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

She said, ‘Where would he find the time? I painted it myself.’ Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The land is well tended, the buildings strong and freshly painted. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The shields had been painted red-and-gold, though the Lannister lions were lumpy and misshapen, and already well scarred by die first boys to take a tilt at them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Diego had painted a boy sitting cross-legged in a dark room. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

With the tip of her painted fingernail, the dancer salesgirl showed the miniature castanets the doll was holding. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

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 hadn’t been making it up: a single tear glistened at the corner of Papa Acevedo’s painted eyes. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The one that had painted me black in his office. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Her nails were long and painted deep pink. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Their lips were also painted with bright colors. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“You know, back then, I worked every lousy job in town, you name it. I was a jack-of-all-trades. I painted houses. I drove cab...” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

By the fall of 1957, she had painted in the sand and shells and much of the sky and a couple of seagulls. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It looked freshly painted, the trim a bright white against the bluish-gray of the house, and there was a pot of geraniums near the front door. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

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

When they had art, she was the only one who painted Hogwarts. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

There was, for instance, a photo of two young women posed before a not-terribly-convincing painted backdrop of the ocean. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Someone had retouched the photo and painted Henrietta’s face an unnatural yellow. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

I saw sweetshops and carpet vendors, kabob stalls, kids with dirt- caked hands selling cigarettes, tiny restaurants—maps of Afghanistan painted on their windows—all interlaced with back­street aid agencies. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She knew death was all around, breathing down her neck like some ancient god, like the giant painted throng haint now rushing toward her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

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

Before I could let go of the suddenly limp head, my hand was painted in a gush of warm blood. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I recall that I stood for the longest time staring at a neatly painted yellow line on a neatly formed cement curb. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, steel companies had incited this xenophobia and painted strikers as wanting to overthrow the government. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Dixit’s hands were painted with henna, an intricate pattern of zigzags and stars. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He pointed to his airplane’s red painted tail. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

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

Behind an overgrown forsythia bush was a plaster Virgin Mary as tall as their waists, with a blue painted hood draped over her head in the manner of an Indian bride. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The figures around me weren't people, but shop dummies, painted to resemble people and propped up in attitudes counterfeiting life. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Will’s eyes widened to see the alethiometer; the tiny symbols painted around the face, the golden hands, the questing needle, the heavy richness of the case took his breath away. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything was curved to fit the walls—the stove, the sink, and the cupboards—and all of it had been painted with flowers, insects, and birds in bright primary colors. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

His shirt and pants were painted with black and white stripes. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was painted white with gray shutters, and there was a nice front porch. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe you painted it when you were pregnant with us, your belly big, all the windows open, the breeze blowing through the house. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We pass through the Rainbow Tunnel, with its arch way painted in all seven colors of the rainbow. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

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

Or painted by an old master as the face of an angel. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

A few months after being put on the market, the building was sold and painted hot pink with tangerine trim. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

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

The bathroom is smeared with fingerprints and painted dingy white, not the most flattering light. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rupa handed him the plastic decoy mask, and Baba slipped it on so that the painted human face covered the back of his head. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen in the pink house was painted a bright yellow, and being in that room with Betty Allen was like standing inside of the sun. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Had it right in the parlor with little sprigs of flowers painted all around the sides. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

My memory of the place is painted in flickering shadows and lumbering figures, a chorus of shamblers' moans ringing out in accompaniment. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

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

Some were lowered in the front and painted in bright metallic colors, like candy apple red, and had tucked and rolled upholstery in white or black. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

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

Byrd painted the epithet “Communist” on everyone and everything that threatened to upend his view of “traditional” American customs and values, which included white supremacy. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

So one day they took back to their cave a delicately painted set of rice bowls, another day a little footstool with a velvet cushion and two new wedding blankets. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beauty-lanterns drift along streets paved with glistening stones, past mismatched shops painted in pastel shades and lined up like the frosted pastries in a bakery window. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It was dark at the moment, as if it had been painted black. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

My uncle who had painted the pony claimed he had seen a UFO come down over that very same hill before the drive-in was built. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Rowan would have continued picking at Goddard’s enigmatic responses, but his attention was grabbed by a beautiful party girl approaching in a bikini that seemed almost painted on. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

We drove by redbrick buildings and white buildings, an army tank with a big white star painted on it, and long, iron cannons. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

A child’s plastic wristwatch with the time painted on it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

You'd look at Eleanor's mom and think she must be carved into the prow of a Viking ship somewhere or maybe painted on the side of a plane. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She always painted like this, half dancing in something of a trance, and she was always exhausted afterward. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She showed him to one of the green painted doors that opened off the courtyard. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was a small but cheerful room, painted baby blue. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her nails are always painted because her mom takes her to the spa. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It turned out to be not a book at all but a wooden box trickily carved and painted to look like a calf-bound volume. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

We painted it sparkling white and hung yellow curtains. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

It was then that she noticed the beams and ceiling of the corridor were painted with hundreds of scenes from different stories. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It’s got a pink plastic handle with little white bunnies painted on it. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

John James Audubon painted three species of bird—the small-headed flycatcher, the carbonated warbler, and the Blue Mountain warbler—that have not been seen by anyone since. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I turned down the next block, whizzing past the cookie-cutter houses painted in one of three shades: bitter brown, sour cream, or sullen yellow. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

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

The bedrooms on either side of the corridor had their numbers painted on the doors in gold. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

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

And we know that this is precisely what Masaccio did: we can see the lines he scored in the plaster on which he painted. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Photographs of Bitter’s hands were strewn around as studies—she’d painted her own hands into the figure, painted crude stitches that grafted her wrists to its feathered arms. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Boys no older than I nailed together boxes out of wood scraps, painted them in bright colors, and set off for San Juan or Río Piedras, where men paid ten cents for a shoeshine. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Father had its horns painted bright orange and little plastic bells fitted to the tips, for added authenticity. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Like the swastika I painted, and all the ones Pamela drew, because she was inspired by mine. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Her face was painted with the dark colors of worry. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The house was of wooden planks, very plain, painted gray. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

They had been carved onto some of her toys, brightly painted wooden blocks, their sides engraved with symbols and simple pictures. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A bright mural is painted along one corner, a colorful swirl of stylized game levels. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

Unbeknownst to her, Father had painted the furnace room and the paint had not yet dried. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was a crime punishable by death to attack the King, and the royal mark was painted on every one of the coaches in that caravan. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

The paper had been painted in bright blue and green colors. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they stood over the painted, life-size metal statue of Dale, Grandma shook her head. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I look left—there’s the dining room, painted blue, overlooked by a television, full of circular tables, separated from the hall by that glass with the square wire mesh in it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

But it was fresh painted, and chintz curtains hung in the windows. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He had never acted, never painted a set, never worked on a stage crew, never ushered or as much as sold a ticket. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The wooden grandstands were painted in scarlet and white. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Didn’t look like nothing to me but a small little house, painted bright white, two windows in front. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

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

He painted secret messages in code on the walls of the front porch and dining room. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a painting, a vase full of delicate flowers, bright blue, lavender, and red carefully painted on a scrap of wood. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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 island’s pottery, some of it very large, has long been celebrated for its painted and incised representations of animals and plants, which are ornately entan- gled in a profusion that recalls the forest itself. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

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

The walls are painted in flam-boyant colors: hibiscus pink, lilac, pistachio, and are crowded with clusters of paintings and drawings and photographs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

I leaned against a wall, my head inches from a black Santa portrait painted on velvet. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Even what little ground is visible from outside is black or white, painted or powdered, or treated with some other circus trick. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The pictures showed the tribesmen, their bodies painted red, pointing bows and arrows at the approaching helicopters. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

The four walls were cluttered with calendars and crudely painted advertisements from magazines. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

The rest of him was covered with all sorts of other boxes all strung together and painted black and covered with pasted-on ads out of papers and magazines. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stand on opposite sides of a small, round room painted a rich blue and dotted with stars, on a ledge around a pool of jewel-toned cushions. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

My grandfather engaged a special company to come in with polishing machines and clean the house; they washed the windows, painted, and disinfected the place from top to bottom until it was livable again. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A line of planes stood at the gates and on the tarmac, one of them painted with the bright red Virgin Atlantic symbol. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Our house is half gray shingles and half brown painted panels. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Specifically, by the giant oil painting hanging above the table, which I can only assume is an early portrait of BoJack Horseman painted by Leonardo da Vinci himself. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

How many times had me and Holly painted our nails? Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Nothing hangs on the freshly painted ivory walls. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

They were made of wood, painted, going round and round to tootling music. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Calvin tells me, “You just painted my hand, Mason. And you keep twisting the tube.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“Impressive aim. The knife is one of a pair, correct? See this pattern painted on the bottom of the blade? It cuts off abruptly.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

When I stepped into the church that day, propped up on the Pastor’s arm, I thought I was stepping through a couple of sloppily painted, standard-issue doors, the kind they sell at Home Depot. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

When the first bell rang, we formed two lines behind the cheese-gold “three” painted into the asphalt. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Some of them have painted a bloodred streak into their hair. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

His words drew pictures of brightly painted storefronts and bustling townsfolk. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He caught himself smiling at the name painted on the blue doors: TRAVELIN’ JOHNNY. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a green monitor painted on the outside window, along with hand-lettered signs offering repairs and software installations. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a few quick, sure strokes, he painted a boat in the water. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

His tent is made of some heavy cloth, painted in silver and green. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Can’t find anything unless it has a bull’s-eye painted around it.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

We painted placards that condemned Bantu Education, Afrikaans and apartheid. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

They were tiny hand-carved birds, painted black with small white polka dots. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I tried to keep my eyes on the big painted letters. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

His tree had a large trunk painted in swirling shades of brown. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The Golden Day had once been painted white; now its paint was flaking away with the years, the scratch of a finger being enough to send it showering down. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a surprise for Harry, they had painted a large banner on one of the sheets Scabbers had ruined. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The map was beautiful, painted by a master’s hand on a sheet of the finest vellum, so large it covered the table. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Along the banks, leaning out as though to catch their own reflections, were rows of rough stone houses with their shutters painted blue. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“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

We pulled up to a ranch house painted the color of key lime pie. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She held out her hand and wiggled her fingernails, which were painted silver. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

I wondered about the artists who painted Stalin. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The curtain has big yellow check and birds painted on....” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was painted blue like the sky, with drifting clouds and tiny whizzing jet planes with white trails that crisscrossed in the clouds. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the painted lotus flowers on the back panel had been clawed by the thorns. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Rosa sighed and fiddled with her long painted nails. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

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

He measured almost three feet from the tip of his ears to the tip of his feet; his eyes were painted a penetrating and intelligent blue. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

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

They seemed to trace the lines of her face and the band of black she’d painted across it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

On the wall behind her, a painted wisteria vine frays into a tangled modernist spray of color that makes von Rumpel uneasy. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Their skin is painted with black and purple and blue, and reminds me of the night sky, or of black stones on the side of the beach, rubbed smooth by the waves. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her hand was trailing back behind her and I could see her fingers—long and dark brown, the nails painted bright red. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

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

To add to the confusion, there were all the new properties and painted backdrops our hired men had constructed. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

Most of the homes were white with flaking paint, but a few were painted brightly. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The book falls open to a page with yellow flowers and I shut it quickly because it was Peeta’s brush that painted them. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

This vast brick temple consisted of seven 18-foot-high stories, each painted a different color. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

The headlights of cars are all painted blue, they say, and at night the city is as quiet as a graveyard: no buses, no trains, hardly any gasoline. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She painted them very plain, with great big block letters and a picture of a clock. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Around them, he built a fence and painted it, also using supplies from the city dump. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

We found Rachel Elizabeth Dare in front of the Marriott Marquis, and she was completely painted gold. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

A sliver of sun broke through the clouds and painted the woods with a deep, golden glow. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The thing is, Swastika 2.0—the one on the baseball banner—is painted in roofing tar. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

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 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

They had been painted red years ago but had chipped over time, revealing layers of orange and green, and patches of bare steel underneath. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The ridged shell of some immense turtle hung above its door, painted in garish colors. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

On the door were painted the names of the two door guardians who kept the demons away. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I had always thought of Whitehall as being just that—a large hall, painted white. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

The shops had painted trade signs hung over them, like the inn signs which we have today. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

And it probably will, because White Gift is varnished, and painted on wood. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was even neatly painted white with dark-red trim around the bow. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“Too bad none of that matters. We all get painted like we’re un-American and terrorist sympathizers, no matter how loudly we condemn terrorism and say it’s un-Islamic. It’s guilt by association.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Whatever the reason, our whole town is buried under 378 miles of paper chain, and it all started with a swastika—painted by the ultimate flimflam artist, me. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

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

She knelt before the painted marble image of the Warrior and lit a scented candle for Edmure and another for Robb off beyond the hills. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The front door, which Rhonda had just closed behind him, had no knob on the inside and was likewise painted black, so that it blended into the wall. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was painted a bright yellow and the whole thing leaned a bit to the left. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

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

The blood is dripping on the white sheet, and the fibers of the silk are so delicately painted that it’s hard to believe they aren’t real. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The painted demon squirmed at her feet like a giant water bug. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Their favorite places were painted with a thick coating of urine. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re chipped now, but her nails are still painted his favorite color. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

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

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

And, painted in a window downstairs, a smiling maiden waved a silken scarf. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The ceiling was painted like the sky—light blue, with clouds and birds and even a hot air balloon. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

