Then they let the fire go out, and Pa took all the strips and pieces of meat out of the hollow tree. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

We then rolled each pile into the middle of a piece of oilcloth, tucked the ends of the cloth over, and tied the bundle with plenty of wire twisted with fishing line. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

As he walks, he's reading from a piece of paper he holds with his other hand. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But, taken detail by verbal detail, what a superb piece of emotional engineering! Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clock radio in the room—the only thing in the room, other than our beds—was on, a piece of hand-me-down technology donated to the home from a Goodwill center. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I jumped to a nearby roof, then made my way across several others until I came to a house near the town square where a scattered piece of bonfire had set the roof burning. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Sleet came into the room with another blue plate, covered with little round pieces of meat. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Careful, Mama, or those pieces will cut your fingers,” he said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The pieces of string are so small that “colors” is only a manner of speaking. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The next one displayed inmate weapons: a sharpened piece of Plexiglas, a filed-down serving spoon, a metal spike. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m just glad we got here in one piece,” I say. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He would not buy her a present at all; instead he would give her a nice piece of money. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

"A noble lady does not feed dogs at her table," she said, breaking off another piece of comb and letting the honey drip down onto her bread. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

At one point, he had refused to say a certain name aloud and wrote it instead on a piece of parchment, which he had thrust into the Prime Minister’s whiskey-free hand. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

We watch as the claw dips down five different times to retrieve the pieces of one body, torn apart. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Magdalys passed Amaya the note, who read it and then tore it into little pieces that fluttered away on the early evening breeze. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I stayed pressed against the window for a while, then went and cleared off a few pieces of glass from the floor in front of Our Lady. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fatima grabbed both pieces from me, stuffing them in her mouth. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When possible, listening to a professional play the piece can help with tempo decisions, but it is also reasonable for different performers to prefer slightly different tempos for the same piece. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“I would sooner have a piece of you,” he whispered, “the sweet piece that’s—” Something flew from the brush to land with a soft thump in their midst, bumping and bouncing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Oh, he had found a few pieces, enough to convince him that Jon had indeed been murdered, but that was no more than the spoor of an animal on the forest floor. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

His brown shirt hangs in pieces on his body, torn to shreds by the cactus. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Presently he stood in front of her door, rapping with the edge of the wine bottle, his heart going to pieces inside his chest. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

But this, he realized, letting himself go deeper, to feel it completely, was not a yearning for a bowl of soup or piece of bread. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“This thing going to fall to pieces under you all some day. Look at them wheels.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The final piece of shrapnel was lodged deep. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I wrapped my shawl more snugly around my face, as if that piece of wool could protect me from wolves and whatever other dangers lay ahead. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

An infant, bawling deafeningly, was loosely swathed with a piece of sheepskin onto her back. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She flung the mirror aside, where it stuck in the air like a piece of fruit suspended in Jell-O. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Jo frowned upon that piece of extravagance, and asked why he didn’t buy a frail of dates, a cask of raisins, and a bag of almonds, and be done with it? Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the piece is performed, a musician comes onstage, opens the piano, sets a timer, and plays nothing. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

After she cut me two slices of cold veal and a thick piece of fresh corn bread, Eliza started to make gingerbread, one of her specialties. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I noticed tiny pieces of folded-up paper stuck in the crevices around the stones. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stabbed a piece of broccoli with his fork. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She told him about her little brother and sister at home, who loved to crayon every piece of paper they could find, whether or not it already had type all over it. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He snaps on the light, takes out a piece of paper, jots down everything he can remember from the BBC broadcast. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

A motif is a short musical idea — shorter than a phrase — that occurs often in a piece of music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“So, Ally is our first poetry winner for her piece entitled, ‘Rain, Rain.’” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The constable paused to light a cigar, and went on cheerfully: “What you got planned for that piece of Foster land? Going to clear her? Put up a house, or a store, maybe?” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They use those guns that fire pieces of metal. Foray guns.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I walk in, she’s mincing Dad into tiny pieces about putting a knife in the wrong drawer. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“If I do anything, I have to start over, but all I have is fragments of ideas. Just pieces.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The opening has been boarded up with a piece of plywood, but someone has already kicked it in; in this city, every fire means a shelter. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a camp rule against junk food, so she’d wrap a bag of M&M’s in brown paper, cover it with a thousand pieces of tape, and label it thumbtacks or something. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He took up a piece of paper and quickly wrote something on it. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the glass, I saw a large and appetizing piece of meat and asked the man behind the counter to carve off a piece. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But every time I resolved to hand JT a blank piece of paper, I wondered if this would be the day he came to his senses and asked me out. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have several pieces already, but I want more. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Using one of the rocks Olaf had left in a pile in the corner, she broke the curtain rod into two pieces. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

That was so fascinating, but one weird thing was that there were lots of bullets on the mantel, too, and they didn’t have little pieces of paper next to them. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you really think I care whether it’s in ten thousand pieces or not?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Sarah’s wearing a high-waisted mint green chiffon dress paired with a taupe hijab tied short and close to her face, with a chunky white-and-gold necklace, a statement piece, adorning her neckline. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I’d mash the pieces right up next to each other, where they should go, and imagine what the plane would look like with everything finished. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Could Gran have been the one who took a piece of the hag skin? Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The polished wood floor reflects the pieces of furniture. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He set the pieces of the lid against the stone shelf and splintered them with a series of kicks. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was a piece of candy, a buttercream with a hazelnut heart. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Their role as records of artistic thought also makes drawings uniquely valuable to the art historian, for they help in documenting the evolution of a work from its inception to the finished piece. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the front of him a white man pounded with a hammer-like piece of wood upon a table. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

By sunrise, the girls had built a stretcher by tying old pieces of wood and broken branches with torn strips of cloth from a pair of Juanita’s old shorts. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

And I had gone into the sandalwood box where I kept my savings and taken out twenty coppers and four twenty-cent pieces. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slots of Bobby’s pocket set had become so enlarged from thousands of hours of analysis that the half-inch plastic pieces seemed to jump into place kinesthetically, at his will. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The whole thing,” thought Gregor, but he said, “Maybe we could just go through it a piece at a time.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I am a piece of furniture, not a girl who will remember every word spoken in this room. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t see how our family was scattering, piece by piece. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

That’s what happened, except that at the same moment, Mr. Russell was downstairs playing that Copland piece again. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A couple of weeks ago, under a pile of old sheet music and practice books, I found a yellowed book of boogie-woogie pieces, and old-time blues and rock. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The runners went to Jockey after they were done with their races, and he dropped a piece of ginger cake onto their palms, no matter what they placed. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She fell on a small piece of ice, smacking her face again. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

If Luke had been one of the Population Police, Jen’s dad would have scared him to pieces. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph lifted the top piece of paper and moved it aside. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Checking to see how the piece was coming along. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Karl reached a cracked and bleeding hand for another piece of bread. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

But her fingers are long and supple—she has no problem with pieces that are written for two octaves, no problem at all. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“Little by litde, were calling his life force out of the pit. With every recruit who pledges our cause, another small piece appears—” “That’s disgusting!” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then I heard a low, ominous hum, followed by a piece of music from that film’s score: “Also Sprach Zarathustra” by Richard Strauss. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Slowly he tore it in tiny pieces and let them fall in the water. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says, “There! That has to be one of the capping pieces. Look at the old spike that held it in place. There’s the board we cut the circle from.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Besides, it didn’t make any difference to me if he marked on every piece of paper in the store. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like I am going to bust into the tower walls and crimble into a thousand pieces. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

In my closet, piece by piece, I pry away parts of my heart, stripping off every picture, shredding them down, building little paper piles as the tape sticks to my nails. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

All I wanted was to get out of the water in one piece. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Start with pieces written in C, and play them only a half step or whole step lower or higher than written. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

A few large pieces of furniture people would pick up the next day wore red tags with names and phone numbers on them. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Here, Ivan,” she says, and she slides two Magic Markers and a piece of paper into my domain. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I loosened more bricks until I could make out the neatly folded piece of fabric hiding inside the block tower. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Being that he was hungry, he ate a piece of Grandma’s fruitcake. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How charming. And I presume you have paperwork for all these”—he scrunched up his face like he’d just swallowed a slightly turned piece of fruit—“children.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

At first they tried to use the bodies as bait, chopping them up and trolling the pieces behind them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

They didn’t have much furniture, and the pieces they had wasn’t nowhere near as good as me and Pap could’ve made, but they was solid. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

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

To take a break from this task, which required us to bend our upper bodies toward the ground for hours, we fetched cassava stalks, cut them into shorter pieces, and placed them in the holes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Don Apolinar Moscote was unconscious, tied to the post where previously they had had the scarecrow that had been cut to pieces by shots fired in fun. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I quickly used the facility, slipped off my mittens to grab a piece of the Monkey Ward catalog to dry off, and hiked up my underthings. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

They barely had time to unload their supplies before the Pax shuddered and broke into pieces. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Uncle shared his food with Salva—a piece of sugar cane to suck on right away, then fish that they cooked over a fire and yams roasted in the ashes. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kind pieced together with great attention to detail. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Aunt Sarah’s just made a cake. Wouldn’t you like a piece?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She sat on the heap of skins that he used for sleeping while he poked the ashes into a red glow and then added a thick piece of oak branch. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I can feel the pain of the whole wide world in this piece.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Constantine put the box top down and looked over the pieces again. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Another piece, the size of a dime, was lodged in his cheek. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“Who was this Capricorn in his own story? The villain of the piece, I suppose, but can you tell me more about him?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the corner, on my desk, is the half-finished piece I started about York and Lewis and Clark. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She flicked a piece of bread to a seagull she’d begun to call Bob, because of the way he moved his head up and down while he watched her eat. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I will cut you into pieces as a sacrifice to Night!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

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

Another mechanical piece has to do with the way our brains get stimulated by the mere act of touching the device and, in doing so, causing something to happen. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“There’s a construction camp a piece up the hill,” he said. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hat say anything interesting?” asked Harry, taking a piece of treacle tart. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It was a piece of that turquoise peacock statue, maybe a fragment of its beak, or of its tiny head. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Ivy got up and limped toward the checkout counter, where she found a piece of plain white paper in the printer. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Busy as he was, Brother Luke found time to bring Robin the pieces of wood he had promised. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I’m glad Mr. Ward asked her to read her piece over again. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not a single piece of bread-and-butter or a lump of sugar had been left behind. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Then a man put two pieces of bread and a apple and a big glass of milk on your tray and said, “Please read the signs to your children. Thank you.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Setting up the men on his tiny board, he’d play game after game alone, first assuming the white side and then spinning the board around, with some pieces often tumbling onto the floor. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Oak asks as he places pieces of chocolate and marshmallows on top of his dough. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I picked up a dried piece of manure to throw it at him and drive him into the barn. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He played with a piece of branch, trying to distract himself from what he was feeling. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But just shifting her position that much put her at a different angle; now she could see the edge of a piece of paper sticking out of the top of Mom’s drawer. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She put on her jacket with the fake-fur collar and cuffs—she had sewn carefully trimmed pieces of an old Dalmatian costume onto a yellow sweater. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was a blue piece of paper, which I guess made it all-fired important. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Now, with a piece of chalk, Lelia starts writing out my name, over and over, as if she’s kept herself after school to work a lesson into her head. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled the white cloth out of its cupboard and ran to the table, draping it over the loaves before Dyedka could pick pieces out of them. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Damp ground made Nokomis’s old bones ache, so she spread out her brown cattail mat and sat down there to sew those pieces of bark together. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

It sought out the scattered pieces of the fire, rolled in them until they were extinguished, then ate the wood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Volkheimer’s technique, apparently, is this: he crouches beneath the buckled ceiling, panting, holding a piece of twisted rebar in one hand. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The pieces in which Corelli developed this light-and- shade technique came to be known by the name of the larger group, concerto grosso, and subsequently the generic term ‘concerto’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Several others were fidgeting with little pieces of metal and wood from a broken bed, the way Tyson always played with spare parts. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He struggled to get into the box through the door, which was barred by a piece of a wood blocking it. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what would the rats want with such a long piece of wire? Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” she said, handing her the first piece of the puzzle. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She pulled a folded piece of paper from her pocket and slid it across the plastic tablecloth. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I took a piece of crumpet and divided it between the two dogs. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The only decoration is an odd-looking piece right next to the bed: an end table made out of a slab of unevenly cut marble and thin crisscrosses of black lacquer wood for the legs. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those were probably classical pieces, but they were the ones she remembered best. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I feel as if she is collecting pieces to make a mountain. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Brickz follows the piece of bologna I dangle in front of him all the way to his spot in the kitchen. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“And I’m only going to give you one piece of advice, okay? So listen closely.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Once at my grandfather’s store, I had given him a piece of candy. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jonathan slumped down, trying to piece it all together. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The two most important things a written piece of music needs to tell you about a note are its pitch — how high or low it is — and its duration — how long it lasts. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He preferred the white pieces and would not play if the black men were given him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The piece with the most power to move and frighten. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Because he still wished they could piece it together too. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“It has some issues with people. It was abused or something. It’ll rip you to pieces. The Eagle put it there to keep us from walking around the lake to smoke.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Frank clears an area between them on the table, and Gimpy pulls off a medium sized piece of dough for Charlie to work with. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I take a plate and add a piece of chicken from the platter. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

A drenched and angry-looking Mr. Flux was knocking aside any and every piece of yard junk between him and the front door, on his way inside. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was as stiff as a piece of perspex. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He might talk to me or bump into me or whatever, but when nothing ever happens when he walks by, he takes a little piece of my heart with him. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Though by all rights you should have lost a piece of your ear. Were they wounded like the one that attacked Carter?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He put down the piece of fruit he’d been about to eat, frowning. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

We were walking along Little Hobart Street, picking up pieces of coal, when our neighbors the Noes drove by in their station wagon. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Neighboring diners dug into the pig, cutting pieces off it with careless abandon. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

So the CIA would have to create a piece of equipment capable of sensing electronic signals without penetrating the cable itself and without being detected. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was rolling it around on her tongue like a piece of hard lemon candy. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Scythe Goddard took in a piece of artwork on display in the foyer, instead of looking at him. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Where Byrd sits with one small piece of glass pinched between her thumb and pointer finger. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

"I'm off to get a few pieces of equipment. I won't be long." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It has been suggested that flagellae and cilia were once spirochetes that joined up with the other prokaryotes when nucleated cells were being pieced together. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The oil and grime had been washed from his legs to reveal an area below his thigh where pieces of shrapnel were embedded in the flesh. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

As you and Muthu arranged the pieces of tire in our shelter, you doubled over with a coughing fit. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Something in my chest breaks into pieces as I survey the room. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

In the dream, he's pieced it back together and is angry that I never read it. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“So who wants to take this newly ultra-safe piece of firewood?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When you describe the texture of a piece of music, you are describing how much is going on in the music at any given moment. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It rested beside a plot growing tomatoes tied to wooden stakes with pieces of nylon hose. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly he tore it to bits and scattered the pieces on the water. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Allyssa, twelve, a huge fan of music, composed an original piece about Joe Hill, the same labor activist who Taylor and Jayme had done their project on a few years earlier. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He handed Chronicler a heavy piece of firewood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Park makes them at home with pieces of their famous bulgogi inside, and last time I was over, we convinced him to add it to the menu. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Back then, we all lived side by side in adjoining houses on a piece of property which belonged to my grandparents. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I put a piece of sushi in my mouth. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

That’s what they needed—a piece of wreckage to keep them from sinking. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

The young blond guard handed Mother a belted piece of canvas and marched our group away. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Whoever shows up is going to get a piece of my mind, and that’s for sure. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Two dozen kids in their best clothes concentrating as hard as they could to piece out “prestidigitation” one letter at a time. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They get it divided into rows of long parts in very intricate patterns so their heads end up looking like balls of dark wool made of a hundred pieces, very fancily stitched together. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jethro got up in the quiet of the night, lighted his candle, opened Ross Milton’s book, and began to write on a piece of rough lined paper. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

A drop of sweat from my forehead splashes on the blade and the knife is just a knife again, just a tool, just a piece of metal in my hand. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Lie, I thought, reaching up to smooth a stray piece of hair back from my face. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There’s one unequivocal piece of good news: the crate of two dozen paintings that Vincent had sent three weeks earlier, the first shipment from Arles, finally arrives in Paris. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

There was no way this little piece of volcanic garbage could be as bad as what they’d been through. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

This place felt similar, as if the earth were trying to wake up and consume jeverything—as if the mountains on either side wanted to crush them and the entire glacier to pieces. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

On top was a large piece of brown wrapping paper with a note attached. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The intimidating figure stared down at me with disdain, as if I were less than a piece of lint on his coat. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He sets down his knife and the little piece of wood. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

No matter how sharp the knife, the two pieces have unequal cross sections. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had written Proposal Pending on a piece of paper and taped it to the end of a shoe box full of foil and fishing line. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

So Pa went again to Uncle Henry’s, and came back with a piece of the little calf’s stomach. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

This last piece of physical business has been so distorted by the press over the years that it has entered the “Bobby Fischer Urban Legend Storybook” as proof of his “insanity.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The missing piece in his stomach hurt so much—and eventually he stopped thinking about the Theorem and wondered only how something that isn’t there can hurt you. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I looked at the comic and the small piece of line paper covered in blue ink. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

