My mom told me once that money problems sort of sneak up on you. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The Corderos lived in an enormous, sprawling farmhouse, with an attic so packed with junk that Miguel’s little brother had once gotten lost for a whole afternoon. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“As is Abnegation. I am sure that once the remains of your old faction are absorbed into the Dauntless army, Candor will cooperate and we will finally be able to get on with things.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Good fortune go with you, Matthias. I wish that I were young and agile once again so that I could accompany you.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while, when Brandon stepped out of the room, Candice went to the Atlanta real estate webpages to see if her house was on the market. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Pattie assumed that relatives would fly into town or that family friends would, once alerted, take over. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you just punch him once or twice?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“True,” he said quietly, “I have held a sword once or twice in my day.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

But he knew at once, looking at Hooper's back, that it would never be all right. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Some of the boys moved at once, ducking their heads and hunching over. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, out of desperation and grief, Pop stole the money and took her, thinking they’d be safe once they were out of America. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I prayed that even though I was Christian and he was whatever he was, I prayed that God would still let him hold me once we’re both dead. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I tracked down the owner of the abandoned house, and once the papers were all signed and it was mine, I arranged for Marcus to help me renovate. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Its ballroom could seat five hundred banquet guests at once. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Her sentence of death was once more commuted to transportation, this time for life. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Even Tali tripped once, cursing under his breath. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Sure, we’d been heckled a few times, but once that paper goes to print, there’s no turning back. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

"Perhaps you are indeed right. That boy has become a blight. We are best companions once more! Let's have celebrations galore!" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

For once in his life, he was going to be the one who decided what was happening to him. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I’d mentioned this to Augustus precisely once, on the first day we met. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I wished still to cry, and attempted it again; and once again, my effort failed, all tears occluded. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

All at once his white shirt blazed out, and I came out after him from shadow into full sunlight on a wide green meadow. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

All at once a new shout went up. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

At night, she dreamed of a little girl—and once of triplets. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It had once been a lively gathering place, but the Great September Fire had altered it permanently. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

‘Well, if that is what you find pleasure in,’ said Frodo, ‘I pity you. It will be a pleasure of memory only, I fear. Go at once and never return!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Far off in the night something howled once more, and the ghouls moved closer to the fire. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Something must’ve sounded funny, because Day laughs once before bursting into a coughing fit. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Although once or twice the light chaise slurred as it caught in great ruts made by the disabled Lyte coach, there was no other sign of the late violence.The mob was utterly gone. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some tore strips from their canvas jackets and wrapped them around their bare feet, but once the canvas got wet it was worse. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

They dont touch one another, no matter how knotted up they once were, no matter how close they lay once to the bones. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lord knows what they’re supposed to do, once they get there. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something about that Griever being dead and then not dead, something about where it had gone once it sprang to life . The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Can’t you urge them to come inside at once? Dinner’s growing cold.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

My only regret is that I didn’t have a camera during the whole trip to capture this once in a lifetime opportunity. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

"You ought to try Armstrong—quite a young man—but so clever—Pam had been to all sorts of people for years and he put his finger on the trouble at once!" And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I make a mental note that once I’m back, I’m going to make sure these girls are enrolled in school. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, no,” she said gently, “please don’t waste time. Take me to the Regent at once. He’s waiting for me.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

His mother looped her fingers between his and squeezed once, but he was lost in the news broadcast. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Harry thought that Dumbledore would insist upon accompanying Riddle, but once again he was surprised. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Then I said, “I ran away once because . . . well, because I wanted to do something else.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chapter 4 considers how the caste system operates once people are released from prison. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I have to admit that once or twice that day, I almost texted Zara to apologize about what I’d said in the lunchroom. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was dark behind the thick red cloth that draped the stage, and the air smelled musty, but once the curtains were pulled, the light from the auditorium windows would fill the stage. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

He was scared to think about it, to even entertain the notion, but he found that once he’d acknowledged it, its roots dug into him, refusing to let go. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

At that he walked faster, aware all at once of urgency and the declining sun and a little wind created by his speed that breathed about his face. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It felt like once he had proven himself capable of helping me qualify for the national team, his priorities shifted. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

But although they heard owls more than once, no elil attacked them and by the morning they were in better spirits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But once she started liking Charlie and wanted me out of his life, things changed. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“If you say,” said Frog doubtfully ... ... but for once the gods were listening, and their chance came much sooner than that. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

‘I had one once and I woke up sweating all over.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared at the dashboard for a few moments, tried the key once more, then went to open up the hood. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

X threaded his fingers, once, through his dirty hair, then shielded his eyes against the light again. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

After lunch we worked until four, when the guards blew shrill whisdes and we once again lined up to be counted and inspected. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rubbing his bruised jaw again, Salvador only nodded as Lupita fell into stride beside him, and they once more started on their way northward. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I smiled, strummed my imaginary guitar, and sang, “I’ll be a fool for Christ, not just once, but twice.” Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Bogotá, they discovered that once they could enjoy the forbidden fruit, they lost their appetite. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He had once turned a bunch of wildflowers into a twenty-dollar bill. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

And then Jim Weinraub says that when he slept over at Russell's once, they sneaked down to the basement in the middle of the night and looked at a dead woman. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was cold out, and once they were driving, it got colder. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Acererak once again produced two quarters and dropped them into the Joust machine. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Rumor has it that Day once scaled five stories in less than eight seconds. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Her Harry was so handsome and dynamic, she knew that once married they would share a wonderful life full of travel and fine possessions. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He knelt beside Constance and put his hand on her shoulder—and Constance, for once, didn’t complain. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He said that he would go with them to the chief’s place, although he did not say what he was planning to do once they got there. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

It was somehow beautiful and creepy, all at once. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I know, because I saw them on a nature show once. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

She’s knocking her rings together, topaz, I think, like the kind my mom once pawned when she wanted to buy Olivia concert tickets for her thirteenth birthday. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

If you’re skilled you don’t try to steel yourself, you actually do the opposite, you let yourself go, completely, Hoagland told me once, like you are sitting on the toilet, you loosen a certain muscle. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Wang Lung himself would not go at once, and he kept with him his youngest son. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Mollie was not one who liked to be seen as a victim, but for once she admitted that she was scared and bewildered. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

‘Urn . Dakota shuffled his feet. ‘Even if you get the statue to the hill, what’s to stop Octavian from destroying it once it’s in place? Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Whatever, once we have imagined it, foreign and therefore hostile, it is not to be petted. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d never seen all three vans in the same place at once, though I knew they shuttled our fresh produce into the city. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

But nothing could keep them back once that owl disappeared from my eyes and I knew as I had never known before that I would never, ever, see May on this earth again. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

But his brain got distracted like four different songs were playing at once and he was expected to sing along to only one. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

And so, horrified, my grandmother had resumed an activity at which she had tried her hand once before, with decidedly mixed results. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But ever once in a while, Robert watch from his friend’s car. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At night and on weekends it was wonderfully quiet, and once we got back from Connecticut I spent a great deal of time there—reading, napping on his couch, doing his work and my own. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I kept thinking I could hear people moving outside. I even thought I saw somebody once or twice.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But Lazlo had many times fulfilled Thyon’s research requests, and once, in the early days, when he’d discovered a rare metallurgical treatise he thought might be of interest, Nero had even said, “Thank you.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

My mom said once that she thought he quit, but she couldn’t prove it. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Chief Opechancanough decided to wipe out the English once and for all. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Christmas and then New Year’s and then Three Kings—so many holidays all at once! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She follows my gaze and tucks the strap back under the material, blushing once again. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Her mother would say to her gently, “You only visit once a year, Ash. Sit still and give them a chance to see you.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gat, my Gat, once upon a time my Gat—he has come out to see me, too. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

But once they passed into the spot where she couldn’t see them, they stopped running and began to walk. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while, she rolls her eyes and mutters, “Here I am, a trained dentist and a teacher, gluing puzzles.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left her room with a broad, hypocritical smile, and once he was out of his mother’s field of vision he had to lean against a wall, because his legs were giving out. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I came downstairs one morning and went into the dining room for my bowl of mush and lard gravy I felt at once that something sen ous was happening in the family. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he had once more laughed heartily, he became meek again, and told me that the moment he began to realise Capital, it was his intention to marry this young lady. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You ready?” she says once she’s standing right in front of him. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I tied it once, the wrong way as usual, then tied it again. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He once torched a whole squadron of fighter jets on an empty airfield in the middle of the night and has on two occasions grounded airships by crippling their engines. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Over the next thirteen weeks, you shall each dwell and compete in my home. You will train every day, and be tested once a week—a test during which one of you will be eliminated.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Even then all I can see is the shape of his thin lips and wide, black nostrils that flare once every few seconds as he talks to Ma. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You heard me. No landing system. We'll need guidance for in-flight course adjustments. But once it gets to Mars, it's going to crash." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Even if it meant you could only see it once, would you still want to do that?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He pulled out his map, and once again Rupa shone the light across it. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Pollard promised her that once he was established, he would send for her and they would marry. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they slowly began to heave themselves to their feet, and it was obvious that they had lost their tempers once again. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Penelope tossed and turned for hours, and when morning finally came, for once she did not wish the water in her washbasin even one degree warmer than it was. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

When she saw the answer, she relaxed at once. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because maybe it was silly, but I guess I thought just once I would get an A. And I guess maybe I thought it would happen that time. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. He has come home only once. Everybody on the street came out to greet him and the children were fighting to touch his uniform.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Apparently, the Übermensch had once been an Überhippie, complete with a scruffy beard and hair that reached past his shoulders. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Farmer climbed back in the car, and we continued on to the hacienda, once owned by a wealthy family that had fled the country when Castro came to power. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

But even as he stood there, flooded with excitement, something Harry had once heard Mr. Weasley say came floating out of his memory. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

"Come on, then, come on," said the Dwarf, at once throwing his thick little arms round Shasta's waist to support him. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

But she could not face him, for she was no longer the innocent girl he had once loved. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once was enough: wasn’t once enough for me at the time? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They must’ve hit him once and then he didn’t know what to do with himself and kept trying to get back in front of the window. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

All at once tears of self-pity brimmed her eyes. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, once they were legitimate they found it not to their liking, and returned almost immediately to crime. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I feel my way up the stairs, crawl under the covers, and fall asleep at once. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted, just this once, to get into trouble. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Our goal is to take over the districts one by one, ending with District Two, thus cutting off the Capitol’s supply chain. Then, once it’s weakened, we invade the Capitol itself,” says Plutarch. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Actually, they end up leading me, since once they get to the lobby and can see outside through the glass door, they pull the leashes toward it. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

In her childhood her father had never misinterpreted her, nor bobbled once, except when she was eleven and came home to dinner from school one day and found that her blood had begun to flow. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Edward nod once. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Not since the soldiers had come to Boston had Johnny removed his hat when the British flag went by except once when it had been knocked off his head by a soldier. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She realized then that, terrifying though the thing on the wall that had once been the other Misses Spink and Forcible was, it was attached to the wall by its web, encased in its cocoon. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

So, about once a week, the cops send out a message like this, a promise to pay anyone who can catch the criminal in question. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I got fairly good at it, though once or twice I sliced too deeply, nearly cutting off a whole head. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

When, on a day after a trip to collect coal, I cough once, loudly, through bronchial tubes already packed tight with phlegm, my mother frowns. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would take her shopping once a week, first to the grocery and then maybe to the drugstore, if she needed something for herself. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Cole opened his eyes once more, his breath caught. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Thomas couldn’t have agreed more and once again almost broke his order to stay quiet, but stopped himself. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

And once I started crying, I couldn’t stop. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Actually, it’s not hard to untie, once you know the secret. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jolene urged that they sample the pie at once—no nonsense about leaving it to cool. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than once I imagine sinking my rusty sickles into his skull. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I once made a vegan really, really sick at a McDonald’s. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Oh, no, Reynie, you don’t grow out of it. It’s just that once you acquire a family, you no longer need to wish for one.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Put out your arm,” the sergeant said to the boy once again. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t sure when she first heard the new set of footsteps, only that once she did, they echoed, hard and deliberate against the stone outside her cell. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Jon had seen an abandoned hold-fast once, a drear place where nothing moved but the wind and the stones kept silent about whatever people had lived there. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

On their feet at once, 430 the suitors took the road to the sea beach, where, meeting the black ship, they hauled her in. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

At once, he was a little boy again, staring at a monster as it towered over his father’s body. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

During this time she had never once felt composed, and she had stopped imagining their future. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Taran threw himself furiously against the immovable Crochan and once again with all his strength tried vainly to wrest it from the ground. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

‘I will send for it at once. Do you understand? Say just that!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“I remember once calling you ‘George,’ in one of my amiable fits, about ten years ago. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Today, voting rights for blacks and other minorities are once again under attack and imperiled. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The hot, heavy feeling inside him made him do the most awful things, and as soon as he’d done them he felt extraordinarily pleased and glad and thought out some more at once. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Yes, Ma,” Caroline said, for once not putting up a fight. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“No. But once, she visited me. You were about to be born. She said she liked the peace in my church.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

His traveling companion, Charles Kalme, repeated his win of the previous year and was crowned the champion once again. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then I remembered: even a geo-stationary satellite can be two things at once, still or moving. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, Hoover himself had interviewed her in Washington, not once, but twice, and he arranged for a government expert on “mental diseases” to evaluate her. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But it turns out I don't have to worry about it, because all at once, there she is. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Hagrid raised his pink umbrella and rapped a certain brick in the wall, which opened at once to form an archway onto a winding cobbled street. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

At the edge of the porch, gathering the wisps of courage that were fast leaving her, she turned once more to look at him, to ask him... had he... Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The opening was narrow, not much wider than the canoe, but once we were inside, it spread out and was larger than my place on the headland. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now,” said Herbert, as it was succeeded by silence, “he’s drinking. Now,” said Herbert, as the growl resounded in the beam once more, “he’s down again on his back!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra seized the lanyard at once and put it in her mouth. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Let the stories of your world fill it once more, he’d said. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Grandpa says that once a lion gets a taste for human blood, it won’t stop until it’s eaten an entire village. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The excitement I had once felt about school and learning simply went away. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while, he’d twist his handkerchief around a cube and press it to his temple. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 2015, this disconnect was once again forced into the light of day as violence surged in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, New York City, and Baltimore. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I wiped my tears away, dribbled once, twice, and pulled up for a jumper. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I scoured every item on that desk, and not just once. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

Without warning they both burst into tears and started talking at once. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I only hoped he would understand, and listen to me just this once. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Have you ever seen a messenger you once sent to me,” I inquired, “since he undertook that trust?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

There had been other white men, once upon a time, but after the dead rose they’d either ran off or turned shambler. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The car provided another form of closeness for my family, a chance to talk and travel at once. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It’s a wild, electrifying feeling, and once I get a taste of it, I’m hooked. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

‘But now the world is changing once again. A new hour comes. Isildur’s Bane is found. Battle is at hand. The Sword shall be reforged. I will come to Minas Tirith.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“But Tommy’s right. You should at least have tried. Then you could see a poster like that one, and remember that’s what you wanted once, and that you at least looked into it...” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bessie gave him the glass once more and he drank it down, then another glass. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He reached for the bucket, and though he wasn’t close, the little boy shied away at once. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was evening once more and Hazel and Fiver were feeding outside the wood with two friends. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The round belly that I once loved to wrap my arms around is caved in, showing his rib cage. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee, once he had given up his brackish bookish dream, made a new kind of place for himself in the house beside Reynaud’s Bakery. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And once, when I peeked at her, she was peeking at me, too. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It isn’t like that now, because so much has been flattened, and even from the creek, he can see everything all at once. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

His hand went to his head once more. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

They set off for the castle once more. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She jumps anyway, all hysterical, but then smiles once she realizes it’s just me. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The people of her khalasar had welcomed,the chance to recover from the ravages of the red waste, but now that they were plump and rested once again, they began to grow unruly. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Mommy once took me to Harlem to visit my stepsister, Jacqueline, whom we called Jack and who was my father’s daughter by a previous marriage and more like an aunt than a sister. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Louis and Mary slept in the truck, once it was empty. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The only person we’ve ever seen go up there is the bird lady who drops off groceries once a week.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I once heard my mother and father blaming each other for my hair,” I said. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

My dad bought me a bicycle once, and I believe that I was the proudest boy in town. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within twenty years at the most, he re-fleeted, the huge and simple question, “Was life better before the Revolution than it is now?” would have ceased once and for all to be answerable. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“You had better be apprenticed at once. Would Gargery come here with you, and bring your indentures, do you think?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, a famed Chinese scholar had once named twelve small wonders of the world; eleven of them were Chinese, and the twelfth was the color of Korean celadon pottery! A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Maybe nothing ever happens once and is finished. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cleared his throat and spat once more. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came together to negotiate a peace, and once the negotiations were concluded, they marked their truce by each of them, Aesir and Vanir alike, one by one spitting into a vat. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He woke once to go to the bathroom, and a cowboy was standing on top of a speeding stagecoach, shooting Indians. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

