He can only have faith that will never again be forgotten, denied, called by a name other than his own. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But now he was supposed to let Annabeth go off on her own to follow the Mark of Athena, knowing she might die. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It made little Elen laugh uproariously to watch and then try the same feat with her own chubby toes. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In her own portion she put several spoons of sugar. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

So it happened that Ralph was not only a learning experience for Room 5, he was to have a learning experience of his own. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

How could Mother call her own cousin “a crazy woman”? Regina had taken a great risk to find her. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Are the details of our lives who we are, or is it owning those details that makes the difference? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

When something big is wrong—like when the twins were born so small and couldn’t breathe on their own—she lights our Caridad del Cobre candle and says her prayers in her own words. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Then the old woman’s daughter had a baby of her own. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

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

“At one point, I had to disown my family to go off and live my own life, too. I understand why you need to do the same.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He had gotten hold of some eggs and kept pulling them out of unlikely places, the children’s ears, his own underarms, the boiler for his syringes. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And for heaven’s sake, Joana, find your own goat,” Poet chimed. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

One guy even starts doing his own moves. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She’d put plenty of her own hard work into her last training session, and the blisters on her palms where she gripped her staff were proof. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Today it’s possible for scientists to immortalize cells by exposing them to certain viruses or chemicals, but very few cells have become immortal on their own as Henrietta’s did. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It did not impress her that the VC owned the place. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, I miss the free food and I miss going to places I probably would have never gone to on my own. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

This makes me so happy that I talk as much as I can, forgetting to eat my own food. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

A sudden image of her own mother and all that she had lost overpowered Amari for a moment. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He look like the type of dude who would own a store that just sells...snacks. Like, you know what kind of guy you gotta be to just sell snacks? Snacks?" Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

She feels overwhelmed by the thought of the move she is about to make, to the city that was once home and is now in its own way foreign. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And yet, I thought, he couldn’t save his own parents. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Then, later, when I had to kill him, it was like having to shoot some of my own folks. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not playing a joke that any eight year old boy could have thought of, it’s letting your own uncle be laughed at by a man that would wear a red tie. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought evangelicals should have their own houses, too, and began a furious round of fund-raising to buy or build some. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“To have my own daughter cast off by her husband. Poor little innocent baby,” she says, looking at Quentin. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that moment, I became aware of how I had put myself in this unimaginably dire situation—this man now had control of my body; even my own hands had become useless to me. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The reasons for that are complicated, and Tony gave them flesh and blood by befriending some Mexican kitchen workers at a restaurant owned by an earlier, successful immigrant from Greece. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The boy had attached himself to us of his own accord and now both of us took it for granted he would remain. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” Dad said, leaning back, “it's very good of you and Alice to worry, Brian, but the retailing sector is holding its own and Greenland is robust.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Gitl kept rearranging the gifts, making them seem to be twice as numerous, saying again, “Those schnorrers in Viosk will know we honor our own.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere “modernity” cannot kill. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He had often imagined that his own head was filled with cogs and gears like a machine, and he felt a connection with whatever machinery he touched. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

A policeman approached and tried to speak with him, but the boy seemed not to know his own name. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mind your own business, Elias, part of me says. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

You have yet to wash your own underwear, spread a bed, wipe the ring from your tub, or move a fleck of your dirt from one place to another. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kissed her own ring, getting just the slightest bit of Rowan’s blood on her lips. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I did not yet understand the import of my own questions. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I remembered my own yellow home back when I was a girl in Uvira, where I played in the yard with my pet monkey. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Some of your own Sworn Brothers would have me believe that you are half a wildling yourself. Is it true?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

What kind of room would Brother Jack select for me and why wasn't I left to select my own? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Would you like to join us for some cake?” she asked, taking the black-haired girl’s hand in her own. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Brilliant immigrant kid overcomes poverty and the Depression, can’t get a job at the stuffy downtown law firms, makes it on his own through sheer hustle and ability. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But I’d seen enough of the divisions to temper my own hopes. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“We had dinner, then lunch, then breakfast, in a diner. He owned it.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we had watered all the hives of Tiburon and sprinkled enough sugar to cause a human being to gain fifty pounds, we drove home hot, hungry, and nearly drowned in our own sweat. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later.—After lunch Harker and his wife went back to their own room, and as I passed a while ago I heard the click of the typewriter. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

My dad even helped us make our own boat once. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

She stands there shamelessly sucking her own tit as the men wave their hats, pump their fists, and scream like animals. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Fell asleep,” said Mr. Hickock, and appeared to be moderately taken aback by his own reply. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had some thinking of my own to do. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“We played on our own, though, too,” said her dæmon. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Shasta thought it had been much pleasanter when he and Bree were on their own. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Finally there were the revolted elements of his own character—his strange desire for purity and honour and spiritual excellence. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My little daughter was tussling with her father and accidentally crippled him. Bull will be all right if he only learns to pick on someone his own size.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The congregation of his very own church interrupted the sermon to hold an election on whether or not to accept Jesus Christ as the personal Saviour of Kilanga. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had, like David Copperfield, been so long on his own that the ways of his peers were alien. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to help Reyna, but since his own strategy was to deal with his problems alone, spurning anyone who tried to get close, he couldn’t exactly criticize Reyna for doing the same thing. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I’ve always been the clown and mischief maker of the family; I’ve always had to pay double for my sins: once with scoldings and then again with my own sense of despair. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He devised the Marks, each controlled by its own officers and sentries, with feeding times changed regularly to give all a share of early morning and sunset—the favorite hours for silflay. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Screw body-slamming my heart, this girl ripped her own out mad long ago. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He says, Ah, boys, boys,You can make up your own minds but first stock them. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She had a job earning her own wage. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“You cannot command us, child of war. Your own life is fragile. Your soul could burn at any moment. ” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe he’s been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought, hell, he's gone off on his own, or something, he'll get lost, I shall have to start looking for him. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

If she was an odd vision in their midst, one look from Ridgeway made the patrons return to their own business. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Where titles are concerned, classical music has its own variations on the theme. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They struggled for their own commissions and in the meantime hired themselves out to other more established firms. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He had built his own oil field service company. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

From that same tool rack, a pair of yellow-handled wire cutters hovered on their own propellers, floated just above Petey’s waiting palm, and dropped into his hand. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

My own reaction—that ravenous lust for violence—is proof. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She could hear the noise, with her own perfectly functioning ears, escaping her perfectly functioning mouth. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

If something goes wrong in the Hundred Mile Wilderness, you are on your own. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t the soldiers treat you as kindly as they can? Are you not covered by a guard’s own coat right now?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

We urgently needed a place of our own. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I am back in the house, in my own room. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“But the thing to remember about the animals is that they do fine on their own. They do fine without us.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The dragon- tooth point dipped toward the ground all on its own—like a dowsing rod searching for water. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Her voice sounded hoarse with hatred, and her own thoughts sickened her. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The brothers had agreed that if and when Otto had a son, he would hand the infant over to Joergen to raise as his own. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

With my eyes still closed, I cross the room I know better than my own and drop down into the old La-Z-Boy that belonged to my dad. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Grace is correct. We need help. My family has tried to do this on our own for centuries. But now that Mrs. Malvolio and her uncle seem to know...” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

It worked again and again, his own iron fact, in alleys and pine barrens and swamps. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Alexandra was a farm originally named for the wife of the white man who owned it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile up in Quincy, that very friend was also dancing a minuet with his own political ambitions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

So maybe, given his own impulse to jump around, it’s not surprising that, during the war, he came up with the Mackworth Clock. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

This victory was the combined result of our own unceasing protests and simple logistics. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could probably live out my life on the island in my own quiet, crazy way, much as Auntie Braxton always had. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t seem to distinguish other people’s suffering from her own. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sly is singing the words over and over as though he is trying to convince me that this whole world is just a bunch of families like ours going about their own family affairs. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Many Progressives—who tended to be middle-class white Protestants—held deep prejudices against immigrants and blacks and were so convinced of their own virtuous authority that they disdained democratic procedures. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

At least the dream—or whatever it was—would be more interesting with girls her own age in it. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A road I need to travel on my own. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Most of them were steady enough on their own, needing just a hand to climb out onto the shore despite the bully-wind and the rocking of the boats. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He crossed the street with his family, still moving slowly, breathing hard, appalled at his own daring. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

So my mother is home to her, in a way her own kids can't understand. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I may have a suggestion or two of my own.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yep. Through dead eyes, no doubt about it. Not a spark of electricity in that brain; the camera is running on its own battery.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

A day ago I was regular Ali, throwing jabs in the shower and shadow-boxing my own reflection in my mother's mirror. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

They were back in Ms. Morales’s office for their third night in a row of trying to solve Mom’s code with her own words. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Like always blaming broken things on little Junsoo, when most of the time it was her own carelessness. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The lighthearted ironies she might have deployed among her friends deserted her in his presence, and she heard her own voice become thin when she attempted some docile contradiction. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

General Peckem drifted toward the window, laughing quietly again, and settled back against the sill with his arms folded, greatly satisfied by his own wit and by his knowledgeable, blase impudence. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Jefferson noticed that Washington seemed “unusually reticent” about his choice, probably because Mount Vernon adjoined the site and Washington also owned considerable acreage within its borders. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

So here I was ruining back and hands, picking rocks and building my own wobbly rock fences while Mr. Whiskers chased after the garter snakes I scared up. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then, with her Yak full of bullet holes, Lilya flew back to her own airfield and managed to land. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The evening’s speaker might be a graduate student assigned to explicate a recent paper from Europe, or a visiting luminary discussing his own work. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She caught her own meal, we tied her to her perch, and climbed in the gorge until almost dark. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there were guys who glued numbers under their badges so that they would resemble those of New York City Police Department detectives, and undertook their own “investigations.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon as we got to that place in Mexico, I decided, I was gonna go on my own. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

From his own plant hybrids, de Vries could dimly tell that variant features, such as stem size, were encoded by indivisible particles of information. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, take Leontes in The Winter’s Tale. He tried to poison his friend, he threw his own wife in prison, and he abandoned his baby in the wilderness. So he’s the absolute worst. Right?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I am so honored to be in this space today and so very excited for you all to meet the woman who owns this art gallery,” she says. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I had to take my mom out for a drive before she’d let me go out on my own. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Colonel Cathcart was not thinking anything at all about the chaplain, but was tangled up in a brand-new, menacing problem of his own: Yossarian! Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It came to Gabriel then how his own mother must have suffered to watch him in the unredeemed innocence that so surely led to death and Hell. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“It was my wand. My wand acted of its own accord.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

When I blurt all of this out on Mr. X’s doormat, Safer gives me a look and says that if I keep going down this road, I will be “paralyzed by my own logic.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Thank you,” I said, and shut the door as he headed off to his own room. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It’s a scandal, sending those poor kids out here on their own, expecting folks to take care of ’em—as if we don’t have our own burdens.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Not to mention borderline creepy that I had to escape my own car. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Since Microbiological Associates was privately owned and sold many other biological products, there’s no way to know how much of its revenue came specifically from HeLa. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Mom rolls her eyes, saying, “Mind your own business.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Daenerys is not dead. She was riding that dragon. I saw it with mine own two eyes.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was the beginning of a chronic problem for Seabiscuit, who loved eating so much that he often followed up his regular meals by consuming his own bedding. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though we had our own lives, Charlie and I were able to come back to where it all began—just the two of us. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He lost the election, to nobody’s surprise save his own, but immediately launched another political campaign, this time for the presidency of the United States. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eleanor felt, as she had the day before, that the conversation was being skillfully guided away from the thought of fear, so very present in her own mind. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“He is a friend of a business acquaintance of your father’s. He’s a Pashtun, from Kandahar originally, but he lives in Kabul, in the Deh-Mazang district, in a two-story house that he owns.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I met her eyes with my own steady gaze. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

All she would remember was Mia holding her tight, so tight that the world stopped spinning at last, Mia tucking her into a low soft bed that, it turned out later, was Mia’s own. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was on her own, but she got by. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Little bit more than that,” he answered and went ahead to tell her about his own involvement in another of Tar Baby’s misfortunes. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, he explained, the devil came right up into his head, at the weirdest times, made him do things he’d never think of on his own. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It became the drums as it pounded its own pulsing rhythms into the night. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

It was the product of a mind similar to his own, but enormously more powerful, more systematic, less fear-ridden. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Then she had written her own name on the board, crossed out the man, and written person over it. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

As soon as he heard the second click, his fingers seemed to plug them on their own accord. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He must know that he leaves the government infinitely worse than he found it, and that from his own error or ignorance. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Understanding people’s difficulties and—just as crucial—helping people understand their own difficulties and teaching them concrete ways to help themselves will help them better deal with their own lives and, in turn, ours. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if she’s real—if the woman in black exists as much as I do standing right here on my own two feet—then I also know she has something to do with it. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I wrote the letter abolishing the positions, including my own.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Sheets and towels were provided, but keeping them clean was my own responsibility. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Annabelle wants to be strong, and strong on her own, but she has no idea how. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

What you have to lose is your story, your own slant. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The thing is you guys are your own band. You’re not just a copy of an awesome band. You’re your own awesome band.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“It is my own copy,” said Mrs. Baker. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Maybe she feels that if I’ve risen in status enough to be given a match, she can afford her own small gesture. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hand came from behind her; it owned her shoulder. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I took one of Muthu’s palms in my own, but he didn’t respond to my touch. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

But I wasn’t going to invoke the devil’s name in my own yard. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We avoid even our own society, so much as may be avoided when we must sit knee to knee. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

‘You bid me mind my own affairs, and get me back home, and let you be. Boromir will tell all, when he comes. When he comes, say you! Were you a friend of Boromir?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The aeronaut checked his instruments from time to time, chewed on the cigar he would never light with the inflammable hydrogen so close, and huddled deeper into his own furs. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

If we pulled off a successful escalator trade of our own, we’d be famous for sure. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“That was clever of you, using the smell of your own food to lure that thing to your camp.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They didn't wear masks, they didn't even own cars, they didn't get but a few thousand dollars each time—they were just playing a game of cops and robbers until they were caught. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

When she became a young woman she did not see him at all; but that was her own fault. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He was digging in his garden—digging, too, in his own mind, laboriously turning up the substance of his thought. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

With only a few adults to supervise us, we had to create our own ways of living from day to day. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

My own work, with its manifold arrears, took me all day to clear off; it was dark when I was able to inquire about my zoöphagous patient. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

She had three children of her own, and there were two other girls who were placed with her, so altogether she had seven children to take care of. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That one book contains the definitions of more than four-hundred fifty thousand words. Now, wasn’t I right, Nicholas? All this will mean so much more since you learned about it on your own.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman who owned a poodle was usually small, plump, white, soiled and with rheumy eyes just like a poodle. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I shall not scold you. I leave you to your own reflections.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

She was comical sitting there in one of the two dresses she owned. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The old man inserted a similar object in his own ear and moved his lips. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

They claim all colors, all activities, all virtues, and all flaws as their own. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Hale was aided by his own array of lawyers—some of the “ablest legal talent of Oklahoma,” as one newspaper put it. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I probably have Emika Chen | Level 26 hanging over my own head. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mary directly understood about a quarter of what Atal was saying, but by questioning and guessing she found out the rest quite accurately; and her own command of the language was increasing all the time. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Each Praise Singer had his own booth with a comfortable couch. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She fluffed her own hair as if marveling over the magic a good haircut could do. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Without consulting Burnham, Davis gave an estimate ten percent below the amount Burnham had calculated for President Baker, which Baker had then included in his own statement to investigators. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

My feet were turning to the street on their own, and who was I to stop them? Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He’d mocked the lushness of her body, ashamed of his own response to her. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

How did she know how to stand on her own? Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

They said that instead of telling him a lot of things about the past, we should try to help him remember things on his own. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore added this fresh thought to the basin, and Harry, astonished, saw his own face swimming around the surface of the bowl. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Link can handle most of it on his own now, so I work on my homework. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

It looks as if he's had his own stylist because he's clean and groomed and about as sober as I've ever seen him. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

As maritime compasses became cheaper and more widely available, instructions on how to make your own would have become increasingly irrelevant. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“If we do things properly, it will undoubtedly take on a life of its own.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

‘Oh, Johnny, look, look at that funny little man. See, he’s got tiny little buttons on his coat. Oh, I never thought to own a book with pictures.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just keep moving and go my own way. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So now I risked everything, confronting fate and the knowledge that I had authored my own demise. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

And though it’s often seen with a small initial r, it’s supposed to be capitalized as a registered service mark owned by the National Association of Realtors. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told myself they whispered about him because he brewed his own foul-smelling wine in our barracks. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

