It could have been anywhere; the white paint was fresh enough that it bubbled on the wall. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was just ahead of us, marked by a vertical line painted on the tunnel wall. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Over it hangs a glossy painting called Three Oaks with three trees floating in the air against a yellow backdrop. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Some are forty feet long with two levels, sturdy wooden walls, brightly painted roofs, and strands of colorful beads hanging over the doors. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next afternoon is a sleep-deprived blur of being painted and braided, corseted and cinched. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was everywhere: torches and laughter and shattering glass and painters painting windows. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

They had us, and Pa painted the walls every time Cecile wrote on them. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The outside of the van is black, but it has a firebird painted on the hood, with wings that turn to flames as they wrap around the sides. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Mom decided that before she could get down to any serious painting, she needed to compile a thorough art reference library. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And it was turquoise until the new people moved in and painted it a year ago. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

I open my eyes to the words “Fear God Alone” painted on a plain white wall. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

What composers could impose instead of incremental change were more abrupt contrasts of loud and soft, like the juxtaposition of light and shade, chiaroscuro, in painting. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I know because I painted them for her, each representing one of Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, since I wanted her to still appreciate them when she’s older. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“My mom makes these beautiful paintings,” I say to her. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Dragon murals are painted above on the ceilings. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The walls were covered with paintings, and sculptures of fish and birds that she’d made. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The numbers were like war paint on the white face of the clock, the hands like swords as they slashed across the pearly surface. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Before lunch Briony slipped away to the empty rehearsal room—the nursery—and walked up and down on the painted floorboards, considering her casting options. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He took off his painting gloves and tossed them onto a table. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Not just that. What else? Think like an artist. Think of everything in the painting, not just the birds.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

No paint on her lips or nails, her brown hair cut very short. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Loma said the board walls in there were painted a bright yellow, and everything else was white: mantelpiece, door and window frames, iron bed, night stand, dresser, wardrobe, wicker chair—all white. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

One of them shakes a can of spray paint and draws a giant red X on the door. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Then she stood and took from the washstand beside the bed a little square-shaped object, a music box painted with roses and lilies of the valley. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tilted the bucket and poured green paint on my chest and legs and arms. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It became three-dimensional, a towering monster glistening with fresh paint, long arms stretched out in front of it as it raced back and forth. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

A painted cart piled high with trunks rolled into the courtyard, pulled by a weary nag in bright trappings. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Big crooked-sailed junks with eyes painted on their prows so they could see where they were going. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of Hiroshi’s paintings—squirrels having a tea party—hangs between the two back windows. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He squinted his eyes, the way one inspects a fine painting, searching for his mother there in the face of his father. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

From kindergarten class, I brought pictures of my hands in brown and blue paint. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

A box on the table held maybe fifteen, sixteen circles of paint and a bottle of water. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Often artists paint not what they see but what they imagine. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone painted a big yellow star on the window. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

By the time he’s done painting, it’s nighttime. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

British ships in the nineteenth century radically transformed native art by giving the Indians brightly colored paints that unlike native pigments didn’t wash off in the rain. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They were a light purple, with pictures of smiling people painted on them. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He was dipping a large, broomlike brush into a pail and painting the asphalt with black sealer. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I painted layers of black over houses and flowers and suns, and when I drew on the blackboard, I put a layer of chalk on top. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front yard was composed of gravel with bits of yellow grass, and the paint on the house was chipped. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like I haven’t even drawn or painted anything until she sees it, like it’s all invisible until she gets that look on her face and says, “You’re remaking the world, Noah. Drawing by drawing.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The narrow hallway was painted white, but the paint showed some stains. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lena promised to come over with her watercolors so we can paint with Lolo. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It was a bakery with a yellow star painted on the window. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

This garden is the one I didn’t recognize—from Gram’s unfinished painting. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I flip through the pages, whispery thin and edged with gold paint. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The living room has been painted, the fixtures installed, the baseboards added on. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mom says it isn’t right to take things we won’t use, even when it’s just paint chips. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The art establishment also objects to “the new painting” for what the artists paint: contemporary subjects such as train stations, cafes, bridges. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Riccio made faces at the masked lady smiling down at them from a large painting on the wall. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

They had inherited the furniture from Coraline’s grandmother, along with a wooden coffee table, a side table, a heavy glass ashtray, and the oil painting of a bowl of fruit. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Baba put the paint can down on the sidewalk. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I never looked at the painting when Papa was at home. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I look at my favorite paintings again—The Old Guitarist by Pablo Picasso, the Cybernetic Lobster Telephone by Salvador Dalí, and the one made of dots by Georges Seurat. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I think part of the reason no one’s really come in here is because none of us knows what to do with the paintings that she never finished. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I don't stop thinking about it, even after I finish painting the woman’s dress with burnt orange and crimson and topaz yellow. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

There were mostly black-and-white portraits of bands and a few famous paintings. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The children were evacuated, the museums emptied of paintings, the storefronts shuttered. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Belching exhaust, the driver saluting or warning with a series of blasts on his horn, it is an old army bus, the official name brushed over with paint that doesn't quite match. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Rachel had painted it a couple of months ago. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Before he leaves Arles, Vincent sends off two crates of his paintings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She puts her chin in her palms like someone in a painting. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

If I could detect a flawed painting so quickly, why had it taken me so long to see the truth about Dr. Lange? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Each of these had a picture painted on its side of a lion jumping through a flaming hoop and the words Hawkins Circus spelled out in bright letters. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She puts the paintings down on a pile of them already resting on the dining room table. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

So I backed him into the paint the same way I did the last time and this time I push him off with my right elbow and make a little left-hand hook. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

She held out one paw and studied her painted nails. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s nice,” I said, thinking no amount of paint would make me like this place. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Past the slips to the terrible gowns, the headdresses and fans and pots of her mother’s face paint and all the macabre accoutrements of the goddess of despair. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

When we returned to our stable, we gave the demon girl our one good chair—an old stool that Father had found in a vacated apartment and which we had stripped of paint and repainted. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rooms were big and anonymous, with wide-plank floors and no curtains on the windows and plaster walls painted white. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They remind me of the paintings Gram left in her studio, the bits of blank canvas peeking out between all the colors. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

And often his body had mysteriously been painted bright blue. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It was straight out of an Aaron Douglas painting, except there were faces. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

My mother, being of great beauty, was often painted. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

How I went around from painting to painting asking each to eat me and each did. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Inside were the photos I knew so well: the invisible boy, the levitating girl, the boulder lifter, the man with a face painted on the back of his head. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He said, “You need a messenger. Listen, I’ll tell you what to do”: Bring a beautiful pottery jar painted with parrots and big flowers. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

One day Jake was bopping down the freshly painted halls of Riverview Middle School, admiring the rows of shiny new lockers. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The gang and I were standing on Fleming Street, staring at a newly painted house. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, the painting came to life: The dragon stretched its long neck as if waking from a thousand-year sleep, blinked a few times in the glare of the streetlight, and then looked directly at Sierra. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He would forget to wipe his hands during his painting sessions and end up leaving colorful fingerprints all over the place. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s like the paintings in the museum,” she said. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The mistress of the stores brought up provisions of bread and wine, with victuals fit for kings, and Telemakhos stepped up on the painted car. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But perspective painting provided the first glimpse of this new universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But in the meantime, could Theo please send him more money and more paints. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In this unfamiliar setting Vincent has to learn about art and how to sell it—prints, paintings, reproductions, old art, newer art, art of different styles. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The wall’s bright white paint along the edges really helps the dark red brick stand out. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He wore a medallion belt and painted vest, with an arakh on one hip and a whip on the other. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I made a vague effort to remember who had painted or composed what, but I didn’t memorize spelling. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At night she don’t look much worse than the last time she was hauled out for painting, more than a year ago. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even if it hadn’t come out that I painted that swastika, I don’t think anybody in town would be in the mood to drive to Shadbush Crossing for a bar mitzvah tomorrow. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Like he came to school one day painted head-to-toe red, and it wasn’t even Spirit Week. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Tori says they paint it over each year to keep it looking new,” Brandon said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had no paddle, Gabe had thought, looking intently at the painting. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I realize she’s protecting her hands from germs, not wet paint. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Working feverishly, I made it, but since the paint required a few minutes to dry I picked up two finished buckets and started lugging them over to the loading platform. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Pilar hadn’t put in the safety pin and the bugs in the air, the painting would be almost pretty. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When his health has improved even more, he goes outside to paint, capturing the garden of the asylum and, beyond that, olive trees and landscapes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Wynn had the idea to paint only the kickstand and the seat post bright green. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Frank held out a paint can full of change and crumpled bills. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Dozens of paintings of harems, fat women lolling on divans, turbans on their heads or velvet caps, being fanned with peacock tails, a eunuch in the background standing guard. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Izzy and I had also created a mural on another wall, and had taken great care to paint my blinds with the colors of the rainbow. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Stuff like xanthan gum, which is made from bacteria; Carbopol, which is an acrylic polymer like house paint; and gelatin, which is made from cow cartilage. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Following them there were some heavy trucks painted olive drab, and behind them came the troops. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jamie looks genuinely curious, even if he does think the paintings are silly. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The vuvv reaches up with a limb and flips through images of my paintings of castles, mountains, and walled towns. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It had once been red, but the paint had weathered, faded and peeled, until it looked pink as a bad sunburn. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scrawling the word JEW in thick yellow paint and painting crude yellow outlines of the Star of David. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

On the same day that he moves completely out of the family house and into his studio, he sends the painting to Theo. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A rainbow cow, you must understand, is not a silly cow with big painted stripes. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She could see that the strange girl's house had been painted the color of the shrimp curry that her mother made. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The random painted wood dresser against the wall, overflowing with catalogs and junk mail. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know what a can of paint looked like. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She is rouged, painted, and plastered with makeup. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

On the back page, there's a painting of an outdoor cafe, tables and chairs set out on what looks to be a summer evening. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

What did they paint that with—their butts? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The last painting is a dark sky filled with stars over a quiet village. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

David and the others were already headed down, gliding single file between two rows of rocks painted a glowing orange. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

People were still painting on the shopwindows, but this time the painters were the bearded people, the shop owners themselves. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

My sculpture of Anubis looked pretty real, and I had even used real gold paint on it. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

When “parallel” lines converge at the vanishing point in a painting, observers are tricked into believing that the lines never meet. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Some of us came out of the school painted with our classmates’ insides. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

One of the series of herb watercolors Maria painted for the Waltha community. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He holds his naked hand to his chest, kneading the palm, the flickering light from the fire painting his face in dramatic shadows. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The top part of the painting, where the sky would have been, was covered in burnished silver. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Where I remembered patinas of green mold there was wallpaper and wainscoting and cheerful shades of paint. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I can imagine her painted face and annoyingly perfect Bantu knots even without seeing them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The bright-colored mural was still streaked in blackened mashed banana, but the painted figures stared at us in reproachful stillness. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

After so many months and years of dirty streets and peeling paint, of gray uniforms and spartan barracks, it was astounding that there could still be beauty in the world. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Albert didn’t even glance up at the painting. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

In those pictures, the Devil is always painted completely black with horns and a tail; Michael is always rosy and winged with a sword he twirls like a baton. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

They could room together, paint together, cook together. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Even paintings acquire a new prominence by protruding slightly from the curved walls, instead of receding into them. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The painted shipwreck in the hallway seemed to sink beneath the black waves as he entered and locked the door behind him. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

A painted river snaked its way along one wall, and carved condors soared toward the roof. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Holding the painting carefully, he took two steps, then two more. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Just weeks after Dorus's death, with his father no longer there to please—or displease—Vincent has made a painting of a family. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“That would be great. We could paint them orange, just like the ones in Riverside Park.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Writing books, watching films, and painting pictures are forbidden. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You got to paint the things, man,” the brother said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Prisoners from the general section painted the cement surface green and then fashioned the traditional configuration of white lines. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A line of paint slid down Jay’s dark cheek, headed toward his chin. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

And he sees the best possible version of them—it's the way I imagine things in my head, but the only way I can make it real is to paint it. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He leaned against the wall opposite the painting and began in a businesslike way to take notes. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had his easel set up, and he was painting a picture of her house. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He always looks with very great interest at Uncle Vincent’s paintings.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

To the color, to the paint, to the raw emotion. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The walls still standing are tagged with paint. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Tassoni is well aware of all sorts of things that the ancients did not have: falconry, for example, or silk, or perspective painting. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Suddenly everyone from sports stars to taxi drivers felt entitled to share their thoughts on which work was a “real” Vermeer painting and which wasn’t. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I have given up, too, on oil paints; I have come to dislike their thickness, their obliteration of line, their look of licked lips, the way they call attention to the brushstrokes of the painter. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Papa emerged from the bathroom, where he was sanding down the walls in preparation for a new coat of paint. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I never saw this great-uncle but I'm supposed to look like him--with special reference to the rather hard-boiled painting that hangs in Father's office. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t fade like marker or paint would. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The patchy landscape was a strange sight, like a beautiful painting that someone had taken sandpaper to. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Vincent is not well enough to go outside right now, but he sets about painting pictures from memory—of their childhood in Zundert. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The walls were painted bright blue and were of wood and the lamps threw their shadows against them. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were the ones who spray painted the backboard,” Johnny admitted. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The men on the paint crew were swinging the work platforms under the fifth web, getting ready to paint the seemingly empty aerie. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

"Did you ever see that painting, Grandmamma, with the little girl in it?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“The shield of Hercules. He painted me on its surface, so his enemies would see me in their final moments—the goddess of misery.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Black started with the back, moving the clippers up Needles's neck in sweeping motions like he was painting. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He seems to splat paint all over the canvas and somehow it becomes exactly what he wants. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I said to give these things to Max, not paint a target between your shoulders.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I know I have a flower painted on my cheek,” said my sister. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The only thing on it was a painting of a dark brown girl sitting at a piano, her back to me, her arms spread across the keys. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She recognized its rear entrance by the name painted above the door. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The floor is layered with dry splotches of paint, the walls plastered with sketches of tormented teenagers and fat puppies, the shelves crowded with clay pots. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Per his custom, Painter Chen did not dot the eyes of the dragon and gave the unfinished painting to the magistrate. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was a club-like, crudely sculptured foot painted a muddy brown with pale pink toenails. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The builders would paint right over the character, I thought, and never notice. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Ginika complained and cried, painting images of a sad, friendless life in a strange America. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They found him in a hole leading to a cave covered with thousands of engravings and paintings. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

In a few of the sketches, I paint Abuela Celia just the way she wants—dancing flamenco with whirling red skirts and castanets and a tight satin bodice. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I heard that the swastika on the dumpster was painted in roofing tar. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

In my room I collect markers, pencils, my ruler, paints, and brushes, until Kristi arrives. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were taking a break from painting the gym. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

And look at the way he painted it—a gloaty, sparkly white. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He comes to prefer certain sofas and chairs to others; when he is not there, he can conjure the paintings and photographs arrayed on the walls. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s actually painted in a color called international orange so it stands out in the fog. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The women lined their eyes with dark kohl; some painted their lips and nails, and all of them wore black dresses colorfully embroidered with endless stitches, each the size of a sugar granule. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I paint tiny freckles across the bridge of his nose and cheekbones, like caramel raindrops. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She passed the Degas dancers, the big painting made completely of dots, the Monet haystacks and bridges, and headed into the older works. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The informative paintings and impressive pyramids of the Ancient Egyptians have survived remarkably well, but their music has disappeared completely. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It’s as if the paintings are there, but not quite yet, a glimpse into the future. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In the mornings, my paint cans remain undisturbed and there are no suspicious stains on any of Mom’s clothing in the hamper. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would stare into blue and green paintings by Monet. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Arm looked around at the sagging furniture and peeling paint. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Our house was filled with stuff: papers, books, tools, lumber, paintings, art supplies, and statues of Venus de Milo painted all different colors. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Trying not to laugh, I said, “Why didn’t you make him get it up before the paint dried? Ain’t nothin’ harder than enamel paint.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The other wall is painted with happy bunnies, kittens, and puppies. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It’s as if she went to the paint store to match them up. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The orange sheen of the setting sun paints the glass behind him. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She’d helped her parents pick the paint four years ago, and her dad spilled a whole bucket of it on his shirt. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

But he stirred it vigorously until it became glossy white, holding the spatula like a delicate instrument and studying the paint as it laced off the blade, back into the bucket. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The spell book shows you how to create automatic illusions, but you can also paint them manually too.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

All the walls in Granny’s house were horizontal pine boards, painted to look like plaster. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The cover showed a painting of a white boy, maybe around twelve or thirteen years old, sitting at a desk doing homework. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It looked like it had been painted with watercolors of pink, orange, and purple. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But most of all her hand was like the painted hand, curling and fine and white as milk. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I watch her eyes trail over to my painting. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

In another verse assigned to Nezahualcoyotl this theme emerged even more baldly: Like a painting, we will be erased. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The walls here are completely mirrored, each long mirror placed to align with the striped ceiling visible above and the floor that is painted to match. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mom said she wanted to study it first, the way she would the subject of a painting. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But at quarter speed it was painted on his face: the lips pressed together in a look of pure smugness. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Pale squares on the walls where paintings once had hung. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The old dry wood and countless layers of paint and varnish, blazed with a fierce hungry light. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Next to the pictures stand tall glasses of candles painted with intricate images of golden crosses and the Virgin Mary. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

With quick expert strokes, she started painting her toenails. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

They were painted on pieces of paper, and the papers were pierced by twigs and the twigs were poked into the ground. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“Haint blue,” Aunt Rose said, pointing to the pale blue painted on the underside of the porch’s overhang. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Long white linen curtains hung at the windows; a large pile of fluffy white towels sat in a corner, and there was a single golden- framed painting on the wall. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Vincent paints and tries to stay optimistic, but he is terribly lonely. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He relaxed his fighting muscles, stood easily and grounded the butt of his spear Jack watched him inscrutably through his paint. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Her Converse have some paint splatter on them. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

