She tried to burrow back beneath the pile of grass she had tom up when she went to sleep. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Well, you keep missing the cushions, don’t you!” said Hermione impatiently, rearranging the pile of cushions they had used for the Banishing Spell, which Flitwick had left in a cabinet. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He’d glimpsed some ruins along the banks, piles of masonry overgrown by vines and moss and flowers, but no other signs of human habitation. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was starting to feel words piling up inside him, crowding his lungs, forcing out all the air. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

We kept our piles separated with an oversized pencil. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Time Daddy finished eating, nothing but a pile of bones left on his plate. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

He had not yet found the piles of money he was looking for, but he had unearthed some strange things. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Lawrence reasoned, however, that although domestic sources of uranium ore were practically nonexistent, uranium was plentiful in another form: tons of uranium tailings piled up as waste at Oak Ridge and Hanford. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In one of the train cars, giant hunks of meat, covered in flies, were piled almost to the ceiling. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He spotted a pile of stones near the well and another pile beside the porch steps. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

A luggage carrier strapped to the roof was piled high with trunks, suitcases, and whatever cargo Bull deemed necessary for the first few hours in their new house. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Claire scrambled over the smoldering pile of debris and made it to the street. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Why should I shell out money”—Dad tossed the magazine on the floor—“for a pile of rocks?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Fields of green com turned yellow, and the leaves, withered during the frosty nights, rattled as if in protest as Jethro drove his wagon down the rows and piled it high with full golden ears. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shed was entirely empty save for a pile of straw in one comer of the dirt floor. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The warm mist of assault crept across the waters and involved us, piling down from ship decks and gun ports, mountainous, sharp with fume. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Stanley staggered across the lake, almost falling over a dirt pile. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Its axles were set on piles of cinder blocks and the formerly yellow vehicle was painted a rather haphazard eggshell white. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It smells like old people and wet carpet, but stronger—like fifty old people and piles of wet carpet.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They looked like messy piles, but to her they were organized messy piles. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

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

I say, frantically looking behind the sheaves and the piles of fruit baskets. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“We all have. When the hunters bring them in.The other night, remember? They brought them in after the hunt. There was a huge pile over by the butcher’s yard.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shoes piled up by the door like beetles. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

A pile of bills on the kitchen table. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then we would trade piles and read again. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re right, there’s no champagne,” Chandresh says, pushing aside a pile of empty brandy bottles as he lays out another string of sketches along the floor. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

To make it much wider, they would first have to move some of the surrounding dirt piles out of the way. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

My dad looked out to sea, where a big rusted lighthouse jutted up from a pile of rocks. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It was hard work, walking around and around the field in the hot sun, and with both hands swinging the heavy cradles into the grain and cutting it, then sliding it into the piles. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby noticed that the postmark on the letter’s envelope was many months past, and there was actually another letter from Zita in his pile of unopened mail. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

No pile of sneakers that never made it to the closet. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The pile of logs they had made was still lying there untouched, as if Count Olaf had merely made them chop logs for his own amusement, rather than for any purpose. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

I made a pile next to the dresser and shoved it under with my foot. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“And a manure pile under the window. Sure, it’s swell.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of messages had piled up, and the Coast Guard needed them solved. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In the morning, Timothy began making the fire pile down on the beach. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got all my papers into a mostly straight pile and sandwiched them between my econ and geometry books. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

At another comer, suitcases were piled on top of one another. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She left the creature where it lay in a crumpled heap atop piles of jewels. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Pippin and Sam strapped up their three packs and piled them in the porch. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We pile back into the main salon and eat food from the carts. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

In a crevice of the rock lay a pile of bones. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I meant to clear a path, as well,” he adds, pushing boxes aside and picking up piles of rolled blueprints. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He got another pleasant surprise when a van from the Trace Middle School Athletic Department rolled up and Beatrice’s soccer teammates piled out, some of them carrying posters. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cart is piled high with bales of tightly packed skins, for we are passengers on a return journey, but there is room enough for two. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lawrence’s campaign to add a nuclear reactor to Berkeley’s arsenal of atom-smashing technologies dated back to his wartime effort to wrest Enrico Fermi’s nuclear pile away from Arthur Compton and the University of Chicago. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Gregor flagged down a cab and they piled into the backseat. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Many Orcs lay slain, piled all about him and at his feet. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Alex asks, pushing the pile of papers on his bed out of her way. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Well...that, and instead of a pile of dead leaves, she now looks like a cotton-ball-topped traffic cone. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

He stands by his schoolbag, shaken and confused, looking up at the ceiling and down at the overturned plant in a pile of dirt. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no haphazard piles lying around as they did at home. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

His mind filled with confused pictures of the canvas billowing and blanketing down, and of the bodies of all the people, piled up together, crushing him. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He also started collecting armloads of firewood, cutting and splitting the wood with a small handsaw and hatchet, and stacking it in a straight pile against the cabin. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

And every Sunday, snow or not, I rode to Mass in the village of Bircza, piled in the back of a hay wagon with brothers and sisters who eventually reached a total of eight. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

We had just worked all morning to move this pile of stones across the camp, and now the Nazis were changing their minds? Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then two young boys crawled into the light, on hands and knees atop the bone pile. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Kaztauskis later remembered, “One boy sat down and cried, just next to me, on a pile of boards. Some policemen waved their clubs and we all walked on.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Dimple was attempting to balance two water bottles and a pile of dripping paper towels when Celia ran up to her and took a few things. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Picking up a flashlight and one of the sturdy sundari sticks from the pile in the corner, he left the hut. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was a pile of magazines on the very edge of the shelf, just above the fire. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath the pile, the ground was shiny wet. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I noticed a pile of clothes on a chair beside the nurse. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Inside, Palmer looked about for signs of primitive living—mud, piles of rubbish—but saw nothing but clean furniture, carpets, pictures on the walls. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Soon there was a small pile of debris in the hollow as the rabbits brought anything from which it could get food. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped at their seat and looked down at the pile of stuff he'd left for her. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

L.V. carefully kept the clipping, just as he carefully kept a pile of other glowing clippings about Boobie from the Dallas Morning News and the Odessa American his junior year. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abby came over and sat on the couch while I quickly organized our supplies into piles. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The man who was stencilling the new ones and tossing them into a pile stopped. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

As the prow scraped the landing piles, Nat leaped ashore and caught the hawser. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I just realized that you've been in here the whole time, but you've been stuck in a dresser drawer with old toys piled up on top of you. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The apartment was strewn with books, magazines, and piles of clothing and had the smell of fresh oranges: Bobby would buy them and other fruits and vegetables by the bagful. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He goes to his desk and picks up the pile of quizzes. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She’s sitting down on the side of the hill with a pile of pebbles. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

At sunset, clouds piled up like purple mountains, forecasting rain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

While Dell spent years piling up plastic plates, Pattie was stacking money. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

She thought of the pile of baggage that the Nikkei from the ship had searched through so fervently. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

As soon as we were safely inside, she piled chairs against the locked back door. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without looking up, she says, “There’s a pile of dishes waiting to be washed. Get to it.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miranda remembered a heavy aroma of incense and onions in the house, and a pile of shoes heaped by the front door. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Frear and Wood hurried away as quickly as possible, weaving around the piles of personal property abandoned in the road. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“No idea. Which is why I’m scared to death that what we’re about to do is a whole pile of stupid. Could be a bloodbath.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I could only think back to that closet, hiding inside it with a pile of jackets surrounding me. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Some unfortunate just behind him was pulled out to help hold off the onslaught which must surely come within two or three days, while the last of the BEF was piling into the boats. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

As the pile of dirt grows bigger, I keep thinking, I’m never going to stay up late reading again. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

And the more I thought about it as Pa drove us back home from church and I sat in my room piled under all my schoolwork, the more I never wanted to do anything. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled out a folding chair from the pile and sat next to Ashish. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The brain’s sentence parser starts to thrash when faced with the successive leaves at the beginning, and it crashes altogether when it gets to the pile of alones at the end. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Three- foot-high piles of them decorated the steps between the benches. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Ugwu removed the palm fronds piled on top of Odenigbo’s car, but each time she turned the key, the engine wheezed and died out. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Young white girls with piles of golden hair hung on the arms of flashily dressed men. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Come! We must get back and see what we can do to pile stone and beam across the gates within. Come now!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He had been going for ten minutes when he saw Mace’s head on the grass by a pile of dirt. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Returning, unpacking the groceries, piling the dollars and change beside the toaster, washing the apples before putting them in the refrigerator, Dicey heard herself humming the song about Peggy-o. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the deacons clawed at the pile of broken glass and bricks, Reverend prayed aloud that another bomb had not been planted and that God would keep them safe. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

At the start of the belt there was nothing, a pile of waiting parts, and when the last man was finished, the result lay before them, whole. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The inside of Madame Sabbar’s tent looked a whole lot smaller without all the people piled up in it. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She added a bent stick to the pile. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We’d make a good pile and then lay low awhile, living it up. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spurge had made a little pile of leaves, then twigs, then sticks, then logs. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

When he had a good pile of these, broken and lined up for use, he searched for slightly larger dry wood and still larger until he had a pile as high as his knees. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby Gene stared at the massive pile she left behind. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Don’t fret, Brother Alf. Whatever it is, you can bet your habit it’ll be an original Matthias gem. That young mouse has got more in his head than a pile of acorns.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She hopped off die piling and fell in after him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His gray rags had been cast off in a pile next to him and he was clothed in a bright yellow silk, the color of the sun. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

They found a few branches here and there, and piled them into their arms beneath their oilskin cloaks. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Anxiously, he headed for the boxes that were piled near the wall and pulled out the mechanical man. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Some kind of water animal that came up to the sand to ... to do what? lo do something with the sand, to play and make a pile in die sand? Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can keep your shoestrings, but we’ll put the shoes in the pile. How’s that? If you get to keep something?” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

