“I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t know. I didn’t know that you were ashamed of me.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I place my go-go boots in their box and put on my old sneakers. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

We had already noticed there were many older boys and girls there, all in uniforms. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old King looked about him as if he were searching for the thing to do. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bod said, “You’re the oldest thing here. I came to talk to you. I want advice.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Some men did in those days. So the two new wives went to live with their new husband and his children, Light Hair and his older sister. That was in what is now eastern Wyoming.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

All too soon, though, I had to go back to Kakuma, and to the old man still waiting there to marry me. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cry on my bed that is Dad’s old bed. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The basement is actually nice and carpeted and painted, with lights everywhere and my dad’s old hockey trophies and framed jersey and bookshelves packed with books, even though he absolutely does not read. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, he and some of our classmates were back to having lessons in the old nursery room upstairs. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He was listening to some old soul song, and it was coming out of his earbuds loud, his body on its side. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I figured they were my age, maybe a little older. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The son was about four years older than me and head and shoulders taller. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He envied the old man because he lived with Antonapoulos day after day. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She laughed as the old donkey ate them out of her hand. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Ku’oosh showed him an old enamel chamber pot with a lid. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And so dreary, I think, taking in all the gray huddled-up old men disguised as trees. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

And she says, “Oh, we're nothing until something happens. But my old commercial agent called, and they want me to go in for a Talbot’s ad tomorrow.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The building was an old Victorian house, and it was within walking distance of anywhere they might need to go. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He reached out an old hand, and patted Shadow’s arm with it. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

When he takes off his boots, I stare at his feet, with their long toes—bigger and older echoes of my own—and I wonder how I could be related to this man. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then all the men went grieving to assembly and being seated, rank by rank, grew still, as old Eupeithes rose to address them. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

This champion the lord of stormcloud, Zeus, and strong Apollo loved; nor had he ever to cross the doorsill into dim old age. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I ... will,” the older man said through clenched teeth. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Her divine powers surge as she leaps up to the roof of the old café. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It be like meeting other women—older and younger, living and no more breath. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Ivy descended from the attic and walked down the old wood floors to Layla’s room. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Was I doing that?” the old man asked. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

For the present she would change him into an old beggar so that he could go everywhere unrecognized. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the one closest to the door with the beard made of icicles had to be old Whoresbane Umber. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Tied up along its shores was every conceivable kind of watercraft— Chinese junks, tugboats, rickety houseboats, old schooners, and barges heaped with jumbles of industrial cargo. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Sitting on top of some old wrappers are two knives. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But it was there anyway, as it had always been, the old feeling and the old question. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was about going to an old place too, someplace familiar that I’d been to before. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“That boy’s right! We could mine that old moon good!” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But finally Miss Whitlaw looked at her father’s old watch, which she had brought in the hamper. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

For older children and stouthearted adults, Lakewood boasted a large roller coaster that filled the air with the clacking of metal on wood and the delighted shrieks of its riders. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mallister or no, he was a more amiable riding companion than this sour old priest that his uncle Aeron had turned into. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, in her role of unhappy helper but obedient daughter, Shirley had become quite adept with tools and familiar with the inner workings of the old house. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

An old woman, aided by two young girls. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When I was six years old, I took the biggest punch of my life and I haven’t figured out how to get up yet. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fitzgerald wrote, “So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He had been forged, by that deluded old teacher, into a sort of Pasteur or Curie or patient discoverer of insulin. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and his old wife cheesed at me one more time and wandered over to a purple health-department booth where the staff were taking people’s blood pressure. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The boy who raised his head and looked around at the ugly old mountains surrounding him seemed far different than the boy I’d been merely moments before. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Later, after the spirituals, Loomis and old Uncle Lem would put on a debate, all in fun. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Funny, like old people do, and I laughed for real. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is the heat,” complained another old auntie. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was there. I remember. It’s old and ratty.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

As my old professor searched for answers, the disease took him over, day by day, week by week. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just think—Miss Simpson may read my first article to my old classmates. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

"Oh, and may I introduce my much older sister, Lady Erishkigal, Mistress of the Everlasting Palace, Queen of Night, and Goddess of Death." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I dumped out the old clothes from my dresser. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the hope of pleasing everyone, she took everyone’s advice, and like the old man and his donkey in the fable suited nobody. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my turn came up, the Santa man asked me how old I was. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is only a little rice left in the basket,” said the old man, seating himself at the table in the middle room and stirring with his chopsticks the thick yellow gruel. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He was watching them from a distance, half hidden in the shadow of one of the old chestnut trees that grew near the house. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The two old dancers were still dancing at Sixth Hour, midnight, after five Terran hours. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

They beat the brims of their hats against their legs before putting diem on and trudged down the road like old promises nobody wanted kept. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed so much older, or maybe it was her striking resemblance to Aunty Ifeoma or the way she stared me right in the eyes. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

By then, Ptolemy XIV would have been about fifteen—old enough to demand equal power and old enough to become a rival. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

It felt wrong to be with these older kids. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Mother’s conversion to Dad’s philosophy was not total, however, and occasionally she was possessed of her old enthusiasm. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Hugo charged at the old man, but the old man was quick and caught his arms. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Look at those old American cars. They’re held together with rubber bands and paper clips and still work better than the new Russian ones. Oye!” she calls out to the bystanders. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In between nursing baby Etty, supervising the kitchen and nursery staffs, taking care of Charles, and playing with the older children, Emma read the draft. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daughters who had complained bitterly about the responsibilities of taking care of their aged mothers-in-law had altered when Sula locked Eva away, and they began cleaning those old women’s spittoons without a murmur. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He is twelve years old and only stands as tall as Ma’s shoulders, but he knows he is strong. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an old black-and-white shot of four people. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The old man and the girl argued some more, and finally she closed her book and ran off. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

By the time the rest of us had finished packing for the journey, Adam was back in his old spot, only now he was marking Victor’s grave. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Since she was seven years old, she had thought: Why don’t I get to prove my skills? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was Mrs. Granger’s favorite pen, her old maroon fountain pen with the blue cap. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was impatient and he called out, “I am too old to wait for my food like this!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

My sister Kathy and I lay upstairs and listened, and through what seemed to be a fog, I heard my older brother Richie telling Mommy, “It’s all right, Ma. It’s all right.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man was called Garikayi, and most of the others were his younger brothers. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Arm could sense the spirit: an old, corrupt warthog grown fat on the flesh of its young. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

We sat there watching as more and more people showed up and old men opened their stands and set out the products and price tags. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

An older Theodore Roosevelt jumping on horseback, a hobby that he took up as a teenager. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

They ran under the dripping oaks to the old Sanchez house and plunged in through its open door, which squeaked restlessly on rusty hinges. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Moss pulled out his old phone, which had a new screen thanks to a friend of Martin’s but still wouldn’t catch a signal. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The man on this stage appears older than the magician from the previous night. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Or was she like a shot of whiskey given to you by your older cousin? The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few seconds collect and fall, and when I look up, the old fibro house is lit up. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She was older than I, but not so tall. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two hours later, the bathrooms are wiped down, my bedroom is visitor-ready with clean sheets, the family room is vacuumed, and the old magazines are in the recycling bin. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She sat on the floor and wrapped her arms around Winn-Dixie and rocked him back and forth like he was a big old teddy bear. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“And that—” said Riddle, now eyeing the ragged thing that Fawkes had dropped, “that’s the old school Sorting Hat —” So it was. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Once we get to Ma's house—our old...other house—it goes the same way every time. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Too bad I can’t bring in old Clyde,” he joked, stepping in front of the potbellied stove. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Her stiffness reminded me of all the fish lying curved and stiff on the riverbanks, flaking in the sun like old white bars of soap. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smell was one of rot, some musty rot that made him think only of graves with cobwebs and dust and old death. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he’d tell her to stay away from the old house. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I am only eight years old, I told myself. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the one who introduces them has as his enemies all those who profit from the old order, and he has only lukewarm defenders in all those who might profit from the new order. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

I look up at the old boards and wonder about the whole thing. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

He reached into his jeans pocket and withdrew an old plastic soldier, the fox’s favorite toy. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He was old, and leaned heavily on one leg, probably the result of childhood polio. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was returning now after an absence of thirteen years to his old alma mater, Pennsylvania College, in Gettysburg. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d enlisted after graduating from Jefferson last year, was only a couple years older than me, so I probably should have cared, but seriously, I just couldn’t get past Lance. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“You got some money to lend me?” one of them, an older woman whose telephone had just been cut off, asked her. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He shoved aside an old armchair and lowered Ron carefully onto the lower berth of a bunk bed. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

There were two old photos on his desk. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Plump, translucent lizards lived behind old pictures, and waxy, crumbling ancestors with tough toe-nails and breath that smelled of yellow maps gossiped in sibilant, papery whispers. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t find that letter in any old box,” she began. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Nhamo still helped, but she spent several hours a day with the old man, learning to read. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She was just telling me about her old school.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

We stare at the old building with no doorknob, and I instantly feel warm inside. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Some of the older lords will still remember me, and their sons will have heard the stories. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Like they know things older than you could ever imagine.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

And though by now I was fighting older boys and didn’t mind that one bit, for some reason I didn’t want to fight about books. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

But, Matty, I want you to go to your old village first. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Hmmm?”The old man looked around and saw me for the first time. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It's one of the oldest buildings in Amsterdam, a convent from the fifteenth century, and the address Ollie gave me is on the same street. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I’m eighteen years old and I’ve never had a real boyfriend. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

After they removed the coffin to the street, the santeros broke a clay urn behind Felicia’s old De Soto, the funeral car, and sprinkled it with cold water to refresh her for the final journey. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, her sleeping like an old maid did prove one thing: she and Grandpa hadn’t been sweet on each other before Granny died. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The old people ate and then went off to sleep. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not know if they were men or women, old or young. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Even though it’s an old, grainy phone video, it fills my view through my glasses like a giant screen. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After all, who knew how long the old man was going to make him work? The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Like for instance Papa said old man Plunket told him the train hit a mule and a cow at the same time yesterday just outside of Cold Sassy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Next to Dad, sitting with a little space between them, was my older brother, Byron. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to remember how old he was, couldn’t. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I see I have become somewhat lost in these old memories. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

About the older man, who only wore the uniform to please his brother, there was a homespun blackness, the true, despairing dark of mourning. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The entire hall, which admittedly is just me, my family, J/C, and the older professor-type woman with the glasses, stops and stares. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

"Better than a lot of us, even though he was older." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Though with all the old folks around me, that might not be such a bad idea! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

While I was laying there trying not to think, I heard old Stradlater come back from the can and go in our room. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

A prep school kid, a touch arty, wearing an old man’s suit and no doubt reading Camus or Kerouac. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The kid on the warship looked exactly like Hazel’s old boyfriend. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

And now I can recall the picture of the grey old house of God rising calm before me, of a rook wheeling round the steeple, of a ruddy morning sky beyond. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The old leg was clunky compared to this one. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Her bearing was such that if she had been a year older, I would have been forced to see her as a lady. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When we got there, the host, that old guy who’s worked there for about a billion years, asked if we needed a table for four. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Around this time, in 1887, a New York murderer was put to death the old way—on the gallows. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“After all I’m older than you. Old enough to recognize failure and stop dreaming, so I’m told.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She’s grown quite a bit, too; we’re practically the same height now, but that isn’t what makes her seem so much older. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Charlie Bucket? He must be that skinny little shrimp standing beside the old fellow who looks like a skeleton. Right close to us. Just there! See him?” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

A girl who couldn’t have been more than nine years old chopped onions but paused to smile at me. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“There was an old legend about a hero,” he recalled. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I am too old to work. I come back where I was born.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

She never persuaded her nurse, however, who clung to the old gods till her death. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

One of them, just as scared, but back to her old habits of pretending there was nothing to fear, as el seiior Roosevelt had said, but being afraid. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old, ugly Peris would have enjoyed the challenge. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I can see Hansa, merchant ships, old fishing boats, trawlers, and even dinghies that have brought fleeing people from the nearby lagoon. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She seems to welcome my presence because she lets me stay there instead of telling me to scram, like in the old days. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

She was always the superior older girl, one step ahead of me. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I think I’m going to faint,” he whispered to the old sheep, who was watching. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

The kitchen radio was playing an old classic on one of the Haitian stations. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Most of all, I miss the stories that he used to tell me about the old days. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“It’s not brand-new—but only two years old and just twenty thousand miles on it.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then he went from cardboard box to cardboard box selecting back issues, and within minutes he left the office carting twenty old issues of the magazine under one arm. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old woman cries softly, her hand clutching his small one, her thumb massaging the top of his hand in a circle. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up the ring of keys and took the old black key off the ring. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Probably he had said to someone to give something the old college try, and that had finished him; that would probably be grounds for expulsion at Harvard. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

This involved a return to Ernest’s old “brute force” method: when all else failed, dial up the energy, step up the current, and wait for something to happen. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He looks younger up close, but older than me—maybe Chantal’s age. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

All of the older girls drink and really “party.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Now that I’m older, I don’t really believe there is someone listening to me. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Three of them were drinking from bottles of pop, and one, a real old one, was using a rag to wipe the inside of a trumpet. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

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

That there man kem over, and blessed but if he didn’t put in his hand and stroke the old wolf’s ears too! Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“You think you can? That old nurse has it in for me.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old gentleman leaned back in his chair and lighted an enormous meerschaum pipe—Good gracious, he breathes fire, thought the Wart, who had never heard of tobacco—before he was ready to reply. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was small and seemed like it was old and distant. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

They belong to an old man with a white beard, blinking into the light. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the end, the Fifteens won the scrimmage 3-1, but not before the Thirteens managed a final blow to the older boys’ pride. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

"Is it his fault the old man died?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Granny stiffened and stared at me in amazement; then a glad smile lit up her old wrinkled white face and she nodded and gently patted my hand. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of my dad’s old Beatles tapes had been playing in the machine with the volume turned all the way down. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started ballet lessons when I was four years old. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

‘It is old, very old,’ said the Elf. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Besides, didn’t the old man say you had to be pure of heart? You couldn’t say that about the emperor.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The inn was an old stone-built rambling, comfortable sort of place. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

They have no deep connections here, no old friends, no parents to sit for their children. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He’s got a big old sickle; is cutting weeds along his side of the road. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just somehow knew an old sailing vessel was the best bet for me. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

As we got older, we went on talking about the Gallery. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I knew I was too old, I kept hoping to see Santa. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a little larger, a little older, and considerably cleaner than Trotter’s. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Instead, Sandy is living with his brother, Mikey, who was old enough to get himself a bit of property way out on the edge of town. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“No, I never knew them. They were Inner Party members. Besides, they were far older men than I was. They belonged to the old days, before the Revolution. I barely knew them by sight.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Longstreet came in out of the dark, bowing under a canopy, saw the face like cold marble in yellow candlelight, eyes black and soft like old polished stones. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bring any of the papers of the time that I was gone,” the old man said. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s admitting to you that the gap is closing. That he has to practice if he’s going to beat you from now on. He’s admitting some hard things. He’s admitting that he’s getting older.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was super old, well into her nineties, stooped and frail, completely blind. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Chilly day,” rasped an old man in a tweed cap. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She leans over my shoulder and lifts a dusty rag, one of my old cloth diapers, to remove a tape measure hidden underneath. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

By now my older brother might be married, and his wife would be living in the home of my parents. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

But I’m older than those years in some things. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When anybody, no matter how old they are, loses a parent, I think it hurts the same as if you were only five years old, you know? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stash my weapons in the hollow log nearest my old home in the Seam and head for the fence. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about those thugs at the old barbershop and how they had changed Jermaine. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Anyway, what a gorgeous job for a guy around sixty-five years old. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

It had to be centuries old, if she was telling me the truth. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Still with his black tuxedo—torn and old now—his cigar, and his cane. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then I was balancing on the front bumper of an old car as a gentle-faced man with strong arms pointed out the engine. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And he said, “My old man says you take a good Chink, I mean a good one—why, he’s about as good as anybody. They’re honest.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I take the road past the castle, a fairy-tale place of turrets and etched stone where my sisters used to eat picnics, but those memories are like old photographs faded by the sun. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Won’t you come and sit down next to your tired old mum?” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

A few people, mostly old men, sat in the sunlight, looking at nothing. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was older than me, but he treated me well. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The overgrowth gradually gave way to a thin layer of the oldest, thickest vines. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old one took up his seat at the table and kept rubbing a hand along his mustache. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Not a thing. How could she? She’s five years old at the most!”Anger seethed inside him—anger that he couldn’t hide. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