It was the legend of Khosrou, the fat sleepy baby who once slept through the building next door getting bombed to pieces. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Hazel Grace,” he said, “do you have a pen and a piece of paper?” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She twists the pieces into a braid and then wraps them up first in a towel and then a plastic bag over that. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She was a friendly, soft-spoken brunette who I assumed had been tipped off by the agents whispering into their wrist pieces behind us. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Finding a piece of land in London wasn’t easy. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A big piece of carpet with a cabbageroses pattern all over it lay on top of the wooden floor. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It looks like the early sketch for a board game. See the circle in the center of the other circle? That’s probably where you place the spinner. You move your pieces around the ten rooms...” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Then he remembered Hazel had his piece of driftwood. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Never being in Kansas before, I wouldn’t know for sure, but I imagined they said things like y’all and up the road a piece and weather’s coming on. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mister Singer found the pencil and piece of paper on the kitchen table. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Oh yeah, it’s coming. Watch out for it. And I’m also writing a piece about the princess industrial complex,” I say, starting to feel comfortable and finally eating my food like a normal person. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

“He just so happened to spit out a piece of licorice last night in the same place he found that marble. But when he looked for it later, it was gone.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“My dear,” said Lee, “if I heard such a piece of news I think my first impulse would be to telephone someone. Maybe you’d have a bad connection.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I walk faster, stumbling over trash and broken pieces of pavement. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Little by little we began to piece a story together, a secret, terrible, awful story. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I love Nick to pieces, but this is cringe central. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

She looked for anything she might use to prop it open, and had to settle for tearing off a piece from the bottom of her prison trousers and stuffing it in the lock. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I lift the box out of the closet like a fragile piece of glass. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

He put chalk and small pieces of wood on the ground and noted how deeply rocks sank over time. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took the pieces of ham and bacon from Fern’s plate. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

As I was picking up from the back steps, I noticed a clump of stuff: pieces of paper, cloth, thread, dust balls, Kleenex, all wadded up. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I chopped it up into pieces with the hatchet and put it in the bucket. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

All I have to focus on is making my piece. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was the piece the crew had filmed with me; familiar images filled the screen. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They found a few pieces of rope, just enough for the job. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The water was warm, and somebody had dropped a piece of gum on the drain. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

It takes me a few seconds to realize that it’s actually a piece of coal, from the Dauntless Choosing Ceremony bowl. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

All the pieces of down home came flooding up to greet me. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Her mother stepped over the pieces of the broken little shepherdess. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Immediately upon it came the thunder: a high, tearing noise, as though some huge thing were being ripped to pieces close above, which deepened and turned to enormous blows of dissolution. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He studies the pictures I’ve hung on the walls and the unfinished pieces wedged under books. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When the committee reconvened in April, there was no longer any question of denying it a piece of the Bevatron pie. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

That fall Harry Rantz abruptly returned from Canada, bought a lot in Spokane, and began to construct a new house, trying to piece his life back together. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

No wonder they forget pebbly creeks and when they do not forget the sky completely think of it as a tiny piece of information about the time of day or night. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wants to sing some opera song from her last recital for her audition piece. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Gary is running around handing everyone safety pins and pieces of paper with handwritten numbers on them, which the auditioners are pinning to themselves. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The clothes were a damp mass in the washer, but it was easy to feel out the silk pieces—Bitter’s pajamas, a flowered robe, a charcoal slip dress. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The beating of his hoe against the earth made a soft, yielding sound, as if a clock had begun to count a familiar piece of time. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

But now I possessed a new piece of information—the key was somewhere in Sector Seven. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Ophie nodded and made her way downstairs, her mind crowded with the pieces of a puzzle that was turning out to be much bigger than she had thought. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

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

They passed around the pail of stew, using pieces of bread to scoop out the meat and to soak up the chili. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I pout my lower lip for a second, but then I grin as the pieces come together in my mind. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of Phoebe and knew that if she were here, she would be warning us that the boy was a lunatic who would hack us all to pieces. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I looked down at my dress, fidgeting with a stray piece of chiffon. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She frowned, and I felt a little piece of myself light up. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

She takes the cake, mashes it in her hand and throws the plate against the wall, busting it into a billion pieces. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Brother," he said, calling me "Brother" for the first time, "I want you to take it. I guess it's a kind of luck piece. Anyway, it's the one I filed to get away." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reached out for a piece of lumber. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

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

If mothers don’t tell their children everything, they hear it in bits and pieces, and that can’t be right. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

On the prisoner’s side, there was a row of five cubicles with small square pieces of glass that looked out on identical cubicles on the other side. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To be sold, each piece had to measure less than four feet. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A piece will also sound higher or lower once it is transposed. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

An idea flashed, and she jumped to her feet, only to sit at the desk and grab a piece of parchment. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I stare at the letter for a long time, breathing in and out, my world coming apart one piece at a time. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The sun felt like a hot piece of iron pressing down on his head. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Usually I only have small pieces of paper. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just want to learn to play this one piece he wrote and not embarrass myself. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“As you know, we’re having our annual fundraiser soon, and I wanted to know if you’d contribute a piece of art for our auction.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The exhaustion that accompanied my personal choice to wrap a piece of cloth around my hair every day. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He held the neck to the ground with one hand while his other found a piece of sharp white quartz. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan untied the knot at the top of the bag and saw elaborate pieces of shiny jewelry. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Mr. Freeman turns off the wheel and grabs a piece of chalk without washing his hands. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

After the bone was wrapped and paid for, he sliced off a thick piece of liverwurst and gave it to her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A piece of writing was affixed to him by a broken arrow that stuck out from his body. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I think it was from an old packing crate. I polished it and sanded it. I was going to find more pieces and glue them together.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran a hand over his books lined on the shelf and then began to search for the sheets where he had written notes for his piece about ogbunigwe, the fantastic Biafran-made land mines. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Once, in a battle with a gang of white boys, I was struck behind the ear with a piece of broken bottle; the cut was deep and bled profusely. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A piece of black plastic that is close to the dryer vent appears to be waving at me like a black flag. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He watched the Count closely as he spoke, but the latter seemed quite unaffected by the piece of news. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lady scribbled the number on a piece of paper, which she pushed toward Victor. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I bent over and picked up the tip of her nose, which now looked like the tiny end piece of a sliced banana. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A piece of canvas sailcloth that I weighted down with bricks and used as a windbreak on cold nights. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Millions of gallons of water wasted, millions of lights burning, millions of pieces of litter, much of it harmful. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had ripped up about twenty pieces of paper trying to get it right. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

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

Easy work: I run a machine that fits together and heatbonds pieces of plastic to form little transparent boxes. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The tribal chieftain called for the boy, and presented him with fifty pieces of gold. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dress vanished long ago, but miraculously a few small pieces—five treasured swatches—survived. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He worked all through the morning at die wood, breaking down dead limbs and breaking or chopping them in smaller pieces, storing them neatly beneath the overhang. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He used the butt of his rifle to knock out the remaining pieces of glass, then pointed the barrel inside. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The loss of her Belle-book feels like the last piece of her is gone. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Died while that woman was doing piece work for a shirtwaist factory. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I follow them awhile, and once, when the mother’s crouched down looking at packet soups, I see her fall silently to pieces. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

What he means is that these proofs, or pieces of evidence, are not part of the techne of rhetoric. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I handed the brush back to August, who dropped a piece of jewelry into my hand. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I see the desk and dresser against the far wall, it occurs to me that the loose floorboard could be beneath a heavy piece of furniture I won’t be able to move. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Dogs with white men frightened me, or dogs in packs—Sarah had told me of runaways who had been torn to pieces by the packs of dogs used to hunt them. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She offered him her piece of ice and before we knew it, he was running toward us. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

One entire wall is covered in pictures and Post-it notes and napkins and torn pieces of paper. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Many of the children collected pieces of shrapnel, played with them, traded them. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They see someone, and somehow they let the first impression they have about that person’s appearance drown out every other piece of information they manage to gather in that first instant. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

People walk the space between them, carrying guns that look a little like our paintball guns, but far more lethal, powerful pieces of machinery. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It followed and rubbed again, like a damp piece of burlap. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Reparo,” he said hastily, poking the pieces with his wand, and the bowl sprang back together again. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I have given the letters; I threw them through the bars of my window with a gold piece, and made what signs I could to have them posted. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I had worried so intensely about that piece of paper, that they would find my name in that house. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A piece of red flannel was wrapped around Mademoiselle’s throat; a stiff neck compelled her to hold her head on one side. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I stick a piece of coat hanger wire up the hole. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“You mean properly broken, in lots of pieces?” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I read that little piece of newspaper over a dozen times when I got back to my room last night. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

“And if you even look at my sister, I will cut you into ten thousand pieces, you lying, stinking, filthy little pig.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The thread led to a piece of cloth wrapped around one of the arms of the root—the remaining part of the boy's unraveled shirt. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Show him the pieces from the rubbish heap! A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“If Daenerys is no more than a sweet young girl, the Iron Throne will cut her into sweet young pieces.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A borrowed division occurs whenever the basic meter of a piece is interrupted by some beats that sound like they are "borrowed" from a different meter. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She plays this over and over in her mind, from one angle and then another, in bits and pieces like a torn photograph. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks hopefully at the pieces of wood I have in my hand. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

‘Here is a mallorn-leaf of Lórien, and there are small crumbs on it, and a few more crumbs in the grass. And see! there are some pieces of cut cord lying nearby!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

An old memory surfaced of the doctor telling Rosa that clones went to pieces when they got older. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She followed June to her front porch, where at least two dozen pieces of paper were scattered over the stone floor, along with about thirty different shades of colored pencils. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As she picks up each piece of mail, addressed to this or that faculty member or TA, she begins putting it into the appropriate box, matching name to name. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She shares a piece of my history I never knew—that Lolo and Lola didn’t want her and Dad to get married. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

When everyone has said his or her piece, they sit down again, leaving Johanna alone in the center of the room. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

How hard can it be to put a tree on a piece of paper? Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had a black piece of duct tape covering the Gunners mascot on his warm-up jacket. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

When we were away from the bank and someone else was rowing and there was nothing more for me to do, I bent over with my head on my knees, my heart in pieces. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He wears a necklace of a large piece of copper, and many strings of beads. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The justice of the peace determined that the young woman, who was married and had a child, had been “blown to pieces.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She lifted out the pieces she had wrapped in newspaper, and for a moment she held them close to her. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He licks his lips from the last piece of sugar candy stolen from my purse. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Outside, we walked over to a compost bin, where J.T. dumped the contents of his pillowcase and made a body count, noting the number on a piece of paper. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

She pauses at a page that holds a scrap of paper bearing the looping signature of Lainie Burgess, next to a space where an equal-sized piece has been removed, leaving only a bright blank void. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The rotunda was dotted in red—trophies, pictures, whole pieces of wall dripped with red paint. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

A round loaf of brown bread, a small piece of soft cheese, an onion and a bottle of wine. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Taking a piece of sinew from the ground skin, she threaded it into her needle and pierced the soft flesh. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small piece of the Sol 31 I never got to have. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you’re living through it, though,especially when you are twelve and you think the whole world is changing until you realize it isn’t the world, it’s you, no piece seems little. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

And worse, the teeth had braces, bands of corroded scummy metal with pieces of fish and driftwood and floating garbage stuck between them. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

An animal inhabits its space, whether in a zoo or in the wild, in the same way chess pieces move about a chessboard—significantly. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She reached into her pocket and shyly offered the piece of butterscotch. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Tell me that you know for a fact that Sapo is not involved in that reporter’s death. A piece of the man’s shoulder was missing.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Floating past them went two pieces of wreckage from a lost ship. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Something pushed through his skin and grew like many pieces of thin red grass. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The judges sided with Pauline—she was real to them, human, not a piece of property. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The last being the only thing I could do anything about, I took what was left of my piece of bread from earlier in the day and ate it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Kainta teaches me how to make a knife by chipping a piece of rock until it is sharp, then tying it with gut onto a short stick. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The shadow children continued to spin in circles, and as soon as I realized I was still in one piece, I sent them twirling faster and faster. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Tried to forget I had a piece in my hand. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Each pulse is a beat, and the regular, predictable pulse of a piece of music is the beat. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The sun was beaming in through the window, and I was showing the kid how to burn his name into a piece of plywood. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He saw that a few of the pieces had stem and leaf as well. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He lay down a scrap of cardboard and used another piece as a blanket to keep mosquitoes away. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The way Dad’s dirt-caked work boots rested on a piece of newspaper inside the door. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

My thoughts raced to the idea John had a small piece of his family to turn to, but as soon as the words left my mouth, I knew I’d asked the wrong thing. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

With Albert being the king—the piece with a ton of value but the one unable to move more than one space at a time. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

People had been nervous around it for a day or two after Kilvin’s demonstration, but it had soon become just another piece of equipment. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Most of the wood was so rotten that when they pulled it broke up into a shower of fragments and woodlice and decay; but some trunks came out in one piece. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

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

I’ve looked through the house, to try and find some signs of you, maybe a piece of jewelry or a scarf, but I don’t even know what I’m looking for. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Levy found a piece of paper and wrote down a date and an address. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The eastern woods teemed with flora unknown to the Old World, and there was a huge eagerness, from scientists and amateur enthusiasts alike, to get a piece of it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

So the doctors in Pakistan removed a piece of my skull to allow the brain to expand. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I brought a piece of the sympathy lamp I was working on in the Fishery, it was a disk of bright metal covered with intricate sygaldry on one side. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

All the pieces are cut into slivers, and the slivers are cut into squares. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He rummaged through his jacket pocket and found a piece of a chocolate bar that had been left over from supper. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he fell in love with Brett his tennis game went all to pieces. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Some are in bathing suits, one piece or bikini; one, I see, is wearing a crocheted affair, with big scallop shells covering the tits. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody was sitting on sleeping bags, Alaska smoking with flagrant disregard for the overwhelming flammability of the structure, when the Colonel pulled out a single piece of computer paper and read from it. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I looked again and saw the flat round piece of bread the priest held up. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the story poured out haltingly, as if Bebe were only now piecing the scene together herself. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I hope to see more work from you in the future. Do you have more pieces like this?” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He slipped the pieces into his shorts pockets before going to the bedroom. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

After he’d tom it up, he looked down at the pieces as they lay in the wastebasket. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

A piece of a thick mast served as a head, with crooked eyes made of rusted iron spars. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Even without the artery sac bursting, Garfield would have ultimately died from the severe blood infection caused by the pieces of broken bone. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I choked on a piece of pie crust. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not even sure if I have all the pieces. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The mainsail he wrapped around the boom and tied with three short pieces of cord. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled out the school notebook that she’d stuffed under there after school, as well as a package wrapped in a piece of worn leather. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I scrubbed my neck hard to try to get all the tiny pieces of hair off. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I get a clean piece of paper and make a sign. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where it was thicker he used the leg as a lever to bend pieces aside. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“When you returned my silver yesterday, there were three pieces missing out of that felt wrapper. One silver fork and two silver spoons.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear moved among the clusters of people, learning bits and pieces as he listened. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

A large piece of tar-paper roofing sailed through the air and scudded along the fill until it hung against a tree. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Dicey and James pulled mussels from the rocks and washed them off in the water, while Maybeth and Sammy climbed back up the hill for twigs and larger pieces of wood. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I like the idea of that small rebellion, carrying a paper piece of the resistance in my shoes. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

In rural Kentucky, three men threw pieces of a tombstone off a bridge, smashing the windshield of a passing car, killing a teenage girl who was traveling with her family on a religious pilgrimage. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to tell you something,” his father says when the piece ends, once they have already turned onto Pemberton Road. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A pale golden color and as fine as a piece of hair. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted a piece, because the best way to get made and move up in the organization is to ice someone. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Kit was ready to fly to pieces with frustration. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

They found some utensils and a few pieces of clothing. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Instead, slithering toward them like a twisting piece of black string, was a snake. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Going through the pockets, she fishes out a folded piece of lined paper, almost worn away at the creases. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

His father had crept along the wall and then come upstairs with a terrible piece of news. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smile coquettishly, pretend you know everything, offer everyone a piece of advice and mother them:—that’s sure to make a good impression. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

One scoop of Earl Grey mixed with chunks of halwa, a few pistachio pieces, with a sprinkle of coconut and chocolate flakes on top. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

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

He let P. T. out of the shed and gave the dog a half piece of bread. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

It smelled good—pieces of dried fish drifting in yellow sauce alongside the greens and cubed yams. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Virgil wasn’t sure how hard his parents would try to get him out anyway, but he knew Lola would hand chisel that rock to pieces if she had to. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

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

As they approached, a man dressed much like the other one came out holding a piece of bread and butter in one hand, and without a word looked at their papers and nodded. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

At the top of the cake, barely visible underneath a thin layer of crumbs, was a fist-size piece of paper. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The British had set up a new camp in Brooklyn on Long Island, and Washington was moving his troops around like pieces on a checkerboard. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

At home she would have been having buttered toast and strawberry jam and probably a piece of sponge-cake to round it off. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

