I look past him, not wanting to meet his eyes. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could almost forget about the quiet nights, quiet mornings, quiet, quiet darkness that had settled around our house for the past four months. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She considered herself a die-hard book nerd, but she realized even she needed a break after doing nothing but reading for the past four days. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

After lunch Briony walked with Fiona across the river past the Houses of Parliament and into St. James’s Park. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The woman’s pale gaze flicked past him to the crate where he and Sefia had been hiding. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

As the words washed over Claudette, she felt a wave of anguish, and then everything she had been holding inside for the past two weeks came pouring out. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“He is past helping, Miss,” the driver said as he urged on the horses. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the past decade, science fiction had become popular in radio, comics, and film. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

After years spent unwilling to admit its attractions, I gestured nostalgically toward the past. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed a handful of onions and some ginger and leaned past her to pay. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Tears welled from his eyes, creeping down his nose, past emeralds, amethysts, and black diamonds. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He realized that he’d been so caught up with his own worries that he hadn’t thought about what she had been going through the past few months. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Nailer clambered back into the main passage and made his way past a sitting room full of fallen paintings and shattered statuary. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

"Just because there was a pattern in the past doesn’t mean that it still holds true," he says. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She probably hoped that by standing there she might catch a glimpse of her family hurrying past. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

As usual I was glancing into the empty rooms as I went past, and then suddenly I was looking into a classroom with Miss Emily in it. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked, flicking my hair back as we walked past Betty on our way to homeroom. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“The operative words here are ‘past few days.’ Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“To tell the truth, I lost count when they went past me,” said the driver. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mark ran past him a few steps before he could do the same. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Grace watched as a mom pushed a stroller past the window, hustling to get wherever she was going. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Terryl would get frustrated that her mother didn’t seem to want anything to do with the past, wouldn’t so much as brook a conversation about it. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He has done some brave things in the past: starting a school without a coin in his pocket, standing up for women’s rights and girls’ education, and standing up to the Taliban. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

You have for many years trust me; you have believe me weeks past, when there be things so strange that you might have well doubt. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Caroline and I had never drunk coffee in our lives, and the fact that our mother served us coffee that night made us both realize that our secure, ordinary world was forever in the past. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hurried back through the marketplace, past the man with the trained monkey on a chain and the stall where birds were imprisoned in tiny cages. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Because as I limped past Goldman’s Best Bakery, the front window was filled with cream puffs. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

We try to move out of the way as the crowds shuffle past us, but there’s nowhere to turn. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

"Don't be too long. It is past time the Hand and I returned to the castle, before our absence is noted." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She walked past her mom, unlocked the store, and everyone walked into the sweet air-conditioning. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The bus stops in front of the school and I get up, scooting past the Candor man. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Naheed and her family were making the pilgrimage as well, all the way from Columbus, Ohio, even though there had been days this past year when they had been afraid to leave their house. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Someone knocked into Harry as they hurried past him. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He was past everything now and he sailed the skiff to make his home port as well and as intelligently as he could. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They may have no past,” he said, smoking and looking up at the ceiling. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

In a dozen heartbeats they were past the Dothraki, as he galloped far below. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I tried my key in the lock, but it didn’t go in past the tip. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Wind whipped past the door as the train picked up speed. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Harris breezed past in a Knicks jersey, a ridiculous sweatband across his head. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

At twenty past nine, there was a knock at the door, and she opened it at once and let in the man who was waiting outside in the rain. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She runs on stiff legs past the sofa draped with the faded mantilla, past the water-bleached walnut piano, past the dining-room set missing a chair, and waits in front of the house. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cars roar past the covered bazaar, through cheering throngs in the Turkish Quarter where every street- lamp, door, and window streams red cloth. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Our branches never looked as bright as the demonstrators’, though, and sometimes as we drove past, I wondered what it would be like to join them, chanting “Freedom,” standing in the way of cars. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

A parade of travelers rushed toward it, scampering past each other to squeeze through. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

You unwrapped the sweet, popped it in your mouth, and stared at the green rice fields that flashed past the window. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Over the next two days, North Korean soldiers charged past the dividing line, scattering South Korea's military forces. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I could imagine what the past held: cows grazing, a Civil War battle, maybe dinosaurs. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Those times I remembered the loss of my past with regret, I quickly reminded myself of all the things my teachers could give me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment I think that maybe I could just keep walking, out toward the mystery of the wall, past that to the open prairie, continue moving until I’ve left this whole mess behind. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He limped to the front door, opened it, slicing the room with a beam of moonlight, blasting through the fog of Charlie’s memory, of his many pasts. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I started to count all the places I had lived over the past nine years and ran out of fingers. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

That past October, the Yankees had not even made it to the World Series. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had already stepped past the threshold and climbed onto the raised veranda, a few feet from the kitchen. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He tears from his spot with George, through the field and over branches, past the front porch, where Emmett stands calling out words that aren’t strong enough to stop Axel. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The Labrador ran past him and out of the room. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He glanced at his watch and saw that it was past nine o’clock. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Denys Mallister writes that the mountain people are moving south, slipping past the Shadow Tower in numbers greater than ever before. They are running, my lord . . . but running from what!" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Already she belonged to the past, she was only a memory. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She waited like that, hardly able to get a breath past her Adam’s apple, until she began to feel quite faint. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Tomorrow morning we can go run out past that point.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I remember to start with that day in Sacramento—a California now nearly thirty years past—when I first entered a classroom, able to understand some fifty stray English words. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He's our botanist and engineer. And don't talk about him in the past tense." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you told your parents you went to the Gem this past weekend?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, at that very moment, Digory heard the sound of hoofs from behind; a second later the old cab-horse trotted past him and joined the other beasts. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Alyce pushed past them and stepped out into the warm night. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t see the owls swooping past in broad daylight, though people down in the street did; they pointed and gazed open-mouthed as owl after owl sped overhead. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

A column of red-cloaked swordsmen ran past as she slipped out into the night. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Just a second,” Heidi calls down the hall, leaving my side, pushing past the snickering boy. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

This has been going on for the past half hour. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I smile too and wonder if I’ll know her past high school. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We get ourselves down past the marshy part and I try to take in the swamp quiet as it approaches. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

But here Mom was, fresh out of rehab, letting go of the past, surprising him, surprising me, and maybe that was the best sign of all. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The other girls scrambled down past the unconscious guard and the other two men who had taken arrows in the legs and butt. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I step past a few more magazine covers with headlines like “Supernatural Citizens of the Year” and “Ten Most Influential Members of the Supernatural World.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

As I walked past the bass stands and across the low channel to our beach, I decided that I would take the ferry to New Bedford alone. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I walk out of the store, right past all the other women who heard this lady ask me for my bag while they are still holding on to theirs. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I walk past Deacon Malloy, who is holding the basket, and I smile. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I dug my little claws into the hairy skin of the man's leg and scuttled upwards, higher and higher, past the calf and past the knee and on to the thigh. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

"No," I said, seeing a woman moving slowly past with a row of about a dozen dressed chickens suspended by their necks from the handle of a new straw broom . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A scream was building in Sarai’s mind, and, with it, an awful presentiment that the pall of doom of the past day had been leading to this moment. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s not that bad,” Grace said, but she let herself be led past the fountain anyway. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But all such conflict is a thing of the past. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

And then he was off, bounding past Jon, racing through the trees. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In a way it was like a bad thing that was in my past and still with me, a memory of something that never happened. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

We walked past the railroad tracks and right on down Highway 50. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I follow the creek bed until the embankment grows into rock walls, and then I wade right into the middle, feeling the water push past my ankles. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Lena stared as Ruth hurried past and when she heard her mother running up the stairs, she put her fingers to her lips in disbelief. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’ve been working on Safer’s list for the past couple of weeks, adding things one by one. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Listen, I’ve eaten that stuff three times a day for the past... what seems like forever,” Tally said. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He got out and walked past the driveway to make sure Fielding’s Volvo was there. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I circle around the bank of desktop computers and inch past the end tables stocked with titles recommended for Pride Month. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The engine roars and pops; the truck rarely accelerates past walking speed. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Part of the reason for this was that in the past no government had the power to keep its citizens under constant surveillance. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Of the four two-man teams who would attempt the journey, three didn’t make it past the initial shores of the Atlantic. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Kinzie led her up three different ladders to a metal catwalk, then tied Hazel’s hands loosely behind her back and pushed her along past crates of jewelry. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Tongues of fog oozed across the water and curled around the bits of ice that floated past. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was, therefore, a route that did not interest him, for it could lead only to the past. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

They made their way past beer gardens illuminated by bright strings of electric lights, full of people singing gaily, dancing polkas, and hoisting steins of beer in their direction. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She averted her eyes and hurried past, feeling as though she were still trapped in a nightmare. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Frequently in the past month the same grim-faced men had called upon Matthew Wood, but tonight the voices had a frightening quality. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

My chances for getting the job were good; I had no past record of stealing or violating the laws. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stares straight ahead as if she could see me and past me to her grandchildren and grandchildren’s grandchildren. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ran straight past us and crashed into their southern allies. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I took the cup that I had prepared for her back to the kitchen, brushing past my grandmother, who was grinning at me in the doorway. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all we’d been through over the past few days—not to as a shock. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was all Arya could do to get out of the road before they ran her down, four guardsmen on huge horses, pounding past at a gallop. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I smiled a little and then tried to walk past because I was trying to respect his space and everything, when he put a hand on my arm. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My mind boggles at the profanity this honorable house has had to endure in the past month. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

They were just past the entrance to the Egyptian Walk, out of the direct sunlight, under the pines and the sprawling monkey puzzle tree. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I sigh and try to move past him, toward the dining room and kitchen. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Its smooth creamy paper, a little yellowed by age, was of a kind that had not been manufactured for at least forty years past. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

At Manzanar, past the fear of slanted eyes and high cheekbones, I watched with fresh amazement the variety of faces and bodies and costumes all around me. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked past the closet mirror in the room to get my clothes. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I cradle it in a stack past Bobby and Human Being—who’s now explaining how his real last name is Green and that’s what he needs, some green—back into the office. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He brushed past the outstretched hand of a wino and caught up to his aunt and cousins. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bus drove past, dusty and yellow; it looked like one of those campaign buses that politicians used to tour rural areas and give out rice and cash to villagers. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We were sailing right past them now, smooth as silk, big as life. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

There would surely come a bad year, moreover, and even the town could not withstand robbers, as it had not in the past when the great house fell. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

A logging truck whizzes past me, and I squint to block the spray of icy slush it kicks up from the road. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

A Burned Man rode past, slumped against his horse. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t have been more than four the winter of the bear, but that was now nearly two years past. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I keep my cloak clutched tightly around me and try to move past her, keeping a blandly happy expression on my face. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When I tell him about the colored maids filing past me after the prayer meeting, I feel a swell of pride over what we’ve done. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Well, to answer these questions, we need to look to the past for a moment. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He had studied Seabiscuit’s past performances and knew that the horse did not run his best in mud. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is only the third time in the past decade that you’ve left home, but someone named Edmon said it was important.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

They glided past Pong like glowing lotus blossoms, cooing soft as kittens. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Islands of water hyacinths floated past in the drowsy current. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She became exasperated, and threw herself into a furious attack, jabbing and lashing and thrusting and stabbing, and never once did she get past those paws. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

There had been a famine of them for months past. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She flashed her teeth at him, then closed her mouth as several courtiers strode past, servants in tow. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The past few days the ghetto had been left to the Ordners, the Jewish police established by the Judenrat, Jews appointed to govern other Jews on behalf of Hitler. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Kendra stared out the side window of the SUV, watching foliage blur past. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

In the past he had had the reputation of being recalcitrant, stubborn, a player who marched to his own beat and always seemed to fight off the brainwashing aspects of the Mojo mystique. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It drove past Garrett and me and pulled up in front of the building. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Anya tenderly ran her fingertips over the magic bubble, pressing on it enough to feel the bag past it. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Mom’s head tilted to the side, her thick red hair spilling past her shoulders. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She moved to continue past the house, but something caught her eye. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The sight filled Kaede with dread, and she had to force herself to look past Taisin, where the ground plummeted down again. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I believed in my heart it was true—that I could let God redeem my past. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

People pushed past her, ramming their full shopping bags into her back. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Simply stated,” he said, “although it’s not really simple at all, my job is to transmit to you all the memories I have within me. Memories of the past.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The kindly man took the iron lantern off its hook and led her past the still black pool and the rows of dark and silent gods, to the steps at the rear of the temple. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When something delicious-smelling ran unwarily past him, he found he had pounced on it and pinned it down without thought. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

As a consequence, during so much time and so many wars waged during the past twenty years, whenever there has been an army made up completely of Italians it has always made a poor showing. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

As we drove past the packing plant and into downtown Tangerine, Henry D. started to tell me about last year’s game with Lake Windsor. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drew air slowly past his lips and let it escape the way he had seen Edwin breathe. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She wanted time, too, to think about her precious past with him. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the following week, Felicia begins to assemble bits and pieces of her past. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The oakwood fire roared up past an open damper to heat the oven for the bread, which lay white and rising in the pans. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then it rang again, two melodious chimes, and Mrs. Corcoran clicked through from the back of the house and past us without a word or a glance. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It’s history, just like the past—past history going all the way back to America’s birthday—July 4, 1776. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“And you without your sword? How did you get past them?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Worse, the agreed ages for the Earth couldn’t comfortably support the numbers of eons and ages and epochs that the past obviously contained. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Outside of that first awkward attempt on the night of the perigee moon to discover Julia Bishop’s past, we had never really talked about the reason behind her relocation to California. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Dauntless traitors also run past us, though they are less frantic than the Erudite. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

We hurry past shelters, the wooden toilet hut. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

She could never imagine herself past the edge of the yard. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I pushed Frankie a little farther down the aisle, past a few teenage boys who had taken over the first two rows. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Cry-babying over something in the past that you can’t know a thing about. Don’t you know your real past is right there? Yours and mine both.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, the discovery of the microwave radiation by Penzias and Wilson in 1965 also indicated that the universe must have been much denser in the past. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The group followed the moped and its rider all the way past the fairgrounds and down the main street. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The Jeep skidded to a halt and the other two cars flashed past him. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Their assignment was to stagnate and live in the past. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I rested my elbows on the windowsill and knelt on the rug, watching as the two kids pedaled past the gazebo. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

In this way, wrapped in the colors of the nation that sought their death, they slept until well past dawn. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

There were barricades around Manhattan General, but in all the confusion, I got past them easily. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I took the ball out, drove into Nick, spun, got my left foot outside his left foot and muscled past him. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Once he got past he had a strong move to the hoop. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Fox had the better vantage point, but Lac saw a boy about his age scoop up a slight, black-haired girl and go running past them down the dock. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

But she knew she couldn’t outrun her past. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

We watched Arul dive off a rock, his heels kicking an old cardboard carton that bobbed past. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The past ruler had taxed them heavily and punished them harshly, and they had no hope for better. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“If I go to the past, can I change things?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

In seconds, he had swept past Harry, Ron, and Hermione and detached Mrs. Norris from the torch bracket. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Something buzzed past my head, and blood pooled from a man’s arm just in front of me, a man I didn’t even know. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

But for the past decade persistent reports of bird losses, especially among pheasants, ducks, and blackbirds, have come from the rice-growing counties. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I pushed past the dead Cong out into the open air. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to brush past her and into the office. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I watch children run past us on their way to school, backpacks heavy on their shoulders, clothes fresh, faces clean. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, it’s too bad,” said Sticky, though not quite convincingly, for at the moment he rather wished he couldn’t remember his own past, given the grief it brought him. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Jaja walked past the study a few times, but when I looked at him, he shook his head—he could hear nothing through the closed door, either. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The girl crossed there and made her way down to the docks, then through the Ragman’s Harbor and past the half-sunken spires and domes of the Drowned Town. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He gestured past the walls of the garden, as though seeing something far beyond them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Time to move past holding hands, two straws over a raspberry soda. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pauses to let a lion’s den cross in front of him and then continues past a group of men struggling with a rolled canvas. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It was almost past understanding: Grover was whole or part owner of any number of buildings and restaurants. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The teacher waited till everyone was still and quiet, and then stood still himself and looked past them at the school building. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

When we left there we ate a couple dogs each on a bench in the middle of the boardwalk, checking out all the weirdos walking past and the tourists pointing at ’em behind their backs. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Learning from Fast Mistakes In the past, Rome had appointed its own generals and representatives to rule newly acquired territories. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The Scholl children were upset when the Nazis arrested a young teacher and forced him to stand as Storm Troopers marched past and spat in his face. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Before he walked home, he went past Mrs. Cobb’s house and leaned against her grandfather’s fence. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Maya slapped it to a dead stop on the ground as a Lake Windsor fullback skidded past her; then she powered it into the back of the net. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

To say one was a mother—that was past a joke: it was an obscenity. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What is this ...” The girls edged past him into the room. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

With a hi-ya, I sent Belle charging, wishing I had it in me to run that boy down, but she ran past him, giving me the chance to jump him from above. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Water dripped and things scurried past my feet as I trudged down the hall. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I pushed open the glass door and walked right past the reception desk without saying hello. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish you could stop having those dreams. We made it, and that’s all that matters. Somehow you need to let go of the past.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