They might accept someone like me—someone who can paint, but not quite well enough to get into Prism. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

There is a famous painting, Nighthawks, by Edward Hopper. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Soon as Miss Love went to the kitchen, I went hunting for the painted mirror that usually hung over the marble-top table in the front hall—the mirror Aunt Loma and Mama both wanted. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I’d had to dig out the plastic drop sheets, spotted with glossy white dots of kitchen paint. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

A box of new paints, a butter-yellow silk saree, a gray woolen shawl, and a pot of juicy roshogollah paraded before her eyes. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The guest room’s being painted,” Jerome told me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Just to say how that study was painted—quite simply this. Green and red are complementary. Well there’s a particular—red in the apples, very coarse in itself—and greenish things as well.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I picked the paint, the tiles. I hung the flag from the porch.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Give them names like the ones on the backs of Gram’s paint tubes. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

A shrapnel bomb, they called it—several sticks of dynamite in a rusty five-gallon paint can crammed full of nails, bolts, and sharp pieces of metal. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She imagined how she would describe it to Babcia, the silvery black paint, the cream leather interior, the dashboard that looked like the cockpit of a spaceship. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“No sculpture, no carving or bas-relief, almost no painting or drawing—the interiors are completely bare. What we do see are these huge mounds—and textiles.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

His mask kept clogging, and in the rush to dive back into the hole, he’d forgotten to renew his LED paint patch. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I would never again take delight in the painted glory of Elsinore. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Down the alley the women’s art guild members were removing their paintings from the fence and folding their aluminum lawn chairs like Arabs in preparation for stealing away. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Naima’s village, on International Mother Language Day, when the whole country celebrated the beauty of their Bangla language, the leaders gave a prize to the girl who painted the best alpanas. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was a painted sign in the window of the motel office that said A good night’s sleep is a good thing, indeed. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

There was ink to be mixed, paint powder to grind, and copper plates to polish and wipe. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It slips out easily, and he doesn’t seem to notice the other paintings. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

In my painting of the dining room, I try to capture how empty it is. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Here, on the house fronts, the paint was peeling and the porches sagged. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Her cheeks, nose, and forehead had been covered, meticulously and comprehensively, in black and white face paint. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It’s a collection of the artist’s drawings, paintings, and tips on how to draw manga. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The man—the painting, rather—looked downright afraid. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I introduced Zion to Josephine and Henry, shot a rubber snake at the shooting range, and even stuck my face through a wooden painting of a cactus so Zion could take a picture. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“No. And I didn’t paint it from a photograph, either.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Calvin and I finish painting the last patch of wall. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I walk over to the angel and when I’m finished wishing my second wish—you always get three wishes, right?—I join Grandma in front of the painting. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Today, though, he couldn’t get that tin of red paint out of his mind, and he thought he’d paddle along to the chandlery in Jericho, just to get an idea of the price. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Finally Bill rented a-sander from Millsburg Plaza, and they took off the black floor paint down to the wide oak boards and refinished them. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Each painted demon had gangly arms with razor-sharp nails drooping down from hunched shoulders. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

It’s even been freshly painted, which is a rare sight in Bellmont. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a painter begins to paint, dipping the brush occasionally to dilute the pigment, the water might initially turn blue, or yellow. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I said, pointing to a framed painting behind Mr. Tushman’s desk. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The body, which was square and large, had been rebuilt and painted red and gold. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

They repeat after her, as do I: Papa, pickle, paint, peep, pool. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most churches had steeples that appeared to be solid from the street, but a closer inspection would reveal a wooden framework covered with cleverly painted copper or tin. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The woman's hairnet tugged her painted eyebrows up, which gave her a look of permanent surprise. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Now, its white paint was peeling, its shutters were cracked, its windows were grimy with dust. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It is painted one color, so blue it’s almost black. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

They left their shoes on the warm painted boards and dragged the boat up onto the beach and set out the anchor at the end of its rope. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Their hair was tangled, but many of the people had dramatically painted faces, with a bright red bar from ear to ear, white-chalked eyelids, streaks of black charcoal. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The painting was so detailed Pinmei could even see that between the fingers of the maiden’s outstretched hand was a thin silver needle. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

A mural on the wall showed painted children smiling in front of a rainbow. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

But an echo of a memory is not the same as a memory, and a memory is not the same as a now, and anyway, he’d said it loud enough that the painting heard it. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

After he finished cutting out the pictures, he took them all to the basement and found the bright yellow oil paint left over from a go-cart he had made to run kids down with. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Maybe I should've listened to Mr. Miller and entered one of my paintings in the art show. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Bon and Bleoberis were crouching over a bright fire, to which the bitter wind seemed to have given the property of throwing out light without heat Even the fire seemed frozen, like a painted one. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sending the others. The paintings and drawings of our town.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then he asked, “So, did you bring the paint for my boat?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He stood and looked at the painting for a long time, then sat on the floor in front of it for what seemed like hours. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Until two days ago, my father’s paintings had covered it entirely, gifts from friends and artists. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t a big contribution to the campaign,” he admitted, “though the tape did take paint off my hood.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In Montana to which I had returned, the rise is gradual, and were it not for a painted sign I never would have known when I crossed it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I once worked at an art supply house that sold paints to artists. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was unlike anything her mother had ever painted before. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The commissioner said, “Surely this man who doesn’t know how to act—who comes to my office almost naked, with war paint on his face, is not civilized enough to know how to use money.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The New Palace arched across it, as fantastical as a painted backdrop in a fairy play. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He paints outside, scenes from their neighborhood in Montmartre, buildings, people strolling in nearby parks. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She also finally had time to sort through her jumble of insect notes and paintings from years of flower and caterpillar investigations. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It’s Lolo’s old radio, the one that’s covered in paint speckles from all our jobs. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I look for old- model vans painted in matte, their tires always bald. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Set had to settle for some spiders and snakes painted on the wall behind him, and a dry bone that hung on a string above his head. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Smeath is stuck to her back like an asparagus beetle, grinning like a maniac; both of them have shiny brown insect wings, done to scale and meticulously painted. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, don’t tell me anything,” Mom said, turning back to her painting. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He loads his brush with paint and lays it on thick, heavy. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Malcolm has never even been in a fight before, even though many paint him to be a violent young man because he’s six feet tall, black, and close to two hundred pounds. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I like to imagine the new family was so touched by my poignant words that they decided not to paint over them. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Ivy looked at the paintings of flowers and mountain scenes already hanging on the walls. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He uses some of his drawing techniques in his painting, too—dashes and strokes, working to find the painting style that he likes best. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Behind him the yellow light lay like a wash of paint on the roof of the house. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We're one of the biggest outfits in the business. Make a lot of paint for the government." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I paint my mother shimmering like a pearl, her arms allowing—no, expecting—the world to worship her. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A male doll with a small painted chicken bone stuck between its legs and a round red circle painted on its belly. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

In any case, painting itself is a hangover from the European past. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Pacioli is a mathematician; the person who painted him was surely also a mathematician, as demonstrated by his understanding of complex mathematical shapes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Others had painted him as Christ, with a halo and glowing with the Holy Spirit, sharing his divine power and good deeds all over the neighborhood. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

When Arwin pulls off his gear, there’s a haze of black paint outlining his eyes and nose, like a reverse raccoon. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The buildings were painted in shades of pale limestone and sand, adorned with colorful hieroglyphics and a menagerie of statues depicting gods and creatures. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

In St. Louis, Liyana’s room had been painted a deep, delicious color called “Raisin.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The paint, once sparkling white, had faded to ghostly gray and eroded in parts, revealing the layered bricks beneath. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Jack gestured to the hallway lined with painted portraits of famous San Francisco writers wearing somber expressions and silly costumes. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“He was Dutch, and painted in the seventeenth century.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

All stared openmouthed and shocked as Painter Chen sailed away in the painted boat to the painted land, taking his magic paintbrush with him. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Just don’t expect me to paint your portrait unless a stick-figure face is acceptable. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The painting was a pool of moonlight in the center of the room. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t stop staring at the painting, looking for any detail that would give me insight into the real Diego Vega. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

"Good old reliable H2S04, an oily, colorless, corrosive liquid used in dyes, paints, explosives, and many chemical experiments." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the deep evening shadows the siding paint looked gray instead of cream. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The Countess looked rotten the minute she left the carriage, with her too big painted mouth and her little piggy painted eyes and her powdered skin and...and...and... The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They are exactly the same principles as are involved in perspective painting. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He always had plenty to do, rain or shine, and didn’t mind a chance to make paints and mend his gear. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I tell him he needs to bring me the slave-ship painting from my room. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Under the stairs it was open and dry and dark—a few old paint cans piled on top of each other, a couple of broken window frames, something dead that once had fur. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Already he has personally packed them into a crate and belted it shut and numbered it with white paint and seen it loaded inside a train car where it sits under twenty-four-hour guard. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Ivy had once covered the walls, but it had been torn away, leaving long interlocking scars in the cracked paint. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He took a seat directly behind the defendants, and fixed them with a gaze of unique persistence, as though he planned to paint their portraits from memory. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I then painted the stone floor above the cellar to look aged. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then Oz and Jak returned, lugging a bag of smooth white stones from the tide pools, and passed them around so that each had a rock to paint on. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Each one was painted a different pastel color and had a card affixed to it announcing the name of the room. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Because this is perfect Caves of Lascaux paint. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Since Anna was an excellent artist, and specialized, like a lot of women of the time, in painting flowers and plants, she hung her own beautiful botanical watercolors on the walls. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A brightly painted wooden panel stood next to the cauldron, awaiting the next photo op. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I even paint Bob so he can be on the billboard too. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t keep me from thinking about my mother all the time—her smiles, her songs in the shower, the way she painted her eyes and lips with colors. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

One of the cedar planks that formed the skin of the canoe had split, and the paint around it was scraped. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I recall the sensation of the town feeling painted around me and of feeling invented. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

There’re men in black wool coats with leather gloves and soft scarves about their necks; women in high heels with jewelry and painted nails who aren’t desperate for food. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

To make matters worse, my limited wardrobe consisted entirely of ill-fitting clothes from thrift stores and donation bins—the social equivalent of having a bull’s-eye painted on my forehead. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She should not even be encouraged to master oil paints, or paint figures or city scenes. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Both were blacked out with matte spray paint. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She daubed the ointment onto the wound, picked up his hand, and examined the spidery black knots as if they were a work of art—a painting, a sculpture. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The seat had once been bright red, but what was now left of the paint was dull and chipped, revealing the gray wood beneath. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The colors had faded and the paint was cracked, but those eyes were the same. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The right wall of the studio is covered in paintings I've done over the last six months. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I keep picturing him standing there at the edge of the roof, about to plummet seven stories to his death, fear painted onto every feature of his face. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Even worse, even more like a hand on my throat, was how Mr. Kendall had slashed the paintings I’d loved too much for Osh to sell. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The shapes come unbidden, as always, and I begin to paint. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

From a distance it will look like a big painting you might see in a museum, but museums can’t capture the sound. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s so elaborate, and her face was painted to match. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

It was bound in dark brown tooled leather, and the frontispiece was a painting of a fairy woman, elegant and pale, wearing a beautiful golden gown. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking at the painting again, we see something else. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Sefia thrust the brush back into the paint and crossed her fingers, one over the other. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She got out her painting supplies and went to work. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He began to paint, while behind him the stars glittered for all they were worth—which was considerable—and every single one of them held its place in this night’s sky without falling. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The priests who painted her each year always cried when they stood back from the cliff and saw her. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Among those overdressed fops and their painted doxys? You might as well go right up on stage. No, I've a better spot for you. Come." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

At first he thought the hide had turned black from age, but he touched it and realized it had been painted black. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Géricault painted the storm clouds and cresting waves dark to create a menacing mood. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

One moment Isagol had black paint streaked across her eyes and the next she didn’t. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Before he even bothers to try his slice of cake, Uncle Phil sets out on a mission to find the perfect spot in his house to display the painting. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The bowls protectively covered thirty-five toy-size, decorated figurines and twelve small, painted clay discs. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then he joined Mom in the kitchen and talked to her about the mailboxes and the spray paint. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amy’s dainty pen-and-ink work entirely eclipsed May’s painted vases—that was one thorn. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the fact that I didn’t know about Grandma when I painted that first swastika. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

They had those same white circles painted all over the floor, for games and stuff. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

There were glints of silver in the splashed white of the chest, some metal her mother had embedded in the paint. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Around the middle of the glass there was painted a pink lasso with yellow polka dots. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The coin disappeared; the young woman, her halo painted on her hair, rose up towards the clouds, her arms lifted at the joints of the shoulders. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Jay still had the stick he’d used to stir the paint in his back pocket, and he took it out. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The client, seeing the quick and efficient work Zeitoun’s team was doing, asked him if they could paint her husband’s office and her daughter’s bedroom, too. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The girl standing, grinning in front of me wore jeans and sandals, had burnt-red nails and lipstick, painted eyes, finger rings, toe rings, hoop earrings I could put my hand through, hair... Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

When it got warm enough for the paint to thaw, I opened the can. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, okay, I’ll paint something,” I say deliberately, deciding to play my last card. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s interesting how you did this,” he says, peering more closely at the painting. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Olmsted recognized that Burnham’s forces could not possibly finish patching and painting by May 1 and that his own work would be far from complete, but he saw clear improvement. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

On the painting, a dart fell off my face. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He brought other trophies, painted scrolls, lacquered trays—things he would have valued only slightly before the war. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

That the pencil markings on the wall by the linen closet, where Ashoke used to record his children’s height on their birthdays, will not be painted over. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The front door had once been painted a bright blue, but had been dimmed by time and the sun. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

A large painting of horses jumping over a high hedge hung on the third wall. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cigarette dangled from parrotfish lips that were puffy and painted the color of sliced mangoes. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The basement is actually nice and carpeted and painted, with lights everywhere and my dad’s old hockey trophies and framed jersey and bookshelves packed with books, even though he absolutely does not read. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I always wondered if you had painted someone’s actual hand or if you imagined it. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Seeing her in my wedding sari, her eyes darkened with kohl, her cheeks and lips rouged, and designs painted on her forehead, was like seeing myself again as I had been almost three years before. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Vincent isn’t yet an artist when he writes those words to Theo, but he paints the scene perfectly, with color, light, composition, emotion—a landscape of memory. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

With the finest ink and paper, he painted a mountain of gold, but only a pile of dirty stones sprang from the page. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I am just so impressed that you use actual paint.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As I look at a painting of a woman with a large butt, hanging in the dining room, I remember Olga’s friend Jazmyn, who also has a large butt. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It’s not there anymore,-but the custodians are scrubbing at what’s left of it, their sponges dripping purple paint. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Those pieces always seem to be bright blue as I listen, and they smell like fresh paint. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It was like being in a Magritte painting. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Since Mom had more paintings than we had wall space, Dad nailed long shelf brackets to the wall, and she hung one picture in front of another until they were three or four deep. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jaja stared at it, running his deformed finger over the paint, the finger that had very little feeling. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I started to walk away, wondering why Sapo wanted to know why I didn’t paint anymore. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“And whose lockers they looked in first for spray paint cans?” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The curved walls had once been painted with frescoes, which were now faded to eggshell white with only flecks of color. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I want to scream that I wish she’d go the hell away and leave me to paint in peace. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He paints it seven months after Pa collapsed on the threshold. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

That’s my dream — to be an artist and have people gasp when they see my paintings, like I do on the first day of each new month. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no other life-forms showing up on his screen but, like Foaly said, the hull had a high lead content, even the paint was lead based! Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baxter and I had painted our nails beriy pink a few days before, and for the first time, I didn’t cry remembering the scene at the park. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Clarke assured her that food and water was brought in daily and that they had plenty of hay and the saddle blankets for warmth—but no watercolor paints? The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Pacing back and forth like a ghost haunting a museum, Hiroshi never makes eye contact with any of the people here to appreciate his paintings. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He had on die same thing Dad did, a T-shirt and pajama pants, but it looked like he’d been painting with red, red paint. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Visitors leaving the worst parts of themselves behind in fluorescent paint. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The desks and chairs were made of iron and painted orange. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just past the arch, one of the town houses was painted black—the only black building Frank had seen so far in Venice. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But Sarai’s face was too young, and must seem naked without the black band painted across her eyes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The door was stout, and painted green; it gave access to a passage straight through to a courtyard. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Eventually, her passion for fabric and face paint caused her to settle permanently in Paris, where she ran the only salon of international consequence. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Everything’s an art. Everything in life. Even getting dressed. They put on a sweater, and it’s like someone painting a portrait of a duke in velvet.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I could see a sliver of late-afternoon sky through a crack in the roof, like a jagged canvas painted a bright blue. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

So we painted dots and lines and all kinds of shapes. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Flames tipped the tops of slim white tapers, illuminating rough walls muffled by tapestries and old portraits in which the painted eyes of their subjects glinted like chips of glass. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She told him that she and her husband were expecting houseguests, and she wanted the stairway and guest room painted in five days’ time. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

While the girls bend over their books, I draw from my pocket the miniature painting of my mother that I carry always. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He touched a comparatively sedate quartet of figures painted on the highest balcony, looking down calmly on the mayhem below them. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