With the passing of the flame out of him he was suddenly cold with an age and he was an old man. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The little old lady finally pipes up in a creaky voice: “We wanted to wait until the children were dead.” Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a shrug and a smile, Mom says, "Hard to say. Certainly not until he's feeling like his old self again. Now, Miss Pagett, is there anything else I can help you with this morning?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the old man was down from the Wall, he must have come by way of Winterfell. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And we stood there on the corner of our old farm under the oak trees, wishing we never had to come home. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

She had two older brothers and one sister. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I avoid the well: in our old town, there was sickness — they said that we poisoned the well. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

And then, poor fool, he thought I would drown — I, who couldn’t drown when I was three hours old! Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

I had been vague with Mama, so as not to open old wounds. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than sixty of the suffragists, most of them middle-aged or older, chose to go to jail rather than pay a fine. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I knew she was old enough and smart enough to know that my head didn’t actually break, but she’d been calling it that for so long it didn’t matter anymore. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The storm broke just as the old man's body was borne in through the door. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“Nemesis mentioned something similar,” Leo said; “She talked about an old score that had to be settled—” “The one thing that might bring the gods’ two natures into harmony,” Hazel recalled. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He paused and drank half the liquid in his greasy glass, a kind of moonshine he kept in an old pop bottle on the back stoop. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Finally, one of us here wonders whether you have an older sister who was at Girton six or seven years ago. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I wanted to ask them how old they were, just out of spite. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

We turned and fled the way we’d come, but we didn’t make it twenty feet before we ran straight into some old friends. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Naomi was climbing into the backseat of an old Chevrolet, but Henry got there before she closed the door. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The train is slowing, and we are almost opposite the house, my old house. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Chocolates. I bought a box myself. The least I could do for good old Trinity.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rolled him up in an old sheet and put him to bed. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old wooden table filled the middle of the room. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Although he was at least fifteen years older than his wife, his alert determination to make her happy and his qualities as a good lover compensated for the difference. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

This pleased me, but then he was only five years old so it wasn’t exactly reliable information. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I read through all of Dad s books about the Panthers and his stash of old Party newspapers. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I was a middle-aged bald guy more than thirty years older than he, a lifelong easterner. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And all of a sudden, there I am thinking about this old dude, dying. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t old enough to do anything bad enough to go to hell. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old woman behind us says, What are ye doin’ to that lovely child? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It’s Lolo’s old radio, the one that’s covered in paint speckles from all our jobs. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Matt still accompanied her occasionally, but he was bored by the old dyer and her endless instructions. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only organization that I had was just a few weeks old. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Christ, in His mercy, couldn’t possibly condemn Julie to death just because her older brother was stubborn and stupid. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Every other old bird or coot in the place will have seen the whole show, including the Spec, and where’s the fairness in that? Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“He’s old enough to remember how to eat properly.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two older brothers and Wilse Graham talked as they splashed in the cold water, and Jethro could sense the pleasure they felt in seeing one another again after the lapse of several years. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those old newspapers were full of stories about all kinds of people in good times and bad. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I helped her out of her old runners that were too big and had been handed down from Slopper. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Farther downstream, beyond the bluff, were traces of the old cotton landing where Finch Negroes loaded bales and produce, and unloaded blocks of ice, flour and sugar, farm equipment, and ladies’ things. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She told me that Mary Elizabeth is a really old friend of hers. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, two hundred came from your old bosses at Essential Baking, Claire and Thomas. And didn’t you work with an old guy, Giancarlo?” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

We received baskets of candy until we grew older and the Easter Bunny branched out. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Was that her way of making them wait until they were older to know what it said? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

They used to laugh at him and his old ragtag store behind his back, but over the years they made Old Man Shilsky rich and nobody was laughing then. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old adage “Talk is cheap until you hire a lawyer” didn’t apply to Bobby since he had two high-profile lawyers working for him pro bono. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It is the start of fifth grade, the start of being the oldest in the school. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Helped out my old man in the shop. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I thought how fine it would be if I was riding my own horse instead of an old mule. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That old woman is too mean to die,” Mama said. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

As he walked through the dining room, something — an old tennis ball — hit him on top of the head and bounced away. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance he looked like an old man, his shoulders stooped, but he walked with the swift space-covering gait of a young man. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stick and I used to lie on our beds after lights-out and play the game together, making up elaborate lives and characters, before we got too old to make-believe. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I get up, splash water on my face, and change into my favorite jeans and my mom’s old X-Files tee. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He was at least fifteen years older than me, not particularly well educated, and he hailed from a small rural community. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Had to let their hired man go because of taxes, and their oldest son took the king’s coin early this summer. He’s off fighting the rebels in Menat now.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The fact that most older Hungarians knew Russian, and that many also had a command of German, while most of the younger generation could speak English, helped Bobby in communicating. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Flint learned to walk and climb when he was six months old. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I whittled out one of the old knotholes to let the smoke out, and built the chimney down from this. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m visiting the old haunts, making the circuit, and she’s part of it. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The breeze today was the kind you opened the shutters for, the kind that carried away old sin and flakes of sadness. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Harry sniffed and a foul stench reached his nostrils, a mixture of old socks and the kind of public toilet no one seems to clean. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

In my room I peel off my damp bathing suit and put on the first clothes I pull from my bureau, an old shirt and shorts that don’t match. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had given birth at the zoo to two young ones, strapping males five and eight years old that were her—and our—pride. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I kept count of your years, for I thought the time would come when you would like to know how old you are.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

‘Good-bye, for the present, Bilbo. Take care of yourself! You are old enough, and perhaps wise enough.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The doorbell rings, and Jenna and her dad come in, followed by an older couple who have recently moved in next door to the Roths. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I pictured what it might have been like to have him pick me up in his new car at our old school where everybody could see. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So subdued, in fact, that there are long periods of silence relieved only by the removal of old dishes and presentation of new ones. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He went tearing after it as if there was nothing else in the world but that old rubber ball. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Basner was behind me and handed the old man the same type of document. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was an old inmate joke, as they were forbidden to have cash. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lanky, with a loping gait, and dressed in what some Europeans thought was Western or Texan clothing, he was described as being “laconic as the hero of an old cowboy movie.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“How old are you, anyway?” she asked, squinting at him. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Beautiful,” said an older, female voice, and Celaena pivoted, the yards of cumbersome fabric twisting with her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A guy no older than twenty-five with floppy black hair plops down in front of me. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was a different kind of wobbly because they were five years old. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Rusty red thing, one of those old American Flyer models. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

You tearing off in one direction and Leroy tearing off in the other, I’s too old to be chasing after folks like a hound dog. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“It was like life in the old days,” a white trader who accompanied them recalled. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I finally answered, “I had an accident. I had some kind of damage to my eyes when I was five years old.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A Lydian drakon, to be exact. The oldest and most dangerous kind.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The beach was quiet, except a few older couples walking by holding hands. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

My older sister has been in a vile mood since the SIM cornered us in our own house. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He wrapped the bottle in an old T-shirt and hid it behind his seat. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He said that since I was the oldest living at home, I had to watch out for Mommy and my little brothers and sisters because “y’all are special,” he said. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A puff of old, stale smelling air came into his face. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The property begins to take on its old groomed look of a park. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“I should go anywhere: anywhere where a woman old enough to be your mother would be safe from fins extravagance.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man glared at him, made a shooing motion with his hand, and turned back to work. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They had shared the bond of being the only two women aboard the Dolphin and the older woman had been sociable and kindly. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Past that, an old trestle bridge spanning a gorge. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The older I get, the more I realize how smart my grandpa was. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I mean, uh, you won’t get far in those dusty old Sky Sprints you were using before. And if you fail, so do I.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

On the left, huge concrete pipes from an older sewer repair job lay scattered around. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Pork Chop’s granny was old and sat on a stool in a corner and stared at everyone. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the only way to talk to him, not with words, but with hard work and the feel of old tools, and with fat bulbs buried and waiting deep in the rich soil. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each visit was presaged by trips to the seamstress to fit a new dress or disguise an old one, and each time they returned there was fresh news about the royal court. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“First of all, Stella dear, you know Mercedes Rael is much too old to drive. And second of all—” Then she stopped. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls are covered in old paintings and photographs. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was Doc Thompson, her old master, cigar in his mouth. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was stuck in Alaska, the giant’s home territory, out of contact with his old friends just as his memories were coming back. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Yet here, instead of the spiky Gothic then in use, was the lovely old Gaelic minuscule, as neat and round and small as when he had learned it from some ancient saint in dim Dunlothian. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, I hear you’ve made up all of your old work. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry could just make out the outline of a fine old house on the hillside. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I shake my head and point him toward the back of the school, through the trees to the old slave cabin. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

They go for zebras, gnus and water buffaloes, and not only the old or the infirm in a herd—full-grown members too. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The infant country, not even fifty years old, was thinking hard at the time about better ways to punish its criminals. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess we ran out of time,” the old man continued dreamily. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And not just Clara, but the gruff old man with the funny mustache, and the sad-eyed boy with the bleeding back, too. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I could not help but think that this could have been me, and holding you—a month old by then—I knew that such loss would not be mine alone. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Which had been true from the very start—all I’d ever known from them—so I didn’t question it much until I was older and began to pull on the loose threads in my life. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Then I saw he was a very old man, the load he carried kept slipping over his lean shanks and every time he hitched the baskets up they bumped against me. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the top of the hill, they climbed over an old retaining wall and down into an excavated trench. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I was only about five years old when I left it, to go and live with my old master on Colonel Lloyd’s plantation; so that I was now between ten and eleven years old. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

She has an old pair of sunglasses that would appear fashionable yet do a good job disguising my condition. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I drag the mousey chair down the old steps. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Of course he had heard such stories, but not from dignified old men. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was easier to change the name on the front door than it was to erase all the old feelings of being inside. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“So Herbert and Clara say, but I don’t think I shall, Biddy. I have so settled down in their home, that it’s not at all likely. I am already quite an old bachelor.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped away through fields and forests, his precious old instrument under his arm, to seek out refuge in the hall of some lesser marauder. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rubber was old and rotting and the balloon burst almost at once, and I was heartbroken. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Reese would always lend us a couple of old bats if we wanted to play, but balls were something else, because we kept knocking them out of the sandlot. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Her palms itched, and she had a brief impulse to slap the older one. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were more trees now, old and gnarled. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“My name is Starr Carter. I’m sixteen years old.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“But he goes to Eastside so he can’t be more than a year older than me.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

From a distance I noticed old Salamano standing on the doorstep. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Then, when he was sixty-three years old, he quietly donated the entire amount to buy the land to build the migrant shelter. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

An old witch sat in a niche, quivering her wax hands over some orange-and-blue tarot cards. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe when I got older, I’d grow a huge nose with warts on it. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Now, when things were tough, a lot of people said he was just a mean old one-eyed man. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Upon seeing the size of the package, an old woman nearby quipped, “Madam must have had one of her sumptuous banquets.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He yielded to the Army because the old wickedness in generation after generation of his race was bound to work out in evil for him too. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to drive them out by evoking older memories of Kabati before the war. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want it to fit this way. It’s just an old piece of paper. It’s probably wrong. It doesn’t know Moss.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The older man pointed, stabbing a finger at the left front fender. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

In it were contained all the old poetry and stern cadences of what the Marine Corps embodied and embraced. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mom wakes me up for evening prayers, I’m clutching an old Franklin Covey agenda, one that contains a series of arguments to prove Caliban’s depravity. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Their skill level tended to peak at around age twenty-two, when they were older and stronger, which meant they were able to enjoy competing over a much longer period. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Secrets are turned out like pockets, and old memories meet new. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He pounded his leg and threw his head back like old men do, cracking up. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Some trouble he got into when he was thirteen years old,” I said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We find our seats in the auditorium, which is pretty incredible—way better than the cafetorium at my old middle school. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

I felt dangerous, bold, older by years, inspired by all the Marianas and Sofías whose emotional ups and downs had fed my romantic fantasies. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The old man sat down on another box. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always got a couple of new releases and then kept working my way through the older stuff. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

We talked about the old days some and, finally, it was time to go. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

My Thatha holds out an old black-and-white photograph of a boy who could be me. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Near where he stood an old man squatted on his haunches beside a great slab of alabaster, examining and blowing at a small hollow in one corner of it. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Across the street, an old classmate of mine is shopping at Mrs. Bierman's store. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Kamen staggered down the stairway in a daze and made a beeline for Ruben’s lab, located in a derelict old annex to the chemistry building known as the Rat House. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

At first, she also called him to her with words which she presumably thought were friendly, like "Come here for a bit, old dung beede!" or "Hey, look at the old dung beede!" The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think you probably do because you are older than me. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

It would have been an even match for, though Corin had longer arms and more height, the Dwarf was older and tougher. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

You get your name from your two oldest uncles. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was living to be one hundred years old and played a smoothly fluent game of billiards that contrasted with his own ninety-four-year-old brittleness. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

At the rail yard, I felt like an old hand. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

You are an old Arctic hand—you know what that means. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t play so often since I had gotten too old to play with the Coal children. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is three years old, his wide eyes open to the world, his too-big ears already listening. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

They were all older than I, and I was sure that they did not think I could even draw a thread through a needle. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

And the principal foundations of all states, the new as well as the old or the mixed, are good laws and good armies. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing old Phoebe liked was when Hamlet patted this dog on the head. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Percy didn’t remember the old blind man muttering a final curse, but as Phineas dissolved and returned to the Underworld, he probably hadn’t wished Percy a long and happy life. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But the old woman merely poked gently at the earth around the alien plant. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The old men stole frightened glances at each other. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Werfel thought of the old saying: Elf and goblin, we all have pointy ears. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“She knows all there is, the old woman,” Jamison said. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I had my breakfast, it was only around noon, and I wasn't meeting old Sally till two o'clock, so I started taking this long walk. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

That corner of their building with the crack had actually fallen off, exposing a cutaway section not only of their old back bedroom, but their living room too. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some built new mounds or maintained the old; others hauled wood for fuel and houses or carried water in leather pouches or weeded the maize fields with stone hoes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Rose, it wont do any good pretending any longer that nothing is wrong. Just look at him, Rose. Six years old, and—” “He’s not a dummy. He’s normal. He’ll be just like everyone else.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was not an older sister to her. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But in The Dump, Angry Quiet was an old friend, and he moved in again. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But the old man had ceased to listen and there was no one to hear him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As we rode past the old barn, weathered gray and leaning into a clump of hollyhocks and daisies, I pointed toward the shed. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Indeed, he was now claiming that the artifacts were half a million years old. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Leave the room, Georges!” cried the old woman, who was trying to help Isabelle stand. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Beyond, through the swirl of what he now, somehow, perceived was the thing the old man had spoken of— snow—he could look out and down a great distance. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Naomi and several of the women dressed for dinner, but I put this aberrant behavior down as a sign of approaching old age. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

When I finish, the suspicious officer points to the old man, who is nodding away at the names I’ve read off. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little old man with a baby carriage made into a pushcart with a charcoal burner, and the smell of roasting chestnuts, and snow on the ground. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had been thirteen years old, without realizing it, for a whole hour. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Through barter and the generosity of a few friends, he soon owned a ragged collection of old stringed instruments—a mandolin, several guitars, an old ukulele, and two banjos. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Mark was still in a good mood and was curious about what the older man had planned. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Only then did he reach down in his pants pockets, haul up an old leather pouch tied with a wax string and count out old green pennies that looked like junk too. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt silly being scared of a frail old woman, but the way her voice had changed, the way she’d grabbed Nico ... The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Shh. I’ll go down here—I’m pretty sure the old man went this way. You go up there and see if you can spot the old lady.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then she laughed like we were old friends gossiping. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

She is fourteen years old, so she is of marriageable age, and I suspect we will have a wedding before too long. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

With apologies to Henry Thomas from the movie, who is likely ninety years old now, I bet you. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The old man raised both his hands and then changed his mind, shrugged, and sat down again. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Showing her bare mouth in a grin, the old woman spat snuff juice and put the dime in her pocket. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She put her old rabbit-skin blanket down and slept on top of it. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

She refers to my familial house, one of the oldest and most respected in the Empire, by its formal title. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Robb drew a map across the table, a ragged piece of old leather covered with lines of faded paint. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I’d told her I wanted to compete when we watched it together, and she said we could talk about it when I was old enough. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