No one seemed to care about another student strike, and people walked past the tanks without stopping to read the placards hanging from the university facade. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tries pushing past Aunty Cloud to be the first out the door for the bathroom. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“I think were past keeping track of who has saved whose life.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe when you were dead, there was no such thing as the past or present, only fragments. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

And now in my mind I stood upon the walk looking out across the hole past a Hooverville shanty of packing cases and bent tin signs, to a railroad yard that lay beyond. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

This one made it past the anti-aircraft guns and came in just as planned, easy peasy, about 70 miles north of here, on Mon. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I called Charles on the pay phone, but the hospital switchboard wouldn’t put me through: it was past visiting hours, she said, everyone was sleeping. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Lying on top of the pile is a pink silk shirt, a blue jean jacket, and brown corduroy pants—all remnants of past lives to be destroyed. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s fine when she drives alone, but now she almost runs a stop sign, and speeds past a lady waiting at a crosswalk. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Every day for the past couple of weeks, my parents have been dropping hints that I should make friends, find something useful to do, form a book club. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The carriages rolled past Sitting Bull’s Cabin, the Lapland Village, the compound of the allegedly cannibalistic Dahomans, and, directly opposite, the California Ostrich Farm, redolent of simmering butter and eggs. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Once again, he remembered a tangible thing from his past, but couldn’t assign it to any specific time or place, couldn’t associate it with any other person or event. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Fingers flying, Dustfinger slung the pack over his shoulder and tried to push past him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Ronnie stood frozen and pale as we drove past, and R.C. laughed like a crazy man. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

His secretary brushed past me as I went through the door. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bite my bottom lip and go right past the bed to the wall. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

This message took the form of a stolen missile launched at the Fowl Star on her way past Murmansk. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The news swept on past the brush houses, and it washed in a foaming wave into the town of stone and plaster. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn a taxi is called to ferry them through deserted Cambridge streets, up Massachusetts Avenue and past Harvard Yard, to Mount Auburn Hospital. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had spent the past week mostly on her computer, going back and forth between researching Melissa Taylor and researching teenage birth mom support groups. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

My parents are standing by the door as Dylan follows me out of my bedroom, where he’s been hitting me with decent pep talk the past half hour. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The time was ten past six, and the agent was anxious to go; his wife would be waiting supper. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

We laughed like mad, strangely giddy, half in disbelief that we’d made it this far—across the water, through the woods, past snarling hollows and death squads of wights, all the way to London. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

This image is an illustration from the Persian epic poem The Shahnama, which begins in the mythic past but includes a sequence of real rulers. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I stride past the opposing team, right up to Pop and Dad. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s posted—I check—six videos in the past hour and a half! Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Maxine is open about her past, showing him photographs of her ex-boyfriends in the pages of a marble-papered album, speaking of those relationships without embarrassment or regret. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It felt surreal, to be driven past the electronic gates, the high walls, the wires. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Somewhere we took a wrong turn. Life got to be more than we could handle. Your father carried too much baggage from his past—baggage he never dealt with.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Things that seemed so necessary in the past, so vital to life, wasted and forgotten. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And then on to the shoreline, past Two Lights State Park, a golf course, and a jetport. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I drive back to Manhattan very, very slowly, ignoring the rude hand gestures of people who screech around past me. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When she first visited Kubat at his office, she couldn’t get past his secretary to see him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She led me past the man they all called the shoe poet. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He just pushed past the part of the conversation where they would honor each other as humans, and started making requests, as if Hassan was a servant. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

On my way past Jason’s wheelchair, I study a page of his communication book so my card’ll match his others. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then you could go to your window and set the boat in the water and watch it flow away, in the channel, past all the other homes and you could shout, “Hey, Ali! Look out!” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Malfoy pushed past Harry and she and her friend followed at a trot, turning the corner and vanishing from view. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I laugh and it feels good after all the worrying I’ve done these past weeks. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“The Time Bureau dictates that we stay hidden. We cannot, under any circumstances, change things in the past. So you wouldn’t have seen any of my fellow travelers.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“The reason these sorts of trips are outlawed by the Time Bureau is because people from the future should never change things about the past.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

A single sailor, slumped in the stern, tipped his cap wearily as we sailed past. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

We had to go past the nurses’ desk to get to the door, but the girl in white seemed preoccupied, sitting with her head down, writing something. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead rose a number of high boulders and he warily guided the Crochan past them. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

But over these past few weeks, her existence has become tolerable. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She clomped past me—her footsteps heavy, like I remembered, and hugged his neck so hard. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The lake seemed to wash away the troubles of the past, and the grand old mountains to look benignly down upon them saying, “Little children, love one another.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment I hopped off the fence and ran as fast as I could along the warning track until I was well past the propeller, then I circled around to the passenger side. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I started to dive but then something went past me like a shot. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

In the same way, preserved Indian lore throws a brilliantly colored but indirect light on the past. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Just when I got past Miss Volker’s house I heard the loud fire whistle. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He frowned, and his eyes were tight as he stared past me out the window. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

If you journeyed into the past and prevented your parents from meeting, then you would never have been born—which is something of a contradiction, since you clearly exist. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the past, Bobby had often backed out of projects before they began. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We had been getting closer and closer to it over the past twenty- four hours, and finally we saw it, a tiny speck some twenty- five miles in front and slightly above us. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shouldered past a couple of kids, and opened my gym locker. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, I would go outside, but I didn’t have a bike and the closest park to our apartment was past a creek where a couple of kids had died once. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

By 1925, Hale had shed his past, but there remained a faded photograph from the contest; it showed Hale and Grammer sitting proudly on their horses, holding up coiled ropes. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Its beak wedges past my lips and scrapes my teeth. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Thereafter, whenever they were drilling, I went past, dressed in my civvies,” he said. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Servants darted past, eyes wide when they beheld the princess and her guards. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She said this in a pragmatic, almost indifferent, tone, and Mariam understood that this was a woman far past outrage. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Calpurnia was past middle age and her body had thickened a little, her kinky hair was graying, and she squinted from myopia. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Over the past 13,000 years the predominant trend in human society has been the replacement of smaller, less complex units by larger, more complex ones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I found myself on a sidewalk leading past the backs of several somber-colored warehouses, each with large bay doors for unloading trucks, padlocked for the night. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“A block past that, you’ll see a sign that says ‘Stadium.’ Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Portraits of my smiling sisters—and past generations of Belles—are set in circular frames. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It was a bold new plan: three attractive, bright, charismatic, marketable millennials—Alex and Nora are, technically, just past the Gen Z threshold, but the press doesn’t find that nearly as catchy. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

In another he saw an old woman who had been slowly dying for the past four years, whose shoulder blades were jutting through the open wounds in her back. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walk together to the circus afterward, past red-roofed buildings glowing in the dying light, going their separate ways only once they reach the courtyard. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

This past year, only eleven out of the forty kids in the eighth-grade class at Donoghue had high enough scores to graduate. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I clutch at the wall, the room spinning as a rapid response team pushes a crash cart past me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I give him a surprised look as he pulls me out of his bedroom, past a sleeping Layla, and up the stairs leading out of the basement. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Shaking with relief, she edged past the spot and entered the water. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not know whether he was using the past tense because his daughter no longer danced or because he no longer had a daughter, and she feared the answer. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

So many black families spend all of their time trying to fix the problems of the past. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It whizzes past John and hits the wall behind him. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

In the federal system, for example, homicide convictions account for 0.4 percent of the past decade’s growth in the federal prison population, while drug convictions account for nearly 61 percent of that expansion. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I shove him away, stepping back, farther and farther, well past five feet. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Quite a bizarre place,” Inigo said, moving past several large cages in which were cheetahs and hummingbirds and other swift things. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They noticed that the bees in each hive buzzed busily as Wiglaf wriggled past them. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You get the beer,” I said as I ran past them. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

A past wonder of the world, it is badly damaged today. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And only when the engine and baggage cars were well past did the air brakes give their screaming hiss and the straining iron protest to a halt. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Down the creek and past our little house, where my dad is passed out on the TV couch. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the past thirty years, since screens became commonplace, the number of women in the top U.S. orchestras has increased fivefold. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

They move aside as I crutch past them, and in a flurry of whispers they escape up the stairs to Kaylee’s room. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Well, you know,” he said, “for the past ten years, I’ve made it my practice not to do that. Let me tell you why that is.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A giggling woman raced past him, naked beneath a dark cloak, her drunken pursuer stumbling over tree roots. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

These he knew because there were some raspberry bushes in the park and he and Terry were always picking and eating them when they biked past. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

At seven the truckloads of blanketed men did go past again, this time in the opposite direction. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be hard enough to sneak past two armies and not get stolen again by someone who would tear up my pass. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Justyce looks past her and the officer at the parting crowd. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

More surprising still, he had been admitted, and there he had stayed, behind that closed door, for the past half hour. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I walk past school, and I think maybe I should go in and say hi to the nurse. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never in the history of Sir Fig Newton had he ever—and I mean never, ever—slept past his usual 5:40-ish head bump breakfast alarm. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Then past the driver's head I could see a wall of buildings looming beyond the windshield. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The transport sphere plowed along the trench, past all the fortified city’s defenses: walls, moats, machicolations, crossbow cannons, drawbridges, bristling spear pits, bladed gates, and giant mechanical grinders. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Luke shot another look at the trailer, trying to decide if he should push past Jimmy. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I picked up my hat and another boy ran past, slapping my hat even harder. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drawing on all the knowledge I’d gained over the past couple months, I gave it my best shot. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He was a year ahead of me, and this past year, my senior year, he’d started at the university in town. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Julie was always angrier, always less content, and nothing over the past few months had changed that. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Two wolves ran past the children, talking eagerly to a very tall stork who was tip-toeing between them with dainty, delicate movements. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Then he turned and walked past the nest, grabbed the iron bow, and backed down to the bridge floor. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes is nothing compared to how late I’ve been in the past. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

My search for a distraction in my past. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

We were long past worrying about him—we had too much confidence in him for that—but we were never past accepting his most perilous moments quietly. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

It splits his skull, and blood sprays out past his dangling brains, yet he doesn’t fall. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

We strolled along the walkway between the road and the beach, past pushcarts piled high with corn and peanuts and hawkers selling multicolored plastic balls and cricket bats, flimsy kites, toys, dolls, pinwheels. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I leaned my head out of the window and let the cold mid-afternoon air rush past my face. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Millie waves, and I quickly lift my hand as she walks past us. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The train cars whipped past in a blur. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I probably should have sprinted past the cell, but I didn’t want to betray any fear. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A party of tourists shuffled past the confessional while their guide described the mosaics above their heads in a muted voice. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“They guard the portal between our worlds. We have managed to buy some time, and I was able to slip past...” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A similar problem arises when we use iffy language to talk about the past. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tried not to inhale Baaz’s spicy cologne as they ducked past him, and then they were inside. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

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

She walked on, past the hall of Law and Justice. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He felt it would be useless to discuss the past and that Alba and Miguel were too young to understand the sense of irreparable loss he was feeling at that moment. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, my grandmother takes my hand downtown pulls me right past the restaurants that have to let us sit wherever we want now. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I reached for a grenade just as Simpson ran past me. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the past several days it had grown from a pale streak on the horizon to...well, to the Cusp, whatever the Cusp was. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“That’s partly what the row with G. was about. He thinks I take ridiculous risks on the bike or in the past with drugs but won’t—” He stops when he sees my face. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Over the past seventy- five years, they’ve learned to be self-sufficient, turned their citizens into an army, and built a new society with no help from anyone. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I follow him up the concrete stairs, and then we end up having to squeeze past people to get over to them. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“I get that,” I say, thinking of Jason and Hope and all that I’ve missed out on these past few months, living vicariously through their texts and social media feeds. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“News from the Northern Kingdom!” a newsman called as they raced past. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A goshawk flew overhead; a rock fell off the cliff and bounced past the blazing-star flowers. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Good thing you opened the door, though. The fog’s so thick I might have gone right past the house!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some time etches past, and she finally looks at me properly. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She moved around Moss, then nudged the man aside so she could squeeze past him into the seat. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And in the end the question that always came back to me was this: How could I, of all people, chastise someone for their past? The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In one of his past crimes, he crept into a quarantine zone by tying up a street policeman. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

And just this past year she got a better job working as a chambermaid in the same hotel Jude had worked in. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Another creature, this one shaped a bit like a small dragon with fuzzy wings that trailed on the ground, bustled past. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The city melted away until we were off the expressway and rolling through the countryside of northern Long Island, past orchards and wineries and fresh produce stands. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He must have smelled it for the past mile, the old fox. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“Otherwise, some of us will be living in the past and some in the future. In the very same house! Can’t have that. Very bad.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He told me that for days and nights past—weary days and sleepless nights—he had been unable to speak with any one, as a man must speak in his time of sorrow. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I strode past the front desk, ignoring the protests of the secretary, and pushed my way into McCoy’s office. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

But maybe knowing a few relevant details about my past will make more sense of why I’m the way I am. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I wondered if this fear of his came from past experience. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had sworn for weeks past to do this. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until the film I had remained mostly silent about my past. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The aftershocks kept coming and continued past nightfall, and every time they did, my mother ran outside and insisted we go with her. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

For the past three weeks, Barry and Jay had been working nonstop on their creation. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the past, Mrs. Bradley had notes dropped in her bag suggesting group discussions on abortion, family violence, cheating—on boyfriends, girlfriends, on tests. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

You can't imagine how much I wanted to contact you in the past six months. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walked straight past the cafe where Prosper was sitting with the others, and had no idea who was watching her through the window. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the stones were proof that he had met with a king—a king who knew of the boy’s past. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see him freaking out and starting to cry while we were trying to sneak past a monster or something. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He speed-walks past the river, past the alley, past Pop Pop chunk on the couch, past Daddy’s dungeon door, and into the safety of his room. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A rusty moped put-putted past them, a red wagon bouncing behind it, streaming smoke. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Look,” Obiora said, lowering his voice as if the group of about forty students jogging past could possibly hear him. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

And it was a relief not to have other shovels swinging past his face, or the Warden hanging around. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Roamer walks past me, knocking me in the chest—hard—with his shoulder. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

About a mile or so down Mong veered us across this little bank, past an old unused road with mad weeds shooting up where paint used to be, and into the thick sand. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was on his way back past them, clutching a large doughnut in a bag, that he caught a few words of what they were saying. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

These people now knew that the past had betrayed them, had cast them out; but they did not know what the future would be like, did not know what they wanted. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Police dashed over the track, but the fans simply ran past them, leaping and clapping. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was lying in my blood as people hurriedly walked past me. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She matched Brum’s steps down the vaulted hall, past smooth white doors, each with a small glass window set into it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

At the age of five, six, well past the time when most other children no longer easily notice the difference between sounds uttered at home and words spoken in public, I had a different experience. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a very short swim, but she had overdrawn her strength for days past. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

His head turned to examine her as he strode past. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A ceiling tile crashed next to her as she rushed past the desks with her backpack clutched against her chest. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He first heard the shots as he trotted through the playground, past the sliding board where he had once rowdied with the guys. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

In the gathering darkness, it seemed like he was looking past me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She thrust the book into her pack and shoved past him into the hold. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The head bounced past him, leaving spots of blood on the purple marble floor as it rolled until it fetched up against the foot of King Hizdahr’s dragon throne. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I felt a bullet whiz past my ear; it pierced the wall behind me. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

At that time Rosy was scheduled to give a seminar on her past six months’ work. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Out of the sleeve of Sir Charles’s linen jacket, past the snowy white shirt cuff, came the emerald head of a snake. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walks past the pawpaw tree, past the rows of gangly bird of paradise, past the house of her neighbor, Ilda Limon, and down a sandy path skirting the beach. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I leafed past pages of TV stars, rock-and-roll groups, and pop idols. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

They had to fly away and land somewhere else—Raisa, Katya, and the others couldn’t get past the Germans to land safely on their own field! A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

To get there, we have to walk all the way past the math and science classrooms and down the back stairway. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

As they raced past the open doors, he glimpsed a pair of yellow eyes glaring at him from the shadows, and then he was moving on. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He tells us that in the past, Prince Sihanouk ruled Cambodia as a monarch. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now I must tell her everything about my past. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to avoid going past, since it was off the only road going north of the village, but it was set back too far from the road for the fools to see. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Her front wheel turns and she pedals past me on the sidewalk. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

She pulled Tyson and me off the sidewalk just as a fire truck screamed past, heading for Meriwether Prep. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

If we were living past today, I get the sense he’d be mocking the Deckers swimming with sharks for a long time. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He laughed and walked past them, south toward where they had just come from. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Christmas was still months away and Conor’s birthday was already past. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Another cop car raced past the entrance to the alley behind me. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She moved past him into the little room. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The cheering died out, and they were alone, trotting past row after row of barns. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, the crosstown bus hissed past on the wet street. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I am past this checkpoint—I will never regret that I chose to remember. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He paused, looked into the past, nodded to himself. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he looked younger now; like a boy just past twenty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nationwide boycott lasted only one day, and it was largely ignored by customers who pushed their way past the guards. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Injuries aside, in Aimee’s experience the only girls who continued past level eight were those who wanted to pursue an elite career. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Big Dub made it halfway across the room before Siobhan finally marched past him. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