For a minute he looked like he might say more, but then he dropped to one knee and sorted through the pile of books he’d gathered. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I replace the Ivory soap that was knocked off the pile. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

They passed farmhouses, barns and an occasional weathered gray shack raised off the ground on piles of bricks. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gathered a pile of twigs and heavier branches and with the knife cut them to a useful length before trying to get them lit. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Every nook was occupied by a chair, a teetering pile of books, or both. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Starks piled fodder under the big tree near the porch and the mule was usually around the store like the other citizens. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

She arrived at Ranyinudo’s flat with a pile of newspapers, full of photographs of the big wedding she had just planned. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The comfy bed is piled high with Indian patchwork pillows in rich hues of chocolate, burgundy, and emerald embellished with tiny mirrors and gold tassels. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

She poked it through X-Ray's dirt pile, to see if anything else might have been buried in there as well. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Then he broke it in half and started picking out the raisins, placing them in a little pile on the seat between us. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Raking some dead leaves into a pile, she picked Little Ann up and laid her in them. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

There's also a pile of fabric for anyone to use to wrap their heads. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

There was a large pile of mail on his dining room table, where I found the letter very quickly. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I guess we could push it into the burn pile when we clear the other brush. I wonder if George called a forester yet? I wonder what it’s all worth? All that wood back there.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Arnold had started sorting through a thick pile of envelopes. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dirty clothes littered the floor, and I could see the butt of a handgun poking out from under a pile of stained T-shirts. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“So, you here to be a big-time actor?” he asked as he lifted a box off a pile and added it to the mess on the ground. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Enticed by the sweet warm smell, he reached across and grabbed two cookies off the top of the pile. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s pretty dark in there, so I can’t see much—a wicker table piled with mail and magazines, an old-fashioned umbrella stand, and a green plastic watering can on the floor. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Ariana spotted me and the huge pile of folded blue boxes on the table and gave me a thumbs-up. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

So we piled in around him, and he stuck his hand in the middle. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Celia grinned, hanging her head upside down off the bed, her massive pile of curly hair brushing the floor. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She gathered them into a pile and stuffed them into the denim bag. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to stay alive, right here in my comfortable manure pile with all my friends. I want to breathe the beautiful air and lie in the beautiful sun.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

And when I collapsed into the closet, a pile of jackets on the floor caught me. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The first picture was a posed photographer’s picture, badly yellowed, of a man with a long beard and a woman with long hair piled on top of her head. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caleb Prior sits at a metal desk, bent over a book, his hair piled on one side of his head. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He sees the beauty in the compost pile, and who knows? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Ymir’s bones they piled up into mountains and cliffs. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

But there have been fresh footprints leading to and from the casita and a pile of cigarette butts, as if someone without an ashtray has thrown them out the window. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Finally she stopped in front of the pile. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

We piled back into the old, dispiritedly lit coaches waiting for us, slumped into the uncomfortable green seats, and no one said much until we were miles away. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The straw they had given him seemed even moldier than the pile on which Meggie had slept, but the boy looked as if he hadn’t closed his eyes since Flatnose had locked him in anyway. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

After that it was a matter of sleuthing—investigating crevices that would be a convenient place to hide a book-shaped object, observing a pile of freshly dug dirt, or noticing something out of place. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We’d taken over half a table at the library, my nine-page paper laid out in a square of columns and rows and all my note cards fanned out in a messy pile beside it. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s my ticket. I’m the one who took it in the first place and it was in my pile and I get to say what we do with it.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“That was what, almost ten years ago? If there really was a pile of money hidden around the city, I’m sure someone would have found it by now.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the center of the living room floor was a large white cloth with a pile of her mother’s jewelry, her father’s special watches, jade figurines, money, and other precious items. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He scraped a patch of ground clear of wet leaves and twigs and put the little pile of papers on to the soil. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The street below me is quiet now, except for the sound of straw brooms sweeping the day’s litter into small piles on side streets. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be no food to speak of, even on a market day when everybody came around to make the tallest possible pile out of what they had. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Near the bank the ice piles up in chunks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I was certain the event would end in bloodshed; in bodies piled sky-high, like the Battle of the Pelennor Fields. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Take those boots,” called the shoe poet to an old man picking through a pile. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Bodies had begun to pile on top of each other near a short palm tree, where fronds dripped blood. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He forced the door open, cast aside the chair and boxes hastily piled against it with one lazy wave of his wand...and there she stood, the child in her arms. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Just before noon, when we would break for lunch, we would pile the lime into wheelbarrows and cart it over to the truck, which would take it away. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just step over that pile of junk there.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was anxious to work his way up to the top of the pile because he was afraid of being squashed by the next can-load of garbage. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Then dozens more of them appeared, piling out of their wagons to range around us in a wide circle, many holding knives of their own. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

We piled them up till we had the carcass completely covered, then set fire to them. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The seven of them tumbled away from the front door, landing in a pile on the front lawn with Anya on the bottom. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Cold air blows in with the smell of burning leaves and dead things piled on to bonfires. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

It was a bright May afternoon when we all piled into a large van and set off on the hour-long drive. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I took her pile of clean laundry and walked up the porch steps. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

You couldn't lift a three-ton vehicle unless you adjusted gravity, and how could you survive piling through a building unless you were able to manipulate energy? City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

In the back of the station wagon were three bicycles, piled one on top of the other. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

A four-poster bed, a dresser, silver-framed photographs, a pile of books on the bedside table, a catalog lying open on the rug, its pages full of pictures of old books. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“No, I know. But that blue one right there”—Ivy tapped the edge of her pillow—“it’s mine. My sister accidentally put it in the pile.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

People were piled on the deck, eating, drinking, the sound of their laughter rising above the weary sigh of the waves. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Abby planted herself in front of the pile and folded her arms. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

He takes her hand to help her over the piles. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He nodded, picking up another card and putting it in the discard pile. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It is all piled right on top of where Calvin and I hung out. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

At four-thirty in the afternoon, when Officer David Delinko normally got off work, his desk was still piled high with paperwork. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hobbits lay in a corner by themselves upon a pile of old bracken. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

There were alleyways and roads bordered by teetering piles of broken and damaged furniture, stowed away, perhaps, to hide the evidence of mishandled magic, or else hidden by castle-proud house-elves. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

To get to this point took a lot of new software innovation piled on the shoulders of earlier innovations. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

He digs into a pile of scrambled eggs. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The hairdresser piled my hair high on my head, with loose ringlets cascading over one shoulder, and a white rose pinned behind my ear. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Mario made a pile of old magazines and put the cricket cage on top of them so everyone could see better and hear more clearly. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a pile of rubbish in one corner of the room: cardboard boxes filled with mildewed papers and decaying curtains in a heap beside them. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Slopper sat in the corner hoarding his own pile of hay until Tree explained to him that we could jump off the loft if we had something below to break our fall. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he reached for something beneath a pile of papers, an old leg shackle from slavery which he proudly called a "symbol of our progress." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of ripe guavas, piled high on a handcart pushed by a vendor, mixed with the smell of diesel smoke from buses. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I look around at the pile of rough-cut wood, the wide whitewashed planks of the porch walls. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She turned away and headed toward the nearest pile of blankets. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

These game submissions piled on the table were a physical representation to Emily of how many people would wish to be in her shoes. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Oranges, cocoanuts and alligator pears lay in neat piles on little tables. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ess delicately set both her shoes on the very top of the pile, then stood a moment, staring at her arm. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Maya said, folding another shirt from her clean laundry pile. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I carried them upstairs on the top of the pile. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

My stomach sits like a pile of spit at the end of my trombone slide. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

But though she rolls over into a pile of leaves, I know sleep won't come to her. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He’s got a pile of dead roaches already. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

After digging through piles of old books, they’d quickly make their purchase. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

She sat on the pile of wood in front of the fire and sipped. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced over at the pile of boxes and bags next to the door. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

‘Once I stood here at the corner of Zeus’s temple, venerated by all! I oversaw the games of Olympia. Offerings from every city-state were piled at my feet!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But one match, unluckily, struck right next to a pile of that morning’s newspapers. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I’m done with all the aisles, the basket is piled so high, I can barely see over it. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

But by the time my family gets home, were sitting on the love seat in the living room with a pile of textbooks between us. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The front rooms were filled with piles of blankets and bedding, a few stacked mattresses, and a number of unidentifiable gray plastic tubs. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

George rumpled his cards into a messy pile. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up a pile of art books and a sketch pad and set it on the floor. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

She suddenly feels silly and stupid, alone in her tent with a pile of tangled ribbon and an old hat. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He went through the small square by the station and he saw the fritter stands piled one on top of the other and he could find no trace of the massacre. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“And this morning, just a few minutes ago, you were over there, with the children—” Gabe nodded toward the corner of the room where the two little ones were industriously piling blocks into towers. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Even the brick chimney was crumbled, a pile of rust red and gray. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Her hair falls into her lap, swirling into a pile of ringlets, and her tiny teacup monkey plays hide-and-seek within the strands. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

They were piled up on one another, staring at all the mad faces that surrounded them. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He saw a pile of old newspapers stacked carefully in a corner. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was Chester, piling a Kleenex against the opening. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed a fish from a pile of others heaped in a large wooden pen. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Hermione rummaged for a moment and then extracted from the pile a large volume, bound in faded black leather. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I can’t see what the piles are until I am a foot away from them. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The food was serious too, and was piled on their plates in serious quantities. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The hair of the wives was piled high about the room, eyelashes fluttered, and ice tinkled in full cocktail glasses. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gold was piled on the biers of dead kings and queens; and mounds covered them, and the stone doors were shut; and the grass grew over all. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I pointed out how the pile of leaves she had walked through were obviously disturbed, and how the branches of the banerbyre were broken and torn where she’d struggled through. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I pull an arrow from the sheath that’s still wedged in the pile and arm my bow as I turn. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I piled my books and binders on the table. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Jason was piling the mashed potatoes on his plate with a practiced and steady motion. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