The doctor listened with his stethoscope and then painted a circle on his chest with a piece of cotton dipped in iodine. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Her long nails painted deep red, her racing glasses flashing back the late-morning sun. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

All I know is the face Jupiter painted on that thing is beyond creepy. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

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

These pillars were painted red, as were the wooden window borders. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He wore Roman sandals with the lacings coming to his knees, a short skirt of feathers and a war bonnet all of which were painted in bright reds, blues and yellows. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She painted on over forty coats—she lost count—but by the time her lacquer had run out, the surface was at least five millimeters thick. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A jungle scene is painted on one of my domain walls. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma drove through a roundabout planted with pink periwinkle flowers and lined with bricks painted alternating black and white. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Inside was a tableau of frustration that might’ve been straight out of Norman Rockwell, if Norman Rockwell had painted people doing hard time in jail. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The letters must have been painted during the Belgian occupation over fifty years ago. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He brought a rod and I got out my own and rigged a spinning reel, and had to find my glasses to tie on the bright painted popper. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two more huts, painted a different color, stood side by side. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Ben opens a tin with painted yellow flowers. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Old filing cabinets divided the room into several small cubicles, in each of which was a desk painted with a peculiar orange varnish. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

There was the comical little painted man observing Boston through his tiny spyglass. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Red smears painted parts of the discarded drywall. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

They brought blue and white porcelain bowls filled with water and carp—the bowls painted with carp, fins like orange fire. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not one house was painted that crazy green color. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lean down toward me as I approach, their faces painted white and their eyes completely black. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

I’m a few months short of a high school degree, but I have a portfolio of landscapes now, both virtual and painted, and I’m going to make a business out of painting wealthy people’s houses. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I take off his wet diaper and drop it in a white painted basket with the other dirty diapers. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

She leafed through her study book, crammed with sketches of insects painted from life on scraps of vellum. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Though the plague had not been widespread in our parish, Dr. Bright had treated enough cases for me to know why that plea for mercy had been painted upon the door. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

And then someone sat behind the window and she was a lady and she was black and she had long fingernails which were painted pink and I said, “Is this London?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I painted a map to the gravesite using the ash mixture and a feather from the owl. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The walls of the Young Adult Room were painted purple and yellow. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I wished that I had known that my cousin painted realistic watercolors. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Lord, I was so anxious last night. I couldn’t do anything with myself so I painted my fingernails.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

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

The sun came up and pointed out the names of young lovers painted on the wall. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine the Gustloff was once quite pretty for leisure cruising, but the ship is now painted a chalky gray for the war effort. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Her nails are painted green today, with black stars on her thumbs. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It’s the real thing, painted in anger and hatred. 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

He told me his name and then pointed out the cell number painted by the door lock. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house was painted the same bright green as the lizards that hide in plantain leaves. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“We shouldn’t be using that bowl, Pinmei,” Amah said, and Pinmei realized she was holding the blue rice bowl with the white rabbit painted on it. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

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

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

It was Chacko’s idea to have a billboard painted and installed on the Plymouth’s roof rack. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s huge, with a wood floor that is cracked and creaky and has a large circle painted in the middle. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“They painted my gums purple,” the chaplain replied sheepishly. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I painted my nails,” Maribel said, grinning and holding her fingers out like a fan. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

White and shining, painted impossibly bright by the moonlight. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Other than these small businesses, there are more shingled houses, the same shape and size and in the same state of mild decrepitude, painted mint, or lilac, or powder blue. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Of course the master would be off for dinner, but because he had liked the painted sign, he went in. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vincent had traded many of his paintings already, and had sold at least one to Julien Tanguy, a paint and art dealer in Paris, whose portrait he painted. 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

Minli followed his hand and saw crimson gate doors painted with a cheerful greeting. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Our cowboy, who never takes off his tall, tall hat, delivers us to his huge house, where grass spreads out so green it looks painted. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Blowing snow danced around it, and the moon painted it silver. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Roses and hibiscuses and lilies and ixora and croton grew side by side like a hand- painted wreath. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Some painted their faces brown and green and tied bundles of brush about them, to hide ! amongst the trees. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The chipped teapot with the yellow flowers painted on the side. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Every wall was painted a dark mustard yellow. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I thought about all of this as I painted, and since Jay was quiet, I figured he was thinking of Daddy too. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

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 swept the puppet over a bale of hay and dropped it onto the wooden egg in the big tin bowl that Vola had painted to look like a nest. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

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

Their large round shields were made of skins stretched over woven wicker and painted with skulls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Men, women, and children watched as a mechanical dragon-like creature with a swastika painted on its armor trampled humans to death while a trumpet blared and a loudspeaker screeched, "Heil Hitler!" Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

After our uncle told us about the Ainu, we painted mustaches on our faces every day for two weeks. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

There are five of them—concrete-slab boxes with the walls painted white. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Her face was all angles and light, with fawnlike dark brown eyes, a straight nose, full lips painted just a shade pinker than their natural color. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He had to construct a theoretical space which became a painted space. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

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

I like the hallway walls—painted sky blue and bright yellow. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

The table was laid with beautifully painted china plates. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the freshly painted walls to the sparkling glass tables to the polished wood floor, everything looked new. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The house was painted red instead of blue. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She married a great Whig politician, and was a famous London beauty for many years, but this portrait was painted before that, when she was still unmarried. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered the black of the sand paintings on the floor of the hogan; the hills and mountains were the mountains and hills they had painted in sand. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The words are painted in white and make me think of the shadow creatures my mom made on the walls of our bedroom at night. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The Luke Hunter he described was, like, a million shades away from any self-portrait I might have painted. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The bus was like one we’d seen in San Francisco painted with daisies, peace signs, and Flower Power written in groovy colors. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

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

Like all the doors, it was painted bright green. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

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

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

On the painted cars, the graffiti were simply painted over. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wooden nose cone was also painted a bright red. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They dipped through the rushing shreds of cloud, and the traffic beacon painted their windows red. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

This one, she resembles a lot the one called Frida, who painted in a very weird way. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

We reach the first barrier, which is like the barriers blocking off roadworks, or dug-up sewers: a wooden crisscross painted in yellow and black stripes, a red hexagon which means Stop. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her toenails were painted red, and she was wearing red, and she was also wearing an expression of intent that would have alarmed him had he looked up—which he didn’t. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

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

It was very fragile and covered with crinkly paper with a miniature spray of purple wisteria painted on the top. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a floor-to-ceiling window beside the front door, painted with letters that spelled out the doctor’s name and business hours in reverse. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

There was a picture painted on the door of the refrigerator. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He painted the faces of school board members peering out the windows of the building, then he put bars on the windows and turned the building into a prison. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

About the size of a playing card, the panel had four arrows etched into it, pointing in different directions and painted different colors. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The wagon’s interior is lined with carved wood panels and a painted ceiling. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

But the places are real cute, painted nice pastels. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

At home I read the encyclopedia to Lynn or combed her hair or painted her nails. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She had a young face, painted very thick. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It had been painted white a long time ago, but the paint, where it hadn’t peeled off altogether, had turned a dismal gray. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He stops at the towering main entrance, a sheer glass door painted with stripes in our team colors, and pulls aside as the panels slide open. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And behind the film of frost etching the glass I saw two brashly painted plaster images of Mary and Jesus surrounded by dream books, love powders, God-Is-Love signs, money-drawing oil and plastic dice. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the Gainsborough and Reynolds portraits painted during his lifetime, Mozart’s music says, ‘I will do my best to make this beautiful because that’s what life, at its best, can be.’ The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He threw up in the toilet, on the floor—painted the entire stall. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

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

“Oh,” she whispered in awe, and stopped where she was to view the painted earth. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

When it passed in front of us, the smiling, black-and-white cow painted on its side was unavoidable. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

With Christmas approaching, upon an impulse I bought for Malcolm X’s two oldest daughters two large dolls, with painted brown complexions, the kind of dolls that would “walk” when held by the left hand. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent hours gazing into the disapproving face of George Washington as painted by Gilbert Stuart. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she takes Gogol by the hand, down a carpeted hallway with painted cement walls. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The walls are partly painted, and bare bulbs hang from the ceiling. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

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 walls were gray cinder block, and the floor was painted concrete. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it was all put together and painted, with a cardboard vulture’s head and cobra glued to the front, it looked so impressive they could hardly believe they’d made it themselves. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was headed clear in the opposite direction, but I had a perfect view of the gold swan painted on its side. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Corinthians saw only the bed, an iron bed painted hospital white. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead they would pile the freshly formed and painted pots interlaced with sun-dried mesquite and make a bonfire of the whole pile. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Everybody in Cold Sassy except us had Saint Cecilia painted on something. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Shelves rose forty feet under an astonishing painted ceiling, and the spines of books glowed in jewel-toned leather, their gold leaf shining in the glavelight like animal eyes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A few carts, with well-rested horses, clucked by us quickly, leaving only a glimpse of the prominent family name painted across the back of the carriage. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He painted the swastika, and I’m the one buried in guilt! Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

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

Swiftly they put away the clean oatmeal bowls in the kitchen cupboards, which watched them with painted eyes. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

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

And with the marks that she’d found painted under her bed...there was no way in hell she’d wait for it to show up. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

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

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

Turner walked around to the side porch—the shutters had all been painted there, too—and he found a single window whose curtains had not been pulled. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

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

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

A bond grew between the two women, and Block hired Maria and Johanna to help create a painted record of her botanical collection. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

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 glass in the lower windows was painted white so students couldn’t look out at the street. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Isabella painted an amazing poster of a Hawaiian beach at sunset. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

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

Huddled in the rushes was a small wooden rowboat, painted white on the outside and blue within. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Her eyebrows were painted thick at the center, then long and sharp at the corners. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“I know every branch and stone here. When I saw the shape of this shadow, I knew it was not right, even though I have not painted in a long while.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Wearing cotton armor and wooden helmets, brandishing lances, hatchets, and maces, and carrying great painted litters with effigies of their gods, the two militias marched on Mutal. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“And I really do love the red,” Mom said, admiring the freshly painted walls. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

It's like they took the whole huge, black Sears Tower, broke it up into short chunks, painted it with friendlier suburban colors, and then spread it out over two hundred acres of farmland. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, Catherine had her sit fully clothed on a rock on the beach as she painted her on canvas. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

After she felt that she had painted enough of them, Catherine would pack up her canvases and bring them to either Paris or to Guadeloupe for safekeeping. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She pointed down at a giant road-train passing below, the only light coming from it a dim red flicker from underneath, the navigation laser reading the bar codes painted onto the road. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Covering the table was a large map of the north, painted on a ragged piece of hide. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

The villages are the prettiest, I guess, in the whole nation, neat and white- painted, and—not counting the motels and tourist courts—unchanged for a hundred years except for traffic and paved streets. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a large undecorated room, the walls and woodwork painted white. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The flags on the front rudders stiffened, and we could now see the eyes painted on the flags. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked primitive, made entirely of dark wood, with no clothes or painted features. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He even painted in the mutton- chop sideburns with a grease pencil. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

With his answer, Theo sends Vincent an analysis of a painting by Edouard Manet, The Dead Toreador, painted more than twenty years earlier. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The driver turns left on Palmas Street with its matched rows of closely set two-story houses, all painted a flamboyant yellow. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“I’m staying overnight the whole week. Our house is getting painted, so my mom thought it would be good timing for me to get in extra practice.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The coach was enameled blue, with yellow lettering painted on the door panel: Capt. Harry Nips. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

He’d added the skylights, painted everything white to make it brighter and airier. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She had spent days sticking them together and cutting up the paper, she had painted picture after picture, and Mo had to write what they were underneath them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He was far enough ahead that I couldn’t read the words Miss Amanda painted on his stern. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Her sandals revealed an ankle bracelet and toenails painted vermilion. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The other Sarai, near as she could tell, looked just as she herself had on the night that he had seen her: with wild hair, and Isagol’s painted black mask. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Shocked, Eleanor sat up and looked; her feet were dirty, and her nails were painted bright red. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

To be so near where Monticelli lived and painted, and to be able to paint in the air and the sun of the South of France! Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

All are crudely made and painted with an image of the Lord in agony. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

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 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

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

Their wooden armor had been freshly painted, so one bore the stag of the usurper Robert Baratheon, the other the golden lion of House Lannister. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

Bitter had painted the skin a brown that was stripped of any vibrance, so they looked dull and dead. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It’s dark by the time I stop in downtown New Harmony, with its brightly painted buildings, and ask everyone I can find about where the houses have gone. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Her shield and armor had been painted red, though the paint was chipped and fading; his own armor was blue. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A second table, covered with books and papers and off-kilter clay pots—baked and painted, but not glazed—squeezed itself between the bed foot and the closet door. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He painted a crude sign to hang around the boy’s neck advertising the offer. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I stare at Marlene, whose eyes are blank like painted stones, like spheres of glass. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I painted Chloe sitting on a throne in a dress of burnished gold, surrounded by flowers. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

“Eat,” the woman said, holding out a bowl, her large fingers almost completely hiding the design of a painted monkey. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Behind him, one of the eyes painted on the kitchen walls closely watched over each of the Baudelaire children. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Hazel pointed to the hand- painted sign over the door: rainbow organic foods & LIFESTYLES. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Perhaps certain parts to be assembled could be painted red and others green, so as to reduce the time required for "search” and "find.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