At the pep rally, in front of the Forrester student body, he got up and said his piece about all those past and present who’ve been forced off the field because of prejudice. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Swiftly, swiftly, he whirled and bounded back into the trees, wet leaves rustling beneath his paws, branches whipping at him as he rushed past. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Taisin sat up past midnight, feeling awkward and self-conscious, staring at the page before her but not reading a word. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“The time for bribery and persuasion is past. This is the hour when we must unsheathe our swords.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together, we played not only the music of the moment, but music of the past, which I grew to love, though it was unfashionable. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I ran past them, grateful that I wouldn’t have to explain everything to Conner in front of them. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I look up and past him to the road ahead. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Everybody goes below deck arid we chug right past.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I'm not doing nothing wrong, so I go on past them and try to act like it doesn't matter. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Without even meaning to, I tell him everything that’s happened over the past few days. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But the loss of a routine that had given her life structure the past few months found tears pooling in the edges of her vision as she watched the city go by outside the window. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Ama, stiff and painful, crept up from her hiding place and tiptoed out past the sleepers, and didn’t make a sound till she was halfway down the path. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

With the bouncing of the car, the emotions of the past few days, and the doctor’s potions, Clara had acquired a skill at giving birth that she did not have the first time around. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cause of her death went back into the past, to the time when Apollo in anger at Zeus for killing his son Aesculapius killed Zeus’s workmen, the Cyclopes. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women and children called out to every female who walked past. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

That no scandal had emerged, no story dug up from his past. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Flinging open the kitchen door, I rushed into the backyard, past the workers in the sugarcane fields, past the tractors, their noise blurring into the distance. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She smelled bad, or perhaps it was her house: Harry wrinkled his nose as they sidled past her and pulled off the Cloak. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But it was not over yet: Harry sped between duelers, past struggling prisoners, and into the Great Hall. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The two friends stood respectfully by the grave while people walked past and put money into a box which one of the friends had with him. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

She hurried past the light and music of the Lid, and finally the Ketterdam harbors came into view, the sights and sounds of the Barrel fading as she neared the water. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

With the autumnal surrogation to winter and the Thanksgiving holiday quickly ascending upon us, I find myself reminiscing to mind the many blessings and bestowments of the past. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I bolt into the house I lived in for the past year, slam the door closed, and lean back against it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

This one was cut into the back of the curved fiction bookcases, which climbed past the second floor on their way up to the dome. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Besides the fact that there are no good footholds past the first few feet, the top of the fence curls outward in swirls that are something like spikes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He drove past a large hospital and pulled into a diner with a line of police cars parked out front. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Words drift past me, Baba and Mami talking about baby Rosa. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Straight out into the sea they danced, under the moon one night past full, and the music was lost in the breakers’ sound. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how he got past you. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Your Sweet Flypaper of Life led us past the Apollo and on through 125th and all the other Harlem streets you knew like the black of your hand. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her stomach heaved, for this meant that she had to walk through the cavern, past all the cages and all those strange creatures with their sad, brilliant eyes. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Just because you don’t have baby pictures doesn’t mean that you don’t have a past.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The empirical method of thought, on which ail the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

You negate yourself in order to make it past the finish line. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

When she recognized the gentle slope that descended past the last few trees into the clearing behind the old house at Rook Hill, she almost sobbed with relief. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see us fishing together, from the riverbank, and then going further upstream, past where you can see any houses. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Stretching his slender body with each bound, he ran past my hiding place as if he had urgent matters to attend to. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

He would never have been sentenced to death if someone had investigated his past. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“And now it’s ten minutes past five,” I says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can’t get anything past you, can I?” she says with a little laugh. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I watched him as they danced past me. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

We hurried past the ruined blocks as quickly as we could, then marveled as the streets returned to life around us. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

There’s been progress in the past year: a few court victories Alex has kept track of in his trusty binder, registration drives for young voters, the Houston rally, the shifting polls. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Kaz managed to endure it all the way past the iron railings of Zentzbridge, the grating covered in little bits of rope tied in elaborate knots, sailors’ prayers for safe return from sea. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We lost our living lifeline to the past. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The earth was pitted with explosion craters and scarred with trenches from past games. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

His name day had come and gone, unremarked, a fortnight past. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In the past, Piper had had a lot of trouble making her charms work, because she always ordered her enemies to do what she wanted. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I ran past him and followed the narrow path on which grass had grown. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

We drove back past the field of portables, but Mom suddenly hit the brakes. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I teased, after a giant rat charged past us outside her dorm—and its student population, twice the size of Princeton’s, was almost entirely black. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She ducked inside, refastened the latch, and picked her way past the empty desks with their neat stacks of orders and tallies. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A bright green shape flashed past, and then the branch shook again and a flurry of leaves cascaded in a slow, circular downpour around them. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

And he strolled past me with a knowing smile. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel fled, and suddenly she was ripped out of the past. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Then she walks right past us and into our bedroom to look out the window. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Over the past year things had gotten more and more frightening. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

A small black bird flew past and, just for a moment, nipped at the knitted doily on the back of Zane s chair. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was already well past six o’clock at this point and I was beginning to hyperventilate when it hit me: I had the number to an expert hair-doer-upper. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

For the past two sols, the batteries have taken longer to recharge. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Camera pans down the street, past playing kids and stores to a basketball that lies in the gutter. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

I let her in and she go right past me and I figure it’s a good time to get Mae Mobley up from her nap. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Funky and low-down, the kind inspired by reading too much Carlos Castaneda and Rilke and Robert Bly and dropping acid with a guy who claimed to be my cosmic mate from a past life. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

A corner of his mouth winked open and a silky rumple of smoke emerged, paused as if to be admired, then drifted off past his ear. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

In the same vein, it stressed the importance of accepting the evidence of your own eyes, rather than believing implicitly the words handed down from past generations—the Ancients were not infallible. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I blow a kiss to Momma and I rush past her and head for school. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I learn to leave out big parts of my past and present, depending on my audience. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The number of corporate chief executives who went to Ivy League colleges has dropped over the past fifteen years. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

They were going past a patch of lawn where there were no trees, and Malcolm felt horribly exposed. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then, turning to his students, “What I’m going to tell you now,” he said, “may sound incredible. But then, when you’re not accustomed to history, most facts about the past do sound incredible.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There were so many of them, just lined up in front of the entrance, and I think only a few people slipped past them before they started firing.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She’s holding the Coke, too, which sloshes like a stormy sea as she tries to outrun the bad visions of the recent past. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

My stomach sank as I walked past her old KitchenAid blender. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We turn and walk together past the large houses, towards the central part of town. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I stood over his grave, on a rise above the small school below, I thought not of the present but of the past. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The listlessness of the past month was gone and he was tense and uneasy. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He seemed to light up as he moved past in his pressed, clean-smelling suit, grazing my shoulders and arms with his. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the past it was usually laziness, prejudice, or lack of foresight that made a bad scythe, Citra had discovered. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Show’s not till eight,” she says in her Breton French, and he nods as he limps past. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I turned down Water Street, which ran north past Henry’s house, and as I approached I saw a dark shadow in the back of his garden. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Put one after another, Alfred, panting, huffing, low steps but hundreds of them, thousands of them in the darkness, the stairs so steep he sometimes fell to all fours, scrambling higher, past the sign, DR. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I check the box under my bed, which is where I’ve kept your notes these past few months. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He even misses Dad’s rumbly laugh—which he hasn’t heard very often in the past few months, but still. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

He sees himself in a white coat, striding past machines. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

You have to know the past to understand the present. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ran down the hillside through the terraces, past screaming spa workers and pirates ransacking the resort. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Catholic Church of my past required no such obvious reminders of community as smiles and handshakes before the Communion. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then something whizzed past me through the air, making straight for them, where it set up a commotion, thrashing around inside one flower after another. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

But Siddhartha went outside and sat in front of the hut all night, listening to the river, sunk in the past, simultaneously affected and encompassed by all the periods of his life. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

It all felt so far away, farther than it should have for a near-death experience just three months in the past. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one time in the far past it had been scooped by something, probably a glacier, and this scooping had left a kind of sideways bowl, back in under a ledge. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jack breezes past with a super-cool group, the kids who make middle school look easy and fun. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

In five days, I walk past the fence on my way home from work. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

As I dug further into her file, I learned that they’d had her under surveillance for the past five months. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It hurt when she walked right past you every day, like a real, physical hurt. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then the commuter brachys would stomp past, passengers cluttered on the saddles and hanging from straps along the side. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“The perfect prison door. Only water magic can get past it.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Time you kids was in bed,” she said as she trudged past us. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I have to get past her without letting on that something's happened. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

For the past three weeks, since we arrived in Lahore, we’ve been rotating through our relatives’ homes for lunch, chai—which basically turns into a second lunch—and dinner. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Showing it all around, he ended up in front of his older son, who during the past few days had barely put in an appearance in the laboratory. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He turned around to find that five kids were walking around the curve and past the tent, joking and laughing. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

They flowed past the President’s Palace, where President Hindenburg stood in his brightly lit window. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I have to look past a wide beam of bright white light shining down from the ceiling, but I can see into that corner. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Those are past tenses of related verbs, waken and awaken. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not much past sunup when the last rescue truck leaves. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I wanted to get my men and our canoe past that spit of land—it’s shaped like a little hook and juts out into the river. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Words, dimly familiar but twisted all awry, like faces in a funhouse mirror, fled past, leaving no impression on the glassy surface of my brain. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m here as Natalie’s friend. This has nothing to do with Moose,” Piper announces as she pushes the sleeves of her sweater up past her elbows. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked past Ben and along the pole, picking it up off the ground as he slid its length through his palm and fingers. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

We always tend to think of the past as “the good old days,” while the future seems fraught with danger. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was quiet for a beat before Mr. Jacobs continued, pushing past the awkwardness. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But in all my life I’d never gone past the boundary crosses, which marked the limits of our village. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Did this chest hold anything of my past? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The enthusiastic group met for several hours, and it was well past midnight when Ann asked the final question: “When we gonna meet again?” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Unbound, it hung past the small of the back. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He looks past Tats to me, and I feel that clench that I used to feel thinking about him. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She ran past the garden’s rows of carrots and cabbages and toward the dark, hulking line of the Wood. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Onto the beach I scrambled, gaining speed as I ran past the bass stands and up the lane. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Inside the harbor the water was calm, and as they moved past the massive breakwater Lyra began to feel unsteady from the lack of motion. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

We drive past dark houses with boarded-up windows, and I try to imagine them clean and polished, as they must have been at some point in the past. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He was walking past the fallow field west of the Wood when he saw lights dancing in the copse by the river, accompanied by the most beautiful flute music he had ever heard. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he hiked past Lowell Park, saw the men playing chess at the park benches, saw the complicated graffiti on the side of one of the apartment buildings, he began to relax. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He rode past waiting men, gradually began to become annoyed. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We now see that the past tense has a third meaning in English: a backshifted event in a sequence of tenses. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

For the past few months, she’s been in school part-time, taking classes several nights a week. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then a bee whizzed past Enoch’s nose and buried its stinger in the haunches of the woman sitting astride him, and she squealed and leapt up. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She didn’t seem to notice the bristly-shouldered rat even when it scuttled right past her feet. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was well past moonrise before the baggage train and rear guard straggled in. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the past five years, Percy had been a pawn too many times. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Abra tiptoed past her father’s door and went to her own room. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was not eligible for officer training, which was as well, for sooner or later he would have met someone in an officers' mess who knew about his past. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The past three days replayed over and over in her mind, but nothing made any more sense than it had before. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Lee looked past him into the soft blowing dark. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now when a writer really does want to refer to a past-time event in a remote conditional, he needs the past tense of a past-tense form. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I took in air in little sniffs as I walked past her, and as I walked all the way back across the quad to class. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The road out of town led past the coal mine, and Jack blew the bus horn at the tipple. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Half of it looked to be old paint, layer on layer on layer of it, from a hundred past repaintings. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In a cloud of dust and sprayed stones, the truck charged past, followed by another and another and another. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Boys ambled past our door toward the bathroom, and there was a period of steadily pouring shower water. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spun past a delivery van and passed through the school gates. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Objects move as the boys invisibly move past them. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

How can we ever hope to wrest the answers to those questions from Africa’s preliterate past, lacking the written evidence that teaches us about the spread of the Roman Empire? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It makes it easy to imagine her past, and her future, to picture her growing old. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

His face was pinched with tiredness, and he seemed to have grown older over the past two weeks. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Bits of flesh still clung to the bear skull, Jon noted as he joined the line riding past. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I lay in bed after Mama left and let my mind rake through the past, through the years when Jaja and Mama and I spoke more with our spirits than with our lips. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan probably hadn’t realized that it was a checkpoint and drove right past. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The child is no longer restless; for the past few days, apart from the occasional flutter, she has not felt it punch or kick or press against her ribs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Everything got so real so suddenly in the past two days.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Davos saw the looks that passed between the lord- lings as he rode past them to join the king. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Something bobs past in the water and the colors catch his eye. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The herd hurried past, heading to the barn, and her grandfather followed behind them in a little cart. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

A soldier with crammed cheeks pushed past Turner with a box of pink and white marshmallows. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I knew she would return, in a minute, with two burly men attendants, and they would bear me, howling and hitting, past the smiling audience now gathered in the lounge. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Jonathan almost fell as another man pushed past him. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

It had happened to Medgar Evers the past summer, and the list of Civil Rights martyrs was growing. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, we were hiding, out of breath, in the rotten trunk of an immense black tree as security ghouls scutded past, yelling for backup from the Furies. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He wants the art club to do a mural-size poster for the wall outside the office commemorating these past three weeks. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He made a gallant show of it, riding a spirited red courser whose mane was the same copper color as the long hair that streamed past Ser Addam's shoulders. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"No, it wouldn't change it," I heard myself say softly, "that's all past." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Big Ma counted on me to look after my sisters, my bedtime began to shift and slide past nine. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Down they went through the great echoing hall, down the winding stair at the other end past the empty kitchens, and out into the courtyard. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

It’s past midnight, and clouds scud over a nearly full moon. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

They were making for the mountain, but on a course to take them past it and beyond. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Looking into his eyes, I spread out the facts and what details I can safely share about the book and what I’ve been doing over the past year. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But for the past few days he had spoken to them about only one thing: the girl, the daughter of a merchant who lived in the village they would reach in about four days. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

James turned past a bakery and entered the mall. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

So when I left I'm sure I was just another item on a long list of awful things that had happened in our neighborhood in the past year. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I kissed her again, this time my lips on the pale soft hairs of her neck, and she craned so that the white skin inched up past the cover of her shirt fabric. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Derek nodded and stepped past him, balanced along the float and reached into the plane. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

He followed her into the great hall itself, and his mind went back how quickly over the years past when he had stood there waiting to wed a slave of the house. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I pushed right past the getaway car parked in the driveway. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I try to remember if the past was exactly like this. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I heard the hoarse explosion of a shotgun, and looked past Scofield's glinting pistol to the huddled form from the roof. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like walking past a mirror you’ve walked past every day of your life, and suddenly it shows you something else, something troubling and strange. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when that modest milestone flashes past, or at some other point thereabouts, for reasons unknown your atoms will shut you down, silently disassemble, and go off to be other things. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

They set off together, leaving the inn and the harbor behind them, up past the castle of Lord Botley into the stony hills. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Matthias gasped with shock as a giant horse galloped past, its mane streaming out, eyes rolling in panic. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The entry doors are made of wrought iron and glass, and just past them, marble columns and impressive oil paintings of bearded white men line the hallways. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I waved her hands away, but Ashley pushed past the others and brushed my long, dark hair over my shoulder. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Greater sea creatures glided past, their bodies decorated with pulsating, magical designs. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Like me, Hobart’s imagined scholarship boy spends most of his years in the classroom afraid to long for his past. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wondering if there was any water left in his body that hadn’t been drawn into the starch of his shirt, he walked down the hall—quietly—past a dining room, and finally to the kitchen. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The weeding and hoeing he had so despised at Caer Dallben now seemed, as he thought of his past journey and the journey yet to come, infinitely pleasant. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

French jams, English marmalades, an unclean butter dish, bottles of ketchup and Lea & Perrins circled past, before what the Object wanted: an economy-size jar of Rolaids. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was well past dark before she was done, and Dany was exhausted. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He scoots past his steering wheel, traveling to me. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Paths stretched through the park under huge maple and elm trees, past sculptures and playgrounds and shady benches. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Angel grabbed the doll and huddled on the steps a moment, tearful and throbbing, trying to figure out how to get past Jordan without getting hit again. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of moving past the house, beyond the house, instead of charging around Illinois by way of South Dakota, the mare walked toward the house, toward the gray windows like closed lids. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The shoulders drooped onto my arms a bit, and the sleeves hung past my wrists, but it felt nice. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

It preaches a contempt for the working class unexampled for centuries past, and it dresses its members in a uniform which was at one time peculiar to manual workers and was adopted for that reason. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

On his way out he walked past the ringing phone with determined indifference, and then hesitated. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

They skipped through a set of glass doors and headed past the information booth to the vast foyer inside. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

All I can do is put in time waiting for the inevitable, observing as the ghosts of my past rattle around my vacuous present. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The past was dead, the future was unimaginable. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

