Scott was George’s older brother, a high school freshman. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

He had always feigned a confidence that made him seem older, but now his vulnerability revealed the truth. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Curious, some of the older boys gathered around him as he started twisting pegs and plucking at strings to tune the instrument. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The older girl had never had any interest in Ophie, the most they’d talked had been the day she took the tortoiseshell comb for her own. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She's taller than I am but looks only a few years older, with sharp, wary eyes and her hair piled in a knot on top of her head. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

His household includes two older sisters, both of them with babies who sometimes keep him up at night and make studying, to the extent he wants to do that, difficult. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

There’s a heart, animated with lines, floating in the last frame, when Khadija, the Prophets first boss and first love, fifteen years older, sends a marriage proposal to him. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Chou, my older sister by three years, is the complete opposite of me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so there were two occupations: one very old, with ceramics; the other even older, without them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

While the jubilation was going on, I was placed in the hands and care of older women who couldn’t dance much anymore. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

As she grew older she developed a scattergun method for dealing with unpleasant facts. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

These were the books containing powerful Dark Magic never taught at Hogwarts, and only read by older students studying advanced Defense Against the Dark Arts. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Then a person comes on the line, a young woman’s voice, no older than Sonia probably. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The older boys came again, but fewer of them were commanders. Ender's Game 1985-01-15T00:00:00Z

Christine, however, decided to follow in the family tradition of attending a black college, but she had long known that she didn’t want to walk a path previously worn by her older sisters and brothers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Even with her cane, Aunt Rose always seemed fierce and unbowed, and seeing her like this, small and frail, reminded Ophie that her aunt was a very old woman, maybe even older than Mrs. Caruthers. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood is older than ours, with aging ranch style homes, but a strip mall on the corner looks no different here than in my neighborhood. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Keep him away from all this until he gets a little older, old enough not to need a regent. I’ll stay here and make sure he has something to come back to.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He might have been older than most people Clayton knew, but Cool Papa wasn’t old or weak. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Donatelli showed tickets to a sleepy old man at the door, and led them through a dark corridor into a large, bare room filled with older men, half-naked boys, and cigar smoke. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Three, the children progressed at much the same level, though by their first number one could always tell who was a few months older than others in his group. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Some angry grumbling erupted because the older relatives thought they should be sleeping in the village with their family, not in a hotel. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Young penguins were tasty enough, much like chicken, but the older penguins were difficult to cut with a knife and almost impossible to chew. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Though older than I, he had neither known nor felt anything of life for himself; he had been carefully reared by his mother and father and he had always been told what to feel. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he got older, they called him Pretty Boy. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Even in the middle of an emergency, my older sister worries about what to wear. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

My older brothers kid her about how she really isn’t one of us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One early Sunday morning in July 1984, while Baba set up, I bought two cups of coffee from the concession stand and returned to find Baba talking to an older, distinguished-looking man. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Would the older generation of great-aunts and great-uncles think she was a bad mom? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I thought of quiet Hatun, my older brother, slaving away on the distant roads. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

My older brother was a star student in elementary school. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

And sometimes, late at night, Charlie would just start talking, telling me stories about how things were before I was born—memories of him and our older brother, Ty'ree, and my mama and daddy together. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“I think she will. She’s older now, not so full of fire. You give her her laudanum when she needs it and she won’t give you much trouble.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The mother rolled her eyes the same way that the second daughter had rolled her eyes at her older sister. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

An older girl walks out in a bathrobe and waits impatiently in the hall. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He’s older but still has all his hair, a stately gray mop, combed half-heartedly. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Others, a bit older, struggle to hold on to memories: One has slept in her mother’s bed; another has smelled her perfume, put on her deodorant, her clothes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Papa glanced over at Mama, laughed and replied, “It’s only a couple of years older than you, vieja.” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The older boys no longer seem so rough. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Under the wounded pride, Will could sense something else in the older man. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It took her a moment to remember that Tori was his older sister. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He’s our age, maybe a little older, tall and wiry. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He wrote to Harry Codman, who was himself ill with a strange abdominal illness, “I can only conclude now that I am older and more used up than I had supposed.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The wind skips behind me, nudging me forward down the walk and then away from the main road, toward the older homes, his neighborhood, right beside the lake. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

At that time, lawn bowls was seen as a sport for older people, and all the volunteers that day were in their sixties and seventies. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Determined to prove she was her brother’s equal, in addition to Greek, Elizabeth began to study Latin and mathematics with a class of older boys at the Johnstown Academy. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

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

“Much older than you, I would venture to guess. Might I inquire as to how they came into your possession?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Actually, he was older than me, probably in his early twenties, but he broke his leg jumping from the ship and his suffering made him a child. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looks like an older and more harried version of the picture on his website. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He lives with his mother and older brother. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He was strong and stocky, not as formed as a grown man, of course, because he wasn’t much older than she was, but he’d be powerful one day. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike his heroic older brother, who is gradually dying of freezer-burned-food poisoning. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed to understand how lost I felt, and I was gratefid for that, because an older guy like him—even if he was a counselor—should’ve steered clear of an uncool middle-schooler like me. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“He was surrendered. An older woman was raising him,” Claire answers. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed older and wiser than the rest of us. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was a year older than I and was in my class for twelve years. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t have been much older than I. Not that that meant anything as far as my safety. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even compared to a few days ago, she looked, I don’t know, older. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Irritation flashes briefly across the older man's eyes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

As unobjectionable a date as any is 1000 B.C.—at any rate for the Iliad, the older of the two poems. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were around my age, or maybe just a little older. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

‘People’—adults, people bigger than me, older, smarter, with more ability to do something, I thought they’d keep us all safe. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The big house on the corner was sadder and older than I had remembered, and looked absurd, with its architectural eccentricities, its pretensions to French style, its facade covered with diseased ivy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older man walked forward holding his end of the stretcher before him. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I assumed he was standing between his father and probably his older brother, Nation, who looked a lot like Martin, only taller. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He was about two or three years older than I was, and he was dressed in a gray shirt without a collar. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

My older brother turns nineteen later this week. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

"Not all over," an older brother says, correcting her. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She was only eight—just two years older—but a good head taller. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

At the high school down the street, their older brothers and sisters no longer socialized together. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

An older woman, probably her mother, stood a few steps behind her, smiling at us. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I could see it all and I knew that even the officials and the older men would despise me as though, somehow, in losing my place in Bledsoe's world I had betrayed them . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben was just a few years older than Hazel, and he was stuck here. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The older one spoke, and they looked about as if in search of others. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the older days, Arab men wore long, flowing robes and cloaks with golden edges, but suits had sneaked into their closets now. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

An antojo, one of the older aunts continues, is a very old Spanish word "from before your United States was even thought of," she adds tartly. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It was exciting and fun when 1 was a kid, but it got tiresome and difficult as I grew older. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

There was another man behind him, much older and dressed just out of this world, with a tall hat and glasses and a cloth drapery dress and swishing an animal’s tail back and forth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I was now competing in local and state meets against gymnasts who were much older and taller than me, I was starting to win medals regularly. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They were nice, older people, and great churchgoers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the older men were concerned that a young woman was speaking for our tribe. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Had I been older when my father died, I might have been among them. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“When is the last time,” one of the older boys says, “you saw someone throw five Eiffel Towers into the sea?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Word would get around that Block such and such had partitions now, and Mama and my older sisters would walk halfway across the camp to use them. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was really spooky,” I said, “because she looked exactly the same. Maybe her face was slightly older. But otherwise, there was no real difference. Same clothes even. That smart grey suit.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older, more powerful ones are membranous, packed with layers of different meaning, like one-word poems. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kurt was a few years older than I and was drafted. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“You’re my older brother. You have absolutely no ideas for me?” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Lyddie turned to see a girl not much older than herself, but, like all the others, whiter of complexion. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Of course Mrs. Weidenbach knew we were right behind her, crabbing her act with an older settler than her daddy. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

During my first week of living with my family, I heard about an opportunity for older, uneducated kids to attend school. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. We should call the border patrol. I bet they know what to do,” Pita said, sounding older than her ten years. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The passenger door opened and an older lady got out. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

One of the older archers stepped forward with her bow drawn. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The only thing worse than protective parents is protective older brothers. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The older one raised her head and tilted it in my direction, though she didn’t meet my eye. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

By the age of eleven, Walter could run a plow as well as any of his older siblings. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The older I got, the more I realized she’d never really been all there to begin with. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I feel as if the older I get, the more I am losing her. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Some of the older folks smiled, waving as we hit a chuck hole and bounced. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was my mentor in every respect....He exerted more influence over me than any person, parent, teacher, or anyone else of the older generation.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I already knew that you were old, but now I realize that you’re a lot older than you look.’ One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Somewhere down the road, when they were older and less passionate, when their desire for one another had staled and worn out—then where would they be? Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Now that we’re older, though, and I’m going to school and have friends of my own that I hang out with, we never do that anymore. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Before Amanda and I stopped being peripheral semi-friends, I remember sleeping over at her house and talking to her older brothers. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

"Oh, Knit Wit, it's right over there. In the middle of the block," the older woman said. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

She really is the best friend ever, even if—or especially because—she’s willing to blackmail my older brother to save my butt. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Those of us who were there that night took this to heart, because none of the rest of us had older brothers. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We passed a football practice for kids who couldn’t have been older than ten. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He could not have been any older than sixteen, yet he was even taller than his father, almost seven feet of legs and shins and elbows, a gangling, gawky boy with a cowlick. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As he got older, his great love was hunting and shooting. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was only six years older than I was. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coach Turner and Big Dub had agreed to let this years graduates participate, but no one older. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

At first, the older guys laughed and wouldn’t let me in unless I could hit from half-court... The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Then they simply overpowered the older boys in the last mile to pull away and win by a convincing length and a half. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When he was a little older, he would actually make recordings of himself and sometimes of us, the machine being small enough that he could hide it easily. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was older than Dad, and they were much alike and devoted to each other. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Because Hugo and I didn’t want to send him away to school, we found a tutor for him when he was older. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I turn to face the older man speaking in a soft voice behind me. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Since the day we were born, twins like Jacob and Esau, the younger had ruled the older. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hence one has to suspect that the charcoal samples dated from the oldest human occupation levels consist of post-Clovis charcoal infiltrated with older carbon. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s about a girl and her older sister who get to leave school and go to the hotdog store for lunch. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

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

The older boy was headed for college in the autumn. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such was the skill of the Chinchorro at preserving human flesh that scientists have been able to extract intact DNA from cadavers thousands of years older than the Egyptian pyramids. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

"My older sister, the goddess of death. She and Nergal rule Kurnugi, the netherworld." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Was it true, Lourdes wonders, that the older you get the less you can savor and that sweetness is the last taste left on the tongue? Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nok, on the other hand, had just grown into an older version of the sharp-eyed girl who Pong remembered visiting Namwon from time to time. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

We arrived at the Cottages expecting a version of Hailsham for older students, and I suppose that was the way we continued to see them for some time. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two older children discovered Mudgett’s fear and one day captured him and dragged him “struggling and shrieking” into the doctor’s office. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“You was a proper little acrobat, too, love,” said the older shadow, “now I think back.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The night he had stopped by her father’s party and spotted her in the shadows with one of her father’s younger, but still way older than her, staff members. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The grandmother explained quietly without her having to ask that it was the room of Chadwell, Courtney’s older brother, a pilot who had one day crashed into the steaming jungles of Vietnam. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

He looked like someone’s son, an older brother. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

So she just smiled as the older woman spoke, and tried not to miss her daddy. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

There are a dozen of us in the room, with our hopeful, almost-new Bristol drawing boards and our black- tipped fingers; two older women, pight young men, another girl my own age, and me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

Three guys and two girls, older than me. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

So, despite my mother having a total meltdown over her inability to give her older sister a “proper funeral,” Lucy was cremated. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“They had a couple of other foster kids who they had adopted, and they had an older daughter and a, um, a baby, later.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And now I saw the youth members and some older men move around to the back of the crowd, and up to meet the advancing group. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Her older sisters were wearing their hair alike. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

So, after several years on wait lists for a newborn baby, the Sokoloffs declared themselves open to taking an older child. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Nick had heard his older brother, James, groan and grumble about this rule for years, right up until he graduated from high school two years ago. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elmar Frey was no older than she was, and short for his age besides. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Thomas almost laughed as Newt turned to an older boy standing nearby, whose face had turned bright red. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She was safe at the farm with my younger brother and sister, while my older siblings were scattered over Poland. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He was six inches taller than her and at least three years older. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

His dad is older and balding, but he has the same sharp bone structure and perfectly symmetrical face that make Daniel so attractive. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

No, there’s no blood in it Well, my older son gave him a Tic Tac. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The junior varsity race was, for the suddenly demoted older boys from Washington, all about making a point. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When you get older and taller, everything else gets smaller. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

But the games were for older boys and men; Idwar and Robin were too young to join in. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

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

In no time, an older colored lady came out and looking none too happy either. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For one thing, he was older than anyone Pong had ever seen—even his ears were wrinkled. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Nana was playing show tunes on a weathered piano while a pair of older men—one a gravelly baritone and the other a timeless tenor—sang along. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Many times, to let her mind escape the worries that filled her head until it hurt, she had gone outside with an older girl who liked rocks a lot. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He, Boom Box, and the older kid with the fuzzy white Kangol cap stepped to the left, then slid-hopped and stepped to the right. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I watched in silence as an older soldier walked by and started to untie him, stopping only when the teenager who had given Otto the beer complained loudly. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ma’am sounded to me like an older woman with a proper purse, good posture, and sensible shoes who was maybe sitting somewhere nearby. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Cars cruised through the garbage and broken glass, older guys showing off their Friday night girls. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh yeah,” I heard him say, even though I couldn’t find him with my flashlight, “Janet, the older one, she loves cereal. She’d eat it three meals a day if we let her.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Another voice, an older voice, spoke from the back of the room. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

In fact, she was never left alone, the older woman even milling about in the hallway outside the bathroom when she went in. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Wondering who it was that had been killed, and why his death had aroused so much anger and grief, I began asking questions of some of the older boys at school. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though he continued to speak Greek to his parents, Milton never succeeded in writing it, and as he got older he began to forget what even the simplest words meant. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was an older woman with a nose ring, like my mother’s. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

True enough, there were boys no older than he drilling there, but his crippled hand made it impossible for him to pull a trigger. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my older brother was on television, and so far, it has been the highlight of my two weeks in high school. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

His ailments, his frustration, and the mounting intensity of the work taxed his spirits and caused him to feel older than his age. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They were both, technically, about seventy years older than he was. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A lot of the young fellows, not too much older than me, wear the most amazing billowing suits. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Infants, children, older adults, and people with health conditions are more easily affected by Carbon Monoxide and their symptoms are more severe. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Nonsense. The earth is as old as we are, no older. How could it be older? Nothing exists except through human consciousness.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Readers accustomed to uncalibrated dates will need to bear this distinction in mind whenever they find me quoting apparently erroneous dates that are older than the ones with which they are familiar. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t bring myself to tell him the truth: that because of an old man’s story I suspected the Amyr might have roots much older than the Aturan Empire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t know where to find my older brothers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older people around, like my mother, had two children, and the younger, more prosperous ones had four, but nobody but Dodo was on the verge of a seventh. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

When I was a kid, I asked about him a lot, but the older I got, the less point there seemed to be. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The older man didn't sing but simply closed his eyes and sat back in his chair. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

Near the open doorway, the two older daughters stood pounding manioc in the tall wooden mortar. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobo was three years older than Perry, and she adored him; he was her only toy, a doll she scrubbed and combed and kissed and sometimes spanked. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Am I waiting until I become a little older? Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young lawyer was on civil, if not close, terms with Durham’s older black leaders, but he labored under no illusions about their willingness to take bold action. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was no railing, and I wondered how Mr. Ray would be able to keep coming down here, to this secret lair, when he was older, especially since he was already limping. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But as I grew older, I noticed how her voice would quiver and she'd turn away, so I stopped asking. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Hazel was easily fifty, if not older, and a more regular part of the Deuce than the cheap beer and watered-down metal bands that toured through. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He had a baby face, but I could tell he was way older than he looked by the creases in his forehead. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Cook,” Ophie said, taking two more shortbread cookies and slipping them into the pocket of her apron when the older woman wasn’t paying attention. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

