Emily rounded a corner, passing the papier-mache witch hats decorated by sixth graders that lined the windows of the library. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They spent so much time staring at each other’s faces before they were born they can go the rest of their lives passing up mirrors without a glance. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Few of the climbers trudging by had given either corpse more than a passing glance. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Lily just quietly listened with her head turned toward the window, watching the passing scenery. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“His reward for passing summer school is not getting left behind.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

We have been on the road for eighteen days now and our food ration is getting smaller with each passing day. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me go, and I will tell you a tale passing strange.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

My ticket for sailing right over all the competition, or passing them until they were just a dot in my rearview mirror. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Still, he slowed his canoe to keep a safe distance, trying to figure out a way to get to his office without passing directly by them. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She tinned her board to fly away, but the machine lifted up into the air, passing right over her, and suddenly the wind was too great. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Then people started passing the big blue plates around and stabbing toast and pancakes and sausages with their forks. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I make my way back toward the staircase, passing the double doors to the master bedroom, and notice that one is slightly ajar. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I think we’re all just passing through in this life. We’re only temporary. When I learned that I realized there’s no reason to be scared.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I wondered about the Negro who had left this trace of his passing. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was upset over a Negro man named Mr. Raines, who was killed by a shotgun from a passing car in Georgia. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They crawl under obstacles, do push-ups, scale ropes suspended from the ceiling—one hundred children passing sleek and interchangeable in their white uniforms like livestock before the eyes of the examiners. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The scars from the war, which I felt so deeply, weren't visible in the passing landscape. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

We are hoisted up into a train car—not one for people, with padded seats and windows and a view of the passing countryside. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As we were passing through a security checkpoint at the airport in Brussels, we were pulled out of line. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The rain General Taheri had spoken about at the flea market was a few weeks late, but when we stepped out of Dr. Amani’s office, passing cars sprayed grimy water onto the sidewalks. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Nuah is behind me, being Mr. Nice Guy and not passing me but moderating his pace. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The landscape has become gray, filled with low flat cement buildings, old factories, and then tracks and more tracks filled with trains like ours passing by in the opposite direction. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today, as I gaze out of my bedroom window, the thought-voices tell me that the people in a passing car want to hurt me. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Nothing so blatant as gasps or screams—people were used to scythes passing through their daily lives. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Nine northern soldiers dressed in dark clothes ran along the path I had just left, passing inches from my face without seeing me. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Marthas know things, they talk among themselves, passing the unofficial news from house to house. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the darkness, we rode our bikes into the wind down Beach Street, passing Front Beach and the old cemetery. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

In those waters was that most perilous strait guarded by Scylla and Charybdis, which the Argonauts had succeeded in passing only because Thetis helped them and where Ulysses had lost six of his men. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined passing my armlessness on to other people, their fully grown arms shrinking and shriveling and getting sucked up into their shoulders with a terrible slurping sound after I touched them. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But the shadow of horror wheeled and returned, passing lower now, right above them, sweeping the fen-reek with its ghastly wings. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

"They're passing me out of training. I'm to be made a brother with the rest of you. Can you believe it?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There were men passing through in both directions: crew members, technicians, priests. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But the peace was passing, too, for he saw the dust billowing from the trails of the hunting men, and he experienced the return of resentment. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fog and the monotony make it next to impossible to measure the passing time. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The maze was growing darker with every passing minute as the sky overhead deepened to navy. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe if we just sit here, if we don’t acknowledge that time is passing, then this too-perfect day won’t have to end. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I call out to a passing ambulance wagon which picks us up. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And our readings were guided by the teachings of Tradition—the continuous interpretation of the Word passing through generations of Catholics. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Garrett may have mentioned it in passing. But don’t get him in trouble. I only bring it up to add evidence to my argument about your forgiving nature.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

From backhoes, cranes, cement-mixing trucks, and men in hardhats came a roar of clanging metal, grinding gears, sliding gravel—and the occasional whistle at a passing woman. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Relief pours through my body, the kind of relief you get after passing a test you didn’t study for. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until refugees started passing through our town that we began to see that it was actually taking place in our country. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Cora was informed of the night riders’ rounds by the ripple passing through the park. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Cobb strode on in front of him, passing a stairway that rose up too steeply, and then a library hoarding shelves of dark volumes—the arts of necromancy, Turner figured. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Miyax did not know how long she slept, for midnight was almost as bright as noon and it was difficult to judge the passing of time. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I snapped off the light and he disappeared but his voice in passing said, “Come to think of it, what are you doing here?” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ugwu saw Eberechi right away; she was with some men and women who were bent over a pile of palm fronds, cutting, matting, passing them on to a man on a wooden ladder. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Two of the sheep were found dead in the stream passing through the pasture, and the remaining sheep were repeatedly driven out of the stream, several having to be dragged forcibly from the water. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Shells were passing over them, exploding in the dark far away. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just like the day before, once decontaminated, we’re sent back toward our room, passing the rations room holding exactly what I need. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It meant I was close to passing out. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They turned a corner, passing a telephone box and a bus shelter. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Old systems of exploitation and oppression are passing away, and out of the womb of a frail world new systems of justice and equality are being born.... While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I could have been going home or dying or passing out; it made no difference to me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The probability that this will be sooner rather than later grows more likely with every passing minute. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Made baskets get the ball,” Drew said, passing the rock to me. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

For months, I have not writ, having no paper upon which to write and no matter to record; our days passing in the tedium of routine, the languor of inactivity, and the terrors of disease. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Instead, we shouted, “Please, we are harmless and just passing by,” in every possible one of the eighteen local languages that each of us knew. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

We make a dash for the covered entryway, passing a table with a caravel still standing. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are in the Packard, passing the amusement grounds of Electric Park. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They dangled their feet in front of passing horses to intimidate them, and when less inspired, they shoved and punched one another and grabbed one another’s reins. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Duke, for reasons passing understanding, next became smitten with his very own mother-in-law, which caused the Duchess ulcers, only they didn’t have ulcers yet. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I focus on matching my rhythm to his as I reach the top of the stairs, passing another Dauntless leader. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

While passing out the checks, the lawyer had stepped on Crow's sore foot. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t know who he is,” Hermione said, passing Harry several curly black hairs, “but he’s gone home with a dreadful nosebleed! Here, he’s pretty tall, you’ll need bigger robes....” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Success in other states followed, with California, Kansas, Arizona, and Oregon passing laws in the next few years. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Were not supposed to be passing the ocean, are we?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I heard her passing along the floor when she first came on duty and once saw her pass in the hall. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He therefore set off along the corridor again, passing nobody but a frowning wizard who was murmuring instructions to a quill that floated in front of him, scribbling on a trail of parchment. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“You will,” said she, passing her arm round me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

She claimed that she looked out of her window and saw the killing through the last two cars of a passing elevated train. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, everything was quiet; we heard the sound of a car passing. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

He remembers how it was studying for his licensing exam, which he failed twice before passing. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In bars, on street comers, in passing cars, on buses, at the beach—people grew it in their home gardens and smoked it like cigarettes. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

After what seemed like one thousand and one nights of challenge the mountain began to level off and we started passing scattered lights on either side of the road. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He climbed through the window and walked to the street, turned northward, joining the people passing. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It made Thomas feel off-kilter, as if the urge to sleep that grew steadily with every passing minute were somehow unnatural. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

A man and a woman passing spoke to him. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

One hot day the previous July, as I was passing down our upstairs hall, I heard a strange voice emanating from Chapter Eleven’s bedroom. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In the bright light from the hallway, she darkens to a shadow, passing the outline of a wheelchair in the doorway. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spent a good portion of the following day with sweaty palms and a racing heartbeat, and kept one eye fixed on the passing woods. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Entire lifetimes revolved before him while he stood there, dimly aware of the passing minutes, his breath fanning against the glass. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Satellites moved in straight paths in the cloudless sky, like ships passing each other without ever colliding. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He curls his fingers around mine and looks out at the passing fields. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Adélie penguins surveyed them from passing icebergs and called, “Clark! Clark!”—which was the name of the expedition’s biologist. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

They headed down the hill to the water, passing stores and shops and more banks. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

From a passing car radio, the news blared out and echoed between the sidewalks. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

One day we were passing a house that looked, in my mind, like houses I had seen in Mexico. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

While these newly-born notions were passing in their heads, the perturbation of Elizabeth’s feelings was at every moment increasing. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

And so I marched along in a parade of my imagination, passing one plodding Jew after another, head high, arms swinging, goose-stepping as if I wore tall shiny boots myself. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Lots a cars passing us today, which is strange, cause Myrtle a dead end. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“After three years of largely listening and learning, I believed that I knew things about the situation in Vietnam worth passing on in my own voice.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She certainly wasn’t passing out her phone number in case I ever needed to call my brother at her apartment. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

I studied the red exposed brick wall of the room and tried to identify the rap music coming from a car passing by. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I didn’t think he was a note passing kind of guy. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

With each passing year the character of the woods changed perceptibly. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He cast an uncomfortable glance at a couple of women passing by. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Longstreet glanced at the dusty face, saw a shadow cross the eyes like a passing wing. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d taken his frog off the tray and made it dance while Mr. Rizzo was passing out the rest of the specimens. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Sixty-five was the passing grade and I needed some credit on each of the problems if I was going to pass. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

They jumped over the low place in the hedge at the bottom and took to the fields, passing into the darkness like a rustle in the grasses. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I regretted saying this even as the words were passing my lips. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

But passing up on a good thing because your mom wouldn’t approve...I don’t know about that, man. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Chief Marshal Williams, for instance, had jumped aboard a passing engine and was now at one of the remaining bridge crossings, hosing it down. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“My son has a new friend in America!” he started shouting to nearby people, some neighbors, others strangers passing through. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A little old lady happened to be passing by, and she looked terribly shocked. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

With his passing, he evaded the overwhelming consequence of his success: the challenge of consolidating a polyglot empire unprecedented in size and comprising peoples who, by and large, despised each other. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

A little girl holding folded linens stops in passing. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He looked nervously in his rearview mirror but saw nothing more than cars passing idly by and the darkened interior of the store. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Least till the thought of even passing by one isn't enough to make me choke up and start bawling about Mama. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Lloyd: What do you think of Johnny passing with the bad grades that he had? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ate a can of white beans, passing it between them, and he threw the empty tin into the woods. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I don’t like it,” says Mackenzie, passing with a spoonful of peanut butter that she licks like a lollipop. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Heading home on the bus every day, people would be pulling flat shiny bags out of their history books like crazy and passing them to Cletus in the backseat. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

As Emily moved through the crowded hallways during passing period, she felt largely unnoticed, except for when she accidentally bumped into someone. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

With a smile he copied out the warrior epitaph at Thermopylae: “Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by/that here obedient to their laws we lie.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Just a jet passing overhead,” I told him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, she turned toward the window at about ten minutes after twelve, and, as she looked out, she saw the killing through the windows of the passing el train. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Katherine is passing light; a body likely wouldn’t even know that she was colored unless someone told them. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

If every question was like this one, he had absolutely no hope of passing. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Anyone passing might think this is a restaurant for foreigners, with a lot of waiters. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The hobbits had been nearly two months in the House of Elrond, and November had gone by with the last shreds of autumn, and December was passing, when the scouts began to return. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then the two of us together, without a word passing between us, leveled it out again as flat as the Great Plains. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to step up onto a half wall to peer over all the heads and get a look at the passing parade of costumes. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

In a flash he produces a giant bag of Swedish Fish and starts passing them out. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He was expecting a test, but instead Mr. Pennyworth said, “I think it is time to spend a few days on practical matters. Time is passing, after all.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

There was no one to confide in about him at the end of a difficult day, or to share a passing thought or a worry. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

We had to go out of our way to avoid passing Mom again. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Grandma gave him a cold stare, but relented, saying, “Hold on, son,” and passing Grandpop the phone. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“For some reason Ms. Rucker thinks us passing notes in math is a bad thing, and I really need to catch up with her.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Because he had something interesting to do and to think about, Robin found the days passing more quickly. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The burn of its passing seared his hand. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The only movement within the circus is the clock that ticks by the passing minutes, if such a wonder of sculpture can even be called a clock. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And now we were passing the hero's tomb and I recalled a visit there. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one point, they started passing notes back and forth. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

State legislatures were eager to jump on the “get tough” bandwagon, passing harsh drug laws, as well as “three strikes” laws mandating a life sentence for those convicted of any third offense. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Zu, I thought, passing a tired hand over my face. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There were not only many roads to choose from, there were also in many places holes and pitfalls, and dark wells beside the path in which their passing feet echoed. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was a cool October night filled with the sounds of chirping crickets and the whoosh of passing cars. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Now in Odysseus’ hall untended still our bodies lie, unknown to friends or kinsmen who should have laid us out and washed our wounds free of the clotted blood, and mourned our passing. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abruptly, at this remembrance, I could not hear the clamor of passing carts. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Below the window I watched the crowns of people’s heads passing beneath new straw hats not yet unbleached. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even as he said it, she spotted him frowning at a passing courtier who looked too long in Celaena’s direction. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He pulled out the envelope and handed it to Ms. Bethune, who was passing around sheets of paper. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He had given it a passing thought, but then forgotten it. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

In the long gray dusk they crossed a river and stopped and looked down from the concrete balustrade at the slow dead water passing underneath. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

People passing by our village say they have seen someone fitting Pa’s description. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the back bedroom he could hear trains passing. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

You do not wait long in the antechamber before passing through the beaded curtain. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Playing with our Barbies was always my default method of passing time. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She watches the shadows that the passing traffic throws onto their ceiling, listens to a truck wailing in the distance like a solitary, nocturnal beast. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

That was the signal that Washington and his party were passing there. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was in his yard when he was picked up by a passing Humvee. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I looked for a taxi but none was passing. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You could pass it on to someone, but doing that was like passing on evil, or bad luck, or a bad spirit—the transmission also reflected God's will.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

For it is a long tale, full of deeds great and terrible, and briefly though Elrond spoke, the sun rode up the sky, and the morning was passing ere he ceased. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

This time tomorrow, Lidia will put up a status about her best friend passing. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He climbed on an outbound Desire bus and pondered the matter while the bus swung around and headed out on Bourbon Street, passing by the Night of Joy. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up a stack of antiwar leaflets and held them out to people passing by. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The passing of the regent removed from the scene an enlightened and tolerant man who achieved the goal that marks the reign of all great leaders: he kept his people united. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was light and sweet, and took little chewing to get down, which I found passing strange. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

A man passing by stopped a moment to take it in. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said over and over, “Your grandfather’s passing is no excuse for this behavior.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I was brought out of my abstracted state by a salmon-colored cloud passing low in the sky. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And a week or so later, I wasn’t actually eavesdropping or anything, I was just passing by, really, when I heard my parents talking in their room. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I held the cup in my hands, looking at the familiar buildings passing by. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held out leaflets to people passing by. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The girl next to me raises her hand, and Karen looks up from passing out the books. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He walked to the end of the alley and turned onto the sidewalk, joining the passing stream of people. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had had the best game of his life—seven for nine passing for 194 yards and four touchdowns. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dancing at the French court, though, was not merely a way of passing a pleasant evening. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Singer hastened to put things right, but Antonapoulos frowned and held up his finger regally to a nurse who was passing through the ward. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

When I was little, street-corner dudes like that would sometimes lower their shades to wink, keen on getting a rise out of the white girl in the backseat passing by. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

After passing through the dismal, dimly fit town, Cabot pulled up to a small motel with several of its sign’s neon letters burnt out. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He had confounded them all by passing the test, although they still refused him the ballot . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Named 1991 BA, it was noticed as it sailed past us at a distance of 106,000 miles–in cosmic terms the equivalent of a bullet passing through one’s sleeve without touching the arm. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“A way of...oh, passing messages, that kind of thing. By the way, what’s your name?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

You apologize, in passing, for not writing about the war. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He walked stiffly in the direction of the pool nearby, passing on his way the cat, who Was crouched over something held between his paws. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

For my part, I’d become an expert at walking quickly and lowering my gaze when passing through public spaces, which helped keep things efficient. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I thought of the grand preparations, the hours of ladies in beauty parlors, the hundreds of thousands of new and delicate ball gowns, the spike-heeled satin shoes a passing out might sully. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t want to sail anywhere, not now,” he said, doffing his hat and bowing to three officers passing on horseback. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was another group of bicyclists passing along the road. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was not unusual for someone passing through the neighborhood to coax away a valuable-looking dog. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We did send a letter to her through the lawyer,” Grace’s mother said, passing her a thin envelope. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They exited Cathair through the North Gate, passing a short line of travelers waiting to be admitted into the city. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Naw, I don’t want to take it out in the car. Some passing motorist might call the highway department and claim he saw two men wrestling an anaconda.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The toxic river water was still possessed of its death-dealing power after passing more than 200 miles downstream. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It would be a relay-style toad race today, with each toad hopping 131 toadstools before passing a baton to their teammate. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Kids passing into parties would see him lingering outside, unable to work up the courage to walk in. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

People crowd in groups all passing around phones. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It was suddenly smoother, and when she opened her eyes there were passing lights dazzling above her, so bright she had to pull the hood further over her head before peering out again. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Your syllabus plainly states that passing notes or doing any work other than class work is done at your own risk.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When she finished, she showed the scrap of cloth to Marmalade on her left before passing it to Archer on her other side. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She could barely thrash her way through a few strokes, forget passing the deepwater test necessary to go off the diving boards that towered at the end of the right dock. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

They heard his steps come toward the sculpture, but instead of passing by, they stopped and there was a long silence. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Clouds that gathered where ships were supposed to appear, and the passing of the day, slowly did the job of unbending my smile. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She gave me the feeling that everyone was getting older, passing me by. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

But Tomas had swum in blue rivers on Earth, with strangers passing on the road, and eaten in strange houses with strange people, and his weapon had always been his smile. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if he was only passing through, just being polite? Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I watch her ride down a long stretch of sidewalk, passing trees, parked cars, and houses. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