The action opened in Watertown, which was painted upon old linens; General Washington stomped out from the wings, his jacket ill-fitting and crude. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The J-3 was sitting at the beginning of the runway and was polished, painted, and poised to fly. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Behind them, the wind swooped down from the painted mouths on the hill over the ruined land as if it could reach out fingers to tap them on their shoulder, turn them around. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He has magic in him, this man within the painted mask and swirling skirts. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she saw the carrier with the painted pickle bottles and the list of Paradise products, Margaret Kochamma said, “Oh dear! I feel as though I’m in an advertisement!” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Ancient gave his high-pitched chuckle, his one eye bright as enamel under the dark line of kohl painted on the upper lid. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

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

Each time he thought of that moment, the last moment he saw Shoba pregnant, it was the cab he remembered most, a station wagon, painted red with blue lettering. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The early afternoon sun painted sharp geometric designs across Sierra’s room. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

They waited just outside the open doorway of the auditorium beside a painted school bus. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

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

He saw Ku Klux Klan hoods, skeletons, harlequins in garish colors, painted faces. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Nights, I almost invariably set up my easel between the twin beds in the room I shared with Bobby, and painted. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I wondered why nobody ever painted their houses out in Banks County, where Grandpa Tweedy lived. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

Winnie examined the painted roses and lilies of the valley, and smiled in spite of herself. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

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 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

But the way I look at things, there’s accidentally getting painted in a corner and there’s not minding getting painted in a corner. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Customs Inspection line some large cloth banners on which were painted in bold letters, “Welcome Home, Malcolm.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls are painted a deep shade of red, a dramatic contrast to the sleek black chairs, the crisp white tablecloths. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The second nymph had large red hearts painted on her cheeks. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

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

So instead of working, we painted our names on the backs of the tiny turtles and let them run up and down our arms as we waited for the polish to dry. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lanterns painted her face with a harsh yellow light. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The painted words on the windows make it difficult to really see much out there. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

My station is by the conveyor belt where the pressed plates go to be painted. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

One artist offered a giant bright installation titled “Underground Springs” made from tin cans roped together, painted flashing purple and silver, spilling forth from a map of Israel on the wall. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The interior of most corridors was painted brick and cinder block. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was painted red and yellow, a light, single-engine aircraft with a figure in dark glasses and helmet hunched over the controls. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Her nails are painted emerald green and they match her leggings. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

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

I was led down a flagstone path and up a set of freshly painted steps to the porch. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

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

The ceiling, which was twice as high as the ceiling in our house, was painted blue like the sky, and there were clouds and angels. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw a man at the airport once who had art painted on his prosthetic leg. It was a sunrise and the ocean. It looked really cool.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Now he saw that the girl was almost a young woman, poised and imperious, quite the little Pre-Raphaelite princess with her bangles and tresses, her painted nails and velvet choker. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mate’s hand jerked, and I could see that she had painted the whole top of my thumb red. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His fingernails were painted purple, and his earlobes dripped with pearls and amethysts. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If I dipped my brush in starlight painted a ribbon of night on your windowsill would you still laugh? Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She painted for a while, humming under her breath, forgetting everything but her work. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

The sleek, mouse-sized car with wire-spoked wheels and knock-off hubcaps was painted silvery gray, the right color for whizzing unnoticed through shadows. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Elowen was so close to her now; it was like they were in the same room, divided only by a painted screen. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The old man reverently stroked the painted wood underneath the blanket. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She did carry a large canvas bag with a life-size sunflower painted on it. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Jinny wasn’t sure what had happened to her rock from when she was little, but there were a few stones, on a high shelf in the book cabin, painted with flowers and stars. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The walls of the new house are painted, the driveway sealed with pitch, the shingles and sun deck weatherproofed and stained. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“After all these years? Surely it would’ve been washed off, painted over, or just thrown away by now. Why don’t we just set off our firecrackers and go see Hattie Mae about some lemonade?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

My eyes adjust and I see a domed painted ceiling, and then a gilded crucified figure. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

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

She had completely forgotten that he’d said he painted murals for the place. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“It’s called Club Kalfour. I painted a mural for them. I want you to see it.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Every single piece of furniture was covered in pink fabric—the kitchen cabinets were painted pink, the wood floors were covered in pink patterned rugs, and the couch was worn pink velvet. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

A shield with a red dragon painted on it hung above the mantel. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

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

She lifted one with a French cafe painted on it. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

A stool posed in front of a backdrop painted with shades of swirling gray. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

“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

She let another tooth fall, and was outraged by painted ladies who thought only of clothes and men. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walked to a painted horse head and stroked its opalescent mane. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Sitting next to me on the plane, she kept batting her white-rabbit eyelashes and adjusting her bright pink hairband, trying to get me to notice she had secretly painted her fingernails bubble-gum pink to match. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Picasso. Who saw the truth. Who painted the truth, molded it, ripped from the earth with two angry hands.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

It was blue and white, with wave designs on the sides and a trident painted on the front. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The halls are lined with floor-to-ceiling mirrors, reflecting the light of chandeliers adorning the ceilings, while the doorways to each private karaoke room are painted in glittering gold. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He’d even painted the room, from its sky blue to a barren, optic white. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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 was a sea bird painted on the ship to protect it against shipwreck and winds. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

It was plain, mostly, wood or metal painted blue, but a single Hebrew letter—shin—had been inscribed in gold on the front. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Broadway Boogie Woogie is as flat as the canvas it is painted on. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

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 name of the boat had been painted on the back. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

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

When the crates were opened, they were found to contain loose bits of wood, metal, and painted cloth. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked what I had done so far, having made sure that I’d penciled it in first so all mistakes could be erased before I painted it. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I painted dozens of R.I.P.s for guys in El Barrio who felt small and needed something violent to jump-start their lives and at the same time end them. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He stopped at a small house painted bright yellow. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Not long after the David was painted, Caravaggio killed another man in a duel, which forced him to spend the rest of his short life on the run. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only two jobs listed, one for an appliance salesman and some woman who wants her house painted. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wall dividing our side of the house from the bar was made from shiny sheets of fake wood panelling, but the rest of the walls were rough, splintery boards painted pale green. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

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

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

A few buyers signaled with a finger, the twist of a wrist, or the wave of a painted fan. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Around the room, the wainscoting panels have been painted to depict scenes of pre-Civil War times, happy Negroes picking cotton, horses pulling wagons, white- bearded statesmen on the steps of our capitol. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Our space consists of a twelve-by-twelve-foot square of stone floor delineated by painted lines. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Between the windows some ancient wooden santos, and a couple of newer ones that had been carved and painted by the expatriate Snuffy Ledoux, were hanging. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horses wore bobbing black plumes, the coach was fresh painted in black, and each of the lords of Stormhold was dressed in mourning. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dribbling down his painted face, his neck and chin. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The inside walls would be beautifully painted and hung with tapestries, and every cross-timber or falcon’s perch was carved and gewgawed with toads, snakes, dragon shapes, deer, cows, pigs, trees, trolls. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were many marble busts on painted wooden pillars along the walls of the room they used for an office. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Eyes cast downward toward the floor, I’d watch the yellow traffic lines painted down the middle of most hallways to keep opposing traffic on its proper side. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dusted my face with golden turmeric powder, and with a paste of sandalwood and vermilion painted the red tikka mark on my forehead. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

It was painted a deep clear blue, and on its flat top was the blue dot of the lead. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Dad’s classroom has chalkboards with rows of five horizontal white lines painted across the black. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Then she built the lean-to and had it painted gray. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s freshly painted in an off-brown color, like someone tried to give it a Brazilian spray tan. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

At the back of the room there was a large folding screen with Chinese dragons painted on it. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Ida's boat swayed, tightly moored between two painted wooden posts. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He painted a self-portrait, too, to match, both very small. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Bearing clubs, spears, bows, lances, slings, and copper axes, brilliant in cloaks of feathers and silver breastplates, their faces painted in terrifying designs, the Inka army plunged into the forests of the northern coast. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

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

The walls were painted a tasteful yellow, antique shelves filled with bolts of doth in every color lined the walls. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

And this isn’t Nazi Germany just because somebody painted a Nazi symbol. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The rules governing what colors a house could be painted, for example. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The analogy is illusory in two ways: the original buildings were not ghostly white as moderns seem to prefer them, but as garishly painted as a Hindu shrine. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

On the domed ceiling of the hall, the colour organ had momentarily painted a tropical sunset. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“However,” said Mr. Popper, “now that spring is here, a lot of people will be wanting their houses painted, so we’d better be getting back.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I have to open the door again because the soldiers are here, carrying painted iron bed frames. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

We painted and painted as the sun dipped lower in the sky. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

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

On the beams of his library he had painted sixty or so quotations from the classics, all emphasizing the vanity of human life and of human aspirations to knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I stare at the far wall—it’s painted a dull blue. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

A couple of times we sneaked up close and tried to look in the windows, but they were painted black. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Every section has the name of a saint whose picture is painted on a shield stuck on top of a pole by the prefect’s seat. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

Above his head, the coloured beam of light fell upon a small and primitive piece of tapestry—a picture of some knights in chain mail, with nose guards on their painted helmets, chasing a boar. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t seem like part of school anymore—the corridor was thickly carpeted, and the walls were painted a chipper light blue and tastefully decorated with black-and-white photos of flowers. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Her room is painted pale yellow and also has lots of cool African decorations. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“Forget the lawyers, okay? I’ll put in a good word with the judge if you’ll just help me clear up some other cases. Are you the one who painted the windows of my patrol car?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

But he never finished it, because my sister came in and sat down across from me, and on her cheek she had painted a bright yellow flower. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

In the surrounding neighborhoods, cobblestone streets were lined with freshly painted town houses, shops, cafes, and parks. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Near the center of town was an old clapboard house with a painted wooden cutout of a bearded hiker standing on the lawn bearing the message “Welcome at Shaw’s.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

There were painted baskets and beaded curtains, paperweights with various objects suspended in them, dried flowers, colored grains and beans. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Many painters of the Italian Renaissance had painted huge billowy, bosomy naked ladies. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside was a miniature painted in the vivid Myr- ish style, of a lovely young girl with doe's eyes and a cascade of soft brown hair. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He painted a horrible but masterful picture of Fascism’s aggression in Germany, Italy, and Japan. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

His home was small, painted like yellowed eggshells. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

His first order was for all the houses to be painted blue in celebration of the anniversary of national independence. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

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

His skin was pale leather, his beard cropped so short that it might have been painted on. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

One of the warehouses, right on the river, was painted bright purple. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In Egypt, where low-relief carving attained unsurpassed subtlety, many reliefs were originally painted and included elaborate settings. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stopped before a small, neat, three-story building painted bright red and green. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not like the church at home, painted white with pews inside. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The aluminum hull was stud­ded with rivets and painted white. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

The figure is barely painted, all in one color, a light ecru. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He had a mug of coffee in one hand and I noticed that his fingernails were painted black. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Then, shaking out a splendid coverlet, he seated her on a throne with footrest—all finely carved—and drew his painted armchair near her, at a distance from the rest. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the three hung a screen on which had been painted the image of a fog-shrouded forest of trees. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Candles flicker in glass holders on every available surface, and the walls are painted a rich, bold red. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Some were well kept and painted nicely with tidy yards and groomed flower beds that Mom admired. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

My name, painted in Ana's whimsical lettering on a door. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Everyone was either clustered around the stereo or the seven-foot-tall piece of plyboard, propped up on the lawn, which had been painted to look like the scoreboard. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He looks like a marionette, with glass eyes and a smile painted over his skin-wrapped skull. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

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

Every five years, all the houses in Coalwood were painted a company white, which the blowing coal soon tinged gray. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She held up a case of white pencils from Disneyland with the tiny fairy painted on each pencil. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

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

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

Different colored sands painted a boy with glasses holding a feather in one hand and a book in the other in the center of a giant circular mural. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Mom wouldn't buy me Barbies because there weren't many black Barbies to choose from, and the ones that were painted brown had white girl features and hair, fake girl bodies. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Liang did not realize how wonderful the brush was, however, until he dipped it into the water and painted a frog on the wood of his boat. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

A thousand roofs stretched out below her, painted in shades of ivory and silver by the moon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And he knew where to go to find little tiny ones, no bigger than apple blossoms, that were painted pink in their middles. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Trip traced his fingers along the blue painted edge of the locker door. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

When he took them off, you could see that the eye beneath the painted glass was clouded over. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

But there were no psychedelic rainbows and groovy words painted on this bus. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The walls are painted in shades of dusty pink and mint green. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

All the barrettes were identical—made of pink, shiny plastic with little white bunnies painted on them. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

She had never before seen bams and fences, farmhouses and outbuildings, so carefully painted. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tried her best to make the smile real, but she couldn’t hide the fact that it was an act, that it was like someone had just painted it on her face. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The Very Friendly Animal Center was a building made out of cinder blocks that were painted gray. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

On the front of the wardrobe somebody had painted a picture of Indians coming out of the woods, carrying bows and arrows, wearing warpaint and bright headdresses. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took in big breaths so I would never forget how fun it was to live in our own new house and sleep in our own newly painted bedroom with my sister and brother. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Once it’s finished and painted red and white, I ride around in it too. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls are painted in tones of orange and brown and gold. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

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

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

Every time a new campaign started, a picture would be painted on it to promote the campaign’s message. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And all around him the swells grew still, and the sea breeze quieted, and the perfect sky above him vaulted like a painted dome. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