As the baby grew older, she cast an envying look at pink. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

A crowd of older men stood in front of the Garden, arguing about the fight. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caleb is not quite a year older than I am, so we are in the same year at school. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He was a year older than I, skinny, brown as a chocolate bar, his hair orange, his hazel eyes full of mischief and laughter. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The older children turned in their papers within ten minutes. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

To one of the older women he says, “We do not want pretty. The bowdy is not pretty like a flower. Draw what is there.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The older men were placing freshly cut oak tree branches with dark green leaves on the roof and the side walls. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

And I thought for just a minute there that I had a boyfriend, I would start high school with a boyfriend, older and stronger and ready to watch out for me. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Faces looked years older than when we had arrived ten months before. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

As I grew older, I learned to delay my obedience, but each moment cost me dear—in breathlessness, nausea, dizziness, and other complaints. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was like martial law had been declared: The smaller kids couldn’t go anywhere without an escort, the older ones traveled in pairs, and Miss Peregrine had to know where everyone was at all times. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Yawar gestured behind him, and two of the older boys ceremoniously brought forward a large bowl, carrying it between them, and set it down. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She was either Angela’s much older sister or her young mother. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The guards looked at each other, and the older one said gruffly, “Go on. You’re late as it is.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to be a forester when I'm older.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t look that much older than Lily. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then strong arms were tugging at her, pulling her off the older woman, hauling her back. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Her older brother Rufus, with whom she went to live as a child, was a teacher and a man of learning. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He and Lorena’s mom are the most mismatched couple in the world, because he’s fifteen years younger than she is, making him only ten years older than Lorena. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

His eyes were wide and terrified as the crazily rolling beam of light struck his face; the handcuffs slid back and forth on his wrists as he reached back for his older brother. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

In the center of the road stood an older guy with a pack and a curiously bewildered look, as if he had just woken from a trance and found himself unaccountably in this place. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

No stranger to violence, he lost his father and two older brothers at Srebrenica. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is from an older injury—” “I get it, okay? I get it.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He’s clearly never had an older brother figure in his life. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

After having demanded, and received, the concession that the race be held in the spring, Riddle grumbled that his horse would really do better against an older horse in the fall. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told herself that there were powers stronger than hatred, and spells older and truer than any the maegi had learned in Asshai. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A good-natured, shaved-headed, bullnecked older black man named Kirkley taught a class called Use of Force, in which we learned when it was okay to lay our hands on somebody. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only when I tried to teach math, while Anatole was working with the older students, did they raise pandemonium. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

This chapter will offer music suggestions to inspire older children, including cultural games, songs, and dances. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

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

Men, women, people not much older than me, writhed along with the goofy music. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It had been a victory for him; he had outsmarted all of them—his parents, his older brothers, everyone who worked to keep him away from beer and out of trouble. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were a year older than us but acted like they were five. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

She was older than Arya, though; almost sixteen, a woman grown. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Over 11th now, right past the spot where a bunch of the older boys hung out. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

When I turned into a teenager, I got older and bolder, and I’d argue with Dad about it, but he was stubborn as a stump. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

It’s a trio of kids our age, or maybe a year or two older. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

My older brother Tsalig helped me create ice skates from all kinds of unlikely materials, metal remnants retrieved from our grandfather the blacksmith and bits of wood from the firewood pile. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

My mother and older sister Annie would be busy in the kitchen preparing the food, sending out all the delicious smells riding on the breeze. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The four of us meet up with some older kids I’ve never met. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Now that Baba is getting more gray in his hair, he’s starting to resemble his older brother more than he used to. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Besides, getting older didn’t seem like anything to celebrate since I’d gotten the big prophecy about me destroying or saving the world when I turned sixteen. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

When Lucas Cader was twelve years old, he had an older brother who died in a car accident. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I look at her closely and realize that she’s not a girl but a grown woman, perhaps a few years older than me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The older Vaughan siblings were adjusting to the changes that had expanded their lives in some ways and contracted them in others. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

His expression, as well as his words, seemed to belong to a much older man, a man whose hot blood had cooled, who was at peace. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

During the summer of 1848, at the age of sixteen, James went to work on his older cousin's boat on the canal that connected Cleveland and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“All people have a place,” my third-grade teacher said firmly when I drew a pretend older brother in the “My Family” picture to be put out in the hallway for open house. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Funny to think you were young once, isn’t it? I suppose you seem older because of your brains. People say figures just run out of your ears. But I don’t see any.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore no makeup, and while Ophie had thought she was around her mama’s age, she could see now that Clara wasn’t all that much older than she was, maybe nineteen or twenty. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Only a month before, my ancient half-sister, who was twelve years older than me, had actually had appendicitis, and for several days before her operation I was able to observe her behaviour at close quarters. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was not wearing makeup, and she looked older and less attractive than usual. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

At most, they might have stayed in custody until age twenty-five or older, if their institutional history or juvenile detention record suggested that they were still a threat to public safety. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As she grew older, Ammu learned to live with this cold, calculating cruelty. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carol lives in one of the older houses on the other side of the abandoned orchard, closer to the school, a yellow brick house with two stories and green-painted shutters framing the windows. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

I’d misjudged her because of her small size, but even so, she couldn’t be much older than her early twenties, hardly what I had expected to find. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I turn in the other direction, and an older woman catches my gaze and holds it. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The school friend says, “He was an older guy, a musician or something. He was into drugs. We didn’t sec Megan much after they got together.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The President looks at least twenty years older than the pictures you and I used to study together in the early days of the war. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The network of older women helped her settle quickly in her new town. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“I know how hard it can be to relate to older movies. I was hoping it would give them something to latch on to as they acted out their parts.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Close up, he saw that Stan Shunpike was only a few years older than he was, eighteen or nineteen at most, with large, protruding ears and quite a few pimples. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

In the dining halls the older gentlemen, who had spoiled their palates with drinking, were relishing those strange delicacies of the Middle Ages—the strong flavours of whale and porpoise. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

An older black woman sat on the marble steps in the massive courthouse hallway. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Our visitor was an older woman with a shapeless figure and unadorned clothes, but as she stopped to greet each of us, she had some small pleasant thing to say. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He noted who was there in the gallery—particularly the three older white ladies who always sat together. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“We grow up and older. We need to respect how things change and adjust.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

With her brown curls strewn wildly about her face, instead of tightly up in a bun the way they’d been all week, Mrs. Asher somehow looked a decade older. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The older nurse studied Stick's forehead, then looked back at me. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

"When last I saw Renly, he was a boy no older than Bran. I do not know him. Send someone else. My place is here with my father, for whatever time he has left." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Mom says she felt relieved to get older, even though she loved Peachy. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

One of the older Yellows, a girl named Kylie, came pounding on Clancy’s door. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

On June 12, six days before the race, Ulbrickson put both boats head-to- head on the river again, and the sophomores fell apart as soon as they saw the older boys. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When Shin was born, his older brother was away in primary school for ten hours a day. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Ashley, one of the older girls in my cabin, shoved the door open the rest of the way with her shoulder. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Jon drove him backward, attacking with every blow, keeping the older boy on the heels. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” he said, “stand over there,” motioning us to a semidark corner, where a group of older boys was already assembled. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting in the backseat, I wanted to exchange vital contact information with this older and intriguing girl named Mai. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“It’s very normal, and everything will regulate as you get older.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

My older brothers came home from college and admonished me, beating me from one end of the house to the other. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perry was twenty-odd years older and a hundred pounds heavier, and yet his material situation had improved not at all. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside sat all the women of the older generation, even Grand-grand-grand Auntie, who was ninety-three. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

His auburn hair had grown shaggy and unkempt, and a reddish stubble covered his jaw, making him look older than his fifteen years. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking back to the tequila bar that always draws a crowd down there and the older kids who walk around. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It was a dilemma: you wanted to be a year older, you did not want The Treatment, and you couldn’t have one without the other. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

There was even a case with old video game consoles and smartphones that were years older than his. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I’ve mentioned that we are practically the same age—he’s three weeks older—and since the day I was born, our paths have crossed. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He showed me the older series in the first place. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Now she seemed older and much more serious and purposeful. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The older boy had also mentioned burned earth and a disease. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

One day, appraising himself with severity in the bathroom mirror, Lefty realized that he had become one of those older men who slicked their hair back in allegiance to an era no one could remember. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He had prowled for garbage in the alleys behind the houses, but the older children had already been there. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to marry that older man for a lot of reasons. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them had been married, far older, fathers to children in secondary school. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her father was absent; her older half brother sometimes had to hunt squirrels for the family to eat. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The older boy responded by hitting the man in the head with a bat. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Laura never would have dreamed that she was a year older than I was. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked like the woman who had inhabited the wooden hut, but older, so much older. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Margaret's handwriting was the smooth, round style used by the older generation of schoolteachers, which is exactly what Margaret was before she became an elementary school principal, which is what she was before she retired. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under such circumstances I would ordinarily feel justified in having one of the older hens for dinner—but how could I clean it? Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

One of the older readers, returning from the washroom, paused by Francie’s desk. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Cambodian culture, New Year’s always falls in April, which means that all the children born before New Year’s become a year older. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, I pull into a gas station, and the boy there—who can’t be much older than me—tells me there are some lakes up north a ways off US 150. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“So I guess that older boy was his mean big brother.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Windy has an older sister named Cherish, who isn’t home. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was his mother and his father, his grandfather, and his older brother. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

She pressed her fingertips to her temples and waved toward Virgil’s older brothers, who were tall and lean and muscled, even then. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when you were older, you became someone younger. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

But he also knew what it felt like to have to listen to the older ones, Ariik and Ring. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re the older one. I thought that was your job,” I said. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Some years ago Nelson’s entire family, including both parents, numerous older brothers, and a spanking newborn baby sister, drowned all together on a trip upriver when their boat overturned. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older girl was howling now, clutching her wounded foot. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The houses were not as spectacular as those that lined River Street, but many of them were older and more tastefully understated. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Who are you on your way to see?” the older woman asks. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The defeats at the hands of the older boys had shaken his and the other boys’ self-confidence. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The other Amazons made way for her, treating her with such respect that Hazel wondered if she was Hylla’s mother—until she noticed how Hylla and the older woman stared daggers at each other. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

One of his older foster brothers had actually gotten a tattoo that said “I’m Fine” across his shoulder blades. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Hans, five years older and with little patience for deep discussions, is already asleep—or pretending to be. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

This was because of the grim fact that the older young salmon had been killed off by the spraying in 1954. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

"We grew up together. I'm older than Richie, but this is a small neighborhood, and I've put in my time at the Rail. . . ." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The dead boy was a bit older than I was. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Any of you younger siblings who are hoping to forge a better connection with your older brother or sister, here's all that's required of you: don't sell them out to Mom and Dad. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She has little Fifi by the hand, who I guess was crying because she wanted to be outside with her three older sisters. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The older boys turned in an impressive 15:53, a full 8 seconds faster than the sophomores. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She was a few years older than me, always talking about having a family, living in a house in the country, like her aunt's place in Michigan. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood there for some seconds, marveling at the older boys’ beautiful sense of fashion. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

George went to another home owned by an older woman and did the same thing. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

My older brother looked embarrassed, and my younger one shy, as I clung to them. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to re­quire a train to explore it, though it seemed to get smaller as I grew older, train included. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She shakes hands, first with the older man and then the woman. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weird thing I keep thinking about, what if something happens when I get older and I turn out to be another accident of nature? Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I took my place halfway between the younger and the older ones, who scowled at us and jammed the line forward with rough shoves. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was nothing special, a riding mower like some of our neighbors had, except older and broken. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Past the resentful older houses tinged green with envy, cowering in their private driveways among their private rubber trees. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Michael, ten years older than me, was tall, almost a mini Dad. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Those boys were older and bigger than he was, and anyway, he wanted to play with the boys he’d become close to over the past two years. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

At first he assumes she is older than he is, closer to thirty than twenty. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Amelia sighed, reminding Lyddie that she was proving a harder case than the older girl had bargained for. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Nok's older brother and her sisters also shared those traits, but they looked like their mother, too: slim as herons, with long limbs and graceful fingers. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

While the younger man examined the gap between the door and the frame, the older man said, pointing next door: “Any idea who lives there, miss?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She put on her sad puppy-dog face and flashed two dimples at her older sister. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

"True," Tyrion agreed, "yet you still hold his daugh-ters, don't you? I saw the older girl out in the yard with Joffrey." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When I was two, I started calling her "Starry" instead of "Didi," which is what most Bengali girls call an older sister. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

From 1991 to 2001, the homicide rate among young black men—who were disproportionately represented among crack dealers—fell 48 percent, compared to 30 percent for older black men and older white men. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Finally this older black dude with goggles put his shoes back on and said: “All right, all right, one more and that’s it.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

My older sister never spoke to me about her complexion when she was a girl. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

An older man sits by the fire, his jaw covered with stubble, scabs, or both. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

His older brother, Ernie, was luring the mutt to a cleaner spot in the yard with a big pot of leftover chicken, bacon, grits, greens, and whatever else was for doggy breakfast. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The older girl dashed back to the cabin to shuck off her shift and quickly pull on her day clothes. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In a moment his older son Paul came out, closing the door carefully behind him. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

She was just eighteen, two years older than me, and by far the most popular of all the young girls in Louisville. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I opened my eyes to see an older boy. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I think of what Tobias told me when we spent the night with the factionless, about the older Dauntless leaving the faction because they were no longer physically capable of staying in it. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

After the older girls leave, the group huddles together in the middle of the room, facing the walls. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are invited by Colin’s older brother, who is a freshman at the university where Gogol’s father teaches. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She’s examining a gold pocket watch that looks like it’s even older than her rotary phone. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

“The kids at my old school thought it was funny, too. I wasn’t exactly, um, popular there. But I thought maybe now we’re older...” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She was older than Wes, already twenty-three when they met, but a relationship developed. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“She wants to see it,” the older man says, sticking my money in his pocket. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

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

“They said it was because my older brother joined the military police,” Gunwoo choked out. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

And then as I get into the middle, my eyes scanning faces looking for Will Graysony ones, I see two older faces staring back at me on the aisle. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

She is ten years younger than my mother but looks older, especially now as her face turns long and prudish. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I meant nothing to offend you, Matthew,” said the older man. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The child’s mother was thirty or older at the time of her first child’s birth. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

If he were older and stronger, would he have given water to those men? A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face was so creased with worry, he looked at least a decade older. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Like his older son, he needed a wife to make the new house a home, and like his son he found just what he was looking for in the other LaFollette twin. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

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

One of them, a very short older man with the squarest, broadest face of orange-brown I’d ever seen, said something to them and they all began leaving. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure. He’s fifty-one years old. He’s five years older than my mother. I was a late baby.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Soon Jinjoo heard the soft breathing of her older sister too. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He looked older now, and kind of feral. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

This process correlates with the age of a person: the older we are, the shorter our telomeres, and the fewer times our cells have left to divide before they die. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Dr. Webb says that when someone young dies, it makes older people feel guilty for living. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Then it’s an older white guy attacking “this wicked city” for its heretically inadequate contribution of souls to the revival—which costs money, you know, this tent didn’t just put itself up. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother had always lived in an invalids shadow land, Briony had always required mothering from her older sister, and Leon had always floated free, and she had always loved him for it. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Because Ginny was a white girl, and Armpit was older and an African American, she had just assumed he worked for her family. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I thought my older sister might be mad at me, but her expression was one of concern, not anger. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Two men arrived shortly after the school bus had brought the older kids home. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She was at Carrie’s cabin watching Jude and two other older babies someone had left with her. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The little ones got rambunctious while the older ones moped, complaining about the new rules in voices just loud enough to be overheard. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The police have their hands full trying to track down the many girls of fifteen, sixteen, seventeen and older who are reported missing every day. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She points to an older woman in the front. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The second woman is older, perhaps sixty or seventy. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So your mother is eight years older than me.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He called her “Mis’ Creighton” sometimes as his older brothers did when they teased her; it was just a step from the too-bold joke of addressing her by her given name. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older one was as big as a bear but kind of soft-looking and spongy. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