And, just five days in, Laila had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which Tariq’s father sometimes played old Pashto songs, time stretched and contracted depending on Tariq’s absence or presence. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Well, let me know when you have,” said the old man. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The best thing to do, I told Alice, is to take different routes from place to place, or put a log across an old path and let it rest. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I will be uneasy knowing that the old faith was lost as much by choice as it was inevitably lost. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew it must’ve been an old picture because she looked much younger than the woman in the casket. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Doubtless old Mormont would take it amiss- if he throttled the creature. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Once when I visited Buddy I found Mrs. Willard braiding a rug out of strips of wool from Mr. Willard's old suits. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I search the faces of all the people passing me and think of my cousins—the oldest, Chantal, and the twins, Primadonna and Princess, who are my age. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The silent waves brought new blue bottles to be broken, and dragged the old ones away in the undertow. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drove to Las Vegas, sold his junk-heap car, packed his collection of maps, old letters, manuscripts, and books, and bought a ticket for a Greyhound bus. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gave him a silver for his trouble and sent him on his way before she turned back to the old man with the white beard. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They didn’t talk much, but the old silent thread of twinship seemed in place again. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But their coats weren’t all that opened: their faces opened, too, like empty shells, and out of the old empty fluffy round bodies stepped two young women. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Instead, I felt oppressed by the old man’s expectations. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent four and a half months at a place called Harold House, an inpatient rehab center in an old warehouse. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The old man rearranged his cards meticulously and said nothing. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other boy's face was very small, and brown as a nut, he looked peculiarly old. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

From around the end of the last stall old Candy’s voice came. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile the crotchety old passenger let himself into the backseat and put his walking stick across his legs. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The copy she slipped under the waistband of her jeans was old and dog-eared, the pages yellowed, with passages underlined in pencil. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The links slithered and turned and grew taut, and Arya heard the creak of old dry wood as the great iron rings strained against the floorboards of the wagon. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She can’t possibly mean the old man I saw just a few moments ago. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Vikus was waiting for them by the balcony with an older woman. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The old boat made them feel right at home,” Ulbrickson noted in his logbook. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Luma stayed focused on the older boys’ scrimmage, but the Thirteens wouldn’t be ignored. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Yesterday morning I dug out my old Houston Oilers hooded sweatshirt, a thick pair of corduroy pants, and a wool shirt that has always been too large for me to wear. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls head turned and she half rose, listening to the murmur of the sea, but she did not answer and the old woman did not urge her. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But I was happy to get a glimpse of the oldest one and wished he sang the love song. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

An old lady stood there smiling, her dentures glowing white in the perpetual green twilight of the hallway. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Later the bird returned as an old man, and he guided her boxing for many years. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he leaned on the stand, suddenly seeming old and weary. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

My older brother Vincent was the one who actually got the chess set. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each blindfolded child was no more than ten years old, and though they looked rather foolish dressed in the costumes of the gods, there was something charming about it. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Once upon a time there was an old, old man named Bluebeard,” she began in a low voice. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the fateful day had dawned, the tribe numbered forty-two men, counting those who were too old to fight. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

While he continued to operate his farm as such farms were operated in the neighborhood, he entered on a new career— that of the old soldier. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I may see you only if I fulfill my dream of retiring in Honduras. You’ll see me when I’m old,” she says. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

If the baby turns one when she’s already lived a year, isn’t the only consistent choice to say that the baby is zero years old before that time? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I thought that I would go to high school with him, see him get his first job, and grow old with him. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I had lessons from a funny old lady. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He took out all the bandages and swabs and put them in an old mug from the kitchen. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The old man smiled, greeting him by name, and asked, “Do you know who I am?” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

But then one day, the servants packed the older girls' things. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

That day we only had time for the old wing, and that was plenty. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

She told me story after story of dogs that came home; even her old dog, Rex, had come home missing half an ear and three toenails. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The oldest of the crones, a bent and shriveled stick of a woman with a single black eye, raised her arms on high. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Susie’s only one year old, and Dad wanted to be able to talk to his buddies freely and play cards, so he put Bobby Gene and me in charge of her. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“She’s old. This trip’s too hard for her,” Papa said in his way that isn’t really answering anything. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“If there really is a weird old lady living in the woods, you should tell Grandpa so he can call the police.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“I figured the J-3 would be a better ride than some old Ferris wheel,” Dad replied, and looked away from Mom and toward me. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And several yards behind, marching beside the young men floating the coffin upward, I looked into the face of the old man who had aroused the song and felt a twinge of envy. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose at ten years old, I thought I must have done something terribly wrong to bring on such wrath. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But at least as old as my dad, and my dad is going to be fifty next year. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The old lady couldn’t resist her longing to see her nephew, for she had met Laurie as she took her airing, and hearing of Mr. March’s arrival, drove straight out to see him. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their daughter, Tanya, was five years old, and Marina was only twenty-three when she became a single parent. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The old man thought for a moment, his gaze drifting up to the ceiling. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

When I got older and discovered that presents don’t just “show up,” I realized Daddy always went over there around our birthdays and Christmas. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Some agents, especially older ones, despised Hoover and his edicts. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She was five years old, and nothing had happened. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Hale told Spencer that he’d pay him and his gang at least $2,000 to bump off a couple—an old man and his blanket, meaning an Indian woman. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

There turned out to be a huge market for games that allowed people to play a leading role in one of their favorite old movies or TV series. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“We refined the trigger chemical, created a once-a-day pill. Over a few months, our old faces came back.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

At the register is an older man reading a newspaper. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Now Rita and Tendai Fired up the old coal stove in the kitchen, cut grubs out of the guavas and boiled the squash. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t seen the old ladies in years, since Id witnessed them snip a life thread at a roadside fruit stand when I was twelve. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s an old man outside. Come on out.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day Mr. Lapham called to him and led him to a bench under the old willow behind the coal house. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She used one of her few remaining pieces of paper—an old label, slightly torn, from a can of peas. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She lived in an old farmhouse, the biggest house in Pine Level. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The old courtesies poured out of him at the approach of an adult. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am too old to be arrest, but I feel we must do this.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

One night he and the four oldest children had a party that lasted until dawn. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Then his older brother walked in the room and said it was both of our faults if he got sick to his stomach listening to us. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The older guard behind the desk then looked at our boarding passes. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes George couldn’t believe she was so old: twenty- two! I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s not like you came over to give your old man a hug.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

Somebody had gone over the entire parlor with it, a big room with fringed throw rugs, an old piano with a lace runner, and cane-bottom rockers draped with afghans. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not know about my father’s true feelings until I was fifteen years old. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I tried once or twice to ask the old woman, but I couldn’t get through to her. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t quite recall,” said the old woman. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A handful of Sharpies were lying on the carpet next to an open sketch pad, an old boom box, and a pair of my dad’s even older headphones. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

They were heavy old glasses, an inch thick at the bottom. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He carried the picture home at night and showed it to the old man. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I get a flashback of my blood on my old green sheets. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The old man wept and swore it true. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The old man on the bench, for example, made her cry. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

They’d ended in old Rome with Leo breaking a cookie and paying a price much worse than an eye. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Her son, about twelve years old, peeked out from the window upstairs with a textbook in his hand. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s the fat old cook—what’s her name?” the boy said. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spareribs was ten years old and his father had died the month before and this had been his father’s gun. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“But you really are old. You’re one year older than I am.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But still, whether in shirt or mail, he would be their old Commander. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was older than I, and often reminded me of it, especially when I disagreed with him. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

And now some of the older ones in the mass were joining in. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I avoided the two old women as if they were afflicted with the plague and their house a haunted graveyard. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crying: My baby, my mother, my only, only love; groaning: My sin, my terrible God; screaming with pain, muttering with fever, bemoaning old age and poverty—how can they tend the wheels? Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath us, the old sheep, her wool in dirty clumps, cropped wild herbs. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“A lot of photos, actually. But I didn’t want to be That Guy who likes all your old photos. That Guy isn’t cool. I hope where I’m taking you is worth the ‘gram.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He looked stonily at the menacing old man. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“He ran off like a scalded dog. Meantime, Lonna and my old man get into this humongous fight—” “The one you told me about.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thinks about his mother clipping an older woman’s bangs and asking her about her husband, who is in a nursing home. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the steps she reached an old wooden door with an iron pull ring. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He pulled down the coffins, one by one, from their shelves, and let them clatter onto the ground, shattering the old wood, spilling their contents onto the mausoleum floor. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

That I Pagliacci was only fifteen years old when Caruso popularised it on record - young in relation to opera’s extensive back catalogue - is, with the benefit of hindsight, strangely significant. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Inside the house, the curtains slowly came unmoored from their rings and hung like the petticoats of an old woman, dusty and faded. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man nodded and the boy took his trousers from the chair by the bed and, sitting on the bed, pulled them on. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Officers sat quietly by, joking softly, respectfully with each other, keeping an eye on the old man walking back and forth, back and forth, stopping to stare at the eastern hills, the eastern haze. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Mrs. Caruthers’s fit, Ophie had taken to leaving it open; the old woman couldn’t complain of an imaginary draft when she was sleeping most of the time. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The older farmer grinned at me and held out a pair of the knobby squash we’d been unloading. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Erom the size of the jar you can tell how old it was w hen it foundered, inside her, flowed to its death. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Part of me wanted our lives to go on as they always had, with all of us living together in our teeming old house. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She has not forgotten about the tape and the tape player and the old earbuds that Luke Messenger gave her on her birthday at Big Chuck’s, way back in Washington. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

When teachers turned around from the blackboard to discover an empty desk in Katherine’s place, they knew they’d find their pupil in the classroom next door, helping her older brother with his lesson. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

When she was old enough she stopped working on the farm and got a job at a factory in a nearby town, She worked on a sewing machine making school uniforms. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

‘Every man has something too dear to trust to another. But would you part an old man from his support? Come, will you not let us enter?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They pushed the cart through the woods as far as the old road and left it there and headed south along the road hurrying against the dark. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She waved her hand, and the old Roman fountain began to flow. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“My little niece calls him Wilbur. She’s a rather queer child—full of notions. She raised the pig on a bottle and I bought him from her when he was a month old.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Patria is the oldest, and so in Mama’s absence, her words carry weight. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran across campus, noticing many old buildings with red tile roofs. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

After a while the mudiimu would go back to his world, and the spirit medium would become his old, cheerful self. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lynyrd Skynyrd was blasting through the pickup truck’s open windows as it pulled up alongside us, creaking and groaning in the way all old cars seem to do. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

This old woman gave a lecture wherein she managed to talk for ninety minutes about Sylvia Plath without ever once quoting a single word of Sylvia Plath. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Dad was lying down, watching cheesy old music videos on VH1. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

With the newly hatched salmon in the Miramichi that spring of 1954 were young of previous hatchings, salmon a year or two old, young fish in brilliant coats marked with bars and bright red spots. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I hope that Craig doesn’t make Sam feel that her prom isn’t special just because he’s older. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The second body was that of an old woman. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He named the cottage The Shoe, in honor of Mother, who, he said, reminded him of the old woman who lived in one. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Warings was that sort of house, it moved and creaked all the time, it was old and the doors and windows did not shut properly. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

But on Earth, I am eleven and a half, and that is old enough to not be weird. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

My father had died when I was about eight years old, and Paraikon, my much older brother from my other mother, was now the head of the family. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If Renault didn’t sell them, then obviously they are not sold. And that’s why there are fifty missing boxes,” Leon said, his voice slow and reasonable, as if Brian were five years old. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I think now that maybe he meant my older brother. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Woolworth’s has old wooden floors, stained from years of winter slush on people’s boots, and dim overhead lights that hang down from the ceiling on metal stems. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But I want to watch them cutting that tree. It’s an old maple,” he said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

When Bhakaz brought his wine, the old knight took one long swallow and sent the boy for water. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He seemed to dwindle again to an old grey man, bent and troubled. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Could it be true that nobody saw Finn except the old lady? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Most of our school's built in the last thirty years, but one part's an old grammar school from Victorian times and the Old Gym's in that. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Down at the dock,” she said, “there’s a lovely old boathouse that we’ve never cleaned out.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

They were coming to play with the little ones, the ones who were not old enough to go visiting. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The same way you avoid meeting the eye of an old lover at a formal dinner, or that of an old enemy sitting across the room in a crowded alehouse late at night. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I followed closely behind my father as the old woman led us through—the way she looked and walked reminded me of Gagool in the movie King Solomon’s Mines. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's not like they fade away, or grow old, or fall asleep. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“YEAH! Yes. So, I was thinking we could do a remake of Dracula. Like, the really old, classic version from 1931?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The old picture of the hippies—the first place I had seen the strange butterfly design. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Aunt Best, a horrifyingly ugly, cross old woman with two gold headed canes, vowed through her whiskers and toothless gums that he looked just as bad as she had expected. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they are old they turn themselves inside out, then explode slowly, the petals thrown out like shards. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's the old "get your foot in the door with some cookies" trick. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She leans back against the wood of the old mill and sleepily pulls her royal-blue tunic over her head. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

And the past flared again in Longstreet’s mind, and the world tilted, and for a moment they were all one army again, riding with old friends through the white dust toward Chapultepec. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A soft, tinkling melody rose from the far end of the room, where a figure in white clothes sat hunched over an old wooden piano. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Lots of old folks is conjured or addled.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was heavyset, dowdy, strict, seemingly old to Terryl, though she was only in her thirties, and a caring talent scout. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Kaisha was named after her grandmother; Rawiya shared a name with an aunt on her mother’s side; and Reg’s shortened name helped him feel like he wasn’t just a copy of his older brother. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He pointed at the front of his old desk. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The word came out so choked that the old man turned to peer at him. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I was ten years old when I first became infected with this terrible disease. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man made the sheet fast and jammed the tiller. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed to an old one of her and Abuelo, who was wearing an apron and cap, his big ears sticking out. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I stood trembling at the curb, watching and half expecting to see the man leap from the door to follow me, whistling the old forgotten jingle about a bare-rumped robin. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Attic, maybe. Or, no. It’s probably in the shed behind Samar’s house. Got a lot of old family stuff stashed away in there.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She was a year and a half old, and these were almost her first words. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But those fences looked really old,” Finn said, remembering the mismatched, faded wood. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I was only six years old and I was worried. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come here, slave,” said the old lady carelessly. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Our teachers aren’t used to teaching children as old as you. Or as good at writing and reading as you are. There are larger schools, where you would have greater opportunities. Better facilities.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Some had long beards, some had scars, some had both; all worshiped the old gods of the north, those same gods worshiped by the free folk beyond the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

At noon one of old Grandma’s grand- nieces brought Ku’oosh two lard pails. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She explains that certain creatures are allowed to scare and harass unsuspecting people if they wander someplace generally acknowledged to be spooky—like graveyards, old abandoned mansions, dark caves, and under beds. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Théoden would quail, bow his old head, turn, slink away to hide in the hills. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s my birthday and I’m in a good mood. But someday you’ll be old too.Your body will start to fall apart and your brain will deteriorate. See if you’re so high-minded then.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like the armor they had in the nights of old. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Danny put his ear buds back in as the bus leaned over to the right when we turned by old First Congregational. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell him who I was and have him put his arm around my shoulder, so we could talk about the old days. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know how old this coin is?” he asked. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I yell when I reach her old room, but there’s an old lady sleeping in the bed where my girlfriend should be. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The domovoi flickered as he lay on the floor, transforming from dog to cat to old man. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

At midday, she toasted a cheese sandwich in her mother’s blackened old device that hung by the fire. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“You must be mighty ashamed of your old man,” he said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The wedding was held in the old castle. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It's just an old shot that goes with an old tale. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Walton kisses the old man on each cheek. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The older lad shrugged, “Summon up a spirit from the dead, for all I care!” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

His face had a tragic look to it, that old man look. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The older girl held out a small, solid purse. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Even in sleep she wore ringmail under her furs, boiled leather under that, and an old sheepskin under the leather, turned inside out for warmth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We had a hard time there, but again I came upon hraka about three days old and no sign of holes or rabbits, so I thought there was a chance that they were yours. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Crane took me to the older man. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to believe that might have made the difference, but the older he got, the more he doubted it would have mattered at all. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

All the old vulnerabilities, all the old fears of being somehow flawed gathered in her stomach and made her hands tremble. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“You want your old life back,” Gaea said. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Behind her, an overdecorated flat reeks of dead apple blossoms, confusion, old age. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

After we got over the mountain, he never had a chance in his old rattletrap. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing the lobby for the first time feels like I’ve somehow stepped into one of those old black-and-white movies. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Some stories were a bit far-fetched, but they were all told in a way that said that people loved the old woman. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walking along the weedy strip beside the highway for the second time that day, I was thinking how much older fourteen had made me. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t seem possible that Ben, too, could have grown so much older, so slow, so bent- over. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I got bored, I called up old friends. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

For her, the European trips were simply pleasure jaunts, during which her husband took the chance to catch up with old friends. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

