Park kicked her gently under the table, and threw crumpled-up pieces of paper into her hair. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Rachael carried the paper bag into the bathroom, got two glasses, returned; she still seemed distracted and uncertain—and preoccupied. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Emily rolled the suitcase into a corner of her room and pulled out the paper and her pencil once again. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Before he left, Clancy had made his bed, put away the stacks of paper and boxes, and, it appeared, dusted. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Mom’s giving me a questioning look, so I tell her, “Can you open the paper? Go to the Community section.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Indeed, Mendel even uses variations of the word inherit in his paper. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

She tells me if I’m delivering papers out there to come to the house for tea and a sandwich. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She gave him a pad of paper and a pen out of her briefcase in case he wanted to make notes. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Look what I bought today,” she said excitedly as she tore off the paper. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I ask Mami for a pen and paper and I write a letter back to Ramu, even though it takes a long time. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

In the process of being discharged from the Union Army, he had gone to a white officer to seek help in filling out his papers. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two days later, when Don Walter sees the article in the paper, he clips it out and posts it above his desk. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were cans of soda and a lot of paper plates and forks and presents. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat outside on the steps that led to the backyard and wrote on scraps of paper. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I also take the information I need and scribble it on a pad of paper. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was a piece of paper, much folded over. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“This is all just junk,” Tucker grumbled, picking up a stack of blank printer paper. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Look at those old American cars. They’re held together with rubber bands and paper clips and still work better than the new Russian ones. Oye!” she calls out to the bystanders. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began taking a brown paper bag to the library to bring my books home in. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He places three thin slips of paper on the table without saying another word about it. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s almost ready,” Frank says, pointing to the house, which looks wrapped like a present in white paper. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I tore a piece of paper from a tablet and wrote my mother’s name on it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Hugo picked up his coffee again, he noticed that a folded-up piece of paper had appeared on the table. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Kitchen shelf paper, white or tinted to match one’s color scheme, may be impregnated with insecticide, not merely on one but on both sides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“We’re voting on a theme next week. I suggested Tropical Paradise. I hope it wins! We can have flower garlands and fruity drinks with those paper umbrellas. You guys should totally join,” she said. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

In and out, I could hear a faint crackling, like paper crumpling, like a faint sigh. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

At one o’clock in the morning, Manning left the apartment with six stacks of paper, tied together with string. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Watras, who usually grades papers while a student conducts us through practice, stopped what he was doing to watch me. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spoon opened his briefcase, and pulled out some sheets of mimeographed paper. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of explaining, James pulled a sheet of paper from his binder and slid it over to Emily. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She had the afternoon paper with her, the one in which Billy described his friends from Tralfamadore. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Diego finished his sub and tossed the crumpled wax paper into his duffel bag. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

A teacher holding my paper is rarely a good thing. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

He looked vaguely puzzled at first, then slightly taken aback, then, as I glared up at him, he gave a faint, thin smile and mutely handed me a piece of paper. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I empty out my handbag, looking through my notes scribbled on bits of paper, all the scraps of information I’ve gleaned, the memories shifting like shadows, and I wonder, Why am I doing this? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I washed your rocket things and put them in a paper sack in the cupboard,” she said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You think I got a chance in politics after going supernova in every paper in the world?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He reached into the paper bag and pulled out a cup. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

He meant for Mrs. McCullough, but as the words left his mouth an idea occurred to him, a way to spin this, and later that evening he would call his contacts at the paper. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The left side was pristine and organized, no scattered papers or clutter to be seen. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

As we left Phoebe’s house, there on the front steps was an-other white envelope with a blue sheet of paper in-side. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

When they told us this, people started running toward the sound of the plane, and in a few minutes it was dropping what looked like paper toward us. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

So first he got everyone to make small palm trees out of green and brown construction paper and tape them onto the corners of each desk. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dozen times a day he seized a paper or a book and stared at it and put it down. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“A slip of paper? Something you find in a basket of eggs?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

My hands shook as I reached for the paper. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I told Mr. de Klerk that if that was how his party’s paper perceived group rights, how did he think we regarded it? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way there, Mami bought the paper, and I brought along the thickest library book I could find. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She broke her bonds, which were about as sturdy as toilet paper. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Tree limbs blew through the air as if they were nothing but tissue paper, while bits of dirt and pebbles stung Ivy’s face. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I called over to where he was reading a paper. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hugh had been reading the paper and had no idea what had been going on. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She picked up the first paper in the stack. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Sax reached into his shoe and pulled out a piece of paper—a technical question from Soviet scientists. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A slip of paper chunked out of the slot. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He returned to the book he’d been wrapping in brown paper. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

For three weeks he had been in a panic over a paper he had to write for his fourth course, something called Masterworks of English Literature. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Speedily more join the heap, papers, magazines, letters. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pull out a fresh piece of paper and begin to write. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He let me touch the drawing pad paper once. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Did I get a chance to slip the papers to a member of the committee? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eva instructed the shoe poet to collect any wood or paper he could find for the fireplace. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She reaches into the pocket of her jeans and hands him a folded-up piece of paper. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I got an A in my history test. I knew all the answers. Mrs. Baffin said it was the best paper in the whole class.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He sighed and bent over the little table, examining the charred fragment of paper. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Close to the curb ahead I saw a man pushing a cart piled high with rolls of blue paper and heard him singing in a clear ringing voice. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The words inked on the paper were old and faded. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Slowly Alfred stuffed his sweatshirts, trunks, supporters, socks, his secondhand boxing shoes into a paper shopping bag. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was at his desk sorting through papers when I stepped inside. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Trying to make it look casual, Ellsberg dropped a blank piece of paper over the “Top Secret” stamps on the page he’d been about to copy. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Just today I met Eugen Jeissle, the ship's head printer, responsible for creating the boarding passes, the coveted pieces of paper that will allow passage to freedom. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

There were three papers and they were folded. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The commander slid a piece of paper across the console. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Then, just as the bell rang, she reminded us to drop off our science papers at her desk on the way out. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

As the train trundled through the darkening fens, Bateson read a copy of de Vries’s paper—and was instantly transmuted by Mendel’s idea of discrete units of heredity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

There was writing paper, ink, pen and pencils. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hmn,” said Henry, looking over my shoulder at the paper on the desk. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The Baudelaire orphans copied the puttanesca recipe from the cookbook onto a piece of scrap paper, and Justice Strauss was kind enough to escort them to the market to buy the necessary ingredients. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

I ordered a whiskey and soda and lay on the bed and read the papers I had bought at the station. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It had arrived in the mail wrapped in heavy paper, with twine knotted around it. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Right away, I thought about my first day of school in Colby and that “Getting to Know You” paper. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He looked at the blank paper in the typewriter on the desk and sighed. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Adam wiped his razor on a folded piece of toilet paper. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the corridor they passed several students clinging miserably to paper bags, standing in line for the overcrowded bathroom. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Wigner pulled out a bottle of red wine and a stack of paper cups. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And in 1962,” I said, looking up from the paper and bemoaning my fate, “the longest grounding of a boy named Jack continues to go unnoticed by history.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They covered the secretary’s table, the reading desk, the stools—dreary papers of government, still bravely persevered in—of law, still to be codified—of commissariat and of armament and of orders for the day. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hatsue went out into the desert wind and returned with a few scraps of tar paper she’d found blown up against a roll of barbed wire along a firebreak. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He cleared his throat and began stacking papers on his desk. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Grabbing the arms of the chair, he pulled himself upright and found a tall, lean, white-haired man holding a piece of paper in his hand. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I pull a napkin out of the holder and wipe the abrasive paper across my eyes. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Tanin pressed the pads of her fingers to her paper cuts. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I can imagine how difficult it must’ve been for him to show me this hallowed piece of paper. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Rhiannon breaks hers neatly in half, checks out the slip of paper, and frowns. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

She feared she would spend her life all alone, chained to jobs she hated, marking papers and marking time. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I place my finger on a piece of paper. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“Listen,” he said, “you want me to go writing your name everywhere? Carving your initials on trees? Writing ‘Eleanor, Eleanor’ on little scraps of paper?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I do have the decency to wait until I get upstairs before I open the paper. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The town was paper, but the memories were not. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

My eyes move past these to the piece of paper that describes what the magazine is about. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mum was at the dining room table surrounded by bank papers when I got back from school. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Deep inside, she was still hoping to see Nin, or at least books and stacks of paper, but she wasn’t surprised when a battered-looking boy emerged from the shadows. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“How many times do we have to tell you, no writing on the Scrabble board! Do you need pencil and paper?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Inside, crowds of blue-shirted people sit around tables, typing on computers or bent over books or passing sheets of paper back and forth. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The fish man hands him the fish wrapped in brown paper. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Fetch me another ream of paper, will you, Alter?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Whoever can keep their paper plane aloft the longest wins.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Instead, she waited with her burning cheeks and her own dumb smile until he slid her papers back to her, rough fingertips briefly brushing her wrist. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I spent the rest of the period staring at a blank piece of paper, trying to sort out what had happened. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The church had been decorated, with sparse flowers from kitchen gardens and hedgerows, and with streamers of colored crepe paper. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Let's not waste time on formalities," he said and prepared to sign the papers without reading them. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I was almost at the man's side before he looked up from his papers. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

My parents thought of the divorce as trading one piece of paper for another, and I try to compartmentalize it in the same way. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Stacks of paper and empty takeout cartons were piled on a pair of antique metal desks. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Gay slapped some of the Moss papers on the floor, where she had been rummaging through their box. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“You have serious problems,” he said, perusing a stack of papers on the table. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

These days, the paper chain has gone far beyond just ReelTok. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The next day it was all in the papers. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A piece of paper fluttered out, caught in the breeze, and skimmed across the walkway. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

He opened his wallet and pult a piece of paper out that had some scribbling on it. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

It takes Chandresh several pages to realize each bit of paper holds a signature. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“You did, my dear, when you took the Income Tax papers out of it last night,” said Mrs. Banks. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Despite that, the men jammed the paper money into G-strings with little hesitation. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“And so he asked me for my papers.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Dampness had seeped under the glass and made splotches on the paper, but by holding their candles up close, they could read it. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I trace her head freehand, looking at her, not the paper. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Valley tiptoed through the mess of papers and sat on the floor next to her notebook. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

When the phone rang at two o’clock, waking Lexie at last, Mia was back at the table sketching with a pencil on a scratch piece of paper. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Many of the words were too complicated for me to understand, but I did get the gist of the papers’ content. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thursday night, June 30, heat unbearable, Santicld brought us some paper fans We’ve found a great new hiding place, my hair! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could sense his power in the cool blue paper, as if the envelope itself had been folded out of an ocean wave. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I breathed through my mouth and spent only enough time in that log cabin bathroom to unroll a bunch of toilet paper. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lady Seymour made Madam repeat the entire story, then demanded pen and ink and paper, fighting her way out from the blankets with her good arm. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked back at us all skeptical, then picked up his folder and started riffling through his papers again. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

In breaks between classes, he allowed students to play “rock, paper, scissors.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He reached into his pocket, pulled out a piece of paper, and handed it to Pong. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He just looked back down to his wrinkled paper. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She fumbled for a piece of paper in her handbag and wrote down the directions to her house. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sheets of paper scattered around them like startled birds. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

With all the subtlety of a bulldozer I wrote my paper on the effect bipolar parents have on their children. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then he folded the paper and put it back on the stack to be sold. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the paper from nearly a month ago. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I tried to tuck the paper into my wallet, but Sander plucked it from my grasp. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I try to work and rework the problem in my brain—never write anything down—until Mr. Stoker collects the papers. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Millions of acres of forests were sprayed instead of thou sands as before, in an effort to save the balsams, which are the mainstay of the pulp and paper industry. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Miss Maestas gave me a crayon and some paper and I sat in the corner and worked at copying my name over and over. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He write this on paper and nail paper to post close to sidewalk. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They just look at a paper and cut it off. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I may, I suppose, take it that we are all acquainted with the facts that are in these papers.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Some kids had actually found the editorial pages and were now hunting around the classroom, searching for scissors and tape and glue and construction paper. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

He wets the paper with the liquid from the bucket, and somehow the paper stays in place. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

When Bobby’s maternal grandfather, Jacob Wender, died, the yellowed Times article was found among his papers. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I have all of these...plans from Ethan and I don’t know what to do with them,” Chandresh says, waving an arm around at the multitudes of paper. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Ms. Rochambeau picks up a stack of papers and starts passing them out to each table. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Only her skin was white as paper.Only she was taller and thinner. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Gaskill shuffled the papers in front of him and then pushed them aside, as though he was done with them, or as though whatever was in them didn’t interest him all that much. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I used the Sunday funny papers because they are in color. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry you haven’t finished, children, but the test is over. Please pass your papers to the front of the room, and remain seated while the tests are graded. Don’t worry, it won’t take long.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You can’t turn in first drafts,”he told me, giving me back my first paper. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some were old and broken down but most had been wrecked and they looked it—bent, arched, twisted, the impression they gave was of crumpled paper, not steel. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Really?” the New Haven woman said, squeezing her paper cup in her hand, as though she thought it a great oddity, that a person at this gathering would like Nollywood. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

On his desk, seven miniature versions of himself ran back and forth carrying pens and stacks of paper. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The scraps of paper in Lefty’s pockets now recorded not gambling debts but forwarding addresses in Athens or Astoria. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She looked back down at the sheet of paper, dipped her pen again, and continued. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I dried with toilet paper, which I flushed. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“What has three legs, no arms, and reads the paper all day long?” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

I dig my fingers in the pocket and pull out a torn scrap of brown paper. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The PTA began a paper drive and took a special interest in Christmas wrappings. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I remembered him reciting a poem at our nika from a scrap of hotel stationery paper. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I can hold a piece of wet paper towel over my mouth. I won’t be gone long.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Keisha drops into her seat, annoyed that Mr. Daniels has asked her to do a paper over because he knows she can do better. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“The paper chain is the best thing that’s ever happened to Chokecherry,” I argue. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The other teams were too busy debating the design of their paper airplanes to pay them much attention. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

She turned to the ticket seller and wrote her name on a slip of paper. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He grinned, picked up the paper where it had fallen, and tossed it into the trash receptacle. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He handed me the sheaf of papers he’d brought over and asked me if I would kindly translate his written corrections from French into English. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The word atom, used in the modern sense, first entered scientific vocabulary in John Dalton’s paper in 1808. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Charlie replaced the paper towels with the cloth towel and panicked all over again when he saw how much blood there was. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then, holding the saucer in one hand and the cigarette in the other, he pressed on the stub until it bent, then broke, and squiggles of tobacco poked out of the paper wrapper. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stumbled backward, landing on his bottom, then held the paper up to his eyes to read the name scrawled on it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Instead, she fussed with him about reading the papers in bed, soiling their sheets with those poorly printed, foreign tabloids. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I asked, “Is that going to be on a piece of paper like a certificate I can keep?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The paper says that, as with substance abusers, studies of people with Internet addiction have found “increased novelty seeking, low reward dependence, impulsivity, high risk taking, low self-esteem and disadvantageous decision making.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I wiped the ashtrays with a wet rag and straightened the papers. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

For Enrique, a Central American without papers, it is treacherous ground. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

My locker suddenly seems small and crowded with papers and notebooks. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I kept telling myself that we wanted to make Christmas last but whenever it was my turn to open a package, I yanked at the ribbons and tore off the paper because I couldn’t wait. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up a shopping bag from beside the sofa and took out a white, rustling, paper bag from inside it. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Then he came back and sat down with the paper in his hand. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, all right! If you’ll just follow me over here, we can sign those papers.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Kenzi thought for a moment, then huffed the fire out, bits of scorched paper flying off like black snowflakes. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I fold the paper up and put it in the pocket where my phone used to be. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

But then I put the paper down and turned to something else. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The paper was tom and stiff with dried blood, but the broken seal was her father's, the direwolf stamped in pale wax. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They’ll be making paper chains—and no one will be there to count them. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

They marched up Fifth Avenue and were delighted to find a piece of paper already in the typewriter. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I live right close. Wait til I get my papers and lock the door, and I’ll take you home and fix it.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have any extra paper with me except for a Snickers wrapper that I had put in my pocket because I didn’t want to litter. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a blank sheet of paper on the bulletin board next to it calling for volunteers. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The walls were covered with yellowed clippings from the local paper, angling competitions, soap box derbies. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I look down at my brown paper bag. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Weasley entered the room just in time to see Ron throw the sprout knife at Fred, who had turned it into a paper airplane with one lazy flick of his wand. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