In the year that Chip had been away at college, Glenn had started to sound a lot like his older brother. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Years later Fitzsimmons would argue that the intense campaign through which he and his assistants put Seabiscuit gave the horse the seasoning that enabled him to race for so long as an older horse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

My goal to come off bored and older slipped right out from under me. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emma said, actually throwing her arms around the older girl’s waist as though she were a friend, not a total stranger. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I think it’s because I have three older sisters, and so I’ve grown up quick. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the midst of the bustle, Charles studied his barnacles, and the older girls, Annie and Etty, had their lessons together. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night, a few minutes before lights out, an older prisoner named Moshe, who had been in four different camps in three years, stopped by Jack’s bunk to visit, as he often did. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

He still looked like my brother, but there was something in his face now that made him look a little older. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

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

“It’s not a policeman,” answered the older boy. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When the too-small princess grew older, she passed most of her days and nights hardly ever leaving her tiny bed. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

There was the man, and the older girl who’d brought the blanket, who I saw was wearing an eye patch and had an angry red slash down her cheek. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The littlest children and some of the older women rode in the open wagons, but everyone else walked. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some day, when I am older, I will have a child by you. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d begun to think she existed only in my head, but here she is, a little older. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read somewhere that as you get older, your brain speeds up. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the fact that they were both three years older than Ji-yong and all three of them attended different schools, the three boys were close friends. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had the same hair and eyes, but looked older and sterner. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

There were too many of us for adults to take care of, so the adults put some of the older boys like me in charge of the younger ones. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, all the nurses probably look like older, even better- developed versions of Renee Albert. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

His characteristic Cealdish dark hair and eyes made him seem older than Simmon and me, but he still had the slightly awkward look of a boy who wasn’t quite used to being man-sized yet. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Something in me worried about Nofaleyyah, because she was like an older person in the body of a little girl. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He was seventy-two last month, but Jean Louise always thought of him as hovering somewhere in his middle fifties—she could not remember him being any younger, and he seemed to grow no older. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I took a deep breath, said: “America wasn’t even the first country, Rondo. Most countries are way older than us.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Because I could read Arabic, I was placed in a class with older children. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The twins were only a little over a year older than I was. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

When most of the kids had toweled off and redressed, we sat on blankets and the older kids passed around bottles of Boone’s Farm, Wild Turkey, and Colt 45. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Hugo had seen men and women locked up in there, and a few times he had even seen boys no older than himself in the cell, their eyes red from crying. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Some of the older kids were getting ready to swim, and I wished I could join them. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Her excuse was always that my early body development made me look older than the rest of the class. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

If he left it behind, some of his older cousins would grab it and stay in the lobby—at least until they wore it out or wrecked it—and the younger relatives would stay too. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Children who brought home poor grades were made to study during the afternoon, and were tutored by the older ones and Mother and Dad. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without his uniform he looks smaller, older, like something being dried. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Persian parties we’d stand together in the corner, watching all the older Persian men play, laughing at the arguments that inevitably ensued even if we couldn’t understand a word that was said. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

But there would not be much joy in returning from a space voyage a few years older to find that everyone you had left behind was dead and gone thousands of years ago. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Wright is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Wright, long time residents of Bethel Park, and an older sister, Mia Wright, who graduated from the district in 1980. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He’s bald just like Daddy, but older, taller, bigger. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Dazed and alone, Dunstan walked through the market, feeling a great deal older than his eighteen years. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I tried this repeatedly and then noticed that the older sister was smiling at me and looking knowingly at the younger sister as if to say, “I told you so.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our neighbors had all gone here; our older brothers and sisters. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He didn’t understand that his own brothers—older, bigger, stronger, smarter—were rivals for Lula’s affection. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Their older brothers and sisters, those who were eleven to fifteen, carried water out to everyone else who worked in the fields. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

All we have to be is eighteen or older, bondable, possessing a car and a home phone and having one year of Minnesota residency. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Products of Berlin’s Viking Rowing Club, where they rowed as the Glider crew, they seemed, on average, to be a bit older than the Washington boys. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

My older sister had a boyfriend who was African American. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

A few older girls drifted over to watch the fun. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then he wandered off into an even older memory. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she would have tried to protect me from the older man who wanted to marry me. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was so much older, and more in command. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I went down to the bar, wearing my blue sports jacket, which I thought made me look older. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Vega had a older sister, who was at Brooklyn College. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

F. C. Donders learned early in his life to pay attention; he had eight older sisters. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Dressed like a gentleman, with a face of older years, he wore a hood attached to a flowing cape that hung down behind his legs. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“He didn’t take it because it’s older than dirt,” Delia said. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Many of the older children were in summer school until around noon, making the mornings especially boring. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Out of town,” said the older officer, coming out of the house. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I needed to look older and less like prey. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I have an older sister,” I say, still not looking him in the eye. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The younger boys were adolescents following fast in the path of their older siblings. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

This time my father said it louder and got real close to the guy—the dude was just a teenager, but when you’re seven, teens seem way older and much bigger. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In fact, more and more Joe could count on the pair of them to come to his side when the older boys teased him. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Jack has an older brother in high school, and they look alike except that John’s taller, stockier, and more jocklike. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Instead, I spent my time flying older planes which were being modified in various ways. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two or three of the older men took the trouble to teach me the right way to use a pick, the correct way to shovel. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The older Syrian couple we saw earlier approach Baba and Dayah. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

My father, brother, and I waited about a year before we reunited with my mother, my two older brothers, and my new baby sister. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

"I see a fat brown man and an older man with a staff. Which is it?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His older half brother, Tony, spent most of his time with his maternal grandparents or with his father in the Murphy Homes Projects in West Baltimore. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

And after thinking about even hitting on an older girl, a woman, the nerves really started to take over. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Because she's two years older than me, she falls into that trap of thinking all little kids want to stare at something like fat ducks. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

When she was older, Sam made a perch for her and placed it outside his tree. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

An older man stood behind a wooden counter. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, when I got older and wasn’t that afraid of him anymore, the questions I used to have about him didn’t seem to matter as much to me. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Here he was interested in taking a walk with someone other than me, someone who was female, an older woman, someone who had shown a lot of interest in him. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone had her favorite; the older widows asked for the poems about the sadness of life and the younger ones for the poems about love. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were all older than Aunt Chipo and so they would be jealous of her. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said this in what I thought of at the time as my older voice, a little businesslike and experienced. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

His older brothers were rough and ran wild, and he had a sister known as a strong, swift runner. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“You’re a lot older than they are. Too old to upset them like this.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

David was smart and gentle, a tall, good-looking guy who was two years older than I was. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Did you ask an older student to put it into the Goblet of Fire for you?” said Professor Dumbledore, ignoring Snape. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I was flattered that she wanted to speak to me, because of all the older girls I admired her most. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe there were magic powers hiding in the way your older brother made all the worst thugs in the neighborhood play basketball with you even though you double-dribbled every time they threw you the ball. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath your world of skies and faces and buildings exists a rawer and older world, a place where surface planes disintegrate and sounds ribbon in shoals through the air. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Near him stood a group of older Lakota men who wore dark scowls on their faces. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

At the end of the hunt, one of the older men shouted, pointing at us, “We are going to feast tonight, and the strangers are welcome to stay.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The older trees, which had been cut down a year or two before, were well dried out, and when Brian rolled and skidded them down to the lake he found that they floated well. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

At least last year my older brother was on the bus with me. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The twins waited in the water a few feet from the dead man, caught between their older sisters’ argument. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

An older female whom she called Donkeyberry, because of the creature’s fondness for the fruit, sat surrounded by a respectful gathering of younger females and babies. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I was old enough, I went with the older boys to protect the cattle as they grazed on the thick grasses around our village. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to have to take all of you to the police station,” the older policeman said, reaching over to grab Jinjoo’s arm. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Most of the adults and older children who fell ill recovered at least enough to work again, although they might continue to suffer off and on for years. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older grades have gathered on this side of the gym for picture day and the door’s loud squeak has made everyone turn in our direction to stare. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“I thought the scoreboard was older than that. This was twenty years ago.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Light Hair was only a few years older than you when this happened,” Grandpa Nyles said to Jimmy. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

She was older, back bent with age, her face partly obscured by the hood of a Emma erupted at him. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Javi unloaded about the clubs his older sister had gotten him into back home in Miami. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The older man at the dormitory leered at her—there was always a licentious implication when a girl visited the men’s housing—and informed her that Caesar was still at the factory. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The younger ones admired the older boys who strutted about so tough, and they jostled with their playmates for a chance to run errands for the gangs of young men they looked up to. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

RON: He hasn’t run away—he’s having a quiet moment—he’s got himself an older girlfriend — HARRY: An older girlfriend? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

She didn't know what it felt like to be broken until she was older. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

He was older, and big for his age, with a broad chest and strong-looking arms. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Another family went over to comfort her—a father, mother, two older girls, and two younger boys. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I used to go — when I was little, I liked to pick flowers and peek — but I’m older now — my friends have sweethearts. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

It made her feel she could be driven from her home again someday, when she was older. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She was my age, perhaps a year older, but a year makes a great deal of difference at that time of life. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Didn’t she realize that I was by now a hundred years older than anyone there, including Miss Hazel? Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will not speak for high school, having neither firsthand experience nor an older sibling to shed wisdom on the subject. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

I nodded, thinking about what Fiona had said as we passed an older couple out for a walk. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I’d be the ideal girl for him if I were a few years older. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My older brother, Nation, managed to get one somehow, and we hung it on our wall at home, using bubble gum as tape. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your heart. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The babies swirled taller and became older as time spun ahead. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

My cousin Valeria, who is only a few years older than I am, has three kids now, and they all look like eaglets. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

As dusk settled, other, older cubs would begin to appear. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

Then, at the first clang of the cleanup men in the distance, one of the older rats would sound a warning, and everyone would pick up as much food as he could to carry home. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“At the meeting. He’s older. All the men are at the meeting. But my mother didn’t go. The mothers don’t always go. She’s in the grain room, packing grain.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Your house stinks like a lice farm,” the older of the strange girls said. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

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

There were two soldier boys in green uniforms who didn’t look any older than Uncle Darnell—high school cap and gown one day, army boots and basic training four days later. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bailey played mumbledypeg with the older boys around the chinaberry tree, and Momma and Uncle Willie listened to the farmers’ latest news of the country. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

There was also a girl who looked no older than eight, whose clouds of silvery hair made Harry feel sure that she was Fleur Delacour’s sister. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He spent most of his time on the streets, where police stopped him for violations including trespassing, stealing a bike, and property crimes committed with his older brother and other older teens. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Morrie is older than most of the teachers, and I am younger than most of the students, having left high school a year early. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Downstairs the front doors slammed, and my older brother, Tidings, who had been painting the fence by the front parking lot, yelled, “Attention, all personnel! Where are the big umbrellas! I need rain cover!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t understand why he was trusting me, but then he told me his own stories and I remembered: Shawn had been his older brother, too. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He seemed much, much older than he was. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Brandon was a year older than everybody, because he stayed back a year. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

"When I was a child no older than two, a strange man stabbed me with a knife. I survived, but I still have this scar." Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Her older sister was called Shaina, which in Yiddish means "beautiful." The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He would move to a dwelling, have a set of parents and perhaps an older sibling. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Anyone knew they were one and the same: "Buckeye" when you were very young and hid yourself behind wide innocent eyes; "Brer," when you were older. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luz, older by twelve minutes, usually speaks for the two of them. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Making it look older than it really was. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was one much older brother who was a peripheral presence. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

For a moment he was afraid the older man would go for his sword. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Some of the older ones canted crazily, like crooked teeth, the names and dates eroded from decades of sun, wind, and snow. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

They looked to be the same age as each other—a little older than Anya herself—clearly twins. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

She was a little older now, a little wiser. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Like everyone else, she seemed older than when he’d seen her last. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Her older sister sat chewing her lip, a clear sign she was worrying again. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Because I was one of the older children in Yar’s “family,” it was my chore to go to the river and draw water for cooking, drinking, and washing. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sneaky got his nickname because he was always sneaking something when he was little, but now that he’s older, the nickname sticks because he’s also into sneakers, especially Jordans. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

He was an older, friendly man with a twisted little grin on his face. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Like some of the older trains in the city, this one was heavily decorated with graffiti. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Maybe the blame is right where it belongs,” an older man shot back from the other side of the room. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It comes from the fact that they didn’t get to do this with their older daughter. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Younger leaders met older leaders they had only read about. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aiyi is only five years older than my father, which makes her around seventy-seven. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I’m older, I sometimes wonder if Dad’s fervor had more to do with his own mother than with doctrine. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Michelle and her older sister were just starting at Guardian Angels that year. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

During the talk, I noticed an older black man in a wheelchair who had come in just before the program started. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Even though they told themselves that they trusted Minli and believed she would return, Ma spent most of her time looking out the window, lost in thought, while Ba grew older and grayer every day. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Still, my sisters were concerned, my older brothers angry. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they walked away escorted by border patrolmen, Lupita overheard an older woman complain. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Katie had held Francie back wishing both children to enter school together so that they could protect each other against the older children. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthew, Emily’s older brother, bobbed his lopsided Mohawk as he listened to music. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Elsbeth was a year older than me, so she was in the same class as him already. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He looks years older; he looks years younger. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He was two years older than I and had started school for the first time that year a month earlier, in October. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You certainly wouldn’t think of asking me, an older man; anyway, you know she adores you.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

An older Maiden stepped forward with an air of authority. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“Look, I’ve been playing basketball almost every day of my life for the past three years. I’ll be eighteen soon. He’s getting older. It’s time I started whipping him.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today three girls around her age, maybe a little bit older, get out. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Habiba, everything in here looks like it was made for older women,” I said to my friend, making moves to leave the store. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“We have to go. Good-bye, older sister,” said the tall boy to Joana before turning to walk down the beach with his friend. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It turned out he’d been convicted of the very disturbing and brutal murder of an older man. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He was short, a little older than the first man, and impeccably dressed. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The older girl refilled the shuttles when they ran low and rehung the temple hooks to keep the web tight. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I see an older man at the back of the truck—the father. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two kids, not much older than me, were carrying out batteries and car covers. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

So they ran as fast as they could to the house where a woman older than death lived, and they ignored the shivering nape hair and the softness in their knees. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy didn’t know how to be around her older sister anymore. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He was a pretty young guy, not much older than my brother D.B., and you could kid around with him without losing your respect for him. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I joined the older children in the back of the church just as the service began. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“You will learn differently as you get older.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He told me Farid was twenty-nine, though he had the wary, lined face of a man twenty years older. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“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

He looked about my age, which meant he couldn’t be one of my cousins, because they were all older than me. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

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

For a moment I got a funny feeling that I was the older sister and Lynn was just a little girl. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He looked slightly eerie, the half darkness making him look much older, giving him an almost skull-like appearance. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

As night falls, some of the older migrants drink whiskey. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They were both in graduate school, he, eleven years older. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

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

“What do you think our conversation would have been like had I brought you to the post-mortality galleries instead of these older ones?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

So whenever it looked as if anyone down the family line was about to skip, every older child would study frantically so that he could jump ahead, too. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