That sometimes the best thing you can do is forget about your own battle for a while and help someone else. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I cares ’bout you like you’s my own boy, but you always got to give me my respect. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Meliagrance, loving Guenever, flinching at his own half-hearted wickedness, and knowing the hopelessness of forcing his beloved against her will, had agreed to terms. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The PAC had launched its own propaganda campaign and I was delegated to make our case wherever possible. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have my own. We can study together.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

What about the rights of one girl, right here, under her own roof? You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ocean had parked his car in the driveway of a house I didn’t recognize but felt fairly certain was his own home. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Sally says she likes being married because now she gets to buy her own things when her husband gives her money. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was at the top of the stairs now, holding Frolic, who still couldn’t manage the staircase on his own. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The Serjeant gave me then my uniform, which was but a shirt of coarse cloth, emblazoned upon the breast with the words, Liberty to Slaves, to be worn with my own breeches. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He looked so much like the cat Beetle knew that she ached to own it. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I covered my own mousy hair with the curled wig trying to hide my triumph, trying to hide my smile. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was just as well if the girl learned to bear her own troubles. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

And here she was now, over those boulders and parched hills, with a home of her own, a husband of her own, heading toward one final, cherished province: Motherhood. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

On his left stood a liar who had beat him numb, and on his right stood a dressed-up puppet, afraid of her own shadow. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He hopped down off the window seat and said, "You may sleep here tonight. I'll give you some of my own men as a guard, some Stone Crows perhaps—" "No," Sansa blurted out, aghast. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I stare down at my own card and scribble Junior Agent in big letters. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Besides the official chronicle of Redwall he also kept his own personal volume, full of valuable information. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I shut my eyes and make myself a promise: I will defy the Doctorita, every day, every chance I get, in my own secret vmsima way. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when he said, “We will now pray to the spirit in our own words, for the spirit intercedes for us in accordance with His will,” the silence was broken. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

That’s what you get for trying to stand on your own two feet—you end up getting crushed! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

That she hadn’t taught me how to live in my own skin and be a girl, like she was supposed to. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I got my own a few weeks ago. There are perks to hanging out with an older woman.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

At least several times larger than our own fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Agravaine, exulting in his cold mind, thought: “Hoist with his own petard!” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not really want to follow any trade but his own. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think about our old compound, the main room, the hallways, our bedroom, Papa’s room, the study, the gardens, Kazi’s own cottage. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We had our own food, but the bread would mean we could make it last longer. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I explained that Mom believed children should be responsible for their own grooming. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Eden will be okay. Maybe this virus is less dangerous and he'll recover on his own." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I put aside my own grief to rescue him from his. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s only one spot in Lola’s house that I can call my own: the bedroom closet. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

She seems to be having problems of her own. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have a whole house of our own, way bigger than anyone’s apartment, and a barn too, and a place that’s sort of like a garage for tractors. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He signaled an order to the waiting bard, then bent to his own task. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

If I can give him his own memories, he will have his own story back. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Adams was so confident in his own revolutionary credentials that he regarded himself as immune to such charges. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“We will not. Only open our cages when you go, and we will make our own way. We won’t even stay with you, if you prefer.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I can tell you’re not crying because we got trashed at the Quiz Bowl, in front of our own supportive home-state audience,” a voice says. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He stared numbly at Riddle, at the orphaned boy who had grown up to murder Harry’s own parents, and so many others. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

They made the summit, and Chris carried his own pack the whole way. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked down a few more buildings cracking up about my bro, until I got to my own classroom. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He laid his fingers upon Bessie’s shoulders; slowly he felt the stiffness go out of her body and as it left the tensity in his own rose and his blood grew hot. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had no education; she could not read or write her own name, but she had in her memory over a thousand stories and legends. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And again it was because of his uncle’s son and his own eldest son. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He was too upset about Mama losing her trip, I reckon, and anyhow he believed in a boy fighting his own battles. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Without its own justifications, the Dream would collapse upon itself. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“If you’re not getting your class, why are you learning calculus on your own?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her own voice sounded muffled and far away. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“And we’ll want to keep our own clear now as well.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

And like Baba said, it’s a safe place and a fresh start for people who can’t be in their own homes anymore. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Ged stepped forward and struck the lord’s hands down with his own, saying as he did so only one short word. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you often entertain your own guests after his have gone?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We’ve even had a surprise or two from our own mother, who grew up way deeper in Dixie than we did. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Burnham was a talented artist and architect in his own right, but his greatest strength lay in his ability to win clients and execute Root’s elegant designs. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There were paths leading here and there among the lamp-hung oleander trees, but not a sound of life could be heard: no night birds singing, no insects, nothing but Will’s own footsteps. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I replace the words with my own words. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

There was one night when she and Papa were away—she'll never know about it—I had my own private fashion show in her room. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We are supposed to be calling the shots here, but it doesn’t look to me like we’re in charge of a thing, not even our own selves. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

For my next visit I saved my own helping of mince pie. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t fight his own body any longer. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“I’d like to have some bazookas of my own, like the ones in Commando. That would be beautiful,” I said, and we laughed. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Christ Almighty, man, would you shoot your own father?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

My mother had escaped El Generalissimo’s soldiers, leaving her own mother behind. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

By Ellsberg’s own calculations, he was arrested at protests at least twenty-five times. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

After, he’d returned to his own desk, it took me several minutes to pull myself together. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

It feels like I’ve done something so horrible that my own mom had to get up and leave me. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

You maybe even get more from a book if you have a life of your own, ’cause you can relate. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Other people’s words, not my own—my words are gone. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“In their own city. Not where I have to see it.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Something always stopped him: bad luck, a racial barrier, a law, his own vanity or arrogance or fear of losing face. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told Mr. Marsden to assign the girl a loom next to her own. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

We thought our own thoughts and stared at our teacher, who lay motionless with his eyes closed. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Looked like a good dog, the kind you would tell your own son about. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She was more concerned about me washing dishes and scrubbing floors than keeping my own hands clean. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The door of the flat opens of its own volition, locks falling open and hinges swinging wildly. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And, sitting closer to him than I had in months, I realized with a sudden coldness how very old he was and felt the tears start in my own eyes. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘You must look out for your own livelihood first.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

From his own observations he noted the ramparts sur Brahe wrote: “I have been occupied in alchemy, as much as by the celestial studies, from my 23rd year.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Miss Anderson is too busy with her own wine glass to see that her neighbor is panting, laboring under the change his body is going through. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“And three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Back in the house at last, there began a dreamlike time of grave arrivals, tears and subdued voices and urgent footsteps across the hallway, and her own vile excitement that kept her drowsiness at bay. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Gentlemen!” boomed the voice Scipio loved to imitate because it sounded so much more impressive than his own. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was underfed, so skinny his bones protruded under his skin, and he looked so lost, standing there, clutching his own elbows. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

In these violent breaks in routine that were themselves routine, sJre could display the style and imagination of what she believed to be her own true self. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I don’t have a grandmother of my own, so it’d be an honor if I could call you Nana too.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

When Mom finally kicked him out, Dad went to a new bank to open his own current account. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“This, young Scarlett, is where we local historians come into our own. Leave it with me. I’ll find out everything I can and report back.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

To that group, he may as well have been talking about owning the king’s yacht. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t have to seek out a new religion on his own; he simply had to follow in his brothers’ footsteps. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, Frank seemed wrapped up in his own thoughts. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

In the Bible, Joseph is cast out by his brothers and sold into slavery and then rises to become the pharaoh’s right-hand man on the strength of his own brilliance and insight. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Suddenly his elbow, knocking against the inkpot, upset it, and the chair and the desk and the quill pen and his own best clothes were covered with great spreading stains of blue ink. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Then we would have our own kitchen, our own rooms, and she would bring our furniture from Macún. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The rest of the Cranes split into different directions to explore the bookstore on their own. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

As though in his own way he was trying to earn his keep. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was absurd to think that the great Scythe Marie Curie, Grande Dame of Death, would care so much for her—and would even think there could be any failure on her own part. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I used the last of the wipes to clean the dirt off my own face. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“But maybe he doesn’t care . . . it’d probably just make him admire Crouch even more. Yeah, Percy loves rules. He’d just say Crouch was refusing to break them for his own son.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He watched her free, his heart swollen with love for her and with an anguish, not yet his own, that he did not understand and that frightened him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She reached out with her other hand and took her own wrist back from him. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Jean Louise,” he said dryly, “not much more than five per cent of the South’s population ever saw a slave, much less owned one. Now, something must have irritated the other ninety-five per cent.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It didn’t matter if their own fathers were in the state hospital or the federal prison, they hadn’t betrayed theirs, and Janice had. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

To the comfort of his own house, with his own room, and the hawk’s eyes on his walls, and the ticking clock. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Enrique likes the people in the trailer, especially his mother’s boyfriend; he could be a better father than his own dad, who abandoned him ten years ago to start another family. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I have been robbed, and by one of my own children, of rice, which above all things is most precious.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh noooo. Far as I know, our family still owns the place. In fact...” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

“But they just killed off all of their own troops, too,” Shoto said. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Harry was more concerned for his Firebolt’s safety than his own. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The function of hate, as Sarai saw it, was to stamp out compassion—to close a door in one’s own self and forget it was ever there. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see Minerva or Rose, but Chi-Boy lay on the ground, his own knife pushed through his arm. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“This looks like a good one,” Milton says, choosing his own egg. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Instead he draws his own map in silence. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Max,”’ I muttered, noting the fear in my own voice. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

As we talked, in fact, there were several key moments when he seemed to probe me for information, to find out what I knew, so he could add it to his own formidable database. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held my hand firmly to his breast, and my own heart beat with unaccustomed joy. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The old woman’s voice had changed: her accent, her gesture, and all were familiar to me as my own face in a glass—as the speech of my own tongue. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

In Congo, teens did not throw their own parties. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

At that college, I told how the antebellum white slavemaster even devilishly manipulated his own woman. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Looks like you goin’ to have to hoe your own turnips, Sam,” Grandpa chuckled. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even in her panic she couldn’t help noticing that Mrs. Odom, who never seemed to walk farther than her own mailbox, dashed right past her, a bucket under each arm. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

My own braid was two days old, and tufts stuck up here and there. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Some farming populations make it even easier for their own fecal bacteria and worms to infect new victims, by gathering their feces and urine and spreading them as fertilizer on the fields where people work. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But I really didn’t have a frindle with me,” said Nick, amazed at his own bravery. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They organized it and carried it through alone; the decision their own and their own action. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m so close to him that I can feel it beating against my own chest. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Take a few minutes to try to solve this on your own. Then we’ll talk about it in a bit.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Arvydas stood under the stream of water, her hands raised above her head gracefully, unaware, as if she were in her own private bath at home. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I imagined Ambrose drawing on his own body’s heat, concentrating as the chill slowly worked into his arms and legs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Perhaps his own nation more than any other, precisely because it was his own. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“You seem a bit young to come to the market on your own,” she noted. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

For a moment, I felt afraid, as if accepting his words would somehow betray my own father. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I described how Bruno Jenkins had come in and how I had actually seen him with my own eyes being shrunk into a mouse. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Walter couldn't escape the reality of racism, but having his own business in a growing sector of the economy gave him a latitude that many African Americans did not enjoy. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She said, “May and June and I take our mother’s Catholicism and mix in our own ingredients. I’m not sure what you call it, but it suits us.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, thirty-four years later, Charles had to see his own little baby put into a grave. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hello,” he repeated, and this time only his own voice came from the speakers. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mother encouraged me to go my own way,” Elizebeth once said. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He wore a sling as well, but I was fairly certain that was merely a piece of drama he had added on his own. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Smith, my assistant principal and neighbor, had seen my strengths as a student and furthermore trusted me with his own kids. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

About how, before we were enslaved, we governed ourselves and ruled our own land. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I added my own exaggerated details of how many people had to restrain her, without any mention of how frightened I’d been, and how ashamed I’d felt when she lost control in front of everybody. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The Freys all looked like weasels; Ser Stevron, past sixty with grandchildren of his own, looked like an especially old and tired weasel, yet he was polite enough. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I was also fortunate enough to find a management team whose interests were aligned with my own in using my platform to fight for justice and end bigotry. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He is held for perhaps a week without charge or bail, without the privilege of communicating with anyone, including his own relatives. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not long after that, Nazi entrepreneurs arrived on the scene in the hope of making their fortune off the misery of Jewish factory owners who were no longer permitted to own a business. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

She dressed in Mary’s loose shirt again and, seeing some flat stones by the bank, went to fetch her own clothes to wash them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Thrown off balance, Sorrento lost control and tripped over his own mammoth feet. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

By this time, I was opening my own box. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

None of my pets know their own names, what kind of person am I? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He set off across the yard for his own chambers in the King's Tower, walking as briskly as his legs could manage. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The French he had met were generous, or otherwise lost to their own miseries. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Shall I spare my own life then?” he said. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe my own mother with her bad nerves was part of a secret plot! Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Lord Godric took a pinch between his thumb and forefinger and sprinkled his own trencher. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

So convinced I was of that woman’s being her mother, that I wanted no evidence to establish the fact in my own mind. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course,” I said, unaccountably excited that the story was at last beginning to dovetail with my own experience. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He wants his mom to keep her approval ratings up without having to manage a complication from her own family. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When the monster struck a blow, Conor felt the sting of it in his own fist. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Most of the kids were like her, though, and they had never really seen the ocean with their own eyes. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And surely, as mean as Judah was and as crazy as Clarissa might be, they would not let their own sister or her child go hungry. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He pulls a gold band from his own hand and puts it on the table. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He talked to them, not in baby- talk like a maiden lady, but correctly in their own growls and barks. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watching even the sorriest of sporting events bears no resemblance to coming upon an accident and hoping to exploit it for your own personal gain. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

But when all I see is the redness of my own eyelids, I open them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She will then lift her own glass and hold it up high. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Can’t I escape visions of my loss and utter failure anywhere, at least in my own freaking backyard? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Because really it’s mostly for their own good. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He reared up and, as he did so, realized that the enemy beneath him was crouching in a scooped-out trench the size of his own body. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I had been making my own bed for so long it had become a reflex. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something about this caused my own eyes to sting like sand had flown into them. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Teller saw the lab as a reflection of his own brimming self-esteem—as a huge laboratory staffed with name physicists working in lockstep according to his handcrafted research strategy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The girls sit at a long lunch table near the windows and the boys have a big round table of their own across the room. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

A man in his late forties, older than my own father would have been, wanted to marry me and began coming to our house. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would the man lunge forward with his own narrow blade? Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was him who’d stuck up for me when I first came to live with Aunt Ivy and Uncle Holt, so shy I couldn’t get my own name out. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I answer my own question before they can put their spin on it. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

They were not fit to cover the distance by nightfall: and before long they had worse to face than their own fatigue and low spirits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And one day, I had my own experience of being perceived as “bad” simply because I was black. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“What is the matter, sir?—Did you speak to me?” cried Mr. John Knightley, hearing his own name. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

I try to think of other things I can pawn, but I barely own anything except books, and those you can only sell to used-book stores for like a quarter. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She has made her own Christmas cards this year, an idea she picked up from a book in the crafts section of the library. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The one thing I want more than anything is to grow up so the Doctorita can’t hurt me, so I can leave and start my own life. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

May Ling had a right to know her own mother. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One day the woman who worked at the store Mr. Becker owned in War stopped by. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He fell silent, trembling with anger and with fright at his own temerity. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

This, for Frankie, was a declaration of war, and he grabbed his own handful of mud to throw at me. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

She turned and preened in the air, ran her fingers through her hair, and examined herself as if delighted by her own beauty all over again. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He just stands there looking confused, and for a moment I wonder if he is confused, if in his sick heart he believes his own lies about disciplining me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

And besides, you can’t possibly be in charge of people who will not give you the time of day, even in your own family. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Michelangelo looks down at his own body, as if it were a favorite hat. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Her own voice is mute to her, far away, and the chandelier wavers in the fetid air. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I put each trunks worth in its own box, eight boxes total. They’re all in there.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

She could see all the interconnected ways his life was knotted up, and how it had led here—to her own death. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