While I use the store’s water hose to clean Ford’s face, sirens blare past us. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Once the boat was past the high-tide mark, he pointed down across the shore. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

But I think a big part of the reason I didn’t care about Soraya’s past was that I had one of my own. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the past week, he and Zachary had retired to other rooms to do something, anything, else. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“So very happy! Honestly, I didn’t think you’d make it past the nymphs, but it’s so much better that you did. Much more entertaining. You’re just in time for the main event!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Eril-Fane stared at him, but it was the blind, unblinking stare of someone seeing into the past. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They conversed of things I had never heard of; of nations and times past; of countries far away; of secrets of nature discovered or guessed at: they spoke of books: how many they had read! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

And in this past day, Christmas Eve, while the clock made two complete rotations of its own, I watched over three tiny creatures whose lungs struggled like the flat, useless wings of butterflies prematurely emerged. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran past the glass ruins and called, “Magister Spurge!” out to the mountains and valleys. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Someone shouted, “Watch your back!” as a cart full of electronic equipment was wheeled past and out to a loading dock. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, Lissa rushed past me, her feet thudding on the stairs. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Nobody stopped me, so I walked round the corner of my wing of the hall and down another, longer hall, past an open dining room. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Meir moved to block me, and I darted past him to head straight for the door. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

They sailed past Popham, through the narrows off Cox’s Head, past the lights of Parker Head, and then on up to Phippsburg, the water going more and more slack as they sailed. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Like Vincent, he has spent much of his free time taking long walks into the countryside outside the city, past fields of wheat, inhaling the familiar aromas of hay and potatoes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The Demerol had set off some kind of weird Doppler effect in my head, like the whine of car tires speeding past and receding in the distance. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“The dementors affect you worse than the others because there are horrors in your past that the others don’t have.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The past would not exist for either of us, we were starting afresh, he and I. The past had blown away like the ashes in the waste-paper basket. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Telling her own truth is the truth to her, even if it’s at the expense of chipping away our past. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we think of the past it’s the beautiful things we pick out. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daniel is thinking not about past events, but future ones. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Gum Baby does not want to hear about that again. Why you always living in the past?” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But in fact, I had no way of slipping past the electric fence—and no idea where the hell I was. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

If we ignored the past, how would we learn from it? Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Train cars whipped past as he lay in the dirt, bruised and stunned. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead of them, Natalie stepped past the corner of the nearest fence. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I go along past the flower beds, the willow tree, aiming for the back door. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I were in Cabo this past week but stuck inside a hospital, I wouldn’t just be bummed. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I had opened up a road into the past again. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I take out nine candles and, trying to move as mechanically as possible, carry them past the guards. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A cart rattles past us, blocking the words. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The man looks up at me, surprised, and moves his legs to one side to let me past. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t get past Pa, and there was no other way out. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

We hurry past a pet store and a post office and into the café, both of us shivering. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

And when it got to be past ten, and all the stores started opening and the parking lot started filling up with cars, Mong finally went off to find a pay phone. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The sidecar rose like a cork, unsteerable but at least still airborne: He had but a split second’s relief, however, as more curses streaked past him: The three Death Eaters were closing in. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

His caution in the past may have cost him an arrest or two, but he had rarely, if ever, made a serious mistake. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But just as we started past the garage, someone moved away from the group. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

But again, similar to Prohibition, gun control laws can only be as effective as the organizations that enforce them—another lesson to be learned from the past. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Eleanor stared at the lid and struggled to make the letters into words—but she couldn't get past the familiar spill of lowercase letters. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

It was early evening, just past supper, and others were hurrying, as Matty was, along the lane to the place where Trade Mart was held. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Ned knew he was pushing this well past the point of wisdom, yet he could not keep silent. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Perhaps a speculative novel where the main character is an archaeologist digging for bronzes who is then transported to an idyllic past? Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Quincy run past me out the back door. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Like, he was supposed to be our teacher and that was it, and now he was this person, with friends and a past in pharma-something-whatever. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She strode past him and returned to the soldiers. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

We march past Tori and the fallen council member. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

In the past, Taisin had seen the fortress clearly; when she awoke, she remembered. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They look past, at nothing, or they pretend sleep. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoon sunlight was luxuriant on her skin; she’d been sequestered in her car for the past three hours. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Maybe “straight past the gap” was the only important part of the due, but Tally had decided to treat the note like a magic spell. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The poor black-and-white rodent had been by himself for the past eighteen months, and Virgil couldn’t help but think he’d been pining the hours away in desperate loneliness. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Benji picked it up to read, but he couldn't get past the first few lines. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He wished he knew more about her past. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

We walked past our synagogue, past the shops and houses, past the library where we had sat and read, walking in silence and saying more with that silence than with a lifetime of words. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I looked past the apple seller to the haberdasher’s window behind him. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

While slipping past my mother and sister, I chanced a look. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

And Francie walked past them in the evenings and wondered why all the songs sounded so sad. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I figure they don’t want to hear about the C he got on his science test or how he was grounded for the past two weeks for talking back. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“You’ve done more for me in these past few weeks than my own daughters have.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I craned my neck up, trying to see past their shoulders. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“For not being able to live up to what we’d convinced ourselves of. That there was something special about Manifest. That we could overcome our past and start over.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Why are you come here, Jane? It is past eleven o’clock: I heard it strike some minutes since.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t seem so very dangerous here,” remarked Meggie as they drove past another pink house. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Determined not to let the past creep up on her, she altered her thought at once. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The board raced past the first flag, and she leaned hard right, her arms all the way out now for balance. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I walked past a block of brown and gray slab homes. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

And comfort is a thing of the past. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Harry wanted to believe that Kreacher had changed toward him in the past month, that he would be loyal now, but who knew what would happen? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Merely rational thought—forgive me for preaching, but I must, I must!—merely rational thought leaves the mind incurably crippled in a closed and ossified system, it can only extrapolate from the past. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dragonfly’s little green body and big eyes floated right past me and landed on the edge of the casket. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure if I wanted my past to be the first thing people knew about me. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They would have called out to him or run toward him except he was staring right past them with such distance in his eyes, he frightened them. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went back down the steps and walked across their flat dirt yard, past several outbuildings and the huge grain silos, to the first of four long chicken houses. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Over and over again the inhabitants of the Lane heard him say, as he rolled past Miss Lark’s mansion: “Blast my gizzard! What does she want with a house like that?” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

They drove past the capitol dome of Madison, another perfect snowglobe scene in the falling snow, and then they were off the interstate, and driving down country roads. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

And just like every other morning over the past month, Sir Fig Newton inhaled the entire bowl in thirty seconds flat, then followed with a frozen pause and a low rumbling, “Urp.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

A trampling down the narrow hallway, past Mitch, who looks up in surprise, but we are already out the door and down the steps before she can respond. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Harry streaked past Katie in the opposite direction, gazing around for a glint of gold and noticing that Cho Chang was tailing him closely. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s in the tournament rules. “I was supposed to work out how to get past the dragon on my own too,” Harry muttered, so only Hermione could hear him, and she grinned rather guiltily. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

In Cambodia, people don’t celebrate the day on which they were born until they’ve lived past their fiftieth year. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced back out the window one last time, making sure Cate and Rob still had their backs to me, before bolting past the display of beef jerky and heading straight for that door. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

We went on watching her in a kind of trance as she went past on the other side. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rattle down the long gravel lanes, past pit cottages and trash barrel fires, past laid-off miners squatting all day on upturned crates, motionless as statues. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She had flipped past it the first time, assuming it had the registration number listed as was typical. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

‘Cross your figglers! Here we go! We is going right past all these other giants! Is you seeing that whopping great one, the one nearest to us?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Melissa and Kelly laughed at the playing monkeys, shuddered past the slithering snakes, cooed at the baby grizzly bears, and stared at the tigers’ teeth. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The two men could have walked past each other in the train station, both with pipes in their mouths. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

An old man he was, past sixty, yet he still sat straight and tall in the high saddle, and his voice was strong enough to carry to every comer of the field. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I hurry past, but they’re too busy talking to spot me. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was past midday when we arrived at a crowded village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They trotted through the park and past the National Guard Armory. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Bodies are shooting past Baxter; Mark sees a stray foot smack the kid in the shoulder. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

And why was there no sign of its initial climb past ecological limits, only of its subsequent collapse before them? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She brushed past me as she went toward the door to the stairway. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

A steward hurried past him with a stack of clean towels. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

I understood he had his reasons, and it shouldn’t have mattered what he’d done in the past, but it did. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

We stood side by side, looking past the settling debris, not daring to talk in case we were dreaming wide awake. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I’d never had any friends on the top floor, so I had gone up only once or twice in the past to run an errand. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I slipped past her, out the side door, into the Castros’ yard. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

She took my hand and we went on past the barn and through the gate. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt the trickle at the back of my mind, the buzz that pushed past even my anger, and had to close my eyes at the flash of images that followed. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I took off, too, feeling the wind rush past my ears. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

There had been no such issue for weeks or months past. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

‘First stair’s past. Clever hobbits to climb so high, very clever hobbits. Just a few more little steps and that’s all, yes.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Balder’s wife, Nanna, saw her husband’s body carried past. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

At just past midnight Stacie Perry herself, trying to pour a glass of water, vomited into the Brita pitcher, and Pearl decided it was time to head home. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And as I walked on past those unused bedrooms, Miss Kenton's figure, a silhouette against a window within one of them, had called to me. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

A bill unpaid past the fifteenth of the month was a debt. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just behind the house, a freight train lumbered past on the railroad tracks that the observation train would follow during the California race. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They say that the dream world is closest to the spirit world, that to know your dreams is to know the past, the present, and the future. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

In the past few months, I’ve gone on errands with the Doctorita and walks with the family, but never been outside alone. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My years there created for me an expendable past, disposable as a plastic cup. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Victor walks into the building—undisclosed location, of course—with Andrea Donahue, a coworker who doesn’t stop to admire the portraits of smiling Victorians and past presidents on the yellow walls. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We’re at Audrey’s place, on her balcony It’s dark but the floodlights are on, and people look up as they walk past the lot of town houses. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Your silence these past few months has convinced me that either you are deceased, or I have earned your vexation. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The schoolhouse where Biddy was mistress I had never seen; but, the little roundabout lane by which I entered the village, for quietness’ sake, took me past it. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

So often in the past, teasing, she had said she would, one day. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Other boats, selling vegetables, sandals, fried rice, and fizzy drinks, glided past. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He felt himself slipping, struggling to separate reality from memory, the immediate present from the distant past. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He looked up and down the street, past ghostly lamps that shed a long series of faintly shimmering cones of yellow against the snowy night. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ron pulled his copy of Advanced Potion-Making out of his bag and handed it over; Harry sprinted off past him and back to the common room. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

More than once in the past this had served him well. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watching for resistance, alert with alarums, we progressed past silent residences. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

While making New Year’s resolutions, we also count our blessings and retell stories about the past year and the lessons we have learned and what we can do to be better this year. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The teachers' plan was to show how difficult it was to register, by marching past the closed door of the registration office and then out of the building. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like an eerie dream, seeing faces of ghosts from the past. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Some were sitting on the floor in the foyer, and he could see a bunch more camping out past the double doors that officially led to the rest of the school. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A couple blocks past the boss’s place, the stately houses came to an abrupt halt at McCreary Park. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The sensation of a cat brushing past his legs is so genuine that he looks down expecting to see it, but there is nothing on the floor of the tent but more jars and bottles. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

If we used only one verb per sentence, we'd never have trouble choosing the tense—past, present, future, or whatever: They waltzed. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walk past the Hub and through the open gate, watching, waiting, as others file onto idling buses that will take them to the train station and airports and home. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

His coattails flapped against my shins as he swept past me and out the door. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

So we went out for a walk, and he didn’t deliver me to my door until ten past eight. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He leads us past the first building to the second one on the left. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Pop pulls me down onto the step; never minding kids are streaming past us. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

But something in a corner of his head clicked, and he jumped up, pushing past Leslie and May Belle. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

We keep ourselves pressed as closely against the side of the bank as we can so idle soldiers and drunk workers above can't see us past all the grass and rocks. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He walked straight past Bod and opened the cupboard. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The giant pushed past us and opened the doors. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

That these questions have been my constant cognitive companions over the past two and a half weeks? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Have you any idea how much my kingdom has swollen in this past century alone, how many subdivisions I've had to open?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

We cut through an empty park and past some teetering apartment buildings that at least offered us shade from the blazing sun. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

How much do you really know about my past? Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The boat came nearer, the searchlight sweeping to left and right, almost on course to hit the island, but at the last minute it turned a little to starboard and moved past. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

And so they were: ragged elegant black shapes sweeping past high above, with a hiss and swish of air through the needles of the cloud-pine branches they flew on. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

A pair of half-men guarded a yacht of some swank, staring at Tool with an open challenge in their eyes and guttural growling of acknowledgment as he went past. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

My cousins are frozen in place, but their eyes look past me, behind me. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She slid carefully toward the front of the paired boards, the toes of one grippy shoe sticking out past the riding surface. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Gracious me, this packet is thick; I’ve got less than ten minutes to prepare all the scenes and I’ve barely made it past the character descriptions. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I apologize for not coming these past few nights. I had a dreadful bout of nausea and couldn’t leave my den. I hope I didn’t cause you to worry.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She went to bed sometime between eight and eight-thirty only to be startled awake later when a horse-and-wagon clattered past her window at high speed. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Out past the towns, every now and then, there would be some light from a farmhouse. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only when he chanced to move past the food which had been prepared did he, as a game, take a bit into his mouth, hold it there for hours, and generally spit it out again. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were walking past Prides, a small coffee shop wedged between SavOn's and Von's Supermarket, when I looked in the big plate glass window and saw my father. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I know I didn't stop till I was way up in the Sixties, past the zoo and all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

They spared themselves trouble by going instead to the sugar mill, where in the past year they had discovered their own wonder. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to die now, darling. I’m past where I was going to die. Aren't you glad?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She might have walked past the Arabian Knight but she hadn’t forgotten about the princess. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Unlike me, she recalls every detail of her past. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Sergeant Simpson said that the marines had done the bulk of it in the past but that they were digging in up north to establish positions for the Tet truce. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one with a white windowless van rolling slowly past the park. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But this was concrete evidence; it was a fragment of the abolished past, like a fossil bone which turns up in the wrong stratum and destroys a geological theory. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

As we’re dusting off our clothes, I notice a small depression past the orange barriers, at the fence line. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The carriage holding the photographs of the brutal war and secret resistance, and everyone I have met and grown to care about in the past few days. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

My legs push me forward through the lunchroom door, past the lockers, and straight to the empty bathroom behind the gym. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Causey was the commanding officer of squadron 234, which had the reputation and history of being one of the best F-8 squadrons in the Marine Corps for the past five years. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just imagine if the sheriff knew all about Miss Deveraux’s tragic past.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He was six now, long past the age of pushing things up his nose. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he looks past me and storms at my sister. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, Mr Farraday had made it clear that he planned to hold only very rarely the sort of large social occasions Darlington Hall had seen frequently in the past. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I know about Russ’s past, Finley. I’m in the inner circle, so to speak.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was going back out past Miss First when he said, “That will be all.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She opened up to me, talking about her feelings and worries—something she had not done in the past. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Isn’t this the story of every transformation, though, that the past lies about its feet, in folds, so that when it should dance, well. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

More dead jungle ruins flashed past, an astonishing amount of wealth and materials left to rot and fall back to the green tangle of the trees and swamps. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Once he’d left, we got to explore the midway on our own, the air rushing past us as we rocketed down a giant yellow slide on burlap sacks. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

My mind occupied, I barely hear the feather-light whisper of the girl as it drifts past my ear. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She kicks the can past the first guard. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Just in case one of them gets past us.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

When people point at me or whisper as I walk past, I wave to imaginary friends down the hall and hurry to meet them. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The latter was clearly an error of past generations, which Francis saw no reason to perpetuate. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

She loosened the ribbon that held the old light blue cotton skirt around her waist and let it drop past her knees. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Edna and I follow Miss McDaniels past the stinky flowers and along all the back offices until we finally reach a big wooden door. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Then footsteps pound down the hall as the black wave roars past the building. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I’ve spent the past two hours drawing, trying to shake off my confrontation with my mom. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

These past few days with Al have shown me that sometimes all a person needs is a little jolt of support to feel more confident. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“If we touch either of them, they’ll explode. But at least nothing will get past the entrance.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And if I somehow managed to make it past all of them and reach the crypt, the ultrapowerful lich could kill my avatar in seconds, just by looking at him. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And her people, insisted Fujiko, were Japanese—the events of the past months had proved it so; why else had their father been arrested? Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

We follow it past the Briefing Auditorium to the tall wooden door protecting the Great Vault that Agent Fiona says is impenetrable. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He is almost her size now; he’s grown so much these past months. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