They learned to overlook the fact that his parents were divorced, that his father had remarried not once but twice, that his second wife was only ten years older than Moushumi. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And the beggars were mostly children now, thin and grim-faced, some no older than five or six. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Not just because Fredo was older, but because he betrayed Michael. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The younger woman was old enough to be his mother, and the older was likely her mother. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The man behind the desk looked like an older, much wearier version of Chris. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mudgett’s only close friend was an older child named Tom, who was killed in a fall while the boys were playing in an abandoned house. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She loved to play and was a good big sister and older cousin. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miig's hair was tucked up into a grey woolen toque, and with the wide grey scarf wrapped around his neck several times so that his entire mouth was obscured, he looked much older. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He was king because he was a lot older than anyone else and twice as strong as the rest of us. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nikki was older, so she was always the one looking after me, and it was my responsibility to look after Shani. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“But this is a tough school. It might be better if you come back when you’re older. Or transfer.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He seemed older than the rest of the kids he went to school with. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rolled my eyes and tried to appear older. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there was Jimmy, the older boy—Jimmy, who had one day driven his wife to suicide and killed himself the next. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

John Guiteau, who was seven years older than Charles, found his brother to be difficult and wanted nothing to do with him. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Do you have any brothers or sisters? I have three brothers. They’re all older than me.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then the babysitter arrived, an older woman named Mrs. Trapane, who got Jaime and Jason dressed and gave them their breakfasts while Nancy climbed back up to the cupola and returned to her books. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He flapped after the girls, looking ludicrously batlike, like his older self. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The older man was gruff, a hardened former soldier who rarely smiled. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

This gave him a harsher, older look—until he smiled, of course, and the sagging cheeks gathered up like curtains. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the older an elder was, the more careful you were. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Through the schoolhouse window, framed by two of the older cabins—their whitewash smeared to gray, worn down like those who slept inside them—Cora huddled with her favorite at the starting line. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Irene had helped her raise her older children and had been like a sister to her. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

I wanted to impress our audience, and the older girls who danced. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Though a ghost, will sadness make me older...and older? Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

The older one I clearly recognized, the other I didn’t. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Now that I’m older, I know she was just trying to have a few moments of peace. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The older woman appraised Dimple’s current outfit with pity. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

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

One was of a photo of Osner Young, and it hit Moss: Osner could not have been more than a few years older than himself. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

She looked my age, maybe a year older. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He was a tall, powerfully built youth of twenty, with a firm mouth and grave, dark eyes that gave him the appearance of an older man. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sports a goatee that I assume is meant to make his boyish face look older or tougher. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

When I was older, I wanted to be a cartographer, then a topographer. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Ziggy!” the older woman standing at the door yells after the dog. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

As Shin and his classmates grew older, their work details, called “rallies of endeavor,” grew longer and more difficult. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

A tall, athletic teenager with piercing eyes and raven-black hair, she was much older—and bolder—than most of the students, and had a reputation as the leader among Messengers. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

There are the older ones, who seem to have made their lives at sea. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The light in the microscope platform casts strange shadows on his face, making him look years older. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

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

He picks up my sketchbook and flips through to some of my older drawings. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But she felt as if she had suddenly gotten older in the last three days. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

With these long legs I’m taken for twelve or thirteen, even a litde older. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francie, pleased at being taken into the confidence of these older, more experienced workers, obligingly slowed down. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother’s enthusiasm for me is duller than for the .slave girl; nor did I replace the older brother and sister who died while they were still cuddly. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knows about Henry’s parentage, about his older siblings Philip and Beatrice, that he studied English literature at Oxford and plays classical piano. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Being five years older than he was and his cousin as well did nothing to dim her passion. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

"When I was no older than you, I heard a brother tell how he followed a shadowcat through these falls." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Patrice and Martin have been commandeered by their father to teach French and mathematics respectively, even though this puts Martin in charge of children older than himself. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older brother moved uncomfortably, as if to ease his position, but returned to the same one from which he had started. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It was only coming back that Frog got a good look at the faces beneath the spiked bronze caps and realized that most were no older than he. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was an older car, but we were ready for a trip. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is working on a thought about her bossy older sister: Carla has a tendency to lace all her compliments with calls to self-improvement. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I never told Shorty—and he never suspected—that he was about ten years older than I. He took us to be about the same age. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Growing up, she’d worked at a grocery store in West Baltimore owned by an older black couple, Herb and Puddin Johnson. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Half a century ago, something strange and horrible had happened there, something that the older inhabitants of the village still liked to discuss when topics for gossip were scarce. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I watch Mrs. Malloy and Mrs. Peck and take it all in, wondering if Suesetta and I will be like the two of them when we get older. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As the streets began to fill, though, an older boy walking in the opposite direction came quite close, looked right at her, and then peered over her shoulder to catch a glimpse of someone else. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m three years older than you, which is a lot now but won’t always be.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

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

It was a girl, no older than I was, wearing a set of dark green clothes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Riding in sports cars is for older mice,” one cousin said. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

She went with a slightly older crowd--when she went with anyone at all. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know that I can explain. You looked older suddenly, deceitful. It was rather unpleasant.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It occurred to him that he might be the same age as his older brother. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

You told me his older sister Melanie did the same thing. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

What would he make of Vincent, thirty-two but much older looking, gaunt, with broken, rotting, and missing teeth, his body dirty, his clothing ripped, a battered hat on his head? Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

That evening after practice, Grace came home to Willow Ridge to find Bien and his older brother, Alex, in the parking lot. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The older boys had taken it as a challenge. 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 much older than my mother, with a high shiny forehead and a large black mole on one nostril. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your older books are in the second bedroom. I need the space for my books.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And I saw Maxim’s grandmother when she was older too, a few years ago. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was only after he’d killed four Germans that Kabuo saw how right they were, how they had seen deeply into his heart with the clarity of older people. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

He was older than Chamberlain, but he was only a lieutenant. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sasha was two years older than Anya—still too young to be conscripted—and one of those fellow village children she didn’t play with. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The older boys first noticed the child when he resisted. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

They may have had US passports, but at least I was the only one with the cool older sister. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden, Addie gets all sympathetic, like she’s ten years older than me and engaged or something and I’m her pimply little brother. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby is smart, too, though not as academic as his older sister, a high school valedictorian and the rare Truman graduate to advance to an elite university. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

One was older, with a blue headscarf so faded it was practically gray. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Arraaayy, beta. Who is saying anything about marriage? We want you to finish your studies. But I was married when I was only a few years older than you.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Andrea Hull was a year older than I was and knew about everything sooner. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps most significantly, this great wave of 'rediscovered’ older music was being offered to the public just as modern music was embarking upon a journey towards greater difficulty, confrontation and experimentation. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I figured maybe it was because Mtisha was crowding in on my mind, or maybe just that me and Ice were getting older and being close was harder than before. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

As I grew older, Maa gave me peacocks and ducks to embroider. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The older man sighed his relief and tried again. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The paramedic riding in the back wasn’t much older than I was; a kid, really, with bad skin and a downy little moustache. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He still remembered one foster mother, an older woman who had smelled like cloyingly sweet powder, like someone had pulverized rose petals and sprinkled them on her clothes. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

As George got older, he needed more paper, for he wrote stories to go with his pictures. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the bed next to him he heard the soft, slow breathing of the older boy. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

This face was older, and floating above a soft cashmere sweater. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Both of Aurelia’s older brothers died before their father, one in battle, and one in mysterious circumstances, a fate that befell a number of heirs to the Caesars down the centuries. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Though he was six years older and had every reason to act vastly superior to me, his kid brother, he never did. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The older white man in command discouraged all conversation with his glowering. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

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

“I guess you just look older than you are.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The older ones are sitting on porches, gossiping, braiding each others hair, and looking at old copies of Essence magazine. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The upper rows were filled with several dozen ghosts and a few older veterans from the city, all in formal togas. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She said the older kids would take them to local stores or sell the papers themselves. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was hungry, so I grabbed two, and when I came back, Miss Winthrop was deep in conversation with an older woman I thought I recognized from church. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew this one was the youngest and her two older sisters had probably put her up to it. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

They’re older, and they have the hangdog look I associate with the folks who came up enslaved, who never knew a taste of freedom until it was too late for them to properly embrace it. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

When she lifted her eyes again, she focused on the pink-faced boy, because he did not look much older than her. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We grew older without ever speaking to each other about any of it. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My feet slowed the closer I came, watching as a few of the older boys threw more logs into the fire’s grasping fingers. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But the worst was the look on her mothers face when Nya's father and older brother, Dep, went off to hunt. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Hawkeys are an older couple who live a few yards from here in a cabin hidden by trees. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Like their reveal tradition—a surprise dinner they threw for Emily and her older brother, with clues indicating their next destination. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I hid in the back of the group, as I often did, trying to be inconspicuous, particularly since I had been pretending to be years older than I actually was. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The only kid he knew who’d had to become a father figure for his little brother and sister, when he was barely older than them himself. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

An older model white Nissan Maxima slowed and pulled up behind Travis’s pickup. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

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

The little boys were fetched by their older brothers. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mean-spirited and restless, I fight constantly with Chou, who is older and more timid than I, and she only fights back with words. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nixon’s older daughter, Tricia, was getting married that afternoon, and she had her heart set on an outdoor ceremony in the Rose Garden. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Now, now that I’m going through it myself, I understand her doubts; if I were older and he wanted to marry me, what would my answer be? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Klaus was a little older than twelve and wore glasses, which made him look intelligent. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

She longed to graduate and join her older brother, Hans, whom she adored, at the University of Munich, where she planned to study biology and philosophy. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The older children of the family would have been surprised and, according to their several natures, pleased or outraged by their father’s consideration of these two younger ones. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

A game between two older girls’ teams was winding up on a nearby field. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“The gods are worried about something I’ll do when I get older,” I guessed. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the summer, the older people of the neighborhood liked to sit on benches and scold the teenagers who cruised by on dirt bikes. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The place was packed because a popular konpa band had a ten o’clock show scheduled at the reception hall next door and some older couples in sequined dresses and tuxedos stopped in for dinner first. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Our old backgammon set came out from under a stack of board games, and a few of the older women began to count their worry beads. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Arsinoe, for one, might gladly unseat her older sister given half the chance. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

He looks much older than her mother’s photograph, the one that replaced her father’s face, the one Lourdes flung into the sea. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the older boys who had been following me since Christmas Eve. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I knew that older people died, and I knew that people could get sick and die, but not kids. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Little black babies clung to their mothers’ stomachs while older, brown ones rode on their mothers’ backs. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had always looked up to me as if I were considerably older. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she got older, Pearl would still cling to her mother’s leg, then her waist, then her hand, as if there were something in her mother she needed to absorb through the skin. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were pictures of his dad and his dad's older brother who died in Vietnam, and pictures of Park and Josh from every school year. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Derby told him he was forty-five, which was two years older than the colonel. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks even older than I remember her, and that makes me sad, and she has laugh lines and wrinkles around her eyes, which makes me happy too. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The older children were sweeping the yard and singing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Francie got used to it in time and as she grew older, she seldom noticed it any more. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She climbs the steps like a much older person, and I wait for her at the top. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Beans is just older than you. He knows more,” my father told him. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

He makes me go in case the doctor has questions because I’m older than Malachy and that means I must have started all the trouble. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

So my father came up with a compromise: The older girls would enter through a different gate. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The older man does not know how tough it is to be a Mexican immigrant in the United States now, tougher than any young man who ever left Huamuxtitlan would admit. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The boy was years older, a head taller, and much stronger, and he was pressing the attack. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

These are the types of boys back home, maybe a year older than I am, who make it their primary interest in life to torture or, if I’m lucky, murder me. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

On the second day the older monk carried in a cane chair for the use of Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, placing it near the altar area, bowing and gesturing for him to sit down. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white attorney knew how to deal with the older black male business elite. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

And a few of our older students would do well to remember that as well.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

UN schools were open to girls just as in Pinyudu, and now that we were older, we sometimes managed to attend. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older people always remarked, “He is old enough and responsible enough to find himself a good wife, but he likes to be alone, he likes that loose life.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When I was older, I came to recognize this as a Peking accent, which sounds quite strange to Taiyuan people’s ears. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lily is my older sister, in case you didn’t know, which you didn’t, because I’ve only just started the story. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Slightly above six feet two, Jefferson towered over both Madison and Hamilton, and at forty-seven he was sufficiently their senior to enjoy the kind of respect accorded an older brother. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

A turtle with a gash along his shell comforted a weeping older woman who was clutching a child’s doll. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

His father always told him to act like a man—to follow the example of his older brothers and, in turn, set a good example for Kuol. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were both older than Bran, even though his ninth name day had finally come and gone, but they never treated him like a child. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Standing in the doorway, with her hand on the shiny brass doorknob, was an older woman, smartly dressed, who was smiling at the children. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

As I got older, I guess he was waiting for me to turn over, and sit up, and walk. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The Earth Mother was older, more vicious, more bloodthirsty. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A few people file in—two Candor with guns; a dark-skinned, older Candor man; a Dauntless woman I don’t recognize. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

There are a lot of older folks, too. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

And O-lan said, “It is a year older than he says.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

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

With hands clasped over his heart, Tommy feigned a swoon; then, leaping like the Frog Prince, he went off to entertain his older fans behind the lunch counter. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

He’s almost ten years older than me, so we didn’t exactly run in the same circles. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom felt it was time that I knew who my father was, since I am getting older. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Two new companions joined Frightful, one an older peregrine falcon and the other a young tiercel. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

‘This, I’m not that much older than you.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The cashier wasn’t much older than I was, with blond, feath-ered hair. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Beside the new prisoners, the older prisoners like me looked pathetically weak and incapable of any kind of real labor. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

But since Ruth was only sixteen years older than Lena, all three had always looked the same age to him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first thing the next morning, even before I had breakfast, I was visited by an older doctor who was head of internal medicine at the hospital. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, I forget that as I continue to grow older, so does he. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

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

As I grew older, it occurred to me at some point that we had some relatives we had never seen. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The students, the sons and daughters of older black residents, started the political and social unrest in Selma,” recalled Annie Lee Cooper. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fuller, who had never known his own father, developed a deep, almost filial affection for the older man. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She’s about a foot shorter than me, about fifty—maybe older. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Her older children, so tiny when she had first come to Hampton Roads, were now entering college. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Both were three or four years older than he was, and he was sort of surprised they knew his name. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He was a little older than me, about sixteen. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

How much are older people respected and feared? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The Man in the White Shirt saw an older, heavy-set woman limping towards him and waving her arms like a broken windmill. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The older ones he would beat almost savagely if they broke any of his rules—and he had so many rules it was hard to know them all. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yep, so that means I was staring at a geometry book that was at least thirty years older than I was. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looks older and wiser, and that makes me feel better. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older woman sat bolt upright and put her feet to the floor, and thrust back the leaves from her face. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

A young woman held a bloody towel over her hand; an older woman sat beside to her, flipping through a magazine. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

This last part sounds like my father, but it is not the father my older brothers remember. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There, according to my classmate Buckner, who preceded her to the women’s prison, an older woman inmate was in the habit of bragging to officers about her daughter, the correction officer. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pol Pot is sending soldiers into villages and towns and taking all children eight years and older from their homes, including base children. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dressing rather shakily, Kit was compelled to ask Mercy’s assistance with the buttons down her back, and was shocked when her older cousin suddenly bent double in a violent fit of coughing. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

An older man nearly elbowed me in the face as he was trying to find room to sit. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Massa’s wife hated that chile. Had Massa sell her when she was not much older than your Tidbit—sold her down to New Orleans. Massa sold his own flesh and blood.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d seen similar ones scattered throughout the University, but this one was older and larger. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’m a little bit older and I want her to tell me everything. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

They were both older, bigger, and broader of shoulder than Joost, and they were house guards, private servants of Councilman Hoede. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

