m tied to the whipping post in front of the sheriff’s office. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Every teacher, the office secretary, the principal, even the school nurse and the custodian, all seemed to be watching, always watching. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has a list with him of the people he has to call before the business day is over: Call rental office. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She nodded and moved away from him just as George Wilson emerged with two chairs from his office door. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Little jingle bells chime as we walk into the office. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I was breathing too hard to answer but crept around to the side of the post office. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ballard was keeping the horseshoes in his office until it got warmer. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The room held nothing but the desk, an office chair, and three bookcases. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The bus was still lodged inside the welfare office’s walls, smouldering. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we finally pulled into the parking lot, my body had to adjust to sub-light speeds before I could pour myself out of the Smokemobile’s backseat and follow Sohrab to the ticket office. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Finally she heard a satisfying click, and the window swung open on a deserted office, its walls covered in maps marked with trade routes and chalkboards listing share prices and the names of ships. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When his phone rings, he hopes it’s Maxine, calling to coax him into leaving the office. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

One night, a quiet night there, in the loft, William Still was talking to J. Miller McKim, and to Harriet, when a stranger entered the office. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worse, I was just the same as every other jailhouse con who walked into his office looking to feed him a fake paint-by-numbers home life. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to call the admissions office again.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

That door would be closed, and the office would be empty. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

I felt I could have gotten lost forever as I struggled to find the door that led to the office and safety, opening first one, then another. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A teacher told their grandmother where the registration office was. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The lady from the office said there was some yelling in math class. Do you want to talk about it?” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

They walked into a small office with a receptionist's desk, which contained no receptionist, so then they left and made their way around the side of the warehouse. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

And Dumbledore left the office, leaving Harry to his very confused thoughts. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Now you will go to your office and resign your position, effective immediately.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Mom came out of the office to join us. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

If the sign on the front door hadn’t already, Luce’s office made it clear just what kind of specialist my parents had brought me to see. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t know the money for my fare is growing in the post office and she’d die if she knew what I was earning from writing threatening letters. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

When I asked for Mr. Ferro, the men at the machines waved me back to his office, a windowed cage overlooking the shop. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She begins to pace her office, and her eyes stab into me, warning of whippings and worse. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Ellsberg was permitted to enter the office and look in the binders. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

My mother cleaned the offices of the Jewish Council and of the Nazis who had offices inside the ghetto. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He made arrangements for the sale of his office equipment, broke his lease, and settled the matter of refunds to clients very simply by saying, “Let ’em sue me.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

An office boy came along to direct me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could hang out in the living room, or his office, or the basement. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“The draft offices started drawing names out of a tumbler today,” Cymbeline said. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Dad stood on the stoop of his office when we came out after the training. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I collapsed down in Clancy’s office chair and pressed my face against the dark wood. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

After a while, the smell of food brought Kevin out of his office, but he ate in silence. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Harper was there, too, but she was in her office the whole time, on the phone with the company that made the programs. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“There’s no need to look so worried — I just want a word in my office,” she told them. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then shining cars bring the upper classes down: superintendents, accountants, owners who disappear into offices. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It bangs open and I half fall into the office. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Take Jasper back with you to the office,” I said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He rushed off in the direction of the office. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

It got very hot in the office, and that evening, when I left, I was glad to walk back slowly along the docks. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Ali swiveled away in his office chair to face his desktop computer. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

After a while Madam Pomfrey came out of her office, this time wearing a thick dressing gown. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Every night he sends telegrams from the district office in Saint- Malo. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

More of both patrolled before the University of Islam high school, and the offices of the newspaper Muhammad Speaks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crush stopped next to the land office. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“An architect. I wanted to build homes and offices and stages and parks,” I say. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I went downstairs and walked into the first office I saw. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Back in his San Francisco office, Dr. Gazzaley pulls out a white plastic model of a brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

We wander up and down the long hallways until we find the right office. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

She chose to speak to everyone around her in the same serious and direct fashion, whether they were adolescents in her Girl Scout troop or engineers in the office. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Through the glass window of the office reception area, I see Nuah near the fountain now. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Until later, Gary, Your Militant Working Boy V Dr. Talc lit a Benson & Hedges, looking out of the window of his office in the Social Studies Building. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we became aware that in another part of the office, a couple of the other women had noticed us. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. McCaffrey tells me stay in the office so that I can learn to count magazines and enter them in the ledger. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She had previously been asked to call on Commissioner Storrs at this office. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

"Suddenly we were at the center of things," Anderson told me, gleaming at the memory of it, when I met him and Witzke in their offices on a dismal, rainy morning in June. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He was a great believer in maps, and his offices always contained many maps hung on the walls, showing locations of outbreaks of virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the former score, Adams had the misfortune to become the first occupant of what he described as “the most insignificant office that ever the Invention of Man contrived or his Imagination conceived.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t long before Paul’s staff had to expand its office from a basement room to ten rooms on two floors. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Up a set of stairs, and they were standing outside the prison warden’s office. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

At a quarter to one Ishmael stopped in at the office of the Island County Power & Light Company on the corner of Second Street and Main. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Stone Lane. Follow this here street till you come to the post office. Go on around the post office and that’ll be Windsor. The next street is Stone Lane. He lives in there.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad'd got to his office in Oxford at 8:55 A.M., and by 9:15 A.M. a security guard was escorting him off the premises. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

An autopsy at the state coroner's office in Fairbanks this week found that the man had died of starvation, probably in late July. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would like to have it illuminated to hang in the office. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

On the way, Mr. Jackson stopped at the main office to get a school T-shirt for Jeff. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Dr. Underhill was a paranoid fellow, as any Key Holder has a right to be. He kept surveillance cameras all over his office. We’ve got the whole incident recorded.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“There’s been many a man who walked into ol’ Doc’s office healthy as a roach and come out with a sheet over his face,” Cleve said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hospital ward I was born in, classrooms, tents, churches, offices, hotels, museums, nursing homes, the room I'll die in. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“They won’t dance for coins, they don’t care how you style yourself or what that chain of office means or who your grandsire was. They follow strength. They follow the man.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The sharp rattle of a slamming door outside the office caused Officer Sandoval to glance over her shoulder, but I knew who it was before the shouting began. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

And it befell that when Zacharias should do the office of the priesthood in the order of his course before God, New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

They strode after him, and moments later, found themselves outside Professor McGonagall’s office. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Obligations with respect to the Supply Corps: Residents must be prepared to help with office work at all times. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Nasser and his son followed my parents to the county clerk's office, but once they got there, my dad realized he'd left his wallet at the restaurant. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Follow me,” said the Station Inspector, who led them back to his office. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“You have to collect your ration coupon at the kolkhoz office.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Here it was: all the stuff of her activity that I had expected to see in her room at home, the “office” whose location 178 she would not reveal. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

There are safety systems in every home and every office building, with multiple levels of redundancy, just in case. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Sass only gave my arm a yank and propelled me into the office. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Go straight to his office and then come right back to this lobby, understand?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Coram watched the other end, which opened into a narrow street of office buildings. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

On their way from the White House, they stopped by Joseph Stanley Brown's office. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I took one last look around Halliday’s office; then, still clutching the egg in my hands, I walked across the room and stepped through the exit. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, I realized I no longer had the right to stand there outside the office and listen to them without their knowing it. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

She ran into the janitor’s office and grabbed Florence Nightingale off the desk and ran back out. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

They all got to their feet then and returned to their separate offices. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For one Hearst Metro- tone newsreel he sat in his office, young inmates around him wearing masks to preserve their anonymity. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The contact page only listed a general email address and phone number for the law office. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Weasley had braved the telephone in the village post office to order three ordinary Muggle taxis to take them into London. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

As soon as he left the office, though, he’d begun to speak loudly and incomprehensibly about Mike Tyson. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was surprised that I was looking forward to the long walk from Sequoia Middle School over to the district offices where I had my second meeting with Mr. Dell Duke. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

To the right is a small office with a glass window that has inch-wide squares of thin wire embedded in it; inside, nurses sit at computers. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Now, however, the office was full of a number of exceptionally odd objects that Harry supposed Moody had used in the days when he had been an Auror. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I decide it’s best to take an inventory of my current “liquid assets,” so I get up and head to my dad’s home office, where the rest of my ÁguaViva is. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She led Dumbledore into a small room that seemed part sitting room, part office. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Yet when they called his name to the transfer office, he lost no time gathering his things and getting in the van to leave. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

There was a rumor that satellite phones were working and that there was one phone, connected to a fax line, in the upstairs office of the bus station. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I called up Daisy from the office next morning and invited her to come to tea. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

We rush back down the hall, but the office door is locked too. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

At five my mother and I reached the superintendent’s office on First Avenue and found a throng of black men, women and children waiting on line. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking maybe Sandy will feel sorry for me and postpone our big meeting until after winter break, which starts tomorrow, when he mouths at me My office, and gestures toward the door. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

This was a lot more than he earned at his short-lived office job in the Loop. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The warden of the college, Reverend A. J. Cook, learned of this dispute and called us into his office. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day after Mamá bought food for us from street vendors for our meals, she and Papá went to the immigration office to check on our petition for visas. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

We walk into the dingy office where David gave me my mother’s journal. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

We were in an office building of some kind. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He had a second-floor walk-up office in the neighboring town of Bristol. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He felt that he didn’t want his office much longer. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The same scene played out all over the world, in parks, bars, civic centers, living rooms, classrooms, and offices. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the office, I pick up my late-arrival pass before going to English class. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I went into Mr. Ballard’s office and he was talking with Mrs. Stenson and when he saw us he called, “My partner!” and I introduced him to Lil and they shook hands. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

After finagling ourselves out of a visit to the principal’s office, we limped home. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

This speculation was sparked again by a report that lay on my desk in the old barn that served as my office. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Near the office, a man greeted them and offered his services as an interpreter. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picks up the phone to call the office. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

In his office Luce got straight to the point. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As he rose from one political office to another, he never once distinguished himself. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Axel tips his head back like he’s drinking the fresh air the same way he drank the water in Dr. Taylor M. Martin’s office. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He ended up in George Soros’s Manhattan office, where he compellingly made his case. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

We headed back to the central prison office. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

From Feldman’s perspective, an office worker who eats a bagel without paying is committing a crime; the office worker probably doesn’t think so. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“And when you got there you went to the post office.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

We put up a small handwritten notice at the newspaper office and made sure that old Backy Medlin, the gin’s most maundering gossip, knew what we were looking for. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

We’d found cheap office space in a building on Michigan Avenue and managed to get a load of donated secondhand chairs and tables from a corporate consulting firm that was redecorating its offices. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Most of his notions about corporate and office work came from reading Dilbert. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It placed its entire great weight on top of his grandma’s office. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

We walked through the front doors and climbed the stairs to the main office. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Away from the office, Barack and I talked endlessly, over leisurely walks around Hyde Park dressed in shorts and T-shirts and meals that seemed short to us but in reality went on for hours. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Goodale was in his office later that morning when the call came in. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But it was his responsibility to investigate, so he offered to meet with him at his office. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

In contrast to the more traditional surrounding architecture, such as the county attorney’s office across the street, the three-story courthouse sports steel trim around a checkerboard of clear glass windows that stretch the buildings height. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In Selma the voter registration office was open for just a few hours on two Mondays a month. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman called to someone in the other office, and a man came out. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t worked since she got married, and before that she’d only been an assistant in the offices of a magazine. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He worked in the district attorney’s office for two years and then opened a criminal practice of his own. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kathy would have to go back into the city and find papers proving ownership of their office building. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He motioned for us to come sit in his office. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I wait patiently for some teacher or the headmaster to walk me to the office. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The stationmaster was in his office looking at some papers. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way I look how can I ever start my job at the post office. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Jaden and Jenny looked at each other and nodded and then let me leave the office, saying we’d try again next week. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

In a few weeks I’ll be delivering telegrams at the post office, working like a man. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Oh, and on the way to the Watch Commander’s Office, I should stop and pick up an evidence bag from the disciplinary office, in which to place the burner. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After about ten minutes he came walking rapidly out of his office, his head down and his hands sunk in the pockets of his white smock. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The system cut off our voice links to you as soon as you entered Halliday’s office, so we couldn’t talk to you.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

By nightfall, when the boys Rab had selected began silently to congregate in the office of the Observer, behind locked doors, the rain stopped. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Give this to those nice people in the office,” she whispers. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

When I was finished, I sat, and he performed the same office for me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

After we picked the lock to my mom’s office closet, my sister would open her gifts and mine too, but not before I left the room. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Someone threw a brick through my parents’ office window.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“But the important thing is to get him into office first. The guys gotta do what he’s gotta do. At least now this pastor business is closed.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The door to the office was closed, but I could see someone’s shape behind the frosted glass. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

At Dr. Holiday’s office she asked me what I had been thinking about during the week. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

My dad was still tuned in, however, playing sofa soldier from the pullout in the office, the one with the metal bar underneath the seat cushions, specially designed to ensure maximum discomfort. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“I just want you to know that I’m going to try really hard not to send you to the office. If we have something to deal with, you and I will deal with it together.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t bother telling Mom she should have said something in private instead of in front of the whole office. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And then I looked at my watch and 3 minutes had gone past since I was at the ticket office, which meant that the train would be going in 2 minutes. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Have either of you been into my office?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Mom hadn’t made an appointment with Dr. Mertz but she timed our arrival so we would show up just at the end of his office hours. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He was sitting in his tiny paper-covered office at the college, leaning back in his chair and chewing the end of a pencil. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bragg was in Max’s office when I rushed in the next day to blurt out what I had learned. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The office was plain, stuffed full of gunmetal gray filing cabinets, but little else. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I am rested and ready for anything when I arrive at The Maids’ office suite Monday at 7:30 A.M. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