This meant once their fingerprints were received, they'd immediately get assigned an interview date and my sister would avoid aging out. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

At once the guard leaned into the car and caressed my cheek. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

For once I forgot my worries and smiled with my whole heart. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Destroyed,” I clarify, raising my voice, so that for once my intentions can’t be twisted. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“Tell me what you think about this—lip gloss that shoots knockout gas. The antidote would be in the lip gloss itself, so once you put some on, you’d be immune!” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

They had made a schedule that said they would check in once a week or so—it was very loose—and that they would call if there was an emergency. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Snow caked his legs almost to the knee, and Bran had felt him stagger more than once. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You only graduate from high school once,” Mom said. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I asked them why they all came to visit at once like that, but nobody had talked about it and nobody knew. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my memory it stood as it once did and its outward appearance confused and angered me. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their hair had once been piled in curls, arranged with jewels in the style of Roman noblewomen, but now their locks were disheveled and dry as straw. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Iorek growled an order and the bears moved at once into another formation, hi the lurid flicker from the sky Lyra watched as they swiftly unloaded their fire hurler. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She and her late husband had once been friends with many Japanese officials, but that was before Japan and the United States had gone to war. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And, once again, Michelangelo never paid his share. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Yes, Harry Potter!” said Dobby at once, his great eyes shining with excitement. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She had begun running in her mother's womb, and never once stopped. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I had a teacher who was more like the devil once, Tiago said. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Patrick tried calling once, but when Brad’s father answered, he just hung up. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, during my first days under Mr Farraday, I was once or twice quite astounded by some of the things he would say to me. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I asked Lorena once, but she said, “No, how could I possibly hate my own mother?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while, T.J. shot me a glare and I shot one right back. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She pushed herself up to her elbows and at once regretted it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Hamilton was certain that, once Burr recovered his wits and sense, “you will see the matter in the same light as me.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

But once it healed I would, at least, be able to breathe normally. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I’d timed his bathing session once, to maintain the sanctity of indisputable facts, and clocked an entire five minutes of him picking away claw jam with his teeth. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Here once again Anna found herself nearly overwhelmed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

At last, on the fifth morning since they took the road with Gollum, they halted once more. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But I am also blessed with faithful followers who are, I believe, as dedicated to me as I once was to Mr. Elijah Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rather shakily, I got to my knees and peered once again through the crack in the screen. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

And they pried pieces of baked-too-fast sunshine cake from the roofs of their mouths and looked once more into the boy’s eyes. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll dig out and try once more with the brush,” I said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“They’re sisters. They get help once a week because they read and write everything backward.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not a single feather remains and Celia is once again wearing a puffed-sleeve black jacket, already buttoned over her black-and-white gown. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Something that all at once seems so obvious I can’t believe I didn't see it before. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I lied, sweet queen. It was a thousand. But never once a dragon.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"But absolutely nothing. I doubt very much if you opened your textbook even once the whole term. Did you? Tell the truth, boy." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Then Violet is swallowed by them, so all I can do is stare in the direction of where she once was. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Years ago, in my earliest and pastiest days as a would-be writer, I once read a new story aloud to S. and Boo Boo. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The restaurant had been their whole life, especially for Papa, but for Hanako as well once she got old enough to work, which was the day she turned six. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Cuttings have the advantage that, once ancient farmers had found or developed a productive tree, they could be sure that all its descendants would remain identical to it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We will go south! There are everywhere in this great land people who starve. Heaven, however wicked, will not at once wipe out the sons of Han.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Others joined in only once or twice while on vacation; a few picketed while on their honeymoons. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I wrote once more, and again there was no response. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that wasn’t enough for some of us, who wanted to visit the city more than once a week. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Davos had only tasted it once before, when King Robert had sent a half a fish to him at a feast on Dragonstone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She once told me she got them because she wasn’t feeling well. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I forgot — it was the custard creams we hexed —” Within a minute, however, Neville had molted, and once his feathers had fallen off, he reappeared looking entirely normal. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Now I saw how upset Ruth was; how for once she was at a complete loss for words, and had turned away on the verge of tears. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

This Seattle was not something changed that I once knew. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He passed Sunset Park once again, and more houses, and the junior college and the tennis courts, and the picnickers, who now sat waiting for the evening fireworks. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She commenced talking at once, not waiting for an invitation. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It was an example of how policies and norms once directed exclusively at controlling and punishing the black population have filtered their way into our general criminal justice system. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Katherine Johnson knew: once you took the first step, anything was possible. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

When they were once inside the ring of saplings she turned and faced him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Hard to believe, isn’t it? I recall you pummeled me once when I stole Polly’s doll.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I dwelt there once, and still I return when I may. There my heart is; but it is not my fate to sit in peace, even in the fair house of Elrond.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She made herself take a step, and then another, and then she was walking once again, following the little stream. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But once people learned how to make sugar crystals, they began to use the name sharkara, which also meant “gravel.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He gestured for them once again to follow him out of the worship hall and down one of its connecting halls. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I knew a lady once, Miss Leeds in Springfield, Illinois. She could tell all manner of things about people just by the way they tapped out their messages on a telegraph machine.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Take this necklace to Professor Snape at once, but be sure not to touch it, keep it wrapped in the scarf!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

But once we started getting high, that memory is gone. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alexander, says Arrian, “was at once struck by the excellence of the site, and convinced that if a city were built upon it, it would prosper.” Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The rest of us had won it at least once—even Hugo, who was six years younger than Harry and L He’d won it three times already. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

He once wrote, “Who so should be a man, must be a nonconformist.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He stopped for an instant in front of the chestnut tree and once again he saw that the empty space before him did not arouse an affection either. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was said that he once cured a woman dying of an ancestral curse that had eluded the best of American doctors. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently a girl he'd once wanted to kiss had told him he had bad breath. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then Nat’s days and nights settled down once more to the steady grind of sailing by ash breeze—working all day in the chandlery, studying late every night. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hobbits of the villages had seen Saruman come out of one of the huts, and at once they came crowding up to the door of Bag End. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The walls looked as if someone had piled up a number of stones in a hurry, the roof had collapsed, and where there must once have been a door only a black hole now gaped. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And it didn’t only happen once, it happened twice: first his eight-year-old brother was able to save him and pull him back in. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I once asked Tía why they got divorced, but she just said, “He stopped loving me.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother had tried to explain the magic to her, once upon a time. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Then everyone tried to talk at once, and she crisply told them to shut up until she called on them. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, it was hard to stop Kelly once she got started. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s really dark once you get inside, and we started out too late—the sun went down. But what we did see—the place is unreal.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Caesar clapped his hands, and at once one of his own slaves, who always attended him, ran forward. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Pile a layer of Kotex above whatever you were trying to hide, the Island cousins once advised her, and the officers would shy from probing. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Bigwig’s hopes of action were fulfilled almost at once. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandparents, once so inseparable, had drifted apart. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“FIRE!” the whole world seemed to scream at once, a sudden, deafening roar of terror. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Air immediately began moving through the cabin and the mustiness seemed to disappear at once. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is still in the room, I feel it at once, the walls have preserved it. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad once made fifty free throws IN A ROW. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

I am afraid I am going to start having nightmares once we get deep at sea. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Joke is, once you get it into your brain about that hidden step and think, Hey, life isn't such a shithouse after all again, then BUMP! Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Howling lost its savor once Bran was alone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She once scaled a rooftop at work, in their virtual parkour station, but that was an illusion. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But once he was gone, it seemed like nothing could ever be made right. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Poor girl, I’ll fix some ginger water for you to sip. Then you must go to bed at once. If you’re not better in the morning, I’ll send a note to Mr. Das.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Gliding down a ski slope, I was outdoors, in motion, and unrecognized—all at once. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Real stained-glass windows, high up and out of danger, gleamed where once there had been blank walls. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door closed behind him, the room was once more totally dark, and the two girls could breathe freely again. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

A clerk bustled over and only blinked once when he saw such unusual guests. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Soon they saw a group of three young black men and C.P. once again pulled over. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lawrence was once again making fresh footprints into a new world, an experience he had not enjoyed since the construction of the twenty- seven-inch cyclotron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Amari wanted to scream out once more, but she realized she couldn’t distract the hunters. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am trying once more, toeing the line. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

How many times had she told him he just had to study harder—or maybe open a book for once? I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

“I have not washed my body all at once since the New Year,” said Wang Lung in a low voice. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

But the electricity had been cut off, and the oil lamp that had once lit the dark between our beds had already been packed away. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I’d once met with twenty people at a time at low-key house parties, I was now speaking to hundreds in a high school gym. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They were both right: Trip got bored easily, and seldom thought about girls once they were out of his sight. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She reached for the control that in a gyropter would tilt the airfoil, and pushed the throttle forward, and at once the intention craft leapt into the air. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mom was running around, tying up more balloons, her hands still stained with dark dirt after planting all of the new, pale flowers that flooded over what once had been a yard of plain grass. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Rumors continue to fly about the mysterious recent disturbance at the Ministry of Magic, during which He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named was sighted once more. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

But the thing that is making me tremble, that I do not want to say out loud—and I’ll say it once only and it’s done. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stand at the wire fence; sometimes one goes away and then another at once takes his place in the line. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They headed out once more, but Tidbit dragged his feet and kept turning around to look for the dog. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He taught us how to play poker, which I had to be persuaded to do, but once I began it made me feel deliciously wicked. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the deck tilted back and forth, Captain Kontoulis didn’t stumble once, and was even able to light one of the Indonesian cigarettes he favored, dipping his cap’s braided brim to cut the wind. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Hip to hip, arms interwoven to hold hands, Desdemona and Lefty circumambulated the captain, once, twice, and then again, spinning the cocoon of their life together. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

At night she crooned soft songs similar to the ones Amari’s mother had once sang to her as a child. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the baby’s dismay vanished at once, and she lay in Sister Fenella’s arms, looking around with a lordly complacency. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She never asked me once about Declaration—she didn’t even mention Declaration—and I sent her my best Thank you thoughts. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Yakov told me once that he had studied Russian until he could speak it fluently without an accent,” I said, thinking of the bitter pride in Yakov’s voice when he had told me that. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Bigger’s fingers closed over a slender wad of paper; he knew at once that it was money and that he would give it back. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

People who had never once spoken to him suddenly remembered, with a pang of affection, having seen him throwing sticks to a dog or stealing tulips from a teacher’s garden. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She’d only been back as a human for a few months now, and once in a while she would stand so motionless you’d think she was still a tree. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I answered at once; whereupon she held out her hand. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Whilst we waited for the ferry to carry us to Windsor, I started wondering what would happen to Hope once we got to Buxton. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

So once he let someone know he didn’t like being called Brannie, they didn’t. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And once when she let go of my hand to take her wallet out of her purse at the cash register, I started to slip away to look at the candy. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, I would be happy if she came only once a year. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet what frightened him, and kept him more than ever on his knees, was the knowledge that, once having fallen, nothing would be easier than to fall again. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Which will do nothing to stop a thousand fools from digging up the rest of the island once they hear what he was after,” Miss Maggie said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

In the Juniors, we were fifteen to a dorm, so didn’t tend to have the sort of long intimate conversations we did once we got to the Senior dorms. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I only wish I could see some results or, just once, receive encouragement from someone who loves me. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I caught Chubs looking back toward it over his shoulder, just once; the distant orange glow reflected in the lenses of his glasses. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“What will we call you once you’re ordained?” her father said, treating it as if it were a certainty. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Vegetation gets thickest toward the center of the site, where the judo pavilion once stood and where rows of elms planted as windbreaks have tripled their growth since the forties. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It won’t hurt them to bend their backs for once,” Grandmother remarked. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father led the enemy, so he slew him once again. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

No. I was starting to get upset, pounding the board with my right thumb once more. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Don’t give up, boy. Maybe your father is running late. Most omens are not as dramatic as a chicken, of course. I knew a fellow once who got a dung beetle—” “Thanks, Vitellius,” Frank said. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Iorek made at once for the vulnerable gap at his neck. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Anya looked out the window at the dimming day, wondering once again how Babulya knew some of the things she knew—like that it was almost sunset, even though she was blind. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The man promised that he would give the woman her cows once the tree had gone. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He watched more alertly as the cat approached the spot again, just an empty patch of grass between the hornbeams and the bushes of a garden hedge, and patted the air once more. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Glad to hear it, Hermes. Report status of all supplies once you get them aboard and inspected." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He poked his head inside the window, elevated his eyebrows, and said in a decorous voice: “I was once an exceedingly odd young lady— Suffering much from spleen and vapors. ” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He once asked Ms. Langford why Hester in The Scarlet Letter didn’t run away from her town in basically a big F U to society. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Enjoy it and be in touch, and I’m sorry once again. I guess you won’t be chilling for a while.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Now her eyes include the relatives in China, as they once included my father smiling and smiling in his many western outfits, a different one for each photograph that he sent from America. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It eyed them in a most calculating way and once, when Nhamo teased it with a stick, it rose up with its yellow mouth open wider than she had dreamed possible. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For this reason, it is absolutely against his wishes that parties in Iceland and elsewhere should provide financial subsidy for the production of this film or should show it once completed. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you doing here, you bad girl?” cried Mrs. Weston, anxiety dissolving at once into anger. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

All at once the men started to put bows on their foreheads and run out the front door. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Once, only once in his whole life, Kingshaw had been beaten up. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

In this case, for once, it was more or less true. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I tried to open it once,” Rachel said, “just out of curiosity. It’s rusted shut.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

But here, over the desert and the reeking marshes the deep blue sky of evening opened once more, and a few pallid stars appeared, like small white holes in the canopy above the crescent moon. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Don’t care if it was my father’s land once,” he’d say. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The poems started out in the standard way, but once the Mellower got going, he added the desired compliments. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I like to pay my debts, so I know you will allow ‘the old gentleman’ to send you something which once belonged to the little grand daughter he lost. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The food is monotonous and salty, the commoners stink, and the storms will not cease. We will sail back to London at once. Who is with me?” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“All! What, all five out at once? Very odd! And you only the second. The younger ones out before the elder ones are married! Your younger sisters must be very young?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

She swings once, and the ball soars into the trees. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When Susan was at the guidance counselor meeting about Michael, she said that Michael once told her that she was the prettiest girl in the whole world, braces and all. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ones who maybe messed up once or twice, and now that’s how people think of them. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

As soon as I’m at the door to the neighbor lady’s apartment, I hear the birds, and it only gets louder once I get inside. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pushed me away, once, twice, but the third time she didn’t resist. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Supervised training, with people who’d gotten their hands bloody more than once. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if uglies were supposed to sneak out every once in a while. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

But once we pile out of the van and head to the away-team dugout? Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

It had worked once; maybe talking to the older woman would work again. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

As a school, most whites never had much use for Ector once it had become pegged as the minority school. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother wouldn’t stand for her beautiful Galadriel to be in a dump like this for one single minute, once she knew. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

He could tell at once that they carried different sorts of bubble bath mixed with the water, though it wasn’t bubble bath as Harry had ever experienced it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He checked himself in some confusion and, to forestall Bigwig’s rebuke, spoke to Hazel at once. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Director Horus spins his staff until the whole sky is filled with the faces of my ancestors all at once. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

It reminds Lourdes of a photograph she saw once of the famous Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles with its endless ricocheting light. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Making a presupply is a six- month process. We're set up to pipeline a bunch of them at once, not to make one in a hurry." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped once to take a drink at the lake and in his reflection he saw that the swelling on his head was nearly gone. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

With two lechuzas at their backs, they busted out of the barn as if their heels were on fire, never once looking back. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

There is an empty place within me where my heart was once. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want the others to think I was trying to steal the spotlight, but once I had spoken out of turn, “integrated turkey” became the theme. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wondered what they would find once they reached the top of this elevator ride. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t realized he’d thought his name, but once you were asked to think of your name, you couldn’t not think of it, no matter how you tried. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Young lady, will you please remove yourself from this house at once, and go find a friend to play with?” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It never once occurred to me to be scared. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She once calculated that she had traveled thirteen thousand miles and conducted 171 lectures over the previous twelve months, earning $4,318 in gross receipts. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

When I worked in London I used to visit the Natural History Museum at least once a week, and I made notes about the things I saw there. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the next song ended, everybody applauded once more, and Harry saw Ludo Bagman kiss Professor McGonagall’s hand and make his way back through the crowds, at which point Fred and George accosted him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I want to tell you something,” his father says when the piece ends, once they have already turned onto Pemberton Road. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then he cast the leaves into the bowls of steaming water that were brought to him, and at once all hearts were lightened. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Smaug, the Chiefest and Greatest of Calamities, was triumphant once more. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

At once half the boys were on their feet. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Let’s practice those steps once more,” she said, taking his left hand and putting her arm around his neck. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

J. T. once showed his ledgers to the board of directors to prove, as if proof were needed, the extent of his business acumen. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