She forgot about time as she drifted between pieces, voicing the unspeakable, opening old wounds, playing and playing as the sound forgave and saved her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“You can’t always see her, but she’s there. She’s been swimming underwater, trying to find every piece of wood she can for her kids, doing everything she can to help them survive.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Like to ride with ye a piece,” he muttered, and climbed over the wheel and into the seat without raising his eyes to the boy’s face. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pa’d take the stereo apart to replace pieces and clean the insides, but he hardly ever spun any records on the turntable. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The brain then must process the whole piece at once while still remaining focused on the one performing part. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

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

While carrying heavy pieces of granite up the steep sides, they could slip and plunge to their deaths. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

He walked through the yard, slipping on a loose piece of bark, picking himself up and stomping on the treacherous thing, then sniffing the ring of ashy stones where the man’s teakettle had heated. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Harry seized his eagle-feather quill once more, grabbed a fresh piece of parchment, and wrote: Ron, it’s all okay, the Muggles say I can come. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

From her belt, Thalia unfolded a piece of paper. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When Alexander died in 323 BC, his squabbling generals split his empire into pieces. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Every piece of dynamite in his body told him to run to Deerfield, where Tyler lived. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Instead of roamin ’ the jungle, hiding from hunters in three- piece loincloths, they are put in concrete cages with bars of steel. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside sits a thick piece of cardstock, a gift certificate that says One-Day Workshop in the Art of the Tiny House. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

In the dim light, it takes me a minute to find a piece of the paper Julia gave me. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

As we walked into the living room, I tripped on another piece of garlic lying in the doorway. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

She stabbed her fork into a piece of sausage. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Her mother called the police after piecing together the breathless, frantic story Carla told. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I could rest my piece on the sandbags, but it didn’t look very convincing. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a piece of warped wood, I saw a faded painting of an old man in a toga. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I pulled a piece of paper from my math notebook and thought for a moment. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was brought back to the moment by the man sitting to my left, who seemed overcome by Harry’s rendition of the piece. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

He gives me a new piece of chalk and tells me to draw roots. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I mentally piece together a story: The baby is sick, and the soldier mustn't get too close or he’ll catch the illness. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

At a third-story window a man tore up a piece of paper and shouted, “From now on, you can send my mail to Paris, postman.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He would disassemble the fifteen or so pieces and spread them at random on the table or floor, then see how fast he could reassemble them. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The steam from one smelled like red chili stew; the other was full of oven bread and pieces of fried bread. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

"The piece really came together once you loosened up and started making fun of yourself." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Frisby could not see him in the dark, but when she touched him she found they had even tied a piece like a bonnet around his head and ears. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“She is my last child. There is still a piece of her inside me.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Mack gives me a fresh crayon, a yellow one, and ten pieces of paper. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Whatever window of opportunity had existed to complete the one glaring piece of unfinished business in the revolutionary era was now closed. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

One verse went: Sir, give me a piece of bread, Look at me, so pale and dead. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her soft face turned hard and glasslike, as if it could break into pieces if something hit it. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

When I came to the inn, Anker himself was up on a ladder nailing a long piece of cedar siding back into place. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Another piece of hard-won knowledge I did not care to forget, lest it be impressed upon me again, more forcefully and more permanently. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpa made a little speech over that piece of cushion, holding it in front of him as if it were some priceless jewel. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Surely thinking, Who’s he to land that hot piece of contraband? X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I throw another piece of coal on the fire, give Max some of the warm water to clean up with, heat more, and wash his clothes. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

And when I’m in the car, I know for sure, cuz I find a piece of paper mixed in with the money we split. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The noble took out one piece of gold. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while an inexperienced potter would try his hand at painting his pieces, but the more accomplished potters, Min and Kang among them, had long ago given up trying the technique. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Have I turned him into a piece in my private Games? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

And then my mother cut a piece of meat from her arm. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What are all these small pieces of cloth for?” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Why, uh, I stopped off at the supper on the grounds in Prairie Lea the other night. They saw me on the road and invited me to visit for a piece.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I was in my bedroom straightening up things, shooting left-hand jumpers with pieces of trash into my garbage can on the other side of the room. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He sat naked in the road and began to unlace the rotting pieces of leather laced to his feet. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

They gather these pieces in peach baskets that they pass from hand to hand, not minding their torn gloves, torn skin. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But my memory has this little piece of information. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

What he longed for above all was a piece of bread. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

There was a tinkle and a crash as the pieces of Mary Ann’s head hit the floor. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

My aunt teetered on the pieces as she dragged Mundín by the arm towards the door. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He made a point of discreetly inserting bits and pieces of news into his sermons, something we appreciated. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one but Bodega and Nazario, who loved that tired piece of land just off the East River. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

They could be cut apart and cut off from home and destroyed in detail, piece by piece. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How long has it been since that piece of your skin was stolen?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“That sounds lovely,” Velia said sweetly, sounding like a heroine in one of those historical pieces on the arts channel instead of a modern-day girl stranded in the ruins of the Mexican countryside. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I killed a snake this morning, just whacked it into pieces with my machete and flung all three of them up in the trees. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I said, the pieces of the pageantry were the same. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The final page contains his own signature, a flourish of illegible C’s, carefully snipped from a piece of paper that might have been an invoice or a letter. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In the darkness, the pressure of his fingers seemed like the only real thing in the world, and if she let go, all the pieces of her would scatter, spinning wildly into the black. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The fireworks were by Gandalf: they were not only brought by him, but designed and made by him; and the special effects, set pieces, and flights of rockets were let off by him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

If I looked at the sun through a piece of smoked glass on Easter Sunday morning, I would see the sun shouting in praise of a Risen Lord. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The story came back to her, all the missing pieces fitting into place. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A big X goes up in her mind over every single piece of the unnerving, unsettling idea of him. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Eb took a dry twig and broke it up into a dozen pieces, aimlessly. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would have been better if the living room conjured on Truman’s ancient stage were composed of pieces from Stickley or Herman Miller, but where was Volpe going to find those? Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

At last he had the pieces finished and one night he fitted them together. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mario bit into a cookie and found a piece of paper inside. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we heard the last thunk of rocket remnants hitting slack, we went out and began collecting the pieces. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s strange how, even though I should be grieving, I feel like I am actually getting back pieces of her, word by word, line by line. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

For the first ten minutes of the drive, I take to ripping my suspension notice into pieces. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I hid them in a piece of cloth and tied it around my chest, under my dress. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every afternoon for the next three days, the four of us gathered in Becca’s backyard to continue hammering and nailing those pieces of plywood together. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Ladybird Hope broke the pen in her hand into two pieces. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The ground gets way firmer and easier to run on and it’s sloping more downhill than it is up, which may be the first piece of luck we’ve had. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

His fingers were long and nimble, and as he moved, his hand quitting the piece with a flourish, he looked like a classical pianist playing a concerto. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was a rustle in the yard, like pieces of tin scraping the moist dirt. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“And you came down here to defend me with a piece of wood.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Two pieces actually stuck into his forehead, just above his eyes, and had they been only slightly lower they would have blinded him. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hateful Miss Brown pushed me forward to play my recital piece. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

His face contorted with confusion, and she picked up her pawn, moving it diagonally, and easily knocked over the piece. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Her husband might fall deeper into the abyss of this broken judicial system for lack of this piece of paper? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In fact, both pieces are still among the most performed of all nineteenth-century favourites, in a dauntingly strong field. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Last of all, I take the lard bread from my pocket and feed it to Shiloh in little pieces, letting him lick my fingers after every bite. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama proudly showed her hand to all who asked, as if she were showing off a new piece of fine jewelry. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Guy sounds like a real piece of work, as Daddy would put it. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

I amaze myself sometimes at what I have personally been through and still remain in one piece. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each piece is registered in huge organizational folios that have taken centuries to amass. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The top section of the tree had crushed a piece of George’s split-rail cedar fence. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was a short piece on the Telegraph website that said that “a man in his thirties is helping police with their inquiries.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would have given half his fortune, if he had one, for a nice piece of raw, red meat, instead of the usual breast of chicken or scrambled eggs with asparagus. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

But after she leaves and I see the dark suit hanging on the closet door, I piece it all together. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The monster dog would tear us both to pieces. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Like I’m a piece of driftwood caught in a current. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Then she drops the burger back on the bun and covers it with the other piece of bread. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

To illustrate nature’s musical laws we can use a piece of pipe or tubing. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

David’s hand shoots out, grabs the piece from my fingers, and snaps it in place. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pieces are soft and chewy, and the surface of the soup glitters with yellow globs of delicious fat. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Whenever Stormy wasn’t watching, we would cut off a piece of prickly pear cactus, scrape off the spines, and suck out the juice. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their dark robes made them look like pieces of retreating shadow against the charcoal colors of Tarbean’s moonlit streets. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Claudette’s church, Hutchinson Street Baptist, was dynamited, its stained-glass windows blown to pieces. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

At the sushi bar the young, handsome chef automatically served me a piece of yellowtail. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He didn’t even have a conversation with me like I did with him about the rest of the costumes and pieces. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

With shows like “Roy,” in the late 1990s, the writers of the show attempted, for the first time, to link some of these pieces together with a common theme. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We got fragments of information from time to time and pieced together that the Allies had landed at Normandy and were mounting an assault in the west. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

She put it in her mouth and bit into a piece of walnut shell. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Whether you read or not, whether you spend a lot of time or a little in that piece of Ancient Egypt, you will have changed climate for at least that part of your day. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chessboard tumbled from her hands, and now all the other pieces joined the black pawn on the floor. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I skirted down Limanowskiego Street, ready to duck behind a busted-up piece of furniture or hide in a pile of old rags if I heard the Nazis coming. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The walls and ceilings were peppermint, and here and there, you’d see a bit of fishing net, or a rotted piece from a boat stuck up high near the cornicing. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She snips off my underwear with a huge pair of scissors and throws the pieces in the trash. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

She then opened a piece for all of them and stuck it in the little boys’ mouths. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

That boy could be ripping it to pieces for all I know. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

That was the message of the small-eyed boy, untucking the piece—a child bearing the power to body and banish other children to memory. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I scrubbed my face with the last dry piece of Mr. O’Flanagan’s hankie and glanced back. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It held a sense of agelessness, like it was a piece of something born in another time. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The soldier’s eyes flit to the remaining piece of cake and then away. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“An engineer has to study the rock above these pillars! If weight becomes concentrated on one of them, it’ll explode! The last time that happened, it tore one of our shuttles to pieces!” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“No!” said Parvati, looking positively agog at this piece of gossip. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The old man picked up Shadow’s white piece and put it on the table at the side of the board. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He roots among his supplies and offers me a fine piece of saveloy. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room was quiet except for the occasional rap of a chess piece slammed to the board in anger. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I also put in a pinch of dirt from our garden so I’ll always have a bit of the ground you walked on, a piece of my India. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When a piece of timber was intended for the larboard side, it would be marked thus—“L.” Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

We don’t act like that because we are in a good humour: we are in a good humour because otherwise we should go to pieces. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under his nose, where the top of his mouth was supposed to be, was an enormous red hole, and inside the hole was what looked like a piece of raw meat. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I’m trying to muster up enough courage to give the Chumley Prep a cappella group a piece of my mind. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Holding that string, I felt as though I owned a piece of the sky. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

As the weeks passed, the piece of fabric on my branch drew many comments. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I only took a tiny, tiny piece!” squealed Mariam, and wiggled out of the way. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I saw plates with food being taken from our dinner table and the pieces scraped into the trash. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

At the camp they found the sheep dog dead, killed and torn to pieces by the wild animals that had killed thirty head of sheep. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then, unexpectedly, the way good luck always surprises you, they had a piece of very good luck. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is a wonderful piece,” my mother sniffs, brushing away a tear. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

And if there was very much anger in him he cursed my mother because she was the daughter of farmers, and it was she who kept him shackled to one piece of land. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he begged me to let a doctor examine my foot, promising me a giant piece of sesame candy if I did. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Noor took a piece of cheese and looked at her younger sister with a raised eyebrow. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I shoveled a whole piece into my mouth, grabbed my keys, and started walking to the restaurant. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I walk past the front door and see a piece of paper lying there. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

When he spat at me and told me I'd be cut to pieces by the bank vault's lasers, I taunted him. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

And it is not just pieces, it is figures and objects, perfectly carved flowers and planets and tiny books with actual paper pages that turn. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then, ashamed, she touches her nose twice, and tries to fit in a new piece. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

When Twig started resetting the pieces for the third time, I suggested we actually write our lab reports. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In Low Torning the Isle-Men had paid Ged as best they could with the ivory pieces used by traders in the Archipelago; he would take only ten pieces, though they wanted to give him more. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“They use only a little grease, and after the chicken pieces brown, they put water in the pan and let it steam.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I stand there for a long time letting the fog erase me piece by piece. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“You gave me a piece of the Berlin Wall,” I whispered. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

They had just related to her the latest piece of intelligence received. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Ms. Faraci regarded me like she was afraid I was going to shatter to pieces in front of her. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I switched on the light and looked into a cracked piece of mirror bradded with bent nails to the wall. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without him our family has a missing piece. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sam collected pieces of historic automobiles and he was convinced that some day his collection, after making him very rich, would repose on black velvet in the best museums. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found Kehaar just inside the trees, snapping and tearing with his great beak at a foul-smelling piece of flaking brown flesh which seemed to be hanging from a tracery of bones. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when the invasion of the foreigner came, they showed themselves for what they were, and thus Charles, King of France, was permitted to take Italy with a piece of chalk. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

A billfold with a twenty-dollar bill—“In case you get stranded at the airport in some small town and have to buy food,” his mother had said—and some odd pieces of paper. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can still hear her voice, screaming in terror, running over to see what pieces of my body were missing, what leaky holes had appeared. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the center they created a bed by piling together several mattresses, which they covered with pieces of moth- eaten velvet. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Collisions among the asteroids happen frequently, and occasionally a piece is chipped off and accidentally intercepts the Earth, falling to the ground as a meteorite. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The puzzles pieces will take care of themselves. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He points to a piece with a cross on top. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

He tore the cards in tiny pieces and flushed them down the toilet. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Resetting the pieces in seconds, again almost without looking, he said, “He’s hard to prepare for because he can play any kind of game, positional or tactical, and any kind of opening.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Archer drew the piece of quartz from his pocket and stood, rubbing his thumb along its sparkling sides, waiting for the fight to begin. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s an exquisite piece,” the cashier says, carefully lifting it off the bust. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

If we didn’t have breakaway rims, the backboard would have shattered into a million pieces. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forensic scientists recommend a fingernail, a tooth, a tissue sample, and a piece of the femur. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I found I could lift all of the pieces but one—the big cast-iron firebox. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The broken pieces re-form around the liquid and the glass sits intact, the tile surface of the table is dry. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Using a roll of clear tape, Cara was putting the pieces back together. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

He goes quiet, focused, lost in the piece for long minutes. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Now I find it has fallen already, and a piece of it is here beside our latrine, one red plume. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Normally, once or twice a week he went for long walks on his own land, the well-loved piece of prairie where he had always hoped to build a house, plant trees, eventually entertain greatgrandchildren. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The campus newspaper had also run a piece about my appearance at the Women in the World Summit. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

This time he had the slight advantage of playing with the white pieces, which allowed him to employ his favorite opening strategy. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was said they were brethren and sistren, each tasked to watch over a particular piece of the world—the skies, seas, jungles, deserts, mountains, and realm of the dead. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He had never really stopped to consider why the pieces from the old man’s toys fit so well into the mechanical man. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

These small details spring out from the thickest brush and shadows, but the larger pieces stay crouched in hiding, and the largest piece of all lurks in the deepest, darkest cave, pacing and putrid. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Corporal Reynolds is a puzzle with lots of pieces, but half of them are missing. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

In the shadows behind the desk, a piece of paper had fallen between the wood and the stone wall. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was as if the Scavenge God had come amongst the ships, slashing and chopping, dicing the huge iron vessels into pieces, and then left the corpses scattered carelessly behind. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Carefully, she cut out letters spelling the Beiderman’s name from the green felt; then she threaded her needle and sewed the letters onto the rectangular red piece. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He’s been pulling the rusty nails to use again, picking up the planks, and putting them down like pieces of glass, quietly planning his wall. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She grabs a piece of paper and presses her finger on it. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

A key piece in the jigsaw puzzle of the doomed robins was soon to be supplied by Dr. Roy Barker of the Illinois Natural History Survey at Urbana. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

And when the food comes, me and King always throw the fortune cookies at each other and try to whack them to pieces with the chopsticks. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I cut a steaming piece with my fork, blew on it, and slid it into my mouth. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Tad started to unbutton his shirt to use as a bandage, but Rashid was already tearing a piece of his own shirt away and pressing it to his head. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I guess I need to work on my piece more. There’s too much going on. And you being here—that adds to the too much.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