One of my internships was at The Phoenix, a weekly newspaper run out of a dingy storefront on Atlantic Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the old Ex-Lax factory. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, since we no longer count the years numerically, aside from children and adolescents, no one knows how old anyone is anymore—sometimes not even themselves. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Ellen knew that she favored her youngest son, that she overlooked shortcomings in Jethro for which her older children had been punished. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a dark, young fellow, not much older than Rab, and something in both his color and carriage had always made Johnny think of Rab. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t get to Thirty-fourth Street quick enough for me, and just as we came up out of the subway, there was Beekman’s–good old Beekman’s. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He remembered the old bronze astrolabe he’d picked up in Bologna—the one the dwarfs told him Odysseus had made. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But my boss’s wife had hired him not just because she knew him from the old days. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, that thing with the old man was pretty unexpected. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a large bed, almost four feet tall, facing an old reddish brown dresser where we could see our reflections in a mirror as we talked. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

His wedding coat, maybe, so old it was. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

His brown corduroy jacket was so old that its ridges had flattened out. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He sent for Teiresias, the old blind prophet, the most revered of Thebans. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tayo felt the old nausea rising up in his stomach, along with a vague feeling that he knew something which he could not remember. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her mom had put up an old baby gate to block the stairs leading up to the bedrooms, and Paganini had been removed to safety upstairs. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Now all he had was an old man’s body, a stick and two friends in slinky dresses. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The old man stepped away from the rock. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Erin puts her hands on my knees and leans in for a kiss, but before our lips meet, I hear a car horn, and then Boy21 is getting out of a big old Cadillac. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It seems like just yesterday that I was telling seven-year- old Hazel why the sky was blue. You thought I was a genius back then.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

"No thanks, Judge. I prefer my good old Scotch." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he was eating a bit of rubbish that was an old sweet paper. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was forty-one years old, and he was visiting his decrepit mother at Pine Knoll, an old people’s home he had put her in only a month before. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He then went into his study, and from a large strong-box took out a bundle wrapped in old cloths, and a leather-bound manuscript; and also a large bulky envelope. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

‘I do not know, I am sure, lord,’ she answered, ‘at least not by that name. I will go and ask of the herb-master; he knows all the old names.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He had been an older brother of Lord Rickard, Bran's grandfather, or perhaps a younger brother, or a brother to Lord Rickaid’s father. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

This morning, I make an old standby—peanut butter cup. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

These three—I believe there were three, as I remember—older devils sat behind desks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between Hutton’s day and Lyell’s there arose a new geological controversy, which largely superseded, but is often confused with, the old Neptunian-Plutonian dispute. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

A second later, the wooden door opened, and Alma and an older girl stood behind the screen door. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He opened his eyes and looked at the old soldier. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Luke is six years older than I. He is in college now, but that has not put an end to his reputation. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

An old van halted on the road above; two men tumbled out. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A more experienced and much older man took advantage of me when I was at my very lowest. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

It felt good to rip into my old man. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

When he did not see the crazy old bag standing by the gate or behind a section of fence, Harlan naturally strode straight across the plaza area. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man’s chin hit against the wheel, the blow almost knocking him out. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just like your grandmother. Who else would be so kind to an old fraud?” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I say nothing but I notice that his eyes are the same almond color as his skin, that they’re centuries older than his face. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Long after they had finished drinking an old horse appeared over the brow of the hill and came painfully down. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gives me this creepy look and he says, "You go up there to visit the old man, you tell him Iggy says hello, okay?" Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

He’s sitting on a barstool, and he looks like he’s not much older than I am. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Contained in that 170-year- old architectural hodgepodge are many aspects of the modern history of prisons in the Western world. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood on the far bank, barking encouragingly, but the old dog whined in such distress, the cat yowling in chorus, that he swam across again, paddling around in the shallows near the bank. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pause that refreshes,” he said, and then: “Let me give you a little tip about Henry, old man.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

As I grew older, I began to see things differently. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Miserable old bat,” said Ron bitterly as they joined the crowds descending the staircases back to the Great Hall and dinner. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Several months later saw the return of Francisco the Man, an ancient vagabond who was almost two hundred years old and who frequently passed through Macondo distributing songs that he composed himself. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Slowly Ranofer put down the water jug, feeling his whole spirit wilt and the old burdens settle down on him again. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Not good, really. Not bad, either . . But, incredibly, there was a tear in one eye. And Emerson Lapp—horrified—quickly left the room. “My old grandaddy,” Devine called after him. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I got there, the American woman who ran the school looked at me and asked, “How old are you?” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk along the sidewalk in front of Hannah’s old house. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Since the old lady wasn’t speaking to me, I didn’t speak to her, either. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

As his old rival Specify flew to the victory, Seabiscuit labored in sixth, Kayak eighth. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Salim picks up an old copy of the New York Post from the table. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

To-day he is a drawn, haggard old man, whose white hair matches well with the hollow burning eyes and grief-written lines of his face. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Who was ever going to want that old mower? The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The body of an old man covered by a sheet was wheeled by just as Billy entered the corridor. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the boys speak a jived-up transitional language full of country glamour, think transitional thoughts, though perhaps they dream the same old ancient dreams. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just as soon as I’m old enough, I’m moving to New York. I’ve already run away twice. One time, I made it all the way to Atlanta.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Young black men would be the likely targets, rather than older white women. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They were gone most of the day, and old Grandma was totally blind by then and always there, sitting close to her stove. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Once, when he was seven years old and his family lived near Milwaukee, a drunken hunter drove a snowmobile full-speed into an old birch tree. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, I was; and I loved my wife dearly, as I loved my son, my only child, a little boy not yet one year old when I wandered out of my world. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They gave me a puzzled look, decided I was incomprehensible, and continued their reminiscing about old squint-eyed Shirley. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing in each was a withered old woman, so dried up and brittle they reminded Piper of mummies—except mummies didn’t normally move. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The old woman cursed them, but they kept right on going. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“My eyes are old, I cannot read what your master writes,” he said in his quavering voice. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

By this time the old bull had whirled around and turned upon his pursuer so fast that the young bull was taken by surprise. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re definitely coming,” she said, smiling her old smile at me. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

She was Harison’s counterpart on the starboard watch, the ship’s girl, and not much older than Archer. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

At eight, he thought himself old enough to help with the harvest. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I dim the eyes and addle the brain. Every mortal fears old age!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The old man’s apartment is directly beneath it and exactly the same. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” I tell the old lady, and she grins. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Aunt Pearl, Charlene, and the twins piled into the back of Jeff's old Ford, and fell asleep almost as soon as the car started moving. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house may be two hundred years old or it may be older, built of brick, with a stone-faced front looking south toward the down. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed a generation later one might hear an old gaffer in an inn, after a good pint of well-earned ale, put down his mug with a sigh: ‘Ah! that was proper fourteen-twenty, that was!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

There was even talk of shipping old Man o’ War all the way from Kentucky to accompany his son and grandson to the post. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t think Mr. Benjamin was that old, but he looked weary. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Because, oh, my blessed, I love him and cannot bear the thought of losing him to a crazy old woman, even in name only. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The craters are ringed with a mixture of old and new rubble. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He was three years older than she was, and he wasn’t exactly Prince Charming, with that strange combination of baby face and bulky wrestler’s body. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Harsh as an old raven’s their master’s voice sounded in their ears after the music of Saruman. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Pretending, because Babulya was too old to spend too much time in it, especially at night. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He would sit on his grandmother’s old knees, almost cracking them with his weight. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They weren’t any older than Fidelito, who had lost his battle with airsickness and was coating the plastic strips in secondhand beans and tortillas. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a young woman, younger than herself, no older than Moon Orchid the day the sisters parted. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have any luck with the old man?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I scan the line—old, young, black, white, brown. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

But she was sick like me, only old, so her sickness was different. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat down again and tried to keep the old conversation going. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Hello, Ida?” the old lady speaks loudly into her phone, and her friend is just as loud. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“You must always know what it is that you want,” the old king had said. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Let’s go to old Tom Cotton’s down South Lane! He always was a stout fellow. And he has a lot of lads that were all friends of mine.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

No obviously bad effects were noticed from these ill-advised unions, but one or two old maids or gardener boys marked a weakening of faculties and a disposition toward eccentricity in some of the children. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old hustlers sit around the bar, and I bring them food from the kitchen. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

You take somebody old as hell, like old Spencer, and they can get a big bang out of buying a blanket. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

They are aware that a change of overlordship means simply that they will be doing the same work as before for new masters who treat them in the same manner as the old ones. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Phoebe said we were visiting an old friend, at the university. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

At first, my father simply doubled over under the blows, but then he seemed to break in two like an old tree struck by lightning. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old woman murmured to herself, but my ears caught her words and fed them to my memory. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The old lady would pick out the purple brinjals and yellow pumpkins, the shiny green and red chillies, feeling them with her wrinkled fingers and complimenting me on their size. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“See? You should have a beard. You know more than all these old men put together.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He was wearing his moldy old tailcoat in honor of the occasion. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

As soon as we sisters got older, he went right back to Mexico. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw an old woman carefully lift a single, unbroken pink teacup. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Twice a day, at eleven and six, the old man takes the dog out for a walk. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The old man told her about how Jesus ngozi had slept in a cow’s feeding trough when he was a baby. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were all about seven years old and they were all eejits. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of clay and mountain sage stirred old memories. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Audrey and I had no trouble convincing them that we were old enough and licensed enough to drive for them. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He’s a cute little boy, maybe a year old, with a chubby pink face and a halo of wispy soft hair the color of com silk. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a while, when we used to meet up at the old house because we both dis-liked this new one, we seemed to be bonding a little. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Dad bought a souped-up old Ford Fairlane that winter, and one weekend when the weather got cold, he announced that we were going swimming at the Hot Pot. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

As they followed the old woman silently through the house, Petra and Calder absorbed as much of what was around them as they could. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

From my supine perch on the back of the police car, I noticed an older woman staring at me, shaking her head. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

They seemed to be in the middle of an argument. “—told you he was a bum!” the older woman said. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Help!” the old man appealed to the crowd. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had suddenly remembered that, in Tarifa, there was an old woman who interpreted dreams. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, startlingly, the old woman’s hand felt different. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She was pulling someone’s old wagon that had a $4 sign taped to it. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I’ll give him the belly meat of a big fish,” the old man said. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

If my grandfather had been alive today he would have been one hundred and sixty-four years old. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were lucky to get our uncle back from there and luckier to have him almost back to his old self, although Uncle D had long ago stopped telling us make-believe stories. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Fumbling to get my shoes on, I felt the same old grief I’d known in church every single Mother’s Day. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing between the snake women—I could swear he was looking straight down at me—was my old enemy Luke. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

My glasses are old and used, several generations behind, but they work fine. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He smiles because he’s an old man of forty and he never had children but the ones he can talk to here in the Fever Hospital. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

When we rounded the final bend, the old wooden sign announcing the sanctuary’s visitation policies was still standing there, untouched. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nately’s father had a distinguished white mustache; this old man had no mustache at all. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The old man kept a giant gourd in the corner of his house for drinking water. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was crowned with a knot of old and twisted trees, about which lay a broken circle of boulder-stones. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They waved and smiled and climbed aboard buses and were driven through narrow streets to Hamburg’s Rathaus, its old city hall. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“So! I knew I didn’t have too many years left. Do you know how I got all this fat? Eating your leftovers. Aiaa, I’m getting so old. Soon you will have no more mother.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Iorek sat at the center of a group of older bears, and he rose to greet her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

As we stood there undecided, our bundles spread about us, wondering what next to do, an old man whom I had noticed asleep in a doorway came up to us. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face was leathery and wrinkled, his hands gnarled as old roots. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Like the old man in the poem, he was dedicated to someone too, dedicated to helping her find out what the really important things for her were. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Who was this German boy, old enough to be in the Wehrmacht, yet dressed in civilian clothes? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He was short, With a pointed beard and a silver streak in his hair, almost as old as her father. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The boy stood on the lawn beside his older brother, head thrown back, spellbound. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Even though it was April it was freezing cold at night and she said You wouldn’t believe what it costs to heat this drafty old house. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt rather exhausted, and wondered, rather shocked at my callous thought, why old people were sometimes such a strain. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Dignified, the old dog walked in, and gazed at the stove with bland confidence. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Langley engineer in the old style, Pearson had graduated from Worcester Polytechnic in Massachusetts and started work at the lab in 1930. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes old peoples need young peoples and young peoples need old peoples. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Jinjoo whirled around to find an old grandma looking at her from the street. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Still, the place looks like a big old funeral home. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like pretty much every time my gramps says something, I only understood half the words, but as soon as the old man went back to the picking, Diego filled in the blanks. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She cleared her throat when she realized the old woman was still staring at her. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

So the Lord let us get old so we'd have plenty cause to need you and you'd feel free to need us right back. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was an old woman, sitting before an assortment of small glittering trinkets. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Gypsies are experts at getting people to do that,” sighed the old man. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old woman brought her withered hands together as though she were trying to clap, the way one did to say thank you. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know him?” inquired the old man with delight. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He had kept his old felt hat on. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Three miles south of Rose Hill an old man waited at the side of the road for the wagon to approach and held up his hand as a signal for Jethro to stop. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair and the pillow were the same color, beneath the wimple of the medicated cloth she looked like an old nun praying. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike folk music, it has usually been written recently and belongs to professional musicians, and new popular tunes quickly replace old ones. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

This includes older blended traditions such as rumba and samba, newer but well-established blended genres such as reggae and Afrobeat, and groups with unique experimental sounds borrowing from more than one tradition. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Back in our old quarters in the Training Center, I’m the one who suggests the public marriage proposal. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The old woman stood frozen, the basket of sticky rice her husband had forgotten swinging from her fingertips. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I peer inside and see a set of old brick stairs leading down. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

In fact, she had narrowed her life to a relationship with a woman fifteen years older who assumed a power over her greater than that of a mother over an infant. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We had good times with old Jonathan Swift, didn’t we, Francis? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t think you could ever be too old for a book like that. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Tradition mostly. But some people say they marked old roads—” My father’s voice changed and became Ben’s voice, “—safe roads. Sometimes roads to safe places, sometimes safe roads leading into danger.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After a pause, Father said, “Not old. Never old, madam.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The word friend is turquoise with a glow of glossy red, but the word amigo is yellow with spots of brown, like an old banana. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The last was Father Quinel, whom I recognized because old age had marked him with a stoop. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you ever going to tell me how old you are?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Her old school had been kindergarten through eighth grade, and that was back when she and Lauren were inseparable, even dressing alike when they were really young. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

At times the spell would be broken suddenly: on shelves or in hallways of my mother’s cave, large old shapes with smouldering eyes sat watching me. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are suffering, I know, yet here I stand going on like some silly old woman. Time to make an end to it.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She needed me to go with her and Mustafa to get a bunch of kitchen stuff from this older auntie who lives in Bayside. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t used to sharing it with another Emma who also had an older brother named Rochester and a younger brother named Finn. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“What you have to do is flip over a rock or old log or something. Anything where a crawdad might like to hide.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eyes open, be alert—old imperatives, old movies. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman, who was now old, did not enjoy city life. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Leopold Page, who was quite a bit older than I, was devoted to Schindler and made it his life's goal to educate the world about who Schindler was and what he had done. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The break-up with my mother was the same old story told a million times. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing there. Just a few old stones.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

When I finally do drift off, old memories seep into my dreams, scenes from when I was eight years old, when my life was back in New York City. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They look at you and say You’re still so young or You’re getting so old, and you want to shake your head and say I’m not young or old. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There was an old abandoned cemetery atop the hill with rows of unmarked headstones and tangles of brush­wood clogging the aisles. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Because that means I’m eighteen years older than I was when you were baptized. It means I’m getting old.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was fourteen years old, I was sent to spend ten days with my maternal grandmother in western New York State. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Especially after Papa asked could I spare an old cap so Hosie wouldn’t look so funny. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Her natural place was going to school with them, not working competitively with older women. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of habit, the old man says, “I’m sorry, sir.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The expression first came into popular use in the 1970s to describe the flight to the suburbs of whites living in the older cities of the American Northeast. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I feel kinda dumb about it—it’s just an old book—but I also can’t seem to let it go. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

“No need for that,” said old Mr. Thayer, who had dug more graves for more years than he cared to count. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Our parents have known each other since their old Hyderabad days, and my mom has been trying to make a friendship happen since Yasmeen’s family moved to the States several years ago. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Diepetsana was a traditional doctor and would be very good at knowing such things when he was older. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

A ponytail makes her look simultaneously younger, like a schoolgirl in a uniform, and older, too, the severity of just a face framed by that swinging hair. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Pulling back an old blanket off the seat beside him, he said, “Take care of this and then help me unload this feed.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

An older man sits by the fire, his jaw covered with stubble, scabs, or both. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“But there’s nothing in there except papers you can barely read and old props and junk.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