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

For she had been expecting an older version of the boy she remembered, distant, quiet, in corduroy jeans and a sweatshirt, a few pimples dotting his chin. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He also had a thin, scraggly beard that seemed designed to proclaim him older than he was. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The pictures at Thurmond were identical to this one, and I had never thought of him as anything older than eleven or twelve. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There were older women, younger women, men Walter's age, and several men much older. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Doha saw his friend Minki sitting in the waiting room with his older brother. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Gareth stood square in front of Agravaine, who was three years older than he was and could have knocked him down quite easily. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed ten years older than the last time I had seen her. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way out of town we ran into one of his friends, an older boy wearing a blinding yellow tracksuit and fake gold chains. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

One of the boys, who looked a little older and had no hair on his head, stood up, clenching his fist. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When she got older, she described herself as a student of American history, attuned to the inevitable. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

My older sister took my hand and led me out to wait. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Everyone changes as they get older, no matter if it’s good or bad. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

There’s something strange and laughable about older, unmarried women. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t sure why but assumed it was because he’d been to the center before, albeit briefly, and because he was a little older. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Though all of them were several years older than me, I was bigger, and I actually looked older than most of them. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Although our primary water tank was down to the dregs before the Tap-Out, there was an older one on top of the hill that had been taken out of service. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I’d get to sit in on classes with the older children, in awe as I listened to everything they were being taught. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The first time you try Gorgonzola cheese you may find it too strong, but when you are older you may want to eat nothing but Gorgonzola cheese. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

An older ghost rested his hand on the shoulder of the lady who had quickly drained her champagne, and she shivered as he did so. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

"Atlantic and Court," one older guy blurted out. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Some kids had older brothers who were friendly, Marigold thought. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Since I, too, had grown older, I was a litde less afraid of him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I took a seat next to an older woman. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think that could’ve gone any worse. Racist dad. Racist and sexist older brother.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

My Aunt Generosa lived there with my cousins, most of whom were older than I was. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He was fifty-six but he looked much older. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half the women were younger than she, half were older; they had shared no experience that she could recall, except one female with whom she had quarreled steadily all through grammar school. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The older boys kept watch over the cattle, while my friends and I played with our toys. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cyril Ramaphosa was elected secretary-general, evidence that the torch was being passed from an older generation of leadership to a younger one. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one of the woodworking classrooms, where a group of older boys were making benches under a teachers supervision, they clustered around us, eyeing me curiously. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The dress made her look older and even a bit forbidding. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

At the table next to the games, an older man sold hand-painted greeting cards for all occasions to raise money for the Jaycees, one of Sing Sing’s “approved inmate organizations.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was probably ten years older than Akhi, and things do change, the sport evolves, so maybe that was it. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The older monk led us into the pagoda. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

One girl, who must have been a good head taller and four years older than the others, tried to get them to crouch in a line beneath the windows, with no success. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

‘I hope you may have your wish, ere the hills be much older,’ he said. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I followed his line of vision and noticed an older lady who waved back with a cane. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

After the meal, the younger students would return to their lessons while the older ones took to their chores. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

That was enough to cause the older girls to jump quickly out of the car. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made her look older, for some reason. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

And he was only fourteen months older than she was. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

She was fifty, but seemed both a decade older and younger at the same time. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

For three years, from sixth to eighth grade, Ben would go to the courts adjacent to the Centre Theater in Alexandria, Virginia, to learn the fundamentals from boys much older and stronger than he. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shouldn’t need my older sister to fuss over me or tell me what to do. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was older than I was and had finished secondary school. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I see the truck and the silhouette of an older woman twirling—the mother. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I’m smarter than Devon even though he is three years and one month and sixteen days older than me. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I let loose, going from one apparatus to the other, trying to copy skills I saw the older gymnasts practicing in the gym. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Obiora asked, calmly, and at that moment, as in many others I had observed since we came, he seemed so much older than Jaja. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She casts a withering look at a blond-haired older boy, one of the troublemakers. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

They made candles, which was fine, but Kolya was way older than she was. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

When the older man stumbled, Wash took his elbow. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“How could I resist?” the peasant woman later told your sisters when they were older. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the older people there had heard that I was missing and sent word to the village. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Writers Greg Tate, Chairman Mao, dream hampton—barely older than me—were out there creating a new language, one that I intuitively understood, to analyze our art, our world. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

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

Most of the abuse I have suffered in my admittedly unusual life has come from brothers and sisters, with older brothers and older sisters being, by and large, the worst offenders. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“And this is Alison,” he continued, referring to the older girl. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The girl was no older than two and she cried all the time, a whimpery sound, like something was caught in her throat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My platoon sergeant would probably be older than my mother. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I felt kind of sorry for Byron because Momma hadn’t let go of his neck and, even though he was a lot older, we could tell he was just as scared as me and Joetta. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

This sounds as though I bemoan an older time, which is the preoccupation of the old, or cultivate an opposition to change, which is the currency of the rich and stupid. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older jockey pounded him mercilessly and tried to jam his thumbs into his eyes. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I didn’t like how R.C. played, even if he was older than me. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

She looked only a few years older than Sierra. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Like most of the farm’s work buildings, the older log cabins bunched on the eastern edge, put up in a hurry before they knew how big the community would become. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The other women had on percale and calico with here and there a headrag among the older ones. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Liz and Mark’s older son, Matthew, who is fifteen, asked a lot of questions about killing chickens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

My older sisters had dated only Chinese boys from church before getting married. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

All those stories I’d heard about peanut butter allergies and how babies shouldn’t have it until they were older. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

But once I am older, I plan to sit in on all the conversations, tell everyone how I feel. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I feared hunger, pneumonia, guards with hobnail boots, older boys with bottleglass knives. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She is not much older than I am. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The Paces ran the Perfect Angels day-care center in Plant City, where the younger children went while the older ones attended school. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Might there not be an even more elaborate effort by an older and wiser species, courageously battling the advance of desiccation on the red planet? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tom, who was born in 1881, was the third of their five children; among them was Doc, the youngest, and Dudley, Tom’s bruising older brother with whom he was particularly close. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Mike had mentioned that everyone older than thirteen would be responsible for doing some work; I just hadn’t realized that the assignments were chosen for you. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was from not seeing him for several weeks, but he seemed a lot older and very handsome. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

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

They were all empty except for one, almost at the end, where a slouched figure sat with its back to them; it looked to be the slumped shoulders of an older man. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She is older, as he expected, and her red hair is somehow concealed within a white cap. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When he grew older, he got a bicycle and let the girls play with his old tricycle and wagon. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, I forget that Jack is a few years older than Mom. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Aunt Rasmeyyah, Father’s older sister, saw us from afar and hurried to meet us. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The young Jesse—seen largely in photos of camping and riding trips up north—looked remarkably like the older one, grave and intent. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A second, much older Halliday lies inside the casket, his body emaciated and ravaged by cancer. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Brother Apunda is getting older, and he needs help overseeing temple maintenance, especially with the Bonding coming up in two months...” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

"The ones you need are hard to find ... so young, to know their letters . . . perhaps older . . . not die so easy : . "No. The younger are safer . . . treat them gently ..." "... if they kept their tongues . . ." ". . . the risk . A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In the office, there’s an older lady at the front desk and no one else waiting. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, older children can—he wasn’t planning on having young children boarding there, and besides—” “No besides! Is perfect! Perfect!” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

I run to the window, yell out, “My father was eleven years older than my mother! It doesn’t matter.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Because Marina Raskova was at least five years older than most of them, and in some cases ten years older, they thought of her as a teacher and an authority. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t like the older artists who sing about things with so much passion and depth in their voices that it makes me feel more alive. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“You,” said the third washerwoman, an older woman, deep-voiced, with grey streaks in her hair. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“The Little Rock Nine weren’t much older than me.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

This skinny older man zigzags across the courtyard. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

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

When the smaller boys grew too tired to walk, the older boys took turns carrying them on their backs. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

This he had a right to do, not only because he was older than the Wart but also because he was Sir Ector’s proper son. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I seem to get more Chinese as I get older.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t really remember much of what happened after that except that my older brother came to Mr. Vaughn’s office in my middle school and told me to stop crying. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Con knelt on the ground next to Tali’s body and lifted the older man’s hand. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The year he turned thirty we celebrated Christmas at the home of my older sister Lisa. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

They had surrounded the central, older Tower like sentinels, and the castle had wrapped around the whole of it like a snake eating its tail. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, I found myself on the wrong side once again, assigned to a group of children and older workers. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Here and there a middle-aged or older woman wore a heavy, colorless kimono, and a couple of somewhat younger women wore colored ones. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He was in green, and was older and larger than any of the other soldiers. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Though he was getting faster by the day, he couldn’t force his body to improve quickly enough to catch his older rivals by summer. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The older man that Miles and I saw in the laundry room the other day—Mr. Hollins—gets out of the car that just parked, and he passes by us as he enters the building. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I pass an older woman with her hair wrapped in a scarf. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The spat was with an older cousin, who thought Maria Isabel was showing interest in her boyfriend. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Father and older son stand around like idiots and prepare to buy a huge supply of— what? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has two older brothers, I know, I've seen them in the bakery, but one is probably too old now to volunteer and the other won't. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

A pair of striplings followed her, boys no older than fourteen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As we’re climbing back into them, an older white man comes into the room. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Zu was even harder to track down, because when she wasn’t in class, she was with Hina or one of the older Yellows. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Martha alone of the older children didn’t need to have her tonsils out, the doctor said, and the children younger than Lillian could wait awhile. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'd imagine I was James Bond meeting beautiful older women at the roulette tables and walking arm in arm up to their rooms where something dangerously exotic might happen. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Zack’s still before the mast, and he’s ten years older than Lem. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The longer the war goes on,” Maddie said, carefully cutting her iced bun in half with a tin butter knife, “the older I’ll get.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The ghost I was looking at wasn’t strong or talk And he wasn’t any older than I was. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He had looked at the little cups and arm bands Ranofer had hammered out, and he had said to Thutra, “Your son shows skill. Perhaps, when he is older...” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

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

Several years older than any of the other girls, she was one of the school’s few black students. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

His overcoat and trousers seemed older than he was, the way they were patched and hung on his body like the bark of an ancient tree. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

"He was old. Twenty years older," I explained. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“It’s been a while. My brother was a lot older, already out of the house. And my dad and I, we made out okay.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Perhaps only a few years older than he is. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

‘Yeah. I can give them. Because I’m older.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pixel was definitely older than the twelfth-year students at Seven’s school, but not by much. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was an older, more formidable version of the man in the photographs. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robert Johnson was twenty-one years old, a solid six years older than me. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The responsibility of raising her fell to her older brothers, and her father's other wives. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

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

One had been sold by her older brother to pay off his gambling debts. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She stood looking down at him thoughtfully for a while, and then an idea stemming from experience with older brothers suddenly struck her. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they met, he was thirteen years older than Kathy, so she wasn’t immediately sold on the prospect of marriage, but those eyes, holding the light the way they did, had seized her. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The owner of a heating and air-conditioning business, he had a big walrus-y mustache and sleepy eyes that made him look older than his sixty-eight years. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The older boy gave his brother a shove. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The older girls would mimic the backup dancers’ routine. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

No one in our group looks to be much older than twenty, and I wonder if everyone here is like Ida, someone rounded up from one of the patrol schools and sent out here. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Not us. We look old enough. I am only ten but everybody thinks I am older. And you two can surely pass. You have ...” She motioned toward her own undeveloped chest. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every so often you’d see a coach from another school and, before he signed with Iowa, there would be small pockets of older men with notebooks, writing down every single thing Luke did. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He would threaten chimps older and stronger than he was, because he knew that if they dared to retaliate, his mother, his sister, or one of his brothers would rush to help him. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Tell them, Daddy. This is our house now!” the older of the two sisters said, tossing her disheveled hair back with a flick of her hand. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He looks just like the photos of him on the Web—older white man with graying hair and bright black eyes. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Another day I followed an older man, lean and rangy, who looked to be well into his seventies. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He and my uncle looked so much alike, no one could ever say they weren’t brothers, but now my dad looked so much older. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He would have children and stop going down to Bursa and little by little he’d change; he’d get older; everything he felt now would fade into memory and then into nothing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Until, at last, he had grown older and found excuses for spending all of his holidays away from the house. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Even though my older brother was Clark Elementary School’s god that didn’t mean I never got teased or beat up at all. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tire way I gather, with roses, the older the better. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one photograph, we all had our fishing poles—me and Dad, Uncle Larry, Kevin, and my older cousin Joey, who was away at college now. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

She could be five years older than I—but then, she grew rapidly like a weed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Bembry, the older prisoner across the line from me, happens to catch my eye. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t look much older than I am, and wears large round glasses that make her eyes look bigger. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The galactic core, illuminated by older, redder stars, is seen in the distance. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older one has a thick red beard. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

But I’d never tell her that, nor would I tell my older sister, Beth, that her name is the murky brown of swamp water. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

If an older uncle or male cousin tried to hug me, I got fidgety and nervous. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The head of the entire Hatchery operation, Dimitri was an upper-level worker; he was older, and had studied science intensively. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

One of her first orders of business as the older sister was to teach Gen how to tell time. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Once we grew older and drifted off to different cities, the notion of a "family reunion" no longer seemed ridiculous. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He was lithe and handsome, no older than sixteen, with straight blond hair that brushed his shoulders. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Gods be good, she looks ten years older than when I saw her last. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Jeremiah loved soccer and wanted his brother to play for the Fugees too, on the older boys’ team. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I went outside with the blood all over me and saw my mother, father, older and younger brother. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Four older men still sat on the porch, as though nothing had happened. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the older men are linked up with their previous life. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or, a quaint expression you sometimes hear, still, from older people: I hear where you're coming from, as if the voice itself were a traveler, arriving from a distant place. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the children—a boy—stuck his finger into it, and his older sister slapped his hand. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man was older, with more wrinkles and less hair. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“There is not much interaction. Until we are older. Yazd is very conservative. You know?” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He’s probably in his twenties, but he doesn’t seem much older than I do. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Amaka’s tone was as polite and normal as everyday conversation with an older person. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The youngest could not have been more than a year older than her; the oldest must have seen sixty namedays. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I think you have to be fourteen. Maybe older.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The freshmen immediately leapt out a half boat length ahead of the older boys. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In the fitting room, which was just one big room with mirrors on the walls, she found a spot next to an older woman with a shiny face and coarse frosted hair. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

William Lombardy, who’d go on to win the World Junior Championship and enter the pantheon as a grandmaster, was six years older than Bobby and at first beat him most of the time. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Nico enjoyed how nervous the Romans acted around him, even though they were older and bigger and more experienced fighters. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Carl and the boys were out culling raspberry canes, and she found them down among the southward trellises, Carl cutting free the older stock, the boys filling the wheelbarrow. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They varied in age—several of the women had cottony white hair, while others looked to be no older than her mother—but all of them shared a sameness she couldn’t place. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He was older than my oldest brother, so I called him Uncle. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

For many years during the Depression, he had no work, and my father and his older brother were sent to live with relatives. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

As I loaded my backpack and waist pack, I looked up and saw that some of the older soldiers were doing the same. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But then I remembered that she was six months older, so there. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“The only initiates they usually let come are ones with older siblings in Dauntless,” he says. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He’s a bit older than me, taller and bigger anyway. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

One of the older fishermen, Andrei Vasilyevich, stepped carefully away from the river, watching the man on the horse with wide eyes. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I could now see that an older boy was hunched over a coloring book and he was very intently filling in the spaces. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

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

An older white man in a polo shirt, jeans, and a baseball cap meets Supreme at the doorway with a handshake. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He’s three years older than me and great-looking, tall with wavy blond hair, finishing LSU law school, protected by a hundred and seventy miles of badly paved roads. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There was a group of older guys who hung out on our street, and they always made a point to talk to me. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Then Osbert got up and left, he’s sixteen and the oldest in case I didn’t say it, which is a year older than me. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re going to find a lot of loving homes for older dogs! Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