But having learned how to assure a food supply by their own efforts, they now settled down in permanent village communities. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the butler was really keen on the wine, and had troubles of his own. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shoemaker handed over the boy’s papers along with his own. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“You did a wrong thing when you came to our land! You should have stayed in your own world and waited to die before you came down to disturb us!” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He is brilliant cover for his own family’s Resistance entanglement and there are orders out to keep him alive. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The glaring difference between us was that my parents still loved me—and despite the problems I’d had with them, I loved them, too, in my own quiet way. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He had his own set of carpentry tools and a distinctly German design sensibility. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because he accused her of eating her own head by thinking so much about what people said. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I type back: “My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery-always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I’d learned how to swim well enough to make it about fifteen feet on my own. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“The dogcatchers just got him! He was right outside the school. I saw it with my own two eyes!” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe the rental properties would be something she could manage on her own. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It would be a rude shock for Theo, Vincent tells him, to be on his own; it would be disorienting, like leaving a prison after years of captivity. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I visualized a self-appointed jury of twelve people who condemned him to death and were forced by exigencies of the case to be their own executioners. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Before you die, you must own a bit of land—maybe with a house on it that your child or your children may inherit.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I get it. It is scary trying to stand on your own two feet especially when you don't have a leg to stand on, so to speak." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It is my own, and no other’s,” Ash said. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which made Eleanor feel bad about feeling so bad about her own body . . . and which also made her wonder why she was the official fat girl in the class. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The tykes would be scratched and splintered by scraps of her own destroyed past, but there was nothing she could do. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Circumstantial evidence on its own could now be given greater weight. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Like my own mom—gone so long—will walk into the room behind me. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

When they broke their own rules, they complained about it. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Yeah, I was going to list every girl I could possibly remember, hundreds of them, all so incredibly hot in their own ways. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Where there are two or three floors and each kid has their own room. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Each time Liyana read a Dickinson line she really liked, she’d close her eyes and make up a line of her own inside her head. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Omakayas’s mother was well known for owning a pair of scissors, and other women were always borrowing them. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

A face stared back at me that was not my own. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The sun on his face and the girl’s smooth body touching his own gave him a strong, sleepy, confident feeling. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Are you sure you can keep up with all of that on your own?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Not that he'd flip out and do something crazy, like bite his own tongue off and show me bloody teeth—even though, honestly, I would've rather seen that, than...that look again. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

And then, of course, we had to make our own string, or tar. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Joe took his own sweet time about it, flicked droplets of urine all over the floor, zipped up his pants with a flourish, and turned away without flushing the toilet. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to take her back to the street where I had found her, but Fd already disturbed her rest and had taken on her soul as my own personal responsibility. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I brushed his hand away and took a step back, hating the sting of his words, hating my own pettiness even more. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Working with James Chadwick, whose experimental skills matched his own, Rutherford trained his alpha particles on a series of gaseous targets: oxygen, carbon dioxide, even ordinary air. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams--not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He folded his own arms, staring at her with a smile, suddenly not wanting to leave again. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

But when I searched my room earlier this morning, every pair I owned seemed to be ripped, or covered in Boomer hair. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“This is our house. We own it together. The statue is a part of our property.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

In a way, I used their own stereotypes against them, since there was nothing about me that made it obvious I was a Jew. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Her suitcase was considerably larger than Eleanor’s, and considerably more luxurious, and Eleanor came forward to help her, glad that her own things were safely put away out of sight. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

At thirty- three he had a secretary of his own and a dozen people working under his supervision who gladly supplied him with any information he needed. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She walked over and started playing with my hair, so much darker than her own. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He was aware, too, of his own fatigue, heavy as the Crochan itself, a weariness he had never noticed while he had worn Adaon’s brooch. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Hyacinth’s yellow paisley dress—her own creation—was made from an old pillowcase with holes cut out for her arms and head. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“But that’s because she has to do things with him that Beth and I can do on our own. He’s only eleven.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“He didn’t steal the cows, they followed him out of the barn of their own accord.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Countries would have to become counties—but counties which could keep their own culture and local laws. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s clear to him that the invaders possess “scientific knowledge far in advance of our own.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Hopefully in a couple of years we’ll be in a better place financially, and we can get you your own piano.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

And at this point no case law has fully clarified whether you own or have the right to control your tissues. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit came out after him, sauntering in, wrote a reporter, “like he owned the place.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was his own food he was sharing. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Neighbors suggested their own remedies: arnica compresses, packed mud from a holy well, ground elephant tusk from the Niger to mix in her daily broth. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

To my surprise, Julian took both Henry’s hands in his own. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

As for the loaves, Mesaulios dealt them out, a yard boy, bought by the swineherd on his own, unaided by his mistress or Laertes, from Taphians, while Odysseus was away. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yellin went immediately to Falkbridge’s Alehouse, first sending all save two Brutes off on various tasks, keeping a noisy one and a quiet one for his own needs. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

During one of my last visits to the reservation, in June 2015, I went to the Osage Nation Court, where, in many criminal cases, the Osage now mete out their own justice. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He made me stab my own hand, clean through. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She wanted her own kids to know their aunts and uncles and cousins, and so the relief was profound when the Odyssey arrived at her brother’s house in Baton Rouge at eleven-thirty. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Or maybe we remember our own pasts too well,” Edwin added. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

There were powerful elements of scientific adventure and the zest for discovery of new lands, new plants and animals, new people; the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I went back to training at Bannon’s at the end of that week, the girls in the gym were super excited that one of their own had won Worlds. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Outside the castle window, it was summer and she had her own lake, and there was a stone library for her with a big Renaissance-y window. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe he’d give up his own honey so she could have more. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“What did you expect, turnips?” said Ron, turning to his own pile, which was a lot bigger than Harry’s. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I start dialing, enter my PIN, enter my own number. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He cried out, “O false and shameless woman, I am your husband. By my own witness you are a traitor.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held out a fist again, and, with a small smile of my own, I bumped it. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Confederate President Jefferson Davis was on the run, the subject of his own massive manhunt. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at the image a few more seconds, just long enough to curse myself for not making the connection on my own, months ago. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I get up from the bed and open my own copy and try to guess what chapter she’s on. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Kaede reached out and wrapped her fingers around one of the rings—it was as thick as her own wrist—and when she lifted it, the door swung open. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Bigger had the queer feeling that his own exhaustion formed a hair-line upon which his feelings were poised, and that the man’s driving frenzy would suck him into its hot whirlpool. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

So was the French driver, who was tired of being shouted at in English by a Slip of a Lass younger than his own daughter. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

According to the Egyptian law that the Ptolemies followed, women were allowed to take the throne and rule in their own right or as equal partners alongside the men. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Agent Wren made his own inroads, attending tribal gatherings and gleaning information from Osage who might not otherwise talk to a white lawman. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And while the chickens are nibbling on the grasses, they add a few thousand pounds of nitrogen to the pasture with their own droppings— and produce several thousand rich and tasty eggs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

A loud scream that wasn’t his own emerged through Nathan’s own screaming. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He had his politics to protect him, and his scientifically based theories of class, and his own rather forced self-certainty. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She is lying on her back in a bed that’s not her own, in a room she doesn’t recognize. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lord Commander Mormont had taken up residence in the King's Tower after the fire had gutted his own. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Forgetting that the car’s occupants were armed, and brandishing his own gun by the barrel, Joe galloped toward the vehicle, planning to beat them all to a bloody pulp with the stock of his weapon. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The servants were all in their own quarters beyond the kitchen. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

For Ulbricht, the problem with the city's open border had nothing to do with spies: It was with the dissatisfaction of his own people, the seventeen million citizens of the German Democratic Republic, or GDR. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Their hair is so flat, like they know exactly what product to use, and that makes me conscious of my own wild tangles of hair. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I guess they can buy their own vegetables. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Protect us from angry gods, and our own stupidity, by sending us away. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

By then his cider, which he had apparently expected to dole out according to his own governing whim, was disappearing. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gave a detailed statement of my parents assets: we owned no land, no car, nor our shack. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here and there SS officers sat apart, at their own tables, chatting, laughing, drinking French wine, and attacking beefsteaks or sauerbraten with knives and forks. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Before Meggie could run to his aid, Elinor seized her and held her tight no matter how hard she struggled, just as she had done before back in her own house. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I could decide my own happy ending for myself. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I just ask it for my own entertainment. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

So pushed around was he by Silver, so respectful of Amaroq and even Nails, that he was excited by a voice more humble than his own. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sipped her coffee and listened quietly as I explained how I had found out about Gimpy’s cheating, my own reaction, and the conflicting advice I’d gotten at the lab. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He laughed at his own jokes, and about the bizarre situation they found themselves in. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Will you indulge the baroness and grace us with a presentation of your own choosing?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

She never married or had children of her own; maybe that’s why she took such a genuine interest in us. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then he sniffed the air himself, and he couldn’t help wrinkling his own nose. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He told me that Ali and his cousin— who had owned the house—had been killed by a land mine two years before, just outside of Bamiyan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Fall and winter seemed to calm everything down and drive everyone into their own houses. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lifts his gun, and behind me, Tobias lifts his own, and we stand just yards away from each other, at a standstill. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The new king would choose his own Hand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Erastis was working on his own Fragments now, copying sections of the Book no one had read before, to preserve the writings in case the Book was lost—or worse, destroyed. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Living among one’s own emigrant villagers can give a good Chinese far from China glory and a place. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The curtain of hair shimmied back over her own shoulders, where it belonged. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Your name—Dorothy . . . we always said we’d give to our own child someday, but alas it didn’t come to pass. And here you are, red hair and all.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I felt like I was being consumed from within like a person with one of those freak diseases where you digest your own stomach. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is dead because we all killed him with our own stupid games. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She didn’t move, not as she stared at those black eyes barely inches from her own, not as she saw her right hand held between its black teeth, her blood already oozing down its chin. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“He’s minding everybody’s business but his own. Got his big nose into everything.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also had news of her own: She was ditching her job as a computer specialist at the Federal Reserve and going traveling—not for weeks, but for months. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"It would seem you did well enough on your own," Bronn answered. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Ranofer’s own thought flashed back into his mind: Why does he place me here in the goldhouse if I am never to learn anything? The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Then again, I don't have any ideas of my own at this second. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I almost fall asleep in Darius’s arms, on this roof, across the street from my own building. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She was satisfied that although she would miss me, I would have a more advantageous upbringing in the regent’s care than in her own. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ran it through their own market research protocol, called the Program Analyzer, which required audiences to push red and green buttons, recording their impressions of the shows they were watching. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Use the“autogenerate” feature on our website to have a computer encrypt your clue, or get ideas from the Puzzlepedia page and create your own. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And you are allowed to bring with you either one or two members of your own family to look after you and to ensure that you don’t get into mischief. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

He copied and pasted every new butterfly logo he found into his own document. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“And then we can have our own reality show about our relationship.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

"Well!" said the Wart, as he woke up in his own bed next morning. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Really, it was love of children more than anything else that made him want a pack of his own. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing this as an opportunity to prove to Papa that I was grown up enough for my own cotton sack, I followed him and Roberto into the field. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Many of these young people had left the country to join our own military movement, and then smuggled themselves back home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The particles floated in the air before her, glittering and twirling as though dancing to a song of their own. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I sent back a dirty look of my own. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“But I thought you were rich. My dad says you own this whole park!” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Stupid me to forget I was on my own. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Sir Ector was an M.F.H.—or rather a Master of stag and other hounds—and he hunted his own pack himself. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a matter of shock and disbelief to the bank that a seventeen-year-old boy should, first, own them, and, second, carry them about. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody I knew, not even my own mother, would believe me if I tried to tell them. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made her feel foolish, but she was aware that in renaming her he had claimed her somehow, already made her his own. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I say it louder so everyone can hear: “I’m building my own house.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Well, that was certainly his own first impression. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

She made a pile of the files that were unreadable, hoping that among the few that she could recognize was proof that they owned this building. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

"It's my own life at risk, and I say it's okay." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came big, he came strong, he came with yellow eyes, flaring nostrils, and he came with his own music. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of my biggest challenges has always been to see past other people’s doubt and negativity so I could define my own path. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Later it became clear that Marburg belongs to its own family. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought it very unfair that a bride should not have a coconut cake on the day of her own wedding. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a little on the simple side, but that means we can add our own touches. Like it was custom made.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The breeze blows in, lifting my hair up as though it has a life all its own, and I try to embrace my freedom. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Lord Roose’s own guards retreated, pulling the doors shut behind them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Along with my fellow classmates, I heartily applauded him, cheering Smuts’s call to do battle for the freedom of Europe, forgetting that we did not have that freedom here in our own land. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found that the world was full of willing victims, especially kids his own age. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pursuit of knowing was freedom to me, the right to declare your own curiosities and follow them through all manner of books. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

How to wash one’s own hair; how to judge which colors suited one; how to say no in such a charming way that no offense was given; how to put on lipstick, powder, scent. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Next to your name is another name, that of some hotshot law student who’s busy climbing his own ladder. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was huge and beautiful in its own way. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Agave was the most wretched of all mothers, driven mad by Dionysus so that she believed her son Pentheus was a lion and killed him with her own hands. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She constantly points out a man who holds her or kisses her or just stands there on his own. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He pauses, seeming to actually have heard his own words. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I want to keep one for my own use, leaving two for the cause. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I see. Now I am being compared to a degenerate old female fraud. Worse, I am losing in the comparison. My own mother daring to malign me so.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and Bobby both realized that living alone gave him more time to study according to his own time and pace, but Ginzburg’s negative interpretation of their relationship was totally incorrect. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Why was my own mother so okay with me visiting a mental hospital? Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

They were at the vanity, trying on the lipsticks and perfumes, which I’ve done in my own mami’s bedroom countless times. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

His father walked off to his own bedroom with Chip’s mother a few steps behind, still asking questions. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

If he could not hold to his own vows, how could he expect more of his brothers? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I thought you dreamed of selling your own line of jewelry.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He heard Reg laugh and tried to keep his own head still. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Seven began to formulate a plan of her own. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

His voice went down at the end, as if he was trying to convince himself of his own words. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The council had agreed that both he and Methuselah, plus any creature they chose to help them, were to be left to their own devices. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The ladies of the Refined led their own efforts to fill their community’s needs. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He invited the president of France, the president of the United States, the president of Russia, Italy, Germany, and China, as well as our own president, His Excellency, the President for Life Papa Doc Duvalier. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

One day, I was walking up Main Street, caught up in my own little contest of tossing a hedge apple into the air and catching it, hoping to count to two hundred catches without dropping. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I got to sit at my own dinner table, pick all my own activities, call “lights out” whenever I felt like it, and not listen to anybody else. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Sam could hear his own joints creaking, if he stirred. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They have always been very high up on their horses, which is fine, although if you ask me they have shot their own career ladders in the foot. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had fled in terror from the old beggar’s body because it had been a reminder of my own mortality. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The Chattahoochee is part of four million acres—6,000 square miles—of federally owned forest stretching up to the Great Smoky Mountains and beyond and spreading sideways across four states. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I almost felt myself falling backward into my own past. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But still he dreaded this more than the hour of his own death, and it was a comfort to him now when he saw Pear Blossom was faithful. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been searching for this place for years, and all this time it was within walking distance of my school! I feel like a total moron for not figuring it out on my own.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They called him a comical genius and carried his stories carefully home, and they wondered at how the stories spilled out on the way, for they never sounded the same repeated in their own kitchens. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time, a message has touched part of my own life in some way. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The young man asked whether it would be possible for him to build his house near the house of his own father, who lived by the Limpopo River. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

When the day came, Eduardo received the newborn into his hands as though it were his own child. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first, Ifemelu disliked Morgan, responding to what she thought was Morgan s own disturbingly full-grown dislike. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

And most important of all, he owns an old Walkman that plays tapes. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“This ain’t our key,” he growled, then slipped it into his own pocket. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

My parents had a bedroom on the first floor, their own bathroom, and a big window that looked into the backyard—probably more personal space than anyone in their families had ever known. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She turned and left, heading back to her own place. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only through a severe effort of will did I remain silent, waiting for Abenthy to continue on his own. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He thought of telling her about that day in Wentnor when he hid from Molly and felt, for the first time, the possibility of shaping his own destiny. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

This made matters easier for the reverend, who could pray the way he wanted without worry of insulting men who owned the rebel cannons. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

My right eye blurred by my own blood falling into it. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

My solution to the lack of air conditioning at my own house was to run our T-shirts under the cold, cold tap water in the bathroom sink. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

I look at the trees that don’t belong, brought here through no fault of their own. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

"Sounds like a man after my own heart," said Gilgamesh, brushing the crumbs off his beard. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Either is capable of earning her own living. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The very first words I heard them interchange as I became conscious, were the words of my own thought, “Two One Pound notes.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Very quickly she made many friends of her own and was invited all over the place. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

She would see to Kaz’s tattoos and her own that night. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She passes within arm’s reach, her head slightly higher than his own. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She wanted the freedom to sing her own songs as she always had. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been forced by Aladdin’s false uncle, the magician, to take up residence in the lamp and had been given power to grant everyone’s wishes but his own. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

But dreams, it seemed, had their own logic. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s learning how. Let her help. I want my own birthday party.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Murray eyes us over the top of her book with a little nonverbal communication of her own. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

My own cousin was arrested and whipped by police for getting caught socializing with the opposite sex. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Not just on the body, although those are there—the hairline fractures across the skin, the web you create to catch your own death. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