There once was a very large lake here, the largest lake in Texas. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Hosie wasn’t big as me, but whenever we had a fight—about once a week—he usually won. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Laloo Chiba, who once trained as a tailor, wrote out minuscule coded messages that would be placed in the converted matchbox. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dany turned to the blank wall once more, but there was nothing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was all-important to speak at once, before anyone else came, but now a terrible fear had taken possession of him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The middle lodger smiled, first shaking his head once at his friends, and then looked down at Gregor once more. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

And do you know what this all means—that the gossipmongers once again have an opportunity to defame my son with these ridiculous rumors about his parentage. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

The sun is, for once, bright over London when they step outside, flooding the stands around them, which have already mostly filled with spectators. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The knuckleskull reared back, almost throwing the lot of them, squawked once, and then wobbled off. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

But Aurelia sat up at once and said, “No, he didn’t mean to frighten me. Leave him.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Statistically speaking,” the Erudite boy next to me— his name is Will—says, grinning at me, “you should have hit the target at least once by now, even by accident.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

But Katherine II came out all wrong—only touching the x-axis once. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Rutherford had once been a famous caricaturist, whose brutal cartoons had helped to inflame popular opinion before and during the Revolution. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Chandresh loses him in the crowd more than once, the grey falling into a blur of black and white dotted with color from the patrons. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

His eyes narrowed and I could feel beads of sweat forming on my nose once again. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Lelia had already worked on the house once, this a while ago, after his funeral, so we could sell off the things we didn’t want or need. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And every day people I’d never once made eye contact with would lean over and say things to me when I took my seat. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe I do have love for people, but I don’t know if I want to be in love more than once in a lifetime. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I need physics more than friends,” Oppenheimer once told his younger brother. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her dæmon had changed again, and become a huge, brightly colored butterfly, which fluttered into the fridge briefly and out again at once to settle on her shoulder. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

For once in his life, he thought, he was actually doing things the right way. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

So far we’d only gone to the Bahamas once, Florida, and Montreal—but my parents are always talking about taking us to Europe someday. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Confronting their joy, once I have settled my wits, I am sure I shall feel joy in sympathy; Bono would do so for me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Lewis usually came to East Texas about once a month, and he’d been by just last week on his way to stay for a spell with his woman in Tyler. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Aru turned to look at the tunnel entrance and saw that all the people who had once been in the library had disappeared. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The only thing was that once you went in, you couldn’t leave and come back. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mustafa shoves an entire cookie into his mouth at once and washes it down with some milk. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“This way,” I said once I spotted the staircase. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

You had a wonderful chance on your drive back to see one of the greatest sights on earth, the Grand Canyon, something every American should see at least once in his life. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry, sir,” said Harry at once, anxious about Dumbledore’s extreme pallor and by his air of exhaustion. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The enormous aquarium reaches all the way to the ceiling, the collections of rocks and coral that once were a part of the aquatic ecosystem still intact. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I once asked Madrina how she knows so much about the strangers who come down to the basement for her love consultations. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Having felt it once, he knew what to search for again, and he felt the curious little snag after less than a minute. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now here the spirit was, once more, just when Ophie was talking to the dead regularly. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

To this perpetual accusation Elizabeth had never replied; she merely regarded her aunt with a wide-eyed, insolent stare, meant at once to register her disdain and to thwart any pretext for punishment. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Jupiter was very effective when he once roused himself. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And once in a while someone really spectacular comes along who reveals the godliness of all humanity. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kepler’s third or harmonic law, a precise connection between the size of a plan- et’s orbit and the period for it to go once around the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was enough to realize that the world had once held creatures strikingly unlike anything we might now find. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

But once you changed any of those variables — the material on the test, or the situation in which it was administered — the kinds of cheating would change as well. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I tried again once she handed the pen back to me, and this time the cursive flowed out the way I had been taught. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

They seemed to say that once you found the neglected dwelling, you would have to collect a bunch of “trophies” and then blow some kind of whistle. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Aunt Helena is fat, she once headed a Weight Watchers’ franchise operation in Iowa. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when she was very happy, Mama Bellini whistled, and once or twice Mario had heard her hum. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. He told me once—Oh, hello, Henry,” she said suddenly, and sat down. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Harry was wondering what a wizard did once he’d finished school. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Believe it or not, this place used to be mighty fine. There was a barbershop and beauty salon and a shoeshine place all inside. They say Dr. King even stayed here once. It was glorious.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

But as a child he’d been to New York only once with his family, a trip that had given him no sense of what the city was like. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Müller is in a good mood for once; he is wearing his new boots. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Georgia Boy said to one of the islanders whose arrows were tipped with jagged pieces of metal that had once been shrapnel. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

For once the Doctorita is taking my side, sticking up for me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost at once there were more running footsteps and again the car door opened and slammed shut. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

As she unfolded the white linen and let it billow over the fine mahogany table, she would look once more at the large water mark. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

What kind of lunatic would come back here once he’d escaped? Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while, she asked a question or two, but she basically just let me rip. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know we don’t change the sheets but once a month. You’ll have to sleep in that bed as your punishment.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

All at once Grandma started to pull dollars out of her purse and Daddy did the same. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By about eleven o'clock the whole company was once more on the march, riding westward with the mountains on their left. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Sahil took another bite of his chewy candy and then said, “Hmm. Did you hear that I once ate twelve doughnuts in one sitting?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

When she helped make the beds, she didn’t look at that drawer once. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I was in the grocery store with him once and in the cereal aisle he pointed to the tile floor and said, “Don’t step there. That’s where I earned my name.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I do not believe that it takes a genius to pierce to the heart of a situation to which Southern chivalry once gave, among other things, the mulatto. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing at once how he must act, Palmer looked up at the fleeing bird. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“There will be plenty of time for healing once all this is over.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I went to Grandma and explained to her once again that now I knew that if we went up North, we could have all of the things that I longed for. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Katie never hesitated once she put her hand on the money. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while I found myself smiling at total strangers because I knew that if I were to speak to them in English, they’d answer in English. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Charming,” said the Director once more, and, with a final pat, moved away after the others. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys and girls who built them were, I realized, the competition we West Virginia kids were going to have to face once we went out into the world. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The others never asked him to help with the housecleaning and once Hazel washed four pairs of Eddie’s socks. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I see ’em ” “You lived in one of them once, Bigger. They’re made out of steel and stone. But the steel and stone don’t hold ’em together. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“No!” me and Mama and Jay said all at once. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t want to spring it on Vivian just yet—too many surprises at once. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

But for once in my life I don’t care. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I suppose she realized that I couldn’t handle everything at once—and she was right. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

A great host of Wargs had gathered silently and was now attacking them from every side at once. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Or was he perhaps considering that, just this once, his determination to win hadn’t been strong enough? Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I remember watching once when James B. tried to trip her as she went past him with the ball, and he was the one sent flying instead. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked down the length of rope once more to the sidewalk, where Marigold was waving at him. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I asked Volpe once how he knew when he was connecting with students. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

More than once, pushing Gogol in his stroller, Ashima has been approached on the streets of Cambridge by young Bengali bachelors, shyly inquiring after her origins. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Summoning his power all at once and with no thought for himself, he sent his spirit out after the child’s spirit, to bring it back home. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

For several months, Andy met Shin once a week for an hour to discuss how his life was shaping up in the United States. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“I want to find out once and for all what all this secrecy is about. And I’m going to get quite unpleasant if I don’t find out soon.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The great insect landed at once, its red and yellow gleaming like enamel, and its filmy wings stiff and still on either side. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He washed and polished it once a week and dusted it every day with a rag he kept underneath the front seat. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He stared at me, foolish and blank once more. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The three dancers in the piece, all recent graduates of Juilliard themselves, bring a distinctive vocabulary to the montage, drawing viewers into an experience that is at once life-affirming and joyful, without any bubble-gum sentimentality. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m very sorry about your daughter. Another of my sexers lost a child once, and he didn’t wreck my car. You won’t be returning to work in my hatchery.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly black children could shop in department stores, eat at restaurants, drink from water fountains, and go to amusement parks that were once off-limits. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the early years of this punishment, the water—which could be icy cold in winter—was released all at once upon the naked inmate, delivering a terrible shock. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And once some large animal lumbered away, crackling the undergrowth as it went. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pa lets out a sigh and is once again quiet. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A friend who once pulled me from a frozen cow pond and saved my life. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I only saw them once or twice, because the demons and demonesses were so old that they kept to themselves. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shawl drops to the floor and the woman turns her back once again. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The Qur’an asked Muslims to worship five times daily: once between first light and dawn; again after midday; at mid-afternoon; at sunset; and lastly an hour and a half after sunset. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

And once again he was allowing the past to destroy him. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I fire the stun gun once more, this time at close range. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Celia led Matt through the halls, and once again he was struck by how silent everything was. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said once I start talking to them, I may never stop. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

She’s not as sharp as she once was, and there are things she can’t count on doing as she did before. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They wear the emblem of a bird, and their leader, once picked, gives up his name and is known simply as the Blood Shrike. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Within a short time he lapsed into familiarity, forgetting I was once white. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Though any night at the circus can rightfully be called magical,” Herr Friedrick Thiessen once wrote, “All Hallows’ Eve is something special. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I was undressing in my own room, when, with a premonitory tap at the door, he entered, and at once began to speak:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He’s a former marine who came to the country with an occupation force years back, but once the troops left, he stayed on, marrying a rich Dominican lady and opening his successful grocery store. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

For once she was not going to be browbeaten. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

And of course she at once went out to speak to the Horses. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

He stepped aside to avoid her without looking at her once. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was, actually. It’s a definitive text, you know? I met him once.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

As if every human and every creature and every gas and liquid and speck of dirt and granule of sand and gust of air settled all at once, and all was right in the universe. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Blakeslee, I was once engaged to marry Mr. McAllister. He had that saddle made for me. It was his engagement present.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“I saw Althea Gibson play once,” Big Dub began again. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Knight Bus kept mounting the pavement, but it didn’t hit anything; lines of lampposts, mailboxes, and trash cans jumped out of its way as it approached and back into position once it had passed. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Folks up dat way don’t eat biscuit bread but once uh week.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The young man looked back once, unable to resist, but the princess didn’t notice. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Fearfully he took a few uncertain steps in the dark, and then all at once there came a flash of red that leaped upward, and smote the high black roof. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I had been oblivious to these glances before, but once Ucho opened my eyes, I saw how some people felt. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The chiefs blush was hidden by the white and red clay Into his uncertain silence the tribe spilled their murmur once more. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

But once when she was chatting with some stupid boy online, she described herself as the color of coffee with not enough milk. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

But in the unrestrained laughter Claire could hear a hint of the carefree creature she must once have been. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I mean...a lot of things. Kind of all at once.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I think that would be great, Maisie. You’re going to have so much free time, once school is out tomorrow. And after we come back from our little weekend trip, of course.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“What else am I going to do once you leave?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

For once, the voices in his head were silent. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Fishermen spotted white sharks every once in a while, but they were rare in the waters off Massachusetts. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He did not know what he would find once he got there, but it seemed to be his best choice. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Interestingly, Muggles were once fully aware of the existence of the Diricawl, though they knew it by the name of ‘dodo’. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

"There is no worse crime in the world against a Headmistress! Now sit down and don't say a word! Go on, sit down at once!" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“We are once more in your debt. My son is overjoyed. This is something he has waited for without knowing it.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d slept most of the journey to Boston, the conductor poking him awake once they’d reached South Station, and he was the only person left in the compartment, the last to get off. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

At once he told his captors and asked to be moved elsewhere. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, I made it because Jessie once opened the door with her little handlike paws and helped herself to venison and nuts. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Get up at once, you lazy little beast!” a voice was suddenly shouting in James’s ear. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

She will miss the opportunity to drive, as she sometimes does on her way home from the library, to the university, past the engineering building where her husband once worked. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lorch, for instance, once reedited an episode of Sesame Street so that certain key scenes of some of the sketches were out of order. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bridge had once believed that state borders were something you could see, actual black lines that you could walk along if you wanted to, one foot in front of the other. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I once saw a kid explode his tongue with a car battery, so I guess it was the kind of place where they value education. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

But maybe curses weren’t all that terrible, because he’d saved their lives not only once, but twice. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We all sat silent awhile and all at once Mr. Morris spoke:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Eyes open again, she looked around once more and said, “But where is dear Professor Lupin?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Officer Mora rubbed the back of his neck, rolled his head around once, and took a deep breath. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

One had once been to bed with an older woman. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Katherine is there to help me, and when she turns me around two things strike me at once. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He veered, he dodged, he forced them to overshoot once, and the men on his deck fired their pistols across the gap. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The phone makes that beeping noise once it’s off the hook for too long and I can hear it from the sliding door, where I’m standing, watching Dad pick up winter debris. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear had once been tempted to eat all of the food at midday, knowing in his heart that the bowl would be refilled. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Now he also experienced belatedly, for once in his life, the strongest and strangest passion; he suffered tre-mendously through it and yet was uplifted, in some way renewed and richer. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

But still it’s frightening to realize that my fate is in the hands of men who are not the giants I once thought them to be, men who don’t know all the answers. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, suffrage was a young person’s fight, not a battle once fought by her mother and her mother’s friends. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

My mother called in the Coloured woman next door, who had once worked as a nanny for white people, to come and explain the games to me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I guess she was once a real person on a real lake. It's hard to imagine." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I read once that, on average, we replace the majority of our cells every seven years. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra thought his outline was lost almost at once against the pallor of the snow-covered ground, but it might have been that her eyes were full of tears. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Digory guessed at once that she must have climbed in over the wall. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Even so, once I’m under the chain link, I cover my tracks until the trees conceal them for me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The way the current worked here, once something floated into an eddy it had to be pushed out again. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Even though she had already said sorry, she had texted Grace at least once a day since then, apologizing for stealing her phone. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And I'll need to get in there at least once a day. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was decided to evacuate all of us at once. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malcolm had never seen a baby at close quarters, and he was struck at once by how real she seemed. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

We only did pointe work once a week; in contrast, our technique classes occurred four days a week. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He directs the cart toward what was once the cafeteria, and we follow him until he’s in the smaller open room connected to the domed great room. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The head of the department in which he studied was a Professor Kylmer, a very famous man who had once won a Nobel prize. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She stopped once or twice more to give him meat to chew and a few sips from her canteen, but otherwise, they walked without speaking, and almost without sound. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I feel everything at once: her thumb tracing my cheekbones, the quiet pressure of her lips. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

They were keeping their voices low inside the church and only once in the while could I understand somebody shouting out “Yessir!” or “Lord almighty!” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Lee glanced once almost shyly at Longstreet’s face, then looked away. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But more to him than its dark fertility was the fact that it had belonged once to the family of a prince. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

My sisters and I threatened to run away from Du Barry once. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Had this boy really once just been a stranger? The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

All at once, all the screens turn on, each of them showing footage from different cameras. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“How would you like to digest thirty-two teeth that once were fastened to your gums?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That will do to be going on with,” said Dumbledore, stepping between them once more. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

‘We must be getting off at once. We slept late; and there are a good many miles to go.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She stared right back at him, for once grateful that Von Marsh insisted on calling her the wrong name. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“What if you suffocate?” she once asked when Hanako was congested. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He explained that he was going to hire a truck to cart the garbage to the dump all at once. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The tall soldier unwrapped his gun, primed it anew, then wrapped it up quickly once more. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Now she reached Mr. Ages’ house, a hole in the brick wall where one end of heavy floor beam had once rested. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

And then Lucy’s breathing became stertorous again, and all at once it ceased. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Ignatius looked at the photograph once more, salivating slightly. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We left him once more, called to labor. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Officer Delinko understood that if he did the job well, his career at the Coconut Cove Public Safety Department would once again be on the fast track. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Morning ghosts, she had heard Old Nan call them once, spirits returning to their graves. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"I used to caddy once in a while, just to make some dough. I caddy'd for her mother a couple of times. She went around in about a hundred and seventy, for nine holes." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

"Maybe not, but what makes you different from him? You and I are friends, yes, but once we're out of here, who's to say one of us won't change our mind?" What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“We just close the door, hold on, and come out the other side once we reach our destination.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Derek had told him once that that was what the military did on long marches—a ten-minute break every hour—and by the end of the fourth hour he was more than ready for it. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish you’d try listening once in a while instead of always finding fault. You don’t want to be a captain all your life, do you?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The only plan I can come up with is to do everything at once and hope that the teenagers at the Motel 6 switchboard can be trusted to serve as my answering machine. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom just let her talk, because she knew that once Hadley got started, there was no point interrupting. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Welles had manipulated the audience’s perception of time by dragging out the carprogram’s beginning and then accelerating once the newsflashes started. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

They almost gave you the feeling that you could hear things inside his head going “whirr-clank-buzz,” but for once it didn’t seem to have anything to do with laughter. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went back to the bird and tried again to milk it, but once more all that the bird gave was water. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Still I try and try, till all at once I find her and myself in dark; so I look round, and find that the sun have gone down. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