There were oil paintings and an ancient piano and expensive china cups. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drew over the picture the sheet of thin paper on which I was accustomed to rest my hand in painting, to prevent the cardboard from being sullied. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I squeeze my phone so I don’t throw it against the wall painted with little white and brown kids holding hands underneath a rainbow. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Does he look at me steadily, or does he paint a bit and then look at me?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The abandoned train station next to the river is boarded up now, the red paint peeling off in giant strips. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Gauguin is quite ambitious, and he has agreed to make Theo his sole art representative, sending him at least twenty paintings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I kick the paintings as petulantly as the girl kicked her dinner. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Like the furniture and the toys, and all of her mom's plants and paintings. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Thing One was the newly painted high dome of the yellow church that Rahel hadn’t ever looked at from the inside. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worst of all are the walls, once creamy white, now covered with black spray paint. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I ask Abuela if I can paint whatever I want in Cuba and she says yes, as long as I don’t attack the state. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if he heard me thinking about him, he turns in my direction, all silhouette in the firelight, a perfect painting, so good it makes my fingers flit at my side. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

During those four weeks in Carthage, McCandless worked hard, doing dirty, tedious jobs that nobody else wanted to tackle: mucking out warehouses, exterminating vermin, painting, scything weeds. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think about all the women artists throughout history who managed to paint despite the odds against them. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He used to work for the county road department and for kicks he had painted big orange and white circles with reflective paint all over War Chief’s hair. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Easier for me to put paint across the ceiling. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

A half-dozen cans of paint, a bag of brushes, some buckets, a heap of cardboard, and several large tarps waited in a pile underneath the bent rim. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Now that the word is out that I painted the first swastika, I can’t picture myself being super welcome inside any synagogue. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The bright blue of the lake that was painted on the rear panel matched the blue leather seat. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

My mind went swirling back to our home, back to the place where Papa kept your paintings. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They visit the art museum in Brussels and talk about the paintings they see. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Collins’s apartment was stocked with hundreds of chess books, chess paintings and statues, and furniture and draperies decorated with chess figures; it was a virtual chess museum. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Not of the crowded corrals, but of the pretty West Side neighborhoods where wealthier Mexican families lived, their houses painted in yellows and oranges and pinks. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

To my left was a darker room, another sitting room, this one filled with foreign furniture: dark green leather sofas, paintings with hunting dogs, armchairs, and mahogany desks. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Right. And a triangle whose longest side is at the bottom. So what is different about the feel of this painting?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There were two chairs on stage: the infamous Hot Seat itself—painted red with flames running up the legs—and an ordinary chair for the host, Kevin. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The one who once upon a time had painted her nails black and now wanted to dye her hair purple. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Virtually every proper application of this humble mark utterly stumps the people who write to us officially, who paint signs, or who sell us fruit and veg. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

He’s in awe of the success Gauguin has already had with his painting. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Her small breasts moved freely beneath a painted Dothraki vest, and a curved dagger hung from her medallion belt. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, someone’s managed to bypass security to spray paint ‘Powder Princess’ on the side of her car.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

By the time we’re done putting up two coats of paint, the room looks amazing, like so much more than a basement storage room. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Back then Vincent was not yet painting the way Theo wanted him to, with the color they both knew he had in him. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He turns on the switch for the roller coaster and pushes the first car, painted with laughing clowns, along the well-worn grooves. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turns out Calvin has special paint for that. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

And now we’re supposed to believe that she didn’t paint the first one. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

There were sweaters with animals on them, shirts with stripes and shirts with squares, dresses in colors as varied as Grand-grand Uncle’s paints. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Why not look at the painting directly through a small hole in a board? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I walk my hands all along the painted stony walls. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

In the dim, wavering light, a page hung. open and it was like a snowy feather, the words delicately painted thereon. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the third day, Jamie drops me off and goes back home while I paint a woman with milky-white skin and even whiter hair. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Most of them were faded, but a few seemed painted yesterday. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’ll be empty and I can sit there for a few minutes in peace, surrounded by the comforting smell of oil paints. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The walls were covered with plaster on the outside and a village artist had been hired in a good year once to paint upon the white plaster a scene of hills and bamboo. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Aside from the granite and the green window shutters, the whole building was shining white with a new coat of paint for the new minister. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

On cement-block walls, there were signs for bars, nightclubs, hairdressers, and even doctors’ offices, with the prices charged for seeing patients painted on the walls. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Now you’re saying I could have painted a picture all along?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

His emotion, so evident in his paintings, is in his letters, too. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Do you ever paint your sketches? I don’t see any of your acrylic pieces in here.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The front-door was covered with flaky green paint and there was no keyhole. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I have your painting on the mantle. It was beautiful. You look... quite well. Did you have the fever?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I colored all the cars in with red paint to make it a Super Super Good Day for Mother. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“But when I got there,” the first voice continued, “the man said he had no paint, never had. Disagreeable man. All he had were a few colored pencils.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The studio is in an old house with peeling paint over on the west side. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He looks transformed in the lamplight, like a god of debauchery, painted gold with his hair all mussed up and his eyes heavy-lidded. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Until now I’ve always painted things that were actually there, in front of me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I dropped a bit of blue paint on the bottom by accident, so I smeared it and made a river. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He slathered a blue sky on the top of the canvas, leaving gobs of paint as he worked. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

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

The paintings too—mostly oils in deep blues and greens—had sea themes. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The interior smelled of fresh paint; soft overhead lights lent warmth to the space. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The painted wooden armor clattered as Pretty trotted across the deck. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I did not finish painting him. He said we would finish it today.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Now you can tell Hornet to buy some paint for my boat!” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’s not school-smart, but nobody has better ideas about how to paint things. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The patched places showed up bleak against the wasted pink paint of the barn. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face was very white without the paint. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He swung and dropped, landing in a grove of painted plywood trees that sprang up from nowhere. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He’d seen paintings of fat, naked goddesses from Rome in his art classes. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She erected a big white sign in the front yard on which she had carefully painted, in black letters with gold outlines, r. m. walls art studio. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He undressed he painted his body the whorls of flesh the soles of his feet the palms of his hands the top of his head. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I came inside cautiously and found Mom sitting at the kitchen table in front of her painting. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Inside they could see a bead curtain hung across the hall entry, and a crystal chandelier and a Maxfield Parrish painting framed on one wall over a comfortable Morris chair. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peeling paint, cockroaches, and no water, refrigerator, or stove in our tiny room. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

She was tall and curvy and had hair that looked like fresh honey and always, always, always had her nails painted some wild color. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“But seriously, I didn’t know you did too. What you paint?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Tacked on his door was a wooden plaque, neatly painted in red block letters. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Finn’s own face was painted black and white—a crescent moon on one side, the other side dark as midnight. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The film painted Iranian Muslims, particularly Iranian men, in a very negative light. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

There have been endless attempts to reconstruct exactly what Brunelleschi did, and why, for contemporaries were clear that this little object represented the birth of perspective painting. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Dud gives him a leg up onto a red London mailbox, and the Devil sets about painting a mental picture—the technique known as enargia. devil: I’m God. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

They wore black jeans and T-shirts, with black grease paint on their faces like commandos. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Then they tied up the guards, turned off the alarms, and stole at least ten paintings, including a Vermeer and a Rembrandt. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He’s painted himself in the style of a bonze, looking a little bit Japanese. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And that’s exactly what it was—parked at the side of the road, painted bright red, and looking quite deserted. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Later Mrs. Castro found Angela inside, alone, crying in the painting studio. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Mamou and Babou had planted the tiny white blooms along the perimeter of their yard, in little wooden boxes painted a soft blue. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I remember all those mediaeval paintings, the hand raised, open to show there is no weapon: Go in peace. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Others were painted blue or purple or polka-dotted, with big banners out front and colorful menu boards and tables like do-it-yourself sidewalk cafes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“No, not yet. I still have to finish the painting.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I paint Buddy Gui’s house and his stupid Buddhas. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The spacious room was far from the prisonlike image his aunt Virginia had painted for him. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The pavilion and courtyard had painted walls and floors of colored sand and clay; heavy sculptural objects, including several of the trademark heads, studded the area. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I look around my bedroom for ideas: from the checkered rug on my floor to the calendar of Georgia O’Keeffe flower paintings Dad bought me at the art museum he took me to last summer. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also became known for her excellent paint powders, which she sold to fellow artists. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

For the hockey mask, I do the same thing, except I paint it white and black. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Each time one of them let me out of his car, I hoped the next would spare me his paintings. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls of the long room were painted a rosy peach. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

We meet at the front of the room, and I lean the painting up on the chalkboard. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I could sew such small stitches it looked as if the embroidery had been painted on. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another death or two, however natural when Hercules was present, would have blurred the picture he wanted to paint. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like I’ve always had a painted musical sound track playing background to my life. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t like the angels wanted to be painted as heroes, but the teachers wanted the kids to want to be angels, you see? Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

But the light is new, a painted sunrise. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gauguin writes back, asking Vincent for one of his paintings—sunflowers on a yellow background, “which I regard as a perfect page of an essential ‘Vincent' style.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Bentley told all: She named names, exposed her Russian contacts, and painted a shocking picture of a vast communist conspiracy operating in the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

"If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow at him. I have seen dead men with more humor than your Ser Alliser." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He paints during the day; at night he draws a series of thirty heads, up close. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Mack had a wicker chaise longue painted bright red. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She fixes them up with paint and collage and steel wool stuck on at appropriate places. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

With the money he made from lobstering and cutting ice out of Wash Pond and selling his paintings to the summer people, Osh had bought nails, a hammer, and whatever else he lacked. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The old mansion, painted white since the time they had brought the pianola, took on the strange look of a mosque. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Half a mile down the road, Dicey saw the mailbox, dented, rusted, its post awry; llerma was all that remained of sloppily painted black letters. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stylized painting and sculpture existed only to teach religion and adorn cathedrals—the true masterpieces of the Middle Ages. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

No pictures on the walls, and the paint is peeling. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

With my full attention on the box of supplies, I lifted a can of spray paint. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The canvas is painted entirely in gradations of cool, neutral tones, except for a bit of the red dress visible beneath her jacket. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took a deep breath and slid her hand into the painting, along the creature’s neck, following the smooth metal of the feathers under her fingers. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I was trying to paint a bouquet of purple and orange flowers but the teacher, Ms. Murphy, wanted us to only use primary colors, so I blended the paints to get the colors I wanted. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The sign out front had a single red rose painted on it, and the words reviving the spirit to recapture the vision, proverbs 29:18. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Finding me victimized and covered in green paint on the shower floor probably confirmed his opinion of my weakness. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“If you put your mind to it you can paint something in words,” Vincent tells his brother, not for the first time. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He tapped his finger against the huge painting in front of us. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Sandalwood paste smeared her swelling hips, under her breasts were dark painted shadows which gave them sensuous depth, the nipples were tipped with red. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The magistrate would forgo taxing Painter Chen's old hometown village for a year and Painter Chen would paint the magistrate a dragon. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Now we have to wait for the paint to dry.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

He’d always had a kind smile or a joke for Sierra, and whoever had painted his memorial portrait had captured that warmth perfectly. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Across the room, the painting of the knight charging the dragon was complete. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Daddy probably wouldn’t like the new paintings on the walls. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

We have our portraits painted and talk to our big sisters—the previous generation of Belles. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Serafima said, “We painted on...our planes: Revenge to the Enemy for the Death of our Friends.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

A silver trout ornamented the crest of his greathelm, twin to the one painted on his shield. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But now there was a box of blank wall where the painting hocked for my bail money had been, I couldn’t remember which. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

As they walked the streets, Mariam spotted more signs—painted on windows, nailed to doors, billowing from car antennas—that proclaimed the same. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

There were painted oil drums for garbage, and picnic tables, and sometimes fireplaces or barbecue pits. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is an invention of my own, useful for reading old manuscripts and admiring works of art painted with single bristles of a horse’s mane.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

From her pack, Sefia took out a brush and the small jar of paint Horse had given her as a parting gift. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I am not saying we should never show the emotion of anger in a scene but to paint us as angry beings—just because? Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

On top of this we added piles of feathers, and finally the blood, which now was as thick as house paint. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Cinderella’s slippers, which were airman’s boots painted silver, were capsized side by side under a golden throne. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I use an inky pen to repair some spots on her eyebrows and lashes where the paint has come off, and when we’re done, she looks nearly new. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Behind the black paint and the dirt, he was so young. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

After going on about the margarine, they started fighting about whether or not some painting Mom had done was ugly. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

One of the cars has a blue and white football jersey taped to the back window and the words go panthers painted above it. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The parlor looks the same as it always has: two cribs beneath two Latin crosses, dust floating in the open mouth of the stove, a dozen layers of paint peeling off the baseboards. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The first chore of the amakhankatha was to paint our naked and shaved bodies from head to foot in white ocher, turning us into ghosts. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the corner of the room, standing in front of one of Gram’s river paintings, I glimpse Professor Swann, who used to teach in town at Hampstead College. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The room smelled like fresh paint and the lilacs Mom had set on Ivy’s brand-new desk underneath the tiny circular window. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The king’s face was white and gaunt, and the deep shadows of his eyes looked as if they had been painted with smoke. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was Nathaniel’s painting, the flowers he sent to me when Mother was ill. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, underneath all that war paint. Your pictures didn’t even show you well.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He’d made a fresh supply and was painting again, which was the thing that finally convinced me we’d seen the last of Mr. Kendall. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Almost immediately after that he shuddered going over a painted cattleguard on the road, muttering to himself, “It sure beats me how a handful of white stripes can fool cows like that.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next she rummaged through her paint jars until she found a little red and a little white that were still fresh. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In letters, and on a visit home in early June 1884, he tries to persuade Vincent to paint with lighter, brighter colors. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Bella had a supply of fabric paints, and within two hours, we had painted a T-shirt that looked like a tuxedo with a red bow tie. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bursting into her own apartment in triumph, Shirley found her mother still working on the accounts for the Señora and her father mixing paint. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

In his mind, what I paint is lumped in with the women who paint flowers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was still paint and glue stuck in his hair from when he was experimenting with fabrics earlier in the day. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

From the walls, the painted eyes of former Directors seemed to follow him, their faces austere, their lips unmoving. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Then Tillie promised calligraphy lessons to the person who took the pen and ink, and Bella promised fabric painting lessons to the person who took the tuxedo T-shirt. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The room was painted a soft blue, what Ivy would call arctic blue, and Robin’s desk was big and old looking and covered with lots of picture frames. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

For the first time I could see the true shape of his body, painted red. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

In school they had learned to speak simple Japanese and paint pictures of the three beautiful places. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Using costumes, sets, and props, the participants arranged themselves to depict some recognizable scene—a famous painting, perhaps, or a well-known fable. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

She’s about to start hammering the lids back on the paint cans when she notices something on Lolo’s shoulders. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He tells his friend Émile Bernard that he wishes he could paint more from his imagination, like Bernard can, but he's most comfortable painting outside in nature. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The floor of the room was smoothed concrete; dusted everywhere with flakes and chips from the painted plaster that had peeled away from the top of the walls and the ceiling. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The individual exposed to DDT, for example, is almost certain to be exposed to other liver-damaging hydrocarbons, which are so widely used as solvents, paint removers, degreasing agents, dry-cleaning fluids, and anesthetics. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She needed air, but the window above the sink was painted shut. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Do my taxis have Removalists painted on the doors? Do I look like a charity to you?” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

There were statues and pots and paintings all over the place, with spotlights shining down on them like in a museum. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I had an old car I’d stripped and souped and painted silver—the Silver Ghost, I called it. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why did Maria insist on painting her insects with the plants they favored? The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Smells of black pepper, turmeric, ginger, cinnamon, and garlic mingle happily with the scent of new paint. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The lawns couldn’t have been greener without using an industrial-strength spray paint. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

They understood only too well the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Clown Alley,” says Kinko, fingering some paint jars on a dresser. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Eyes as big and sad as the eyes in a Keane painting. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“We can paint if you want. Maybe get some curtains?” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Because Patrick didn't believe in having himself bonded, we rarely moved anything of great value, no museum-quality paintings or extraordinary pieces of furniture. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He hasn’t touched the line with my name, but he eliminated everything else with a roller brush and fast-drying white paint. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Nielsens’ home is a two-story colonial painted yellow with black shutters and a long slate walkway leading to the front door. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“You’ll find a milk crate full of balloons—filled with red paint!” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mom covered one of the squares with a painting of a maple tree. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Hiroshi blinks at the painting on the wall like he's not entirely satisfied with it. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Mouths opened and closed all across its painted form. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

It was decorated with fine paintings, elegant furniture, and carpets. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The triangular shape of the boy leaning on the ledge gives stability to the painting, which helps to suspend the fleeting instant in time. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since each studio made its own art materials, Maria learned how to craft delicate brushes from bird feathers and fur, and to grind mineral powders used to color paint. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I am like the people in the Winslow Homer paintings, sharing the same room with them but not really there. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He was forever painting his house and the white picket fence in front of it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Plus the whole town saw him whitewashing the curse words he painted on the parking lot of St. Basil’s, so it’s not like vandalism isn’t already in his bag of tricks. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

My students had been admitted because they could admirably paint or sculpt or videotape their bodies in exhausting detail, and wasn't that enough? Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

And when the door opens, electric lights paint the walls a garish, thrilling pink. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The room is warm, filled with sun and paint fumes. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

When he’s not gardening, Grandpa likes to re-create his favorite paintings from the Metropolitan Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