He looked my age, maybe a year older, and he sat with his tailbone against the edge of the chair, his posture aggressively poor, one hand half in a pocket of dark jeans. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Away—” The older woman shoves Izzi in the chest, nearly knocking her to the floor. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“You talk older than your age,” she said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was an older boy, and Paul thought he had seen him around before, but he could not be certain. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Five months, two weeks, and three days older than you.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

There were no older brothers buying kegs and there were no empty houses. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Bye,” says the older one, and they scamper off. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The older ones, some of whom had already lost parents of their own and who had seen it before, simply looked bleak and stayed dumb. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shut my eyes, trying to get one more minute of sleep, but Roberto, my older brother, jumped out of bed and pulled off the covers. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the Milky Way Galaxy there must be many planets millions of years older than Earth, and some that are billions of years older. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the older members reads the Abnegation manifesto, which is a short paragraph about forgetting the self and the dangers of self-involvement. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

An Asian woman older than her parents leaned out the open window. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He is not well and is getting older &, as the saying goes, he cannot “Cut the Mustard” as in the old days. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Retrenchment had begun at the factory—they were firing older employees and hiring younger ones, for less pay. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The older men and women, it is true, said nothing to anyone. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Woman'1 She was a teenager, maybe six years older than me. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I was also operating, for the first time ever, without the tacit protection of my older brother. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Can I ask how old you are? Your sisters seem so much older.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I was so small then, comforted by the others, who were bigger and older than me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We passed a few older adults pedaling away on their bikes, balancing precariously on two wheels with their briefcases or bags, their heads bent toward the sidewalk. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Although she was only a year older than the twins, who were thirteen and full of cuss words and spite, Juanita was much taller and more muscular. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

That’s Farsi for “How are you,” but only if you are familiar with the person you are speaking to, or older than them. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Only a minority of women live to age eighty-five, and incidence rates are changing and are much higher for older women. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the last time I saw Junior, my older brother. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He looked a few years older than Stick, maybe twenty-one or so. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

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

The younger children are restless, and the older boys stir up trouble in small ways, wherever they can find it. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

So, of course, there were all ages milling about, but I looked for the older ones. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had expected to become more devout as I grow older but somehow I haven’t,” he said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The guy finally lifts his head—he’s older, with a neatly trimmed gray beard. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Plus, now that I've gotten older, I just want to make sure I'm near her in case I gotta protect her. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“I have faith that you’ll stop fighting as you get older.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rekh and the craftsmen had not yet arrived, but the storeroom door was open and the older apprentices were lining up in front of the scales. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Some older grandchildren helped him—for a small cut—to process the honey, which was later sold either in Rael’s store or directly from the Chateau Martinez. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, if the story introduces a chiming bell, hit a bell or, for more advanced or older students, play a bell peal on the glockenspiel. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I grew tougher, my older limbs less pliable, my shadow longer. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A chastened man, an older man, he remembered: All summer, to begin with, he felt elated. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother Ermentrude frowns on this ancient penance, though some of the older nuns still practice it. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Always, meeting us older hands in Mr. Muhammad’s service for the first time, there were several new ministers of small new Temples. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re starting to sound a bit like our dear older brother, you are, Ron. Carry on like this and you’ll be made a prefect.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The older of the two was born in Bucharest, Romania, on September 22, 1902. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

My two older sisters, Janice and Ruth, jumped up from the blanket and slapped their thighs to get the sand off. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reminded me of older women I'd been around all my life—women whose lives were hard but who remained kind and dedicated themselves to building and sustaining their communities. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Ravi was already there, and like all younger brothers, I would suffer from following in the footsteps of a popular older sibling. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Contrary to Mrs. Scatcherd’s expectations—or perhaps in response to her rebuke—we are a quiet lot, even the older boys. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She arched an eyebrow, looking ten years older. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Weeks before, an older white woman standing in line behind them at the grocery store had said, “Your hair is so beautiful, can I touch it?” and Ifemelu said yes. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She was eighteen, a year older than I was, and much more sophisticated. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Since you are older, I think you know what kind of brownie it was. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Their parents and some of the older Clarkston refugees who’d come out for their evening exercise turned toward the field as well, or sat down on the cross ties parallel to the track to watch. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The older women, the married ones and the widows, wear black clothes and no makeup, as I used to do. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was older now, but if she had a hawk she'd eat it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“But I don’t think we can hurry up and get older, can we?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

In racing, a victory by a horse older than seven, even in claiming races, is an extremely rare event; Knighthood was ten. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older man shifted his hat from one hand to the other. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was tall for his age and older than his years. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was not much older than John, only seventeen, and he was already saved and was a preacher. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Life ended up being a little rocky for Shanon, because as she grew older, she got caught up in drinking and drugs. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And when some older men tipped their cowboy hats, mumbling, “Buenos dias, como le ha ido, amigo?” it suddenly dawned on Herbie that maybe these people he had come to help spoke Spanish. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldier took off his helmet, and Pinmei could see he was much older than the commander. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The child’s mother was thirty or older at the time of her first child’s birth. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

His icy blue eyes looked older, somehow—full of worry and responsibility. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He seemed taller than when she'd left, and the wisps of beard did make him look older. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Besides getting himself ready, each older child was responsible for one of the younger ones. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Aunt Pooh knocks on the front door, some older woman talks to us through the screen and sends me, Aunt Pooh, and Scrap to the garage in the back. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Selena and a boy a little older than us stopped dancing. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t much older than Tayo; maybe they both had been in the war together. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The funny thing was, she didn’t look much older than the kids in the class. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The older man pressed a small shiny object - like a stone or a piece of glass - into Frank’s hands. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

My father was a year or so older than his brother Oscar, but they were exceptionally close, and soon after they left school, they went for a long walk together to plan their future. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been badly wounded in the winter, and possibly as you got older you had less patience instead of more. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You look right like him. Riddle. But he’s older now, in ’e? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Met Bong turns to the older girls and tells them to go look. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fathers whose sons had played merited a more aggrandized status in the fraternity of older men who queued along the passageway. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Do we lose our faculties as we get older, so that we can’t feel our pains and joys?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few years later, an older cousin told him what a miscarriage was, and confided that Roy’s mother had lost a baby girl. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I had expected someone flamboyant, someone older trying desperately to look young, someone who viewed me as a piece of meat to be prepared for a platter. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She hated that she had to call her eonni out of respect, especially given that respect was the last thing Jinjoo felt for the older girl. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Then he searched for people twenty and older who lived in those residences. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The older sets are the easiest to fix: simpler circuitry, uniform tubes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They trooped off, and the older children took their places on the rocks. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

You get older, you puff on the stairs, you enter the body of your father. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His older brother was a soldier with General Washington in Pennsylvania. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Since Mom was the older of the two children, Grandma Smith had asked her which house she wanted to inherit. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Rook showed his older brother to the study of the Head Sister, but Antain could have made it there blindfolded. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I was so overjoyed to leave the house with the older kids that I raced to beat the others to the school on the edge of the bay. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She was an older girl who frightened us. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a small, older woman with Bea’s upturned nose and Henry’s blue eyes waiting outside the conference room when they approach it. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Inés Pérdido was sitting up primly on the edge of a cushioned chair in the parlor area directly across from the dining room next to an older woman who looked a lot like her. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly, because there were no longer any eyes to perceive it, the color was gone, and the fifth April had become, like her four older sisters, a time of grief and desolation. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

At fourteen, the boy on the cover wasn’t much older than they were, but lying in that coffin, beaten beyond recognition, Emmett Till looked more like a monster than a human being. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m a simple country man, and I’m at least fifteen years older than you. I don’t know how to act with a young girl like yourself....” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My blood goes back fifty generations, older than tree or stone. And I am come to this,” he put his head against the palms of his hands and looked down at his tin tray. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

At the court, as usual, all the older guys were there running fives for cash. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She always promised she was going to tell me everything when I was a little bit older. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Across the wide blacktopped, slushy street, those two older boys had caught sight of me again. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Talon, an older Yellow with his hair woven into intricate dreadlocks, appeared first, followed by a wide-eyed Chubs. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

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

The children yelled even louder as they were suddenly squashed by falling mothers, grandmothers, aunts and older sisters. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, to act older. It is junior high school.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Elected officials deduced that a strong percentage of kids reading below their grade level by third grade would be needing a secure place to stay when they got older. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

All of them older and most of them Black like me. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“My mother used to spank me when I was older than you,” she said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She feels her chest ache, moved after all this time to hear her brother call her Didi, his older sister, a term he alone in the world is entided to use. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The older girl turned to her and put her hand on Lyddie’s sleeve. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The older guys tossed a ratty baseball back and forth. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe Du Barry sent one of our older sisters back there? The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t remember him little, could only imagine his older face—sharp cheekbones framed by floppy hair—atop a compact little body like Loo’s. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“She’s pretty amazing—she has four older brothers she plays with all the time. I wouldn’t underestimate her!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

On the hilltop to the right was an older monument. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

It erupts out the front door and to the side of the house, and the older brother, Daniel, beats the absolute Christ out of Gavin. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

When we got older, Mum was always telling us to play nicely together. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Once you get them, the older ones will follow through shame.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The drug economy played out every day on the cracked concrete lawns of Robert Taylor, and her preteen older sons, Nicholas and Willie, could not help breathing it in. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She looks pretty in the way that older girls do. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

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

“Hyung,” I began, using the title younger brothers use for older brothers. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Rubin was two years older than I, big and husky for his age. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When you’re older—” “When I’m older I don’t want to stop living if something bad happens to me. I don’t want to give up. And I don’t want my kid feeling sorry for me either.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

The children hold on to their mothers’ hands, and often an older girl leads the little ones who stumble onward and are for ever looking back. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s good for a priest to be older. ” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older children rose, carrying Matt between them. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It had to be an older part of the maze, and Annabeth decided this was a good sign. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

Teenage boys, it seemed, were considered men, for boys who looked to be only a few years older than Salva were joining the men’s group. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wouldn’t that make him look older and more trustworthy himself? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Not only was her brother older and bigger but he had a rep as one not to be played with. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

There’s a place near the end of the book where the main kid is picked up by some older gentleman. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Another police officer watched a drunk man spit chewing tobacco in an older woman’s face; when someone complained to him, he said, “There would be nothing like this if you would stay at home.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I wedge my way between them and jab one of the older women in the shoulder. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we can put him in the trunk,” said the older boy. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The meetings were run by leaders not much older than the other members. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The killings have started,” Pa tells my older brothers as we walk back down the mountain to our rendezvous area. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

She looked out over the flat roofs, uneven in height, broken once in a while by a slanting roof from a house left over from older times. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe if I had been older, or had had my mother longer, or understood Dolores’ frustration more deeply, my response would not have been so violent. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It gave the older ones the sense that they were in charge, when in actuality it was Mommy who ruled the world. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We knew each other since we were babies. If he were here, he’d point out that he was five months, two weeks, and three days older than me.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

As I got older, my fear of being deported grew. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The older two ignored the sofa and chairs to settle on the floor while Chima curled up on the sofa, balancing his plastic plate on his lap. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Who the hell likes to talk about older brothers who are in prison? Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

When I got older, I grew to know what it really was. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

It was another older couple in their seventies, waving from their second-story window. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She remembered his bush accent and his nervous excitement and that he had seemed older than he looked now. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even as she got older, people said she acted like a kid—thought only about her own problems—and wasn’t very mother-like. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

As I grew older I started buying my own books. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I met Ella’s second husband, Frank, who was now a soldier; and her brother Earl, the singer who called himself Jimmy Caiieton; and Mary, who was very different from her older sister. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older children were “hired out” by the master, Edward Brodas, to farmers who needed slave labor but who could not afford to buy slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. and Mrs. Das behaved like an older brother and sister, not parents. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Our table filled rapidly, mostly with older men. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She was probably in her early thirties but the lines around her eyes made her look a lot older. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Then on to older neighborhoods like mine, where the houses are still nice, but have been around for a while, so still made of brick. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Then one of the older kids, Paul, turned to look at me. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The senior among them would have been no older than Bran when she went north. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Fitzsimmons’s barn, consisting of horses owned by the Wheatley and Belair Stables, was teeming with precocious youngsters and proven, high-class older horses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A young girl playing on a cell phone as an older woman massaged the feet of a person I couldn’t see lying in bed, in Room 417. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But one cannot say these things to an older generation. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

What looks like an older version of him appears on the screen, but this man doesn’t have the scar on his lip, and there are more wrinkles on his neck than freckles. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“These are the three older generations,” Mrs. Medina continues. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Not until I got older did I learn that Flatbush Avenue inspired a lower level of awe than the French Riviera. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Every day when the older children went off to school, I asked to go as well. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The older man held out his arms to her, and Inés went into them instinctively. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

These tatters that he wore hid him so well that none of us could know him when he turned up, not even the older men. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now and then, older and braver boys, inspired by the old man’s strangeness, would dare each other into an attempt to tease or torment him—but not for long. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

At twelve, though, Carla was at least a year older than most sixth graders, and she felt mortified at the thought of having to repeat yet another year. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Most often we older ones went singly, for it was something you didn’t want to have to experience with anyone else present, even your brother or sister. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to him, an older factionless woman holds a knife— the kind I used to cut bread with. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She’s too old for you, his mother said, when actually Tubs himself was six months older. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a cool, bitter older sister to the girl I had known. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

His closely trimmed beard was shot with white, making him look older than his thirty- five years. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She looked a few years older than me. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

My dad had one brother, but he was older and drifted away from the family when he found work overseas doing private contracting for the military. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“But once I found out about it, they eventually stopped. I think the older kids got bored with it after a while. Plus, they can drive places and hang out outside the building.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She was older, less willing to play his games, and at first it seemed I was right, that he was doing better. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I guess, being slightly older and having some measure of means, Ella wanted to help us. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her older boys, even her nineteen-year-old, stayed close to her at home despite the many distractions that emerged as they finished high school. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I grew bigger, I knew every winter that I must be another year older, but none of it...it just hadn’t seemed to matter until now. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The soldiers appear first, two of them, one younger and one who reminds me of my father's older brother, the one who still lives in Belgium and used to send money on my birthday. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She had, in her arsenal, a seemingly infinite number of visions of Skathis mounted on Rasalas, carrying off young women and men no older than she was now. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then I looked over and saw my older brothers shooting daggers at him. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

His companion, a dull-witted older boy by the name of Edmund, had thumbed his nose at me, putting me more out of temper. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She was neither older nor younger than She had been in the beginning. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, the little boys gave me a crumpled bag of sweets, and the older boys gave me new hair ribbons. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Much older and more solemn, the lawyers in dark suits who in other days had flapped about the colonel like crows had returned. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was late in the afternoon, and we were only halfway to Nizankowice, traveling with a group of other old people, some older than Mr. Diamant, women with children, and carts carrying the sick. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“She has support right now,” he said as he led us away, nodding to the older woman rocking Mama back and forth like a baby. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Down the dock a bit an older man stared at him for a moment, then turned away. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her older boys always seemed to find trouble—throwing stones at the pigs, falling out of trees, or tormenting the baby. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The boy was only a few years older than I was. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re just conducting war games. In war games somebody has to be designated as the enemy. When you get older, you’ll get to be Marines. You’ve just got to prove yourself worthy first.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all looked up to her as if she were a lot older than even the other seventeens. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s only in the seventh grade, but she says he looks much older. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I watch the line, noting a few unfamiliar faces, older folks I don’t recognize. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

In the beginning, his advantage isn’t so much that he is inherently better but only that he is a little older. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Your older brother made a political marriage, didn’t he?” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Our older customers who can’t walk much usually sit there as Daddy, Seven, or I get their groceries for them. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Undoubtedly older heads than this boy’s had egged him on to this wretched, scurvy trick, but Mr. Lyte had no wish to go into the matter beyond the recovery of his own property. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I learned the entire second grade in advance just by listening to Annie— she was a year older than me—and by hearing Mama Sweetie read from her Bible and her Webster’s dictionary. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