We walk from door to door, our brown paper grocery bags filling with candy apples, popcorn balls, peanut brittle, chanting at each door: Shell out! Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He concentrated, instead, on studying barnacles, writing papers on geology, dissecting sea animals, and tending to his family. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

With infinite patience the clerk folded the straps just so, located each purse at the center of the brown parcel paper he painstakingly tore from the roll, and commenced creasing the edges. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He played with the bit and wagged an ear at the photographers who stood by the rail, snapping his picture for the morning papers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He brought me some books, a pad of paper, envelopes, and a pencil. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Now that he looked more closely, he saw the book was printed on cheap, yellow paper. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said that it was difficult for free Negroes with all their papers in order to leave Baltimore. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked into Cooter’s room to get my bag, but I reached inside and got a paper and a pencil to write a note. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The lined airmail paper was so thin I took it into the shade because the midday sun shone right through it. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I waited while she stared at the paper. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

By reading the paper, we discovered that once again they were in charge and would work to prevent our getting the full benefit of our rights. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She tossed toilet paper and mouthwash and detergent into the cart, and I looked around, enjoying the ride. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Okay . . . now focus on the piece of paper that’s just sitting there on the ground.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the name of the man who’d helped him then stuck the paper in my pocket. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I’m wearing a black dress decorated with hot-glued glitter stars that I cut out of some old Christmas wrapping paper I found in my closet. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

She slips a piece of paper into my cage. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Wash took the paper as a good sign and launched into his plan. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

My dream sort of leaks out like water in a paper bag. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was on the verge of asking her to take it back and give me a refund when the clerk emerged from the back room carrying the puzzle box all wrapped in pink paper. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fredericksburg had been undertaken with little probability of success, the papers claimed; nothing could have been expected under the shabby plans—if, indeed, they were plans—other than appalling slaughter. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened the paper, which wasn’t paper but some sort of dried animal skin, and saw that “The Prophecy of Gray” had been carefully written upon it. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Thema, who was editor of the newspaper the Bantu World, fiercely criticized the campaign in his paper, claiming that Communists had taken over the ANC and that Indians were exploiting the Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a large wooden desk on the far side of the room, strewn with papers and more pictures in frames. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

On my way to the bus rank I encountered hostile stares: the papers had carried stories of my decision to enter the tournament, and black people thought me a traitor. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the crepe paper was melted and the candles were out, and then I saw Otis. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He reached for a red pen, took off the cap, and starting over, he read through the entire paper again, looking for a problem, any problem. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

I’d expected delays, a round of questioning at least, perhaps a check of our papers. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to scatter devil papers,” Lee said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Printing out the list would make a big stack of paper—unless you know how to format, which I do. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Radiation, in fact, is so pernicious and long lasting that even now her papers from the 1890s–even her cookbooks–are too dangerous to handle. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

This was a delicate process, and the sheet could only remain in the solution a minute; too long a soak resulted in the paper breaking down. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He called the other day and asked Mom if she’d received the divorce papers. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Miles pulled a paper from his pocket, unfolded it, and held it out. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She swallows, glancing back down at the papers in her hand, the results of a test I already know the answer to. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“I did a paper on foreign men in Shakespeare. That was a such a long time ago, so it must be old-fashioned.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He dug in his backpack and pulled out the papers, the same papers he’d showed us the night before at the kitchen table, as Berry slowly got down on the ground. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Well, then,” said Mr. Greenbaum, “just sign these papers. And be ready to open next Thursday in Seattle.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I got a D on my paper,” I tell her. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He got paper, made room for me at the desk. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

There would be something about it in tomorrow’s paper. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only a piece of paper, but the feeling wouldn’t go away. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Momma had another piece of paper towel in her hands because all the things that Grandma Sands was telling her were making her hands get all sweaty and disgusting. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fumbled with the brown paper, trying to unwrap it carefully so we could use the paper again. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can spell on paper good, I just can’t spell in my mind. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked down at the wet mess on my paper placemat. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

As we entered, I had seen the balloons and brightly colored paper hats. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was only with aspirin and something Fay concocted for me that I was able to finish my linguistic analysis of Urdu verb forms and send the paper to the International Linguistics Bulletin. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

April held out the slip of paper and everybody crowded around to look. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a precaution, he recopied the instructions onto a separate paper, using shorthand that only he would recognize. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I want her to see that every penny of change matches the paper. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We each were given a party cracker to pull, inside of which was a paper crown, a noise-maker, and a miniature tin toy. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She’s made a salad with beets and cucumber, and a hard-boiled egg, and in a little paper cup I see that she’s made her own dressing. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t we just wrap someone in toilet paper?” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It’s a piece of paper with a simple pen drawing. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“They cut up our papers! Isn’t that illegal or something?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Scraps of paper, driver’s licenses, receipts, grocery lists, drawings in crayon and colored pencil, school pictures. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Fadi skidded around the corner, ripping the head off a paper turkey in his haste. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

They write it for him on a sheet of paper, ask him to copy it over ten times. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kyle had already scribbled out the answer on a scrap of paper: “Go to Liberty.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

There are dishes in the sink and papers strewn over the coffee table, and the toaster is in bits. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She put the papers in her suitcase and decided she’d waited long enough. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, papers and account books and bills of sale, notes, figuring— well, we went through Father’s things and there wasn’t none of that.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

On most days, my brother and I stayed in the house, pretending we were other people by dressing up or playing with paper dolls, puzzles, and blocks. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

James had many business partners on paper, some of whom he had met in person, but he had few friends. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Using the red paper, cut out a small heart about three inches across. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Lola was old and her fingers felt like paper, but she sliced mangoes like an artist. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Yet, with all the waxy paper, and the board over Axel’s favorite thinking spot, Frank still shows up, day after day. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The horns Blare from one Street to the next, And the paper flowers Taped to the hoods Blow in the traffic of wind. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Cari, did you read the paper today?” she asked my mom. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Maxy was back and sitting at her desk filling out some papers. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hands my mother a couple of brochures and a small stack of papers, and after some pleasantries to me about keeping up the good work, he’s gone. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe my mom fired Calista and it was all because of me, because I signed my mom’s name on a stupid piece of paper. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

She would have just finished pulling together the proposal, poking the holes on the left-hand side of the pages, and binding the paper with a black plastic spiral. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Mama dumps her papers on the table with a thump. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

At least she remembered that they had run away from home, and she didn’t want any New York paper advertising her whereabouts. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Etienne breaks it open, there is yet another piece of paper inside. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Are you kidding me? Thompson wishes he had a career like Laimbeer’s! Thompson has no grit. He crumples in a game like a paper napkin at a barbecue.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The children ate the chocolate from the ingots of gold and traded the heavenly paper among themselves for reed whistles and fishing string. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roll of paper cups laid in for just such an occasion had got squashed flat by a flying dictionary my first day out, but I made coasters from folded paper towels. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The green paper gown was folded on the chair. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I got excited when I first pulled back the wrapping paper, because I saw a wing, an airplane wing, on the cover of the box, and I felt my heart leap up in my chest. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mantell continued to try to do original research but Owen used his influence at the Royal Society to ensure that most of his papers were rejected. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Here is the final piece of your new self,” said Horatio, producing a set of papers, a pen, and a map. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He listed all of his papers graded as he thought the various committee members would grade them; he listed all of his papers with the grades they properly deserved. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at the paper, and I could feel him standing above me staring down at it, too. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

There were several pieces of paper clipped to the inside back cover, but I ignored them and flipped it open to the middle. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

That night, a new pill appears in my paper cup. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I used to read the paper in the mornings. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“What will you do after you get your papers?” she asked him. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The paper cost fifteen cents, and I sold it myself, going from class to class and standing in the hallways, hawking it like a newsboy. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the mornings Dad handed us the comics out of the paper and flipped over to the obituaries just to make sure everyone we knew was still alive and kicking. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mama looks so small sitting there with the papers spread around her. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I made a pile of toilet paper in the toilet, lit it, and when it started burning, the flame shooting silently up out of the bowl, I flushed it down the toilet. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Gold apologized, picked up the money and papers, and left. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reached into the hidden pocket sewn into the side of her skirt and took out a book bound in brown paper. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She picks up the paper and kisses it. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I quickly wrap the box in brown paper wrapping. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Only other engineers understood what her father drew on blue paper. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

People bought their scotch as “medicine” in brown paper bags from selected “pharmacies.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I look inside the front cover and there’s the paper folded in just like Ben said. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I also saw something shocking — right in front of me, at the kitchen table, my dad was slumped over a pile of papers with his head cradled in his hands. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held the paper close to her face. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Glancing back up at the road to make sure she wasn’t going to drive off, Dimple smoothed out the piece of paper. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Well, the old thing!” whispered the pigeon to himself, and he flew away quickly to find a piece of writing paper and a pencil. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Charlie reached into his back pocket and pulled out a tattered and taped piece of lined spiral notebook paper. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

They were supposed to leave a blank piece of paper under a rock outside our weak place in the fence, showing they were ready to come. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

One game was a paper with lines in all detections and lots of boxs. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

For the nth time, four different people checked over the ration books and parachutes and papers. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

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 paper was so small and easily hidden that this became a popular way of smuggling out messages. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colorful maps spilled across its pages, which were made from something stronger than paper, calfskin maybe, and edged with gold. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Mr. Nixon, the headmaster, hushed everything up so it didn't get in the papers or anything. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then he gave the kid a slip of paper with his phone number on it, which Alex carefully tucked into a nylon wallet. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or almost abandoned, because a pair of monks lived there in a tar paper shack, tending a small garden and some broken shrines. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed to a stack of green papers on the counter. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

His thoughts spilled into his notebooks, and out of them, onto scraps of paper, and onto stationery from the Athenaeum Club, where he took most of his dinners. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dropped his eyes and began fiddling with the papers in front of him. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I most certainly am not all right,” Celia says, and the bottle of ink shatters, raining ink over the papers and splattering Marco’s white shirtsleeves, falling into invisibility on his black vest. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Oh, puke,” Mary Anne whispered in Ben’s ear, abandoning her pen and paper since Ben was adamant about refusing to read what she had written. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He solicitously helped her arrange her paper and ink before returning to the stage. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Had she mentioned the scraps of paper, or his red eyes, or the musky-sweet smell on his clothes? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

If that’s not a sign that the paper chain project is the way to go, I don’t know what is. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I lift the cutout, and the paper people unravel—one, two, three, four. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

He had discovered that he could make cards float and he could turn marbles into mice and he could rip up a piece of paper and make it whole again. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Fairy lights and paper snowflakes covered the ceilings. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The sixteen-page weekly paper set up its office in New York City in the same building where the Women’s Loyal National League had once rented space. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The pretty heroine would have to get on piece work in the factory; her sensitive brother would have to go out peddling papers. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, I keep the paper under my mattress, in case I really need it one day, although I’m not sure how I’ll know when that day comes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pretended to read the piece of paper as he discreetly stuffed the twenty dollars into the cuff of his long-sleeved shirt. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She began to read the paper with pointed interest. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt him taking the paper from her fingers. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He came out with fifteen slips of paper, folded over. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Eyes on your own paper, Mr. Ogle,” Mrs. Winstead says, poking her finger on my desk. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She made it very clear last month what would happen if people with badges ever showed up and asked her to show papers. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Emily’s face burned so furiously she thought her eyes might act like magnifying glasses in the sun and set her binder paper on fire. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Thrust thick sheaves of paper in my face. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Everyone gave his corner a wide berth except to feed and water him and change his paper. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The homeroom teacher is saying that if everyone gets things cleaned up quickly, we can have a paper airplane contest with some of these papers. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He had scored so high on the Trinity entrance exam that he had been awarded one of the rare Trinity scholarships—one hundred dollars contributed toward his tuition, and his picture in the paper. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a minute, Mom said, “I’m taking some classes. Online, through IU. To get my master’s in social work. In fact, I wasn’t looking at antioxidant recipes; I was writing a paper.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Then I saw a fine black thread and pulled it from the trilled paper. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole thing was printed in color on this fancy, shiny paper. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He disappeared behind the desk, again followed closely by Rhonda, who stood watchfully as he shuffled among some papers. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I fished around in my backpack until I found a piece of paper and a pen. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Holding the actual pieces of paper, seeing the name large and clear across the top, Cara stopped worrying. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

He strained his neck to make sure nobody was watching, then reached into the paper bag and pulled out his jeans. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I tear the notice off the door, crumple it in my fist, and stand still for a moment, staring at the blank space where the paper once hung. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Some people even rented out their papers, for a dollar a day; one copy sold for an astounding forty dollars. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She came back a few minutes later and placed a thick file of papers on the counter. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

They agreed—it was time for her to read the papers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Harry bent down, picked up a few of the pieces of paper, and examined them. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Mr. Birkway opened a cupboard, pulled out the journals, slipped the yellow paper over the cover of one and read: This is what I like about Jane. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He looked up from the papers in front of him and smiled at Matty. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Inside I found a name written on a slip of paper. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a garbage can under an arc light I found a clean corrugated paper carton and packed my city clothes. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Phil laughs again and fishes out a worn piece of paper from his wallet. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Miss Lucy looked at her papers and stiffened. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Bigger did not hear him; he ignored the tray of food and opened out the paper. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

And in that same fold I put my papers from the Dragon. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Mr. Blake handed some papers to Papa and pointed at some parts with his finger. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I step on it with my other shoe to pull it off, the way I do when the same thing happens in a bathroom with an overeager roll of toilet paper. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

I grabbed my paper and began to sketch something for Jonas, something that would make him feel better. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He thought of asking for the slip of paper again, just to make sure he had written his address accurately, but Mrs. Das had already dropped it into the jumble of her bag. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I do layout for the paper and yearbook. I’ve got the skills to pay the bills, as it were.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He tossed a sheaf of yellowed papers at my feet. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

One thing I learned early was to never move or straighten Mom’s papers. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

He talked about how to tell if there’s oil underneath a cotton field and I talked about how the receptionist and I were the only females working for the paper. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There were photos of our family, and papers attached to the folder. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Back on the beach, the girls built a signal fire from sticks, palm leaves, and paper from their morals clause contracts, rescued from their official “Welcome, Miss Teen Dream” folders. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

When the paper had burned so close that he could no longer hold it, he dropped it to the floor and stamped it out with his shoes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’d flip through the pages for five minutes—then lead a discussion on the paper’s key points. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you please run down to the puestecito at the corner and get me today's paper? Just tell Don José to put it on my tab.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“It was scheduled earlier this week. The people in the warden’s office have the papers.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Art classes everywhere are sending us big boxes crammed with paper chain to add to ours. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Lupita crumpled the paper towel and threw it into the big metal basket. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Before their departure Antonapoulos always opened a paper sack he kept hidden during the day on one of the kitchen shelves. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Because Mrs. Mahone collects our phones at the start of every class, it’s the old-fashioned kind, written on notebook paper. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I got a notebook, handmade paper, and pencils made from recycled scraps. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It smelled of paper and ink and awesome. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Because there are all sorts of neat paper airplane designs in here,” said Sierra. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mama read the paper and then she and Laurie went to bed at eight o’clock. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She snapped her head and said, “Okay, Mom. So can I have a stamp, an envelope, and a piece of paper?” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

But in late summer with the word of Federal reverses pouring in, many papers shouted that he stood no chance for reelection, and to Jethro it seemed that most men were agreed. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s wearing jeans and a serious brown cardigan with a white shirt underneath, the tips of the collar fanned out like crisp paper airplanes heading opposite directions. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Sensing that Forbes is not a regular guard, Booth manages to smooth talk the unsuspecting Forbes and gives him a piece of paper with some writing on it. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t matter if you’re writing a middle school lab report or a real scientific paper. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Carter reached in and pulled out a piece of paper. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His math papers from school were always covered in X's. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

“They don’t even let you in without papers,” I said. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The stationmaster was in his office looking at some papers. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was the ice on the oiled paper window, ice on the inside of the cabin walls on cold mornings, ice on the frozen paths and ice in the water bucket. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Downtown, near a subway entrance, sat a semipermanent wooden booth decorated with bunting and pennants and flags manned by neatly dressed youth volunteers in paper hats. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a dangerous wooden dock, an old minnow tank, a flimsy tar paper boathouse along the shore. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The yellowed paper felt brittle in my hands. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I asked him to get me papers and magazines. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