They burned holes in the air, wrote poems of love, sucked the venom from sores, painted landscapes of gloom, and made metal sing; they dissected fire like newts. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She handed the parcel to Mrs. Lawrence, who opened it immediately and pulled from the wrapping a tin plate upon which Emeline had painted a lovely forest. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He had decorated the box and painted Meggie's Treasure Chest in lovely curly lettering on the lid. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Little houses lined the roads, houses with painted shutters and wreaths on the doors. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was all color, painted at random, but none of it highlighted his grief. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I press my hand against the bathroom door, which is little more than a painted piece of plywood, with no lock. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guard picked up a little tin watering can with daisies painted on it, which was kind of bizarre, because what he poured out wasn’t water. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The painted horse, the tiny tree, the letter M stitched with sequins. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

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

The thing is small, made of cheap plastic that has been painted to look like metal. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Hibiscus grew everywhere, as if painted by legions of artists. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The henhouse wasn’t the small, red painted box I remembered, but was now large enough to enter standing fully upright. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

It was wood, not even painted, old-looking, about ready for the junk heap. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I sighed, picturing Annie and me pressed up against that painted wall in the sawmill. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

The water made my finger smart a little, so I painted it again. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

It was a glossy light blue, about six inches wide, and painted on it was a big red cardinal, the West Virginia bird. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Raphael probably would have painted out the freckles, and that would have been a mistake. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

When we’re finally done at one in the morning, we leave the kitchen with the table covered in randomly spray painted newspaper pages, and stray pieces of cardboard. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Reetika and I painted our faces in her bedroom, passing a hand mirror back and forth. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They’ve painted their nails the same color blue, and one of them has the exact backpack I dumped a few minutes ago. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Someone had painted a heart next to the name at the top, and there was a bunch of dried flowers on the stone steps in front of the memorial. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A boy wearing a panda hat and a Giants jersey, two girls with cat-ear headbands and their faces painted with whiskers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

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

Ten feet long and painted dark gray, it looked like a small submarine. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The bedroom is just like I remember, the furniture painted white with dark knobs. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

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'd rubbed his eyes, so he didn't look painted anymore—but he still looked like something Eleanor didn't have words for. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I stirred until my arm ached and painted the samples as smoothly as I could, becoming more skillful as I went along. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then it turns and glides over the pavement, which is painted with dozens of lines and symbols. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

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

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

It looked like rosewood; a painted design on the top was only just recognizable as a coat of arms. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She reads the quote I painted on it out loud: “As a friend, on a scale from one to ten, you’re a ten and a half.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The walls are painted pale cream, the carpet is light blue, and sitting in the middle is a black Steinway baby grand piano. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

There were clouds painted on the ceiling, and the few pieces of furniture left seemed too small for an average adult. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I stuck the round red petals on my toenails so they looked like Mother’s painted nails during the Eid holiday celebration. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Without wiping off the mantelpiece at all, Uncle Camp had painted around a tin matchbox and right over a cockroach, a pencil stub, and a shirt button. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She knew she did not bore him, and she buffed or painted her fingernails studiously while he dozed or brooded and the desultory warm afternoon breeze vibrated delicately on the surface of the beach. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

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

One of them fitted Frodo well enough, a black cap with iron rim, and iron hoops covered with leather upon which the Evil Eye was painted in red above the beaklike nose-guard. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

His personnel file painted the picture of a CIA agent who was deeply knowledgeable about the KGB but also careless, clumsy, and erratic. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

While the interrogation went on, one of the rebels painted RUF on all the walls of the houses in the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Soon the painted houses ran out, and he was walking past unpainted cabins. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the press and the Princeton study painted a picture of nationwide mass hysteria. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

A small painted sign announced we were nearly there. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

He laughs into Henry’s mouth, instantly caught up in his own dramatic mental portrait of the two them painted in oils, young icons of their nations, naked and shining wet in the lamplight. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

"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

To be fair, she also asked about my math lessons with Mr. Harding and painted my nails and listened to the Buddy Holly album with me until we both knew all the words by heart. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were all painted by my grandfather when he retired. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

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

Her nails are painted pale pink like the inside of a conch shell. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

How ridiculous, how perverse I would feel presenting that painted Capitol mask to these people. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

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

I put the watch down and went into Shreve’s room and got the iodine and painted the cut. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The caseworkers painted a picture of America as a dream, the land of opportunity. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“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

In the swirls he’d written names and painted what looked like animals: a large cat, tropical birds, an elephant. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The bureau and wardrobe had been painted white. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the pavilion, the glowing flowers repeated the colors of the painted rainbow, and the white clouds above echoed the cresting waves of water. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

But the walls in Cecile’s house were clean, painted a yellow beige, and had no writing. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, he wanted to, but his family was kind of poor, you know, so what he did was he got a Ping-Pong ball and painted an eye on it and he used that.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

Mama and I were still out there on the porch, waiting for Papa, when here came Loma and Camp—her carrying the baby, him carrying Granny’s big mirror with Saint Cecilia painted on it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They ducked out of the tree and saw that the twins had painted the Christmas ornament all over with tiny brushstrokes. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting on the floor, Eva played with her set of colorful nesting dolls, removing one hollowed-out and brightly painted doll from inside the other, while everyone waited for someone to speak. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

The walls were lined with metal shelves six stories high, decorated with war banners, painted shields, and the stuffed heads of dragons, hydras, giant lions, and wild boars. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The door was made out of warped wood painted gray. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

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

"This day I will go to the grass and hunt, woman wife," he announced as he shrugged into a painted vest and buckled on a wide belt with heavy medallions of silver, gold, and bronze. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Only, the way it was painted, it looked as if the water was flowing upwards. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the men was bending down, pointing to his driver’s license, a question painted on his face. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Her legs are bare, her feet slim, her toenails, exposed at the tops of her sandals, painted maroon. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

To the side of the sanctum was a painted wooden sculpture. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Masaccio’s painting shows Christ on the cross in front of a chapel with a barrel vault—but of course the chapel does not exist; it is entirely a painted chapel. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I’d rigged it up myself: a sandbag painted white, a pulley system. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wished he was painted green right now because he could feel his face go totally red. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

A plain, timid girl painted her toenails kelly green. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

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

Half of his room is painted red and gold with cool posters of the Ghana Black Stars. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The sky was painted pale blue and pink—the same color as the lake and the peach trees along its shore. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Next, he held up glossy eight-by-ten cards with different colors painted on each one. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Osh sometimes spoke in a language I didn’t know, his voice like music, especially when he prayed, but also when he painted his pictures of the islands and the sea. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

On its surface, darkened by near three hundred years of varnish, were painted the Seven Kingdoms as they had been in Aegon's day; rivers and mountains, castles and cities, lakes and forests. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Something shows up there on the pale painted floor. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Artists have infested it; in fact the first wave of artists has almost come and gone, and brass lettering and heating pipes painted fire-engine red and firms of lawyers are taking .over. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a narrow road painted with a solid yellow stripe, with one lane of traffic in either direction. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

Local papers had painted Walter as a dangerous drug dealer who had possibly murdered several innocent teenagers. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He had memorized many of the flags from the old wrecks the ship breakers worked, the hulls painted with nation and merchant tags. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Jutta painted the vessel in ecstatic purples and greens, and she set it on the water with great formality. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

It has “MOM” painted in huge letters on one side. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mine is painted white and has a bed made of curly metal. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Paul Ellis toiled on the night shift at the mill and painted houses during the day in a vain effort to raise his family a notch or two. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The lower parts of the cage were painted red and green, but the spire was golden. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody grabs a hand—some cleaner than others, some with painted or plain nails, some brown, some white, some colors in between. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

Well crafted, obviously, with intricately carved woodwork edges and a perfectly painted face, but just a clock. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

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

After years of studying art with Rain, I still couldn’t remember a color as intense as the glitter polish Sophie painted on her toenails. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Surrounded by horses and chariots, costumed and painted for the crowds, before we were allies. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He painted the names of all his students on one wall of the classroom, then made a column for each week left of school. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The houses are painted in pastel colors—pink, yellow, blue, and green. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

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 had everything painted on the J-3, but the wings still needed to be bolted on. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Two gaudily painted pullman cars stood on the track. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

A third went to the silversmith and sold back a set of pudding bowls; she intended to have the shutters painted yellow. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

It was a little wooden fish painted dark green on top and light pink on bottom, with red lips and round eyes finished with cute curling eyelashes, all lacquered to a high shine. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The ceiling is painted in more ornamental flourishes. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

A pair of scissors for a tailor, a gold lamb for a wool weaver, a basin for a barber, a painted wooden book for a bookbinder, a large swinging compass for an instrument- maker. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stage was massive, with vast red- and-gold curtains drawn back to reveal a magnificent make-believe forest with a rolling painted ocean at the back of the wooden deck. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The janitor took pity on me and cleaned off the wall above my locker, even though I can still see the flecks of red crayon embedded in the crannies of the painted cinder blocks. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

They are long, with pointed sterns and elaborately painted bodies. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

As if Theo’s portrait has actually been painted over the stillborn first son. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

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

Next to the targets was a big board that had a thick, dark green forest painted on it. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“I think Lester would need the truck, so he could haul the boat to be painted.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He saw her feet, the open-toe blue satin slippers and her painted toenails. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then I unscrewed the top, reached in with the eraser end of my pencil, scooped out the rest of the mustard, and painted the sneaker tongues and laces. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

And the toenails sticking out of her sandals were painted! Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

A watch with the time painted on it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Tom pulled ditched cars free with his freshly painted two-ton wrecker; Dave sold gasoline, batteries, and motor oil and advised his customers to go home and stay home. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

About two hundred yards from the jetty, along a narrow dusty road, stood a simple wooden hotel painted white. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cells had recently been painted and reeked of paint fumes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the fringes of the crowd a tall woman with short cropped hair, a black lace dress, and black open-toed shoes leaned against a beam that had been painted yellow. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

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

Also, his ties were too wide, and they were all painted with strange and lonely pictures of deserted beaches, haunted-looking forests, or UFOs. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

So, taking the brush, Liang painted a chicken with golden feathers and red eyes. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

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

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

There was spilled rice all over the floor, along with a cracked ceramic container with delicate painted flowers on it. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

Some people around Welch cut tires into two semicircles, painted them white, and used them as edging for their gardens. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A large black “3” was painted on a white square on the east corner. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He painted circus people and some dancers who look like they are standing in smog. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Bernabe rolled the concept of painted cattleguards around in his brain the way a lapidary rolls a rough stone around in a rock tumbler to make it smooth. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

More troubling, her face couldn’t be painted to signal her tribe and clan—a tradition at Osage funerals. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We saw SUE the T. rex at the Field Museum, and Seurat’s people in the park, painted from tiny dots, at the Art Institute. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

It’s there, painted in dazzling white on the dark metal bin. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

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

She floated on the ripe blue cloud an artist had painted crowning a yellow city. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

Old-time faces, painted without smiles or anything, dressed in black, holding pieces of paper or big books. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Each tall letter was a different painted color. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

All painted pastel, alternating between blue, pink, green, and yellow. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

They were surrounded by folding chairs, music stands, and painted scenery from last year’s spring play. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

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 then Cain stepped up to the white line painted at the back of the room, drew back his yew bow, his black ring glinting, and fired. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

On a plank of wood propped on the dirt bank, someone has painted Little Syria. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

She was a short woman, with small hands like paws, her frosty pink fingernails painted to match her lips, and was slightly plump in her figure. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I say vague things about how we humans painted landscapes sometimes, too, and that I’m painting the world I want to live in: a world of adventure but also of ancient beauty. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Wash extracted three additional feet, four hands and two heads painted with garish grins. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The five bureaus were painted with wavy stripes of pale and paler lavender. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She wore dark eyeliner all the time, her nails were always painted black, and sometimes she even wore black lipstick like the Moth House witches. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The wall opposite Phoebe’s bed was painted violet. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

She’s wearing something frothy, with pink and yellow bouquets painted over it. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The ceiling was domed and painted with stars, which were echoed in the midnight-blue carpet. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

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

Mark had been staring at the back of the pilot’s chair as if something mesmerizing were painted there. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

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

Their vehicle was a streamlined “palace” horse van painted in Howard crimson and white and featuring two musical horns, eight headlights, fourteen cigar lighters, and a luxurious stall with kapok-stuffed walls. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all tried to get it open a bunch of different ways, but it’s painted shut or broken or something. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

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

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

The she-elk was bigger than life, painted in pale lavender clay on the south face of sandstone, along the base of the cliff. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It looks like the trio of mallards is gliding through painted water. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But when Act II started, my mind floated up to the stage and, like a ghost, went through the painted set into the dark corner where we’d hidden the rats. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It was painted a soft, faded white, three stories tall, rectangular and well proportioned. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

They were painted in white winter camouflage and had skis instead of wheels so that they could take off and land from the snow-covered airfield. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He painted it in Arles, a harvest scene of yellows and greens and blues. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She pursed her bright red mouth, painted to a fullness beyond the narrow line of her lips, trying to suppress a smile of triumph. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had gone with Gram to read while she painted a landscape of Old Joe’s farm, and we’d been walking home through the fields. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The other one had a peace symbol painted on his helmet. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was cramped, brightly lit, painted black, and he could see a dark doorway in each wall. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Millie shakes her head and yanks on my hand, pulling me to her bedroom door, which I know is hers because a wooden heart with her name painted in cursive tells me so. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