They had a red eye painted on their shields. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He smells like an open can of paint. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The portrait of Bennie’s brother Vincent, which was painted along the side of a laundromat, had faded just like Papa Acevedo’s, but there was something else about it...“Sierra?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I backed up to adjust the painting so it hung nice and straight. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps I shall be able to paint your picture some day,” said Edna with a smile when they were seated. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Squads of volunteers, organized by Parsons, were preparing the street for Hate Week, stitching banners, painting posters, erecting flagstaff's on the roofs, and perilously slinging wires across the street for the reception of streamers. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Once, nearly two years ago, Maribel had insisted on painting her fingernails black. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Around its sides rushed a flow of men, their body paint and tattoos obscured by dust from the hardened, brick-like mud that lay underneath the entire city. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of depth, pulling me up. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Now the painted group felt the otherness of Samneric, felt the power in their own hands. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The smell of fresh paint my father used to cover Cecile’s writing on the wall. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Some are good with pipes or paint. Some have skill in love,” he says finally. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“If you think you can just say sorry and everything resets to zero, you’re even more clueless than you must have been when you painted that swastika!” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

They paused to regard a cracked wooden buoy painted blue and white, shaped like an old parasol. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She can see cars parked behind a low fence of chipped white paint beneath a row of windswept palm trees. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I wrestle a frame off another old painting from the back of my closet and put the blurred portrait in it. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Raymond Pettibon. He’s most famous for his paintings of surfers, but I like his spirals. He was a punk musician before he became an artist. He was in Black Flag before it was Black Flag.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Let’s find out more about the painting in your dream,” he went on. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Another of his books, about painting, warns, “Let no one who is not a mathematician read my works.” Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Officers rose and there was a general clamor; a woman wailed; from the wings, through luffing coulisses, men ran panting, wiping paint from their faces upon their oznabrig sleeves. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

By the end of the first semester, Onion Sam had turned the old run-down schoolhouse into a well-crafted, freshly painted jewel of a building that the whole town was proud of. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

And for him she was not flesh and blood but the painted picture of a woman. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Its cardboard hands were doubled into fists, the fingers outlined in orange paint, and I noticed that it had two faces, one on either side of the disk of cardboard, and both grinning. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carefully I fill her with my paintings, hiding them so Mack won’t sell them. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I go through the service entrance, lugging my box of paintings. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, in Sir Palomides' room, where the door was kept locked, there was such a stitching and snipping and painting and arguing as had seldom been known before. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

No gentle, tragic trails like the ones that painted Ruby’s and Sparrow’s cheeks. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Each of us owned two “racing” snails with numbers painted on their shells. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The ceilings rose to six meters high, decorated with elaborate paintings of owls in the branches of white poplars. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She had taught Seth how to mix paint and given him samples of which hue corresponded to each number. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t think about it. I just painted what came to me, what was in my head. I guess maybe that’s who lives in my head? Maybe it’s someone I remember. A face from...before?” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

From the woodlot the whole country looked white, as if it had been painted to match the church and the houses around it. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The floor of the hallway was sticky, and for some reason all of the peepholes had black paint over them. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

You paint your nails, braid your hair, and buy the right kind of jeans, but none of it is really about you. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Whether or not museums chose to change the wall labels next to some of Vermeer’s paintings, the public had done an amazing job of spotlighting any possible fraud. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The artwork must be stowed away, though, because in all my spying I didn’t see one painting. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

All through May and June, Vincent paints and draws whenever he feels well. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I dive across the toilet, toward the bathroom window, but its frame is all painted and rusty. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“ArtBoom. It’s a website where people post paintings and pictures. It’s supposed to be like an online art gallery. I think it’s kind of dumb.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I touch her lips, painting them to look like a flower in bloom. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“This covering up of pipes is all a mistake, they should be exposed everywhere, if necessary painted well and handsomely.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

One of them is wearing open-toed sandals, the toenails painted pink. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Dreamers will have to learn to struggle themselves, to understand that the field for their Dream, the stage where they have painted themselves white, is the deathbed of us all. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It speeds my pulse and terrifies me, and I look at the painting of Tariq, and it's such a good likeness that I feel as if I'm really looking at him. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He would smell the painting in his house. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

My mother moved to Myrtle Beach, finding at last the scene in her painting. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Not the same kind, probably. Mine painted portraits, the ocean, that kind of stuff. My dad has some of them still hanging in his gallery in Delray.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“I could paint a sign that you could put out front. I could make a design for the handbill, too.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She got out of the car with the spray paint in one hand and one of the catfish in the other. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The "paints" used were chunks of red and yellow ocher ground into powder and applied with brushes or blown onto the surface through hollow bones. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

In Maria’s time, the best blue paint powder was made from ground lapis lazuli, a semiprecious stone, which produced a beautiful clear blue but was also very expensive. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“For washing that paint off the road,” they say. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I mixed the paint thoroughly, then brushed it smoothly on one of the pieces of board, careful that the brush strokes were uniform. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the walls are virtually painted by my lenses with ivory and shimmering gold. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I also saw a painting of a beautiful woman sitting cross-legged on the grass under a tree. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, go wash your hands, for supper. And Papa, put away this litter of paints, because you won’t be needing them for quite a while.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie had noticed the same soft blue paint on the windowsills. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I bet he’s going to be mad that we’re interrupting his painting. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was too dark and foggy to see the porcupine painted on the side of the submarine's tower. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The bed has a floral spread, and there are unnerving paintings of bunnies on the walls. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

But it is the sand paint from working on the ceiling. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

This one’s painted in darkly pearlescent greens, blues, and blacks. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“All I know is that those awful shutters have been painted a Christian color.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He seemed more likely to strip the wheels from a patrol car than to paint the windshield black or hang his shirt like a pennant from the antenna. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lie awake, peeling dried red paint off my fingertips. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

When I went back inside, I looked out the den window and could feel Nathan’s watchfulness with every paint stroke. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He had painted the house and the barn, and as the time approached he had a woman in to clean the house, to clean it to the bone. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Woolf felt the spectacle was worth the price of new paint and a furious agent. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the current painting, she had incorporated more than ninety different shades. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Midday light was pouring through the large windows, and Jam could see that her mother had left the painting uncovered, flat on the floor. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He immediately writes to Theo and tells him the money he sends will go to Ma and Pa, not for his painting supplies. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

There is enough space to hang a painting of the Virgin of Guadalupe, a wooden carving of the map of Honduras, and a small American flag. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I paint her in her bell-bottom pants and puffy-sleeved blouse with a halo of flowers and a pink peace sign in her hands. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Catfish and spray paint in hand, Margo threw the door open, jogged across the Worthingtons’ expansive front lawn, and then hid behind an oak tree. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

On the back of the painting, as on the back of many paintings, was a small piece of wire to hang on the hook. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I was hoping we’d do something more exciting than painting this time.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Its walls were painted with a postwar bureaucratic gray. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shoots a quick glance backward, sees Baxter, Darnell, the Toad, Misty, all keeping up, their eyes painted with the same fear as Trina’s, the same fear that Mark feels himself. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He sees beautiful paintings at the Louvre, at the Musee du Luxembourg, and at the Salon, the French Academy’s annual exhibition of “living masters” of the current art world. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I muck up my mother’s kitchen floor and pots, cooking the gesso, and ruin panel after panel before I can work out how to paint it on for a smooth working surface. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She's vibrant and beautiful and commands the attention of the painting. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They made their way to the side, the mud sucking at their boots, where a small metal ladder covered in chipped green paint hung. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Then I ask, “You paint? Why didn’t you tell me?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

On the smooth walls were several paintings whose nature he tried to make out, but failed. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The grave markers had been painted white, but by someone in an obvious hurry—gelled globs covered them and bare streaks of wood showed through. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Watches, jewelry, paintings, statues, and moon rocks piled up on the lawn. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was made out of white clay and it looked like someone had forgotten to paint it. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I push the door open, though, and instead of looking at the paintings, I search the floor until I find what I’m looking for. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The walls were soon plastered with reproductions of Vermeer paintings, and library books were piled on every surface. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She then pointed to the painting of the woman on the wall. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

His face was painted with firelight, but his back was hidden in shadow. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I had to look to where she pointed—the third floor, the paint peeling, wooden bars Papa had nailed on the windows so we wouldn’t fall out. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he spoke that same evening to his eldest son, saying, “Have done with all this painting and polishing. It is enough. We are, after all, country folk.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

They wore golden sandals and bright paint, no more. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Laila was given a bed at the far end, beneath a window that someone had painted black. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

When we had finally gone through the whole house, the older cousins, who were more experienced in lying, said how much they'd enjoyed the paintings. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Every Therblig had its own symbol, and once they were painted on the wall Dad had us apply them to our household chores—bedmaking, dishwashing, sweeping, and dusting. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

She poured herself a cup of coffee and then went over and dabbed a little brown paint on a coconut. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I would paint portraits for them, but Mr. Reilly has admitted that my noses never work. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“He did a woodcut of this,” Rick said, reading the card tacked below the painting. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The picture that her heart painted was real. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

For my nails, I was going to paint different-color squiggles all over them. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

A series of doors were punctuated by brightly colored abstract paintings. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Then I spray painted the whole thing white with the paint I had gotten for the Alabaster Sphinx I was making for the Egyptian Museum project. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Her mother’s hand is wrapped around her shoulder, and her father is pointing at her acrylic painting—an image of a house on a lake, with several geese dipping their toes into the water. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It is not known whether Henri was a good painter or not for he threw himself so violently into movements that he had very little time left for painting of any kind. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The paint was peeling off the doors and the windows were crammed with years’ and years’ collection of knickknacks. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Closed Due to Inclement Weather it says, in a fancy script surrounded by playfully painted grey clouds. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“But you draw and I draw...er, paint, mostly, so I noticed you.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps,” her mother had answered, dipping her brush back into the pot of silver paint. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman behind the counter soon realized that his interest didn’t stop at red paint. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Like I can paint with my feet as well as my hands.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

One by one, I empty each tube of paint into the laundry sink. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

When they finished with that, they went down to Mr. Newton’s store and bought some sunlight yellow and strawberry red paint to take care of the shutters and door. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Later, I think, I will have a large studio, with skylights; though what I will paint in it is far from clear. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He knew where they were going: the big tent on the far side of the fire pit, its painted canvas walls cracked and faded by years of sun and rain. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The one above our table, the one that marked our spot, was the restaurant’s signature painting. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Mamá said, looking all around at the brightly painted kitchen, the colorful floor, and the cupboard with plastic flowers. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Red, gold and violet flames shot out from the sides of the engine, slicked back in paint along the thorax. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It makes the men like dolls on which the faces have not yet been painted; like scarecrows, which in a way is what they are, since they are meant to scare. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he feels part of a larger group of painters, a community that includes people from different countries, who paint in all different styles. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when they emerge, they mark a house by painting a big red X on the front door. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Rust was eating away at its paint, but my mother said that in its heyday it had been lovely. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Why does he paint it from this perspective? Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The building, clean and white except for various edges painted green, was an open construction unfolding around an empty central room. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

His dad had taken the lock off when Benji was five because he'd barricaded himself in and painted the walls with organic blueberry preserves. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, the background still looks off to me, so I take a medium-thick brush and paint black stick figures pulsing in the air around Liberty, thorny scars that look like barbed wire. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But for years she has gathered flowers for her stepfather’s studio, carried them in and arranged them for his still-life paintings. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And then I want the flag of Borinquen and a big conga with Freddy’s face on it, can you paint that?” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“No, you’re the irritating kind. Couldn’t you be useful? You wouldn’t have to repaint the shingles. You’d only have to repaint the, you know, painted parts.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The words “Neah Bay, WA” curve across its top, along with a painting of the lighthouse. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She looked at the paintings in Auntie Seema's apartment, canvases of all sizes leaning against the walls. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But all the mailboxes had swans on them, and the community pool had a swan painted on the bottom. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She draws the way Hiroshi paints, like she has all the confidence in the world. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

However, if Brunelleschi had mastered the geometry of perspective as early as 1413 it becomes a little difficult to explain why there are no surviving paintings which embody these principles before 1425. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

These independent artists will hold their first exhibition in 1874, and eventually they will be called Impressionists, after Claude Monet’s painting Impression, Sunrise. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She was met by a white-aproned technician, who led her down the long corridors of the ancient building to a large, cold room whose walls were painted gray. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They jump from faded paint on the wall to frayed edges on the quilt cover to a David Letterman bobble-head on top of a stack of magazines, on top of an old record player. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She has looked at them closely, sketched and painted them. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They make space for him to store some paintings as well. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

One lone spider remained atop the jar, its delicate legs blending in to the thin geometric designs that crisscrossed their way down the painted sides. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Heather paints her nails on her desk blotter and blathers. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Art supplies sat in organized piles on tall shelves—paint, colored pencils, construction paper, glue, and a myriad of other things he didn’t recognize but couldn’t wait to inspect. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Felicia bought the maximum amount allowed, eight gallons, and spent two Sundays painting the house with borrowed brushes and ladders. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zero was, quite literally, at the center of Brunelleschi’s painting. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

One of them held his arms from behind while another painted his face with the yellow paint that had made the star. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

A golden dragon with long whiskers and a snakelike body is painted across one wall. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Vincent thinks the painting should be framed in a flat, bright orange; that will look good with the blues of the background and the dark green of the trees. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They sold all kinds of boat-related stuff in the chandlery, including red paint, of which he bought a small tin and a fine brush to go with it. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

But in our case, the police came and investigated, everyone painted over the graffiti, and now the people behind it have been convicted of a crime. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

For two or three days the painted horses had not moved. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“We had the kids paint pictures of people who inspired them. Pretty sweet, right?” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In the photo, Elsie stands in front of a wall painted with numbers for measuring height. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Hold it, I prayed, hold it... ...as her horrified eyes swung down over the side of the chair, the Hot Seat, saw the painted flames... Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, if the technology can be adapted to it, we should send some paintings. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the movie ended and the lights came on to illuminate the murals of Tuscany and the painted classical galleries around us, Leper still sat amazed in his folding chair. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He brought home a dozen sheets of tin and some red paint. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to carry her inside. I want her to paint my toenails and show me how to put on makeup and just have a mom like everyone else does.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Stirring paint was one of my favorite things to do. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

So the next time we saw a swastika spray painted on a wall or newspaper stand we could represent ourselves, the Freedom Writers, without destroying property. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Moments later the door slammed opened again, hitting the wall so hard flakes of the crusty blue paint chipped off. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It felt as though I had painted it on, and the paint was cracking. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Dad kept a sharp lookout for surreptitious painting, and was especially suspicious whenever one of the girls looked particularly pretty. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Broken lanterns and glass shards litter the floor of this room, and paint is peeling from every wall. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

A cork, a fishhook, a silver dollar, a fancy key, and a tiny wooden baby doll, no bigger than a thimble, painted in bright colors, with a face and everything. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Still with the painted smile, she got right up in my face and blew her whistle. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

She had never been in Canada but she kept painting wondrous word pictures of what it would be like. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apples painted with nevermore are piled on the banquet tables in such quantity as to send half the Court dreaming. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She was painting her nails and messing them pretty badly when William went in and he knew she was bagged and Dora wouldn’t let a bagged girl work. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You painted that picture, Papa Georges?” said Hugo, amazed. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Let’s see—I’ve got to visualize a museum . . . and rooms . . . and lovely paintings. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Julia goes to the edge of the ring, careful not to step on any of my paintings. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Many of the people in the paintings are sharply individuated. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Rick searched for a rag and tried to wipe off the paint. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Here they meandered in their tiny sailboats, tacking and coming about; they painted, hoed, swept, and planted when the mood for therapeutic work struck them, and lolled on the beach when they felt like it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The paint on the walls and ceiling was peeling, paint chips tumbling to the floor like dried-up petals, resembling the leaves falling from the September trees outside. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He wore horsehair leggings and painted vest, like a rider. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Sissy explained that she had bought a bit of gold paint powder, mixed it with a few drops of banana oil and had gilded each penny. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jackie had brought nail polish with her, so we painted our fingernails and told the same jokes we’d told about a million times before. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Neon lights reflect against the wetness, painting the ground a menagerie of smeared gold, green, and blue. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Although a number of artists have been competent in both painting and sculpture, only a handful managed to bridge the gap between them with complete success. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d mixed colors from the paint box to create new ones. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It had all sorts of writings and pictures on it. Really fancy. I haven’t ever seen colors like that. And some of the paints were shiny like silver and gold.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It snaked out in all directions, forming a brilliant flash that burned through the wallpaper and melted the paint underneath. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

"You are painting that beam with water!" the magistrate said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“How about paintings? All you have to do is look.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Next to my name he’s painted a question mark. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

A painted sledge skimmed the snow, drawn by a pair of ashy horses. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The sailors on the Empire Tern, which was painted a dull white but had rust streaks all over her, waved back at us and held up their fingers in a V-for-victory sign. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Hiroshi gets a call about one of his paintings, I slip away to give him some privacy and find an empty chair in the back corner of the café. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s the best I can do. What are you going to paint?” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She gripped the brush firmly, just as the woman did, and started painting. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Jon has given up on his paintings of swirls and innards. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I look at the painted plank of wood on the dirt bank, Little Syria spelled out in red paint. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was stained with red paint and contained a single word printed in enormous letters: Djakarta. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hiroshi’s paintings are everywhere, all of them with different faces, all of them with unique faces. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Dark silver paint streaks over his cheekbones, and black lines run along his lashes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The remarkable thing was a thin silver chain that ran from the young lady's wrist, down to her ankle and into the painted caravan behind her. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a painted bark apron that reached to his knees and a short sword at his hip. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had seen what happened when a contractor failed to do this: ladders careening through windows and walls, tools damaging furniture, paint all over the lawn and driveway. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He’s stuck babysitting today while I go on the big paint job with Papi and Lolo. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It was two feet high and two feet long, and he had spray painted the cubes with this kind of fake- sand paint or something. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

They kept Liam in the bedroom at the other end of the hall, in a room painted a soft blue. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Now that she knew she was a shadowshaper, the painting took on a whole new life for her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She sent them back to their lockers for T-shirts and gym shorts—anything that would take paint. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