She once grabbed a classmate by the arm, yelling, “Stop making fan of us!” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Ruth looked at it and kicked it closed once more. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry looked down at the hawthorn wand that had once belonged to Draco Malfoy. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then she said: “I heard this rumour, that Ruth had a really bad first donation. Just a rumour, but I heard it more than once.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mine completely blanked out. Honest—I didn’t hear you call. Not once.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It’s time to finish off the U.S. once and for all. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

To decimate once meant “to slaughter every tenth one,” although it’s rarely used literally these days. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Constitutional amendments guaranteeing African Americans “equal protection of the laws” and the right to vote proved as impotent as the Emancipation Proclamation once a white backlash against Reconstruction gained steam. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Is it everything at once, or none of the above? Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He envied kids whose families forgot about them once in a while. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

But once the Internet made it possible to send pictures around the world, attached to or in e-mails, I didn’t want to use silver film anymore. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

But in informal writing and conversation, if no one's likely to mistake your meaning it's fine to put only where it seems most natural—usually in front of the verb: I’m only saying this once. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than once he glanced up at the soldier, who was hardly keeping any watch on him at all. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

She reminded us whenever someone grumbled about homework or grades, which was at least once every class. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Jaime Lannister had been allowed no razor since the night he was taken in the Whispering Wood, and a shaggy beard covered his face, once so like the queen's. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She’d care about others With a little bit of style And she’d go to her church Every once in a while. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the dizziness settled, she opened her eyes once more and saw that Scythe Curie had pulled her chair closer. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He fought rats, magpies, gray squirrels and, once, a crow. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he got himself together, he asked once more who I was. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Keen for them all to be friends again, however, he agreed; but when Ron gave Hermione a tentative smile, she stalked off and vanished behind her book once more. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Help anyone we can find!” shouted Light Hair, and he kicked his horse into a gallop once again. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“He comes by here once a week and hunts back there in them woods.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She remembered how she had once broken her arm after swinging from the museum elephant’s trunk and felt more surprise than pain. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mom turns back to the mirror once more. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Before the Nazis, I would have been at the synagogue once or twice a week ahead of time, practicing for this. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Carlyle and the parrot stop in once in a while, but only for a moment. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I shake my head once, hard and fast. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Sweat ran down her thighs and between her breasts and in rivulets over her cheeks, where tears had once run. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“A man of ordinary power, who nevertheless does not shirk things merely because they are disagreeable or irksome, soon earns his place,” Roosevelt once stated. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“I heard once about a man who was so hungry he salted and peppered himself and swallowed himself whole!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Both places at once! Sticky, what’s the sign for a Gemini?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

You didn’t say once in your horrible letter. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

All at once back into his mind, from which it had disappeared with the first coming of the fog, came the memory of the house down under the Hill, and of Tom singing. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Or were guards normal men who became violent once enmeshed in the system? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My sisters kept repeating each other’s words, over and over again, as if once or twice just wasn’t enough. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Their hands would be released only once a month so they could sign over their Social Security checks. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. King, fist pounding the pulpit when he preached at our church once last year. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Well, you managed to keep your mouth shut—for once,” he said. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while, she stopped to dip her hand in a small bowl and sprinkle water over the shirt. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“Sounds good,” Dad replied, shaking the doctor’s hand once more. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I open the door wider, then step into a room that was once an office. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

You once get a dog to look at you the way Shiloh looked at me, you don’t forget it. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

And we give thanks for those dear and far away and for the great miracle which has brought us to each other once again. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

“So how is Olga? We didn’t keep in touch after I moved to Texas. I come back every once in a while. This is my cousin’s party.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He was the kind of man whom it was hard to imagine had once been a boy. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lucy always said that the greatest friends have nothing and everything in common all at once. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The rider did as told, and Seabiscuit took off with him, trying once to hurdle the infield fence but meeting with no resistance from the reins. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr Cardinal was once again staring at the floor. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Hell yeah,” she replied, turning to me once we got to the top. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I had rented a cabin not nearly as comfortable as the one I carried with me, and once installed I had interfered in a matter that was none of my business. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

My fiance is thrilled that we’re moving to Kinshasa, and once he’s here I’m sure my mom will come around. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I have a place we can get to in Mexico. On the beach. I have a ride for us. If you want, once we get down there we can go our separate ways.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He sat down and began at once, “Well, and beyond the starving of people, which is no news, the greatest news was the robbery at the House of Hwang.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

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

He got passionate only once, when he got angry that a young teacher let us out early the day they arrested Bobby Seale. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little sharp wince of pain goes through me, as it did when I watched my brother cut his finger once on a piece of glass. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then all of them started in at once. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

There hasn’t been enough snow for them to sled even once. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The girl follows her mother inside without once looking over to my house. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told that to my science teacher once—that preservatives cause cancer—and he laughed. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I was really hoping we might catch a bit of good luck for once. But no.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“If, as often happens, children are of different shades of color in a family,” the Jamaican sociologist Fernando Henriques once wrote: the most lightly colored will be favored at the expense of the others. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

After a brief period of progress during Reconstruction, African Americans found themselves, once again, virtually defenseless. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The odd thing about our Norfolk trip was that once we got back, we hardly talked about it. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was giving her too much pleasure all at once and I knew I had to slow down. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But once she saw them, saw the state of their bodies, Eugenia couldn’t talk of anything else. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My middle school didn’t have much of a music program, so Mom found me a private teacher, a college student who came over once a week. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have a crisis,” she announced once I was out of the car. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

All the wealth that had once been Vermont’s seemed to be trickling south or west. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She crossed the room, dropping to her knees beside the creature at once. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Now not even a heap of bones: only a few ashes to show that once a man has lived. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked up at me once, though, as we passed the last intersection before the long stretch of projects began. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Here!” he said, and his voice was free of disapproval and sarcasm for once. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A philosopher once noted that something is odd if a person is not liberal when he is young and conservative when he is old. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So then I spoke up at once and said that there was a misunderstanding. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

This bird, boasted the market vendor, was once a duck that stretched its neck in hopes of becoming a goose, and now look!—it is too beautiful to eat. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A breeze, a squirrel, a fox, a grouse with chicks, a wolf, a moose, another squirrel, dozens of squirrels, a marten, a porcupine, several bears, more moose, once a wolverine...always something. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Red Cross volunteers, many of them from Boston’s wealthiest families, arrived in their immaculate white-and-gray uniforms, which immediately turned brown once they stepped into the deep sea of molasses. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“All this time, did I ever say anything to him? Not once did he even guess what was going on,” Donna says. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The site beeps once before displaying a single search bar. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Would you turn down that TV?” her dad had yelled more than once, and it felt so unfair. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the room began talking at once. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

It occurred to him that her husband was going out of her life in the same way he himself once had. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It is only once, I thought, a memory. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Talking like this is just as bad, isn’t it? Too big to swallow all at once.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, her mind felt like a vast storage room whose locked cupboards were all at once not only unlocking but flinging themselves open and dumping their contents on the floor. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It pained my insides to see, once again, the twisted, scowling white faces with open mouths jeering, clustered about my friend’s head like bouquets of grotesque flowers. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie fit the puzzle pieces together once more in her mind. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Bailey has not considered this, as he has been taking this endeavor one step at a time, attempting not to worry about what might happen once they reach Boston. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The taxi driver went down at once and opened the door. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were coming close to shore once more, and voices carried across the water. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I saw a Japanese movie I really liked once. I don’t remember the name of it.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roaches drew closely together in consultation and all began to talk at once. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Either way, once I found success, I wasn’t going to mess with the formula. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“First cousin once removed—on the mother’s side,” returned the Brown Bear, whispering the information behind his paw. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

A note flutters between two pages of the diary, as it once fluttered down to her: “My dearest—I sit here studying your features. You are perfectly beautiful!!” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

As the applause begins once more, Lou stands back to let me descend the stage first. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I looked back, just once, and saw him staring at me through the window as I walked away. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I read once that, in Malaysia, they use kites to catch fish,” I said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Almost at once it became my favorite part of the Appalachian Trail. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He had a favorite joke: God once called a conference of world leaders. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

If he could just summon Gray... but he couldn’t be in two places at once. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

And at once this possibility became an established certainty: John had refused to come because he didn’t like her. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

In war, his father had told him once, the battle is over in the instant one army breaks and flees. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I had a pair once with rocket ships, and another pair with lizards. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Once after I was beat up by Don Little, and once after I hurt my ankle sophomore year. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Some of the kids talk about them in their videos, so I started reading them. And once I did, I couldn’t stop, because some of them felt like they were written to me.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

All his life he’d been alone, and now he must be alone again, and this infinitely precious blessing that had come to him must be taken away almost at once. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Uncle Tom, Granny says to come at once. Grandpa’s dead,” I panted. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I walk into my cousin’s house, Auntie Gemma’s in the kitchen doing a million things at once. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I turned to say good-bye to Alice, called her name once. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I hoped that Frodo had set forth at once, as my letter had urged, and that he had reached Rivendell before the deadly pursuit began. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Freshunounts were brought forth from the stables, surefooted mountain stock with shaggy coats, and within the hour they set forth once again. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Could he, for once, be concerned for someone other than himself? The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

He wishes there were another name he could use, just this once, to get him through the evening. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The thing of it is, I left this particular reference in because, for once, I totally happen to agree with Mrs. Morgenstern. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“He brought you here once, in May. Pointed to you out the window. Convinced me to hand over two fresh-baked rolls. Told me you were like to die from hunger if I didn’t help.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnson’s public argument that the Maddox had been attacked—not once, but twice—was persuasive. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She took a last sip, set the cup down on the floor beside the bed, turned over on her side, hiccoughed once or twice and went to sleep. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My father takes me there every once in a while.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

"No longer," he answered, "but once they were a marvel, a shining lesson to the world." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Afterward, she could never say what had distracted her attention from the whirling torches and the showers of sparks, making her look up once more at the house and its windows. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Mariela, are you all right?” her own mother calls out more than once. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

And she’s off once more in a blur of blue metal and long hair and long legs and arms. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

His dog, Spiro, unleashed, heeled behind him and yelped once in pain as he lowered himself to the floor. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Foiled by the press once again, Smith was ready to crank things up another notch. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. Soft, but rough like a file over the fingertips. It was a sermon, you know. About hell-fire. He described the tortures of...well, you know. I once heard a sermon like that—almost.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“Of course,” he says, nodding and shaking his head all at once so it bobs in a circle. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

And that was the simple truth of it, Harry knew, because their protective enchantments meant that it would be impossible, once they vacated this spot, for Ron to find them again. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Though it’s happened to me only once, I still worry about it every single time. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

One crew did the exterior renovations on what had once been the small Ohio city’s most magnificent building, the Gold Leaf Bank. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

He watched her with a hatred that was mixed with his old desire, knowing that once more she had the victory. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

So they passed into the northern marches of that land that Men once called Ithilien, a fair country of climbing woods and swift-falling streams. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Not once did the Klan visit the small farm where we lived. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He would memorize the maze so he could dash through the passages without bumping his nose even once. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

“But once my twelfth birthday passed without a single shift, the Bureau declared me ‘essentially human’ and now I’m here.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The sun slid behind a big white cloud and the street was plunged in cool shadow; quickly the sun edged forth again and it was bright and warm once more. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Through the high narrow windows of the Red Keep's cavernous throne room, the light of sunset spilled across the floor, laying dark red stripes upon the walls where the heads of dragons had once hung. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

For once, there was nothing Fabyan could do to stop them. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The potion rippled once more, and Mr. Dimblewit was by the train tracks in the dead of night. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

We might have been a comfort to each other, and once I even said, “Now we are both widows.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Wednesday afternoon meant Herbology, in the greenhouses under a baking-hot sun; then back to the common room once more, with sunburnt necks, thinking longingly of this time next day, when it would all be over. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Wilderness Adventures was my idea. I was a city kid once.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

And once when a drunken gesture catapulted Cholly into the red-hot stove, she screamed, “Get him, Jesus! Get him!” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As a girl, though... she was once smitten with a young knight from the stormlands who wore her favor at a tourney and named her queen of love and beauty. A brief thing.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I had spent a holiday at Edgecoombe once, when I was seven. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I know at once who he is: the one they’ve all been talking about. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He was hungry now, and angry, and once his ‘precious’ was with him he would not fear any weapon at all. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

After a short rest, the men wearily harnessed themselves to the boat once more, and McNeish took his place with the others. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

What was the Waterway, and once he got there, where did he go next? Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Supposing we go once around the table in order of jury numbers. 7TH juror: Anything. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

This explanation was so satisfying that it stopped their curiosity at once. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandmother said this area had once been dry land, except for the Zambezi. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The story really began in the middle Sixties, the period of the great purges in which the original leaders of the Revolution were wiped out once and for all. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

And once everyone else had a two-hundred-meter head start, Coach "invited" me to jog with him. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Oh, they had plenty to tell, since they and their boys had once lived there and started up the whole of it, school, church, and all. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not like Father, who once ran out into the street with a knife so he could put an end to it all. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Manolo and Minerva kept addressing all their conversation to me, though every once in a while, they’d start discussing something in low voices. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had known Johnny was hungry without once really looking at him and had also known that he was someone he himself liked. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Muhammad would be rapidly moving along up a center aisle from the rear—as once he had entered our humble little mosques—this man whom we regarded as Islam’s gentle, meek, brown-skinned Lamb. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother and I laughed together and once started, we couldn’t seem to stop. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Bible is kept locked up, the way people once kept tea locked up, so the servants wouldn’t steal it. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked on the edge of a steep place and their eyes were sightless—God would cause them to rush down, as the herd of swine had once rushed down, into the sea. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Where Ryder remembers—maybe even dreams about where he once was wild? Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, maybe she’ll let you just this once since it’s my birthday,” I say. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The building that was once called the Sears Tower—we call it the Hub— emerges from the fog, a black pillar in the skyline. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Dad pushed him out of the way and rushed into the bedroom, where his first son was sleeping in a by now battered bassinet, on a desk once again covered with galley proofs. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than once in the coming days, he laid out the evidence for why we should be going out. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Those thorny old barbs of guilt bore into me once more, as if speaking his name had broken a spell, set them free to torment me anew. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you all for coming here today,” he says again, even though he’d already thanked us once. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

It had once been the Korean presidential plane. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Emily glanced at the forum message once more before closing the browser window. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“My husband’s aunt is a blithering idiot who has completely lost her wits. You should have told me of her requests at once.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once when I walk past a soldier interrogating a girl my age on the street, and once just before I ring the doorbell. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I was pretty sure Hercules had fought this thing once, but I couldn’t remember how he’d beaten it. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He would call it not Natural Selection as he once planned, but On the Origin of Species. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They somehow say “I love you” and “I’ll do whatever for you” all at once. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I’m very glad I saw it, because from now on if I am asked whether I have seen Niagara Falls I can say yes, and be telling the truth for once. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Man, I got grounded on my birthday once, and it was not fun. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Ophie’s heart thumped painfully in her chest, once, and then again. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I struggled in my English class but always did well on spelling tests, which we had once a week. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

On this night, he gave himself to the child, not the gnarled carpenter who himself was nailed to the wood he once worked with until he was called to walk among the Jews. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My sister Viola once said that I was the poorest loser she had ever seen. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I touched my old foster sister’s phone once. Big mistake.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“All I ever wanted to do,” he once said, “was be with the horses.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the kind of place where I’d once been so at home. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

There are cabs on Michigan Avenue and a steady flow of traffic, but once I get onto a side street, Huron, it's quiet. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The brain then must process the whole piece at once while still remaining focused on the one performing part. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it’s like a video game, and you get to access more powers and levels once you complete something?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He moved gingerly down into the cabin, standing once more in the water, and picked up a plastic cup float ing in the garbage near the sail. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet once the sixty-inch shook off its quirks in the spring of 1939, it began to perform as spectacularly as its designers expected. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Another of the Galileo legends introduced by Viviani refers to Galileo’s time as professor of mathematics in Pisa, but is, once again, almost certainly not true. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Us worry bout God a lot But once us feel loved by God, us do the best us can to please him with what us like. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” my dreadful smile stretching across my face, “thanks most awfully once again, it’s been so ripping...” using words I had never used before. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Me? No, sir! Once is enough! If you ask me, once is too often!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man melted away, and all at once an alley opened up before them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He wore a monocle, which Ophie had only ever seen once before; the ticket clerk in Atlanta had worn one when she and her mama booked passage north. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It is the new year, and like the two-faced god Janus, I look forward and backward at once. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“I was just a child once, too,” I tell her. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

For once, I was up before Osh, though he was stirring in his bed as I slipped past him. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She gave up, deciding to end this torture once and for all. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His sister has her nose buried in a book, but I still say hi once she’s close enough to hear me. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

And at that moment, the lights once more went out. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

One day, when very many people were making a pilgrimage to the dying Buddha, Kamala, once the most beautiful of courtesans, was also on her way. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That Franklin comes back, he’ll stop here. He came back once—hoping to find you, I think.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