They started toward the sign that said, “To Level Five,” passing strange cages. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The passing man had been the only one who spoke with kindness in his voice. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy listened to the wind passing through the tops of the tall pines; he thought they moved like giant brooms sweeping the sky. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before they turned, Lizzie felt her grandfather ebb as though his soul were passing out of him, the way the last waves of a falling tide pass into still air and are gone. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“I never knew Dad had a dog,” he said, passing the photo to his grandfather. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Each passing week made college—or some other break— feel more crucial. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If some of those donations helped to keep those who knew the truth of his mother’s passing quiet, well, that was just another reason to be thankful, wasn’t it? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Her husband looked like one of the ghosts passing the car windows, and she must look like a ghost from China. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now those are some names you don’t see very often these days,” one of the chaperones, passing by and looking down at his rubbings, remarks. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Everyday people lying next to each other on a makeshift beach, the mottled spring light passing through the dense trees before softly surrendering to dusk. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“The old story. A sailor passing by the coast of Ephesos heard a voice crying from the shore, ‘Tell them the great god Pan is dead.’” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

They started picking the ball up at midfield and either dribbling it themselves or passing it to each other. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Such a simple thing, kindness. Such a simple thing. A nice word of encouragement given when needed. An act of friendship. A passing smile.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I no longer had the kind of ugly face that incited horror or pity, but now I was made unremarkable by my passing good looks. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I made Chapter Eleven go through Indian Village, passing our old house. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I looked away to the lights of passing automobiles. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Corporal Mace was passing him some dead man’s water bottle. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

These heroines were always willowy and managed to land in graceful postures of repose, and were revived with the merest passing of a decorated flagon of smelling salts under their noses. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

At this point, if Lee remains and continues to defend Petersburg, his forces will be destroyed by Grant’s Army of the Potomac, which grows stronger in men and guns with each passing week. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Not to mention throwing up on one of the women who was offering and then passing out and having somebody shave my balls and paint my face and stuff me into a trunk. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Strictly speaking, Galileo knew Harriot existed, as he had read William Gilbert’s On the Magnet, in which Harriot is mentioned in passing, and described as ‘most scholarly’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I could stop a puck from passing between the pipes—but I had to make it all the way to winter before anybody would care about that. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then I turned left, intentionally passing the replica of the body of Christ. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

People were disembarking; they could see their silhouettes passing the lights in the ship’s portholes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A constant rain and shrouded gray sky masked the passing of hours, leaving Cole in a cruel time warp with only one possible end. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The symbolism of the scene was poignant, dramatizing as it did the passing of the prototypical American and the cause of gradual emancipation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“You sweet, stubborn satyrs refused to accept my passing. And I love you for that, but you only delayed the inevitable. You only prolonged my long, painful passing, my dark twilight sleep. It must end.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

They were in a deep lane between the ends of the wall, and passing quickly through it they entered the City of the Trees. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Upstairs, keep the Cloak on, keep quiet!” muttered a tall figure, passing them on his way into the street and slamming the door behind him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He had confounded them all by passing the test, although they still refused him the ballot . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was always in a hurry, always just passing through, as if he were jumping from one idea to another, and this made Alba uneasy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a time, years ago, when each passing hour held no meaning. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In February of that year, while passing out tests, the teacher had pulled back the girls hijab and said, “I hope God punishes you. No, I’m sorry, I hope Allah punishes you.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

A passing proof of God’s sense of humor. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Shame over having a body unlike other bodies was passing away. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Frank Churchill’s confession of having behaved shamefully was the first thing to call for more than a word in passing. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

On the sandbank she found not one but five of the precious wheels, and passing the cord through their softening centers, she swam heavily back, pulling them behind her. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He looked up and saw Vera passing with a sewing kit dangling from her arm. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time, people were passing my shop all the time, heading for Mecca. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

These animals, in turn, were being jammed together in cages, exposed to one another, passing viruses back and forth. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The commotion of the passing French column had covered the sound, but they were easy enough to see. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I’m having to remind myself of that particular hard with each passing sunrise that takes us closer to them thieves and farther off from Possum Moan and the last time Cap’n Buck took a bath. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Sabeen is smiling, passing lined paper to the left then the right, between aisles. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The marten slept while Dustfinger’s hands restlessly stroked his fur, passing over it again and again. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They lit no fires, for they were uncertain of events; but they set a ring of mounted guards about them, and scouts rode out far ahead, passing like shadows in the folds of the land. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

However, only minutes after we left the neighborhood, Raizel chased down a passing hansom cab. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Soon, he too was working busily, passing tools and squirting oil. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The largest of them showed the last survivors of a defeated Valyrian army passing beneath the yoke and being chained. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Alone, he continued on, across the Gobi Desert, hitching rides sometimes with passing caravans. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mostly it looked like a collection of notes or letters, some folded like the one she and James got caught passing in Mr. Quisling’s class. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Others grind into my hand, my back, kick my head in passing. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Indeed, he had suspected for some time that someone on our side had turned traitor and was passing a lot of information to You-Know-Who.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Outside the snow muffled the concussion of passing horses. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But every so often I look at Tobias, and he looks back at me, like we’re passing fear back and forth between us. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The plane passing changed him, the disappointment cut him down and made him new. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has only seen the paperwork involved with the circus in passing, hasn’t bothered to scrutinize the details of the thing in years. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

One of them made a passing attempt at covering up the large blood­stains by kicking dirt over them. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I search the faces of all the people passing me and think of my cousins—the oldest, Chantal, and the twins, Primadonna and Princess, who are my age. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Or is the only value in passing the time as comfortably as possible? The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Others make seeds yummy enough for birds to eat, so they get pooped out on passing cars. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He put them down on Mike’s table, telling him to start passing them around the class. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then I rose from the table, passing round to the side where the nurse couldn't see me below the waist, and behind the Negro, who was clearing the dirty plates. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She went into the tiny, windowless bedroom that she shared with Neeley and sat on her own cot in the dark waiting for the waves of panic to stop passing over her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually the black gloom was broken by a bright white burst, and I realized we were passing the lighthouse at Alligator Reef. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The falling of the tree was simply a natural reality, like the passing of another day. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The two-faced doorman held a silver key, which he kept passing from his left hand to his right hand. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

What would people passing along the street think? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Kathy, though, had no idea she was passing a man hiding under his steering wheel. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“We figured somebody would once Mr. Peckleman started passing out his ‘Go to College Free’ cards. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

We start driving again, and I watch the river twisting through the passing countryside. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I felt like I was floating in a cloud that was passing from one year to another in no particular order. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

At breakfast the next morning, before Mr Hooper went to London, there had only been looks, passing between him and Mrs Kingshaw, and the talk of an outing, a surprise. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

People are passing by on the street, and they glance at Antonio and his boom box, thinking he’s just some kid blasting music. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She puts the car in gear and lurches forward, passing the houses on our lane. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

It’s a passing remark, really, about how she couldn’t get shrimp for a party, but it tugs at me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yer frozen for most of it, time passing you right on by, tho that’s only if ye don’t die on the way.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

They bore this treasure off the beach, and piled it close around the roots of the olive tree, that no one passing should steal Odysseus’ gear before he woke. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the west, passing a lumber mill teepee burner whose tip glowed red, was an orchard valley along the Rio Grande. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

What grass the horses had left was heavy with dew, as if some passing god had scattered a bag of diamonds over the earth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

At first I think maybe she is passing through to get to the other side of this crowded store, but she sets her items down on the cash register counter. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” he then says, “have it your way, sore-sport, I’m passing the phone.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The period of tearfully passing judgment on Mother is over. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I don’t really comprehend time’s passing, at least not in the way that I used to, when time was available to me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

They untied their hawser, passing it through a drilled stone ring; then bent forward at the oars and caught the sea as one man, stroking. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It gave him a sense of life and time passing, and he enjoyed the pleasant normality of the scene. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sounds like no more than a passing squall.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Through the window of the train he watched the passing landscape of the central valley. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another woman cried that she was passing bloody stools. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Carver shook his hockey stick at a passing pack like Man Friday. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He went by me like a shadow, passing me without stopping, without a glance. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bo pulls a crumpled ten from his wallet and drops it on the plate before passing it along. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He seems as uncomfortable passing me as I do passing him. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

A horse was passing now, but Robin was sure it was not of that order. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

For a moment, grief flicked across Tanin’s face like a cloud passing over the moon. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She put down her broom and observed one cloud passing behind another. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I count off the minutes to keep myself from passing out. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Moments later, another passing soldier looked at Zeitoun and muttered “Taliban.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

This isn’t totally inaccurate, but it’s also likely that Obama took a hard line against immigrants with serious criminal records in hopes of passing legislation that would help undocumented families and children stay together. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Near midnight, in desperate need of rest, he asked a passing policeman where he could spend the night. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The more I resisted thinking, the longer the days became, and I felt as if my head was becoming heavier each passing day. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The conference ended with the passing of a multitude of resolutions dealing with China, India, Germany, Japan, and conditions afflicting various parts of the earth. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone bursts into the conversation at once, their voices louder with each passing second. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Some animals simply nod at each other in passing, never reaching even a first-name relationship. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They drove back by another route, a much greater distance, to avoid passing the dead soldiers. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I must have slept because when I looked out the window again, we were passing the New Paltz exit and the sun was beginning to rise over the mountains. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

We head for the freeway, passing the Cedar Grove projects, where we used to live. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Never call me. Never seek me out. If we see each other—anywhere—on the street—in passing—don’t stop. Don’t say hi. Don’t wave. Don’t anything.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She’s been my friend for so long, it feels wrong passing by her and pretending we don’t know each other. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

It was this gigantic sign of how Mummy and I are like two ice floes, passing each other, cold and silent. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A day in jail is mostly silence punctuated by passing guards shouting profanities at you, doing roll call. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And when he passed the gravy boat her way, he could have been passing it to anyone but his favorite niece.“Vonetta, Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He imagines the person consulting the same schedule that’s in his backpack, determining exactly when the train would be passing through. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is just passing the buck, as children do, to mothers. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Americans’ clothes were meanwhile passing through poison gas. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wherever possible, I told of Bigger’s life in close-up, slow-motion, giving the feel of the grain in the passing of time. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The thought pleased her, so much so that she wondered if it might be some obscure saying of Agatha Swanburne’s that she had heard in passing long ago and then forgotten. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

A few hot-air balloons pulled at their tethers against the darkening pink sky, their passengers shooting safety fireworks at other balloons and passing parasailers. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“It seemed that the string of vessels passing through was endless,” an impatient Frear remembered. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

We played a cloak-and-dagger game, passing notes in books and such. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doge looked stiff and solemn at this, but Auntie Muriel drained her goblet and clicked her bony fingers at a passing waiter for a replacement. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He eventually sighted a single tent, and a group of Arabs passing by told the boy that it was a place inhabited by genies. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked quickly and without a sound, passing long shadows and the ominous snicker of the mischievous duendes who could take your rucksack just as easily as they could steal your memories. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

His family, whom I didn’t see very often after his passing, lived in Jordan, Germany, and Canada. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

When I’m in school, I feel like the world is passing me by. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

People were pouring whisky into paper cups, passing them around. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Presently he heard voices speaking low, and he saw dim half-shrouded lanterns passing through the trees. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Once she jostled a small rock in passing and sent a shower of stones clattering down. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then he’s already nodding farewell, passing us by with his entourage, bodyguards, and a trailing, screaming mass of fans. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

For her, however, that solitary rite lacked all sensuality and was simply a way of passing the time until she was hungry. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The air warmed with the passing of spring and the coming of summer. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

After passing my exams and returning home, I told the regent what had transpired. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the teapot and swallowed a few gulps of water before passing it on to Yossel and Samuel. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Mother says, “Sir, we are not harassing anyone. We are passing out flyers.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“You should take this one,” she said, passing me a navy dress with white braided cords arranged across the bodice. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The air grew cooler with each passing minute. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Congress effectively outlawed their communal property, passing vast acreages into the public domain, tracts which then suddenly wound up in the hands of large American ranching enterprises like the Devine Company. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I tell her how Uncle Pat doesn’t want me anymore and how they put Mr. Timoney in the City Home for laughing just because Macushla bit the postman, the milkman and a passing nun. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I tried to see time and seasons, my life passing in slow motion. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the dining room, they cross under the shadow of the elephant-headed statue in the hall, passing into the library and stopping at the stained-glass sunset that stretches the height of one wall. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

While your country was in a political crisis and young people were getting shot at by the police, I was essentially passing for white. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I imagined a long, dark shadow passing by our little boat. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The only thing that remained of their passing was the cream puff, abandoned before Sycorax had climbed into the radiator. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

But I am pleased as punch to announce that I will be passing the torch to an up-and-coming writer who, according to Sister Redempta, has an eye for the interesting and a nose for news. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Are they all just distant memories we are passing to each other? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

But when she stopped to talk to a passing woman, she turned her head ever so slightly, just enough for him to catch a view of her beautiful brown face. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Fights still break out at lunch, during passing periods, and in other classes for stupid reasons like somebody walked through a group of people who were different than them. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

They were empty, and it seemed like her steps should be echoing through them, a pronouncement that she was passing through. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

For a while we just hung there, passing the breathing tube between us. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

But the moonlight stays unmoved by the wind, passing through clouds, through air, in what seems to Werner like impossibly slow, imperturbable rays. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Most of the passing crowd belonged to Fischer’s group, but near the back of the parade two of my teammates eventually appeared, Rob Hall and Yasuko Namba. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The thought was passing vaguely through her mind, “What would he mink?” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the extreme tip of his middle finger, he saw now as he lifted that hand, a faint sixteenth of an inch of black tread where tyre had touched in passing. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The age of the big dreamer was passing into history before Harry’s eyes. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Entering the gate and passing the shrubs, the silhouette of a house rose to view, black, low, and rather long; but the guiding light shone nowhere. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Finally, I knocked my knuckles on the table, passing, leaving the betting to the next man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought the Director would separate us, but guards side-eye us whenever we try to speak anything more than passing words to one another. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

You couldn’t go two blocks without passing one sputtering along in the slow lane. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how long it is since I ate last, don’t know how long since I really slept, for that matter, since passing out ain’t sleeping. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He swears aloud, attracting a glare from a passing woman who steps aside as he stops short on the crowded pavement. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t say. I don’t remember anyone passing except the conductor. Wait a minute—and there was a woman, I think.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except when we enter my room, I lead Arthur out of sight and I kiss him with this howling hunger that’s demanding more time with him each passing day. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Okay, here’s your keys,” said the officer, passing to me two of the four heavy rings on his belt. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the figure drew closer, passing through the glow of the streetlights, the policeman could see it was a husky teenaged boy. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes you could hear a passing truck or a whip of the wind. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mohammed’s incredible rise and premature passing had shaped the trajectory of Zeitoun’s family in general and of Abdulrahman in particular, but he didn’t like to dwell on it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The light changes and we drive two more blocks, passing Mr. Malloy’s shoe repair store. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“This,” he said, passing it to her, “is the villain that broke my nose.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He’s too far away for me to whisper to him, and the last time somebody was caught passing a note, Mrs. Morris tacked it up on the bulletin board. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

All I see is Caleb and Susan on the ground in the corner, passing a jar of peanut butter back and forth. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Once again, listeners are given a clue that the program’s time is passing faster than reality. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

She picked up the bundle of typescript in an idle moment while passing through this office on her way to luncheon, asked to take it home to read, and finished it that afternoon. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Please be sure to visit us if ever you are passing. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“With each passing minute, I’m developing a deeper appreciation of the word mortified,” he said finally. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I have never felt so spent, but it is passing. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There were no boundaries to time so that it seemed endless passing. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We age slower when we move quickly versus standing still. So right now time is passing slower for us than for people on the ground.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He'd seen her slip the key inside the box when he was passing by on his way to the bathroom. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Luckily, I’m passing a Restoration Hardware, and Mom says rich families on the other side of Jankburg buy couches from there, so I’m probably safe for a few blocks, at least. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Grandma was deep in thought, and we were passing the time until she came to a conclusion. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“How are you, Colonel?” he asked in passing. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

We’re alone in the small metal vestibule, desert passing by through the small window. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Harry dashed around his room, collecting his things and passing them out of the window to Ron. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Everyone here thinks my interest is just a passing fancy, since they’ve never heard of a teenager with an appreciation of mythology. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I stood in front of them for hours as they ranted to the passing parades about the wonders under their tents and handkerchiefs. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“If that person in a passing car hadn’t noticed the smoke and called the fire department, and if they hadn’t come so quickly, the entire building could have burned to the ground.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I’ll prove it to you. As soon as I can walk across the yard without near passing out, I’ll get a torch and cut off another tank.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

With the passing of time, she would slowly tire of this exercise. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

What foolish thing was he doing, walking like this under an open sky, with a beautiful man child for any evil spirit passing by chance through the air to see! The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

My father is passing out Pall Mall cigarettes, with one already dangling from his lips. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

One old man in a fresh lawn suit, bow tie and carpet slippers shuffled by with the help of two sticks, advancing so slowly that even the traffic was passing him. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They were passing the apple tree, when Lancelot’s charger gave a brassy neigh. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had seen many wonders in the forests, and was responsible for many of the passing freaks of my academicians: their scheme to domesticate the moose for transport and milk, their commitment to edible lichen. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We are driving through the place that she could not drive through, passing onto asphalt she never saw, and we are not dead. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Everyone rustles coats and programs while the flute players thump up onto the stage, passing the singers as they find their chairs in the audience. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The bus pulls away, passing Morning Glory Cottage and Ruth’s house and Professor Swann as he walks past the graveyard. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Constance was too short to copy over a shoulder, and note passing was much too risky, so at last Reynie had suggested Morse code. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

There is some passing acknowledgment of the bad old days, which, by the way, were not so bad as to have any ongoing effect on our present. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He was home again where his problem now was haste, passing time, the need to hurry. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we followed the southward curve of Lake Shore Drive, passing bicyclists and runners on the pedestrian pathways, I was arguing silently with myself. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