My entire body was shivering by the time I finally reached the warm confines of the Mailbox, a post office box rental outlet located four blocks from the IOI plaza. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Lupin made me a cup of tea in his office. And then Snape came in....” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Madam President wants to see you in her office.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

From that office, they could not see the southern end next to die isolation area where there was a small garden. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marie’s in the office finishing the part-time drivers’ cashout receipts, smoking a long menthol cigarette, and listening to a hard rock radio station. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Several teachers came into the guidance office on business. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Neel would never forget those long days of studying, spending hours first in the classroom, then in Headmaster’s office, and finally at his desk at home. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

White said to him, “We understand from the governor’s office you know something about the Osage murders.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I end up sitting on a bench by the office. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I quickly turned to the closed office door. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Every time I stepped into his office, I felt the need to genuflect. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I knew I could get there two different ways: the busy route, which went right past the cafeteria, and the quiet route, which went the long way around the office. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

At about the same time that Dionysius was kicked out of office, Boethius, too, fell from power and was imprisoned. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Freshly inaugurated to an office he never ran for—well, what would you be thinking? Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

In peacetime, heat like that would have shut down the office, but in the middle of a war, they had to carry on. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The office overlooks the sea, and we took a minute to watch the freighters in the harbor, which was ablaze with sunlight. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

It’s weird how six days ago I met Arthur at a post office and the universe reached out with both arms to pull us together. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The office looks like a hybrid got loose in here too. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

But a few evenings later, when several of us were sitting around a fire in the farmhouse, Ruth began telling us about the sort of office she’d ideally work in, and I immediately recognised it. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Near the end of the day, John telephoned his wife from his office at the manufacturing plant to tell her that he would be working late. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a brief stop at the police station, we were joined by another officer and went to my office, which they searched for another forty- five minutes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on, Julian,” she said, and she walked out of the office. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“If you wouldn’t mind calling my office, I’d be happy to speak with you at a later date.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“The post office just closed down. It could take until Christmas before they can deliver letters.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pearl buyers’ offices were clustered together in one narrow street, and they were barred at the windows, and wooden slats cut out the light so that only a soft gloom entered the offices. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the quiet of his office my ears begin to calm down. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Kindly come along to my office at 8 P.M. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Instead I went with my parents to the Marine Corps office near our tribal headquarters to sign up. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He does not go to the guidance office and pore over their files to learn more about them. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

People had voted for James Garfield, never expecting Arthur to inherit the office. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

We were in the principal’s office and there were a lot of people looking embarrassed, but the assistant principal was smiling and turning his head so no one would see it. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I stood right in front of Mom’s office, and my feet wouldn’t budge. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He said, Six, Seven, and before I could clap again he grabbed my arm and dragged me out of the gym and through the halls to Principal Peattie’s office. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

This was where the finest paintings in the house were kept, for Esteban Trueba had made this his refuge, his office, his sanctuary, and he liked to have his most cherished objects close beside him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I used to build for fun, for the sheer pleasure of crafting a miniature warehouse, office, palace, stable, restaurant out of rubble. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Just feeling a little light-headed ...” He led me to a chair in his office and went to make the tea. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Werner is summoned to the office of the technical sciences professor. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“You know, Horace, our part of the county has been pretty much left out. Did you ever think of running for office?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the next couple of days looking up more facts about wrongful convictions, and found out that the Innocence Project had an office in Boston. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She clip-clops down the upstairs hall and slams the door to her office. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I have to stop by Mrs. Parker’s office before I leave,” she says. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Ishmael Chambers, in the last light of day, found himself seated in the office of the lighthouse chief petty officer, a large man named Evan Powell. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Escort Miss Du Barry out of my chambers and back to her office," Sophia demands. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The next day, he bearded Lawrence in his office with the words “We have to do something about this.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Isaiah, why are you in my office again?” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

As a supervisor she came into contact with engineers from a variety of groups, some of whom came to the office insisting that she personally handle their jobs. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

We were always looking for ways to stand up to the authorities, and the report of a beating was the kind of incident we could raise with the head office. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up every scrap of my letter to Doreen, so Doctor Gordon couldn't piece them together and see I was planning to run away, and walked out of his office without another word. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Without stopping to shave or comb my hair or even change my clothes from the night before, I grabbed my Greek Prose composition book and my Liddell and Scott and ran to Julian’s office. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In my experience, that many people encircling another guy usually ends in a trip to the nurse’s office, or worse, to the hospital for stitches. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Everyone always tells me to work in an office, which shows they don’t know me at all. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And as though in resigned acceptance of a lack of individuality, there was no map of Europe on the wall of the Madame Co-ordinator’s office. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Behind the building which housed the dentist’s office ran a small path used by servants and those tradespeople who catered to the butcher and Stamps’ one restaurant. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hey, so I don’t know if this is supposed to be a joke or a prank or what, but I saw your flyer about the post office. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Inside the counseling office, I check in with the secretary and take a seat in one of the hard wooden chairs until Mr. Embry is ready for me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He even let me smoke a cigarette in his office, but he urged me to quit smoking because of the health risks. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

When he started his business, he expected a 95 percent payment rate, based on the experience at his own office. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Government offices in Washington and other cities, as well as many stores, closed for the day. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He would not check on the office this day. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She was in the middle of reading Little House in the Big Woods, and I was going to miss her reading because I was in the principal’s office. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Tab. I think you may have called Emily from the dentist’s office.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then, starting into one of the offices, the boy stopped short and grinned. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the intercom in Mr.Watras’s room buzzed, and I got called to the office. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered once when he was very young, maybe three or four, and he’d followed Mother into Dad’s office while she was cleaning. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Often I would be asked to translate for other women at the welfare office, since Mami told everyone I spoke good English. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Anyone who watches even the slightest amount of TV is familiar with the scene: An agent knocks on the door of some seemingly ordinary home or office. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It occurs to me then that the Commandant’s office door is probably still open, her papers strewn about, visible to anyone with the courage to look. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Franklin Roosevelt had been in office for a year and a half, the stock market had stabilized, for the moment, and employment was up slightly. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But here in Marks’s office, I was more than fine, still throbbing with adren-aline. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“Pearl,” she said softly, “the office says your mother’s here to pick you up. Take your things with you, they said.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He finds Rafael Luna hunched at his office’s open window, sucking down a cigarette. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And just before Byrd can get her first word out, a word that may or may not be 100 percent the truth, there’s yelling in the main office. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She felt sorry for Adelaide, though, and after taking the passport, she turned the backpack in to a lost properties office. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Even though it was very late, he heard voices coming from his uncle’s office, so he worked his broom and dustpan closer to the door. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

She tried to reach Dad—first at his mobile number, then through his office beeper—but she couldn’t. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barnett excelled, attending Northwestern University and opening his own law office right there in Chicago when he was just twenty years old. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The justice locked away in his office the little evidence that he’d gathered, in case more information emerged. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She turns and walks with me to the post office on Henry Street. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

In one of the tottering piles in my office, I found the logs from the private detectives hired by Whitehorn’s estate after his death. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Part of me is relieved: there are four rooms on this floor, and mine is at the opposite end of the hallway, across from Mama’s office. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

I rang the sergeant’s office—Wickersham took the call—and let him know. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of days later, in Lawrence’s office, York was startled when Ernest asked him bluntly: “Does the United States need a second nuclear weapons laboratory?” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It is always a long walk down to the principal’s office. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Right then, in that office, with the realization that no one knew the truth about my life, my thoughts about the world were shaken. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“You made acquaintance with my son, sir,” said the old man, in his chirping way, while he warmed his hands at the blaze, “at his office, I expect?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

He had a kettle and some Nescafe on top of a fridge in the corner of the office. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we got home, he stormed upstairs to his office without another word. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Interview this morning with Time magazine in their new offices. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I took a guess and sent it, and the post office returned it, Big Ma would get my letter first. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

His mom worked as a receptionist at a dentist’s office. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It just didn’t seem in character, somehow, for correct, law-abiding Mr. Crouch to be sneaking around somebody else’s office this late at night.... Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

We got to the school and the guard told us to go to the general office and get visitors’ passes. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Past small office buildings; past the bicycle repair shop; and now she could see the river that bordered the community, its dark water moving swiftly, foaming around rocks here and there. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I had read that he had faced up to other Southern segregationists and forced them to let my people run for public office. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I figured I’d get some practice in on the pad before school, so I set myself up in the office. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And the Gestapo, they won’t be kind to you because you’re a pretty girl. In fact, I don’t think a girl like you would leave their office at all.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She was seated on a hall bench with her back to an arched window, just outside the assessor’s office, which was closed, gathering herself, apparently. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was on a couch in the manager’s office, and Lane was sitting beside her. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The core group, which had been housed in an office in the Nineteen-Foot Pressure Tunnel on the East Side, dwindled away. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Well, you just told me what happened at the post office, but I want the whole story.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

After making the three-hour drive back from Gadsden earlier in the day and heading straight to the office, it was once again approaching midnight as I left the office for home. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

My dad has a separate little office down there. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the three men wrote their answers, two others, white men, sauntered into the office. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow I’m getting up, I’m getting dressed, and I’m walking to the post office. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He cursed himself as he walked down to Papi’s office in search of a shovel and rock salt. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The office closed for lunch and later reopened, and we were still sitting there. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A staunch Republican, he was also elected to local office. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

My speech had the intended effect, and Jimmy left the office. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He helped out each day in the administration office. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since I got this office gig, Tai’s been bugging me about keeping up my average. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Gideon had worked for a time in a freight yard in Springfield, Illinois, and Miss Leeds, the lady in the office, had taken me under her wing. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He went to the ticket office and laid down a coin and I saw him slip the tickets to the girl. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You saw what he wrote on the wall! He found — in my office — he knows I’m a — I’m a —” Filch’s face worked horribly. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The following day I was at my office bright and early. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It got so bad, she said, the lawyer kicked them out of his office. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A long wavy red line led the way from the gym to the main office at the far end of the main hallway. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

For a while the door of the office was open and everyone who came into the garage glanced irresistibly through it. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

When James Garfield and Chester Arthur ran for office in 1880, Guiteau saw an opportunity to reach his ambition of becoming a great and famous man. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“What are you talking about? Since when do you have to wear a sweater in the office?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

To this end, I rehearsed my speeches again and again using a teleprompter set up in one corner of my office. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Finally the DMV woman disappeared into the back of the office. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The cell adjacent to my office was one of two on the gallery that were double-bunked. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t leave the room until the cab was waiting by the motel office with the motor running. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I’m embarrassed to admit that I was pretty inconsolable at school, crying so hard until Dad left work to visit me in the nurse’s office to see how I was doing. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

To get to Mr. Lewis’s office, you had to walk across the third floor and up the stairs into a corridor Hazel had never been in. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I spent the spring of 1993 working furiously to set up an office and hire a small staff so that we could have a class of Allies in place by the fall. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In the tiny office, they found a fat young woman seated behind a big wooden desk. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s done now. Your grandmother will come to pick you up at my office tomorrow. I’ll come about nine to get you.” iomorrow? The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

You reach for the next rung of the ladder, and this time it's a job with a salary in the Chicago offices of a high-end law firm called Sidley & Austin. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We ran through the garden and up the office’s back steps. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I looked into the window of an office building that I guessed was about ten blocks away. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

"I can see that you’ve really got your hands full with that one," he said, rolling his eyes toward Valencia's office. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

And all over the country, teens and young adults who had grown up believing they would come of age in wartime rushed to military posts and recruitment offices to volunteer to defend their Motherland. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

After a few blocks I find myself standing in front of a cottage that’s been turned into an office. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Everywhere I looked, there were desks that were so huge and dark, you could barely see the people sitting behind them, and people moving in and out of offices—mostly cops. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

The office was just an office—certificates framed on the walls, books on a bookshelf, computer humming on the desk. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He looked at the office worker and forced a pleasant tone. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I can’t imagine using this ancient thing, and it’s almost impossible to picture it in our office down the hall. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It had only just registered that this was Mr. Griswold’s office when Jack pushed the doors open and there was Mr. Griswold himself. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The office smelled like peppermint and rubbing alcohol. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Later that day, I took Barack to lunch at the fancy restaurant on the first floor of our office building, a place packed with well-groomed bankers and lawyers power lunching over meals priced like dinners. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“The keys in the office are all such a mess. I hope I can figure out which one even opens it.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Dell went to his office with a spring in his step. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I sat on a bench outside the conference room of the district office of Mom’s store. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he reported Dana to Miss Hennepin, she’d do nothing more than summon him to her office for a stern lecture, which Dana would laugh off. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His tone was dismissive, and when he turned his back to me I knew he'd ended the meeting and was now eager to get me out of his office. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