When all her systems were up and running again, Roz noticed that she was surrounded by broken branches and piles of snow. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Fragments of wooden crates and barrels lay in piles in different corners, along with rusted metal chains. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

We peek into the dining room, where Mama is putting the finishing touches on a pile of catering orders. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

It seemed at first that he hit softly, but the shock of it went through him, up his back to his head and he lay buried in a cold pile of snow, dazed. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hornet had put one of them by the wall and piled her books around it. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She takes the three old coats from our bed and piles them on the pram till you can hardly see Alphie at all. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“She put Ben on that piling—the one right there, but then she got pulled back out by the current.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I turn my attention to Mya’s pile, but she’s busy texting away from the green hospital chair in the corner, a big smile plastered on her face. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She tugs me forward to a large table overflowing with piles of tattlers, beauty pamphlets, and scandal sheets. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

But I wasn’t looking forward to spending the rest of my days on some rock pile. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we went back and loaded up again from the pile. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They piled their things in the center of a few worn rags and tied the corners together. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He looked over his blinking monitors, then ordered the first cadmium rod to be lifted out of the pile. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole effect was appalling—a pile of junk. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then she carried the quivering pullet to the manure pile and buried it deep. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the wharf a fish packing plant exuded the odor of salmon bones, and the creosoted pilings of the state ferry terminal lay in among a fleet of mildewed boats. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

His presence surprised me, since it was against his character to seek the trauma of watching two thousand bread-and-butter biochemists pile in and out of badly lighted baroque lecture halls. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Her hair was stacked up in a pile that seemed to be more pins than hair, and the whole thing teetered forward over her thin pale face. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind blew and the snow piled up. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He strolled into the room and picked at the pile of clothes and glanced at the kite. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

After making a neat pile in the middle of the bandage, I gather up the sides, give them a twist, and tie them tightly with a length of vine, making an apple-sized bundle. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

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 gray stallion pulled his sled, piled high with rocks, through snowdrifts and through blizzards, up steep hills and down again, through icy gorges. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

When she slipped inside and pulled the door shut, she shuffled to the nearest pile of straw and plopped onto it as the first tears forced their way out of her eyes. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Mr. Barris straightens a pile of papers on his desk while he considers his response. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The men were silent, bent over, poking into the pile of grey ashes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He found himself against a pile of soft earth—evidently the end of a blocked run leading out of the burrow—and turned. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dumped a pile of lumpy bags on the sidewalk. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

When they had cut enough to make a pile, they slid the cut stalks off the slats, into neat heaps on the ground. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their rental house was a clapboard box suspended on pilings over the bay. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He felt through a pile of papers skeltered about his desk and gave it up. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Most were folding up their blankets and tossing them into piles in the corners of the room, but some just lay awake on the floor or propped against the concrete walls, staring into space. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The four of us piled our hands together. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He sorted through the pile of passports in front of him. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room had been cleaned, the bed carefully made and covered with its green-and-brown spread, and on the desk were my school books arranged in a neat pile. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

They stepped into the room and walked up to a smaller pile. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Apples painted with nevermore are piled on the banquet tables in such quantity as to send half the Court dreaming. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Gbenye was the first to move, pulling my antelope off the pile and holding it proudly in the air. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Ogilvie daughters, Colette and Jeannine, swept into the room, dressed in matching pink and yellow bombazine gowns, wearing their curled hair piled on top of their heads. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Dugout was sparsely furnished—booth benches with backs on them along the walls, and support pilings scattered throughout the room that cut into the dancing space. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The house took on a life of its own, hatching piles of dishes and laundry and newspapers and dust. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He got to his knees, kicking over his colorful book piles in the process. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Our destination turned out to be an empty stretch of road cut off by a pile of stones and logs heaped in the middle of the path. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It’s piled ragtag with parcels and boxes covered in leather skins, bits of furniture and large baskets, all tumbled together, almost overflowing with itself. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

All is vastness; the clouds are piled up like giant rocks, and there is a “brool” over the sea that sounds like some presage of doom. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Drifts of dirty snow had piled up against the walls, filling every nook and comer. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Gabe looked around at the piles of boards, the sawdust, the mess on the ground. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

This room doesn't feel occupied; the bed is piled with a half-finished sewing project. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Here and there, piles of dust and scattered bones lay on the floor, which did not say encouraging things about the average wait time. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The two children sleeping peacefully in the bed above her gave no particular cause for alarm, and yet, as Jinny piled her cushions and slipped into her clothes every day, she couldn’t shake her worry. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Frankie retrieved the medical kit from amid the scatter of jars and tincture bottles piled on an overturned apple crate in the corner. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

They eased him into the back of a horse-drawn ambulance and onto a pile of mattresses removed from a train car and put there to absorb the jolts. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He glances at the pile of coins, mostly nickels. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

From under her sleeping shelf, Rivka pulled out a pile of shoes. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Attached to the back by a short length of rope was Zane’s skateboard, piled high with four powder blue suitcases strapped down tight, each one stuffed to bursting. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Her sister looked so tiny in her clothes, an Auburn Tigers sweatshirt and too-big sweatpants from the donation pile. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When the paper had all burned, he ground the charred bits up with his foot and covered them with a pile of wet leaves. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

They pulled the morels from the ground, small alienlooking things that he piled in the hood of the boy’s parka. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

And Brandy just stands there like a pile of seaweed. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Jay Cee handed me a pile of story manuscripts and spoke to me much more kindly. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I shook so hard, I thought the bathroom was going to lose molecular cohesion and collapse into a vibrating pile of dust. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

On her second trip up, he had come closer to stand by the pile. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She found one a few feet away from the pile, and immediately began to hunt around for its mate. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The pile of papers on a nearby desk shifts and shuffles until a single business card finds its way to the surface and sails across the room. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The now-heavy crate crashed on Clock Watcher heads and shattered, knocking them into a splintery pile. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s all right,” he whispered to the squeaking, squirming pile of them, nosing their mother’s belly. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

We brushed off the few leaves that had fallen on the pile of clothes and skin, then got on either side of it to drag it away. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They slid down from their bone pile and started down the passage. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The pumpkins and the squashes were piled in orange and yellow and green heaps in the attic’s corners. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guy crashed into an abandoned pile of trash bags, and before he could get back up, Sargon was on him, jaws wide.... City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The couch was brown and squat with a pile of cushions covered in graying lace at the far end. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

He gathered the papers he had been working on and tamped the bottom of the pile on his desk to neaten it, and then laid the stack down on the right side of the desk. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

For centuries, it was fine to pile one negative on top of another in the same sentence. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did, however, manage to trip over his left knee and knock down a pile of comic books stacked by his desk. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The bulb hit the far edge of the cart and then bounced onto the pile of onions inside. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He was on the table with her clothes piled around him. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“From my mom,” she said, pinning the slat in place with one hand and plucking a screw from the pile on the carpet. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

He glanced resentfully at a pile of mutilated stuffed animals heaped in the corner of the porch. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Miss Love picked it out of the pile. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Mama came in holding a tray piled high with bottles of soft and malt drinks lying on their sides. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

A clerk sat at the desk, between two tall piles of encyclopedias. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Lana Lee dumped a pile of nickels into the cash register and wrote down a figure on a sheet of paper. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brer Fox roared before he disappeared beneath a wriggling pile of iron monsters. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I remembered the huge pile of used tissues that littered the coffee table, and how Butternut stayed near me the whole day, like he knew I was sick and needed a friend. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He stood up and put a bare foot firmly on the pile of pebbles. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She crawled over the remaining pile, getting a few dozen splinters in her free hand. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Until an entrance opens, like a cave, but really just mangled trees and roots in a massive pile. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Somebody fed them good,” Robert said, pointing at the pile of dry cornstalks on the ground in the corral. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Who knew what might be under that last pile of stones. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

“There, there,” said Slughorn, waving his wand so that the huge pile of earth rose up and then fell, with a muffled sort of crash, onto the dead spider, forming a smooth mound. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The girls move on to pick through other rows, but I walk straight toward the wood piles. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

A couple of times today I thought I saw something black run behind a junk pile really fast. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The pile of clothes from last week is still there, and it looks dustier and more forlorn than it did a few days ago. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was I going to be able to enjoy chicken so soon after working in the processing shed and gut-composting pile? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In their place was a neat pile of smoky blue garments. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“World’s largest pile of air fresheners next stop.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Once again taking up the stashes of guns from their clubhouses, they piled into cars, revved up their engines, and sped across the deadline into the Black Belt. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I peered around the corner and saw them massing in two huge piles, evidently on top of inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We gathered leaves from the trees, which smelled like sweet gum, and piled them to lie on. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I scrambled up and picked handfuls of capulfs, then leaned over to hand them to her, and she made a little pile of berries at the base of the tree. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twisting her damp hair away from her face, Sefia began digging her belongings out of the pack, laying them out in neat piles until her searching hands hit something flat and solid and firm. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

His boots crunched through piles of old snow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The statue showed a man with a pile of books behind him. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

But yesterday I found a faded quilt in a pile of giveaways in our apartment building's laundry room. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The cows stayed in the barn all the time now, except on sunny mornings when they went out and stood in the barnyard in the lee of the straw pile. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

The ends of the bows were embedded in cement pilings. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

We looked in a window at a pile of cheeses. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Handing him a smaller pile of bills, Charles said, “And this is to say thank you.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Teaching and increased fund-raising responsibilities got piled on top of my bulging litigation docket, but somehow things progressed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It crashed into the pile of bricks he had just been carrying. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I kick the closest thing, a pile of hubcaps, and they scatter. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The minute she started taking piles of the shirts into her arms, I ran to her side, and so did the other kids, almost seventy of us crowding around. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The big wagon box was piled full, and some of the fish were as big as Laura. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the hovercraft was filled with bales of plastic sandals piled so high, the boys couldn’t see out the windows. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On one side of the young mouse the gifts from Squire Julian Gingivere, Captain Snow and the shrews were piled high; on the other was his sword, reflecting the rays of the afternoon sun. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Like a pile of fine metal shavings or powdered glass. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