My legs are churning and I’m moving past her and toward the center of the room. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Under normal circumstances, I’d have focused solely on the academics and culture of each place, but we were far past the possibility of normal now. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As if the past was recyclable and all he had to do was collect enough cans to make a fortune and make another start. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He wanders past graves belonging to philosophers and poets, authors whose books he knows from his grandmother’s library. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Finally, my parents were getting past the interrogation phase, and dealing with the injured child — who, by the way, was still receiving first aid from his heroic, wronged brother. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both of them were determined that Guenever could not come between them, and the first few years were safely past. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a few cases, we also know something about the individuals who designed writing systems by blueprint copying in the remote past. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the education system tends to dismiss kids based on their past and not on their potential. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the course of clearing the dining room, and also in preparing the drawing room for the arrival of the evening's visitors, I was obliged to walk repeatedly past the smoking- room doors. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

It all looks so calm and normal, as if the hell we have lived through for the past four years has never happened. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was what she’d been trying to tell him for the past four evenings. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The truck stopped, and the dust cloud drifted past it. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Mr. Remora strode past, dabbing his handkerchief around his neck and not making any eye contact whatsoever. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A hawker with a tray balanced on her head ambled past. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The report was good; he had been quite quiet for the past day and night. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

A shadow passed over the mouth of the well as a vlei person walked past. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I had no doubt I had passed, despite the difficulties of the past school year; but what would I do with a matriculation certificate? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Time travel to the past is a complicated business.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Without saying good-bye, she pushed past Lexie into the front hallway, where she nearly knocked Serena over on her way out the door. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then she looked past him to the extension cords. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes if I’m concentrating on my form or my time, I don’t notice that I’ve run past it, but today I’m not thinking about those things. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The school had let my third-grade class decorate the book’s front cover that year, and I’d spent the entire past week painstakingly drawing in the elaborate swirls on the cover’s corners. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was still in the rear, and when I opened my eyes again I saw one of the mice sliding past me, clawing uselessly with his small nails at the smooth metal beneath him. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

And it seemed to be looking for a way to get past the fire. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were talking in the past tense because Tristram had finally been murdered, while playing the harp to La Beale Isoud, by the exasperated King Mark. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just past midday she came upon a bush growing by the stream, its twisted limbs covered with hard green berries. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And I walked out of his embrace and past Lara and Takumi to her casket and knelt before it and placed my hands on the finished wood, the dark mahogany, the color of her hair. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Because all of this happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, Holmesy. You always use the past tense when talking about Star Wars. Duh.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Angie runs past me, but then she slows down so I can catch up with her. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

And that tall monster that sits beside the highway to West End, past Turtle Lake. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two attendants, pursued by a pack of photographers, hurried past with their heads bent against the rain and a stretcher between them. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Which gave him an excuse to walk right past me and talk to Dolores, who was fifteen and pretty and still didn't look pregnant. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good, you’re awake. I trust you’ve healed enough over the past few hours to be a little more coherent, and a little less miserable.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He started to walk past the sagging door. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

An arrow from somewhere whizzed past my face and impaled itself in the mahogany-paneled wall of the stairwell. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Athena’s feet stuck into sick bay, so you had to squeeze past her ivory toes if you wanted some Advil. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I pull on my boots and stand, feeling pretty good even though I've been abed the past week. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But we caught one wave at just the right point and it car­ried us a great distance, past the high, collapsing walls of water. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her mind was darkened with jealousy about his past. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The landscape sweeps past as a gray blur because I am focused on a distance somewhere between the window and the world around me. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Power politics might have been a thing of the past elsewhere, but it was alive and seething in the Scythedom. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Most of the fence past the gates borders the edges of tents, so there isn’t really anywhere to enter. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Thanks to the rigid rules governing bug boys, Pollard was not even allowed to turn his head to look at his father as he rode past. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was unchained in the morning, he bolted past Fist. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

After the country sent two women into space on three different spaceflights, one might assume that gender barriers in space were a thing of the past for the Soviet Union. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

The eyelashes were lying on April’s dresser and Melanie managed to walk right past them as she went out. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of the war, he said, he never got past the second grade, never learned to read or write. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I swung the wheel to starboard, the boat slid past, and the deer bobbed twice in our wake before vanishing into the darkness. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last he would put the letter away carefully and begin his brooding again, trying to recall out of his past some telling fact that might help him in getting his pension. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went down past the farmers’ market that most towns had back then. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look through the window, past my reflection, to the barely lit patio garden. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

From where we stood, you could see down the grassy slope behind our house, on past Dad’s shop and the dock, to the creek. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The remaining iron monsters screeched at this new enemy, and they thundered past us to attack her. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

They turned and looked outside to see an ambulance speed past, followed by two police cars. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The house in which she has lived for the past twenty-seven years, which she has occupied longer than any other in her life, has been recently sold, a Realtor’s sign stuck into the lawn. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Over the past few months Kelton’s family has assembled an over-the-top surveillance system, set up a mini greenhouse in their side yard, and lined their entire roof with some kind of unregistered, off-grid solar panels. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He followed the line of her finger, past the mottled, mossy tree trunks. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were glued to my face, and I bowed my head as I delved into my recent past. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Reach past Calvin’s foot to find his face. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Flying past the three-eighths pole at breakneck speed, Modern Youth suddenly spooked, bolting to the right, and headed straight for the outer rail. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mamie Johnson’s cousin cooks for that school. They called to tell her where she has to check in tomorrow morning to get past the soldiers.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, For the past month, we have been studying different American writers like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Tho- reau. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Together they raced over the hills, past Roman aqueducts, highways, and vineyards. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

These people were all stuck in the past, setting up their booths at the art fair and thinking themselves successful because they'd sold a silk screen of a footprint in the sand. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

There was also a new guardrail, which gave me a somber feeling as we drove past. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t even let her past the door. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Into the doors and into the soft lights I go, silently, past the rows of puritanical benches straight and torturous, finding that to which I am assigned and bending my body to its agony. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each week we could forget past wrongs done to us. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Got nothin' to do with them," said Alfred, moving past Major. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farther on the car whizzed past or over some kangaroo rats. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pace around the show, up and down the former aisles, around the checkout counters where Jody’s sculptures pose like models on a runway, past the wall where Carolyn’s quilts yell defiance. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A banner vanished suddenly as its bearer was swept under, and soon after the first dead man drifted past their walls, borne along by the current. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Louder I raise my voice until my rusty throat begins to burn with the song and I can feel a new breath come in—deep, past my lungs into my belly. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Get past the fat stoner, I told myself, and I'm a free man again. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

We drove past the lime green houses and the citrus packing plant. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t been able to keep up his journal during the past month, and that annoyed him; he was pretty methodical about that journal. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

She led the guards to the other side of the stage, past the large wooden structures of the judge’s podium and the empty jury box. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I had practiced so much in the past month, I could practically sink foul shots in my sleep. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The water rushed past the car’s running boards so fast, it looked like we were in a motorboat or something. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Vernon was last seen two days ago; family members stated he had been acting unusually quiet the past week. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She reaches right past me and takes a pen topped with a Merryweather Purple ball of fluff off the coffee table. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

His dislike for Udodi—loud, drunken, duplicity dripping from his pores—had only deepened in the past years. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Kyril Montana walked swiftly through the damp meadow past several curious Herefords. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She nods slightly but looks past me at Tressa, who sounds overly happy all of a sudden. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He was led back along a passage, past more works of art, up a staircase, and then along a wide corridor with thick wood-paneled doors and chandeliers. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

But anything that happened here in the past is exactly there—in the past. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“They say no news is good news. Now, ’tis way past Mercy’s bedtime. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Fifteen years past, when they had ridden forth to win a throne, the Lord of Storm's End had been clean-shaven, cleareyed, and muscled like a maiden's fantasy. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The boy runs right past us, yelling the whole way. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He said nothing while the other squadrons ambled past the reviewing stand crookedly in their customary maimer. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The sky is a sheet of purple and pink and gold, and giant planets are suspended against it, their rings curving past the horizon. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even before the calamitous outcome of the 1996 premonsoon climbing season, the proliferation of commercial expeditions over the past decade was a touchy issue. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Even past performance is not enough to ensure that, a given artist will continue to produce on the same level. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm pedaling away from these past few days. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She walked slowly past the stalls on her left, looking in each one, and though the horses raised their eyes to her, she did not see the huntress. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know how much longer past eight thirty my sisters could stay awake, but for once I’d listen to Lucy Raleigh. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

We drive past half of Batalla sector and through a few poor blocks. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

We drive past a park, nestled right among the tall buildings, and I can hear laughter as the youngsters run and jump and play. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had heard it said that, on a bet, he had carried a barrel of molasses on his back from the general store down past the saloon. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She passes by in the hallway, but when he comes over to ask her she pushes past him without saying a word. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I cannot see the future And I cannot change the past But the present is so heavy I don’t think I’m going to last. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By then Mars Bar was hauling on up the street past the basketball players, who were rolling on the asphalt with laughter. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was drinking all the way past Mojave, and into the northern suburbs of Los Angeles. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

My stomach twisted at the thought of asking exactly how many miles we were from Thurmond, how far away the past really was. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He had already thought of a route that would take him directly past the corner of East Oriole and Woodbury, the future location of Mother Paula’s All-American Pancake House. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Radio broadcasting was still new, but it had rapidly expanded in the past dozen years. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The red Toyota pickup truck idled past us. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He heard a man and a girl talking together merrily as they came down the street past him towards the town square, and all at once he turned, for he knew the man’s voice. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as I got past it, so nobody could see me from the tavern, I climbed over the stone wall into Sanford’s pasture and began running across the fields towards Colonel Read’s house. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I push Boomer forward, and he keeps galloping right past the end of the meadow and into the trees. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Look, I’ve been playing basketball almost every day of my life for the past three years. I’ll be eighteen soon. He’s getting older. It’s time I started whipping him.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was downtown, shopping; she was standing on the street talking to your grandmother when he rode past. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

She darted past him into the open air. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

After two months without pay, he approached Irwin with a proposal: He would call off the debt for past wages if Irwin would give him Knighthood. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly alarms go off and agents rush past me. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Sierra slipped past them and into the dingy ladies’ room. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“And she’s really a ... ?” “Really a wild thing ... I can hear her at night—rushing past in the moonlight, always in a hurry. You must be careful of her.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smiles politely, pats me on the shoulder, and then, averting her eyes from mine, squeezes past me to sit down. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was thinking about all of this when someone whistled and the crow—that same crow—went flying past me in a burst of shiny feathers. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

When the bell rings, I walk past Ryan Cross and Roamer and Amanda until I’m standing so close to Violet that I can smell her flower shampoo. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Every single Hufflepuff had jumped to his or her feet, screaming and stamping, as Cedric made his way past them, grinning broadly, and headed off toward the chamber behind the teachers’ table. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They lived rough, their families torn apart by the events of the past ten years. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They are part of a shared cultural inheritance of the past half-century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I lean my forehead against the backseat window and try to see past the speeding dark and into this new world called Detroit. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Together, the Witchlings walked past the brightly colored flowers and enormous willow trees and to the Uncle’s door. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The aunts began to blur into one another as the days of the summer ticked past. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Then we rushed back to the starting line, and we all screamed like crazy when he ran past in the top ten and set off for the woods again, the second lap. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden, his face is covered in fear as he stares past me. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He was an old man, well past fifty. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He’d gone over it with us every single lunch for the past five days, outside on the far cinder block. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Celia leaned forward and stuck her head out past the door frame. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“I suppose you think you’re harder to get past than a pack of enchantments!” she stormed. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The water was up past my ankles, and the stink was something else. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s foggy out, and late—just past 3 a.m. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, new disciplines and new technologies were creating new ways to examine the past. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I could flee, she thought as a wagon rumbled past her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Still I don’t feel like going to sleep, and when I hear my mom get home I tiptoe past Bryce and Aurora and push open the door into the main room. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I smile as my livestream count goes steadily past 1K, a fraction of the 23,940 YouTube subscribers who tune in to see how my battle with cystic fibrosis is going. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

If my roots stretched past the property line that separated them, well, that’s never been my concern. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t looked at the map for the past half an hour and was navigating wholly by memory and the compass and the stars. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Her face has been smiling for the past six years that I’ve been pounding on the yellowed keys of the Tony Fritz Music Center’s piano every week. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She was past being human, had lost every ounce of sanity, and that wasn’t his fault. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Our apartment hadn’t heard lots of laughter over the past two months. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Carriages drove past the open courtyard, taking people to the cities to find work. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

But one day as we were on our way to the Park, the Chief pulled the bus over to a curb on Fifth Avenue in the Sixties, a good half mile past our baseball field. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He swerved past it, stopped and, looking back, saw Bigwig come racing in from the opposite side. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though there are only inches between them, for an instant his father is a stranger, a man who has kept a secret, has survived a tragedy, a man whose past he does not fully know. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I missed you this Felling past at the Eolian, but though denied your company, I had the good fortune to meet someone quite interesting. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the past, also, war was one of the main instruments by which human societies were kept in touch with physical reality. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The torture had let up in the past year, but Alvarez could see the damage on his face. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In the past decade, the United States government and law enforcement agencies around the world have documented that some of these North Koreans are involved in criminal enterprises that funnel hard currency to Pyongyang. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s my blank stare—that I’m looking past them, staring at the little dead girl that looks like my sister standing in the middle of the courtyard. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

High John’s comment bothered me, but I tried to push past it. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

My eyes peer through the trees, past the fence, into the Meadow. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They pushed past the girl, knocking into her, and dropped into their own seats. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

We were both quiet for a minute while we watched the students walk past. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They don’t look at all like the pictures of them I’ve carried around in my head for the past four months, shifting pictures in which only a few features stand out. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He ran this theory past Myrtle, who smirked at him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The stream of brownish liquid in her clear measuring cup was not moving, even though the cup tipped well past the point where gravity should’ve emptied it. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The murderous potential can become activated, especially if some disequilibrium is already present, when the victim-to-be is unconsciously perceived as a key figure in some past traumatic configuration. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, they were living in the past as far as their race relations went. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It took me ten full seconds, as we threaded the crowd past the stage, to recognize it as a bear. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

For the past two days they’d skirted north, hoping to find a safe pass, with no luck. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When I step out past the fence with its razor wire, I will make sure the world knows who they were and what they sacrificed. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Then they were able to see past the wall of flashing lights. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

And I went past where they had the dog tied up. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even if they got past him unrecognized, how were they going to start a fire while the others were still standing around? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

As a matter of fact, she's looked that way for the past few weeks. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I made my way past the charred windmill to the iron hand pump. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But once it did occur to him, it seemed to embolden him, even past the point of caution. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conversation sputtered along in fits and starts; one second everything was good, the next uncomfortable as the past overwhelmed us. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

On the way home from visiting Robert, I watch the mountains move past me and slowly the mountain song starts coming again more words this time, coming faster than I can sing them. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Who can look past the radiant faces of two people for whom this day was once a virtual impossibility? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It had been a full year since they lost their dad, about the time people start to get past their grief, but no one, it seemed, had bothered to tell that to Will’s family. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Mr. Levy walked down the aisle past the black wig that hung from atop a crate, the high pumps tossed on a pile of newspapers. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daniel’s sisters are always outside on the front porch dancing or singing or playing whenever they go past. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

"If you look even slightly into the ancient past, you'll see how love has driven many a war. Just ask Helen." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was a little past noon, and the customers had just started to wander through. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

‘Will colored Americans suffer still the indignities that have been heaped upon them in the past?’ Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Then he and the little boy shared the cake and babbled the doings of the past few hours to each other. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Once the remaining Weasleys and Hermione had joined them, Harry and Ron led the way to the end of the train, past packed compartments, to a carriage that looked quite empty. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She brushed past the others and streaked across the flooded parking lot, churning up a wake like a fleeing speedboat. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He stares ahead, into the night, at the people who hurry past on their way home. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The princess stood, pushing past the bouncing puppies. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I certainly didn’t want to tell Big Ma that everything she had said about Cecile for the past seven years was right. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the past month, she has been dismantling her household piece by piece. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s out past the gym and the locker rooms, past the basketball courts and the tennis courts and the baseball diamonds. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Thomas didn’t respond, kept looking, willing his mind to break down the memory barrier and seek out this girl from his past. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

This time the crowds did not push past us but stood a little aside to let us by. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

So I wouldn’t put it past the government to insert some kind of mind-control chip into Dad’s brain and force him to run a crumbling theme park in the desert. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“This is loaded for now, and it will stay that way until we get past these two and back out on our own.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Its future prospects are far more intriguing than our past apprehensions about it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have often wondered if my past is the reason I am the way I am, if it has made me monstrous. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I let the girls start walking away and before anyone can stop me, I charge past the receptionist to the closed door behind her and knock. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

"One last important thing. In addition to Ivy, our past favorite who will be here for a month to help the favorite transition..." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Over the past two months he had learned that no one had his back anymore. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The rippling thuds of machine-gun fire in the plowed earth and the engine roar flashed past them. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

An Assistant Chief Inspector, Harry Taylor, speculated that the assassins had not rushed from the ballroom among the crowd, but had kept running past the stage and escaped on 165th Street. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eric nearly collapsed, and Jesse mustered all his well- honed phone skills with the telephone company, talking his way past the first rank to a supervisor, then claiming he was misled. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither woman paid much attention as we filed past, spread out and tried to look fascinated by the pictures. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m walking along the dog food section when a woman walks past me with a little girl sitting in the trolley. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She steadied herself, taking one last look at the photograph for courage, then—bumping only slightly against the flour barrel as she nudged past—V made her way inside. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