From them, he had made a master exam paper using the questions asked most frequently and those seldom asked. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A blue suitcase with wheels is parked next to the bed, and there are a few papers on the night table. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Did you write papers? Sing songs? How was he accustomed to determining your final grade?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I took the Bible, pencil, paper, and a rhyming dictionary and tried to write verses for hymns. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before he had entered the service he had not been much interested in warfare; now he bought every book about war, read every report, subscribed to the New York papers, studied maps. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a piece of paper that was in the book, used as a bookmark. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I took out a loan last year to grow the business. Get more supplies. Advertise in the paper. That sort of thing.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“You mean until you take off? You and your paper map and possibly a Holo if you can get your hands on it?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He had looked at my papers, but only glanced at my boarding pass. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The ink dripped down the paper before puddling on the floor. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And after supper she folded an airplane for him from notebook paper, and at her suggestion he even followed her out on the front porch to fly it. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I sat with him for a while and watched his fingers furiously climb over the paper. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes just a folded map, or a paper menu from a restaurant with an interesting history. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

And just then a paper bag sailed from a window to my left and burst like a silent grenade, scattering garbage into the trees and pancaking to earth with a soggy, exhausted plop! Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked us over to a wall with stacked trays, all neatly organized, and pulled out two sheets of rough paper, handing them over to me. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He folded the pink piece of paper in half and tucked it somewhere behind the counter. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Maybe you think sending me a catalog would be a waste of paper. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I skim straight down the paper, seeing these words without really reading them, because the phrase that matters most is penned at the very end. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And then he applauded as fast as he could and a great cascade of papers filled the air. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Shelves lined each wall, some bare, others stacked with Wonder Bread, rice, toilet paper, and pigs’ feet. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I place the paper back in his hand, letting my fingers linger across his palm. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The boys sauntered away, Jinx yelling over his shoulder, “They got toilet paper in Arkansas.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“And now the paper ain’t come? I don’t like that. You think maybe something happened to him?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

It’s another note on blue-green construction paper, and it starts with a postscript. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I write Accidents, Winter, Ice, and Bridge, and tear at the paper until it’s only dust. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Dad appeared, the evening paper in his hand. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We stayed like that a long time—me staring down at the paper, Dr. Vernon softly patting my shoulder. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

The empty box is now on the floor, and the nest of shredded paper sits atop the jumble of things Ma dumped out of her purse. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

While the county paper carried details of Guy Wortman’s humiliation, the city papers carried a war story that had its own overtones of the ridiculous. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man writes something down on a piece of paper and then hands us each a brochure. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I filed away the papers I had brought from the library, made a sandwich, then packed an overnight case. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She sat cross-legged with a paper napkin on her lap. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Monica nods at me, keeps my charts, leaves me to review the papers, and goes into the hall. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He looked at the scrap of wrapping paper, at the crude, tiny address. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up a new wire and a strip of paper. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The offending dust, hair, or paper, seized in miniature steel jaws, was raced back to the burrows. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reached into the muddle of papers on her desk and found a scrap on which someone had written with a green pen. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine if you were a kid with a friend, you could make a paper boat and write a secret message on it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I put my hand in my pocket and felt the crackle of thick paper seventy years old, and the new key weighing heavy in the seam of the threadbare woven wool. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Doc Smith handed little Willy a piece of paper with some scribbling on it. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the old days we might have driven to Corly Wood with a picnic and the papers, spent all afternoon lying on a blanket in dappled sunlight, drinking wine. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In a way,” he said, and held out the paper, which was brittle and yellowed with age. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I saw your picture. It was in the paper and...I wanted to check on you and make sure...” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

He shoved his papers aside, took up a pipe, and filled the bowl of it with tobacco from an earthenware jar. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

She tells me to start the fire in the range, that there’s paper and wood in a box and coal in the coal scuttle. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I missed drawing on real paper and longed for light to sketch properly. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

You flipped open your notebook and ripped out a piece of paper. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

With that I turned back to my papers. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

A large paper bag sat on a pillow, and she found that it was filled with all sorts of confectionary goodies. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Then she put her glasses back on and busily wrote on the papers in front of her. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I found a fresh piece of paper in my drawer, and I smoothed it out against the top of the desk. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I reach for the scattered papers and scoop them all up, placing them back inside the box. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

However, I will say that the brittle and yellowing papers in the files constitute a fire hazard. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cat jumped from on top of the soups over to the paper towels. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I got up, brought the paper back, and found the article. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I consider folding the paper back up and pretending I picked my own name. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He pulls the sheet of paper off the easel and gives it to Dad and hands me a charcoal pencil. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

James slid over a sheet of paper filled with various hash marks. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Newt had read the message aloud for those who couldn’t see the paper, but instead of erupting in confusion, the Gladers all stood dumbfounded. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I would find, arrange, and file documents and serve or deliver papers around Johannesburg. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped there, turned to the table next to her, and picked up a badge and a sheet of paper. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Its surface is lined with hot-pink construction paper, covered in blue and purple heart stickers. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Ethyne threw her arms around him and held him tight—and as she did so, she pressed a piece of paper into his hand. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I simply grumbled, little realising that my entire future had actually depended on that one piece of paper she had fought so long and so doggedly to secure. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was so old and brittle from the heat that it burst wide open, sending a wave of papers onto the floor. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

To tell you the truth, I don’t know what I did differently from the other papers. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“But tell me, who told you to sell these papers?” he asked. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shuffled the pamphlets softly, so that the paper would not rustle, and read the titles: Race Prejudice on Trial. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It opened like a book in her hands, becoming two hoverboards, then each of those opened up, and then those, unfolding like a string of paper dolls. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She took the envelope and shouted, “I made it!” and then opened it to make sure, peering at the thin sheet of paper. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Besides, there’s no law that says you can’t paint swastikas and still be part of the group making a paper chain to fight against them. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He was pulling papers out and flinging them around. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

As the paper in the king's hand flapped like a nervous butterfly, the father grew angrier. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Wealthy on paper, huh. Yeah, back in those days, when you could get them, I would always take a silver dollar over a paper dollar even though they was heavier to carry.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As usual, she stuffed her wrappings into her paper bag, carried the bag to the paper- only can by the tray return window, and dropped it in. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

It took us two days: chopping candied fruit, mixing the cake by hand, and lining cake tins with cut-up brown paper bags. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Angel’s sticking her lips out and glaring at me, and I know my words will never make it to the paper in front of me. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

But the big visit happened Wednesday evening, one day after Fang’s name had hit the paper. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. It was great. Did you see the paper yesterday?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a slip of paper in Donny’s hand—the letter inviting young Petey to the Turing Unified Research and Development Institute. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Stonecrop held the paper out with both hands, mumbled a moment until he found the right place, and then began to sputter as though great Lucifer himself had provoked him. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She hands me a pen and paper from her desk. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The boy’s whole body trembled, his face pasty white, making his wet, red eyes stand out like bloody splotches on paper. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I roll up some of my homework papers and try to shoo the wasp to the next open window. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He would edit and polish his paper, making it ready for publication. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

William Still wrote their names down on loose slips of paper. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or my dad, needing some important papers he forgot. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

I made a few notes on the piece of paper. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody groans and there’s the sound of ripping paper. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There was a piece of paper folded in half, the short way. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

When people reach out to me to lead, it is no longer a story on paper. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Room 40 was where she and James had social studies with Mr. Quisling, so she shouldn’t have been surprised when she stepped inside to see him there, grading papers, but she was. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Eberhardt folded the paper and tossed it on the kitchen counter. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard the ripping of the paper as Miss Winthrop opened the envelopes. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rings and their tissue paper were no longer on the table. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

"I have your final papers here," says Herr Meins, waving the sheath of papers. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

As he folded his page and slipped it into his bag, two boys in the back launched paper airplanes at the girls in the second row. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

And as usual it was the only paper that covered the story. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The gyro had widened; The Great Chain of Being had snapped like so many paper clips strung together by some drooling idiot; death, destruction, anarchy, progress, ambition, and self-improvement were to be Piers' new fate. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the paper chain, great as it is, only makes me look worse. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He walked downstairs and shuffled past Hollis Wells, who was too distracted by all the papers around her and the blaring Home Shopping Network to notice him. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The shelled cobs could even be stacked by the outhouse and used as a rough substitute for toilet paper! The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She sat at my desk and grabbed a piece of paper. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emily couldn’t resist peeking behind herself to look at Maddie, who scowled at her binder and scratched a doodle in the margins of her paper. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I fold my paper and make sure my voice is going into the microphone. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There are drifts of paper and sketchbooks and notepads that have been swept off the desk and other surfaces. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He looked thoughtful and said nothing for a long moment, then pulled out a pencil and started to write on the blank piece of paper I had before me. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I signed my name on the paper they passed around, I thought about all those times I’d gone past Central High, wanting to see inside. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure they’ll be fine. Let’s read these papers before Jonafren comes looking for us,” Seven said, taking the file from inside her cloak and placing it on the table. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

And beneath the chuckles of the crowd I could hear the swishing of its ruffled paper, while the same out-of-the-corner-of-the-mouth voice continued to spiel: Shake it up! Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two ballot papers would only confuse a majority of voters, most of whom would be voting for the first time in their lives. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You put the paper on top to add bulk, like a real sourdough loaf. Now”—he nodded to the roll of toilet paper—“mummify them together so they stay in place.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Agents were now expected to standardize the way they filed their case reports, on single sheets of paper. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We drank our coffee out of paper cups, and through the square ferry windows he pointed out the dry docks and the skeletons of new submarines. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She drew out a folded piece of notebook paper and came to sit beside me on the bed. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ridgeway bought him for five dollars and drew up emancipation papers the next day. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I lit the rest of the candles on the table as if preparing for a feast, then searched through the papers, throwing those that were useless to me to the floor. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s somewhere I want you to go. Someone you need to see—the address is on that paper. Consider it the final part of your training.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The hams and the venison hung in their paper wrappings, and all the bunches of dried herbs, the spicy herbs for cooking and the bitter herbs for medicine, gave the place a dusty-spicy smell. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I removed the folded sheet of paper from my interior coat pocket. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I took a closer look at the papers, scrunching up my eyes to read the tiny red words. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She leaned down and pulled a sheaf of papers out from under the couch. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I keep up my tiendita work as long as I can, to add more to my little hoarded paper pesos. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

"He was in a stolen car," he said, not looking up from the papers. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

She ran upstairs to grab paper towels and Clorox wipes and maybe some Febreze, and I sat with our fallen soldiers. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He handed me a folded piece of paper and a small key. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A license might have been just a piece of paper, but to Sophie it meant everything. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The result is the typical opening of an academic paper: In recent years, an increasing number of psychologists and linguists have turned their attention to the problem of child language acquisition. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Minli watched, fascinated, as the king took from the gold pouch a delicate, folded piece of paper. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

On a windy day Beans swatted her books away, making papers fly, so she had to go chasing them. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was a lightweight nylon-frame job, and all the necessities, from toilet paper to a flashlight and matches, extra socks, a plastic see-through poncho, and a lightweight sleeping bag were already in it. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I handed him the paper and then walked over to the glass case and looked inside. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I wrote the letter on overlay tissue paper. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

"A political paper! Too bad the war will soon be over. The army could use soldiers like you. With your mind, you'd make a smashing officer. It's too bad you will have missed it." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

She knew when Trip had failed a math test by the shredded scraps in his trash bin, when Moody had been writing songs by the crumpled wads of paper in his. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ronneberg ran back over, shuffled through the papers, found them, and handed them to the man. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a piece of paper in her hand. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He pushed the stack of papers back at me and gave a nod toward the gangway. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Your weapon will be random. Choose a slip of paper from the box.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She never put anything actual on paper until she had settled her house down at night. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She looks at the kitchen scene I have made mostly of paper, including a working light over the sink that Travis helped me make. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Moss watched as he began to look through them, then pulled out a set of papers from the middle of the stack. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He probed about her general health as his young nurse recorded it all on blue paper. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I shrugged my shoulders and fiddled with the paper from my straw. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Pong held up the paper in his hand. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She took the paper ring off it and wore it for a week, pretending it was his engagement ring to her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

This whole paper chain project is starting to get under my skin, in a good way. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The corners are tucked in tight like a paper football we might have flicked through straw goalposts last year. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Blue-and-green paper chains hang from the basketball hoops to the lights all across the ceiling. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Stranger still, she was one of the very first volunteers to work on the paper chain. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Coins and pieces of paper and checkbooks and numbers in bank accounts. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She nodded yes, and Carney flipped the junk off and made her wait while he piled the paper in one corner, threw the rags in another and sorted out the metals. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emily lifted the sealed papers from the metal box and stood. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Poe won a short story contest and the prize was publication in a local paper. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Cut with cookie cutters and transfer to a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

It was the equivalent of pulling a frantic all-nighter to get a paper done in college, only Barack was estimating it would take him roughly a couple of months to get the book finished. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Tok hasn’t actually seen the paper chain, since he’s banned from school property. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The paper inside was a piece of loose-leaf, like what Mom would buy to put into my school binders. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The next day, right before homeroom, Aru had gone up to Carol and held the paper in her face. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He coated them in chili powder in a clear bag, then arranged them all delicately in a paper bowl. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“What happened to you yesterday? Where’s your brother? Did you see the paper this morning? Did you—” She slapped a hand over his mouth. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is worthless outside of here; it is just paper.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wanted to prepare a “Declaration of Sentiments” similar to those they had read at other reform movement meetings they had attended, so they began by reviewing papers from other meetings. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He sat motionless, pencil poised, staring at the blank paper. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a little bouquet of candy tuft in a collar of paper lace. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I know, it’s all been in the papers,” said Harry. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

About a year before that triumph, Bragg, Kendrew, and Perutz had published a systematic paper on the conformation of the polypeptide chain, an attack that missed the point. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“I have a paper clip in my collection. I’ll give that a shot.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They wrote their names on fourteen pieces of paper which they put into a hat and each woman took one out. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Portia opened a paper sack she had placed on the kitchen table. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A wave of anger boiled in my stomach, and I slammed a fist onto the table, scattering papers and chains onto the floor. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She ripped off the top sheet, folded it, folded it again, and then carefully ripped the paper along the first fold, and then along the second fold. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Dollops of glue land on colored paper, and fingers form loop after loop. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I feel like I know you from the paper and the news”—she eyes her daughter—“and of course Rosa has told me all about you.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Then he seized the rest of the wrapping paper in his other hand and pulled. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Why must she use this sort of envelope?” he asked angrily, studying the little circle of a Planetarium Station, New York, postmark on the thick tan paper. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor has been granted a fellowship at a hospital in the United States, and he, Victor, has just heard the family's papers have received clearance from the head of Immigration. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

And Mama actually signed the paper saying she agreed! Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I put the folded papers in my overalls and started out. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tables at Sunny- sides are littered with strips of soggy paper. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’d go to my room, get out my pen and paper, sit at my little desk, and go after her arguments one by one. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He wrote Bible verses on anything he could find—small slips of paper, the back of train schedules, pay stubs. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pull a paper towel from the dispenser. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I struggle to rip open the paper, but my body is weak. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

And there were yards of tattered paper chains. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Like some silly faerie story,” Chronicler finished, his voice thin and pale as paper. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Pressed by Halley, Newton agreed to redo the calculations and produce a paper. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Harry ripped open the paper and found page thirteen. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Martín was quiet for a moment before throwing the paper into the garbage and yelling at me to get back to work. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In it she carried our birth certificates, immunization records, and school papers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The refugee woman in the boat had also covered the little boy with her arm, which was no more use against the bullets than a sheet of paper. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I tear off three little pieces of paper and draw the chicken on the first, the grain on the second, and the wolf on the third. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

She pulled a few papers from the envelope. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

This time, however, Bill did not voice skepticism, since independently he had found faults in Vand’s paper and had begun to wonder what the right answer was. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Mam is happy we’ll have loads of paper for lighting the fire though the wood we burn from that collapsing shed leaves a sickening smell and she worries the white maggots will escape and breed. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She handed him a packet, carefully wrapped in white paper—with her grimy fingerprints on it. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

So it takes me a few minutes before I find a folded piece of notebook paper. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

They’d charge us with integration violation—I read about it in the paper all the time—they despise the whites that meet with the coloreds to help with the civil rights movement. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“There you are, Arturo. Your father and I have been looking for you,” she said, and began organizing the papers spread all over the place. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She has to claw around the girls’ reaping ball for quite a while to snag the one piece of paper that everyone already knows has my name on it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Each child in the class wore a round circle of blue construction paper on which was written in magic marker: Gr. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I move the pieces of paper around on the floor. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

He balled up his sandwich paper and shot it like a basketball at the trash cans sitting in front of my house. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Just then a drop of blood slid down my lip and plopped onto the soft paper where a moment before I had written my name. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She held the paper out at arm’s length in front of her, upside down so she could read it. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