A few months later, when Emmett heard Henrietta needed blood, he and his brother and six friends piled into a truck and went straight to Hopkins. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Only one cadmium rod remained in the pile; Fermi’s team called it the “zip” rod. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chattana was like a pile of pebbles: if you stepped on it, it would shift and change until the surface was the bottom and the bottom was the top. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

On one side of it is an enormous hole in the ground, with large mud piles heaped around it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Before we leave, Justin’s phone buzzes, and he gets that look again—that Chad look—and he shoves his reading pile into his bag and moves to the hall. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

He nodded at the shards of glass swept into a pile in the corner. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

When it got dark, I climbed out of the van, locked it, and hurled the keys off into the junk pile. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

What he should have done, he realized later, was knock one of his dirt piles back into his hole. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Behind him, sitting on piles of scrap and rubble, was the blue kite. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Many states utilize “poverty penalties”—piling on additional late fees, payment plan fees, and interest when individuals are unable to pay all their debts at once, often enriching private debt collectors in the process. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I am one of the family; someday this stately pile will belong to me; until then, however, I am here as one of Doctor Montague’s guests.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lena hoists a bucket of water onto a desk and puts it next to our pile of plaster strips. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The Belgian foremen would bring baskets full of brown hands back to the boss, piled up like a mess of fish. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the rush and drag of the waves can be heard as they splash in among the piles of the canneries. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry watched the goblin on their right weighing a pile of rubies as big as glowing coals. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The stacks were so dense around the pile of crushed and charred trailers that it was too dangerous to try to clear them out with one of the old construction cranes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

There would be a shining pile of them on the hearth before Pa stopped. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he practically buried the Chincha leadership under piles of valuables. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We piled the car parts in the wagon. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

There must have been a storm in the night; snow piles in small drifts on the mattresses, having blown in through the cracks and crevices in the walls and roof. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

To the east and west were more mountains, great jagged peaks thrusting sharply upward, their scarps piled high with snow and raked by the wind into bladelike edges as sharp as scimitars. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Salva watched, fascinated, as little by little the curve of a prow and low sides grew from the piles of reeds. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marco rights a toppling pile of boxes while he considers the matter. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He lifted the pile of books to the floor. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Somehow Kevin himself had gotten to the top of the pile. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

A few weeks ago I started writing a story, something I made up from beginning to end, and I’ve enjoyed it so much that the products of my pen are piling up. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Minli watched as the buffalo went directly to one pile and lay down. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The travellers hung up their cloaks, and piled their packs on the floor. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The gateway was completely blocked, and more bodies were piling up. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the pile was built, they were on different sides of a high barrier. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Through the glass windows of the exit doors, I could see the headmaster, Mr. Bonsai, wrestling with the lode, a crowd of teachers piling up behind him. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dyedka stood by the pile of stuff in front of the hole, scratching his head, eyebrows furrowed with bewilderment. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

But there was only a single sheet of paper at the bottom of the pile, and it was blank. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Everybody needs a pile of newspapers: to peel potatoes on, serve bathroom needs, wrap garbage. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d cut every single rose left in her garden and piled them there. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Teasing you along, letting you pile up a little paper profit, then bang! The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pile had generated only enough energy to power a small light bulb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He plucked a well-read copy of Face Value out of the bag in front of him and pitched it into the Toss pile. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Now the twins, with unsuspected intelligence, came up the mountain with armfuls of dried leaves and dumped them against the pile. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Later that night, my door creaked open an inch and I saw my father peek in, holding a plate piled high with pizza. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Seeing as I couldn’t wear my formal, I had to go for a sequined black mother-of-the-bride looking thing I found in one of Mom’s donation piles in Lucy’s room. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

My mom doesn’t have any hours at the restaurant today, and I find her at home sorting through the mountain of laundry while Hector takes clothes out of the pile and flings them around. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Waves crash against the pilings and spray us as we walk along. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He arranged the plants in an orderly pile. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Accustomed to building fires on the beach, they found it easy to light the small starting pile of leaves and twigs with the matches Dicey had taken from the counter in the store. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The area in front of the holophone showed a desk neatly piled with papers, a swivel chair and what appeared to be a diploma on the wall. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The next thing we saw, the officers had piled on top of the man. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The piles of paper on his desk and the top of his file cabinet had grown. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

We had fifteen minutes to gather whatever we needed and pile into the car. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The roadside stands were piled with golden pumpkins and russet squashes and baskets of red apples so crisp and sweet that they seemed to explode with juice when I bit into them. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m drowned out by the rest of our team piling on top of us. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, conflict between them broke open at the end of January, when Lawrence appeared in Chicago with a proposal to centralize all the plutonium and isotope work, including the atomic pile, at Berkeley. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She piled old clothes and old shoes on top. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our first significant precalc test was only two days away, so Alaska grabbed the six precalc kids she did not consider Weekday Warriors and piled us into her tiny blue two-door. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

But the room above the arch was empty, lit only by a lantern set on a low table where a book lay open next to a little pile of whole walnuts and cracked shells. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Across the aisle from Rahel a woman with chapped cheeks and a mustache coughed up phlegm and wrapped it in twists of newspaper that she tore off the pile of Sunday papers on her lap. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes we heard them pile back into their truck and restart the engine, and then, at last, they were gone. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I could still see the edge of her striped dress poking out from under the pile of her skin. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

By the fourth floor, things are piled everywhere, in the rooms and corridors and along the staircase: baskets of what must be machine parts, shoe boxes loaded with screws, antique dollhouses built by her great-grandfather. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

And books all over the floor, some stacked in piles, some wom-looking, some brand-new, some splayed upside down, some sliding off the pink bedside table next to the lamp with the orange fabric shade. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Her face was a pile of white cloud afire with red hair. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He met Woundwort’s pale stare, hesitated a moment and then climbed on the earth pile. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He steered Covadonga through an unfamiliar section of the city, down dark back streets in which garbage was piled against the walls of factories, in a forest of smokestacks that shut out the sky. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he passed it left to Inkpots, he riffled through the pile underneath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Instead, he walks to his desk and grabs a pile of papers. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Papa was fiddling with the stick pile and matches. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The door of each car is open, waiting for the Dauntless to pile in, and they do, group by group, until only the new initiates are left. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He went outside and fished a wrist-thick limb out of the brush pile. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

There was a pile of trash at the back, and then the clearing abruptly gave way to jungle. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She patted the clothes that she had piled on the window ledge. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Before Ivy could offer to come along, Taryn was out the door, leaving Ivy alone with Taryn’s bewildered parents and the giant pile of eggs and cinnamon raisin toast they had made for both girls. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Sookie stopped and lifted the lid, presenting a pile of crustaceans, writhing like leggy bugs. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She found a few hairpins and used them to pile her hair into a matronly bun. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She chose a sweatshirt and jeans from the piles of clothes I had folded and placed on the floor along the wall. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The only remains on the glacier were the main gates, which listed sideways, and a tattered blue banner lying over a pile of snow-bricks. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Grandmère found her initials scrawled in a little nook in one of the horse stalls, which is where she would hide under piles of hay whenever the Nazis were nearby. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

We raked the pile level and got out of there. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Dad bends to grab the next ball from the pile. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smaller spiral-shelled snails were cheaper, piled high in baskets, but she could not buy them, could not think of them as food; they had always been, to her, playthings for village children. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

His mother lowers her glasses to the tip of her nose, eyeing him over a pile of papers. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When the water’s lapping around the high marks on the pilings, I give the winch a couple of cranks until the line goes tight. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I slipped on a pile of wood scraps, but when I shined a light on them I realized they were pencils—hundreds of them, all broken in half. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He piles the bubbles together like he is making a sand castle. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

There would be nothing left of him but a pile of gnawed bones . A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Taking Melanie aside, April whispered, “There are boxes piled up out there. They could have been watching forever! Shall I punch them now?” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He checked every tin and jar of food, then emptied ’em on the pile of broke-up dishes; he used his boots to stomp every chair into kindling. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The piles of feces in the bathtub were dried, obscene stonelike lumps. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I can’t help but stare at the three twenties and one ten, and remember the pile of cash that she gave me. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She stopped, as did he, at a circular table piled with sweaters, flanked with pinecones and velvet bows. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

In my head I can still see that little pile of clothes lying at the edge of the track, abandoned. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taking earth from the pile that had been made, he began to cover the bodies. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

That’s when I saw them, a handful of kids scattered around the library on rugs, lying in pairs or off in a corner by themselves on a mat, piles of books beside them. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Underneath the robe he expects to find some racy lingerie—back in New York he’d glimpsed the pile of things she’d received for her shower in the corner of her bedroom. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

At Trzebinia I worked all day moving piles of rocks back and forth, digging holes six feet deep and then filling them back in again. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The boys piled the decorations in the anteroom and then Mack stopped them. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I consider going back to sleep, I find an envelope under a pile of notecards. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The stuff was everywhere, We piled in gritty drifts by the side doors of houses, wafting up from the chimneys as oily smoke, smeared on the overalls of men walking to work. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

By the open closet door was a great pile of coats and boots and bags and boxes, their contents all spilled out and tangled up. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My family piled around the large table as my mom brought out food from the kitchen. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

There are piles of food on the table, served buffet style, just like at the Kweilin feasts. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the body flopped onto the pile, the whole wagonload of flies jumped into the air like lice from a walloper. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The flies around the pile, crawling over the bodies, into and out of the wound, buzzed in delight. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Minli finally reached the beggar, the tiny twig of the tree vanished underneath the pile of peach pits and the beggar was turning to leave. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