We’d had to redo and scale it down when it turned out we didn’t have nearly enough green and black pieces. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It felt like a blank piece of paper before you draw on it. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately for him, there was never anything—not a swath of goat hair or even a piece of stone—for the boy to take. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The placement of the sounds in time is the rhythm of a piece of music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I drew on a piece of paper with Maisie, teaching her letters, the hot-water-bottle weight and warmth of her on my lap, her sticky fingers in my hair. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I tore off a piece to carry with me, thinking it would make a good swaddling cloth for a baby. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She approached Lockhart’s desk, a piece of paper clutched tightly in her hand, Harry and Ron right behind her. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She stood up and pulled a grubby piece of linen from her sleeve, spat on it, and reached up as high as she could and scrubbed the blood from Bod’s forehead. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She took a piece of bread from a loaf shaped like a clover leaf, and it was salty and rich and studded with nuts. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The estate was a huge piece of land, acres, encompassing a horse bam, a large vegetable garden, and a pool, tended by a young white caretaker named Harry. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I type a quick command and bring up a window to search for my Memory Worlds, all the carefully compartmentalized pieces of my father that I spend so much time revisiting. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mom held up the piece of the Grasshopper. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He tacked up a piece of cross-section graph paper, which was a thousand lines long and a thousand lines wide, and thus contained exactly a million little squares. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, each of them bought a piece of cold-wrought iron from the smith, heavy as they could swing, and none of them said what they were thinking. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

To balance the electrical repulsion, pieces of nuclear matter would have to be brought very dose together so that the short- range nuclear forces are engaged. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a piece of spaghetti in the shape of a 3 stuck to his forehead. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The Maycomb County High School principal was a Mr. Charles Tuffett, who to compensate for his name, habitually wore an expression that made him resemble the Indian on a five-cent piece. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She snapped it in half and flung both pieces back to the Nest. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Lacey distributes one piece of wintergreen gum to each of us, but it’s cold comfort. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I carried the pieces home in my pockets and stuck them on a sharp-pointed stick which I kept hanging in the corn crib. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bit off a piece, took the piece from his mouth, and gave it to the hand. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He tried to claw the piece of paper out of his robe pocket, but his hands crumbled, his fingers turning to sand. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

And to make things worse, spiders and scorpions peeked out at us from under jutting rocks and fallen pieces of roof. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She was nice and gave me a piece of orange to suck on. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Virgil put the pieces back together, because you don’t give up without trying, Lola always said. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Wow, the fourth piece was as good as the first. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I sit and read my Gatsby assignment, and a piece of paper falls out of the book. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

They made kites on the back porch and sold them for a nickel a piece, he and the Patterson boy. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every piece of clothing I wore was brand new and had my name on it. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now we’re going to have a school-wide tolerance education unit because of a piece of graffiti that was on the wall for about five seconds. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I can view everyone as pieces of a whole, and focus on the whole, not the pieces. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

All her jumbled pieces slumped into herself, and with her forehead pressed against her tucked-up knees she fell into a deep sleep. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They got a little piece of it too. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Caesar had ordered that he be sent unarmed into the arena to be torn to pieces by the other tiger, the terrible man-eater. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Lord Roose tore a small piece off a heel of bread and ate it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The pieces we found were so small that after an hour we’d filled only half the bucket. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Three of the Death Eaters swerved and avoided it, but the fourth was not so lucky: He vanished from view and then dropped like a boulder from behind it, his broomstick broken into pieces. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Hugo looked at the rows and rows of jars, filled with pieces from all the toys he had stolen from the toy booth over the past few months. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I pulled the bun off my sandwich and started ripping it into bite-size pieces. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Masonry crashes into the streets; the city falls to pieces; still this one house does not fall. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He started past her into the house; then, without thinking, and without looking at her, he offered: “If you ain’t got nobody waiting for you I’ll walk you a piece on your way home.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Fertile stuff, if it can somehow be irrigated, the loess blanketed the underlying structure like a heavy tarpaulin tossed over a piece of machinery. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

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

First, you must have a piece of string. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Then the doodles grew into sketches, the sketches grew into pieces, and the pieces are now “works.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I grab the lamp from my desk and pull back my arm, ready to slam it into my reflection in the mirror so they can both shatter into a million pieces. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s forged from one piece of iron. I have had it since I left my mother’s home; it used to be my father’s dagger. It will now be yours.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then we opened our bags and hung them to the rack with a couple of pieces of tape. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Returning to the kitchen, I pulled a sheet of paper from my notebook and tore it into pieces. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“If you punks ever mess with my boy again,” Bull screamed, “they’ll find pieces of you all over town.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Schiem showed his true gentlemanly nature by refraining from any crude comments as he lay a thick slice of steaming meat atop her piece of bread. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

If you cut it into six pieces the slices are bigger than if you cut it in nine but smaller than if you cut it in three. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She said it was a piece of junk back then too, but it was better than the train. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

‘I wonder has Harry still got his gold piece,’ Spareribs said. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Because maybe I do,” she admitted, and then she realized that she had chewed the top of her straw into two separate pieces. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

A set of false teeth drifted by on a piece of wood and faded into the darkness. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

And since the buildings were just pieces of software, their design wasn’t limited by monetary constraints, or even by the laws of physics. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

On a piece of stationery, I left a note for my parents. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Either way, when I got in, she looked at me, my shirt stained with grass and tears and dirt, my hair with little pieces of leaves stuck in it, my face snotty. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The three of us sprinted to the school, each holding a different piece of Miles’s uniform. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He seemed to realize that, because he handed me a piece of rice candy and said, “I’d like to give you this.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

How a piece of rhetoric sounds—and this applies just as much whether it is heard out loud or scanned by the inner ear while being read on the page—is vital to its effectiveness. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Beneath the loaf comes a folded piece of paper. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The judge wet his lips with his tongue and lifted a piece of paper that crackled loudly in the silence. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The dish was glued to a piece of cardboard, labeled “Sample A,” and left alone to decay into element 94. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She took out a piece of yellowed paper that had been folded and refolded. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rab, Mr. Lorne, and Johnny all had their heads over the drawing board where the second letter was pieced together and spread out. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

DAY-doe, he says, and it’s a groove in a piece of wood. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She unfolded her strip, a piece of sky blue denim with fraying edges, on which words had been printed in white. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Bits and pieces of his essence remain, but nothing you could put together again. I suppose some injuries even Tartarus cannot heal.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He sits down and immediately shoves half a piece of bread into his mouth. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The Mississippi is brown, filled with leaves, branches, and pieces of folks’ lives. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

His piece was about ten meters in front of him. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I called the reporter this afternoon and thanked him for writing such a nice piece. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deb-and-Kiki are showing Ms. Parker a new piece they learned, blowing rippling notes like jungle birds. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

She returned to the living room and dumped the pieces on the coffee table. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He starts muttering in Spanish as he nudges a piece forward. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Papa asked me to stretch out the middle of his sack while he sewed an extra piece of canvas onto the bottom to reinforce it. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He turned his attention to the other strange piece of loot—the leather-bound book. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He held up a crumpled piece of paper. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Yes, for several years. I only have a few pieces of his. I found two, one for you and one for Taryn.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She placed the kitten in the box, removed her own scarf—a rainbow-colored piece she had knitted herself—and tucked it around the kitten. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Then she put a piece of tape over the hole in the window. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Picking up a lump of mashed potato with a piece of chicken. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

But one tiny piece of recycling never made it down the chute. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The boy looked up with sick eyes, eyes soft and black like pieces of coal. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the piece someone whispered the news in her ear and the session stopped. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Every time he tossed a piece ten people pounced on it. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

It looks like a towering sculpture of lighted glass and metal, like a machined piece of art. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I look away from the lake to see her holding out a piece of bread and cheese, gesturing for me to take it. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

A table stood by the door, where a heavy-set man scratched away on a piece of paper, his work lit by a half- dozen candle stubs that would soon burn out. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the agent noticed all the refuse that had been left behind, pieces of waxed paper and tinfoil, discarded Baggies, a few aluminum bean dip cans, empty cigarette packages, and some crushed coffee cups. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worst of all, her drawing pad was ripped to pieces. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

We pieced together some things in the middle. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes there are other pieces of toilet paper there already, melting among the bracken and dead leaves, but mostly there are not. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When he unfolded it, Hazel saw a half-burned piece of driftwood, glowing with purple light. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Heisenberg’s belief that Germany would lose was another piece of evidence suggesting that Hitler was not about to unleash atomic bombs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The local media were eager to join the prosecutors in criticizing the 60 Minutes piece because it implicated their coverage, which had largely presented only the prosecution's theory and characterization of Walter and the crime. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The last piece on the shelf was the least interesting—a rectangular lidded box as large as his two hands. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

So anyway, this lunchtime I cut my sprouts up into tiny pieces and glolloped tomato ketchup over them. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“You takes this piece of cloth, you hear, boy? Keep it safe, ’cause all my memories be tucked in it. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

They planted their fields carefully and all about their new plants they built fences made out of sticks and pieces of thorn tree. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I think if your heart were in pieces, you would be dead. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

So Tendai, not seeing any spoons or forks, broke off a piece of sad^a with his fingers and popped it into his mouth. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She braced it with a piece of wood lying on the sill. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The border guards wore silver gloves and moved the game pieces by waving their fingers. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the computers are in pieces, strewn across the floor. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was a man who loved the moon, but whenever he tried to embrace her, she broke into a thousand pieces and left him drenched, with empty arms. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

His own mother had fallen to pieces when his father died, abandoning the house he grew up in and moving back to Calcutta, leaving Shukumar to setde it all. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Inside was a half a piece of bread wrapped in clear plastic. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Cloaked and hooded, once, but the wolves had tom their clothing into pieces in their frenzy to get at the flesh. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Some crazy part of him wanted to bring out his piece of firewood. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

With the sound off, he could just catch bits and pieces of the conversation. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

At least, it didn’t break into a million pieces. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

What she didn’t say was that Momma dumped me after my daddy died because it was easier—easier to fall to pieces without me to worry about. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

They were small and seemed to crumble up and come all to pieces. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dorothy broke off a piece of donut and stuck it under the lid of the shoe box. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

When he heard a rustling behind him, he turned and almost dropped the piece of driftwood he’d been using to coax the little flames. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I pick up a piece of charcoal from the ground. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A’ight, now this is simple,” Lovey said to me, “Everybody who wants chicken can get a piece. Just make sure you save the drumsticks for the babies.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In fact it was high time I caught a piece of luck in this business. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My job is to sand the puzzle pieces with scratchy paper. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was followed by an awful splintering noise as the enormous rainbow snapped right across the middle and became two separate pieces. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

In another room someone with a comb and a piece of toilet paper was trying to keep tune with the military music which was still issuing from the telescreen. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“This is how he starts every audition. He’s not singing yet. He’s playing his recital piece on the piano.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

And this violence was not magical, but was of a piece and by design. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It was fringed with gilt; my own piece of majesty. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Grayson continued, “‘The winning piece for the entire state is awarded a cash prize of twenty-five dollars and publication of the story.’” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And every structure seemed to fit into the one beside it like a puzzle piece; the only spaces must have been deliberately left open. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then she dips the first piece of meat into the breadcrumbs and drops it, spattering, into the oil. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Most surprising were several pieces of sailcloth with charcoal drawings of a woman’s face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Price tags with large numbers sat next to each piece of jewelry. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Trey licks mayo from his fingers, chomps on the last piece of bread. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I just hope there are pieces left to pick up.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I learned that piece in record time, and soon I was playing it in my sleep. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

El rolls her eyes, settles in behind the wheel, and pops a fresh piece of gum in her mouth. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

That order had apparently not yet been conveyed to the clinic’s kitchen, for the breakfast tray contained scrambled eggs, three rashers of bacon, and several pieces of buttered toast. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He finished his meat and wiped up the gravy with a piece of bread. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I try wiping my makeup with a piece of toilet paper, but I still look like the Joker. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He opened his knife and began to saw at the thick, stiff fabric, cutting out a piece a bit longer than the split in the hull. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I brought the insulation pieces with me back into the Hab. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just needs cleaning? That is a delicate piece of equipment. I can’t spray it with Fantastik and call it clean. It has to be professionally sanitized.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. To show them that I’m more than just a piece in their Games?” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

As I read the dates and notes on each piece of paper, the oldest note became unstuck and fluttered to the ground, resting beside my shoe. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Hugo picked up the broken pieces and placed them on the counter. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

There was a chessboard on the table beside them, with the pieces set out, but no game started. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Instead, she pushed a piece of paper from her side of die desk over to Tally’s. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The two challah loaves were passed around and pieces torn off. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

There's a mark in the middle of his forehead from a piece of iron that flew from a machine in a factory. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The bear chased him for a little piece, but at the rate Old Yeller was leaving her behind, Mama said it looked like the bear was backing up. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have already found my treasure. I have a camel, I have my money from the crystal shop, and I have fifty gold pieces. In my own country, I would be a rich man.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything came together so quickly in Thomas’s mind, he almost heard an audible click, as if the pieces all snapped into place at once. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She stumbled along, struggling to keep her balance, until her foot snagged and she toppled over like a piece of timber. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

There’s a little piece of tape over the thermostat, a reminder for me and Sam not to touch it. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He made his mother a sandwich, peeling the last thin pieces of turkey out of the package and pressing them between twin slices of white bread. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Is that why the last piece of paper is blank?” he asked. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a folded-up piece of paper and handed it to me. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When I don’t answer, he slides a piece of paper over. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Just flowers then. And the shine off the back of a dragonfly. I wanted a piece of the moon, but blue-dragonfly-shine was as close as I could get.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She ordered tea, and three pieces of toast and margarine, and strawberry jam of palest pink. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I’ll work all night, until dawn, and I’ll clean every piece of crystal in your shop. In return, I need money to get to Egypt tomorrow.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had one coin in her old purse, it was a fifty-cent piece which she laid on the check. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nora plops back down on her beanbag chair, holding a piece of paper and markers. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The noble killed him then, with no warning; a flash of the nobleman’s sword and Domingo’s heart was torn to pieces. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

We ate popcorn, throwing pieces to the pigeons that hopped toward us with eager beaks. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

We started away, a piece of glass crunching under my foot. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

What is left lies in clear yet disjointed pieces in my head. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s just clawing those pea vines all to pieces.” Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have all the right pieces,” I say, still speaking like Webb. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“Soon as she woke up, the whole place fell to pieces. She even admitted she triggered something.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“No, but I read all her pieces, and I know a fellow who works in the office where this paper is printed.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and the servant pulled out the arrows and cut up the ball into little pieces. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally he staggered in and collapsed on a piece of carpet and was asleep immediately. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared at the misshapen pieces of metal and was thankful that his uncle still hadn’t returned. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I found another little true piece of my old self.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He says, “Mostly, I dreamed about being squished. You know how some dreams blend in pieces of real life? And there was something about the belly of a dog. And I think it was Moonie.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

My body shook in time with the bursts of static, curling in on itself like an old, yellowing piece of paper. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Chester was so full he could only nibble on a piece of one. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he sat in front of the chessboard, often at the kitchen table, with a chess book spread open, the pieces became his companions, the book his mentor. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Cordelia will see this piece in the paper, and maybe she will laugh. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were raked gouges in it, next to delicate veined imprints, next to pieces of Bitter’s palm. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

At nightfall they built fires with pieces of old shoes to keep the mosquitoes away, and watched the stars from beneath the big oak tree where they’d hung a rope to swing from. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

A waitress brought over a Coke for Felix and a tall multicolored drink with three pieces of fruit around the rim for his mom. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“From the pyramids. Call it a blood tax. I will have a hundred pieces of gold from every pyramid for each freedman that the Harpy’s Sons have slain.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Front or back?” said the lady in the booth popping a piece of chewing gum into her mouth. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

They gaped redly against the innkeeper’s fair skin, as if he had been slashed with a barber’s razor or a piece of broken glass. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

While he descended the three floors, piece by piece, in clumsy, grasping hand grips, Sheed traversed the debris, nimble as always. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

But then in math class, when I finish rummaging in my backpack for my homework, I look down at my desk to see a folded piece of paper. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I find a long, flat piece of wood and use the knife to carve a little hollow in it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was just a normal thin piece of pad paper, all yellow and old. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Samuel whittled out a stout piece of sagewood and drove it into the soil. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor made a joke about missing a piece that I could tell my grandchildren about. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sheriff Dean kept one eye on Shady but kept the other on Jinx, like a cat waiting for a mouse to steal a piece of cheese so he could devour both at once. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I forgot to tell you. This piece of art is called Chinese Handcuffs. At least, it’s a larger variation on that idea. I call it Chinese Spidercuffs.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I take the brown wrapping from my Piggly Wiggly grocery bag and wrap up a little something, like a piece a candy, inside. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Then he swore and threw the pieces back in the box. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh Phoebe,” her mother said, pressing her fingers to her cheek, and when she made that familiar gesture, Phoebe looked as if her heart was splitting into a thousand pieces. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Now Hazel could feel pieces of her threatening to break off, and she was no longer sure her feet would stay attached to the ground. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

As I close the root cellar door, I find a piece of paper tucked in one of the leather hinges I made from my brother Jake’s old belt. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in the distance Hazel could see a small, dark form crouched on one of them, perfectly framed by the window, like a piece of three-dimensional art. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Then lightning struck ground, sending those horses toward the house and my leg into pieces. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Before the law could declare him to be just another piece of property subject to disposal as the tailor’s heirs saw fit, Jones applied to the courts for protection and obtained a certificate of freedom. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She takes a deep breath, holding out a piece of tape so he can tape the sensor back on. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Her eyes lock on mine, and I find that I do not want the eye contact I craved, because it takes me apart, piece by piece. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The few pieces of information the president did obtain were often second- or thirdhand and usually vague in nature. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Of the twelve members of the committee, five were elsewhere, flogging some or another piece of legislation. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“We gonna call the police and get that piece of trash arrested.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