At nine, he was two years older than me, but he was one of the few boys my age who always seemed to be outside the same time I was. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“You keep calling us kids,” I say to Jacqui, “but you don’t look any older than eighteen.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

We now know that the Cosmos is far older than they ever imagined. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is the traditional Nowruz greeting for someone older than you. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

There were men at Cambridge who were mentally agile as teachers, and still played a decent game of tennis, still rowed, who were twenty years older than him. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it wasn’t so hard to ask an older sister to look out for a husband and the girls because she was bound for Baltimore with Miss Vera Louise for a while. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they’re really young they cling to her belly, and when they get older they ride on her back, like a jockey. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I look at him and see a guy a few years older than me. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

There was a child, not much older than a baby, sleeping in a nest of blankets like a puppy beside an old lady dozing in her kerchief. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

But now that I was two years older, I don’t know. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He tested a piece of pitchblende, the principal ore of uranium, and found it to be 700 million years old–very much older than the age most people were prepared to grant the Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“He’s older than your grandmother,” I kept saying to myself. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

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 man next to him was older and dressed well, and unlike his companion, he looked actively uncomfortable in his clothing. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I note out of the corner of my occuli that this gets a smile—a real smile—from both moviegoers of the older generation. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at her and saw that she was tired, and somehow she seemed older. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would be thousands of miles apart from now on and we would go on with our lives and get older and change and grow, but we would never have to look for each other. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

A chess-playing friend, Karl Burger, ten years older, who went on to become a medical doctor and an international master, first told Bobby about the tome, feeding the boy’s imagination about the wisdom it contained. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When I was young these tussles usually ended with Mother screaming over a broken lamp or vase, but as I got older there were fewer things left to break. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Bud,” he said, “my name’s Mr. Lewis. Now if you were about fifteen, twenty years older you could call me Lefty. But you’re not, so you can’t. Mr. Lewis will do just fine.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was older than the Seven Kingdoms, and when he stood beneath it and looked up, it made Jon dizzy. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When I was older, I asked Dad how that had been possible. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

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

Up close like this, he seemed older than I’d realized, and tired. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Phoebe was a Titan, one of the older gods. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Can I get you a chocolate milk? How are your parents? I read that your older sister will be having her coming-out at the Colony Club this fall. How thrilling for her!” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

But even the younger boys who didn’t have relatives wanted to earn the older boys’ respect. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Distraught, Mama decided in December that they should go stay with her older brother in a nearby village. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

An older man dropped a coin into the player piano, which pushed out a quick song like the kind from a carousel. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The older boys went back to eating, disappointed by the lack of a public scourging, but the baby, Jim Bowie, said, “Hi, Callie. I missed you. Where have you been?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Some girls and boys obliterate their rooms as they grow older, thinking they have to banish all their younger incarnations in order to convincingly inhabit a new one. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

They were all two years older than Erlan, with dark straight hair and dark eyes. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The regent said when Sabata was older, he would entrust the future king to Reverend Harris, who would train him as both a Christian and a traditional ruler. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made you seem older than sixteen and made me feel way younger than eleven. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It’s nothing against Trey or Mrs. Murray, but when you have an older brother who did great before you, if you don’t at least match his greatness, people have something to say. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Personable and approachable, Frank was not much older than we and mixed freely with students. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m only ten years older than him, but it’s like I’ve already had so much more life. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or that some older kids would show up and claim it. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Although I would rather not have had to tell you in a grim place like this, and not until you’re a little older.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The older ones had long white scarves draped and knotted firmly over their hair. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Generationally, though, he could seem older than his chronological age—more a child of the 1950s than the 1960s. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

These alone among the older gods were not banished with the coming of Zeus, but they took a lower place. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph Hooper thought, if he were older, I could deal with him, if he were older and different, all could be understood and explained away by his adolescence. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The older children worked on nearby farms, so they were still together, as a family. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess she's twelve or thirteen—a bit older than me. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

My older sister, Janell, is seventeen and lives in the room right across from my grandma. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Normally, when an older brother asks this, it means a skirt is too short, or too much cleavage is showing. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

So many years have passed since we last saw our father, his absence like a bubble in my older brother's life, that pops again and again into a whole lot of tiny bubbles of memory. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

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

She was still a child, but in some ways she seemed older than Briana. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She had always been able to sing clearly and in tune, but the older she grew, the lovelier the tune became. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was eleven years old, standing out in the parking lot in front of the 7-Eleven, watching a crew of older boys standing near the street. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

A lovely adventurous boy, thirty-eight years old and never to grow older, fond of adventure and romance and all the bright sparkles of youth. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was a kid at camp, older boys once shut me in a locker until a friend let me out; those brief moments filled me with a terror I’ll never forget. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked older than usual, with streaks of gray in her hair that Marigold had somehow never noticed before. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Her sister was two years the younger, yet she looked older now. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Paul felt sorry for older people, stuck in their houses and tenements with kids to take care of and housework to do. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She appeared to be a little older than my mother. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grandmotherly researcher looked like an older version of my mother, and I didn’t want to imagine my mother growing old. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

As we were getting out, an older white lady walked by and stared at us a little too long, her face twisting into a confused and judgmental glare. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Quite the pair, those two foreign fellas. The older one doesn’t have a button left on him.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Death had made her look older and different The stem, grey face in the barge was evidently not Elaine—who had gone elsewhere, or vanished. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

For another, she was still angry with her older sister, and didn’t want to see Angeline. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

She always did, which made her seem much older than her thirty-five years. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

There was a calmness about her that made her seem older and wiser than her four years. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“There was an older boy there too,” continued the Corporal. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

"I never know how much to tell you, Bran. I wish you were older." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He stays inside, working in his asylum studio painting self-portraits and touching up older canvases. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“What if we send the two older ones back and keep the younger ones here,” he suggested. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The pilot was the older faranji woman, and the fourth passenger... Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She looked to be only a few years older than I, but she had on a woman’s dress, stockings, and high heels. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the decorations are older than me. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Plans for a Klan junior auxiliary for girls ran aground after one of these trips, when the older Klan women heard about an impromptu swimming break that involved teenage girls. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mercedes was about ten years older than I was and became a dear friend and mentor. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Like many black youngsters raised in northern cities, I was not aware of a race “problem” other than what I heard from older black people and an occasional news story. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She scrambled up the bed and jumped in beside Rose, pulling the older girl's arm over her like a comforter. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

See what your animal has done,’ the older woman cried. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

—As we get older, we all learn that death is a part of life. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he watches her in the flickering light, it strikes Bailey suddenly that she is a fair deal older than she appears, and that the same is likely true of Marco. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The fourth possibility—older boy, younger boy—is ruled out by the fact that a girl answered the door. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden, the older boys who were leading called, “Shh! Stop! Everybody, get down!” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had worked once; maybe talking to the older woman would work again. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

From far away Leaf looked almost a girl, no older than Bran or one of his sisters, but close at hand she seemed far older. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It took time to prepare subjects for the operation, especially if they were older than sixteen. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Later, when he was older, he would say that he found mathematics easy because of her summer of torturing him. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He was half a head taller than me, but I was older and he said, “What else can I do? I just can’t watch my big brother and not do nothing.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grace Smeath is a year older and in the next grade up. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

That was the day I learned that my brother, my beautiful, brilliant older brother, couldn’t make sense of words and letters the way that I could. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

His white smock and his own anxiety made him look much older than he was. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

An older woman leaned on a cane and stood up. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Everyone looked older, more menacing, the boys taller and the girls had filled out. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

There was a terrible flu going around and the pneumonia took a lot of folks, especially older ones. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although he was two years older she had grown faster than him, and in the summer-time they used to wrestle and fight out on the plot of grass by the street. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Little older than you be. Happy boy with laugh like gold.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Papa, looking older and more frail. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Janae leaves me behind as Ainsley takes her hand and walks her to a far corner of the room to introduce her to an older, good-looking black couple. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The older we got, though, the smaller the branches we brought, until Papa started to go out himself to get the stick. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It seems ironic that the commanders considered the boys old enough to fight but not old enough to smoke: The youngest recruits were given candy instead of the usual cigarette ration that older soldiers received. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

"I’m asking Dan,” he said, "you older children stop showing off and...” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The older woman perches on a rickety stepstool to reach a string of garlic. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She was a woman of about thirty, but looking much older. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I love how much she looks like Simon, and I love that they both look like their older sister. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

He and his older brother were the same height, equal matches by all societal standards now, but Kamau still had a way of looking at him that could make him feel so small. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She took part in the games of Arcadio and Amaranta, who treated her like an older sister, and she ate heartily, using the utensils properly. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was only as I grew older that I wondered if how I had started is how I would end—if the first shape a person takes is their only true shape. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Apparently Dana had three older brothers, none of whom was remembered fondly at Trace Middle. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the older children she said, “Four times four?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In a commensal tradition, where food is precious, the powerful older people made wrongdoers eat alone. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came first and after a few months sent for his family— me, Mameh, and my older brother, Sam. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started the older boys, his new varsity, at four miles. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

His older brother had gone to Iraq with the air force and had come back in a body bag. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He was standing with Lancelot’s old charger, now two years older, and all his accustomed armour neatly stowed on the saddle, as if for a kit inspection. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Outside in the hallway, there were people wandering in hospital gowns who were far older and sicker looking than Suzanne, and they were still here. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When it came to apportioning work on an aptitude basis, the smaller girls were assigned to dust the legs and lower shelves of furniture; the older girls to dust table tops and upper shelves. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Underwater, I sounded like I did on recordings, like a much older kid. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Why did you hurt me, my older sister?” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The council, a group of a dozen older Underlanders, had gathered at a round table in a room off the High Hall. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I turn to see an older girl with tons of springy red hair. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The older woman gives Keenan an unreadable look before hurrying out. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Once, as they sat in the attic toasting cheese and muffins by their hearth, the older boy asked why he went about calling people ‘squeak-pigs’ and things like that. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Yes, yes. Boys under twelve stay across the street, in a different camp, but the older boys will go downtown, to the Cuban Home for Boys.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

One was taller and older than the rest, with plaited silver hair and fine silk robes like a Roman matron. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Maybe I would if I saw him again when he was older. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Papa bought another fish, but this one was even older than the last, and even Baachan couldn’t make it taste good. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Mama and Omakayas’s older sister tied together a frame of bent willow poles. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

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

This would be her basket name or pet name, and would be used until she grew older. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last table was surrounded by a handful of seventh graders and a few older kids in black T-shirts. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Jinjoo narrowed her eyes and glared at Shinae, noticing how the older girl had taken two of the largest pieces of corn for herself and eaten them all. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“My siblings are way older than me. I’m basically an only child. I spend a lot of time talking to myself.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Another high schooler with a perspective adored by the older poets. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

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

This person looked only a few years older than the students who’d just walked out of the room. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

They were just little kids then, running away from older boys, like Major, who tried to hold them up for nickels on the street. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few cells down, to my amazement, a young Latino inmate was out on the gallery cutting an older man’s hair with electric clippers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I swear my older sister will be the death of me! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found myself wishing more than anything that my older brother, Matthew, would suddenly appear. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

We had been with our host for two weeks and were feeling better when very early one morning, an older woman came to the hut. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

By virtue of its demographics, Levittown—older, whiter, less educated than the nation as a whole—is a late adapter, not an early one. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

And they showed bony Vietnamese people older than Big Ma, pointing to the sky and to the hills in the distance. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Ma said, “I was just a little older than ’Lijah then. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It was a picture of Celia and an older, dark-haired man with an arm around her shoulders. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

When we got older he would take me and Peaches to a restaurant on Saturday afternoons and make believe we were grown ladies and that was, like, super-cool. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A nurse, I guess, but she didn’t look much older than I was. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Camp was a combined outing for grades five and seven, designed so us new kids could spend time with some of the older boys. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

At thirteen, she was, as her grandfather liked to remind her, one year older than the century, and so a good deal wiser. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The older he got, the longer he survived as a half-blood, the more his friends looked up to him. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, his older brother got out of there the second he could. His shoes left skid marks on the doorstep,” Dad says. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

His face was older in the morning light, with the closed, shrunken eyelids and the heavy, iron-like beard on his cheeks and jaw. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then they looked at each other and the older of the two motioned the other inside. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A portrait of an older man in uniform hung crooked on the plaster. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The older kids watched Laney run over to Paganini, lift up one floppy ear, and whisper all her grand plans for the tree. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t crowded, just a few kids and their older siblings. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Once he even took Bran, but never Arya, even though she was older. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m so much older than you. You seemed to have more to say to Frank than you ever had to me. You were funny with me, awkward, shy.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was older than the Young Wolf’s murdered brothers, fourteen or fifteen by the look of him, and his eyes were older still. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But when the older soldier did not stop, the suddenly taut rope made Jonathan slip and fall into the mud. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

He looks older—more like my dad, who’s been deployed since just before Thanksgiving last year. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The older brothers hired themselves out to other farmers. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I had started to run around with a gang, all of which were older than myself. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

In human years, he was barely fourteen, just a year older than Hazel, but that didn’t tell the whole story. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Usually I only cut older women’s hair. Their beauty is a little more, well, potent.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She is older than a teenager and yet not quite grown-up. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Minerva is only a little bit older than me but already she has two kids and a husband who left. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ucho, their leader, was only a year older than me, but he was much bigger. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

General and Mint whispered again before the older man answered. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Maya knew that in her bones, the way she knew that Grace and Joaquin were older than she. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

One so much older than her, one younger. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Abuelita declared, as she showed Pita’s ankle to the older of the two men. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“When you get older you realize how many of them were really a lot more important than you knew.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the other people on the boat are much older than I am. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

His older sister’s wedding isn’t until Friday, so at least I’m not jeopardizing his attendance there. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He was no older than twelve, and his scraped knees, tattered shoes, and windblown hair spoke of a life spent dodging wagons. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She worked part-time after school at a clothing boutique that catered primarily to women forty years older than her who called her dear. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I am taller than he is, and when he holds me, I feel awkward, older, as if I were the parent and he were the child. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was pitiful that all the older guys were either six feet under or living behind bars. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then I heard one of the older girls laughing at a TV show in the distance. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

From my observation, the older you get, the more you like the word cozy. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The boy sitting across from me seemed no older than I was, perhaps even younger. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was the daughter of two farmers; she was an older sister to Suri. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

She looks older, wearing the drab 13 clothes that flatter no one, with her long yellow hair in a practical braid instead of curls. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The older men stood, but Chip shook his head. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Boys slightly older were moving on to girls and dating and fitting in with the mores and restrictions of being in their mid teens, which meant, among other things, avoiding associations with younger boys. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Totems still guarded the top of a hill, ghosts of an older civilization. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“We used to write all kinds of things like that. I don’t know where we got them, from older boys perhaps.” The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of older aunties and some uncles join the group. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

As Ne-kah-e-se-y grew older, he became a prominent figure in the tribe. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Art is five years older than Joel and, on first impression, a very different sort of character. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She looked older than she could possibly have been, and she was very thin, just skin and bones, with a wan, yellow complexion and neglected, nicotine- stained hands. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was just a kid, a girl with Barbies and blocks, with two parents and an older brother who slept each night with his head about three feet from mine. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The insects are older than people, they have more experience at surviving, and there are a lot more of them than there are of us. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The older spirit shimmered like heat on the road in summer. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They were nice older guys who flew in from Miami every week to make fast money working double shifts. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He could guess, however, that the book was much older than that. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

With the hat off he was older, much older, old courtly Lo. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Better than the alternative," I respond immediately with the joke my father always uses whenever someone tells him he’s looking older. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

His mind seemed to break into a million pieces he couldn’t gather under his older brother’s waiting gaze. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was owned and run by an older couple. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

One of them, a scrawny boy no older than thirteen, spoke up first. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Kainene asked Baby to join the older children making lizard traps, to learn how to mat the palm fronds and place the cocoon full of iddo ants inside. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