This morning I began sorting out an index card file from the office, because it’d fallen over and gotten all mixed up. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She took him by the shirt collar to the school director’s office, where he got a scolding he didn’t think he deserved. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But when Harry burst into the circular office he found a change. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The black phone was just like the phone in the principal’s office. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I find my mom in her office and ask if I can borrow her car. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The library is to the left, the Delaware county courthouse and sheriffs office are to the right. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They entered the doctor’s office and brought out my mother; she lay with closed eyes, her body swathed in white. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She laughed and was about to turn into the office when she saw Abuela. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Miss Joe takes me to her living room, which is just like her office: overflowing with books and journals and newspapers and magazines. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

From the offices, Hugo followed a long, hidden tunnel to the back of the clock opposite the old man’s toy booth. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t noticed it when she was in Robin’s office that time. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was their office, study, living room, dining room, kitchen, bedroom, bath, and laboratory—all in one. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hull even had an office on campus, a place Moss had strenuously tried to avoid in his time at West Oakland High. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Desperate to get their papers any way they can, many turn to shady storefront legal offices. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

General Russell’s office occupied a corner of a low-slung Second World War barracks that had been recently plastered with stucco in a hopeless effort to make it look new. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry hesitated, glanced at Fawkes, then got up, walked across the office, and pulled open the cabinet door. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then I go to my own locker, pull out the books I need, and head back to the office. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

From what I could gather, Mr. Winterbottom worked in an office, creating road maps. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

On the first floor there they kept their extra supplies—tools, paints, brushes, drop cloths, everything—and on the second floor they had their offices, with their computers, files, maps, invoices, deeds to the properties. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Every shelf in his office boasted pictures of his kids: building sand castles at the beach, swinging baseball bats, waving from sailboats. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

She would have been working in the office and answering the phone all that morning. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As he spoke he dragged me to the pay phone in the hall near the principal’s office. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The front of the tank had blown off and a thousand gallons of water had cascaded into Herod Sayle’s office. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Could you direct me to the main office?” the man asked. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She found an ad that seemed a happy combination of factory and office; operating a machine in office surroundings. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam comes out of Mrs. Parker’s office, an envelope in her hand and the biggest smile on her face. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I know! We’ll get an office manager once we move into the new office space. Someone who can keep things totally cool.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, the door to the office opened, and in came the Station Inspector with two policemen. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He exited from Level 3—removed his scrub suit and took a water shower and dressed in civilian clothes—and went to Jahrling’s office. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Petitions arrived in the governor’s office, asking him to commute her sentence to life imprisonment. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time he turns left in the main area of the office, he’s resolved to this. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The boys at the post office say sick people like Theresa know there’s little time left and that makes them mad for love and romance and everything. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was late morning, and I was waiting for Reverend Tantsi to arrive from Pretoria, when he telephoned me at the office. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Jesse has been in an office tower since October,” I added, as I prepared to leave. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mayor’s office was in the Gathering Hall. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The house next door just turns up empty one morning, or the post office clerk doesn’t show up for work, or your friend or your teacher doesn’t come to school. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“You sound like one of those posters in the doctor’s office.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I remember eavesdropping as a little girl while the Beauty Minister and Du Barry spoke in her office about beauty trends and body parts, and how much the masses should pay to be beautiful. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It’s not like going back to work after a three-hour lunch and staggering through the office, everyone looking, Martin Miles taking me to one side, I thinkyou should probably go home, Rachel. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sergeant, what did you just say ?” “I said that Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he’s in his office.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Then two years later, she chained herself to the door of the university president's office. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told Mom that I needed to do rehearsal for the talent show instead of coming to her office. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

In fact, I called the admissions office to ask if the school would still look at a lad’s application three months after the deadline had passed. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Annoyed, she walked down the hallway to the main office and threaded her way between desks to the back of the room. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I was looking forward to being with my friends, with people I could talk to and laugh with, but Danny said we had been summoned to the vice- principal’s office. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His volume was loud, though—loud enough for everyone in the office to hear. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"Maybe their contact in the ration office knows somebody in our ration office." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The office is dingy, but he knows that Panglobal handles almost half of the ornamental souvenirs that enter the U.S. from the Far East. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

We were sitting under one of the few trees out in front of the main school district office when I said to her, in Vietnamese: "You are my new best friend." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He directed me to a wood-paneled office with walls lined with law books, school diplomas, and family photographs. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The Station Inspector laughed as he left the office and closed the door behind him. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Or my mother, telling me that she’ll be in London next week, she’ll drop by the office, we can go for lunch. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason, though—perhaps because I have an appointment and haven’t worn out my welcome yet—I get taken to an inner office where a young woman interviews me absentmindedly. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had some people here from your office when Robbie died too. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the most succinct way to put it is that Washington was leaving office not just because he was hearing whispers of mortality,but also because he was wounded. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Earlier that afternoon, Lincoln was happy to be free of the politicians and the burdens of his office. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

For real, man, it’s like someone’s picture you’d see in one of them magazines laying around the dentist’s office. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Pash reported to General Groves’s office in Washington, D.C., suggesting that the “subject still is or may be connected with the Communist Party.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1934 Charles Howard could look out from his offices and see a city shaped by his vision. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The passport, weren’t you going to bring it to the post office to get a passport right away?” she asked in Creole. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“To the office?” said I, for he was tending in that direction. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

We had to wait over two hours at the doctor’s office. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Next was sorting files in a dusty accountant’s office that closed down within weeks of my arrival. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

But I didn't think I was ready to take on the responsibilities of running a nonprofit law office. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Ned was clad in a white linen doublet with the direwolf of Stark on the breast; his black wool cloak was fastened at the collar by his silver hand of office. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

My mother was off at her art gallery organizing a new exhibit, Lily was out with her friends, and my father was probably at his office. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

During my years researching the murders of the Osage, I had turned my small office in New York into a grim repository. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My brother’s therapist has an office next to the principal’s. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The house had four entrances, and when, after repeated knockings, there was no response at this one, she moved on to the next—that of Mr. Clutter’s office. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason, I seemed to know quite a few graphic designers whose homes and offices pleasantly stank of Spray Mount. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

On Sundays, when the square was much quieter, the constable read the village news on the steps of the town hall, followed by the clerk, who read the legal news from the notary’s office. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Behind him he left unlocked the office of the Review—three rooms that had once housed a book and magazine shop and still contained its many wall shelves. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The room seemed to be some kind of office. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Lips quivering with rage, she hauled me off to Celina Aunty’s office and ranted. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I had spent the afternoon preparing, leaving the office on a pretense of illness to avoid having to attend the celebration. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure. Why don’t we talk in my office?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The middle school office is located in a one- story building that looks like the younger brother of the high school building. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat with the boys on the sidewalk by the office as Zion said, “I think I might audition for The Wizard of Oz.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She took in the gleaming tower of an office building, the blue sky reflected off its sides. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Which was one step up from his father who had always made me stand before him like a school kid sent to the principal’s office. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then I walked out of the office and went outside and sat on the steps. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know when he will be back. Wouldn’t it be better if you made an appointment to see him at the office in the morning?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He goes to his office for a second, then comes back to me and holds my chin. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He is the only person at the office. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The principal, Mr. Freeman, is talking to a teacher when I run into the office for a late pass, and he just waves me on to class. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Except the office, where the telephone was off the hook, and the wires cut, same as in the kitchen. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s right. Apparently they’re owned by a subcontractor with separate insurance. It’s all very complicated, with lots of people in lots of offices claiming it’s not their liability.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Mr. Gonzalez was about to search Miss Trixie’s area for his missing stamp pad when the door of the office opened and she shuffled in, scuffing her sneakers across the wooden floor. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They should have been in my office that day with those two newlyweds looking at me as though I were telling them something nobody’d ever heard of before. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Justice remembered that he had a friend in Queenstown named Sidney Nxu who was working in the office of a white attorney. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hall too, that the office opened on, was lined with them. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I decided I would call the attorney general's office and see if they would concede legal error in the pending appeal, which would ensure relief at the appellate court and perhaps expedite Walter's release. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Ruthie shakes her head and latches her tiny hand on my skirt, pulling me in the direction of Miss Preston's office. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Then June suggested the registrar’s office, which made total sense. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Mia,” my mother calls out as I’m leaving the small office. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

They were in the little back office, playing cards. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

I’m back in the headmaster’s office, back in jail. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I will be at the voter registration office at nine a.m. when it opens. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was only a story, but sitting in the counselor's office I realized I should have known better. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We were in the process of building a massive grassroots campaign network—ultimately two hundred staffers in thirty-seven offices—the largest in the history of the Iowa caucuses. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have time to visit the Reuters office in Bangalore, but I was able to get hold of Tom Glocer, the CEO of Reuters, to hear what he was doing. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

I go upstairs to my old office to take a little break myself. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though we had little time to discuss it, since the Dean had to be at his office for an appointment, I promised to return and share my findings with him. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I brought out a flashlight and looked through the office for a note saying “Back in ten minutes,” but there was none. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he got dressed in the dark, he whispered up to the top bunk, “Reynie, they didn’t happen to blindfold you when you went to Mr. Curtain’s office, did they?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

We step out of the office and nearly knock into Noah. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, she was told to vacate her Navy quarters and return to her old office at the Coast Guard. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She sails into the sheriff's office unannounced, like she owns the place. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

If you would just come to my office and sit with me for one day, you’d see how many mothers bring their kids over. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no privacy in Dalgard’s office; it was a fishbowl. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Classes already were in session, and you could see the children watching us through the open doors as we walked down the corridor to the principal’s office. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only when we were quiet did he take a seat in the small office at the end of the passage where he dozed until morning. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two on V-south had, so I let them out, closed the brake, then walked into my office to answer the phone. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father Olufemi gave him a kind smile before turning on his heels to head up the stairs to his office. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

At the worst, maybe they’d land in a wastebasket at the post office. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

When the bell rang he bolted out of his seat and hurried to the office, where he asked the secretary if he could use the phone. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

His office in Building 1 afforded him a commanding view of the large park in the center of the Johnson Space Center complex. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got up and went to the back office, where he opened the hidden panel and flicked the switch to On. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I will write a note for you to take to the lawyer’s office before you go home, and another for Anne, telling her that Elihu will be soon set free.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“But back at Medusa’s, when you were searching her office? Annabeth was telling me— “Oh, I forgot. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

We stood ourselves by the door and heard a brief altercation take place inside the office. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The office was starting to fill up with kids, and Dr. Johnson was needed elsewhere. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked out of the office knowing that he would never remember what he had felt moments ago. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When my mother and I had taken the dollar to the post office to exchange it, we had walked out with twenty-four Zim dollars. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

During break, I ran over to the main office to pick up the stuff Mom should have dropped off by now. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I close the door to the office, ensuring my privacy, and pull out the last box of ÁguaViva. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Normally bonobos weren’t allowed near the offices, since they tended to make a mess anywhere they went, but since Otto was attached to me for the time being, we got special permission. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Levy asked the office manager, whose lips had turned white. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything in Dr. Barney’s office was branded—the Post-it notes said Paxil on them; his pens were all for Prozac; the desk calendar had Zoloft on each page. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Williams led us out of the office. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

One girl from Mrs. Salinger’s class got called down to the office, and another mom showed up right at the classroom door. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Coming upon the open door to Bloom’s office, we slowed, then halted, Colton in front. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad came out of his office and found me standing in front of their bedroom door. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Our building, owned by Indians, was one of the few places where Africans could rent offices in the city. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe she was getting some dehydrated ice cream for me, or dropping something off at the post office. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She walked me to a building near Papa Andrew’s office. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Saturday, but Dad was at his office as he often was on the weekend. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Brademas has to scissor his way into his own office. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Josh is walking into the principal’s office when I get off the phone. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘You should always wear clean underwear to the doctor’s office,’ chided Hygeia. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I drove around the dorms, the library, the classroom buildings, and the administration offices. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Progress for the group meant a step back for its leader; Dorothy’s career as a manager came to an end on the last day of the West Area Computing office. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He forgave Luna before he ever walked into the office, but he appreciates the apology. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Four years later, Satchmo moved from his old neighborhood to Marlow Hill, after his mother had taken a job as an office assistant at a veterinary clinic. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Mam begs the post office to take me back. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Gillam Park had nothing civilized around it and was far from a grocery store or doctor’s office. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They shook hands, and Jethro felt good as he walked down the street to the hitching post, where the young man from the newspaper office had tied his team. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Crook finishes, Lincoln comes to his office door. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The next night, Singleton and Agent Olsen gathered around a wooden table in the modest Davis County office of the Highway Patrol in Farmington with Briana Bishop and her father, Steve Bishop. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The four of them sat in the office with the bank manager, who explained that Benji could not make a withdrawal. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I left the coach’s office and went back to practice in a daze. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I could not face the office right away. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Both turned at once and left the office. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