But he well knows the science, from his own study, and because his father was smack in the middle of it. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Her own band was a little tight, but Rasheed had no trouble forcing it over her knuckles. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The 707 slammed into the estate owned by the father of the tennis champion John McEnroe, in the posh Long Island town of Oyster Bay. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She had lost weight and at first I thought she might have grown, because she looked taller, but then I realized it was just an optical illusion, the effect of my own shrinking. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the only Japanese in town who owned a house. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

None was more curious than Beowulf's own mount, the white mare with the black mane. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took him a moment to catch his breath before he could aim his own Transvice. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

"You can see how well I did on my own today." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

In less than a minute all four of our heads appeared on-screen, each in their own box, forming one gigantic square. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She wanted to gather herself into her own arms. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She tried to imagine Peris coping out here in the Smoke, working with his hands and making his own clothes. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Eventually, my mom received a visa, and she and my dad finally got their own version of a romantic comedy of errors. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Yes I do. Kevin told me. He told me about the books you wrote too. Your own books.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Across the holler, Z was in his own cabin, holding a lantern in the middle of the main room. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I always knew I couldn’t be Candor. I mean, I try to be honest, but some things you just don’t want people to know. Plus, I like to be in control of my own mind.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Each of us seems to be in our own little world with our own little shadows. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

And so, in her own way, the robot hibernated. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He twisted his own face, practicing, pushing his lips up against his nose, and then flapped his arms, the way the cloth of his mommet might flap in the wind to frighten away the crows. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Each time I talked to her brothers she’d yell at them, only half joking, saying, “Don’t you try to take my reporter! Go get your own!” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In addition to my own work, I was dividing my time between tutoring Finny in studies and being tutored by him in sports. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tonya finally realized what was going on, and when she got herself out of her own cabin, her head cleared enough that she managed to release her friends from the crashed plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

So April took some time to make it a real visit before she started her own work. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then my heart suddenly rises, rises so high I can feel my eyes popping open and my throat starting to clench, my own Noise coming all high hopeful white. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Oh! no—none in the least. I never saw Mrs. Weston better in my life—never looking so well. Papa is only speaking his own regret.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

She allowed the men to buy her drinks, dinners, later to take her in taxis to their apartments, in neighborhoods she had not yet discovered on her own. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

What you have done, whether right or wrong, is your own doing. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve finished my own bagel, but my stomach is still groaning. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Billy owned a lovely Georgian home in Ilium. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think I can manage my glass girl on my own now. Thanks.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Nobody cares. Everyone has his own idiot agenda.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

But he thought of Pippin and the flames in Minas Tirith and thrust down his own dread. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It made me want to shout at her, at my own mother, and that frightened me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Your mother did the best she could. As for me, I could not interfere with your path. The children of the gods must find their own way.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Nel watched her mother cutting the pattern from newspapers and moving her eyes rapidly from a magazine model to her own hands. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Although our house was one of the smaller of the forty or so houses on the island, for several years we owned the only piano. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had just occurred to her that Lady Constance was far too young to have school-age offspring of her own. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Frank Millet, director of functions, meanwhile stepped up his own efforts to promote the fair and arranged an increasingly exotic series of events. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Not too many come out here anymore. I imagine collectors make their own rules now.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

What better way to fool a man, using his own mother and father as bait? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her words sounded like the echo of my own an hour before. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I own those and others like those, all around the neighborhood.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

As the chief trouble of Compiling, Digesting and Correcting will fall to my Share, I must do myself the Justice to open the Work with my own History.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve made friends, students my own age from the colegio, and when I walk down the street, they talk to me as if I’m a normal kid, not a servant, not a former indigenous girl. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Said the great soldier then: “Rejoice inwardly. No crowing aloud, old woman. To glory over slain men is no piety. Destiny and the gods’ will vanquished these, and their own hardness. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

His own audacity, now that he saw it, took his breath away. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But he can, he can – Kingshaw began to run, trying to get away from his own whirling thoughts. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

In this company no one marked my own strange speech. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Such threats drove me further away from the few churches in the neighbourhood, and served to reinforce my own skepticism about Christianity. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had forgotten that I was supposed to shield him from his own excesses. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Someone had set up their own little camp, using bright blue pool rafts as mattresses. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Most of the time, he’s too busy refereeing the fights between us, or else he’s just in his own orbit. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He often fought the urge to raise his own voice from behind the kitchen door and tell her to shut up, especially when she called Master a sophist. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“How hard it is, to be rejected by one’s own flesh and blood. I see that you have experienced this, too.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then the companions fell silent, but a while they sat there in the high place, each busy with his own thoughts, while the Captains debated. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Your brother can come for his own bread,” Trapis said gently, then looked more closely at the boy, sensing something. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Merely to lift off the heavy white wings and the veil, merely to feel my own hair again, with my hands, is a luxury. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. King thought the officials were digging their own grave. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I see the brother who told me to make my own choices, the night before the Choosing Ceremony. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I see my own eyes set into his skull, and I think of my reflection in the fear landscape, how terrified I was, watching his skin spread over mine like a rash. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Harry Potter not knowin’ his own story when every kid in our world knows his name!” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

His guest had been outraged, his own life on a former occasion had been hideously plotted against; and both attempts he smothered in secrecy and sank in oblivion! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the set of Vincent’s shoulders, in the abrasiveness of his demeanor, Obinze sensed that Vincent had learned very early on, as a matter of necessity, to solve his own problems. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

As terrified as Citra was, she did not want to leave the scythe alone with his own thoughts, so she went into the living room with him. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He cut his own hair but it didnt come out so good. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Ants are more like the parts of an animal than entities on their own. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My guests' decisions prove that I am a poor judge of my own character. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

They drank and rested, and the next morning they left for their own village. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The players attacked their lines as though afraid that, if they did not keep their words in close order, the audience might throw comments of their own into the breach. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

She owned the crack that made her stumble; she owned the clumps of dandelions whose white heads, last fall, she had blown away; whose yellow heads, this fall, she peered into. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some seemed to be married and had children of their own. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pushes the kid’s arm up behind his back and twists him around so his own momentum is his enemy. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But he was an instinctive man, and suddenly his brain knew and his own temper boiled. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trampita continued helping me at the gas company and Mike Nevel gave him two places to clean on his own, a coffee shop and a pet store. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Yours was to obey my rules, for your own protection.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He knew it wasn’t fair to blame the kids in Arizona for their own kidnappings—and it wasn’t like that was even connected to Mom’s business trip or her weird texts. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I turn it over, and it reads: To my sweet Bridget, who is my own wheel of fortune. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

What I have on him is the possibility of my own death. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five of the nevers plus the ever were his own idea. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

A moment later there was a boy of Shasta's own age sitting astride of the sill with one leg hanging down inside the room. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

She could hear the coldness in her own voice. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Just let the guy go and try someone your own size.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had made our own very limited efforts to employ the power of print. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cook was too busy, and Mama had her own tasks; Mrs. Caruthers was too mean, and her sly, handsome son was never around. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

"I built my own boat. If it leaked, I'd be in big trouble." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He and Rawiya turned together to see Mr. Jacobs standing toe-to-toe with the cop, his own nose just inches away from the helmet. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Ned had known their faces as well as he knew his own once, but the years leech at a man's memories, even those he has vowed never to forget. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She wanted to shower, to scrub herself, but she could not bear the thought of touching her own body, and so she put on her nightdress, gingerly, to touch as little of herself as possible. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mom pitches in some of her own money when I realize I don’t have enough. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Lark takes out a pair of her own binoculars but doesn’t peer through them the way her mother does. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Once night came, we kids all lay in our rope-and-cardboard beds, reading by flashlight or a candle we’d set on our wooden boxes, each of us creating our own little pool of dim light. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But everything we owned was packed and stacked against the yellow walls. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Could it be that my own father hates my guts? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“You’re not having second thoughts about your own, ah, special part?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Moss was not a small guy, a fact he had frequently lamented to himself, but he was shocked when his own feet began to dangle, unable to reach the floor. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A sign on the wall said clean up your own mess. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reached over and squeezed her hand, which was notice- ably larger than his own. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lived and died by their own code. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

My father rushed in, announcing the arrival of the ambassadors from Norway and promising, upon their departure, his own news of great importance concerning Hamlet’s recent disposition. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Jon had no coin of his own, or he would have offered it to her . . . though he was not sure what good a few coppers or even a silver piece wouhldo her beyond the Wall. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And a heavy, incomprehensible dark cloud of depression and sadness settled over my own head and heart—a nightmarish web of memories that would hover over me for many years to come. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Pinched my own side and bit my lip. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s good of them to warn us,” Shoba conceded after reading the notice aloud, more for her own benefit than Shukumar’s. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Did the Spencers leave of their own accord? Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

"But I cannot lie. It would be found out eventually, so I must go with my own pot." When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

His lungs and soul were ready to pour out his own story through the ten square holes of his blues harp. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Astronauts from all nations can still go into space from the Soviet Union, and countries such as China have developed their own space programs. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

But I can also tell he really wants his own fish. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I wanted to dictate my own thrilling letters. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I hold his gaze, weighing his speed against my own. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to admit how many times I’d dreamed of getting my own parents back together. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t want to lose his own style, or his way of working. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“A woman with a mind of her own. So you want to study in the capital, eh?” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It ain’t an easy thing, but I got to forget about Dad on the TV couch and concentrate on my own stuff. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It had been annoying at first, since I had to wait to get my own phone till my birthday months later, but now I was used to it. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I was shocked and frightened to see her flout Father’s authority, but truthfully, I could feel something similar moving around in my own heart. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is her story and she will tell it her own way. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

First thing Monday morning, Curly would call Mother Paula’s corporate headquarters to give the vice-president the details of the arrest, and of his own heroics. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But”—Hugo lit his own cigarette—“it's my duty to point out, this isn't just about smoking a humble cancer stick.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I had plenty of my own documents to contend with. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Farmer, the anthropologist, designed his own study centered on a random group of about two hundred women in Cange. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

But even when we weren’t together on the blacktop, or inside the building,I always knew Omi had an eye out for me—paying attention in her own quiet way. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t really understand that. Except that people always used to say the valley had its own weather.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“And this little girl risked her own life, over and over again, to save it.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

My own voice galls even me; it oppresses me like a silver fork scraped across porcelain. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She had fed her sweets with her own hand. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What happens when we go over there? Black is black! White is white! The sheep lie not with the lion! The sheep knows his own! His own kind!” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

His own small office was set in the back of the war room. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was addressed to the man, who was rattling his cup against his saucer, and Eleanor took a first, shuddering sip of her own coffee and wondered how he could possibly want more. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

And then Alexa touches her neck and compares and contrasts this to her own suicide attempt, as usual, making it all about her. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Eventually he was going to make his own comic book. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“My foster father taught me all the words in recipes and show me what herbs to use when. He even made up his own recipes. This one of ’em.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Bridge liked what she saw in the mirror more than she expected to and then was afraid that her own satisfaction would be obvious to everyone in the room. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I guess I must have blown that audition all on my own, on account of no rabbit foot. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She understood everyone’s frenzy—those bags contained literally all they owned in the world. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She still practices her own version of spirituality, which she cobbled together from too many Deepak Chopra-esque books and TV shows. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He knocked anyway, but he could hardly hear the rap of his own knuckles. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Firmly she held her own hands at her sides. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She was grateful to him, this man who rented a tiny room from her father, who ate with a knife and did not even own a pair of dress shoes. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, it was obvious she wanted me to stay; beyond my own safety, my presence in the loop would make everyone else safer. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

This school had a couple of green spaces, and I’d picked one at random to make my own. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Every morning she would be free to investigate on her own. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A crew’s relevancy—their ability to hold their own corner and expand the business—was dependent on the amount of muscle they controlled and the level of violence their muscle was ready to get into. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I point to her tears, then to my own face. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike Robert, Frank had joined the Communist Party with his wife, Jackie, in 1937, when they harbored the impression that the party shared their own goals of social justice. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t we shoot our own footage and act it out, like everyone else?” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

If the gods had given her the strength they gave Jaime and that swaggering oaf Robert, she could have made her own escape. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Here—in a village just like her own? Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, I heard myself saying those words, but it didn’t even sound like my own voice. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw them all glittering and glowing, and there was a little princess wearing her own crown and riding on a little white, tippy-toed horse.” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

My chest tightened and I couldn’t draw enough air; I’d stand there, gasping in my own little airless bubble of atmo­sphere. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She practically tripped over her own feet as she backed away from him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Do you smell your own fears? it asked. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

One by one, the other children surfaced around us, and seeing how much things had changed, had their own realizations. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Once, at his club, he had perked up as a young man talked to some friends about his own parents’ divorce, how he had felt relieved by it, because their unhappiness had been heavy. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Zooey shared his amusement at this remark with the reflection of his own eyes in the mirror. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Whatever was eroding inside my father, withering his muscles and stripping his nerves, he viewed it as his own private challenge, as something to silently withstand. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They wouldn’t even sell them camels so that they might make the attempt on their own—which would be suicide in any case. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Even if his own flesh went to feed him the old man should eat. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I did not speak to her, I went down the stairs blindly, and turned the corner and pushed through the door that led to my own rooms in the east wing. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Because she never got over her own baggage, not because of you or me, right? Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The moment the blade was drawn, he thrust himself forward onto it—a final willful act, making death his own choice, rather than the scythe’s. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The moment I said the word “unicorn” aloud, the wrapper began to fold on its own, there in the palm of my hand. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

"Yes," my grandmother said, "it gives the English witches great pleasure to stand back and watch the grown-ups doing away with their own children." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The kids each had their own individual bedrooms, full of their favorite things. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I measured it against its own aims, as well as against other movements and theories from the same period. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There was reason to worry, too, for just a few years ago, the demons had broken their own laws and turned away over twenty thousand of their former guests who had expected to be readmitted. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Take the possessive of proper names ending in “s” - such as my own. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

Cities were like women, he insisted; each one had its own unique scent. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Billy’s own horse was a stringy cayuse with a hammer head, but he nearly always won first prize at the stock trials. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The obligatory labor meant less time to cultivate their own fields. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“When you go back to school Monday, everybody’s going to be laughing at you. Everybody, Dana, and it’s your own stupid fault. All you had to do was leave me alone. How hard is that?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shuddered at his own craven circumlocution, using so meaningless a word to obscure so hideous a truth. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

His seventeen might kill three, four, five times their own number, but in the end they would be overwhelmed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He would put his own hood on next, then lock himself in. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It blotted out the horizon, the far dips and heaves, the grasses, the pond, and finally her own frost heave. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her notes were coded signals that were designed to lead researchers deeper into her own files, where they could start to piece together what had really happened. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And then, in his own tongue, with what seemed to Lazlo’s untrained ear to be slow and careful enunciation, he inquired, “And what can I do for you, young man?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I’m not leading any tours today. I almost stayed in my room, but then I saw little old you fluttering across the quad all on your own.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

His lyric, among the most famous in the Nahuatl canon, answers its own question: Not forever on earth; only a little while here. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He put his right hand in his own puke and wiped it all over his face and then spit in my direction and laughed. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I’ll get to see you mow down your own kind and beg for the next fix. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The fog had closed and thickened all over the village, greying the light, blurring the world till a man could hardly see his own hands before him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

One night it was not his own aching body but a certain sound that roused him in the night. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Communications were not very efficient in those days, particularly in the townships where few people owned telephones, and it was a frustrating task to oversee a strike. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He didn't give out many of these, though," said Ampai, tapping her own red bracelet. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

It was as smooth as a stretch of well-laid road in Mary’s own world, and certainly easier to walk on than the grass. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Of course I knew. We own — we used to own — more than a hundred. How else could you work a plantation?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

So I had to own up that he did have a good heart. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

If I had only my own safety to consider, I might be willing to take them on with Finnick by my side. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a lot I don’t remember from back then, the years before my own Great Depression. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He listened with his eyes closed as five of the football players lip-synced to a rap song, to thunderous applause that dwarfed his own. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

But I have this theory that Bram’s probably really funny inside his own head. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Now the pastry man covered his face with his hands and moaned that his own children were waiting to be fed. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“You coming over here asking us to help you use a black girl IS a big deal, Blake. That’s not to mention you tossin’ the n-word around like you own it.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She reaches down and removes her pumps, crimped and puckered now like her own skin, chalked and misshapen from the saltwater. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if the crew broke apart and chose their own courses, their chances would dwindle to nothing. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The image of Paulie seeing part of his own skeleton made my stomach bottom out. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

But Pong made himself come twice a week—for no other reason than to walk out the door on his own two feet, rather than riding out in a durian basket. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“When I was a little girl, I lived by a stream. I used to catch my own fish.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Quite a lot to observe and think about. Remember, make your own minds up.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