After what seemed like an hour of typing, he turned his attention to the pile of passports. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Thin china plates were crammed next, to piles of old books, and pictures in tarnished silver frames lay next to cheap paper masks. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

They licked their lips and clucked their tongues in fond remembrance of pains they had endured—childbirth, rheumatism, croup, sprains, backaches, piles. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept cutting wood and piling it like a nervous child biting his nails. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I used to think all that spooky stuff about Friday the Thirteenth was just a pile of baloney. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

‘I should like to learn it. In Moria, in Khazad-dûm! But it makes the darkness seem heavier, thinking of all those lamps. Are there piles of jewels and gold lying about here still?’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“It’s dangerous out here. The cities are like these boulders. They may seem solid, but if you start messing with them, the whole pile could crumble.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The children took cracked clay bowls from a pile on the worn wooden table and sat down on stools. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Soon nothing remained but little piles of dirt scattered on the creaking wooden deck. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He dims his lights and pulls out his laptop, which he sets up on a pile of pillows in front of us. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She peered into the back window, into a dark kitchen, where a pile of apples sat in a bowl on the table. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The shed has a worktable piled high with stuff and a giant Peg-Board wall with lots of tools hanging from silver hooks. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

We piled our luggage on the waiting cart and crowded up beside the driver. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The tailwind had stiffened further, slicing up the length of the lake now, piling more rough water into heaps of whitecaps at the north end. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I killed you, I think as I pass a pile. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Her face was buried in a romance novel titled My General Forever, and a large snoring bulldog lay curled in a pile of wrinkled skin at her feet. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

They walked west across the long mesa where the old ones had piled stones in circles, high above the flat sandstone mesa top far above the canyons and springs. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her new jeans and her cowboy shirt were in a dark pile in the bowl, and her shoes were crammed under the lip. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

When she was finished, Ms. Udell closed the book, placed it on top of a pile of papers on her desk, and removed her glasses. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I felt that at any moment I might start, my head on a pile of books at my desk, and find myself in a darkening room, alone. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I cut the cape, then ripped it in two, and laid it under the wheel in the mud, then piled brush for the wheels to catch. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Militia units from the surrounding colonies piled into the city. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

To please him, she reclined on a pile of cushions. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Three girls pile out of the train and clack down the icy stairs. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her library filled her bookshelves and then overflowed into waist-high stacks of books everywhere, piled haphazardly against the walls. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The sandstone and dirt they had taken from inside the mesa was piled in mounds, in long rows, like fresh graves. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her body was warm and soft as a pile of pillows against my arm where she leaned her weight, and her feet, in their high, spiked heels, dragged foolishly. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

And, of course, he felt he had more than enough administrative experience in large projects to oversee electromagnetic separation, plutonium, and the chain-reaction pile without overstretching himself. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The yarn is easily found, a ball of it sits precariously on a pile of books. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The word man hit like a pile of rocks falling on George’s skull. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I climbed over fallen plates of stone back to the top of the rubble pile, playing my lights around. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not have to run far in order to see the broken pile of rubble at the base of the tree. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

With both girls in one bag, sleeping in coats and scarves and with extra blankets piled on them, they should be okay. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The sheriff brought his leg down from the piling and with care repaired the tuck of his shirt. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Another layer of brush was piled about the khal's treasures, and bundles of dried grass scattered over them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Ann was right behind them and saw them run over to the pile, scoop up a few bricks, and lob them through nearby store and car windows. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until I was nearing the end of the pile that I became certain there was somebody standing outside the barn, just beside the doorway. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Street vendors push food carts piled with steamed dumplings, smoked beef teriyaki sticks, and roasted peanuts along the sidewalks and begin to set up for another day of business. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smiling beatifically, and wearing both his decorations, Napoleon reposed on a bed of straw on the platform, with the money at his side, neatly piled on a china dish from the farmhouse kitchen. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Seconds later Eliza hurried in, carrying a silver platter piled high with fresh goose. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

I tipped the bag toward the light and saw that it wasn’t a pile of dirt—it was a pile of crumbs. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He searched the floor until he found a plastic bar straw, and then he played with piles of cigarette butts he had gathered. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The dog loved to hide underneath big piles of clothes on our oriental rugs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was April 1972, thirty years almost to the day, that we piled our three kids into the car and headed out there. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

This six-story brick structure is one of those piles of slag that give Sing Sing its particular feel. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cotton was piling up on the piers in Egypt, and nobody wanted any. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The people quickly went about their busy talkative business and, as the smoke and dust cleared, only Milo, Tock, and the Humbug noticed the Soundkeeper sitting disconsolately on a pile of rubble. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a small room, crowded with tottering piles of papers and books, and the whiteboards on the walls were covered in figures and equations. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It pulled a wagon piled high with goods and people who wanted to visit the villages. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nat is on her belly behind me, running her hand over the dirt, organizing it in little piles. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air went out of Moss, and with it went all of the grief that had been piling up inside of his body. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Along the back wall, near the Ping-Pong and pool tables, several army cots had been set up, and in the corner was a pile of sleeping bags. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Two bolsters can be piled on top of each other. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

There was a pile of Ivans sleeping in front of the fireplace as there had been the other morning, resting on one another at various angles. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to play video games. I want to check out the discard pile.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

When animal droppings and garbage and spoiled straw are piled up in a great heap, the rotting and moiling give forth heat. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She found him in the second room, along with two of his brothers, all piled on the bed with feet and heads sticking out at odd places. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He piles the lint on top of the hump that makes the border for feet space. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

In her palm is my pendant necklace, the smooth bumps on its surface scraped and dirty but still more or less whole, the necklace part lying in a pile in her palm. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“No, no. I’ve got piles of things to do before tomorrow’s pageant board meeting.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I add the book to my pile to take home. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t in the wagon where I’d left it, or leaning against the wall, or on the piles of squash. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then they sit facing each other with the pile in the middle. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After she was done piling sand and I was done with my angel, we stared up at the sky. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They slept in a parked car beneath an overpass with the suitcoats and the blanket piled over them. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The cars remained, as did piles of garbage and human waste. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Then he saw die pile of berries at the back of the shelter and remembered the night and being sick. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pick up the rake and start making the dead-leaf pile neater. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Under the stairs it was open and dry and dark—a few old paint cans piled on top of each other, a couple of broken window frames, something dead that once had fur. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

Ivy thought about all her T-shirts buried under a pile of rubble. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The back seat was piled with azalea branches. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bull excused himself from Cecil’s embrace long enough to send the captain directly over an indistinguishable pile of flight jackets with a backhand across the mouth. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Downstairs, Mom has already piled my plate high with chicken parmesan and garlic bread. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Just another one to add to the pile, but appreciated nonetheless. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I follow the dress with my eyes, focusing all my energy on it, wanting desperately to rescue it from the pile. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reach out to the pile in front of me and pull out a single doubloon. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Mark and Chicho pile up snow with their shovels, creating the torso. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I threw them to the ground and tugged them all apart, dumping the pieces into a pile. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Earlier, he’d collected flat stones from the creek and piled them carefully near a birch grove. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Annabeth was kneeling under the weight of a dark mass that looked like a pile of boulders. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

When you went through the line, after you got the hot meal, there would be a pile of fruit, and you could take one apple or one banana. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We watched a lot of videos that showed piles of snow. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He continues until my hand is covered in a pile of warm, shimmering flecks. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He was simply one more in the pile of creatures who sang the national anthem in the schoolhouse and stood in line to receive their Christmas presents. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a rough-and-tumble version of his table in the Chrysopoesium, scattered with glassware and copper and piles of books. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Kill them all and take their treasures, I say. Whisper the command, and your Daario will make you a pile of their heads taller than this pyramid.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After walking about half a mile, I reached a giant mound of old cars and trucks piled haphazardly along the stacks’ eastern perimeter. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

That night, the snow came thick and thicker, heavy and wet and piling up so quickly that Turner could watch it mound itself up from his bedroom window. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She grabbed the pile from Moss and sat down near him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Nearly everybody took the habit of fetching along a handful of fodder to throw on the pile. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Gaps in front, the newly dead, piles of red meat. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now if you visit, it’s a pile of stones that only museum people care about. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The house was tiny, and my traumatized family had suddenly piled in there with nowhere else to go. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

One of the survivors fainted as soon as Reed landed in the longboat, but the other backed away, scrabbling for purchase in the piles of bones. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Celia regards the three piles of cards thoughtfully while she sips her tea. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It had probably slipped off the pile when he had made space for the typewriter. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Wednesday shrugged, and picked up an old copy of the Reader’s Digest from a small pile of yellowing magazines on the windowsill. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

At the sight of a burning pile of clothing, the horse jumped sideways. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

I lit pieces of paper and little piles of brush and held my breath until the moment when they seemed about to blaze up out of control. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“A German prisoner,” reported Pash, “confirmed the fact that we had captured the Nazi uranium ‘machine’ as the Germans called it-—actually an atomic pile.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The point was to hit a mooring buoy at first, then a piling on the next dock. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Once more he climbed on the earth pile. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a typical student apartment: prints of modern French paintings tacked onto the walls and books and papers piled on tables and chairs. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

A lick of the envelope, a stamp, and tossed in a pile of a hundred others. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then my three Lamb cousins piled out of the back. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The tire store—through a window, I saw tires piled inside. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

Books on the TV set and in the closet, small piles of books, tall piles of books, books thick and thin, books old and new. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

So with Pantalaimon as a white hare bounding delicately at her side, she trudged along the line of sledges to where some men were piling brushwood. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He made space for it on the messy table surface, pushing aside the collapsed pile of unopened letters and packages. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Henry will send a snap from a seven a.m. polo practice and promptly receive one of Alex at two a.m., glasses on and coffee in hand, in bed with a pile of notes. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Huge stinking piles of human feces lay everywhere; it was impossible not to walk in it. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The pile of bricks Claire hid behind shielded her from the severest heat and most of the flying debris. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