There, maybe fifty yards behind Bat Lady’s house, was what might have been a garage, painted in a brown-green that worked as camouflage. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

She had hers in Ayemenem in the old church with the new paint. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were gangs, whose slogans and names were painted in bold letters on the sides of buildings or on sidewalks. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

And then I locked back on her, and I could see the outline of her face, the paint still wet against her skin. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He takes a short walk around town and finds an antiques dealer who says he has a painting by Monticelli. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“After it dries, I’ll sand and paint it,” he said, standing back and observing his work critically. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The scene could have been painted in watercolors, so pale was the green of the grass, so subdued was the blue of the water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a naked man, painted with tar and rolled in feathers. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I carved the model out of balsa wood, and painted it in red and white racing colors. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had Turner cleaning and painting, dragging rugs outside and beating them, opening windows for new air, and bringing light to rooms that hadn’t seen any since the century began. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

It might have been a painting instead of a real place. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cant of the ship made for hard pushing, but under their combined effort, the spool slowly rumbled forward, crunching over blistered preservative paint and loosened metal deck plates. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Something large and loud in the center of the painting had the hind legs of a goat, fur like grated bone, solid thighs, their surface thrusting toward the ceiling of the studio. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I had always loved this painting and the story behind it. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as broad as my hand and had a yellow 8 on each clear wing, as plain as if some careful schoolchild or God had painted it there. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found nothing there but a kohl pot half full of the black eye paint, a copper mirror, a razor and a little jar of the ointment Gebu had been perfuming himself with lately. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Along the right side of the bear footprints, the old man painted paw prints in blue, and then yellow, and finally white. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Crayons wouldn’t do, of course, but with paints you could put one thin color on top of another so that you would begin to see a pale figure moving from deep inside the paper. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I saw no photographs or paintings anywhere, neither on the floor where his family lived, nor here on the floor where he lived and his father worked. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

When he was done painting for the day, Vincent would stack his canvases under the bed or put them in the cupboard. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She and her friend Abelina hid away in her room and painted each other’s nails, and when Maribel came to the dinner table that night, we saw it. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He found the Veranda Cafe, its walls painted with Venetian scenes and featuring a large elliptical dance floor. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“And you have spots on your face you have neglected to paint over,” I countered, which made her fume silently. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I will make this painting the truest painting I’ve ever done. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

In mid-November, Pearl and Moody, along with the rest of their modern European history class, had gone to the art museum to look at paintings. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The afternoon sun painted her white and gold—rising on her hills like a noble city in a happy dream. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The disrepair of the house did not bother her at all, the crumbling plaster, the peeling wallpaper, the faded paints or the columns; none of it made any difference. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He nudged Ron and pointed to the painting just behind Flermi- one. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The houses are painted in pastel colors—pink, yellow, blue, and green. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

While working on her Surinam book, Maria painted a beautiful series of seashells on commission to bolster her dwindling funds. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

After a moment’s bewilderment, he realized that it was not a mirror, but a painting. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

With reporters camped outside my door, I can't really go anywhere, so I find a hardware store that delivers, and decide to paint my apartment. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Oh, and it wasn’t made of painted wood, like I’d thought. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Eventually Ama and her husband bought the little brown house, and the one right next to it, and painted them blue and green. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The comical little painted man looked so genial, so ready to welcome anyone, that Johnny stepped in. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He paints. Sure. We’ve been selling his art for quite a while now.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

And that as near as she could tell, someone who lived in that house painted the front door a different color several times a year. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

It did not give up enough light even for Coraline to make out the things that had been painted onto the flaking cellar walls. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

They walked over and Jam leaned forward to look at the painting. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

On one side of the bendy part was a woman with a crate on wheels packed tightly with plastic grocery bags, and on the other was a man painted head-to-toe in silver, reading a newspaper. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

What did he paint when he was old and depressed? Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

He said he had shot himself in a wheat field where he was painting. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He has stopped working on his canvas, the painting we all thought was going to be this awesome, earth-shattering piece of art that would be auctioned for a million dollars. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I paint a silver toaster, the old kind, with knobs and doors. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

With the furnishing of the house, in addition to his usual painting supplies, Vincent keeps needing more money. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was the kind of room where you'd grill someone until they snapped, the kind frequently painted so as to cover the bloodstains. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

A group of young men in white helmets piled out, armed with buckets of paint and brushes, and proceeded to cover the walls with light-colored paint. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though they have the same goal—to produce really good work—they discover that they have different ideas of how to paint and whose work to admire and emulate. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Surrounded by horses and chariots, costumed and painted for the crowds, before we were allies. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The oil paintings my parents made on their first date because Pa wanted to wow Ma with an experience more memorable than just dinner. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The house was painted red instead of blue. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The wooden grandstands were painted in scarlet and white. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even now My eyes that hurry to see no more are painting, painting Faces of my lost girl. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robbie had covered a huge chunk of the wall in white paint, and his skeleton now wore an elaborate dress and was grinning wildly. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

It was like a vibrant painting that had come alive. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

From the middle of May to the end of July he paints almost forty scenes of parks full of bright colors and thick paint. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A torn painting hung on one wall: a clipper ship, maybe even this one, painted from high up, looking down on the deck. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, the sunlight’s so bright it makes the paint on my walls seem dim. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Dad started to paint, wielding the brush awkwardly. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The paint was peeling on buildings, the streets pitted with potholes, and the whole estate resigned to its own shabbiness. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We draped her in bangles and necklaces and painted her face with makeup and her hands with henna. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Oddly enough, the question has never been raised; yet surely the differences between the two paintings cannot be accidental. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sees many beautiful women in the city, and he wants to paint them. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Gunters had filled countless message board threads arguing about the meaning of the painting, about what the black dragon signified or whether it signified anything at all. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Spray paint requires adult supervision. Put this box down so you don’t paint the lawn.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“Marcus, I want you to keep feeding the ball into the paint.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

On the wall was a hand- painted banner: “Embrace the Struggle.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

With a palette balanced in my left hand, I press the tip of my brush into the gray splotch of acrylic paint. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I was along the conveyor belt where the numbers were painted. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of it sank, leaving only a board with a painted eye and another with the letter P bobbing in the waves. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

There were eyes scrawled along the windowsill, and one big eye painted on the knob of the door that led to the stairs. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Theo likes some of Vincent’s paintings well enough to take them back to Paris: oil paintings of peasant women and a still life of flowers in a vase. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Better to die here by her own blade than with her face painted and her body swathed in false silks. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“There it is! Your story. Your soul. Now paint it.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

At the end of the table, a number of Oompa-Loompas were busily painting more faces on more candies. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

The words "Bar Harbor, Maine" were painted in the sky. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Aru recognized this type of Otherworld person from the paintings in the museum. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Hey: I was thinking of hanging my painting of the dining room in here. In the dining room.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He taught her all he knew of painting flowers for profit. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The wooden nose cone was also painted a bright red. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I finished painting another rock and June started another tree. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

My mom’s paintings have always been brightly colored and beautiful, but something about applying all that color to her intricate, almost anatomical drawings of insects makes them something more than beautiful. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

For the moment, Catherine was painting the rock and the sand beneath Princesse, ignoring the main subject. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He glanced back to the paintings, and I looked to see which image caught his interest now. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She painted two large sunflowers on the doors with the brightest yellow she could find, to distinguish it from other cars and make her new job easier. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A black Santa oil painting hung above the mantel, which was itself lined with black Santa figurines. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Masaccio’s Holy Trinity, 1425, in Santa Maria Novella in Florence, is the earliest rigorous perspective painting to survive, and is evidently dependent on Brunelleschi’s studies. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I was still wiping my face and squinting at crude Biblical scenes painted on the windows when two old ladies came up to me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been working on the painting ever since Dad took over the mine and we moved into the Captain’s house. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She got on her knees and shuffled back to the painting, peering at it without the vertigo of standing upright, cradling her hand to her chest. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

More precisely: a former mosque, with minaret torn down and Koranic inscriptions plastered over to provide a fresh canvas for the Christian saints that are, even now, being painted on the interior. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The strange metal of his namesake clings to him from forehead to jaw like silver paint, revealing every feature of his face, from the thin eyebrows to the hard angles of his cheekbones. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When she was done she painted the skin with red ointment, covered it with more leaves, and bound the breast in a ragged piece of lambskin. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She had not set off any alarm bells when Zeitoun had provided an estimate and begun work on painting her stairway and guest bedroom. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Still weak from her tropical illness and pressed for time, she was forced to hire others to etch and engrave most of the copper plates based on her paintings. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Just as he idealizes Caroline, he paints the Loyers as the perfect mother and daughter. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But as more and more paints are diluted into the water, it inevitably turns to murky gray. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I think about all that great early punk and the raucous paintings I used to do. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The great Dutch painter Jan Vermeer has been called the Sphinx of Delft, for all his paintings have a degree of mystery. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

By that time she has pushed back his cuticles, cleaned his nails and painted them with clear polish. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel saw herself as a little girl, grinning, with her hands covered in finger paint. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“And guess what, kiddo? I have my own parking space. Actually, it’s my spot but it still has ‘Mr. Glass’ painted on the curb. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Milton had never suspected that Theodora was the kind of girl who would paint her toenails. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And tens of millions of people see Vincent's paintings in museums all over the world. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Especially I do not like them to be hungry when other peoples give money to someones for painting their toes. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

He covered the roller and started spreading paint evenly across the wall. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

They look wealthy—their cart is painted, they’re dressed in brightly dyed tunics and gowns. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The walls were white but the whiteness didn't look like paint. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I studied the picture he was painting: tourists in swimsuits, lounging on the beach. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although it’s of an iconic Dutch structure—a windmill—he paints just the bottom part; you can't see the sails in the wind. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

There he let them bite animals that had been painted with poison. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the hole in Elijah’s earlobe I can see the crescent moon and stars painted on the wall under the clock. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Osh insisted on thanking her with paintings, which she hung all around her house. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I call up images of my other paintings. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The walls were painted a cool light blue, and the room seemed brighter than it really was. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

An unseen hand turned off the radio as he crossed the threshold, and bags of potato chips vanished, leaving the faint scent of salt to mix with vermilion oil paint and wet clay. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Over the weekend I work on the Ibo slave-ship painting and try to catch up on some homework. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He was taken aback by the sight of the normal: paint cans, screwdrivers, duct tape all neatly in place. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Not at all. I know what I’m good at, and it ain’t drawing or painting or cutting things up and making something out of them. That’s Jade. I’m the poet.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Abu taught me the basics of drawing, and from there I moved on to painting and sketching—I loved anything where I could be creative with colors. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to paint a star in the middle,” Naima told him. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Amalia’s aunt's guesthouse has a painted porch and a cheerful sign hanging out front, assuring guests that they're open for the winter. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Hope you ain’t too sick of painting to want to get that done and ready for flying.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Chokecherry may deny its scandalous past, but you can’t paint over rot. It’s still there, TokNation, and it will always come out.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Our house is half gray shingles and half brown painted panels. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The settlement included a number of religious shrines, the earliest found so far, and on their plaster-covered walls we encounter the earliest paintings on a man-made surface. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tiny white dot had reappeared at the end of the painted tunnel, and now Ariana was walking back toward them, growing bigger and bigger as she came. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The painting he makes, though, shows more than pigment. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And just about every available surface inside was painted with bizarre and colorful graffiti, some of it very artistic, and a lot of it just nasty and drugged out. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I will be looked at, now, with respect: paintings that can get bottles of ink thrown at them, that can inspire such outraged violence, such uproar and display, must have an odd revolutionary power. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the picture, a ruddyfaced farmer stood at the edge of a broad field, and riding across it was a ghostly host of hunters outlined in silver paint, their horses’ eyes glinting gold. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl and her mother made a life in that small house, the girl spending the summer painting the windowsills and doorways a curious shade of blue. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

An old metal desk with peeling black paint sat in between. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was painted white with gray shutters, and there was a nice front porch. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“No, ma’am,” Katherine says, a smile breaking out over her face, making her look like an angel from a painting. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Abuela likes these paintings best, and even ventures a few suggestions. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was dark at the moment, as if it had been painted black. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He thought it would be a sort of joke: self- conscious cominess, like a painting of a giant Coke bottle. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He screamed something without words and flung the papers and paints into the dirty brown water. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Richard smelled the saltiness of the air as Kainene led him through wide rooms with tastefully mismatched furniture, wood carvings, muted paintings of landscapes, rounded sculptures. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t need an appointment to admire the painting, do I?” Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It must be some kind of spirit day because they’re wearing their team shirts and have put on silly face paint. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

These painted savages would go further and further. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

On this particular day, which was fine but cold, he was painting. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

But companies whipped up prejudice against unions, painting workers as communists, and strikers lost public support. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

The other eleven kids started looking around the motel grounds, searching for a brightly painted tree stump. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I curled around myself tighter, around the pieces of the painting; they were soft, feathery. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Was it like paint: Could it be mixed and diluted? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The pink paint underneath the dirt is also being removed. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It’s disconcertingly like a washroom scribble, something you’d write with spray paint on a wall. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

So here, in limning her portrait, must I paint her as she was, a girl of little more than my own age now. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The new jack, never used and bright with factory paint, was stiff and unruly, and it was not designed for the overhang of Rocinante. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt, and then dismissed, an urge to grab the painting off the wall and run away with it. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

In June, Theo buys ten paintings by Claude Monet and shows them at his Montmartre gallery, on the entresol floor. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A car painted a brilliant, glittering blue appeared on the horizon and pulled into the driveway and coasted to a stop. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

The horses in the painting still leapt the fence. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The painting of a tennis match between black and white players where neither had yet to score. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The other major site of cave paintings in Lascaux, France, was also discovered by accident. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

There is a Peruvian deity, painted on a clay pot dating from around A.D. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has a bucket and is washing the slurs from his window, smearing the yellow paint into huge wet circles. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Purebom heard her pleas from the great wooden seats of their ancestors, rising in curved tiers from a marble floor to a high-domed ceiling painted with scenes of Qarth's vanished glory. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The boy had found some crayons and painted his facemask with fangs and he trudged on uncomplaining. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Then Chicho paints delicate butterflies fluttering with lacy wings and tiny birds with long beaks that he says are hummingbirds. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

She showed him to one of the green painted doors that opened off the courtyard. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Too numerous, in a way: archaeologists have turned up at least eleven versions of Kaan’s early dynastic history painted on big vases. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I feel like a speck of dust on a beautiful painting. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The foot of the bridge was a half-sunken enemy galley with Dragonsbane painted on her prow, her bottom ripped out by one of the sunken hulks Tyrion had placed between the quays. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The water was dull green, like the trees in a Hudson River School painting, but it looked glassy and clear. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

And then he starts on a painting for the baby. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Her thin brown arms were stacked with gold bracelets, a small red circle was painted on her forehead, and the edges of her feet were tinted with a decorative red dye. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He has forgotten to bring a book to read and so he picks up a discarded section of the Globe, skimming an article in the “Arts” section about Andrew Wyeth’s Helga paintings. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And none of them knew why the opposition had painted that Asiatic word on the walls; they had never heard about the piles of corpses in the streets of that distant city. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A painted flat shows a steamship, two huge smokestacks, and a swath of deck and railing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was freshly painted with borders of orchids and lilies and water hyacinths outlining each panel. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

I lay next to Harry in his bed, watching the changing light reflect on the painted angels peering down from the ceiling. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Simon and Nick’s neighborhood looks like a storybook illustration, with its carefully mowed lawns, painted shutters, and buds on all the dogwoods. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I found the painted Masonite board and a box of plastic pieces in the lounge; we balanced the board carefully on the cell’s food slot, near the floor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the light I love to paint in. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why would I paint a rat on my grandfather’s shoulder?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Your mental image has probably been influenced by paintings and movies about that time. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

There is a painting by Asher Brown Durand called “Kindred Spirits,” which is often reproduced in books when the subject turns to the American landscape in the nineteenth century. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She saw me admiring all the colors of the paint chips and told me I could take some, but I just shook my head. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

"The whole town is desolate. All the cars have the left rear wheel painted black as a mourning wreath and there's a persistent wail all night along the North Shore." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She recognized the way the stag sprinted through the trees as if it had been painted in a storybook. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Uri, will you have to paint ‘Jew’ on the window of the barbershop?” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The woman is a statuesque redhead with eyelashes too long to be real and a beauty spot painted next to her full lips. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

On the painted cars, the graffiti were simply painted over. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then why are you wearing black face paint?” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He knew I did not paint my face, as other ladies did. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The growing popularity of still-life painting reflected an increased emphasis on the home and personal possessions in Europe at the time. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They were prosperous farms, you could tell, because the barns gleamed with fresh red paint and the houses often had swimming pools out front. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hands are anxious for brushes and paint tubes, mostly to give them something to do besides tremble against my legs. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It gave off a sharp sound when you tapped it, and it would not need to be painted regularly like the wooden ones we had in primary school. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each of them is painting a picture, each picture is on an easel. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Painter Chen dared give me an unfinished painting! I will double tax his village for the next ten years!" Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

It’s bigger than mine, painted white that’s faded by the sun, with a big garden full of weeds and rocks. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“Tomorrow I’m going to ask Doc for some red paint. Know why?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The paint was peeling a little, but the little house had shingles on the roof and curtains in the window. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

One had his face painted like a Comanche warrior and was waving a large orange Styrofoam hand making a big Number I. Another was bare-chested and painted entirely green. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I sit patiently through the rest of the paint job and don my costume, which now includes a bloody bandage over the scar on my arm to indicate I’ve been in recent combat. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Maria learned how to paint by copying images of her stepfather’s. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There was a three-foot gap in the trees directly opposite and, in case there was any possible doubt, a white blaze painted on a stout oak. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Of the Cro-Magnons’ products that have been preserved, the best known are their artworks: their magnificent cave paintings, statues, and musical instruments, which we still appreciate as art today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Well, not really, but it was a lot of stuff—mostly paints and dyes, and solutions to make the colors permanent. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