You may use more than one octave of each scale, but use only one scale for each piece. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Welp, here goes nothing....I blow off a piece of lint and stick the thing into my mouth. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I labeled every piece as I dismantled it, and laid everything out on a table. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike her, his death was terrible: he was torn to pieces, in some stories by the Titans, in others by Hera’s orders. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had also made a chess set, using toothpaste caps and squares of paper as pieces. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I stepped back and looked at the newly restored church, it truly felt like a piece of God’s work of redemption. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"Your father is a piece of work," her mother said. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

From each lung he sliced a small piece of tissue, which he placed into a jar. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

It shattered into a thousand pieces, and crunched beneath my feet as I ran. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We trekked along the mountainside, looking for pieces that weren’t waterlogged or rotten, shaking the snow off branches. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Organic and other conceivable biological molecules would simply fall to pieces. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What are we going to do with this?” he asked, holding up the piece of umbilical cord that had been closest to the baby. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to the stories, Priscilla Willis might not have a face you want to look at, but she was a real sweet piece. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Never before has she rejected a piece of her son’s art. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

You can see where he cut out the pieces of cardboard and taped them all together, and written on the sides of the pyramid are these little signs and arrows. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

On November 20 the suspect Richard Eugene Hickock had gone on a Kansas City shopping spree during which he had passed not fewer than “seven pieces of hot paper.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

On January 1, 1812, a short but cordial note went out from Quincy to Monticello, relaying family news and referring to two pieces of Homespun coming along by separate packet. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Then he do a piece on the new Interstate 55 they gone build, going through Jackson all the way to New Orleans. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Faye twisted around in her chair to reach a piece of brown panocha studded with walnuts. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Downstairs again, he gathered the girl’s clothing together, stuffed every piece into the suitcases, then labored back down the hall once again and up the stairs. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

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

That gulf was so big it was about to crack me into three billion pieces, right there in the middle of the kitchen. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I saw pieces of the great Greenland glacier cracking and falling into the sea to make icebergs. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Thompson’s piece galvanized Stephanie’s cause, and suddenly a group of students and their parents began to voice their opinions online and in person at school events. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He heard Newt yell, but he ignored him and ran down the hall, sidestepping and jumping over hundreds of splintered pieces of wood. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

But how does anyone know what the animal was when it has been cut into small pieces? My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Knock, knock,” he wrote neatly on a piece of paper, which he pushed under the crack. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Behind it he fumbled among the little heap of silver and he counted out nine pieces. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Just as I get used to the idea of making music, Ms. Parker hands out a new piece. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

For instance I tried linking a piece of chalk to a glass bottle of water. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

This Jean Shepherd Show theme song had been recorded by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops orchestra, and the equestrian feel to the piece made Bobby feel good the instant he heard it. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He lifted the hand that had, moments ago, been holding the piece of mesarthium. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He shoved the piece of paper into my hand. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“This is called the East Door,” Chuck said, as if proudly revealing a piece of art he’d created. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He turned around and held out something black and gnarled like a piece of driftwood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Now go cut a piece of rope in the bag over there.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

I could feel that recently departed guest in the bits and pieces of himself he had left behind. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stephanie’s lagging behind, not because she doesn’t want to get in but because she is literally putting on every piece of swim gear imaginable. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He was kept there for a week with nothing to eat but pieces of stale bread and nothing to drink but water. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Against the gray landscape it seemed like a fallen piece of gold. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Mama sliced off the rotten parts and made soup with the good vegetable pieces, mixing them with bones she bought at the butcher shop. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The piece he was playing was called “Come Back to Sorrento,” and by the greatest good luck, it happened to be Mama Bellini’s favorite song. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had this look on her face, the self-importance of someone who is about to deliver a piece of particularly juicy gossip. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a glass of iced tea and a piece of pecan pie on the kitchen table. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Aw, go get you a piece of pie,” said I. Propped on my elbow, holding up my head with my hand, I grinned at the three of them. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I breathed easier knowing that we had salvaged the two containers, and tried not to dwell on the remaining piece of manuscript as I worked that day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barry jumped into the water, barely missing a big piece of glass. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

It had something to do with how he had tucked that little piece of paper back into that cruddy wallet. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Whenever I fainted near a store, I would get a piece of candy or fruit from the storekeeper upon reviving. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although some of the pieces are missing, I love putting the puzzle together and slowly seeing a whole world appear—a big, swirly river surrounded by trees and flowers. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

We hung the Grasshopper piece on the wall of our bedroom. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Now she bent her head forward, and Immie pinned up a couple of pieces on the neck that had come loose. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Exhausted, I wandered the halls of the courthouse while we waited for one more piece of paper to be faxed and approved to clear the way for the release of Mr. Caston and Mr. Carter. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Luckily, Link’s mom heard him yelling at us, and she’s a complete dragon, so she gave him a piece of her mind. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, to paint those symbols with a slight brush and a quick turn of the wrist and to make a clear black mark as fragile as a piece of a butterfly wing! A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve caught some beautiful pieces. Trolling this time of year you catch some beautiful pieces.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She pushed a piece of hair out of her face, whitening the strand of hair with flour. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She could pick out almost any piece now. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“This is even harder,” she said, and she wrote something on the next piece of paper and told me to read it out loud. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

On a piece of paper, he drew up a roster of buddies, and he wrote down the order of entry, the sequence in which they would be inserted into the building. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Simple pieces of furniture, plain lamps, and only a few things on the walls. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie gasped, her eyes became the size of plates, and the chess piece fell out of her mouth. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She broke off a piece of cookie, popped it into her mouth, and chewed. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She used one of her few remaining pieces of paper—an old label, slightly torn, from a can of peas. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Bristle seemed lessened to Pax, as if a vital piece of her had disappeared. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She said the pieces had simply come away in her hand, but that was hardly to be believed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Only now do I see that each piece, although geometric and abstract, seems representative of their personal lives. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It felt soft, like a piece of velvet. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I mean small pieces, little strips that I meant for the gaff’s hook that, when dried by the sun, looked like ordinary animal flesh. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Carefully, the coroner lifted from the table at his side a tiny piece of blackened metal; he turned, fronted Mrs. Dalton, then paused. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of wildly scribbled rhymes all over a piece of notebook paper like I’d usually have, Dee has typed up an entire song. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was tied around with three pieces of old string, each with a different knot in it. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Each of the children born to them had a piece of darkness that followed him about wherever he went by daylight. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Immerglick brought me back to her apartment to write their address down for me on a piece of paper. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He began to put the pieces of Benton Sage’s puzzle together in his mind. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He told Mrs. Sharpe the letter name for each of the twelve pieces. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled a piece of white paper out of her back pocket. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It feels like the last piece of the puzzle has just landed in my lap. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He took off his glasses and wrapped them in a piece of cloth. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He picked up a piece of the broken nose and studied it for a second and then sat down, holding it on his lap. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Alan Gould of the Associated Press promptly hired her to cover the Berlin Olympics as a reporter, though in fact her pieces would be ghostwritten. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Every piece fit together effortlessly; not quite country and not quite rock and roll. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The “little fancy lady kit” turned out to be a box of thread, scissors, and a tiny piece of embroidery. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They walked outside, and there, on a level piece of ground, was a track, perfect for running. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was only a piece of parchment, folded over and bearing a muddy paw print on its front, but Harry appreciated it all the same. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

And every year they took the leftovers—the fat pieces of meat, the rice and beans, the bottles of soft drink and maltina and beer—home with them afterward. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

And painted cattleguards had always worked just like a little piece of osha in the pocket had always kept away poisonous snakes. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet, here she is, my mother, who I left at home that morning in her bathrobe, with pieces of newspapers twisted like rollers in her hair. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Over the next week Maddie pieced together the pilot’s story in a storm of newspaper clippings with the mental wolfishness of Lady Macbeth. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Over this he held the piece of flint. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Matt pulled at the man’s shirt and showed Kira the hem, at the back, from which he had torn the piece of cloth. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If my sister says ‘I do’ and signs a piece of paper, while Justice Strauss is in the room, then she is legally married. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

This, right here, standing at the edge of a room like a piece of furniture? Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

As she reads the documents, she pieces together lives of heroism, power, and secret identities. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They didn’t have the strength, the attitude, or the resilience for certain kinds of pieces. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Over the years he had invested in stocks and bonds, and Devine suspected Shorty was currently worth a nice piece of change. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I file the fact away for later, another piece of a puzzle I ain’t sure I understand or even want to parse. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

On that piece of white paper, Sam wrote, “Write about me sometime.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Emily Brent had brought a small piece of embroidery out of her bag. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

She quietly fed them two pieces each and then gave the other two to her sister. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The camp director responded that he would make a place for him if he could pay $900, which Wayne pieced together from his mother and his earnings at a restaurant job. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Just like algebra and calculus, these tools and these values represent acquisitions which are too powerful to be discarded, and which remain not as museum pieces but are in constant use. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Baba would just say his piece about “What’s this embarrassing?” and “Why do you care what other people think?” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

At a crossroads they sat in the dusk and he spread out the pieces of the map in the road and studied them. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Should I have kept her in my bedroom, where she could ruin the carpets? Or in the gaming room, where she might eat the chess pieces and choke?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I just got hit,” I yelled to Dalio, spitting out blood and pieces of tooth into my hand. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Everyone wanted a piece of Clover City’s Miss Teen Blue Bonnet,” she slurred one night after a few glasses of wine. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Each piece of clothing is folded neatly, with reverence, especially the children's clothes, which have the most items and the fewest takers. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then he took another....and another....and oh, the joy of being able to cram large pieces of something sweet and solid into one’s mouth! Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

‘Us had to walk a long piece ’cause the wagon too full anyways.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They crossed the street and entered a small market filled with specialty goods, delicatessen items and huge, fancy pieces of fruit. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s my recital piece, Clementi’s sonatina, but it’s sure not the way it sounds when I play! Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Just before dark on the fourteenth day, they saw a piece of floating kelp. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The most disappointing part of that piece of knowledge was that he was not going to fall in love with Mrs. Cadaver and marry her and take her away. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He taps the gold piece that stays on his wrist. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Ignatius watched with fascination the elaborate process of gums, tongue, and lips that ever\\ piece of sandwich set into motion. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shadrach got to his feet and brought pencil and a piece of rough paper from the bookshelves. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ate a small piece of the sausage from the dead Russian and watched the young woman as she tried to speak with the girl from the forest. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Rafael stood, looking at the people and the spaces, as if the whole thing were an elaborate puzzle that he could solve if only he could find the right piece. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Hale then pulled from his pocket,” Lawson recalled, “a piece of white fuse about three feet and said, ‘I will show you how to use it.’ Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Jody tore off some pieces and rubbed them on his hands until the air was filled with the sharp wild smell. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He writes a name and address on a piece of paper and hands it to me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

On a wide shop table, Shin saw a large pair of pincers, a tool used for gripping and carrying pieces of hot metal. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“This would be a showcase piece, a curiosity. Your clocks are impressive, but what I am requesting would be something truly outstanding, das Meisterwerk. And money is absolutely no object.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Reluctantly, one by one, Hugo pulled out dozens of objects: screws and nails and bits of metal, gears and crumpled playing cards, tiny pieces of clockworks, cogs, and wheels. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Then she picked up a pencil and quickly worked out the sum on a piece of paper. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The varnish around the drab began to bubble and char in a black ring around the piece of iron. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was supposed to memorize the whole thing, playing the repeat parts twice to make the piece sound longer. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heaven knows what the poor woman thought when she eventually heard the Berlioz piece at a Paris concert and read the programme notes, although it didn’t prevent her from marrying him three years later. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She said, “There was a little piece on it in an old newspaper, it only gave the address and nothing else. I don’t know how they died or anything.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Her fingers moved quickly as she stitched the pieces together. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

And the second son’s wife did not wait but she answered back loudly, “Now my sister-in-law is jealous because a man called her only a piece of cold fish!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

An old lady Liyana didn’t recognize was down on her knees scrubbing the floor with pieces of rags. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The date said 1.5.41, and there was one small piece of typically scratchy male writing on it. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I fell asleep biting a piece of shoelace, leaning against the pine trunk, wishing Mom would find me. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

An hour had passed and all I had to show for it were two ruined pieces of steel. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

My heart is cracked; no, it is broken in pieces, like an earthen bowl dropped from a great height. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

When I glanced back, he held up a piece of notebook paper that said, “Hi, I’m Eddie.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Also, I had to memorize a piece of music. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Bits and pieces of basic combat advice continues to echo through the line. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

My broken words helped me make sense of everything, so that when I pieced them back together in an essay, my truth was clearer. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I brought you a piece of gum,” I joked. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

There were sacrifices of pieces on both players’ parts. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

Tried folding it between pieces of felt and striking it with a hammer—it did not shatter. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The pieces of so many shattered lives are not going to fit back together again. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“We need to keep track of when Mr. X comes and goes. We’re going to try out a new piece of equipment.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“It sure is pretty. Let’s call it our Twinkle Star Quilt,” she said, running her hand over the pieced front. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

One man was trying to read a letter by the firelight, another was roasting a small piece of meat at the end of a stick. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m fine. Besides, it’s not me that we should be worried about. The more pieces of this that I find, the more ominous it sounds.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Awkwardly at first, Cole knocked the pieces of driftwood together the way Edwin had, with a regular beat. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

First of all, the melodic line of a piece of music is the string of notes that make up the melody. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Not only did he get part of Nigel’s earnings, but he got the assurance that Nigel, his only valuable piece of property, was not likely to run away again soon. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It occurred to me that a performance piece was something like a play. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

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

“Grab it and run,” he said as Mom kicked the door and a weathered piece of the bottom board cracked off. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Tyrion swirled his wine thoughtfully, took a deep draft, and hurled his empty cup to the floor, where it shattered into a thousand pieces. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But the minute I pulled out the piece of marked silk thread, the lechuzas launched themselves off the roof and flew into the barn, wailing and screeching. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

They are synthesized by human beings and in most cases promptly fall to pieces. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the tiny plot of earth that holds it seems to say, I am the land, a small piece but precious. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You thought a piece of Scotch tape would trap them there?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She was holding a piece of paper in her hands. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He sawed off a two-foot section of the damaged pipe, then attached a new piece. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

It had been chopped to pieces, but some of the branches still had golden birds in them, and they whirred around when Grover picked them up, trying to flap their wings. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Chacko brought out a crumpled piece of paper on which he had tried to sketch the rough layout for a new label that he wanted comrade K. N. M. Pillai to print. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood at the bar and drank a glass of coffee and ate a piece of bread. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Tally noted a bag of flour, and a few pieces of dried fruit somehow made her empty stomach growl. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The article is between a piece about a rash of carjackings in parking garages, and an ad for Jerome Machet, DDS. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I’ll give you a piece of bread,” she said, after a pause; “but we can’t take in a vagrant to lodge. It isn’t likely.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“What about the Beiderman?” asked Oliver, who was walking by with a piece of chocolate cake as big as the plate it was on. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

As commanded, I purchased two packets of straight pins, a piece of lace, and a basket of turnip greens. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hare was given a heavy piece and as he carried it along he sang under his breath a song which told all about a clever hare who had fooled a stupid lion. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“You can’t eat it like that! You have to eat one piece at a time, faceup, so that the cinnamon and the sugar hit the roof of your mouth.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Omer folded a small origami ball for him from a piece of notebook paper, and batted it across the table. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He unscrewed the jar, shook the water off a piece of lettuce, and dipped it in the sauce. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

With nothing else to give them, Jinjoo broke open another brown candy bar and gave two pieces each to her sister and brothers, only allowing herself to lick her fingers where the candy melted. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Except for the funerals I can’t say I remember my great-aunt and great-grandmother being under the same roof or together under the same piece of sky. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

All burst in the air before reaching her coach, the pieces of metal falling harmlessly in the middle distance. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“If I were you,” said George, “I should bend a hairpin in the shape of a fishhook and tie it onto a piece of string and try to fish the ring out with it.” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

He approached it slowly, telling himself it was probably another pile of pebbles or a piece of driftwood . A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I picked up a jagged piece of roof and hurled it off into the empty park. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The yard was littered with abandoned car parts, tires, broken pieces of furniture, and other detritus. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think they’d take a piece from me. I’m a Spare.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

When Sister Pat came around with a basketful of toast, I grabbed two pieces, one for me and one for Fern. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ate the end of my piece of cheese and took a swallow of wine. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He had obviously not expected the item he was supposed to steal—which had made the old man's voice quiver with longing—would be a piece of old wood! The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t a very good piece of art, but it was their own little joke. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Now he is someone I am struggling to understand, someone with a thousand different versions of himself that I am trying to piece together. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was room to grow because the piece of land from the government gave you something to build on. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Daddy looks up, a piece of turkey dangling from his fork. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

