| 单词 | on earth |
| 例句 | This was his last night on earth, and he wanted to remember everything. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And there is life on earth because of an accident. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z And besides, there are no greater enemies on earth than the Germans and the Jews. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “What?! No! Where on earth did you get a twisted idea like that?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Yes, I had done wrong, but how on earth could I have known the kind of people I was working for? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I want her to roll her eyes, to say, What on earth were you thinking? Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z “Where on earth did the extra three sleep?” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “What on earth would you do with that much land?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I love you, Momma, more than anything on earth or in the Lord's heavens above. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z How on earth would I go about describing a girl’s parts? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “What on earth are you doing here, you filthy child?” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Farmer wasn’t put on earth to make anyone feel comfortable, except for those lucky enough to be his patients, and for the moment I had become one of those. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Miss Thomas said, “James, Bud was six years old, everyone on earth was real tall to him. I don’t see the point in all this.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z It occurred to him that this might be his last minute on earth. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z I read on and what amazed me was not what he said, but how on earth anybody had the courage to say it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Frodo sat for a moment looking at the fire, but his only thought was how on earth would they reach the Ferry. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Though what on earth you want me for,” he said to the Sergeant, “I really can’t imagine.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Penelope wondered what on earth they could be thinking of. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “I can’t really go as a Dresden shepherdess,” I said; “what on earth shall I do? I’m not much good at dressing-up.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z God give a lucky few of us some talent and then put us on earth to make use of it. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z She wished he were closer so she could ask him what on earth was going on. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Perhaps no organization on earth, save the Communist party, possessed so detailed a knowledge of how workers lived, for its sources of information stemmed directly from the workers themselves. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z My first impression of Płaszów as hell on earth never changed. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z A little while we tarry up on earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I outran him, of course; and then here came Mama, running so fast that her long skirts were flying, and calling out: “What on earth, boys!” as I ran past her. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z After all, that is what happens here on earth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z On the first day of the Faire, while Mr. Burke, Connor, and I were chatting, a woman walked past Connor’s stand and loudly whispered, “What on earth is wrong with that boy?” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Only Freddie the janitor took liberties with Macon Dead, liberties he purchased with the services he rendered, and Freddie was the last person on earth to tell him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, most of us laughed like this was the funniest thing on earth. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z What on earth was a park kind of mood? It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “What on earth has gotten into you, girl?” he asked. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “How on earth would you put something like that down? Can a lizard even catch the froth?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But now it sounded like heaven on earth. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “What on earth do you plan to do?” the doctor asked. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z The suggestion was that they were having their heaven right here on earth. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Holy hell, Jacob. What on earth happened?” he says, picking through the hair at the back of my head. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “Yeah. Me too. And guess what else? It turns out that the Portuguese shark is the deepest-living shark on earth. I love that. I think that’s really cool.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z "What on earth did you do, Brother Tarp?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tell me, do you honestly think this is the most spectacular show on earth?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z All the beauty of the stars means nothing when life here on earth is so ugly. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z "Who on earth can take this circus seriously?" she said crossly. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z If you died with a venial sin on your soul you could not enter heaven until the sin was absolved by prayers or rosaries or masses from your family on earth. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “What's that supposed to mean: SHE doesn't want him back?'' Ida's voice startled him out of his worries. “What on earth is she thinking of? The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z I come up the walk carrying the refrigerated shipping bucket, and she says, “Finch, what on earth? Why do you smell like smoke?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z All that remained on earth were the comments of the amazed crowd below and a multitude of experts, who attempted to provide a reasonable explanation of the miracle. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The device was not a hydrogen bomb, exactly, but it was “the first thermonuclear test explosion on earth,” in the words of one witness, the young Berkeley physicist Herbert York. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Then she stoops, speeding toward her prey at two hundred miles an hour, the fastest animal on earth. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone on earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z They’d been through the fighting that made those other Pacific Islands feel like little bits of hell on earth. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z How on earth had she gotten that many moles? It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “Like someone who wants gay peace on earth,” Arthur says. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z There are plenty of places on earth where visiting Americans are greeted with great enthusiasm. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “O Lord, let us pray,” he concluded, landing abruptly back down on earth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why on earth are you tearing away at the wallpaper like that?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Radio failure was especially worrisome, because if the astronauts couldn’t talk to anybody they would have to do all the navigating back from the moon, without help from radar tracking stations, and computers on earth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z "You think they're saints. Touched by God, doing His work on earth through miracles that mere mortals are not capable of?" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z And I have to save it, and what on earth am I doing, dilly-dallying here? The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z No life on earth can be Hid from our dreaming. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z As for the Ainu, their distinctive appearance has resulted in more being written about the origins and relationships than about any other single people on earth. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We walked out of that building and I was the happiest man on earth. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z What on earth do you think you can do? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z I mean, I just don’t see any point in having animals like that running around on earth. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z They are not terrified astronauts floating in an endless atmosphere—they are just four ordinary explorers here on earth. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z How on earth could he drop from Brotherhood to this in so short a time? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z For Thula, however, Boulder City was about as forlorn a place as could be found on earth. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Where on earth have you all been?” she asked, looking at their bathrobes hanging off their shoulders and their flushed, sweaty faces. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z With the assistance of Arthur’s policies this church—still the greatest of all corporations free to learned men on earth—had become a highway open to the lowest slave. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Simone, if you were struggling in all these subjects, why on earth didn’t you ask for help?” he said. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I don’t think there was anyone on earth as stubborn as old Timothy. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The only thing I needed to think about now was helping complete Yakov’s unfinished business here on earth. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Whenever Grandma said, “God loves us each one as his children, and He put us on earth to share.” March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z ‘Oh, don’t worry about the tray. But what on earth was it that made you drop it? Why did you go white as a ghost all of a sudden?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, that meant despair for the people on earth. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Hugo put his head out to see what on earth was going on. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Twelve thousand years ago, everybody on earth was a hunter-gatherer; now almost all of us are farmers or else are fed by farmers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “All of First Congregational is wondering what on earth a minister’s son is doing out in a dory with a Negro girl.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z It has the sharpest cutting edge of any tool on earth. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Where on earth is he going with this? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “Then why on earth didn’t you say so?” she cried, and so intense was her exasperation that she drove her sharp nails into the skin of his wrist. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z But how on earth could they help him? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “How do you feel at the lowest spot on earth?” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Which makes me wonder: If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Marly! What on earth—” He pushed her aside with a hard big sweep of his arm that almost knocked her down. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z “We don’t know. But we’ll find him. There’s nowhere on earth he can hide from us.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z If my mother had ever let me have a dog, I think it would have been the happiest dog on earth. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z As he galloped across the British Isles with the helicopters thundering above him, people stood and gaped and wondered what on earth was going on. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I hurt you, even though it is the absolute last thing on earth I ever, ever want to do. I hurt you.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Nothing in her experience—her difficult childhood, her previous work with injured patients—had prepared her for this kind of hell on earth. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z "What on earth?" he mutters, as the knights are swallowed, one by one. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Then Mrs. Alexander opened the door, and she said, “Christopher, what on earth has happened to you?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The cap’n’s knowed to be mad as a hatter, but even someone crazy as him has to know all Pap’s business here on earth is through. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z They want there to be a force of good on earth, and they want an incentive to be a part of that force. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z “He’s deeply religious. He thinks God put him on earth for a certain number of years and that he mustn’t ask for more.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z People said it was wonderful, like paradise on earth. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Cloke, how on earth did you get mixed up in something like this?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z But the last thing on earth I plan to do is go digging through the pictures in Cletus’s beat-up vinyl suitcase so we can collaborate, as he puts it. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z “All right. I’ll collect the eggs. What on earth happened to this basket?” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z What on earth were they going to do?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “He was willing to jump in the car, with supposedly the person you love more than anyone on earth, and drive too fast after a night of partying,” he says, looking back. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Life on Libra could be as interesting and varied as life on earth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered where on earth she thought there was enough money to pay for such brutal days as I was enduring. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, why on earth are you going all over the house searching for furniture?” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z No force on earth can stop me, except that her song starts and crushes the moment with melancholy. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z What on earth could Papa Will have brought? March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I find the girls dancing like it’s their last day on earth, their hands flying in the air and their hips swinging back and forth. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Where on earth did Vincent get the idea of living with a woman, and with children, too?! Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Or if there actually was some sort of big, important person waiting for Citra, what on earth were his or her intentions? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Lawrence calculated the cyclotron’s yield as the equivalent of more than one ton of radium—more radium than was known to exist on earth. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Corn is now one of the most successful plants on earth. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Magdalys wanted to ask her who on earth she was, this strange, slender girl who seemed to know everything from battle tactics to acrobatics, but she restrained herself. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “Don’t you get it, Percy? You are home. This is the only safe place on earth for kids like us.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “Crazy, lying, out for the reward. I don’t know what to say. He always seemed sane enough, though he did drag me off in a corner once and start talking about Christ’s kingdom on earth.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Well, what on earth or sea are you doing here?” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z Then we stopped at the hardware store to stock up on duct tape, which was just about the most useful thing on earth for a farm commune. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Central Mexico, they said, was the most densely populated place on earth, with more than twice as many people per square mile than China or India. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Why on earth did your mother let you come?” he demanded. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z But who on earth could Ebright have found that would knock a machine like Burnley out of a national championship boat? The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The stars were bright and they were steady, with none of the twinkle we normally see on earth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look at your arms! It’s not just chafing. You’re bruised up to your elbows. How on earth did they do that?” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “That, and windy. You learn to walk well away from the edge. Men have been blown off. Still. The Wall is like nothing else on earth. You may never have another chance to see it.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In the meantime I learned the hard way to store things like honey in a tightly covered container if you didn’t want to get every bug on earth flying in for a taste. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe the people who were too terrible for Heaven got stuck on earth with all the living folks, everyone just making each other unhappy forever and ever. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z At last it occurred to Mrs. Popper to wonder what on earth the busy bird was up to. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z It could include facilities for food production, health care, manufacturing, leisure activities—just as a town on earth can do. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know this seems terrible and I know how it hurts, but at one time or another, everyone suffers. Even the Good Lord suffered while He was here on earth.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But as she was about to discover, their thinking was not on earth. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z If it was not a mothers place to look after children, whose on earth was it? The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z You are looking at the only cantilevered structure of its kind on earth. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z What on earth was the woman afraid of? And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Bewildered, wondering what on earth he was supposed to have done this time, Harry got up and followed Uncle Vernon out of the kitchen and into the next room. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He wonders what the most mind-numbingly wholesome public figure on earth could possibly have to hide. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Why on earth would you have even considered dropping out? Because of last night? Don’t let that stop you, Nessy.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “What on earth’s all this?” said Hazel to Bigwig in perplexity. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your hair?” he said, “why on earth do you ask? Of course I like it. What's the matter with it?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “Jessamyn West said, ‘Writing is so difficult that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.’ All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Although his teeth are crooked and his lower ones are slanted back—as if someone had once punched them in—when he smiles it’s as if you’d just told him the first joke on earth. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Why on earth did she insist on calling her Sister Flowers? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside was information about the most closely guarded secret on earth. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s hard to believe any water on earth could be so unequivocal. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I answer, wondering what on earth just happened. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He was punished by being forced to serve on earth as a slave for a year and Admetus was the master he chose or Zeus chose for him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z When he returned, he would be much younger than the one who stayed on earth. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Where on earth do we find a village in this godforsaken wilderness? We’ve probably taken at least two wrong turns already.’ Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z We knew this from photographs taken on earth through telescopes, and also those taken by spacecraft from up close. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I slam the gas harder, and now I can’t stop because I am faster than anything on earth. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The Goddess of Love and Beauty knew very well where the most beautiful woman on earth was to be found. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Institutions—government, religion, school administrations, the music industry, Microsoft—were roadblocks, put on earth to obstruct and torment him, invade his privacy and limit his freedom of movement on the Internet. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z How on earth was this supposed to help solve the mystery of the egg? Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z A great change has occurred in the countenance of Neumann Two, as though he looks not at his former companions but into his last hours on earth. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Let’s go,” Mom said coldly, and I said, “Thanks for having me,” and Annemarie’s dad smiled at me, but only because he’s the nicest person on earth. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z Malcolm sounded incredulous, and he felt it too: Who on earth would want to hurt the nuns, or break their windows? The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z If he was so strong and brave, then why on earth was he frightened of her? The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z And when they asked her where she had been and what on earth she had been doing, she said she had been out wit! The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z “What on earth do you want this time?” she said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Now that we were back on earth, it was moist and smelled like burned chemicals, but mostly it was hot. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now how on earth did you get up there!” she said as she lifted me down to the floor. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z That the past was an abused record with no choice but to repeat itself at the crack and no power on earth could lift the arm that held the needle. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It was such a beauty, I almost regretted having to launch it and see it shattered back on earth. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “True, you’re not. There’s not a place on earth you could qualify as a gentleman.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A miracle has happened and a sign has occurred here on earth, right on our farm, and we have no ordinary pig.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z When he got out of jail, he said, he hoped to return to the reservation: “I had rather live at Gray Horse than any place on earth.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Pollard had found the one place on earth that could hold his interest. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z How on earth could she make that 3:40 p.m. flight? The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Of course, since I was allergic to pretty much every plant that grew on earth, I would have been a real Indian with a head full of snot. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z “She's loose in London. And with Uncle Andrew. I wonder what on earth is going to happen now.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Beneath the carpet is a concrete slab that rests on earth that was compacted twenty years ago by heavy machinery. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z And how on earth could he have known that they would find Mary’s bones in the furnace so soon? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes the bravest thing on earth was to sit through the night and feel the cold in your bones. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, on earth, mixing two or more molten metals is difficult because the light ones float to the top while the heavy ones sink to the bottom. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Johnny had been on earth for thirty-four years. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z No power on earth would save the murderous fox if Constance caught him. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z But that’s probably going too far; chances are, at the time, I noticed all these things without knowing what on earth to make of them. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone on earth but me—and now Violet—moves in slow motion, like they’re filled with mud. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Then I just lie there, staring out my window at the winter sky, pondering how on earth this will all turn out. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Dad said that he wanted to move to Florida where he could buy a little piece of heaven, and Mom had said Norvelt was heaven on earth. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z If there’s any place on earth where people should be allowed to cry as they watch their lives transform before them, it’s the airport. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z As Chief Luthuli said, “When the women begin to take an active part in the struggle, no power on earth can stop us from achieving freedom in our lifetime.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s what everyone worries about, isn’t it? What if today were my last day on earth?” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the first place on earth where the man mattered more than the state. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z As a matter of fact, they would probably find the raw uncontrolled conditions on earth too primitive for their taste. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “You always know what to do. What on earth would I do without you?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Until her last moment on earth she was unaware that her irreparable fate as a disturbing woman was a daily disaster. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I took a deep breath and told myself that a woman anywhere on earth can understand another woman on a market day. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m not the first woman on earth to have seen her daughters possessed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I think the heart of every living thing on earth is beating in my body. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z But I can't see how on earth to make it go away.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Their faces were perfectly tinted and they wore clothes the like of which Francie had never seen on earth. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z What on earth can it be you are so anxious to hide?' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “Why on earth would it be any different?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Why on earth would a library need a director of holographic imagery?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z If you ask me, there are so many dummies that about a quarter of the class should be kept back, but teachers are the most unpredictable creatures on earth. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Nothing at all to distract your head from wondering what on earth you could do, where you could go in a world that had no place for you, no need for you at all. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Unlike most everyone else on earth, from the very first cells of us, we were together, we came here together. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z How on earth could prehistoric people of Borneo, presumably voyaging in boats without maps or compasses, end up in Madagascar? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Not forever on earth; only a little while here. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “And the signs. Who on earth could be making them?” grumbled Elder Oerick. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “We must have looked completely mad. What on earth will the Mark think? Anyway, now we’re out here, we may as well go round the sentries.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I believe that if we can’t learn to live with our brothers and sisters here on earth, how will we get a chance to work it out in heaven? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z What on earth did you think you could get out of it?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The woman said, “Poppa, what on earth are all these lumps and bites on this baby’s face?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z We reached the dormitory and began climbing, up to the fourth, top, tier, passing members of every race on earth. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z How on earth was he going to see the Snitch in this? Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z And then as if water on earth drew water from heaven it rained as though the earth were in drought. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “Why on earth would he tell you that?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The route took us up the gently sloping floor of the Western Cwm, the highest box canyon on earth, a horseshoe-shaped defile gouged from the heart of the Everest massif by the Khumbu Glacier. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The only thing on his mind was trying to figure out how on earth he was going to come up with four thousand dollars— and fast. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z How on earth he’d managed to catch anything as fast running as one of those green-striped lizards, I don’t know; but he sure had one. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z What on earth are we going to talk about? The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And wouldn't getting it as a gift wreck even the best person on earth? You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Certainly. First of all, what on earth happened to your face?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z ‘What on earth do you think you’re doing?’ he said, knowing very well exactly what I was doing. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “What do you mean? You are the most precious, wonderful person on earth. Come, my brother, let us be together and feast on each other’s company.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “Do you feel, Bigger, that somehow, somewhere, or sometime or other you’ll have a chance to make up for what you didn’t get here on earth?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z My breath quickens as I think about Pa’s last moment on earth. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why on earth did you do that? Why?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z I blinked at Dad, not knowing what on earth he'd said. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z How on earth did I even get here? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Mom said God put it on earth to eat the garbage and it wasn’t made for human consumption. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Honey wondered what on earth was going on in the mind of this child. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Dionysus brought her away, but not to live on earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s normal to want to sleep after a hard workout. What’s not normal is that you never nap, Simone. Who on earth has so much energy?” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z How on earth could Derek, with his almost paralyzed legs, get out of the plane before it caught fire? My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “Hiram”—Mr. Paul’s face turned serious—“maybe God put different kinds of people on earth so we could all learn to get along. Ever think about that?” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z “What on earth's this?'' asked Elinor, when she had read it, frowning. “You were planning to go and look for your father? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Finally Momma said, “Daniel, what on earth is that towel doing in there?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z What on earth would we be doing with such things? The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They were probably wondering, Why on earth is she so excited? Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Since this may be my last night on earth I try to make my peace with God. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Odysseus and the two chieftains chosen to accompany him found the hero with his friend Patroclus, who of all men on earth was dearest to him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Our party became another shuffling unit in the shifting mass with every race on earth represented. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Not that he really doesn’t have any compassion, but he’d be the last one on earth to show it. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z “What on earth are they talking about?” the Old-Green-Grasshopper said to the Centipede. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z “How on earth did you get to be like that?” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z “Best show on earth! I can’t believe the actors didn’t crack up.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “Where on earth did you find a Mylar brain?” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I suppose I wanted her timeless, though there is no such thing on earth. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “The High Septon speaks for the Seven here on earth. Strike at him, and you are striking at the gods themselves.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Shut up, you idiot,” said Maxim; “what on earth is Robert doing?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z It was magnificent country, as topographically imposing as any landscape on earth, but it wasn’t wilderness, and hadn’t been for hundreds of years. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Now, perhaps by the reaction he was receiving from certain individuals behind me, he was back on earth. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She thought he was missing the greatest joy on earth by being committed to a life of celibacy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “We have,” Reynie said, “and we can hardly believe it. Why on earth would a spy be at the Institute?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z One day we will take hold of the means of production and there will be justice on earth.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Or perhaps the last music on earth called up from out of the ashes of its ruin. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “I think someone told me a story about a secret chamber at Hogwarts once . . . might’ve been Bill. “And what on earth’s a Squib?” said Harry. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z “What on earth will we do with this awful cheese?” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Since the first stage in unconscious domestication involves gathering seeds to eat, how on earth did domestication of wild almonds ever reach that first stage? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The last thing on earth Gilbert de la O wanted to do was join the army. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The point is I’m the quickest striker in the league and on earth. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Sometimes she would regain her senses minutes or hours or half a day later, shaking her head to un-addle her brains, and wondering what on earth she had been doing, or for how long. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “Why on earth didn’t you write to us and borrow a costume?” said Beatrice. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “If you end up the last man on earth, you might stand a chance.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “What on earth are they going to do?” said Michael, gaping. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z “It would be the finest thing on earth for me, but what about my folks? My ma has lost three little boys and Mary—and Tom—and Bill. I’m the youngest; they depend on me.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a kindly, peace-loving god, popular on earth as in heaven. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Turtles had survived on earth more than two hundred million years—longer than snakes or crocodiles, even. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z It is a good thing for the entire enterprise that mitochondria and chloroplasts have remained small, conservative, and stable, since these two organelles are, in a fundamental sense, the most important living things on earth. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z If it was not a mother’s place to look after children, whose on earth was it? The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z “Only because you’re an idiot. Why on earth would Jenny Yen even consider replacing me with...you?” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z There is no sound on earth but the whispering snowfall. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z What on earth did one put on to go to Mrs. Flowers’ house? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I was sure that mine about Everest was not mine alone; the highest point on earth, unattainable, foreign to all experience, was there for many boys and grown men to aspire toward. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z “Nearly seven miles deep—the deepest place on earth—and southwest of the island of Guam, which isn’t even on your globe.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Woven into the national identity of the US is the idea that the nation was created to be unlike any other nation on earth. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “What on earth do you children think you’re doing, running around in weather like this?” he said angrily. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Surely no other place on earth was more proud of its beauty than Venice, and as he watched its spires and domes, each caught the sun as if trying to outshine one another. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Heaven knows how she found it, but to us it was the greatest place on earth. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “How on earth do you achieve that effect? The skunk stripe,” she says, reaching up and brushing her own temple. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “Who on earth’s calling here this early on a Sunday morning?” she mumbled. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “Why? But for you, for you. Just to show that I . . “And what on earth vacuum cleaners have got to do with lions ...” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z They touched a memory of the right world for a peregrine, a memory as old as her species’ time on earth. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The consensus outside Virginia seemed to be that “not one person in a thousand in the United States knows that there is such a place on earth,” and those few who did were all Indians. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Visitors not only can learn a lot about Tsiolkovsky’s plans for flying into space but can also see how he lived on earth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother isn't always the happiest lady on earth, but that's just because times have been tough. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Why on earth would a cheating teacher go to the trouble of erasing a student’s test sheet and then fill in the wrong answer? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z She seemed to have been put on earth to visit the sick, and to comfort those who wept, and to arrange the last garments of the dying. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z How on earth could I have made so grave a mistake? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘What on earth’s Ted doing up the back of your dressing gown?’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z In either case, it would not be of much use as a source of heat and light for life on earth. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks?” asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book box out of the house. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman! A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Does this make me feel villainously duplicitous and like the most awful person on earth? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z No one on earth can ensure our safety. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z But how on earth was he going to persuade Uncle Vernon or Aunt Petunia to sign the form? Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z "How on earth are we going to do that?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z The gods of all the rivers on earth were their sons. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They could burn my flag or pelt me with stones, but if there were taxidermied kittens to be had, then I would go and bring them back to this, the greatest country on earth. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z They were horrified at the anguish and misery on earth. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z This is the largest unsupported arch on earth and I took the photograph while I was training out there for the RAF in 1940. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z What on earth was I going to tell her? Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “To look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “You all must be the dumbest unhung Negroes on earth. What they telling you in them schools? You say ‘Hi’ to pigs and sheep when you want ’em to move. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘What on earth do you mean, he wasn’t on it?’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z As she fell asleep beside him, Bigwig wondered how on earth he was going to fulfill this promise and whether they would be woken by the Council police. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z If something is happening outside of awareness, how on earth do you fix it? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Anyway, it felt good to be back on earth, even if we were upside down. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z If they planned every detail, the Shakers had believed, they could create a patch of heaven on earth, a little refuge from the world, and the founders of Shaker Heights had thought the same. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z And, as if all that were not upsetting enough: What on earth was the schottische? The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “Richard,” he said again, as if there were no one on earth he could possibly be so delighted to see. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase of pain. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z My grandmother’s last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Francie spent her first night on earth sleeping snugly between her mother and Sissy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z You reach a point where you’re at the bottom of hell, yet you have your arms crossed and a smile on your face, and you feel you’re the luckiest person on earth. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “Can you believe that name, Auggie? I mean, who on earth would ever agree to have a name like Mr. Tushman?” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z The last thing on earth I wanted was a mess like this. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Bodysurfing in the Pacific was one of his absolute favorite things on earth. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “They are one of the oldest animals on earth,” I say, touching one of its legs. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z It was, all in all, the most beautiful, perfect car that God has ever allowed to be made on earth. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z And it would be one thing if I had planned to stir things up, but given the circumstances...how on earth did I cause so much trouble? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I trembled with fear as we passed through those gates of hell on earth. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “How on earth do you propose to get a loop of string around a seagull’s neck? I suppose you’re going to fly up there yourself and catch it!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z This is the boy who heard our last confession on earth, they chanted as if in prayer. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “What on earth are we going to say?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “Some humans think we have the right to be the only predators on earth.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “How on earth am I supposed to live a lie, one that will surely end up with me dead if anyone discovers the truth?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z When her flight from JFK finally landed in Atlanta, my mom did the same thing...wondering how on earth she'd ever find my dad. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “This guy eats once a day but it’s like his last day on earth,” Humble says. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z “Some of the most lethal creatures on earth are invertebrates.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z “Who on earth wants to talk to you this badly?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z At first she wonders what on earth Chandresh’s assistant is doing in Prague, as she has never seen him outside of London. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Some of the marks were made by the spirits, some were made by humans; others were drawn by a giant race of people who had lived on earth in the old days and had disappeared. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z For a while, when I was young and foolish, I thought I was the last gorilla on earth. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z I told him, “Mohammed is the most common name on earth.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z As the physicist and writer James Trefil has put it, "It would be hard to believe that the continuous movement of tectonic plates has no effect on the development of life on earth." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He had sharp brown eyes and a sharp nose, like a hawk’s, and he understood her better than anyone else on earth. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Always crying about Mexico as if it were the best place on earth. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z But with the heavens also in turmoil, all the immortals were too concerned with their own affairs to attend to the ones on earth. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Old dreams still burned with the power of their one night on earth, but burned deep and forbidden in regions denied to men. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But he didn’t know any magic yet — what on earth would he have to do? Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z For in my heart I needed to go, and the pull of Everest was stronger for me than any force on earth. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z “I wonder what on earth it cost. A pretty packet, I bet. Did you ask?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z For example, as a location for his Columbiad he picked, of all places on earth, Tampa, Florida—just a few miles west of Cape Canaveral, the launching pad for our Columbia. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why on earth would you make such an accusation?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z ‘Now how on earth could I be knowing a thing like that?’ said the BFG. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “What on earth is happening?” somebody said close by. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z “You are the actual least romantic person on earth.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z He claimed that he was the “supreme being on earth.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z And how on earth will I find him? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z With my speed, I knew that once I made it through the hole, no one on earth could catch me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “What on earth happened to you?” she says, then raises her hand. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Like tufts of clouds that have somehow become stranded on earth. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Then I remember the honey badger—pound for pound the most powerful creature on earth! I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “I didn’t have much choice, did I? I married him before I realized. You’ve seen it. When he’s happy, he’s the most charming creature on earth. But when something sets him off...” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z But until that time, and elsewhere than that place, there would never be any rest or peace for Ged, day or night, on earth or sea. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z “Who on earth wants to make their nose hair grow into ringlets?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Almost at a stroke, just 168 men had dealt a devastating blow to the greatest empire on earth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Still, I kept wondering: How on earth was I going to roller-skate in silk stockings? Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z What on earth am I going to do with him? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Besides the Virgin’s blue robe, it was the holiest cloth on earth. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing would ever exactly fit together and solidify; she would never grow calm, never feel at ease; life was a hell on earth of loose ends, uncertainty, violence. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z From them we learned that we were about the most hated animals on earth, except maybe snakes and germs. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z “What on earth are you up to?” he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Sometimes I felt very alone on earth, as if there were no adults to protect me. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z When the people of the Norte Chico were building these cities, there was only one other urban complex on earth: Sumer. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Then the flames rushed up and Hercules was seen no more on earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the greatest, most beloved spot on earth! Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z The way everyone looked up so surprised, it was as if they were saying, “How on earth did she live this long without knowing what a silo is?” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z What on earth had I said to have brought on all this? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Neighbors gathered, giggling, muttering words of pity and astonishment, asking my mother how on earth I could have learned so much so quickly. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z What they mean is, Don’t love anything on earth except me. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I could not push down the excitement I felt on learning that I was not the only person on earth unhappy about how we were being treated by the white people. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z We was already dead and I wasn’t gonna spend my last minutes on earth begging no worm from the bottom of a outhouse for my life. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z How on earth could you enter a place by exiting it? The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z What on earth could be worst than stealing money that’s supposed to buy someone’s kin out of slavery? Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z "It can't change colour all by itself! What on earth were you trying to do, make yourself look handsome or something? You look like someone's grandmother gone wrong!" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z You had a wonderful chance on your drive back to see one of the greatest sights on earth, the Grand Canyon, something every American should see at least once in his life. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I caught her eye upon me now and again, puzzled, reflective, as though she was saying to herself, “What on earth does Maxim see in her?” but kind at the same time, not unfriendly. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z So if crack dealing is the most dangerous job in America, and if the salary was only $3.30 an hour, why on earth would anyone take such a job? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z For the rest of your days on earth, you will serve him.’ A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He looked around him, wondering what on earth it was going to be. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z “I hope so. Otherwise I’m going to have to eat some of these books. Sticky, what on earth took you so long? Didn’t you know how hungry I was?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “What on earth were you doing up there for so long?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z What on earth, I thought, looking about me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z However, as Mr. Clutter often remarked, “an inch more of rain and this country would be paradise—Eden on earth.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z She left Olympus; she dwelt on earth, but so disguised that none knew her, and, indeed, the gods are not easily discerned by mortal men. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look at that rough lot out there—they nearly finished me off! What on earth do you make of us and how are you settling down?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “But how on earth did they run it without a fanbelt?” our mother asked, understanding by the Reverend’s irritation that she was expected to return to the subject at hand. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered what on earth this Mencken had done to call down upon him the scorn of the South. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z These were the only people on earth who knew what Barack and I were facing, who’d experienced firsthand the unique delights and hardships of life in the White House. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “What on earth are you doing in here?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “To Harry’s? Marly, why on earth would he go to Harry’s on a night like this?” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Once Everest was determined to be the highest summit on earth, it was only a matter of time before people decided that Everest needed to be climbed. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Dropping the potato chip in her beak, she cried, “I leave you alone for a few minutes, and look what happens! What on earth?” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Here the Pan-American Highway had, as it turned out, sliced through some of the oldest public architecture anywhere on earth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “If only Constance hadn’t gone into the maze. Constance, why on earth did you decide to go down there, anyway?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “And how on earth did you know that? Do you speak it?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Had their mother really thought the bear was the devil on earth? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z She brought them home, and I was the happiest kid on earth. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z To our shock, Mr. Burke responded, “What on earth is wrong with your imagination?” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z It was like losing my balance on earth and floating in the air like a balloon. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I walked home slowly, asking myself what on earth was the matter with me, why it was I never seemed to do things as people expected them to be done. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It is not possible to create weightlessness here on earth, except for very short periods of time. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z What on earth was he going to do? Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z In my seventy-two years on earth I had never met an Innuit and never imagined that I would. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The most hostile place on earth is the Antarctic, the location of the South Pole. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z All people on earth would do good and bad things both. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Why on earth had he gone up the hill when the child had so obviously gone down the hill? The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z “What on earth is more important than this memory, Harry?” asked Hermione. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z More than anything on earth Bellerophon wanted Pegasus, a marvelous horse which had sprung from the Gorgon’s blood when Perseus killed her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z There was nothing on earth that would make him enter the blackness of the water. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z “Postpone? Mom, how could it not be sajil I’m a half- bloodl It’s like the only safe place on earth for me!” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z We were having an absurd and inappropriate argument because in the wake of death every single thing on earth feels absurd and inappropriate. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Katz was the one person I knew on earth who might be on the run from guys with names like Julio and Mr. Big. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Where on earth have you been? The food has all gone. Luckily today I was able to get near, otherwise we should have starved.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Strange to say, at our house the next morning it was suddenly peace on earth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The Atacama Desert, just south of Peru on the Chilean shore, is the driest place on earth—in some places rain has literally never been recorded. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “How on earth did you figure all that out?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Will thought that nothing on earth would make him turn his back on that monkey now. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Mott knew that at the time, no nation on earth recognized women’s right to vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z All the rest—like me—were on earth to labor, to serve our masters and our God. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z If intelligence developed naturally on earth, it is difficult to see why the same process wouldn’t have occurred elsewhere. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I mean, if you look at the two of us, side by side, there isn’t a man on earth who would pick her over me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z It makes everything on earth fall in love—how the ocean kisses land, how land nestles trees, how swaying trees always whisper sweet nothings into our ears. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z She must be the worst actor on earth. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But, as Forbes magazine has stated, “America’s culture, which fosters entrepreneurship and risk-taking, is the key ingredient that allows it to be one of the most innovative nations on earth.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z After splashing across the stream in the shallows, I stood at the bottom of the cliff and wondered how on earth I was going to climb the sheer wall. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why on earth do you want to be in a hospital on a nice day like this?” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z “Where on earth did you go?” she yelled at me. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z But they twinkled out one by one, without throwing any light on the questions why on earth I was going to play at Miss Havisham’s, and what on earth I was expected to play at. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z How on earth can you explain what it all looks like without any models? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “What on earth is going on out here? The other two may be forgiven for leaving the bookstore without permission, but you are old enough to know better.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “Where on earth did you—You scared me half to—Oh, Sally.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z He knows that the rainbow is produced by refracted light and that comets have no significance for our lives on earth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This is how white corn came to be on earth, in honor of the star woman and her beautiful golden-white hair. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z How on earth was he to know how his parents would feel if they were alive? Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Palmer did not know why he stood there, alone at the edge of the field, the last place on earth he wanted to be. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z In Mormonism, the priesthood is God’s power to act on earth—to advise, to counsel, to heal the sick, and to cast out demons. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z If I had known about the party, I would have made sure she was there, but even Fiona—who is the kindest, most thoughtful person on earth—didn’t think about inviting her. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z The first cornfield was the beginning of settled life on earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I was pretty sure nobody on earth had ever admired me before. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z She would talk of power as a yeast that could activate a malevolence that no force on earth could overcome once it had begun. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Frank, what leaders are you talking about, getting invited to Brussels? Who on earth around here is eligible for a thing like that?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z His lyric, among the most famous in the Nahuatl canon, answers its own question: Not forever on earth; only a little while here. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z All of our food, in fact almost all life on earth, can be traced back to photosynthesis in plants. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z How on earth could she act like this? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I said to myself, “If this boat goes under, I will commit my last sin on earth and run over those two boys to get that lifejacket.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Two very important elements in our lives on earth are carbon and nitrogen, and we would also need them on Libra. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z So perhaps you are reading this as a young man and wondering what on earth your abuelo is doing, leaving you a box full of letters and music and poetry. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Observable Fact: I am the worst singer on earth. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z "Then what on earth are you doing here in this . . . ?" Mr. Norton said, "With your ability . . ." "Ulcers," the fat man said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “What on earth could you possibly want me to do, O’Malley?” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z “Through investigating Tua’s secrets,” he said, referring to his pet by name, “humans will learn the key to longevity and better understand the evolution of life on earth.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z “Antain! What on earth have you spilled all over your robes?” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “What on earth for?” she wondered, astonished, but at the same time touched by this strange tribute to her power. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z What on earth had she wanted from him? Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “What on earth did they want to block up the fireplace for?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “I didn’t know if I was still on earth, or somewhere else.” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z It seems self-evident that these have made humankind the most powerful animal on earth. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘And the landlord seems to have heard something. Why did he press us to join the company? And why on earth did we behave so foolishly: we ought to have stayed quiet in here.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Samuel Childs, where on earth have you been? You won’t leave this house for a month, so help me. Where have you been? Answer me. Answer me!” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z “I say, I’m getting infernally hungry, what on earth is happening to lunch?” said Maxim. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The people of Chutreaux did not wish to be outdone, on earth or especially in heaven. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z And we might be the only people on earth who could tell him. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Mama came running to stick her head through the door and say, “What on earth, Travis?” Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other side in a rocker sat the oldest man on earth, in a stocking cap. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The people who made their homes within his limits came from some of the hardest, meanest places on earth. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z They prefer to linger on earth and annoy the living. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I would sit listening for hours, wondering how on earth they could laugh so freely, trying to grasp the miracle that gave their debased lives the semblance of a human existence. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z What on earth could she think of to say next? The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “Why on earth would I do that? Thespians! Waste of money if you ask me.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z He looks at me generously and says, “Now why on earth would I let you do that?” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “A presage of horror! What on earth do you mean?” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Talking about peace on earth good will toward all and not a sparrow can fall to earth. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I looked at my bike, looked at the chickens, and wondered what on earth I was going to do now. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z “What on earth’s wrong with you? Are you drunk?” he asks, but I can see in his eyes that he knows I’m sober and I’m betting that for once he wishes I wasn’t. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Later that night, after everyone had gone home, I stayed awake in my bed, wondering what on earth Carmen meant about wearing a disguise. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z It was said that Green Lake was "heaven on earth" and that Miss Katherine's spiced peaches were "food for the angels." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z How on earth, you may wonder, did I get started? My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “What on earth are you doing out of your chair? Why didn’t you call for one of us?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Eastern Pennsylvania sits on one of the richest coal beds on earth. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “How on earth d you know that?” said Harry in amazement. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z “Headmaster Clarkson, how on earth could his anonymity stay intact when every student in the school has seen this photograph?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z I had no key and nothing on earth would induce me to stand around until Dad’s friends returned to pityingly let me back in. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “How on earth are you going to change men’s hearts when the newspapers are fanning hate into them every day?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z But today when I see pictures of the region, known as Minembwe, it looks like the most idyllic place on earth, with lush, leafy mountaintops scraping the clouds and miles and miles of green. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z On the farther bank of Ocean were mysterious people, whom few on earth ever found their way to. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “What on earth is this racket about? I could hear you down the hall!” she says, frowning. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z What on earth was hiding behind the face of things? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z What on earth is wrong with me that I didn’t think of that before? A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z "Oh," said Bill, sucking the drumstick, "how should we know? We should not question. Our stay on earth is not for long. Let us rejoice and believe and give thanks." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z He wanted to believe that someone omniscient—an all-knowing God—was keeping score of what happened on earth, and just maybe it was time for things to change. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z What on earth could David Ballantine want to talk to them about? Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Some life-forms on earth can survive a long time under the harshest conditions: animal eggs hatch after many years and plant seeds sprout after centuries. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z "What on earth is going on out here?" she said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z “Axel, what on earth would make you say that?” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Suddenly, for no reason on earth that Marly knew, she ran to him and threw her arms around him, hard, and began to cry. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know him, yet I am certain he is the fattest, slimiest snake on earth. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The rumrunning gangsters were paying for some of the best cryptography on earth, she realized. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Al’s screams wake me every time, and I stare at the springs above me and wonder what on earth is wrong with me, that I still feel strong when everyone else is breaking down. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z And the things he was saying in his final months on earth seemed to transcend all religious differences. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Seize that chance and let no power on earth deter you. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The very gods themselves will sing her story for men on earth—mistress of her own heart, Penelope! The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z People who live on hills sleep so close to the stars they forget those of us who live too much on earth. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z What on earth had they seen in me to have made them act toward me as they had? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Many cultures on earth operated not with two genders but with three. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z This presentation had lasted for more than three hours, but it had enthroned a new sense of reality in the hearts of those present, a sense of man on earth. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “To Cynthia, the most beautiful woman I have ever laid my eyes on, Passionately yours, Ben Meecham. And to Mary Helen, the most gorgeous creature on earth, Adoringly yours, Ben Meecham.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z More than a thousand years before Christ, near the eastern end of the Mediterranean was a great city very rich and powerful, second to none on earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “How on earth do you—” I decided to rephrase the question. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Fungi are an essential part of the life cycle on earth. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “If you didn’t have a mother around, then who taught you how to dress like you do? And where on earth did you learn about gospel and soul music? Aren’t Portuguese people Catholic or something?” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “Oh dear!” cried Charlie, who was watching with the others through the door, “what on earth’s going to happen to them now?” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z As advertised, Disneyland, to Terryl, was the happiest place on earth. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The sky god looked like the sun on earth. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Scientists know very little about the fungi, which are the third kingdom of life on earth. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “What on earth are you doing here? And where did you find that baby girl?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z How on earth was his government supposed to have stopped that bridge collapsing? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I watched him light a cigarette, thinking, What on earth is this all about? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, there is no one giant hand, but there are billions of smaller hands on earth, working furiously to change their home. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “And why on earth would he tell you?” screeched Muriel, swaying a little in her seat as she attempted to focus upon Harry. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He wondered what on earth his sister did with all the money he sent her so that she could live in dignity. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Balder was the most beloved of the gods, on earth as in heaven. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “How on earth is that related to this case!” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “This has Stephen’s name on it. Why on earth do you have it?” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “That’s very sweet, dear, but we...Who on earth is that?” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z “You do not know whether there are not ghosts on earth or angels in heaven.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He said they smelled so much that they ruined his whole trip, and were the only creatures on earth with voices louder than his children. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “Reckless! Irresponsible! What on earth were you thinking?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The paving of the Kinshasa Highway affected every person on earth, and turned out to be one of the most important events of the twentieth century. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Man on earth had a shotglass of time allotted to him, but the pilot approaching the speed of sound was a conqueror of time measured and time lost. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Here, in the slowest country on earth, the students had a whole hour-and-a-half lunch break. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “My secret hideout. My super, incredibly top secret location that no one on earth knows about.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z The prayer went thus: Our Father, who art in heaven Hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him,” his heart said. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Libra not only could help earth by providing clean solar energy, but could also relieve overcrowding on earth by giving people someplace else to live. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why on earth are you sleeping in a kennel filled with background dogs, old bean? Have you been demoted?” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Back then, he thought it was the greatest place on earth. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Having used up her single French phrase, she speaks Kikongo unabashedly, as though there were no other language on earth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well,” I say, almost choking, “then what on earth was it? Was it something you were trying to protect? Or steal? Or what?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z "What on earth are you up to, Mosca? Is that your idea of keeping watch? Who said you could untie him?" The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z “What on earth do you use whips for?” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z “What on earth are you reading?” she demanded. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Both creatures swore to stay on earth until the project was complete. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z How long she had bled, and sweated, and cried, no language on earth could tell—how long she had crawled through darkness she would never, never know. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z And she said, “Why on earth would I do that?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He was the only man on earth and his purpose was clear. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “I’m going to study it, of course,” I said, wondering what on earth I would do with this monster. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z She loves New Mexico, talks about her little piece of heaven on earth. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z But he wasn’t doing just any dance—he was a man possessed, a man who knows in his heart that he is the greatest dancer on earth. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z "What on earth am I to do?" said Shasta to himself. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z “What on earth is going on?” she asks. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “Why on earth are you rousting me at this insane hour? Some of us are trying to sleep.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z One such place is the Fertile Crescent, where the mountains of western Iran and the Dead Sea, the lowest place on earth, bracket the Tigris and Euphrates river systems. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Marvelous arms they were when Thetis brought them, worthy of their maker, such as no man on earth had ever borne. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He said, “What? Why on earth would Leroy want to kill you?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z But Aesculapius, even though he had so displeased the King of Gods and Men, was honored on earth as no other mortal. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “They’re amazing creatures—the fastest birds on earth. They’re like shape- shifters, the way they streamline their bodies in the air.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Whose whims had been taken seriously by adults and who grew up to be the stingiest, greediest people on earth and out of their stinginess grew their stingy little love that ate everything in sight. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I also showed the people on earth how our water gun worked, holding it out in front of me a foot or so and squirting the water into my mouth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We might not have the greatest country on earth, but we certainly have an interesting one! Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Alex knew there was no place on earth that they would be safe. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z And once this new conception of themselves had formed, no power on earth could alter it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She is “the goddess with three forms,” Selene in the sky, Artemis on earth, Hecate in the lower world and in the world above when it is wrapped in darkness. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s different. Generals can do anything. Nothing quite so much like God on earth as a general on a battlefield.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She asked this shyly, as if I might not know what on earth she was talking about. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Why on earth would he have done that? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z All these numbers are at best rough approximations, but their implications are clear: the epidemics killed about one out of every five people on earth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In most places on earth, this encounter would have been fraught with tension. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “What on earth were you two thinking? Running off like that?” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “But do tell me, Jacob—how on earth did you two manage to get separated anyway? You were so...close on the dance floor.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The very newspaper that the actor had once hoped would print the letter explaining his actions is instead portraying him as the most terrible man on earth. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “Are you serious, young man? What on earth could you be protesting?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z She told me that we were all, black or white, God’s children, and His resources were put on earth for us to share. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z That was why she didn’t rush across to her husband and ask him what on earth had happened to them both. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Like a flower, we will dry up here on earth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z How would you know if you were the last man on earth? he said. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Why on earth, she kept thinking, didn't I do this before? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z What on earth would they be doing there? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z At last she perceived that there was no hope for her, either in heaven or on earth, and she took a desperate resolve. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z While they lived on earth one of them, Maia, was the mother of Hermes. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, behind my fearless facade, little brother, I am regularly scared witless by all manner of things. But how stupid of us. Why on earth didn't we just swap rooms?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z There are twenty-five varieties of salamander in the Smokies, more than anywhere else on earth. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “My God! I vividly remember saying, ‘Silvan, how on earth are you doing that?’” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He was seventeen years old, irreparably separated from her and already pressing forward in his drive for wealth, when he learned that there was probably not another stomach like hers on earth. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s so private and silent that I pretend we’re the only two people on earth, which is how I wish it could be for real. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Where on earth did you get all that money?” said Emma. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z What on earth did he mean by that? The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z At the heart of the exposition stood a tower of iron that rose one thousand feet into the sky, higher by far than any man-made structure on earth. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I play what is so clearly meant to be the loudest song on earth quiet enough for Mom not to come storming into my room; I wouldn’t try to contain this voice in headphones. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z I feel like the worst person on earth. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z “No,” Harry said again, wondering what on earth Quidditch could be. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Ghosts, too, which have played so large and so fearsome a part in other lands, never appear on earth in any Greek story. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why on earth would anyone want your underwear?” the abbot snapped. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Besides, God grew it here on earth, right? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Kabul in those days, Amir jan, was as close as you could get to that proverbial hell on earth. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z All the magicians on earth—at least everyone who knew what they were doing—had perished five hundred years earlier when the volcano erupted. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z They worked through it by talking, speaking, shouting and screaming, in every language on earth. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I look at the black lump in my hand—this is a star?—and think there’s nothing I can imagine less interesting to draw on earth, but say, “Okay. Sure.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Some of the newsroom boys returned Riddle’s animosity, but the fact that he owned some of the fastest and most noteworthy horses on earth led to a certain uneasy detente. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Frank wrapped his arms around her waist, and Hazel thought that if this was going to be her last day on earth—it wasn’t a bad way to go out. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z And summer vacation in a month and a half, and where on earth was I going to spend it? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Most of all, my white skin craves to be touched and held by the one man on earth I know has forgiven me for it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z On the first-ever Carousel Carl episode, Carl went over the life cycle of stars and explained that all things on earth, people included, are made of atoms that came from exploding stars. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z For a moment, I look down and pity him because I realize that I’m quite possibly looking at the most hapless man on earth. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Sammy used to brag that this was the greatest country on earth. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z “What on earth — ?” Hermione said, taking the letter from the gray owl, opening it, and starting to read. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z She didn't look to me like a witch at all, but she couldn't possibly not be one, otherwise what on earth was she doing up there on the platform? The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z My gran called me “Springbok,” after the second-fastest land mammal on earth, the deer that the cheetah hunts. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z But how on earth am I supposed to tell it's a pet? An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z I think Angie’s family may be the last on earth to have plastic covers on their sofas. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Unique, unbleached, rich, the color of the finest materials on earth: oil, coal, volcanic sand. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Yet people managed to move from one sector to the other, day after day, making Berlin the one place on earth where America and Russia—and their spies—came into contact. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But just as that thought ran through my head, a pack of guys who lived in the neighborhood passed me on their bikes, making me wish I was the last boy on earth. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z “Why on earth are we getting a security system?” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z What on earth was going on with this virus? The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There definitely could be, although not animal life as we know it on earth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “No spoon on earth has ever felt lonely or forgotten, Olive. But Henry? We must remind him and Ruby that we are their neighbors and friends.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z The Haudenosaunee thus would have the second oldest continuously existing representative parliaments on earth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Chief Crowe asks, “How on earth do you know about that?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Who on earth did they think they were? Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z What on earth can you do with such a silly, sniveling specimen of humanity? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “What on earth are you doing on the floor?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “What on earth were you searching for in that depressing old wreck of a house?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I was now married to one of the most heavily guarded human beings on earth. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Every day we're told that we live in the greatest country on earth. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z It was going to be hard to give him up once this hell on earth was over. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “What on earth’s the idea of that? The gold your men are shoveling up there is enough to last you at least two lifetimes. We’re going home now!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z What on earth would I do if four bears came into my camp? A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “The power of God on earth,” he shouted into the mouthpiece. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z One bullet for one man, and this is where I feel like the unluckiest person on earth. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z He showed her the deepest spot on earth, seven miles deep, above the Mariana Islands. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “How on earth do you know?” said Art. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z It was the only place on earth where that rare metal was found. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z How on earth did they find the inspiration to create such bafflingly intricate music? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The girls among us focused on the obvious fact that a Mexican girl who didn’t know how to do laundry had to be just about the most unsanitary creature on earth. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The sky’s gone blue: azure, the ocean bluer: cerulean, the trees are swirls of every hella freaking green on earth and bright thick eggy yellow is spilling over everything. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z He is closer to no one on earth. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z What on earth of importance could transpire in so dingy a place? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z We were stronger than cold and hunger, stronger than the guns and the desire to die, doomed and rootless, nothing but numbers, we were the only men on earth. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z To Bigger it was plainly a bewildered and questioning look, a look that asked: What on earth is wrong with him? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Torturous days went by, whose hours I thought were my last on earth. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z But how on earth could I get my hands on it when controversy still raged about such matters in our corner of the world? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “Then can ye tell me what on earth made ye put down Junior Agent when ye ain’t got a supernatural ability to speak of?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “Why, P. D., what on earth did you lock your car for here in this cloistered atmosphere?” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why on earth would we do that?” he asked. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z In other words, the people on earth would see slightly less than a half-moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Like he didn’t know if I was only pretending to act like I didn’t know how on earth he’d found out I’d kissed someone for the very first time today. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Now these women Wang Lung looked at secretly and closely and it seemed to him they were women in dreams for none on earth had he seen like them. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “Oh, dear, who on earth is that?” said Beatrice, walking to the door. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “You look like someone just ate the last jelly donut on earth.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “He’s...mercurial. He’s capable of being the most charming man on earth. Like tonight.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z How every biologist on earth would envy her if they could see what she was seeing! The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He said, “Yes, to the Lord through his servant here on earth. What do you suppose a tenth of those fish is? Three? Four?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z How on earth could he learn not to say yessuh and yessum to white people in one night when he had been saying it all his life long? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life on earth possible. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z But if objects are particles and waves at the same time, what on earth could they be? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The swirling colors of the universe, packed into our little atmosphere here on earth. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z “If I’m hurting the campaign, why on earth am I out there?” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z They became the four great rivers of the land, stopping the drought and death of all those on earth. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z “How on earth did you bake a cake like this with all the shortages?” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The village, like many others in the region, was populated mainly by Yanomami Indians, a forest society on the Brazil-Venezuela border that is among the least Westernized on earth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z There was no way I could have, because Clancy Gray looked straight at me and said the very last thing on earth I expected. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z But I don’t see how on earth a black woman with any race pride could walk down the street with any black man wearing a conk—the emblem of his shame that he is black. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Fives is possibly the fastest ball-game on earth, far faster than squash, and the little ball ricochets around the court at such a speed that sometimes you can hardly see it. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Intoxicated as he was with the heavens, he couldn’t imagine needing anything on earth. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z His visitor looked at the sheriff, and Quinn knew that there was no power on earth that could keep this man from hating him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Only then would events on earth lie in the future light cone of the event at which the sun went out. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But now, though I was the same person with the same appetite, the same appreciation and even the same wallet, no power on earth could get me inside this place for a meal. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “What on earth do you mean, boy?” he asked in loud anger. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Hercules was the strongest man on earth and he had the supreme self-confidence magnificent physical strength gives. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Tía Mari suggests we entertain ourselves playing cards, but when Mami sorts through the deck, she says, What on earth happened to the queen of hearts? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z “Why on earth would you do this, Byron?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Wheeze, what on earth are you doing? You’ve been to the front door five times in the last five minutes.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Travis,” she said, “what on earth have you done to your little brother?” Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘What on earth’s the matter, Mary?’ the famous voice was saying. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Now listen here, young lady, how on earth did you get into this room?’ the maid shouted furiously. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Very few people on earth had seen Ebola do its work on a primate, but she knew exactly what it could do. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “If Ah never see you no mo’ on earth, Ah’ll meet you in Africa.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z But the gash on his leg . . . what on earth can I do for that? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “What on earth is all of that?” she exclaimed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought all things were possible in heaven and on earth that day. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z While human evolution was crawling at its usual snail’s pace, the human imagination was building astounding networks of mass cooperation, unlike any other ever seen on earth. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z And it's always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos are born between July 23 and August 22, fitted queen-size sheets measure sixty by eighty inches, and America is the greatest country on earth. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Why on earth are you reading that? That’s just a book of dead words.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Just imagine yourself in the most hostile place on earth. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z I watched him go, looking old and tired, and wondered for a minute what on earth we were doing up here. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Salma aunty makes Pakistani food sound like the most deliciously irresistible cuisine on earth. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Like a pebble or a blade of grass, you just stare and think, Dear Christ, there’s the last thing on earth I’ll ever see. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I stood there doing up my fly-buttons and not knowing what on earth he meant. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “Where on earth have you two been? The ceremony’s about to begin!” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Or maybe everyone had died like in one of those sci-fi flicks, and I was the last boy on earth. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z They’d learned that there were trillions and trillions of stars in the universe, more stars than grains of sand on every beach and desert on earth. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z If this person, I kept telling myself, was one of God’s chosen salesmen on earth, then there must be something very wrong about the whole business. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z A strapping Russian boy with the face of someone for whom no remaining thing on earth could be surprising. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I don't have a moment to wonder how on earth this rich man could have become infected. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z |
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