A couple of wood crates with the salt girl holding her umbrella painted on top. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

I mean, I’m sure it’ll be painted over by the end of the year, but a girl can dream. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

On the bridge I painted four stick figures. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The violence inside was almost cartoonish, like the work of some mad impressionist who painted only in red. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I like that she painted about herself and her life and that she was outspoken. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The painted man looked like a very sad clown. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The step through the gates that takes you from painted ground to bare grass feels heavy. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But me and Maria only know the ground, only know the factory on the corner with its newly painted bright pink wall. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

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

We painted in glum silence until Maddie sighed and put her brush down. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

At the time of Columbus the Western Hemisphere had been thoroughly painted with the human brush. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her nails were painted with pale pink polish. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The black skin glistened with water, the white markings so defined they looked painted by an artist. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane’s name on it,” I say. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The door and shutters of Mrs. Hurd’s house had been painted green. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She watched the buses growling idly at the curb, with peacocks, lions, rising suns, and glittery swords painted on their sides. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She looked first at me, then at the painted lady. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

This shop was a great hall and the ceiling was set about with gilt and upon the walls there were scrolls hung made of white silk and painted with the figures of women. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The painted ceiling bellied overhead like a sail, and down below the green desk lamps glowed, illuminating faces bent over books. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Some were brightly painted, and shone with silver and gold and green, but most were either white or grey. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

He carried his shoes and socks in his hands, and his toes had been painted with gentian-violet solution, too. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

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 enlarged the image and did a double take, rashad is absent again today is what it said, spray painted in bright-blue loopy letters. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The road rose again, to a scene like a painted backdrop. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A painted cattleguard, however, was just that: nothing more subtle or elaborate than a group of evenly spaced white stripes painted across a macadam road. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

Propelled by desperate people to a warehouse with a sloppily painted H above the doorway. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“I think I have beard about Piets. Pictures. They were painted blue.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Owens, a PE teacher with a smile that looked like it’d been painted on by a drunk clown, started off by trying to fire us up. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

It was something like a helicopter, painted a metallic gray-black like the photos of a stealth bomber in Otto’s airplane encyclopedia. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

In their hands were tall spears of ash, painted shields were slung at their backs, long swords were at their belts, their burnished shirts of mail hung down upon their knees. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

And I love Havana, its noise and decay and painted ladyness. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The eyes are large, as in painted waifs. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

If it was wet, he sold matches because the rain would have washed away his pictures if he had painted them. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Beyond that, the jailhouse, but a larger jailhouse now, painted brown, with an office for the county clerk. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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 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

I even thought I might like having myself painted yellow and white from head to toe, especially if they let me keep my clothes on. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

"Nothing," the master said, "only that I have painted this dragon on the ground, not flying in the sky like all other dragons. Perhaps the magistrate will see how his wealth weighs him down." Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He hugged her, carefully avoiding her lips, painted pink and lined in a darker pink. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

WA 27 is painted on the street like a quiet but firm invitation. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

With Wick handled, the painted demons would be lifeless again. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The plates had pears with a red shiny stem painted in the center. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Behind him a wood is painted on a curtain, and on the table stands a mug of beer. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The embarrassment and shame that washed through me painted my face red. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

To keep them from coming inside, you painted the house haint blue, or you laid a broom across the entrance to the house. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Still, he was surely the bridegroom; I saw that his forehead had been painted, and he wore a marigold garland. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes are painted dramatically with kohl like Cleopatra’s. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

They were also not all that attractive, since the four linemen he’d roped into helping with the project had painted about as well as a couple of monkeys. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He painted ink and paper for himself, a magnificent boat for his father, and a luxurious silk robe for his mother. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She fingered a glazed white bead painted with the image of a pine tree, one of her clay end-of-summer tokens. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

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

And with the walls painted black as they were, if all the lights went out he would be in utter darkness. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The haven now was sunk from sight and Lookfar’s painted eyes, wave-drenched, looked ahead on seas ever wider and more desolate. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

She smiled, turned, and walked away, not as people in portraits usually did, out of the sides of their frames, but along what seemed to be a long tunnel painted behind her. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In both wars, one side painted the other as spiritually or biologically inferior. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Lesage had won a King's Scholarship to Eton, the only boy from the school ever to have done so, his name was painted in gold leaf on the Honours Board. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He wore glasses, one of which was painted an opaque white. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He believed that as we walked, the world of objects unfurled before us like the painted scene for a play, turrets, and moats, and topiary aisles slapping down into place just before we would arrive. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The situation is rather like a balloon with a number of spots painted on it being steadily blown up. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The custodian was in the building when the first swastika was painted. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Half of the original colony now lay underground beneath wooden markers painted with death’s heads; most of the survivors were malnourished. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

On the day he had painted the chicken, he had hurried home, said goodbye, and, after painting a giant crane, jumped on its back, and flown away. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“It would have to be somewhere that wouldn’t get painted over,” Lettie said, for some reason looking in the trash can. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

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 houses, painted blue, then painted red, had ended up with an indefinable coloration. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Billy moved along the screen and reached a point where he could see a message freshly painted on the tarpaper wall. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The top side was painted to look like the surface of water—dark, dirty water you’d never want to drop a drinking bucket into. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“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

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

“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

The polka dots on her dress and the yellow in her hair had been painted on the iron. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He’s left up the nature field illustrations in a neat symmetrical grid above the sofa, but painted over Sasha Obama’s pink walls with a deep blue. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was dark and cool in the shop, with the low wood beams and the painted floorboards. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

"So what? The woman was lonely and wanted some attention, so she did something about it. And quite creatively, too. Those painted crutches are a touch of genius." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I wasn't here when the first swastika was painted...but the doorbell was. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

With its running water, closed sewers, and gaudily painted walls, Tiwanaku was among the world's most impressive cities. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The bare walls were painted a pale green that reminded me of the hospital room where I recovered after I had my appendix taken out. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Some said the plate was made of iron and painted to resemble cracked china. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A painted flat shows a steamship, two huge smokestacks, and a swath of deck and railing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Their window overlooked our courtyard, the concrete floor painted peach, where our mother cooked meals when the weather allowed. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

There were still men in garishly painted demon masks skulking about the city, making mischief. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’m a mummy with a painted plaster cast! Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

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

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

Even the walls on her side were painted the color of shiny, chewed bubble gum. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

My gift from Mother was a tea set—a teapot, four cups and saucers and tiny spoons—and a doll with blue eyes and rosy cheeks and yellow hair painted on her head. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each machine has an eye painted in gold on the side, flanked by two small golden wings. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole apartment was painted pale yellow, except for the ceilings, which were smoky gray. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

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

There were eyes painted on the ceilings, and scratched into the grimy wooden floors. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The walls were painted with scenes of a banquet: a robed man with a curved cap like an ice cream scoop, sitting next to a larger guy who radiated sunbeams. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The inside of the church is painted white, though the paint has faded somewhat, and in the late evening light it looked pale gray. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Dad put a chair out for me to sit on while I painted with my foot. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I always like hanging out in Soojin’s room, which is smaller than mine and painted a pretty green. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I wished I could remember the Old Master who had painted that portrait. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

That afternoon, I painted in two of the waves behind the Arctic Tern. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Even Meggie could see that whoever had painted it was no more skilled at his trade than the sculptor who had carved the statue in the church. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The room pulsed with feeling, the feeling flowing with the music and the breeze from the curtains, feeling colored by the blue flowers painted in a border around the walls. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And on the white painted wall across from it, it projects the phrase, “A Short Film by Nora Ramos, coming soon.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

His hair was messy, but he had a magnificent smile, which immediately ranked him in the category of human beings who deserved to be painted into the gigantic fresco in her bedroom. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re experiencing a transition—from a town to a city,” said I. David Porras, a developer who tooled around in a Lear jet with red leather seats and painted black on the outside. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

For all these years, her heart had painted the picture for her. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

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

He says, “You’re about to confess that you painted a swastika in the hallway of your school.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

While I walked I thought about Dee, thought about her frayed orange and gold sari and the red color painted on her tiny lips. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His hair was parted in the middle, and he’d painted artificial freckles all over his moon face. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

We arrived in a small courtyard with a miniature mosque that had been fitted with absurd arched windows made of painted glass. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, probably better not. Why probe old wounds? And you’re not particularly like her. She painted that sign on the library door. Come on, then, or you'll miss this show of yours.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The crudely painted sign on his shack could be seen as a guiding motto for the rest of the fire victims: “All gone but wife, children, and energy.” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

It was the only time I’d ever gotten to see my own town from above, so I painted that, too, in the landscape under the complex. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Lazlo stared at the goddess with the painted black mask, and imagined, interposed over her crudely drawn features, the very fine ones he’d seen last night. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I think of this one time Gram took me to the meadow by the river to sit with her while she painted. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The desolate landscape was painted in blues and grays by the moon. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It was my only prop, a plastic stick painted to look like wood. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Augustus Gloop’s face came up again to the surface, painted brown with chocolate. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Everything he painted came to life, and all around him rejoiced. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

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

Or then again, Bernabe figured a painted cattleguard might be said to share a common soul with a shapely woman who wore falsies. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Tints of rose and gold and violet were washed upon it as if painted by the softest brush. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

My face was still a changing canvas, painted on, and over, by everyone except me. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

There was a white line painted down its center. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was little, I thought my parents were calling our poster the “Sir Ott,” which is how you pronounce Seurat, the name of the artist horn France who painted the picture. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I painted it for my brother, after his death. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sahil was immediately drawn to a cyclorama—a curved backdrop—of a landscape that had a moon painted on it that looked like it was screaming. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Ironically, they were painted for the great industrialists,” he says, “to show the beauty of the landscape they were ruining.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

Log walls led up to a vaulted ceiling painted blue to resemble the night sky; the stars blistered and peeled away as flames crept across them. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The fever I thought I had kicked suddenly painted the world a fuzzy shade of gray. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

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

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

The walls were painted colors, not rental white, and covered with art, photographs, and a collection of paper fans. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The friar and I walk through an arched doorway, a crown and stars painted across the top of the face, and then he leaves me on my own. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

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

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

Before the party had started a great log had been dragged into the center of the lawn and Jack, painted and garlanded, sat there like an idol. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

A blue number thirteen painted in the corner. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

What could he have painted a picture about? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face is heart-shaped, her lips painted a glamorous red. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

Someone’s painted a wall lime green, or there’s a bright-red sign above a takeaway shop, or maybe somebody’s picked up a bright-blue piece of sheet metal just by luck. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Tell your daughter that she has a bright yellow flower painted on her cheek.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Golden bracelets flew and jars of jam and tiny painted animals and fountain pens. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The houses look like they were painted in sorbet—cream, minty green, mustard yellow and pretty salmon pink. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

What he thought was an antenna is nothing more than a painted rod run up the side of a pilaster, probably meant to anchor a clothesline. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Her fingernails were painted a dusty rose color, and her hands didn’t look a bit like a gardener’s hands. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

All he cared about were his goats and sheep with painted red or blue bottoms so he could find them if they got mixed up with other animals. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

And the dead soldiers posing in the shop windows were Russians now, propped up with broomsticks, their faces painted with swastikas. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The ship’s name was painted just above the bow line in black letters, lit with a spotlight. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Besides, his own house down the road was large and painted a dazzling white. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Savages appeared, painted out of recognition, edging round the ledge toward the neck. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

On the blank walls of some buildings were long, narrow strips of red paper upon which words had been painted in thick, black ink. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father and uncle had painted the week before, so as we lay in our bedroom that night we could smell the paint. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

On the other hand, she had not painted these sketches for pleasure. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The walls enclosing the place were painted with stiff figures of ancient gods. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“An old cork and a tiny wooden baby doll, no bigger than a thimble and all painted up in bright colors.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She imagined her on horseback, smiling shyly behind a veiled green gown, her palms painted red with henna, her hair parted with silver dust, the braids held together by tree sap. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He looks at her hands on the desk and sees that her nails are painted green. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“What if it turns you into a painted statue?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I just said, “Wow, thanks, Renee!” while every other guy in the class looked at me like I had a big target painted on my forehead. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

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 looked at all those places painted on my beautiful globe. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

One man has painted his face green, white, and orange like Ireland’s flag. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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 walls were concrete blocks painted army green, devoid of windows. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Our bathroom is painted ocean blue and is large enough for Penny, Butterscotch, me and Mom—and my chair—without feeling crowded. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Fancy cakes with flowers and pretty things painted in frosting. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Our wagon was painted a bright red, with the Company’s name in demon script painted in large, bold gold letters on its sides. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“By the painter who painted the little dots that made beautiful pictures.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She poured him more beer in a thick pottery cup with yellow flowers painted around it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her toenails were painted bright pink and she had no shoes on. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even now my bedroom still has the walls painted in Placid Pink where she had got going on the bottom but didn’t finish at the top. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The twin points of light in his eyes had dulled and nearly vanished, as if someone had entered his eyes with a minute paintbrush and painted them gray. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Even their faces appeared to have been painted brown. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

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

She hadn’t been able to see another crime scene to determine if Wyrdmarks had been painted in blood there as well. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

It was freshly painted with borders of orchids and lilies and water hyacinths outlining each panel. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Now I see the windows, that their frames are painted a forest green. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