What I do mind is passing Michael’s class in the hall on the way back and seeing Josh give him a high five. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horror of the stone and of the hideous shadow over the moon was fading, things left behind in the mists of the mountains or in a passing dream. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She who sees signs in the way trees stand, in the forms of passing clouds. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The waves had almost stopped passing over Francie when she discovered to her fright that something was wrong with her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each passing day, each week, each month, left its sign, clear and unmistakable. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the same way it lost its color and sheen with the passing of the years: creases and stains accumulated, and hidden in the depths, here and there already appearing, waited disillusionment and nausea. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was closest to the window on the five-hour drive, so I could make out slivers of the passing landscape whenever the rain let up for a bit. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The family continued north, passing through Salt Lake City, things and places blurring—the auto mall, McDonald’s, Best Buy, the exit for the University of Utah. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He turns and starts walking down the aisle passing people who look at him and then at me. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides being scared out of my wits, I am sick and tired of passing off my cooking for somebody else’s. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The breach widened more and more with each passing millennium. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The remainder of the morning was taken up with bookkeeping matters such as passing out supplies and assigning seats. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Partner up,” Coach yelled, introducing a passing exercise. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once in a while the headlights of a passing car show through the window, moving first along one wall, then along the next wall, then fading away. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When he lay down again the cat was gone from his side—another small night hunter slipping through the unquiet shadows that froze to stillness at his passing. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jackie looks bored with her head tilted to the side, eyeing boys passing by. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

In the gathering darkness, he was sure his passing would be unnoticed by her. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leper Lepellier was loping along outside my perimeter, not noticing the game, tagging along without reason, like a porpoise escorting a passing ship. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I’m passing it along to a young lady in the care of Shady Howard who has helped us remember who we are and where we come from. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

A passing patron catches his arm to steady him. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

See, there was this weird period between my dad's passing and my mother losing her legs that my mom always calls "the funky zone" because I was acting, well...funky. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

On the ride home, I don’t see the big white houses passing outside the window. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

By eleventh grade, after more than a dozen schools, Horan was barely passing his classes. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The thirteen-month difference between them had spread them apart like a gulf, growing only wider with each passing month. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I didn’t find out till next morning that Miss Love wasn’t just passing the time of day talking about New York City. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t one of those put-up-your-dukes looks, it was just a look like one dog gives another dog that might be passing through his neighborhood. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

She told the neighbors and passing strangers about God in her backyard. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Just in that passing moment, we recognize each other, and it’s enough. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he’d squatted for a moment, building a bowline into the manila, and heard the steam whistle of the passing freighter sounding low across the water. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When Ben looked up, the wagon was passing between a dozen beehives, six on either side of the road. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afternoon sounds came into the room: people passing along the street to and from the shops in Cheapside or Poultry Lane; carters carrying goods to the wharves on the Thames, Belinsgate, or Queen Hythe. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

A troubled look crossed the king's face like a passing cloud. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In a gap between two tunnels, a nurse was delicately probing with a long fine syringe into the gelatinous contents of a passing bottle. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Take it," he said, passing it to me a third time. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The Constitution of the United States, only recently ratified, specifically prohibited the Congress from passing any law that abolished or restricted the slave trade until 1808. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Sam was filled with deep suspicion, and showed it; but Frodo gave no sign of what was passing in his mind. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They place the tree in front of the window, drawing apart the curtains so that people passing by the house can see, as excited as they were when they were children. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

My hands shake as I stare at the passing scenery outside. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Orbital flights—which sent the astronaut on one or more ninety-minute circuits around the globe, passing out of visual and radio contact with Mission Control, flying over unfriendly territory—upped the ante by a factor. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Not into the sparkles of a spirit passing on, but of a haint going on about its own business. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“No. I’m passing through, that’s all. Just thought I’d look around. I wanted to see the farm. . . “Cause any evening up left to do, Circe took care of.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the guard at that entrance told them to check their instrument cases, Claudia told him that they were just passing through on their way to meet their mother. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so we drifted, the two of us, since the world began, awaiting our cues and observing the passing show. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was like a thread of light passing from one to the other, and it was more than acquiescence. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They all were laughing, joking, and passing love notes to one another. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The members once more took their seats, but the pewter cups of punch were passing from hand to hand. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There he was, passing Red Hill, a book in his hand. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world they were passing outside already looked unfamiliar—unfamiliar houses, unfamiliar roads, unfamiliar fields, even the trees and the sky looked unfamiliar—but Meggie was used to that. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I don’t trust you enough for that. You can talk to us two, and I’ll see if it’s worth passing along.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I bought it, and as she handed me my change I mentioned to her the thought that if the women in Shenandoah had survived they would be passing through about now. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I'm passing by the bagel store where my mother sometimes gets us breakfast. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care if he’s passing bowling balls, I want him on this phone.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few people passing by threw her a look, but she didn’t care. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They reached for her the way a drowning man reaches up at a passing boat. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

His forehead creases in confusion more and more with each passing page. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

By the end of the day my voice was hoarse: my mouth tasted of the dust that each passing pair of feet raised, my hair was full of it. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wilfrido tipped his hat and smiled at some people passing by to enter the festival. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Earplugs,” he said, passing a pair to Seth as well. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Coach then told the relay teams what Coach Whit had already told us at the last practice—that we would also be working on baton passing. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

A river flowed from the forest to the edge of the village, passing through palm kernels into a swamp. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Instead I just did well on my written work, passing tests with high grades and handing in assignments done in perfect English. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

After passing through a warren of muddy lanes we came to the head of a dark alley. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

All the animals remembered passing such resolutions: or at least they thought that they re-membered it. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He acknowledged that the random violence and careening course of the French Revolution were lamentable developments, but he insisted they were merely a passing chapter in the larger story of triumphant global revolution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Well, what do you want me to do?” his father said, loud enough to attract the attention of people passing in the corridor. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The slightest fluctuation in the weather outside my window, the smallest passing cloud, the changing position of the sun affected the mood of that room. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

After crossing the river, I hopped aboard a streetcar in passing, clinging onto the rear bars for several blocks, until it slowed at a corner. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I try not to look at the calendar because I don’t want to think about time passing. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

After looking at herself, she returned her attention to the passing scenery. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“The aneurysm gradually deteriorates due to the constant pressure of the blood passing through it.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain asked a passing courier how far to Gettysburg? and the man pointed back over his shoulder. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Against the wan walls and the luminous pavement of the road Frodo could see them, small black figures in rank upon rank, marching swiftly and silently, passing outwards in an endless stream. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

No one else moved liked that, as if the world were smoke and she was just passing through it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They continued passing out the champagne, brave smiles on their faces. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He became acutely aware of the air passing into and out of his lungs. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The nervousness grew worse with each passing moment. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, the state tried to purchase his patents and secrets, afraid that he might die before passing them along. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were passing through a particularly dense patch of trees, however, when Firenze suddenly stopped. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Later that day, passing along a street in a strange and lonely town, he saw a man dump a box of trash into a barrel. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now they were passing close to him, their backs coming into his range of vision. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if a hand stroked her hair—lightly, swiftly passing, but most certainly there. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the breeze would rise up from the bay, cool and salty, passing over the grass. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The porter actually was passing out pillows to rent. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They also were attempting to “chop” photons into pieces by passing light beams through a rapidly rotating mirror. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Who’s a Communist and a homosexual and probably passing for white?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fairies holding Lena paid her no heed, passing out of sight into the woods. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Years were passing through the spaces between moments. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They laid the carved gemstone on the table in front of them and started to inspect it closely, muttering little scholarly notes to each other and passing the magnifying lenses back and forth. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The volunteer police reported that escaped turkeys had attacked a passing Amish buggy and driver, so we all needed to keep an eye on our turkey pens. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As do black people toasting their cognac and German beers, passing their blunts and debating MCs. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He began holding required meetings in the schoolhouse to inform them about vitamins and to let them know, in passing, whatever news he managed to pick up on his crystal set. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was on the tarpaulin, wrapped in a blanket, sleeping and dreaming and awakening and daydreaming and generally passing the time. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Many roads and tracks crossed the green fields, and there was much coming and going: wains moving in lines towards the Great Gate, and others passing out. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Here,” Amaya said, taking the files out of her satchel and passing them around. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

But with each passing day, his resentment grows. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

From the moment she learned Sarai had fallen, she had stretched her senses to their limits, waiting, hardly breathing, alert to the telltale skim of passing ghosts. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Isannah had wandered off because a passing clergyman had seen the sunlight on her hair and was asking her to say the shorter catechism as proof that she was as pious as she was beautiful. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shadow of the gull had stopped passing over the opening. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“This is why I make all you girls practice passing the baton,” she says. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Not just passing bad dreams, but the full-blown, heart-pounding, wake-up-screaming kind of nightmares I used to have when I was a little kid. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Alhaji, the tallest among us and sometimes mistaken for the oldest, tried to explain to the chief that we were just passing by. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The only bright spot on our return to Little Rock was passing my father out in a vast field of train cars. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We often asked somebody to buy something in passing or get information in passing, but I had never heard of searching a house in passing. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white vapour of the kiln was passing from us as we went by, and as I had thought a prayer before, I thought a thanksgiving now. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Jim says something I can’t hear because the music is too loud and I’m concentrating on not passing out from fear. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Looking out at the passing night I wondered what kind of men they were. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

History passing beneath my very eyes, changing every moment. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I lower my hands as the others lower their guns, and walk into the foyer, passing through the center of the crowd like a piece of thread through the eye of a needle. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

A couple of hours into the flight the pilot came on the public address system to announce that we were passing over Liberal, Kansas. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The truth was that I had turned off the big highway 104 and into the smaller roads because the traffic was heavy and passing vehicles threw sheets of water on my windshield. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coughing at the smoke that was getting thicker and warmer with every passing second, Frankie pulled on the metal bar, urging the door to break free. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The air traffic controller with whom Klotz was speaking testified later that he “just took it as a passing comment.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear approached as if merely passing by, but his very skin prickled with curiosity. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“There goes that vermin, again,” a man with a hideous scar on his left cheek remarked, making an obscene gesture at the passing trucks. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as he was passing me I heard him stop. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

May’s passing had just made him look more scarecrow than ever. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had never met the man, yet she grieved to hear of his passing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

For him, as they moved forward in a group—trying not to be too conspicuous about passing other groups ahead of them—he felt more like he was on a constant downward slide into despair. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The sky darkens, like a cloud is passing over the sun. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

We plowed through the woods, lugging the gunnysack, passing it back and forth between us when it got heavy. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The sheer exhaustion of the day felt like a weight that dragged her toward the ground with each passing moment. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Claire strokes my forehead, dozing, the slant of light through my panes growing golden, then dim, the afternoon passing. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

On a late June day when the cliff side was green and yellow with chickweed, Chup caught a passing starling on the wing. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“No. Just very sad and very angry about Grandma’s passing.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

She made no ineffectual efforts to conduct her household en bonne ménagère, going and coming as it suited her fancy, and, so far as she was able, lending herself to any passing caprice. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

But Winchell was only 2 of 16 passing for 42 yards and 1 interception. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Orchid Witch, Sarai thought in passing, could do a sight of good down here. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

With each passing year, it seemed that the work Mary loved and the community service that gave her life meaning were becoming one and the same. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Now I will be passing out a school handbook which has most of this information. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Miss Bell returned our compositions, I fixed my eyes on the stack of papers as she walked around the aisles passing them out, trying to spot mine. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Miss Anderson smiles tightly to a passing party guest before turning her attention back to me. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He’s silent, but his eyes dart back and forth across the passing landscape, like he is reading words that are hidden from my view. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Despite its passing resemblance to the lobster, it should on no account be eaten, as its flesh is unfit for human consumption and will result in a high fever and an unsightly greenish rash. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Given the power of the mill owners, it is not surprising that unionization efforts were, in the words of one knowledgeable commentator, “mere foam before passing gusts.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“No, it is most rare that your sister can. Among us are few that can make distinctions. Vikus is better than most. But to pick one from so many...it is passing strange,” said Mareth. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You have to see fresh patterns in the stars. Patterns, Saturns, Saturday, Sunday, sundial. It’s all about measuring the passing day. Do you get it?” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

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

And once again Wang Lung did not count the passing of silver, which was his flesh and his blood, a hard thing. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Her reverie, once rich in plausible details, had become a passing silliness before the hard mass of the actual. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He starts to shout—shout loud enough that a woman passing nearby looks over at us. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Beach grass grazed my ankles, a flock of birds flew overhead, and then I was passing the warning sign that everybody ignored, even though the danger it warned of was undeniably true. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Nothing gracing the table or passing their lips came close to meeting her impressive claim. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

That wears off, though, and by the time we leave math, which is just passing out the textbooks and a bunch of numbers chalked on the blackboard, you can hear the whispers in the hall. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was no passing down it; the flames billowed from each side. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Really, we were just passing time in the dark. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Halfway to the brewhouse, as she was passing under the stone bridge that arched between Widow's Tower and Kingspyre, she heard harsh, growling laughter. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The tendril was polished on the underside; pigs, passing through the loop, brushed it with their bristly hide. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He squinted, examining the passing women, until finally she called out to him, “Over here, cousin. Don’t you recognize me? I’m the irresistible one.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

From there I looked into a narrow alley in which people were passing, one or two who looked up at me with nothing more than idle curiosity. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Rawiya locked arms with him as they paraded down the hallway, passing more classrooms, students emptying into the stream like the loosing of a dam. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Fadi exchanged a questioning look with Patty, who was passing notes to her girlfriends. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Finally he hitched a ride on a passing wagon. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Still, I’m grateful for even the passing sensation. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

A small obituary in the paper was the only notice of her passing. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

We could only see about twenty yards in any direction—far enough to tell when we might be passing a woodlot or a house if it was close to the road, but that’s all. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shells are careening overhead, quaking the cellar like passing freight trains. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Asked you to wake me without giving me pneumonia,” says Haymitch, passing over his knife. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The Bureau is obsessed with procreation—with passing on genes. And George and I are both GPs, so any entanglement that can’t produce a stronger genetic code . . . It’s not encouraged, that’s all.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He found to his dismay that there were few of these, the line passing mostly through uninhabited regions of lakes and hills. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was quiet, and had a shadow’s talent for passing unremarked, while Thyon drew all eyes like a flare. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Calder opened his mouth when the 5:38 train went by, rattling the windows, making the floorboards bounce, and filling the kitchen with the whoosh-whoosh of passing steel. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The sight of them when they visit Calcutta every few years feels stranger still, six or eight weeks passing like a dream. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Finally he was so close he felt the chill of Encanis’ passing and could spy places where he had set his hands and feet, for they were marked with a cold, black frost. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

For a second, I think that we’re passing a pretty convincing caveman, but it turns out to be a really wrecked homeless guy, his beard stringy and dotted with bits of food. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Even before dark, young soldiers with pasty white faces were throwing up everywhere and passing out drunkenly on the ground. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She went from table to table at lunchtime, passing out happy-face cookies. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

And for some reason she mourned his passing. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

A passing crewman caught me leaning over the rail to stare at them and said, “Never seen a shipwreck before, eh?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It should be obvious that he was not right about this: no one, I trust, would want to read an account of slavery written by someone incapable of passing judgement. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Though something told him there was a better chance of Gaily bringing him flowers than of passing a day in the Glade with nothing strange happening. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Toby motioned to a passing car as evidence. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She laughed, passing a bottle of something to Toby. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I finally told Daddy that I love “him” more than I do Mother, to which he replied that it was just a passing phase, but I don’t think so. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I was so tempted, the pain in my jaw so savage, that I must have held it for ten seconds before passing it back. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Isobel does not even inscribe her name upon the pages, referring to her in passing only as the illusionist, a precaution he advised himself and now regrets. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

At a passing glance, one might think her eyes blue or gray, perhaps even green, depending on the color of her clothing. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I noticed the quiet passing of another milestone: For the first time, Harry got a cup of Christmas wine. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The other could have had no clue as to what thoughts were passing in that mind. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amid the heckling and the jarring noise of passing trains, I tried to listen to what Arthur Ashe was saying through a megaphone. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were fixed on the passing soldiers. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, the legislature contented itself with passing a symbolic “resolution of protest” against Brown. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

As he walked the streets of Japan’s capital, Mishima could feel the agonizing suspense in the air; he could see it in passing faces. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t respond, and we stand there, staring at each other in silence, something bordering on understanding passing between us. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Kofi took a drag from the cigarette they was passing around and tried to share it with Mohammed, who waved it away, pouting. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

They ran down a long corridor to the right, passing several turns to the left. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He was a small man, the kind of little old man who looked as if the passing of the years had shrunk him, eating an enormous, many-scooped ice-cream sundae, drinking a supersized mug of coffee. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

First time I looked up from the wagon, I noticed that we were already passing Miller’s Swamp. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like none of the passing cars is Dad’s. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re right. I don’t know a thing about you. But not knowing me didn’t stop you from passing judgment.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Still passing out mashed potatoes, blankets, and goody bags.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

One of the übercostumed guys passing by threw them a dirty look, and Dimple pursed her lips to keep from laughing. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Like that, I can feel the moment passing, maybe already passed, and now it seems like a stupid idea, except for picturing the look on Amanda’s face as I go sailing by her. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Yesterday, for instance, after passing the abandoned Indian village, they had heard a noise coming from the trees above. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

As Emily moved through the crowded hallways during passing period, she felt largely unnoticed, except for when she accidentally bumped into someone. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The three of us were crossing an open outdoor courtyard, passing a group of kindergartners in the middle of their recess, swinging from a set of monkey bars and running around the wood-chipped play area. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Here,” he said, passing a wad of money to the other man. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The boys playing ball clear the street, stand on the side frozen, like it’s a funeral car passing by. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Others were rootless, like us—just passing through. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