As newcomers arrived, many older white residents simply left, and the demographic change was reflected in nearly all of Clarkston’s institutions. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I can tell she’s getting older in the entries, her language becoming more refined as time separates her from the fringe where she once lived, her reactions becoming more moderate. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“When you are young,” Mom said, “you only see how death affects the living. When you get older you worry about how your death will be greeted by those who are already dead.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s not...she’s never asked me to. It’s a personal choice, and she’s always told me I can choose to wear it, or not, when I’m older.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

"Hush now, child, I'm much older than you. I can . . . die as I please." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My parents and older brothers and sisters, like most of the internees, accepted their lot and did what they could to make the best of a bad situation. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got to thinking about my older sisters and how they were so close to each other but so far away from me. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

She thanked them and asked if they had a little milk for the older ones. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Her brother would be the pastor, or she would be since she was older. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore was standing over the Pensieve, his face lit from beneath by its silvery spots of light, looking older than ever. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

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

He grabbed his bike out of the dirt and puffed himself up with so much angry air I thought he’d burst, and I’d have to tell Mom that her older and more perfect son exploded. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Whitiker’s two older sons are living reminders of the world she wants to put behind her. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Charlaine looked like Doris, only ten years older and a twinge more Southern, and for some reason, the comparison made me itchy with discomfort. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In fact, time does funny things when there are no little surprises to mark it off into memorable chunks, and I sense that I’m already several years older than I was when I started. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cari ignored him and turned back to their older sister Naomi. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

An older man wearing a white chef’s coat and a black-and-white bandanna on his head stood in front of it, peering inside as the huge beater spun around to mix the batter. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Let’s get out of this place,” the older man grumbled. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She was simply our big sister—two years older than me, and six years older than the twins. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Septa Mordane said boar hunting was not for ladies, and Mother only promised that when she was older she might have her own hawk. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

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

“He’s just a year older than you. Isn’t that nice? Just one boat. You guys can play together!” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

All of these poets were older and wiser than me, and many of them were well read, and they brought this wisdom to bear on me and my work. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

There were a few older men among them; knights, she surmised. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They were taller, older versions of the boys I had seen the last time; their hole-ridden shorts were just as worn and their faded shirts just as threadbare. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s pray for Ben’s success in the first game,” Lillian said, ignoring her older daughter. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a nice girl, a year older than Nok but two levels below her in training. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She was only six years older than me, for gosh sake, which to my mind didn’t give her any right to lord it over me like she was a hundred. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It had only been a day since they’d last seen each other, but Fahim looked strangely older, or perhaps just more fatigued. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Not hard, just enough to let her know I was still older. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The older boy smiled at the sound and ran a hand through his hair. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When we rolled up to her house, Lateshia was sitting on the front steps with her older brother. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

English and I have been close since we were kids, even though he was a year older than me. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

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

But Robbie was only a few months older than Sierra and he was absolutely serious. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Several years ago she had always tagged behind her older brother. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As Pinmei came closer, she could see he was more of a boy than a man, perhaps only a handful of years older than Yishan. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The first two rows were filled with children both younger and older than I was. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood and half-clapped while watching her go from the podium to the arms of the preacher to the arms of some other old man, an older woman, and then back to her seat. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

My life had changed, I thought; I seemed older, and yet the lives of my schoolmates seemed unchanged. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re getting older now, and I think it’s time to control your imagination a little bit. Because it causes you to act in ways that are not always appropriate. Like throwing things at people.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He gradually spent more time playing with his two older brothers. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was taller, thinner, older, though the moonlight washed years from her face. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He and other transfers from my class recognized from snapshots the daughter of whom the older woman was so proud: Foster. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the people I saw looked like me—-about my age, some younger and some older. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We ascend the stage, and an older player asks me quietly for a bit of rosin. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

People assume, as the survivors grow older, they put their suffering behind them. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Later takes garments to finish at home with the help of his wife and older children. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She was older than him, but not a grown-up, and she looked neither friendly nor unfriendly. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I’ll repeat these words to myself, as if by doing so I’ll somehow be able to understand my older brother and my former love a little better. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“Twenty years. I wasn’t much older than you. My name used to be Hallelujah. That’s what Ma named me, but my mistress give me ‘Glory,’ and it stuck. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fat older man in shirtsleeves and suspenders was rocking on the porch of the house next to Josef’s. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

He was achingly handsome, and couldn’t have been older than twenty. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Because he was my older brother, I admired him; but because I was his sister, I felt superior. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

One was an embarrassingly young man with a face no older than the boys' faces at school on top of a large, muscular man's body. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Concha, a thin woman, older than Mamá, was friendly and full of advice. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

A new guy walks up to the door, a thin, short-bearded, older hippie-looking guy—except without the long hair—with glasses. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Muhammad told me that his older children’s lack of formal education reflected their sacrifice to form the backbone for today’s Universities of Islam in Detroit and Chicago which have better-qualified faculties. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Ocean Park I had taken tap- dancing lessons; my older brothers would coax me to perform for visitors, and it gained me a lot of attention. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the authorities believed that Adele, who was twelve years older than my grandfather and had been his live-in companion for two years by that time, would make sure that nothing happened to us. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Because I am much older, much cleverer, and much less valuable,” said Dumbledore. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

One of the women is older, and large, with a round face and double chin. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He yelled in a language I later found out was Tagalog, and the older woman rushed into the hallway. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He was two years older than Richard, but he didn’t act it. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A Candor boy who can’t be older than eleven sits to my left. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He is older than the others, with deep creases in his dark skin and gray hair at his temples, and he stands on the ledge like it’s a sidewalk. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I loved the walks with my uncle, because they gave me a chance to talk about my childhood, about growing up with my father and older brother. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She felt conspicuous, older than all of them and so far behind. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

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

He was older, balding, with a round, friendly face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

But, oh boy, if those fast cheerleaders who teased me for being a preacher’s kid could see me now, practically engaged to an older man! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were an older couple, both CPAs, on their second marriages. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I know, so lame. Want to know how many older model black Civics there are in the tri-state area?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The older women shut their eyes and returned to their past; the older men envied Roberto. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

There’s something strange and laughable about older, unmarried women. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I could never remember which one was older. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

That meant I would be older than Mother when we were released. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

How we giggled, with repugnance and delight, when we found the wax her older sisters used on their legs, congealed in a little pot, stuck full of bristles. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The younger ones were tired and rigid in their Sunday best, and the older ones were beginning to squirm. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Satisfied, she grunted, and told the maid to serve ‘the little master.’This young girl was hardly older than Cilia. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stood next to a group of older men who had set up a small table to play checkers, the same men who often played at Lowell Park. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Not an employee, but a girl, no older than twenty. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Her older sister was in West Side Story, last year’s high school musical. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

At first Dad was irritated, because he thought one of the older children was butting in. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hubbard swaggered across the room, two older men trailing him. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In an instant, my fierce bargaining cousin is back to the sweet girl I’ve spent every minute of the last few weeks with—and begun to love like an older sister. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“We shot air rifles. We had campfires and large bonfires and sang patriotic songs. As we got older, we learned to read maps.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t discern the look on his older brother’s face, so he braved the rest of his words. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Instead, they were passed down from generation to generation by the older relatives who whispered or spoke them to me time and again. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

One was young, tall, and muscled and wore the bright blue kaftan of a Yaba warrior; the other was significantly older and wore a cerulean robe. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But the real trouble was with the older kids. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She does look older, but 10th grade is a stretch. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s true, lady. I’ve had older students that would have loved to do half as well.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Of the older boys, George stood out for his enterprise. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

An older guy who looked like he was hiding a basketball under his T-shirt came from the far bleachers. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The two older ladies started shrieking when they got a look at my face, which had bloomed into a hellish palette of grayish yellow and blackish purple. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

We had seen young people who were probably in their twenties, children who were Edward’s age, and of course the majority who were our parents’ age or older. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The older woman nodded and gave a little wave. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

In her school there were pupils older and bigger than she was. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Albus looked several years older, but otherwise the two boys looked very alike, for this was before Albus’s nose had been broken and before he started wearing glasses. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she looks at the eyes of her older colleagues and wonders what they did when the electricity was out, when there were no candles, when the rain came through the ceiling. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The guard behind the table was older, seasoned. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Joe crouched next to the older man and studied the wood and listened intently. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“As far as I’m concerned,” Lina was continuing downstairs, “when it comes to husbands, the older the better.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

To begin with, some researchers—many but not all from an older generation—deride the new theories as fantasies arising from an almost willful misinterpretation of data and a perverse kind of political correctness. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Marina’s first students were a group of older male officers. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Which left, still living at home, the boy, Kenyon, who at fifteen was taller than Mr. Clutter, and one sister, a year older—the town darling, Nancy. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my culture, you’re not supposed to ignore people who are older than you. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

An older man sat on the edge of his bed, oxygen tubes hooked under his nostrils as he struggled to clip his fingernails in Room 415. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The older I got, the more I realized that my happy-Mom memories were often fabrications invented to make me feel better about her being chronically unhappy. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The ship’s boy was older than he was in the book, but he had the same black curls, the same wide-set puppy-dog eyes. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Si,” the older girl agreed readily, tearing at her long brown hair with both hands. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It feels strange to be comforting my older sister. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He’s talking to some of the older boys so I take my time walking down the stairs, through the school yard and back to the apartment. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

When he got older, he learned about love as a strange thing that could fall apart no matter how badly you wanted it, a choice you make anyway. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Two locks clicked, a dead bolt slid, and the older Ms. Lee opened the door. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

After all, I was the one who had been beaten up by the older boys when the union went out on strike. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

My older sister, Samira, and I were hanging out in the kitchen, probably dining on our favorite light Entenmann's coffee cake. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

That is, he was certainly quite old, at least in Meggie's eyes: in his mid-sixties or even older. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I asked one of the older girls if she thought épée was a good choice for a beginner, and she said yes. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

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

“They are working with those villains the Taliban,” grumbled an older man with a cane. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

My mom's older sister and my dad's younger sister had become close friends after marrying into the same family. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

One of the older children shooed me away, but I did not listen. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

They look like the older women you see working in the alley behind a restaurant, pouring out buckets of dirty dishwater. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lloyd: We’re still friends, but we just don’t kick it like we used to— like going on bus rides—because we got older. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kids were getting their phones stolen and/or thrown into the lunchtime garbage can by older kids. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Renly's young queen was no more than fifteen, sixteen, he seemed to recall . . . older than Joffrey, but a few years were nothing, it was so neat and sweet he could taste it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

That evening we rode home in high spirits, the babies fast asleep in the arms of the older children. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are peasant girls, not much older than I am, wandering in the field. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least not till I’m older and can get into a place like that on my own. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Bruce and I discovered that our older siblings, his sister and my brother, were friends. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

A woman older than Clayton’s mother tried on Cool Papa’s showtime vest, “oohed” in F major, and hollered, “I must have it!” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

She turned around and walked back to the group of older people clustered about Consuelo. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

So for the time being, my parents’ worries about their younger son’s physical health were compounded by their worries about their older son’s mental health. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shock was how much older he looked, especially round the eyes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Seven learned that October was Seven’s potions tutor in Boggs Ferry and they had become friends, according to the older girl, which made Thorn blush. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Besides, I'm older now and understand a little about pain, and the crazy things it drives us to. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until he grew much older, he was never known to pick up a restaurant check, suffering what a friend called “limp wrist syndrome.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

By 1938 it was rather widely prevalent in the older areas of Japanese beetle infestation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

They hadn’t planned for children, and the men from San Juan convinced a few older girls to watch the little ones outside so that the meeting could proceed with the least amount of disruption. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

They were boys, all of them—some young, some older. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Did you know, Emma,” she said, “that the Greeks have their own version of Cinderella, much older than the one we tell today? And the Egyptians and the Chinese, too?” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Hermione had lisped and pranced and pirouetted through their childhoods, showing off at every available moment with no thought—so her scowling, silent older sister believed—for how ludicrous and desperate she appeared. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The owner, an older woman, gives me more fortune cookies and an extra pair of chopsticks. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I don't say anything because he's older and can't stand me. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“So, I’m wondering if you’d like to come out with me. You’re older now, and I think it’s about time. Are you up for it?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

An older man and a younger man, both wearing green vests and baseball caps, stood behind the counter, chitchatting. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

In some older recordings, the singing would be re-recorded by a Western chorus, which took away from the experience of hearing the song. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Relieved that I didn’t have to worry about him, I followed Sabrina and Daphne, another girl from Lykes Cottage who was a year older than I was and who seemed savvier than Sabrina. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

McKissick, just five years older than Moore, not only believed in developing new strategies for achieving racial justice; he was an activist in his own right. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He looked old; there was a wetness in his eyes, a crumpled defeat in his face, that made him look older. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Not only was Big Rose taller than both Harp and Gully, but she carried more weight on her than those boys, who were probably two years older. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“The desperation to find her affected his mind as he got older, and I believe it stayed with him until the very end.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A girl who couldn't be much older than twelve or thirteen approached his window. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

But little did we know, as we ate and sang and the older men told stories about the fire, that our good fortune would soon bring trouble to Ghalas-at. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She was just a little older here than you are right now.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

An older couple with no climbing gear but three cameras and a pair of binoculars. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I left home with Junior, my older brother, and our friend Talloi, both a year older than I, to go to the town of Mattru Jong, to participate in our friends’ talent show. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I had a different kind of relationship with my older sisters. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

There’s also a pair of older Black men at a small table in a corner, playing dominoes. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The guy who steps out looks a couple of years older than me, and is almost a foot taller, with thick black hair to his shoulders and black-rimmed glasses. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Inside the tent Mrs. Coulter was talking to a man Lena Feldt hadn’t seen before: an older man, gray-haired and powerful, with a serpent dæmon twined around his wrist. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, you have the wisdom of someone years older if you figured that out all on your own.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

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

Alec groaned and Mark heard the sounds of the cot creaking as the older man got to his feet. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I should thank Sara for saving me from social isolation, or at least from being stuck with a pair of older kids who don’t want me in their kitchen. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

There were Irish children down there who looked no older than seven or eight. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Soon after the accident, Stephanie, the older of the girls, had begun to play World ofWarcraft, using her father’s account and his computer and desk, peering into his hefty NEC monitor. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The air around the three older witches rippled like water, and suddenly they looked like completely different witches. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Jethro, understanding the situation more fully now that he was older, wondered at his father’s intervention that afternoon. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The benches that had been filled by Walter's supporters the previous day were now mostly occupied by older white people. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“As I recall, given that you’re a year older than me, I was taught by my parents to call you Gogol Dada.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But there’s another part of me, I guess the part of me from right now, the older me, that refuses to do that. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The worry lines around her eyes made her look older than she probably was. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He was a year older than she, but she was a head taller. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

My mom and my older sister were all for it; my younger brothers were ready to live like surfer boys. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The older children, like John or Roy, might wander down the avenue, but not too far. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He addressed all the secretaries by name and got along with everyone—from the older, stuffier lawyers to the ambitious young bucks who were now playing basketball. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

With one exception the older residents of Medallion scorned them. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was one of the first really good days of spring that year, and I’d been sitting on the grass talking with a couple of the older girls. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some older refugee kids from the complexes in Clarkston had managed rides to the game, an hour away from Clarkston, and several volunteers from resettlement agencies showed up as well. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“The older children helped. We left everything, grabbed younguns, and ran.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And I couldn’t help thinking about the weeping older version of that same face standing behind a quivering flyer, pleading for help on the evening news for the past few weeks. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

A boy, not much older than Robin, came hobbling toward them on crutches. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Though boys were put into their own groups with the older ones in charge, Sudanese elders, following our traditions, decided the girls needed to be looked after by adults. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

You will have to learn how to be a good older Uhn-nee. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“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

Justice was four years older than I and became my first hero after my father. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But almost always, the older brothers and sisters had secretly taught the younger ones. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“By the way, are there any other kids in the building that go to the Hideout? Besides us? Like, do the older kids go down there?” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Afterward she felt older and as though she knew him as good as she could know any person. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z