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

But I'm still the same guy who painted that swastika. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Standards made of painted animal skins flapped everywhere. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Oh, sure, it’s been washed off and painted away for months now. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Then someone snapped, “Go! Go!” and the painted man slumped back into his house. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I could just as easily have painted I’M ANGRY. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“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

And he looked at every painted face closely and with intensity as though each were real. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Just today,” the archaeologist said, “we uncovered a rich cache of pottery chips painted blue.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

The boy had found some crayons and painted his facemask with fangs and he trudged on uncomplaining. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I moved my car around to the parking space with the big 3 painted on it. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

She surveys the mess of toys littered all over the patio, poking some game pieces with her painted toes. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

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

Afterward, the rest of their female bodies, all of womankind, either disappointed him or disturbed him like painted cattleguards. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

To the shock of even his fellow Osage, he was naked, except for his breechcloth and his moccasins, and his face was painted as if he were leading a war party. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

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

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

There was an unobtrusive charm about the bungalow, Richard conceded, as they walked through the empty, newly painted rooms. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

Over his scarred chest she slipped a painted vest, old and faded, the one Drogo had loved best. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

These painted savages would go further and further. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

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

Her toenails were painted electric blue, the tips chipped. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"She painted little watercolors. She had dark blond hair." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

While we were in Midland, Mom painted dozens of variations and studies of the Joshua tree. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was holding the blue rice bowl with the white rabbit painted on it. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

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

Mr. and Mrs. Glass’s bedroom reeked, and even smarted, of freshly painted walls. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

The ground has been painted or powdered white in some areas, black in others. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“We’ll have to get it painted again and fix the dents and tears.” Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

The fireplace in this room had been painted a beautiful bright turquoise. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

From the opposite side of the pavilion, Clarisse and her buddies ran in with another banner, of identical size, but gaudy red, painted with a bloody spear and a boar’s head. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Once he had painted three sides of a kitchen green, and the other side yellow. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

I look ahead to see a stunning building painted virtually with swirls of red, gold, and white. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Honestly, I didn’t know what to think after reading that outrageous story in the paper. The one about that policeman who had his windows painted black!” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The enormous black ψ painted there had stopped Zu dead in her tracks and turned her face a sickly shade. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She kept her nails short so bread dough wouldn’t stick under them when she kneaded it, but she always painted them a deep red to match her toenails. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They drove through a small town, past houses as bright as if a child had painted them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A long, jagged crack ran through the front window of the shop, a dripping yellow Star of David and the word “Jude” painted across the glass. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“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

Two enormous paisleys have been painted in red and white on her cheeks. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled a small maroon wagon that had Dr. Fraber, Dentist and the address painted on the sides in golden letters. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The floors have been redone, the walls freshly painted, the ceiling dotted with track lights. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Erik and Vincent Castor had found a can of white spray paint, and they had painted something on that gray wall. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They say the ones that drop off supplies in Asheville have PFC painted in big letters on the side. Post-Flares Coalition.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

With beautiful clean clothing and beautiful false papers, I limp toward a beautiful bus with a thin-as-a-pin dog painted on each side, a bus bound for Los Angeles, The Angels. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the bench across from her, Amaya was staring out into the city around them, a sullen frown painted across her face, brow furrowed. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It was a naked man, painted with tar and rolled in feathers. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whoever had painted the picture loved the floating man and the floating woman. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

A. To create her magnificent new book, Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, Maria took elements from the studies she painted in Surinam and produced complex full-page designs in watercolors. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Because Edward’s eyes were painted on and he could not close them, he was always awake. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

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

He has painted my tongue blue so that we can easily count the number of whitish taste buds inside the circle of the reinforcement. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

"You two aren't painted. How can you-? If it were light-" If it were light shame would burn them at admitting these things. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Her mother’s silver ring with the secret compartment inside, a painted hand mirror, one of her father’s old sweaters—anything would have done. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A girl, with blonde braids and blue painted eyes and red lips. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

Hundreds of dark feathers gracefully overlapped each other in perfect rows, the tips painted red, as if licked with fire. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Some of the windows were busted out, others still intact, but painted over with what looked like white paint. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Above their heads, the double-barrel-vaulted ceiling was painted deep blue, with golden stars aping the real heavens just beyond. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

A small desk, a narrow bookcase, and a white dresser with a mirror were crammed into the tiny space, along with Lissa’s bed, painted white to match the dresser. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

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

The chalkfur Bitter had painted was rustling now, and Jam held back a cry as she saw the small blob of blood vanish into the painting with a quick sucking sound. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

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

She looked like she had been painted by Rembrandt. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She said, “My mother painted it last summer while I painted the trim at the bottom.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

They look like they’re painted to the surface of the water. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

A porch swing, painted the same bold blue, moved slightly in the wind. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They raised fences, mended fences, hauled stone, patched asphalt, painted, trimmed trees. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I reached the marketplace, the sun had almost sunk behind the hills and dusk had painted the sky pink and pur­ple. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then the curtain was lifted and before he knew what he did he looked and he saw sitting in the shadowy recess of the chair, painted and cool as a lily, the girl Lotus. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The centerpiece of the complex is a grassy outdoor seating area populated with oversized, oddly shaped chairs painted in bright zigzag patterns. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They painted circles and dots on her head and cheeks—white for Obatala, reds and yellows and blues for the other gods—and crowned her with the sacred stones. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wemmick’s house was a little wooden cottage in the midst of plots of garden, and the top of it was cut out and painted like a battery mounted with guns. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then when he thought of the weary painted woman and her thick lips, his heart swelled with sickness and anger and he sat there muttering to himself. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She took her way to a painted bedchamber where a young girl lay fast asleep—so fine in mould and feature that she seemed a goddess— the daughter of Alkinoos, Nausikaa. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In profile she resembles a cute Punchinello, her cheeks expressive, painted, and the nose carved for comic effect. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And a little desk painted blue with shiny black knobs on the drawers. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Crosses, entire crypts, are painted periwinkle, neon green, purple. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Shea and I sat in front of the Cue Lounge, a bar and billiards club whose facade was painted black. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Outside the windows of O’Hare International Airport, the sky was painted a particular shade of gray and leaving droplets of water on the large glass windows that looked out onto the airstrip. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

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

Gogol is accustomed to the scenery, yet he still stares, at the short, dark men pulling rickshaws and the crumbling buildings side by side with fretwork balconies, hammers and sickles painted on their facades. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her concrete house is missing its paint, or maybe it’s just been that long since anyone painted its walls. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

Old men blew colored smoke through long painted flutes, etching the air with soundless music. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

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

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

She looks straight into the camera and smiles, hands on hips, dress suit neatly pressed, lips painted deep red. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Except for the black bar Isagol had painted across her eyes, temple to temple, like a slim mask. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In his hand he bore a single arrow, black-feathered and barbed with steel, but the point was painted red. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

What you can’t tell from our poster is that the picture is painted entirely with dots. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In the line of houses still painted company white, it stood out, a bright, brave statement that things weren’t the same anymore. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Walton’s got this stank attitude painted all over her voice. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Her lips were so red they looked painted almost. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

Going up, the stairs didn’t creak and the walls were freshly painted. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Most of the tents have prominently placed signs in painted wood, and entrances that are clearly defined or marked. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

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

Its gas tank had flames painted on it, and a shotgun holster riveted to either side, complete with shotguns. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The bowl had a sunflower painted upon it, under a layer of dust. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

What I’m thinking about is a picture I painted, years ago now. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the weekends, it was filled with roller skaters and Frisbee players and jugglers and mimes with their faces painted white. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

Then we got the idea to paint all the hoofs yellow, too, and the cows’ horns, and we caught a rooster that was up on the rafters and painted his beak, and toenails. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He painted it all up and it looked like new. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He noted that the boys wore their hair long and the girls wore makeup and painted their fingernails. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was flying as high as twenty feet now, and the sun, gleaming through the painted canvas, made the wings seem like living flesh. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rode past a stable and a shuttered inn with a wheat sheaf painted on its sign. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She wore moccasins, leggings, a cloth skirt, and a blanket around her shoulders, and she painted the part in the middle of her hair red to symbolize the path of the sun. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Her nails were painted red and she had a snake tattooed around her navel, which could move in circles while the rest of her body remained absolutely still. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she carefully mixed them together and painted a large pink heart in the last empty space on the wall. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stories from up north painted a much rosier picture of education in Chicago. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The walls and high ceiling, both painted black, added to the illusion of boundless space. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

By the time I painted my house in late fall, Chloe and I pretty much couldn’t stand the sight of each other. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Another is painted in red, white, and blue stripes with La Casita written across the side, and a third has Kebab Express in green block letters. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Fish with markings so beautiful, they look painted. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The monks, Babi said, painted beautiful frescoes along the walls and roofs of their caves. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

We covered the gaps between wall boards with paper, painted the inside, and covered the kitchen floor using paint and pieces of linoleum we found at the city dump. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The rabbit looked extremely like the one painted on her blue rice bowl. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

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

Outside, it was snowing and he had been sitting beside a radiator which was painted cream. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

They only looked different on holidays, when girls decorated their family’s paths and thresholds with painted patterns called alpanas, just as their ancestors had done for generations. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

On the walls to either side, pale sharks prowled painted blue-green depths, whilst eels and octopods slithered amongst rocks and sunken ships. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

The Magpie reached for him before Meggie could and stared at him as if he were just a painted toy, while he looked back at her with horror in his eyes. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I noticed a blue-striped tent with a meticulously painted sign that read: calypso high art gallery. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Grotesquely painted signs announced that the Human Cat and the Living Cyclops lurked nearby. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The word horologist had been painted on the door of Father’s shop. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

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

Thunderheads rolled in, painted the sky iron gray. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was compressed but stable dynamite cleverly camouflaged with plastic and painted black so it looked like a lump of coal. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Performers standing stock-still with elaborate costumes and painted skin on platforms set up in precarious spaces between tents. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Bernabe likened the painted cattleguard to the sort of stickers—“Protected by Acme Burglar Alarm System”—store owners who could not afford burglar alarm systems put on prominent display in their business windows. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the cheerful advertisements painted on the sides of buildings like the Tic Toe diner and the Pocahontas movie theater were faded and nearly illegible. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s painted dull brown on the outside, but the inside is really nice. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

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

“I never got their names. No badges. Three of them showed up, told me that I had better be careful, that I had painted a target on my back, on my whole family.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Sure, I’d painted my share of signs and stuffed enough envelopes that I was certain every part of my hands had been paper cut at one time or another. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

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

Her name had been painted with great skill in red paint and outlined with a fine line of cream in a way that he would never have managed. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Smith mixed up a homemade liniment and painted it on Seabiscuit’s legs. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had it washed and painted, changed the furniture, restored the garden and planted new flowers, and opened doors and windows so that the dazzling light of summer would penetrate even into the bedrooms. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

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

It was a wooden door, once painted white. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rising sun painted the khaki hills red and pink as we hiked the dusty trail. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

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

I was advised that the name Rocinante painted on the side of my truck in sixteenth-century Spanish script would cause curiosity and inquiry in some places. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

All the doors up here were painted brown, and after the first landing, there was no carpet. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

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

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

The eyes, mouth, and skin color were painted on its wax head in disturbing hues. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

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

If he had painted Harper Avenue, would it have looked just as intriguing? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the dais a kraken and grey leviathan were locked in battle beneath the painted waves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

That was when they noticed his painted nails. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

She looked tired and sad, with a fake smile painted on out of fear. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The arrow was bright red, as if it had been painted in blood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He’d painted the kitchen walls the same dark olive green as the outside, and lined them with power strips and fly swatters. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was hard to become an old, seasoned trouper when you painted poison on yourself every third day and ended up raving mad by the time you were twenty-five. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He lit the fire and smoke curled up over the painted wooden lintel and rose to the ceiling and curled down again. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The first story was beige brick, and the second and third stories were yellow, with the fire escapes painted to match. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

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

The troll is wearing armor painted over in some dark color that seems too close to dried blood for comfort. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We were in front of a building from which a straw-stuffed man, painted all in green, dangled from a pole. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The lady with the watery voice had a painted face that was melting. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

By that time she has pushed back his cuticles, cleaned his nails and painted them with clear polish. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was along the conveyor belt where the numbers were painted. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The TV set continued, “The ‘moon’ is painted; in the enlargements, one of which you see now on your screen, brush strokes show. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The painters painted the rest of him then, white and yellow from head to toe. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Frost painted the ground the color of a gravestone, ashes trapped in ice. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through persuasion he managed to get the majority of houses painted blue in time for the date of national independence. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I was startled to see that one of the houses across the creek was in the process of being painted a bright yellow. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Kit leaned sideways to see the letters painted jauntily on the transom. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Its little painted Chinese figures gathered formally in a garden around a table, with ornate plants and implausible birds, seemed fussy and oppressive. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A painted face spoke with the voice of Robert. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

But the explanation was really very simple.The van had previously been the property of the knacker, and had been bought by the veterinary surgeon, who had not yet painted the old name out. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Big Time remembered looking at the faded sign painted on the bricks. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Abby’s mom shook each of their hands before walking out to the mic stand, and instead of adjusting the microphone to a lower setting, she used the step stool Abby and I painted. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Dad painted his face with the soap, then bent down and rinsed it off. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we leave the shiny painted cars of the first section behind, he looks alarmed. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“My face will never be painted with sandalwood paste. Who will rub me with turmeric? My name will never be printed with scarlet ink on a card.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

She was standing like a statue with five other kids all painted metallic—copper, bronze, silver. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