But he knew that he could restore the land again, just as he had once before, because the pastures were intact and so was his strength. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I once saw him get a triple double against Pennsville—sixteen assists, eighteen points, ten rebounds. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The movie reminded me once again that on the day I did walk out of prison, I did not want to appear to be a political fossil from an age long past. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old or young, lovely or plain, rich or very rich, he’ll keep them company and take their extravagant gifts, but he never stays, and once he’s gone he never comes back. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She sat there the whole afternoon, and when she grinned at him once her eyes were wet and she rubbed them with her fists. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Take me back to the place where I was once happy. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He once said: “It’s not if you win or lose against Bobby Fischer; it’s if you survive.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But she could not contain her desperation, her sense of being adrift once again. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He would sit up there on the dais twitching and grunting and never once would he look down at his desk. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I have never once entered Forest. There was no need, of course. And it always seemed frightening somehow.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Come on,” he said once it was open. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

All these thoughts flowed at once from the dark part of her mind. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You must learn to make music once more.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no token indicating that this had once been a house of worship. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I had only ever seen a white person up close once before, when a group of people from the Netherlands came to visit our school. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

And at once it jumped down inside the wall and began approaching Bree from behind. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The visual image congealed; he saw at once a famous landscape, the old, brown, barren ascent, with tufts of dried-out bonelike weeds poking slantedly into a dim and sunless sky. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

For once, no amount of Howard charm could help. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recall being once again struck with the realization that they would be there for me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Their wrinkly faces go all smooth once they park their cars or step down from the city bus. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Mother said we’d owned a TV once, when I was a baby, until Shawn had put Tyler’s head through it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The sergeant at arms gave him a long, unimpressed look and blinked slowly, once. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

And I remembered Popo once telling me four is a very unlucky number because if you say it in an angry way, it always comes out wrong. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone talked at once, and they seemed to be very much pleased. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

The next day, after another restful night on the boat—to which, once again, Richard Parker had returned—I was able to walk. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

My pops once said goodbyes are “the most possible impossible” ’cause you never wanna say them, but you’d be stupid not to when given the shot. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The British were coming back, but once again Ran Laurie, with his narrow-bladed oar, was having a difficult time getting enough of a catch to help power his shell through the wind and waves. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

All three of us seemed to be aware that once we left that peaceful moment, it would be behind us forever. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was cool inside, and once the echo faded, the only thing Mark could hear was the sound of his own heavy breathing. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I carved a ship once that my teacher exhibited for parents’ night at school. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

So once again I had a choice to make: Should I work toward my dream of one day competing in the Olympics? Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I always went for the clothes first, running my hands along the seams to see if anyone else had had the same idea as my mother, and once found a pair of diamond earrings. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, the Waterworks’ pumping engines were sent into motion and once again water pulsed through the giant arteries to all locations of the city. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

But the people whose world Kenna was supposed to be changing, it seemed, couldn’t disagree more, and when the results of all of the consumer research came in, Kenna’s once promising career suddenly stalled. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Hard to imagine her legs once strong, the bones hard and parting water, clean sharp strokes, not bent and wrinkled like a baby, not drowning under the sticky yellow light. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alecto took care that the news should spread quickly, and fighting started at once, the furious farmers bent upon killing Ascanius and the Trojans defending him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were once Ymir’s brains, and who knows what thoughts they are thinking, even now. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

In American Lit class once, we discussed America as a metaphor tying it into how the country is represented in books, movies, songs. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I remember once when it was my turn to go in. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all of those, once recognized, can be overcome. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I remember saying this to him once—how embarrassing he was—and cringe at the former me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Ekon fell to his knees, his back arching as pain pulsed through him in agonizing waves, like a thousand knives pricking every inch of his skin at once. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The arm motions required to prevent twisting were complicated enough, but would mastering them enable me to prevent twisting, rolling, and tumbling all at once? Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before long, we were meeting in private chat-room sessions at least once a day. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I had known boys who were unpredictable and short-tempered, who roared through life like a whirlwind and never once looked back. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There could be no doubt that Dumbledore’s detailed knowledge of those with whom he was traveling was even less welcome to Voldemort; however, he rallied almost at once. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I looked her up and down once, as if trying to decide. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Nam looked back at me once, and I was certain they were talking about Paul and Guzzo, and therefore me too. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“That’s one answer, but I’m thinking of something else,” Mark said, grabbing hold of the end of the garbage truck once again. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He calls me back again and affably gives me to understand that for once he is pleased to put mercy before justice. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Who would want to take two at once? Lovely idea, but no thanks.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He dropped his gaze at once, not wishing to be considered impolite. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The Virgin Mary clasped her hands in front of her neck three times in the front room and once in the bedroom where Cecile’s body lay. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She once called Lucy my “some-timey friend,” meaning Lucy wasn’t true-blue. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I went once to see the Captain after he got married. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sides of my neck tingled in the place where humans once had gills. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

That very night Psyche’s husband warned her once more. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No arguments! You must have an interview. I will write your recommendation at once.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I don’t have to ask about health insurance once I meet Carlotta, the middle-aged African American woman who will be training me. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You could probably fly down there once a week in a squadron plane and bring back all the fresh eggs we need.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She lifted his arm and saw only faded ghosts of the glorious art that had once been there. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

It’s soothing to see an entire world at once—to see the pieces and know how it all fits together. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Others had come into the place only once, had drunk a Coca-Cola, and never returned. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Oh, it’s been a lot of changes all at once.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

They were invited to a regular hacker get-together, went once, then never returned. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cloisters were once more free of strangers and the corridors cleared of beds and pallets. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

But once I'm on my feet, I realize escape may not be so simple. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

And there was Gerald, who once brought me a box of fat, sweet strawberries. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

He at once explained that the black woman’s offensive conduct was all due to imperfect training, as he was not there to take her in hand. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s also a winged pterodactyl that appears once in a while to wreak havoc. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Even though our journey was difficult, every once in a while we were able to do something that was normal and made us happy for a brief moment. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“But trust me, nothing you could do would begin to compare to the torment he'll face once the Commandant gets her hands on him. He was guarding me. He failed. My mother hates failure.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

As the door swung shut behind him, Ned heard him say, "Lion's Tooth," and guffaw once more. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I groan, wishing, once again, that I didn’t have to go inside. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Aphrodite blotted out Paris once, saving him from certain death at the hands of Menelaus. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Maybe not for a few days. But once there is no government and ten million starving people in Kinshasa? The first thing that happened in ’94 was they tried to eat the zoo animals. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the large and pleasant salon which extended across the width of the house, the Ratignolles entertained their friends once a fortnight with a soirée musicale, sometimes diversified by card-playing. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

Beneath him the floor still seemed to list, then switch to the rhythm of a steady march, and once again Turner found himself too afflicted by impressions, too fevered, too exhausted to sleep. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

That blowhard thinks he's all that because he threw a Molotov cocktail once, back in the nineties in some kind of race riot. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In Chicago Myrta saw at once that the stories Holmes had told of the city had only barely captured its glamour and dangerous energy. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I’m hanging by my fingertips when the train lurches once again, swinging my legs off to the side. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Snarling, he paced back and forth in front of the gate, then threw himself at it once more. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And once we started, I was laughing just as much as she was—about how one of them looked like it was wearing underpants, how another had to have been inspired by a squashed hedgehog. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smells of frying poppy and smoke-leaf drifted pleasantly in through the wardrobe door, and more than once Lyra found herself nodding. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

And she did a big sigh and said: ‘Madame’s gallery, yes, that’s important. Much more important than I once thought. I see that now.’ Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps that is why creativity was once a concept reserved for God, as only He could give material form to an idea. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But no sooner had the preacher arrived than I began to resent him, for I learned at once that he, like my father, was used to having his own way. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a very sharp-eyed observer would be able to tell that it had once been torn. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

And once the strangers settled into their positions, they held up the tubelike things and aimed them directly at the people below. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Sahara told me once at an ERC meeting about how the women who loved him saw him dead and then alive again. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Twice in his chest, inches from his heart, once in his thigh, and once in his calf. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

That suits me fine—not even the Commandant can be in two places at once. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Brian shrugged, tabulating his own totals once more to be sure that Brother Leon wouldn’t blame him for any discrepancies. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He has his own stuff to worry about,” Summer had told me once, when she explained why she had never even told Auggie she’d gotten picked to be in Mrs. Atanabi’s dance. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He was staring at me, but his eyes had taken on a milky quality that I recognized at once. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Whole song: Teaching a whole song is exactly what it sounds like…singing the whole song at once and having the students echo the whole song right back. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Finding the kayak and getting the truth out once and for all was my mission. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then, once again, her hands around her neck. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, I once mentioned that to Mama. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then a few years later, rates of execution and death sentencing were once again decreasing. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The men worked hard, saved their money, and then headed home once a month with groceries and money for their families. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He circled once and then headed in the direction of the wasi. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He installed me at once, no arguments, in an apartment of his house. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“This expedition must proceed without further delay. It must go on at once. Please give the order.” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

In almost ten months of dating, Joaquin had never seen Birdie cry, not even once. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He must have taken some comfort and pride in wearing his father’s clothing, just as I once did with my own father’s. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her coffee-colored hands looked old, but well-manicured and elegant, so I imagined she was a grandmother who had once been a beautiful lady. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I have a feeling that once you live through something like this, you become a little bit invincible. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I once had plans to build a new house. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

To his surprise, she reached out and patted his shoulder, which made him feel slightly better and a lot weirder, all at once. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I heard about it on a radio play once, at Chen’s noodle shack. You get bounty for helping someone out.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Put that woman on the organizing committee at once, I direct my imaginary coconspirators as I leave. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When the rocket took off, the propellant was so loose it just fell inward. Too much of it burned at once.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It smelled like math tests and poetry and all the dreams I once took for granted. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

"Listen," she said, nearly dropping me over the balcony once again in her excitement. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

But I tell you, I was happy I had a parent either side once we stepped inside. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

In fact, I found out since then that it really was a garage once, until somebody changed it into the world’s dinkiest house. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

The boat smacked against it, once, twice, hard, and the water swirled against the back of the boat, spinning it and then, in one mighty surge, tipping it. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He reminded Harry vividly of an old tramp he had seen once when out shopping with the Dursleys. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The truck came to an abrupt halt and lurched forward all at once. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

More than once he said one revolutionary in the family was enough. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elisha stretched out his hand, and John took the hand, and stood—so suddenly, and so strangely, and with such wonder!—once more on his feet. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

In the summer of 1600, all citizens of Graz who were not already Catholics were required to change their faith at once. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

It made it necessary for him to be in as many as four places at once. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“At home for once and not playing video games with your li’l boyfriend.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

When we saw the first sign for the Black Hills, the whispers changed and once again commanded, rush, hurry, rush. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Only once in my life did I ever drink too much. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the awful pitching and rolling stopped and they could once again huddle up close, their hearts stopped racing, and they could lick each other’s faces for reassurance. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He gave the room itself scarcely a glance, once he was inside it. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I guess it was enough that once, Joseph tried to kill his teacher. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

There must have been three, once, hope and charity, where have they been stowed? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke nodded once, as if he wasn’t expecting confirmation. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Life, my friend Bando once said, is meeting problems and solving them whether you are an amoeba or a space traveller. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know. I was just kidding. It’s nice to see you get flustered every once in a while.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“That I already have posterity. I was once a baby and now I am an old woman. That is posterity.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

That was another of his talents; he woke all at once, like a cat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When I see Neil’s face—it has to be Neil; the universe isn’t that cruel—things will fall into place once and for all. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He throws it into the air once and catches it. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

She only caught glimpses of what passed: walls of white, glacial floors, and every once in a while, a torch burning with a cold blue flame. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Yet standing there, I realized once again that number 534, despite his name, was not a machine. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

‘Twice now, I’ve been forced to fight in stadiums - once in Rome, and before that in the Labyrinth. I hate playing games for people’s amusement.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Flowers once, but you were disappointed with that treat, so I gave you a dollar to buy whatever you wanted with it. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aaron, who fears me not one little bit, will go off into the woods toward the smoke to finish me off once and for all. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I was hopeful that since for once I wasn’t the focus of the dysfunction, perhaps we could address some of the real issues going on. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Dung had changed her name to Pattie once she found out what it meant in English. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I have only heard her speak once, but I remember. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

They look like a picture Eulalie show me once, where they did put the baby Jesus to sleep. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says that the wild turkey, once abundant in the deciduous forests in these regions, is far more intelligent and can elude even practiced hunters. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nancy was invariably the last of the family to retire; as she had once informed her friend and home-economics teacher, Mrs. Polly Stringer, the midnight hours were her “time to be selfish and vain.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

For other birds, too, the once beneficial rain had been changed, through the evil power of the poison introduced into their world, into an agent of destruction. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was costing him every bit of determination he had to keep talking, yet he sensed that once he had finished, he would feel better. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Heedless of her belly for once, she scrambled off her silver and ran to him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Grace guessed that you really got to know a guy’s family once you got pregnant with their son’s baby. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

We comforted her and told her that if she’d put her foot down once or twice and say she didn’t have the time, the shopping lists would shrink of their own accord. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It would take her a long while to get to Sherlock Holmes level, but once Emily did, she’d probably be one of those competitive people. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Only difference, once I was twenty-one, I went and got my own silver disk each week. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Miss Claythorne was wonderful—kept her head—started off swimming after Cyril at once." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Across the creek from Julia’s house, where the old washed-out road lay in crumbled chunks, stood a concrete abutment that once served as an overpass to the floodwaters of winter and spring. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Nothing commemorates the site, only rubble and faded signs in overgrown thickets where hundreds of men once toiled and sometimes died. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered how Sherlock Holmes once amazed Watson by working out Watson’s train of thought. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

But on hurrying back to Prague to make arrangements for the move, he found his wife seriously ill once again. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He was somewhere in the vague, brown-colored slums to the north and east of what had once been Saint Pancras Station. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“I thought you said the Congolese don’t believe in keeping riches to themselves,” I told Anatole once, inclined toward an argument. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He imagined my recovery would be rapid enough when once commenced. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I saw it once in our room,” he leans in, whispering. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They wave up at me all at once, as if someone in the crowd said, “One, two, three.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are not the same beings we once were. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The special feelings I once had for Sam have definitely faded. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Beyond M31 is another, very similar galaxy, our own, its spiral arms turning slowly, once every quarter billion years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But once I mixed some soil in, it died down to tolerable levels. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Cuernavaca, Mexico, where I once lived, and where the climate is as near to perfect as is conceivable, I have found that when people leave there they usually go to Alaska. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course they all have to comment all at once. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I says that old rattletrap’s just an eyesore, yet you’ll keep it standing there in the carriage house a hundred years just so that boy can ride to the cemetery once a week. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam whistled the three notes that had once brought her to his fist. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

But once Papa Andrew returned, the debil leader sent him off to get our family books. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thing was doubly attractive because of its apparent uselessness, though he could guess that it must once have been intended as a paperweight. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

To him, if he remembered me at all, I’d just be this daft girl who came up to him once, asked if he wanted sex, then backed off. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So if there was once a sixth borough, then what are the five boroughs?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The question was so loaded with danger that I could not reply at once. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ernie was looking rather grumpy; determined to outshine Harry for once, he had most rashly invented his own potion, which had curdled and formed a kind of purple dumpling at the bottom of his cauldron. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He said to me once that these little ones could hear you even when you whispered, so that you had to be extra careful of what you said. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came to dinner once a month, and as far as I could tell, he was the one guest Granddaddy looked forward to. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I was starting to see everything, all at once, with a blistering clarity. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Will stared back, and the dæmon became a mouse once more and crept into Lyra’s pocket. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Didn’t he look out over the bow once in a while? The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard my dad say once to my uncle Ken that the TVA was just socialism, pure and simple. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning, once the excitement died down, Hazel decided to visit Coach Hedge, since he could talk to animals. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She once told me that around this time a song came to her in a dream. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Everyone must clean the cannon at least once each voyage,” I am told. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

All those of us who care for the future well-being of Europe will take comfort from the fact that Mr Lewis is now - how shall we put it? - hardly the influence he once was. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I will miss you, too,” she said, and her eyes filled with tears once more. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

They settled themselves in some soft moss at the edge of the forest, once they’d checked it for pellets of glass. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

And she remembered that recently there had been references to suitability of families and once a hint that some people couldn’t keep a scandal hidden forever. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then the floodlight, secure again, snapped on once more. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They drank quickly and then Dicey refilled them once, twice, three times. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

A year and a half after the earthquake, Tres Marias was once again the model estate it had been before. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I ask only minutes. Jane, did you ever hear or know that I was not the eldest son of my house: that I had once a brother older than I?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Grace read it again, and then once more. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The lions didn’t interrupt once, though the cub did snicher from time to time. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She had never once been to Iran, where her Persian mother and father had grown up. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

It was so strange—he had known the old woman for only a few days, but now he could not imagine what he would do once she was gone. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Wart found that, although he was frightened of the danger of the forest before it happened, once he was in it he was not frightened any more. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