From thence I went on to Carter Paterson’s central office, where I met with the utmost courtesy. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me,” I call over and over to kids’ backs, making room for us to move down the quiet hallway outside the community center offices. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leary went back into his office, braced for the mob inside. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I was standing out on the steps of the office this morning talking to the milkman.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We never had no cause to go into the post office. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my introduction, I told the audience how, on the day of her release from Tutwiler, Marsha had come to the office to thank everyone. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“He thought he would be taken to the commander’s office. There he would have a chance to clear up whatever confusion there was. But they steered him toward that building there.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I guess the fact that he didn’t throw me out of his office is a good sign,” I said lamely. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chapman suggested that we come to his office in the Monroe County courthouse so that they could turn over all the files together. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It used to be the post office was where I went to send my mail, but once the Internet came alive, I wanted my mail digitized so I could e-mail it. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Nurse, this young man can go home. I want to see him in my office in ten days.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He finally managed to drag me into his office. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“That chili was really bad. I tried to eat it, but Lydia kept gagging every time she walked by my office. I think she was kidding, but still.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Right then there were footsteps outside the office door and the sound of keys rattling. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Johnson, who taught Home Economics, called me to her office. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I had heard plenty of stories about the wild parties he threw in his offices on the second floor of the factory, parties that went late into the night. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Dr. Doris’s office is different from Dad’s office. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The office smells of sweat and leather—like an old baseball glove. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if it sounded like the district attorney’s office was circling Reggie, that was far from the case. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In her laboratory, six saltwater aquaria gurgle reassuringly; on the back wall stand three cabinets with four hundred drawers in each, salvaged years ago from the office of Dr. Geffard. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When we got back, Miss Duncan had marched us right into Miss Preston’s office. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Every morning, when Papi leaves for the office, one of the cars starts up its colicky motor and follows him down the hill. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The core of the group coalescing around the US space effort shared an office with Katherine, ate sandwiches with her during lunch, and bonded with her over an enthusiasm for gust alleviation and wake turbulence. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

We waited for Mr. Lias at the drug store because Cold Sassy’s post office was in there, a big pigeonhole desk over where the telephone central switchboard used to be. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I leave the office and walk down the hall, where Bobby is leading a new recruit on his welcoming tour—a black guy with wild teeth and a stained blue sweatsuit. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Reporters had been calling Dads office, the Department of Civil Engineering, asking how a school could be built over a huge sinkhole. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hurried across from the post office side and took the plug of tobacco away from Mixon and cut it again. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I think about him in the elevator and down the long hallway and every moment until the moment that I have to stop thinking about him, when I enter the office. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

But to us students, the word—this office—is far more frightening. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

One: I waited outside the post office doors. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

A day after the results appeared in the World the principal called me to his office, where I found several teachers full of smiles and congratulatory remarks. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I approached the office and waited for my mom to finish her phone call so she could tell me what job I would have. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He had been on the island for only a few weeks when I was summoned to his office for a meeting. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Harlem, where the laborers lived, people wore the bright colors deemed inappropriate for offices. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Luckily, I picked a good key and turned the shriek into a melody, walking into the nurse’s office humming a tune. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The custodian and the taxi driver lug the trunks to Mrs. Johnson's office. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Their dislike for me seems to fill up the whole office. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Looking through one of the windows, she saw her dad and the man from the post office cross the parking lot. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“We can arrange regular visitations for you and them at the county offices,” the worker replied. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

But over the decade following the riot, gangs and organized crime continued to operate unchecked by the mayor, angering enough citizens that Thompson was voted out in 1931, never to hold office again. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Just before lunchtime, into the office walked a woman in a tight pencil skirt and patent shoes high as stilts, her straightened hair sleekly pulled back. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The drovers are bunched up in front of the sheriff's office shouting and waving guns. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“What do you think you’re going to do? Storm into his office, guns blazing? His security detail will shoot you in a second.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

By the time I get to the main office, I’ve dried my eyes and my face completely. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

So that was the second time they got married—in the pastor’s office—and they didn’t tell us about it until Ray started hanging around again. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The third time was in Headmaster Clarkson’s office the morning after a photoshopped image of me as a terrorist was sent anonymously to the entire Granger student body. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I lied to Dad and told him I’d forgotten to go to the office store for school supplies. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I’ve always wanted you to assume more responsibility and authority,” the office manager screamed. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A parent needed to speak with her in the office. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Two security guards took me into an office, called the school nurse, who was a female, and they ordered me to take my coat off. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The school office is the best place to go for gossip. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Shanon wanted to see us before we left for Texas, so we met up with her at the child protective services office in Columbus. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When the halls were empty, Barker’s team would sneak through an underground corridor connecting the hotel with the Watergate office building next door. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

As I approach the glass-enclosed office, I see Dad there, waiting, leaning over the' front counter, talking to the secretary. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Every week or so, I had gotten into the tradition of bringing her things I found while emptying the office’s rubbish bins. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He and Richards trudged through the heat from office to office, house to house, and found nothing. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I didn’t realize I’d been moving through the office until I was picking up those framed photos, those happy, smiley, million-years-ago pictures of our perfect family. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

These urbanites were to be permanent reinforcements for “rice-planting combat,” the annual campaign that sends office workers, students, and soldiers to the countryside for two months in the spring and two weeks in the fall. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

At the center of the city, Esther pointed out the post office, shops, the UN building, and the Cotton Tree. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A healing that no amount of money spent in a psychologist’s office could buy. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s an unfortunate situation,” the principal told Rowan when he turned up in the nurse’s office, waiting out during lunch for some newly inflicted bruises to heal. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Mam has her coat ready to go to the post office but she won’t leave the chair by the fire in Italy till she has the telegram in her hand. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

A stout slow man sat in an office waiting. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was walking distance from MIT, and steps from the post office and a supermarket called Purity Supreme. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The Communications Corporation had a skyscraper office overlooking the East River in downtown New York. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Katherine sweeps out of the office like a queen leaving court. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Among the middle-class and black professional community of southeastern Virginia, however, word traveled like wildfire: Mrs. Vaughans office is hiring. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Gilbert was an extremely successful and eminent physician, who held just about every office in the Royal College in turn, culminating in his election as President in 1599. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Stanton took charge, making the back parlor of the Petersen house his field office. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wearing a menacing and pre-occupied scowl, General Dreedle moved to the full-length mirror in his office and stared at his stocky reflection. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“So. You just went into my office and helped yourself.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

A further irritant was the inability of patent office examiners to grasp Lawrence’s work, which resulted in skeptical questioning of his patent claims. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

As always there were a half dozen people sitting in the outer office, waiting for their chance to speak with the father. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

We walked through the office and into the corridor and then I saw him walking towards me, with Riley at his side: Scott Hipwell. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A U.S. attorney also discovered that the reports furnished to him by the bureau had vanished from his office. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Mr. Waters is standing in front of the office door. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He also often spent up to twelve hours a day in his third-floor office constantly telephoning various parts of the town, county, state, and nation. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papi never let any of the kids into his office unless he was there, and even then only Carlos had ever hung out with him. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

While blacks did win the right to vote when the Republican Party came to power three years later, and even served in various offices, the interregnum lasted less than a decade. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

When she was not making her office building sparkle, she was melding the print stories with her keen observation of the people around her. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

What was unspoken but obvious was that he was a brother, and in our office, which employed more than four hundred lawyers, only about five full-time attorneys were African American. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I return to the post office and call Dean Wilkins. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

A box arrived in the office in the afternoon: Team Lawn Boy T-shirts and uniform pants, and truck magnets for the crew to slap on their pickups. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they were in the office, Richard sat and listened to them talk. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A week after mailing in the last payments, several migrants go back to her office to see how things are going. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

We sat on the floor of the kolkhoz office. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Their permit required the signature of the Warden of the Reservation, at whose office next morning they duly presented themselves. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Curtain pressed a button on his chair, and the office door slid open. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You know I’m hiding nothing, Moody,” he said in a soft and dangerous voice, “as you’ve searched my office pretty thoroughly yourself.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The soft golden light in Dumbledore’s office seemed to dazzle Harry’s eyes after that impenetrable darkness. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

No one at Root’s office had the skills to help her. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The boys at the post office say sympathy telegrams are a waste of time. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

His chair creaked once, twice, and then the office was very quiet. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He brought the bottle into the office, put it on the desk, and went back to make up two cups of coffee. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

That impression was reinforced whenever I retreated to his office. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I wait and I wait in the office, she said, but me never comes. o o o ... this month’s 20 Hot Sex Tips for Girls. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The president of a small corporation had a bathroom with a mirror installed just off his office. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

A woman stepped out of a different office, holding cleaning supplies. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The map dramatically shows the reduction in Indigenous lands, but its scale does not allow the “today” map to accurately depict all existing tribal offices and land holdings across the country. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

We put a suggestion box in the guidance office, for students to bring their concerns to the president’s attention. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

There just wasn’t precedent here, and there were just so many resources in the office. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

What certainly went on the Harlem and Roxbury wires was that Detroit Red was going crazy in stir, or else he was trying some hype to shake up the warden’s office. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He immediately reported this to Pim, who went to the private office, tuned the radio to a German station and locked the door. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

We all cram into the counseling office, and Mom sits in the small chair next to me. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t even have an office downtown,” she later wrote. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They’d climb the stairs to the sixth floor and break into the offices of the Democratic National Committee—the objective was to place listening devices and photograph key documents. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The smallest one stretched its neck like people in English films who loosen their ties after office. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time the office was threatened the caller had made racist remarks about the need to teach us a lesson. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They looked up the transaction in their day-book and letter-book, and at once telephoned to their King’s Cross office for more details. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Is it about the history of this school’s vice principal having his office inside an old janitor’s closet complete with a mop sink?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The kind they sell at the post office. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

This was the same man who had been in Mr. Griswold’s office last week. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He pulls me to his office and shoves me in. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer’s teams were working through the night, grabbing a few hours of sleep in their Tech Area offices. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he arrived, I showed him to Gay’s office. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Ms. Dale comes back into her office just then. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I tiptoed into the large closet I have next to my office. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yeah, that was my mom, and yeah, we’d been in the headmaster’s office because of that photo. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

It’s a bunch of offices, one of which happens to belong to Dr. M. Legler, child psychologist. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When I had done that, being in that city where the Herald Dispatch was, I went visiting and I worked in their office; they let me observe how a newspaper was put together. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She got in the car and drove to his office in the village. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Then he shut himself in his office for the rest of the night. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You were out of bed on the night my office was broken into!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I think he's just a barber. Let’s go check out the post office.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I turned down a side street of narrow limestone offices, stopped at the third building, and wheeled my bicycle through its wrought-iron gates. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Jamming devices located throughout the offices made constant buzzing noises. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He’d come into her factory office twice a week and they’d close the door, smooch it up, and have wine and cheese and crackers. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I yank him along behind me down the hallway to Mom’s office. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was trying to make a go of it alone, working in a real estate office selling lots, and it was rough. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“If you ever need to talk to me at any time, go to Esthers office and she will call me, okay?” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The office was closed this time of night, but she tipped the desk clerk to open it for her. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Miss Trixie had stepped on the sign during one of her occasional pointless tours of the office, but the damage was limited to only a small sneaker print on one comer of the cardboard. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of going to class, I decide to go to the nurse’s office and lie down until it is time to go home. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

And when the office door opened, I knew it was her. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I left the flustered Mrs. Shorter in the church office, distributed record books to each of the Sunday school classes, and then quietly slipped into my own classroom. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Claire asks Noah, the guy with the holes in his ears, to show me to her office. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Lannister appetite for offices and honors seemed to know no bounds. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“There’s a difference between self-control and manipulation,” Gay snarled, and stomped upstairs to her office. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

On Monday, October 28, Mrs. Huckaby notified us in writing that we were to contact our parents to come to a meeting in School Superintendent Blossom’s office, downtown, at 4:45 P.M. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put his eldest son, John, in charge of the Brookline office and left Harry Codman in Chicago to guide the work on the world’s fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And even though everybody was willing to believe a rainbow-cow story, for some reason they won’t believe miracles when they happen in offices and airports. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was three o’clock in the morning when he dropped the letters in the post office at King City and mounted and turned his horse south toward the unproductive hills of the old Hamilton place. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And the very notion that a candidate should openly solicit votes violated the principled presumption that such behavior itself represented a confession of unworthiness for national office. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I will, Uncle Pa. I hear you’re taking that exam for the post office? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He spent most of his free time at the Observer’s office and was always complaining, always gorging himself on the scarce food, and bored both Johnny and Rab. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew he hated me to cry, but the thought of going to the office made me crazy. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d huddled around the phone in Abby’s mom’s office for the conference call, fought off some serious giggles, and ended up answering the questions without sounding totally clueless. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“He went to the office on his own. The patient load isn’t too big today.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I dashed across the street to the newspaper, threw open the door, and rushed into the telephone office, where a startled Maggie Medlin was eating a sandwich at the switchboard. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I’m going to rush down with this to the Balham sorting office in the hope that it will be across the Channel before the weekend. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The next morning a brown envelope arrived at the Gazette offices addressed to Judy Morgan, and below her name was written “Frindle Story.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, man. You don’t want to make enemies out of those guys. I hear Felix’s parents are some big-time lawyers with a huge office in the city.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

When Benji walked through Mr. Palomino’s office door, he spotted his smiling parents first. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I sat in the office while the school secretary sighed and looked at the clock. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

At the end of the period, I quickly took a shower, got dressed, and rushed to the main office to pick up a petition. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Monday through Saturday my mom worked in her office and puttered around her garden dressed like a homeless person. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I sat beside them in the office, ate next to them in restaurants, and rode up and down in the elevators with them, but they always looked straight ahead, wordlessly. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm sitting in the Commander’s office, across from him at his desk, in the client position, as if I’m a bank customer negotiating a hefty loan. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the months passed, Katherine stretched out into the office, as at ease as if she had never been anyplace else. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