One hangs from a meat hook, stuck through the solar plexus, another has trees and flowers painted all over her face like fine tattooing, with a delicacy I wouldn’t have suspected from Jody. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The house, painted a pale green, was eerily neat and well maintained. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

She scrambled down between the painted stones of the hoverboard path, David struggling to keep up. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Elsewhere they saw beautiful bronze daggers for sale, dried squids and carved onyx, a potent magical elixir made of virgin's milk and shade of the evening, even dragon's eggs which looked suspiciously like painted rocks. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He found the living room furniture covered with sheets, as though waiting for the walls to be painted. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I can see where they painted over the walls and equipment. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Studies of sedentary flesh, painted by men who’d never been there. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Despite the colonel’s disdainful attitude, the cells were soon painted and fumigated and we were supplied with fresh blankets and sanitary pails. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the centuries, they had been painted and repainted, gilded, silvered, jeweled. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Always he watched ahead, though his eyes in the moonless night could see no more than the painted eyes aside the boat’s blind prow. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun had painted and repainted probably every room in the house, and the owners showed no signs of stopping. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

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

“It’s devastating. We poured so many years of our lives into building this place. I painted those walls for the first time with my own hands, and now it’s been...” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“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

“I hope our house is painted sky blue,” I said. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

She waved her free hand at Ivy, her nails painted to match a rainbow—red thumb, orange forefinger, yellow middle finger, green ring finger, blue pinkie. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

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

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

It was a thousand times more fun to haul real chips for old lame Susie’s real fire than to drag painted blocks along the banquette on Esplanade Street! The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the roofs were painted, and there weren't any statues or fine carvings around the grounds. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He’d written all the facts and numbers in the center of the board, but he’d also painted a border of smiling eggs to add an “artistic design element.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I hurry down the main street, which is lined with wooden houses painted white, yellow, blue, and red. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The fancy exterior decorations on just about every building were carved from wood, then painted to look like stone or marble. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

His fingertips stroked a sleek feathered shoulder, then the sharp wooden beak, painted a bright gold. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He drank her in insatiably from head to painted toenail. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It makes me think about the dolphins I painted on my sister’s bedroom wall. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Two brightly painted but well-worn drums, the skin pulled tightly across the top, decorated with rope and beadwork. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

His father rose from his throne and pointed at the map painted on the far wall of his council chamber. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Well, let’s see. I dreamed the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., knelt down and painted my toenails with the spit from his mouth, and every nail was red like he’d been sucking on red hots.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look down my cast, trying to see everything that Chicho has painted, but since I can’t sit up, it’s hard for me to take it all in. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

To relieve the monotony, some people planted small gardens or painted their doors bright colors. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This woman with the painted eyebrows was definitely the Matron. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Summer was the busiest time for the business, with so many people leaving, fleeing the swamp heat, wanting these rooms or that porch painted while they were away. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The sky was painted with a small number of flat clouds that looked like sandbars. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The ticket lady blew a large chewing-gum bubble with her brightly painted lips and let it pop. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

It was as though they’d all been painted into a picture. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was like a movie—like a movie set, anyway—painted on plywood and propped up by two-by- fours. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They look like someone might have painted them on a big roof. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Crime would be on page 10, ants and old men and painted doors on page 1. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

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

Public buildings, statues, monuments, even trees, met the evening in their original bland colors and reemerged the next morning painted in the sparkling “liberation colors” of red, black, and green. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the painters reached out and paddled the rump of the painted man, setting off a new round of howls. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

She had it painted on her face in cooking class yesterday. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The scene isn’t quite like it was back at the beach, where the evidence of panic and violence painted a chilling story—and yet the abject nature of this abandonment is just as disturbing. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

Mamou kept her fingernails short and nicely manicured, painted pomegranate red. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She was wearing banana-yellow robes today; her long nails were painted shocking pink, and she was accompanied by her paunchy photographer. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The machine was just a rusty box with wheels, but he painted it with seafaring designs and gave it a fake ship’s smokestack. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The strangest thing about Troy’s was a huge quote painted on the wall. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below the writing there were painted bottles of mixed-fruit jam and hot-lime pickle in edible oil, with labels that said, in elaborate writing, Paradise Pickles & Preserves. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

One is the all-metal interior, containing the inmates; it’s painted gray and looks as though it could have been welded in a shipyard. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Toy watches with the time painted on them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, inside the gatehouse, there was a neat little hole in the middle of the vaulted ceiling, which had painted tracery and basses. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, look. I will tolerate, for now, your little biblical menagerie in the living room. But I refuse to have this,” he said, flicking at one of the painted peanut-tears, “displayed in our home.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Already blood covered the ground and painted the wall. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Shells were falling on the ridge nearby and bullets were slicing leaves, but Reynolds sat astride the horse in a motionless calm, looking out toward the fight, picture of a soldier, painted against the trees. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The door was painted black and it was propped open with a cinderblock. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Now the road was paved and had a stripe painted down the center, and it carried a continual flow of vehicles. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twice more he stole the ball from the opposing guard, dribbled the length of the court, and laid the ball gently in the white square painted on the glass backboard. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“I painted that the night before I reported to juvie. The judge had accepted my plea agreement, and I was living with my uncle because I couldn’t go back to my parents’ house. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The boat weaves in and out between countless tiny islands, some with small brightly painted wooden houses on them, but many with not a house or a tree on the bare rocks. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rounded walls and ceiling are painted a deep, vibrant blue and ornamented with stars. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

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

His painted black eyes never moved from her face. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The Andals were the first, a race of tall, fair-haired warriors who came with steel and fire and the seven- pointed star of the new gpds painted on their chests. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A child’s swing dangled from a cedar tree; four little steps painted blue led up to the porch, and from the window, between fluttering curtains, came the smell of gingerbread baking. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lives in Chimney Hill with the Jennifers and Daniel W. His dad painted his room the colors of the Dolphins team and he has more games than I’ve ever seen in my life. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The next thing I know, I was wearing nothing but slippers and a bathing suit, which somebody painted gold. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The old store’s wood shelves were painted a dour green, but stuffed with a rainbow assortment of canned food and bags of chips, pasta, and even marshmallows. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

That shack was the beginning of Lacks Town, a single road about a mile long and lined with dozens of houses —some painted bright yellows or greens, others unpainted, half caved-in or nearly burnt- down. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The first story was beige brick, and the second and third stories were yellow, with the fire escapes painted to match. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was at least fifteen feet long and painted a bright red, inside and out. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

They take me down a long hallway painted blinding white. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The maid leads him into a grand drawing room, its ceilings aswirl with plaster flourishes, its walls painted a delicate eggshell blue. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Its axles were set on piles of cinder blocks and the formerly yellow vehicle was painted a rather haphazard eggshell white. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was closed fast, two great wooden gates, painted black and bound and studded with iron, closed upon each other. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Her toenails in those sandals are painted the color of a tangerine. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

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

And the woman, a very elegant artist type with blond hair, had supposedly painted the apartment in terrible red and green colors. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It makes another mouth, a small red one, like the mouths painted with thick brushes by kindergarten children. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Near the bottom, I found a dusty box painted with Russian lacquer-work. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

On the board was painted the word for sharing. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I make an X, a small one, on my painted jungle wall. 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

There was the cool delicate smell of painted china, the wonderful unforgettable smell of a doll’s hair, the heavenly feel of new-gauze doll’s clothes. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman with painted toes shifts from one foot to the other. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath his painted vest, a plaster of fig leaves and caked blue mud covered the wound on his breast. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There was a picture of a chariot painted upon it. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The comical little painted man looked so genial, so ready to welcome anyone, that Johnny stepped in. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, you’re right for once. Nobody with any sense would call that stick a girl” Brenda pushed her face right into his and grinned the.word “girl” through her big painted lips. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

The walls were painted colors, not rental white, and covered with art, photographs, and a collection of paper fans. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The candies looked very much like square sugar lumps—except that each of them had a funny little pink face painted on one side. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

He painted a scenario: Chemical agents were released into a mess hall containing unruly inmates, and officers too. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to the spoken word, their communication methods include petroglyphs, wampum belts, and books with symbols painted on bark cloth. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

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

Plus, I kind of like the Puerto Rican flags painted on them. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

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

The decorations, the fireplace, rugs, windows, and curtains were all painted on the metal floors and walls. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

A smallish woman with her hair swept up in a loose bun and a smile painted on her face greets us at the door. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

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

It had black tiger stripes painted on the crossbar and a double water bottle holder. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the surgery, Bitter painted a portrait of Jam reclining on their porch swing and wrapped in a blanket, her eyes tired but happy, her feet dangling in shimmering air. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I thought about the time when she and her friends painted my fingernails, and how that was okay because my brother wasn’t there. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Staring at that figure I painted, I realize there is something sad about the chain-saw artistry of Buddy Gui. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Brilliantly painted red and gold animal dens line two of the four walls, their sides propped open to reveal lions, tigers, panthers, jaguars, bears, chimps, and spider monkeys—even an orangutan. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Something cheap that could be painted or repaired. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was narrow and had been painted shut years ago. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The screws bounce off the painted tin, leaving long, twisting marks like curled ribbons. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He knew he was looking down a corridor painted in his death colors. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

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

Then he was given a warm bath, dried, and led back into his stall, where his legs were painted in liniment and wrapped in protective bandages. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside are hundreds of buckets, lined up two deep in front of trunks and clothes racks, with names or initials painted on the sides. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

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

The house was narrow and had not been painted for many years. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

On the wall hung a sheepskin with a map of the north painted across it in faded colors. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was painted on the outside of a short building: “Save Today for Tomorrow, at Bank of America.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The large wooden chair was built in the 1930s, and inmates had painted it yellow before attaching its leather straps and electrodes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

After giving his name, he is told to take the elevator to the sixth floor, and then to wait in an empty room, the walls painted a rich dark blue. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The shuls of Maxwell Street were all brick and clapboard, some with plaster walls painted to resemble stone. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

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

Flying birds are painted on the walls and her crib is white, her canopy is white, and her blanket is white with ruffles along the edges. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

All the tiles had similar blue borders with little designs painted in the centre. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The walls and ceiling are painted with planets and stars. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And die walls being painted white to serve as a nursery. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

The cycle was attached to a brightly painted tin cart with a leather bench and a decorated canopy that shaded customers from the sun. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

There were phrases like Remember Me and True Friendship painted in gold. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dipped the brush into the paint and carefully painted, in brown paint, on the surface of the paperweight, the letters... The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The officer looked past him to the group of painted boys. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The waiting room is painted some terrible color that needs two words to describe it: off-white, burnt ivory, eggshell. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

In a loud voice, I said, “You may have these people fooled with those expensive-looking feathers in your hats, but I know what they are. They’re goose feathers painted with iodine.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Mrs. Gruver writes something on a slip of paper, folds the note, and creases it with the back of her painted thumbnail, which creeps me out. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

One door, painted white, led to a closet, another to a toilet and a tub. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Soon my brows are stinging, my hair’s smooth and silky, and my nails are ready to be painted. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Good morrow to you, on this Market Day," said the stall holder, clambering down from the painted caravan parked behind the stall, and she smiled widely at him with white teeth in a dusky face. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

People devoured the samosas, and dutifully admired the freshly painted ceilings and walls, the hanging plants, the bay windows, the silk paintings from Jaipur. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

On the wall was a hand- painted banner: “Embrace the Struggle.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The painted leather burst into sudden flame as she skipped closer to the fire, her breasts bare to the blaze, streams of milk flowing from her red and swollen nipples. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A boy wearing a panda hat and a Giants jersey, two girls with cat-ear headbands and their faces painted with whiskers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

He was painted with a bright blue face and red beard and glaring eyes. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Then the grape tree had to be cut down at the seashore, painted white, and hung with silver and gold balls and showered with tinsel. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

A farmer in upper New York State painted the word cow in big black letters on both sides of his white bossy, but the hunters shot it anyway. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Man Ray photograph burst onto the screen before them: a voluptuous woman, her back transformed into a cello by two painted f-holes. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There he let them bite animals that had been painted with poison. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baby doll’s white skin had been painted the color of midnight, with thick cherry-red lipstick smeared over its small mouth. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

It showed a room that probably was in King Jerrold’s castle, because Char was there and the crest of Kyrria was painted on the wall above a tapestry. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The doll had dark ringlets, milky porcelain skin, and pink lips parted over painted white teeth. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The lines have been blurred by the custodians’ mops, but it’s very clear what someone has painted up there. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Between his feet are two glyphs, one resembling a stovepipe hat with a U painted across the front, the other looking vaguely like a smiling pet monster from a Japanese cartoon. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Across their backs they bore round wicker shields covered with hides and boiled leather, displaying painted images of snakes and spiders, severed heads, bloody hammers, broken skulls, and demons. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I take a quick detour into the empty bedroom that she uses as her studio to see if she’s painted anything new. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The sign above the business, which was one of the dozen or so boxes of storefronts along Old Mill Boulevard, was an enormous, perfectly round pizza with a grinning face painted on it. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

She had stopped in front of a door that had an anchor with a dolphin coiled around it painted on the white wood. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Canvases—some blank, some painted on, some drawn on—are all over the basement. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Her breasts were full as she had painted them in that self-portrait. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I painted that on the happiest day of my life.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