His old fellow party members, to whom he went asking for help, hid so as not to receive him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“There is an old uranium mine near here. Church Rock Mine,” Nathan said, recalling his research for his science project. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The old lady next door needed help moving boxes? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Then she looked up at the old watermark left from a long-ago leak above my bed. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“In the old days the women did the brewing. They were better brewers than we are. But now it is only the three of us here. Me, him, and her.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“He... The old man was all right. I got along with him okay.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat in Amélie’s favorite café for an hour waiting for an old man whose name I don’t know to tell me, “L’ange descend en dix minutes-” Ten minutes till the angel comes down. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Living in Harlem, I’ve had to tone down my flashy zoots, and it’s just as well; those old fancy ones don’t fit me anymore anyway. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Root found this old style decor strangely comforting. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Bobby’s pragmatic philosophy was similar to the old Arabic saying “Trust in Allah but tie up your camel.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He switched on the coffeemaker and lighted the butt of an old cigarette as he sat down. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that one time the Prime Minister got shot in the head, there was a big old crackdown on the blacks, which was absolutely necessary, but resulted in misunderstandings at many of the foreign embassies. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bloodbeard, the savage commander of the Cats, was a roaring giant with a ferocious appetite for slaughter who made no secret of his disdain for “old greybeards in rags.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I said I wanted to know about my daddy. That was just some old story from twenty years ago about two people I don’t even know.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He’s not a kid, he’s older, like the ship’s officers, but he’s not really one of them. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Sierra gazed at the old man’s sad face. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Neither one of you got a thing to say? Fighting in here while I’m busting my hump at that market. And you two are eleven years old!” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“That sniper knew there was no point shooting old bones like mine,” Dapir says. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the centre of the quadrangle stood the quaint old chrome-steel statue of Our Ford. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

For as she drew closer, he reckoned she couldn't be more than fourteen or fifteen years old. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Like the old Archmage the new one was cloaked in white; but like most men of Way and the East Reach Gensher was black-skinned, and his look was black, under thick brows. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The regent was loath to have me visit Qunu, thinking I would regress and fall into bad company back in my old village. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So it came to pass that he grew old, but could not die. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she lifted her arm to look at it in the moonlight, she saw the old man was walking up the mountain. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She imagined her great-grandfather Clive Marlowe tramping through these very woods alone when he was just a few years older than Jess. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Dell pulled an old piece of beef jerky out of the inside pocket of his jacket and ripped off a chunk with his coffee-stained teeth. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

After much thought the old man convinced himself that it was not the god-raven that he had visited, but rather a giant canoe made by men. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Omakayas rocked and muttered, shushed, hummed, and sang an old lullaby her mother used. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

When I brought books home from the library, I would sometimes run into older kids who would tease me about my reading. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was an old silver beauty, with detailing in the pearl handle, a shine on the barrel. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

When the trolley came to their stop, the ghost was gone, and the old man got off in front of them and began to hobble down the block in the opposite direction. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The 9TH JUROR, an old man, crosses, goes into the washroom, and exits to the lavatory. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of these pioneers was Anne Taylor, who was a little more than five years old when World War II started and the bombs rained down. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Anyone who claims that the older folks have a more difficult time in the Annex doesn’t realize that the problems have a far greater impact on us. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Gather up some Indian tea for me,” old Grandma called to him from the back room. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Something about the old woman’s voice, her eyes, held him fast. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The old man gathered his own bones and muscles as best he could and managed to hoist the kid and get him into the pickup. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just about every individual atom in the universe, every last bit of the stuff that builds me, is nearly fourteen billion years old. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

On the weekends, I showed old Japanese monster flicks, along with some vintage anime. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I can see that you are very old,” Jonas responded with respect. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The door opened, and an old man and an old woman came out carrying bowls of rice and soup and a leafy branch of peaches. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I almost woke him, but then I decided that I was sixteen years old and could make up my own mind. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

At one house, an old man in boxer shorts answers. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The night before the mass operation, Martha was told she would sleep at the house of Dad’s oldest sister, Aunt Anne. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

In their efforts to nullify my influence in the union, my old comrades were willing to kill the union itself. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know I should be reading something new, but it’s like an old friend and I could use one of those right now. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I sift through old 78 polkas with beribboned women smiling at me from the album covers. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even in Paris, I could not shake the old ways, the instinct to watch my back at every pass, and always be ready to go. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt, who was only forty-two years old, became the youngest president in the nation’s history. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“The last verse says he’s old and hasn’t been able to return.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Some of them were pretty fancy cars, too—Mercedes and the like—and there I was, in my old, patched school uniform. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without the sun, the old houses weren’t blindingly khaki anymore. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Violet had a brother who was eight years older, and he always treated her like a doll. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

One of the anchors mentioned the name of his old company, and he raged. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was an unquestionably beautiful place, but...She reflected on the old womans words. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Kinda like how little girls on old TV shows be having tea parties, but you know how it don't ever really be tea in the cups? Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

He read books to find new ideas for his classes, visited with colleagues, kept up with old students, wrote letters to distant friends. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was Gandalf’s mark, of course, and the old man was Gandalf the Wizard, whose fame in the Shire was due mainly to his skill with fires, smokes, and lights. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They thought the old man had gone out of his mind. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take a deep breath in the hall, and then, glancing down again at the sides, blurry on account of my rapid-fire hand shuddering, make out the older brother’s last line of the script page. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The night the slave catcher came to town had cleaved him from his old life. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I rummage through my bag for the old smock of his I swiped to use for a pattern. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He wrapped it up once again in the old piece of fabric and covered the hiding place with boxes. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Two sisters, two daughters, one wife, and my old mother,” the singer claimed, though not one looked like him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The old hinges let out an eerie, deep groan as they rotated. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

"And, yes, he was old when I knew him, in case you're wondering." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

My old clothes were gone, all except for my drawers which I hadn’t taken off. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The tunnel smelled even older than the passageway, and it was clear it hadn’t been used for a very long time. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah well, Hare’s the family name, don't y’know. My parents named me Basil, though the old mater wanted me to be called Columbine Agnes. Always longed for a young lass, she did.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

As he grew older, he learned how to direct his hatred of his mother to the cat, and spent some happy moments watching it suffer. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember growing older, growing taller, growing stronger, all while attending ballet. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He looked a few years older than Stick, maybe twenty-one or so. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

My brother was two years older, but I could do all the tricks he could. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The old man wore a breastplate of heavy gold, covered with precious stones. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she didn’t care that it was old. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The old man who learned to read has touched the hearts of people who read about him. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room was mostly taken up by a makeshift desk—an old warehouse door atop stacked fruit crates—piled high with papers. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“For Alice. And don’t tell the neighbors what we have. If they ask, say an old friend sent books to your master.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You are the Witch. You are thousands of years old. You have killed countless children.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He was older and, as a result, freer. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Grandma showed up on my birthday six weeks ago with Grandpa’s old riding mower. I’ve taken on, oh, a few yard jobs since then.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on,” the policeman said to the old man. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was pale and looked like he was 285 years old, with the grief of the whole world etched on his face. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ethyne gave the old man a piercing look. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He remembered the old stories about Maegor the Cruel, who murdered all the masons who la-bored on his castle, so they might never reveal its secrets. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Not until my last months as a graduate student, nearly thirty years old, was it possible for me to think much about the reasons for my academic success. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their mother, her head tied up in an old rag, sipped black coffee and watched Roy. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Charity looks to an old black and white image of her and her late husband wedged into the dashboard. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“If there’s no space in the hive, the old queen lays some eggs, which are then fed something called royal jelly so that they grow into new queens,” Mel said. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

When we join the others I see the older boy, Nathaniel. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

There is no television to watch in the evenings, just an old stereo on which they sometimes play a symphony or jazz. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to remember anything from the old stories that might help with this thing. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“He is two feet longer than the skiff,” the old man said. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Timothy could not lift the veil, and the two other boys were busy being ten and eight years old, respectively. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grand-stands were old and made of wood and the betting booths were under the stands and in a row out near the stables. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Black child,” the old man said angrily, and added, “what did you expect?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The local people, young and old, heroes to us Beast Riders. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

These are the ones who keep the old gods, she realized. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She swings the camera to show an older woman with the same long brown hair sitting next to her in a bright-red booth. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

It was like she took my hand, or I took her hand, and we ducked through doorways, and together we went to an old place, and it was a new place. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Keeper had found me an obliging old colonel of the Buffs, something of an amateur historian himself, who had read the relevant pages of my typescript and faxed through his suggestions. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Get moving, you ape,” the old man shouted. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we exited the highway, you can bet I pretended not to see the old Red Carpet Inn, scene of my latest, greatest mistake. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It didn’t matter, those restrictions were getting quite old. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The lieutenant says, “But why didn’t you at least tell us that you had been playing in that old cellar?” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

My head is getting heavy, “Not such a coincidence,” she says, and now she picks up the binder of old show pictures. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Poor babies,” sighed an old woman, timidly reaching out her hand to touch Kuda. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s no pleasure in getting to be an old coot unless you have some fun along the way.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

According to the goddess, in older times darajas had begun their formal training with the splendor around age ten, and spent an additional decade learning its nuances under the tutelage of several masters. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

An old woman had yelled out some crazy things to me in the morning. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

At twenty-four, William was only a little older than she was, but he had grown up in a very different world. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“As far as I know,” the old woman said. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Jorge wasn’t much older than me, but he already had three children. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, in fact, what I was also doing was making the big computer in your brain—your adaptive unconscious—think about the state of being old. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“We have received your summons, O mighty ones,” Marshall chanted and then ad-libbed, “and it’s nothing but an old pigeon feather.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was sitting at my old child’s desk below the face- shaped window, her head down in her folded arms. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only amusement then was castrating pigs and bulls, cockfights, hopscotch, and the incredible tales of old Pedro Garcia, may he rest in peace. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The garden was full of huts and sheds, some so near the old westward windows that they cut off all their light. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“T. H. is nineteen years old,” Kurnakov reported to his KGB contact in New York—Kurnakov was, in fact, a spy. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hearing how you’re wrong all the time gets old in a hurry. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He had been one year old when Grace was born, and had gone into foster care a few days after her parents brought her home. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The older man explained that he was in bad health—working in the tobacco factory had ruined his lungs and heart. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

When I came back, he was taking some old clothes from the buggy. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can at least get part of that old fence fixed.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Why would anyone not believe a rumor that fits so nicely with an old rumor? Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

"You've heard the nursery rhyme about the little old lady who lived in a shoe?" Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

She tells herself that people older than her have things under control. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth Cuthrell recalls being fourteen years old, a high school sophomore, and in the grip of turmoil and unhappiness in her home life when she first encountered Volpe. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Yellow fangs snapped closed on his throat, but he shook off his old grey cousin as he would a rat, then charged after him, knocked him down. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mom sold one of her two dresses and an assortment of old pots, and spent all last week taking over shifts from her coworkers. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Had to pay a fortune for this oak,” the old man grumbled. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I remember the old Zoology Building where we used to go on Saturdays, the creaking, overheated corridors, the bottles of eyeballs, the comforting smells of formaldehyde and mice. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There’s an old mirror in the kitchen, spotted with rusty stains and freckled with black specks, so ruined it’s almost impossible to see myself in. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The Christian religion gained influence in Europe over several centuries, gradually overcoming the old religions practiced by the people living there. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The place he took me was on private and gated land owned by an old friend of his. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

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

“Other driver suffering mild concussions, being treated at the scene. Parents DOA. Boy, approximately seven years old, just behind us.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But If you ;ask me, that’s only because she was worrying about the old man. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Some of it was old and dark, but I guess I got enough good, clean honey to last us a long time.” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

A very old Scotch terrier was scratching himself in the middle of a path. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Izzy and Tee were sitting on a bench, Izzy splayed out in Tee’s lap like an old sweater, and they were talking quietly. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

His work, flying all lands of new airplanes, sounded even better than what I was doing with my old F-86. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had some inkling about my past from the older people at church, who knew we were refugees, but she never pushed me to talk about it. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

No one who is young is ever going to be old. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He turned to the older boy, trying his best to be casual. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I walked over to the old gate and looked around. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We plowed the earth with our fingers and eyes and searched sites of old fires, but we found no matches. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He was only eighteen months older than me and was the brains behind many of our heroic exploits and the person I most wanted to be like. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Coulda sworn it was on the counter before I lay down yesterday, but when I went to look for my old Louisiana map, I couldn’t find the thing. Checked all the drawers and cabinets, too.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

I was seven years old when she came and went—and we never ever talked about Amanda. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“You know, without family, you won’t make it in this life. And now that you’re older, you have to learn how to be a nice señorita just like your sister, may she rest in peace.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And O-lan said to him, “An ox is but an ox and this one grew old. Eat, for there will be another one day and far better than this one.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Hugo stood in the dark outside the old man’s apartment building. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Tears of weakness and protest ran down Mercy’s cheeks as Rachel stooped to take off her oldest daughter’s shoes. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Captain Billy’s ferry, though much larger, drooped like an old waiting woman. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arthur Dodds, like Palmer, was only five years old at the time. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

She called him Isaac because in the Bible Sarah gets pregnant when she’s like a hundred years old and she’s not supposed to be having children and that’s what she names her son. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

"We are almost done," said Yvaine, and she turned back to the little old woman. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

"My sisters will be harsh, but cruel," said the old witch-queen. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The babies didn’t die, you know,” the old woman said, a mischievous grin curving across her wide mouth. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The old’ conflict was reactivated and aggression swiftly mounted to murderous proportions. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sally and I prepared tea and brought it up for the widow, Dr. Trefusis, and her old servant, Jacob, who was wrapped in blankets. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Finally, Magistrate Tiger exited his carriage and went to the old man, who was still engrossed in his hook. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t recognize any of them—two tall and wide, and the one in the middle is thin and old, older than Matant Jo. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

New wars started even before the old ones were won. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Me too. We can still work on the field guide. I’ll come over tonight. We can look through your mom’s old books for shark facts.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Minutes later, the mud-covered old trucks heave and bounce as they pass slowly in front of our house. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed older and wiser than the rest of us. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

But people like me, those of us who are so busy busy busy climbing our shaky ladders out of the old mess—we are the last to see it. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought about what it would be like to sit next to June on the couch and watch a movie on the old TV. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe old Mary and her herbs weren’t such a bad idea after all—if I could be sure of catching her in one of her saner moments. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing I can confidently rule out is dying of old age. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s so nice to see old friends! Our socializing these days is so official, this government-house event today and another one tomorrow.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It’s the same old game, everybody talking in circles. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Connor finally brings Hector over to where I’m sitting, the old ladies are still playing peekaboo with him over Connor’s shoulder. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The boy left him there and when he came back the old man was still asleep. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost at random he said: “Did you ever happen to hear an old rhyme that begins Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clement’s?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In the old Alamo games, Hester had often been a cougar or a wolf, and once or twice a rattlesnake, but mostly a mockingbird. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although the Second World War marked a turning away from inorganic chemicals as pesticides into the wonder world of the carbon molecule, a few of the old materials persist. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

We are first going to Guangzhou, my seventy-two-year-old father, Canning Woo, and I, where we will visit his aunt, whom he has not seen since he was ten years old. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Back and still breathing?” the old man inquired. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The puzzle was cleared up when a group of older church women took their deacon aside and delicately explained matters to him—naming French as the father. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But the old man had received nothing at all. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

One day, when she was eleven months old, just before she began to walk, a woman stole her out of a supermarket cart. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old antagonists, manifesting themselves at the periphery of his vision; it, or they, had followed him all the way up the hill and they would remain until at the top— Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I got my own a few weeks ago. There are perks to hanging out with an older woman.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And since Meteor Crater, Arizona, an impact crater about a kilometer across, has been found to be twenty or thirty thousand years old, the observations on the Earth are in agreement with such crude calculations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve come across a few at dinner, one family making home movies and the dentist across the way working on a frightened old lady. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She explained that we were growing up, that we needed to be with our parents, that Uncle Willie was, after all, crippled, that she was getting old. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fight for jobs was an old one, and little had changed in Durham since Louis Austin protested discriminatory hiring practices in 1953. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The old woman pulled the bell cord and got out of the seat, trying self-consciously to avoid any contact with the anatomy of Jones, who watched her writhing through the detachment of his green lenses. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had really done what Chairman Mao asked, breaking with the old and establishing the new. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the far side of the lawn I saw the backs of two people, a young man and an older woman. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The first city person I saw was an old woman carrying a jar full of leeches. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He was five years older than Longstreet, and now he was the junior officer, but he was one of the rare ones who was genuinely glad to see another man advance. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the old man's next birthday, she appeared at the apartment with her little girl. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“The old lady! No, the young lady, to be sure. I shall think you a great blockhead, Frank, if you bring the aunt without the niece.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Irene once dared me to dive from the old Milwaukee Railroad bridge. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