With my dollars bills in hand and Madrina’s skirt still around my waist, I race up the stairs, past my apartment, and quietly slip up to the roof. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The ground was rutted from past rains, but had hardened in the late summer drought, so they had to give up on sneaker toes and draw the line with a stick. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

He shouldn’t have been—he’d seen more dead people in the last year than a hundred morticians of the past would have seen in a lifetime. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The men dove away from the road as two buses rounded a curve and sped past, carrying night-shift workers to Vemork. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a disenfranchisement from both the present and the past, from the body beside him and the headlights in front of him; he was enclosed in a timeless realm without margins, outlines, or tense. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half past five finds me running down the main corridor, hastily tying my bonnet. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The screwdriver spun straight past Clytius and slammed into the UP button. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She was afraid he was going to go out into the bitter cold, that telling her his past had now forced him to punish himself in some way. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The older women shut their eyes and returned to their past; the older men envied Roberto. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

They would blow past canal boats with unparalleled speed. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I’d been exerting myself at full bore for the past three hours, and I expected to be at it for at least an hour more before taking a rest. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The child that lived past the age of ten was Cora’s mother, Mabel. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

We went up past the cottage and struck into a path through the woods. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

I’m trying to put Jackson’s words into the context of what I’ve learned over the past few weeks and I'm failing miserably. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I do not know when I fell asleep, but it was already way past sunrise when I woke up. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I duck out of the way just as the bright yellow ball flies past my face. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

She can’t separate her past and her fixture; she will never get over her husband, will never love another man. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Moss hoisted his bike up on his right shoulder and ascended the stairs, glancing at the posters for concerts and plays from decades past in San Francisco. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Maybe the fear and nausea was no longer a sea to drown in, but only a pool of water reflecting the past alongside the now. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Feeling a need to connect with a past I had all but forgotten, I started to open the boxes Mom sent with me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“No one gets past you. If they take down this schooner, we’re done for.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Catching her breath, Kira limped past the gardens to where the old woman stood sweating as the heat from the flames pulsed and shimmered in the air. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She crept back into the silent house, past the closed bedroom door inside which the other mother and the other father...what? she wondered. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

That’s partly why I didn’t go there much this past year. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

It would be hard to get his mind past the little legs and shells and feelers and actually swallow a mouthful of krill. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the women biked past the point of exhaustion, doctors measured the oxygen they were taking in and the carbon dioxide they were breathing out. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

We ran past her, looking for the others. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I walked past the auto shop, trying not to look, but thoughts of Bucky filled my head. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Gazing at the crowded audience, Kira remembered the many past years when she had come dutifully with her mother to the Gathering. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled the black book back to her, leafed past the terrifying portrait of the dead thing, and drew the candle closer to read the descriptions of various monsters. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Then the battered vessel comes into view past a small building, its back end sunk low into the water as the yacht chugs along. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I rush past the sounds of voices attending only to the words addressed to me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reston was once a country town, and its rural past still fights obliteration, like a nail that won’t stay hammered down. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tipple area of the mine seemed to be strangely lit—a big spotlight directed at the man-hoist—as my ride carried me past it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Men in suits and ties hovered in the lobby, eyeing me suspiciously as I walked into the visitation room at a little past nine. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Many people who had found their way to the village had little memory of their own past. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Neither moved as Johnny slipped quietly past them and entered the inner office. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

How many people had died in the past two days? The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

But find it they did, and they promptly began to power past the other shells on the lake. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Bunny, I knew, had been hitting him hard for money in the past weeks, but though Henry complained about this he seemed oddly incapable of refusing him. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There’s no question that she did damage to the town by exposing raw nerves and bringing up the sins of Chokecherry’s past. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

At 3:32 precisely, I noticed Kaitlyn striding confidently past the Wok House. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Even as I try to get her out of my mind, the memories seep back from the past to contaminate the here and now. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the past three months, her ulcers have gotten much worse. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Gas lamps had been installed at haphazard intervals along the corridor, leaving pockets of gloom whose borders shivered as Belknap and Holmes moved past. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He attempts to glance past me into the depths of the rooms and I move to block his view. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

That night, cold and alone, Joseph had thought he’d found a portal into the past. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The amount of chicanery it would take to slip prom past her mother ... it boggled the mind. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Dorothy had never been one to linger over the past; the decade waiting in the wings promised to be one of the most interesting ever witnessed at the laboratory. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

In the past few hours, she had entered a backward world, where nothing was the way it should be. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He was an old man, past fifty, and he had seen the lordlings come and go. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She was ushered past the wooden bar that separated the gallery from the court and given a glass of water to clear her throat. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I go down the stairs, past the assembly of our childhood portraits. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The rules are the same in the past tense. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t see that. There were just two shapes, and with that fire shooting past them they looked as black as—” “You’ve already told us that. You couldn’t see who was ahead?” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt that our campaign should be about the future, not the past. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s an awkwardness that comes with just about any formally arranged meeting, but in my experience it’s something you need to consciously work your way past. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I step aside and let the man past. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Your son Dale will go south in Wraith, past Cape Wrath and the Broken Arm, all along the coast of Dome as far as the Arbor. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe he was forced to work day and night to keep the future from seeping into the house, making a kind of refuge of the past, the only world he knew. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The story of the past was filled with warfare and disasters. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in the flat he stepped quickly past the telescreen and sat down at the table again, still rubbing his neck. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

That night, I saw those glasses flying past my head again and again and again. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Hey,” I said, but he walked right by me, past the main office, and around the comer to where the dentist’s office is. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Pushed against one wall were various bits of furniture heaved out over the past year or so—broken tables, old fridges, that kind of thing. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The almost full moon was descending in the sky, so it had to be past midnight, Tally remembered from astronomy. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The same way, in a small-town church in Oklahoma with a kinda dopey pastor, my mom could look past the thing he was saying, to the source of it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The noise was appalling: over every other sound there came the shrieking of the cliff-ghasts, and Lyra saw them hurtling past, and smelled their foul stench. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She moved past one of the thick steel girders that supported the roof. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They felt the air whip past their faces, flinging their hair back and pressing on their eyeballs. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I was about to ask how we were planning to reach the ground when I saw Olive float into view past the edge of the roof. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been trying for two years to read this book, and I never get past these first few pages.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is no solace among them, only a past infected with disillusion. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lydia maintained her grip on Dill’s arm and gave the stink eye to a guy who glanced over as he walked past. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Shirley slipped past and continued on, only to find the way blocked again on the second landing. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

We’d gotten to the edge of the village, past the chief’s house, where we were supposed to make a point of Tata Ndu seeing us together, which we both forgot about. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran back down the 105 stairs, past Stan, who was still saying “You’ve got mail!,” back up the 72 stairs, and into Grandma’s apartment. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nailer leaped back as her machete whistled past his face. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

We hurried past them toward the depot in a tight pack. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Hours before, he had moved past the islands, felt more than saw them in the darkness, and headed into the open sea. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Part of me feels like I have to prove myself, especially since Ma’s had trouble with her helpers in the past. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

They shuffled silently and slowly back to the road, past the indifferent bees. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He led me down the drive past the dented Ford into the dark garden. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She only knew that the past ten days since the dame school had begun had been the pleasantest she had known in Connecticut. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

We drove right past a flock of journalists and photographers, and they didn’t even notice. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

No one knew my past, my white mother, my dead father, nothing. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why, Granddaddy had told me about a parrot who had lived past his century and learned over four hundred conversational phrases, as acute a mimic as any human being... The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Hazel had almost forgotten she was reliving her past. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

A blur of hurrying bodies streamed past me, leaving me feeling like a stone in a creek, and then I heard someone calling my name. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I'm swimming in these clothes, still skeletal, though I know I've put on some weight in the past few weeks. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Do you think you’ll ever be able to forgive me and forget the past?” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The line moved past the water fonts where we wet our fingers and genuflected as we made the sign of the cross. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I screamed, “No, you come on now! You see if you can kick my head in! You see if you or anybody else here can get one ball past me—one ball!” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could not regain the past; it seemed gone forever. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, certainly, if they are in your way,” and sweeping her contributions into her apron, pell-mell, she walked off, feeling that herself and her works of art had been insulted past forgiveness. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, I find it’s a few minutes past three o’clock. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

In the close darkness of the Honeycomb, Hazel pushed past three or four of his rabbits crouching among the tree roots and reached the higher shelf where Speedwell lay listening for sounds from above. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad pulled me aside as I filed past the Council, whose older or disabled members had lined up to see us off. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

We joined the line, filing past the beggars who shook their tin cups or waved their crude crutches and canes at us. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The window into the past frames the new road before me like a postcard. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Once past the chamber door, the chill was palpable. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

With rising fear, Nailer realized that it was one thing to speculate idly about jumping a train, another to watch freight cars hurtle past. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

When he walks past, departing the salon, he ruffles my hair. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

By then they were in amongst the camp, riding past the ordered rows of tents, the blowing banners, and the stacks of shields and spears. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Someone had knocked out the light, and through the dimness I saw Clifton heading to where a red neon sign glowed in a dark window as something went past my head. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks at me and through me and past me to some other time. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He almost wished he could forget his past, the way Percy had. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

A dozen families were moving out of town, leaving more empty houses to stare vacantly when I rode past them on my bike. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Your head must be near ’bout ready to explode from all that’s happened in the past few days.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Then they left the town behind, following the winding course of the Rhoyne through willow groves and poppy fields and past a tall wooden windmill whose blades creaked like old bones as they turned. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There are terrible thoughts about loud storms, louder alarms, lightning hitting trees, Frank being gone, Daniel yelling...And one more thought that bullies past the others. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

As the bullets whizzed past, the boys sprang from their columns and vehicles and dove for cover. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Just as she steered past him, he stepped right in her way. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

A train whooshed past and she pressed her finger into her other ear to hear Aunty Uju’s voice better. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

At times we nearly lost sight of her, but we kept up, loitering in front of window displays when she went into a shop, squeezing past pushchairs and old people when she came out again. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look up to see Matt walking past on his way to the lunch line. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

We settled into the shade of the boulders and talked, filling each other in on the news of the past three years. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

What would be their version of the past we once shared? Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put on a clean shirt at two o’clock, another at three o’clock, and another at quarter past four. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Now, however, was not the time to concentrate on past mistakes. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I float past the huts and meadows and bridges and streams. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

The way she stood, the bright sash around her waist, and the two glossy braids falling over her shoulders made me feel that she had performed this ceremony in some distant past. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The drumming of his hooves was like a counterpoint to the slow song of the wind, endlessly burning past my ears. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I would not mince words about the horrors of apartheid, but I said, over and over, that we should forget the past and concentrate on building a better future for all. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked past the house to the end of the block, then turned and walked slowly past it again. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The past?” the stonecutter said, looking at Amah. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Poirot leaned out and spoke to the Wagon Lit conductor who was hurrying past. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Various walls and battlements, in pieces and all but gone, spoke of past fortresses. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

And that was when Mary began to see the connection between the mulefa and the question that had occupied the past few years of her life. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The gods had placed him on my path so he could show me this piece of my past, so I could walk to Machu Picchu in certainty. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She studied history written by Herodotus and Thucydides, which included political and military events of the past, and memorized the speeches of Demosthenes to learn the fine points of public speaking and debate. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The only actual change that had come over him in the past years was that, for some reason, his impediment had gotten worse. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

His network of spies has told him of increasing numbers of assassination rumors over the past few days. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the past, he’d had the necklace tucked into his shirt, but now it swung freely. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Angel darted past him out of the bedroom door and mumbled, “I have to go to the bathroom.” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clattering and yelling, the horde of moving statues stampeded past Harry: some of them smaller, others larger, than life. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Good morning to you too,” I tell her as she goes past me again with a pair of jeans out of the dryer. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

My hands go automatically up to my hair, which is loose and hanging past my shoulders. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“We came up past him. He didn’t see us. He was waving it about in the air.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked up as he was going past, and Mr. Larson nodded and gave a friendly smile. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

In the rush-hour crowd a Japanese tourist asks me a question, and I inch past his accent to concentrate on what he is saying. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roger edged past the chief, only just avoiding pushing him with his shoulder. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

We strolled over to the market area we had driven past. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The thought had barely formed in his mind before a bolt of white light shot past him and slammed into the chest of a woman standing in the group by the door. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It was the only piece of his past that he could not forge into something dangerous. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

For the past seventeen days, everyone on the team—except for slow-witted Heinck—had suffered from seasickness. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

But what me and Rose had gone through together over the past few months had been the main cure for me. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“As a matter of fact, I have been going to the officers’ club the past few evenings.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Her captain had tried to sail a fortnight past, but Lord Balon would not permit it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We talk about leaving Bellmont all the time, moving past the history of our families, breaking free. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pollard must have expected that they would go to the gate, but Smith led them right past it. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

For someone who insisted for the past five years that she was never having children, she seems ridiculously eager to be having children. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Over the past several decades, educators, world leaders, and theorists have produced a slurry of manifestos, visions and statements on what education should look like in the 21st century. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Walton’s blue car speeds away, past the church, past the garbage, and off to her own little land of sunshine. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A massive engine explodes around the bend and barrels past, so huge and so close I’m hit by a wall of wind. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

They walk down the hall right past me. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

They turned off Interstate 25 at a sign that said KAYCEE, drove past a convenience store, and eventually turned onto a dirt road. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The lift doors opened; the old witch with the anthill hair left, and Ron darted past her out of sight. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The train chugged, past the backs of buildings and then out into the corn. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, a custodian barrels past us and flings open the Coach's door. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After the last few men walked past, Chacko said it was all right now to roll down the windows. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked past her shoulder and saw Henek coming into the room, a girl right behind him, and he was smiling. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I’m slowly growing used to talking about Metias in past tense. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

People like me, from Grafton Hill, simply walk past the window displays to check out what’s inside, but we never buy anything. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The bodies had been recovered, and the past few days had seen a swirl of funerals and tributes to Manny and the other shadowshapers. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

But then she would picture Joaquin as a baby, waiting for someone, a family, a person, and that terrible feeling would push its way past her heart and into her throat, choking her. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Inside the museum, many memories from my past resurfaced. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The chairs in front of the cafes were empty and a couple of women pushed their baby carriages past the wet tables. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was the last tangible piece of my past. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Naturally they came on board in the guise of passengers, though how they got the weapons past Security is anyone’s guess. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When we finally arrived at the cabin, it was past midnight, with a heavy, wet snow falling. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

We were chosen to integrate Central High all those years ago on the basis of grades, past performance, and behavior. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the muffins sailed past her over the rail. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

During the past quarter century this power has not only increased to one of disturbing magnitude but it has changed in character. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Before she made it past, Yedsha looked up and saw her. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Then one evening I saw the same man walking past our house. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the past, Dorothy would have set up the equations in a data sheet and walked one of her girls through the process of filling it out. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I could see myself strolling into school after the concert and walking past Tina wearing my Buket o’ Puke ’n Snot T-shirt. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cherry-red speedboat went tearing past the beach, then made a tight circle and roared back in our direction. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The something which had been a future was now a present and would become a past. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He brushes past Oriana, looking back at me once before stalking off. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The largest rat climbed onto the old man’s shoulders, swung up on the long gray mustache, past the big black button eyes, and onto the top of the man’s head. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Kira continued on through the crowds, past the food shops and the noise of bickering, bargaining women. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He just leaned forward in the chair and stared past me until he’d seen whatever he was waiting to see, and then he started talking. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

This past winter, I don’t know which was worse, the hunger or the cold. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

I glanced at myself in the mirror as I walked past Father and into the hallway. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Framed photos from our time in America lined the living room, since the photos from our past in Africa had burned in the camp. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But it was better than studying the corpse of the Eye Eater, which Chaol had spent the past few days investigating. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Then a number of huge bangs shook the castle, and a great cavalcade of transparent figures galloped past on horses, their heads screaming with bloodlust under their arms. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The revelations of the past half hour buzz in my mind. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then I lean forward, reach past her, take careful aim, and gently push the F7 key. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

James, our designated driver, got the bus out of its space and a quarter of the way past the rows of parked vehicles when we heard the police whistle. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Keeping low, he ran past the fountain and across the grass. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I realize that for the first time since I have come to St. Emilion, I am not dwelling in the past but anticipating, without dread, the future. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But it was past Eastertide, and before Lammas. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

We still have to get past the nurses’ window. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