By day the mountains were blue-grey, brushed with frost, but once the sun vanished behind the jagged peaks they turned black. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Morgan, who once shouted down a stranger in a grocery store for wearing a Trump hat. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“What you told me about living in the Scholars’ Quarter,” he says, breaking the quiet of the room, “with your grandparents and your brother. That was true, once.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Were Mum and Dad like this, once upon a time? Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh, no, it is meant to be so. We entertain here often, and many bats can arrive at once.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is so easy once you have been over it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess once in a while we all need a wake-up call from somebody who loves us.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

‘You cannot reach them, you cannot touch them. We tried once, yes, precious. I tried once; but you cannot reach them. Only shapes to see, perhaps, not to touch. No precious! All dead.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But an impact with a large comet, such as Hailey’s Comet, whose nucleus is perhaps twenty kilometers across, should occur only about once every billion years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often, if I moved uneasily beneath her gaze, she would bark that I should remain still; but once, me waking to find her near, she instead begged me: “Touch my hair.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Everybody carried a little evil in them, Momma once told me. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the young women of the 122nd Air Group were given winter uniforms, of course once again it was standard military issue meant for men. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Syrio had told her once that darkness could be her friend, and he was right. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"There are more of us. We try to meet in smaller groups instead of having everyone at once," Willem explains. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Emily saw her grandmother who lived in Vermont maybe once a year, and the rest of her grandparents had passed away. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

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

I walked miles, trying to locate everything by sight that I once knew only by smell and sound. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks at her blank page once more, then pushes it at me. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“He’s a man. He’s got to take it some time. Better if he gets the whole thing at once.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was always hardest getting Princesse to remove her panties, but once Catherine either turned around or pretended to close her eyes, they were gone in a flash. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Stone argued that a federal amendment would be easier to obtain once women showed that they could manage the vote on a state level. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He thought it was at once the most fantastic and the most logical petition he had ever received. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taran dared once again to speak to Gwydion, but the lash cut his words short. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

For in North America, then England, France, Haiti, and once again North America, the Age of Sugar brought about the great, final clash between freedom and slavery. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

But once a year, they all smiled indulgently at the commotion from the little ones waiting to receive their names and families. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

We passed what must have once been the cafeteria, but the entire right side of the building had crumbled in on itself. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But I spent the rest of the night with my consciousness in two places at once. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Whatever money Mom had inherited from Grandma Smith had disappeared, and once again we started scraping by. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

So maybe I could, once, try being nice to her. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Nhamo sensed a current of disapproval; for once it wasn’t directed at her. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told us it was safe, that in all the time she’d lived there as a kid, she had not once experienced crime or violence. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Then he looked back at me once more, and began. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

When she once appeared before a group of reporters wearing a white shawl, some of the journalists joked that they would not write about suffrage unless she brought back the red wrap. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

California would be the ninth state for Emily in her twelve and three-quarters years, all part of her parents’ quest to live once in each of the fifty states. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The Queen’s face hardened, and once again she gazed out the windows. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Harry lowered the Invisibility Cloak over them, then they turned into the suffocating darkness once again. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Indeed, Mr Stevens, I should think you and I could sit here now and count up at least a dozen between us that once said as much, then got married and left the profession.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He replaced the map in its folder, closed the drawer, and once again raised his feet to the top of the desk. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But once his secret is out, his reputation as this...” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Have you ever noticed I have never once approached you and have been exhaustively civil every time we’ve spoken? Yet here you are, seeking me out again.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Lupita, feeling grateful for her dancing lessons, smiled tentatively once or twice, but Rafael did not look her in the eye. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

At once, people began pushing to get to him, and Ekon pressed his lips together. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I can’t turn around once I get moving. But you shouldn’t be standing here and watching me in case I cheat. Just run into the school. Okay?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t mean I don’t cry about it once in a while. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

"I will answer you, just this once. I mean to give Harrenhal to Lord Vargo when 1 return to the north. You will remain here, with him." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Joseph had never once called Blink by his real name. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

On his desk stood what looked like a large, cracked, glass spinning top; Harry recognized it at once as a Sneakoscope, because he owned one himself, though it was much smaller than Moody’s. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Celaena had once met a young woman from that cursed land, and though she’d turned out to be both cruel and bloodthirsty, she was still just a human. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Old Man: ‘Ah, once I thought to be a mender of men. Now I’m a mender of...’ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

An infuriated and confused Mr. Levy would return, this time determined to have him incarcerated at once. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Asgard will be gone, but Idavoll will stand where Asgard once stood, splendid and continual. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The pigs ran in panic, moving every which way at once, and then the blam! of Angelo’s shot directly behind made me jump. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He would insist on keeping it as a pet, and once it was coiled inside its tank, he would call Davies right over and show him what he’d done with his bare hands. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

For once she seemed to be biting, or at least she didn't look like she was throwing him a bunch of shade, like she usually did. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“I once had to wait nearly four weeks before a girl I wanted would let me have her.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No matter who that poor man is he deserves our respect. He was once someone’s little angel baby.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He wore a black wool suit and a black overcoat that had once belonged to his grandfather. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I don’t add that, last I knew, Jason had a crush on Teresa Conchetti, and that he actually stood up for her once in sixth grade when Dallas was calling her Terry Conchesty. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Behind him the ululation swept across the island once more and a single voice shouted three times. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Instantly she was surrounded by excited children, waving clippings from the Cucaracha Voice and trying to talk at once. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

In March, however, he mustered his resolve once more and resumed his lonely trek. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had never once doubted his physical courage. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel had eaten various roots in his life, but only once before had he tasted carrot, when a cart horse had spilled a nose bag near the home warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The infection also left Roosevelt so weak that he couldn’t sit up, forcing him once again to lie down on top of the boxes in the canoe in an uncomfortable position. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I could tell once that under his mask he was smiling. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

And so, once Mrs. Caruthers had her lunch, Ophie returned the tray to the kitchen and then made her way quietly to the study, where the very busy ghost resided. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She told me once that back-sleepers were the leaders in life, born performers or exhibitionists. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Run up and down a few times, making sure to stumble at least once. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The widow would not be able to look after the baby once he began to run about. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

In all our time in the Congo I’d been awestruck by what the ladies could carry this way, but had never once tried it myself. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not all of it at once. I can’t work out whether it’s a triangle, a circle, or a square.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“People do stupid things sometimes. And every once in a while, something terrible happens because of it.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He must have gotten out of his personal enclosure, during the attack or once the power went out, and hid out in the surrounding jungle until he saw us leave. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

But then once it ended, maybe he tried to walk back home, but got confused. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while Father would surprise me by riding silently into sight. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matt flipped the switch once more and saw, to his great relief, that the wall closed up again. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reached the corner where he and Antonapoulos had once seen a mad dog on an August afternoon. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He firmly believed that football, like other sports, used blacks, exploited them and then spit them out once their talents as running backs or linebackers or wide receivers had been fully exhausted. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mention a Hollywood star that I once kissed at a party, but make it clear that it was no big deal. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I went to him once and he was as fresh as he could be, touching me in places that were not necessary and saying obscene things, so I never went back to him. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not once has she ever wished to contact her departed mother, and she doubts her mother would want to speak with her if she could, especially through such complicated methods. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He offered his famous ransom in the naive belief that, once paid off, the Spaniards would release him and depart. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He heard the roar, the screams all around him, and he watched Johanna fold the paper in her hands, without ever once looking at him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was all Arya could do not to bolt and run, but she knew that if she did, they would be after her at once. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

For once she was dressed simply, in leather boots and hunting greens. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

That, coupled with the fact that she never once called me by name. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

My father must have had the same feeling because all at once he slapped the table, tipped his chair back, and began singing “Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kitbag and Smile, Smile, Smile.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pollard was finally well enough to travel and returned to the town in which he had once reigned supreme. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My lord," he blurted at Mormont as he swung open the iron bars, "there's been a bird, you must come at once." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Among other things, it included Annunziata’s mother’s first-class airfare to visit him once a month. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Countless hundreds of birds, orbiting the village green once, elasticking longer, twice, winging shorter, three times, then, as if following an order, vanishing inside the tree again. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

But Gandalf made no sign; and drawn forward once more, half against his will, the hobbit crept up again from behind the wizard’s head. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Only once did he risk a quick glance, not certain if the dark spot on the ground might be Methuselah watching them. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The cohorts mingled freely with the Amazons, jumping from couch to couch as they pleased, and for once the soldiers of the Fifth were welcome everywhere. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She picked up the box and banged it hard against the iron stove, just once, to show me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people at once dug up their last gold pieces to take advantage of a quick flight over the houses of the village. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Her features, once beautiful, were badly burned from poison. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

They say that once when things got out of hand at the rodeo and the crowd threatened an official, the sheriff took care of it himself. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put it in his mouth, chewed once, then twice, before grimacing and spitting it out on the sofrah. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

For once he envied his ability to pick up the slightest sounds. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

In some senses Ashoke and Ashima live the lives of the extremely aged, those for whom everyone they once knew and loved is lost, those who survive and are consoled by memory alone. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s part of the security system. It makes the wall look solid from a distance, but once you get beyond the projectors”—he pointed at the cameras in the trees—“the hologram goes away.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At long last, today we shall be fascinated and entertained by ‘The Wreck of the Hesperus,’” she continued, once the dishes were cleared away and the trio of sad children had gathered obediently around her. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I saw at once that she was the one who had reported me to the manager for keeping white mice. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Riccio had tried to follow him once, but he had been spotted immediately by Scipio, who had gotten so angry that afterward none of them even dared to watch him when he left. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Clancy blinked once, then again, as if to clear his own cloudy gaze, to remember what he was supposed to be doing. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The tone of his voice implied at once a complete admission of his guilt and a sort of incredulous horror that such a word could be applied to himself. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Then she dipped the oars once again into the dark water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a longtime Afrikaner nationalist, and an outspoken supporter of the Nazi cause; he once described Hider as the “greatest man of his age.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

During replication, DNA is, once again, copied using its image as a guide. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

No doubt the Outside Dogs thought Ajax lived the life of a pampered lapdog once he made it through the magic door. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She nodded at me once, and there was something almost like pride in her eyes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

We didn’t know it at the time, but once alone, we both started to cry. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

An aggressive antibreeding area campaign was launched and once again proved to be highly successful. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The place had probably looked good once, but now unchecked ivy grew up its sides. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I need to think of what to do once they are removed. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He pushed and pulled Alby back over to the crack that marked the entrance to the Glade, and propped him once more into a sitting position, leaning against the stone wall. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I ate it anyway and tried to decide once again whether I had won or lost. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

For the first time, I started to think about all those things I had once taken for granted—the way things had always been for black people in Alabama. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Where was I going to write to? All I knew was that you was in Nashville. I asked Miss Peace about you once or twice.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It’s cool to do something before him for once. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

When it had had enough it rolled over onto its front once more and walked back toward the tennis court, like a tiny patch of midnight in the midday sun. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He lived in a shack on the riverbank that had once belonged to his grandfather long time dead. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I did so once, and she replied, “I’m not your mother.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I think I once saw a room like this in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Ishmael began to wonder how any of this would direct him once he hit the beach. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

On top of his regular work, he was once again campaigning, this time for a seat in the U.S. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Of course they too once lived a savage life, ugly and brutal. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy had once covered the walls, but it had been torn away, leaving long interlocking scars in the cracked paint. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Chief doesn’t need to put on any lights at the party, once you arrive.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Approximately once a month there are not-quite regularly scheduled Midnight Dinners that are most often referred to by the guests as Circus Dinners. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The machine gun opened fire once more from a black rise above the motor pool, and orange tracer bullets skimmed like low-gliding dashes over the tops of the shadowy tents, almost clipping the peaks. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“To Zu that night in the motel. I’ve been in your head—once. Just not in your dreams.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Snow. I once saw it, but there wasn’t enough to build a snowman.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Ignatius, all at once you’re your old horrible self. All at once I think I’m making a very big mistake.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Coach never once looked over at me, not even to check that I was still there. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

"My, what thick hair you have. I tried braiding my daughter's hair once, but it was too fine, soft and wispy like a baby's, even in her teens." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

With one earphone off, she could hear both languages going at once. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sixteen-page weekly paper set up its office in New York City in the same building where the Women’s Loyal National League had once rented space. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Then once, towards the end of an afternoon break, a group of us were sitting on the grass quite close to the South Playing Field where the boys, as usual, were playing their football. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And after a few years the once expensive home may have a poorer family. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at me, and I noticed the left side of his upper lip lift once or twice as though he was about to snarl or cry. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hero worship,” she once wrote, “has...never been something I enjoyed when directed at me personally.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Why’d you invite her?” she demanded, once Pearl had skipped out of hearing. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

More than once, the scurvy swab made a panic-stricken dive over the side, preferring to swim ashore, where he would cope ultimately with Dad, instead of meeting the captain on the latter’s own quarterdeck. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I remember having a letter once—but there, they say bad news travels the fastest.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come down from that window at once, sir!” she said crossly. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Throughout the entire month of that battle—from the middle of December to the middle of January—I did not see Danny once. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was a mystery once more, as at the eviction I had uttered words that had possessed me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Settling back in his swivel chair, his feet up on the desk and his eyes closed, he began imagining how beautiful everything would be once he was squadron commander. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

All at once, the Holy Beings started talking. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She will call him, once a week, on the phone. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Max, I don’t know. I was all mixed up. I was feeling so many things at once.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, once a few faranji die without explanation, I think the others will lose heart.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Mr. Sidelsky, who was my height, once gave me an old suit of his and, assisted by considerable stitching and patching, I wore that suit every day for almost five years. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, ma’am, Big Charlie tolt me the only way he could go was if I paid him half his wages ’fore going and half once we got back. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

It clings tenaciously, as if it knows that once it’s off, it will never get a chance at me again. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“We’re locked in to a ginormous number of lawns now, once a week, and I’m having to turn more people down.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

The office reflected the man—hugely impressive and unassuming at once. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you ever want to say ‘I don’t got it,’ just once? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The district once offered instruction in five foreign languages. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I bought some nice paper curtains for Ignatius’ room once, but he tore them off the window and crumpled them up. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

All at once the full impact of what we had been told hit us. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

She shoved a lump of bread and a piece of cheese into his hands, and he gobbled down a bit at once. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She remembered what the Specials had said to her more than once: We don’t want to hurt you, but we will if we have to. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Most people around Charles believed that God had not only created all the species of animals at once, but that he had also created the social structure of their world. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The axiom that a man is innocent until proved guilty by a court of law has been flagrantly ignored once again in the State of Mississippi. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood and watched them, the once confident troops now dejected prisoners of the Soviets. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The cheese tasted O.K. to me and, except for a big powdery lump every once in a while, Dad’s milk was all right too. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The picture of the bear with a balloon, which had once been brightly colored, had faded so much it was hardly visible. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

She clapped her hands once and held them together, sighed a relieved-sounding sigh. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Only then would her womb quicken once again... ... but Daenerys Targaryen had other children, tens of thousands who had hailed her as their mother when she broke their chains. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I never eat my soup all at once, and do not want my own family to take mine away. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But every once in a while, you don’t make the safest choice when you’re thirteen. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ophelia, please do not encourage that woman,” Mama said once the trolley doors had closed. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“We automatons gotta have some fun once in a while, right?” our statue said. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

And though their conversation had ended minutes before, Lucas approached her once more in the parking lot and asked her a surprising question. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“As I once helped you. She sold my sister. Please, sir, I’ll do anything, just find Ruth, she’s so small and-” The door behind us opened. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

What had once been dedicated to the soul was now dedicated to the sale. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why do they bother putting the bloody signs up if black and white people end up mingling once inside?” one boy snapped. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stannis would be left with thirty or forty galleys, at a guess; more than enough to bring his whole host across, once they had regained their courage. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My mom had tried to warn me that once I started plucking, there would be no going back. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I think, I once threw things at this man. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

For once in his unlucky life, he was in the right place at the right time, and it still didn't help him. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The announcer stares at their pick in his view, blinks a few times in surprise, and then waves his own hand once. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And he once ate a £50 note from his mother’s wallet. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Everything was coming out of me at once, climbing up through my throat and into my mouth and shooting out from behind my eyes. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He wondered if his talents had failed him, if he had, in trying to compensate for months of undertraining, thrown too much work at his horse at once. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

All at once he found he could talk fluently and explain what he had to say. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

And yet the familiarity that had once drawn her to him has begun to keep her at bay. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Though she was aware of his gaze as she crossed the room, by the time she managed to steal another look at him he was once again indifferent, focused on his knees. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He fell asleep, and then the memories came rushing in once again. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I jumped out of the car and ran into the field, to the spot where the old movie theater once stood—where Henrietta and Cliff once watched Buck Jones films. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And I, for once, felt completely normal among this group of misfits. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Pippin pulled such a grim face that the boy stepped back a pace, but at once he returned with clenched fists and the light of battle in his eye. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The carpet bends and goes down the front staircase and I go with it, one hand on the banister, once a tree, turned in another century, rubbed to a warm gloss. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the armrest of Cool Papa’s watcher’s chair lay the old guitar that had once cried and twanged hot electric chords and sometimes a ghost note out into the night. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