"I tell you they mad over what happen to that young fellow, what's-his-name . . ." We were passing a building now and I heard a voice calling frantically, "Colored store! Colored store!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure there were moments at school, passing shouts of laughter. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The house was closing itself in, like a giant flower, with the passing of light. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced at the Baker girls and their mother, who were now passing the first court, then the second court. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

But an empty bed and house always greeted them, and the footsteps always belonged to a passing neighbor. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The Current was passing into the setting sun. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“No. Not really. I was just passing through, and it was just—just an idea. It’s not important.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made no ineffectual efforts to conduct her household en bonne m4nagdre, going and coming as it suited her fancy, and, so far as she was able, lending herself to any passing caprice. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

He scratched his head, and for a moment had a passing wish that Mr. Frodo could have gone on living quietly at Bag End. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I’m leaving. Your henchman has terrified me completely. I shall never make the mistake of even passing by this vile pigsty.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Has reached that time when a man ages rapidly, older with each passing moment. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The growth of the children made her aware of time passing. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Magdalys saw a flash from somewhere behind them and a musket shot cracked across the night, dinging a lamppost they were passing. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I turn around in time to see Billy Henkle waving excitedly from the window of a passing car. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

But a passing ceiling strobe washes over a young guy’s face. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Our ancestors built devices to measure the passing of the seasons. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here, Fadi, take the yogurt,” said his mother, passing him the bowl. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“Said he was going to be passing and not to worry about the stove....When did he come home? I knocked earlier and he wasn’t there!” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

With every passing moment he became convinced something was wrong, this was not an ordinary delay. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

At this, the people of the village let out a gasp, and the sound was great, like the sound of a storm passing across the sky. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Caroline is passing around a petition to protect the links we’ve already got. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

A glimpse of his chin and cheek is all I get as he's passing, but it's enough to recognize. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Well-dressed people in flowing dashikis and wax-print dresses were passing through with no trouble...She resisted the urge to look down at her own clothes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He looked at the passing buildings out of the side window, but could not recognize any familiar landmarks. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The ladies of the night beckon to anyone passing, their eyes like fading coals. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

As soon as the moon finishes passing the sun, my blood rushes into my ears and my palms dampen with sweat. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

On the other team, Uncle Herm did most of the passing. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“Now, thanks to those two neglectful men, their Nemesi are doomed to wage war against each other until the end of time, growing angrier and angrier with each passing year!” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

And then we’re in the courtyard, passing the radio glow in the window, and I unlock the door of Tatarska 3. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I slid my wrinkled dollars up on the counter almost as if it were a secret note I was passing in class. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

During those days of waiting, he did not make his bed, or sweep, or shake out the little rag-braid rug, and almost forgot to slash with his fish knife the passing day on his calendar. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sefia could almost see their conversation passing between them like arrows. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I went up to her house about a week after her passing. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

And we’ll do what she says, passing the tapes on, if only to keep them away from people not on the list. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I can feel the presence of the Abyssal Serpent more and more with each passing day. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Margaret takes great pleasure in passing us while she delivers other people’s food. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

But all I can think about is Hudson and Ben passing love notes in class. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He was everywhere, he enjoyed himself hugely, he laughed out loud at passing sea gulls. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stacked the filled supers onto the truck like the cat had our tongues, and neither of us said a word till we were back in the honey truck passing the city- limits sign. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm sorry Coby says, juggling the ball with his thighs before passing it. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

More of the shells seemed to be passing overhead. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men were passing in and out, much conversation. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someday I’ll repay you by telling your personal business to every passing hobo. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

A passing car on a gravel road had thrown up pebbles and broken out the large front window of Rocinante and it had to be replaced. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flint hills rose higher and wilder with each passing mile, until by the fifth day they had turned into mountains, cold blue-grey giants with jagged promonto-ries and snow on their shoulders. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

People passing by would stop and admire it. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Ay,” he says, dragging an extra chair over to the desk and passing out beers. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Miss Kenton, who had been sitting quietly watching the passing view, turned to me at this point, saying: 'What are you smiling to yourself about like that, Mr Stevens?' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

When I came to it after passing the beggars, I looked to my left and saw the American flag flying over the American consulate building. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And all three of us, I’m sure, felt for a moment like just passing on with her. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

The only noise came from passing cars and the droning of the Carcachita’s motor. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Just in passing, he was an Eagle Scout, an almost-All-America tackle of 1926, and it was known that he had been most cordially invited to try out for the New York Giants’ baseball team. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“You have been an excellent host! We would be happy to amuse you, to repay the favor of passing through your territory.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t mean to be passing judgment, Will. When a woman gets sick, the house gets sick, too.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I go back to staring at the virtual seascape passing us. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

While passing through downtown, I recognized The Spirit of Detroit, the Marshall Fredericks statue that stood in front of the City-County Building. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The first direct news that Úrsula received from him, several years after his departure, was a wrinkled and faded letter that had arrived, passing through various hands, from Santiago, Cuba. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The roads were filled with people, everybody running and begging for rides from passing trucks. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to study many subjects and get passing grades to get to the equivalent of high school. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Question: Did you see a flying witch passing here? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

The idea that I might ever have been discussed, around the dinner table, at the bakery fire, just in passing in Peeta's house gives me a start. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Maddie has a rule about passing on favors, which she calls the Aerodrome Drop-Off Principle. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Raymond Birge, who became department chairman upon Elmer Hall’s passing that same year, was fond of remarking with a wry jocularity, “I don’t know what goes on over there in that Radiation Lab.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The prospect of a general and permanent lowering of environmental resistance becomes grimly and increasingly real with each passing year as the number, variety, and destructiveness of insecticides grows. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Just passing through. On our way to Arizona. We got jobs waiting there. Construction work. Any idea the mileage between here and Tucumcari, New Mexico?” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

We hurry away from the soldier, passing all the forlorn people handcuffed by the curb, and join the mob heading toward the school, all of us breathing a communal sigh of relief. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mark began to hear the chaos after passing two more houses. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The situation in Montgomery was so strange I decided to try passing back into white society. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m almost at the station, just passing the Crown, when I feel a hand on my arm and I wheel around, slipping off the pavement and into the road. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

September was passing and there was still no news of him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The attendant was passing from table to table with his box of money, accepting payment for bills. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even that first time, there was something there, a feeling, right there alongside our sense that this was a beginning, a gateway we were passing through. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Officer Shrift wandered through the crowd, suspiciously muttering, “Guilty, guilty, they’re all guilty,” and, on noticing Milo, brightened visibly and commented in passing, “Is it six million years already? My, how time flies.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Heading south to stay alive . . . passing us on the way . Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I think of nothing except passing the buckets of water, until my fingers are blistered and my arms ache. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Dorothy, like most Americans, had never flown on a plane, and in all likelihood, before landing at Langley, she had never given the question more than a passing consideration. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

First Ira herself, then the long, long interval and after that almost every passing year I bore a son. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead she stood by the front window staring down on streams of cars passing by. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Very occasionally, a passing neutrino will bang into one of the atomic nuclei in the water and produce a little puff of energy. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

There was a warmth as of a great fire passing in the air. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in no time at all, hundreds upon hundreds of pairs of feet could be heard passing the tent, their owners talking excitedly, laughing, joking. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

In passing behind Billy Buck he very nearly put out his hand to touch the blue-jeaned legs. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day Pitezel joined three dozen other men in the daily ritual of “passing through the line” to receive his injections. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

This was due, no doubt, to the fact that though I motored further and further from the house, I continued to find myself in surroundings with which I had at least a passing acquaintance. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He told me he knew about the souls passing through me at the moment of death. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Only the hope that it might be an illusion kept Annabeth from passing out from fear. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Outside the city walls they camped with their vast herds, raising palaces of woven grass, eating everything in sight, and making the good folk of Pentos more anxious with every passing day. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I had watched her expression become a little more drawn with each passing day. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t say a whole lot to anyone—mostly just gazes out the window at the passing landscape—but the handful of times she and Scoob make eye contact, she smiles at him. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

I would of course have to write to Miss Kenton to tell her I might be passing by; I would also need to see to the matter of the costumes. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

In October 1857, he gave money to a runaway slave passing through Hiram on his way from Kentucky to freedom in Canada. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Through the phone Mrs. Richardson heard the faint blare of a siren passing by and then receding into the distance. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even their faces looked the same, somehow ... which was passing strange, since one had skin as dark as ebony, while the second was as pale as milk, and the third gleamed like burnished copper. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Now and then, in passing a casement, you glanced out at the thick-falling snow; you listened to the sobbing wind, and again you paced gently on and dreamed. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The waiter was passing near the table where the two officers and the boy sat. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” I reply, and, eager to see Alice, take off at a run down a dirt road, then cut over to Tenmile Creek, passing through a forest of yellow birch and maples. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was intensely aware of her passing behind my chair. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

His attention began to swing grandly through the full arc of his life, passing into death, which was violet light. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the corner, several storm troopers, or the SA, as members of Hitler's private army are called, are passing out white leaflets that announce a victory parade through downtown Hamburg that night. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Someone passing by laughed loudly, and I caught the words, “The Nazi and the Communist.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I catch sight of Camel, who lifts a hand in greeting before passing along the Sterno fluid. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

"Good thing this meeting wasn't held in my restaurant, I'd go broke passing out free tea, if you call this tea." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

With each passing minute Ms. Bethune’s face sagged and her eyes filled with tears. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

As it was getting late and the confusion was great—countless Jews had been passing as non-Jews—the Lageralteste had decided that a general roll call would take place the next day. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was kneeling next to Victor on the blanket and was just passing him a screwdriver from the toolbox. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nico stood at the edge of the group, eyeing the passing pedestrians as if they might be enemies. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Calista didn’t say anything about that, just stared out the window at the black of the subway tunnel passing by as we rode. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I'd seen them in the same position—huddled in a circle passing a bottle of beer around. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

But no one came, and she climbed on, passing another closed door. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

On an impulse, she hailed a passing okada and jumped on the back and told the motorcyclist that she was going to town. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They were passing through a park with many trees and benches when Palmer saw something that stopped him in his tracks. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

No-nonsense nuns ruled classrooms with an iron hand, passing on to the youngest girls and boys the discipline and knowledge they would need to get ahead in a prejudiced world. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I wish time would hurry and there’d be sailboats tying up at the landing and tour buses passing through, and I’d already have the first hellos traded with Somebody Peterson, the girl next door. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

After an hour or so of highway driving, we’re on a road with many trees, passing horses and cows even. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could not accomplish good by passing over a wrong.... Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Mercifully, we are able to maneuver to the car wall, and he sinks down, passing out instantly. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At times by night, as they cowered or drowsed uneasily in some hiding beside the road, they heard cries and the noise of many feet or the swift passing of some cruelly ridden steed. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

And so every summer Colin went to smart-kid camp and with each passing year it became increasingly clear to him that he wasn't qualified to do anything, which is what he told Hollis Wells. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

He turned his attention to the fog out the window and aimed a spit attack at an unsuspecting pigeon passing by the fire escape. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I watched them as they moved in tandem on their knees up and down the rows, passing a small hand shovel and a three- fingered claw between them. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped again, the other miners passing us by at a hard slog, the shift-change hour approaching. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The old man ignored the passing horses and carriages, the silk brocade and the government seal, and simply continued reading a large book in his lap, placidly fingering a bag of red string beside him. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She coaxed it carefully back over the cliffs edge, a huge shiver passing through her body as the board passed over solid ground. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

With each passing hour, Booth’s trail grew a little colder. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Pittsburgh, you can barely cross the street without passing a stadium or a football fan or a tailgate party. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m just passing out health center pamphlets,” I added. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh yes,” he smiled, “those teachers keep passing us right along,” he said. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet, looking down at him in a moment that was like a secret, passing sign, her face did tell him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I hoped it wasn’t the last possibility and went on down the gallery, passing up forty-three cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we were passing the old Medusa Cement factory, I heard a long hiss and thought that my yia yia, sitting next to me, was sighing over her misfortunes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Then, after they saw the Amish they were going to circle west and join the highway to Dean Town, passing through Baylor on the way. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She had swam away, her serpentine head undulating on the surface Hke a swimming grass-snake, and the King had hailed a passing ship which looked as if it were off to the Crusades. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no one anywhere, come to that—no passing traffic, not a sound but the lazy clank of a metal ring knocking against the flagpole. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was passing the group with Hancock and the chickens. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My momma is passing light, just like you,” I say, because she deserves to know. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Her eyes stray to a passing car on the street, the headlights briefly shining on their bodies, but then her gaze returns to his face. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was concentrating on the people passing him in cars. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

And people downtown were passing just another day. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promise broken and unfulfilled. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun started to darken, like the moon was passing in front of it. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under other circumstances, a weasel passing gas might have been funny, but Hazel didn’t laugh. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He tosses it to Haymitch, who stuffs a fistful of sweets in his mouth before passing the bag to a giggling Prim. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Here each day the gods came, passing over the quivering rainbow bridge to sit beside the well and pass judgment on the deeds of men. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The same age as Bran. Please, Ned, guard your tongue. The Lan-nister woman is our queen, and her pride is said to grow with every passing year." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I’m—I’m so sorry. I was devastated to hear of Travis’s passing. He was a wonderful young man.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“I was. It was more a passing hobby in middle school and high school. But I’m not going to have time for all that. I have a real career to focus on, you know?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

What gets taught in America’s public schools has always been a mixture of state and local preferences influenced by various passing trends. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I watched as he shook hands with a man he obviously recognized, passing the fabric within palms. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

A few yards away, six ofYezzan’s slave soldiers were squatting in the dust, throwing the bones and passing a wineskin j from hand to hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They walked slowly because Khaled was still limping, passing the post office and climbing among the cemetery with its unmarked graves. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She pauses, and my throat feels thicker with every passing second. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Oh, for heaven’s sake,” she said, scanning it quickly and passing it to Ron, who read it through looking increasingly incredulous. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

When she leaves he whispers he’ll teach me a few songs because singing is good for passing the time when you’re by yourself in a typhoid room. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then, looking behind him, he glimpsed two flashlight beams passing through one of the other rooms. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Liyana, passing his room with -another cardboard box in her arms, found him poking race cars into his socks. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I think of the concert and how I haven’t told her about passing on the chance to sing a solo. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“You have been observed, Miss Podgórska, going back and forth from the ghetto. We have seen you passing goods at the fence. We have seen your sister at the fence...” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Her phone does not work,” Ma corrected me, passing Daddy the hot sauce. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

With each passing minute she felt more awake. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The chauffeur drove them to the residence of the Papal Nuncio, passing in front of a police barricade without anyone attempting to stop them. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were getting close now, passing the log once more. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

As if the angry Romans, burning couches, and exploding buildings weren’t confusing enough, hundreds of purple ghosts drifted through the forum, passing straight through the demigods’ bodies and wailing incoherently. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I heard them passing down the stairs and the closing of the door below. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The passing of the horse would “end a plague of barbarism,” he said. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Odysseus’ second thrust went home by luck, his bright spear passing through the shoulder joint; and the beast fell, moaning as life pulsed away. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the remaining mile and a half, the sophomores settled in and rowed gorgeously—a long, sleek line of perfection—passing under the automobile bridge and finishing a comfortable two lengths ahead of Navy. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Silently passing a warning to her fawns, she led them into the woods. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Antoine Thomas holds the record for the most passing yards in a single game. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Wang Lung, passing him into the room, said, “She is with child already.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

High-roads, and telegraph poles, and the monotony of passing traffic, the slow crawl into London. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“A firm handshake, but not a squeeze,” she says, passing me on the stairs. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Sure, we still numbered years for a few more decades, but at the moment of immortality, passing time ceased to matter. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The night seemed endless and timeless, minute after minute falling dead and adding up to no passing hour, bringing no change. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was Bullet’s idea to start a youth council, to start passing on the teachings right away, while they were still relearning themselves. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Others played their hunches: addresses, license numbers of passing cars, any numbers on letters, telegrams, laundry slips, numbers from anywhere. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later that day, passing Hannah in the halls, I took a look back as she walked by. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Here, too, attitudes have become more restrictive with each passing year. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

For twenty years I held the Tangerine County record for the most passing yards in a single game. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were carrying signs, chanting slogans, passing out leaflets. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

My lawyer left me, saying, “The foreman of the jury is going to announce the verdict. You’ll only be brought in for the passing of sentence.” The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Outside, a mourning dove cooed, the low hum of a lawn mower rose, a passing cloud cast them into shadow for a moment, then drifted away. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She went into the living room, where she straightened a sofa cushion in passing, and climbed the stairs to the bedroom. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The four of them stood in a circle, passing the notebook back and forth as they each took a turn conversing. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Even one of the bank officers had to have been in on it, passing information to Hertzoon about their customers and tipping him off to newcomers from the country opening accounts. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The knife flies again across the room, over furniture of velvet and intricately carved wood, passing perilously close to a crystal decanter of brandy. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Six decades and two years, no more than a passing glance of time, separate Mendel’s initial experiments on peas and the court-mandated sterilization of Carrie Buck. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

If that should change, and you are passing this way, we would be more than happy to see you over a glass of wine and discuss this further. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We enter the emergency room, passing a patient’s curtained-off cubicle before reaching Dylan, and wow, what a sight. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

As we were passing by a gnarled, knotty tree, Hamlet plucked an apple and showed me the fruit streaked with red and gold like a sunset. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

In the taxi, Aiyi talks nonstop, so I have no chance to ask her about the different sights we are passing by. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, I think we were all waiting to see the outcome of an event that loomed larger and larger with every passing day. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I stumble forward and bounce off a horse’s passing haunch. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It happened again just as they were passing one another: it was only a twitch, a quiver, rapid as the clicking of a camera shutter, but obviously habitual. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She took another swig from the bottle and wiped her lips on her arm before passing it on to Moon Girl, who drank and coughed. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of years ago a Baltimore shopkeeper named Rusty Barnes was discovered to be a Negro who’d been passing as a white man. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