It seemed disproportionately heavy for its size, but my arms were trembling slightly under their own weight, so it was hard to tell. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe the gray man had seen Spurge sneaking around on his own, spying. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I can come down here when I need a break from my parents fighting, or when I miss having my own room. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Silvertongue was tall, almost too tall to hide here, but it was reassuring to have him close, even if his heart was beating just as fast as Farid's own. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Journeys end in lovers meeting, she thought; it was my own choice to come. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, one of Pizarro’s own men sneaked up and stabbed him to death because he thought Pizarro was cheating him out of his share of gold for helping to conquer the Incas. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“You said we could choose our own subjects.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Claws, at least,” Jesper said, shifting his gaze to his own bony bare feet. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

To have acknowledged the truth about their schools, moreover, academics would have had to acknowledge their own position of privilege. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan thought of his own father and missed him a little. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

If only Miss McDaniels would let me take my own picture instead. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

We talked about making our own movie someday. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Dr. Legs leaned back in her chair, clasped her hands in her lap, and met my silence with her own. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Her own version, passed from her grandmother, and her grandmother’s grandmother—each of them a slightly different version depending on what was happening in their world at the time. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Two for the Trotter sisters and one for Mrs. Everyone else could get their own. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

This time it was his own fault, one hundred percent. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Makes it less lonesome, hearing the sound of my own voice. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just work that preoccupied him; it was the thought of Emma:—“My own dear future wife.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

So after a bit, I let go of her and stand on my own two feet. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Who is this boy that would risk his own safety for a girl he didn’t know? Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

That he could not enkindle in the heart of the child what was ashes in his own. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Anyone who could have seen her in front of the mirror, in ecstasy over her own regal gestures, would have had reason to think that she was mad. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She wondered if this was Papadimitriou’s own house: it would be interesting to see how this enigmatic figure lived. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She had a feeling their thoughts were similar to her own. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Got my own,” he says, and holds up a popular worldwide brand of coffee. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

A shout of laughter greeted his entrance; noisy at first, and terminating in Grace Poole’s own goblin ha! ha! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yes, Jeremie! Very angry! Is in the same way that he get angry with his own self.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would be willing to die himself, he said—“But not even for my own city will I slay my son.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He never saw how Adah chose her own exile; how Rachel was dying for the normal life of slumber parties and record albums she was missing. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young mouse laughed back as he replied, “Not half as odd as your own name. Whoever heard of a hare being called Basil Stag?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Bill Baxley, Alabama’s attorney general, reopened the case, and Chambliss’s own niece is testifying against him. He’s the first of the bombers to come to trial.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My mother had lent me the aluminum-cased one from her own wedding dowry. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The stuff with the mission, questions about his own character, in his own mind, weighed heavily on Reggie, more than he let on. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It seemed as if everybody in the hood had their own nickname and tag, some more elaborate than others. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

His family lived in their own two-room cottage at the rear of the property. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Adele was always busy with Luke, so mostly, I had to plod along on my own. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He listened for him—chuttering, chirping, anything—but all he heard was the drumming of his own heart. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

We packed what we owned in a bedroll and set a pot and frying pan beside it, all set for the next morning. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He clearly had a good grasp on his own abilities if he was voluntarily diving into people’s minds—the question should have come as naturally as breathing. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

His own self-doubts and character flaws cause him to inflict harm on others. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Just my little pet name is all. Hey, dinner on your own tonight?” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The mercenary had already tied one end of his climbing rope around the gargoyle’s neck; now she seized it and tied the other around her own waist. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He put out his hand and held Coraline’s hand with his own. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Because the marriage had been contracted according to Osage custom, there was no need for a legal divorce, and they simply went their own ways. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

As Voldemort’s anger throbbed inside him, Harry’s scar threatened to burst with pain, and he wrenched his mind back to his own body, fighting to remain present as the prisoners were pushed over gravel. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Everyone fell quiet, listening, lost in their own thoughts. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It is quite another to condemn all use of hindsight and to insist that the past should only be presented ‘in its own terms’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Was he, Sir Ector, to turn his own hounds into the street so as to put the King’s hounds in Us kennels? The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wish I could pick out my own dress. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Then she slipped a decoy over the back of her own head and picked up the empty pail and a cotton undervest of Neel’s. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The kids who could put on their own hats I left to themselves. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Link between us magnifies our emotions tenfold, and I fight for air, overwhelmed at the heat of his desire coursing through us—and my own responding passion rushing back to him. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Our next MC is...,” he says, and a couple of people shout out their own names, as if that’ll make him call them. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Stanton removed the bandage and wrapped it her own way. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I didn’t think it was lame so much as more of Alaska’s intentional vagueness, another example of her furthering her own mysteriousness. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He thinks of his own daughters, how much they would love to see a city on a table. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Bobby’s own play was not at its sharpest, but he exploited the weak moves of his opponent and pressed home the advantage until Tal lapsed into a hopeless endgame and resigned. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had a son and has watched him raise a child of his own. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She moved her desk back to her own row. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

There’s the baby to care for, and her mind is not sharp enough, not lately, to handle all the paperwork on her own. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He pulled out his own personal camera and began shooting pictures before anything got moved. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Each cabin had its own table, covered in white cloth trimmed in purple. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The not-knowing made me dislike secrets, and then I remembered I had one of my own. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

That was why I didn’t own up to my parents in front of Professor Fuchs. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They had been halfhearted tokens of penance, insincere, corrupt gestures meant more for his own appeasement than hers. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Daddy should know about it and support me, but instead he’s too busy keeping his own secrets, leaving me in the dark. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Leo looked down and realized his own body had turned to mist too. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was all real, every moment of it, and it reached deep into the heart of her own family. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The mitochondria do not arise de novo in cells; they are always there, replicating on their own, independently of the replication of the cell. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before Polly knew what was happening her left hand had been caught in a hand so much larger and stronger than her own that she could do nothing about it. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I may have done bad things, Caleb, but I would never deliver you to your own execution.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Faculty and students, give it up for your very own Claverage Condors!” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Eumaeus welcomed the poor stranger, fed him well and lodged him for the night, giving him his own thick mantle to cover him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stepped down off my foot and, with white-hot dignity, walked over to his own table, without looking back. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

They’d saved their money insofar as that was possible, putting away as much as they could, until they had enough to buy their own house. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had forgotten my own selfinterrogations pushed upon me by my mother, or rather I had not yet apprehended their deeper, lifelong meaning. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear’s own heart was still pounding so hard that he could feel his pulse in his throat. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

His curiosity appealed to her—it matched her own — and behind his wildness he had a kind heart, she thought. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, I wish I could have said something to poor Bep, something that I know from my own experience would have helped. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

We are a little dust cloud of our very own, I think as I walk. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Kali said it, and I knew she was thinking of her own brood. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lady give me some, an’ that lady was—my own Aunt Clara. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We didn’t speak at Jesse’s funeral—I was too bound up in my own grief to be concerned with yours. I hope you can forgive me.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She hears her own heart on the trail, too—its guilty beating. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The wings next to their own wings would shade into vacancy, until each bird was a lonely sound in cold annihilation, a presence after uncreation. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the images broke up of their own accord, weightless chimeras routed by a numbness that ran through him unchallenged. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We made wooden boats out of cigar boxes, devised wooden paddles to which we twisted pieces of rubber and sent the cigar-box boats sailing down the ditch under their own power. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She liked teaching children, and hopefully there might be a library where she could extend her own learning as well as that of her charges. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I glance down at my own freckled brown arm. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

If my own daughter realizes that we must speak out, how can I do any less? The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He talked to him about his own youngest son who was a pitcher on the Brooklyn team. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“After all I’ve done for you, you wrote something like that? A viper in our own bosom! You can kiss Levy Pants goodbye, traitor. Discarded? You’ll get discarded!” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could still feel her lips on his own. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She knew the merchant prince too well to think that he would sacrifice thirteen of his own ships. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He had put the best man he knew, his own son Jimmy, in charge of his breaking and early training. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, we don’t have sponge mops like the one I use in my own house; the hands-and-knees approach is a definite selling point for corporate cleaning services like The Maids. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

By Rab and Johnny’s standards they were often rude to him; by his own they ‘treated him fine.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She'd gotten quite angry and called me—despite her own accent—a dirty foreigner. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘No matter how much you quarrel there’s something about your own blood sister,’ Lucile said. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Sarai knew those vicious words had come not from old ghost women but her own innermost self, guilt-poisoned from four thousands nights of dark dreams. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She had her own song and made sure we heard it. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra thought of waking him up, but if she was on her own, she could swim in the river. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

That was another thing: most of the kids here were either Green or Blue, with a small tight-knit group of Yellows that didn’t really socialize outside of their own circle. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Maybe Ali Shekari looked at his own scars in the mirror and thought that he was half of a half. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The younger boys, whose fingers itched to show their skills, grabbed their own small drums and joined the beat. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

This is the beautiful thing that I have seen with my own eyes, and I think I needed this vantage point before I could journey out. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Hamlet laughed at his own joke, but Horatio had the grace to look uncomfortable. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Sadna’s own fists gripped the machete as well, fighting to keep the edge from pressing home. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mom had her elbows flat on the tabletop and both hands up under her chin, like she was holding her own severed head. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pain was solid and constant as the beating of his own heart. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lawmakers from Southern states argued that the federal government should not have the power to interfere with a state’s constitutional right to impose its own voting requirements. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fleeing battles or chaos of all kinds, often wounded or driven out by their own clans or villages, each of the original settlers had made his way to this place. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I’d be dead in an instant and all she would have to say is that I sneezed and jerked my head forward and impaled my own self on the wire. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Girls’ quarrels are soon over,” returned her mother, feeling a trifle ashamed of her own part in this one, as well she might. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To what?” he asked gently, whilst we were all very still; for each in our own way we had a sort of vague idea of what she meant. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Momma sang three songs all on her own before the duet with Brent. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“Well—I could get it for six hundred bucks. The ol’ people that owns it is flat bust an’ the ol’ lady needs an operation. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

His music was, however, mostly enjoyed by audiences in his own lifetime, and perhaps most significantly it exerted a huge influence on the debate over music’s future direction. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

While it was annoying to have to go hungry in one’s own home, there was always sorrow aplenty throughout the Protectorate, hanging over the town like a cloud. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Better them than the ghost of her own young self making up stories about the past! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two spoke in their own language, as meaningless to her as drums or birdsong. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then she asks Garrett for the canteen and takes her own measured sip. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, while Newton sat upon his discovery, Leibniz developed his own calculus. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

No shadow came crawling through moonlight seeking the rent through which it might clamber back into its own domain. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

And then had come his own summing up... And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Finally, they turned their lantern on to the lowest setting, just enough to be visible through our own green tent’s shell. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Look, Sapo — ” “Nah, it’s true. Bodega is going to own the neighborhood. Legally. And I want to be part of it. Maybe someday take it over when he’s gone or somethin’. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

She stared at her own reflection, at the ridiculous pile of hair on top of her head. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It is now. Mr. Reilly”—she points to a farm down the road—“who owns Crystal, or who did own her, gave Crystal to her.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was my own blood, my big strong brother. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The sword, obviously, was the wiser choice—and for Chaol to offer his own weapon made her feel strangely lightheaded—but the staff... Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Rumors adhered to no logic but their own. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I'd hoped the language might come on its own, the way it comes to babies, but people don't talk to foreigners the way they talk to babies. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Not a problem. I like hanging out with our very own piano prodigy.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“How are you recovering?” the queen asked, leaning against the side of her own sarcophagus. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

So they watch to make sure you don’t become your own next victim. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He says it will confuse me and make me think about psychological theories instead of about my own ideas and feelings. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Harry could hardly believe that Dumbledore would not have intervened if such cruelty was happening inside his own house, and yet there was undoubtedly something odd about the story. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Her own straight black hair is gathered in a single long braid, and her nimble brown fingers are weaving Ma’s white hair into tidy cornrows. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

“See, I didn’t want to miss my own funeral.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He rode the ten-dollar bills back to where he’d found them, counted a dollar from his own wallet to pay for the sandwiches, dropped it in the delicatessen till, and added a quarter tip. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would be lucky to get an invitation to my own funeral, with my reputation. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mostly he kept finding different ways of letting me know if everything didn’t work the way it was s’pose to, it wouldn’t be no one’s fault but my own. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

If the casualties were limited to their own kind there would be no problem, but the slaughter of cows, pigs, farmers, dogs, and highway signs makes autumn a dangerous season in which to travel. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one who owned a thing like this could be too disagreeable. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Grace is on her own for that one.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Who are you angry at? even like being around kids his good for children to be around Oskar isn’t other children, own age. that’s a wonderful a good thing? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes took on a life of their own, drifting through the room. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Cabot grabbed at the sides of his own angry face. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The other communities he had seen on visits were essentially the same as his own, the only differences were slightly altered styles of dwellings, slightly different schedules in the schools. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

He saw a squad of blue troopers, his own men, riding down into deserted streets. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I could not sit there nodding at him perpetually, without making some other attempt to interest him, I shouted at inquiry whether his own calling in life had been “the Wine-Coopering.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

True followers are bestowed by themselves, out of their own volition and emotions. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

My own back is a map of the school's brutality. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Ernest stepped in at once, advising Neylan that his own investigation of the charges against Calvin had “strengthened and reaffirmed” his confidence in the chemist’s loyalty. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Osh thought it might be a cat jumping or the building making its own noise,” I said, “but I don’t think so.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He seemed to be too involved with his own pain to answer. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Harry tried not to smile, to keep his own face as blank as possible. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

In fact, she seemed to be under the impression she'd had that from your own lips. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking that he had eaten it, she then began to beat him until the boy was able to run away from her and hide in his own hut. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He was tempted to pull Grace inside the house to ask her, but she was reading something on her phone, her own sunglasses pushing her hair back as she frowned at the screen. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

We hugged each other and then said good-bye and went off to opposite ends of the hall to lie down in our own rooms. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“And for my second decree,” Javi yelled, “I demand that our very own James Baxter wipe that look of gloom from his face.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Their own room was empty except for the rusted bed and its springs. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

And I say, “Yeah, I got four of them. They’re my brothers an’ sisters, but I take care of them and I love them like they was my own!” Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the title page, beneath his grandfather’s signature, Ashoke had written his own. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And I’ll have no more texts read at me in my own house!” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Hard to say. But if Ma thought you could do something on your own, she might have sent you back so she could deal with other matters.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Isa was doing her own chopping on the kitchen counter, her knife pounding against the scarred cutting board. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I am afraid you are going to be on your own now.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

A phrase comes to me, a remnant left over from boys, from Saturday afternoons, reading the comics: Pick on somebody your own size. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Was it the wicked leaders who led innocent populations to slaughter, or was it wicked populations who chose leaders after their own hearts? The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, I think, her own fingernails pierced the skin. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Once she’d melted down and napped, she transformed back into her own sweet self again. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

One after another, the peculiar children came out of the audience and took the stage, each with an act of their own. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

And I thought: what would it be like, ten years from now, to be up here gathering greens some morning with children of my own? Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Red swollen balls of fire stare back at me, matching my own crimson eyes. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Wang Lung had also his own secret trouble with Lotus since the day when he had protected her slave from the son of his uncle. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Even the kick we got out of having our own pecan tree or gathering peaches and lemons from Mr. Lucas’s trees waned after a short while. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

They simply looked and nodded in grim respect, remembering their own Treatment, and Palmer’s heart would swell. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I recorded the sound of my own voice. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

As she watched, he touched his own face. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each of the other skulls, they found, had its own daemon-coin, showing its owner’s lifetime companion still close to him in death. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

But what had I gained in devising my own death and escaping from Elsinore? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

That was what made my own time there so hateful. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think the mail carrier will take the letter if you leave it in your own mailbox,” Grandma said. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

But I know he’s got a whole good bin full of kibble at his own house. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Emma was standing sleepily in her own doorway, sniffing the air. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“He owns the barbershop next to my store.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

So lovely it was, so soft, and its own music came from it—its music of promise and delight, its guarantee of the future, of comfort, of security. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew the box in the forest was all wrong for a peregrine, and so he would wonder what would happen when it came time for her to pick her own nesting site. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

A steady rustling sound told her that a few muscles were as unruly as her own. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

She was being vague, but she wasn’t yet ready to speak the dream that had ignited in her heart—a crew of her own, a ship under her command, a crusade. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I followed them, crossing the room to my own locker. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Usually, roommates noticed and warned each other; one day I caught my own watch transgression as we marched into the gym. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

First and foremost, Luma needed players who would show up to practices and games on their own, since their parents were too busy to be of much help. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

They buzz The lawn for Their own sugar And wet play. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like everything else in New York, geography has its own culture. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