DNA, once the underdog of all biological molecules, was thrust into the limelight. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

One of Momma Biles’s ironclad rules was that no matter where we were or what we were doing, once the streetlights came on, it was time to head home. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Immediately above his head there hung three discolored metal balls which looked as if they had once been gilded. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

At every stop, whether immigration or customs, she alone gave the magic password, for not once did they have to fill out extra forms, not once were their bags opened. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

All four Tucks sprang to their feet at once, while Winnie, very frightened, shrank back in her chair. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

These factories exist in plant and animal cells today but may once themselves have been free-living cells. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It remained mute until the day it squawked once and then fell off its perch from old age. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I know the rumor that got started once I’d been living at home a few years. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shrieked once, desperate to run across a field, to feel grass under my feet instead of pavement. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The doctor once told Rosa that clones went to pieces when they got older. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sight of it all made Tyrion feel queasy, but he forced himself to try a spoon of soup for the sake of politeness, and once he had tasted it he was lost. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

So maybe he wasn't really all that fierce in day care, except I'm pretty sure he did hit a kid with his crutch once, whacked the little brat pretty good. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had thought up various roles in the circus for identical twins to perform once the children were old enough. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It is likely that Hans never intended to involve Sophie in the White Rose resistance activities, but once she found out, he could not dissuade her. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was like he had been standing for so long, ignoring the ache in his knees and ankles, and now, finally able to sit down, felt every pain at once. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I got tangled up with a few of them once—just a stupid fight—and the next thing I knew, I woke up one morning busted out of my mind, bleeding out my side. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Before you can make babies, you have to be a señorita, which means you bleed once a month.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

‘Wake up! No time to lose. We must go, yes, we must go at once. No time to lose!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But he saw at once that though all the chairs were occupied, Antonapoulos was not there. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has,” he said to me once. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had delivered the morning paper to him for years, once managing to fling a folded Bluefield Daily Telegraph right through a tier of milk bottles on his front porch. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

And once they were tied, it’d be much easier for the Midwest team to slip into the lead. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The defenders stood and cheered in the depression directly above what had once been Killconey’s tunnel. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He comes to a stop a few feet from us, and all at once we rush toward him. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get my own seat for most of the ride, but an old man slides next to me once we’re almost there. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

She was out running errands once when a man recognized her from her days on the street. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then all at once he remembered that the owner of the cat had zipped off to work. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Miss Emily used to give a lot of the sex lectures herself, and I remember once, she brought in a life-size skeleton from the biology class to demonstrate how it was done. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It happens in my brain once the rest of my body has moved. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

We need our limbs trimmed just the way you need to cut your fingernails and hair, although for us it’s only once or twice a year, and it’s called pruning. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Is it true you once walked three days in the wrong direction?” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I woke at once, with a sharp breath. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frodo and Sam drank a little water and ate some bread and dried fruit, but Gollum at once curled up and went to sleep. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It’s hardfor him to make me do anything, when I only see him once a year. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Give the crate a good shaking, smack it with the stick once or twice, put them gloves on, open the lid far ’nough that you can reach in and grab the cat by his head. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

And both of those tired, little monkeys sleep through the night—without waking up from a nightmare once. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“No one else is doing that. Advances for anyone who can bring two friends to vouch they’re good for it once work gears up again.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was trying to start the fire and cook all at once, which will never get you anywhere. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, after another eight dull hours of desk duty, Officer Delinko decided to swing by the Mother Paula’s site once more. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was not news that Eddard Stark welcomed, but it was true enough that they needed help, and Littlefinger had been almost a brother to Cat once. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“You know what they say, folks ain’t ever truly clean once they been on that mess.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She had commanded them to wake her at once if the enemy returned, and well after midnight3 serving girl touched her gently by the shoulder. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He once wrote and told her that all the punishment and whippings doled out by Danny had, for all their horror, one positive side effect. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But there’s no arguing nicknames once a rugby team tattoos yours in their heads. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“We had a mouse once. He was cute.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Lyra clenched herself, but relaxed almost at once as Pantalaimon thought to her: We’re only safe as long as we pretend. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Harry was able to answer that at once. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

That’s when his eyes got unseeing and his hands and hands and hands were everywhere at once. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Nobody at camp, not once, had made fun of him for being Asian. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

On TV once she heard a relationship expert say that you can’t find peace until you find all the pieces. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The reason that the task is so challenging is that the main resource that English syntax makes available to writers—left-to-right ordering on a page—has to do two things at once. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I guess I felt that if I was going to be a meat eater, then at least once in my life I should take part in the killing of my food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Normally I loved playing DJ at the record store, but for once it wasn’t getting me out of my sad mood. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

At once Will kicked it away, his shoe connecting with the hilt, luckily for him, and it spun across the lead and came to rest in the gutter just beside a drainage hole. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once a day they empty the pots—once a day! X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sent it loose and the loops unwound between her gloves as the rope shot out like a snake she had once seen unwind itself in pursuit of a mouse frozen in terror. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It had already gotten wet once, and while I couldn’t believe I was actually trusting her with it, I needed both hands free. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Harry tried to shout — but once again, nothing came out of his mouth but a very large bubble. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He stopped once because of a sudden sick pain in his chest. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gulliver didn’t chirp once when Virgil lifted him out of his cage—another sign of his misery and resentment. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Five hundred repetitions once a week from thirteen to seventeen,” said Bernard wearily, as though to himself. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He unfolded his map and checked his position once again. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

With shells exploding all around, the bus sped to a military airbase and stopped in front of a complex that had once been General Westmoreland’s headquarters. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It was he who had given the alarm in the barn, for he could not sleep and at the sound of scratching had started up at once. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were images which had once given him a reason for living, had explained the world. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Would anyone believe that she was once a very beautiful girl? First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I used to tell people that I once stared too long at a solar eclipse. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost at once a thin trickle of smoke rose up and made him cough. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was possible that this woman gave up a baby girl once, a girl with only a dream of a name, and then the grief of it drove her into this place. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

My mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I was bursting with a dozen questions all at once. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned around once to wink at me and then kept right along. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Catherine has been by, once, three hours ago, stone-faced and sad, to tell Henry that she loves him and he could have told her sooner. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Would I be stuck here, like he once was? City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He made a pretty easy target, sitting there, docile for once, and kind of sleepy. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She knew that these sort of wonders do pop up in the world from time to time, but only once or twice in a hundred years. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

But once the detectives came and carted away all the silver files—the ones with the debts he and his family collected from everyone in our villages—she stopped hoping. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

And 11 years is the period for Jupiter to go once around the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he started walking to the trees, he was already thinking of ways he could reach out to Toby once all the tempers had settled. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

My hair had gotten large from the snow, but for once my face was free of any major acne crops, and there were no chunks of food between my teeth. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

They fell at once to swearing as I ordered, and when the round of oaths had ceased, we found a halfmoon bay to beach and moor the ship in, with a fresh spring nearby. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She calmed down once I told her I’m fine. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She just sat there like an idiot, chewing on her lower lip, and nodding and smiling once in a while as LeeAnn went on and on about how mad Mr. Larson had been on Friday. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll take lots of pictures. Uncle Greg says all’s I gotta do is mow his lawn once a week, and I can hang out with the baby as much as I want.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The melody lifts me even though it is blue and slow, like the mourning dove’s call that Dad and I heard once. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

There had been a fair somewhere near here once, long ago, with motorcycle races; the signs still carried fragments of words. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t always have to eat immigrant dishes, do I? I can enjoy American foods once in a while.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“It would be funny if it were not serious. It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books. The same things could be in the ‘parlour families’ today. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slashed and hacked, destroying everything in my path, but even I was getting tired, and I couldn’t be everywhere at once. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I have to stop once to disappear into someone’s bushes. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Joe got up once more, and, with his hoe, diverted the water into a new row. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dragon descended on him, roaring, and all at once the poor beast was aflame, yet somehow he kept on running, screaming with every step, until Drogon landed on him and broke his back. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I stared into the lake, wishing somebody would give me a straight answer for once. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

There was no delay on the timer at alL If he managed to press the detonator button, the ship would blow at once. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It blinked once, then said in a quiet, nervous voice, “I’m sorry I hurt you.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Lancelot went to sleep at once—but the buzzing of the flies kept Sir Lionel awake, and while he was awake a curious sight came by. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

And once, when I bit into a candy bar and saw how lumpy it was, how full of secret dark spots and creamy goo, I sacrificed that as well. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But every time he glimpsed Cho that day — during break, and then lunchtime, and once on the way to History of Magic — she was surrounded by friends. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He had to see Bessie at once; the kidnap note had to be sent right away; there was no time to lose. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not right at once; he would wait until he had learned the ropes of the place. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Just curious. How come you have never once mentioned either Travis or me on your blog? Are we that embarrassing to you?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The bag had once contained an insecticide called parathion, one of the organic phosphates; tests established death by parathion poisoning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He found he was shaking all over, but he gathered his breath, and once again he shouted: ‘Master!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I prayed to Artemis and Apollo, the twin archers, hoping they might take pity on me for once. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Almost at once the Grievers had shut down completely, their instruments sucked back through their blubbery skin, their lights turned off, their inside machines dead quiet. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I’d seen her once or twice before, but the Colonel never introduced me to her and didn’t have a chance to that night. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“What’s happening, in essence, is that you’re constantly scanning your texts and email because every once in a while you are going to get a good one and you can’t predict when that is. “ A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

So we lay to rest the wide-eyed wonder we once thrived upon, replacing it with scars of which we never speak, too knotted for any amount of technology to repair. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Many shouted at once at the old man. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

That chunk of coal was once a green plant, a fern or reed that lived one million years ago, or maybe two million, or maybe one hundred million . All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

As if the adults walking past him did not all crawl, once. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nan once told me that my mom’s heart had been broken by my daddy’s death. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Then, all at once, beyond the curtains, she heard the voice of the sleeper in the bedroom. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chopin’s rich and ambiguous harmonies, interwoven intricately between the hands, looked to the future, leaving behind the primary-colour certainties of Gluck, Mozart, Haydn and early Beethoven once and for all. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I sit in my seat, next to the desk Finch once sat in, and wait. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

At least once they got there, reality would replace uncertainty and they would be able to do something, to act. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I made the mistake of talking about it once. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Lupita looked neither to the left nor to the right once they entered the busy part of town. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Harry got to his feet and bent once more over the rippling silver contents of the stone basin until his face touched them. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The shiver ran once more around the circle of listening Death Eaters. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

"Right. And what's really interesting is she ended up marrying him once she healed from the accident. Not right away, but a few years after." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

But he felt the rigidity of bone too and he struck the shark once more hard across the point of the nose as he slid down from the fish. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He readied to leave, apparently oblivious to the inferno that had once been a theater crackling just a few feet away. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He pushed us away from shore, and once we were in open water I tried to punt. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was the high-pitched sound of a woman who has been calling not once, but several times; and had the nervous tone of one in whom anxiety was beginning to overcome impatience. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

She was flying once again, spinning, laughing, dancing, as the stars wheeled around her and whispered secrets in her ear. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Janza let his fists fly in a flurry of violence, hitting Renault almost at will, on the head, the cheeks, once in the stomach. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Actually, the thought of striking anything below the surface was so abominable that Malcolm put it out of his head at once. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

And once again, it winked out of existence. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Soon we are sitting up once more with the rigid tenseness of blank anticipation. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We discussed last-minute arrangements for the transfer of information once I got back from Santa Fe,” Gold said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of Europe was once covered with ice. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But every weekend, there are at least a handful that catch his ear, and once in a blue moon, there is a singer or a song that makes him jump out of his seat. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Yilonia Kline broke the silence once again, standing up to do so. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The head moved slowly, taking in the dusky lengths of the wood ride in both directions, and then fixed them once more with its fierce, terrible stare. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gave it to me and at once went skipping ahead. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Gaheris protested: “Arthur has always been good to us. Do stop this whining for once.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the torches in the palace guttered at once. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He hoped that Windrider would be everything that Uncle had once wished Black Dog to be. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He staggered back a step, awed once again by the structure of his new home, then finally returned his attention to Alby, who had his back to the exit. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He liked the native cooking so much that once he ate eighty-two iguana eggs at one sitting. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He had said more than once, “I just want to be remembered.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

In our explorations on mud roads around Mount Elgon, we saw signs of the recent trouble: burned, empty huts that had once belonged to Bukusu farmers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My aunt's in the hospital. The one that takes care of me," I said flat-out, to shut his stupid mouth for once. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“I saw something like that once,” said Farid, “so it’s all right for you to tell me about it. If the executioner is good with a sword it's all over quite fast.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I’d only been there once, with my dad a year and a half ago, but I still had my model airplane I got in the gift shop. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I was dreaming about my childhood, about a pet frog I once kept named Big Wind. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nurse Duckett bounced out across the aisle once more like a ping-pong ball with legs. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He has worn a tie once in his life, to attend a friend’s bar mitzvah. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“In the stories, you were only immortal so long as you kept eating it, and that wouldn’t have been possible once the shipments stopped.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He’d never realized it before, but the land there sloped away from his family’s house, so he had a clear view of acres and acres that once had been covered with trees. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Well, he would be ill-advised to repeat this ploy once my punctuation vigilantes are on the loose. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

He got up at once, pushing back his chair. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Once a man has seen a dragon in flight, let him stay at home and tend his garden in content, someone had written once, for this wide world has no greater wonder. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The judge cleared his throat once or twice. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

He looked upset and angry all at once. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

When the wicked witch was done with her wicked spell, she blinked, and Ivy found herself able to move once more. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Since Saturn moves around the sun once every thirty years, the length of the seasons on Saturn and its moons is much longer than on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just something my dad must have talked about once, I think.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He might seem like a nerd, he once told me, but he saw himself as “an action kind of guy.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The room was dense with awkwardness, and Ifemelu, as though to dilute it, once again examined her hair in the mirror, patting it lightly as she turned this way and that. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” said Harry at once; he could think of nothing else and was glad for the opportunity to start discussing it again. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It’s cold and warm and slippery and rigid, all at once. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Grooves in the floor showed where the Bergs were pulled off the landing pad once it sank down. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Cole remembered once when he had disobeyed his father and come home late. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She mentions a break-in at her parents’ once when she was by herself. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“As I understand it, they were once very good friends.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They could only shoot accurately from close range, and in order not to waste arrows they would swoop down, fire at the lowest part of their dive, and turn upward at once. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The best thing Grandpa did for her when they got married was buy her an electric washing machine, but whatever joy it had once given her was long gone. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Fleeing Back to Egypt As the Romans chose sides between Mark Antony, Octavian, and Marcus Lepidus, the Republic was once again plunged into civil war. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Not once have you ever asked me to read for you.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The door shuts, and their voices get louder because once inside, they stop thinking about being in the library. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night when Paco was only proving, once again, that he would do anything for his main girl. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The joy which had appeared on Pris’s face at seeing her friends at once melted away. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

It had brought with it the sweat and the dreams of men who had once left to search for the unknown, and for gold and adventure—and for the Pyramids. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also worried whether Mr. Caton had made too many changes at once. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It became a real problem when you had to go down under the house to use the toilet at night, and each of us had slipped and fallen off the porch at least once. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Still sucking his fingers, the boy looked once more at the men whitewashing the stones. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can be both of us at once so no one will have to miss her, most of all me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The captain’s strategy was to use the VOR to get the plane close and then, once he could see the lights of the runway, to land the plane visually. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Dad explained that he and Ma would be calling to check in, even once they got to Jamaica. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Sponge him off in warm water, Lee. Don’t let a draft get on him. Lord! I wish Liza were here. I can’t do everything at once.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sanborn had told her something of its history, said that years ago a Quaker, a woman, had been hanged there and that a mob once tried to hang William Lloyd Garrison there. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered something Baba had said about Pashtuns once. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Serafina Pekkala called to the aeronaut, and he woke at once, groggy with cold, but aware from the movement of the basket dial something was wrong. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Atal was excited by this idea, and they hauled in their net at once and began to gather what Mary needed. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

My heart races, and it somehow tells me I want more and to take my time all at once. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I had a dog once had a thing like this and it went right in and killed him. She just had pups, didn’t she?” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1927 he was assigned to ride more horses, and once in a while he won. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He strongly urged their leader to abandon the fixed survey method once and for all. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Extremely potent, odorless, tasteless, is so completely absorbed once swallowed that no trace could ever be found in a dead body. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And by friend I mean guy I once robbed.’ Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

But once I have the coat and beret on and check myself out in the mirror, it doesn’t seem all that exciting. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

He genuinely believed the accusations against him had been a serious misunderstanding and that once officials talked to his family to confirm his alibi, he'd be released in a couple of days. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He comes to our house about once a month. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

If what Grandma Preston told me once about heaven and hell is true, and liars go to hell, then I guess that’s where I’m headed. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