It comes from the pile of beer cans on the floor by the couch, and it comes from him, too. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I sit at the table and start piling up my plate. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They twisted, merged, formed a single image: Hassan’s brown corduroy pants discarded on a pile of old bricks in the alley. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled it out and placed it at the bottom of the pile. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He ripped the twenty into tiny pieces, made a pile of pieces, and hit sparks into them. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beside her on the ice was Dump Camp, a junk pile of most of the stores and equipment the men had. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Otto struggled down from my arms and crawled to the pile of old straw on the far side. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The roofs of the cabins were heaped with snow, and dirty mounds of it were piled up on the sides of the streets. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I do love the rectangular chocolate sandwich cookies, though, and pile a few on my plate, making a mental note to take a few packages with us when we go home. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

There were a couple more stained towels from the matching set lying in a pile on the radiator cover. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The massive golem crumbled into a pile of rubble. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They would sleep on piles of clean straw, with fires blazing to keep the chill of night at bay. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Once he opened Melquíades' room, looking for the traces of a past from before the war, and he found only rubble, trash, piles of waste accumulated over all the years of abandonment. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Jinjoo plopped down on the ground and sorted through the pile. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I could have piled everything from here straight to heaven. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I got real good at this and, within the week, had a pile of stones ready to be stacked into a millhouse. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was piling in heaps on sidewalks, on roofs, gathering in patches on the bark of straggly trees. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He made a tally of his shining pile— tripods, cauldrons, cloaks, and gold—and found he lacked nothing at all. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sped off up adjacent aisles; Harry could hear the others’ footsteps echoing through the towering piles of junk, of bottles, hats, crates, chairs, books, weapons, broomsticks, bats.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A huge pile of topsoil appears in our backyard, then a pile of rolled-up squares of grass. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What a mess,” said Tucker Mouse, looking at the soggy, smoldering piles of papers and magazines. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neady stacked piles of paper and pencils lay about the table’s surface, one for each chair. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She was shuffling a pile of papers in her hand. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Listen, I don’t know what you’ve already decided about what you think my life is like, but I’m not about to be sold off by my parents for a pile of goats, okay?” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

His cell had been cleaned out, and all his junk was piled there. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next few hours, Deborah pulled papers off the pile for me to read and sort. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Ivy marked the spot with a pile of river rocks, smooth and gray and solemn looking. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

They’re piled up on the sink, and the last thing I wash is a clear, flat knife. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I mean piles of things with tubes and wires. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Piles and piles of words I learned to read. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

On a table within is a pile of small boxes—ammunition—and a few pistols. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Taran came to his senses on a pile of dirty straw, which smelled as though Gurgi and all his ancestors had slept on it. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Bowing, the man left the room, only to return a few moments later, bearing a long knife with-a slender saw-tooth blade, a basin of water, a pile of soft cloths, and several flasks. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Piggy shook his head and came to the pile. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I know who my opponent is,” Marco says, pulling armfuls of books down from their shelves and spreading them out haphazardly over tables, leaving several in messy piles on the floor. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The war in Europe had ended and the railroad cars piled high with dead were a distant clamor, though it had not quieted down entirely. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The line of students was beginning to pile up behind them, so they pushed ahead, finally throwing themselves into two open seats a few rows behind the girls they were admiring. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The lamps were on, making little soft pools of light on the pile of the carpet, and in the velvet folds of the curtains. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She had grown up among piles of books, but even she couldn't imagine there were books behind all the windows of this huge house. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They saw piles of rolled rugs, broken benches, a tangle of plumbing pipes, even a claw-foot bathtub. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

There had never been electricity, but I found matches on the mantel that no one had bothered to take, and there was some firewood still in the pile. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She tossed it brusquely on a pile of clothes. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I work quickly, piling bones back in front of the crypt to cover my trail, my senses primed for anything out of the ordinary. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She glanced at the blank TV screen, and then flipped through the pile of DVDs to select another. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The pines quivered around them, and the moss softening the stones in the piles was so green that Lizzie wondered whether even the frock coats want to kneel down and smell it. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

There is grease on the stove, blood in the air, and angry words piled in the corners. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

The pile on the right was about to topple over. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Kneeling, I began to salvage what I could from the pile. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Suitcases were open on the floor, and there was a pile of diapers in a corner. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her black hair is piled high and knotted on top of her head. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

And even those who could manage a visit to the Market could not afford the heaps of goods that Antain’s mother piled into her basket. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The lobsters were piled up just below the hatch. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

A metal name plate sat on his desk in front of a large pile of papers, both typed and handwritten—AMHERST PINEVILLE, REGISTRAR. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

At the top of them something fell from her hand making hardly any noise on the soft pile carpet. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

When the barn was burned to a pile of glowing coals, the men asked Jethro to draw water from the stock well to throw around the edges of the coals. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or we sit on the floor in Grace’s room with piles of old Eaton’s Catalogues. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The hours of waiting piled up like the flies that buzzed in the camp. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Inside those blank, sinister bundles of tissue paper piled up at the front of the church there could be anything. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

One day the entire family piled into two cars and headed to the Great Mall. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

There were a lot of bodies, and Alex could see, from the height of the piles, that many of them were new dead. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Then the water hit him, in the side; it was like the blow of a pile driver. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Celia pulls it from the pile, slicing it open with a silver letter opener, ready to throw it on the pile with the rest. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I put the photos into a tidy pile and lay back on my pillow. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

As her crew made her fast to the pilings and lowered a gangplank, her captain sauntered up to Davos. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Inside he glimpsed hundreds of women, children, and old men, huddled on the floor on piles of furs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I throw my backpack on a pile of leaves and unpeel a plastic tarp that covers the trailer bed. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Their bodies slowly faded out of existence, each leaving behind a tiny pile of weapons and loot. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Soon he points over at a pile of reels. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

There are other newspaper pictures too, showing thin- looking children in scruffy clothes, standing in front of piles of rubble. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He turned his back to Pong and started rifling through a pile of clothes. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I scooped up big handfulls of it, piling them on either side of the rectangle, until I reached the dirt below. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jam shook her head and arranged the rest of the pamphlets in a neat pile on the table. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

There’s cracking branches, sweat piling on his skin, and no one here to save them. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Newspapers, too, were stacked in front of the windows; recent ones were piled next to Mr. Larson’s chair. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Taking the ax in hand, he approached the pinon pile. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He laughed and tossed the ear on the pile of corn. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the other half of me was a quivering pile of jelly. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Still in uniform, a bunch of us pile into Shanna’s Toyota Sequoia. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Its comforts were stuffy and cloddish, the heater, the padded chairs, the bed piled with furs, the rugs, drapes, wrappings, mufflings. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He motioned to the piles of paving stones and the logs waiting to be dragged into position. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The train jolts and scrapes and screeches back into motion, the little pile of clothes disappears from view and we trundle on towards London, moving at a brisk jogger’s pace. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time I pile them up, someone comes and knocks them back down. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

From the embankment, they could see two piles of ash and large towers of smoke billowing in the wind. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

When the woman returned half an hour later with a stack of books piled in her arms, Celaena laughed as she swiped the note that crowned the column of leather. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I took a big pile up to the office. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She led the way to the backyard, and after Mrs. Muokelu had explained and demonstrated how to make soap she stowed the ash near the pile of cement blocks. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I do,” said Rawiya, who came over with her own pile. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I sighed and looked at the pile of pale-blue cardboard on the table. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I collect the frozen garments and carry the bulky pile to the bakery, where the warmth of the ovens will thaw and dry them. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Mama glanced at the pile, shook her head in anger, and began cleaning Trampita. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was a note on the window for me to fill the cars with the material piled in the hall and to proceed to Pordenone. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The seconds slithered forward until Fig’s dinner splattered onto the carpet in a pile of brownish sludge. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

This is the last thing I remember with perfect crispness—her breath floating down to me like a tiny parachute, collapsing without a trace among the piles of shoes. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put them in a pile next to Mom, who put them into the fire. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could go back to the pile of blankets that passes for my bed and wait for morning to come, which by my estimation would be another few hours or so. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Hannah rummaged quickly through the pile of clothes and found a blouse and jumper that looked as if they might fit. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He methodically peels off the shells, piling the meats on a leaf. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was no wood piled against the door. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

On the bank of the stream, he took all his clothes off, and folded them in a pile. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Doing something, even carrying big, awkward piles of slippery reeds, was better than doing nothing. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We began to sort the debris into piles—aluminum, iron, steel, copper—so it could be sold. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He frowned at the arching gate, then snorted at the crumbled gilded leaves in a pile off to the side. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She started noticing little piles of money everywhere. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I slide my words pile under my leg. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dozen or so of the birds are piled at my feet. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

His body tore down the shelves of pasta and flour, landing in a messy pile on the floor. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Good. Now, before you go, collect all weapons and helmets and make a little pile right there.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He’d left all of his toys behind in the empty shack—I discovered them the next day, piled in a corner just like the birthday presents in my room. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My pile of presents was the largest it had been since being with Adele and Grandpa, although there was nothing from my mother. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I was envisioning one particular spot on the floor, a pile of imported Tunisian pillows, perfect to curl up in and e-mail friends. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“No, actually, I cannot. But if there’s a pile of books to be found she’s usually not far off. The girl really should be minding her tutors instead of always running off to read.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

But her corpse was a pile of stones under the blanket. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

On the lamp table were her reading glasses and a high pile of books. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only a broad pile of soft earth, half filling the run. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, you overgrown pile of dung!” she yelled. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The ripeness of the harvest piled around the mud houses and lent life and color to the songs of the women. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My half-sisters gossiped loudly, while I sat cracking seeds and laying their flesh in a pile. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rocket wasn’t curled up in the chair where Mom piled clothes sometimes when even she was too lazy to put things away. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Now the leather traders, who came from as far as Spain, and the fur merchants, whose goods might come from Russia, filled the tables with piles of hides and pelts. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Ben grabbed a pile of clothes and stuffed them under the mattress of his bed, smoothing the mattress with his hand to ensure that no lumps were visible. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rinsed off my plate and then started helping with the rest, piled up in the sink. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