As she approached the vacant bowl, she and the old woman bowed to each other from the waist. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Webb piped: “John has a great-great-grandfather, and he’s a hundred and fifteen years old!” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Besides, even an old ladle with a broken handle might be used later for scooping ashes from the fire or digging up cattail roots on a fetch. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

And right at that minute, right when the three of us had decided to be friends, who should come marching into the Herman W. Block Memorial Library but old pinch-faced Amanda Wilkinson. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Trunktap hopped over to a crusty old pine tree and pecked a few deep holes in the bark. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

We took the old picture of the Stove King and smeared some honey on it before we burned it in the stove. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The General sat down again and stared at the old book. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Those old Union Army boots he wore; said his son had sent them from the front lines to make sure his of man had something sturdy on his feet. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The second woman is older, perhaps sixty or seventy. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the prayers the principal tells us of coming events, and he also warns us to pick up our chewing gum wrappers and not to moon around in the halls like old married couples. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment it crossed her mind that if she humiliated herself to him, knelt down on her stiff old knees to plead for mercy, he might be soothed. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Dudley must feel for you as an old family retainer feels for the young master.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The old man was watching with interest but not incredulity. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Uhmma caught me throwing a penny, along with old papers, in the trash, she yelled, Do you think the clerk would let me leave with the groceries when I am one penny short? A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

She was too old to reach her feet. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Arcady—he had called his new country after his old—was a feeble state, he said, and could do little to help the Trojans. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one says anything for a moment, and inside Marie-Laure, an old anxiety lumbers to its feet. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When he looked up, the old monk had his eyes closed and his lips shut in a straight line. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Nope. Nothing they can do. Got to let it run its course. Better not sit so close to me, old man.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

If no one was around to see him, my older brother would help me carry the heavy pails of mud from the pond to plaster our walls. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

"If you want anything just ask for it, old sport," he urged me. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Her father ran a laundry business and couldn’t take care of her, and she’d been sent to live with a foster family until she was eight years old. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

A wiry, hard-partying man with a prematurely weathered face that brought to mind an old football, he’d been a postal worker for more than twenty-seven years. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

To drink it, the priestess had to remove her veil, and Selmy was reminded of just how old she was. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He used to write her letters every day, when he still had the strength, long letters in an old- fashioned script with flourishes and curlicues. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was twenty years old before I ever saw this lake with my own eyes, despite having grown up only two hours from its shores. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Thirty-six years old, an aerospace engineer by training, he was a quiet, thoughtful, extremely conscientious guide who was well liked by most members of his team and Hall’s. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He only knew he was fourteen years old, black, and already six feet tall. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the night, later, when the old man is alone, we will have to talk. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I clicked on it and the document appeared: To: The Abeona Shelter Dear Juan: It is with a heavy heart, my old friend, that I resign my position with our wonderful organization. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

This arc of the belt brought them through Cleopatra Park, where Tally threaded the slalom poles for old times’ sake. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Why, yes! Right on the old bridge, where the moneylenders are. Send the Jews quite a message, right, my sweet?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He assumed the panther would be an old, wasted male with worn teeth, incapable of catching anything more difficult than a human. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

And there was Tea Cake in the big old station in a new blue suit and straw hat, hauling her off to a preacher’s house first thing. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I met Felicia on the beach when we were both six years old. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered how old his cousins were, and which rooms they were sleeping in, and whether they had red hair, too. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He came, an old man, all those miles by cart from our village, to hold his grandson. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her room, Laila set aside old blouses, old shoes, books, toys. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

They went outside—Joseph used the gardener’s old coat— and they walked through the quiet snowy acreage, holding hands. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Then she rolled out an old tire from the corner of the barn. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Did we not put that old book he used to read for the civil service exam inside?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

An old man in Kabati repeated this sentence often to people who walked past his house on their way to the river to fetch water, to hunt, to tap palm wine; and to their farms. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They were attracted by the aroma of fish, the work of a child who'd copied the Pilgrims of old and buried sardines with her seeds. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I poked around the foundations, hoping to uncover some old iron implements that I could use. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old woman raised an eyebrow at Seven but kept her wand up, mid-flick. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to see his rotten old bones!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“To think you two are old friends,” Santa said happily. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bikes and Vespas clogged the surrounding streets, but the square itself was empty except for pigeons and a few old men drinking espresso. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“You are a bad old man,” she told him, and shook a finger at him. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Advil, aspirin, some kind of over-the-counter sleeping pills I stole from Kate and then stored in an old prescription bottle of Mom’s. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But I had forgotten Bombadil, if indeed this is still the same that walked the woods and hills long ago, and even then was older than the old. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I turned away, looking at the splotches of old oil tattooed on the pavement, and waited for the car door to slam shut again. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The old man’s white- stubbled face had flushed pink. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Somewhere along the way he saved up enough for these goats and now has something to do in his old age besides slowly starve to death. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Then, exhaling smoke, he put the cigarette up on the frosted-glass ledge where the old, dead cigarette was, and assumed a slightly more relaxed stance. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Papa did not want us to live in Mr. Sullivan’s old garage again. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I want you to go to your old village, Matty. Leader will be sending you anyway, with the message. “He’ll no doubt send you to several places. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I see the truck and the silhouette of an older woman twirling—the mother. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I noticed that he was across from the little old lady and that they were staring intently at each other. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s in that old brown shoebox in the pantry with all Ma’s other receipts. Unless you threw the box out.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The light flickered over the paper as the old woman crouched down and stared at the lines demarcating the Great Wood, the river Nir, the Kell. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I ripped a page out of a magazine, then squeezed my fingers inside the blue plastic holes of an old pair of school scissors. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

My older sister had a boyfriend who was African American. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The City of New York takes so much time to either renovate or bulldoze a condemned building it’s like those guys on Death Row who die of old age rather than execution. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

It was a simple school bus, decades old. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I’ve woken up in this building thousands of times—in my old place or Sneaky’s. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

She’s the older, more sparkly sister, but there’s no happiness in her words when she says, “Your mum is doing her best to take care of herself. Things are hard for her right now.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He keeps notebooks full of symbols and glyphs, working through his old notes and finding new elements to consider. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He coughed mean and violent, and spit something thick into an old handkerchief he had tucked in his shirt pocket. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Nurses from the prison’s emergency room came by, as well a; the prison’s “recreation director” and a bevy of sweet older ladies from town. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered, however, that his companion was his very dear old friend. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Donovan’s right-hand man—James Roosevelt, the president’s oldest son—did some arm-twisting, too. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The universe is more than thirteen billion years old. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Why are you doing all this?” mumbled the owner of the shack, a grey-haired old man in a threadbare coat, with deformed legs and a bent back. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here you go, old top,” said Bunny, producing the check. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

For a moment Taran was sure he had the better of Coll, but; the old man spun away with amazing lightness of foot. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s a seat to help handicapped or old people go up and down the stairs,” I told Lissa. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Not sure yet. But I do know the old guy.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

His second visit to his friend was like the first, except that the old men in the room watched them listlessly and did not play slapjack. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The others were younger teenage girls, around fifteen to sixteen years old. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He wore himself out in this senseless cycle, became old and sick. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when he was playing baseball with the older boys or rolling on the floor with Bob and Jane, he’d stop suddenly and say he guessed he had had enough for today. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door that the old man closed behind him was of polished horn, through which the daylight shone dimly, and on its inner face was carved the Thousand-Leaved Tree. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I forgot that he is older than I am, that his frame can no longer tolerate the weight of his body. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She even called in the old man that they said could conjure, though she doubted that any conjurer in the world could save this child. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up dirty clothes and old newspapers without apology. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Just like old times," Hornet murmured as they watched him from Ida's balcony. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I drank in the hustle and bustle, greeting it like an old friend. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Ghosts laundered them and hung them back up, again and again over years, and she wore them out one by one and eventually grew old in them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Only when I was older did I think how funny for a man to call his wife Miss Mattie Lou when it was just the two of them in bed. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The younger children were rushed from the room, the shades drawn and the flame of the lamp turned so low that it sputtered on the wick like the old man's breathing. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The glistening painted tear trembled and slid out of the old man’s eye and down his face. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Actually, what he said was that his father had given it to him to cut his teeth on when he was five months old, but that might only have been one of Toby’s stories. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

My older brothers and sisters, meanwhile, began eating with their friends, or eating somewhere blocks away, in the hope of finding better food. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They don’t have to answer children. When you get old, people will say hello to you.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not old enough to get a job. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

While we reluctantly accepted Dad’s bossing as one of the privileges of his rank as head of the family, we had no intention of accepting it from anybody else, including his oldest sister. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

For one thing, more and more students were going off to be carers, and among our old Hailsham crowd, there was a growing feeling this was the natural course to follow. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the old Ent approached, the trees lifted up their branches, and all their leaves quivered and rustled. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The old wooden houses looked lopsided on their foundations after decades of long winters; poking out of the snow. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The next day at recess, as I’m taking coins from the kids who are lined up, two old mestizo men walk past, ever so slowly. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was much much older than he was. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“An old woman’s hand, I am thinking, wrinkled and feeble. I pray Daenerys returns to us soon.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And of course, it worked the other way around too—especially when the cop involved was the older brother of your oldest friend. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

His tree stood long after the clever young girl was old and no longer beautiful, and in a way, he became greater and stronger than he had ever been before. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As she got a bit older, still enduring the Luftwaffe’s bombs, her drawings showed curious little doodles. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

They got off the bus near Washington Square, a flat stretch of grass that sat in front of an old church. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Then, I saw this older kid, who was maybe seventeen. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

So when I told old Spencer I had to go to the gym and get my equipment and stuff, that was a sheer lie. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

When I grew older, I used kira-kira to describe everything I liked: the beautiful blue sky, puppies, kittens, butterflies, colored Kleenex. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Floating on a yellow raft in Thomas’s old pool, Tamika looked weird without her white flower behind her ear, her hair hidden under a snug bathing cap. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“No. Nahlrout, of course. I must be getting old to not notice it sooner. It also explains why you’re not bleeding all over my nice clean table.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There’s nothing apprehensive about her expression; she remembers Otto and seems excited to get out and greet her old friend and his new companions. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I am already married” she remarks to the empty air, twisting the ring on her right hand that covers an old, distinctive scar. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Political and economic stagnation undermined many black Americans’ confidence in the old tactics of the civil rights movement. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Laura Friendly looked different from the pictures on the internet—older and tired. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the old days, whenever she had to confront something scary, she’d just get to wherever she was going and sit in the car and drink until she got up the courage to go inside. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Trying to hold it together, not yet fifteen years old, I had finally cracked. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The mattress creaked and popped as I kicked back the covers, left Helena sleeping, and ran out of the bedroom and through the empty apartment to Mr. and Mrs. Diamant’s old room. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He’d read a story in one of the old books in the attic about a bunch of kids finding a deserted pirate ship, and then a skeleton in one of the rooms. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hours later she was awakened by thunder shaking the old silo. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Every meal will be a thing of joy,” whispered the voice from under the old man’s hat. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

She was one of four old ladies with white visors and whistles who rotated lunch and playground duty during the week. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Harriet saw a little old woman, rocking her body back and forth, sitting on her heels, in front of the fire, sucking on a clay pipe as she grieved about her boys. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I attached both studs to an old envelope I found in the car and tucked them safely into the glove box. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The roof of the old movie theater on Main Street had caved in years ago, its screen landing flat in a field of weeds. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

His mind would well over at last and he would not be Montag any more, this the old man told him, assured him, promised him. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt calm—almost as if I were the older one. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“You know, old one, I can’t help thinking that a victory would be assured if only we had the Warrior’s sword,” Matthias said. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Thalia rubbed her thigh like she was remembering the old wound. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

"The old warden didn't care so much about rules. This one does. I just wish she'd care about people too." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Derby told him he was forty-five, which was two years older than the colonel. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Michael and I took a train all the way down to Brownsville once, and do you know that there were Mexicans not even thirteen years old waddling around big-bellied?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She’s dressed up in red wool pants despite the sweltering heat and has Daddy’s old Kappa Alpha blanket draped on the chair. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Bless my soul,” whispered the old bartender, “Harry Potter ... what an honor.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He just slapped butter on a plate any old way and didn’t even try to make our company meals special. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How many siblings do you have? How old are they?” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Especially if the girl was older than him. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“The throat’s better,” the old woman had said in Sarai’s nightmare. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Malcolm was troubled; the old lady was as sweet and kindly as she always was, but her face was gray and her eyes were red-rimmed and tired. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

At the time of his arrest, Marcus was twenty-four years old and had been addicted to drugs for six years, beginning shortly after his mother’s death and escalating throughout his early twenties. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The woman rode double with Rory, her son with Tom Barleycorn, the old men with Horse and Satin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And then they would bloom as he grew old. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Besides in years to come, there would be no old neighborhood to come back to. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally they made it into the old custodian’s closet, Mr. Lyons’s office. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

As I rounded the corner on the upper promenade deck, I saw the old man and the little boy. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“But 1 figured, what the hell, if I showed it to the old man he’d probably drop a nut or lose a good night’s sleep, so why bother?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dreaming of chasing squirrels through the forest. But not the clearing—our old forest, back the way we loved it.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Since you are my old friend—I will give it to you for seven.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

And when, say, the “Barton Gas Birthday Club” came on the air, everybody shut up to see who was growing a little older today. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can never thank you enough, old friend,” Téllez said and embraced my father warmly, then he embraced and kissed Ultima. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

That did not mean, however, that certain aspects of the old theory could not be preserved within the new. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

This baby’s mattress would be an old feather pillow. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“She’s using the transmitter we were supposed to find. I found it. Weeks ago. They said it was a network of terrorists, but it was just an old man and a girl.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Many of the headlines are so old they no longer flash on the page. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The headman called out in his own tongue, addressing the man by the name the old seal hunter had told him: Jopari. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few of the older men spoke of other snowstorms and insisted this was no more than a light dusting compared to what they’d seen in the winters of their youth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was forty-two years old and in excellent health, with the exception of a bout of bronchitis that had been diagnosed ten days before. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But Chandra kept pleading, and finally, after we promised to wear our oldest clothes, we were allowed to go. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I find only Civil War books, maps, and old phone books. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I sat still, my pen resting in my hand, my notebook open, my face flushed and my jaw jutting out into an underbite, an old trick I had to keep from looking sad or scared. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

In another he saw an old woman who had been slowly dying for the past four years, whose shoulder blades were jutting through the open wounds in her back. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a bit like the old paradox: can God make a stone so heavy that he can’t lift it? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I must go home. They’ve dug up Bagshot Row, and there's the poor old gaffer going down the Hill with his bits of things on a barrow. I must go home!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Like we’re an old New York couple just sitting around doing nothing.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Sixteen was far too old to have never been kissed. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“From now on,” Nately ordered his girl firmly, “I absolutely forbid you even to speak to that disgusting old man.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

There weren’t enough beds for everyone, so Nguyen’s father and the three oldest of her siblings headed home in the dark. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Xenophilius looked ghastly, a century old, his lips drawn back into a dreadful leer. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But the envelope’s postmark was fifteen years old. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

How can the old and the new, the past and the future, rational science and superstition, live side by side here without any sign of discomfort? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Maxim was sitting in his chair, Jasper at his feet, the old dog in her basket. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“The Second Sons are amongst die oldest of the free companies,” Inkpots said as he was turning pages. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We were delirious with it, tossing the chorus back and forth between us like a ball, making up new lyrics as we grew bored with the old ones. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It looked old; hammered red bronze, leaf-shaped, its blade covered with ancient glyphs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was wearing his old Wasp robes again. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

If you do, you will find an old faithful friend waiting for you. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was blowing so hard that the drifting boats would not be going out and the boy had slept late and then come to the old man’s shack as he had come each morning. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

For how he'd accepted the fact that he’d grow old in that mud shack in the yard, the way his father had. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I heard the clink of harness and the rattle of an old wagon trying to follow the ruts in the road. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shined the flashlight around the room again, letting its light play on old paintings, books, an ornate carved marble fireplace. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

More than two decades earlier—when I was just three years old—Rogers had gone through those same White Pages. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

My oldest girl, Sugar, is sixteen and pretty good about keeping things neat, but I like to help her out on the weekends the way my mama never helped me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Our van eventually exited the expressway at Langa, the oldest township in South Africa. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure her old heart could take another round of sick and worry. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Johnny did not care about that, but he could not bear to think of poor old Mr. Lapham turning over in his grave. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, dear. Layers upon layers of history here, but it’s nothing compared to Greece. Athens was old when Rome was a collection of mud huts. You’ll see, if you survive.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, it almost feels like last year at our old lunch table, only with no one telling us to hold down our voices or clear our trays. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