We didn’t keep track of time at Thurmond in the usual way; I recognized seasons passing, but somewhere along the line I had stopped trying to mark it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Nor with the media, who needed sensation and since no deaths had occurred would give it only passing mention, like a footnote in a thousand-page book. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He was passing the rope through his fingers thoughtfully. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Quiet” places were often the worst, because there was always someone likely to be passing within earshot. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the breakup, it feels good to pretend that Will is just a passing thought, even though he’s still actually in her head every two minutes. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Pretty soon he had the Miss Amanda passing me on the right. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Ruthanne, I’m sixteen. Only one train’s passing through here in the next two hours. I’m sure I can figure it out.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Suddenly they swept up with a noise like thunder, and the foremost horseman swerved, passing by the foot of the hill, and leading the host back southward along the western skirts of the downs. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I could stand here and think about it, but time is passing. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She was just passing light. Your family from Virginia knew, though. Her mother had worked for your aunt.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

"I only have a passing memory of what sleep is," Bruce said. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

During break, I search for Rabiya and find her in the courtyard, eating a plate of biryani that a white-haired uncle is passing out. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

This person’s parents will have done meaningful work in the garment business, passing on to their children autonomy and complexity and the connection between effort and reward. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

On a rainy afternoon it had been caught and tossed by the wheel of a passing donkey cart. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like her way of passing the cooking torch so that I could do my thing in the kitchen without having to open up one of those lame, thick, usually way too girly cookbooks. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I don’t look much at the towers though, or the people passing me in their fashionable getups, imports, handcrafted leather, suede, whatever. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mother passed me to my father, who raised me high above the crowd before passing me around to be held by everyone present. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He was now passing under the very walls of the Tower, and the cries and sounds of fighting could be heard with his unaided ears. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Miig stayed on the trail until we were all off and then slipped in beside us, quickly passing us in near complete silence. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He used to drive Mother and us to Sunday school, and then sit outside in the car, reading The New York Times and ignoring the shocked glares of passing churchgoers. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the boys; one tapped another on the knee, and I saw him remove three rolled magazines from an inner pocket, passing two around and keeping one for himself. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally I saw a tall, clean hotel; black people were passing the doors and no white people were in sight. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I could hear a car passing on the street, and I was free, Charlie’s lawn stretched out in front of me, the house beckoning me, promising warmth and dry socks. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

With each passing hour, my body felt less and less like my own. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then I was across the street and passing the group standing with their backs to me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked along the wall passing the masks in a last review and through a stile and out to where the boy was waiting. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The Abbot, who was passing by, heard the noise. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

His passing was a setback to the movement, for Lembede was a fount of ideas and attracted others to the organization. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His school is a private school for brainy boys, though not an expensive one: you get in by passing tough exams. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Finn took the same route back home, passing the Dog That Sleeps in the Lane, who didn’t even lift his head to yawn when Finn said, “Later, Dog.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He passed the Lady Mayoress, standing on a corner, and as he watched, she reached out and pinned a little white flower to the lapel of a passing businessman. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The girls had been passing the second canteen around, taking small, careful sips from it. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He felt it for a moment, his fingers passing over the wings and the breast. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Students were passing us by, oblivious, rushing to lunch or another class. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

After passing the bar exam, he was all set to take over a country law practice. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came forward and sat down on the porch steps, as one does to chat with a passing neighbor. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

A passing policeman recovered the purse and returned it to the woman. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

But slowly and imperceptibly, with the passing of the seasons, his mockery and feeling of superiority diminished. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

But with the passing of time Gregor also came to understand everything more precisely. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

With each passing second, it devoured more of the waterfront. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Later, a classmate who would spend a week working with that officer told me how every morning an inmate would fix him his coffee, passing the mug out through the bars of his cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the place of his dreams, Mike Winchell had just had the worst performance of his Permian career, four for twenty-four passing for fifty-seven yards and one interception. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the doors I hear the ding of the elevators and the low murmur of passing voices. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

So instead of passing me from first to second he was passing me from first to third. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was confident of passing the final exams in December, so I began mapping out my future plans. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the young ones on the streets, patrolling or passing by. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She passes me my makeshift tuxedo, and before I know it, Ren is passing me the bass with one hand, and pushing me onstage with the other. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Spells of passing out, and sometimes I would hemhor- rage at the nose and left ear. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Auntie Buzz wound up sitting next to me at Sunday dinner and passing me the rolls and acted like nothing ever happened with us. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were just passing a smoking volcano island. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

But these black Washingtonians were angered and deeply disturbed by the discriminatory laws the city’s government was intent on passing. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The way they run things on Six North has become clear to me: it’s all about keeping people occupied and passing the time. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Planes flew over the train, so low just their passing shook the cars, and we heard the patter of bullets. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Without even perfunctory regrets at the man’s passing, he accused Luthuli of being a patsy of the white man, mainly on the grounds that the chief had accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By this time we had developed a sort of system of communication, a simple enough thing, just passing spoken messages from one cage to the next, like passing notes in school. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Their girls are on them immediately, passing smelling salts under their noses and escorting them out, half carrying them. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Towards the end of the proceedings, Judge de Wet had remarked in passing to Bram Fischer that the defense had generated a great deal of worldwide propaganda in the case. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I don’t live nearby, and no, I don’t come here often. Just passing through. And thanks, I’m glad it’s all right with you.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the view of passing off an awkward moment, Emma smilingly said, Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Even in the city, they said, where people cannot grow maize, nobody would even think of passing a day without eating it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It felt like balls of dandelion seeds passing over my face and I shivered, which made Fiona stop. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

What she had felt for Jamie back then had been just a tiny, passing flame. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

While these doubts were passing through Sam’s slow but shrewd mind, he stood gazing out towards the dark cliff of Cirith Gorgor. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Brenner, seriously wounded, managed to stumble down the mountain to a road and was rescued by some passing teenagers in a pickup truck. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Last time we’d gone this long without seeing each other, well, at least during the school year, Monday had that crazy flu and ended up passing it to the rest of her family. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He jumped over a low place in the hedge at the bottom, and took to the meadows, passing into the night like a rustle of wind in the grass. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“And these boats, they’re pretty sturdy, too,” she said, passing one to each of them. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The user had to get the alien back to its home planet by passing a quiz. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I could be back in Holkham, with the screech of gulls in my ears and salt on my tongue and a ghost train passing on the rusted track half a mile away. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “You will attack up at Emmitsburg Road, up Cemetary Ridge, passing in front of the Rocky Hill. Your objective will be to get in the rear of the Union Army.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt some sadness for the king's passing, but even greater pity for Gertrude, bowed by the weight of her loss. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

That meant that within a day of the storm’s eye passing over the region, officials were making plans for the building of a makeshift outdoor prison. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Looking out at the passing night I wondered what kind of men they were. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

On their way to the rooms containing Greek vases, they again observed the enormous crowd passing by the statue. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, with the passing of the woman who lived there longest and loved him best, the house was feeling a peculiar sense of loss. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I ducked into the dining room and came out again just as he was passing by. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the drivers had apparently tried to pull to the curb when they felt themselves passing out, but still the streets were too clogged to navigate. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It bobs up and down with every passing wave. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

His constant fear of being arrested was only growing with each passing minute. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

From there, we rode together back to the house without a word passing between us. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“He thought you might be interested in passing this information on to your cousin,” says the woman. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The three of us were soon sitting at the table, passing the syrup around. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He nudges me, and points to a low country boat passing the ferry. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She pulled the lace curtain aside and studied something passing in the street below. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they stand on either side of the tree, passing the spool back and forth as they wrap the wire around and around the trunk. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

My crotch smelled salty and sharp with her and bleached with me, and the rich pungent meat of the lamb was an offering passing between us. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He strides down Aleppo Way, passing the scorched skeletons of trees along the street. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then he stopped, shook his head, and tiptoed back upstairs, passing Jam and Pet. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I think it shocked my teacher, who had already busted me twice that year for chewing gum in class and once for passing a note to Lauren. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

After passing through a patch of brush and willows Robin came out into a field. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I pulled my hood over my head and started down the steps, passing an old guy clutching the handrail. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The timepiece’s cool weight comforted me, and when the passing streetlamps permitted, I watched the second hand continue its steady revolution around the porcelain dial. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Later that night, I was passing by my father’s study when I overheard him speaking to Rahim Khan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

For several minutes they sat, no word passing between them. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The only people in The Coffee Pot were a couple of farm women passing the time of day with Mrs. Ike Cripe. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

As they went on they came to the solemn place in which Minos, Europa’s son, the inflexible judge of the dead, was passing the final sentence on the souls before him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were passing the waterfront of the village. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

‘Down in the wood, back in the way that we have just come. It is he. Cannot you see him, passing from tree to tree?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t done anything to get on Mr. Quisling’s bad side since she was caught passing the note last week. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

To them our self-respect was more important than passing some test, because you can’t pass a test if you already feel defeated. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

They took turns riding Harry’s Nimbus Two Thousand, which was easily the best broom; Ron’s old Shooting Star was often outstripped by passing butterflies. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, he would exclaim over a view or regard with admiration some passing marvel of nature, but mostly to him hiking was a tiring, dirty, pointless slog between distantly spaced comfort zones. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

They drank, passing around the rusty shiv that had nearly killed him. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Briony was lost to her writing fantasies—what had seemed a passing fad was now an enveloping obsession. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Holmes told Ned how sorry he was to hear of her passing, but in his eyes there was only a flat blue calm, like the lake on a still August morning. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But he seemed to be understanding Sir Charles better than she was, for a flicker of complicity was passing between them, and Oliver came to sit down, too. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hit my head on the elephant-shaped coffee table when I experienced syncope, or a transient loss of consciousness, more commonly known as passing out. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“I was kidding,” she says again while I’m passing her a really hot rinsed dish so she can dry it. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

By the time of James’s passing, the Randall sons had cut off social ties with their father’s peers and proteges. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was the Halloween spirit, but the word had started spreading almost as soon as Zach and I had begun passing the flyers around the school. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He seized a passing serving girl by the arm, knocking the flagon of wine out of her hands to shatter on the floor. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But Mother wipes the corners of her mouth before passing her piece into her napkin. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The hobbits rode on up a gentle slope, passing a few detached houses, and drew up outside the inn. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She says real low, “Betty Dean, I want you to behave yourself today in church, you hear me? Don’t think I didn’t see you and your friends passing notes during service last week.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He felt guiltier with every passing second that they weren’t actively searching for their friends, but they needed information or they might never find them. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Now they’re even talking about passing a law to make ticket scalping illegal.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The people passing by pay me no attention. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The spirits of the animals are passing away. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I was still pelting through a particularly narrow lane when a man leaped out in front of me. he cried, his arms spread wide enough to prevent me from passing. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The horses continue circling, with the white horses passing the black horses and then the black horses passing the white horses, with the end result always being alternating colors. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Even as the last Americans were still passing Hitler, the first German athletes began to emerge from the tunnel, dressed in crisp white linen suits and sporting white yachting caps. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The best was when I executed a perfect sliding tackle, stealing the ball from Ali-Reza and passing it down to Sohrab. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

For the second time that evening Emily was obliged to assert her rights over written messages passing through her household. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

As they were passing a funeral parlor, Santa stopped to talk to one of the mourners standing out on the sidewalk. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sooner or later there would be a passing boat to take him back to the mainland. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

My mother and father were in the fields, so my sisters and I ran for the trees, only to watch this passing ghost steal one of our chickens. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

This place felt nicer, even if Seven was on the verge of passing out from embarrassment. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mariam steadied herself against the waves of dismay passing through her. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Beckoning to a fair-haired, ruddy >oung man who happened to be passing at the moment. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

You’ve begun to notice, though, that, bit by bit the sense of being outside of yourself has diminished with each passing day. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

My body bounced in my seat, my nerves stretching with each passing second. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

We sit in the front seat for a while, watching the headlights of the passing traffic glide into a blur. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We were passing a collection of shacks and log cabins now, bleached white and warped by the weather. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Conor and his father walked through it toward an empty bench, they kept passing patients in hospital gowns, walking with their families or out on their own sneaking cigarettes. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

And no seafaring men of Phaiakia perceived Odysseus passing through their town: the awesome one in pigtails barred their sight with folds of sacred mist. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A long line of trucks, with wooden-faced guards armed with submachine guns standing upright in each comer, was passing slowly down the street. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The Miss Teen Blue Bonnet Pageant started back in the 1930s and has only gotten bigger and more ridiculous with every passing year. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Both a priest and a Levite — worthy, pious men — came upon the man but did not stop, “passing by on the other side.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were passing a bottle around and their voices sounded spent of strong emotion. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he said in his conclusion that women were better cooking with oil and passing gas. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Rushing along down the sidewalk, I glanced up at all the men who were passing. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

When the mood struck him, he would call a child passing by to come play on the swings or the seesaw. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guard was passing by, so I remarked instead about the plantain fritters we’d eaten the night before. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Exactly two weeks later, there was another significant passing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well-known quotations embody both of these things: they come with the imprimatur both of ancient derivation, and of the many people who, by passing it on, in some way are understood to have endorsed it. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

What I could see was that a group was passing newspaper clippings back and forth and reading them aloud with little squeals of delight. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

While white albatrosses escorted Endurance through the ice on their magnificent, motionless wings, Leonard Hussey, the meteorologist, serenaded the passing wildlife with his banjo. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

What my sensations were, no language can describe; but just as they all rose, stifling my breath and constricting my throat, a girl came up and passed me: in passing, she lifted her eyes. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Fishing was surely a better way of passing the time than yarn-spinning or playing I Spy. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the supper table as I’m passing the green beans. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As determined as everyone else was to have me remain at Central, with each passing day I began to doubt that I was strong enough to tough it out. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we were passing through some of the villages, many Germans watched us, showing no surprise. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like always, they sit around the dining room table, passing the tequila and talking about how great it was to live in their hometown of Los Ojos. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Today is Saturday and the Housewives’ League is passing out coupons and canvassing to sign up new members in Paradise Valley and Black Bottom. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I spent nearly an hour upstairs making meatballs, but I only spoke to “him” in passing. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Any cowboy passing by at that moment might have fallen off his horse had he seen me step out the front door. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Truth is,” he said, swinging the truck into the passing lane, “I like people.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

As it was passing by yet again, I impulsively dropped my hand into the water and grabbed it just ahead of the tail, where its body was thinnest. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You want to be careful, Blaise! I saw this young lady perform the most marvelous Bat-Bogey Hex as I was passing her carriage! I wouldn’t cross her!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

They look like they're scanning the flood of faces passing by them. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Mom doesn’t give the beast too much credit for passing on good genes.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first of a batch of two hundred and fifty embryonic rocket-plane engineers was just passing the eleven hundred metre mark on Rack 3. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

And just in passing, Gentlemen, what have you done lately for the Union cause ? Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rindlisbacher was among those with only a passing knowledge of texting. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was dismaying to be chosen like a new bauble and then forgotten, a mere passing fancy. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She thought sadly of Einar, alone in his hillside hut, and knew that a part of life was passing both of them by. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The drip from the kitchen faucet marks the passing of time. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Rock passing games such as “Obwisana” start out very simply, but the rocks can be tapped in more complex polyrhythms after the children master the easier rhythms. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

C.C.’s voice brought all of these things to mind, as if she were passing me under a microscope. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

A young Beta- Minus mechanic was busy with screwdriver and spanner on the blood-surrogate pump of a passing bottle. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could breathe in the smells of springtime and watch the passing countryside. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I only knew that someone had taken a photo of me without my scarf on—without my consent—and was now passing it around. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“So how’d you know what you were passing, then,” his younger daughter would ask. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two days later, passing an alley, he thought something moved at the other end. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celaena smiled smugly to herself as she nodded to a passing nobleman, who raised his eyebrows at the sight of her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Then passing through the door he took Faramir from the deadly house and laid him on the bier on which he had been brought, and which had now been set in the porch. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Bread and wine, water, oil, salt, and ash—through ceremonies of guilt and redemption, sorrow and rebirth, through the passing liturgical year, my boyhood assumed all significance. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They beckoned him to throw himself under their passing weight, inviting him to be chopped into pieces and left bleeding as the train roared on. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

If anybody was passing by out on the road, she would either change her mind or just give me a few licks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stepped out of the black crepe dress where it fell to the floor, and stood in her heels and underwear, surveying the possibilities on the wardrobe racks, mindful of the passing minutes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Professor McGonagall told me,” said Lupin, passing Harry a chipped mug of tea. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Through the glass, they could see bodies passing by quickly, just blurs of color and shadow. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Your syllabus plainly states that passing notes or doing any work other than class work is done at your own risk.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Jacob was sent out to ask a peasant passing by if she knew the Holy Cross-Roads Inn. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I shocked myself by shouting for the first time since your passing. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The whole year, I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was just passing time. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“And what did you do after that, Mademoiselle?” asked Poirot, passing from the subject tactfully. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we walk to the car I look closely at the people passing us. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I walked and looked at every headstone I was passing. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Jason taps, and I tear my focus away from Kristi passing the last streetlight at the edge of the park. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Letters from school,” said Mr. Weasley, passing Harry and Ron identical envelopes of yellowish parchment, addressed in green ink. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The definition inserted itself into billboards and the ads on passing buses. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Dad kept passing me napkins until I was dry. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Mostly it looked like a collection of notes or letters, some folded like the one she and James got caught passing in Mr. Quisling’s class. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was like a shadow, like a mist passing across her soul’s summer day. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was the danger of passing out, of being shot while I slept, but I couldn’t help it. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

As you climbed, you could see the legs of someone passing along the hallway above. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Usually, I spent that period passing notes with Lauren, my best friend, or staring out the window daydreaming about boys. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