After he corrected the exam, I removed another booklet from the pile and did that one in twelve minutes and 7 seconds. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

My waving and screaming were to no avail; from his altitude, I was indistinguishable from a pile of rocks. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if Tris is watching it sweep across the pavement and gather in piles by the airplanes. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Tara asks, running a finger along the line of cabinets fitted with long thin shelves, each one piled with carefully ordered papers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Squatting or kneeling beside large piles of laundry, they used stones to rub the clothes clean. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Larry asks, squatting a little to see all the pies and figure out what goes on whose pile. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Why does Joel want fermented corn in his manure pile? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

We got to jump over puddles of dirty water and busted-up furniture, piles of trash. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“It will look like a big pile of doo,” Lena warns. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I lead them toward a covered pile in a corner and lift the plastic. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

He began to drag everything out and pile it on the tilted bed. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was an Osage trading store, and nearby was a grubby rooming house and a blacksmith shop with an immense pile of horseshoes. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Stare at the unopened letters piling up on the mantel. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I served the tea with a smile sunk in concrete pilings. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stripped slowly and piled his vile rags in the road. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

We walked a little further and were greeted by a curious sight: skulls from the cemetery, gathered into several small piles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He laid the finished fish in a neat pile. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mumtaz nodded to a pile of kebabs resting on a plate by the stove. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Without his crutches he was awkward and slow again, but he managed to hop outside to where Vola kept a brush pile. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Hollis was seated on the couch, a pile of papers in her lap. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The old king hadn’t told him that the Pyramids were just a pile of stones, or that anyone could build one in his backyard. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He extended his arm, holding out the burning golden flame, and went toward the small pile of wood she had left on the forest floor, and set the pile alight. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was just a stupid dog pile, he kept shouting, it was just a stupid dog pile. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the west, I noticed dark clouds piling up across the horizon, like a distant mountain range. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He said no more, but Helen called the maids and sent them to make beds, with purple rugs piled up, and sheets outspread, and fleecy coverlets, in the porch inside the gate. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officers stacked it on the table in its own pile next to Nasser’s. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Do you need help? The appointments are piling up.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everywhere they looked, piles of things teetered—books with leather and gold covers, gold and silver trays, bead necklaces hanging out of chipped teacups, old, creaking furniture of all kinds. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

And because—tell you what—if you land on a kid like Calvin, it feels like you have crushed a little pile of twigs and feathers. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

He frowned and his bottom lip actually wobbled as he waved toward the pile that used to be where they lived. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

With slow, deliberate movements of her bone-thin arms, she plucked up sticks from a pile near the door and started a fire to warm us, right inside the hut. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pile of giant bamboo spoons coated in silver glitter paint rests at Annie’s feet. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Mam mended a pile of clothes she’d taken in for money. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I piled a big stack at this point. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hallways were piled with patients who had to wait for days, like a moaning herd, to be examined. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s make a pile of all the ones that can’t be used. We can at least use them for kindling.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She wore a dark blue dress and her hair was neatly piled on top of her head. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He pawed through a pile of yellowed drawers like a dog digging for a bone, throwing the drawers up behind him in an arc. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s pretty strange to be sitting across from someone over a pile of shattered desk pieces. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

She’d figured out who’d get the windows on each day and who was responsible for keeping paper and junk from piling up in the car. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll set aside a pile of kitchen stuff and save it for you later.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She tries to grade a third exam but cannot concentrate; the numbers drift across the pages and collect at the bottom in unintelligible piles. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We piled into my two-door Corolla, which was stacked with papers, trial transcripts, and court records. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Everyone seems to help themselves, piling food in their individual bowls and going back for seconds as often as they want. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He paused on the pile of boulders to survey the camp again. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The pile of blankets on the floor was disheveled. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Overjoyed, I quickly removed and stacked them in crude piles next to a ditch nearby. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel the pile of tickets in my pocket and think about a prize for Charlie. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Brigid picked up a pile of what looked like rags, but might have been clothing, off a rough stool, and Lyddie sat down gratefully. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He gestured toward the wagon bed, which was piled with bolts of cloth. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the last day of class before summer vacation, Joy brings me a pile of books. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

When a fresh batch of blank exams sits piled on the table, I steal a copy for myself and slip it under the refrigerator. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“First, no can go back through loft door. King much angry, have many great slate pile on door. Stop intruders. Door not open again, me think.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

How many men decompose in the piles of stone before them? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They piled extra ammunition and a sack of grenades nearby, and made sure their machetes were within easy reach. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Her hair is piled on top of her head with ribbons and jewels that sparkle in the darkness. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Stella is lying in a pile of dirty hay. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I pile a plate and sit down to eat at the empty table. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“What a pile of baloney. Just because they lost their abilities, you think their second souls were removed?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Two children that were hardly more than babies shared a blanket on the stone floor, and another was curled up in a pile of rags. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Once everyone had piled on, the brachy had stomped out of the plaza and into the darkened streets of Manhattan. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She sets it down on a dryish area of ground and piles some sticks on top of it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Imogen told her she should stay overnight in one of the guest rooms, just as the other friends were piling into their car. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Several members of the council began to dig through piles of old scrolls, as if hoping to find an answer to his question. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He pushed aside the things on the kitchen table, the piles of mail, the unread library books. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I was more impressed by how much the guests didn’t eat, as the servers cleared away banana leaves still piled high with food. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

If she spent the night within reach of that open door, she would be nothing but a pile of bones and gristle by morning. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the part of the floor the bed had hidden there were a suitcase and a pile of books and dirty clothes. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The pile of cardboard boxes shifts, and I jump. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Deep within me, words pile up in huge drifts. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Then I wet the floor, piled the kindling on it, and backed into the small foyer that led to the rear door. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Lenny yells, pumping his fist in the air as the refs unpack the pile of players and signal the Patriots now have possession. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

A violin in a dark barrack where the dead were piled on top of the living? Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can help me enter these into the computer,” I say, patting the pile. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Instead he had a dirt floor, a pile of grass for his bed, a muddy buffalo, and a secretive friend. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Without even asking, he was reckoning on her as deliberately as he calculated his growing pile of lumber. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, pretty and good. And now can we put the shoes in the pile?” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The walls were soon plastered with reproductions of Vermeer paintings, and library books were piled on every surface. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

In search of something similar to her box, Mouschi had found herself a pile of wood shavings, right over a crack in the floor. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

While kids like my daughter were piling up grades and accomplishments, Jesse was joining a gang, dabbling in drugs, battling Mormons, school administrators, and conformity. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The morning sun was hot; three men were spreading palm fronds on the tarmac, working swiftly and sweating, pushing along large carts piled with fronds. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But we were too busy trying to lock it up, throw it in with the other secrets piling up within the four walls of the place we call home. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He piled on top ketchup, mustard, relish, a tomato slice from his own cheeseburger super deluxe, a few rings of onion, five French fries. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he sighs and slouches off to one of the inn's small bedrooms, to collapse on a pile of straw. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash—all of them—surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered with rubbish. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

When her locks and curls were piled up around her feet, one of the novices soaped her head and the silent sister scraped away the stubble with a razor. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the bridge stood the pyre—a huge pile of logs, kindling, and hay. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

In front of it burned a low fire and two piles: one of wood, the other of round rocks. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He stacked a high pile of wood outside the kitchen, where it could be reached quickly during the night. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henrietta follows me around when I carry things from pile to pile, doing this very quiet cluck, and turning her head to look at everything. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He piled wood on the coals and fanned the fire to life and trudged out through the drifts to dig out the cart. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

They set the urn in a hollow grave and piled great stones over it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took most of the garbage bags that I had piled in the hallway out to the Dumpster in the alley. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Gather up the first pile of stardust and toss it as high as you can. Jump if it helps.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Instead she tossed Captain Underpants on a pile of mail on the counter and walked off down the hall. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

We got to Zeus’s Fist, a huge pile of boulders in the middle of the west woods. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

They worked methodically, keeping the withered flowers in a neat heap and piling up the wire frames carefully. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, Deydey worked continually, emptying pots from inside and chopping holes in ice, fishing to keep them strong, making sure the water in their kettle was always fresh and clear, their wood piled high. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Lac, Fox, and Hobs ducked behind a pile of fishing nets to watch and listen. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Her art supplies are piled in a corner. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It’s probably best that these words will end up suffocating in a pile, undelivered. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take a heaping pile of pamphlets and leave him to it. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Bailey turns to find Caroline standing in the doorway in her nightgown, her hair piled on her head in a spiky mess of pin curls and a knitted blanket pulled around her shoulders. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Fang was still huddled under the blanket in the back, but his eyes were open and he was upright, and it took all of about thirty seconds for us to pile into Room 14. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I notice a pile of Chicks, Ducks, and Bunnies SweeTarts and think again how weird it is that Candy’s name is Candy. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Nanny’s words made Janie’s kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Directly in front of Reyna, behind a conference table piled high with reports and bladed weapons, sat a familiar figure. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

You and Kutti watched as the boys carefully separated our rubbish into piles: cardboard, metal, plastic, glass. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The blankets must be covering what she's really transporting: documents, ration cards, maybe even a pile of money to pay off an inside man. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Not surprising—when it comes to the Ida B. Wells, politicians keep sweeping the dirt under the rug and it just keeps piling up. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They bagged the dead monkeys, loaded them into hatboxes, and piled the hatboxes along the corridor. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked across the room at the pile of coffins. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flowers, candles, stuffed animals, and cards were in the pile, but more than any other item, there were books. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He saw a chest he'd owned, an untidy pile of his clothing, his battered armor. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I look around at the dishes piled in the sink, the strips of beet peel staining a wooden cutting board, a saucepan half full of translucent cabbage, a roasting pan charred and waxed with grease. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The hymn books were in two piles on a chair, with some of the spines and backs hanging off. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I took a long stick from the pile of kindling wood. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watches, jewelry, paintings, statues, and moon rocks piled up on the lawn. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Red ferried in more food, and two weeks later, we had piled up a treasure trove of cast iron almost as high as our tent. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