At the dentist’s office, the guards first cleared away all the other patients. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were monkey biscuits scattered all over the floor, and papers were scattered everywhere, and there were overturned chairs in the offices. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just beyond the office, another hall branches off to the right. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

When I looked up from the paper the man was staring directly into my face as if he recognized me from a post office Wanted poster. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Both our offices were ex-bedrooms in the solidly built old frame house we had bought. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

That perhaps at the end of his second term in office, they would move to Chicago and he would practice law again. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Overjoyed, she ran down the hill, rushed breathlessly into her father’s office, and placed her prize, a book written in Greek, on the table. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

As far as Katherine was concerned—as far as she had decided—once they got to the office, “they were all the same.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

They decided to change it, because they think a “more classic” Western will sell better at the box office. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

To reschedule his appointment, I'd had to take his I.D. card to the office. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked to school and when I passed through the front doors I walked down to the office. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Probably she should hope for an Assignment as Speaker so that she could sit in the office with the microphone all day, making announcements. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The totals are bad,” Brian said, plunging, wanting to get it over with, wanting to get out of the school, this office, Leon’s suffocating presence. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had the office all warm by the time everybody else came in for work.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is nothing more than an abandoned real estate office. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“You did? I mean, just now when you went to the office?” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Still, he slowed his canoe to keep a safe distance, trying to figure out a way to get to his office without passing directly by them. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

When I get home and put my backpack on the desk in the quiet room, I hear Mom’s rolling office chair carving tracks into the wood floor upstairs. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

This thought preoccupied her all the way into her office. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Curtain’s office was an oblong, white-stoned room with no windows. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

About a minute later, I got called down to the office. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I’ve had a tough day at the office making the world safe for democracy. I’m hungry.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few blocks from the building I met a group of men, women and children lugging loot from the welfare office. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The temperature is steady at minus ten degrees Centigrade but the maritime office predicts it will dip even lower. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In the end, I walked out of that office with my survey still in the box, unsure of what I was. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

A long letter of protest arrived at Burnham’s office, signed by some of the nation’s leading engineers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

For a while we were indignant because no one from the office came upstairs the entire morning; Mr. Kleiman left us on tenterhooks until eleven-thirty. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Ushers often came to the Treaty Room a few times over the course of an evening to deliver more folders, containing more papers, freshly generated by staffers who were working late in the offices downstairs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

On August 14, 1945, the very same day that World War II ended, an American citizen and Soviet spy named Elizabeth Bentley cautiously approached the front door of the FBI offices in New Haven, Connecticut. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Good evening, sir,” said Harry, walking into the headmaster’s office. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

One day Miss Simon told me that thereafter I was to help her in the office. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think he’s still in his office?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Black offenders resided in the east wing with the offices of the sheriff and his deputies in between. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But sometimes if you loitered long enough in the schoolyard, the other children would have gone home and you could play with the equipment before the office took it away. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kalo had seized him under one arm and led him to the portable trailer that served as Curly’s office. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for the director, he described Rutherford as “a large, rather florid man, with thinning fair hair and a large moustache, who reminded me forcibly of the keeper of the general store and post office.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“That’s the nurses’ station; the other place is the nurses’ office. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

But that position is not a formal office to be filled and carries only limited power. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Anderson’s floor was a warren of lawyer’s offices, with rich carpets, walls of dark brown wood, and doors inlaid with frosted glass. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“The principal’s office is this way,” whispered a petite woman with dark hair and glasses. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malcolm X testified at the office of the Attorney General of the State of Illinois which had been investigating the Nation of Islam. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we got inside Hoagland’s office he closed the glass door. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In October 1985, the DEA sent Robert Stutman to serve as director of its New York City office and charged him with the responsibility of shoring up public support for the administration’s new war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The forms sat on my desk for a week before Robin walked with me to the post office and watched me hand them to the postal worker. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She was in the middle of dropping runs when she stepped from her office out onto the flats to gaze up at the front-side galleries. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stepped into the office, placed a foot underneath Moody’s unconscious body, and kicked him over onto his back, so that his face was visible. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Will Hamilton liked his glass cage of an office in the garage. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And it wasn’t coming from Daddy’s office or the resting room. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She tells the office, “Hello. I have Mason Buttle and I’m keeping him for a while.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

About looking for evidence, and even about sneaking into this very office, because something tells me she already knows about her missing photograph anyway. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I went to find an interpreter job, and I ended up in an office with the occupation army.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The Director’s office is in the administration building—basically, it’s a wing of the Hub connected by a narrow, windowless hallway. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

If the woman refused, they would report to the office that the woman was a malingerer. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sit down,” Garland said as he opened his office door and pushed behind a large uncluttered desk. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The first day that we children were well enough to get up, Dad and Mother set out in the car for Dr. Burton’s office. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

So she calls the office and asks for help. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I hurried into the hall, pushing past a stream of kids all the way to the office. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Gonzalez made a deep bow to them and dashed out of the office. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hidden door cracks open to reveal a small office drowning with circuit-phones that look like endless rows of candlesticks. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“It might even get me into The Saturday Evening Post,” Colonel Cathcart boasted in his office with a smile, swaggering back and forth convivially as he reproached the chaplain. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

After I’d left Colonel Batt’s office the night before, my mother had called back and asked to speak to Captain Hill. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It was painful for him to go to work in an office when we moved. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

She entered the office, glad that it was a public place and she needn’t knock. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning shortly after the Soviet bomb test, a tall, thin man stepped into Fuchs’s office. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kids we had seen in the kitchen had set up a table full of what looked like slow cookers and were making runs between the office building and the fire to replenish them. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

In a modest office, the bishop asked Reggie about his interests, passions, and intentions. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But upon reaching the office I changed my mind. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

After he drove off, I headed down the block to the front of the Hope Springs post office and plopped down on a bench. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“I will have a word with Mr. Dalai when he returns from the office,” Mrs. Dalai called back as she headed down the stairs. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Now he dragged Chuck Day, Stub McMillin, Don Hume, and Shorty Hunt into his office, slammed the door shut, and gave them hell. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I put my hands in my pant pockets and walked to the principal’s office. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Because he is also invoked against rats, he will perhaps aid us in the office, too. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her office was searched by the police shortly before she was fired. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The allegation was never substantiated, but the office needed a token Hispanic fast, and Tony was it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A while later, I was called into the principal’s office. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The paneling of this office once breathed the humid air of a Congolese forest, gave shelter to life, felt the scales of snake belly on its branches. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spend lunch period in the counselor’s office pretending that the racist graffiti is still upsetting me, which is sort of true. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“It is not often,” Buckley continued, “that a representative of the people finds the masses of the citizens who elected him to office standing literally at his back, waiting for him to enforce the law. ...” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“And so, Martina,” Mr. Curtain concluded, “you may now anticipate the Improvement with pleasure. As I said, by the day after tomorrow we—” Mr. Curtain’s attention shifted to the drain cover in his office floor. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Most had been brought inside the bus station the morning after their arrest, and in an upstairs office, a makeshift court had been arranged. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Lorraine, my assistant, gave Barack a knowing smile each time he surfaced in my office. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"But she told me to come into the office, she wanted to have a little talk with me, and there was some work to do." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I think Principal Principal should have his office in the rest room. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I definitely wasn’t planning on telling my parents the post office story. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

When we were outside, Pete said, “Come on back to the office. I have those Velcro tennis paddles.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The guys from the Medical Examiner's office wanted to move the body. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, a few months ago, I was cleaning the waiting room of her dental office and discovered a small comic book that had fallen behind the chair. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

To James Garfield, dealing with the endless stream of office seekers and politicians was exhausting and monotonous. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

For any number of reasons, concrete and ineffable, there was something about Katherine Goble that made her as comfortable in the office in 1244 as she was in the choir loft at Carver Presbyterian. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It showed this beautifully modern open-plan office with three or four people who worked in it having some kind of joke with each other. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My meeting at the county office is scheduled now. I’ll be talking to them the day before Barrio Fiesta. I wish it was sooner,” she says. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The warriors said nothing and began to follow the choir and the two standard-bearers out of the office. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Butchers cut meat on the street next to office buildings. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was sitting in Mrs. Gascoyne’s office with Father when she said these things. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Drink,” she says when they get to her office. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Along one wall was the office of the division chief, Henry Pearson, with a station for his secretary just in front. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“One day when I own this place, we could turn these into offices and rent them out,” Frankie said as we passed two doorless chambers. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

On his way he stepped by the Voice of the People office, which, though dark, was still unlocked. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a crowd at the box office,” he whispered. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, in the long, lingering twilight of a late June Northwest evening, Joe sat on the hood of the Franklin, in front of the office, and studied the lay of the land before him. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

As I came around the corner, I saw Mai sitting on the top stair outside the entrance to Dell's office. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Madam Pomfrey, who had bustled off to her office, returned holding a small bottle of some purple potion and a goblet. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I went to the janitor’s room, picked up the cleaning cart, and began cleaning the offices on the first floor. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I walk outside into the cold, dark night and follow the sidewalk to the office. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Glass office buildings stood next to excavation sites. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I went to the drugstore and got a shot and then I went to the telegraph office. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, Kappe hinted that something was soon going to happen that would expedite a plan he and his office had been working on for some time. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He wants the art club to do a mural-size poster for the wall outside the office commemorating these past three weeks. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I’d been too busy after Iowa to even go over and box up the things in my office or say any sort of proper good-bye. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We were a long way from Dr. Phil’s office with its amateur oils and Medicaid cases. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The sheriff’s office said that an additional charge of murder will be made since the turn of events. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

When we got to Julian’s office, Henry and Francis were already there. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

On weekdays Mother’s a secretary in a navy office, trusted to count out salaries in cash at the end of each month. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

We all stopped what we were doing and watched the figure coming from the direction of the office. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his office he constantly altered the position of his coffee mug, his stapler, a jar of pens, he shuffled papers into neater piles. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went through to the office with only a nod, shutting the door upon their voices and sat staring out through the trees. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said he liked to go to doctors’ offices and see their certificates and degrees on the wall. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have to walk through two offices before she unlocks a tiny closet lined in boxes. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The 3.2 million square feet of office space actually under construction in Midland was equivalent to the amount in San Antonio, Fort Worth, and Austin combined. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they sat in Farmer’s office, she said she understood the clinic’s message about germs and disease but still couldn’t escape the conclusion that sorcery had played a hand in her dead son’s fate. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Despite so many letters, each carefully filed in his office, he is uncertain what to expect when she arrives. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She's getting notes from my teachers and the counseling office, because two weeks is a long time to be absent from a high-powered private prep school. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, she brought her resume into his office, hoping to persuade him to accept her. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ammu asked for the Station House Officer, and when she was shown into his office she told him that there had been a terrible mistake and that she wanted to make a statement. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As much as I love my dad and know he’s trying his best, when I came out of that office, I wanted to punish him. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She said since the time she worked in our office. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I go down two floors to have a look around: first to the kitchen, then to the private office and then to the coal bin to open the cat door for Mouschi. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Fuchs was given a tiny Tech Area office overlooking a pond. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped him just as he got to the door to her office. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The maester pushed himself ponderously to his feet, his chain of office clinking softly. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was surprised, but he went on through and was even more astonished to see that the alcove doors were open as well and that there was a terrible mess in the front office. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Maddie was going off duty by the time the ambulance men had finished hurriedly patching up the German pilot and brought him into the ground floor office of the control tower. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

In Pickett’s office, I saw stacks of papers that seemed to have been left for an evening, not for a lifetime. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Returning to her office, she digs into the backpack and pulls out the black moleskin notebook. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

In 1990, Gregarious Games moved into its first real office, located in a run-down strip mall in Columbus, Ohio. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Everyone knew of Herman’s unsettled state, and the Washington office must have been wondering how long I would care to remain in Copenhagen. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The Shadbush County Sheriffs office is investigating, but still has no clear picture as to who might be behind the racist, anti-Semitic acts. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

It was his fault Principal Rivera had called me into her office. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Then she came back to the phone and said that yesterday soldiers had gone to the small, nondescript rooms that served as the offices of the Standard. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Kathy was the business’s secretary, bookkeeper, credit department, public-relations manager—she did everything in the office, while her husband handled the building and painting. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She walked into the foyer of the office. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The tiny office is dark save for the pool of light spilling in from the hall and the dim haze from the streetlamps seeping in through the single window. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Alex thinks about the conversation he overheard in the housekeeper’s office, wondering if his dad is ever going to let him in on the full picture. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I find her office on the fourth floor, which is the only hard part, and then I wait patiently in an empty cubicle until she goes to lunch at 12:25. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Aw, I don’t know. They all the same. They wanted to get elected to office. They wanted money, like everybody else. Mr. Max, it’s a game and they play it.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

George’s mom entered the office and rushed past George without even noticing her. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Then Mr. Hancock, who had been sitting alone over his little hearth fire in the back office, came out. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A deputy superintendent whose office I passed on my way out told me he was staying late because two years earlier there had been a Christmas Eve homicide on M-gallery. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Older boys at the post office say you have to play your cards right to get the grief tip. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He had still not returned by the time Yossarian jumped back outside Major Major’s office and wondered whom to appeal to next for help. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“We just finished up in his office. I heard you made a speech.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

There were so many people accused of being Reds or Communist sympathizers that the prisons had become overcrowded and they were holding people in the administrative offices. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