An old Siberian Tartar, his eyes almost lost in the wrinkles around them, laid his bow down beside it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I emptied the crate, and Mae gave me an old quilt to line it. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

At best, Rat said, she was seventeen years old, fresh out of Cleveland Heights Senior High. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the mourners were old widows for whom funerals were a form of entertainment. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

That’s how they work it in polite society over there, at least they used to in the old days, and quite a business it was. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I even pulled out one of Uncle Joe’s old television sets to watch the snow. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“He doesn’t care about you. All he cares about is getting some stupid old manuscript.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She gave off an aura of melancholy and bewilderment, a scent of lavender and old clothes. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The streetlights shone on the treeless stretches of asphalt and cement and continuous old slate roofs. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave Alec a grim look and followed the older man past them, to the stairs to the basement, and went down, weapons held at the ready. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

When Matthias arrived at the wall he felt like patting the old red sandstone. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Eleven years old on his last birthday, Salva was a good student. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had the feeling that I was an old story somewhere beyond the foot of the mountain. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I was waiting in the lobby, a man came in with an old beagle. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I asked again as I wiped my face, curiously watching my mother wrap what remained of last night’s porridge with old newspapers and put it inside a brown gunny sack. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Lita’s version, an awful man stole from the old couple’s dreams, but from now on, this story lives on through me and my new version. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Rafik tried to throw his old report cards away, but their mother caught him. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They sat around the living room and talked, telling stories about the old days on Ada’s farm, laughing and joking and trying to have a good time, and suddenly John’s name would come up. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a baseball star, one of the top players in the area, a naturally strong and fast child who rode a two-wheeler before he was four years old. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You were just four months old, before we knew why you were always sick. A month before the accident.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was an old man, thin with hunger. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He wished he were old enough to go. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Then we continued on through the skinny pines, more open fields, a little less than half a mile before we crossed the old wooden planks. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The eunuch rubbed his swollen stomach, crisscrossed with old white scars. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His old dog, Pilot, lay on one side, removed out of the way, and coiled up as if afraid of being inadvertently trodden upon. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Technically it was an old computer, or at least a machine made from salvaged parts, but it was faster and more efficient than any other piece of equipment he'd ever owned. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

She seemed to remember something about the old country. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“You see, I’m what’s called an interim pastor. Meaning the old one left and I’m just filling in till they can get a new one.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Ralph sat quietly on the floor and George was trying a little harness on him made out of old Christmas tinsel. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As the night wore on, the place emptied except for me and an old, toothless Tlingit man at a back table. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mangy old lion has crept back into his den and is huddled in the corner, quivering. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Even when I was five years old and we watched Bambi. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Georges,” the old woman said as calmly as she could, “please unlock the door.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I am six years old and instead of celebrating with birthday cakes, I chew on a piece of charcoal. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had threadbare furniture, busted old sofas with holes worn through the fabric. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He’s been killing chickens since he was ten years old and doesn’t seem to mind it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The old man came slowly into the room. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I spot an older picture—I look past the cake and me ready to blow out the candles. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I don’t measure time by the old calendar anymore; I don’t look at the date. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It was another older couple in their seventies, waving from their second-story window. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She was older than Mother, with white wisps of hair escaping a dirty mob cap. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gitano took off his old black hat and held it with both hands in front of him. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night, I accompanied Wolfie to an old brickworks on the outskirts of town for a demonstration. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A jovial fellow with gold-filled teeth and a silvery widow’s peak, he jovially repeated, “Sometimes I despair. Sometimes I think old Doc Savage had the right idea.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Does that mean we are better than anyone else? No. But we should not be penalized because we cannot get into the old yacht club.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

‘I am very fond indeed of it, and of all the dear old Shire; but I think I need a holiday.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And how his wife would have been an “old maid.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The old man unhooked the fish, re-baited the line with another sardine and tossed it over. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ink given her was too old/too thick to use and clotted badly in the pen nib. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

That she would be more capable than many older than she is a given. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Liam slid down behind me, finding just enough room between my back and the old log. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They clinked their glasses together just as an old man stopped by their table. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

“When they were digging the foundation, they found the bodies of a lot of old inmates.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was happy and wore the damp darkness of the forest like his old clothes. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The babies swirled taller and became older as time spun ahead. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Mrs. March would not hear of the old gentleman’s undertaking the long journey, yet an expression of relief was visible when he spoke of it, for anxiety ill fits one for traveling. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see he didn’t want the old man to touch her. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe you planted yourself in that old lady’s house like some fungus mold till you got a picture out of her.” Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

The bus driver, a man older than our father but not as old as Big Ma, stopped us. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Standing on the roadside, I watch Emmett alive again, living in his old world. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Despite the costume, she was the same old Aileen, with the same spray of freckles rising up her cheeks when she smiled. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

For one thing, with his hair and beard trimmed and now neatly dressed, he looked a lot younger, though still much older than I. I would guess maybe thirty or thirty-two. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She’d told the Eagle that she was driving to Atlanta to see an old friend from Romania. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The Object was trying to act older herself. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Hugo’s father had owned a clock shop and worked part-time in an old museum taking care of the clocks there. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I was five years old, nearly six, when Nelson Mandela was released from prison. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Dad used to say that my old school’s uniform was a pimple on the face of New York. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was seventy-four years old, but in Nye’s opinion, “looked younger— maybe ten minutes younger.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pictured his mom crying at the hair salon, slowly wrapping an old woman’s hair around curlers. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was something I didn't much know about or understand until I was old enough to read, and to learn how to eavesdrop properly. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He’s an older man with a few strands of silver hair combed sideways above his bright red face. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dursley was enraged to see that a couple of them weren’t young at all; why, that man had to be older than he was, and wearing an emerald-green cloak! Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“How will you feel then, Frank? An old lady’s heart...Pow!” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Next thing I know, I’m digging my old rap poems out of my dresser drawer and bringing them to school. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some are so old or wasted by illness, drugs, or drink that I can’t place them. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I already called him this morning, before I came over. He said he found some old boxes of photos that he could bring over.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Willie was in his thirties, or maybe even older, and was the kind of guy who thought that just because he was old it meant he knew more than anybody. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I stood up, the older woman, the lady aunt with all the money, gave me a shadow of a smile. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lina remembered having creamed corn once, as a thrilling treat, when she was five years old. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was just past twenty-one; the century was not yet one year old. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

‘I see. You’re right, of course. But if the old gentleman dies or you ever want a new master, remember my offer. So ...’ and he turned to shake hands, ‘may we meet again.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced at his bare chest, which was sweaty, bony, and streaked with old scars from weapon-making accidents. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She’s trying to figure out if I’m worth her time or not—a trustworthy grown-up, and not just some worn-out old alcoholic who wasn’t good enough for her mother. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Ashley has been invited to visit one of her old foster families.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Soon enough, I fell back into my old routine of going to the foundation four days a week. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

One of the older Yellows, a girl named Kylie, came pounding on Clancy’s door. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

These dates are too old—obviously something went wrong. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Translation: As people get older, they have more and more trouble keeping up with switching tasks and focusing under demanding circumstances. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I remember an old lady, grinning and saying to my father, “You’re scaring these white folks to death!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

One by one, Oshiro’s three older brothers had left Hawaii to join the military and were sent to Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was such a quick motion for such an old man that it startled Pong, and he dropped the precious pork skewers onto the dusty floor. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Now, as I passed through King’s College, in the shadow of the enormous chapel, my old diffidence seemed almost funny. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Andrea has always been old for her age,” my mother pointed out. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the old man was back with a black book, which he read with his lips moving. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was carried home, and an old woman was left to watch and see whether he slept to wake or slept forever. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Patty’s kids were older, but they got along well with the Zeitouns, and anyway, eight kids always found something to do together. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

That is what makes this aging-of-the-population theory of crime reduction so appealingly tidy: since people mellow out as they get older, more older people must lead to less crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

During daylight hours, the steamy wood was often full of northmen come to pray to the old gods, but at this hour Theon Greyjoy found he had it all to himself. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Our superintendent kept trying to get him to quit school, but Hosie vowed he was go’n graduate if it took him till he was thirty years old. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She lifted little May out of her dreaming and ran and put her in the old metal washtub. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

But whenever we met her old students, now adults, they still bowed respectfully and called her Teacher Cao, which made me so proud. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And something about it makes me think of the old Brandy. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Leo spotted Piper’s knife, an old leather-bound book, a few interesting-looking mechanical devices, and enough gold to give Hazel’s horse a stomachache. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Grandpa Nyles said sadly, “But they lost that little girl. She got sick with a disease called cholera. She died from it, and she was only four years old.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Islam became a part of her life after the unexpected death of her oldest son, and religion became the only way she coped with the debilitating grief. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

At Beecher Prep, I’m the old moldy cheese. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“But the gift of the Lord—is eternal life! Mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, young and old: we are all sinners, every one!” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course, they’ve probably caught him by now,” the old mer­chant said, grunting and loading another box on the mule’s back. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Florent held him tightly and said, “I know, I know. Come with me, we’ll go and sit for a minute by the old market and talk before seeing Albert.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Lorena said that when she was seven years old, her dad went back to Mexico for his mother’s funeral, even though everyone told him not to. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But the new house isn’t quite done, so it would have been crowded in the old house with Ded6 and Jaimito and the boys already moved in. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t look old enough to be his mother, but she has the same crease between her eyebrows as he does, and the same golden hair. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

That was the time when the Cardinals had the old Gas House Gang. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘But what I have heard seems to me for the most part old wives’ tales, such as we tell to our children. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They rushed the grove together, kicking through drifts of old snow with no sound but their breathing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She closed the door and almost fainted when she saw the older boy standing there in the kitchen, swaying slightly. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

One was old, with a long beard, streaked with gray. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Can’t sail it. Your old man would know a skiff was missing and be after you in no time.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He drilled with an old fowling piece his grandsire had given him to shoot ducks on the Concord River. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy reached up and thrust her spear high in a polished rack against a pillar where tough spear on spear of the old soldier, his father, stood in order. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Which you meantersay, Pip, how long have your illness lasted, dear old chap?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The wheezing old appliance, without light, looked as though the inside panels were ready to fall. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How old is old enough? Why do I need to be a certain age?” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Its pages are old and worn, some are just about to fall out, some have folded-down corners, but she finds the page she’s looking for and starts reading. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

But Arnold, claiming that his old wounds still kept him from battle duty, successfully pleaded for command of West Point. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Listen here, you old fool, don't talk about killing me! Give me a chance to explain. I don't belong to anything—Go on, pick it up! Go on!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t even seen her mother since she was three years old. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

After he bought her a new car as a surprise, she told him her old car was perfectly fine, the Peugeot $05 she had been driving since he was in secondary school. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Kennedy told the nation that segregation was a moral issue—“as old as the Scriptures and ... as clear as the American Constitution.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And he wondered at the love of old age, which is so fond and so easily satisfied. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Jorge was fourteen years older than she and wore round steel glasses that shrank his blue eyes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door opened, and an older man looked shocked at the sight of her. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

An old lady Liyana didn’t recognize was down on her knees scrubbing the floor with pieces of rags. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I love to watch the city from above—the graffiti on factories, the honking cars, the old buildings with shattered windows, everyone in a hurry. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

We approached his dock with trepidation, expecting an ambush, but found no resistance, and indeed an old slave left to lead us to the house. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s very old looking. Been robbing the royal coffer, have you?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

This wasn’t so crazy: we’d pass older students bent over chess sets, in window seats or on the grassy slopes, and Ruth would often pause to study a game. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reminded me of the Big Boy at the Elias Brothers’ chain of restaurants, only older, coarsened and bloated by adult vices. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It's an old building, so something's always cracking, leaking, shaking, or breaking. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Although the makeup artists had done a darn good job, Curly could still tell that the old lady in the commercial was actually a much younger woman, and that she was pretty. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mister...” she told the man, who was older than Uncle Darnell and younger than Pa. “Sir,” she started again. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Your old lady’s really keeping the jam on you, eh?” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

My drawers were so empty, I was wearing an old soccer uniform. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The only trouble was, the cold made my nose hurt, and right under my upper lip, where old Stradlater'd laid one on me. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, you’re twelve. That’s old enough to know your own self, I expect. I’m not about to go messing with that. So all right.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I guessed she was probably eleven or twelve years old. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Your ma said I should’ve told you years ago. But I wanted to protect you. Didn’t think you were old enough.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“We’re just going to bike over to the old strip cuts after school.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

She holds out an old floppy hat and walks around the room, telling us to pick a name. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Some crazy old lady rants stuff I know not to be true— and yet I choose to hold on to her words like a drowning man to a life preserver. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Reverend Santa seemed like a kindly old man. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never looked more youthful, I had never felt so old. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Tynmore, the tiny, bright chirping old maid who gave Mama music lessons, was just like the canary whose cage hung in her kitchen. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Applying old mathematics, in fact, is often more difficult than discovering new mathematics. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did your old team have uniforms? Hey, wouldn’t that be something? Uniforms and everything, but how do we pay for them?” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I can’t let Hudson spoil any chance at making new memories in old places. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

As recently as twenty years ago, old- time officers told me, it would be exceptional to find more than ten B-block inmates on keeplock. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Schillinger brothers warmed up their violins as older children chased each other around the school room. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

When the headman arrived at the bush in which the old man lived, he was saddened to see him in such a state. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Well, not much more than an old wagon path, to be honest, but it was heading in the right direction and would be easy walking even at night. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Yep. I know I don’t talk about my old life much, but the divorce was...difficult. Definitely hit Troy Jr. the hardest.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

One Saturday morning my parents sat down with their four older children and had a family discussion. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The old lord looked at the boy, then at me. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You are much more than a girl, let me assure you of that. You are older than Susannah there.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I returned home to find a young man who had experienced a much older person’s suffering. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A few cadets, eleven-year-olds with yellow stripes on their sleeves, linger on the steps outside an academy, the old and worn Walt Disney Concert Hall letters almost completely faded. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He motioned to the Lion, and together they tugged and tugged until the old man came flying out. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mama finds us one old shoe- shine kit, so we can earn money polishing people's shoes. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

His boy, no more than four years old, has a problem. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Ophie half wondered if he somehow hadn’t noticed that she’d be looking after an old woman who already didn’t seem to like her. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Even so,” the old knight said, “I would feel better if Your Grace would return to the city.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t think any kid at my old school—even the troublemakers—would’ve minded a sky-blue-painted school with bright lights and clean hallways. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Eventually they would change the house’s title into Sister Betty’s name, he said, or maybe into the name of their oldest daughter, Attallah. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, turning to Milo, he said, “Don’t believe a thing this old fraud says.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

As she got older, people in the family thought she’d be a good match for her cousin Charles, also an organizer, a collector, and a list maker. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brother Vu wants to be a cook or teach martial arts, not waste a year as the oldest senior. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The old understanding of handling crime epidemics leads inevitably to a preoccupation with defensive measures against crime. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Eleyne's anchor chain was intact, and that great old mud hook was still down, a hundred pounds of iron with spear-shaped flukes wide as a shovel. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Especially not with my old teammates coming and telling me how the coach would use me as an example. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The boy was nineteen years old, alone except for his sword-handler, and the three hangers-on, and the bull-fight was to commence in twenty minutes. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I wondered, if I'd been my old self, if I would have liked him. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The balconies of the old buildings hung over my head like dark branches in an allegorical forest of evil. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is shocked and discomfited by the news, feeling bad about his irritation and impatience, wondering if the victim had been a man or a woman, young or old. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She heard the old women of the dosh khaleen muttering to each other as they watched, and wondered what they were saying. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I hung up, muttering to myself, “I didn’t want to see your silly old synagogue anyway.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, he signs his old name by mistake on a credit card slip at the college bookstore. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

What this list says is that it really matters how old you were when that transformation happened. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I saw the old woman who had delivered me from my mother’s womb. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was old enough to have a sense of family. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had not been back to Africa since I was twelve years old, but when you have encountered Africa in childhood, it becomes a section of your mind. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Melquíades talked to him about the world, tried to infuse him with his old wisdom, but he refused to translate the manuscripts. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

We piled into the old Buick and made our way to the Bronx, where Aunt Nancy now lived. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It’s shady here due to an old oak tree standing sentry beside the steps, and I’m doing okay so far. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The older boy gave his brother a shove. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Neil was old when she moved to Chicago, and then she got older. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