An old woman passing by looked suspiciously at the strangers. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I see the lights of a passing plane above me. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The defense had performed wonderfully, holding Carter to 14 yards on the ground and 117 passing. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman passing by with shopping on her arm gives me and my half-braided hair a long look. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Miraculously, as miraculous as snow on Easter and strangers passing out onto the ground, the small, smiling man pulled a stubby banana from his pants pocket and handed it to her. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Stop tossing flowers out the window at passing girls and stay inside where you are safe. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worse, an owner who happened to be passing by saw the horse working and pulled out his stopwatch. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to look past him at what we’re passing—a sea of crumbling, abandoned buildings that get smaller as we go. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Here,” he said, passing the book through the bars. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if he could force ions into a circular path, thereby passing them repeatedly across a single electrical gap? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He wanted to drop the brick, wanted to be free of this warm blood that crept and grew powerful with each passing moment. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

With fewer travelers passing through, the town quieted down a bit, though the parsonage fronted on the main street, which was still crowded and busy. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He coasted away from his home, passing over bicycles and cars, their antennae scraping the bottom of his canoe. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I squeeze through a gap between the barriers and hold the cups out to runners passing by. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

My dad and brother had no idea what had happened, but my mom and I were both on the verge of passing out. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Doctors and nurses and patients passing on adjoining paths seemed to be moving on casters, cut off at the waist by the piled snow. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Once they pull a cigarette out of their respective packs, they walk single file through a red door, passing Nurse Monica, whose job is to light everybody up. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He wasn't just passing by the Kings; I guess he's one of them. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me? What exactly are you passing on?” she asks, and the rest of the class laughs. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had spoken peace and confidence into their troubled souls, had set a star before them and we were passing on to other scenes, still carrying the message. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

All our new memories are of here, and Vivi has only a passing interest in those. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He climbed up on the porch and glared at the passing swarms. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the commander was not prepared to risk a computer crash in the middle of an alert, and so doused his cigar in the coffee cup of a passing gremlin. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Of course, Rowdy got hot, hit fifteen or twenty in a row, and I rebounded and kept passing the ball to him. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Cabot made his way down the gravel road slowly, and after passing two houses on the right, realized that he’d forgotten to ask the grocery store kid which house belonged to Cullen Witter. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Then she lay on her back and gazed at the beautiful sky, a few white clouds passing through the blue. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Bigger shifted his feet and listened to the faint clang of another street car passing. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

This was a better way of passing time than seeing personnel managers, several of whom, Ignatius thought, had treated him rather viciously in the last few days. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Were passing around a box of fancy cream-filled cookies when the beeping starts again. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The word came from John Slater, MIT’s physics chairman, who was passing on thirdhand information from a National Research Fellow in his laboratory, who heard it from a friend at Harvard working at Raytheon part-time. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Thenceforth he studied the high arts and enchantments, passing beyond arts of illusion to the works of real magery, learning what he must know to earn his wizard's staff. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

There were no customers, and a fat old Vermonter with a naked woman tattooed on his forearm was leaning against the cash register, passing time with a kid who worked at the Mini-Mart next door. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A passing wind billows his black cape, and he looks around the backyard like he’s arrived at a garden party. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The front door was open and Legs was barking at a dog passing by. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

In the waning minutes before game time there was a small stream of black passing white to get to the Carter side, and white passing black to get to the Permian side. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere near, a passing bell was tolling; the dogs all round the neighbourhood were howling; and in our shrubbery, seemingly just outside, a nightingale was singing. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

In passing the door of that sanctum some time after, I caught the words— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Louder, child,” said my father as he stepped closer to the passing procession. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

When he was done he shut the engine down and stood on the hatch with his back against the cabin, listening for the blasts of passing freighters. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He discovered early on that “being referred” was the adult term for passing the buck. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

So she was home by herself one afternoon when she saw a band of Seminoles passing by. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

It had taken another death to reconcile them; Lyanna's death, and the grief they had shared over her passing. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He walked through the unfamiliar halls, passing groups of girls and boys clustered together, joking, laughing—looking like they belonged. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

"We were just passing through," the tallest one says. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

And he strode off, leaving Harry to take a sandwich from a passing waiter and make his way around the edge of the crowded dance floor. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

As he looked down into the wild faces of the singers, he had the feeling that they, at least, were sorry for Dumbledore’s passing. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

After about two weeks of traveling, Benton Sage was starting to get used to the routine of passing out food, water, and Christ as quickly and efficiently as possible. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Enveloped by comfortable circumstances, Siddhartha hardly noticed their passing. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you realize what you’re passing up? Scholarships, internships—” “The chance for me to finally have a Seven-free life,” I add, and slurp my milk shake. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

All that had happened since Bilbo left the Shire was passing through his mind, and he recalled and pondered everything that he could remember of Gandalf’s words. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And Squealer, who happened to be passing at this moment, attended by two or three dogs, was able to put the whole matter in its proper perspective. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Or on a road somewhere, crushed, nothing of him moving except a wing waving with every passing tire? Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I meet Barb’s gaze, a look of understanding passing between us. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

It opened directly on fields and forests, allowing riders to come and go without first passing through the winter town, and so was favored by hunting parties. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He nodded at a few passing nobles, who scraped and bowed. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“The priest was right in not passing Florence, because he doesn’t believe!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frank tried to imagine staying here with Iris, putting on a R.O.F.L. shirt, selling crystals and dream catchers to demigod travelers and lobbing gluten-free cupcake simulations at passing monsters. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

All I was doing was passing out health center flyers, not trying to induct first years into some hedonistic, druggy sex cult. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her temper had not diminished with the passing of time, and when a passionate nature is not eased with moments of compassion, melodrama is likely to take the stage. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The subway was cool and I leaned against a pillar, hearing the roar of trains passing across on the other side, feeling the rushing roar of air. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am passing out an important part of the Declaration of Independence that I want you to memorize,” she said, counting the number of sheets to hand out in each row. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Flour, corn, beef, sheep, all day were passing through the town gates upon the Neck, in carts and wagons. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A week after his passing, Garfield was peacefully laid to rest in a vault a few miles from his birthplace. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And it weighs you down and holds you down and keeps you down more and more and more with every passing moment. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Children’s clapping games and rock passing games provide very simple but accessible examples of polyrhythmic learning. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It didn’t fit on the pavement, so it walked on the road instead, passing through parked cars as if it was spun out of nothing but nightmare and imagination. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Lyra was in the open, and the arrows were passing over her head. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Sir. Your visitors from High Command are passing through security, sir. They will be here shortly.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The pressure of trains passing in far-off tunnels pushed the air around like breaths in some great creature’s gullet. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The sun in his eyes reminded him how time was passing, so he took the conch down from the tree and examined the surface. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

When they reached Jerusalem, after passing the usual daily things—vegetable carts, sheep, stores, family vineyards propped on poles—the taxi turned sharply onto a gray industrial-looking street. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

"Here you go," he said, passing the star the other end of the chain that had bound her. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

We all knew that the time when she could speak was passing; but we felt that it was useless to say anything. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

If the Adams brand of statesmanship was now an anachronism—and it was—then the Adams presidency would serve as a fitting monument to its passing. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

We agreed that the war was just a passing phase that wouldn’t last over three months. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I’m just passing the security checkpoint when I see the wall next to Uriah explode. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But after Grandpa went off to Jefferson in the buggy with Miss Love, it dawned on me that now Granny’s passing wasn’t so plain after all. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Cascading bolts of blue lightning erupted in the space between us, and their spiderweb tines enveloped us both, as if a surge of power were passing from his avatar into mine. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He agreed to it, as he agreed later on to the leash, because he thought it was a passing fancy that could be overcome in time. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He had that look where you just knew he had a ton of hard information to share but was having a difficult time passing it on, probably because he thought I couldn’t handle it. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He spotted Alec a few feet away, jamming the end of his weapon into a woman’s face; Alec then broke into a run, jumping onto the steps and passing Mark, heading for the door. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He’d come to outgrow this with the passing of time, and then he passed his evenings reading; sleep had seized him like a dark claw while other boys drank their hearts out. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Instead, the truck continued on to Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, passing through a hellish landscape of burned-out villages and rotting corpses along the way. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

We walk down High Street, passing the silent church. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

And then, right as he was passing through the doorway, “Always take care of your brother!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Now they were passing over the gray ruin of Dead Man’s Vlei. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were passing through Cobbler's Square, where a sizable crowd had gathered beneath the leather awnings to listen to the rantings of a prophet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The storm that blackens the horizon is sweeping toward us at a frightening pace, its lightning forking closer with each passing second. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Chandresh’s attention remains only on the man in the grey suit, and it does not once wander to this other man who bears a passing resemblance to his assistant. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

T A he fevers for some were passing. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

My tears weren’t going to bring Uncle Jack back to our reality, and they certainly weren’t going to keep him from passing away. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

A member of the Berkeley French faculty and a close friend of Oppenheimer’s, Chevalier had approached Oppie about passing information from the bomb program to the Soviets. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Dudley snored but Harry stayed awake, sitting on the windowsill, staring down at the lights of passing cars and wondering.. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Hold it!” said Hermione, throwing out an arm and halting a passing fourth year, who was attempting to push past her with a lime-green disk clutched tightly in his hand. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Every few minutes, Jinny forced herself to lean over, touch his lips, make sure there was still a faint stream of breath passing between them. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Except for space, it has everything a regular game has — running, passing, blocking, tackling, kicking. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is done by simply passing the bits around from mind to mind, until something like natural selection makes the final selection, all on grounds of fitness. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We run down the clean, even sidewalks on Madison Avenue, passing State Street, toward Michigan Avenue. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

You’ll see passing your door here the buckets of eleven families and I can tell you it gets very powerful here in the warm weather, very powerful altogether. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Judge William Lewis saw house after house in his neighborhood abandoned, saw the streets empty, saw the hearses constantly passing his home, and fled. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

She grabs her ball from beneath the bench and starts passing it between her hands. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“We were just passing by,” I said, “and we thought we would see how you were doing.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Up and down they roared, louder than a passing train as they chewed through iron as thick as a man’s arm. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, his coworkers would have had to be blind and deaf not to have noticed the sudden changes in what was now passing for his personality. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The passing of the moons now had come to mean little, and I only made marks to count the four seasons of the year. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the old Korean tradition, my presence in the kitchen was unwelcome unless I was actually eating, or passing through the room. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

How she lifted the wine bottle to her lips, passing it so he could do the same. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I had assumed that the Pacific, but for passing schools of fish, was a sparsely inhabited waste of water. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Movement, travel, impermanence, and passing in the night were laws of the tribe. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow in Forks, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the ponds receive not only contaminated runoff but also a direct dose as crop-dusting pilots neglect to shut off the duster in passing over a pond. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But as I was passing the broken church I heard a solitary singing voice: “Ah, dear God, how can this be That all things wear and waste away!” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

As the Tillermans, breathing in gasps, were passing the playground, a dusty green pickup swung into the road that circled before the school entrance. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She can pick up a single peanut with elegant precision, tickle a passing mouse, tap the shoulder of a dozing keeper. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

When she looked up, the dragon was there, its surprisingly expressive blue eyes passing back and forth between Anya’s face and her arm. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Not in the town, where all that was natural had long been sacrificed, but on its outskirts, one could still see the passing of the seasons. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The family was always glad to see him; he enlivened for a short time the passing of one monotonous day after another. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No texting at the table, baby,” Wanda said, passing the bowl to her right. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Whatever anesthesia had carried me through the event was starting to wear off and with each passing second the thought of sitting around all night, alone, was seeming more and more unbearable. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There were so many mistakes most of the contestants didn’t know what it meant, what they were supposed to do, or why the judges hadn’t proofread their paragraph before passing it around. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I kept on walking, passing paddocks filled with horses, cows, and shaggy-furred cattle that I realized must be buffalos. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I can’t,” said my sister, while passing the lima beans and not taking any. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

After they left, the frightened youngster was able to flag down a passing car on the highway. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walk in silence into Central Park, passing early risers as we do. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I succumbed utterly to my desolation, made two peanut-butter sandwiches, and went to bed and wrote letters home, passing my loneliness around. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A passing dog lets out a small yelp and tugs his leash in our direction. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In the early years of Jim Crow, conservative white elites competed with each other by passing ever more stringent and oppressive Jim Crow legislation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Francie counted the year’s passing not by the days or the months but by the holidays that came along. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two solemn-faced children came passing out handbills which first I refused, then went back and took. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ground was passing me faster, but it wasn’t me running. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned away passing one damp hand across her forehead, and went to the cupboard. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Come on, come on, it is passing you, órale, hurry, jump on! Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

That struck him as more than passing queer. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

This one, with the passing of the years had grown lean and gaunt and the rock-like bones of her face stood forth and her eyes were sunken. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The group got a little bigger with each passing day. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pretend to laugh too, but the passing buildings and streets out my side of the window are competing for my attention. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes again and she whispers a prayer, her hand touching my forehead and then passing across my chest and shoulders. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

They did not know for sure, but they suspected that the dances were beyond nasty because the music was getting worse and worse with each passing season the Lord waited to make Himself known. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The mouth of the cave shelters us from above, and they cannot get behind us without passing through the mountain. Is your sword sharp, Jon Snow?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The flowers’ petals curved coyly around the corners of rocks as if they were trying to peek at who might be passing by. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Mama had reasoned that the red liquid passing through my intestines had to be blood. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

We make our way north and east through the catacombs, stopping only to avoid passing Martial patrols. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In their father’s final years, after their mother’s passing, their sire had taken the comely daughter of a candlemaker as mistress. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In rural Kentucky, three men threw pieces of a tombstone off a bridge, smashing the windshield of a passing car, killing a teenage girl who was traveling with her family on a religious pilgrimage. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat alone, everything quiet except for the sound of cars and trucks passing by. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“And there’ll be a lot of love passing between us. Ted, we’ve had thirty-five years of friendship. You don’t need speech or hearing to feel that.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not passing a studio is grounds for expulsion, and we decided to just put you on probation.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“If you take him away, he will change. And someday he will be a man, and you will not even know him, and he will only think of you with a passing smile.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

But the girls in the back row turn to watch some boy passing outside. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were passing Madison Square Park when Annabeth said, “Pull over.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Just the drums and the Colored Boy Scouts passing out explanatory leaflets to white men in straw hats who needed to know what the freezing faces already knew. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are other people on the list of donors, but they are only names I've heard in passing, not associated with faces that I would easily recognize. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Lily and Lydia were out on the patio passing a cigarette back and forth between them. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The Catholic Church has survived for centuries, not by passing on a ‘celibacy gene’ from one pope to the next, but by passing on the stories of the New Testament and of Catholic canon law. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Composed in 1782, the sonata evokes the moon over calm, peaceful waters after the passing of a storm. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

But it was not hostility, exactly; merely a kind of wariness, a momentary stiffening, as at the passing of some unfamiliar animal. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I noticed someone passing between the rows. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed on into the Hall of Pillars and then into the Hall of Statues and down the colonnade, passing the great beaten-copper doors of the throne room. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t even actually met him yet, and had spoken just once in passing to Sherrie Chin- Watt. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex accepts a shot off a passing tray and drinks to the strange spark in his gut at the way Henry watches them. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A fox passing through the wood on business of his own stopped several minutes and sniffed. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It meant choosing a major in college, getting grades, passing tests, and knowing where you wanted to go. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Eventually we were passing barbershops and barbecue joints and wig shops. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Next to her, Gale ran up and down the railing, passing gas; but the strong wind off the Adriatic helped whisk it away. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Rowan led the way, passing other kids in the hall—students who, like him, were late, or were just on an errand. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Made it in passing, almost as an afterthought. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was a simple matter of choice, predilection, and a passing grade. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She watched as a passing car ran right over the still-green nut. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

They were passing around a copper vessel, sharing water that embroidered the outside with beads of cool condensation. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Zlata then reciprocated by passing the baton to the Freedom Writers. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“My haste is your good fortune, madam. These girls were the servants of my late aunt, whose passing I mourn deeply. I must quickly conclude the matters of her estate. The recent unrest, you know.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

That can be the difference between passing and failing. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

After two standard practices that focused on the basics of passing and ball handling, she scheduled a scrimmage between the new Under Fifteens and their counterparts on the Under Seventeen team. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

People were passing us on their way to class, probably staring, but I was barely aware of them. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

A passing waiter noticed that his glass was empty and came back with the gin bottle. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

No one said good-bye except a few uglies passing by. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Page 83 Do you understand so-and-so’s concern about not passing history? Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The world, through his unleashed emotions, imprinted itself upon him, and he carries the stamp of that passing moment forever. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drive for what feels like hours, passing fields of white. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But to himself he said, passing by, “It would not surprise me at all if the elder one should become a prefect with all this learning!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Soon the car was passing the other side of the barn and the field beyond, views Luke had never seen, though he'd lived his entire life within a hundred yards of them. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

They’re all stranded on a deserted island, afraid to signal for help from passing ships in the distance, because they could belong to their enemies. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Editorials in Federalist newspapers accused him of passing information to the French government through pro-French agents in America and meeting routinely with Benjamin Franklin Bache, editor of the Aurora, the chief vehicle for the opposition. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

She grabbed my hand and half dragged me to her room, passing several servants in the hall. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some birthday boys he seemed to totally ignore, passing them on the street as he usually did, as if they were dog doo. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The other people passing through the bus station, to the extent they noticed me at all, took me for a student at a nearby boarding school. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Some were crying hysterically, some looked on the verge of passing out, but some were laughing. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

We cut our way through the crowd, bumping shoulders with boys who were standing in the doorway eyeing the girls passing by. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Yet with each passing day I find myself farther away. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Law knows who else she passing it around town to now. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The dry heat felt like a school bus passing by your face. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Ben does the same, like we’re in a secret club with energy passing between our hands. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Joyce was still living and working at the judge’s house, and hating the job more with each passing day. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I remembered a few weeks back when Saidu had spoken about parts of him slowly dying each passing day, as we carried on with our journey. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He can perceive, if he bends his will thither, much of what is passing in the minds of men, even of those that dwell far off. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The landscape jerks forward, falls away, the train casting a passing shadow on an expanse of nondescript buildings. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We drove down Broadway, passing students who filled the sidewalks like colorful ants in a parade. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The water glistened through the trees, and she could hear the wavelets of a passing river skimmer’s wake slapping at the shore. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Because I’m only twelve and I’m just passing through. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