He bit the liverwurst into two pieces and gave Chester the bigger one. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then after that some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I always liked when new pieces of the plane were glued on permanently, because then I could start to see what it was going to look like. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

As I watched you stacking pieces of cardboard and humming joyfully, the realization stabbed me that even I expected too little of you. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then I noticed that two of the heads were ripping apart a piece of yellow canvas—one of our duffel bags. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Tyler Croft, you’re a thief! I hope you die, you miserable piece of crud!” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Possibly she’ll put a hand on my shoulder, to steady herself, as if I’m a piece of furniture. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It broke from its hinges and fell in pieces. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It is a splash in the galactic pond, a temporary configuration of disrupted stars, a galaxy with a central piece torn out. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whether it was a real grave or not, this was a piece of holy ground close by the remains of my mother and father. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“You he, you vile piece of carrion flesh!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He grabbed a scrap piece of paper and a pencil off his desk and began to sketch. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He drilled with an old fowling piece his grandsire had given him to shoot ducks on the Concord River. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the bits failed to stay, I looked for a place to hide the damage, but finding none, I simply ate it, bolting the pieces like a hungry dog. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I shook my head slowly, taking a moment to digest this piece of information. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then we got into one of the new Latin pieces, a Dizzy Gillespie song called “Manteca.” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tall, thick-lipped boy who had trailed Red in pursuit of Ben caught the history book full in the face, his nose splitting like an overripe piece of fruit, blood spouting down his face. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d worn his best suit, unaware that a piece of bubble gum was stuck to the back of his jacket and that cornflake crumbs clung to his pant legs. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

She handed me a piece of sheet music. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was set with a little piece of cheese. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dark he settled in again for the night, next to the fire with the stack of short pieces ready to put on, and he ate the rest of die raspberries. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled a piece of biscotto from her backpack, crumbled it up, and threw it on the ground. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He drove with his knees maneuvering the steering wheel while he searched his pockets and came up with a piece of striped gum that he threw to me. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The two men moved their pieces, black and white, turn and turnabout. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She wrapped up his ironed apron carefully in a piece of clean paper saved for that purpose. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had two pieces of that set at home. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Phil slowly unfolds the piece of paper and hands it to me. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

They stripped the Suli and Kaelish girls down to their underclothes, then bound all the girls’ wrists and ankles with cords from the curtains and gagged them with torn pieces of their prison clothes. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I just push the chicken or the pork pieces off to the side and then later transfer them to a napkin, and then at the end of the meal I sneak them into the trash. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I try to pick out the pieces, but they’re in too deep. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“In this town we do not give orders with pieces of paper,” he said without losing his calm. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Then we ran beside the wall, our shadows running along the wall, and after a while we passed a piece of torn newspaper lying beside the road and I began to laugh again. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Balee plucked out half a dozen pieces of ceramic: shards of pots and plates, a chipped length of cylindrical bar that may have been part of a pot’s support leg. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As a builder, it certainly is easier starting with a piece of flat, cleared land. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Brother Luke brought small slender pieces of pine and showed Robin how to smooth them into mast and bowsprit, then found scraps of linen for sails and pieces of yarn for rigging. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“Seventeen!” shouted the Humbug, scribbling furiously on a piece of paper. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you want him to lie down and go to sleep up there? No. It was a small piece. Even that could have me thrown in the cage with him.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

‘Then he gloated over me. I felt I was falling to pieces. No, no! I can’t say any more. I don’t remember anything else.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

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

He turned the package upside down, and out of it spilled hundreds of little pieces of paper. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

In case you didn’t know this, a practice pad is a thick, dense, flat piece of rubber. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He flipped it open and snapped it in two, tossed both pieces to the ground. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I'd be the one to recite my essay as a spoken-word piece if it would increase my chances of getting in. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

At her beckon, warmth flooded her instantly, as though she’d swallowed a piece of sunrise. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

As she hurried past, Briony pushed into Cecilia’s hand a piece of paper folded twice and then she squealed her brother’s name and leaped into his embrace. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Frank looked down and saw the airstrip riddled with craters like a piece of burning Swiss cheese. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

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

They chucked pieces of broken cement at them, trying to knock them down. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Caroline’s face, as I had known it, slowly began to fade, piece by piece, before my eyes. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Since you know the piece, you will recognize when you make a mistake. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It was a massive bird’s nest—a gryphon's nest—the bottom littered with old pieces of jewelry, an Imperial gold dagger, a dented centurion’s badge, and two pumpkin-sized eggs that looked like real gold. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Her appearance caught me so much by surprise that I completely forgot what my fingers were doing and my song fell to pieces. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The distinguishing feature of chess, according to her, was that each piece moved in an L-shape—I suppose she’d got this from watching the knight—rather than in the leap-frogging way of draughts. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They studied the pieces of map but he’d little notion of where they were. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He checked the name on a piece of paper. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Similarly, a single piece of string can divide into two strings. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kept a checklist of each piece of equipment he carried with him, as anything left behind might alert the KGB to his tampering. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I reach into my pocket and pull out the worn piece of paper that says possible. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

And when she finished the piece, she started again to make it better still. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“You can read the Miss Myrna column. I did a great piece on mildew last week.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I’ll find a piece of music that calls for mutes,” Ms. Parker says. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

"Good. A piece of information that not everyone knows. Information about...who? You? Somebody else? Something? All of these?" Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I carried the largest piece of the rocket, a center section of the casement, to Mr. Caton. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

A single kind word from him and I will fall utterly to pieces. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Traffic would be heavy on the bridge due to an accident, and because we were paid for travel time, we'd hope that the pileup involved at least one piece of heavy machinery. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

From nowhere, a giant piece of the tank smacked into the wagon, nearly flipping it over. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

He looked down at the piece of wood embedded in his chest, and then back up at Anya. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

She stood there smiling, tucking a piece of hair behind her ear. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy sat by the fire at night with the pieces of the map across his knees. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It had been years since the Professor had made any use of the area, and the weed-grown yard and open lean-to shed were empty except for a few pieces of forgotten junk. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made a sharp ringing sound somewhere between a bell and a piece of glazed ceramic. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

What if this piece of me that is still indi'gena is actually a good thing? The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

An iron drab and a silver talent, a stone and a piece of fruit, two bricks, a clod of earth and one of the donkeys. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Wow, I would love a piece of pepperoni pizza, my stomach would growl. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She took one of them in her hand and, pinching off a piece, held it before Mabelee, who stood next to her in the circle. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gingerly, he cut a piece of steak and put it into his mouth. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He appeared to be all in one piece. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The flag had seemed to her a most impressive piece of equipment. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Glancing around, I pull a piece of paper from the envelope. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Sherman picked up the bar and pondered the wounded piece of steel. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

If they were reckless and tried to run the rapids, their wooden canoes would most likely capsize and get ripped to pieces. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

She took a chair by me, washed the blood from my face, and, with a mother’s tenderness, bound up my head, covering the wounded eye with a lean piece of fresh beef. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

They have pictures on them, of the things they can be exchanged for: twelve eggs, a piece of cheese, a brown thing that’s supposed to be a steak. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I prayed when I fed the first piece to the blades. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The pieces were out on the board, the enemy was visible, you could watch the tactics unfolding into larger strategies. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Fenchel sat all day on his table and he didn’t have anything to do, so he basted and ripped and sewed and ripped on the same piece of cloth over and over. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He saw a broken piece of concrete lying beside the barrel and picked it up. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

That day, the worst, wrong pieces clicked into place, and she didn’t even know it. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I picked up a piece of mail and rummaged in my purse for a pen. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though I was hungry and my stomach growled because of it, I refused the piece of liver for the second time, and I moved a few paces away from the group. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother even made toast and cut the pieces into little triangles and put on lots of butter. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was mopping the last of the chocolate sauce from the sauceboat with a piece of paratha. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

People can and do eat their grain; in the Middle East, for example, the wild barley harvest from a small piece of land can feed a family. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

If there were twelve names involved, and if each name was a piece in a very big puzzle, did any of those twelve fit together in other ways? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her goodbyes froze in her throat as she realized her warm coat was made of pieces cut from the family’s own clothing. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He then handed down a large piece of ham. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I write three words on a torn piece of brown butcher paper. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It tore away a chunk of stone, like a three-year-old grabbing a piece of cake, and hurled it inside. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I take me a piece of wire, too, and go back up the hill. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, does no one stop him, Prince plays us some piece of European Confusion, more, says I, for his own ear than ours. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Other stolen pieces were hidden in salt mines, abandoned factories, castle ruins, and the basements of museums. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then Mrs. Popper began playing the pretty, descriptive piece “By the Brook.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

We do have the unsavories nowadays, but they do little more than drop occasional pieces of litter and move shop items to places they don’t belong. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The last chord of most pieces will usually be the chord that names the key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She moved by instinct, as though trying to piece together a song she heard once and could barely recall. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I pull back pieces of the last conversation we had in school. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He went out on his land, on this piece and that, and he saw it was as Ching said. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She almost said that if they found him out here, it would probably be in pieces. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Dad is still in the pub and I wonder if I should get another piece of toffee as long as he’s in there with the pint. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

"I thought you might like a piece of cheese cake," he said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

My aunt, a little oyster, a little piece of meat on an open shell for us to look at. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

A good white farmer promised freedom and a piece of bottom land to his slave if he would perform some very difficult chores. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

In it she put a piece of fat from the bladder-bag and a scrap of sinew. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He prints Chantal a piece of paper and she steps off to the side. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

These loners have rented a tiny piece of land from the owner. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Towels crowded the sand, like bright pieces of confetti. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthias fumbled with a piece of celery and self-consciously turned to see if the twins were coping adequately. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I plucked a new piece of grass to chew on. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

After the deer meat had been salted several days, Pa cut a hole near the end of each piece and put a string through it. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the top, I can see several large pieces laid out in half circles. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three pieces of toast must become twelve, and so on. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside were stored various bits of food he had collected—a piece of fruit, samples of candy, or the butt-end of a liverwurst. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Some modern musicians advocate performing such pieces using well temperaments, in order to better understand and appreciate them. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Deydey solemnly produced the pieces of shirt that his daughters had used to frighten off the birds that day. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Mo stared at the address as if he were learning it by heart, then put the piece of paper in his new wallet. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

My white pieces screamed as they scurried and fell off the board one by one. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Magdalys felt like her heart was being torn to pieces each time the moan sounded. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

They’d looked delicious hanging from the tree’s branches, but cut up into pieces, they emitted an aroma unlike anything he’d ever smelled before—the scent was intensely sweet, almost sugaring the very air around it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The second piece of the blade was heating, too, and Lyra’s leafy branch sent the hot gas along to bathe both pieces in its flow and keep out the iron-eating air. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Folklore’s a piece of it,” I hedged quickly, eager to save face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Here, sonny, over here. There’s a nice piece behind » you... “ Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The family seems to possess every piece of the landscape, not only the house itself but every tree and blade of grass. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She could feel the piece of firewood, wrapped in cloth. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The fish lay lifeless on the floor—now broken pieces of stone. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Between us, I think we managed to piece together what happened at the Lake Windsor High School gym. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s forty-six of those pieces of DNA in every human nucleus. We call those chromosomes —those are the things that were colored bright in that big picture I gave you.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He unwrapped it, popped a square piece of chewing gum in his mouth and started talking again. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

He skids to a stop in front of us and holds out a piece of candy for each of us. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He said his school was a “piece of cake.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She put it in a box full of warm towels, and inside the box she placed a little saucer of banana pieces and some dead grubs Ob had dug out of the backyard for it. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mostly, though, it is up to the performer to know what is considered proper for a particular piece. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

When the door finally swings open, Chandresh himself stands behind it, his violet shirt untucked and a crumpled piece of paper in his hand. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We traded information on Mommy the way people trade baseball cards at trade shows, offering bits and pieces fraught with gossip, nonsense, wisdom, and sometimes just plain foolishness. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw a piece of wood on the other side of the alley. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Elongated and narrow, like pieces of blackened leather, the tongues were threaded along a length of copper wire, one tongue overlapping the next, the tips curled upward as if caught in a final shrill syllable. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I get home I feel like my soul has been shattered into a million pieces. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“We don’t get paid when we ruin a piece.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sigurd swung his axe at the water column, cleaving a piece off, and he grabbed at Anya as she scrambled by. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

As a piece of design, the Guggenheim Museum is remarkably willful. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked down to the end of the loft and looked out the high gable window at the country below, the pieced land dead and gray, the fence, the road. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I stack four pieces of bread next to the toaster. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He walked over to a workbench and lifted up a piece of canvas. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I tried the fried rattlesnake on my first day here, and I wasn’t all that impressed—it pretty much just tasted like little fried pieces of fried stuff. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Directly in front of him he saw a small piece of bloodstained newspaper lying in the livid reflection cast by the cracks in the door of the furnace. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

With five gold pieces he bought an ox from a farmer ploughing in the field, and this before ever he reached his own land. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Mama takes a cookie and bites off a piece. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Soon, some of them were writing on the envelopes, and others were cutting and curling pieces of tissue, gluing them into flower shapes, and stringing them together to form fluffy garlands. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Probably anyone who walks by looks down and thinks it’s a piece of junk. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He selected an old broom handle and a short piece of inch-square scrap wood. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plates with pieces of steak ends and coagulating grease were on the floor, on top of the bookcases, under the bed. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will chew you like a piece of gum, until anything resembling Caden Bosch is gone, and you are nothing but black pitch between my teeth. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I wished I could perform a skin graft on Tinkerbell, but that would have meant cutting her into pieces. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When they saw Violet and Klaus, looking forlornly at pieces of pitch-black toast, they laughed and laughed, and then made pancakes for the whole family. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The pieces all fit so snugly, I can’t believe I never saw it before. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Jake tore the note to pieces and rolled the fragments between his sweating palms. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was no rooftop, simply a flat piece of land in front of the wood. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

A tiny piece of egg flew off it and splattered my jacket. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

How can it matter if I leave one little tap running, one little light burning, one little piece of litter on the road? My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

My dad sawed off a piece of chicken and stuffed it in his mouth. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It was made of plaster, he said, and had come in pieces from Sears, Roebuck. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then I fling it all in the woods, dismantled piece by piece. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I’m finally back in my bed the navigator drops down a torn piece of paper with lines and arrows curving this way and that. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Here,” said Dumbledore, waving his wand once as he passed her the piece of paper, “I think this will make everything clear.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“And it’s free and clear, this boat? The bank don’t own a piece?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Both of them are twisting and hopping and trying to shield their heads with their arms as more bits and pieces of fallen sky race through the air at warp speed. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Jessie gathered four lemons and six pieces of wire that were connected on each side to small alligator clips. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It picked up the blin but, instead of eating it, tossed the piece over its feathery shoulder, north, toward where Kin’s house hid in the ravine. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The giant stepped on the statue and broke Terminus in three pieces—pedestal, body, and head. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She stuffs a stick of gum in her mouth, then shoves the pack back in her pocket without offering any of us a piece. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each farmer has his own plot by the marsh—nothing official with papers or signatures, just a piece of ground you always know is yours. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

"We'll just get a divorce. Marriage is just a piece of paper!" Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Amari held up the piece of paper and aimed it at Holly. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Kazi used to cut up every mango in four pieces, two large ones along the flat side of the big pit in the middle and two small ones along the edges of the pit. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Obinze’s burger was served in four pieces, arranged in a large martini glass. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I told you, it’s always expanding, adding pieces. It’s the only work of architecture that grows by itself.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The Preacher said, “Naw, Leroy, this is something that’s meant to be. The Lord’s putting all the pieces together for you here. He’s rewarding your good works. He’s seeing you get what you deserve.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“The house is in such a bustle,” Charles told her, “that I do not know what I write. I have got the ring, which is the most important piece of news I have to tell.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she took out a plastic bag full of grapes, something wrapped in foil, and a folded-up piece of paper. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I wanted a piece of bread with warm peach jam. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

They will try to convince them that we pose no threat, that we are only using a small piece of land, and we are not making war with them. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

She scooted forward and leaned in like she was about to give Virgil the most valuable piece of knowledge in the history of information. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The constable tried to piece together what had happened from witnesses and the more opinionated onlookers. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Archer flung the pieces of the broken spear across the ring and climbed the nearest chute door. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He handed each of us a small piece of paper which read Trans-Texas Airways: Pine Bluff, AR, to Little Rock, AR. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think it will be in pieces forever. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

They could load two pieces of very pure uranium into a specially adapted artillery gun. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held up a piece of the light hair near her temples. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I kept on looking at the patch of curtain, and saw where the sun had faded it, making it lighter than the piece above. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I go to the lean-to that protects our firewood from rain and snow, and stack the heavy pieces of wood in my arms. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The piece of wood, hardly bigger than a large rhubarb leaf, was lightly aground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is someone there, no? Ivan something, he is in that department, he can surely help you with this piece?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It was filled with unusual pieces of sculpture and pretty collections in glass jars: buttons, marbles, and rhinestones displayed on shelves so they caught the light. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They kept a clean, comfortable apartment, furnished with heavy dark mahogany pieces. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Enoch sat on the floor, whittling a piece of hard clay. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The ants were, together with the New Yorkers, an abstraction, a live mobile, an action painting, a piece of found art, a happening, a parody, depending on the light. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it wasn’t his complete game, but maybe they’d found one piece. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