One man he recognized, walking past the fountain toward a truck parked next to a couple of cars. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Shining my sympathy lamp past the ruined door, I saw what she meant. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Down the walk, past the slumping palm tree, and made a right turn. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk along the hallway, past the sitting room door and the door that leads into the dining room, and open the door at the end of the hall and go through into the kitchen. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked past her and folded myself into a corner, as far from Shannon and Mary as I could get. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Near the Coalwood School, I went past a line of miners making their way to the tipple. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I hold back until we’re past the final checkpoint and there are only blocks to go, but then I can no longer control myself. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Years would pass before I understood how that blow connected to my mom’s past. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Miles hummed past before his voice floated back to her. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Later, well past midnight, after a few hours of poker between Baba and his cousins, the men lay down to sleep on parallel mat­tresses in the same room where we’d dined. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Is it true that classical music has been slowly suffocated in its sleep over the past hundred years? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The memories I had now were frustratingly faint—whispers of the past. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Once, after pulling ten trout in the first hour of dawn, Joe had walked past that place and heard what he first believed was some combination of running water and wind in high trees. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would walk past all the folks sitting in the town square beneath the big oak tree. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have in the past been accustomed to addressing underservants by their Christian names and saw no reason to do otherwise in this house.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I ran toward them, jumping past duels, weaving between the legs of giants. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Her clothes from her past are very precious to her. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I found it hard to swallow past the sudden lump in my throat. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Is there any way we can get in past the lobby?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Balder’s body was brought down the shingle, borne by four gods; eight legs took him past the crowd assembled there. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Steve came back to my bedroom, where Vega was shaking the big Christmas gift that had been sitting on Jermaine’s bed the past week—a gift that I had hoped had come from Jermaine. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“Umm, Dad, I just had to sneak out of a girl’s house,” he says to himself as he walks down the sidewalk and past a house with plastic lawn ornaments of geese and deer. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Two hours in, at the headwaters of the Pearl River, lies the city of Guangzhou, and past Guangzhou, remnants of the old China are easier to find. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The Ebola River empties tracts of rain forest, winding past scattered villages. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t see any white folks, just all kinds of colored people, some rushing past bringing books in, some bringing books out, some working at the front desk. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Once we was past the train, we were down below the grade and then we run along the track. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when they saw the great golden peach floating past them not fifty yards away in the sky, they gave a yelp of surprise and dropped their shovels to the ground. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, we are working our way towards that treacherous past, the horrible crime, the waste of young lives, the throbbing heart of the wound. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Free Time—Write in diary, talk with Mami about happy times in past. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

When you are only three years past the start of puberty, the challenge is exceptionally daunting. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

We walked down the valley through the center of town and around a mountainside, past the small, tidy brick houses put up after the mines were unionized. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

With a burst, I ran past him down the alley. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Numbly he walked down familiar streets, past the papyrus marsh, past the beginning of the wharves. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The bodies of the past emperors were guarded carefully and brought out on special occasions. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She stomped up the stairs past the open kitchen door from which came the definite smell of chocolate chip cookies. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I ached to hurry and reach the city, but I couldn’t push past those who walked in front of me, and I wanted to remain gentle and calm. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

"Look at that sword Lumpyhead's got there," Lommy said one morning as they made their plodding way past orchards and wheat fields. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Do you think anything could get past him?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

We walked past gangbangers, bums, and street hawkers, who looked at us like they were trying to figure if we were worth the trouble of mugging. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Knights called out to him as he cantered past, and men-at-arms gaped at the clansmen in open astonishment. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I’m walking down the main hallway, and all the kids are in front of their lockers, staring at me, whispering about me as I walk past them. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

They’d all feasted on the fruit since the start of school, but the last of the apples had fallen in the past week. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Memories strobe past: the feel of her father’s trouser leg as she’d cling to it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I think there are others in here with me, but they’re all out of view, behind me, just past the edge of my peripheral vision. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It was past dawn when he woke, his feeling of contentment still in him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the lights were much larger, and sometimes they blinked out as though someone had walked past a window for a moment. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Those marketwomen who had counted their pats of butter after he brushed past their stands, Mrs. Lapham with her prophecies that he would end on the gallows, had not been so far wrong. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I often walked past the Peales’ house, but rarely had the chance to speak with him. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go in for a hug because I think we’re past handshakes and awkward fist bumps. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He stopped in his ragged pilgrimage only to lift his hat to white men who fled past him. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Once he got past the dense language, the books Jen had loaned him were full of revelations. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

There's an ache in my chest from thinking about my momma for too long, and I curse myself for getting lost in the past. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The very planet where I’d been twiddling my thumbs for the past five years? Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He would come out smiling, ready for the day, and pat Mary Toy’s head as he went past her. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I leave the bedroom, wandering through the apartment, past eating, crying, praying people, searching for who spoke to me. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

And other people in the same pew got up and squeezed past me, kicking my shoe toward the aisle in the process. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

For the past two years I’ve attended St. Francis High School on the other side of town, away from everything and everyone I love. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Alfred hurried on, away from the crowd's nervous laughter, past young men leaning against padlocked shop doors, tapping their shiny shoes and nodding their heads to silent music. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ran past the front porch and around the corner to the bricks beneath her bedroom window. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But of course I didn’t know it at the time, so it was a grand relief when my dog and I got past all chance of seeing Hosie or Lightfoot, either one. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It smelled as though scent scientists had engineered it to give off the whiff of walking past a high-end rare book dealer’s shop in Paris or London. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“For the past month I’ve given you nothing but space. You haven’t even kissed me in like a week. How much more space do you need?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I devoured the books because they were the rays of light peeking out from the doorframe, and perhaps past that door there was another world, one beyond the gripping fear that undergirded the Dream. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

They were very high up; a bird fluttered past the window as he stared in the direction of the Burrow, now invisible beyond another line of hills. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And so she did not tell him that she grieved for the past, different things on different days, her tablecloths with the silver embroidery, her car, Baby’s strawberry cream biscuits. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We drove past the city to this tiny town north of the Springs. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The planes were strafing and, just before Ugwu shoved the child down the bunker, a bullet flew closely past; he smelled rather than saw it, the acridness of hot metal. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They brushed past his secretary— told her it was an emergency—and sat down at a conference table in his office. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A guard sat squinting against the sun watching for trains and every few minutes lowered a crossing gate as yet another locomotive huffed past. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They leapt from the path as the tank roared past them, then came to a gear-grinding stop. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

As for a name, they have decided to let Ashima’s grandmother, who is past eighty now, who has named each of her other six great-grandchildren in the world, do the honors. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two years past, he had fallen and shattered a hip, and it had never mended properly. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I slept on the floor of Grand Central Terminal for the first three nights, watching everyone’s feet walk past, men in loafers, women in patent leather heels. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Not all the changes of the past decades had yet altered the fact that the North was the economic ruler of the planet. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I walk past the barking dogs and the fat man, past Dray, and into this building. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

With his borrowed key, he opened the Pipeworks door, and they hurried past the yellow slickers on their hooks and the lines of rubber boots. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

For the past day or so, he’s just been making them up. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Philadelphia was long past worrying about where children ate their bread, and Eliza needed to sleep. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like his motorcycle, it was gone, a thing of the past. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Cal, watching Adam’s face, had seen his mind leap into the past for a lie. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The riverbank was steep and high here, so she was quite safe when a rushing torrent of water, heralded by a great curling wave, swept past. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But most of them just walk past her as if she’s not even there. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In the past, in the period of his success, two kinds of people had access to all homes and all gossip—the seamstress and the handy man. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In past ages, a war, almost by definition, was something that sooner or later came to an end, usually in unmistakable victory or defeat. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I tried to catch my breath and repeat myself, but after two words he was already past me and walking, almost running up the path toward the old woman’s house. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says she would like to forget the past, but it is really only a small part of the recent past she would like to forget. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

We would be hard-pressed to get past this fence on our own—thirty feet high and always buzzing with electricity, topped with razor-sharp curls of steel. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

But I still had not faced my past. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The dim light of the lamp ran past the boy as he stood motionless in the open cabin door. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

How can the American Negro past be used? The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I look out of the corner of my eye when I hear a car whizzing past me, checking to make sure it's not the officers, the guys who took my mother away. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I point past the bars, to where a little white girl with blond pigtails stands on the side of the road. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I was well past and around the last house on the village street when I realized that I had lost my bearings. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until now I have told you of things that have happened in the past—things that happened a long time ago. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He was past any help, but when Tyrion saw one of the northerners run up and make a grab for his reins, he charged. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He waved her past, but as Inej stepped forward she stumbled. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Only then. did he leap past the other passengers, screaming in his mind, plunge through the slicing door only in time. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard. Don’t much go on ’round here that get past me, but for the past two weeks, I been engaged in bringing a couple of coffles back from the markets in Charleston. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Arrows hissed past his ear and clattered off the rocks. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was looking past me, into the backyard. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I had walked past her church before and heard music spilling from the falling-down clapboard building; the spirited singing and proclamations of joy emerging from it beat the other churches all hollow, to my mind. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The door was locked, which was mighty peculiar ’cause it couldn’t’ve been much past four o’clock. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“I'm sorry; I was with some people, and I didn't realize how late it had gotten. When it was past curfew, I just had to stay.” Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

You aren’t ever going to get past your doubt so you have to face it head-on.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then the roads narrowed and the lumber trucks roared past me. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything was faded and silent in the dawn—dirty teacups, unmade bed, snowflakes floating past the window with an airy, dangerous calm. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Like some other Mexican families, my family suggests Mexico’s confused colonial past. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s my role, and other teams have doubled Terrell before, but for some reason my jump shot seems a little more off this year than in years past. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorry, sorry, sorry,” she says as they hurry past. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I woke up one Saturday morning to see a shallow flood coming down the road past the mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the past, if my father didn't have enough money to cover the fees, he'd borrow from neighbors or people at work and pay them back. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The laws of science do not distinguish between the past and the future. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"In the valley on the other side of the hill. I had my men pick a sackful as we marched past." Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is past; I am returning to England. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was two years past the retiring age, but in fact no animal had ever actually retired. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“You think I don’t know that? We meet here every single week because of my past. I just don’t want that for Birdie.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Though it was past supper, the attic was deserted. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Somehow, Hazel’s power to revisit the past had found the one event that connected both of their lives—where Leo’s time line touched Hazel’s. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It took a second for his eyes to focus on the moving object on the other side, to look past the grime and dust and see what Newt wanted him to see. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

We took 1-94 past River Rouge and Olympia Stadium and then curled in toward the river on the Lodge Freeway and entered the city from the north. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Origin narratives, or “stories about how this all began,” help a group of people feel that they belong to a community with a common past and shared ideas about what is important. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The next batter hit a high fly to the second baseman, who caught it, dropped it, retrieved it, and made a wild attempt at tagging Sidney Goldberg as he raced past him to second. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I mean, the past two weeks had been the worst of all. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He penetrated past the elastic band of her panties and groaned. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes look past me, over my shoulder, for just a second. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

She struggled to stand, straightened as best she could, and limped past the boy toward the open door. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The bus goes past my house and starts to slow down for the stop at the comer. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa could have lasted till past sundown, but I didn’t see how I could. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked quickly past the Octopus and another ride that looked like a swinging-ax pendulum. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

By comparison with that existing today, all the tyrannies of the past were half-hearted and inefficient. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

They were firing from the exact spot Ellsberg had just walked past—they must have been lying still in the water, he realized. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When I look closer, I realize that the rocks are actually enormous sculptures, each of them carved to look like past tournament winners. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It covered the high rocks—dry for more than three months of high tides—all the way from Small Point up past Harpswell. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

One of the safe rollers pitched forward, and farther away, past the corner, a bullet struck an auto tire, the released air shrieking like a huge animal in agony. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t find out until I walked past the living room. There was blood all over the place. I’m afraid I lost my head and ordered Rosa to throw it outside.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the day before Francis, in a swish of black cashmere and cigarette smoke, had brushed past me in a corridor. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was the same Socialist who had had his eye on the Presidency for the past eighteen years. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes slid past empty plates, crumbled bits of cornbread, a smear of potatoes in a casserole dish. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Clutching the shirt, my gaze roamed past my phone and settled on the lone picture on the dresser. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I knew I could get there two different ways: the busy route, which went right past the cafeteria, and the quiet route, which went the long way around the office. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We were over the hill, past the last few houses, and at Blue Lake before they recovered from the astonishment I saw in their faces. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You could tickle that girl till half past tomorrow and she won’t laugh none.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Its engines rumbling loudly and its propellers chopping explo­sively underwater, the ship churned past us and left us bouncing and bobbing in its frothy wake. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was sorry for the times in the past when I had been mischievous. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Around him brooms were soaring upward too; the long black tail of a thestral flicked past. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I look back up and think about how some stars don’t even really exist anymore, that seeing them is seeing the past. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I try very hard to picture these but I can’t seem to get past three. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I recognized him from the television news, the newspapers, and the Time magazine cover the past September. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Five inmates had committed suicide within the past five months. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He only smiles and says, “Buenos dias, senorita,” as I breeze past. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kids surrounded it, eager to see the contents that had been locked away for the past eleven months. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I look down at the table and then up, past Kareem. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

From this vantage point he jealously inspected the yachts of the Seattlites who cruised past South Beach on their way to anchorages in Amity Harbor. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She ducked past them, plunging into the crowd. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The outdoor path only goes so far—past twenty cages and a storage building—until it ends abruptly at a black iron fence. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I tried to wriggle past but Wilcox got a firm grip on my wrist and tried to pull me down. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He wore black and looked ordinary, but in his past there was blood, death, and profit in staggering quantity. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Joseph walked past them, into the locker room. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Home was my past, connected by gossamer threads to where I was now. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She came past us again and back into the darkened section of the room. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The town square was just across the cemetery, under a bridge and past the Bruised Apple Bookshop, which had been recently taken over by a new family in town. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s kind of hard to imagine past the show Sunday.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

A flash between the branches caught my eye as we drove past. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Long past midnight, Jake kept showing Sherman and me different planets and stars, until finally he sat down and leaned up against a brick chimney and went to sleep. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I hold up the white bud in answer and then stumble past her. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Not the Hannah from the past few years, but the one from the past few months. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

And just past the tall buildings, everything was flat. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I rise from the living room couch and inch past the doorway to the kitchen. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A highway patrolman found Emma Lee walking down the beach road with half of her clothes on, hysterical, her face beaten past all recognition. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I moved past Mother, looking at the piece of paper tacked up, fluttering next to the dead man. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The storm was a thing of the past. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

By then I’d taken to going for long solitary walks, and I think I was setting out on one of these, and had just gone past the goosehouse, when I heard Tommy calling me. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the most part, his rages in the past have been directed at authority figures—father, brother, Army sergeant, state parole officer—and have led to violent assaultive behavior on several occasions. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

A new nurse breezes past the curtain with a clipboard clutched in his hands. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The ground bounced past as he was carried outside. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It is as futile to seek the past there as in a refuse of dishes encircling a table, each with its own crust of gravy, its own tale of bone and crackling. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I wanted them to get past the rumors. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Zooming past the white water and onto the vein of ore, they sighted the ruins just as the sky was beginning to change. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Quickly, the two started off again through the alleys of tents, past the pavilions of elfin lords. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

They murmured in low voices and gave knowing looks to the men who walked past. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We go so slow that cars and trucks are speeding past and honking. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In the space between blinks, she could have sworn she saw things swooping past him in swift, vicious circles, hovering above him, waiting, waiting, waiting... Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It don’t open till way past your bedtime, he says smiling. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s where the money comes from, Robbie,” Henry had said when they drove past some on the way from San Antonio. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

One in the present, one in the past. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I turn and run out the door, past the grove, the tractor, the community building, past the houses and the reservoir ditches and out onto the cliff overlooking the sea. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

All the way up past the birds, past the clouds. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Zero's face looked like a jack-o'-lantern that had been left out too many days past Halloween—half rotten, with sunken eyes and a drooping smile. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I waited, my eyebrows up, and then sighed as I tried to push past him. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She said, “Come out to the orchard!” when she ran past Harrison and Ikejide crouched under the kitchen table. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

His project was to make the inquisitors’ past his present. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He felt he had thoroughly tasted and ejected a portion of sorrow, a portion of misery during those past times, that he had consumed them up to a point of despair and death. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

We marched past the ticket booth, the clerk now gone, then down off the platform, out of the depot, and into the streets. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The sitting room door is usually left ajar when she’s in there, and I don’t dare to go past it. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got past that stage a long time ago. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though Axel’s memories can be sort of fuzzy sometimes, when Aunt Nancy shares stories, when they do look at pictures, when a spark lights up the past, Axel can remember Frank being here too. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The village’s single dirt road skirts our yard and runs past us into the village to the south; on the north it disappears into the woods. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood silently beside me, looking past the trees and shrubs at the lone figure of a man moving away from our house, crossing the street, and finally driving away in his car. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I push my way past that new shirt Momma made, and hope she don’t ask me about it. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The new country and its language have helped to push the past a little further behind. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

If an indentured worker chose to stay past his or her contract and settle, the worker was slapped with an annual tax, which was a heavy burden for Indians, who barely survived on their wages. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I walk past a potted plant with a garish flower blossoming among its branches, and toward the dormitory that has become our temporary home here. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The woods, always a menace even in the past, had triumphed in the end. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

We got through the past, are enjoying the present, but now I push it and we stumble on the future. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The orchestra conductor said he felt Booth’s hot breath as the assassin pushed past him and struck at him with the knife. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So you can see my past on me?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I knew his past was a painful subject. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

One walks past, wearing a green tweed coat and felt hat. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I whispered to Grandma as I lugged the hamper past her. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The blood spread across her lifeline, and Jam stared at the painting, at the small red drops she’d tracked along it, past the edge, onto the hardwood floor, bread crumbs leading to her. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

With black bears, however, playing dead is futile, since they will continue chewing on you until you are considerably past caring. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Lyceum is only a few blocks away; I'd practically have to ride past it on my way home. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m not sure whether they will be up to the challenge, considering the extent of the damage, but they have worked miracles in the past. I’m sorry this calamity befell us during your stay.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