He handed Calder a paper bag filled with books. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

From his pocket, he took the pencil and paper he’d brought with him. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He slides the paper out of my hand. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I was then given more papers to take with me to the main post office on Albert Street, a run-down section of Johannesburg. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Redemption reached over to his bedside drawer and pulled out a folded square of pink paper, handing it to Jam. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I took a sheet from the paper stack and held it from end to end so it would go in even. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boat’s motion was too severe to forge new papers. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Copper coins and a damp wad of Chinese red paper cash. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

XI Darlene cut her picture out of the paper and put it on the kitchen table. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They took off the paper wrappings, and each had a little, hard, brown cake, with beautifully crinkled edges. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She patted my shoulder and folded the paper. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The pen’s held in one; the paper’s anchored with the other. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The symbol had a meaning, and a sound, as if it had been plucked from the real world and pressed flat, like some strange dark flower, between the pieces of paper. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

What I saw in the paper, was it just a coincidence? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Kat grabbed a piece of paper from my desk and I dictated to her the following list. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I penciled these notes on the back of a scrap of paper, so I wouldn’t forget. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he tapped the pestle on the ringing edge of the mortar, dislodging the final grains, and took a brush and ink and wrote some characters on a sheet of paper. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

When I went to her chambers she had all the papers strewn over her tables, the ink scattering and reassembling, hollering their scandalous headlines. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

All Papa and Dadi do is read the papers, discuss things in whispers, and drink cup after cup of watery tea. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He lays the wrinkled baby-blue scrap of paper on the counter and asks our question. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

She pulled out a small paper parcel and gave it to him. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I had been reading my speech, and at this point I placed my papers on the defense table, and turned to face the judge. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I use the white paper from my Cole’s Drug Store bag and wrap another one just like it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A lot has happened with the paper chain since that truckload of construction paper arrived at school. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I tried to get a paper route, but they’re all full,” I said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were very good cigarettes, very thick and well-packed, with an unfamiliar silkiness in the paper. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Boston papers published false or exaggerated propaganda stories about attacks on citizens by Redcoats. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it landed, the girl picked it up and, seeing that there was writing on the yellowed paper, unfolded the glider. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled out a folded piece of paper she was using as a bookmark, unfolded it, smoothed it on the bed. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Molly is suddenly struck by the fact that Vivian wrote these words on this sheet of paper more than eighty years ago. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The policeman went out and presently returned with an armful of papers. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then Joey said, “But if I used my own computer at home, and I bought my own paper and everything, like, then I could print whatever I felt like, right?” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

He stepped inside and began going through the boxes, opening drawers, and flipping through papers the old man kept back there. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

From a table in the corner of the room he took a stack of folded papers. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Sissy showed her how to make them into little paper cups by molding the circles around the end of a pencil. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Harrison is making pancakes,” she said, and turned back to her paper. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But it was merely an office with a desk, a couple of filing cabinets, shelves full of papers and books. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I went over there afternoons and afterward stopped at the cafe and had a drink and read the papers. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I stuck in some tissue paper,” she said quietly, glancing down. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The professor remained in front of the room, collecting his papers and books. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emily removed a copy and squeezed it between her hands, breathing in the paper smell. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

There’s no phone, but Scoob does make an unexpected discovery in the hidden space behind the kitchen TV: rubber-banded piles—four of them—of crudely stacked green paper rectangles. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

I hand him the tattered piece of paper that says possible. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

In a way, I wish I didn’t read about his jail term in the local paper. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The stove was cold, so I twisted a length of grocery paper into a wick and coiled it in the firebox. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She held out a little spiral pad of heavy white paper. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

But in the end, books—even magic ones—are only objects pieced together from paper and glue and thread. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A smell of mildew and of wet paper was in the air. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, neither Penzias and Wilson, nor any of the Princeton team, had read Gamow’s paper. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then she stands and clears our paper plates. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“We don’t know for sure that the deadline’s real. This could just be her way of getting rid of the thoughts. Putting them on paper so she doesn’t do them.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I turn around to see her curled up on the couch, her laptop, a mug of tea, and a bunch of papers spread over her lap. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

But there’s a piece of spiral notebook paper with Devon’s handwriting. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had already given me permission to sell papers. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had a storage room with stacks of long sheets of paper with numbers on the margins and boxes of pens, pencils, staples, and paper clips. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

She brought over a few paper snowflakes, too, to remind people it’s supposed to be winter. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I sifted through the papers on the ground with my toes, trying to make out the faded writing. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

There were bloody paper towels in the bathroom. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He scribbled something on the paper and handed it back to Dimple. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

"Here's a scrap of paper, Billy," said Cutwater, finding it in the pocket of a stolen coat. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then the doors of all the houses opened simultaneously, and out came women like a row of paper dolls. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just after Dad put the paper down and Mom turned the set on there was a moment. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Luke raised his head and watched as Jen’s dad scribbled something else on the paper. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Once the front door banged shut behind me, I retrieved the paper from my basket and sighed at the title. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Before she says anything else, I pull out papers and show her my stuff. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

What Papa had read in the papers was true. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He imagined typing the words and watching them appear on the paper, letter by letter. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

The paper bag burst open as it hit the ground and the thousands of tiny green things were scattered in all directions. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The dentist was relaxing in his chair, looking very comfortable with a paper cup of coffee and the newspaper. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

For a long time, I didn’t understand what was so important about these pieces of paper, but I eventually figured it out. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He took the slip of paper and wrote down a more modest figure. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. V gives Mom two cookies on a paper towel. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Then he unrolled and clipped together four small cylinders of paper which had already flopped out of the pneumatic tube on the right-hand side of his desk. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

After a while she got out some paper and wrote an answer. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kicked away the papers and walked out, slamming the door behind me, and then waited in the living room for him to come out and apologize. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Jinny dropped the cushions, leaned over to tug the paper free, and was shocked to discover herself in possession of a sealed packet. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Kathy would have to go back into the city and find papers proving ownership of their office building. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Axel stands, drops the crumpled paper cup into the garbage basket. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Mo turned around with the paper knife pretending to point it at her threateningly. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Tad pressed the wet paper towel tighter to his mouth to keep from throwing up as he stepped over the body and slipped into the room. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She set the scrap a paper between us on the step, then she get in her Cadillac. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Nothing helpful,” Violet said, glancing down at a piece of scrap paper on which she had been taking notes. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Help me wet down some paper towels and shove them under the door to block out the smoke.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The most recent thing was a response paper to Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She holds up a stapled set of papers that look like a formerly classified, now somewhat declassified CIA document. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

All the papers we received with the cub clearly stated that its name was Richard Parker, that the hunter’s first name was Thirsty and that his family name was None Given. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Please have a seat and I will be with you in a moment,” he said in English, and he shuffled through some papers, picked up a phone, and dialed a number. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“He did you a favor,” Tab said, scanning the paper. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Mr. Stoker sits at his desk working on papers. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Luna felt worry grip her heart in its fist, and two hot tears came tumbling down, hitting the paper with a splat. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

"Emma, the slip of paper I gave you. Give it to the new Brother," he said as she stepped inside and closed the door. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would later give an interview to a local paper, estimating that during the six or so months he campaigned for Congress, he spent less than four full days at home with me and Malia. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And yet Alice had wanted him to haul out the papers so she could turn the room into a ladies’ toilet. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Marco jumps from his desk, spilling a bottle of ink across his papers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Before she could reach for the papers underneath, Doon took the box and started examining it. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The man gives Mack a sheet of paper. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care about how I look on paper.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was on the corner, a newsstand chain: papers, candy, cigarettes. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

An officer in the passenger seat was drinking coffee from a paper cup. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Until a few years ago, she’d run a shop that sold paper and pencils. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I ran to my parents’ room, dropped the brown paper bag on the bed, and plowed my head into Mama’s chest, nearly knocking her over. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

They made signs and paper buttons and membership cards. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

There had been things in the paper about Soldier Island—something about a film star—or was it an American millionaire? And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

You see it in the papers, parents doing horrible physical harm to their kids out of jealousy or spite or for attention— any number of reasons. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Then she stood, carefully tying the paper back onto my branch. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“And why don’t you go through those books and papers? Perhaps there’s some information that could be of use.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

In high school I had been able to handwrite ten- and twenty-page papers in little more than an hour—and I never revised what I wrote. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A long table stood at the far end; paper cups, plates of sandwiches, and napkins surrounded two punch bowls filled with a purple mixture. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

My pencil hovered around the edge of the paper. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

We’d actually deceived ourselves into thinking that a toy made of tissue paper, glue, and bamboo could somehow close the chasm between us. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Other little kids might have had a blanket or a stuffed animal as their lovey, but Emma had carried around a piece of paper like it was her favorite thing ever. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I peeled back the stiff paper to reveal the word Science printed in curlicues. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Maybe even five months ago. But now, it’s not worth the paper it’s printed on.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

One day our teacher told us to write down on a piece of paper what we wanted to be when we grew up and pass it up front. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Berendht folded the paper up meticulously, then tucked it back into his pocket. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Once their candy was picked out and Mr. Mason had scooped it into a paper bag, Wash led them back out onto the porch so that Naomi could finish her shopping. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Have you found any old letters or papers that belonged to my family?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I saw them flickering way down the gallery on either side of my office, one a pile of magazines, one maybe a roll of toilet paper. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tallmadge escaped unharmed but lost a saddlebag full of secret papers. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sift through the pillowcase and pull out a folded piece of paper. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She cooked meals where she made three separate eternally boiled vegetable portions for everybody and would giggle in the corner at Christmas with a small glass of sherry and a paper crown on her head. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

With that in mind, she picked up a scrap of graph paper off the ground and read, Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The kind of women who put papers on shelves and had little towels like that instinctively distrusted and disliked Mack and the boys. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Digging through his pocket, past his notepad, he touched a slim, stiff piece of paper. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He looks at me with homeless-person eyes, like I just popped out of a manhole and offered him valuable paper clips from the moon. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“No, but you asked me to be involved with that petition, and look how that turned out. Then you gave an interview about me to the school paper without letting me know?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Although no one set them down on paper, every young woman knew them and knew instantly when they were being broken. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Except that my mom’s not reading the paper; she’s staring at me. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Within days of Badenhorst’s appointment, our cells were raided and searched; books and papers were confiscated; meals were suspended without warning; and men were jostled on the way to the quarry. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d take a block of paper and a stick of charcoal and sketch the poorest, meanest kid in the room. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I held the pen poised above the paper for a moment, then put it down. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he asked for paper, quill, and ink, Therry brought them the next day. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Calista gave me another paper, then another after that, and another and another. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

No wonder Atticus confounded Henry in the early days of their association by saying, “Pleading’s little more than putting on paper what you want to say.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

There was also a letter that took up a whole page in the paper, stating the rights of man, and signed with a lot of important people’s names. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“That busing judge can bus all he wants,” Milton crowed, reading about the decision in the paper. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A large group of debils surrounded him, holding up fistfuls of paper money. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I placed the photo in front of the pile of papers and reread the first chapter until Roberto came by to pick me up to go home. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

A street crime has a victim, who typically reports the crime to the police, who generate data, which in turn generate thousands of academic papers by criminologists, sociologists, and economists. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“If it was closer to the front I could take you to a first medical post. But back here you’ve got to have papers.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Everything else—the paper, the metal letters, and the mess the police made—would have to wait until we woke up. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man straightens his papers neatly inside the file and places it on the desk. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

With great effort, she managed to slide the straight end of the paper clip into the knot. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I stuff the stapled sheets deeper inside my book bag, wincing as the papers crumple. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Her name would almost certainly be in the paper. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

However, the archaeological literature can be confusing in this respect, because many books and papers report uncalibrated dates as B.C. and fail to mention that they are actually uncalibrated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He hands me a blank sheet of computer paper and says, "I need your full name, your address, date of birth, social, height, weight, and eye color. And a hundred bucks." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

That night, Louie pored over the evening papers, which showed photos of the finish of his race. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I groan and rip out a piece of notebook paper. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I went to my locker to grab my gym bag, but when I opened the door, a piece of paper fell out. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t the paper say anything about the owls?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beatrice displayed a crumpled paper napkin that had been scrawled upon in red ink. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She, the lone survivor, will start a small paper nest in the spring, lay a few eggs in its cells, and carefully rear a small force of workers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The girl who was with him got into the papers too because her arm was broken--she was one of the chambermaids in the Santa Barbara Hotel. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She opens a cupboard, the shelves lined with a grimy yellow-and-white-checkered paper she’s been meaning to replace, and reaches for another onion, frowning again as she pulls at its crisp magenta skin. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I watched him breathe for a while, his identity papers still tucked under his torso. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The paper had stopped burning and was just sitting there smoking. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

An electrode is clipped to each sticker, which “reads” the electrical activity of his heart and prints out the pattern on a sheet of pink graph paper. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Whatever was written on the paper, it must have some kind of political meaning. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Rich was already up, showered, and reading the Sunday paper. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The afternoon paper’s supposed to have a big spread about the game.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not just the words there,” he said, nodding at the paper in my hands. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Calder followed him onto the front walk, noticing with interest all the papers that had collected under the dead plants in their yard. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He hung his coat and hat on the pegs in the foyer, took out the reeds, and balled the paper bag up in his fist. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Before Enrique entered the water, he tore up a scrap of paper with his mother’s phone number on it and scattered it on the bank. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I searched for his name online. I searched every day for it and it never came up, except in a local paper, next to a photograph. He won a poetry contest.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We got busy working on our paper prototypes. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Found some newspaper and wrapped up the paper money and papers and thrust them in and whipped over the open end with her needle. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“We live at Twenty-five Horsepool Lane, and our paper hasn’t come. The whole system’s a disgrace!” he added. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lee read the papers to him to keep him from getting restless, and often in the middle of the reading Adam went to sleep. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

On paper at least, the fair’s Midway Plaisance began to take shape. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When she is unable to avoid the matter further, she makes a pot of tea and begins to tackle the mountains of paper. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Shortly after nine o’clock, Esther of Providence, Rhode Island, switched off her radio and rolled a sheet of paper into her typewriter. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He put up his hand to silence her, and handed the woman a pen and piece of paper. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The paper argued that our vacuum might be a “false” vacuum in an unnaturally energetic state—like a ball perched precariously on the side of a hill. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The mystery object was bundled in Kleenex—no, toilet paper. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Miss McDaniels opens one of her folders and starts speaking as she looks through the papers inside. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Doctor says he’ll have to take her to examine her and Dad signs a paper. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He scratched out a few lines on the paper, then looked up at Minho. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

"That's enough. He was a great man. You just take a look at him once in a while. You have everything you need—paper and stuff like that?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But usually you receive a letter made of heavy paper, stamped with the king’s crown seal below a short thank- you for your child’s life. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

He plucks the top paper from the stack. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

August passed around a paper bag full of manna, and we scooped up handfuls and threw the seeds into the hole with the coffin, and my ears were filled with nothing but bee hum. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hands her a piece of paper and asks her to keep the door locked with everyone in the room until there is an announcement. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“I’ll write you a note,” he says, searching for a spare piece of paper in the earthenware bowl on the breakfast bar. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He turned to another committee member near him at the table and nodded to the papers in front of her, directing her to look up the information. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She just keeps smiling at me like she’s been doing for a month now, like she’s got a pocketful of paper money. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A small piece of paper slid out from between the pages—an invitation to Cynthia Sower's comedy show. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I watched him cleaning his master’s woolen coat; he was wrapping wet scraps of brown paper about hot coals, and, with a tongs, dousing grease spots with the steaming paper. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“No, he isn’t. His family puts up Christmas lights. At least they did until you turned them. You’re trying to turn the whole town Jewish with your paper chain!” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“But why does that mean they have to fire you? What are they going to do? Get rid of everyone they already have and hire people without papers now?” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The paper peeled away in little curly yellow strips like that stuff rich people throw on New Year’s Eve. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The Virgin Mary is in some of our Sunday school papers, but never with a crown, never with a pincushion heart, never all by herself. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Scanning the papers as he ate breakfast, he turned to the New York Times—and suddenly leaped from the chair. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I looked over the paper, for I really did not know what he meant; but he took it from me and pointed out a paragraph about children being decoyed away at Hampstead. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

She could tell at a glance that it would be almost impossible for her to make out the meaning of such a paper. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He is using most of his money for paint, pencils, paper. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He fished out a wad of paper that contained more black ash, which he began mixing with the other potion. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Cohn said he wanted to buy a paper and would walk to the corner with me. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I wish I had a lab notebook to write my observations in, the kind with graph paper like the colegio students have. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