On the piece that he cut out he fastened leather hinges; then he fitted it into place, and that was the little door, with the bark still on it. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the piece was fired, the pattern would be so subtle as to be almost invisible in some kinds of light. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The authorities are still piecing together the scraps of what appears to be the tragic and broken life of America’s homegrown suicide bomber, Ethan Branson. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

There was not a piece of armour proofed in Europe but what Unde Dap had a theory about it He was furious with the new Gothic style, with its ridges and scallop-patterns and fluting. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emeralds were still scattered all over the floor, along with pieces of marble and splintered wood. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Even the silence that descended on the house was sudden, as though the old silence had broken and left us with the sharp pieces. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up the stack of copies Maddie had turned in and dumped them and the torn pieces into his recycling bin. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I began eating a piece of grass and looked away. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Pushing and wriggling out from under fallen pieces of his home, Hachiya stood. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is no better utilization of nervous energy than into ingredients that can make the stomach happy. Isn’t that right, Chandrashekhar?” she said to Oso, and dropped a piece of idli for him to eat. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

There were pieces of cement and splinters of wood flying in every direction, and the air was electric with the flash of gun muzzles and the sparks from the bullets. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Then I shrug and stab a piece of meat with my fork. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The fan’s front grate and blades were lying on the floor, and he was busily unscrewing another piece. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Beat up, or dinged up, or missing a piece, or tattooed. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Aunt Florentine would sneak a piece of bacon from the paper-toweled plate on the stove and say with surprise, “My heavenly bed’s not ready yet!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Seating himself on the ground behind the biggest tree, he cut a piece of venison jerky and gave half to Mole. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

A few of the cut pieces are still on the ground. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He handed us pieces of radishes and peppers to snack on as he worked. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“What? Did you think I couldn’t defend myself against that piece of Candor trash?” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Ralph moved the lenses back and forth, this way and that, till a glossy white image of the declining sun lay on a piece of rotten wood. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Though the piece carried no byline, the style was Owen’s and no one in the world of the natural sciences doubted the authorship. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Blah, blah, blah, as Genie stared at the broken piece of wheel, wondering what happened to the other half. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Hyena fell to the ground and was immediately divided into four pieces by Lion. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Black put one of his clawlike hands inside his robes and took out a crumpled piece of paper, which he smoothed flat and held out to show the others. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

As light glimmered around the Institute, Tom sliced pieces of monkey liver with his diamond knife and put them into the electron microscope. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looks like a piece of Yorkshire or Cumbria transplanted to the American continent. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Other pieces may have a written time signature, to help the musicians keep track of time, but the musical events in the piece do not give it an audible beat. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Hmm...The archipelago makes me think of travel. Perhaps you’ll be seeing the world soon. And the heart with little cracks in it...Perhaps you feel you’re giving away pieces of your heart?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

When the piece appeared in an anthology of short fiction, I sent a copy off to Norman Bowker with the thought that it might please him. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Huge colonial pieces made of blond oak and walnut arrived, along with heavy wool carpets, and lamps of hammered iron and copper. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lies and art...it’s an ancient problem. So if we work with art,” she said slowly, “we’ll have to figure out something else first: What makes an object a piece of art?” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

When the 60 Minutes piece aired months later, local officials were quick to discredit it. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I found a piece of paper with my name on it,” I say. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Every now and then, except for when a piece of art is captivating him, I catch him watching me, too. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mango fits on Grandpa’s shoulder like the last piece of a puzzle. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Hannah says, and we throw little pieces of plaster at her. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He pulled out a piece of paper from his worn-out binder. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The wine was steaming and bubbling, and it came to Tristran then—the information surfacing from some long-forgotten fairy tale or piece of children's lore—that a unicorn's horn was proof against... Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She holds up each piece, one by one. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Surely you don’t need such a very old piece of parchment?” he said. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I might use that as the last line of my piece,” she said as she smiled at the crowd. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She’d shucked him like a piece of corn, throwing his clothes in all directions. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The old man could see pieces of the meat of the fish spilling white from the corner of his jaws as he bumped the fish and closed his jaws. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered walking down these steps to her funeral, holding his piece of firewood in his coat for the first time. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I very quickly fill Mr. Gideon in on the bits and pieces of information we gleaned from our brief reunion with Jackson. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I wrapped up the remains of the cooked pig in a piece of sackcloth, and Denna made a few trips with the water bottle and doused the fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After hauling the piece of junk over the side, I kicked it. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Sure, at the first sight of my phone’s shattered screen, my heart had splintered into a million pieces. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I wrote to him in Boston proposing that I write a magazine piece about him and his work. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

When the news went to commercial, the ad jingle was a piece of classical music. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He ripped the twenty into tiny pieces, made a pile of pieces, and hit sparks into them. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

A piece of your heart makes a sound like a groan and disappears. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure says, “I heard that the diamond is like a piece of light from the original world. Before it fell. A piece of light rained to earth from God.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The three of us in matching Halloween costumes the year we dressed as pieces of sushi. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The gum wrapper is lying there, looking like an innocent piece of garbage. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Once I pull it together—and I cannot bear to look at Rae right now—I take one last breath to say my final piece. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The last two pieces of pumpkin pie from Thanksgiving dinner, I bet. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

I examined every move, every piece, every square. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And as far as the dancing goes, if you inherited my moves, the lesson will be a piece of cake.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Inside was a small piece of blue paper and on it was printed this message: Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked two moons in his moccasins. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

It broke with a loud crack, and she threw the pieces aside. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I’m convinced the world wants me to shut up, that I’m better off folding myself into a million pieces. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“If you finish, I believe there is a jar of plum jam left. Wouldn’t that be nice on a piece of bread?” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

It was me who’d alter everything, putting my passions and career dreams on hold, to fulfill this piece of our dream. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As the other men argued about Parliament and letters of protest and counterletters and countcr-counterletters, Shabbywig stabbed at the last pieces of tongue on his plate and shoved them into his mouth. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I let slip a few pieces of information: I had been admitted without a letter of recommendation. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Whenever her hands hit bass and treble chords at the same time, the bodice stretched tight across her bust, and on fast pieces, the jiggle was something to see! Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, bits of the body of the clock expand and contract, like pieces of a puzzle. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And she asked gently again, “On what piece of land?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Mama puts the chicken pieces into the pot and asks Stephanie to stir. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t able to pack, had left my entire life chewed to pieces. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He had managed to save one last piece of honeycomb and had wrapped it carefully in a leaf. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

One held what looked like a piece of black coal and a piece of white chalk, and where the two pieces were pressed together, an angry red flame burned outward in all directions. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The sharp chisel slipped and cut a gash across the longer piece of the cross. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

She ripped the letter in half, ripped the halves in quarters, and let the pieces flutter to the floor. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Keynote: As a musical term, keynote identifies the “key” of a piece. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Sunny screeched after she first moved her piece. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Why didn’t the experts at the Getty also have a feeling of intuitive repulsion during the fourteen months they were studying the piece? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

What I know about the engagement has come to me in bits and pieces, mostly from the stories Mother told. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

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

And that’s why we call this pie-shaped piece of wood a log; because we use it to log the speed of the ship—you see? Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought, looking at an abstract fish of polished brass mounted on a piece of ebony. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The equal number of pieces seemed to appease her, and she ate them in silence. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled a black chess piece from her pocket and jammed it into her mouth. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She cut the meal card into tiny pieces with nail scissors and flushed the pieces down the toilet. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

For her future, for the work with which she thought she might earn her living, she would also need some small, straight pieces of wood. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gives me a roll of brown paper and a piece of white chalk and shows me how to draw a tree in three sweeping lines. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The paper explained that, in the 1990s, Wisconsin police departments were given nearly a hundred thousand pieces of military equipment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“This is what a completed piece looks like,” I said, holding the pad up. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I spread it out flat and filled it with smaller pieces and bits of ash and whatever dirt I scooped up along with them. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I’d quickly written up a piece about harvest and dutifully sent that in. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He merely took a great deal of time to inspect Kang’s pieces thoroughly. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Or his cell phone could fall out of his pocket and shatter into a million pieces. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It was very peaceful and quiet: a chickadee sang his poignant little piece for them, and the inevitable whisky-jack arrived on soundless wings to pick up cooky crumbs from within a few feet. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would pick up a piece and practically throw it at a square, almost as if he were tossing a dart at a bull’s-eye; invariably, it would land in the center of the square. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And all he gets is one small piece of paper that the charette-man give him,. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around his neck was a piece of rope about three feet long. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had no hacksaw to cut it into smaller pieces, and I was not strong enough to heat it and hammer it apart. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He created more than two thousand pieces of artwork in the Postimpressionist style. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And if she had thought about it, she would have put the pieces together: the woodsman on the path, the sudden appearance of the red shoes. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

You have to reach in and pull out the bird’s guts while trying to keep the digestive tract in one piece. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Heisenberg paced as he spoke, a piece of chalk in his right hand, his left hand buried in his jacket pocket for warmth. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Angrily, I turned to Mansfield Park, but the hero of that piece was named Edmund, and that was just too close. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was the same soldier who, when they arrived at the training camp, a former primary school with buildings sheathed in palm fronds, shaved Ugwu’s hair with a piece of broken glass. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He took a piece of paper out of his pocket. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He went to his desk, pulled out a piece of paper—his basketball schedule from last winter—and flipped it over to the back. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Havermeyer grinned at the colonel’s intervention and shoved another piece of peanut brittle inside his face. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The younger children scoured the beach for pieces of wood. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’d be a piece of cake. You don’t have the killer instinct.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zombie feet, dead butt, haunted spirit—pieces of her are dying off already. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

As a piece of bluff it was effective. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the weapon of Kronos, the one he’d used to slice up his father, Ouranos, before the gods had taken it away from him and cut Kronos to pieces, casting him into Tartarus. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Akira seemed to be weighing her words, then carefully gathered up the pieces of the geode and cupped them in his hands. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The three dancers in the piece, all recent graduates of Juilliard themselves, bring a distinctive vocabulary to the montage, drawing viewers into an experience that is at once life-affirming and joyful, without any bubble-gum sentimentality. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

As his ship gained on them, Medea herself struck her brother down and cutting him limb from limb cast the pieces into the sea. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

To me it looks like a big piece of cauliflower with the top hacked off. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Her mother had taught her to read using the Bible and occasional pieces of newsprint that came their way, but Polly longed for books of her own. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I could get the water keg down the hill, and the last pieces of chocolate out of the box, I’d be all right for a few days. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I consider them actual, physical pieces of my soul. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I cut up a flying fish and tossed a piece onto the side bench. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Discarded pieces of zinc, chicken wire, cardboard, torn sheets that Mami had given us, and dried palm fronds formed the walls of our very own barrio under the house. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He brought his cleaver down, slicing the mutton leg on his table into two pieces. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before we left our apartment, my mother had me help her drag out the pieces of our furniture we hadn't used as fuel to the balcony and push them over the railing. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Don’t tell me,” shouted the Queen, moving her hand so that they could see a ball of handkerchief in it, which she had tom to pieces. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled a clean piece of paper towards herself and drew lines downwards to divide it into three columns. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He held the two pieces of required reading for the introductory course in biology against his chest. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It was only after he had unpinned and handed over the five dollars, and after he had eaten two pieces of pie, that Jody started for home again. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “Well, if she’s lazy and he’s moony, who’s going to take care of the sweet babies? Twin boys take a piece of looking after.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Under Dinah’s headscarf, the little patch of hag skin was gone, leaving a paler brown piece of cloth. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Servants mill around, collecting the pieces in velveteen boxes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

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

It doesn’t even look like a bedroom anymore because the only piece of furniture left is the red dresser against the wall. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Finch bumps my arm and hands me a piece of blue chalk. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

That done, she had to go about making a charm out of a piece of blessed palm taken from the altar on Palm Sunday. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the ceremony, a piece of the wedding cake was wrapped up for the bride to bring to the groom’s ancestral home for the second part of the wedding. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the first second before her awareness could flow into her other sentinels, it was as though fire scorched away her sight in pieces, leaving ragged holes rimmed in cinders. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Some of the treasure. In that old tin you use for seeds. Just a few pieces, before we hid the rest.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

When I try to remember my whole entire life, it feels like a Lego project where you’re missing some of the important pieces, like a robot mini-figure or a monster-truck wheel. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It was only when he saw a piece of his own flesh on the floor that he registered what had happened, and passed out. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I swept the pieces into the trash can. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Teenie tucked a colored piece of fabric into the packet and closed it tightly with a drawstring. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my imagination has many missing pieces, like the jigsaw puzzle in the schoolroom. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He chewed off another piece of cheese and concentrated on that. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

There were so many layers it was hard to figure out which piece to put on first. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

And he wore a small piece of wood stuck through the skin at the bottom of his nose. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

There were two small pens there, and both of them had big bloody pieces of burlap inside. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

When I judged that several hours had passed, I fished the mandrake pieces from the flask. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He put the piece of stationery back in the box, then got up and followed the boys out to the tables. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

It was as if her body had been tom to pieces and remade from the scraps. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He took the sharpest piece and cut into the swollen area of his foot, releasing far more fluid—clear, then white, then red—than he thought possible. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“In a puzzle, I always begin with a straightedge piece. If you wanted to cure polio or anything, where would you even start?” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

I kept the piece of paper in my pocket and took it out when I didn’t understand what someone was saying. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Tiny reaches into his pocket and produces a neatly folded piece of notebook paper and hands it to me. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

It was a piece of warm sweet potato pie with some white fluffy stuff called whipped cream swopped all over the top of it. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Sir made a bandage out of a piece of his sack of sunflower seeds and taped it over Stanley's wound. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

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

Slag looks like pieces of porous rock but actually is the cinders left over when iron ore is melted down to make steel. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I greeted them through the piece of canvas that served as their front door. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s kind of a key piece of information, if you ask me. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

There was shooting back there now, and on either side of me they were throwing garbage cans, bricks and pieces of metal into plate glass windows. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moss wished he could tear that card out of his mental Rolodex and shred it to pieces. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Laura and Mary might eat one piece each, but the rest was saved for Christmas Day. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at his face then, and something deep, so deep inside me shattered into a thousand pieces. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

When that happened, a student repair committee would grab some staplers from the supply cabinet, and the room would shake as they pounded flat pieces of history back onto the wall. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

“That dot covers all the places we’ve ever been. You could cut that piece of land out of the ground and sink it into this ocean and no one would even notice.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The best piece for catching opponents in a fork. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

On the inside every piece of me is drowned in hope. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Miss Lilian’s favorite piece, the Moonlight Sonata, floated through the darkness, eerie, distorted, out of tune. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Any one of them could have snapped him up in a moment, wrenched him apart in her claws or carried him high and then hurled him down to the ground to smash in pieces. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, I’m not thinking of s-selling then. It was before . . . my stroke. I had a good farm, sixty-five acres. I don’t want to sell one piece to anybody. ” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

But a small piece of me hopes that she’ll shake some good sense into me and make me try out. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Technically all the pieces were there: loose trousers over tall boots, a linen rubakha, and a stocking cap. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

In the same room with the fingerprints they’re handing out pieces of paper; you’re supposed to taste them and say whether they taste bitter, like peach pits, or sour, like lemons. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He shifted his weight slowly, trying—without exposing any piece of himself beyond the outline of his small rock—to work into a position, into a crouch from which he could spring. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her china teapot only had two chips, and she had folded a piece of red checkered fabric for a napkin and laid it on the side of the tray. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But I can’t put the pieces together because I don’t know what the picture on the box is. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Thomas, returning his carved piece to the shelf, agreed with a grin. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They kicked Abel out of the garage, which I thought was hilarious because the garage, which was freestanding, was the only piece of the property left unscathed. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In a second I was going to fly apart into a thousand pieces. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Like a piece of my heart has been carved out and set on fire. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I cut myself another piece, but I can hardly chew. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few rotations, Tally found herself being lowered to the grass by her wrists, dizzy but in one piece. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She had nothing left, except a baseball, matches, and a broken piece of mirror. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Across the garage, Scrap shows Doc and his boys his two pieces. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I was trying to picture myself taking the first slivers off this perfect piece of wood. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Anastasia’s hair, however, held like glue with hairspray and gel, moves as one solid piece—almost like it’s a hat perched on her head. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He ran to the light and turned it out and ran back and looked at the piece of paper. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

This morning there was a piece of paper taped to the inside of the glass, with handwritten lettering on it. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, a loud orchestral piece, even if it has 60 beats per minute, will not aid the body into a calm state as well as a softer, more soothing piece with a few instruments. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Buttered, I lie on my single bed, flat, like a piece of toast. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing had ever tasted so good as those pieces of honeycomb dripping with rich, luscious gold sweetness. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted her to keep the piece of tinder safe. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Ma’s first shot had blowed a hole in the piece of curtain and one of the gold tassels had busted out afire. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

One of them is cracked, and a small piece, about the size of my hand, is missing from its bottom corner. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

If you wanted a great balanced piece of work, did you go to the mountains behind Toledo? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I popped the top off and started digging through the hundreds of pieces of torn newspaper. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Phil and I reach for the last piece at the same time. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The fourteen mice sat around a piece of wood balanced on spools of thread and listened in horror while Despereaux's father related the story of what Furlough had seen. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