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

‘You dressed in black,’ Nico noted, ‘with the sun coming up. You painted your face but didn’t cover that mop of blond hair. You might as well be waving a yellow flag.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In the center of the room, on a round wooden table that is painted black but inlaid with light stripes of mother-of-pearl, there is a small iron cauldron. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Their hulls and scaffolding are newly painted in rich blue, deep maroon, and pale yellow. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

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

“As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

And the painted dolphins on your sister’s wall cannot plot deadly schemes. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Billy’s perceptions were so unreliable that he saw the words as hanging in air, painted on a transparent curtain, perhaps. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Reckon somebody’s painted swastikas on the sidewalk?” said a third. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

"And that funny woman with the painted crutches, what's her name?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had bought him a new crib and had lions and crouching leopards painted on the side panels. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I placed them on a nearby wooden park bench, painted green and flaking. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“Bells on your ankles,” Kaz said, gesturing to her costume, “but I didn’t hear you. Purple silks and spots painted on your shoulders, but I didn’t see you. And I see everything.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It is the musical equivalent of filling a painted canvas with thousands of colours instead of just a few. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

His legs were massive columns, his face a crag, with a granite-hard jaw and eyes black as chunks of obsidian beneath their painted lids. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

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

He and Sayle were standing on the edge of a huge cross, painted in red paint. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I think so. Like someone had rubbed it on there. There were a few of those Wyrdmarks painted, but most had been rubbed away.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Their sides were painted white to mark the route around the shallows. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

A vase of artificial flowers and other modest decorative knickknacks stood on a windowsill, and there was a bed of marigolds by the freshly painted stoop. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

A writhing mass of painted snakes emerges on all the walls. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“First, change your clothes. I already painted most of the house while y’all were at school, but there’s still a bit left, and you’re going to finish that up....” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But mostly, we spent our time in the Spinney or down by the river, where Gram told me fairy tales while she painted. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Jumping off the bike, Roy said to Beatrice: “Does this have anything to do with that cop car that got spray- painted?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘An accountant would never again be painted in a relation of superiority to a nobleman.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

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

Her thin lips are painted an angry stroke of red, and in the night her auburn hair looks dark brown—almost black. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

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 pray that I lose to one of them, one of the rule-breakers, not one of the sunny fruit piles, ho-hum plums, flat pdfs painted to order. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The houses were constructed of wood, and they were painted white, yellow, green, and tan instead of pink, blue, and lavender like the homes in Tijuana and Ensenada. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

If he were in California, he’d sneak the jeep out and drive way too fast down the 101, doors off, blasting N.W.A., inches from being painted on the pavement. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Back all straight, big old cheese painted on her face. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe when you painted that picture you were happier than you’d ever been, would ever be. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Valencia's business was a small publishing company she ran from her garishly painted fourth-floor study. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

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

A miraculous change had taken place: instead of the gloomy paneling, the walls were painted a bright, cheerful cream, and there were some warm rugs on the floor. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

And on the windows were painted the words for Long Life and Prosperity. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another woman leaps into the light, then another, and another, all dancing, shrieking their battle cries, their bodies painted white and black and red. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Sometimes as they lovingly patched and painted, they listened to Bill’s records or sang, Leslie and Jesse teaching Bill some of Miss Edmunds’ songs and Bill teaching them some he knew. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

“I can still smell the smoke—it’s like it’s painted the whole town with that gray, choking smell.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Covering the length and breadth of the fabric is a stark swastika painted in splotchy black gunk. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The designs on my palms would take hours to dry, but tomorrow the deep brown Seema painted on would transform into a brilliant orange. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The car that came across the intersection was an old Mustang painted black. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one knew who the people he painted were, or why he painted the things he did. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

Greenhouses covered the hills here, their panes painted white for protection against the sun that was now hidden behind clouds. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“My mother painted this,” Noah says to him, no question in his voice. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Milkman didn’t understand the Latin and he didn’t understand why the wolverine state had a buck painted on the seal. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The motel is painted a deep shade of gray. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Dad’s office is painted this creamy white color, and all his furniture is white, but her office is colorful. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His floor is painted to look like a half basketball court, and he can play on an actual hoop on his wall. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

And different from everybody else in the town he put off moving in until it had been painted, in and out. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

What had struck me most vividly were the striped zebras that looked as if someone had painted them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Red banners now hung over the doorways as temporary signs, with the new names painted in black or white. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are interviews with squealing fans entering the Tokyo Dome, their faces painted and their hands clutching homemade posters. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“And I wanted to see if I could find it again, if it hasn’t been painted over.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

Sticking her dagger through the opening for light, Annabeth could see a lower chamber, long and narrow, with a mosaic floor, painted walls, and benches running down either side. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Last time, I painted a tree with a sun coming up over the top of it, because I knew she would eat that mess up. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

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

The next week, brick walls arose and windows appeared, and today there was a door—painted lime green! Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The walls were painted cream and rose and pale green. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the glass, the setting sun painted all downtown in a golden glow. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He painted diagrams in the dining room showing the difference between meters and feet, kilograms and pounds, liters and quarts. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The outside looks like an enormous circus tent, painted with broad black-and-gold stripes that glitter under the strings of lights. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“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

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

The whole complex, recently painted with a mix of red ochre and buttermilk, stood against the sky like a row of giant beets popped clear of the earth. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was painted black and white in a cowhide pattern. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Just that morning I had seen a warning on television about that toy—they were being recalled because the blocks had been painted with lead paint. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“How come if your favorite color is blue, you painted your house so pink?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

An arch has the school’s motto painted on it: Nil magnum nisi bonum. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The barn isn’t red, like I thought barns were; where it isn’t painted, it’s just really old brownish-gray wood. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

"It's a tiny portrait of Diego Rivera. She painted this during their divorce." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I pulled my hand out of the cast-iron fragments and looked with wonder at my wrist, painted a bright red, and then I saw a spurt of blood. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, Sophie saw the word “freedom” painted over the entrance to the university. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

The side panels were adorned with painted peacock feathers, green and gold and purple, the same color as the tassels. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

She’d never painted a mural before, just filled notebook after notebook with wild creatures and winged, battle-ready versions of her friends and neighbors. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The barely sanded, barely painted wood was rough against my palms. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I point out some street murals I like, but I don't mention I painted them. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

From Eldorado Cascade I'd been watching their six legs and thirty painted toes. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She froze in her tracks and did not respond, even as the greasy liquid trickled down her chest and horror painted her face. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was light gray with white trim, all sharp angles and expertly painted wood tiles. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

When we finally turned into the dirt road with the hand- painted sign that read welcome to aokpe apparition ground, all I saw at first was chaos. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The chairs were painted gold and they had little red cushions on the seats. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

It boiled wildly and spread out all around until it had painted the entire sky a furious black. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Still, Ignatius found the tiny imprint offensive, and over it he painted a dramatic and stylized version of a fleur-de-lis. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Peering out the windshield, she can see that it’s in meticulous shape—no evidence of peeling or rot, which means it must have been recently painted. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She knew Besa would be anxious to show off his skill on the drum he had carved and painted himself. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her fingers were well manicured, the nails painted pale pink with white tips. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Walls bore panel after panel, finely wrought, upon which painted images of saints had been set. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Some houses have painted fences that their dogs rush, tails wagging, barking. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

The sun’s brightness painted our shadows on the ground. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He waved his hand at a painted wooden gladiator, then turned to a machine that looked like an oversized rolling pin studded with knives. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They must have painted over the gym fast because it’s open again and I’m one of only a handful of students in there. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

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

Below Him—on the altar—stood the fat tallow candle, whose constant fluttering flame shed some light upon the white walls of painted lime. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Drugs were hid-den in tennis balls painted grass green and thrown over the double rows of twelve-foot fences and into the exercise yards. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“I Love You, Anjela!” is spray- painted into the snowbank along the parking lot. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

I enjoy his irritation at being painted in. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The faded things which we see today bear no relationship to the bright tapestry which made the Justice Room a painted box. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The food stalls and carts look bigger, cleaner, and are painted in brighter colors than what we had in Cambodia. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The glistening painted tear trembled and slid out of the old man’s eye and down his face. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

No artist ever painted like this because none of them ever left our planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A painted mural is gonna be a more powerful vessel than a little chalk sketch.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The barn looked freshly painted, and some of the roof shingles were the raw pink of new wood. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Also always has her nails painted, which I only notice because of the way she dresses. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

A bright yellow sun was painted across one wall. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“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

It looked like the painted backdrop to a movie, not like anything real. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

His works wrenched and distorted, as if painted through neurosis. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe they painted the house,” Dad says, wiping his own eyes again. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

She painted so quickly that I thought it would all be a muddle on the paper, until I looked and saw the form clearly taking shape—a lean, graceful form. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Blinking away tears, Flora Baumbach returned to her seat, the elfin smile still painted on her pained face. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

She never knew why she had painted this one and she couldn’t think of the right name for it. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

In glowing sentences he painted a picture of Animal Farm as it might be when sordid labour was lifted from the an-imals’ backs. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I was being painted not simply as an outsider but as fully “other,” so foreign that even my language couldn’t be recognized. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Each month, Keav would travel with Ma to a beauty salon to have her hair styled and her nails painted. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Park had the sort of face you painted because you didn't want history to forget it. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

They’d both watched the sun come up over the Golden Gate Bridge, which Fadi was a bit disappointed to learn was painted red and not gold. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Here lies the problem: The great master known as Johannes Vermeer painted, in truth, only twenty-six of the thirty five paintings we now attribute to him. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

There was another coal stove, a bed, a pullout couch where Mom and Dad could sleep, and a chest of drawers painted fire-engine red. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I watched a pile of corn pour into a railroad hopper car painted with Cargill’s blue and yellow logo. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The demon landed in a crouch and sprang at her, painted claws reaching out. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Today he wears a patch with a blue eye painted on it, complete with a half-lowered eyelid. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some are painted white or really bright shades of pink, blue, and even lime green. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Dr. van Heerden painted them with poison and put them under little wire baskets. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Parts of it are painted a blinding turquoise color, and there’s a plaque on the brick part, but he can’t see from this distance. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

As we came up the ladder, walking across the grass under the trees, we passed the big, gray painted cages with the bulls in them. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Along the walls were portraits: Merchant Lyte in his handsome, healthy youth; Lavinia, painted long before in London, as regal a child as now she was a young woman. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Her broken thumbnail left smears of blood on the painted marble, but she made it up, and wedged herself in be-tween the king's feet. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

My mother had painted the cabinets eighteen years ago in an attempt to bring some sunshine into the house. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The rainbow mural of faces and suns painted on the other side of the building was visible just beyond the tangled web of yellow police tape blocking off the wreckage. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

Tally had never seen so much space painted in such putrid colors, as if the building were designed to make its occupants vaguely nauseated. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

The houses had almost no ornamentation and were painted in dull colors—when they were painted at all. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boat had been painted dark blue at one point, but the hull was so crusted with tar and salt it looked like one massive nautical bruise. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Bending over the glass, I stared around Saint Cecilia at the organ and all the painted angels and flower garlands to see if something of Grandpa would stare back at me. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I pressed my back into the wall, the white white walls Mama had painted to make our room bright, and tried to imagine my brother inside that stone place. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

He had learnt to think of the painted surface as a piece of glass that you look through. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

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

Cracks in the painted plaster run along the walls. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

So now she held the light, as he swung open the door of his neat freshly painted chamber. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I step into the empty room and see that the ceiling and walls have recently been painted black. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He painted the old house white and whitewashed the sheds. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

For a start it was painted in an off-putting shade of green and a peculiar shade of pink. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

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

When I painted in the curve of her mouth I was surprised how nice her lips were. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was real iron too, not just painted wood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

In their twenties, with painted nails and freshly curled hair. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

"Nobody did. Wherever she was, whether outside feeding the ducks or inside looking out of the window, she was always motionless, just a figure painted in oils. It was all very odd," my grandmother said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

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

I wondered if Mrs. Croft had ever seen a woman in a sari, with a dot painted on her forehead and bracelets stacked on her wrists. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

To the basilica and the cathedral and the painted store names in red and black. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

A tiny watercolor of a peeled orange on a blue-and-white dish, painted by my mother. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Each tape has a dark blue number painted in the upper right-hand corner, possibly with nail polish. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

What kind of dipshit would design a house half shingled and half painted? Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He passed by their homes, so many of which he’d painted and even helped build, calculating how much was lost inside. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Maybe we couldn’t afford to build the Glass Castle quite yet, but certainly we could put painted tires around our front yard to spruce it up. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

Every night after work he visits me and looks at the pictures I’ve painted. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

She did not sketch in charcoal, but painted her subjects freehand in watercolor with a fine-pointed brush, adding layer after layer of color for depth and detail. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The walls are painted dark blue, and there are oversized black-and-white movie posters crammed close together like a Tumblr grid. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Each had an image of life in the Golden Crescent painted on it—families sailing in the bay, children playing in the palace gardens, men and women in formal dress in this very hall. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

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

The houses in the neighborhood were old but freshly painted, some in bright colors like lavender or kelly green. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

The front room is painted stark white, the other one—the bedroom—is glossy black. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Besides all the naked women, he painted these blue pictures, like he ran out of red and green for a few weeks. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I painted the trees as bright streaks of red. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We gave up and leant our backs against the painted wall which encircled the temple, the vermilion and white striped wall we had foolishlessly thought meant safety. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late one afternoon, after a long period in a cushioned window seat behind a painted screen, I emerge and turn left instead of right. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z