James liked our craft project where you had to cut thin strips of paper and staple rings together to make a long chain. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“Don’t touch them,” Ollie snaps as one reaches for his papers. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I even made a model out of paper. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good idea,” said Frankie, who ran to her room and came back with paper and pencil. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Guzzo jogged ahead of me, not saying a word while he washed his face and grabbed a couple paper towels. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He saw the faded yellow piece of paper sticking out from the coins. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

You read the announcements of their death in the paper, where they’re referred to as “fatal accidents.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

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

Get your papers in order, with the right signatures and record keeping, and the charges will be dropped, money released, whatever. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Emma opened the desk and found the map, an old, yellowed roll of paper. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

At the same time, he wondered uneasily what the paper had said about him. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Give them five lire apiece and five lire for yourself. My papers are in the other pocket. You may give them to the nurse.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“So, I think this paper, which the Old Man of the Moon said he borrowed,” the king said, “this written line torn from the Book of Fortune is ‘the borrowed line’ you seek.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He turned to Katie and explained: “So many years comes this girl by me to buy dickies and paper collars for the papa. Now for a whole year already, she don’t come.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of purple ink swirled up my nose when I unfolded the bright white paper. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I approached the soldier with an air of superiority and thrust out my papers. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When Coin says “wedding,” she means two people signing a piece of paper and being assigned a new compartment. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

When I'm finished, I press the paper to my chest, just to make sure Jamie doesn't peek. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Sometimes one of them would spend ten minutes looking through a family’s papers. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Johnny and I unwrapped the fuzzy red material and discovered that the paper was printed in Japanese! Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The paper called it a hotbed for specimen recovery. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I have been thinking, I must confess, of setting some brief thoughts to paper,” Fremande announced gravely. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The back seat was covered with papers and books. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The paper would be prosecuted under the Espionage Act, warned Louis Loeb, one of the firm’s partners. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Hermione always liked to go through their exam papers afterward, but Ron said this made him feel ill, so they wandered down to the lake and flopped under a tree. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

If not, he’d drop it in the burn bag—a large, brown paper sack standing by his desk. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Amil,” I said, later in the day while Amil sat on the floor folding and unfolding a blank piece of paper. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Each time he’d put the paper aside, turn to Mama and say, “Funny things in the papers nowadays. Take this case,” Francie would almost cry. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are ancient paper lanterns, translucent, unlit, strung across the courtyard, too fragile to move — though when he sees Ralph, his father, still a brave man, tries to speak. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I crumpled the paper and tossed it into the trash. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

That made me think about the fact that Papa read the paper every evening and that it always needed to be folded and placed on his chair. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Teresa joked that if Joel and Daniel could just figure out how to make paper towels and toilet paper from the trees on the farm, she’d never have to go to the supermarket. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

As Jackson hung the paper at the front of the room, everyone strained their eyes to make out the names. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I knew if I flipped a page over and read it line by line, I was officially reading someone else’s paper. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lid of the box flew off and, like a freed butterfly, a single skeet of paper fluttered out. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She winks and hands me a folded piece of paper that looks like it was torn from the edge of a legal pad. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Be just my luck, I get in the paper for something good and they misspell my name. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The paper had been there five minutes and as yet she had not picked up her pencil to mark it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him, Hooper’s hands scrabbled about in the parcel, splitting open a paper bag. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Max lays down two sheets of paper, and although she cannot hear them, she can see the huge man talking Max through a set of steps. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She grabbed a pencil from her bag and scribbled a message on a piece of notebook paper. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then back to the mirror for three more seconds before darting my eyes over to the paper towels. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mike gave Jimmy my sandwiches, and Jimmy, like always, licked his finger and pulled a paper bag from underneath the counter. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps you could drive me about in the car and I could toss the papers from the rear window.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How ’bout I just keep yelling and we see which of the papers show up first!” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I held up the sheet of paper, with the first page of A Brief History of Time in Japanese, which I got the translation of from Amazon.co.jp. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Amil only does his best work on the paper after he practices on his bits of flour bags, ends of newspaper, whatever he can find. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He pulled out a piece of wax paper and used it to grab three chocolate croissants from the glass case. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The paper flew in two directions and I turned and said, “Sorry!” but kept running toward Big Ma, whose arms weren’t outstretched like mine. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The wings themselves were finer than the finest rice paper, and yet they were strong. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The caption read “Ah don’t give up, Pop. Maybe ya didn’t make a sale all week, but it ain’t as if I didn’t have my paper route.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I’d never seen Momma act like a little kid who just got yelled at but there she was, picking at a piece of paper towel and looking kind of embarrassed. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

James stood in front of the class and held up his vertical strip of paper with letters on it: Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The great monolith tilted and began to sink, grinding down through ancient layers of rock, ripping through them as though they were paper. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Check it out, he says, handing you a sheet of paper with, get this, most of the words blacked out. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“If you hadn’t been so busy looking at your picture in the paper, you could have read that they are nearly frantic.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, he knows his name has been in the papers—he must be alert to the possibility of people trying to get stories on him or information from him. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Genie put the truck back upstairs, then grabbed the paper bag and headed for the inside-outside room, where he poured the bag of flies into the empty coffee can. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Mr. Likens, the principal, came rushing in and pulled her tongue out and then put a fold of notebook paper between her teeth. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t time to forge new identity papers. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I sat down on the swing and watched her hands move quickly as she worked her single needle and a ball of yarn into what looked like another toilet paper cover. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The three of them leaned in close, heads together, sifting through the papers. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“My name is not in the paper, Mama,” I said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’ll be in the paper tomorrow,” he said, and he was right. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Winston examined the four slips of paper which he had unrolled. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Levi comes back with a roll of paper towels to mop up the mess. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

From his pocket, he takes a coil of paper and unrolls it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

This paper may just get different people talking to each other. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The wrapping paper was sky blue and sparkly, so pretty that it was almost a shame to tear it. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The interviewer is a middle-aged woman with gentle eyes who asks me questions and listens carefully to my responses, taking notes on a pad of paper. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an old cigar box that had been pasted over with colorful papers, and then shellacked with varnish: a just-because present. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

During the morning I usually sat in the café and read the Madrid papers and then walked in the town or out into the country. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

There was no paper wads on the ceiling or ashes on the floor, and there was no stall doors missing like the bathrooms at school. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

At a third-story window a man tore up a piece of paper and shouted, “From now on, you can send my mail to Paris, postman.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There on that piece of old paper was the idea just as it had come from Michelangelo’s head to his hand, and he had jotted it down. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I opened the drawers of the secretary table and looked through the large boxes of official papers. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every little mauve detail matches, including the house-shaped shelf that holds spare toilet paper. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“This is even harder,” she said, and she wrote something on the next piece of paper and told me to read it out loud. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

A cold rain slanted down onto the tar paper and onto the lone figure sitting on the ledge overlooking the empty street below. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took my money and gave me a paper. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was something earnest in the way she put stylus to paper, like a littlie learning how to read. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was all over the papers the next day. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She freezes, her arms up, toilet paper stuck to her shoe. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The man in the middle, who owned the paper, snapped it shut. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

We shuffled our papers hand to hand around the U until they made it to Ms. McCrea. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Using the pile of construction paper, markers, and tape, we began sketching screenshots of how we imagined our app would look, on cardboard cutouts shaped like cell phones. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I’m not writing on stationery anymore, though, even though I do have one sheet of paper left. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then he gave Gold a packet of papers, “a report,” Fuchs later said, “summarizing the whole problem of making an atomic bomb.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then Tab and Emily showed Bridge how they drew little animals on their homework, in the upper left-hand comers of their papers, underneath their names. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Another sheet of paper flew from the sheaf and landed on her hands. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The local paper had run an article about the festival and an interview with Abby and me. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Carefully, Enrique writes them down, one after another, on a shred of paper. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

When Matthew came back, he carried a roll of toilet paper and sheets of newspaper. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Inside the envelope were a stack of cards, a bunch of rubber stamps, an ink pad, and a sheet of three-ring-binder paper filled with a fifth grader’s sloppy handwriting. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“Mum! Dad!” he yelled, but the wind and the rain and the torrents of the river tore his voice away like a scrap of tissue paper. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It felt like a blank piece of paper before you draw on it. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She had come with a gentleman by the name of Gouvemail, connected with one of the daily papers, of whom nothing special could be said, except that he was observant and seemed quiet and inoffensive. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

After we finished supper, Grampa went back to his paper in the living room, and Gramma started cleaning up. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

But he sipped it from the small waxed paper cups Lily had packed. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

They pulped her paper and sold it at the marketplace for a considerable sum. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Lockton pushed a sheet of paper, a quill, and the inkstand across the desk to the mayor. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would distract the warders’ attention, pluck the papers out of the garbage, and slide them into our shirts. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tucked into the envelope is a small piece of paper with the name of my mystery aunt and coded instructions for getting to the commune. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Maybe—maybe it will be over soon. I know Pa don’t think so, but people in Newton was sayin’ that it would, and Jenny even read it in the paper.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drew him standing in our dining room, with Papa and his friends sitting around the table, launching paper airplanes at him. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“What made you wanna put on your spiffs?” he joked, turning the blue paper cup up to take one last gulp of coffee. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I put it down on paper and then the ghost does not ache so much. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

W'hen she looked at his paper she read him out what it said.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women covered the windows with paper and cloth. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

After removing the core, we chewed up bits of maize pith and shoved them down the barrel, followed by paper spitballs to create a seal. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Melissa said, “I think we should all write letters to the paper and say the story wasn’t true and that there is, or was, only one mouse here.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

From the written evidence of Newton’s own papers that can be dated, there is nothing about the Moon in the work on gravity he carried out in the plague years. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The hallway opened to a large space filled with cubicles, the hum of computers, the rustle of papers, and a few low voices. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

That Roman bell would be lucky to get work cleaning up after a French bell's dog—and even then he'd need papers. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

At first I join other people from other places who do not have the right papers for real work either. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

His wife’s name was on a sheet of paper beside the door at the far end of the corridor. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

All Darryl does all day is takes a sip, then crinkles the paper. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Early on Wednesday morning, I built a fire in the metal trash barrel in the backyard, fueled by my school papers. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight she reread a piece about what the paper called a crime wave—three robberies—which was next to a story about a college debate team and their success. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She set her phone down on a stack of papers and opened up the cupboard with the mugs. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

This was Colin's first memory: his dad slowly lowering the paper and smiling at him. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

They stay inside where it’s warm and undrafty, where they can sit down and finally read the day’s paper. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I press the tiny paper close to my heart, and a rush of relief surges through me. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“More important, do you know what kind of paper this is?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He’s Dad’s age—around forty—and even though he’s lazy and can’t mop and hates cardboard paper cuts, he has an air of confidence that Dad doesn’t have. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He helped himself to a typewriter, red paper, carbon-copy paper, and a swastika stamper from the office where he worked. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The last roll of toilet paper we’d seen, in any color, came from Atlanta. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their news of the world comes from the thin local paper Gerald brings back each day from the general store. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I took the folded papers and looked at him for what seemed to be too long a time. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our students have been coming in early every morning for the past three weeks to work on our paper chain to add to yours. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The supervisor, still staring, fanned himself with his sheaf of papers and said, “Ehe! I know you.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I met Joey around front again, and he handed me two cups in paper sleeves. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

On her way to get toilet paper, Petra stepped heavily on a headless soldier. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He cleared his throat and spat into one of the squares of paper that he carried with him in his pocket. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Did you see the article in the paper?” he asked me. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up the Band-Aid tin and looked through all of the toilet paper for a note, but there was nothing. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Just call the paper and tell them to lower the price,” said Armpit. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He wrote to her regularly and Rosa sometimes replied, sending him lines of poetry and drawings of flowers she had copied out on sheets of parchment paper. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he got out of bed a piece of white paper under the door caught his glance. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

This young recruit has papers signed by Koch himself, indicating he is a courier carrying a valuable treasure for the Reich. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When I came downstairs, he was at the kitchen table with a pile of papers spread out in front of him. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

In his lap he carried a brown paper bag. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

She stared at the letter, then handed it back to me carefully, gripping it with her fingers as if it were a dinner plate heaped with food instead of a sheet of paper. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He held a slip of paper covered in a precise, feminine hand. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“And to us, we’re more married than any piece of paper or big party could make us.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He cut off a length—about three-quarters of a yard—wound it into a sort of garland, and wrapped it up first in white and then in brown paper. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Kenyon handed us a slip of paper with the names of three books to look up in the card catalogue. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The cool breeze coming inside rustled my paper bag. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Among the papers were news clippings, a letter to the press, and the unsent letter he had written on June 16 in which he justified his actions to the American people as “a political necessity.” Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The guard sent to intercept the morning papers found Holmes sitting at his table reading the news as calmly as if reading about the weather. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She pauses for a long time, staring down at the paper we’ve been passing back and forth, before she scribbles out something and gives the note back to me. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the paper I stated that even though it looked terrible, it tasted fantastic! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You have to wait in the holding area. Go farther along the road to the left and give these papers to the official at the gate.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They were often denied access to toothbrushes, combs, and toilet paper. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

They found out the journal Nature would publish their paper that described how they could train the brain to improve and sustain attention using a video game. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I just happened to see it in the paper. On the back page. Just happened to.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “Not much,” and started to look at my papers. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fadi took in the desolate junction, trying to imagine bustling streets, shops overflowing with stacks of gleaming paper, customers haggling over prices. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

When the butcher returns, he's carrying a white paper parcel. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

‘I got two hard-boiled eggs—already stuffed—with separate little packages of salt and pepper. And sandwiches—blackberry jelly with butter. Everything wrapped in oil paper. And paper napkins.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Well, the Pigman passed out pencils and paper, so I knew it was going to be one of those games like how to memorize ten items. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I placed the book on the bed with the other things, then turned back to August, while she reached down into the box again, causing the tissue paper to whisper. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His large row house is trafficked by us rushing in and out, depositing papers, carrying file cabinets, computers, lamps, makeshift desks. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Thomas sat down, Minho grabbed a piece of paper and a pencil and started drawing. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Still, I take the piece of paper, ponder Skye for a moment, and get to work. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The walls around us are cluttered with construction paper posters, marker-drawn announcements for spring sports tryouts, and Black History Month events. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He sat looking at the paper and pencil. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing moved in the compound, except a few pieces of paper stirred by the wind. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Stuff like that only sounds good on paper,” Dad said dismissively. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Instead we stared blankly at the papers, or out the windows—each of us lost in an ocean of thoughts and a roller coaster of emotions. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

And she had made sure the rolled paper was still in the box and all the girls had seen it or heard about it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at some papers she was holding. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He takes a long strip of colored paper and wraps it around my upper arm. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Because there’s a green piece of paper sticking out from beneath the radio. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I pulled out a stick, took off the white paper and the shiny silver foil under it, and studied the powdery, putty-colored gum. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled a clean piece of paper towards herself and drew lines downwards to divide it into three columns. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She put her hand in her pocket and pulled out the crumpled piece of paper. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“And maybe the people in this holding place will tell us how. They don’t seem to be angry anyway, or dangerous. It’s strange. And these papers...” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

There have been a few articles about the bank robbery in the local papers. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Anh rolled her eyes and wrote “scary movies” on her pad of paper. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

But that’s balanced out by the good things that came in reaction to the swastikas—like the paper chain and Link learning the truth about his heritage. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

A doctor looks at their papers, then at the boy. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She stuffed paper and the wood into the range and had a fire going in no time. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alone in his flat, Marco constructs tiny rooms from scraps of paper. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was a blue piece of paper, which I guess made it all-fired important. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Water drips on the paper and the birds bloom in the light, their feathers expanding promise. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