You couldn’t help notice her two big toes sticking out from the gap, because they were painted with matching dark pink nail polish and were very bright. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Golden bracelets flew and jars of jam and tiny painted animals and fountain pens. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Not right now, when I prefer painting to trying to fit in. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then she noticed that both Joon and Ben had stopped painting to stare at the other end of the table, where Nat was working in utter silence and concentration. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They were not made of paint, it replied. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Toy watches with the time painted on them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s on a hot-pink Electra with brightly colored stencils on the fenders that remind me of one of the modern art paintings we saw on our class trip to the Norton Museum last year. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Night Witches” in the Sky paints a vivid and faithful portrait of the 46th Guards’ experiences at the height of the war—from flaming death in the air to bunches of wildflowers in the cockpit. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I paint her in blue, with the usual white veil, but with the head of a lioness. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Above us, stern nuns in crisp whites watched our intrusion from the strokes of a massive oil painting housed in a gilt frame. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s not your job, Homer,” she said from the stepladder in front of her painting. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

On the day her class voted on the attribution of each of the thirty-five paintings, Ms. Hussey was oddly quiet. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I tell myself I need to thank him, when I’m not busy drooling into the windows and hyperventilating over the oil paintings and watercolors and canvases as big as my garage door. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

All those except Yossarian reporting on sick call with temperatures below 102 had their gums and toes painted with gendan violet solution and were given a laxative to throw away into the bushes. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

There was a coherence to the work, as if it had been painted by the same soul, if not the same hand. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The walls had once been brightly painted, but most of the frescoes had peeled or faded. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

His paintings are great impastos of pigment: chrome yellow, Prussian blue, vermilion, carmine, very light cinnabar green, emerald green, Veronese green, orange, lemon chrome yellow, geranium lake, silver white, zinc white.... Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Wash extracted three additional feet, four hands and two heads painted with garish grins. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She preferred to look, in the other museum, at the paintings; but still she did not understand anything he said about them. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He often sends sketches or replicas of his work to friends, and sometimes when he does, he makes the painting a little different from the original, depending on whom he’s sending it to. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We know from a contemporary source that Chardin painted the youth “carefully from life and...tried hard to give him an ingenuous air.” History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A soldier sat outside the door that opened onto the garden making crosses and painting on them the names, rank, and regiment of the men who were buried in the garden. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Looking at art in those three days expands his view of color in painting in a way that reading about it could not. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Sefia’s images of them were already fading, their features cracking and flaking away like old paint, revealing nothing but darkness beneath. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The moon rose over the wall of Resthaven, painting the quiet msasa trees with silver and trailing a bright shimmer on the stream at the valley’s heart. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

We all wear Hawaiian shirts and leis over our costumes, and the banner I painted says Sari-Sari Store in bright blue, yellow, and red letters, the colors of the Philippine flag. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

In the process of collecting, painting, and frantically making notes, Maria began to feel dizzy and exhausted. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was black; and set upon it was a great stone, carved and painted in the likeness of a long White Hand. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I kneel down and push my finger into the paint. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Remembering the painted boots, she surveyed her white satin slippers with girlish satisfaction, and chasseed down the room, admiring her aristocratic feet all by herself. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside were four cans of spray paint, painter’s tape, and a staple gun. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The smell of paint was still faintly apparent near Lyra’s nursery. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The floors have been redone, the walls freshly painted, the ceiling dotted with track lights. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He finds the best places in the city to buy oil paints and fine drawing brushes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

There was a painting on the wall, a guy with a rifle across his chest looking as if he was having a vision or something. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Just as I predicted, the yellow paint is so loud, you can’t miss it. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Kendra had wanted to paint the pavilions around the pond, and Lena had quickly sketched a scene with startling accuracy, as if the housekeeper had the place memorized. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I knew Papa kept her paintings in the corner of his study behind a wooden rocking chair. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“This used to be my painting studio,” he said, waving his hand at the pavilion. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She writes, “I have found the paintings”—clearly she didn’t have them hanging up—and they are now even dearer to me.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We are shown two helicopters, black ones with silver wings painted on the sides. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “My mother painted it last summer while I painted the trim at the bottom.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Moonlight painted the leaves in shades of bone and silver as the guests drifted among them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Not many German artists painted domestic scenes at the time; this is from Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Every evening Meggie asked her to tell more stories, and then they sat together while Teresa wrote and Meggie read the words and sometimes even tried to paint pictures of what her mother described. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But if Pet stood next to it, the colors would match, right down to the splatters of paint on the floor around the canvas. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He threw up in the toilet, on the floor—painted the entire stall. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was one that the New Dealers had recently given a pink paint job. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The painting was done by an Italian artist, who finished it in the thirties,” said Penney. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He makes room next to his paintings, his railroad cars, and his violin and mandolin and mandola. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Cabarets plywood-paneled walls are hung with deer antlers, Old Milwaukee beer promos, and mawkish paintings of game birds taking flight. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He never noticed that I bore some substantial scratches on my arms and that Granddaddy’s nails were rimmed with crescents of dark paint. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The interior of most corridors was painted brick and cinder block. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pink paint was drying on a nice wooden shape. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Every wall was painted a dark mustard yellow. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Bob grabs paintings with his teeth and drags them to me. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Masaccio’s patrons, who had paid for his painting, appear on either side, kneeling. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

His tent is made of some heavy cloth, painted in silver and green. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The bathroom is purple, with red footprints painted up the wall, across the ceiling and down the opposite wall. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the midst of painting the blacking on his worn shoes he looked sideways up at her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Your latest paintings have given me a great deal to think about as regards your state of mind when you made them,” he writes to his brother. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Max helps me set the painting up in the bakery the night before the grand opening, and we drape it with sewn-together sheets. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s working at a company that pushes everyone to paint excessively fast. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She gets up late, paints her nails, lies in the sun, and stares at pictures of African landscapes in a big coffee-table book. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Jamie and the remaining scribes are painting the story of our queen. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Unlike the grand ivory buildings in the Fair’s Court of Honor, these walls were painted in garish shades of red and bronze as though colored by a premonition of fire. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was a weight thrumming through the floorboards in a low song, and that was how Jam knew the painting was done. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Willis spun around at the sound of Turner's voice, but then he turned back to the painting. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Beside a huge, misshapen hill, the car descended into a complex of rectangular buildings, as squat as ugly dorms and painted the color of dried grass. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Mr. Wallace sees me looking at the board, and he comes over and takes down the notice about a woman wanting her house painted. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

No paintings have been hung yet and the shelves wait empty and cardboard boxes stand open on the floor. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

AH round the panelled walls there were ancient paintings of departed badgers, famous in their day for scholarship or godliness, lit from above by shaded glow-worms. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

His strong opinion is that they should paint from their imaginations, not from what they see, as Vincent likes to do. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

To relieve the monotony, some people planted small gardens or painted their doors bright colors. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say I have to stay after school, which is true: I’m painting the decorations for the next dance, palm trees and girls in hula skirts. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were eyes painted on the church door, narrow red eyes, and ugly stone demons the height of a man stood on either side of the entrance, their teeth bared like savage dogs. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Was that Effie again? Never trust an ugly woman. She’s got a grudge against the world,” said Grandma, who was no oil painting herself. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Underneath their painted leather vests, their withered dugs swayed back and forth, shiny with oil and sweat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She finished about twenty paintings in her studio, cleaned the whole house, and cooked enough soup to last all winter. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

And I paint an illusion, letting the image pour out of my fingertips. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Instead of marriage I will be dedicated to my painting. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was probably painting flowers for one of Master Peale’s daughters who watched him with stupid cow eyes. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I paint three faceless people—one becomes the sky, one becomes the ocean, and one becomes the sun. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I’m trying to figure out what I want the woman in my painting to wear. I’m adding all the details onto her dress tomorrow.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was not lawful in these matches to foin—that is, to make a thrust of the paint Finally there was swashbuckling. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like someone was painting his back and ribs with stripes of gasoline and chili pepper and setting them ablaze. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Last time I helped paint trim at the marina on Singer Island, I smelled like bait for days. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Ida's boat swayed, tightly moored between two painted wooden posts. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She told us she had to paint it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sierra made a face at him, but he’d closed his eyes, his forehead only a few inches from the painted skeleton foot. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Struggling to remove an especially difficult cover, I wondered if the same Liberty paint was used on the campus, or if this "Optic White" was something made exclusively for the government. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I leaned against a wall, my head inches from a black Santa portrait painted on velvet. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I think I have beard about Piets. Pictures. They were painted blue.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought I could smell paint! This is lovely,” he said. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was a low, white building painted with Dalmatian spots and a rotating sign out front shaped like a dog bone. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

There was another one that was a painting of water lilies done in a very loose way. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Since the beginning of time, the Oxford English Dictionary has defined ‘still life’ as a painting of some stuff, fruit or what have you. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He caught himself smiling at the name painted on the blue doors: TRAVELIN’ JOHNNY. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stucco is chipped and paint is peeling off the trim. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just her dress and the beautiful way her face looked when she passed by the hatrack mirror and saw the red paint on her cheeks and the rhinestone tiara in her hair. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A tinge of panic sent her attention reeling back to the fifth floor just in time to see one of Robbie’s painted giants swing down on her from the rafters. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Mom was at the kitchen table in front of her beach painting, which she had finally finished. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The dartboard hangs precariously on a wall in the study, between tall bookcases and ornately framed oil paintings. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He stretched sheer silk fabric over the stern and bow sections and painted the silk with varnish. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Each person had an assigned task, the putting away of chalk, erasers, papers, books, pencils, note paper, paints, and demonstration material. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Propelled by desperate people to a warehouse with a sloppily painted H above the doorway. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t say what he thinks of my paintings, but I know anyway. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The dishes seemed impossibly fragile, the china thinner than a cracker and painted with brightly colored elephants. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The cigar maker gave him a fresh coat of paint four times a year and carried him inside when it rained. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a solid week, ever since the pep rally, I’ve been painting watercolors of trees that have been hit by lightning. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

More symbols, like those painted on the sides of the ships, were carved into the ground. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Since they were downhill, we had a good line of fire and scored several direct hits, the rocks dinging off their bikes, nicking the paint and denting the fenders. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Once we paint our nails, there isn’t much more we can do for a while. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There was no paint on the inside of the wall, so I climbed up on top of it and vaulted over. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared past me, as if judging the broken furniture and brightly painted walls, and then he flew away. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Did you paint that cop car?” he bluntly asked the boy. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He has been sitting up so long for Amaka to paint him. It’s a miracle. Our Lady is faithful.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He's filling a void I never knew was there, with his stories and his family and his paintings and the kindness he never seems to run out of. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They had left him alone most of the week It had rained, and he had made a model of a helter-skelter, out of cardboard painted silver. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

And here was someone willing to tramp out into a wilderness brimming with the unknown and bring back paintings. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A painted face spoke with the voice of Robert. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He’s even thinking about redoing old paintings, such as The Potato Eaters, and, if Theo likes, one of the old church tower at Nuenen, The Peasants Churchyard’ He thinks he can make something better now. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Really, if someone told me I could hang out in da Vinci’s studio while he painted the Mona Lisa or go up on Brian’s roof with him at night—I’m on the roof. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to paint for Mack,” I say. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

But when telling Augustus Waters, I painted the rosiest possible picture, embellishing the miraculousness of the miracle. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

There are still some buildings boarded up, with the windows busted out and replaced by paintings of would-be windows with curved drapes. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“A few stores down from me there’s a carpet shop owned by a Pakistani man. It was vandalized the other night—the windows broken...awful things written in spray paint.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The table was laid with beautifully painted china plates. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Helmuth awaits his turn for interrogation in a room painted a brilliant, dazzling white and brightly lit with large lights. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Over the door hung a board upon which an image of a boot had been painted. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Gift number three was a set of watercolor paints and some paper. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Now and then, I see people who have a bright scarlet streak painted into their hair. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It matched what was painted on the yachts in the marina, on the front of the palace, and on the arms of the statues. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“A painting of one,” I said, and took another sip of the Coke. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“That’s enough out of both of you! Look at my ceiling. Blue paint is no good inside a place. If something gets in here with one of us, it’s already too late.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

And there is the letter Q, drawn in shiny, silver paint. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"This painting is a masterpiece!" a voice said in surprise. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

In one month alone, according to my diary for 1939, I completed eighteen oil paintings. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

With one scarred hand, he swiped at the salty rivulets, careful to avoid rubbing off the LED paint. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The rounded walls and ceiling are painted a deep, vibrant blue and ornamented with stars. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The landing at the top of the stairs ended in a single door painted red, with a peephole in it. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He painted it all up and it looked like new. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman lit a few kerosene lanterns and went back to her painting. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

They could come watch me and Jill Biden paint a wall, for example, at a nondescript row house in the Northwest part of Washington. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I tried my best to focus on my painting, but all I could see was red. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Only as he approached could he decipher that it was a painting, and only once he was before it, what it depicted. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The plant’s windows were covered with black paint, blocking light from escaping and making the building nearly invisible to enemy bombers. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The land is well tended, the buildings strong and freshly painted. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

People still ask where all the important women painters are instead of looking at what they did paint and trying to understand their circumstances. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I collect a folder of sketches and a stack of five paintings and box them up. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the grown-ups driving by will call the police, but it’s okay because I don’t do drugs or spray paints. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

And painted cattleguards had always worked just like a little piece of osha in the pocket had always kept away poisonous snakes. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men set up booths, hung strings of electric lights, and put the final coat of paint on the new gazebo. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

A bright yellow sun was painted across one wall. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe I could come up with something that doesn’t involve...you know, paint.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The ground around it, usually painted in a spiral pattern of black and white, is now nothing but darkness, as though it has been swallowed up by empty space. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

On our classroom wall, my teacher hung a calendar with Frida’s odd paintings. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Both of them lived near the edge of the school district, where houses had neat lawns with trees in the backyard and a fresh coat of paint every other year. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kneeled between two cars and watched her lean over the hood of a white convertible and paint the windshield. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

There were centaurs with blade Arabian stallion bodies, others with gold palomino coats, others with orange-and-white spots like paint horses. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I look down at it—it’s a dark- blue pillowcase with the words “Faction before blood” painted on it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“So what? You Spanish, this is your neighborhood. You grew up here, got beat up here, and I hope beat someone up too. Sapito tells me you used to paint R.I.P.s?” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The bathroom is smeared with fingerprints and painted dingy white, not the most flattering light. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t even draw or paint it out of me anymore. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Some people even had their dead lawns painted green, kind of like the way funeral homes put makeup on dead people. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

On the walls, there are pictures of us, so my painting is a picture of pictures. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His mop moves across the empty food court like a giant brush, painting a picture no one will ever see. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The paint cooled my hands, but did nothing for my tree. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I paint a girl with wings instead of arms, flying along the border where darkness becomes light, unsure of where she's supposed to be. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

These domestic crusades terrorized poor people and, at the same time, got them involved in what was painted as a holy adventure: turning all Europe into a Christian land. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The floor glistens like it’s permanently wet and tall paintings hang on the walls. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I set a second one on my neck, and it leaves behind a slimy trail like a streak of paint as it finds the thick vein right under my jawbone. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She is a sophisticated lady with silver hair freshly teased at the beauty parlor and manicured nails painted red. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

She painted the pictures that went into the pattern books for people who sew their own clothes. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The worn yellow paint was shedding like an old dog. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

As a Ph.D. student, he’d used HeLa to help develop something called fluorescence in situ hybridization, otherwise known as FISH, a technique for painting chromosomes with multicolored fluorescent dyes that shine bright under ultraviolet light. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She took in the heavy, green drapes, the pairs of polished shoes lined up neatly along the wall, the closet door, where the gray paint had chipped and showed the wood beneath. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The buildings had always seemed more impressive because they were the only buildings to receive regular paintings; usually, the nearby houses and cabins were left untouched to become the dull grained gray of weathered wood. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was no dark silhouette in the sky now; in fact, the landscape looked as if it were from a heavenly painting. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I decide to call home after I’m finished painting at the studio. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Hi, Grandpa,” I whisper, laying the painting down on the grave. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The walls were painted green, and for the first time, Raymie stood face-to-face with the grandmother. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

The paint firm where most of the men work is in financial trouble and has cut back on everyone’s hours. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Year after year they plant corn, paint houses, fix cars or work at seasonal jobs and live off welfare in the off-seasons. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Our first conversation began with her grabbing my hand to examine my newly painted nails, gold with silver moons. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Covering the length and breadth of the fabric is a stark swastika painted in splotchy black gunk. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Death is not a pastime,” she says, her voice rising unsteadily, “not a place to make paintings.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed excited about the whole thing, and Jam couldn’t bring herself to break that, the story, the magic of a creature spilling out of a painting. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Even with her eyes crossed, and paint on her face, Isabella looks pretty. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Twenty or so people were pacing around and around, carrying big signs painted on old planks and on big banners made of sheets. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She takes her seat as she’s told and holds her head so high and proud that she reminds me of the paintings of African queens my mother left hanging on our living room wall. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was safe from shame or self-consciousness behind the mask of his paint and could look at each of them in turn. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