An adopted extended family from the West Computing office stepped into the void left by the aunts and uncles and cousins in Farmville. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Reporters call everyone on the staff, phone us at the office, suggesting unceasingly how it must involve money, it must involve money. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked into the school, made my way to the front office, and told them who I was. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

As she returns to her office, she realizes there’s no stamp or postmark on the new envelope, worries that the professor will suspect something. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I think you're going to be all right. I’m not absolutely certain, you understand, so I want to see you again in my office. But I think you’ll be fine.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

One important achievement of C.P.’s term of office was the construction of a new Klavern hall just outside of town. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Was he—none of the daughters really believed this, but to contemplate it was a wonderful little explosion in their heads—was he maybe dealing drugs or doing abortions in his office? How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Liyana begged Poppy to pass by their new post office box often to see if she had received any letters from home. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“They went right for the office like I said they would.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun’s office was unharmed, but it was no more than twenty feet from the fire. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

We went to an office called Social Services to find out about help. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

If there was anything that terrified us as much as getting deported, it was that the principal's office would discover our address scam and send us down the road to the rough-and-tumble streets of Cupertino. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

They sat around the oval conference table in Aunty Onenu’s large office. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Let’s meet at the front of the office at the start of lunch,” Joey said. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

After the gorillas found no loot in my trunk, they dragged me back into their cramped security office, where I signed a release allowing the store to keep the stereo. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Alex followed her out of the chapel to the father’s office. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Elle was leaning against the wall and reading something on her phone outside the yearbook office when I got there. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Each floor was ringed with rooms that must have once been offices. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Dr. Fox’s office will be on your right.” Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Papi disappears to the back office with the owner, whose nickname, Wimpy, is also the name of his store. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Garrett snuck into his mother’s office and copied the address off the master enrollment sheet. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guessed Lucy’s news was the other kind and she wanted to beat the office memo to our parents. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Mr. and Mrs. Trepid ushered Florida and Dallas into their office and closed the door. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The temperatures inched just above freezing according to a thermometer outside the kolkhoz office. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

And I knew that by the next day, every railroad’s personnel office would have a blackball on me, so I never tried to get another railroad job. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

From Philadelphia they were forwarded to the office of the Antislavery Society in New York. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the day of their visit, I was called to the head office to meet with the Red Cross representative. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I would advise you gentlemen to get some sandwiches. All the places for the first four services were reserved at the office of the company." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I would know; I spend a lot of time in the headmistress’s office. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I leave the office and am told right away to stop running by a teacher. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I spent all day Sunday in Dr. Roland’s office, from ten in the morning on. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I was worried when the office called my name to get picked up during science, and when I didn’t see Charlie in the car, I felt even worse. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

A consultation that would last no more than half an hour in my old Mandela and Tambo office might take a year or more on the island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I use Elisabeth's quill to write the information on my hand, and step out from the office just in time to hear her angry voice echo from the hallway. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I signed a few autographs on the way out of Arnold’s driveway, then mowed a few lawns, ate lunch with Louis and his crew, and headed back to the office. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Billy had a framed prayer on his office wall which expressed his method for keeping going, even though he was unenthusiastic about living. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat in the physician’s office blank-faced, red in the cheeks. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I went to the office and looked up their records and found that most of them had spent their lives playing cheap vaudeville. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Her office is on the third floor, to the right of the stairs. Her name’s on the door.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

FBI agent Dean McWhorter was sitting by the phone in the New York office when it rang. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He marches me down the alley and then down the street, past the living and the dead, into a building that seems to be offices, though people are sleeping here as well. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

We stopped at my office and he went in to look at the map of the United States that I had on the wall. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

In that tiny fishbowl box office, my only connection to my coworkers in the lobby was a red phone. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Dad was pulling Mom out of the principals office, and she was shouting and crying too. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had just landed his big-time business job doing whatever he does with numbers and money and ROI, and was going to help my mother open up her own therapy office. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He steeples his fingers again and looks around the office. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

There was a grinding sound, like when movie tickets shoot up through the slot at the box office. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“If you wouldn’t mind calling my office, I’d be happy to speak with you at a later date.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

For by being near London, they could use their wealth to influence members of Parliament, and could even run for office themselves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

We leave the office, and I am hurting so much, I want to sit on the paving stones and cry. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

What was more, ever since arriving in Boston I’d kept catching glimpses of people I thought were him: dark figures dashing by in taxicabs, disappearing into office buildings. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But it’s just a form that she’s handing me, like at a dental office. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

When Fuller first encountered resistance from the black elite, he dropped in on Austin at the offices of the Carolina Times. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

My sister wanted to look at every single stall in the bazaar that sprawled between the ticket office and the entrance to the ruins, but Babou managed to maneuver her away from them all. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“My car is here in the drive. I wonder whether Crawley would like a lift. Crawley? I can drop you at your office if it’s any use.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

On the morning of the twenty-sixth, I was in the ANC office overseeing the day’s demonstrations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got up and went past him into a large simply furnished office, thinking, Now, I'll know. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, when her mom was working from home, Grace leaned her head into the office. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Pouncey spends half his life covered in food, and he never gets dragged to the principal’s office. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I rang the office buzzer, and an old woman with brown wrinkled skin like a well-used pirate map opened the door and flicked a cigarette butt over my head. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

That often kept her holed up in the office taking care of a mountain of paperwork. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Geraldine said her daughter thought she saw you come into the welfare office where she works. That was you, wasn’t it?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I’ll be at the office if you need anything,” he said. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“You want to talk to me, Dubonnet, come see me at my office.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He stood up to shut the door to his office. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

"Would you like to call him? You could use my office." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Wandering through empty halls and ransacked offices, I tried to imagine what home would feel like, if after all this I chose to go back. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I was the one who accompanied Bas to the navy office, and watched while he enlisted. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

This would drop American troop strength to half of what it had been when he took office. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I called your office,” he adds, and he lets that sink in. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

After selling my last ticket and turning over the sign, I exited through the box office door, locked it behind me, and went into the lobby. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He was planning to open an office in Paris which would handle his business directly with the big companies, on the spot, and he wanted to know how I felt about going there. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I spent the rest of first period and all of second in the nurse’s office, watching Animal Control pass through the hallway. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Five days a week, she leaves us to work at an office back in Brownsville. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

When he arrived, he was greeted politely and taken to an office where he met an agent. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He transformed back into the great black dog and walked with Harry and Dumbledore out of the office, accompanying them down a flight of stairs to the hospital wing. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When the homeroom bell rang, Annette came rushing in to give me the latest totals on box office receipts and the profits from the program ads. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at the rocket clock in the office, and the second hand has stars on it that go around and around. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

After we all shook hands in Tepper's office he smiled smugly and said, "This is the most airtight case I've ever taken before a judge." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Now it had the honor of holding the administrative offices of the MidMerican Scythedom, as well as hosting its conclave three times a year. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He banged closed the back of his truck and lugged the last two suitcases—wha-pop!— inside the Emporium to the small office behind the kitchen. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I accept Miss Joe’s invitation to eat lunch in her office. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The phone in his office was dead, however, and gave him back only a hollow silence; so was his printing press dead, for that matter, he realized now with a start. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

And Harry dived after Dumbledore through the shifting silver mass, landing in the very office he had just left. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She has relocated her offices from an abandoned minimall in Florida to an abandoned barn in New York, and I have found her. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

But months later, when I had become a civilian and Delacruz had become an inmate at a medium-security prison, I wrote him a letter, with my post office box as a return address. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door to the trailer office was open, but not wide like usual. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

After Milo, there remained only the men in the orderly room, and Major Major avoided them by entering and leaving every time through the dingy celluloid window of his office. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Nobody passed him as he continued through a Plexiglas walkway into Block B. There were computer screens everywhere, glowing in cramped offices piled high with papers and printouts. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

His office is where he always takes us first. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

We go right up the front stairs, turn left inside, and Daddy walks into the principal’s office. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

From her office window on the fourth floor, she could watch Carl grinding feed outside his uncle’s store. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

The fact that she told Dolores all about this encounter in Aunt Lydia’s office meant nothing. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Junie, please grab your things and come to the office with me,” she says in a soft voice that frightens me. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Burnham’s work did not cease, the pace at his office did not slow. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He whistled and sang while we cleaned offices. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Even the kindest ones are tired of walking her to the nurse’s office. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Their Dublin Street office was leveled and is now a parking lot. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I go on a tour of the guidance counselor’s office, Principal Principal’s, and wind up back in MISS. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Technically, he’s top banana as president of the eighth grade, even though he only ran for office to impress Suzy Kraft, who dumped him anyway, the day after the election. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

While everyone else streamed out, he made his way to the secretary’s office and borrowed a copy of the Yellow Pages. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

We pull into a spot near the front office. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Or the time you really wanted a bagel in the office break room but couldn’t come up with the dollar you were supposed to drop in the coffee can. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The attic rooms had been converted into his office and bedroom. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The hiding place was located in Father’s office building. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Esther shook her head, smiling, and left the office. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“My office,” Adams complained, “is too great a restraint upon such a Son of Liberty.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

So far the exposition’s publicity office had given the press a detailed list of monumental but dreary statistics. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When Mary stopped by the department’s office, someone pointed out Mrs. Moss. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Up the stairs, he found the office of Gaylyn White, the counselor his mother had asked him to see. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

So after fifth period, instead of going to the office to work, I head to the lockers with Char, Raina, and Raise. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Wearing their disguises, they photographed the entry and exit points of Dr. Fielding’s office building. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Among the legislators who took the oath of office was Jeannette Rankin of Montana, the first female member of Congress. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Right after her shift, she heads to her meeting at the county tax office. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

We talked for a few minutes at the post office on Lexington. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

In the office, when they planned the fights and decided what the money would be, the Puerto Rican would be considered the “fighter” and Billy would be the “opponent.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent all our time in her office, where she slept most nights instead of the bedroom she shared with Pullum—they fought a lot, she told me, and needed some peace. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She read the notice once more, and then stepped into the office. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I get home from the office that night, I rush through the door and upstairs to my room. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Goddard nodded to Chomsky, Volta, and Rand, and the four advanced through the maze of cubicles and offices, leaving nothing living in their wake. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The lamps in Dumbledore’s office were lit, the portraits of previous headmasters were snoring gently in their frames, and the Pensieve was ready upon the desk once more. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“What if I came here each month to your office and the pension were to be handed to me?” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I reported at the post office and was sworn in as a temporary clerk. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we came out of the sunnily lit interior of the Ladies' Day offices, the streets were gray and fuming with rain. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He wanted to lower the amount of contaminated air flowing into those offices. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She had an important phone call. I think she went back to her office for it.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

How much can you say about a post office, a church, and an Ace Hardware? A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he did not inquire at the post office for weeks. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The classroom phone rang, and after he answered it, Mr. Tompkin asked if anyone wanted to go be an office monitor for a while. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

It had been a weird morning: three kids were called down to the main office during social studies, and then in French they’d had the second intruder drill. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Three days before the start of Christmas break, he just has a feeling as he walks to the main office after lunch to check his mailbox. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The coast was clear, and the chaplain jumped out of Major Major’s office through the window, darted swiftly around the comer of the tent, and leaped down inside the railroad ditch to hide. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Holmes had bought the insurance in 1893 from Fidelity’s Chicago office, just before the close of the exposition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Margaret was tied up in the office, so I went to hang out in the add-on living room, as I usually did. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After my mother was killed, my father would pick me up after school and take me with him to his office. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

For lease signs sat in front of many of the offices around the parking lot. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom had already disappeared into her office, leaving the newspaper behind at the bar. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I sat in Kilvin’s office trying to look calm as the great, shaggy master turned my sympathy lamp over in his huge hands. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When prefixed to the name of an office, ex- denotes that the person formerly held the office named: as, ex-mayor, the former mayor. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

It said I was to come to the principal’s office. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

More trucks than ever were rumbling past her Santa Fe office, more scientists were checking in. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not surprised,” Arm told Mother, who was lying on the sofa in the detectives’ office. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor’s offices were on the tenth floor of the Griffin. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She drove to my father’s office to tell him. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

At the visitation office she again sat in the room, listening to every word. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He did not look back as he closed the office door. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Once a day, twice a day, and sometimes three times in one day, Dove would sneak over to the Observer’s office. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Eisen is coming out of her office, her whistle stuck in her mouth. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The date stamps indicate when the telegram was received in Washington and sent to the appropriate office. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I knew I’d probably tear her office apart if I had to wait there. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Three days later, Principal Marcelo sends for me to come to his office. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d heard the story of Dad fainting at the doctor’s office when he was a teenager, probably more times than he’d actually fainted. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I was convinced that JP wouldn’t show up, that someone would come in to escort me to the headmasters office for what I’d done. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

On the last day of school she handed out report cards to the other kids, but when it came to me she took me to the principal’s office. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her office had one of the lowest direct-file rates in the state. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

So one day I got called down to the office. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

But Burnham himself had been young when John B. Sherman walked into his office and changed his life. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Within perhaps a week,” recalled a student, “there was on the blackboard in Robert Oppenheimer’s office a drawing—a very bad, an execrable drawing—of a bomb.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a salesman at the big discount office furniture store off 108th Street. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning, Mother called her to her office. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