There were frindle shirts and sunglasses and erasers and notebooks and paper and dozens of other items. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her skin is a patchwork of colors—gray, white, beige—and wrinkled like a paper sack. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Every man and woman in the United States will be asked to purchase war savings stamps,” I set the paper down. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Back at the youth hostel, she wrote a sincere letter of thanks to Patti Sokoloff on an old-fashioned piece of airmail paper and posted it. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The other side of the paper needed no translation. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tears waxed paper from the roll and covers the layer of hamburgers. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Lord Asriel handed him the paper, he saluted and hurried out, his terrier dæmon close at his heels with her tail tucked low. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He’d stopped an inmate from another gallery who was on R without permission and asked him what was in his paper sack. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom would save the butts of the bread, and we’d shove a bunch into a paper bag to bring with us. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I lifted the lid of the plastic case and grabbed a paper tissue to pick out my donut. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was harsh bright with varnish, papered brightly. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Disgusted with Cantor, Kronecker launched vitriolic attacks against Cantor’s work and made it extremely difficult for him to publish papers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The idea of the genes’ being immortal smelled right, and so on the wall above my desk I taped up a paper sheet saying DNA RNA protein. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“No one’s crossing now. Unless you want a cold bath,” said the soldier as he opened my papers. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Grampa sitting in his chair smoking a cigar and reading the paper. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ray was already sitting out on his stoop reading the paper. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She commenced to cry and put the papers in her apron pocket. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Neatly he broke the sticks of kindling over his knee and arranged them on the foundation of paper. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There are candy wrappers, receipts, fast food bags, and papers all over. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Or they go to one of the hole-in-the-wall tea shops and drink tea in paper cups with heavy cream, asking the waitress in Bengali to bring them bowls of sweet yogurt and haleem. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The lady who thinks it's so terrible to waste learning time cutting and gluing paper. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

While there, Charles got his paper ready for the Linnaean Society’s publication of the proceedings; both his and Wallace’s papers would be published at the same time. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

That boy must have snuck back in and stolen the paper, hoping I’d forget his name among the thirty thousand students I’m responsible for! Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

He took the paper from her, and she opened a small gray box. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

So now, knowing the sort of world he lived in, he went into a stationery shop and bought a ballpoint, a pad of paper, and a clipboard. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ladies no longer walked down the street with loaves in paper bags. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I know this is weird, but I make my bed every single day, even though the rest of my room is a hellscape of paper and laundry and books and clutter. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Miss K promised personally to deliver the letters to the paper during lunch period. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Stories reported in the papers condemned Booth by name in the most unforgiving, vicious language. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up the paper off the walkway but waited until I was sitting at the kitchen table to unfold it. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It was already late afternoon when Fang handed me a pair of socks and some shoes and asked if I’d mind going to get a paper. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It is heavy from the weight of the graded paper, the weight of Vinke's praise. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

What would happen if they realized I wasn’t a dead Latvian woman, but a young Polish girl with no papers? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He pulls paper napkins from the metal holder to wipe up the spill. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

After sprucing it up a little, Mr. Clem advertised a drawing in the paper “for a name more befitting this fine, refurbished, modern establishment.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She walked her stack of papers to the front of the class and handed them to Mr. Quisling. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

His legs kicked a desk drawer free and sheets of paper spilled to the floor. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then he rose and went to a tiny night table with a drawer, from which he took paper and a fountain pen. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sometimes do this too, wallowing among the pages of colored paper, surrounded by the fuggy scent of boys. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“So give me some opinions. How is The Landry News different from the other papers you’ve been looking at—and how is it the same?” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Sir Lawrence was shown the paper in its nearly final form. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He was perfectly silhouetted against the light inside, like a paper target at a shooting range. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

When he asked scientists for updates, they’d hand him fifteen- or twenty- page technical papers, dense with formulas and calculations. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa had already given me a paper with the phone number to our house, which I knew by heart, and the phone number to his job. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He handed her a small, oddly shaped package, wrapped in leftover Christmas paper. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

So what he did was he took a pencil and one of those steel compass things, and he started drawing circles onto a piece of paper. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I heard the snapping of string and the rattle of paper. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tapped some keys and pulled the lever on it and then inspected the resulting paper strip. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I needed to find his military discharge papers, which would provide for me some benefits in the domain of college tuition. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But something warned Gilly that Miss Harris was not likely to crumble at the sight of a blank sheet of paper. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Today, Kelly’s father sat in the middle of the floor, his eyes intent on the paper in his hands. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

She stayed there for three weeks, until they could process her papers and determine whether she was a War Bride, a Displaced Person, a Student, or the wife of a Chinese-American citizen. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I got you something,” I announced, holding up a brown paper bag. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the papers dealt “with the history of cryptography and should belong to the American people,” he argued. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She put all of her papers neatly in the pigeonholes of her desk, and when Joe brought the tea tray she had him put it beside her bed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The paper chain is complete, and this once-unknown town has become a household word around the world. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Among them was a paper showing that Gates was sending 8,000 men to help Washington capture Philadelphia. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled out my desk drawer and counted the rest of the sleeping pills: candy-colored pretties, bright on a sheet of typing paper. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“That’s what the patrollers would say because I have no papers. But I’m free, born free, intending to stay free.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

On the top of the paper, it said that they were living in 12B. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Walking behind his mother, into the dark hall, he managed to open out the scrap of paper. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Finally she stacks the croquettes on a large circular tray, a sheet of wax paper between each layer. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Clutched in her hand was a wadded piece of paper. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Dad had insisted on bringing these papers for this purpose. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is going over a stack of papers with several nervous assistants, his manicured hands following the words being read out to him. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dad was, because he saw his picture in the paper and recognized him. They wanted to eat by theirselves in the Terrace Room.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Jillson the Executive entered with a plastic jug and paper cups. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Hermione seized a roll of paper lying next to the bottles. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I told her, “I ain’t good at mathematics, ma’am, but I’m real good at rememberizing things. Plus I got me a pencil and some paper in my tote sack and I’m gonna write ’em down.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

In his office he constantly altered the position of his coffee mug, his stapler, a jar of pens, he shuffled papers into neater piles. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is that this sheet of paper by the phone?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

As Hobbes remarked of his friend, ‘Roberval has this peculiarity: whenever people publish any remarkable theorem they have discovered, he immediately announces, in papers which he distributes, that he discovered it first.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“But what are you going to do? The pageant is next weekend. I mean, you’re going to be in the paper. And then everyone will know.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

His mom entered, holding a brown paper bag. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Grant calls for his order book, a thin volume of yellow paper with carbon sheets. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He imagines himself as a tall white- coated engineer striding into a laboratory: cauldrons steam, machinery rumbles, complex charts paper the walls. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Instead, we are given money—brand-new crisp bills in decorated red paper pouches. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been doodling on a sheet of paper, stick figures, and “Father Amadi” written over and over again. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

If I’d stopped to think about it, I might have realized that I was burned-out by school—by the grind of lectures, papers, and exams—and probably would have benefited from doing something different. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The boss went over her papers before they went to the cutter and pointed out her mistakes. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The papers the migrants were shown were filled-out applications, nothing more. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I reach down surreptitiously and shove the fallen paper under my pillow. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

This paper—which explained the photoelectric effect, brought quantum mechanics into the mainstream. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Her hands cradled it as if handling Einstein’s original paper on special relativity. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Zu stopped piling her things into her pink suitcase and tore the sheet of paper out for Chubs to keep. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Everybody else in the family cheers and claps when she goes up front to receive her official papers and handshake. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The old gentleman scratched about with his great daws until he had turned up a dirty bundle of papers, one corner of which had been used for lighting something. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Chronicler gathered his paper and quills, Kvothe studied the angle of the sun through the window, a pensive look on his face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

On the shelves were one-pound blocks of butter tightly wrapped in protective paper, and rows of marmalade jars. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I search my pocket for some paper but all I’ve got is a decrepit napkin. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

When morning came, he was almost sorry that he had nowhere to go, no houses to paint, no rooms to paper. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, well, yes,” Dr. Cullen agreed, suddenly occupied with the papers in front of him. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was a poodle serving him Frosty Paws ice cream from a paper tub. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

In Manchester he became something of an intellectual whirlwind, producing books and papers on subjects ranging from meteorology to grammar. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I had no papers, and Estraven said that his wouldn’t hold up under any further forgeries. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I found her in her classroom at lunch, grading papers. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered that we had the paper due some time, but I forgot just when. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

One evening, Grampa had been reading the paper for a while. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Sivaji tells me there is a profit to be made. The landlord has completed the deal, papers have been signed. We must leave.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told her the story of Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford and the momentous slip of paper which he had once held between his fingers. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

A piece of paper had been tied to his neck with a ribbon. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

A large raindrop splashed down on the paper, and the man hurriedly rolled it up and grabbed his tin box of crayons. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

"There's a moneylender from Braavos, holding fancy papers and the like, requests to see the king about payment on some loan." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Back in his hotel room, Sax copied Hall’s notes onto a newspaper using milk for ink—milk makes good invisible ink because once it dries it can’t be seen unless the paper is heated. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Sunday papers in Seattle the next morning, though, were full of excited talk of Berlin. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“His discharge. It came down with his other papers.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

As he was rearranging the stacks, an old sheet of wide-lined tablet paper folded into an airplane fell out of one binder and glided to the floor. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took out a piece of yellowed paper that had been folded and refolded. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Father frowned over a paper he was studying and never looked up. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In spite of himself, he found a piece of paper and a pen and began making a list. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I’d go to her classroom after school and clean her chalkboard, dust her erasers, and pick the paper up off the floor. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When he was a kid, he used to hide pages and pages of loose leaf paper covered in messy, loopy handwriting under the worn denim cushion of the window seat in the house in Austin. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Taking out the crumpled paper, I looked at the telephone number. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I got a call from a reporter at the local paper who wants to do a story on our heroic daughter. Why didn’t you tell us?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Let me have a bottle of sarsaparilla, please,” said Stuart, “and a paper cup.” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

I watched her feed the paper between the rollers and turn the crank. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a perfect plan, thanks to her confession, and I had to get it down on paper before I forgot it. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I held my two “scissors cuts paper” fingers up in front of my face. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clerk slaps a piece of paper in my palm: my ticket. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sandy removed a paper from the inside of his cap and placed it on the desk. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her laptop was open, and there were papers and books everywhere. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

His fingers itched to try to draw it on paper. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

They had been wrapped carefully in white tissue paper: shiny black leather with high square heels. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

As he walks, he's reading from a piece of paper he holds with his other hand. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Reilly stood in the hall looking at the do not disturb sign printed on a sheet of Big Chief paper and stuck to the door by an old flesh-colored Band-Aid. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Bridge looked more closely, she saw that each star had a paper heart glued to its center, with writing on it. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Each person had an assigned task, the putting away of chalk, erasers, papers, books, pencils, note paper, paints, and demonstration material. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

They high-fived, and Dimple grabbed the sheet of paper and sat on the bed to look at it. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

For all that, when he fed a sheet of paper into the typewriter he did not forget the carbon. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

And with that, Mr. Larson sat down in his chair and opened up his paper. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Mom, they gave me this letter for you,” I said, placing the sheet of paper on the kitchen counter. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Chacko brought out a crumpled piece of paper on which he had tried to sketch the rough layout for a new label that he wanted comrade K. N. M. Pillai to print. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hands me a sheet of paper with my class schedule printed on it and smiles at me. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Nothing that hasn’t been in the papers for months already. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls were papered with hundreds of broadsides and ballad-sheets, plus playbills for half a dozen theatres. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Moody kicked the toilet paper under the table. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The windows are high and thin and many-paned, and decorated with cutouts made of construction paper; right now there are snowflakes, for winter. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Mix some sugar with that flour, put it on her tail, and wrap it in brown paper. Tie it on and leave it for a week.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I snapped my papers out of his hand. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He went over her papers and marked them up—too much for her liking, sometimes—and read her papers aloud so she could hear what was wrong with them. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Time has turned his skin into wax paper. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Inside, a young woman sitting at a desk looked up from her papers and smiled at her. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Seething, Ivy put the drawing back in her locker before she ripped out a piece of paper from her science folder. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He closed in until there was barely a paper’s width of space between their noses. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Then she attacked my paper with her pen. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was startlingly austere—some dried noodles, one bag of rice, raisins, coffee, salt, a good supply of candy bars, and toilet paper. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they’d take their pencils and scrap paper and draw to pass the time. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“If the paper chain project is over, so is his excuse for camping out across the street from our school.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She had been correcting social studies papers and had just finished reading Noah Gershom's essay on the First Amendment when the thought flew into her head. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I walked back out holding the paper in both hands and staring at it. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

She wadded up her paper and threw it across the room, where it bounced off the reindeer antlers that were now sitting next to the raven box. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Her dad stood from the table and handed the paper to Emily with a smile. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ward brought the paper to school and held it up for the class to see. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we saw that he was serious and was watching the clock, our pencils hit the paper. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

She watched the two children decorate the dead branches with paper flowers, and wondered if that was the most that Weep could ever hope for. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He should have asked me to spread the paper across the glass so we could compare what I did with what Audubon did. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They crowd my plate, butting up against the muffins, staining the starched paper with little brown flecks and clear spots of grease. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile the paper bag sprang a leak and began to fill. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

He never read the paper or patted his foot to radio. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t let the papers print lies about me after I’ve garroted myself with my tie. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was covered in papers, and her silver laptop was still running. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He was holding out the paper, his chest still heaving, and she stood there not reaching out for the paper. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

On the corner of his desk were two stacks of papers that he still had to transcribe into his border control notebook before he could leave for the evening. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I began to whistle the song that Gabriel had jotted down on the folded piece of paper. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I scribbled their names on a scrap of paper towel. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Hugo bought Felicia a paper cone of fritters and a box of chocolates with a bright red bow. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stirred up a lot of trouble, but it created a ton of publicity for our paper chain. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She tries to clear his nostrils with a bit of rolled-up paper but she’s afraid to push it too far up. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Little lines of ink could be seen at the torn top edge of the paper. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

After working on the school paper for four years—and working her way up to coeditor in chief by senior year—this seemed not only possible, but inevitable. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t one square inch of the gigantic paper that wasn’t covered in dots. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She’d even bought Hazel a new box of crayons and a pad of paper. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Just like he said, the safe was empty—except for his will and a letter and some stock certificates, land deeds, and other legal papers. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I could see papers scattered untidily over one of the writing desks nearby. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The menus are printed on thick, textured paper with fancy gold lettering. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Having spared no expense on the quality of paper and engraving, she barely recovered the costs of the first printing. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I had every worker in the place yanking the paper off those bars of chocolate full speed ahead from morning till night. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

He looked down at the paper he held. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The butcher turned to plunge the body into a steaming pot, then deftly stripped the feathers off, wrapping the body in white paper. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She grabbed a waxed paper cup and filled it with iced tea and a lemon, capped the cup, and brought it back to Petey. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to get in touch with Mike at the paper and see what he can do. We do each other favors. He could get you in there,” she says, pointing with her fork. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I look into my happy little paper cup. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

For New York City’s millions of readers of the downtown papers, it was, at that time, another one of the periodic “Racial Unrest in Harlem” stories. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The paper explained that, in the 1990s, Wisconsin police departments were given nearly a hundred thousand pieces of military equipment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Do you remember reading in the paper of the Armstrong kidnapping case?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ishmael went back to San Piedro for the funeral and to tie up his father’s business affairs; he stayed to run his father’s paper. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“And some children have diabetes,” Ben said, “and some have leprosy, some get eaten by tigers, some are born without arms, some get struck by lightning, and some use leaves for toilet paper.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Champe “stole” some official papers from Lee as part of his cover, hopped on a horse, and headed for New York. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the same room with the fingerprints they’re handing out pieces of paper; you’re supposed to taste them and say whether they taste bitter, like peach pits, or sour, like lemons. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But the papers—” “I won’t look at the papers. Papers are no match at all for my faith in my father.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I picked it up with an unclean feeling, looked at the frilled paper. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because I say so,” she says, handing out the papers and telling us to settle down. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You’re right. I wasn’t honest with people. And before I knew it, the paper chain was taking off, and if I told the truth, it might have tanked the whole thing.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I don’t want him to think he still has the option to give me back the paper, or that he has any other choice but to do me this favor. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I act casual, but cartoon birds tweet around our heads, encircling us with garlands of paper hearts. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

His manservant brings him the morning paper the tea the egg the toast and marmalade and he says, Take it away, life is empty. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Hah!” said Mr. Jaggers at last, as he moved towards the papers on the table. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I still have some more copies of the papers to distribute.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Two gallons of discount-store red punch and tiny paper cups are arranged in a lovely display next to the plate of generic black-and-white cookies. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

She took me to a small room and handed my papers to the doctor, who glanced at them and asked me to strip to my shorts. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I took a stack of plates out of her hands and set them on the kitchen table by a pile of papers that I recognized as copies of Loma’s Christmas play. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But it has to be positive publicity, and these days, Chokecherry’s claim to fame is the paper chain. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

In her own room Kate took five small bottles and a strip of scribbled paper from her handbag. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Taking out the crumpled paper, I looked at the telephone number. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She grabs a piece of paper and presses her finger on it. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know,” I said, staring at a stack of graded papers on her desk. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He carries the sheet of paper in a daze to the alley where Frau Elena boils sheets amid billows of steam. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Joseph sat in front of the stack of papers. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He was studying her closely now, as closely as he had studied his papers before. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