For the first year after Sarah was bom I didn’t paint at all. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They are easy to maintain, need no paint since they are usually of aluminum, and are not tied to fluctuating land values. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today he wears a patch with a blue eye painted on it, complete with a half-lowered eyelid. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The officer looked past him to the group of painted boys. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Sydelle's crutch was painted in black and white squares to match her black and white checkered dress. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his big money, Bob bought a rusty old car that looked as if it had been painted with brown house paint and invited Roza, Karolina, and Honorata for a ride. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mom kept working on her painting in the kitchen. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her face has gone flat white, like cheap wall paint. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He leads me to a can of purple paint, the color written on the lid: Violet. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I use the second bedroom for painting, and keep the door to it closed. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Empty paint buckets, paint brushes, stepladders, stools, saucepans, frying-pans, rotten eggs, dead rats, bottles of hair-oil—anything those brutes could lay their hands on came raining down upon the peach. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

In deference to his bosses, Theo hangs the more traditional paintings on the ground floor, and the modern paintings on the entresol. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I’ve painted the border with flags of different countries and the middle with smiling faces. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The blue coat with brass buttons was brand new, and pride sparkled over Nat like the shiny paint on the new vessel. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I walk over to the wall, and up close, I can see that there’s some red graffiti behind the white paint. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

William Clark visited the island of Antigua in the 1830s and painted the steps in making sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Already the paint on it had begun to blister. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cristiana could also limn with skill, painting lifelike birds and flowers and faces I could recognize as those of Gertrude and her ladies. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She always painted like this, half dancing in something of a trance, and she was always exhausted afterward. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

So he decides to set aside his disdain for institutional learning, left: over from his days at theology school in Amsterdam, and enroll in a painting class at an art academy. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He tells Theo, “I’m still very much under the impression of what has just happened—I just kept painting these two Sundays.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He gives this painting more colors: blues and greens, browns and whites, orange. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She scrambled down between the painted stones of the hoverboard path, David struggling to keep up. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Most of my mother’s paintings were trompe l’œils—à la Magritte, as she liked to say—in which the subject, person or thing, always seemed to be trying to escape the frame. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The morning sun lit the island like a painted backdrop from an old Hollywood movie, all greens and golds, pinks and blues. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The de Vries family is even wealthier than I'd realized; the furnishings in the rooms we pass are ornate and expensive-looking, with paintings on the walls and a rich, textured wallpaper. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

At midnight, I awake and paint a large canvas ignited with reds and whites, each color betraying the other. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, where perspective painting takes a three-dimensional world and turns it into a two-dimensional surface, Regiomontanus was now trying to take a two-dimensional image—the night sky—and turn it into a three-dimensional world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“You’re going to have to pay for telling on Castor. You told who sprayed paint on the wall, and Castor got into trouble. Castor doesn’t like getting into trouble.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door to the attic was just as Ophie remembered it, narrow and ancient, covered in dusty white paint. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

They headed into the houses first thing, carrying rolls of carpet, stacks of drywall, cans of paint. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Riders on white horses looked at Meggie as if scarcely a day had passed since someone had painted them with tiny marten-hair brushes. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She liked to paint outdoors in the sun. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Carrying plenty of drinking water, Marie and I set off at noon on a hike of a few miles to the paintings. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I made her a cornhusk doll, painting a face on it with pokeberry juice and fashioning a gown for it with a piece of cambric from Becky’s scrap bag. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

We started saving again, but Lori felt too defeated to paint much, and the money didn’t come as quickly. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke Bitter had painted around it was as dense as clouds, and Jam thought she could see it move, a jerky tendril here and there. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

On the wall with the rolled-up carpet, I discovered nine thumbtack holes in the cracked and paint- peeled wall. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

By day she embroidered, read, or painted insipid watercolors around the house, under Nana’s approving glance, now that she could finally sleep in peace. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

So instead I paint ginger ale bottles, wineglasses, ice cubes from the refrigerator, the glazed teapot, my mother’s fake pearl earrings. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When he bent down to inspect it, the crab promptly fastened its miniature claws to his nose and hung there, like a weird painted ornament. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Since kindergarten, we have collected rocks and shells each summer and glued and painted them to make sculptures. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

But the silty, drippy, turdy timbers lugged up by the floating cranes look nothing like the shining galleon in the paintings. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The landing capsule was still in the planning stages, but there was a lot of backdrop to be painted: midnight blue with silver stars and Earth glowing in the distance. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

My final possession is one of my dad’s old paintings, the only one I have left, propped carefully beside the mattress. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They had neighborhood cookouts, and could paint and decorate the walls of their bedrooms with every assurance that they'd never have to pack their bags and leave. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

And on them, written in fluorescent paint, a prophecy. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

The cells had recently been painted and reeked of paint fumes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least half of the paintings are of trees in blossom. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The car that came across the intersection was an old Mustang painted black. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t into drawing or painting, at least not in the traditional sense. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I wanted to search his eyes to know what he knew, how he had found out about the painting. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

But as they unpacked their boxes and hung up their winter clothes and the silk paintings of elephant processions bought on their honeymoon in Jaipur, Twinkle, much to her dismay, could not find a thing. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Joyce was standing with his father and the kids, jumping up and down, holding high over her head a sign on which she had painted a large, green four-leaf clover. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He drops down and reaches for her cheek—which is as red as the candy-apple paint job. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I have to push aside a lot of junk to make room for it, and I suddenly find myself staring at the painting I did of Grandpa. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Fewer than a dozen shields remained, sad grey things with faded paint and long cracks in the wood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The canvas is exploding with color, the paint thick and textured as if still wet. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When he reached the platform and saw that the painting was safe, he stopped to rest. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Pinmei looked down to see Sifen gazing up at her, the lines on his face painting a picture of his pain. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

His paintings were gorgeous abstract masterpieces, and people were comparing him to the masters. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Annie pointed down to the base of one of the walls, and there, beneath a big red word that spelled out someday, in interlocking letters, was a painting of two overlapping black circles. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

"No one can see what you are painting if you paint with water!" When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The weather had turned cooler, but I was still sweating, anxious to get this over with, paranoid that Adrian and Jay were going to jump me and do worse than pour paint over my head. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“So when do I get to see your painting?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“No peregrines. Not even a coat of red paint can make it fun again.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

A watch with the time painted on it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its red paint had been bleached by the desert sun and had turned orange along the rusting trim. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A little boy spilled green paint all over my favorite pink shorts and when I yelled at him, Father O’Malley told me I wasn’t setting a good Catholic example. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The bride was staring out of the back window, her face partially obscured by the flaking paint of the huge red cross. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe I’ll ask to see the picture of Prometheus I painted when I was young.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He could mix paint, thin paint, remove paint. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I wonder whether I should include her in the painting I’m doing. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The painting is small, remember? The canvas is only about a foot by a foot and a half.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She has a little red speck on her cheek, probably paint from art class. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

How can he accuse Vincent of being cavalier in his painting? Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My painting is taped to one of the kitchen cupboards. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The walls are stone and hung with no paintings or tapestries. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

After fencing, one of the hired men, a former apothecary's apprentice named Richard, instructed us in the art of painting our faces. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I used to sit in my closet and pry open the paint can and stare into the shiny pink circle and was mesmerized for hours. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sigh and give up, grimly aware that the painting is probably completely ruined by now. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Moments later shadows moved like spatter paint along the walls, catching the light when they passed the window so I could see the outline of wings. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I painted that on the happiest day of my life.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Your father will fall in a bucket of paint. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

In a painting dark with smoky grime, a naked Adam and Eve turned from the avenging angel. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He slowly walked away from me to stand in front of another painting. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The stink of sewage, mixed with boat paint and machine grease, wafted up from the thick water. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Like my painting of the Statue of Liberty that caused such a commotion at the Yankee Doodle Bakery. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Yes. And I tried to paint your nails because you liked mine, and they turned out terribly." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Some stories paint you as little more than a red-handed killer.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I think Lester would need the truck, so he could haul the boat to be painted.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I pondered the human industry, the paint, the cement truck and concrete forms, all the resources that had gone into that one curb. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the painted lotus flowers on the back panel had been clawed by the thorns. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

The floorboards had been treated with varnish or paint, which bubbled in the fire’s heat and turned as sticky as flypaper. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

But a poor man—what need had he for poetry or for painting or for music not fit for singing or dancing? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The house—or what remains of it—is grand: twenty French windows in the facade, big freshly painted shutters, manicured hedges out front. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

On the porch, a shaky-looking wooden table, its paint shedding like snake skin. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The night-light in the bathroom paints a thin yellow stripe at the bottom of my bedroom door. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagining a safe place to hide a small painting, she thought of drawers, cupboards, cabinets, closets, blanket chests....Everything she pictured was wood. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes are painted dramatically with kohl like Cleopatra’s. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

They turn the mangle room, where wet clothes are wrung out to dry, into a studio so he can paint and draw at home. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Courtier girls are watching him; some giggle behind their gloved hands and painted fans, and others ask him questions he leaves unacknowledged. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He also bought a starter set of oil paints and some canvases. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The thirty-six little pictures painted on ivory were each perfectly clear: there was no doubt that this was a baby, that a puppet, this a loaf of bread, and so on. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Maria arranged flowers and fetched painting supplies for Marrel and his apprentices. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The glow of oncoming headlights paints the window bright. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, I painted in two of the waves behind the Arctic Tern. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The eyes are large, as in painted waifs. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The paint must’ve been mixed with Celestial bronze dust or something, because as soon as it splattered the hellhound, the monster yelped and dissolved into a pink-and-black puddle. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

And they were giving paint to anyone who wanted to give their house a shine. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told Lori he would help her write a paper that would demonstrate that Shakespeare’s plays had multiple authors, like Rembrandt’s paintings. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A stool posed in front of a backdrop painted with shades of swirling gray. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They should always share their opinions about the paintings and drawings they see, he writes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“His eyes follow you like one of those haunted-house paintings. And when you went upstairs to change, he tried to look at your phone when you got a text.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It looked smaller than I had remembered, and the rain had caused the paint to warp and peel. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Finally we came to a stop in front of a pretty turquoise house with the porch and trim painted white. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can still see small piles of sawdust, smell fresh paint. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

What kind of dipshit would design a house half shingled and half painted? Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It had been more than an hour since he’d grabbed the painting from the patrol car. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I can paint the picture for you if you like. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“From a distance, I mean. You can’t see the wear on things, you know? You can’t see the rust or the weeds or the paint cracking. You see the place as someone once imagined it.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Something will come to me, and then I’ll know my painting is finally ready.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Madam grabbed a painting from the wall and threw it down on my head. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

We used to sit on the flower boxes until the day Tito saw a cockroach with a spot of green paint on its head. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leaving the painting on the front seat, Petra leaped out anyway. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

They painted his toes purple, too, and forced a laxative down his throat when he opened his mouth again to complain, and then they sent him away. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The walls were painted with thick, gobby epoxy paint, and all the electrical outlets were plugged around the edges with a gooey material. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how this can be but it can: A painting is both exactly the same and entirely different every single time you look at it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She just smiled and leisurely pulled out the spray paint. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Dad’s going to Home Depot tomorrow to buy stuff to fix the plumbing and maybe some paint, nothing interesting. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Each of the diners was given a small painted tray on which was some tarnished cutlery, to place on his or her lap. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The door to the building was painted black, and there was a hole where the knob should have been. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Splotchy brown-and-gray paintings covered the walls, and a chalkboard behind the counter listed a whole slew of colorfully named overpriced beverages. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The hair of her teen years; her hands, when she used to paint her nails, before they were constantly washing and scrubbing. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In Salmon Bay, just to the east, dozens of fishing boats, unused for months, sat bobbing at moorage, the paint peeling from their weathered hulls. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Farmhouses in the fields scoured of their paint and the clapboards spooned and sprung from the wall-studs. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

They waited just outside the open doorway of the auditorium beside a painted school bus. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

When I open the box, I see broken shards of my Christmas ornament, along with burned scraps of what must be my father’s painting. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The painting of the shipwreck by the door, it says ‘Kraken’ on the frame. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

My dad and I, we were like that Edward Hopper painting. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Maybe they were onto something in Six. Drug yourself out and paint flowers on your body. Not such a bad life. Seemed happier than the rest of us, anyway.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Beneath the Cross was a painting of a black man hanged from a tree. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“While you calm down, I’m going to paint my nails,” she said, smiling up at me through her bangs. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Calder asked, looking around at the peeling paint. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The rain began to fall, big sloppy drops as if someone were shaking out a paint brush. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The King was not made of gold, but of soft lead, covered with gilt paint. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, after he sets up Noah with canvases and paint—Noah couldn’t resist when Guillermo offered—Guillermo finds me in the yard, where I’ve started on the clay model for Mom’s sculpture. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Cotton kept following us around saying, “What about this?” and holding up something dumb like a broken hamster cage or an empty paint can. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Like the swastika I painted, and all the ones Pamela drew, because she was inspired by mine. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

An arch has the school’s motto painted on it: Nil magnum nisi bonum. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Red smears painted parts of the discarded drywall. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He was a jovial, smiling man, if one could believe the mask he wore, for upon it was painted not one smile, but three. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, my parents paint,” he said, his tone a mixture of pride and discomfort. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

One afternoon Yolanda broke two of her fancy, painted, expensive nails and cursed out loud for ten minutes. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you had turned like this when you first started painting, this whole house could’ve been finished.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I thought about Jackie, whispering gossip and painting her toenails with Carol Lee. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Guards have to watch closely so visitors don’t touch the paintings, so drawn are people to them. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

That some of them had looked, as I did, like the color Osh made by mixing his rainbow of paints. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He was the painters idea of a man, simply daubs of paint, nothing more. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Her face is heart-shaped, her lips painted a glamorous red. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The desolate landscape was painted in blues and grays by the moon. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

His works wrenched and distorted, as if painted through neurosis. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He paints a memory that has great meaning for both of them. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I turn on my movie score playlist, and we sand them down, paint primer on them, and then add a coat of the yellow paint. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The fever I thought I had kicked suddenly painted the world a fuzzy shade of gray. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Devine opened his eyes, startled, and his fingers gripped her head tightly, his body—coming—rigid . . . and the flagrant untouchable stars were so stilled they seemed to have been painted up there. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, back at his palace, the magistrate saw this error and attempted to fix the painting himself—which caused the dragon to come to life! When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Our starting point in Chapter 5 is the invention of perspective painting, which involved the application of geometrical principles to pictorial representation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Some of her paintings hang in the upstairs hall, greenish paintings of flowers, of lawns, of bottles and vases. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They put new glass in the cupola, painted the fence Mrs. Cobb’s grandfather had built, and then painted the porch. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Jasmine and Darrell and Camille walk with me down Eighth Street, past the buildings with their paint faded by the sun, brick chipping away, birds singing their tunes. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

There was the comical little painted man observing Boston through his tiny spyglass. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But to his right, just beyond the painted shipwreck, were shiny black double doors that opened into the dining room he’d seen from the street. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

On Monday morning Nathan was back on the ladder, putting a second coat of white paint on the window sill next to the front porch. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes she stopped before the picture she had painted at the free government art class for school kids last winter. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was a sea bird painted on the ship to protect it against shipwreck and winds. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or a moaning dove. Oh, yes! But I knew," he shouted, startling me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was high in the sky, painting the woods beyond their back door in silver and shadow. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

This afternoon, the question still churning in her mind, she got home and found her mother in the living room, applying paint to a photograph of a stripped-down bicycle. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The threshold was worn down, the brown paint peeling. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean—yeah, I was there, but she was just painting the car....” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She had run out of canvases and had begun painting on plywood, so she picked up a piece of wood, got out her palette, squeezed some paints onto it, and selected a brush. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Each tall letter was a different painted color. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Although unshielded from the elements, all the woodwork appeared to be in flawless condition: no peeling paint, no cracks, no splinters. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Shanti had been setting goals since she was four and won her preschool’s finger painting contest. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“The house. I can tell it’s been painted, but I can’t see the color in the dark.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have felt this way in the Prado in Madrid after looking at a hundred paintings—the stuffed and helpless inability to see more. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a vertical oblong, larger than the other paintings. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the second floor there were some offices and three empty lecture rooms, all with rows of wooden chairs, old oil paintings on the walls, and elaborate leaded glass windows. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He worries that he’s using too much paint and that it will cost Theo too much money. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The arches over the doors were painted with black cows, white poplar trees, and owls. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“What do you think of my walls, mi amor? I painted them blue and green, like the colors of Veracruz, my hometown, which is next to the ocean.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“The gym was spray paint, but the bathroom was a black Sharpie.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Oh, he’s ripped out the floors and window casings. All new and new painted.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her dreams of living life as an artist had been ripped from her that night of her debut when the doubt stared her in the face: Was she truly meant to paint? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

One of the painted throng haints stood perfectly still in the middle of the street, glaring with empty eyes toward her house. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

All I did was paint what I saw. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Soon the hidden corners of Dauntless headquarters will be coated in multicolored paint, blocking the lenses of the surveillance cameras. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Carefully, I paint my nails a deep purple. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Their van is hard to miss, with the satellite dish on the roof and the splashy logo of one of the Denver stations painted on the side. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

For instance, two paintings, both of women, one on either side of the fireplace. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at Marlene, whose eyes are blank like painted stones, like spheres of glass. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Old newspapers were spread over the sheets to keep off paint but I’d been using them as a blanket. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ends the workday by pouring a little paint thinner into an empty Pepsi can. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

You can look at a painting for the first time, for example, and not like it at all, but after looking at it a little longer you may find it very pleasing. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

He remembered that in the art books he had leafed through at Leader’s, many paintings depicted death. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Wouldn’t it need another painting if it went there and wanted to come back? Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Staring at the painting, I finally realize what it is. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

In the way of medical treatments, she had already dabbed gentian violet on ringworm, aquaflavine emulsion on a cut, and painted lead lotion on a bruise. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