I stick three pieces of gum in my mouth, throw out Emma’s crisps, and fill the tank. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

The dome shot up like the lid of a teapot and shattered into a billion pieces, raining rubble over the city. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I am going to sew these old pieces of cloth onto my mother’s blanket tonight,” she said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

When I know it’s boiled long enough to kill any cryptosporidium, I block Crick’s view and pick a smaller piece out with forceps. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The dreaded brown tint suffused the glaze of every piece; some of them were marred with brown spots as well. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

A jigsaw puzzle of ancient Egypt outlined the dining room table with the extra pieces piled up like pyramids spilling over onto the floor. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing very much—I mean, delicious, of course—a piece of steak sandwich and a chocolate cookie—but none too good for such talent!” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

She raised a piece of white lace above her head. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The most popular is Monopoly pieces, but this will prove to be wrong. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

They were the only decent piece of clothing I owned. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Diego tosses his backpack on the couch, points at me and goes in the kitchen to make his own pieces of bread. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The skull piece was also removed from its storage place. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

My mom takes out a pack of gum and hands a piece to each of us. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I get packages weekly from designers giving me their pieces to feature on the blog. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I ran a piece further, then looked back. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other is that no piece ever really sounds as though it has ended properly. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He talks instead of chewing, laughs with his mouth open, delivers a passionate thought through a mouthful of egg salad, the little yellow pieces spewing from his teeth. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had all paid dearly for this piece of paper, this final assurance that I belonged in the club. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

In the backyard of our house on Seminole, I jumped through the sprinkler in my bathing suit, a two- piece number, while Chapter Eleven picked dandelions to make dandelion wine. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I’m going to give them a piece of my mind on my way out. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

This is what would be left of Hazel Anderson once her whole body hollowed out, the empty shell of her cracked, and the pieces flew to the winds: Hazel has anger issues. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I can’t thank you enough for all the time you’ve put into making my piece come to life. Your energy, your enthusiasm...” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“If you will give me three silver pieces...” she said fearfully. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“I picked up bits and pieces naturally, and Celia taught me how to find the patterns, to put the sounds together in complete sets.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“And if it wasn’t a piece of junk and I did want it, a pink chain wouldn’t stop me.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when we re watching TV, he’ll abruptly walk over to the puzzle table, pick up a piece, and click it in. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

The pieces to a jigsaw puzzle were spread out on the table. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He would then have no more than seventy seconds to eject from the plane before it was blown to pieces. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Rather than simply producing nice but random tunes with accompaniment, they framed them according to an underlying logic: every piece they composed was constructed with the help of what amounted to musical maps. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

No, not a sword, a long, dark cudgel of some sort, too regularly shaped to be a piece of firewood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After that a piece of his small intestine had to go. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Black Betha reversed her oars, the river rushed into the splintered hole she left, and Lady’s Shame fell to pieces before his eyes, spilling dozens of men into the river. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I guess I am sort of like a pile of puzzle pieces that have been dumped on the floor. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Jamison’s pen scratched across a piece of paper, occasionally dipping back into the inkwell at the top of the desk. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She might not hear another word about the work until a piece appeared in Air Scoop or Aviation or Air Trails. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Anita,” Mia had said into the phone once, “I love you dearly but I cannot come to New York for a show. No, not even if it meant I’d sell a hundred pieces.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The pain came back to me in pieces. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

If you shake the box, the pieces will take up another arrangement. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he chooses three colorful, bright pieces for the exhibition: two of them are landscapes from near their apartment in Montmartre. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She found a piece of wire, but couldn’t get it through. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad’s camera wasn’t just an expensive piece of equipment. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

What Corelli did was create a musical version of chiaroscuro by contrasting a big-sounding band of stringed instruments with a small group, switching between the big and the small throughout the piece. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

As far as the crocus was concerned, it wasn’t so much a piece of me as something we discovered and enjoyed together. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She went to the mirror, and slowly, piece by piece, began to pull off her clothes in a private strip tease. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I know a piece when I see one. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He winks at me, taking his oven mitts off, and I watch as he confidently twirls his chef’s knife, deftly slicing the pie into eight even pieces with a flourish. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She smiled real big and brought in other nurses so they could watch me chew my first-ever piece of gum. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the thick piece of blue steel that made the crossbar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We can pick any place, any piece of forest or meadow, and make it ours. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

A piece of decorative wood paneling was peeling off and hanging at an odd angle. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

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

In April two men came with a stretcher and she didn’t even have time to comb her hair before they strapped her to a piece of canvas. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

His trick was to sit with the horn in his lap for the first half of a piece, then start at the beginning and, tooting double time, hit the last note right with the others. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In January she began a certain very wonderful piece called ‘This Thing I Want, I Know Not What.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I drafted the piece in a week or two, fiddled with it for another week, then published it as a separate short story. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I saw a piece of paper stuck under the big wrench. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Three quarters, two dimes, a rubber band and—score! A piece of celery” He started munching on the celery, eyeing the change and the rubber band like they might be next. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Elle’s practice jersey had a piece of black duct tape over the Gunner’s rifle. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Really a great piece of luck getting this job. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

But my father tried to teach me smithing, and when I ruined a piece of iron, out came his fist. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The nurse taught her to oil her skin as well, and to buff her fingernails with a piece of leather. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He offered a piece to Dicey, but she shook her head. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, I rip a piece of paper out of my math notebook. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Returning to the table, Thomas found that Minho had cut twenty sheets already, making a messy pile to his right as he threw each new piece on top. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

An agent wrote of the bombing of the Smiths’ house, “The two women perished instantly, their bodies being blown asunder, and pieces of their flesh being later found plastered on a house 300 feet away.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Dad poured me a drink and I put one of the bread pieces in my mouth, chasing it with a sip of lemonade. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

When he wasn’t gnawing on the fingers of his left hand, he began biting his shirt, actually chomping pieces out of it and leaving holes. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

There are pieces of evidence that we have had it the wrong way round. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a funny thing—but nearly all the time there was some kind of piano piece or other music going on in the back of her mind. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She cut the drag in two pieces and, pushing the poles under one piece, she erected a tent. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

One hundred and twenty kids with two pieces of trash each is two hundred forty things to throw away. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Objects began to rain down onto the sand as the people threw flowers, laurels, coins, pieces of jewelry, articles of clothing. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Dr. Lange estimated that over fifty thousand pieces of art would be “reassigned” from Poland to Germany alone. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Composers and music arrangers can jot down a piece of music without having to "pick it out" on an instrument to find the notes and chords they want. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She would pause, give me a piece of dry fish, and then continue: “I want a grandchild. So don’t be a palampo forever.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The boys were careful, taking just one or two pieces. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Hazel hugged her chest as if to keep the piece of firewood from jumping into the hearth. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Then, with huge exaggerated steps, it marched to the blin piece. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The flagpoles were hung with horrible trophies—helmets and armor pieces from defeated campers. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Under the sheet is a piece of wood that’s going to be the door once Dad and Devon finish the chest. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance there was a gentle ringing, like two pieces of metal rubbing against each other. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“But it’s a little hard. There are a lot of pieces.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Chronicler smiled again and wiped his pen on a piece of cloth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had plowed up quite a piece of ground before anyone noticed him. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Of course he doesn’t—to him I am just another piece of useless vermin infesting his ship. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

From his shirt pocket Sticky took out a thin piece of cotton cloth and polished his spectacles with it. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Next came his legs, but at the last moment his shoe caught on a piece of jagged metal. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. It might save a life. And, um, could you chip off a little piece of crystal from your cave? I don’t need much.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I dashed to the pieces on the floor as if to save them, as if saving them would mean saving Papa- Nnukwu. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

All their hopes were now pinned on getting safely to the open ocean before the floe they camped on broke into pieces. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Assume that one of three possible symbols chosen at random is placed under a piece of cardboard and the subject is asked to identify it. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were constructed of hundreds of pieces of cut stone. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

But there were a few larger pieces as well. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Is that piece of broken glass sufficiently sharp and strong to be useful as a knife? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then, he'd come knocking on her door this morning, asking if he could have the pieces of foam core she had leaning against her bedroom wall. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

On Saturdays, when Ma made the bread, they each had a little piece of dough to make into a little loaf. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the men in front of me stumbled, and a piece of salt clattered off the wooden boardwalk beneath us and splashed. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The glass buckled, some of the pieces shattering and splintering on the floor beside me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He brooded over the piece of paper and then crumpled it in his hand. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The hand had picked up one of the pieces of chalk again, and that “Yes?” had been too quick, too sudden to allow any doubt. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, from California, lying on his bunk in the evenings, so sore he could barely move, Milton consulted a Greek-English dictionary to piece together reports on his navy life. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Tyson looked down at the pieces of metal he was assembling in his lap—springs and gears and tiny wires. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m scared to try it,” Oliver replied, poking at a piece of blackened vegetable. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Then he pulled out a big blue marker and wrote on a piece of paper, "$2 per cup. Best price in town." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

The evidence was a very special, very old piece of paper. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

That she is only a piece across a board. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I was in the kitchen finishing a piece of Miss Effie Belle’s caramel cake when Grandpa found me again. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Suppose the pieces of the jigsaw start off in a box in the ordered arrangement in which they form a picture. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day or so after that, Dad would leave a piece of paper, containing a Morse code message, on the dining room table. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kote ate slowly, mopping up the last of the stew with a piece of bread. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He walked back to the meadow where he had left them, munching on a piece of the fruit, which was juicy, and chewy and quite sweet. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Desperate to learn more, the CIA turned to one of the most expensive pieces of equipment they had ever built. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Zero had destroyed the things that mattered most to me—my pieces of the past, my ornament and my father’s painting. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It will be better, anyway. Give them a piece of us to hold on to. Haymitch will deliver them for us if...they need to be delivered.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But providing that I get through this Alaskan Deal in one piece you will be hearing from me again in the future. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Monteverdi knew that blending these related chords in one piece of music would create something tranquil, reassuring and ethereal. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Good. So, listen, I need some advice. The motor on my boat chugs when it starts. Sounds like it's going to rattle into pieces.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

When Aunt Anne jerked him out, a piece of string connecting a buttonhole in his shirt with a buttonhole in the front of his trousers suddenly broke. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shoving aside books, papers, and odd pieces of machinery, the children made room to sit. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

In Berlin thousands of celebrants gathered to watch and to cheer as Hitler reviewed a procession of more than fifteen hundred tanks, armored vehicles, and artillery pieces rumbling through the city’s massive park, the Tiergarten. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“What good can come of this? How can I make any sense of her for you when I have never understood the least piece of her myself?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He got a patchwork piece of toast, splotches of white, splotches of black and various shades of brown. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tayo watched a red flame crawl out from under the white coals; he reached down for a piece of juniper and tossed it in. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Many arms, pieces of tongues, and parts of legs had been left by various Milagro residents in the rear seats of their head-on collisions with cows and horses on the north-south highway. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wigner got out a pen and a piece of paper. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malcolm hurried through the meal and burned his mouth, but soothed it with a piece of cold plum pie and cream. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

To them, the indigena piece is just another part of me, something that even seems to add a little allure. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reb Saunders put some salad and fish on his plate and ate a small piece of the fish, holding it in his fingers. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He listened to Matt play the guitar, although the boy’s fingers weren’t long enough yet to play really complicated pieces. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could feel his throat constricting again, and he focused on that, knowing it kept him in one piece while he was here. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He wedged a huge piece of sausage into his small mouth. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Bobby, dressed in a light zip-up jacket that wasn't warm enough, pressed on despite the discomfort, his pieces occasionally sliding off the cement tables slick with rain. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I broke it up into small pieces which I dropped in the spring where the wild dogs drank. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

A piece of something silvery—it looked like wire—was tangled around one of his legs; the other end of it was caught in the fence. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

It got so bad that when the concerts were over, he took to crawling into the matchbox and pushing up a piece of Kleenex to block the entrance. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bod limped up the hill and retrieved a folded piece of paper from beneath a stone. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The pipe that leads to the tap has to be held to the wall by a piece of twine looped around a nail. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Her heart’s already broken, she doesn’t need every last piece shattered to bits. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“When he got so mad at a piece of wood that he set fire to it, and then the porch caught on fire?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

So what if I hadn't acquired those gestures and I was still just trying to get through the piece without messing up? It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Next moment, a tongue of flame shot into the air, a charred piece of parchment fluttered out of it — the whole room gasped. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Kristi reaches up to twirl a piece of hair in her fingers. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the elbows of a new-leaved tree, they were illuminated in pieces — an ear, a finger, a bit of torso. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did he have a tiny piece of chocolate to melt on his tongue? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Hannibal stepped on the table, and game pieces scattered. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The one piece of turtle meat I had brought from the boat they wrenched from my hand and threw away. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Out come the baby clothes folded in tissue paper, the pieces of flowery silver, yellowy-black. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I watched Colin’s fingers as they picked up each piece of ham—he didn’t just smack them in half like I saw Jimmy do. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Dell pulled an old piece of beef jerky out of the inside pocket of his jacket and ripped off a chunk with his coffee-stained teeth. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

She held a piece of paper in her hand. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Now, though, he was methodically shredding his napkin into evenly square pieces. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She scrambled to pick up every chewed piece and eat it. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The letter ended with one last piece of information: “Germany has actually stopped the sale of uranium from the Czechoslovakian mines, which she has taken over.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. She wrote it out in bits and pieces. I haven’t heard her say a single word since...” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She wore fresh shiny lip gloss and chewed on a new piece of gum. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

"It's a lovely nose. Go on, point it at me. Isn't she a lovely piece?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

She uncovered an ember from the ashes and shredded little pieces of cornhusk over it and blew a little flame into the corn- husks so that a tiny light danced through the hut. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy merely looked at her and put a narrow piece of meat in his mouth. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I pray I will not fall off and be sliced to pieces. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Before I can comment about how weird he’s acting, he hands me the phone and a phone number scrawled on a sky-blue piece of notepaper. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I try to mentally piece together this puzzle, but it’s useless. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Now that she’d said her piece, the harpy seemed more relaxed. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They plopped the squares down over the white-sugar sand, like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to one of the churches sat a narrow piece of abandoned land, which Miss Josie always talked about making into a community garden and Oliver wanted converted into a basketball court. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Them pieces was so small, I couldn’t make them go back together. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

"Still got you a piece of fabric, didn't it?" Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Your dog just ate my bacon,” she told Elena, who was slicing a banana at the other end of the kitchen, the pieces falling into her cereal bowl. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Like a piece of tape stuck to the bottom of someone’s shoe. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The next minute under a second explosion part of the wood rises slowly in the air, three or four trees sail up and then crash to pieces. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She finished the S at the end of his name with a flourish and set the piece of canvas aside. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A fly lands on a tiny piece of meat. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t look for all the red barn pieces or the daisies in the field or the glimmers of sunlit water. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Werner eats one piece of cake, then another, then takes a third. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

As the last pieces of glass fell and disintegrated on the terra-cotta floor, movement and sound returned to the East Hall in an ever-widening wave. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Slowly, meticulously, he unwraps the coil, carries the entire looped mess downstairs, and calls Jutta inside to hold the pieces for him while he splices the breaks. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But hanging inside it wasn’t a piece of art. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Seth, oblivious as ever, was examining the intricate pieces of a decorative chess set. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

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

If somebody’s got a piece, security puts it in a bucket nearby and returns it once the Ring lets out. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

A one-room schoolhouse sided with cedar shingles stood among pines on a flat piece of land above the camp, but there were few children, and the school was sparsely and irregularly attended. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I was trying to piece together what had happened when Dri told me. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fern hugged Miss Patty Cake but refrained from putting a piece of toast to her doll’s lips like she would have done at home. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clock is ticking toward midnight, the harlequin juggler at the top balancing eleven balls amongst the twinkling stars and moving pieces. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Layla curled a piece of wet hair off Ivy’s cheek, tucking it behind her ear. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And then vacuumed up the pieces for good measure. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I turned to look at him, waiting as he tried to piece together his thought. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The glass lay on the floor in pieces. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The little piece would burn up before the oven cooled. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

She put another piece of paper on top of this and set the box on top to flatten everything down. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“So you can tear it up into litde pieces as soon as I leave?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“There’s a piece of venison behind, and Mr. Trask brought a little something.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

With a bone-handled knife, he sliced off a small piece and offered it to her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

So the nurse wrote the alphabet on a piece of paper and I pointed at letters. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Luckily, she had two pieces of paper with her, crumpled, dirty scraps, much too small for all the words unspoken over nine years. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Nathan began sharing out the rice and dhal, carefully tearing the plantain leaf he carried into three pieces on which to put each portion. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a piece of gear had been handy in Kitum Cave, it would be handy in the monkey house. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Summer and his pack fell upon it and tore it into pieces. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I see the little pieces of this world that we’ve managed to cling to bursting into flames. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Then it hit Thomas—he felt like several pieces of a puzzle had been put together. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Iron pieces a kilogram or half a kilogram on one plate indicated the weight of the food on the other. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

It had broken into three pieces—screen, battery, and everything else. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z