And like the time we enlisted an old poppa-san to guide us through the mine fields out on the Batangan Peninsula. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were intently following the election returns, jotting down the results as they were announced, when they saw Trueba on the screen, looking older and more stubborn than ever. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was getting late, the summer evening was fading, and the old bus shelter felt musty and damp after a recent thunderstorm. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’re a lot of old things in there that he really needs to clear out. For now just put your suitcase there.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

When he wrote back, he pretended to be his old self, he lied his way into sanity. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The Hispanic landscaping crews are out with old Ford pickups tugging eight-foot flatbed trailers. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Not that I ever believed that the whole production of World War II was a trick of the eye manip- ulated by a bunch of calculating fat old men, appealing though this idea was. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

More recently in Carmel there have been a great number of literary men about, but there is not the old flavor, the old dignity of the true belles-lettres. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knows we are going long before the suitcases come out, and he paces and worries and whines and goes into a state of mild hysteria, old as he is. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alice in a moment caught Sister Fenella by the shoulders and pulled her gently upright, but the old lady was unconscious. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I was in the midst of a conversation with Bongo, who had just pointed out to me that I was a year older. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He is in the old Pita building just down the road, and he is putting up walls for the school of Mr. Pomodoro. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Both my old and new laptops are on my desk, which is a mess. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Jonathan was holding me by the arm, the way he used to in old days before I went to school. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

She was about as old as I am now and was looking down and frowning. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He wanted to live in one house, grow old in one neighborhood, and wanted friends whose faces did not change yearly. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But having made this mark on medicine and laid down a marker for the scientific approach in general, Vesalius suddenly abandoned his academic career although still not 30 years old. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

The oldest tenants were standing by the door, guarding the entrance to the dining room where their former patron was being held prisoner. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old men chuckled, the young men cackled, thinking that was a funny statement for Joe to make. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I visited an old plantation called Taperinha, site of an earlier Anna Roosevelt dig, the man at the tiller abruptly turned the boat straight into the forest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The front door opened and Grandpa Sorenson emerged, followed by a tall, lanky man with large ears and a thin, older woman. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Dad was already leafing through his AA Book of British Towns and Uncle Brian'd sent Mum a look that said, If it makes the old boy happy, let him. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

None of the old dreams had been abandoned. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“A fake mustache? A blond wig? And suppose they ask for ID and see your old face?” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I took out a neat old film projector. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Sir,” said I, “I am still apprehensive of my health, lest this new fever spring into the place vacated by the old.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

You’re seven years old, you made your First Communion, and now ’tis time for the dancing. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

DRACO: Astoria always knew that she was not destined for old age. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“Marly, Joe got that old man up the steps and into his bed and built a fire and gave him hot milk!” she said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if I would ever know my oldest brother. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

My teacher looks like the old witch who ate bad children for dinner. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Anyway, when he was finished, and everybody was clapping their heads off, old Ernie turned around on his stool and gave this very phony, humble bow. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

What happened next is told in The Tale of the Heike: The Emperor was seven years old that year but looked much older. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clouds were only named early in the nineteenth century—‘cirrus’ and ‘nimbus’ may sound old because they are Latin, but the Romans had no names for the different types of cloud. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

For this reason I took one companion on my journey—an old French gentleman poodle known as Charley. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if I get hit on by women who are old enough to be my mother? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

That summer of 1983, I graduated from high school at the age of twenty, by far the oldest senior tossing his mortarboard on the football field that day. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some redwoods are over a thousand years old, as tall as skyscrapers. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The beggar turned and slouched past whimpering: ‘Poor old Gríma! Poor old Gríma! Always beaten and cursed. How I hate him! I wish I could leave him!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He loved his language the way Minerva had loved us, with pride and an enthusiasm of old potential repurposed. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“Want me to show you how to ride?” older friends would call. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

We came in to find the woman we’d been following talking to a much older woman with silver hair, who seemed to be in charge of the place. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We looked through the rest of the box and found some horse figurines, an old hair brush, and a glass case that reminded me of an aquarium. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m twelve years old now,” I said with pride. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, when enough people had heard it, they gathered in a crowd outside the old man’s hut and shouted out for him to leave. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The old, hot choking sensation came back to his stomach and throat. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was a battered old thing of green canvas, with leather patches on the corners and edges. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

And yet, so unique also was Bernard’s oddness that she had hesitated to take it, had actually thought of risking the Pole again with funny old Benito. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two men walked toward the tamarind tree, chatting and laughing like old friends. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not that person anymore. I’m old, not the little kid I was when I started it,” I say. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Careful testing established that it takes about seven years for this new mosquito to emerge and replace the old one. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Ron was leaning out of the back window of an old turquoise car, which was parked in midair. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Geak is only six years old, too young to understand what has just happened. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old Ent now took the hobbits back, and set them on his shoulders again, and so they rode proudly at the head of the singing company with beating hearts and heads held high. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

We had a big block of brown soap from which we shaved slivers with an old cheese knife. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shadow tasted fear in the back of his throat, bitter as old coffee. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Huge old war maps were plastered to the ceiling. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The water pipes broke and the landlord wouldn’t fix them because the house was too old. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a garbage bag of old T-shirts stays behind. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

After ten months of training and combat as a Marine, I was now seventeen years old— according to the records kept by the Indian agent. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad finally broke the silence with an old family punch line. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man scrutinized Mo's face until he turned his head away and looked out of the narrow kitchen window. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She takes the three old coats from our bed and piles them on the pram till you can hardly see Alphie at all. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The people of Rook Hill, however, the small northern village where Aisling lived with her father, kept to the old ways. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t thinking about the new president or for that matter the old president, either. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Allie had this sailboat he used to like to fool around with on Sundays, and we used to take old Phoebe with us. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

And my old man ... you know how he is.... Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, that does sound rough. Have you tried talking to the guy? Or having him talk to the old boss?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Within a few days, I resumed my old life at home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man riding with my father was the old pirate. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I’m not good at talking to old people either, to be honest. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“In fact I’ll go even further. I promise you that if you defeat the snake, I’ll admit I was wrong to that stuffy old cat. I’ll even apologize to him on bended knees, so there!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The tension between the sophomores and the older boys was palpable. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He was seven years old and the rottweiler was thirty-two years old, which was old enough for him to know better, Satchmo had thought. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

He took the ring and held it up to the old man’s face. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Alex followed as Mac led them into the living room, where a tiny, stooped old lady sat on the sofa. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure sits with Madame through the worst of it, strange hours when the old woman’s hands go very cold and she talks about being in charge of the world. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The twins and I were twenty years old, and Henry and Francis were twenty-one. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Halmoni, who is old and has a sleepy blanket face, says that a long time ago Apa was young like me and she could boss him around. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He read our sign over Uncle Grady, and his old pink eyes narrowed. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The old dog could no longer walk, and Scheer had to lift him bodily out of the car. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"Not all over," an older brother says, correcting her. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Sponging,” an old race- fixing technique from racing’s corrupt days, threatened horses’ lives. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, Wells was just one year old when she was freed from slavery. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There were illuminated stars on the tops of some of the oldest oil derricks, and across Main Street, spotlights shown on poinsettias placed on risers to spell “Merry Xmas!” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Not an employee, but a girl, no older than twenty. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

You might get a different group of characters, a different set, but in the end you’s starring in the same old stinking play. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

My arms are so weak, I can barely pull on the starter rope, but the old outboard fires right up anyhow. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The woman will never find the old house behind the hedge of towering hibiscus at the bend of the dirt road. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are some swings and climbing sets, all made from old tires. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Though only three years old, he had already run forty-three races, far more than most horses contest in their entire careers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was given a new dress-cloth because the old one was torn and foul with dog blood. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hands awkwardly raised, he circled warily around the old man, backed up to the ditch bank, and walked sideways along the bank to the road. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fine old Limerick name you have there. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“How much will you give me if I ask old Principal Knox to try it on for size?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The older female voice said, “Calm down, Max. Bambi, it’s okay. Really. But I think you should show us how you dance now.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I have no doubt of that. Go in peace, my children,” the old man murmured. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He recognizes his old Monopoly game being played, the board in two pieces, the racecar missing ever since Sonia dropped it into the baseboard heater when she was little. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the two women remembered that in China families married young boys to older girls, who baby-sat their husbands their whole lives. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My old school,” Hazel said next to him. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The old woman crossed her arms and sniffed. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She is a very small, very old woman with short gray hair, and she was the first friend I made in Naomi. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma Sands reached up and ran her wrinkly old hand over Byron’s head. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Marina was two years old, in 1914, Europe plunged into World War I. For the next four years, most of Europe’s young men fought, and millions died, on the battlefields of France and Belgium. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She wore no coat, no shoes, nothing but jeans, an old pair I’d left behind, and one of my worn T-shirts. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Although Garfield's three older children spent the summer in the White House with their ailing father, they were unprepared for his death. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In that holy race, sickness and deathly old age had no part. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was rather like a new garment that replaces an old: desired but not yet comfortable. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“So I told her about my dad’s old tape recorder.” Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“In an old people’s home probably,” she said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“You don’t say. Has another tree fallen upon the pompous old fool?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I guess this old temple of the soul has had it,” he began with his usual sly grin. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began to suffer from insomnia, the old people’s disease. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joan was the beaming double of my old best self, specially designed to follow and torment me. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Lanning leaned back in his seat, and there was the rapt silence of challenge and response between them, and then the old roboticist shook his head. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

"By the seven new gods and the old gods beyond count, I swear it." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

How ridiculous—an old lady gives her a moldy book she has no use for, and she chokes up. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I knew they had them every which where, but leave it to good old Doli to find one!” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

We vault to third place after he correctly identifies a picture of the oldest surviving mosque in America: Cedar Rapids, Iowa, early 1900s. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

What they objected to principally was that the three oldest girls were being turned away from family activities. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matt thought about the old man lying on a hospital bed, waiting for the one person who could bring him a glimpse of his youth. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You probably liked letting me make a perfect idiot of myself,” she said with a flash of her old spirit. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, Helen,” Mrs. Montague went on, “wants us to search the cellar for an old well.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

We took a seat at the bar, next to an old man, his leathery face sickly in the blue glow of the Michelob sign overhead. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Or how she says she’s working in her office, but spying reveals that she’s really going through boxes of old photographs she got down from the attic. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I even got out my old sled and my old scarf. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, it don’t make no difference about this old earth. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

An older, lovable woman, with children of her own in the class, replaced her. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Benjamin Franklin was very old and very ill in March of 1790. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

His mind went on to the two women in the house, the tight-lipped old maid and the girl. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

They seemed around the same age—older than my parents—and I wondered if they knew each other, because they were laughing about something. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

All the way to school, he’s been talking about what a great time he’s going to have now that his bossy older sister is leaving. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

An old banana peel would work, but I’ve eaten them all. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

While we watched, the youngest rebel walked toward the old man and waited for him at the foot of the bridge. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The old man is shaking his head at me. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the old days he had hidden a heretical mind beneath an appearance of conformity. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Now it’s going to take all he’s got to keep Peeta alive in an arena full of his old friends, and he’ll probably fail. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The older young, those hatched a year or more earlier, fared only slightly better. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He sounded like an old man, maybe someone speaking with his dying breath. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“All but old Candy. He just sets in the bunk house sharpening his pencil and sharpening and figuring.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Ebright only hardened his position: “You will not be able to get your old prices much longer, it will just be impossible to pay them... the goose that laid the golden egg is gone.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I look up at the wall, noticing he has only an old cartoon hung up right above his bed. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Showing it all around, he ended up in front of his older son, who during the past few days had barely put in an appearance in the laboratory. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I was more excited about Hermione, even though the person in the costume looked about thirty years old. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

LeAlan: My name is LeAlan Jones, I am thirteen years old, and I live with my family in a house around the corner from the Ida B. Wells. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far down the street an old tin Ford was choking along, approaching, a last load of colored people in it. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It will be like the old days. Remember when you used to come? Sitting there in your dresses.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Except for that one day when I had stayed with Ella on the way to Detroit after prison, I had not been in the old Roxbury streets for seven years. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking that when I get older, I’m going to be a wine drinker. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Back in Chicago, separated again from Barack, I still sometimes went to my old happy-hour gatherings, though I rarely stayed out late. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Thinking back, I guess he must have meant World War I. I had a hard time keeping in mind how old he was. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

An older Maiden stepped forward with an air of authority. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

They stayed in the older parts of the building. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

This wasn’t just any old drum teacher, either. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

One had once been to bed with an older woman. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

But Bruno took the extreme view that the old Egyptian religion was the true faith and that the Catholic Church should find a way of returning to those old ways. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He’s up ahead, throwing snowballs; and on the bus he’s at the back, in a noisy whirlpool of older boys. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around and found a nail—you can always find a nail in an old basement—and hammered it in behind one of the stairs. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Now there were only old people standing in the shade of tired porches. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Now that sounds a little like the old Ma. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

‘The truth is, he didn’t even hold you until you were a month old. And then only to look down once, comment on your longish face, and hand you back to me.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He was only a little older than me, and he had soft black hair and beautiful olive-colored skin and dark, dark eyes. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sandra is sitting next to me, peeling an old student council vote sticker off her desk with precision, lifting this end, then that corner, making her way around the edges carefully. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

They had been in Málaga for a few days when the older kids felt comfortable enough in Ahmad and Antonia’s house to be left for the morning. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He was older—he had been a classmate of her brother Eleazar’s—and he became part of the family after her brother died. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

May would be the first out, standing in the living room and talking to the distressed bat: “Poor little feller. Must be scared to death. You never meant to come into this old trailer....” Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

He even had the father, in place of God: old Robert Lee. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d then often go downstairs to Robbie and Terry’s, particularly as they got older and less able, to scour that as well. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Brinker asked him if it shouldn’t be called “unrolling stock” now, and the old man looked back at him with bleary dislike and didn’t reply. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The driver of the truck, an electrician on his way to Anchorage, wasn't much older than McCandless. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hatred was old and deep and as dangerous as ever. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

My most incredible sculpture was a soccer ball I made out of Play-Doh when I was four years old. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Although the old man never confronted me about it, there was one occasion when he came close to forcing the whole thing out into the open. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is no census for white sharks. We have no idea how many young sharks, middle-aged sharks, and old sharks there are. A balance would tell us there is a healthy...” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t manage to lock a Death Eater up in one of the old high-security vaults, I suppose?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Like any good daughter, I’ll be the one to nurse her in her old age. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The moon was low now and the light, wherever it slanted through the trees, seemed thicker, older and more yellow. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was drunk, and dirty, and very old, and her mouth was bigger than his mother’s mouth, or his own; her mouth was loose and wet, and he had never seen anyone so black. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Finally, when I flip through her old planner for the second time, I find a folded receipt with some numbers and letters circled. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“You can fix up two schools. Maybe three. You could build a brand-new school on top of the old school.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“All those women in bikinis strutting around Cape Canaveral, and there’s old Wernher and his boys with their big rockets sticking up in the air. How do you feel when our rockets work?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

People were listening to them talking about the loss of the old ways in the changing world. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Our bed was a thin mattress stuffed with old corn husks in front of the potato bin. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reminded me of a kid at my old school, a bully who used to convince other kids to do stupid things like steal lab equipment and vandalize the teachers’ cars. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I am as ornery and stubborn as an old donkey. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The wall behind the Commandant is covered with wood-framed posters of men and women, old and young. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

At our new place, I have Dad’s old bedroom furniture from when he was a kid—a bed, a desk, and a bookshelf, all made out of the same dark wood. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Keeping an eye on the old soldier, Jonathan tentatively plucked at the rope that held him. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Long story” We’re silent now, both waiting, till I remind myself that I’m the older one and should therefore initiate conversation. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

When Mom was fourteen years old, the Makah Nation hunted a gray whale. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

A creature of an older world maybe it was, whose kind, lingering in forgotten mountains cold beneath the Moon, outstayed their day, and in hideous eyrie bred this last untimely brood, apt to evil. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

An old, angry knot expanded in my throat. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Now thirteen years old, he’s gone white in the muzzle and hobbles around with an arthritic limp. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coaxing a fresh blaze with a blowpipe, he found tongs and with them held a portion of the collar carefully to the blast, his corded, brown old back gleaming with the heat. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to think about that, so I open the list on my phone of things I’ll miss about my old house, and read through the memories I want to remember. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

In school, where Arcadio had pupils older than himself mixed in with children who were barely beginning to talk, the Liberal fever had caught on. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Just then he heard Senator Trueba’s footsteps in the hallway and seconds later, before he could catch his breath, the old man walked into the library. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped inside the tent, leaving Griff to contemplate the gilded skull of his old friend. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His front door opened into a tiny kitchen with a coffeemaker, a vintage toaster, and an old woodstove with two cooking pots on top, one empty, the other filled with chili. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z