We left Santa Maria Valley, passing by acres and acres of strawberry, artichoke, and alfalfa fields. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Similarly, chemicals sprayed on croplands or forests or gardens lie long in soil, entering into living organisms, passing from one to another in a chain of poisoning and death. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Auditions for major orchestras were sometimes held in the conductor’s dressing room, or in his hotel room if he was passing through town. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Emily rounded a corner, passing the papier-mache witch hats decorated by sixth graders that lined the windows of the library. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Thomas wished he could do more than watch— with every passing second, he doubted more and more that what he’d said earlier was true. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the line, passing buckets with the rest, stood the slim boy who had played Ophelia. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I kept blocking him, stealing the ball and passing it forward again, until he looked ready to burst into flame like an angry Balrog. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The inmate being ratted out was difficult and disrespectful, so I didn’t mind passing the tip along to a sergeant. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lily watched the passing cars on the interstate. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

After the host left Morgul Vale and took the northward road beneath the shadow of the mountains no messenger had returned nor any rumour of what was passing in the brooding East. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Just passing through a door, being inside, surrounded by walls and a ceiling, was novel. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Time was passing and the disturbance was dying down. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

This winter, Yule would be a much more subdued affair, “out of respect for my husband’s untimely passing,” Lady Isobel declared. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night I sat on the front steps and stared blankly at the passing people, wagons, cars . Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A word dropped here at random, a question, a passing phrase. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you liking my chances of passing next week’s final? I really don’t want to get left back.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I saw only him, because for those few passing moments, he was the only thing that seemed to exist in my world. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Day after day passed, and Edward was aware of time passing only because every morning he could hear Ernest performing his dawn ritual, cackling and crowing about being king of the world. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

By the time I hit the straightaway I’m passing the next-to-last runner, then the next, and the next. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“What are you doing?” she asked, passing him after half an hour. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I went to the kitchen and made myself breakfast, I heard the faint rumble of more cars and trucks passing the house. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sermon slouched along as sermons will when every single soul in the building is wishing that the ushers would start passing around cool glasses of lemonade. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Here, have a pasty,” said Worple, seizing one from a passing elf and stuffing it into Sanguinis hand before turning his attention back to Harry. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I mean lost. A mouse in a trap. He saw dead people passing through the walls. Terrible things in the corners of the streets. Now your great- uncle does not go outdoors.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We reach Broadway, and a train is passing by on the overhead tracks. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Tea would brew, and who­ever had a passing singing voice would sing until the sun rose, the mosquitoes stopped buzzing, and clapping hands grew sore. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Thinking about it,” I said, passing the ball to him. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

One day I too will prompt a moment's reflection in the passenger of a passing cab. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

People passing us were speaking all kinds of languages. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whichever direction he goes, I go the opposite, and with each passing day my heart blackens with hatred for him, but I keep it all inside. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is overly aware that they are not used to passing things around the table, or to chewing food with their mouths fully closed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

His father took his passing pretty hard and cried for weeks. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

In the end, El-ahrairah decided that probably Prince Rainbow was passing on Hufsa’s information to a farmer or a gamekeeper and not bothering himself about what happened as a result. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were many people passing in the fog. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The train stopped in Vevey, then went on, passing the lake on one side and on the other the wet brown fields and the bare woods and the wet houses. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Ron, passing them in the opposite direction, let out a loud snort. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The postmark is from New York, but he does not recognize the signature as belonging to any of the rêveurs he has met in passing in that or any other city. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It had a large number of fairly well dressed young men hanging around out front, not drinking or gambling, not visibly occupied with anything except paying close attention to passing cars. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A home that, with each passing day, seemed to drift farther away. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I felt as if my life depended on my passing the exam that would give me a high school diploma. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

About an hour after midnight the fear fell on them a third time, but it now seemed more remote, as if it were passing far above the clouds, rushing with terrible speed into the West. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

In that letter Jefferson had mentioned Adams in passing as a retrograde thinker opposed to all forms of progress, one of the “ancients” rather than “moderns.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Now, no sooner did she make for the door than they glided together, preventing her passing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

As I was passing the bicycle racks, I heard my name being called. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He says the name Pol Pot is passing through many lips in the rice fields and village. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he left the earth, Bull knew that he had every chance of passing through a square foot of sky unviolated by man before. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly they just talked about heat and cold, and wind and clouds, and what’s gonna be done, and time passing. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was at the other end of the park. The dryads had this great idea of passing me through the trees to get me here. They don’t understand height very well.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she dreamed that she was walking in the Wood, passing the same stand of pine trees repeatedly; she would grow increasingly frustrated until she woke herself up, her hands balled into fists. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milkman did as he was told and took King’s shotgun, a piece of rope, and a deep swig from the bottle they were passing around. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew he was on the verge of passing out from low blood sugar. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Time is passing; in the silence before the long dash the future is taking shape. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As I sat on a stone bench outside the Mews, passing students smiled in my direction. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Reading the articles—passing judgment on them in her mind. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The computers were passing underneath a bizarre machine—cantilevers, wires, and hydraulic arms. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He was amazing me more with every passing minute. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Each passing day seemed to fuel the other side, anxious for closure. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

‘They got a little more friendly when I told them I was just passing through. They gave me a going-away present.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Jelly was in jail for passing bad bills. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

School text­books barely mentioned them and referred to their ancestry only in passing. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The bridge’s planks reverberate with the cars passing below. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you ever discuss codes, or any means of passing secret messages, with Dumbledore?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Troops marched through London on their way to quell riots in Manchester, passing by 12 Upper Gower Street. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A machine gun fires somewhere, a sound like a chain of beads passing through fingers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The column of vehicles did not move but the troops kept passing alongside. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The cliche of time passing slowly usually has to do with idleness and inactivity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And unlike the other guests, Angelo always wound up in the kitchen cooking the dinner or passing platters of his famous fennel cakes. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It cannot be reached save by passing the circle of Isengard; and in that circle there is only one gate. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

All morning Jody kept the wound open and the air passing in and out freely. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ghost walked straight toward the windows, passing through the wall. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Along the road for perhaps a quarter of a mile she had been passing and admiring a row of splendid tended oleanders, blooming pink and white in a steady row. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Basketball players did passing drills on deck, but the wind kept jettisoning the balls into the Atlantic. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“She probably started passing like the rest of ’em, that’s what.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Ahhh," the short one says, stretching the word out, his mouth round like the barrel of the revolver he has emptied and is passing around so the children can all hold it. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“The goal is to prevent these wondrous beings from passing out of existence.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They had never visited me before, but they were passing through on their way to Arizona and stopped for dinner. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“With every passing day, Watergate was circumscribing our freedom of action,” Kissinger, the one person unscathed by scandal, later said. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The morning was passing towards noon, and still the Company wandered and scrambled in a barren country of red stones. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

No one passing outside the shop must guess that toward twenty boys were at that moment dressing themselves as ‘Indians.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tilted her head forward and picked up her pace, passing in front once more. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

On our side of the highway was nothing but maple trees and litter from passing cars. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I found Jill, who was still at it, passing out flyers with info about the protest. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The giant adder was slithering closer with each passing second. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

That night, at last, she started to write, recklessly, three, five pages, looking up once only to see her father passing by the hall on tiptoe. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The sun is high in the sky, which tells me the hours are passing quickly. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He looked at the passing faces and the tales came back to him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He stopped a passing guard, but didn’t dare mention platform nine and three-quarters. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The sun was bright in the sky, and little birds clung to tall grass stems and chirped at Anya and Ivan’s passing. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

On and on, the clouds passing sometimes without me noticing, the moons rising, stars peeping. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The full tale is stated to have been written by Barahir, grandson of the Steward Faramir, some time after the passing of the King. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The rest of practice was Whit giving us the rundown about the handoff—the passing of the baton—and how it was just like dancing the waltz, but we didn't actually practice it. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

With the passing of the flame out of him he was suddenly cold with an age and he was an old man. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I could sit there for hours reading, the world passing below pretending to be real, me above doing the same thing. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The thought was passing vaguely through her mind, “What would he think?” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

I run for miles but don’t count them, passing dark house after dark house. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I wanted to keep aholt of all the feelings that kept passing over me in waves. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“My mama brought me,” Tess said, passing the scale to Genie. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Most likely passing light,” Mama said, her voice low, as she caught Ophie watching the woman. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

As he filled his here were times—not many, but a few—when Jon wine cup once more from a passing flagon, it struck him that this might be one of them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As the days dragged by, Marina began to hear and see planes passing overhead. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“So you weren’t the one passing around the whole school that my dad hits my mom?” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

When you put it in words it sounded reasonable; it was when you looked at the human beings passing you on the pavement that it became an act of faith. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The pulse in my fingertips marks the passing seconds. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He told a servant passing with a tray of drinks to give Rowan a glass of champagne. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

So we lay in the tall grass between the soccer field and the woods, passing the bottle back and forth and tilting our heads up to sip the wince-inducing wine. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The fluorescent lights transmit conversations from passing cars on Broadway. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

During her time in England, Alice Paul had learned the British suffragists’ political approach to their cause, which involved holding the party in power responsible for not passing the suffrage amendment. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

In the bunkers, they tended small children, passing out food, milk, and toys. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

A hundred and ten years later the artist and naturalist John J. Audubon saw a flock passing overhead in a single cloud for three whole days. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I kept my eyes on the straight lines of tile passing under my feet. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Or passing them in narrow halls where they try to jump you, steal your shoes or money. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

On my first pass over Tranquility Base since their departure, I told them: “Eagle, Columbia passing over the landing site. It sure is great to look down there and not see you!” Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jesse and Leslie sat cross-legged on the porch at the Burkes’, watching the wheels of a passing truck shoot huge sprays of muddy water to its rear. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

We all knew each other in a way, from the passing of messages over the preceding months; yet except for Jenner and me, none of us had ever really met. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The sailor was passing on Chartres Street in the opposite direction. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad finally navigated his way to Aunt Maureen’s an hour later, after driving on about seven hundred narrow dirt roads and passing about two hundred cows. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

We made it to our chairs, and the applause died down like a passing storm. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

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

And there was a chance that not all the pale-skinned folks at the stop were passing light. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Time was passing—seven months, by this time—and the community was fearful and angry. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Alice works her way underneath the tree in crouch position and starts passing bags and boxes down the line, and everyone talks at once. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

We rode down Route 127 to Folly Cove, passing a mile of granite curbing and houses built with granite blocks. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

When she was finished, they would stretch the banner between two trees in the hope that it would draw the attention of a passing plane or ship. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

They paddled back to Claiborne, passing a full case of bottled water bobbing in the middle of the waterway. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She and her team worked fast, passing their hard-won decrypts, keys, and code books back to the FBI. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

We paced along beside him, passing through the garden and the orchards. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this couldn’t last—there was no way to stop other people copying the instrument and no way to prevent those who knew how to use it passing on their knowledge. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I barely raised my eyes until a car, passing with a thudding of skid chains whirled completely around on the ice, then turned cautiously and thudded off again. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

For months I imagined whoever had attacked the Islamic Center living among us and was afraid of passing them on the street or at the grocery store. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Leo’s brethren from Cabin Nine hurried around, fitting everyone with armor and passing out weapons. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Prosper scrutinized every face passing by, but their pursuer wasn't among them. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Yet Goddard was now there in his head, passing judgment on everything he did. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s like passing out pamphlets about the gym or the arts center. What’s the difference?” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

We leave town quickly, passing other people running for their lives as well. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He was standing on the promenade as if frozen solid, oblivious to the crowds passing him by. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

And he would light a cigarette casually, asking a passing waiter for a light, while I thought, “Four and a half more minutes to go. I shall never see him again.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if it was to myself or my mom or everyone, but with each passing day, I feel more and more like I have nothing left to say. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

His stance grew wobblier with each passing second, but somehow he managed to make eye contact with me. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The knowledge began to pass among them, passing without words, that it was over. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But you can see the sky flashing when the gunners on the ground fire at the passing planes. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

On the ground, trembling, I stared up at the passing clouds, wondering how Monday could live with such a monster. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And then, abruptly, they were out of the trees and coming over the crest of a hill, passing between great stone pillars that framed a tall and forbidding black iron gate. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Defeated the troll, and without a single plea for aid passing his lips. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

She felt them gathering their strength inside her, felt each passing second crystallize into a map of strategic striking points wrapping around Wick’s body. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

After passing through an alcove containing a safe, a wardrobe and a big supply cupboard, you come to the small, dark, stuffy back office. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“You are strong,” said Gran, passing the half-whittled crutch to Ivy. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Clearly the passing down had stopped long ago. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They were cruising Main Street one morning, passing the Grand movie theater, when Piper McNab came screaming down the middle of the empty street. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sounds of passing cars are like the tines of forks dragged along his nerves. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

That would explain the presence of half a dozen lawyers inside the room solemnly passing documents back and forth to one another, which they culled from the filled cartons surrounding them. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We live in societies that mass-produce facts: packages are marked with weights, road signs tell you distances and, in some countries, the populations of the towns you are passing through. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Tom flashing through the moonlit streets, alone, passing people. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

But hold that thought, please, and bear it in mind when I tell you that there wasn’t a day in the Appalachian woods when I didn’t give passing thanks for what there was. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

If the doleful experience of cultural conflict on Earth were the galactic standard, it seems we would already have been destroyed, perhaps with some passing admiration expressed for Shakespeare, Bach and Vermeer. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mariam sat in the far corner by herself, working on her heels with a pumice stone, insulated by a wall of steam from the passing shapes. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I swayed, nearly passing out every time he plunged the needle in. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Jumping off a high dive, or riding a roller coaster with multiple loops, or passing a note to Scott Thomas—those were all voluntary thrills. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

We sometimes do see the odd boat passing by, but only carrying people from nearby villages exactly like this one. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though Pretty was growing less plump with every passing day, and Crunch was fur and bones. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Would the Thunderhead grieve our passing, I wonder? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

With each passing year, the refugee numbers increased. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

His magical eye followed a couple of passing first years, who sped up, looking nervous; it rolled into the back of Moody’s head and watched them around the corner before he spoke again. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was difficult to carry enough feed for the horses, and Jones feared a passing cavalry patrol would hear their horses, which were hungry, restless, and noisy. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d been close to passing out anyway, and then I could have forgotten about it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The domestication of animals was founded on a series of brutal practices that only became crueller with the passing of the centuries. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yossarian walked out of the office and down the stairs into the dark, tomblike street, passing in the hall the stout woman with warts and two chins, who was already on her way back in. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She also liked the idea of passing it on as a gift after a successful operation—a variation on the Aerodrome Drop-Off Principle. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

She ignored the passing courtiers and servants, focusing instead on the fading day. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

We were slowing, passing into the boundaries of Forks. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The darkness deepened with the passing hours until it was virtually impenetrable. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

There’s a moment of stillness, broken only by the rhythmic clacking of ties passing beneath us. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

And one of the village women passing through, the one who gives me a good price on milk. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

When I enter her room, she stands at her dresser, idly passing a dagger through a candle flame. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

With the passing of generations, the two species co-evolved to communicate well with each other. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took me by the hand and we wandered through the bumpy fields in the dark, passing the haunted faces of survivors. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

All his life, time had been passing in the only way he knew time to pass: unrushed and unrushable, as sands running through an hourglass grain by grain. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Life was about forging time, not just passing time. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

And with each sip, he remembered his family passing the bottles from hand to hand, laughing at the tickly bubbles, sharing and laughing together.... A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But with her she had brought the sound of passing trains, and the light and shade and light and shade that falls on you if you have a window seat. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Alex watched his dog chase the stick again, a fleeting thought briefly darkened his mood, like a cloud passing over the sun. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Every now and then a passing star gives a tiny gravitational tug, and one of them obligingly careens into the inner solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All sorts of people passing through, and so on.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She’d spent less time in his mind than in any of his fellows’, and so she had only a passing notion of his expertise, and even less of his thoughts and plans. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She knew she should spray her scratches again before passing out, but the thought of moving made her whole body ache. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

This year’s crop of thru-hikers had been passing through for the past month. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Baldwin’s head was between his legs to prevent himself from throwing up or passing out. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

In the King's absence he had been able to drown himself in the passing minute—but Arthur was perpetually at Ids elbow now, as a comment on his treachery. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ignore the looks from passing students and run to class. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The sky gets hotter and hotter with each passing day. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The eye naturally read the restaurant signs, creating the feeling of travel, passing through the world of food. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Harry was waiting to see whether she would turn into any of the cottages she was passing, but he knew instinctively that she would not. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They stood in muddy snow and watched the line of tanks, armored trucks, and jeeps as light snow flew across the glare of the passing headlights. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Only in passing, but, from what I hear, she was a good one to know.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The difference would be, the person making the list would have to care enough, and listen hard enough, to hear the music playing in the people passing through their life. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

A boy we were passing turned to stare. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Hence the 2004 headline in the satirical newspaper The Onion on the passing of postmodernism’s leading light: Jacques Derrida “Dies.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

They drew the old man and the children a little away from the passing crowd and looked at each other anxiously and afraid. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

No one passing by would know that they were there. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it sure doesn’t help when Coach West makes me and some of the other girls practice passing the stick with the relay team. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

It glanced off the iron rail, even as Saruman left it, and passing close to Gandalf’s head, it smote the stair on which he stood. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

At times he seemed to hover on the edge of passing out. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Ho, Bluetooth," she shouted to a passing seafarer, a tall man in bearskin vest and raven-winged helm. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She was glancing at the women’s clothes, passing time. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