That time, he never once looked at her. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine she comes to my room every night to borrow my warmth—but I think that happened only once. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The gold face glinted brightly in the firelight, and Joseph wished once again that Blink was with him. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He ceased, but at once Boromir stood up, tall and proud, before them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There had been other places, remote villages like this one, houses, abandoned farms, even a fortified castle once. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Though I kept a wary eye on the thieves, he did not deign to glance back even once. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

But I was surprised at the wanton display of grief which spewed forth once his death became official. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Do you think we’d miss your birthday? We’re staying the night! We got a couple of rooms at the Sleepy Inn. We thought you’d like a real bed for once. A splurge.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The mystery of the closet poked at Ophie just until she was distracted once more by Mrs. Caruthers’s endless demands, which was not long at all. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“We had a couple of meetings, the first with the family and then once alone,” he says. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I had a teacher at school who told me once that I was a mistress of self-reinvention. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had watched her dance once when he got there early, and it gave him goose bumps. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He finds a knife and scores the onions, as he had once been taught to do with Brussels sprouts in the Ratliffs’ kitchen. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The carriage moved around the corner and slowed once more to a stop. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I’ve been to a restaurant only once back in Haiti, and that was after my First Holy Communion. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She told me how a strange plague once broke out, afflicting hundreds, Gertrude among them, and how she nursed the queen from the very brink of death to complete health again. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

His gaze passed over the assembled boys, and all at once the atmosphere changed in the room. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She planned to ask Mary Ann and Patty once she got back to the house. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

As the bus headed for Conakry, I began to worry, since I didn’t actually know what to do once I got there. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It so happened that Beth’s funny loan was just the thing, for in laughing over the kits, Laurie forgot his bashfulness, and grew sociable at once. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even in Los Angeles, a city notorious for bad policing, crime fell at about the same rate as it did in New York once the growth in New York’s police force is accounted for. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Jefferson seemed to think that, once unmoored from British docks and unburdened of European baggage, the ship would sail itself into the proverbial sunset. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Billy got her once or twice—Brian stood up to try to draw the fire—but she made it upstairs to the second floor. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Thurber was once asked by a correspondent: “Why did you have a comma in the sentence, ‘After dinner, the men went into the living-room’?” Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

Not once did they feel the sense of present evil that had assailed them before the attack in the dell. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A relative once observed that Hoover was “quite a tyrant about food” and that if the yolk seeped at all, he would send it back to the kitchen. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“But I am hoping that you will forgive me, just this once, for asking if we can reconsider our previous decision to remain uninvolved.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered a story Old Nan had told once, about a man imprisoned in a dark castle by evil giants. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Toward the end of summer his busy schedule and the stifling heat caused his health to fail once again and reactivated his insomnia. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Milkman walked on, still headed toward Southside, never once wondering why he himself did not cross over to the other side of the street, where no one was walking at all. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

For once she didn’t respond to our taunts. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

She was once again dressed impeccably in her scarf and hat. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Henry’s fist slamming into his sister’s face once, twice, three times. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Almost at once popularizers of science tried to come up with ways to make these concepts accessible to a general audience. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I recall a television interview I once saw with scholar and writer Joseph Campbell. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

But once lunch started and Mr. Harding and I spent fifteen minutes on x and y and solving for the unknown, I felt like a new person. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here hang bits of uniform, and somewhere else is plastered a bloody mess that was once a human limb. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been at once a masterful and shabby performance.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lost my anger and my concentration all at once. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

A pilot once wrote that the first time he got into a B-24 cockpit, “it was like sitting on the front porch and flying the house.” Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

But now in this latter day they are in peril once more, for to our sorrow the One has been found. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I occupy my mind thinking of all the painful moves I can inflict on Henry once we reach the bug-out. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

As soon as he had signed her up the other boys all began to rush Delores at once. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I once gave you a tin of golden syrup.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I suggested this once and those around me nodded, but it was not done. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

At once, I release the splendor as it erupts, thundering loudly before it separates from me and my blade to seep back into the earth. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Then for once she might be right,” she agreed. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

"Your father once told me that the Greatjon was as fearless as any man he had ever known." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Me and Lily went to that church because this boy she liked once goes there.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“Yeah...and for once they have to spend their money on me.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It was usually through marriage, but I had a third cousin, once removed, in Portland too. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The mulefa, practical and anxious to find out, offered at once to build her whatever she needed. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He studied her like he wasn’t seeing his daughter—just the young lady he wanted her to be, once Clarion Academy got through with her. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Her playing is as wooden as that of any average girl who takes her lessons once a week. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I make another leap and fail again, my fingers slipping once more. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I grabbed all four of them at once, but one popped out of my grip. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was not the path that Reggie had once idealized, but it was a clear direction and one he was undertaking with typical, quiet resolve. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I check over my shoulder once more for El even though I didn’t see her in second period. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

There was romance in the unknown, but once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another dusty fact in a book, sapped of mystery. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Nelson came home once and asked me what the words meant, assuming they were liturgical. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"She wants you back. She said you'd escaped Kurnugi once before. That you swapped places with someone from the world of the living." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

They try it once with me and Kenya and never again. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

With the fire going and sending up black smoke and a steady roar from a pitch-smelling chunk he put on, he turned once more to the pack. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would never grab a butterfly, but once again, my hands do things without my say-so. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Splendid meals were served twice a day, but Siddhartha only ate once a day, and neither ate meat nor drank wine. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had not played tennis with the professional at all, I had not once played since she had lain in bed, and that was little over a fortnight now. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

About once a week, Uncle Vernon looked over the top of his newspaper and shouted that Harry needed a haircut. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

After Seabiscuit began winning with Smith, the renowned Claiborne Farm, which had once politely but firmly rejected Hard Tack, changed its mind. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seattle sports had once risen briefly to international prominence, in 1917, when the city’s professional hockey team, the Metropolitans, became the first American team to win the Stanley Cup, defeating the Montreal Canadiens. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She could remember passages after reading them through just once, could recall the dates of the Magna Carta and the names of the kings of England and every one of the presidents in order. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

What could have once been love was now the resignation of a heart long broken. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

We were already resigned to the fact that she would skunk us all once again. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

You settled down on the floor of the shack at once and started making a necklace. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Or supposed to be asleep — once they woke up, as Ralph knew by peering through the dining room window. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the far western end of the shrimp farm, the boys could look through the fence at the channel that had once been as wide as the sea. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farid sounded as if he wanted to get moving at once. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

People had taken to calling them “banana boats,” because once they were exposed to water both their bows and sterns tended to curve ever so slightly upward. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“It was on the commander’s desk. I need you to put it back once I’ve read it.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

As Pong leaned closer, the orb blinked once, then went out. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“That’s true,” she said, bending her head once more, “but some things, look like, ain’t to be forgotten in a hurry.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Lola asked us not to bring presents, but for once nobody followed her orders. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Behind the counter is a young black woman in her twenties writing in a notebook that she puts away once she sees us. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

For once more Yankee Doodle was going to town on a spanking stallion, with that forlorn feather in his cap, asking those unmilitary questions. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like very expensive velvet, something moneyed and lush and fluid all at once. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The nicer boys among us thought, buy her ice cream first; dance with her once or twice? Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had to put the question to her at once; his curiosity even drove Ginny temporarily from his brain. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Magdalys nodded once and then kicked away the battered remnants of the door. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I once did a series about my mother. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She shakes her head once, a small, painful movement. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

When he was satisfied that the coast was clear he struggled painfully clear of the grisly carcass that had once been his mother. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Fiver at once said that he would go with him and together they left the wood and set off northward over the down. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered if he’d be better at it once he turned eleven. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Matilda had never once stopped to think about where Miss Honey might be living. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

You could do organ, strings, trumpets, and drumbeats all at once. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came at once and bade them welcome. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know this because once, when Carol was bragging about her mother’s twin sets, Mrs. Smeath said, “Is that so,” not as a question but as a way of making Carol shut up. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Noah did tell me once, no, twice actually, that he followed me and watched me build. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Then she relaxes and stares until Ainsley disappears into the back seat of the SUV, along with Darius, who never once even looked up. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

But once the bed was hoisted and secured, Luna noticed something on the ground. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“We used a whip on him every time we sent him to the track, and we used it freely, too,” he once conceded. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It reminded him of Father, the way he always seemed to be thinking of three things at once. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

It was big in the 1970s, “which must have been when he stopped shopping,” my mother had once said. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Father Mike pulled me up into the air again—“and of the Son, Amen”—and dunked me under once more. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Polly chuckled to herself as she remembered a horse her father had once owned. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re going ahead with the Plan; and once we get to Thorn Valley, I think we can stop worrying.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

And holding the connections between them in her mind...It had once been like running, or singing, or telling a story: something natural. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“We’ll send her once a week. The center will officially have a student, and the teacher will have something to do. Problem solved.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

We decided to risk getting our passes stamped and the correct travel documents once we were in Johannesburg. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then before she could make a guess at what he'd done, her kids were inside the salon and they were both talking at once. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, once malaria and yellow fever did become transmitted to the Americas by European ship traffic, they emerged as the major impediment to colonization of the New World tropics as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I read somewhere, once, that crying defies scientific explanation. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The entire crowd must have been watching me on the DiamondVision screen, because everyone gasped at once. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I said once the doors were closed and Art stepped on the gas. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Complaining to police of potential violence once more, the packers were successful in having the parade permit denied. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But by the time I’d gotten my pants off and pulled back the sheets, the fan had danced itself around to face me once more, shaking and shimmying inexorably toward my bed. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I think it’s an effort to be connected once again to our food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Then he thrust my hand away and shook his head once, twice, and then a third time. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Mami was leaving, and once more she hadn’t told me, hadn’t included me in her plans. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The scene was at once idyllic and hallucinatory. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I’m a good liar,” he told me once with a grin. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joaquin and Grace looked at each other once more; then Joaquin moved over until he could put his arm around Maya’s waist. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Howard felt confidence swell in himself once more. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kazakhstan, it turns out, was once attached to Norway and New England. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Watching him try to navigate the at once overwhelming and heartbreaking experience of the unmasked mob— A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

There was a photograph of his mother, not the one John liked and had seen only once, but one taken immediately after her marriage. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

This they recognized at once, for it looked the same as it had from the bank. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least that was what it would be able to do once Dad finished building it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

At the Nobel award ceremony in Berkeley, Kamen was still basking in the glory of having demonstrated, once again, the spectacular capabilities of the cyclotron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But once the person had died and stopped moving, the tree must have slowly wrapped itself around the body and digested it, the very bones leached of nutrients until they vanished. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The argument boiled down to one issue: the landlady demanded that my mother beat me and, for once, my mother refused. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She came up and touched my cheek, making some joke or other, and once we got in the car, she made sure the jovial mood kept going. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I once saw a small green snake rub itself against a stone until its old skin peeled away, transparent and thin as paper. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘But look at all you’ve accomplished,’ his best friend said to him once. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you thought that there was funny, you just wait till you see the way ’Lijah starts a-hopping and screaming once his ma lays that switch on his behind.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It looked almost like she had been crying, but I knew that was impossible, because once she told me that she emptied herself of tears when Grandpa left. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Usually, winter makes me glum, but every once and a while, moments like this are peaceful and pleasant—the icicles, the glittering snow, the silence. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He vowed to find them once again on the streets of the capital city, and next time, he would be ready. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’m quicker on the draw, and once I get a bead on the shambler, I put him down with a head shot. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Watson once told a journalist that Franklin’s fault lay in her dispassionate approach to her own data: “She did not live DNA.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I did not even remember that I had once hoped never to open my eyes again, that fire had once dwelt in my body. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I ask him why we need a “thing” and he says, “You seem different, distant—not yourself. Maybe shooting around once or twice a week would help?” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I used her Pomegranate Shampoo with Giga-Volumizing Power once, and when I looked in the mirror, I couldn’t believe my eyes. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He had been trained to get a grip at once and to hold it at all costs. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think my mom might have been pretty once, but the years devoured her youth, beauty, and enthusiasm for anything with an alcohol content of less than 12 percent. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Athena had once told Percy his fatal flaw: he was supposedly too loyal to his friends. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Sure, Marshall had its own paper. When I was growing up, it came out once a week.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The UN had already told me once they couldn’t bring Otto out of the country. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“My personal opinion,” she once admitted, “...is that Safford is a nincompoop.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

After the Cauldron warrior had struck him, Taran had regained consciousness only a few moments before slipping once again into whirling darkness. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I wonder if he read that notion in my face; for, all at once, without speaking, he struck suddenly and strongly. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t have imagined that I, a kid whose closest contact with boating was the Staten Island Ferry when I visited my aunt once a year, would end up lost at sea. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there was a bit of confusion as the rest of us all moved back our chairs from the little table all at once. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess I forgot that he was once a Dauntless spy. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I know how hard it is to imagine that what is now humanity’s highest calling was once considered a crime. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He tries to scream “HELLO!” but nothing comes out once again. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

‘What have you been up to? Tell me at once!’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the larger one, which seemed to have once been a mansion constructed in the demon style. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry knew at once that they were in trouble. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

There was seldom any danger of my raising the bar, but at the Hearthside Annette once upbraided me for freshening up the display desserts: “They’ll expect us all to start doing that!” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Jones’s farm, the Cox boy told Jones his father wished to see him at once. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the moment all Will’s choices existed at once. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She is happy, except sometimes her husband gets angry and once he broke the door where his foot went through, though most days he is okay. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

When someone is doing two things at once, “there is an illusion of productivity,” David E. Meyer, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan told me for the story. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Rachel went into a frenzy, and for once in my life I couldn’t blame her. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said nothing and he turned his attention once more to his plate. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Armistead moved that way, feeling his heart roll over and thump once. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like a Rubik’s cube, where everything seems like a total jumble until all the pieces slide into place at once. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

After much searching, Gwydion discovered Hen Wen’s tracks once more. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

We went through the “Non-Whites Only,” but once inside, whites and blacks walked along the same paths to see the same animals. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was all right at tetherball, even if I did flinch once when I thought the ball was going to whack me in the head, and Candace Sims laughed at me. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow my voice is weak and loud all at once. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I was afraid he was going to strangle Beth Ann, but then he smiled and his eyes became friendly enormous cow eyes once again. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Margaret ate a whole Peanut Buster Parfait without once mentioning cholesterol or calories. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Returning to his seat afterward, Farmer said this happened to him about once in every eighteen flights. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

This judgment also ignores the fact that inoculation with the spores need be done only once; the first cost is the only cost. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I could feel Mom look up at Mrs. Menzer over my shoulder, and I don’t know what they were communicating in their silent way, and for once I didn’t want to investigate. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Scythe Faraday only found fit to voice his opinion once—when it came to forming an immunity committee. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Begging your pardon, ma’am,” returned the housemaid, “I should wish to speak at once, and to speak to master.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then all at once the crowd parted and seemed to dissolve, and there were the castle gates before her, and a line of spearmen in gilded halfhelms and crimson cloaks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Seven tried to think of how to put them all out at once. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The visit blunted the feeling of loneliness in him so that when he said good-bye he was at peace with himself once more. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Now there are patents and proprietary information where there once was free information flow. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

We left the meeting and agreed to meet once again before the Christmas break to make sure everything was in order. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

They marched, rested, marched, lunched on water and a box of stale doughnuts, walked, rested, and once again on the final lap, Dicey carried Sammy on her back. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weatherman said it was going to be unseasonably warm, and for once it was the truth. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He just flung Caleb off of him, kicking out his leg once, and the two dogs went back to playing with each other while the sheriff trudged up to the house. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

On the track, once the forum for rebellion, he displayed blistering speed and bulldog tenacity. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to make it better,” said Omakayas, and once she said this she was determined to do exactly that. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

My brother once said it was like the same cousins with different names. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“But wait! Who will move me from place to place once you two are gone?” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“There was once, there was a man,” said Pomp, delighted narrator of horrors, “there was a man so afraid for dying, he make a deal with Death himself. A true story.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

James asked once they stood in front of the third bench down the pier. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

For once I was grateful to be within the group. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I don’t like that many kids at once. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I once again wished for more supportive undergarments. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Boys will be boys, Jacques. They have high spirits. Oh, once in a while they get carried away but it’s good to see all that energy and zeal and enthusiasm.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ordered the lantern covered, and once more the fire glowed. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

So why hadn’t he sent at once for Eril-Fane, and earned himself the envy of all the other delegates and the gratitude of Weep? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I’d made it to the front of the building, where the UN van had once been, when I heard rustling behind me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I killed someone once,” she said in a low voice. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I like to write. Every once in a while, I bring a notebook out here and write about animals and stuff. Anything to get my mind off things going on at home.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Lelia couldn’t have known where I stayed all those nights, and because she never once asked, I felt I was allowed to let her stew in her imagination. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rab, for instance, all that spring had been going to Lexington once or twice a week to drill with his fellow townsmen. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brian and I had gone swimming once, but Ernie Goad and his friends were there, and they started telling everybody that we Wallses lived in garbage and would stink up the pool water something awful. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z