How could I have been so wrapped up in my own stupid criminal exercise, the thrill of it, my own anger at the aunties and Granddad— Fatima and Prince Philip, burning. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Aunt Ivy wouldn’t think twice about reading anything she found lying around, even if it was in my own room, on my own desk. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I read her this poem I wrote called “Dream” about doing hip-hop with my own band, and she started crying. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll be “too young” to know stuff again, even about my own life. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Could I make him see why I thought his blackmail was worse than my own? Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then I led the room in the chorus with everyone singing along, some with their own words, some in their own keys. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her brother, older by six years, had already gone on to his own training in the Department of Law and Justice. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I tended my own stupendous bruise through its lurid healing colors and vowed to resign my commission as a meddler. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

This time she would bring her own ballet shoes. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“If your school has no problem hurting its own student body over and over again, they’ll never learn.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

We were all dumbfounded at the realization that the dead man’s daughter was not a child anymore, but a young lady my own age. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Through no fault of her own, she was no longer his equal with codes and ciphers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I do not know. Sleep has no place it can call its own.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

There were other scholars around, and they added their own mockery. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The janitor did a more complicated whistle, and the bird answered him with a song of his own. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Along the banks, leaning out as though to catch their own reflections, were rows of rough stone houses with their shutters painted blue. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Anyhow, I’m feeling real good about things and minding my own business, and that’s when I notice Fin Chaser tied up to the town wharf. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

His manners are extremely crude, I thought, trying to put him at a disadvantage in my own mind by pointedly taking a small piece of the cheesy stuff and placing it neatly into my mouth. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment she had been a wolf again, but Weese's slap took it all away and left her with nothing but the taste of her own blood in her mouth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In many ways, these were the glory days for the accused, for our own people were on the stand fearlessly enunciating ANC policy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They owned leather jackets, had girlfriends, and talked about things like Malcolm X and “soul power.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The eighteenth century saw something of a shift of emphasis to delivery, with “elocutionism” taking root as a formal discipline on its own. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I was so set in my own way of seeing things that I forgot that there is always another way to look at them. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

"She's quite a remarkable young woman, you know. Raising that poor boy all on her own." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Newsome Park came with its own set of friends and boundaries, one of which was the pond their neighborhood shared with adjoining Copeland Park. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He looked around him before he left, as if he was trying to remember what the family looked like and what they owned. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“It should be yours. You’ve brought her prosperity with your Crystal and her Poland piglet offspring. And I have my own farm—my wilderness.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The big cheeses who own the various blocks and districts make a killing off it every single day. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had said it was better to own property rather than cash but he suspected that, for her, it was a safety net in case Port Harcourt fell. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Eric’s parents owned the bakery and worked in it as well. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Why, he’s starving!’’ she exclaimed in horror, and contributed her own breakfast. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain remembered using the boy to plug a hole in the line, stopping the hole with his own brother’s body like a warm bloody cork, and Chamberlain looked at himself. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Part of my dream of having a place of my own. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The scene reminded me of my own first time in the cookhouse when I had sat peeling potatoes until Kevin called me away. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was anxious to find out a little about these people who owned Soldier Island, but the man Narracott seemed curiously ill-informed, or perhaps unwilling to talk. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

It shamed me now that I had said them for my own sake. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

And sometimes, when we share our own stories, they do all three at once. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The Nogtail will creep into a sty and suckle an ordinary sow alongside her own young. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s only really room for one. Get your own grave.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

And that was enough to deal with on its own. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I had never really owned anything of my own, except for Pete’s baseball. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shouted, and could riot hear my own voice. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We can buy our own groceries, Mother. We have money.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“The secrets of the Well of Lightning. Now the elves can build their own.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Where I will have my own men about me, and my own maester too, if I find one I can trust. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I didn’t own a watch, but I could tell that was so. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any obsessive ritual to keep your own heart beating. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“How am I supposed to manage all these kids on my own, and where are you going dressed like that?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

We drove back to New York packed in Daddy’s car, while Henry slept peacefully in the back of his own car with Walter driving. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know that she forms conclusions of her own, and from all that has been I can guess how brilliant and how true they must be; but she will not, or cannot, give them utterance. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I moved the phone to see the ground with my own eyes, and sure enough, the hole had gotten smaller. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Because for your own protection I needed to take you in for questioning.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t a very good piece of art, but it was their own little joke. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The apartment that Fenoglio rented to tourists was only two streets away from his own house. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The mine had been owned by the Dozmary family for eleven generations. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Myron works his lips around his cigar, foul and intimate with his own juices. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Military language has its own systems for naming different groups. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

As he looked upon her it was as if he had shot one of his arrows into his own heart. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you use your own funds for your own trips?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even if it was for his own good. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t believe the evidence of my own eyes. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I tied Joey’s shoes back on her feet and used her towel to wipe my own forehead. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let them laugh, swear, make bets, grumble and do whatever they want as long as they stew in their own juice. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Yes. I can see that. A man would be tempted to reject them—I mean, his own.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They owned the northeast with nine of every ten towers flaunting their brand. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

She reached for one of Jinny’s hands with her own small fingers. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He tied one end of the clothesline to the penguin’s fat throat and the other to his own wrist. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

This was us, in our own world, with our own language and customs. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The young lady, however, seemed slightly bored with her own singing ability, or perhaps just with the time and place; twice, between verses, I saw her yawn. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I had read the dramatic poetry of Wilfred Owen, who had been killed in the first world war, and took to filling pages with my own romantic poetry about the nurse, war, and heroic deaths. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Go out and find a chick of your own.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Ivy looked around for more of her own drawings, ones that June shouldn’t have. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

With Gertrude’s money, I could marry a nobleman or buy a merchant’s wares and set up my own shop. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But I can’t help but also notice that the color of his eye isn’t all that different from my own. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

‘We should never have left them to get the tickets on their own,’ Mum said when Kat finished. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shuddered, and just then Granny Blakeslee’s eyes opened wide in a horror of her own. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Now that they know I remember at least some of it, they are letting me stew in my own guilt. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

They stood waiting silently in the hallway while Rachel climbed the stairs, weeping, and came back with her own woolen cloak. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

When the Science Patrol encountered a threat they couldn’t handle on their own, Hayata would use an alien device called a Beta Capsule to transform into an alien superbeing known as Ultraman. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

What happened to the man who had originally owned that robe? Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

My own mother tried to kill my father with a frying pan when he took me for the first pint. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

When it came to saving her own soul, she wanted to be careful that there were no mistakes. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was an audible sigh of relief as everyone rose from the fire circle to seek the privacy and rest of their own cabins. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“God demands a martyr. And who better for the special boy to kill than God’s very own mouthpiece?” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

What if it’s my own mind playing games with me, and not Kalinda? Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Before settling in at his own rig, Eric grabbed a swig of milk from a carton in the refrigerator, taking a good whiff first. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My pulse skitters, and I shake his hand away, unnerved at my own reaction. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Surely you remember the boy in your own school class who was exceptionally ‘bright,’ did most of the reciting and answering while the others sat like so many leaden idols, hating him. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the trial set to begin early the next year, Daniel and Patricia flew to New York and stayed at the apartment she still owned in Manhattan. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Minnie looked tired but otherwise appeared as I had imagined—patient and strong—based on Walter's descriptions and my own guesses from our phone conversations. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He never would own up to being drunk; he’d always say he had a headache or needed to get the prescription for his glasses readjusted. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Finn slid down to stand on his own two feet. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Everything he owned was in that bag—a change of clothes, the family photo album, his Matchbox cars, an old honey tin, and his camera, the old Minolta XE. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The ongoing argument about his own future echoes in his ears as he enters the tent. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

By bringing Cap into our home, I had left her no choice but to take matters into her own hands. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“How would you know that was going to happen? And anyway, you didn’t take me. I drove there all on my own.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Next, I pushed Gus’s old jackets and sweaters to the back of the closet and hung up some of my T-shirts so it looked like I had a whole closet of my own. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Getting rid of anyone is bad. Especially one of your own.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

There’s pretty much no ethical qualm you can have anymore once you’ve sold out your own people and stood by to watch them get beaten and disappeared. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I don’t have any girlfriends to talk to, so I don’t know how other people deal with things like this, but I think it’s about time I told Dad that I’ll buy my own. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

‘You need not follow him. I know of no evil you have done to me. You can have rest and food here for a while, until you are stronger and can go your own ways.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Kit raised her own arm to wave back, and then she turned and started back along the shore. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Going forward, he kissed the young man’s head, his shining eyes and both hands, while his own tears brimmed and fell. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s had a lot of nightmares in this room. Many of them were his own, but...I had a hand in plenty.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

From here on, she’d have to figure things out on her own. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was strange to see them written down like a poem, each name on its own line, and each word speaking an immensity. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But then, one day, a boy working on a group project with Annie managed to snap a photo of her showering in the privacy of her own home. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She used her lightest pink marker for her own hair, the color of sweet and fluffy cotton candy. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He spun over to get to his feet, but Horace got to his own just as fast. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

So most of our days are spent commuting to and from everywhere and stuck inside the small two-story house, minding our own business. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

They spread on their own, sometimes wiping out native species of plants. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The third- stage engine of the Saturn had a character all its own. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took a step forward, whether of her own will or because the cold was dragging her now she did not know. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

In his own home town his name spelled dread and grudging respect. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But we shouldn’t have to copy another school. Why can’t we come up with our own collection—something that represents our town?” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, he’s been helping me design my own clothing line. You should see what he can do with velvet.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He heard the desperation in his own voice. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

My “old hen” neighbor—her own label for herself—is sought after like a debutante at a grand ball for her horse-training skills. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Sansa dried her own tears as she struggled to comfort her friend They went to sleep in the same bed, cradled in each other's arms like sisters. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The father was looking up, and Ifemelu knew that he was stunned by his own faith, stunned to find himself believing in things he did not think he ever would. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

If we hadn’t been in here, pretending we were in our own little world, then my brother wouldn't have heard, wouldn’t have seen, wouldn’t have told me to stay away from Sandy. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

"You are speaking of our beloved brother, your king's own blood." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And thirteen mice, ashamed for Lester, looked away Reader, can you imagine your own father not voting against your being sent to a dungeon full of rats? The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Then he drives me to the hospital in his own car, a two-year-old Phaeton that must have cost the earth. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

You're not going to let Dill bleed to death or choke on his own vomit in there. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

During the Kansas campaign, Stanton and Anthony spent weeks with Train, and at one point, Train asked Stanton why she and the other suffragists didn’t have a newspaper of their own. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Most of all, she felt misunderstood by her own family, who scolded her for being touchy and outspoken and having a bad attitude. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Blaise Pascal was enthralled, and started performing experiments of his own, using water, wine, and other fluids. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Victarion had forbidden his men to bring any of the demonic creatures aboard ship, yet somehow half his fleet was now infested with them, even his own Iron Victory. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They also carved out their own respective roles in the social world. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

So if neither food nor company nor its own shelter was important to it, Violet decided, and Joe agreed, nothing was left to love or need but music. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I practice,” I say, suddenly wishing I hadn’t said it at all, because it’s one of those things—like I am make-believe—that sounds better in my own head. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I had even bought some inexpensive sets with my own allowance. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were times when so many children were in so many corners that I would have to hunt for a space for my own punishment. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I went into my own room and drew the curtains, but there was little to notice; my window opened into the courtyard, all I could see was the warm grey of quickening sky. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Those who glanced over at their table at the noise assume it was their imagination, and return their attention to their own tea. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Really you know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a glimmering memory of my own. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

After running away from home, she’d spent a few weeks surviving on her own, living in alleyways and hiding from monsters until Thalia and Luke took her under their wings. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Let him favor you all he chooses. But hear me well, in my company you will take your own part.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

And for once, the grumpy nurse doesn’t order her back to her own patients. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only when the bailiff took her arm to escort her out of the room did she realize that the wail was coming from her own mouth. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A charismatic police officer, investigator, or prosecutor struggles with his own demons while heroically trying to solve a horrible crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Behind it, at its broad stern, foam burst; then the river closed around the interruption and resumed its own form again, as if the boat had never been there. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Her little granddaughter, the one who lives in her own world, takes a bright blue ball of yarn from my mother’s knitting basket. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

And without his plan and his leadership—these two items seemed inextricably connected in his own mind—the government and inevitably the national union itself must collapse. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

"No, daddy-o, I'm going to start with one my own size!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until the end of colonialism, she suggested, researchers tended to work in their own countries’ possessions. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He lay for a moment, and smelled his own, close, hot smell, not hearing anything. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

What he’s telling us, his level smile implies, is for our own good. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was serendipitous when writer Thomas Keneally walked into the luggage store that the Pages owned in Beverly Hills and became fascinated by the story Mr. Page told him. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“As they used the song to taunt school officials,” Sullivan says, “the lyrics seemed to have encouraged students to violently take matters into their own hands.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

In her own way, Hazel too was a ghost reborn. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Not as good as having Nikki breathing on her own or tracking, which would mean that she was interacting with her environment and was what everyone was waiting for. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d already gone through most of the books in the public library near us and was beginning to want chess books of my own,” Bobby said later, reflecting back on the period. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning we were herded back to our own yard, into our house, where Mami was propped up on pillows nursing our new baby sister, and Papi, in the kitchen, installed a kerosene cookstove. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Even from there, I could see that in a rainy spring, that old river would really choose its own direction. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each mourner was to be taken to his own home. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your Pa is gone, Meng, so you are now the head of our family. Your life is not your own anymore. You have a family to take care of,” he says quietly. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its emotional tone is as familiar to me as my own skin; it is but another way of saying that sinners shall be bound in Hell a thousand years. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I thought of this place as my own private virtual hell. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

For our own peace of mind, we scythes must retain a certain level of separation from the rest of humanity. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The gangs already owned the territory—real estate was, in essence, their core business—and they were suitably menacing to keep customers from even thinking about ripping them off. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Today he and his friends had visited Animal farm and inspected every inch of it with their own eyes, and what did they find? Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“And we’ll get you ...” She looked at me curiously, her sooty face inches away from my own. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Some of her wild hair, curly again thanks to the humidity in the air, was brushing his shoulder in spite of her careful posture, as if it had a life of its own. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But in the days of Bilbo, and of Frodo his heir, they suddenly became, by no wish of their own, both important and renowned, and troubled the counsels of the Wise and the Great. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Dany lifted his polished black visor The face within was her own. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The sum total of these chains makes a web in which every work of art occupies its own specific place. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In time she created a whole miniature world of household animals and people engaged in every trade: carpenters, laundresses, cooks, each with his or her own tiny tools and furniture. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The demand for new garments has slowed, and people have taken to mending their own clothes— it’s one place they can easily cut corners. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Through it he saw nothing but blue air, but below, far below, was a landscape of trees and fields: his own world, without a doubt. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to form a republic where the people of each district and the Capitol can elect their own representatives to be their voice in a centralized government. Don’t look so suspicious; it’s worked before.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

All of us kids had our own lives by then. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But I get to belt it out all on my own for almost a full minute if you add it all up. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Billy took his seat with the others around a golden oak table, with a microphone all his own. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because maize kernels are wrapped inside a tough husk, human beings must sow the species—it essentially cannot reproduce on its own. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

This would be the third consecutive year they had held their own private celebration of the birth of the Corps. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was getting confident enough to sing the water monster lullaby on his own. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Shasta stared into its great eyes and his own grew almost as big, with astonishment. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Thomas didn’t know which were louder— Gaily s or his own. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

His own ships crept along the shores of the Disputed Lands to take on food and wine and fresh water at Volantis before swinging south around Valyria. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, as a matter of fact, I’m not. I made a friend of my own today. At the laundromat. Her name’s Beulah.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Like everything else he owned, it had once belonged to someone else in his family —- in this case, his grandfather. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“And you hardly tell me anything about yourself, you could have fled an arranged marriage of your own.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A boy his age should certainly be sure of the spelling of his own name—even a name like this with an unusual spelling. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He heard the authority in his own voice, the conviction, the sense of purpose that had come to him as he dug Dobby’s grave. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

One could always tell when Lucas was doing that thing where he was lost in his own thoughts, as would often happen when the topic of brothers came up. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

His own heart was hammering, and his lungs already felt tight. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“But I’m going to build my own house. Here.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