President Carter came into office in 1976, just a few months after the violent student protests in Soweto. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mami almost fainted with joy when the office called to tell us. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Do send me a copy of your article, as soon as it is published,” the dottore said, already striding past Victor and out of the office. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s all happening at Hogwarts now, you know, much more exciting here than at the office!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It takes all my effort to walk instead of run to my mom’s office. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

We hear Mom moving around on her office chair two rooms away. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

You must admit though that there’s one feature of the room that looks like an office. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look up at him and then around the office for other signs. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Bra Modise’s pass problems required him to go to some office at the end of the building. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father’s eyes were misty when we left the office, and I cried a little during the trolley ride to school. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

One day she happened into his office, only to discover an entire wall of it papered with inspirational quotes. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When i left my office that beautiful spring day, I had no idea what was in store for me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked through the courthouse until I found the district attorney's office. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Strange thing,” he said, “I must have fainted—in the post office. I never faint. Mr. Pioda helped me up. Just for a second it was, I guess. I never faint.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hafsa's house came first on our path, just past the post office. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

At eight o’clock, he strolled through the Rand lobby and up to his office. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When she reached Philadelphia with her passengers, she took them straight to the office of the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had the soldier really contacted Koch’s office or did she say that because she was mad and wanted to scare me? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But as soon as we rounded the corner of the hallway and got to Mr. Tushman’s office, we all got pretty serious. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

They entered the headmistress’s office, and Father Cham leaned on his staff as he lowered to the floor in front of a woven laundry basket. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Cayn helped him with his clothes; white linen tunic and grey cloak, trousers cut open down his plaster-sheathed leg, his badge of office, and last of all a belt of heavy silver links. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"Now let's take a look at his office and we'll be going." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t room to hold the ceremony inside the newspaper office itself, so we gathered on the street outside. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He kept a question box outside his office door. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Back at her office, she had just taken off her coat when the phone rang. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The full list comprises some four hundred and thirty- seven items, I believe, and can be viewed in Mr. Filch’s office, if anybody would like to check it.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma pointed at a building next to the school, the Institute of African Studies, where her office was and where she taught most of her classes. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to be ready and began making plans for how to staff his office once the appointment came through. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Please answer the following question in detail: on the day of our meeting at the post office, what type of piercing did the postal employee have? What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I pull my jeans and T-shirt back on and open the door again, kinda hoping that maybe Mama went down to the office herself. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

She tried to imagine him sitting in his office at his desk. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

The letter from the district magistrate’s office is at my place setting, opened. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“We’ll find Henry and drive him over here. He can make some excuse to get Julian out of the office. Then one of us can slip up the back stairs with the key.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was standing in front of the mirror in his office, snipping away at his beard with a tiny pair of scissors. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

An American flag identified the post office, a frame structure next to a drugstore that served also as the Western Union office. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a steady hand on Doha’s back, father and son walked out of the office, past the family weeping in the operating room, and to the front desk where Nurse Cha was sitting. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

When I walked into his office and explained who I was, he looked at me a long, long time. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can always tell when she has a client in her office. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I really want to do is turn around, go back to Mrs. Parker’s office, and ask, What about me? Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I have just the thing for that,” Mr. Gonzalez said and went into the little office storeroom to get, Ignatius imagined, some type of medicine. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

So were the offices of the clerks who kept track of which buildings had broken windows, what streetlamps needed repair, and the number of people in the city. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Technicians could even pick up telephone conversations between US government limousines' car phones and offices in the State Department and the Pentagon. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then I saw it, the body of a man with a stake driven through his chest into the side of the kolkhoz office. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“No times two. But it’s a firm that also has offices back in Georgia. Milton, Georgia! Milton like his uncle who’s great,” I say. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Shin walked to the guard’s office and found the front door locked. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I should’ve known better than to talk to him alone, but he caught me in a crowd and managed to bully me, loudly, into coming into his office. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Two people went to the principal’s office, one was African American and the other was Hispanic. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was the only way, Uncle solemnly declared, that the crazy demon could have gotten into office. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as he found out that Ethan would be in town, he started calling the ticket office to buy one more, but there were none to be had. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Now I’ve checked the records and I’ve found to my shock and disappointment that only one boy in this class has the grades to be eligible for homeroom office.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Big Ben, step into my office,” Dylan says, removing his backpack from one chair so I can sit. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

But I’m not a person who goes around announcing it at the post office. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

We arrived at my office, and I motioned for them to sit down. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

To be fair to Briggs, his office was not the only place developing an obsession with secrecy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I exit through the office doors and step into the warm, dizzying sunshine. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“We’re supposed to take you down to her office,” said George. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A few things were blown up, post offices, subway stations. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

As some of the students continued their catcalls, I fought back tears and headed down the stairs to the principal’s office. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On entering the store, Grandpa walked to the post office department, and came back with a newspaper in his hand. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I was on my way to Mrs. Dunne's office because somebody in gym took my clothes." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Three months later, a six foot, two-hundred-fifty-pound army colonel named Leslie Groves was walking down the hallway of a congressional office building on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I need to tell Keenan this, but when I turn to do so, I see a legionnaire standing in the entryway of the couriers’ office, watching me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

George had never been in the principal’s office before and was surprised by how bright it was. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

It got to the point that Trapper, half- joking, half-serious, posted updates on Crow outside the trainer’s office. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beijing refuses to allow defectors to make claims for asylum and prevents the office of the U.N. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I often sought his counsel on matters of law and office procedure, and he was unfailingly helpful. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The suite had several offices and a reception area. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Terryl’s basement office had windows, but you sort of had to crane to look out of them because the room was half underground. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She lives in the Philadelphia area, about thirty minutes from him, and works as the office manager of a software firm. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The Senate made it clear that if he did not move boldly against the Red menace, he faced the possibility of being removed from office. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

So the cops come to our house and search the adjoining office and warehouse. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“He went down to the office in a gay humor,” Harriet Monroe said, “and that very day received a commission for a large commercial building.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I went to the room where he slept, but he was not there; then I went through the dark hall to my old office and threw myself into my desk chair, exhausted. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, with only several hours left until he took the oath of office, he still hadn't had enough time to finish. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

A friendly registrar greets us in the office and looks over Sunny's transcript. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

All the calls were put through to the office. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The bosses and the office girls have such fun together! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The welfare office was in a brick building with wire covering the windows. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

We were sitting on the couch outside Nilekani’s office, waiting for the TV crew to set up its cameras. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Miss Trixie has stood by Levy' Pants through the years,” the office manager explained while the ancient assistant accountant babbled something else about the turkey. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

From General Peckem’s office on the mainland came prolix bulletins each day headed by such cheery homilies as “Procrastination is the Thief of Time” and “Cleanliness is Next to Godliness.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I head first to the couriers’ office in Execution Square, hoping that the Resistance is still waiting for me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps it is time for me to return to the headmaster’s office?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to give you my number at the office. Call me if you ever run into trouble, alright?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She had once found a copy of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library hidden in an aquarium at her previous doctor’s office, and ever since she had wanted to hide one underwater. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The post office wasn’t much bigger than Miss Maggie’s chicken coop but smelled far better, despite Mr. Johnson’s cigar. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She walked back through the hallway and sat on a bench outside the office so she could look over her notes to make sure they made sense. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our greengrocer buys potatoes from the “Wehrmacht” and brings them in sacks to the private office. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Neither Washington nor Adams had ever played a direct role in their own campaigns for office. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Some headed for the bus, others for the welfare office. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

For sixth period, I worked in the attendance office, so I knew every one of your classes. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I expected something gritty and grimy, but this place looked more sterile than a doctor’s office. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

They got in, took photos of files and papers, and placed bugs in the office. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Ms. Davis pointed her directly into Principal Maldonado’s office and advised George to follow. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Her father owns the optometry school where Billy was going. He also owns six offices around our part of the state. He flies his own plane and has a summer place up on Lake George.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Victor interrupted him, but then he remembered just in time that Hornet, Prosper, and Riccio had been in his office to feed his tortoise. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Former slaves, it was argued, were too illiterate to exercise the vote responsibly, and were ill-prepared for the duties of public office. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A woman stands in the doorway of what I assume is the school office. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her husband, Dussel and the office staff gave her nothing but flowers and also food. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He gave me a long stare before he got out of his chair and left Coach Johnson’s office. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Next he turned around the desk in his office so that he was sitting at it with his back to the wall instead of to the window. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He finds Luna in his office, horn-rimmed reading glasses doing nothing to detract from his usual appearance of a movie star who tripped and fell sideways into politics. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Here the door was partly open; she opened it somewhat more—enough to ascertain that the office was filled only with shadow—but she did not think the Clutters would appreciate her “barging right in.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kenny was in another room, sitting by the window like a lonely house pet, waiting for Savannah to come back to the office from an appointment. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I collected my things and started for the front office. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the office next door might tell him why. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

But its silly for me to go to his office and lay down on the couch to talk because I rite it down in the progress reports anyway and he could read it. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

One by one, they showed up in Kaprice’s office to complain. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I was going to go to your game for a few innings and then head into the office and get that over with, but now...” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

But whereas some food is kept in the filing cabinets in the office, dishes and cooking fat and vegetables are kept in glass-fronted sectional bookcases in the kitchen. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A picture: the expression on Rafael Luna’s face when he looks up from his paperwork to see Alex standing in the doorway of his office. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He sat peacefully in a chair by the wall that separated his office and the vault. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The teacher, Mr. Ward, called me up to the front and said, “You’re wanted in Mr. Mur- row’s office right away.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are a few more white folks in finer clothing, and I'm starting to wonder why they ain’t storming the sheriff's office, asking where their loved ones are. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Those who fought battles comfortably within their homes or newspaper offices had more than enough mud to spare. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my mother ended her story, the white woman, almost in tears, stormed into the office, fuming. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not just for us, but for the office staff as well. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I want you to come straight back here from the post office.' I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I hurried from the office and caught the tram just as it pulled into the stop across the street. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Across the street, a McDonald’s is jammed at lunch hour with office workers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Against the same wall as the office, but in the opposite corner of the barn, Margo has set up a kind of bed—four forklift pallets beneath an orange air mattress. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He forced his attention to the glass office. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to believe this was a doctor’s office, but the sign in the window insisted. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus far she had never once come to the Observer’s office in Salt Lane. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Safer’s mom goes into her office to put her camera away, Candy quickly pops a giant SweeTart into her mouth. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

So when I hear my name on the PA system being called to the principal’s office, I’m psyched. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Fine’s office was located in a huge apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey,” I said, but he walked right by me, past the main office, and around the comer to where the dentist’s office is. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The prosecutor’s office loved Kaylene, whom they saw as fair but tough. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Miss Corrie cleaned it up and called the boy into her office for a talking-to. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

From his office in Spain, Ahmad had found out which station it had been, and had found the name of one of the producers. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I found Margaret in her office, staring at her computer screen. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the United States, he’d put himself through two years of chiropractic school, and now ran a small office in Birmingham with a human skeleton he was still paying for in installments. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

To say that an Orgota government fell means, of course, only that one group of Commensals replaced another group of Commensals in the controlling offices of the Thirty-Three. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The following summer I was again called for temporary duty in the post office, and the work lasted into the winter. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sass led me to the government office, where there was an official wearing a suit, shirt, tie, and jacket. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

If Hirschig had not found Theo at the office at 19 Boulevard Montmartre, he was supposed to track him down wherever he was. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Writing an important email to a colleague at the office in New York, or a carefully worded break-up message to his girlfriend. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black applicants who had taken time off from work might be kept waiting in line all day until the office closed, only to be told to come back some other time. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hearing will take place on April 20th, and we ask you to present yourself and your hippogriff at the Committee’s offices in London on that date. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Finish it and I can take it to the post office tomorrow.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

So there was nothing to do except sit on the bench while Mr. Canton walked in and out and in and out of his office, busy as all get-out. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Gonzalez didn’t even know what kind of mail was going out of the office. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had relived the night for us as we sat in Clancy’s office, eating what food was left in the supply room. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I think so. She didn’t remember him at first, but she emailed me after I left her office. I need to call her back right now.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

After she received it she caught me in the hallway and whispered, "I need to speak with you tomorrow in my office." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The moment he entered the office, he fainted into his physician’s arms. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Turner called me to his office the following Monday to shake my hand. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting here nice and cozy in the front office, peering out through a chink in the heavy curtains. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s hard to say. Miss Stephanie in the front office stopped me this morning to tell me to pay attention to the morning announcements. Apparently, Mr. Elliot is going to address it.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Johnson tried to fire him, but Stanton refused to surrender his War Department offices. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Authorities feared that Hale had disappeared for good when he suddenly strolled into Sheriff Freas’s office. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When he stepped outside the pastor’s office, his mother was right there. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He called me to his office on a bright afternoon. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

After breakfast I walked to the courthouse to see Sheriff Smith; when I got to his office, his secretary sent me right in. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I imagine using a superpower to send her to the principal’s office instead of me. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Nobody knew how they had found out where the offices were. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The mini high-rise had the same initials as this office—PP—in gold cursive on the front. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We found a stop watch in the office. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, he embarked on a number of prolonged trips to Mecca and the newly independent African states through the good offices of the representatives of the Arab League in the United States. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The office was full of a rush of work,” Starrett said, “but the spirit of the place was delightfully free and easy and human in comparison with other offices I had worked in.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