When they escaped that complex of mirrors and marbled halls in an eruption of fire and rubble and charred scraps of paper. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

With scribbles on paper that are not worth the scratch of a pig’s snout. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It’s none of his business I can’t afford fancy brushes and watercolor paper at home. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course I knew what was in the paper bag. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I fumbled frantically with the paper and pencil. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

A few moments before the trial, a guard came to his cell and left a paper. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

At this fourth hearing, Carol and I were busily trying to process papers and resolve the endless issues that had emerged to keep Mr. Carter and Mr. Caston incarcerated. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Ron was already ripping the paper off his own presents. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I had lived through the wildest hour where nobody did anything major to me, but their threats, near misses, and flying paper airplanes and pencils had shattered my nerves. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dropped the rest of the Cokes into the grave and pulled out a white paper bag decorated with cartoons. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I took my soaking brush in hand, stroked my gold cake, and a cat streaked out on my paper in one lightning stroke, whiskers, tail, meow and all! How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

But then in math class, when I finish rummaging in my backpack for my homework, I look down at my desk to see a folded piece of paper. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Matt knew Maria hoarded things—worn-out shirts, broken toys, and gift-wrapping paper—and she got hysterical if anything went missing. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maddy handed her a pen and a small, precious piece of paper. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

But I gave the paper a tug and it came free, as if Dad had already given up. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“I did not read any papers. I wanted to get back home, for one reason. ... It was New Year’s Eve.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked as the two of them sat at the kitchen table, heads bent over a piece of paper I assumed was an application. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He moved his hands uneasily about over the papers on his desk, oppressed by them, uncertain where he should begin. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Moushumi is invited to give a paper at a conference at the Sorbonne, and they decide to make a vacation out of it, Gogol arranging to take the week off from work. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is on notebook paper, covering the front and back, written in cursive pencil. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Met Bong puts a piece of paper in my hand. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

You couldn’t light a stove, or play, or tear paper, or ride in a car on the Sabbath, but you could read. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was writing rapidly on a scroll, the brush racing across the paper, leaving behind a trail of perfectly formed characters. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

It was a paper picture of the Stove King, who reported to the Lord of Heaven each year about what the family had done—both the good things and the bad things. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was working with tissue paper and a bolt of red ribbon, and as Aron came in he hastily covered something on his desk with a large blotter. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

My doodling of the bases on paper at first got no where, regardless of whether or not I had been to a film. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Tab wiped her nose with a wad of paper towel she found in her pocket. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Throughout his writing career, he stayed abreast of new ideas and discoveries by corresponding with researchers and reading scientific papers. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The yellow Whitman’s Sampler box that held my colored pencils, stickers, and scraps of paper still smelled of chocolate but no longer contained a delicious assortment of candy. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I had no idea of the frequency with which Luce’s name appeared in the relevant journals and papers. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“He said something like, all I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with and I can turn the world upside down.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He shoved the papers into an envelope and drove to the liquor store. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that me and Maria peel the paper off, turn our cigarettes into regular bubble gum. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I mean to say,” Gherland said, feeling himself crumple and burn, like paper. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Quickly he signed the papers and ran back toward his room. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

A strip of hide came off the zebra’s belly like gift-wrap paper comes off a gift, in a smooth-edged swath, only silently, in the way of tearing skin, and with greater resistance. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The young black man in the checkered suit, after reading the letter, grudgingly gave me papers indicating that I was now qualified to apply for a pass. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman sat at a long table with two stacks of paper in front of her. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He put a piece of paper down on top of my sandwich. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go down to get the morning paper. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

People whispered that his story of the paper birds was just a fantasy. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It goes into my chart, which will go to the pastels, who will bring it to the pharmacy, and a new pill will find its way into my happy paper cup before dinner. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Luke frowned and wrote on the paper, Why not take off? Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d like to work for the newspaper. I’ll write copy or deliver the papers to classes or clean the newsroom or change ink cartridges in the printers. I have some writing samples here for you.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hugged his poem closer, and the paper crackled and sighed. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

It was supposed to be a three-page paper showing how something that happened in one of Shakespeare’s plays also happened in our own community. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He did not turn to the papers until after the man had left the room. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I have the result,” she said after a while, holding the unsealed paper, her expression disappointed because it was negative. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He finished, then slid the paper over to rest in front of Thomas. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Inside was a small piece of blue paper and on it was printed this message: Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked two moons in his moccasins. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He fussed with some papers on his desk. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

So I took that paper out of my pocket and read it. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He put down the paper and rose and disappeared into the pantry. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the papers blew off the sill. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They flipped through Clarence’s thick stack of papers with serious expressions on their faces. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

When the paper airplane bounced off the back of the driver’s head, the man pulled the bus over onto the shoulder. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

He makes things too: paper boxes, crude biplanes, toy boats with working rudders. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He screamed something without words and flung the papers and paints into the dirty brown water. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I have here your final exam. Last semester, I gave you nearly two months to complete your final paper. This time, you get two weeks.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

We noticed that Perch was now in the process of trashing his cell and was throwing things—clothing, paper, toiletries—across the flats. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you ready for that econ paper?” he asked, pulling a gigantic binder from his backpack. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The New York Times ran a small story about the results, crammed in the back of the paper, on the obituary page. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

One day I will pack my bags of books and paper. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The navigator was scribbling some figures on a scrap of paper, which he handed to the pilot. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The night was not dark enough to hide what lay on the lawn outside: a shapeless mound of ashes, pale gray in the moonlight, gray as moth wings, gray as burnt paper. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It observes Maribel packing the two cinnamon crullers in a white paper bag, folding the top over neatly, and thanking the customer. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The paper in Samuel’s hand is fully crumpled now. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, Fuchs handed Gold the papers he had prepared, then Fuchs drove Gold to the bus station. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nurse picks up the papers that were resting on my knees and flips through them quickly. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The girl picks up a few more napkins and a paper cup. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A few throbbing minutes later, when he opened his eyes, he found himself squinting at a small, unopened package wrapped in green paper. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The top of the desk was completely empty except for a shallow box filled with papers in one corner and a desktop computer in the other. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It was too windy tonight to fly my paper planes, really. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I gave the Eagle a piece of paper, and he walked to a phone on the wall and dialed. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Disgusted, I ripped up the paper and tossed it in the trash. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He sipped his drink and remembered the incident of Mr. Reilly’s dumping all of those examination papers on the heads of that freshman demonstration beneath the windows of the faculty office building. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This last was for the disposal of waste paper. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The paper was old and creased, no longer stiff to the touch but pliable as cloth. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

There was enough light coming through the window for him to read by, and he wanted to look at the papers. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grabs me when I’m not looking and rubs a sheet of paper on my forehead like he’s giving me a noogie. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Some had pen and paper with hardbacks to write on. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then she had to go down to the candy store to get the Sunday paper; then to the cigar store to get Papa a nickel Corona. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He scribbled an address on a paper in his sketch pad. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Just business as usual: homework out, papers exchanged, lesson reviewed. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, I couldn’t help but notice that my dad’s mysterious pile of depressing papers was just sitting on the table, in plain view. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What I want to know,” she said, “is this: Are the stars gold paper or is the gold paper stars?” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

There was a shivery, rustling sound to his left, like the flapping of a paper wing. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Okay, that should be enough time. Pass in your papers, please.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Well, I guess it’s asking too much for Billy Clayton to actually read the papers he delivers. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She showed the slip of paper that she carried to the woman who answered her knock at the back door of the farmhouse. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a bitterly cold day, worsened by the wind that lifted the papers along the block and sent them flying across Malcolm X Boulevard. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about putting an end to this torture and signing the divorce papers. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Truthfully, I had been expecting envelopes, or at the very least lined notebook paper. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The writing was calligraphic, the paper white, the ink as black as Hecate's soul. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

She stared at the piece of paper for a moment more. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He told Mary that he and Robert were going to run inside to pick up some papers, but that she should wait in the car. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He nodded and took the pencil from behind his ear and pulled out a sheet of paper from the bench. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In front of me, Matt is writing notes back and forth with Calvin Umbatoor on a single sheet of paper that’s sitting on the floor between them. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t help that our local paper, the Shadbush County Daily, does a whole spread on the swastika thing. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

My shoulder is aching and my arm is starting to go to sleep from the pressure of the clump of paper in my armpit. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to leave my new family when the papers finally came through in March of 1948. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He tacked up a piece of cross-section graph paper, which was a thousand lines long and a thousand lines wide, and thus contained exactly a million little squares. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in the kitchen sat Sam Adams himself, inkhorn and papers before him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother held out a paper bleeding in red ink. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Reilly took the sheet of paper and read the typed column of itemized figures beneath the contractor’s letterhead. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, I took out a piece of lined school paper and sat on the bottom of my bunk bed, where I usually did my homework. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He pulled out some demon paper dollars and coins. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had lunch on Howard’s front porch, sitting on the couch eating Vienna sausages and cold pork and beans off of paper plates on our laps. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It was a worn square of paper with a date written on it in big letters. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He showed her several editions, some rudely printed on cheap paper with only paper backing, but there was only one she wanted. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

By the way, if those two never get back together, the money will go toward fresh supplies for the paper chain. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Brother Mance would pace the floor, extolling my abilities with pen and paper. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time I brought to mind a memory or thought and tried to put an invisible wall around it, my defenses crumbled, as flimsy as waxed paper. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He picked up a sheaf of papers and began reading. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He took off his hat and held out a piece of paper. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

That evening, I climbed the stairs and walked into Baba’s smoking room, in my hands the two sheets of paper on which I had scribbled the story. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And as I sat there watching it all, Cade Hernandez, wearing nothing but a pale blue disposable paper jumpsuit, came up around the driver's side of the truck from somewhere in the darkness behind me. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

At home, I would borrow a burning twist of paper from a neighbor when all the fires in the house were cold. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pieces of a sheet of a paper are taped to the door, but someone’s ripped it off so nothing’s left but the corners. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

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

Working quietly on one side of the window, easing the paper off inch by inch, Nadia ended up with a piece that was almost as long as the room was tall. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

She sketched out the design on graph paper, and the stonecutter went to work. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She shuffles through a stack of papers on her desk and pulls out a lovely cream-colored vellum envelope. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I always looked the other way when ReelTok put down our town, because his vlog was so important to the paper chain. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Most of their special information, besides what they read in the papers, came from Mrs. Ross by way of Melanie. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How was that weird?” she whispers back as she skims through the papers in the folder. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

No announcements precede it, no paper notices on downtown posts and billboards, no mentions or advertisements in local newspapers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

My mom stands up and puts a scrap of paper on the table. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He had also made a chess set, using toothpaste caps and squares of paper as pieces. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl held off fitting three sheets of paper between the planes of her stapler. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

As he carefully unfolded the paper, he knew that the Theorem's prophecy had been fulfilled. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The Syrian army doesn’t check papers like the Protection Units. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He showed her the paper, and told her about Tom Perry. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He finished as the grandfather clock ticked to twenty-six minutes, and he handed the paper across his father’s desk. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

They finished with chocolates wrapped in gold paper. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have been fortunate enough to receive letters with such information, to have rêveurs share with me writings from journals or thoughts scribbled on scraps of paper. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He wrapped a napkin around the paper cup and offered it to me. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“So I am happy about the paper by Dr. Gartler and am also sure he has made many people unhappy.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But the tar paper that Gerald had found and nailed to the ramp really did help her, so she had let him play on it. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day after the broadcast, there were five letters to the editor in the paper about Mr. Fairbain, none favorable. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the timer rang, Fadi reset it for five seconds and used the tongs to pull out the paper and slip it into the indicator stop bath. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I lower my paper and just look at her. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t me. She had all her papers. She was supposed to be here. They were supposed to let her in.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The key sat in the middle of the paper picnic cloth. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

She has a present wrapped in funny papers in one hand and a juice jar filled with lemonade in the other. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those that had pen and paper wrote their last letters to their families and pressed them on me and begged me, if I survived, to see them delivered. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

But there was his picture in the paper. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Thanksgiving morning at the rehab center, unfortunately, was the same as every other day, except for the construction paper turkeys pasted all along the walls of the waiting room. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. Wise flips through the stack and licks his finger before touching my paper. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

June 15—Our escape hit the papers yesterday, and the tabloids had a field day. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The flock is sundering, scattering: it is paper. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Sierra was just some kid from around the way; why was a Columbia librarian wasting so much time to dig up papers on some vanished anthropologist for her? Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I pictured folded morning papers tossed from cars, landing in driveways all over Mica. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I can’t get you one with embroidery on it or crocheting along the edges, but I’ll get you some toilet paper if you tell me to. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it wasn’t just the palace—he’d drawn a line under it across the paper to signify some kind of landscape. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

In the next day or two Frodo went through his papers and his writings with Sam, and he handed over his keys. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He opened it all the same, very carefully so as not to tear the delicate paper, but it wasn’t delicate at all: it was tough. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Only deep into the play’s final act did he notice a white scrap of paper visible behind a flickering, holographic prop stove he’d been working on earlier. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s my address, in case you ever want to write or anything, but I’d understand if you didn’t—” I opened the paper. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Having neglected to pack writing paper, he began a laconic journal on some blank pages in the back of Tanaina Plantlore. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Various glowing advertisements of it had appeared in the papers. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Austin, who had spent forty years publishing a paper with the motto “The Truth Unbridled,” advised Fuller not to pull his punches. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The rebels know. I’ve sent for a cart. We must burn my papers.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually I only have small pieces of paper. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Noah scrambled up on scrawny legs and handed his paper to Ms. Bevelaqua. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

He had seen the books, but I held the paper sack with his cookies in my arms shielded by the poems. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until September he had been diligent if not dedicated, summarizing chapters, outlining arguments on pads of yellow lined paper. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Reams of ‘work-sheets’ were destroyed in the desire not to bury completely all posterity under a mammoth paper mausoleum,” she later joked. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I put away the tiny notepad and took out a full sheet of calligraphy paper and began, The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

She grabs a short stack of paper from behind the Van Helsing statue. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I turned to look at him, then turned back at the brownish gray paper stuck to the wall. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He took a handful of papers from a pigeonhole—bills and receipts; next hole, insurance; next, a small book with records of every girl. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of asking the waiter for a paper, but I could not concentrate. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

In fact, there were several newspaper stories, including one in the Washington paper, but I didn’t read a single one. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The wind strengthened and blew paper cups and empty cigarette packs in eddies around the parking lots. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought I knew how much Cardan hated me, but looking at that paper, I realized I had no idea. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He opened a drawer and pulled out some papers. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

In the decade after 1927, sixty-six papers were published in scientific journals based on research carried out at Tower House. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Another Peking, China paper, Jenmin Jihpao, said that the death showed that “in dealing with imperialist oppressors, violence must be met with violence. ” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took a piece of paper from his pocket. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But what he hadn't done was quite important—he hadn't gotten Katherine III on paper, and one cannot take an equation that predicts eighteen out of nineteen Katherines to the Nobel Prize Committee. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

As I toss the final items of clothing into the washer, a piece of paper falls out of my housecoat pocket and onto the floor. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A thick seal of crimson wax had been broken, and part of a folded paper protruded invitingly. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

"But when she got here, why didn't she tell Mrs. Janssen who she really was? Why didn't she ask Mrs. Janssen to help her get new papers?" Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

At some point, once she was already with her aunt, she placed a greeting for her friend in the paper. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

My breaths come fast, and I struggle to grab the paper before anyone can read another word of it. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Squinting at the paper in concentration, she flashed the light once very quickly, followed this with two longer flashes, then paused. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Can't get a good job without that piece of paper, Alfred." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The photographer wrapped the pictures in brown paper and tied them with twine. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

More and more of the white sheets were covered with his large handwriting, scrawled impatiently over the paper. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He ran to a phone booth in the hall and called Harding Bancroft, the paper’s executive vice president. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He must see to his mother, first of all; he must use Tom Torgerson’s ham radio set and put in a call to Anacortes about printing the paper there. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

As Rishi sat there, hunched over his sketch pad, the stub of a pencil in his hand, the other hand curled around the corner of the paper, Dimple knew he wasn’t really there. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The paper pushed its way out onto the tray of backward letters. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

On top was a large piece of brown wrapping paper with a note attached. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Effie Trinket crosses back to the podium, smoothes the slip of paper, and reads out the name in a clear voice. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Mr. Brademas officially kicks off the paper chain on the morning announcements Thursday. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