When the laughter finally died in her throat, they wrapped her in warm blankets and led her back to the Great Keep, to her own chambers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I knew Annabeth had been waiting for her own quest since she was a little kid, but she looked uncomfortable. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He had been trying, in his own way, to go about his plans alone. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He came slinking down the steps, the front of his white hooded sweatshirt stained with his own blood. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Wearing it now around her own neck, Kira lifted it against her cheek, hoping to recapture a feeling of her mother, perhaps the smell of her: herbs and dyes and dried blossoms. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smoke rose from the forges, and hammers rang as kids made their own weapons for Arts & Crafts. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“We just found out. Your mom told us. He’s been calling her for regular updates, and he’s been, what, quietly supportive over there. I guess the dude is showing his love in his own way.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Bronze, they were, brighter than polished shields, glowing with their own heat, burning behind a veil of smoke rising from the dragon’s nostrils. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Woman must have a purse of her own,” Anthony concluded. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Then she tugs my arm closer, pushes my sleeve up, and cups my hand between her own. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“To the ghoul-gates? No. Those are for ghouls. I am a Hound of God. I travel my own road, into Hell and out of it.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Students went there a lot; every spring they had a Humphrey Bogart festival, with Lauren Bacall or Katharine Hepburn, women on their own, making up their minds. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put my own ingenuity to work, coming up with a dozen names from my reading, because, of course, I don’t want to give the sons any real Dominican names and get someone in trouble. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane bounced hard inside an air pocket, and he remembered with a start that he had left his own parachute up front in the nose. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

In the city, she’d owned lots of things—practically anything she wanted came out of the wall. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t figure it out on my own, though,” she said. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Individually, no member of the Party owns anything, except petty personal belongings. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I watched my own screen through squinted eyes as the mountain grew with the bodies of Persians and Spartans. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

His own driver’s license had several months still to go before it expired. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I came to Wilmington to try to start a theater company of my own. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He keeps looking, until he trips over his own feet by one of the big windows in the hallway. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Harry felt the Horcrux beating fast, faster than his own heart: It was an unpleasant, agitating sensation. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I might as well have my own way to protect myself, so I don’t feel I have to rely on Kelton’s Krav Maga, or whatever other lethal martial art he knows. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was entitled to his own versions, his own conjurings; as I am. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When it was a bit lighter he rose and walked out and cut a perimeter about their siwash camp looking for sign but other than their own faint track through the ash he saw nothing. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He watched them intently, as if expecting them to do something on their own. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“My brother can’t make you go. I own half of this farm. I have my own money.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Red lunged at me, trying to grab it away, but his own father held him back. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

One didn’t talk about such things; the world, she knew, was impatient with women who value their own children too highly. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mortals and demigods came here at their own risk. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

And he turned back to his own writing—probably a sermon about hell’s torments, one of which was writing a short essay in thirty minutes. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Since Washington had no children of his own—the Father of His Country was almost certainly sterile—he was less vulnerable to charges of hereditary aspirations. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Jonas wrapped his arms around himself and rocked his own body back and forth. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

While she was wanting her own daughter back, I was longing for Mother not to be disappointed in me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

His bones were so thirsty that whenever he walked on top of underground water, no matter how far down, his own skeleton told him where it was. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few grabbed the soldiers' boots and tossed their own wooden clogs at them in exchange. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“I’d wish I could buy about sixteen blocks of land and build a kind of Disneyland of my own.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The time of year being autumn, the spider had left egg cases in its web, preparing for its own cycle of replication. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Werner has crossed the edge of the field, where he steps on a trigger land mine set there by his own army three months before, and disappears in a fountain of earth. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The man in the middle, who owned the paper, snapped it shut. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thing that infuriates me most about her, though, is that she has the gall to make me appreciate my own parents more. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Little did he know that Spassky, comparing his own performance to Bobby’s in 1971, judged Bobby the stronger player. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In my diary I wrote: Tonight I feel love from my own people. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reproachful face faded from his mind, and his tension vanished, driven out by the exalted sense of heroism with which his own words had filled him. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

This offense, I felt sure, was entirely of his own invention. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There were a thousand Sun Valley people there. He had his own people to take care of him, his own coaches, his own teammates, his own cheerleaders’ laps. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Police investigation eventually discovered a blond woman with a ponytail who regularly associated with a bearded and mustachioed black man who owned a yellow car. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alba spent two days walking around the house in circles in a state of sheer despair, going through the books in Jaime’s tunnel and on her own shelves and destroying anything that might be compromising. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man who’d proudly owned eighteen suits as a teenager, and who’d aspired to own a hundred more, now dressed the same way every day. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The girls threw themselves around the library like they owned it, finding tables and claiming them, making sure they saved a seat for Tiffany or Kelli or whoever. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

If the truth were known, he liked the man as much as his own father, but sometimes— often, actually—he had trouble remembering exacdy what the Mellower had said. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

This is proof that my own parents might hold the answers. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“If you was really smart as you think you is, you’d quit looking for answers inside your own head and start looking for ’em in God’s gifts. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Ugwu told her that there was a large palm-oil-colored stain on her dress, his voice low, as if he knew it to be the remnants of her own vomit. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She is a person in her own right, and she does not belong to me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

We stayed in my uncle’s house there for a few months because we had no house of our own anymore. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He never married or had children of his own, but he loved his family more than anything. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

We exhaled quietly, afraid that our own breathing could cause our death. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Marly saw their looks saying “why not?” and scrambled out for her own boots, using the tramped places Joe had made. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then his hands went limp and fell with their own weight from her shoulders. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It might have her face, but it was a phantasm—just a scrap of memory dancing on a string—and everything it said and did came from the dreamer’s own mind. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Apa still says that someday we will buy a house of our own. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

"So! If we could hear our own songs, if we could see God's creation the way God does, we would know it's the most beautiful song there is." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He bound the stump of his wrist tightly with a cloth, and he walked beside the gods back to Asgard, and he kept his own counsel. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

More noises joined in a few seconds later, coming from all directions, the closest right outside their own window. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Even my own mother, who’d grown up in the village, couldn’t read. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I am not. I don’t want you to go along with the crowd. I want you to be your own man. Stand out in your own way.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Despite her marital troubles, she had that air of secret elation, that affection for her own body that pregnant women often have. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly Headless Nick watched mournfully as Harry, Ron, and Hermione loaded their own plates. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Archer traced her hand with his own, trailing his fingertips along the soft blades of her fingers until they were laced with his. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly with clear voices they spoke a courteous greeting in their own tongue. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But I saw, too, that Barack’s own forecast had been correct as well. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was supposed to be a three-page paper showing how something that happened in one of Shakespeare’s plays also happened in our own community. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

For I was increasingly confident of my own public identity. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was amazed by her own fluidness, it was as if she had convinced even herself that she was not living on memories mildewed by thirteen years. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Otherwise we might get clobbered by our own shells.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If they have no teeth, it’s too late for them, isn’t it,” the expert said through his own clenched teeth. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

My dad had faith in his own utility. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She need only show separate minds, as alive as her own, struggling with the idea that other minds were equally alive. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then he came to the part of the speech about his own future. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“First, tell me how I may reach Caer Dathyl as quickly as possible. Second, I beg you to conduct this girl safely to her own people.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“I was on my mom’s until primary three, then my dad said we needed to get our own passports,” Osahon said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The corset’s skirt dropped garters attached to nothing because my grandmother owned no stockings. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Uh, I think you have Mr. Morrison to thank for that. He’s the one that lost his mind in class, which in retrospect was perfect, because now we have our own club. Ha!” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

The robot was about to settle into her own kind of sleep when she heard something in the underbrush below. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you want a family of your own?” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

When some other kids come toward us, he gets this look on his face, very cool, very into his own head. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled herself from his embrace and stood on her own two feet. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Mordred was slipping behind his back, with a band on his own dagger. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother and father, two brothers, and a sister as dear to me as my own self—there is no language for my loss. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He says, I have me own teeth, son. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I run my tongue over my own teeth and check my faja. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone knows it’s a thing how all the black hair care places are owned by Koreans and what an injustice that is. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I was kind of hoping I could borrow your room until I can save up enough money for my own place.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I could see my parents, and they could see me, but at least I felt like I was a little bit on my own. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Except tea and cakes. And your own excellent perfume, of course.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

That he’s started a life on his own. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The untouched businesses have boarded-up windows and graffiti that says “black owned.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

And I had said it with all the longing I felt for Kevin who was now too far away for me to reach through any effort of my own. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The other girls agreed, touching their own distended middles. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

With their hands free, they took up tools and beat from the bush their own food and shelter and their own fine business of right and wrong. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Father's face made her think of her own father, dying in his bed at Riverrun. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I tried to imagine being betrayed by my own mother, but I couldn’t. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Aside from the obvious pressure, it seemed that everyone had his or her own little way of doing things, especially when it came to writing. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, I can’t be a lumberjack, Ma. I got this dead tree of my own.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy slid her purple notebook back into her own lap. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She must be dealt with on her own level, and thus I thought of her as I surveyed the sub-standard conditions in the factory. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No monster,” I said, feeling a little better, to my own surprise. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Selkies from Queen Orlagh’s Court of the Undersea speak together in their own language, skins slung from their shoulders like capes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Shoemaker had an Iowa connection–his daughter-in-law taught at the University of Iowa–and he was familiar with the Manson crater from his own studies. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Even hunger had never driven me to appropriate what was not my own. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Get dressed and meet me downstairs once you’ve used the privy,” Mama said, picking up a hand mirror and double-checking her own hair, which was as neat and tight as Ophie’s. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The next minute, it seems, I’ve got a business of my own, with employees, and I’m rich. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Six and a half hours later I found out the lot was owned by the city. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have their own colors, their own hideouts, and they are always riding for each other, like gangs. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“What would you have me say, Mr. Stonecrop? That my own boy shouldn’t find shelter for someone in need? That my own boy shouldn’t care for the outcast?” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“He is here every day. It’s for your own good. Eliot, tell Mrs. Sen it’s for her own good.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Whereas prosecutors claim they strike black jurors not because of their race but because of their hairstyle, police officers have their own stock excuses—e.g., The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Besides, Gale’s already so angry and frustrated with the Capitol that I. sometimes think he’s going to arrange his own uprising. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Here and there a larger pebble clung to its own air and was covered with a coat of pearls. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Why hide something in her own room when she could hide it in mine? Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

And in a moment of either weakness or bravery on my own part, I decide to follow it. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The government wanted to control the movements of all Africans, and such control was far more difficult in freehold urban townships, where blacks could own property, and people came and went as they pleased. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was beginning to shriek now, sitting there like a wax doll melting in its own heat. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is more than a part of the ship; she has her own legs, but they’re badly corroded from being so long in this dank place. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

They’re dilated, frightened, drowning in wartime memories, maybe drowning in his own dreams of his daughter, my mama. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It provided home mortgages for hundreds of black families, people of dependable but modest means who could not have otherwise bought their own homes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

And there were the Communists who were supposed to be part of the Nationalist movement, but they had their own ideas, my father said, and they didn’t always agree with General Chiang Kai-shek. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We can think of it as a dedicated mutual aversion to their own kind, a little as if the world were densely populated by anchorites and misanthropes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moss thought that Esperanza was going to chime in with a story or two of her own, but she still stood awkwardly off to the side. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Kepler tried making his own telescope, but it wasn’t good enough to see the moons of Jupiter. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

No one can own the species called “corn.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He looked beneath both seats and stood again for a while, cursing, seeing himself mocked by his own triumphing. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first it just seems like chaos, each person dancing to their own tune, but then I realize they’re just offset by a few seconds. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

They went onto the next court and started their own hoop dreams. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was going to display some stupidity of his own. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Chandrasekhar calculated that a cold star of more than about one and a half times the mass of the sun would not be able to support itself against its own gravity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the next sector some of our men were found whose noses were cut off and their eyes poked out with their own sawbayonets. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Underneath the lists are rows of shops with their own neon signs. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

‘No. Not from that picture on its own, Kat. But look at this one too.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did this all before with my own kids. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

She could be a woman taking charge of her own life. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I know where there’s another big log around the point that would make a good totem. If you want, we can drag it here for you to make your own totem.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

It had never occurred to me that colored people needed their own beach. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Now these strangers are here and milling around, and they must be the ones who own this property and this house. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I want to be like the other girls in my year who know how to do their own hair and make clever conversation. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

‘If Saruman had heard it, he would be a hundred miles away by now, even if he had had to run on his own legs,’ said Pippin. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The fact was he wanted the gold because it was gold and he wanted to own it. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry bit back a laugh and hastily returned his gaze to his own hoop. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“You go on home now, son. Back to your own kind. I seen ya at the block party. Now you get goin’.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing but a pink boot without a girl to wear it and a rifle that I knew as well as my own hand. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Sighing, Nicole’s mom ran a hand over the thickness of her thighs, the roundness of her bottom, and it was as if Nicole could feel the shame in her own body. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He motions to Russell, pointing to his own jaw, but Russell waves his motion away and points up to Gabriel. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

As time went on, the hydrogen and helium gas in the galaxies would break up into smaller clouds that would collapse under their own gravity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The point to remember, of course, is that when considering the universe at large we don’t actually know what is in our own solar system. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Cousin Eunice wanted to object to having Dicey in with the boys, but she didn’t want her own room to be crowded, so she didn’t say much. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of a kid, of any of us, turning against our own kind made me want to smash the shelf we were leaning against into a heap of metal. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Honey. If you can get hold of any slippery elm powder, add a bit of that as well. But a spoonful of honey should help on its own,” I say. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

His own rules for guarding me, handling me, taking care of me. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

My mom nods, willing to accept the fib, if only to lessen her own worry. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Yet today I find it lying about where anyone of questionable character might take it for their own.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I had learned from some of the pros, and from my own experience, how important it was to be careful and plan. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other men sat around slumped into their own sorrows, listening to the Nigerians trade their stories, sometimes laughing, sometimes self-pitying. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

His body radiated its own sort of gravity, causing the other monsters to lean towards him. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Still—all things considered, Molly knows she has it pretty good: her own room in a tidy house, employed and sober foster parents, a decent high school, a nice boyfriend. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

One day I was traveling to Shangla with my mother and brothers; we didn’t own a car, and one of our cousins was giving us a ride. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“A sword that makes its own heat.. “... would be a fine thing on the Wall.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You and those other dorky nerds had so much fun picking up trash along the side of the road, you decided to start your own club.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Lawrence’s statement had the curious effect of undermining both the other witnesses, while placing his own credibility at the service of a smear of Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Each group kept to itself, spoke its own language, and grew its own special crops. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The king has lofty theories of his own. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could buy a cow, and they could make their own ice cream. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Deftly she circled his waist, and then her own, with the length of supple vine. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Unconsciously he rubbed his own abdomen, recalling the pain of its unfulfilled needs. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“He came to see me about reading the future, but not his own.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

She had never seen him with her own eyes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In its own evolution through unknown hosts and hidden pathways in the rain forest. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His own metal wings seemed to weigh him down, getting in his way while he tried to work. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Woman must lead the way to her own salvation.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He moved his own fins anti-clockwise, gave the tip of his tail a cunning flick, and was lying alongside the tench. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a sort of themed autobiography—an account of Newman’s own loss of faith and the quest for a new one. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I was on my own, I could shadow-travel. But that won’t work for an entire ship. And honestly, I’m not sure I have the strength to even transport myself anymore.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

This farmer took the goose home alive, pinioned it, bound up its leg, and turned it out with his own ducks and poultry in the farmyard. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in his mind he tracked his own movements, hoping he’d live long enough to use the information to return to the Door again. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Mom’s own headscarf was dark blue, with peacock feather designs embroidered on it. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

We must look strange: Ollie and Willem in dark suits and me in the only black dress that I own, cycling in a single line along the road next to a creek. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And our own latrine, which was only one step removed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I must go my own way, and I do so gladly,” Hans once wrote to a friend. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

If I preached unity, I must act like a unifier, even at the risk of perhaps alienating some of my own colleagues. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex looked down the street of simple little frame houses, not so different from his own. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

But he was terribly clumsy in gym shoes and the court was his own private china shop. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took up the rope and made it fast over the stump nearest to the brink; then the other end he tied about his own waist. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

At that moment Cholly could not remember what his own self looked like. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

"A boy who doesn't know his own father might be dumb enough to run away," he says. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Aware of the loud beating of my own heart I pulled the door to against the increasing rain. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

But some women continued to oppose their own suffrage, arguing that having the vote would threaten women’s role in society and in the home. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It helped him dig his hole and ease his own suffering. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The insight, which would be implemented in an accelerator known as the synchrotron, was a breakthrough on a par with Lawrence’s own recognition of the cyclotron principle. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She tend to a white family a her own. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“But comrade, you cannot stage their revolution for them. You can only create awareness. Educate them. They must launch their own struggle. They must overcome their fears.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It pleased me that she was willing to lie for me, even in such a small thing, even for her own advantage. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It did not occur to him that he was really concerned about his own suffering, since the dog had adjusted himself to frailty and old age. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the man’s wiry arms were wrapped around her, pinning her own to her sides. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Margot is sixteen—apparently they want to send girls her age away on their own. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

