| 单词 | on the road |
| 例句 | The crowd of people on the road was restless. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The car tilted back, leaving a trail of sparks on the road behind us. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z A woman on the road was dragging a stubborn goat and finally left it behind and hurried ahead. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z So as Aunty Ifeoma drove, I looked at the cars on the road, seeking Father Amadi, looking for that pastel-colored small Toyota. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The silence in my dad’s truck, on the road to New Orleans, is the worst kind of silence. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z This meant that I had to work my way through woodlots and along hedgerows across the pastures, where the snow had not been packed as hard as it was on the road. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know,” he said, his voice barely audible, almost covered by the humming of the tires on the road. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z After so many weeks on the road, the last hour was the hardest to bear. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “Now, that is a fact,” the man replied in agreement as he stumbled on the road. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she heard hoofbeats on the road below, a horse hurrying into the village, and not long after, there were footsteps and a knocking on the door. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “We were on the road for five days, and only one night could we get a motel room.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Dill tried to concentrate on the road, but the geometry of Lydia’s neck distracted him. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z “Who is it? Did we meet him on the road?” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The warriors on the road were closing in from either direction. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I made a lot of mistakes, and went to jail, but I wasn't on the road to ruin like everybody said. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z David calls as a gray pickup drives by on the road. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z If we keep on like this, she's going to faint and end up splayed out on the road like a well-dressed corpse. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z As the figure on the road drew near, it took shape and grew indistinct again in the wavering heat. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mine? I told you I don't know the first thing about cars. Now, keep your eyes on the road. We’ll be coming to the bridge any moment.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z A few days after the Rude boys left him smeared on the road, Finn wandered among the tents, stopping to look at this sheep, that pig, this dog, that rabbit. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z And I was on the road to discovery. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘It’s going to be thick,’ said Maggot; ‘but I’ll not light my lantern till I turn for home. We’ll hear anything on the road long before we meet it tonight.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Had Reggie not had his complete focus on the road, had he been lost for a millisecond, we’d certainly have crashed. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I also spent a considerable amount of time on the road to Imre, usually under the excuse of visiting Threpe or enjoying the camaraderie of the other musicians at the Eolian. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Thank you. It’s going to be a warm day and I will be back on the road this afternoon.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Given the UN encampment was on the road to the airport, I knew I was beginning the journey north of Kinshasa, with half a mile of marsh separating me from the river. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It was lonely for a day or so until one morning some man, more recently arrived than I, stopped me on the road. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z She stood up to stretch, and then noticed the dark shapes of two people far off on the road. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z In pain, half starved, with a tapeworm and an eye infection, he collapsed on the road to town and was taken to the infirmary by a kindly widow. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Here on the road between the two there is nothing but old trees and long grass bending to the wind. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z At last, after three days on the road, we have a destination! First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw the Hessians again as they were on the road, at the fighting place. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z Then it was time to take the show on the road. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Then the car was over the bridge and out of sight behind the trees and the abandoned vehicles on the road. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Most Sapiens bands lived on the road, roaming from place to place in search of food. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Ivan and all his remaining brothers were gathered behind her on the road, watching with matching expressions of concern. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Soon we’re back on the road and heading to the highway again. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z She doesn’t speak to us, and not much more to Amin, but focuses on the road ahead. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z They had been on the road for almost five weeks now, but it felt like years. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z While they were on the road, the state fed, clothed, and housed them—all from goods supplied by other work crews. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Knowing I would be on the road again, I wasn’t too keen to throw two bits down just like that. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He had grazed his knee on the road. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z "She was a good companion on the road." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z “They tend to look out for Friends on the road.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Just yesterday, on the road to Vienna, he took possession of a five-hundred-and-seventy- piece china set with a single marquise-cut diamond set into the rim of every single dish. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Håkon was panting from the exertion of walking in his new body, so they let him sit on the road to recover. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “Yes, right out of the Women’s Temperance League. Besides, I’m sure I was already well on the road to recovery.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z But the multiple-vehicle wrecks tended to happen during the day, which stood to reason, given that there are more cars on the road at that time. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z No one was on the road, and the hills through which we marched were empty of habitation. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z If you had walked through the pleasant Tuscan countryside in the 1890’s, you might have come upon a somewhat long-haired teenage high school dropout on the road to Pavia. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z One day in the trading center, more than three hundred Gule Wamkulu appeared on the road carrying empty coffins, promising to fill them with anyone who didn’t support the Life President. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z She says to me with her eyes fixed on the road, This is all your fault. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z There were so many stains on the road. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Our parents never did find out about those blue eggs, just as they never knew about the turtle we found on the road one day, after a car had crushed it. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z James junior then put the colt on the road, touring through thirteen tracks up and down the East Coast to run in low-rent races spaced as little as two days apart. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z When Pa announced our bus trip I knew I’d have hours and hours on the road with the perfect companion if my sisters let me read in peace. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z And even though the stories Chaim told were terrible, of German planes shooting down the refugees on the road and the executions of innocent men, there was more laughter than tears. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z A bomb fell on the road, way over in the center of the village, where the lorries were. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He calculated that he could just make it in the hour or so left before he should be back on the road. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “Get up, trooper. I’ll get the kids. I want to be on the road in fifteen minutes.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s glass on the road and all over the seats of the car. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z After more than a decade on the road, however, Stanton grew tired of touring. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The river was not yet frozen, and wheels were on the roads still, for it rained more than it snowed on this coastal slope even now in the year’s last month. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I can tell by the way she kept calling him to tell him we were okay on the road. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z The older spirit shimmered like heat on the road in summer. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z With very few trees on the road, they moved out into the field and plopped down under the leafy branches of a large, solitary oak tree. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z True, “young ladies” were not often found living on the road, traveling from town to town and job to job. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The little boy turned to me and saluted, as he had on the road. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Fifty paces back, our bags are scattered on the road where we flung them. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z “Well that’s what you get for not listening to a tinker on the road,” she chided, her eyes drowsy. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Every time we left the house, people came out on the road and blessed us. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Soon as I’m packed up here, I’m getting on the road. My folks were in Betsy. I don’t mess with hurricanes.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z If the sign is in the wrong place, you end up on the road to nowhere. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A small figure distant on the road, bent and shuffling. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Their leather shoes splash through the shining puddles on the road, the sacks of books bang against William's broad back, and Jeanne shouts to the heavens. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z A bus roared by on the road outside. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z She said her mother thought that her father was too relaxed on the road. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I feel the rain on our backs as you crouch on the road, trying to save worms. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Once a cloud of dust on the road moving toward the town kept him excited for an hour, but it proved to be only a flock of sheep being driven to market. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z All day she prayed, “Lord, I’m going to hold steady on to You—” There was always danger on the road, always the unexpected, but the Lord had never failed her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked on the road for his son, and he went to the inn to look for him, but Charles was gone. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “See, I knew you were too nice to have been out on the road, you’re going to have a bad surprise tomorrow morning.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z "Once we get on the road, things will be different. You'll get smarter, every mile we put between us and this place." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z The morning shimmers with fallen rain, but despite the mud on the road, we make good time. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “Name’s Wesley,” the man said, his eyes on the road in front of him. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z ‘Now you keep your eyes on the road,’ my mother said nervously. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “My leg is tired,” he says after we’ve been on the road for no more than half an hour. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Back on the road, my mind is racing. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I asked when we got on the road. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Constance came rambling along the wall, checking on the road beneath. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z We woke up before the sun, hitched the oxen to the wagon, herded the cattle out of the Platt’s pasture where they had spent the night, and started off again on the road toward Peekskill. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But Jaimito can park on the road, and I can take a peek out my window— How can Mama tell our window looks out on the road? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The three of us were kicking up dust on the road to Imre. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z When the servants finished their work and the silk lay smoothly on the road, an old man came walking down it, leaning on a stick. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z And there, standing on the road, was the man from the night before, the man in the yellow suit, his black hat on his head. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z My dad, focused on the road ahead, said nothing. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z He left the cart on the road and bounded into the river. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Frequently we would leave the trail and hike on the road for an hour or two. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Eventually there are only a few cars on the road, no signs for tourist facilities or campgrounds, just more farms and woods, the fields full of blue and purple flowers. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Now that I’m alone on the road and the world outside seems so much bigger than it ever has before. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z When he turned his head to look at me, though, I went right back to watching cars on the road like I was in deep brainstorm mode. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z It was time to get this show on the road. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Near Ettumanoor they passed a dead temple elephant, electrocuted by a high tension wire that had fallen on the road. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Motorists in Scotland and the North should be careful of black ice on the roads, and the Midlands should anticipate widespread patches of freezing fog. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “Okay, let’s get this show on the road.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z But we also need to recognize that in the short run, during and immediately after the war for independence, there was a prevailing consensus that slavery was already on the road to extinction. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “When talking about driving, I remember that old song: ‘Keep your hands on the wheel and eyes on the road ahead Dr. Strayer interjected. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Even though I kept my eye on the road, I knew he was smiling. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z “Devoted to God. Can we walk together on the road? I’m...kind of lonely.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z For a moment he saw and heard the fighting as it had been on the road. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z Before he could hear it, he felt the presence of something else; maybe he felt it through the soles of his boots on the road: vibrations of a vehicle approaching from behind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z But somewhere in all of his talking, the pastor said the word road, as in “making our own journey on the road of life,” and something clicked! Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z I stayed in the right lane, letting people pass me, and focused on keeping the car steady even though I was practically shaking with the thrill of being out on the road like we were. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Soon’s he disappeared on the road north, we made a sharp turn east through the woods, toward where I’m thinking the river was. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z It was only a dark square in the half-light; there were no lights on, and to a casual traveler on the road, no sign of life. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z While still holding the steering wheel and keeping his eyes on the road, he takes his free hand and cups it over his chest. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I was spending so much time on the road that exhaustion felt like my permanent state of being. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “Officer Delinko, you’re back on the road, effective immediately. In addition, the sergeant has written a letter commending the outstanding job you did in capturing our suspect. This will become part of your permanent file.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “We should keep on the road,” I say to Viola quietly. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z “My daddy says being on the road ain’t fit for a dog, much less a kid, how come you don’t just go back to your orphanage?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Once we were on the road, Dad and Mom got in a big fight over how many months she’d been pregnant. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s so quiet I can hear birds outside and cars driving past on the road. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He used to work on the docks, back before he realized he could make more money taking “odd jobs,” as he calls them, on the roads between Baltimore and the outer settlements. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Out on the road, they hear the sound of a car hurrying home. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The time I kissed her on the road on New Year’s Eve or the time I sent her flowers on Valentine’s Day were tests, I guess. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The story slid out with all the details: being abandoned on the road, struggling to care for Grandfather, getting the fever. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Zitty and lonely, I woke up on the reservation as an Indian, and somewhere on the road to Reardan, I became something less than Indian. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The taxi veered wildly around a corner, then chugged slowly north on the road from Jerusalem to Ramallah. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z To Tree-ear’s surprise, Min’s wife was waiting for him out on the road in front of the house the next morning. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The survey suggested they were on the road primarily for economic reasons, hoping to find work or trade in China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Like hanging around on the roads was the world’s best entertainment. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z They stayed on the road until night, when they drew close to the house like moths drawn towards the light. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “The ice on the road snapped sharply as we went over it.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The car skidded over gravel on the road. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Zohra is chatting with Mama and Thayee about something funny on YouTube featuring the different types of annoying drivers on the road. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z I have this halfway place, a rest stop on the road to sleep, where I can stay for hours. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Though her husbands work kept him on the road, Dorothy exchanged her traveling shoes for Farmville life and the routines of family, the stability of regular work, and community. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Out on the road the troops were moving in a great mottled stream: Longstreet’s First Corps, the backbone of the army, moving up behind Powell Hill. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We trailed her on the road into the center of the town, into the village of Ardsley. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z As I looked out at the garden I heard a motor truck starting on the road. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z If anybody was passing by out on the road, she would either change her mind or just give me a few licks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the only car on the road. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z We all shower and change first, just to freshen up after a long day on the road. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z “Mathematics is not only about getting the correct answer. It’s about being on the road to the correct answer. Knowing the path can be just as important as knowing the solution.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “How did she stay on the road all the way to over there?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “We paid one to mend a cracked axle on the road once.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But while they were impressing each other on the road with their tightrope-without-a-safety-net virtuosity, there was another, quite opposite impulse emerging. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z How can it matter if I leave one little tap running, one little light burning, one little piece of litter on the road? My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “There’s a road out there, not too far away. Go left on the road and then just follow it until you come to our place.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “Okay. Let’s get this show on the road. Guess I can’t stall any longer.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The Americans, with Billy among them, formed a fools’ parade on the road outside. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It was no small effort to get me started on the road to the dentist. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But on the roads their interests were engines, and weather, and maintaining the speed that makes a predictable schedule possible. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z After all, prior to MADD, it was considered socially acceptable to have one last drink at the party before getting on the road. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Hours later, when it was just the three of us back on the road, we finally had a chance to tell Liam exactly what had happened to us the night before. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Then the old man, who had been sleeping, awoke, and they gave him a bowl and the four of them went out on the road to beg. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z With his eyes focused on the road, Apa says in a weary voice, Read those forms carefully. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z “Some of the locals say your father still visits the chinchorros on the road to Manatí,” she says, watching me carefully. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z If there were a story he could tell that would get him out of this barn and back on the road to Pax, he would tell it. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z A weary old coach was mired in a mudhole on the road. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z He was still a mile away when he saw his eldest daughter waiting for him on the road. she cried, rushing into his arms. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Kaede awoke very early, eager to get back on the road. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I had never seen so many cars on the road at one time — even in Umtata, there were never more than a handful of cars and here there were thousands. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She must have taken the children and joined the thousands of people on the roads. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Marlena had simply had enough of being on the road—kind of a nesting thing, I figure—and besides, Rosie was getting on in years. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Remembering the robbers on the road, Lupita stiffened and moved back, but Salvador answered, “Sí, my little brother and I would like to see what is over there.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z It was only when I looked up that I finally saw her, sitting on the road just beside Betty, her back slumped forward, her head bowed, but alive—alive and safe. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z My time on the road made me see the benefits of being in a pack. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Almost immediately after that he shuddered going over a painted cattleguard on the road, muttering to himself, “It sure beats me how a handful of white stripes can fool cows like that.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Surely we’ll find something on the road this day of all days. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “One of those hotels one passes on the road.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z From daydreams on the road there was no waking. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z When the light turned green, people mostly just passed by, their eyes on the road ahead. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z They were kneeling on the road in a line firing at Captain Starr’s house across the road from them—on the other side from where I lay. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Her skills and determination would see them through this setback and get them back on the road to victory. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Anderson’s Division, of Hill’s Corps, was stacking up on the road south of town, moving in behind Pender and Heth. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z At a junction on the road, a rusted signpost points left to Reyhanli. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Back on the road, he squeezes my hand, glances over at me. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “But we returned it. Most of it, anyway,” I said, keeping my eyes on the road. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z We walked so many times on the same gravel road that I could close my eyes and still avoid all the big rocks on the road. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He didn’t look back, his eyes on the road. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I can picture myself on the road with that bus. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z A man walked slowly over the brow of the hill, on the road from Salinas, and he was headed toward the house. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z There was nothing to look at on the road. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun dipped low in the sky, sinking behind the trees as Anya came to a shivering stop on the road. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z As they came up to the cattle still milling about on the road they reined up sharply. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But he couldn’t move fast, so he focused as far ahead on the road as he could see. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I opted to put us both on the road almost immediately after we got there, to save both of us the pointless aggravation and strain to try and fit into a foreign mainstream group. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Here,” I said, keeping an eye on the road as I reached under the seat to pull out a copy of the day’s newspaper. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z A slave caught on the road, alone, without a pass, would be whipped. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z And all the while, the cars drew closer, headlights glowing somewhere out on the road, enough to brighten the gloom. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Dallas and Florida were squashed in between Tiller and Sairy Morey on the front seat of their old truck, bouncing along on the road out of town. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z “Why, uh, I stopped off at the supper on the grounds in Prairie Lea the other night. They saw me on the road and invited me to visit for a piece.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z So far they had not met a soul on the road. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “You a white gal. You the only one that be allowed on the road after dark.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look. Ignatius. I’m beat. I’ve been on the road since nine o’clock yesterday morning. As soon as I mailed you that letter about the Peace Party routine, I said to myself, ‘Mvrna. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When they had walked before on the road, Faro obviously tracking, Mr. Loomis had guessed he was following me. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Morning brought the shimmery buzz of insect clouds and the chatter of waking birds, but still no traffic sounds on the road. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I try to meet Thomas’s eyes again in the rearview mirror, but he keeps his gaze on the road. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z It was so dead and squashed so flat that it looked more like a frog-shaped stain on the road than a frog. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Ishmael stopped and took photographs of it, setting his tripod on the road verge. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z "Did you see any trouble on the road?" he asked after a minute. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Then Bull, seeing their car parked on the road behind his, sprinted toward it and mounted the front of the car with a single leap. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “You really green, huh?” he said, eyes back on the road. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Jeanne points out that there's no use tramping over fields instead of on the road, since in the fields we'll be equally visible—and more conspicuous. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z If people are shocked by these unexplained losses—the post, their salary, a friend walking home on the road—they don’t mention it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When we were on the road, I tried to initiate team dinners and arrange group outings when we landed in a new country or city for a competition. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The next day, hundreds of black and white protesters met on the road where Meredith had fallen. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Here, the sand was fine, gray, and sun-seared, nothing like the clumpy red earth back home; the trees were tame, unlike the bursting greenness that sprang up and cast shadows on the road to Umunnachi. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Today, our third day on the road, I walk with a little more bounce in my step. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The house had such a small front lawn it sat almost on the road. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z So, you see, finally we know the kind of problems we have to solve, which is the first step on the road to finding solutions. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “We can work this out on the road,” she said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Amari pulled the reins so the horse would step around a branch on the road. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The road came quite close to the lake now and 1 saw a soldier coming out of a cafe on the road. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z He’s just back from tour, his face ruddy from the effects of days on the road. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “He’s always on the road, so I live with my grandma.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Likely the one on the road got the twenty years. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In Milford, Delaware, a Philadelphia woman and her black servant were stopped on the road outside of town. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Will’s father would often be on the road for days, sometimes weeks. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z She loved it when her father taught her the tricks like priming the carburetor that would keep the temperamental machine on the road. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Not too surprising, I suppose, that she would forget a ragged boy she’d only known for a few days on the road. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Her aunt, who wore a man’s straw hat, shone the flashlight on the road, and an old, battered brown truck drew up to the mailbox and stopped. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Maggie’s job is to drive the car and focus on the road. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The group moved north on the road, returning to the Ivanov house. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z She was so pleased with herself for being firm, when her best childhood memories were the few times her father was home from being out to sea or on the road. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Today’s action will be inspired by what she sees on the road ahead of her. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I am sorry that I lost my temper on the road—I don’t know what came over me. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He rubbed his eyes and focused on the road before them. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z He paused to absorb this fact, but the corporals were in a hurry and pushed him on and soon they joined the stragglers on the road. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “A few days earlier, Taborlin had met a tinker on the road. And even though Taborlin didn’t have much to eat, he shared his dinner with the old man.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Fortunately there were very few vehicles on the roads in those days. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Within fifteen minutes, the four boys had kissed their mother and were on the road to Lwów with the clothes on their backs and a little bread in their pockets. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z They walked in silence through the darkness of the evening, boots crunching on the road. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Everyone with the exception of the driver, my mother and me was out of the car and standing on the road.The noise of gear-wheels grinding against each other was terrible. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Atop his horse, he kept his eyes on the road ahead. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z The star sat beside the sleeping man, who had once been her captor and had become her companion on the road, and she wondered where her hatred had gone. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Not a single other car was on the road. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z There must be something dead on the road to Tucumcari, I thought. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He waves his flashlight forward and says quickly, “Be careful on the roads, we have a lot of end-of-the-school-year and graduation parties going on.” A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z The horses shook their heads and pranced, making the sleigh bells ring merrily, and away they went on the road through the Big Woods to Grandpa’s. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Why should I not, then, offer to talk to him, if he wanted me to, say for an hour or so in the evenings—he on the porch, I on the road? Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He’d been trying to create a chain reaction in uranium—the first step on the road to an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I determined to buy a compass in the next town, but there wasn’t any next town on the road I was traveling. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “I wanted to make sure you were okay, though. And then I saw you running on the road, so I followed.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z I believe Gideon himself might have looked there if he hadn’t been trying to raise a daughter on the road. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z There was no more exciting experience than to be on the road to communion with God! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z After further bickering, they decided to take me with them, hoping to capture additional people or animals on the road to eat along with me. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “I saw a whole family, a father and mother and three children, lying on the road to the motor park. Just lying there.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I want to be back in the motel, back on the road, in my old rootless life of impermanence and safety. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She studied him more closely: watery brown eyes, sparse straw-colored hair, skin gone ruddy from a life on the road. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z We passed a couple people on the road, but nobody said a word, and Quinby, thankfully, was fairly quiet, although she poked her nose out a couple times to take in the exciting new smells. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “So why did she abandon those babies on the road?” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Phil kept his eyes on the road, but I could see him shaking his head. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z You can see everything that goes by on the road.' I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z She was insulted and told her son Wilse Howard, and the following week he exchanged gunfire with another of Turner’s grandsons, young Will Turner, on the road to Hagan, Virginia. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z As I made another careless swipe at the rough reeds, I spotted on the road below a cloaked figure that I momentarily took to be Falconer. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Nothing good happens on the road after midnight. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z ‘As is, night liable to catch us on the road.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Mrs. Popper worried a little, at the start, over the idea of having Janie and Bill miss ten weeks of school while they were on the road, though the children did not seem to mind. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z There were only a few cars on the road. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Beneath her, the wheels rumbled on the road. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The dwarf had given him the truth on the road north, but by then it had been too late. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Keeping his black eyes on the road, he stooped forward, picked up the screwdriver lying between his feet, and handed it to me. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t look back as she struck out from under cover to join the other people on the road, but Sefia couldn’t stop herself from shuddering at Nin’s words. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I’d spent years in Harlem and on the road around the most popular musicians, the “names,” even, who really were making big money for musicians—and they had nothing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z A carriage trundled by on the road and Lentaren stepped out of the way, incidentally brushing up against Denna as he moved. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Massa brung him back after a few days, and he put a iron collar round the boy’s neck so folks would know he was a runaway and not free to be on the roads.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “A deserter and a Pole? I’m sorry, but they’ll be dead on the road in a day.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Helen, Henrietta, Herbert, Hugh, and Hazel—just five of the thirteen Spencer children—straggled out of the last house on the road, the biggest house in all of Bumblebee. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I knew there was something dead on the road to Tucumcari. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The attack continued on the road and over the village. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z A colored man alone on the road didn’t want to draw a lot of attention to himself. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Our fourth day on the road starts the same as the all the other days. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My eyelids were as heavy as my feet had been on the road. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z A minute later, I heard his bike on the road. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Her notes, released with Reggie’s permission, read: “He reports some ruminating and wishing more than anything else he had not been on the road at that moment.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “I was just sposed to see if there were rumors of you on the road ahead,” Mr. Prentiss Jr. sneers, “but here you are, in the real honest-to-God flesh.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z He’d jumped on the road immediately after talking with her mother. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z But three American militiamen stopped him on the road. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, they encourage me to get out of the house and into the car and back on the road, so to speak. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Cate’s eyes were focused only on the road in front of us. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z At last, Gramps said, “I sure hate to get back on the road, but time’s a-wastin’!” Yes, I thought, yes, yes, yes! Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z They keep the food from going bad or looking strange after months in the freezer or on the road. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z One day, in 1966, he came to us and said, “Gentlemen, the rains have washed away the lines on the roads, we need twenty kilos of lime today. Can you help?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I saw him on the road near my faculty building, and there was an expression on his face that really annoyed me, so I followed him back to Imoke Street and told him off.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Within minutes there was no one on the road. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We had just got on the road again when a little two-seater black Ford pulled into the highway just ahead of us. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Out on the road the army flowed endlessly eastward, pouring toward the great fight. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Now there are more cars on the road around us, and all traffic is detoured right. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Both rats took off their armor and placed it in a pile on the road. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z By the time the sun had fully risen, the four children were back on the road. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z But he was alert at night, too, on the road, always listening intently for the sound of the engines. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not you, Nicole—” “It’s the other people on the road, I know, I know.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z We need to get this show on the road.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I kept my eyes on him, and he kept his eyes on the road. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z They had been out of power for a long time and were calculating that their way back to power might, with some risks taken, lie on the road I pointed out. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z After many hours, we are finally out of the city and on the road, though still moving very slowly. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z What had begun as an initiative to put slavery on the road to extinction had been transformed into a decision to extinguish all federal plans for emancipation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z And there, on the road in front of her house, she saw a small stranger calling out quietly. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z An hour later they were on the road. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z There was a long line of abandoned trucks and carts on the road leading up to the bridge. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Lili could hear the whispers of the market women, their hisses and swearing as their sandals dug into the sharp-edged rocks on the road. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z If having to endure mistreatment from my teammates on the road wasn’t enough, dealing with Akhi’s lack of commitment to my training was also causing a lot of stress. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Dad looked over at me with concern, even though the world had gone white with snow, so he really should have been keeping his eyes on the road. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z A bus kicked up dust on the road after letting off a crowd of passengers. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The soft moonlight came down through the treetops and made patches of light and shade on the road ahead. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Some story people he wouldn’t be afraid of if he met them on the road. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The very first step on the road to reconciliation, I said, was the complete dismantling of apartheid and all the measures used to enforce it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad was smoking, his eyes on the road. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z If she were in Zmeyreka, she would have helped Mama make potions, or ridden Alsvindr back and forth on the roads. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Morning found Shadow back on the road, driving through a gently undulating brown landscape of winter grass and leafless trees. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z I watched a flying plastic bag land on the road and immediately begin to melt. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z That kindness saved me, and also saved my courage, for whenever on the road I ate of that fruit and bread I thought, “There’s one man thinks me no traitor; for he gave me this.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Even the Alliance was frozen white, and maybe that’s why Joseph dropped his backpack on the road, clambered into the high snow, and headed down to the river. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Sometimes the school car would take us to a point on the road as close as it could to where we were going. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he heard on the road behind them what sounded like a diesel truck. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Down on the road an occasional truck passed by with its dimmers on. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Nin hesitated for a long moment, her shrewd gaze darting from the shadows in the undergrowth to the flashes of red on the road. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Twice on the road we see men with horse-drawn carts. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z As they drove away from Quinn House, the morning cloud cover began to clear, and by the time they left the village behind, the sun shone brightly down on the road. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Far better, I thought, to have died on the road. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Antain made sure he was seen on the road as the Council walked by. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Her joy on the road that morning had completely disappeared; the wide world shrank and her oldest fears rolled freely in her consciousness. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z And the game had come back, too; deer strayed on the roads and there were marks of bear. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They were still driving very slowly, but they were out of the tunnel of trees now, and on the road towards the village. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z On the way back home, they passed us again on the road. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z We find bits of coal and turf stuck in cracks on the road and in the walls of the coal yards. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The wound was so serious that only doctors with skill and dedication, like Garfield’s, could have kept him alive and put him on the road to recovery. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The wandering boy suddenly appeared on the road in front of us. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He tells me the buck run in front of him on the road and he accidentally run over it, but I saw the bullet hole myself. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Life came down to one thing only now—keeping her feet moving on the road that led to Indio. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z There was a boy on his knees on the road edge, staring upward toward the ridge, unmoving. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We never walked really on the road, but along the edge, so that we could vanish into the bushes or a ditch if anyone came along. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z What spot would that be on the road? The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z There have been too many stops on the road of the last twenty-nine years since her family left this island behind. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z A hundred thousand people on the road, all going north and east, fleeing winds and water. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Whatever was written in the letter commanded great respect from the soldier on the road. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z We would be stopping at least once more on the road. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Light snow on the road, on tree limbs, adds magic. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z This man was the father of the boy she’d met on the road, and the tsar’s fool. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Once the windows were up and we were back on the road, Nan hummed along to Patsy Cline. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z His grandma was running from the direction of the church, and he could see her car parked on the road beyond, its lights on, its engine running. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z And he keeps his eyes on the road. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z My eyes were on the road, so I wasn’t sure if he’d addressed me or Ruth. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Once on the road, I dodged into some tall weeds and huddled there until I heard them run past me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I had thought of making the trip to Anilin and tracking her down, of meeting her by chance on the road again, of her coming to find me at the University. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z We heard the school bus clanking and huffing to a stop out on the road. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z She pulled into the first empty spot she saw on the road near the hospital, running her car up onto the curb with a thudding stop. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z All spring and all summer and all fall he spent on the road with bicycle road-racers. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Soon we started seeing more and more people on the road, traveling with their meager belongings on their heads. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a cliche, all right, but it’s better than spinning your wheels. get the show on the road. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Real drive. 7TH JUROR: OK, let’s get this show on the road. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z From the top of the ride, Kat says London looks like toy-town and the cars on the roads below look like abacus beads going left and right and stopping and starting. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z A man stood on the road behind them. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z I glanced at a picture of Papá but had to keep an eye on the road, so I couldn’t read the article beside it. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Maman Thibaut just keeps making me more coffee and the girls are keeping a good watch on the road and the back lane. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Up the drive she went, and south on the road that ran past the property. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The sheriff come in and said, “Keegan, why you looking to get her all worked up? Let’s jus’ get ’em shackled proper and out on the road.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z “How many kids did you see on the road?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “You see, most of the campesinos around here can’t read, so it wouldn’t do us any good to put names on the roads.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z You know, it’s just another notch on the road of knowing where you are. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z During his second sentence on the roads of Florida, Adam reduced his personality to a minus. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Tall poplars had gone a buttery yellow while the shrubby sumac encroach- ing on the road was tinged a violent red. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The temperature in Des Moines was eighty-one degrees, and the time was five thirty-five, and “All you on the road, drive extra careful now on this fine Fourth of July.” The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Have you heard anything back from any schools?” she asks, her eyes focused on the road. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Liam kept his eyes on the road and his voice even, but there was something maybe a little bit too casual about it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z We’d been on the road for at least four hours and my body felt numb. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “And really, Marv, there are less mosquitoes out here than there are in there” She points at the prize vehicle on the road. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z How long have you been on the road? The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The snow we stepped through on the road was pristine, our tracks the first. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He said, “Let’s get this show on the road.” Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “Yes, my love, of course, but you must go. I don’t want you to be stopped on the road.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The water on the roads and sidewalks reflected light with a silvery sheen. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z She kept her hands on the steering wheel and her eyes on the road. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “Anyway, let’s get this show on the road, right?” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z As I watched, one of the British pitched over flat on the road. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z At length they came to Weathertop; and it was then drawing towards evening and the shadow of the hill lay dark on the road. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Trucks with flat beds loaded with empty potato barrels moved on the roads, and the mechanical potato digger turned up long windrows of pale-skinned tubers. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dissatisfaction is the first step on the road to greatness.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Certainly Joe had never seen his father kill anything, except for meat, or unless it was poisonous—his father would swerve a truck almost unconsciously to squash a rattlesnake or a tarantula on the road. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other side, the police car and hearse had left their tracks, but not one footprint marked the snow on the road. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “We have nothing for you today. The lorry carrying our supplies from Awomama was hijacked on the road,” he said, in the measured tone of a politician addressing his supporters. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Sahil’s playing music and seems to be focused on the road, so I’m back. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Their ears were strained for the sound of hoof or foot on the road ahead, or following them from behind; but the night passed, and they heard no sound of walker or rider. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Finally, Ivan said, “We came about that guy on the road. Obviously.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z No sooner had I said this than the siren wound down, and apparently stopped on the road at the foot of the mountain. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost no one passed on the road in winter except to buy flour at the store far down the road or to go to the town of a Saturday. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z If something had happened and we were survivors and we met on the road then we’d have something to talk about. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z If you are pregnant, you could lose the child on the road, Karla says. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The little town behind me was quiet, and there were no other cars on the road. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The next village down the river, only two days’ walk on the road that goes through there. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m already on the road,” he said, ignoring my question. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He leaned over as far as he could, craning to try and see what had happened, what was on the road. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z “We should get back on the road to Abuelita’s house. And this is the fastest and safest way to get there. So stop being so mulish and get up here. Come on, everybody up.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Though I dreaded riding with another white man, I dreaded more staying on the road all night. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It isn’t fair to tell us your name means blowing the dust off of surfaces when it means born on the road. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “Well,” he said, slightly taken aback, “my sincere apologies to you and your family. It’s rare to see one of your folk alone on the road.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She was the only daughter; her four brothers went with her father, husband, and uncles “out on the road” and for some years became western men. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I heard them thud against Ernie’s body and clatter on the road. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z In the summers, though, they’re mostly on the road, driving from infestation to infestation. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z From his perch on my shoulders, he reported all he saw out on the road. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There wasn’t much fanfare to the incident that put him back on the road again. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s no shoulder on the road,” he said. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z And I didn’t look before I crossed the road and a yellow Mini had to stop and the tires squealed on the road. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z They drove home, talking about it, traveling north on the road that led to Thurmont along the foot of Catoctin Mountain. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “We found her on our porch. If you want to see, go look at the marks on the road where she dragged herself.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The van parked in such a way that no one on the road or at the gas station could see what went on between the two vehicles. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It comes from growing up on the road, I think. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Well, King Walker say he be down this morning and put the belt on. You probably ought to get a good checkup on that car once you get on the road.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z We were all down on the road around the car. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z What time I didn’t spend studying or in the Archives I spent on the road to Imre, braving the coming winter wind, if not looking for its name. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The sun was bright and warm on the road. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z On February 23, 1927, weeks after Paul Peace vowed to disinherit and divorce the wife he suspected of poisoning him, he was injured in a hit-and-run and left to bleed out on the road. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The first blue brigade had stopped on the road below, by a red bam. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s also true that I’d felt sorry for the old man alone on the road. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I’m just on the road the same as you. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I hear the sound of a car motor out on the road. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z "A bribe. She begs leave to return to her castle. Your leave as well as mine. I suspect she fears you'll arrest her on the road, as you did Lord Gyles." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He thought it would be a good idea to get out on the road before there were too many cars and trucks. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z But I’ve got one eye on the road, and every time a car approaches, my heart starts pounding. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z He reached and shook the boy, keeping his eyes on the road. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “We’ll be all right. There are travelers on the road—just not many. And we’re such a small group that we shouldn’t attract too much attention.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I would write those down in my journal and refer to them often when I was on the road. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z No one moved in all the snowy fields, but away off on the road a small figure came towards me with the flying, gliding gait of the skier. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The Sunbird skidded along the slick pavement as she wrestled the wheel, trying to keep us on the road and in our lane and away from the car in front. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Deserter soldiers and other opportunists were thick on the roads, making even short trips risky. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Ma Charles perked up like I knew she would, which told me I had to try harder to get Miss Trotter to cross over the creek or go around on the road. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z She would stay on the road and in hiding, a balloon floating through the sky, eating up hundreds of miles a day with the help of a perpetual tailwind. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Kainene steered with a careless confidence, past potholes on the road, past palm trees stripped of fronds, past a thin soldier pulling along a thinner goat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “I’m trying to keep us on the road.” Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z She knew, in some deep kind of way, that Mark was not anywhere on the road to Spokane. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z There are many strange men on the roads. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z There were some farm trucks on the roads now and she had to weave through them and watch traffic. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z “The neighborhood children, they are not very careful. One time my car was on the road and a baseball went through the window. I can park it for you if you like.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z After that, I clutched my books close, keeping my eyes on the road in front of me. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “What we’ve found even more on then those two is your mind on the road,” he explained. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “I’m all right. I shall sleep. I don’t want to stay anywhere on the road. It’s much better to do this and get home. We’ll be at Manderley long before sunrise.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “Seems pretty quiet around here. Nobody on the road leading in, and nobody on the highway either.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We were cautioned to make no sound, though the scudding of our feet on the road made a continual grinding, histle, and scrape. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z ‘Well, Mr. Frodo,’ said Sam, ‘I’ve been having a look round and thinking a bit. There’s nothing on the roads, and we’d best be getting away while there’s a chance. Can you manage it?’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The traffic starts to speed up, and I want to end the conversation now so that he can focus on the road. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z But I found none of these antics as amusing as when I first set out on the road. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The route out of the city is bumpy and winding, especially as the driver takes sudden turns to avoid broken buildings or unknown groups clustered on the road. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z He reminds me to practice my exercises at home and tells me to have fun on the road trip with my family. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I was the one who was going to be on the road. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As on the riverbank, Blackberry had moved away and was already down on the road on his own account, sniffing out toward the middle, halfway between Hazel and the bend. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally he saw a speck moving on the road. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He just focused on the road ahead and on steering the car. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z She always tries to get out of going driving with Mustafa even though he says she’s easier to be on the road with than our father. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Jefferson was on the road back to Monticello immediately after the inaugural ceremony, setting up the Republican government in exile, waiting for the inevitable catastrophes to befall the presidency of his old friend. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He sat there for two days, rocking, drinking, while the men tiptoed around him, keeping one eye on the road and one eye on Mike. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Leila, though somewhat in a daze, noticed something else: There was no shoulder on the road, no easy place for her to walk; no room for the cars to safely swerve. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Bod could hear the two policemen talking heatedly—“Your bloody niece!” was used, and so was “If you'd kept your eyes on the road!” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z The thing to do now was to dig out in front of the wheels, put in brush so that the chains could grip, and then push until the car was on the road. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I asked Max once what they had seen on the road to Lwów, and he only said, “Blood.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He gave it to a British intelligence officer, telling him that he had found the pouch lying on the road. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “I met a tinker on the road this morning, and he tried to sell me a bottle of fruit wine,” I said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The seemingly small events like leaving me off a team email chain or forgetting to include my name on the team list while on the road added up to a bigger problem. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Almost seven years passed, and in that time, Edward became an excellent tramp: happy to be on the road, restless when he was still. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z We packed all our worldly belongings into Nan’s old hatchback on Thursday and were on the road first thing Friday morning. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Lucky for Booth, instead of turning into the thicket, the troops remained on the road, passed the thicket, and rode until the sound of hoofbeats vanished in the distance. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z We hadn’t been walking long when Bronwyn noticed a cloud of dust rising on the road behind us, way in the distance. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z It's the evening of my eighth day on the road. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Goddamnit! You’re eighteen. How much growing up do you need to do? There are soldiers dying in the field at eighteen. Old enough to be left to die on the roads. Did you know that?” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Siddhartha gave his clothes to a poor Brahmin on the road and only retained his loincloth and earth-colored unstitched cloak He only ate once a day and never cooked food. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z But now I’m sitting here, on the road to rainy, dreary Port Angeles. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z It might have been the smells, or the colors of the wood on the doorposts, or the arrangement of the stones on the road. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Behind her she heard a horse on the road. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I was on the road to the brightest of the bright. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He went a few feet, then stood on the road a minute, thinking. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z And to the children standing on the road she cried out, ‘Jump back into the car! We’re going to the doctor!’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The reason the service vehicles are out on the road looms up on the right—the municipal garage. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z His shoulders slumped as he turned, dragging his feet all the way across the field and heading south on the road. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z T\\vo young men, one sandy-haired, one dark, well dressed and well-spoken: travelers sensible enough to hook up with a larger group for protection on the road. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She was trying to be stoic, a medical woman, but I could tell that she was upset because the soldier hadn’t allowed her to help the injured on the road. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “Do you want to get back on the road early and call it a day?” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z In the morning when I awoke the bicycle-riders and their following cars had been on the road for three hours. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z At the last streetlight on the road out of town, I take out the map with the Helderberg Escarpment on it. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He had started on the road that leads down to the realm of death. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Your childhood friend didn’t stomp one to death on the road to Baedn-Bryt. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z ‘I am so sleepy,’ he said, ‘that soon I shall fall down on the road. Are you going to sleep on your legs? It is nearly midnight.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Well, you’re kind of skinny, but I can tell by the way you talk and the way you act that you haven’t been out on the road for very long. You still look young.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Stories had been whispered by those we passed on the road. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z We get out on the road, still heading west. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z They reached the top and ducked back down just as a car raced past on the road in front of them. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “An old man we met on the road, is all. He was driving an old nanny goat and four kids.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And as the three drew nearer on the road, Kino dug little pits with his sandaled toes so that he could leap without warning, so that his feet would not slip. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z The Constitution contained no provision that committed the newly created federal government to a policy of gradual emancipation, or in any clear sense placed slavery on the road to ultimate extinction. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It didn’t fit on the pavement, so it walked on the road instead, passing through parked cars as if it was spun out of nothing but nightmare and imagination. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z As I sat secure in the silence, a jeep scuffed to a stop on the road and good Charley left his work and roared. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Six Ivans rolled around on the road, hollering at the youngest one that they were all so happy to see him. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z She doesn’t speak until we get on the road. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Joseph’s ears were about as red as ears can get before falling off and shattering on the road. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z He heard the iron tires of the cart grinding on the road. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They were on the road all day, such day as there was. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I happened to glance back, and there were my three brothers behind us on the road, strung out at regular intervals, their eyes fixed on her. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Everwhen she goes out, whole bunches of little Congo children run after her on the road a-reaching and a-yanking on her long white hair to see if they can get it to come off. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In fifth grade, he claimed that Rihanna was his cousin and that his mom was on the road with her, working as her hairstylist. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “Why did you take a new one? Or was Denna just the name that you were wearing on the road to Anilin?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z While the decor was nothing to write home about, it was cool to be on the road for a game. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Despite a hard day’s walking, he was still on the road when night fell, making the rutted dirt road a stumbling ground of half-seen shapes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z To cheer us up on our first day on the road I made jam sandwiches for breakfast and they tasted hopeful. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Gramps concentrated on the road, and Gram gazed out the window. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z They encountered few other people on the road. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Clearly the traffic got so bad, people turned around on the road and tried to go the other way, hoping that backtracking would actually cut their losses. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Between Shin and the houses, there were two men on the road. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He grimaced and said wistfully, “It’s what made me give up the good life on the road.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z "Well, it’s hardly to be wondered at in this fog, Madam. That’s what I said to Robert just now. It’s difficult to find your way on the road, let alone on the water." Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Somehow, in our excitement, our two cars lost each other on the road. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a bother to be stopped on the road in a Free State when the lost property turned out to have a silver tongue. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z ‘Your father begged on the roads, and your mother’s roora was a basket of stale millet! My roora was a herd of fine cows.’ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as we started out on the road outside of town it was cool. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “The fuel finished on the road. I will find fuel and go back and get it,” Odenigbo said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z No tire marks are left on the road, and if you’re driving a car, your engine will die until morning. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Jay blinks fast but keeps her eyes on the road. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z William Henry had been waiting for her, just off the plantation, on the road. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They could hear the diesel engine out on the road, running on God knows what. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Sometimes she ventured on the road and they stumbled along behind her over the frozen ruts. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z As the riders passed, Lord Jason nodded a curt greeting, but it was only a high lord's courtesy to strangers chance met on the road. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She’d seen them on the road at seven in the morning coming home with their strings of fish or with mushrooms, with fern tendrils, butter clams, sea-run trout if they got lucky. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “I don’t know how to dance. Besides, I plan to make an early start in the morning. I’ll probably be on the road at daybreak.” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z Ten minutes later, they were on the road. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z She is exhausted and spent, in the same way she is after her day’s work is done, her sixteen miles on the road. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z One morning, soon after sanctions went into effect, we woke up to the sound of sirens on the road. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The travellers turned their backs on the road and went downhill. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Only 5 percent of the drivers on the road were African American or Latino, but more than 80 percent of the people stopped and searched were minorities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “I hate being on the road, but I don’t want to grow up here. I still want to be a pharmacist. You still want to be an engineer. We’ll never reach our dreams here.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z As the spring waned, they decided to take the show on the road. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The marriage lasted only a year, but it put him on the road to becoming a citizen. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Instead, she talked about how dangerous it was to be on the road after sunset, I guess to imply why she hadn’t returned. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z If a child born on the road is named Nzila, then I can call myself that. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z There were many iron shrapnel balls in the rubble of the houses and on the road beside the broken house where the post was, but they did not shell near the post that afternoon. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z My mom focuses on the road and doesn’t say anything. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z But before either of us had a chance to answer, a Volkswagen roared in the distance and all the people walking on the road ran into the nearby bushes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z A small group of people waited expectantly on the road. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t answer my question and kept her eyes on the road in front of us. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “We better get on the road,” she said. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Daddy fixes his gaze on the road again. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “We’ll take this show on the road,” says Finch, tracing lazy circles on my shoulder, down my arm, over to my hip. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z They wouldn't tell Walter where he was going, but as soon as they got on the road it was clear that they were taking him back to death row. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He kept his eyes on the road, because if he checked the mirror, he might see something. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “There’s no one on the road. I don’t think anyone’s coming to your celebration.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Both the food and the car have been designed for eating on the road. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z ‘And that we shall not find on the roads to the Sea,’ said Galdor. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z There are a few more cars on the road with us now, and more roadblocks. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I draw to the steady patter of rain on the roof and cars gushing through puddles on the road. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z "It would seem he has met some trouble on the road. My lord father is quite vexed. You would not perchance have any notion of who might have wished my brother ill, would you?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Well, she barged right in and got the show on the road,” said Charles. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z But out on the drive, after loading the terrified Mate in the wagon, he gave a signal and the driver roared away, leaving Mama standing on the road. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They are now both in front of her on the road, blocking any escape. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Thomas opens his mouth to say something, then decides against it and goes back to concentrating on the road. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “Go back to your company, Corporal Salvador,” Polly told him, “and I will not tell my father that I saw you on the road.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as she was on the road she began to run. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z It was too early to be out on the road: wait till later, when the rush hour started. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m pretty sure you only think like that because when you’re on the road you watch those reality television shows about people who have weirdly large families.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She would die on the road, on that old slave road that ran straight on down into the deep South. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I talked and he kept his eyes on the road, and I watched one tear and then another tear creep down his sad walrus face and disappear into his whiskers. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z An old van halted on the road above; two men tumbled out. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can feel it. Every day on the road—I feel something pulling me. I don’t know what it is, but I have to find out. I know it’s important.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z We see the sad trees, with their autumnal leaves dripping rain, the grey sky reflected in the puddles on the road. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Maybe we'd run into him for a day or a meal out on the road? The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z High on hashish and mast on French wine, they struck and killed a Hazara husband and wife on the road to Paghman. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He just kept his eyes on the road, taking bend after bend at a speed that made Elinor's heart beat painfully fast. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “How did you manage on the road with the Nigerian soldiers?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It was the only gift she had to give to the woman who had helped set her feet firmly on the road to freedom. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He doesn’t bother to honk, maybe because everyone else on the roads already is. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z I couldn’t speak to him now, here, on the road. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z They had been on the road since five in the morning. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Kathy and the kids had been on the road for three hours and had only gotten as far as Covington—about fifty miles. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z He looked to be about five years old—not old enough to be out on the road by himself. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z If there were more cars on the road, we’d have totaled the truck by now. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z As his canoe tapped against the overpass, he could see that there were ten or more animals, the same ones he’d seen before and a few others, in various positions on the road. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z In the early afternoon they spread their tarp on the road and sat and ate a cold lunch. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z They told her about their life, from the time my mother last saw them on the road leaving Kweilin to when they were finally found. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The people gathered on the road as usual, except this time I noticed they were separated into union and company families, each keeping an icy distance. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z As the weather grew colder, Alvarez heard more truck traffic on the roads outside. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z People got used to seeing him on the road. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Or, for instance, deciding whether or not to focus on the road or the phone when you’re driving. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z My old friend Pascal and two other former students of Anatole’s were murdered by the army on the road south of here. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But there are horses on the roads and I’ll warrant alarums. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z We hear him thunder by on the road and turn up the bridge that heads straight into Carbonel Downs, hooves clattering on boards and then on dirt till they’re swallowed up by the loudspeaker sounds. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z They led them to the edge of the gully, all while keeping an eye on the progress of the guards on the road. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I started the car and got us back on the road, but my mind kept churning it over. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I don’t want to be on the road when the Turkish army arrives. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Seldom had he remembered it on the road, until they came to Morgul Vale, and never had he used it for fear of its revealing light. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He couldn’t see anything moving on the road or in the fields, but still, the skin on the back of his neck prickled. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Privacy is hard to come by on the road, and they needed it as much as I did. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It was surprisingly difficult to concentrate on the road while feeling his gaze on my face. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Dust, stirred up by the day’s traffic on the roads, hung softly, a beige mist across the fields. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But every day she was on the road, to Santiago, to San Francisco, to Moca—on store business, she said. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We were flying over a highway now, racing the cars that looked like toys on the road below. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps 'Mursden' will ring a bell for you, as it did for me upon my first spotting it on the road atlas yesterday. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “Not if there are more of those on the road,” Shep said darkly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z For a minute there was a bright, golden glow over everything before the sun sank down behind the trees and their shadows were gone on the road before them. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “Much the same,” she said, tersely, keeping her eyes firmly on the road. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z But there was rarely any ongoing protection while she was on the road or once she returned home to 3932 Military Road. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Let’s get the show on the road,” he muttered. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z He bared his teeth and licked his lips, as Blackberry had done before the dead hedgehog on the road. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been built long ago when the traffic on the roads had been far greater. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The way I feel on the roads is how I’ve felt in general since we arrived in this country. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z All this I had learned in a day and a half on the road. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Then he saw troops on the road, a long way off. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I really do, Cullen,” Lucas said bluntly, his gaze on the road ahead. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Two more skeletons appeared on the road behind us. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Back on the road, back down the river, back toward Haven. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z “Sir, the purchase of a horse should never be so rushed. You would not pick a wife in ten minutes, and on the road, a horse is more important than a wife.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z What if we are each other’s in-between people, a way station on the road to someplace else? The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z For if I were successful tonight, I'd be on the road to something big. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He comes down Jonagold Path dragging the two buckets on the road. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z “That’s enough out of you, girl. Time for us to be on the road to Newport.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The cabin stood all alone by itself on the road to our house, and it was the place Doc did all of his business. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z And now it was dawn, time to get this show on the road. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The boy had already had experience on the road with Gypsies; they also traveled, but they had no flocks of sheep. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I trained myself to limit my water intake, understanding there was rarely time for bathroom breaks on the road. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z What chance, if any, existed at that propitious moment to put slavery on the road to extinction? Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Once I realized that the women on my own team were not going to be my friends, I sought companionship elsewhere when I was on the road. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Zooey glanced at me again, and the entire car swerved to the right, barely remaining on the road. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Soon’s I led him out of the stable he started off on the road that runs through the main part of the Settlement. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z “Here’s the deal,” Mei-li said, her eyes back on the road now. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Men with bald heads, twenty feet tall, are said to appear on the roads outside of Ntchisi, a few at first, then dozens all around. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Dad set the twins on the road and held out his arms to Malachy. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z We walked on the road between the thick trunks of the old beeches and the sunlight came through the leaves in light patches on the grass. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Immediately the traffic on the road resumed, even the animals and insects contributing activity. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He was silent for a while, then he opened the door and stood out on the road. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Many lecturers had parked their cars on the road and joined the crowd. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z If there’s a stream gurgling under a bridge on the road, birds singing and cows mooing and lambs baaing, that’s better than any band in a film. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He had been driving steadily for an hour, with no other car on the road, no light, just the road going under, the hum, the roar, and Mars out there, so quiet. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Caleb’s expression is placid as the bus sways and jolts on the road. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z They then grabbed some stuff from the bathroom in the salon, and were back on the road. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z She chose the road because of the Dead End sign, which, she reasoned, meant that there wouldn’t be many cars on the road. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z He kept his eyes on the road and did not reply. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z My mom looks at my dad, his eyes fixed on the road, and then she joins in. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z There was also no mention of his time on the road with the Bluesmen. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z “You heard Val. Time to take this party on the road.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z He hummed along with her, his eyes focused on the road, the rest of us silent as fog. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z They were just beginning to scramble out, when suddenly they heard what they had all been dreading: hoofs on the road ahead. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Richard said little else, and instead looked at the hawkers on the road, shouting, gesturing, running after cars to collect their money. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z When he saw people on the roads, he was so naturally and irrepressibly social he would have stopped and told them. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The horsemen pounded on, churning the snow on the road into mud. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He heard horses’ hoofs plodding on the road and far-off pounding on wood where a neighbor was shingling a barn. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z We left in a rush, and after about an hour on the road we entered a prison whose name I recognized: Victor Verster. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The darkness grows heavier on the road and I begin. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z There were pale figures ahead of him on the road. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z We were barely back on the road in front of the Rydells’ house before R.C. was rummaging through my lunch bag. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z It struck me as very sad, this old man all alone on the road with no one to talk to but his donkeys. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The boy was allowed to go as far as he wanted to on the road. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother said, “It’s still snowing. He won’t be out on the roads.” Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Some partisans proclaim that it set humankind on the road to prosperity and progress. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z We arranged to go to a 52nd Street nightclub to hear Billie Holiday, who had been on the road and was just back in New York. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z When I thought Aaron had shot her on the road. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z I turned to see a yellow glow on the road’s horizon. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He tells Mam the coal yards are closed and we’ll have to drink milk and eat bread tonight, but when I tell her about the women on the road she passes Eugene to him. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z There on the road, I felt the babe within me move for the first time. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z There’s hoofbeats on the road, distant but approaching at full gallop. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z He trips over his own sandal and lands—smack—on the road. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z I’d been living with Miss Thomas and the band for about seven days and this was already my third trip on the road. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z ‘If there’s a few decent respectable folk on the roads, that won’t do no harm,’ he said. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “He could of just picked the car up and set it back on the road.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Long enough to watch the city of my birth recede from view on the road behind us as we rolled through the sea of wind turbines that surrounded it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Kendra felt certain she had been on the road for hours when she reached an open area. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Through his afternoons with Pearl, Moody slowly learned some of what their life on the road was like. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They had been working on the hill for two hours already when they saw the bright yellow school bus go by on the road. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z He meant personally to save more souls than had perished on the road from Bataan, I think, and all other paths ever walked by the blight of mankind. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “She could have conked out on the road in the middle of the night.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The vehicle appeared on the road below them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Hatun described his time laboring on the roads and bridges, and how some of the men had been hard-working while others were lazy. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z My Jamaican rear gunner and I took a tortuous route over a series of garden walls to avoid the checkpoint on the road. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z ‘Will you have it here, or in more comfort in what’s left of Saruman’s guard-house — over there under the arch? We had to picnic out here, so as to keep an eye on the road.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She shuffled her feet to kick up dry orange dirt on the road to the bridge, seeming not to walk so much as cross-country ski. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Now that noon was past, there were few people on the road, but soon they fell in with a peasant with a shepherd’s crook over his shoulder. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z We have been on the road for eighteen days now and our food ration is getting smaller with each passing day. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dust? I guess you mean it in some other sense than the dust on the roads. No, I never did. But look! There’s a troop of angels now....” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The small plans were: Keep the car on the road. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “I need a waterskin, if you have one, or a bottle of water if you don’t. And some food that will keep on the road. Hard sausage, cheese, flatbread ” “Apples?” she asked. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I get myself moving again on the road. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z But Tomas had swum in blue rivers on Earth, with strangers passing on the road, and eaten in strange houses with strange people, and his weapon had always been his smile. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z She took off her sunglasses to get a better look at the dead frog squashed on the road. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he settled himself on the fallen trunk, ears trained for any sound on the road. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z On any other day, Annabelle would have been on the road for hours. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z It's still early, and there aren't as many cars on the road as there will be in a few hours. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Now, whenever they were stopped at the interrogation stations, they had a good excuse for being on the road. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Top-down attention is what we use to direct our focus, say, on a work project, or listening to Lord Jim through headphones, or when driving on the road. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Grandma says, “He is on the road to recovery. Could be he will come home as soon as tomorrow.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z “Keep your eyes on the road,” I said. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z “Well, they shouldn’t be on the road. They’re a safety hazard.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She thought back on their flight from him on the road. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “It’s from a young Latvian woman who died on the road,” she explained. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The eunuch had suggested that perhaps Littlefinger had met some misfortune on the roads. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Pa had the buckboard and Shirl, the biggest plow horse, waiting on the road. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z We passed other camions on the road and I looked at the country. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Instead, unbelievably, while Booth and his gang lay in wait on the road on the outskirts of the city, Lincoln was giving a speech at Booth’s own hotel, the National! Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it’s another black kid walking on the street, on the road? Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Ice on the roads and the fields, and the beach where his grandmother lives. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Tidings and Old Johnny Mercer were on the road with the pickup truck and the boat trailer. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Piper stood on the road between them, frozen with fear. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Straight ahead on the road are six men. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z What little scrap of audacity caught the attention of an army officer on the road? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I need to concentrate on the road right now. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ready to get this show on the road?” she says, shooting me a thumbs-up. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Perhaps it would overtake Father on the road. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z My father would be concentrating on the road, since he didn’t want his Ford Mustang to be near any other car that might come too close and spatter a pebble up at the chrome. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Permission from the Community Woodward School was forthcoming for Bobby’s three-week absence, and the boy was delighted to be on the road playing chess instead of being in the classroom. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The city was chaotic, thousands of cars on the road. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z She heard the sound then: horse hooves on the road, coming to a stop. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “Who are you, my dear, and why are you out here on the road after dark?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you see any gods on the road to Cairo, you make sure and say hi to them from me.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z She’d have a lot to overcome when she finally got back on the road. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z We pass a military truck heading in the opposite direction from us, but other than that there are very few cars on the road. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z She was concentrating on the road and on what had really landed us in the car together. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z But I was wondering why the hell you couldn’t keep your car on the road. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z If I happened to be alone on the road and saw a woman approaching who was wearing gloves, I would quickly skip across to the other side. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z ‘And if you are supposed to be on the road, there is some chance that you will be looked for on the road and not off it.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z All that was needed was for a few men to leave their trucks or a few horses be killed to tie up completely the movement on the road. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z They walked on the road under the rising moon. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z I jerked myself back on the road just long enough to push her off…if only for a moment. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z He began talking to the old man, about places he had been on the road, about places the two of them might have gone to, about everything. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z We set out on the road, moving almost as quickly as my pony had. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Knew it but kept his eyes straight on the road. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z A red sports car zooms by on the road, puddle- spraying our fence. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z That's when I saw that there were roughly hewn benches along each side and lots more people in there that I couldn’t see when I was standing on the road. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He tried to pattern his behavior after the men he met on the road. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “It’s not loaded, sportsfans,” the Colonel answered, “but it’s there. You never can tell what you might meet on the road these days.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He’ll be less alert on the road, but few people would say he shouldn’t be allowed behind the wheel. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z They told her that the incident had taken place on the road to Tremonton. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z And when he did, I stood on the road and shouted up at him, “Kirkwood?” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z I ran across the field to a fence on the far side, popped through there, and then I was right on the road, three blocks from my house. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Doesn’t everything,” he says, “die at last and too soon? Who would not be honored to fall? To be a paving stone on the road to final victory?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She was staring out the window, and had been the entire time they’d been on the road. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Two weeks later, Captain Prince and Nat were on the road home. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite being the only car on the road, we caught every red light. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Don’t stop on the road to help a motorist pretending to be in trouble. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The wind shifted so that the heat and smell bore down on the road. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z “Your daughter looks tired. If you wish, she may climb into my cart,” a ragged man on the road said. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Once they were on the road, they might begin to get some sense of where it could take them. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Ethan leans over, one eye on the road, and rubs his lips against my temple. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Most often when she passed on the road in front of the Store, she spoke to Momma in that soft yet carrying voice, “Good day, Mrs. Henderson.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z We’re also driving on the line separating lanes on the road instead of between them. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z We had been on the road for a little over an hour, and so far so good. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Malachy says he’ll find one but she tells him, No, you don’t find onions on the road, you get them in shops. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z But we could still hear it faintly when we met Rufus on the road. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “It does us no good to dwell on dark thoughts. But we do want to be on the road and away from here before the twilight is gone.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z No ravens came to men on the road, and Catelyn was anxious to know what had happened behind her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z We were supposed to be on the road to Shadbush Crossing almost twenty minutes ago. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “You were a great help on the road,” she said clearly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I^efugees streamed out of Boston; we saw them on the roads, carrying everything they owned. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Or was he afoot on the road, carrying what he could carry with him? The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Then Pa always said, “To keep an eye on the road,” as if I was really doing something when all I did was keep Pa company. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z "Who'd be so heartless to leave their baby alone on the road?" A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z I can see through her tinted windows, and I watch as she sings along to some song, her unblinking eyes on the road. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z The storehouse had been big enough for her to creep off and make her water in some comer when no one was looking, but it was different on the road. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z People living on the road call it The Jungle. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “You won’t get proper food or medicine by shooting travelers on the road. What happens if Amin gets sick again? Or if you get hurt?” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z I’m not afraid—it was more frightening in that shack than it is on the road, with moonlight all around. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z She hadn’t remembered our first meeting on the road from Tarbean. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He put his eyes back on the road. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Pietro Crespi returned on Sunday midnight to sweep up the ashes of the party, after having worn out five horses on the road in an attempt to be in time for his wedding. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z But it was too scary for me to risk walking alone with Zuhair on the road. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z That he led a platoon into the last town on the road to Moscow. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z There’s not a lot of good news on the road. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I wanted to be a traveller on the road, a bride in love with her husband. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The silence of the night completely destroyed, they all stood there on the road like actors in a play, each waiting for the other’s next move. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Her father sent news every few weeks, punctuating the warm stillness with reports from the south: There had been a storm on the road, and it had delayed them. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z By 1955, Paramount would be desperate to exit the field; Ernest, feeling duty-bound to help his financial partner reduce its exposure to losses, went on the road to help Paramount find a buyer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It touched down on the road next to Jason and took the form of a horse—a misty steed with lightning flickering through its body. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z "Yoren, we go south at daybreak. You will find me on the road, no doubt." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I put the car on the road again, and my memory of it is that we didn’t talk much more on the way back to the Kingsfield. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The shadows on the road were as still as if they had been put there with a stencil, with slanting pencils of sunlight. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He hadn’t asked his father where Sounder had come to him on the road when he wasn’t more’n a pup. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “The kids can sleep, no cars on the road, it’s cooler, and you don’t waste a day getting there.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There was nothing on the road, nothing but long grass either side. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “Okay. Let’s get this show on the road.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I glanced at her a few times, but mostly I fixed my eyes on the road. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Moreover, the fact that Kang was on the road so early meant that he wished to reach the kiln before anyone else. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z As soon as the door was closed, Annie turned up her music and spun the tires until they were back on the road. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z It was dark on the road, the dawn barely stirring on the hills beyond. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Take your places and well get this show on the road!” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z She's taken her eating disorder on the road, conditioning her hair with whipped topping and rolling her bangs in finger-size breakfast sausages. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z At sunrise, Chou and I greet Pithy at our meeting place on the road. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But sometimes I couldn’t help the people on the road when the shamblers came. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z It was the elephant on the road, and it would remain unacknowledged. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z But instead, when her father’s time with the navy was over, he went on the road with two of his flashy electric guitars. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z “How long you been on the road, chile?” she asked. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Manchee follows along on the road, doing his business and sniffing every flower. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z “Yes, sah, because if not they are taking it from me on the road.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But even with luck, I was usually on the road for a week or more before I got home. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Only when they were on the road did Ivan say, “I wasn’t the one who knocked over the hive, anyway. It was Pyatsha.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z And, weirdly, I hope she hasn’t; I hope she’s not back on the road by herself. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Momma asks, peering at me in the rearview mirror before focusing back on the road. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z They rolled merrily along while I lay on the road and watched the truck recede. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z There were the lights of a car on the road climbing the mountain. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z I left the Behavioral Center feeling that Branwell's smile had been a signpost on the road to recovery. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There were more automobiles on the road now, and any one of them could be la migra. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Even on the road, living out of motel rooms, Enrique maintains one ritual. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z They could run into the parlor, sing fast, pray quick, and be on the road before the rest of Cold Sassy got out its Sunday clothes. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Other examples of modifiers include the underlined words in the phrases walks on four legs, swollen feet, met him on the road to Thebes, and the shepherd whom Oedipus had sent for. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I run thru the opening on the road and to the other side. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z There has never been any village on the road past Bulungu. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But when I wasn’t on the road and had the opportunity to be home, my favorite place to be was curled up in my bed or spending time with my family. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The very same Rude boys who appeared on the road in front of him. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z But the stepfather, a truck driver, was frequently on the road, and her mother, who was mentally ill, often needed the young Della to care for her. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Because of the congestion on the roads to Jena, some protestors left their vehicles and walked into town on foot. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Had he hoped to meet Judith on the road? The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Out here, they're bigger than me, growling on the roads like monsters with huge eyes. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Outside, the country men called to each other on the road that went by the house, and I heard, too, the daily round of the servants and family. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z What he was hearing, and beginning to comprehend, was that it was possible for him to have his hands on the wheel and eyes on the road, and still be lost somewhere else. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z What an engaging and magical thought for a boy on the road in a countryside dappled and rippling in sunlight. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They were on the road, and I was several feet off it. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z ‘And yet you counselled me not to adventure on the road that I had chosen, because it is perilous?’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z She spun, her heart seizing in her chest, and she almost tripped over a pile of coats and bags on the road next to her. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z There were more, and larger, villages, and more people on the roads. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z So I hope that’s not true what you said because to be on the road with the last god would be a terrible thing so I hope it’s not true. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z |
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