First, you take construction paper and cut it into strips about two inches wide and eight or nine inches long. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Then I cleared my throat so maybe Audrey would look my way and see that paper, but she was busy stirring her yogurt. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

How he had copied the group of letters out on a piece of brown paper; copied, as illiterate people do, every curlicue, arch, and bend in the letters, and presented it to the midwife. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lanning flipped a sheet of paper out of his vest pocket and unfolded it. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“Yes, Papa,” I said, and pressed my pencil to the paper, feeling an electric tingle go up my arm. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I know someone with that ability. If she was carrying a huge stack of papers and tripped, they’d all land exactly like she had them before.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Students folded a long chain of paper cranes and sent it to Sasha. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

His cousin pushed him past the greeting cards and wrapping paper. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He removed a large glass jar full of papers. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The taxi waited as I ran into the newspaper reading room and found the paper Newman mentioned. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“The lady who plays Mother Paula on TV is going to be there. The mayor, too. That’s what the paper said.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held up a paper to prove it, so I guess it was true. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“All the bathrooms ran out of toilet paper and paper towels, real quick.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“So, do you need to sign any discharge papers or anything?” asked Dad. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

And then the tent begins to open, the paper folding and tearing. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As the period went on, I got more and more curious about Webb’s paper. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

The name printed on the folded paper with the setting sun and praying hands was Herman Clayton Byrd. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Corinthians threw it in the brown paper bag opened for the day’s garbage. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could remember playing paper football on these tables. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

But there I stood, holding out a dressed-up toilet paper roll in Abby’s direction. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

A scrawny teen with dark curly hair, Dan was shy and quiet and had the unusual habit of walking around campus in a double-breasted suit, carrying his books and papers in a black briefcase. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Instead I sat down with pen and paper and wrote him a letter. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

After they leave, Nino Carlitos slouches on the sofa, folding origami and then balling the paper up and throwing it against the wall. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had spent the entire time with her eyes glued to a piece of paper, her voice monotone and rushed, and she had later confessed to Moss that she felt miserable about it. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You’re a good writer,” Momma says, setting the papers down gently. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Emily undid the latch and opened the lid to reveal a yellowed stack of papers sealed in a clear bag. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Why, there had been nothing else in the papers lately! And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

It might have looked good on paper, but—¡Ay, chihuahua!—what a mess. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“We should get this written up in the papers,” Mrs. said. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The chestnut-eyed actress with long auburn hair knows that this moment will put her name in papers around the world, so there is more than a touch of self-indulgence in her actions. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Everything we need is here on this paper. Seven bottles: three are poison; two are wine; one will get us safely through the black fire, and one will get us back through the purple.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

What happened was she hid some secret papers in the trunk of a car she borrowed, and she ran out of gas on the highway. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gives me a roll of brown paper and a piece of white chalk and shows me how to draw a tree in three sweeping lines. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Darryl was hauling huge rolls of construction paper to the decorations people in the art room. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I handed him a paper saying Emilika was my cousin with all the feigned confidence in the world. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I wasn't going to tear up the paper keyboard I had been practicing on for the last three years, though. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We went on standing in front of the door of the suite, and I noticed that the daily paper was still thrust through the letterbox. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Little by little, they fell into place on a fresh sheet of paper about eighteen inches wide. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

As he was getting out of the car, X-Ray said, “By the way. I’m going to need thirty bucks to put an ad in the paper.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He did not mention the incident at all, but asked me if I could bring him the following things: some pencils, plain white paper, a ruler, a protractor, and a drawing compass. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Eventually he gave another bland shrug and scratched out a note on a slip of paper. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He shoved the piece of paper into my hand. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

We stand in line to fill out papers. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She was smiling, but Rishi could tell by the way her hands were fidgeting with the wet paper towel that she was worked up. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Sitting on the couch, Tamika faced a stack of papers alongside a tower of envelopes on the living room table. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She gestures at the citizenship booklet, sitting on the stack of papers—right on top of all her bills. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I look at a blue glitter dot that got stuck under the contact paper. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Luma gathered the newcomers, asked their names, and wrote them down on a sheet of paper. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He also had paper and a packet of wax crayons. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He reached down and ran a hand over it, remembering the sight of his father stepping out of the market, the paper bag in the crook of his arm. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Glerk looked closer at the paper—not at the words, but at the paper itself. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She sat at the gray folding table in the kitchenette, a heap of tom paper scraps in front of her. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Brown picnic tables ran in neat rows along the asphalt, and people lined up at buffet tables with their paper plates, each collecting a pile of food from the cluster of stalls. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I wrapped it up in green tissue paper, tied a bright blue grosgrain ribbon in a bow around it, and slid it into a Fabric Barn bag. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

She lifts up the bundle by the paper and carries it to me. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

How can I, when behind the words, on the white background of the paper, I’m watching an endless loop of my parents’ deaths? Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She leaned so close to the paper that the tip of her nose nearly touched it, and she inhaled its pulpy odor. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I reach into David’s pocket and pull out the piece of paper with my handwriting on it. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Mary Anne selected a chair directly opposite from where her father sat reading the paper. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When every scrap of paper in the street had disappeared, they shuffled home, heads still bowed. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In here is a piece of paper. If you need to look at it for proof you aren’t...that word, then you can.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I should say something about Rue, and Thresh, too, really, but every time I tried to write it at home, I ended up with a blank paper staring me in the face. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The guy made a paper airplane, and he couldn’t resist flying it. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

We walk up behind him while he is organizing his papers into piles. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Pardee, Jacob, and Monod published their monumental study on the lactose operon in 1959, six years after the Watson and Crick paper on the structure of DNA. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

For a long time I got a headache reading papers in semantics that analyzed the two meanings of some. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

They pass their green paper, dry as old leaves and smelling of a thousand hands, back and forth and back again. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Emily couldn’t resist peeking behind herself to look at Maddie, who scowled at her binder and scratched a doodle in the margins of her paper. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He picked up the terrible piece of green-blue paper and waved it in my direction but he didn’t look up. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, that was Billy’s. A noisy yellow canary that was eaten by a kestrel when we hung her cage outside one afternoon. It made the local paper. Luckily we’d already done the recordings.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I sat at the kitchen table and unfolded the paper. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

To help them make sense of a number like six million, they set out to collect six million paper clips. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Because my papers are false, I cannot show them to just anybody. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

She must first protect her sister against him, and then find ways of conjuring him safely on paper. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I was glad I still remembered how to put the paper in, and that the ribbon wasn’t all worn out yet. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Even the toilet paper felt good, unlike the sandpaper that could send students to the school nurse. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then there's the park that we go to, with a paper bag filled with my mom's spiced potatoes in folded bread and bottles of juice. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

With these words she passed Mo a piece of paper across the table. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They had an extremely thoughtful and helpful entry created by a user named skunkbutt: “A Paper Town is a town that’s got a paper mill in it.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I crack open the top, and between sheets of wax paper are cookies. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He scowled, crumpled the paper, and dashed it to the floor. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The driver came out of the door with the papers for the wounded in the car. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He stops, glances around, and removes a folded white paper from his sleeve. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Jam kept staring at the paper, her fingers numb with shock. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

They spent several sleepless nights making the copies, sorting the papers into boxes, and stashing them with friends all over Boston. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There was a tiny china duck, a thimble, a strange little brass coin, two paper clips and a stone with a hole in it. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

They unwound more of the toilet paper in silence. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

About the compound yard were strewn empty beer cartons and bottles, papers, rotting porridge, rags, overturned trash cans, overturned nightsoil buckets, ash from burnt peat and coal. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I kept trying to get her to order something else, but she kept asking for more bowls of the bisque,” Charlise says as she goes through a stack of paper menus. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

There was never enough time to sit down and read a paper properly. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

However, she read the papers, and it wasn’t hard for an intelligent person to see what was going on in the politics of her country. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Mr. Miller is grading papers at his desk. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Because I don’t care to discuss it,” she said from behind the paper. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I recall reading about it in the paper as Louvenia nods, waits for me to catch up on my typewriter. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

More to the point at the moment is the state of my clothing, most of which is now residing in the other brown paper bag, the one that serves as a hamper. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately, the chicken disappeared, and in its place was a wet piece of paper, a blurry painting of a chicken on it. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

An infinite supply of paper, to be sure, but nothing more than paper, strewn with marks like debris from an explosion. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She put them in a paper bag and crept back into the drawing room when the lights were suddenly switched on. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The paper chain may have changed us, but I don’t think I’m ever going to make it into that popular crowd. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Under the table lay the sheets of paper he had crumpled up or torn. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And she was trying to slip a piece of paper through the slats in Ivy’s locker. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“There are pieces of paper in the wall out there,” I said, as if August didn’t know this. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote on a slip of paper and gave it to Nat. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the start of class, James bent over his backpack and pulled out a handful of long, skinny strips of paper. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She’s put the desks into a circle, and on the walls are big sheets of chart paper with words in the middle: Ethics, Race, Poverty, Research, Cancer. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

And the paints that Osh had so carefully brewed were now splashed across the house in mad streaks, his beautiful clean paper in shreds, the legs of his easel broken. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I pulled two sheets of paper from my back pocket and handed them over. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

And Spoony kept feeding Berry the papers, one after another, as she continued to read down the list of unarmed black people killed by the police. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There, within the flame of the tea candle again, you are on your bed crying into a piece of brown paper. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I kick a piece of balled-up loose-leaf paper as if it’s a soccer ball, working on swiveling my feet around the front as I go. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

After digging through what looked like hundreds of papers, he came back to the living room. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But they won’t stay still for me, they move, there’s a smile and it’s gone, their features curl and bend as if the paper’s burning, blackness eats them. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

A people pushed to the extremities that existed in the South could not possibly hold on, the papers claimed. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the white paper in his extended hand. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the mornings his mother goes to the mailbox and brings in the paper. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was an almost endless-looking letter, typewritten on several pages of second-sheet yellow paper, and he was having some little trouble keeping it propped up against the two dry islands of his knees. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

All those white hands working in concert, committing their facts and figures down on blue paper. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She took out a piece of paper and scribbled something on it. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Folks from all around town turned in their remembrances written out on notepaper, receipts, napkins, even toilet paper. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He handed each of us a small piece of paper which read Trans-Texas Airways: Pine Bluff, AR, to Little Rock, AR. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’ll cover a sheet of paper with two or three, then flip it over and fill the other side. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Richardson used to help me and Cotton make paper fortune-tellers when she was babysitting us back in the day. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Instead he was holding a piece of paper folded into a small square. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I thought Catherine would come by but she did not come, so I hung the papers back on the rack, paid for my beer and went up the street to look for her. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

In place of Miss Trixie, a brown paper bag filled with old pieces of material, and a ball of twine occupied the chair. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little piece of paper fluttered to the ground. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are there others?” my father demanded, snapping the paper from me. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Okay, team. I think that’ll work. Come on. Let’s go fold some paper and use our paper clip.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

She was peering intently at a paper they’d printed out the night before in Ms. Morales’s office: the map of the Boring Room that came from putting together the butterfly spots. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

From her belt, Thalia unfolded a piece of paper. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He snaps on the light, takes out a piece of paper, jots down everything he can remember from the BBC broadcast. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Down that way is the old pulpwood and paper factory. Remember how that stank?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the last year or so of the war they started giving us something new called K-rations that had a lot more in them, sometimes even fruit drinks, toilet paper, peanuts, and chewing gum. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The madwoman pressed her hand to her mouth, the touch of her fingers as light as paper. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I pulled a piece of paper from my math notebook and thought for a moment. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A tongue as sharp as a paper knife. But I warn you, if you harm Meggie I'll do the same to your beloved books.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Miss Saunders nods for me to take out paper and get to my seat. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

A piece of tattered paper from the window blew into the room, floating for a moment between Pinmei and the others. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He was sitting on the couch surrounded by books and papers. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took out a sheet from a stack of paper—a flyer with a crouching black panther and some writing on it—and held it up to examine it. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad then brought out some paper diagrams of a typewriter keyboard, and passed one to each of us. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slipped the papers into the cigar box and shoved it back into the floor space. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I try to explain that I found out about Mom’s family first and the paper chain came later, but they don’t really want to hear that. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She reaches a hand out to brush over the paper, the entire room swaying gently as the motion passes from page to page. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Every day he saw them stepping from trains and grip-cars and hansom cabs, inevitably frowning at some piece of paper that was supposed to tell them where they belonged. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Mr. Wren, my music teacher, was just as annoyed at me for forgetting my trombone as Mrs. Kastor had been about my science paper. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Kazi gave it to me this morning wrapped in brown paper, tied with a piece of dried grass. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She handed her paper to Mr. Greene and she was smiling. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Excellent, Mia,” she says, placing my paper lightly on my desk. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Just two lines across, each word on a separate piece of paper. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Is there a reason,” I asked, “why you are filtering the coffee with toilet paper?” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The trees were smaller now, and the roads looked like strips of paper. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I handed her a paper towel and she blew her nose. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Salad leaves are in a bowl covered with dampened paper towels. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was Julia who gave me my first crayon, a stubby blue one, slipped through the broken spot in my glass along with a folded piece of paper. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

But oil geologists didn’t write academic papers; they just found oil. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Dr. Rohmer grew as pale as the paper of his unsigned contract. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Mine’s licking envelopes. I can do twenty in eight seconds, no paper cuts.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she was more like him than he’d thought: Her home, too, had consisted of paper and printer’s ink. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He was holding a large sheet of paper which was blowing about in the wind. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“All of those records are on paper, and we don’t have that paper. We have no actual records of any of those people. They’re FEMA’s.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He lifts the paper bag dress to reveal a low cut crop top and olive green shorts so tiny they could be underwear. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Strangers are asking me where the bathroom is and how come there ain’t no toilet paper. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Across the toilet seat a strip of paper bore the message: “This seat has been sterilized with ultraviolet light for your protection.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without interrupting his song, the trumpeter kicks the paper cups away from his feet. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Dunning’s paper, which declared nuclear testing to be “mandatory to the defense of our country,” was couched in the sober language of an academic treatise. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Next the paper said, “Masters of the New Jazz,” then in the middle of the flyer was a blurry picture of the man I have a real good suspicion about. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

At eleven three he had all the necessary papers in his pocket. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a spread of snacks ready on the kitchen table, with bright blue paper plates and napkins. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“What does building a paper airplane have to do with the study of library science?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

He laid the brace down on the counter, picked up a small paper sack, and filled it about half-full of horseshoe nails. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rearranged the pencils on his desk, tidied some papers, and finally looked at her thoughtfully. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Swiftly he rips open the red-white-and-blue paper wrapping and hands it back. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“The bad news,” Jillson said, “is that what S.Q. found—a curious piece of paper—was destroyed before he could read it.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Five hundred dollars, his driver’s license, phone numbers on slips of paper, social security card, airline ticket stub, cleaners receipts. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She twists paper into the floor with her boot soles. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I could board early and risk the officers deeply analyzing my pass and papers. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The man pulled out a piece of paper, an application, from a buttoned shirt pocket and handed it to C.P., who retrieved a pencil from the office and filled out the form. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, she turned to me sharply, as if I’d thrown a ball of paper at her, and her eyes flashed in a way that reminded me of her Hailsham days. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the first checkpoint, a guard asked for his papers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The brave tin soldier in his little paper boat—she imagined him suddenly appearing beside the fruit basket. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then he sensed a movement behind him, quick and violent and too close, and before he could turn around, a paper hat had been pushed onto his head. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He was given a briefcase and his honorable discharge papers, and fed a steak dinner. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The papers referred to Seabiscuit as “retired,” but Howard wouldn’t use that word. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twice had he had such paper given him. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

But when I unfold my piece of paper, the name on it is Oscar Mancini! Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Let’s roll out the paper and see.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

She pressed her fingertips to the damp headline, examined her inked fingertips, then made fingerprints on a sheet of white paper. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read the papers with the coffee and then smoked a cigarette. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Soon Helmuth knows his way around the administrative offices, and one morning he's sent to file papers in a basement storeroom. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

"Cherry knocking" sounds a pretty word but prettiness often papers over nastiness. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

This was really unusual—he typically didn’t get off work until five thirty in the evening—but he had to get some papers for work he’d forgotten at home. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There were some small pieces and bits of paper floating on the surface inside the plane— dirt from the floor of the plane that had floated up—but nothing substantial. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stuck a red ribbon on top and made a card out of folded construction paper. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Luma held up a stack of papers—contracts she expected her players to sign—and passed a sheet to each boy. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z