His eyes slipped on past and lighted on Lennie; and Lennie was still smiling with delight at the memory of the ranch. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if I felt that way after spending only short periods in the past, what must Kevin be feeling after five years. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Keeley had needed four teammates to best Charles in the past June’s escape game, which was played inside the silly game maker’s even sillier new library on its opening weekend. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Rest assured you have all received marks that are fair and representative of your work throughout the past year.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Two giggling college girls in miniskirts and Ugg boots walked past us, giving us sideways glances and then giggling even harder into their hands, but they didn’t question us. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She pushes off from her toes a little too hard, which sends her tiny body sailing past a headstand and into a backflop onto the hard floor. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I walked past Rosie’s house, turned, and passed in front of the Longhorn Saloon. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the fourth largest proton event in the past three years, and will likely continue at or above the current level for the next several weeks as we approach the solar maximum. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began to brush past him, but he held up a hand to stop me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The past was rushing down that long corridor towards me, a flood of memories, sweeping me back as I struggled to keep up with the little official. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Filled with excitement, Moss pushed past them, brushing up against other people in the crowded space, and then he cut through the pews back to the center of the church. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The water surged past my swaying frame, and I sought to remain tall as the wavelets teased me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

It had hardly snowed that past winter and didn’t rain at all that spring. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

We snuck past the cafe, where the old men hadn’t arrived yet, to a stationery store where my mom bought six big pink erasers and two pencils. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t put it past you. I really would not.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Not that a staff shortage is not significant in itself; but if Miss Kenton were indeed to return to Darlington Hall, such little slips, I am sure, would become a thing of the past. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Bathilda shuffled past them, pushing Hermione aside as though she had not seen her, and vanished into what seemed to be a sitting room. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Unable to catch his eye, I grabbed hold of his apron as he hurried past me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Wolf's trial also sparked a debate about crimes committed during the Cold War, who should be considered guilty, and the uncertain connections between past and present. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

After hurrying past a bunch of screaming kids playing with a dollhouse-sized space station, we arrived at my favorite part of the exhibit, the Rotating Destiny Lab. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t drive past the washed-out bridge. So I left the truck there and rode the horse.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I looked past Cotton, and there was a head full of tight curls poking out the passenger side window, a sly grin on her face. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Meet me at the Museum of art near the door at quarter past 12 if you can and I will give you your Christmas dough back. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Before I have this mysterious vision issue under control, I’m about twenty rows past Jeffrey, so I’ve missed the moment for a quick reply. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had an unspoken attachment to it. It was a contact with my childhood, a link with the past.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In seasons past playing for Permian had involved other sacrifices. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He blew past a startled Calvin and Deemer, who fled right behind him. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“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

The book snapped shut on his hand and then flapped past him, still scuttling on its covers. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She walked in the opposite direction that he had gone and turned off the central aisle as quickly as she could, making her way past seated couples and boxes of rosebushes. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A child ahead of them urinated on a wall, watching them with solemn eyes as they slipped past. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then, as they approached, he realized that they were looking not at him, but past him at something further off. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I run past the underpass, stumbling at the corner of Blenheim Road. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rome had collapsed, and Western civilization seemed but a shadow of Rome’s past glory. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

"Say," said Bill, "do you know that gang of Pilgrim Fathers have cornered the dining-car until half past three this afternoon?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Connor says as they push past the doors into the kitchen. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was better than anything he or Blink could have imagined, and for a brief, bizarre moment, Joseph thought he might have actually fallen back in time, or stumbled upon a portal to the past. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I ride past her house and continue across town to Finch’s, and the whole thing is so easy, even though I have this weird stitch in my chest because I just lied to my parents. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Ash decided that perhaps she was mad that night, so she stepped past the lanterns and entered the clearing. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t notice me until he was almost past me, and then he stopped short. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bird wheeled past the window and I greeted it with a glad shout. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In times past, Daisy Mae would have sought me out, rushing to get her head petted and her ears scratched. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We whooped and ran off, past the plump, squawking chickens roaming the yard, away from the house, and down the soft slope of farmland that ran along the woods. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Jinny felt a slick tight skin glide past her, rub against one of her bare thighs. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I hurried past the stone fence that surrounded the white graveyard, to the split-rail fence that marked our ground, and stopped outside the gate to pick a handful of chilly violets, wet with dew. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something skitters out and sweeps past my hands. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

If I accidentally caught her eye, I stared past her like I was using X-ray vision to see through the wall to her right. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I storm past Poe, pushing through the heavy doors and up the stairs and across the bridge to the elevators. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

This is another secret from his past; I can hear it in his voice, feel it through our Link. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They crossed and headed down the main road—Portal Avenue—cars and bikes zooming past. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

These photographs were the true antiques of the family, which seemed to feel that a photograph should commemorate only the most distant past. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

My feet push me past those haters, toward the microphone, and plant themselves center stage. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Traffic had begun to pick up, going past our compartment. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the past few days, every time Jason sacrificed a portion of a meal to Jupiter, he prayed to his dad to help Nico. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I squeeze past just as Michael moves and lets the crush of kids finally pass in the other direction. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

All of those past interactions continue to have heavy consequences, because the details of who arrived where before whom are shaping Africa today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Swiftly, I am carried past her, and my gaze moves over the crowd, resting here and there on familiar faces—classmates and teachers and shopkeepers and coworkers. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As you move past one mirror reflecting your boots, the mirror next to it shows only empty space and the mirrors on the other side. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Charlie,” Mama says, staring past me, “make sure all your toys and clothes are in your basket.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Those boys were older and bigger than he was, and anyway, he wanted to play with the boys he’d become close to over the past two years. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Sierra smiled and dashed into a dark grove of trees as another red tide swept past. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

It's a quarter past one and Hilly and Elizabeth and I are sitting at Elizabeth’s dining room table waiting on Lou Anne to show up. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A bug whizzed past my cheek, and I ducked and put on a burst of speed. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The shore, muffled in thick scarves of drifting mist, looked scarcely different from the miles of unbroken forest that they had seen for the past week. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

There are knights posted around the perimeter, but, indeed, they pay me little mind as I walk past. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They were staring past her, into the grand Victorian space of the ward, the lofty pillars, the potted palms, the neatly ranged beds and their pure, turned-down sheets. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I’d gotten more comfortable doing stunts like that the past couple of years. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The Green Fork ran swift and deep here, but the Freys had spanned it many centuries past and grown rich off the coin men paid them to cross. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Mr. Levy pushed past his wife into a scene he could never have imagined. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I averted my head to the window and watched the country fly past as we traveled through an area of sun-light. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Though I can’t believe you didn’t tell me about his amazing, huge jacket,” and he strides past us and into the restaurant. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Booth could enter the box and shoot Lincoln without having to get past the major. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the station we pushed our way through the crowds and past water wallahs, tea wallahs, and ice cream wallahs. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was looking past the rim of half-light that came from the cabin window and pushed back the darkness in a circle that lost itself around the ends of the cabin. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt the warm tug of the past and the melancholy of absence—all of it a little jarring, accustomed as I was to the hermetic and youthful world of college. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Years before, Mom and I had sometimes paddled down the White River, past Davis’s house to the park behind the art museum. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

They started down the hall in the direction Arya had come, past the room with the monsters. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I threw down my backpack and ran past the Vampire Mirror to the kitchen. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Joaquin had seen her composed face many times over the past year and a half; surprising her felt like a weird sort of victory, a Pyrrhic one. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But at this moment the three cows, who had seemed uneasy for some time past, set up a loud lowing. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

But I looked too long when he rode his bike past me. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he realized that, even though no rain had fallen at all for the past few days, the arching vision, shining faintly but unmistakably over Milagro, was a rainbow. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Governor walked past her, leaving the scent of lemongrass trailing behind him. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

It was past midnight in the seaside fishing village of Amagansett, on the East End of Long Island, New York, and a stubborn fog cloaked the town's ribbon of beach. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“Shouldn’t you be out there waiting on the carriage? It’s leaving at half past.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, For the past four years we have been learning about tolerance and how you should accept everyone no matter what. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

There had been larger marches in the past decade, but none of them matched in tone, the gravitas of this slow cortege through the streets of Durham. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was half past five; if he hurried, he might still be able to see Naomi. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I keep my head down as the guards walk past us, shouting. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was already past eight o’clock when Dad’s colleagues Uncle Tian and his wife, Aunt Wu, came to visit. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The four of us had been lumped together last Friday to start on this assignment about an important woman from the past, and in two weeks we would have to do a presentation on her. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

He rode past a house, slowed to let the men flow round it, saw a fat woman in a bonnet, a gray dress, standing on the porch, her hands in her apron. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took out my trowel and walked past each blue willow. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Behind the mourners from school days’ past sat the throng of people who had heard and loved his electric blues guitar licks. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I had no problem remembering the way—out through the groves, down the long driveway, past the house, to the Quonset hut. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mr. Fitzgibbon plowed, he would go right past their house; they would not have to move until Timothy was well and until the weather was truly warm. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The countryside is scattered with Roman remains from centuries past—blocks of carved stone and broken columns and foundations—overgrown with vines and brambles. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Would they not rake up the past and find clues that had led to my fate? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he reaches over and eases his hand into my hand as we drive past Bad Leg, and my stomach settles, my thoughts calm. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We tried not to be too awestruck by all these stars, but one day a really tall, lean, muscular, dark-skinned man walked past our table with a small entourage. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The project may be in the past, but the chain itself is very much in the present, all 61,472 links of it. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

In the past half hour, I've collected a mental list of approximately 412 ways I might kill Tiny Cooper, and I'm not going to leave until I've settled on just the right one. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

I felt another stab of regret as we backed up past him, so I rolled the window halfway down and threw his polo in his general direction. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The Sun has been in such a stable situation for the past five billion years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worse, he’s convinced that his dream of Dino-land is being ruined by all the focus on the Holocaust, the swastikas, and Chokecherry’s past. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I go to the sofa and open the notebook, see all them letters and articles from past times. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She ambles back, shoves at me, dashes past. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The words fly out of her mouth like they’ve been sitting there for months trying to push their way past her teeth. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

But when footsteps could be heard moving past that point, Harvey issued a sterner warning: Manning a .50-caliber machine gun himself, he pulled back the bolt, which made a noise that the intruders recognized instantly. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Like a sinuous black lizard he slithered past slumbering creatures and around rubble heaps, never once making a sound. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It followed all the nooks, all the extensions; you had to squeeze past shrubs, you went under two ivy-covered arches and through a rusted gate. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent some time reminiscing about various persons from the past, or else exchanging any news we had concerning them, and this was, I must say, most enjoyable. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

As I followed her through an inner office past very official-looking white men, I was alarmed by the anxious expressions on their faces. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Artemis brushed past the girl, taking the steps two at a time. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

At the end of the tunnel, a herd of wild grocery carts ambled past. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I say, running past her, making for the bridge as fast as I can. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

In other words, the singularity would always lie in his future and never in his past. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

To my surprise, Cristiana was still skulking about She sidled past and I smelled lavender. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the glass, Cordelia drifts past; then melts and reassembles, changing into someone else. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In truth, I slept only an hour or so past matins; then several of Mr. Pope's orphans invaded our room, begging for stories and horseback rides. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Warships drifted there now; none could slip past. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He pointed up to their left, where the towers of Kiev’s walls were just visible past the trees. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

If I stood in the water, I think it would cover me past my waist. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

When I looked up past the very tip-top of the wild trees, there was nothing but blue sky. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The worn-out past was sunk in the freshness of what was coming; and in the rapidity of half a moment’s thought, she hoped Mr. Elton would now be talked of no more. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“The Old Gym. A quarter past twelve. Latecomers will receive a week’s detention. Absentees will be expelled. That is all.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The final credits of “Petticoat Junction” were rolling past, over shots of the Hooterville water tower, the Cannonball express. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The computers were being slowly carried in a long, continuous line along a conveyor belt, past the various scientists and technicians. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly joy came flooding past every doubt and restraint. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Over the past three years, there have been times when they fought so much, I was sure they were on the verge of divorce. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doubles back, pushing past the rest of us and to the kitchen, pulling open cabinet doors. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

They rowed on past the mouth of the Sea of Éa where long ago Elfarran was drowned, and past the Enlades. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

It’s past two o’clock, so she must be watching America’s Got Talent videos. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

A man with garters on his arms played a piano, and a woman with gloves that came up past her elbows kept hurrying over to light Dad’s cigarettes. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Pax sped past him into the safety of the night. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Maybe Snape’s found out how to get past him without asking Hagrid,” said Ron, looking up at the thousands of books surrounding them. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Uhmma hums all the way past the exit to our house. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Hours pass and still she makes no move and when I know it’s well past school time I start the fire for the kettle. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

"Believe what you will, I'm past caring what people say of me. And it's my turn. Have Robert's brothers taken the field?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I stay up past midnight reading in the family room in the hope that Cassie will get bored and go away. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

It sailed past his head and landed against the window, rattling the panes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Time, as she had done to me for the past eighteen years, will provide them also with the half-baked answers to the surreal life I was about to sever myself from. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emma pushed past Finn and Chess, and shoved the door leading into the next room completely open. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Big Dub and his family were gone, and they weren’t coming back. What was the point in dredging up the past?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

If you re a guy and not a girl, and you’re my age—just weeks past thirteen—you’re too old to have a baby-sitter but too young to be one. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He led them down long corridors of gray-veined marble, past banks of sunny windows, and through a rotunda in which a statue of a unicorn lifted its head toward the arched ceiling. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And I remember later walking alone down a rather aimless road which leads past the gym to an old water hole. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like other people in our sector who have realized who I am and helped me in the past, he doesn't exactly disapprove of the trouble I cause for the Republic. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

We push past the crowd, strangers dancing against us as we try to clear a path. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

"But there were soldiers loitering on the corner. I didn't think it was safe to walk past them, so I hid in an alley like a street beggar until they left." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It would seem, therefore, that absolute qualities in art must elude us, that we cannot escape viewing works of art in the context of time and circumstance, whether past or present. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

With each sound she heard—a lorry rumbling past, a chirping bird, a child’s cry—she ran from the veranda bench to peer down the road. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, the World’s Fair appeared past the window. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Every Friday and Saturday night our two tiny rooms were packed with migrant workers, menial labourers and garbage collectors, buying drinks till well past midnight. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He headed toward the billiards room, stumbling past the vice minister, who smiled and shrugged and went back to saying his goodbyes. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

There was a clearing just past him, and a long rectangular hole gaped open in the ground. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Michael had stayed long past the two years he had committed to us, but he was now scheduled to move to San Diego to start a job as a federal public defender. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They marched past the cypress, where a singletree hung from a limb to butcher the pigs on, and past the black iron kettle, so it was not a pig killing. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my whole world was frozen and sorry couldn’t get past my lips. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“Maybe less than you because I know all of its aching past and some of its stinking future. That’s an ugly word, sir, but there’s no other.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dressmaker fumbled past the wad of money in her handbag. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the smells from miles around are filtering past his nose. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twice a day, on his way to and from school, little Charlie Bucket had to walk right past the gates of the factory. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

She stalked past him and dropped into the armchair. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But the details of her experience were so painful that we could no longer look past the violence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The blood took his will; he was too exhausted to do anything about it and when the nurses hurried past him and left his bandaging unchanged, he did not call out to them. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I walked past the Perfect Living Room, where no one ever sat because all the seat cushions were covered in stiff, clear plastic. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

She was past forty, more handsome than pretty, but still easy on the eye. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I walked past the mountain laurels and the Japanese maple, up the bluestone steps of Morrie’s house. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the front bunk there was a forward hatch and he stepped past the table and propped it open from the inside. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

However glorious might be his future as Jay Gatsby, he was at present a penniless young man without a past, and at any moment the invisible cloak of his uniform might slip from his shoulders. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Roy likely had ridden right past her front door, and when Beatrice had spotted him, she’d simply tailed him to the golf course. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fog was thick and drizzly, and I couldn’t see much past the edge of the boat. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Kino, my husband,” she cried, and his eyes stared past her. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The car moved past the lights of a highway rest stop, breaking the darkness a couple of times. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

As Roz sat in the airship, broken and alone and speeding toward a mysterious future, she looked back at her miraculous past. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Kids stream out of their classrooms and hurry noisily past me. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Each time a car drove past, she tried to flag it down. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’ve had a lot of time to write and read and think about things this past week because everyone is busy with prom and graduation and schedules. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Unable to stop its momentum, the Griever zoomed straight past him before it shuddered to a halt—Thomas noticed the thing was moving a lot faster now. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Swans swam past like elegant ships, and the village was all pastel with patches of blue shadow. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“In a second they’re going to be blown past each other, and who knows what will happen next?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The years he spoke of are now past; the night comes when a bitter marriage overtakes me, desolate as I am, deprived by Zeus of all the sweets of life. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he strode past them, a booming voice called after him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As I sprang at him he side-stepped easily, but I just managed to kick him as I shot past. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spends the days of orientation rushing around campus, back and forth along the intersecting flagstone path, past the clock tower, and the turreted, crenelated buildings. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Long past the hour of Compline, the last prayers of the night, a sound aroused me to a confused state of wakefulness. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had lost his entire wage for the past week in dice and had had to borrow bus fare. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z