His office has just enough space for the desk and a file cabinet. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He heads into one of the open office doors, and I remain standing in the middle of the room. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Beginning to feel engaged again, and eager to get back to work, Ellsberg was in the Rand offices when Henry Kissinger came for a visit. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He was in the office at Lake Windsor Middle School, re-enrolling. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took a step into the office just as Liddy strode out. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Detective Rariden greeted me at the door and steered me into his office, his fingers digging into my shoulder. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then I started walking up the stairs to the principal's office so I could give the note to somebody that would bring it to her in her classroom. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

As Alvarez recounted the episode, he hastened to Lawrence’s office to advise him that as long as Wick remained in good standing as a faculty member, Ernest had no authority to fire him. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Later while Mrs. Jordan was talking to the doctor in the hall, I slipped into his office for a private visit with my sister. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Richard and I figured out a while ago that the more stuff Mom swipes from the office supply closet, the more she’s hating work. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go back to my office,” said Leon, getting to his feet. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He planted the offices in the midst of this black metropolis, rolled up his sleeves, and went to work. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Not far from Leesburg Pike there is a small office park. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just took her porch steps in one leap and was off, not stopping till I ended up with skinned knees and elbows in the alley beside the post office. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It had caused comment that so many leading Whigs had been seen ever and anon converging upon the Observer’s office. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The picture was MMS’d by the time we were halfway to Schmidt’s office. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I act like I’ve been sent to the principal’s office before. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I looked around my crowded office, at the stacks of records and papers, each pile filled with tragic stories, and I suddenly didn't want to be surrounded by all this anguish and misery. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He immediately called the sheriff’s office in Greenwood and reported the matter. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“So how long do you think you’re going to be able to hang on?” one new office mate teased, referring to the black engineers who had washed out. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“I resigned my office, gave Frank a field promotion to praetor. Unless you want to contest that ruling.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I found the answer to my problem in a lawyers’ office. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I loved the feeling of being there, of having office work to do. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There are no cash registers, but a mile away, in the neighboring village, there's a butcher, a baker, a post office, a hardware store, and a small grocery. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She skipped the office jobs knowing she’d have to start as a file clerk again. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearby was what looked like a ticket office, but it was closed. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She took in the gleaming tower of an office building, the blue sky reflected off its sides. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I was staring out the car window, at the window of Julian’s office. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lewis welcomed her into his office and sat down behind a big desk. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Professor Thomas told me what happened when you went to her office. She said that she had your letter from Marcus.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He sat in his office and made sure we were doing what we were supposed to. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

They were soon engulfed by office buildings so tall Emily couldn’t see the tops from where she sat. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I hear, through the screen speakers, a knock on the office door. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Or instead of just working at the office, maybe he would even own the company. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Lelia and Mitt used to play around with a tape recorder I sometimes brought home from the office. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And what happened after you left the office?” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I sit across from her like we do in the office, here in our new office with the panoramic views. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It's lunch hour, so I throw on sweats and power up the treadmill in my office suite. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As we left the principal’s office and headed home, my mind was still against going to school. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent his days in a borrowed office, working on a study of recent international crises that he hoped would be useful to government policymakers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The warehouse employees have been given a day off tomorrow, so Bep will be alone in the office. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Your students were all browsing the Internet,” she told Boubacar as they walked back to his office. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

George met with the prince in his office and then arranged to consult with me on Robben Island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ulbrickson was still fuming as the boys trooped out of the office. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In my mother’s office was a cupboard full of old games. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Yesterday, we spent the morning and early afternoon in doctor’s offices. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Nor did Perry, descending the post- office steps with the Mexican box balanced on a shoulder, observe the prowling car and the policemen in it. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought he would take a sponge bath and have a drink before his first office patients arrived with their stomach aches. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But as the picketing continued at the White House and was initiated in front of the congressional office building and at the US Capitol, more arrests were made. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I went to the office and asked the secretary for a paper clip. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I was three steps from the door handle when I heard voices inside the office. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

As I run from the office, the hallways are filling with kids. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Not hiding anything else in your office, are you?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

But that proved tricky in Gary Edwards’s case when he missed class one day so he could watch game film in the coaches’ office. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he opened a locker that stood in the corner of the closet/office. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“But I’m his book collector! I should have full access to the books in his office!” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Instead he saw a group of men gathered at the Shell station just across the street from his office. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Sure, Charlese. You may start working in the office as soon as you pay the fines for the three library books and two math books you lost last year.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I’m put through to Roberta, who is impressed by my initiative and tells me I can come on in to her office in the back of the store. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I don’t know any of them, except the ones who work in this law office. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He gives Katherine one last tip of his hat before striding out smartly back toward his office, yelling for Bob and Bill. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The room—a room in the sheriff’s office, into which he’d locked himself before falling asleep at a desk—was dull with near-darkness. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eight years earlier, American agents had discovered "bugs," or tiny listening devices, embedded inside the Great Seal of the United States in the US ambassador's office. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A candidate for public office who does not own a ranch is said to have little chance of election. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, I think they should have announced the winners by now. Let’s check with the box office.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful room, not an office at all, and much bigger than it looked from outside—airy and white, with a high ceiling and a breeze fluttering in the starched curtains. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was the second test of the day—the first had been in an office across town. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I step off the sidewalk, near the entrance to a post office—and wow. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Closing the door that exited to the hall, Dr. Barnes walked over and opened the other door that went into the main office. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

It was a miracle that no one had yet tried to murder Lincoln in his own office. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked into the mayor’s office and plopped the coins down on the mayor’s desk. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, he left his office at the War Department and went home to dinner with his wife. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Main Street, in stores, in factories and offices, in every sector, black and white mixed all day as a matter of course. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

While I do the hard work, he pays bills in his office. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

They wrote letters to Congress and the mayor’s office demanding recognition of Henrietta’s contribution to science. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Theresa and I stood together, with our backs to the glass wall of the office. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day I was summoned to the head office, where the commander blandly informed me that the case had been investigated and dis-missed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The morning commute ended at Mrs. Vaughan’s office in the Aircraft Loads Building. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She whisks me into the back office: she doesn’t want me dangling around in the empty gallery, at loose ends while the first revelers trickle in, she doesn’t want me looking unsuccessful and too eager. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Roger passes me on his way to the office, and the trail of red he leaves behind is so thick I feel as though I should be able to touch it. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

They used to be everywhere, thick in the air and offices, in the streets and in people’s own homes. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

There were several shops, a post office, a pub, and a little church whose stained-glass windows were glowing jewel-bright across the square. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The other thing that made me doubtful about all this had to do with the actual description given by Chrissie and Rodney: their picture of a woman working in a nice glass-fronted office. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks out her office door, across the hallway to where the eaglet rests. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Increasingly alarmed that the situation was escalating out of control, the chief phoned the mayor-elect, even though Grabarek would not assume office until Monday. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was in the principal’s office, or with the nurse, or I was helping out in the library or cafeteria, or running laps out on the playground. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Trepid scuttled out of the office and returned minutes later with a white-haired couple. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

We walked through the glass doors and beautiful entryway and stopped in the main office to ask for directions. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Grandma says, I’ll go to the landlord’s office and tell them fix this before ye are all drowned entirely. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

As soon as he was out of the guidance counselor’s office, he threw the article in the trash. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They passed no one who appeared to be a Mexican-American until they had left the business district of still-closed offices, stores, and cafés. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He felt irritable; office gossip annoyed him because it always proved better than the truth. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“The other attorneys knock. Everybody else knocks,” Linton says, in contrast to Terryl’s habit of bursting into her colleagues’ offices unannounced. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Why share it with only the two Daniels, who were with me in the office awaiting sentence for our spitball war, when there was a perfectly good microphone a few feet away, unattended and live. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

Dad looked up from his desk when I entered his office. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Here she is,” Ignatius said to the office manager through the big leaf of limp lettuce that was hanging from his mouth. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waved, and Lucas waved, and I went into Coach Reed’s office. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I wrote the poems on notecards and attached them to the broom handle or placed them in my shirt pocket and memorized them as I cleaned the offices after school. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

One reporter had had the nerve to ask him, “How can you not know what’s going on in your own office?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Senator looks over at the picture of Missus Whitworth, huge and cold, mounted on his office wall like a warning. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Last night the four of us went down to the private office and listened to England on the radio. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

There was only one light on at camp, in the office. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

All his life Kyril Montana had cultivated the habit of leaving his job at the office: once home, he relaxed; he became a family man. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the stories I love best about Lincoln is that after his election to office, he appointed some of his bitterest enemies to his cabinet. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

When I search his gaze, I recognize that curious, passionate, intelligent man I’d first seen in his office, showing me his newest creation. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One night ten of us met in an office of a leader of the party to hear Young restate his charges against Swann. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way to the doctor’s office, my dad was very talkative—which was very weird. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The world rushes away again, and suddenly we are sitting back in his office. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As I left his office, he shook my hand and said gravely, “Now you go into oblivion.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Please email me, or if you’d like, you can call my office line. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

As I followed her through an inner office past very official-looking white men, I was alarmed by the anxious expressions on their faces. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, I walked into my mom’s home office, where she was busy working, and I announced, “Okay, Mom, I’m going to try homeschool.” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“We’ll take a look at any footage you might have caught, miss, and share it with the DA’s office,” Officer Russell says. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

And then, because her class is on the opposite side of school from the counseling office and I’m not exactly running to get there, I show up five minutes late to my appointment. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I try to brush past her and into the office. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The walk from Dr. Minerva’s office to our apartment is a short one, but loaded with mocking stores. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Ignatius found himself in perhaps the most disreputable office that he had ever entered. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we went up past the old fort and out to the local Syndicat d'Initiative office, where the bus was supposed to start from. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

White dressed hastily, made sure everyone in his family was alerted, then left to go to the Tribune office. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

After calling the warden's office to confirm that my visit had been properly scheduled, he finally admitted me, brusquely directing me to the small room where the visit would take place. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“A little job in a office and you can’t hold it down. With all your education.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now Finnegan was leaning forward in his computer chair, craning his vulture neck around the office door to see me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Well, we all sat down in the sergeant’s office and talked about it,” he explained. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned to walk out of Wilfrido’s office when I felt a tug at my shoulder. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

"All right. Thanks," he said as he left the office. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was in the Pine-SoI-scented office of that furniture warehouse that I began my first novel. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

So I shoo her to the stairs, take off my catering clothes, throw on some clothing and pop my head into Mom’s office. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

He was a fat, prosperous-looking man, but without the manners to stand when a middle-aged lady came into his office. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Already Kate was on the table at Muller’s with the formalin running into her veins, and her stomach was in a jar in the coroner’s office. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looked like the security guards at the UN offices. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I would like you not to sneak around the center. We have all kinds of fun activities, but the offices and the stage and the kitchen are off-limits. Do you understand what I’m saying?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

After that, the people of Alabama removed Bull Connor from office. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As Emily, James, and Matthew seated themselves in Mr. Griswold’s office, Jack perched on the arm of the couch and launched into an explanation. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“You took a very long time to change,” the office manager said to Miss Trixie, noting bitterly that her new ensemble was only a little more presentable than the robe and nightgown. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

John’s office overlooked the factory floor from a balcony at the top of the staircase. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the while a little voice in my head is urging me to hurry to the sheriff’s office. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt had been our president for more than three terms in office. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

ONE MORNING, several days after my meeting with Bram and Joel, we were taken to the head office. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a paralegal asked me a question about her future, I’d open my office door and share my journey or offer some advice. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Turns out, somebody has already asked the security office to keep an eye out for his money clip. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“Oh yeah. She’s back in the office. I saw her there.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The restful doctor’s office was churning with activity. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We hurry past a pet store and a post office and into the café, both of us shivering. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

At this supreme moment, the people cheered the man who, after a shaky start in office, learned how to command armies, brought down slavery, and become a most eloquent and moving speaker. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Freya herself rode to the battlefield and claimed her share of the dead, and to the Norse poets that was a natural and fitting office for the Goddess of Love. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was about to say something else, but then all of a sudden I heard other voices outside the office: kids’ voices. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I do the laundry every morning. Then my uncle comes and picks me up on his way to work, and I hang around his office.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Harry ran down the corridor, the noise of his feet masked by the music and loud talk still issuing from Slughorn’s office behind him. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The head office was only about a quarter of a mile away and was a simple stone structure that resembled our own section. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I left his office full of fury at myself. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lewis did call Hazel’s mom, and on Friday morning she drove Hazel to school and the three of them sat in his office while he spoke of referrals and evaluations and partnerships and time-outs. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I could put up a notice at the Big Store and the post office.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He nodded and went back into his office. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The post office hadn’t called about the job. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

As his practice faltered, Sullivan found himself forced to leave his office in the Auditorium and to sell his personal belongings. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The contacts detect my lingering look, and the real world around us—the office, the couches, the walls—darkens and disappears. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dr. Johnson led the adults to her inner office. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In preparation for the fair, he ordered two hundred barrels of whiskey, to be used by his office in the entertainment of dignitaries. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The district attorney’s office had made an offer for a plea bargain. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He crouches before the door to the front office to make himself as small as possible and crawls on his hands and knees to the steel cabinet, takes out the bread and starts to leave. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

For instance, the West African state of Maradi had a central administration with over 130 titled offices. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The rental office tells him not to worry, that they will send someone by to remove the couch and the bed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Good idea. We’ll get our mailbox number, write it in, and then take it to the museum office.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z