There were men with torches and we heard shouting and the trucks were passing pretty often and under different circumstances we might have felt scared. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anthony’s National Woman Suffrage Association responded to the insult by passing a resolution that said, in part, “One-half of the citizens of this nation, after a century of boasted liberty, are still political slaves.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

A plane passing overhead set his bone marrow to quiver. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a general feeling of privilege and rejoicing, as if the daughter of Caesar were passing through a sort of initiation into the glorious state of being a full Roman citizen. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He went even faster, so fast that the air itself boomed with the sound of his passing. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

So they drove slowly on, passing dunes and cottages. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like a wave, it rushed down to his feet, then up to his head, then back down, passing through his heart each time. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

They joined arms with other jockeys to “clothesline” riders trying to cut between horses, formed obstructive “flying wedges” to block closers, and bashed passing horses into the inside rail. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s never set foot in a graveyard before, only glimpsed them in passing, riding in cars. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When he accelerated an alpha particle through the chamber to seed his make-believe clouds, it left a visible trail–like the contrails of a passing airliner. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She spun on her heels and felt the thrum of more power enter through one hand, passing through her heart, then exiting through the other side. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Later, as Florida lay in bed listening to the wail of the freight train passing through Boxton, she thought about the old lunatics and about going down a river in a boat. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The last time I saw you, when I was passing through from Mississippi, you were in pretty bad shape. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyelids were twitching, and I felt as if the breeze was passing through my brain. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But between my daddy being gone and my grandma passing on, I can’t make myself. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

After passing some pieces of chicken and a glass of water through the window, he took up his usual role of talking Thomas’s ear off. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

How could anybody passing by see them and imagine for themselves what the flavor would be like? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It might be different if he were flagging down a passing car or trying to phone for help, but typing, in and of itself, is not an inherently dramatic activity. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

We were already passing a small roach back and forth by the time I noticed the empty shelf under the TV. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Hackett had already dug up most of the bottles he’d hidden around the clearing and he was passing out cups and pouring shots of vodka as he walked around. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Between passing notes with Twig and thinking about Mom, I hadn’t exactly paid attention in any of my classes. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He’d only seen it once, many years ago, when Brother Ugo had shown it to him in passing, but he still remembered it vividly. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It meant passing through villages and people asking questions. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

They walked along the outer edge of the rotunda, passing the archways where scythes wheeled and dealed. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The boys nodded politely, passing the watch between them, taking turns trying it on. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But occasionally a passing star makes a gravitational flurry and commotion in the cometary cloud, and a group of comets finds itself in highly elliptical orbits, plunging toward the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if she had been concerned, there were reverberations of Calvinism strong within her, which would have protested vigorously against the vanity of regret for a passing beauty. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began to sit out there all day and part of the night, and finally he took a potshot at an innocent truck that was just passing by. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Etienne returns with both letters, and she can hear the men passing the pages back and forth. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Pedaling uphill on Kingsway Road during the morning rush hour could be scary because so many cars were passing me, but the downhill ride was exhilarating. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

At last, as time was passing fast, and, for many other reasons, I wished to get her home at once, I shook her more forcibly, till finally she opened her eyes and awoke. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I want to be small, but this is getting bigger and bigger with every passing minute. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And there was no voice, just the wind passing through the yew trees, just the occasional lapping of water against the hull. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She spins away from me and then returns, passing beneath my arm so her back is pressed against me. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She fumbles with the remote for a minute before passing it to me to pause. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Because I knew my feelings for him were vulnerable to being felled by my mother’s suspicions, passing remarks, and innuendos. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The broken buildings surrounded her, the scorched and silent cars passing below. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Their heads were bent, in sorrow or in prayer; Ralph, passing by, bent his head in sympathy. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Tm sorry, sir, but just about all the prayers I know are rather somber in tone and make at least some passing reference to God.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I could do nothing, however, so I plucked up what heart I could and said that we had better hasten, as the afternoon was passing.... Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

With each passing minute, additional parts of my brain are kicking in. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

His mother still saw the man, though not as much, and Brian thought it might be passing, what they had between them. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I try to keep my eyes on something other than Jamie and my portfolio, but all the passing strangers out for an afternoon stroll are making me nervous. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“In fact I haven’t spoken to her in weeks. She’s gone silent. With these armies passing through—” “You want me to check on her,” Percy guessed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Someone passing by on the highway would never, ever know the wonders that are healed inside this space. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Me and Ty'ree walked by a group of boys passing a bottle around on the corner of Fourteenth Street and Sixth Avenue. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

She still keeps a journal and feels honored to be passing the baton. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He leans against the frame of the main door with Queenie at his feet, staring intently at the passing landscape. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Now the road passing about the skirts of Mindolluin turned southward. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Time rarely weighed upon him, for he had many methods of passing it—among them, mirror gazing. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though it is not that different from Boston, Boston had some passing familiarity. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

From his hut where Wang Lung lay hid he heard hour after hour the passing of feet, the feet of soldiers marching to battle. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Jeanne glanced at Jacob, saw the thoughts that were passing behind his frozen, glassy eyes, and wished that they were anywhere, anywhere else. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I even saw trashcans fly across the quad and fights broke out between passing periods. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

To passing traffic it looked like a taxi with passengers but no driver. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The craze was for several people to sit on the grass around a single Walkman, passing the headset around. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

From below came the gurgle of running water passing through the Stockyards’ sewer system. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then he and his friend drove back to Fairfax, passing the strings of lightbulbs—the ’fraid lights, as they were called—that shivered in the wind. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Dubonnet and Hickam are in it together,” he declared, passing out his moonshine in fruit jars to the other men. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She waited, each passing second like a century. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

There was a time, years ago, when each passing hour held no meaning. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Professor Nemur was passing by in the hall, and when I rushed past him without saying hello he knew something was wrong. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

They watched the shape glide through the still air, passing so closely that Petey shivered. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

On the taxi ride back to the hotel, Sohrab rested his head on the window, kept staring at the passing buildings, the rows of gum trees. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Bailey crosses the adjoining tent, walking around the double circle of chairs as passing directly through it does not seem appropriate. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Here you go,” Rob said, passing us each a black backpack. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He calmed, and then, staying low to keep out of the way of any passing bullets or buckshot, she reached out with her mind to the other two. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I see an exit sign at the end of the bathroom hallway and make a hard left, passing a waitress holding a tray of calamari. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

To anyone passing by, the lemonade stand shouted out, "Come over here! This is where the fun is!" The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

So, you might be wondering why I wasn’t bawling, screeching, or passing out from shock and horror. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

I looked back to a ferry passing the Statue of Liberty now, its backwash a curving line upon the bay and three gulls swooping down behind it. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

To be sure, Gloria ceased crying, but she ceased smiling, too, and the passing days found her ever more silent and shadowy. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

We reached the dormitory and began climbing, up to the fourth, top, tier, passing members of every race on earth. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed the joint around quickly, taking loud hits from it, and when it got to me, Charlie spared me by taking it from the person who was passing it. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even the wild things in the fields and woods hardly noticed their passing. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Those cruelties are badly used that, although few at the outset, increase with the passing of time instead of disappearing. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Our anger was like the anger of children, passing quickly from one petty grievance to another, from the memory of one slight wrong to another. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this woman, I realized much later, was half-black, with light mulatto skin, passing as a Japanese in order to remain with her husband. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been through streets like Polk Street before, when we had picked up laundry, but we had only been passing through then. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, some would see a passing shadow now and again, but they could hear it rattling around in the woods.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Have a rigmarole,” offered the count, passing the breadbasket. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

A passing taxi driver leaned out of his cab window, alerting them to a group of rowdy white youths massing nearby, which sounded like a lot more fun to them. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Unbuttoning the green uniform as I ran, I stuffed it, in passing, into the washbasin with the rubbish of dead flowers. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“How about passing down some supplies before they’re worn plum out? How about that, sir?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

That was how Cal discovered himself, in voluptuous, liquid, sterile culmination, couchant upon two or three deformed pillows, with the shades drawn and the drained swimming pool outside and the cars passing, endlessly, all night. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He swung his arms around wildly, attracting odd looks from passing students. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Hatchet’s men,” she muttered, passing the spyglass to Archer. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He was not sure he wanted to have one of those conversations so many Biafrans had now, passing kernels of blame to others, oiling their own faces with a valor they had never had. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

By-and-by, however, as I was curious to know how time was passing, I struck a match, and by its flame looked at my watch; it was within a few minutes of midnight. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Then he led the parade to the park in front of the courthouse and let the falcon lovers wave their signs at passing cars. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I was passing by, and I wanted to offer my condolences.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Wang Lung remained standing before her until in passing her eyes caught his figure. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Golobki, golobki, her brain yapped, as she cataloged the gifts he had given her, the cryptic compliments, the number of exits passing by. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

His mind grew calm for the first time in several days, and some of the events surrounding the letter began passing in review through his consciousness. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I only see her once in the morning, a brief passing in the halls between first and second period. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

She nodded at Trashman, who was waving at a passing bus. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I mean it’s not as if mussels are flinging themselves under the wheels of passing cars. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

For half a heartbeat he thought he glimpsed Illyrio Mopatis, but it was only one of those white dwarf elephants passing the front door. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Behind the cabin, the woman was already passing into the forest, but the boy paused. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

They came to a cleft between two dark crags, and passing through found themselves on the very edge of the last fence of Mordor. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Although I was still fearful of God’s wrath, I reasoned with myself that my passing the ACT was so unlikely, it would take an act of God. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Often the bodies are left in the hot sun, until the smell permeates the surrounding air, causing everyone passing by to pinch their noses. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We are passing a town. Now I see peasants in the field.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyrion kept on the fringes of the fight, sliding from rock to rock and darting out of the shadows to hew at the legs of passing horses. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The Second slid her sword a hand-span out of its sheath, her gaze passing over the copper-colored steel, which had been inscribed with hundreds of words, swooping up and along the blade in perfect spirals. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He heard a street car passing in the street; they were running again. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t mention his wife, not even in passing, but he wrote that he spoke Spanish to his little girl so she’d be able to talk with her grandmother someday. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, he was invisible, without body, without structure, a ghost passing transparently through the hours. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is highly unlikely that he was considering passing up the hundred-grander for the Widener, but he thought the pretense might help in the touchy matter of weights. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finn walked in the ditch on the side of the road so that the passing cars wouldn’t mow him down. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

As he ran, he gathered from some shouted remarks that a convoy of Eurasian prisoners was passing. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He moved under the basket and started grabbing rebounds and passing the ball back to me. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Not a lot of white folks in this part of town, but plenty of passing folks.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t matter if we keep our heads low when passing a gang in a bad neighborhood. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

This day he ventured closer to downtown, passing families wading through the water, pushing laundry tubs full of their possessions. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Maya, stop,” Grace said, passing the joint back to her. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The quiet streets and passing minutes without incident had returned our focus to the oozing stromboli and not the Toyota. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I sat, seeing them disappear inside one of the offices for a second and emerge, passing me without a word. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tally somersaulted in the air, turning headfirst for a few terrifying moments, her face passing low enough to spot a discarded bottle cap in the grass. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She warned him about passing groups of soldiers in airports, about walking near National Guard offices. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But the passing clouds had left a hint of rain hanging over the street, which made it look darker. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

When it came opposite, working and puffing even on the level, and I saw the engineer pass, I stood up and stepped up close to the passing cars. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

With Gran’s passing, school starting, and starting our root training, I almost forgot. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

We wind up the stairs, passing a wall of framed photos. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

We walk through the dawn, passing crops and meadows of wildflowers. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

When I called Shawn and asked who he’d sold Bud to, he mumbled something vague about a guy passing through from Tooele. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Once, passing a tent, I heard his voice. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I find myself analyzing every sensation, with every experience passing down the realization that I'm just a really fancy robot Everything has its downside, and in science it's starting to show. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trick was to make the attempt while passing between, say, licking one's lips and smiling broadly, and at the same time catch the other’s eye. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She first tried to kill them with a broom, then with insecticides, and finally with lye, but the next day they were back in the same place, still passing by, tenacious and invincible. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

My dad was the opposite, gliding past everyone like a car passing pedestrians, but what he did have was this quiet focus. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone was passing around snacks and having a great time. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

But there was an evil feeling in the air, as if things might indeed be passing up and down that eyes could not see. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He waved at shopkeepers and said something to an old woman passing in a black dress and black scarf. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

My father’s passing changed my whole life in a way that I did not suspect at the time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jefferson mentioned in passing “the political heresies” of Davila, which everyone knew to be written by Adams. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

But she discovered that the opposite was happening: With each passing day, she wanted more time. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lowered my head, dodging people, passing people, growling, pushing between them to get farther and farther away. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

She and Pilar sit for hours on the wicker swing, passing the afternoons. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Alas, this is just a passing visit. Were on our way round the world.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

But I’m also wondering if maybe it means they think I actually have a chance of passing. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Cecilia followed at a slow pace, passing the critical mirror with a glance and completely satisfied with what she saw. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Absolutely right,” he said, and we promenaded slowly around the house on the walk, passing the parlor window where three curious heads swiveled after us. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I run my regular nighttime route, down National Road all the way to the hospital, but instead of passing it, I run across the parking lot. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It’s only a matter of time before we’re passing the bottle back and forth as we walk. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Somebody passing by used to be called a passer-by, and several of them were passers-by. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

French was a subject that I had great difficulty passing. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Then Aragorn laid his hand on Merry’s head, and passing his hand gently through the brown curls, he touched the eyelids, and called him by name. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I think that time is passing and they haven’t found us. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A passing incident might inspire him to gallop through huge sections of Shakespeare, committed to memory, leaving the bug boys furrowing their brows. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the sharp smell of tar, and trains passing, and bees humming in the window boxes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I wanted to say something to capture the glory of its passing, but I had no words that were adequate. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She twirls, her arms outstretched, her face lifted to a blue and cloud-puffed sky, strangers passing her, absorbed in her perfect, happy world. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t all that thrilling, but Annabeth kept telling us interesting facts about how the Arch was built, and Grover kept passing me jelly beans, so I was okay. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Every passing hour increased die likelihood that they would make good their escape. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As usual, people were passing by as if we weren’t there. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“Were passing through the prison gate. We made it past the first two checkpoints.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A chill blows through the room, like a ghost passing by. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We ascend the red-carpeted stairs, passing silver sailing trophies and the oil portrait of the hydroplane racer Gar Wood. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I kept thinking the rest of my sentence would emerge from the air passing through my vocal cords, but nothing happened. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

But here was a ghost who had once been property, a man who had died peacefully in his sleep and instead of passing on had decided to wait for his wife. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

As they walked, she imagined them passing under the shoemakers, the bakers, the blacksmiths in their forges with the walls stained black. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

His voice had risen in volume with every passing word until he was shouting, his body trembling. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

They were moving among many two-legs, and behind these were big cliffs of stone that had caves in them where two-legs were passing in and out, or standing in the higher ones, looking out. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

But nobody trusted the storm troopers after the massacre, and people would spit on their uniforms while passing them on the street. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Mother Fletcher, who might be the oldest woman on the block, was just passing by and saw them. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grinding engine noises from passing trucks only partly drowned out the mournful bellowing of some doomed cattle just a few yards down the road. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had returned to his own house to wait, passing as he did the workers still preparing to build a wall surrounding Village. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Have you ever thought about it, about simply leaving? Really, truly thought about it with the intent to follow through and not as a dream or a passing fancy?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Just passing the time of day!” said Mary Poppins, and shut her mouth tightly as though she did not intend any more words to escape from it. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

It's not often we get the likes of yourself passing through Moscombe. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry. I should have looked for the book on my own,” he said, passing a finger through the bright flame. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

We made a second round, passing out juice and coffee, and then killed time on the south-end staircase. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were passing more bodies in the road, in the gutters and on the pavement, dozens of them, soldiers and civilians. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

To his dwindling number of confreres, McCandless appeared to grow more intense with each passing month. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jones handed Booth the candle, cautioning him to hide its faint glow during the crossing, lest they be spotted by passing patrol boats. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It comes to the point where, one day passing by her lunch table, I hear Anise ask, “What is wrong with you, Marie Antoinette?” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Some fellow traders had told him about the herd boys passing out gum in the villages, and this made him very angry. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

She used to be the best writer in school and here she ended up barely passing English. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

With each passing moment, I see Marv pushing that girl into the air, or I see him walking back with her, hand in hand. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

At 8 P.M., the night warder would lock himself in the corridor with us, passing the key through a small hole in the door to another warder outside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there, there—now just passing into the courtyard—was Robin’s lovely mother, the veil of her coif floating and mingling with that of the Queen whom she attended. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

With every passing day, the standing water went deeper into the homes, made it less likely anything within would be salvageable. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Queen’s men in studded jacks and halfhelms handed each passing man, woman, or child a piece of white weirwood: a stick, a splintered branch as pale as broken bone, a spray of blood-red leaves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her words comfort me, as do the sisters who smile kindly and bless me in passing. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

We sat there passing the joint until it was gone. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Why are we here?” he asked a passing soldier. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I prayed to every passing tree, and there were a thumping lot of trees along the way. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He caught the attention of one of the soldiers passing by the open back of the van. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

A coldness passing through its root-beer-colored bricks, invading its rooms and blowing out the vigil light burning in the hall. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He flattened himself against the wall and watched the people passing by the entrance to the passage. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

They moved along the track, skirting the wretched shanties and the pools of sewage, and watching the never-ending stream of ghosts arriving and passing without hindrance into the town itself. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Well, Mom can never have a tough talk with me, passing it all off to Dad, who passes it all off to God. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Pond was growing weaker with each passing day, and he only had one more braid of sweetgrass to help with the radiation poisoning. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I quickened my pace, passing students left and right. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Other men were handing whiskey bottles through a shattered window and passing them around. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We could not go fast because of the ice, but we drove relentlessly, hardly glancing at the passing of Texas beside us. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slimy walls were barely three feet apart and glimmered like wet tar in the passing light of Dumbledore’s wand. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Sticky had the same idea, immediately passing the licorice on to Constance. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z