What he tells Theo is that he knows he's reached the point where “it really comes quite readily to me to paint a given object, whatever the shape or colour may be, without hesitation.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She had decorated the mobile home with her paintings. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It was the same way someone might talk in front of a building or a painting they found particularly unpleasant. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The wagon’s interior is lined with carved wood panels and a painted ceiling. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It was a small but cheerful room, painted baby blue. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The famous rock paintings at Chauvet, France, are located at the points of greatest resonance in the pitch-black cave network. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

One of the Negro girls had her mother coil braids over her ears Shanghai-style like mine; we were Shanghai twins except that she was covered with black like my paintings. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a large room bright with sunshine and yellow paint, and containing twenty beds, all occupied. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was Polish, Charlie could hear it in the curve of her voice, but she was also so familiar, like a painting on a wall by an artist whose name he had forgotten. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Inside was a painted likeness of a woman with big blue eyes and pale golden hair streaked by silver. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Some people inherit houses; others paintings or highly insured violin bows. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It lay on a bedside table inside a French painting by an artist named Auguste Bernard. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

After scouring the yard for half an hour, Kendra and Seth had come across various articles of furniture from the house or porch in unexpected locations, but they had found no other life-sized painted statues. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“He had a paint job this morning on Sixth Avenue, off Adams,” Lily said quietly. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“Maybe he's already left for work. He has a painting job off of Adams today.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She went inside, but I sat there on the front porch staring at the pink paint. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you mean you dreamed that painting?” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

We roll down the lane at about one-tenth of a mile an hour, putting along so the gravel won’t knock at the paint job. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The motel is painted a deep shade of gray. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

After a few weeks a beautiful copy of the popular painting Mao Ze-dong on His Way to Anyuan appeared in our alley. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other day, he left one of his paintings out on Mr. Ward’s desk where anybody could see it. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s painted dull brown on the outside, but the inside is really nice. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She looks as though she is contemplating a painting or reading a sign from far away, squinting just a little. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He had read in the morning paper that a ladies’ art guild was having a hanging of its paintings in Pirate’s Alley. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nudzahui writing survives in eight codices, the deerskin or bark “books” whose painted pages could be folded like screens or hung on the wall like a mural. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He painted the cartoonish, alien-looking black creature on the wall over the kitchen table that the family called the “funny man.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

First, I go to my apartment to take a quick shower and change my clothes, so Nora doesn’t see paint splatter on me. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

His face is painted with blue woad, and his body is dark with the geometric tattoos unique to his people. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

On top of the nightstand, there was a lamp with flowers painted all over the shade. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It only took a few minutes for Wind Being to construct a complex sand painting around Nathan and Pond. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She had a young face, painted very thick. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The glass is completely clear, so that I can see part of a room beyond it, along with large paintings of Warcross worlds on the walls and a long meeting table. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It took the custodians less than one assembly to wash it off and paint it over. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“She was good,” Noah says, still facing the painting. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It was really the paint that appealed to me, the whiteness of it, like a mask, and the bright red lips. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

At home she read and painted late into the night, by candlelight or kerosene lamp if the electricity was turned off. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The furnace had cooked the air so hot my mother had peeled off her sweater and stood in short sleeves, jerking at the window in her bedroom, wrestling with the stuck paint. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She paints his left arm with long spirals of clotting blood, paints it over his stomach, down his left leg. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The walls were lined with super-expensive-looking paintings, both Mr. Tanaka’s and from other artists, and there were little lights beaming down on them like we were at an art gallery. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In one of my paintings of my family’s house, my father is sitting on the stoop with his head on his knees. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was a sign on the other side, a big piece of plywood with the letters S-I-D-A scrawled across in red paint, French for AIDS. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

A pale coat of yellow paint makes a faint attempt at sprucing it up. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Calder flipped back and forth in the book, looking at some of the other Vermeer paintings. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

But when I went home during the holidays, I changed back into my traditional dress, put on my beads, painted my body. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the first letters looked like Kr, and Joseph wondered if this was the same ship that had sunk in the painting downstairs. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I could now see how its paint was cracking, and how the timber frames of the little cabin were crumbling away. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read through the other texts: We are written in paint. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It looked like the painted backdrop to a movie, not like anything real. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The domed ceiling of the enormous hall was covered with delicate hand paintings and Latin phrases written in decorative script. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The mill is not close to his flat, so maybe he paints it from memory, or from a photograph. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He’s leaning against the wall by the painting of the kiss, his arms crossed. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

If she couldn’t be Charlotte, she could at least deliver the large cards with the painted spiderweb words on them to Kelly. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

He’s begun a series of paintings of peasants weaving. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But no matter how many Keep Out signs were put up, they couldn’t run kids away until the house had been painted and finished and people had moved in. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The world around her had lost its color; everything looked gray and cloudy like a smudged watercolor painting. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The emergency light above that section of the back wall snapped back to full glare like a spotlight, illuminating the enormous black ψ painted there, along with a very clear message: GET OUT NOW. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“My aunt gave them to me, but really, I’m too old for finger painting.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I wondered about the artists who painted Stalin. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Instead, I have my pots of paint and my ragged pages. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The effect is so carefully calculated that the artist must have wanted to guide our eye to the painting in the background. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The entrance smells like paint, the only clue that this hiding space has been recently constructed. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Looming over the modest waiting room was the Great Seal of Michigan, in vivid Technicolor, painted, probably, by some high school art class. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young Mao in the painting wore a long cotton gown and cloth shoes, and he carried an umbrella under his arm. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the painting would start coming to life like in 1408 and Drew and I could team up to face the haunted room. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“You know,” my mom said to me, “there’s one way this painting is different from the others.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Two gaudily painted pullman cars stood on the track. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mine is painted white and has a bed made of curly metal. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There were painted tiles on the wall with what looked like kid drawings of faces, boats, and animals. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The green paint in front of her blurred. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She had curly hair and a paintbrush in one hand and one of those wooden things artist people put their thumbs through that has all the colors of paint on it. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

It had once been painted a sky blue, but now looked almost white under the sky. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go to the supply shelves at the back of the room and select some paints. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

A small framed painting hung to his right. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Without thinking, she spent all the money meant for rice and bought the painting. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

If I could see even a bit of what that woman saw, I could carry that image with me forever, and I bet my paintings would be amazing. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

These paintings are currently in a number of big and powerful museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the National Gallery in London. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I cursed for real when I saw drops of blue paint on each of them. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

New cars, heavy with fins and chrome, were parked in front of miners’ houses from New Camp to Frog Level, and new swing sets, brightly painted, were erected in the backyards. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I take a shallow breath and look at the painting, instead of at the class, while I talk. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

In a circular park with a neatly mowed lawn was a bandstand, and a merry-go-round painted red, white and blue. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Many of the caves in the buttes are splattered with ancient pictographs—rock paintings of hands, stars, frogs, and human figures, all reminiscent of Joan Miro, in overlapping red and yellow and brown. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He gets up early every morning and goes outside to paint by four o’clock. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was in the fourth block we came to, a tall, bland building with peeling blue paint and with television aerials sticking out from the verandahs. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The door was locked, and before we could figure out how to get into the shed the whole thing caught—the mattress, the ladders, the paint, the turpentine, everything. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“It’s the U. U for understand...no, that’s not right. It’s U for under. Under—maybe the painting is hidden beneath something.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

My skin is darker than even the paintings of African queens hanging in tourist shops, same paintings my mom would buy so she could hang on her bedroom walls. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Anatole has even kept the globe I gave him for a wedding present, painted by my own hand on a calabash while the nuns prayed their novenas. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of this was in the painting’s foreground, but my eyes had instantly locked on what was in the background: a large white house, with its front door and windows all boarded up. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Gina smiles the tight smile of an Italian countess in a Renaissance painting. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

My eyes continued to scan as I shook the can, making sure the contents were mixed so that the paint would come out even and clean, creating a crisper result. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

On the spot, they offered him a job painting closets, where his mistakes would be hidden. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The aluminum hull was stud­ded with rivets and painted white. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The demon landed in a crouch and sprang at her, painted claws reaching out. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Her nails are painted pale pink like the inside of a conch shell. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I think if Grandma had finished painting that pink on everything I might have calmed down. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Shy Maid was tied up in one of the meaner sections of the long, chaotic riverfront, between a listing poleboat that had not left the pier in years and the gaily painted mummers’ barge. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was a white line painted down its center. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a grand Victorian, covered with gingerbread, and painted the color of pistachio saltwater taffy. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In the paint of the washroom cubicle someone unknown had scratched: Aunt Lydia sucks. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look ahead to see a stunning building painted virtually with swirls of red, gold, and white. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to paint still lifes. I don’t like still lifes. I hate painting plums. Plums are dumb.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I can even paint moving illusions now, which are tricky because you have to concentrate so hard to make the movements look natural. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Kendra crossed the room to the painting she had done of the pond. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

This new style of painting was called still life. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The books are by Dutch painters, who painted in a muted palette, so although he absorbs some of what Theo is trying to tell him, Vincent's color range remains more Dutch than French. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Near the bottom, I found a dusty box painted with Russian lacquer-work. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It’s the real thing, painted in anger and hatred. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The figure is barely painted, all in one color, a light ecru. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But underneath the paint that cannot cover the bags under his eyes, and the fine clothes that cannot conceal the pain he feels when he moves, is a person badly damaged. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Rows of shoes lined the shelves, and a painted track on the floor circled the entire department. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Parts of the front were still unpainted, and so were the sides, but I had used less than a quarter of the paint. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

As we stare at the wall of paint swatches, I try to think of what color Nora would like. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I paint each wall in my room a different color. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The frame was a clear ocean aqua, with the crank arms for the pedals and the handlebars painted pale yellow. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Like thick paint, it slowly dripped all the way down into the bottom of his stomach. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Tiled floors, white walls, and paintings by Haitian artists made the interiors inviting. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Ob must have thought that by talking about May there in that place, painting her before Cletus’s ignorant eyes, he could flood the garden with the vibrations needed to draw her to us. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

We’ve made the walls out of huge sheets of cardboard and painted on the bamboo patterns. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Even so, there remains a good deal that puzzles us about the cave paintings. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though he knew I was there he kept studying the painting. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

This is like backstage: grease paint, smoke, the materials of illusion. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cracked white paint crunched against my back. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

When the crockery was laid out, I carried my mug through the front room, past the polished tables and backgammon boards, past the beautiful new painting of a meadow full of flowers. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man paints the walls of the apartment pink, but it’s not the same, you know. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see now paint has dripped all over the floor like multicolored blood. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The first thing that strikes me about Millie’s house is how everything—from the fake flowers to the paint to the throw pillows—matches. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

One of his paintings, which he makes toward the end of March, is of two pink peach trees, one behind the other. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The floors were shining, the walls a cool, soothing white, and the titles of the paintings were written in Spanish, with the English translation as a secondary thing. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

So lifelike did he seem that it took the dwarf a long moment to realize he was made of painted marble, though his sword shimmered like true steel. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Big three-by-nine-foot painted canvas banners hung on the buses’ sides, to be read by the highway traffic and thousands of people at home and on the sidewalks of the towns the buses passed through. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grab the two cans of paint that Papi left for me and start my mad dash to homeroom. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

In the half-light of dusk I see them, five of them, crouched on a hill, their naked bodies painted, arrows flying from their longbows. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I just have some paint slapped on me. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He’d even painted the room, from its sky blue to a barren, optic white. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The name of the boat had been painted on the back. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Just because line is discussed with drawing, however, does not mean that it is not equally important in painting and sculpture. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The houses, painted blue, then painted red, had ended up with an indefinable coloration. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

If his paintings were any indication, then there was more to him than I imagined. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Then it turns and glides over the pavement, which is painted with dozens of lines and symbols. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“And just look at the paint on your clothes!” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

You never stayed long enough to get a pet or a houseplant or hang any paintings. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arm saw paintings of huts, fields and people. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was still out there in the dark, naked and painted up, trick-or-treating, sliding from hootch to hootch in that crazy white ghost mask. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She grabbed a blank piece of paper, a cup of black paint, and a thin brush. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

As cultural ecologist Paul Shepard has observed, The nomadic Bedouin does not dote on scenery, paint landscapes, or compile a nonutilitarian natural history.. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little houses lined the roads, houses with painted shutters and wreaths on the doors. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

We stood watching them while the sunset painted the river with broad streaks of pink and orange. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first pedestal holds a painting of a giant sea dragon crushing a large wooden ship. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambi­tion. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Farewell!” cried the knight, popping his head into a painting of some sinister-looking monks. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Her mother was painting when Jam came in, so the studio was full of loud music, old-school grime this time, the energy thumping against the light and Stormzy’s voice whipping around Bitter’s flying braids. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It feels like it’s being painted around me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Dad was in the garage painting the identification numbers on his J-3, and so when the phone rang there was no one to pick it up but me. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Some have concluded from Filarete’s comments that Brunelleschi’s board was burnished all over—that he painted on a mirror. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He hears the words “painting” and “wall,” so he looks for paintings on the wall. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

On the road they passed a half dozen brightly painted houses, some tidy and some not, and then they were in front of the only thing that looked like a store. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her sneakers are painted, one with an impossibly small chequerboard of a thousand colors, the other with yellow happy faces alternating with black skulls. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

I was haunted by the thought of Lola, the severity of that gaunt old painted face, her boldness of stride in the perilous high heels, her vitality, ducking into the Rolls. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He grinned, his teeth slightly yellow against the white paint on his face. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

There are several watercolor copies of famous paintings hanging on the walls. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

And so began our twenty-eight-and-a-half-minute lesson on why spray paint and car windshields don’t mix. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Close up, they just look like blobs of paint. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Rays of sun dance through the valley, painting light on the plains even as the floating isles cast patches of shadows; flocks of white birds cry out in formation below us. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It is no coincidence that the figure of the Fallen Woman stalks through so many operas, novels and paintings of the second half of the nineteenth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

There is a large painting of a flamingo right as you walk in. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

She paints in arched eyebrows, then outlines her lips a bright orange. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

What’s more, unlike the paintings bequeathed to posterity by Constable or Rembrandt, his music has not ossified, frozen for ever in time. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Jay sighed and touched the set of paints. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was painted a bright yellow and the whole thing leaned a bit to the left. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Mo could paint pictures in the empty air with his voice alone. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“First,” Olive begins, “Esme paints the house bright red. For goodness’ sake, it looks like a fire truck. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He felt with his thumb in the painted wood of the mantle the pinholes from tacks that had held stockings forty years ago. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

At first I didn’t want to wear any, but now that she’s finished painting my face, I have to admit, I really like it. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t suppose there is an American who doesn’t carry Remington’s painting of the last defense of the center column of the 7th Cavalry in his head. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a strong stench of paint and polished hardwood floors. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

His bed was still unmade; she wondered if her mother would ever make it again, or if she’d simply strip the sheets, strip the room, paint it white, and pretend nothing had ever happened there. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dad had painted it a blue he called cerulean, and I thought that name was so pretty that I named the first doll to live in the house Sarah Cerulean. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

She had a can of paint in one hand, and she shook it as she peered over her shoulder. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I also add another coat of paint to the yellow side tables. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“You were in Hollywood working in pictures and now you’re painting houses? You sure must have done something wrong!” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I'm to sit here like a stump, I had as well paint a target on my breastplate. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They found the smell of new paint for a grand opening, dinner specials being simmered, sautéed, baked, or fried. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The words were written with the same pink paint which had brightened the set for Cinderella. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The peeling paint hanging in long dry sleavings down the columns and from the buckled soffits. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Her dark hair was brushed out and spiked up, like she’d just stuck her finger in an electrical socket, and her lips were painted a light shade of blue. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“So much was promised to us when we left our island,” he said softly as he looked at the painting. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

On the one hand, there was perspective painting, grounded in geometrical abstraction; on the other, the printing of engraved plates, supplemented by text produced on a printing press. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Her room is painted pale yellow and also has lots of cool African decorations. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

And in The Hague the paintings he sent have not moved; only one of the Monticellis sold. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The walls were gray cinder block, and the floor was painted concrete. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We painted the kitchen and replaced the worn-out linoleum with new pieces of different colors and shapes, making the floor look like a quilt. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Whoever had painted the picture loved the floating man and the floating woman. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

One day Melanie brought her poster paints and they painted stars and birds and flowers on the fence in back of the altar; and another day they made a canopy to hang above Nefertiti’s head. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s often so, and we like to watch it, for it is never the same, but always splendid,” replied Amy, wishing she could paint it. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Albert walked to the fireplace and carefully polished a silver object beneath the antique painting of the man with red hair. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And slowly, raised by invisible hands from below, there emerged from the one a painted image of an eagle, from the other that of a man, naked, and nailed to a cross. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The owners of the gallery want him to sell paintings in the traditional style because they re popular and bring in money. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

As though all this place needed was a new coat of paint to freshen it up. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Vincent helps, advising him on which paintings to show and which to buy. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The sun wasn’t up yet and everything looked like it had been painted in black and dark blue. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The only thing I like about it is that nobody is trying to kill us here and that many of the houses are painted a beautiful blue. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I was still trying to build a sturdy ladder when, during a cold snap a few days later, my can of paint froze solid. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know about tools and sandpaper and paint and paintbrushes and...” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I still was not sure if he knew about the painting. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the mornings, she opened her eyes and saw these blue-green sheets and that painting of the sea. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

My room was upstairs in a wooden shanty structure that had never known paint. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Painter Chen," the magistrate said, "I commend you on your work on my son’s project. The paintings in the Long Walkway are beautiful to behold." When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She was dressed in her painting smock, her hair pinned messily in gold barrettes, staring at her latest collage with a paintbrush and a piece of yarn in her hand. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Julia races around the edge of my painting, her arms spread wide. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy was pretty sure it was the same polish Gigi painted on the last time they all hung out at Ivy’s house a few weeks ago. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He was all color, painted at random, but none of it highlighted his grief. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z