At last, action, physical action, something you could see with your own eyes. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every newspaper in the city, other than his own Times, opposed Harrison, as did Burnham and most of Chicago’s leading citizens. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I held my job, managed my own money, kept passing grades, and stayed out of deep trouble. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

That is when I joined the African National Congress, and that is when the hunger for my own freedom became the greater hunger for the freedom of my people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I can’t be safe among my own kind, where can I be?” he had once said testily. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, each observer would have his own measure of time as recorded by a clock that he carried: clocks carried by different observers would not necessarily agree. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, it’s an unbelievable time with unbelievably convincing replicas in each room, made even better by Lidia sharing fun facts about each location she learned from her own studies. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s about Dust,” said the cat dæmon, and Will marveled to hear part of his own nature telling him something he didn’t know. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

By his own account, he became “a mental and emotional wreck” and spent most of the period crossing Maine weeping copiously. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He knew that all the other Touchable workers in the factory resented Velutha for ancient reasons of their own. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We know so little of our own geography. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I don’t know if it’s explicitly stated in the law, but you can’t ever tell a Chinese mother to shut up. You could be charged as an accessory to your own murder.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, she admired the ritual, envying the Levys the pleasure they took in one another’s company, wishing her cousins lived nearby so she could have an orchestra of her own. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I certainly was old enough to make my own decisions. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

We watched her go, each of us thinking our own private thoughts. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He refilled Hagrid’s mug and his own, and questioned him about the creatures that lived in the forest these days and how Hagrid was able to look after them all. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I was in a pool of my own foul expulsions. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Two Christmases ago, which was his first Christmas with us, Richard gave me my own set of ropes and started showing me knots. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

A streak of it right out of your own blue heaven. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kit stared, too aghast to realize her own tactlessness. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The two of them didn’t want me to feel left out, so instead of getting dates of their own, they decided we’d all go together. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t have a “black owned” tag either. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“I have brought my own bowl today, so as not to inconvenience the honorable potter’s wife,” he said. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

But if he did so, one of his attendants would immediately mount him again on his own horse—just as we would do to a master- of-hounds today—because that was the feudal law. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s right, she says, me own teeth, and when I rot in the grave they’ll find me teeth a hundred years from now all white an’ shiny an’ I’ll be declared a saint. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She had read the manual pages listlessly several times, guiltily aware of her own disinterest. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I let their colored memories draw me out of my own miserable life. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Now after thirty-four years, the commemorations and interviews and presentations of posthumous honors have almost stopped, so that for months at a time Dedd is able to take up her own life again. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“God owns the cattle on a thousand hills,” he often told himself. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Rowan could barely speak through his own tears. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

With the tears running down her own cheeks, Kit flung both arms around the trembling woman, and together they huddled against the log and watched till the red glow lessened and died away. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Now he was dead before his fortieth birthday, a tape recording of one of his last sermons serving as his own funeral oration. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He married her and made the baseball team his own, adding four more kids to make it an even twelve. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I retrieve Justin’s email and password from my own email, then log in as him. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

She sounded like she doubted her own ability to read. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t they give us back our own shoes?” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The oval is replaced with another one, with its own shifting colors. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I stopped, frightened by the sound of my own voice. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She studied poetry and the plays of William Shakespeare, and she wrote poems of her own. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But some of the coolest kids, like Sage, made up their own words. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

A huge wave of immigrants came to the United States, many of them Germans who had either worked in or even owned breweries back home. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

We slept on piles of our own clothes. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the old days a hunter would shoot or trap animals just to feed his own family, perhaps his village. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment I had an uneasy feeling, meeting the queen of the country that had once colonized my own country in Africa. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Beneath my moral outrage was a strong sense of possessiveness, a fury that other people were sinking their hooks into my own personal midget. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Dominick’s father owned a Sicilian bakery in Gloucester. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Emma enjoyed her grandchildren immensely, playing with them and bribing them just as she had done with her own children. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then when my father went away, my uncle started writing his own music, telling stories in his songs. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She had owned this tobacco bag ever since Omakayas could remember. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“No it isn’t. Just as I see the future, Jacob has powers of his own.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Poisoning your own drinking water, changing the air so much the earth shook and melted and crumbled, harvesting a race for medicine. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Shusgis puffed and nodded vigorously in approval of his own opinion, and smiled at me, the smile of one virtuous man to another. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

On a chair by the bedside were all my own things, clean and dry. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Even when Regulus made laws forbidding the pagan religion and compelling people to be Christian for their own good, they kept to the old wicked ways. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Freddie got on the stand and went to work on his own shoes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spoke only to thank my uncle after he had given me transportation money to use if I decided to visit on my own. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was as if her own body had betrayed her to Joffrey, unfurling a banner of Lannister crimson for all the world to see. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In spite of this amendment, however, she requested to have a note sent to Longbourn, desiring her mother to visit Jane, and form her own judgment of her situation. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

The bear smelled on Omakayas’s skin the smell of its own cousin’s bear grease used to ward off mosquitoes. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“He gave his own son to the dementors?” asked Harry quietly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Magnetic anchors,” mused Kether, wondering how he might appropriate the technology for his own engine designs. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

However, I would not like to own a dog myself. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

My eyes scan this space that suddenly feels like it’s not my own, not the place I’ve spent every night for over a decade. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Roland Hayes invited her to sing on some of his own programs. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

As much as she wanted Baba Joseph’s approval, she couldn’t ignore the evidence of her own eyes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoiled them so much that the younger two girls did little all day but sit before the mirror, gazing at their own beauty and pinching their cheeks to make them red. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

In her hearts, she had never and could never make that choice—humans over her own kind. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I think I can trust Willis Hurd to be telling the truth over a boy who can’t even keep his own mouth clean,” said Reverend Buckminster, and took his presence out of the room. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I did not think he could walk far enough to get his own, not yet. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Selling cows and running businesses were considered jobs for men, but she did her own thing. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Listing his occupation as “traveler,” he never again owned a permanent home or stayed in one place for long. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eduardo used his own name, but John wants me to have an alias. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt the pain in her cheek, like it was her own flesh being ripped to pieces. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He even made up his own tales about “Henry the Whale.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, he was right We didn’t have time to argue, and I couldn’t escape on my own. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Lady Isobel had her own manor house near the City and her own housekeeper there. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spend the rest of the day entering adoption information into the computer and collecting my own sampling. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

As a senior in high school, Sasha was still inventing languages, hanging out online with other “conlangers”—people who construct languages of their own. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

You too can make up your own very large numbers and give them strange names. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nonsense. We don’t own everything. And what we do own, why, we worked pretty darn hard for it.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, ma’am,” I said, afraid to trust my own judgment. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Rufe, if there’s a woman on the place who makes up her own mind, it’s Alice. I didn’t put her up to a thing.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Though boys were put into their own groups with the older ones in charge, Sudanese elders, following our traditions, decided the girls needed to be looked after by adults. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turned out, he was a big Danny Devon fan and even offered to buy his own ticket. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

They had actually thought that they themselves had something to do with what was happening and were somehow in control of their own destinies. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Newton was a great one for rewriting history in his own favour, and the inverse square law emerged much more gradually than the story suggests. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, and to his own surprise, Frodo felt a hot wrath blaze up in his heart. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Fluky about her own name at twelve, how much more fluky she’d become since then Macon could only guess. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

One minute Mom and Bridget and I are bribing him to take showers and the next minute he’s asking Mom if he can buy his own clothes for school. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

There was a horrid ache in his chest from TimeStar’s sharp confession and his own keen deductions. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was a generous thing to do, especially at a time when they were hurrying so in their Plan, their own move. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Their hearts were wrung with anguish, the anguish of having children, a vulnerability as astonishing as the capacity for love that parenthood brings, in a cuff link set all its own . Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Glenn Close was telling Michael Douglas, her own hair that unraveled kind of messy that showed just how crazy she was about to get. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

"I keep telling Jim he needs to wash his knives," said Mr. Pike, who owned the general store. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

As Narcissus bent over a clear pool for a drink and saw there his own reflection, on the moment he fell in love with it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I abandoned plans to cook with or serve my own salt, and counted myself lucky to have survived. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

At once he let go of the handles and again he stood in his own living room, beside his wife and the empathy box. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“And your mother. I couldn’t bear to watch her. She had fallen in love again. She thought only of the revolution. There was nothing I could do but eat my own sour guts.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was something in his face that reminded Arya of her own father, even though they looked nothing alike. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In it Mami put a cot with its own mosquito net, a small table and chair, and a basket for my underclothes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She heard her own voice, calm as morning after a storm, no, quiet as death, say, “When will you be leaving?” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

When all else failed, she took them into her own house. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They found their own places to sleep because the men stayed until dawn. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dahlgren did not appear—to do so would be to violate her own argument that women should not participate in public forums—but she offered a written statement titled “Protest against Woman Suffrage.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Violet had the nerve to put it on the fireplace mantel in her own parlor and both she and Joe looked at it in bewilderment. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stand at the threshold, listening to my own breathing. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

So there were four men, each with their own special skills. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

His shoulders turn inward with shyness and he watches the others carefully, as if he’s gauging what his own response should be. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Hope that the dog is here on his own. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

It was his duty to wait upon the Lord, and wait he did, forgotten it seemed, standing by the door of the unlit chamber, mastering his own fears as best he could. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

A republic armed with its own citizens is less likely to come under the rule of one of its citizens than a city armed with foreign soldiers. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you own a girl?” said the soldier. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

And since a vast majority of illnesses eventually go away on their own, most of the time it works for him. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He had never learned to love soap, though Kira gave him some for his own. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I had been selfish and hyper-sensitive, a martyr to my own inferiority complex. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Kaisa took a sip of wine from her own goblet before answering. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Either there was no work, or I wasn’t suited to the work, or there was just no shop at all, because it had been owned by a Jew. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

As flobberworms flourished best if left to their own devices, it was the easiest exam any of them had ever taken, and also gave Harry, Ron, and Hermione plenty of opportunity to speak to Hagrid. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The nuns would certainly have toothpaste and soap, but Bri would want her own toothbrush. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

During competitions our personal coaches gave us lessons to keep us in the best shape while competing, so with no Akhi, I was left to my own devices. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

"You have the nerve to threaten me . . . in my own office?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rarely displayed his feelings, not even within his family, and was more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was located on the long narrow stretch of land, owned by the Widow Cane, that ran alongside the mine. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Compared to Bunker Nine back at camp, the entrance was tiny, but it was impressive in its own way. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It’s super cool because Arthur Miller adapted his own play into the screenplay for this movie. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She turned back to the TV, a commercial for a car now, and made a joke about Blue Citrus needing its own car commercial. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

With time, though, they were called back to their own lives. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

So many burials, and here I was wishing that I could bury a few things of my own. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Bands lack many institutions that we take for granted in our own society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was an old-timer and apparently had thought of a way to assuage his own irritating feelings of loss of control. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Closing the door behind them, the porter led them down the narrow hallway, and the only sounds were of their own breathing, and their footsteps along the corridor, and the snapping of the fire. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The school cafeteria was closed—school opening was still weeks away—so we all had to bring our own. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

All this I dreamed during those restless nights in my own room. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He chortled to himself, rocking and bouncing as if he were a lanky, bearded, drunken volcano preparing to erupt with delight at his own brilliance. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Finally she goes back into her own house, leaving me alone. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I dumped my own things into a bag and pushed it under Caroline’s bed, and then as neatly as I could, folded Grandma’s things and put them in my drawers. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He guessed that his own had been, too, when he was a Seven. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

He came in like he owned the place. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Osage had been forced to finance part of the federal investigation with their own money—an amount that would eventually reach $20,000, the equivalent today of nearly $300,000. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He stopped to rest, and swallowed back his own heavy breathing until he thought his chest would burst; but he had to listen for sounds behind him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Silas would talk in his own time, or he would not. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He thanked them for his food, encouraged them to talk about their hopes and histories, answered their questions politely, and never pressed too hard with queries of his own. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Dad owned the red, yellow, and green properties and had them loaded up with hotels just waiting to bankrupt us out of the game. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The anger, he thought, ought to be his own; yet years ago now the anger about her had finished gradually bleeding out of him and had slowly dried up and blown away. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

And unlike the girl in the novel, she understood heat and wind more than ice and snow, and had no intention of breaking anyone’s heart, except maybe her own. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The sunlight bangs his own eyes shut and he holds his hand over them, peeking through his fingers until it is safe. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he had actually come up into my loft, on his own in broad daylight, without any of the family knowing he was here, which is dead alarming of itself. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

By 1969, we received our own individual prison uniforms, instead of being issued a different set each week. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Keav, they wasted away and laid in their own feces and urine, completely alone. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“God knows, I don’t. We can love her with everything in us, but it doesn’t matter if she doesn’t love herself. She’s sitting in there more worried about a chain than about her own well-being.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The colonel did not like plum tomatoes, not even when they were his own, and these were not even his own. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps it was merely the shaking of his own. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She’d never much liked the way Mama and Daddy seemed to have secret conversations right over her head, always talking past her in a language of their own. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Everyone, including me, eats lunch with their own kind, and that’s that. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But the child at home is given the opportunity to shout out an answer of his own. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

What Odessa lacked, and one look informed the most charitable eye that it lacked a fantastic amount, the speculators from Ohio would make up for on the strength of their own imagination. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We didn’t amount to much to start with, and due to our own tawdry efforts we had been slipping ever since. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The longing in Jack’s voice pulls me out of my own thoughts. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

How do I deal with the fact that I DO need them to get ahead without feeling like I'm turning my back on my own people? Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I know a lot about anger, but I guess we each have our own recipe for it.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“My mom said that there are four kids, and the three boys are going to share the other room, but the girl gets her own. I wish we could paint it turquoise.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“John and Deborah are entitled to their own opinions,” Mr. Richardson said. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I had to answer that what-if question with Hudson. Just like we answered our own.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

For friendships acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of spirit are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper time cannot be spent. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

No matter what, she wouldn’t ever be another person or really know the thoughts of anyone but her own self. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

My feet moved on their own, knowing exactly where I needed to go. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Why, I think it is more than fair to say that the teachers treat us as warmly as they would their own children, had they any. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

A chuckle accompanied this, to which I was obliged to add one of my own. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"I just said you were too smart for your own good," she said. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When Richard turned back to face Du Bois, he tucked his head into his shoulder like a bird wrapping itself in its own wing. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He carried his own bottle of water and only occasionally would have alcohol. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It dwindled at last to a country cart-road little used; but it did not wind: it held on its own sure course and guided them by the swiftest way. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

My own voice is husky and low as well. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was like having my own live baby doll. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was slower with the skinning and dressing, the cooking, the fire starting, and even with the stealing, as they got him better-fitting clothes and a blanket of his own. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

When I came out here, I thought only of having a piece of property to call my own. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Maybe I should have let him deal with his father on his own. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

In the Ring, every character has his or her own leitmotif, or signature tune. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“And now we have to make our own bracelets out of used aluminum cans. Way to go Papá!” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Hermione looked frightened that he might curse her with her own wand. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Like a zombie on the way to his own beheading, Herbie climbed in. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you trust me, Miss Martin?” he asks, watching her with the same intense stare from the café, only this time his eyes are barely inches from her own. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Again acting as his own architect, Holmes early in 1891 began planning the necessary modifications, and soon carpenters were at work on the second and third floors. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Except for Mom, we were on our own. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

And every country in the world sent its own team of one thousand eighth graders. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

For a man with all the words—words borrowed and words of his own—it is odd to see him without the right word. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She’d never been this close to a boy her own age before. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Merope stumbled across the room, but before she had time to raise her wand, Ogden had lifted his own and said firmly, “Reparo.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I feel as if I’ve stepped outside my own body, and I’m leaving it behind. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The drug game had its own rules, its own structure. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Moss, too, wanted to run, but his own legs were jelly, wobbly and uncertain. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Like, sewing clothes? I make a lot of my own clothes,” I said, when he didn’t seem to understand. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“BM struggle never gets open support from abroad it needs unless BM first forms own united front.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fished in his own pocket and his fingers grazed his key ring, but he stopped. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was a simple solution, but it also created its own problems. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

And especially did this personal and human right bear hard upon me, for temperamentally I am inclined to satisfy the claims of my own ideals rather than the expectations of others. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She stepped on my question right away with one of her own. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Someplace that was all her own, where secrets were safe. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He drove a sports car and piloted his own plane, which he once famously flew so low over the house of the school’s president that the machine’s wheels made a racket rolling over the roof. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Adults can never just talk to me without the distraction of some activity keeping them firmly in their own world. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I am coming to save your friend’s life, and my own. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Cathy knew not only these impulses in others but how to use them for her own gain. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z