By Thursday, Danny’s side of the table was piled high with books, and he was looking thoroughly unhappy. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Some of the flakes gather on the windowsill outside, piling at the corners. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

His thoughts were jumbled, piled like the waves on each other, and he couldn’t believe that it had been all day; a whole day in the storm just wasn’t possible. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

My aunt —o -—47 —* and father were not sentimental people, and the Dumpster pile was always the largest. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

They’d pile all this into a huge bed and sleep on until the cold spell blew over. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s seen them too: the scruffy youngish guy who came in today with a pile of books as if it were a reading retreat. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

To keep myself from thinking about the bad part, I rummaged through our pile of moldering belongings until I found Clematis. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

It’s as big as Mama’s big white laundry hamper back home and seems like she’s always got about ten hundred things piled up in there. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two maids came out of Capricorn's house, each with a pile of plates. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Still, he pretended otherwise and kept adding more dirt to the piles, piles that he would eventually have to move. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

A van pulls up and a whole bunch of kids pile in. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

His school and Quidditch robes, cauldron, parchment, quills, and most of his textbooks were piled in a corner, to be left behind. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They also discovered, among the piles of stones at the base of a cliff, some stones whose shapes suggested the possibility of their being crude tools. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone took some of everything, piling their plates up with mountains of food, but nobody was piggish about it. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Just a giant pile of bricks and a big dumpster filled with junk near the oak tree that Ivy fell out of when she was six and broke her right arm. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She was ready to turn and leave, when she saw the foot sticking out from beneath the pile of curtains. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He wanted her to be permanent, an edifice whose piles touched the heart of the earth. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

A big pile that only a person or a Great Dane could have made. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

One night I read some of my old notes about how to pile wood so I could get to it under the snow, and I laughed until Frightful awoke. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was sorting rubbish into piles, one for cans, one for bottles. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They were soon in combat again, and after a prolonged, bloody battle, Allen was ordered to guard a pile of several hundred dead NVA soldiers. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

They had reached a low ashen hill piled at the Mountain’s foot; but from it there was no more escape. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I had known it all along, that it was a good-bye party, but now I felt the truth sink down into my stomach like a pile of coal. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Kaede was shocked to see the Fairy Queen slumped over in her throne, her face as gray as the dust that drifted in ashy piles around their feet. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Seeing a pile of dried horse biscuits, I got me one and threw it just as Smiley’s mouth stretched in a wide yawn. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He has no vendor’s license, so he keeps moving, darting between wooden carts piled with papayas. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“So he says,” resumed the convict I had recognised,—“it was all said and done in half a minute, behind a pile of timber in the Dock-yard,—‘You’re a-going to be discharged?’ Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Ain’t he still homeless? And he told me he was tortured by an east side gang,” Pri says as she collects my small pile of cards into her growing pile. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I was lookin’ through my football cards, putting them in piles by position. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The bookshelves, window sills, radiators, and all other flat surfaces are piled high with anthologies of plays, copies of scripts, and videotapes and sound tracks of Broadway productions. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I walk into the kitchen and I spot the sink piled high with pots and dishes. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It’s full of bears and model boats, plus Gat-like piles of books, empty bags of potato chips, cashews crushed underfoot. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Then Gregor remembered the pile of laundry he was supposed to do. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The tall pile of meat teetered on the man's dish as he huffed up the mountain. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He bent and scooped up the rags in his arms and piled them on top of the shoes. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Its barred ceiling was low, its floor piled deep with rank-smelling hay. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“They’re just a pile of stones. You could build one in your backyard.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But during the bright day when the soldiers searched the street he slept safely in the furthermost corner of the hut behind a pile of straw O-lan gathered to make a shield for him. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Go!” she told Jason, who’d forgotten his part of the plan and was staring in amazement at the fruit pile. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“We piled them up like they were logs, over two hundred, arms and legs sticking out. And we piled brush on top and poured coal oil on.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Murrow picked up the phone as we all piled out into the hall. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthew plunged into the middle of the pile around the tree and threw presents over himself until he almost disappeared from view. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat down and pushed me aside, emptying the box onto the floor and sorting the letters into piles with the speed of a postal worker. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Some of the piles on the floor had shifted around, but they were all still as haphazard and numerous as they had been last time. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

A few empty boxes of graham crackers and Hostess cupcakes were piled on top of a cooler, and on top of that was a small wireless radio and lantern flashlight. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I made a little hole through the pile of pillows and stuffed animals and peeked at the clock on my wall. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Rummaging through the pile, I find a left and right one of the same size. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nan yelled and motioned to a toppled chair and a pile of pink fabric, winced, and grabbed her ribs. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kirby finished marking Bod’s essay and put it down on the pile. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The guy collected rocks and piled them, one on top of another, to build a delicate sculpture in the sand. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

There’s been next to no rain to disturb the piles of ash left by the attack. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Reaching for a pile of newspaper clippings, Kurnakov showed Hall an article about a new type of missile being developed by the United States. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the fourth day, all the prisoners are piled onto a cattle truck and driven east. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They piled into Martin’s Toyota and then said nothing as he drove them home. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He set up a door on brick piles for a table. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The very first Saturday after the Fair they made a leaf house on the hill, with a red room and a yellow room and piles of leaves for chairs and davenports and tables. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The five men piled into the Chevy and drove off into the lessening light. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit next to a pile of cardboard boxes. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The smoke-filled doorway was piled with bodies of the fallen: Celyn, Naomi, Phoebe. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

On the second day they pulled down the rest of the honeysuckle on both sides of the house and gathered all the piles together near the edge of the marsh. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prince Brat sat sullenly on a pile of moldy bed straw. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Pilate darted around the cave calling him, looking for him, while Macon piled the sacks of gold into the tarpaulin. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took us several hours to tear out a big pile of them. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I knew it, the bus swung into our school and we all piled off. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

A pile of books lay on the floor, and one by one she flung them from the open window as she wept with hysteria. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Captain Underpants was still out on the pile of mail in the kitchen, and that book did make sense. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

After a moment she indicates the center pile. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Part of her wanted to eat them both herself, but Jinjoo counted three more of the brown candies in her pile. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

According to them, there hadn’t been a whole pile of people at Mr. Bernoffski’s funeral. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Bob started cleaning up, collecting their trash in a little pile, using his squirt bottle to wipe off the altar. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Pet started walking around and looking through the rest of Bitter’s work—piles of drawings stacked on every flat surface, canvases layered and leaning against the walls, shelves full of small sculptures. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Want a sugar cube?” he says, offering his hand, which is piled high. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The house had been emptied and even swept out neatly; the only thing on the floor now was the snow, in soft piles that had drifted in through the cracks. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The coffee table was piled with her school stuff: index cards, textbooks, spiral notebooks, and the laptop. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I don't know why I kept it instead of tossing it on our trash pile. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I had a chance to thank Howard for helping me like that, Mr. Odom announced that it was time for them to go, and they piled back into Burl’s truck. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Back at home, White and his family struggled to pile “seven trunks, four bundles, four valises, two baskets, and one hamper of provisions” onto a wagon. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Hastily, she pulled The Gold-Bug from her backpack and stepped closer to the pile. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The boy spat into the pile of glass at our feet. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The dagger hit—bang!—and the pile of shields tumbled to the floor—crash! Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

When he looked behind him the boy was trudging through snow half way to his knees gathering limbs and piling them in his arms. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I suppose I should clean the kitchen and vacuum, but the windows are open and robins sing on the front lawn, where a pile of mulch with my name on it is waiting. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

While you walk toward her, she sorts through piles of paper and tickets. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The death of his daughter, the haunting face of his wife each day at the trial, the realization that the evidence against him was piling up—it was too much to withstand. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Then Timothy began weaving a rope that would stretch all the way down the hill to the beach and fire pile. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

After getting our bags and clearing customs, we all piled into a taxi driven by this doughy bald guy who spoke perfect English—like better English than I do. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Raymond limped from the ashes of the old schoolhouse and threw himself on top of a high pile of dirt. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It felt like everything, from Gum Baby to the Bottle Tree to the weird shadow man to the Burning Sea to the bone ships, was piled up in a wobbly tower in my mind. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Even the camp guards joined in, alternately clucking and laughing, waving the children on toward the garbage pile. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t have recognized me, either, what with the elaborate structural pile teetering on my head. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Great-Uncle Jim left huge piles of junk all over the yard, among the big trees and behind the buildings. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

She has cleared some piles of papers and books from her desk, though the photos in their frames are still in their line. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They passed doorway after doorway revealing grown-ups hunched in front of computers or talking on the phone, messy stacks of paper piled around them. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Another blanket of confusion to add to the pile. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

But most of the workers were used in the sorting sheds, stacking the clothing and suitcases and possessions stolen from the prisoners, dividing them into piles to be sent back to Germany. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gat bowed, foolishly, clownishly, and presented me with the book at the bottom of the pile: it was a novel by Jaclyn Moriarty. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She sneaks out to bookstores, surprised when her father does not inquire as to where the piles of freshly bound volumes came from. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Hushpuppy was given a huge pile of the leftover parts, which he ate with gusto. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone had piled boxes and old furniture in front of the door to the room. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

She remembered the godswood, drooping branches heavy with moisture, and the sound of her brother's laughter as he chased her through piles of damp leaves. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Amaka piled almost everything on her dish—jollof rice, fufu and two different soups, fried chicken and beef, salad and cream—like someone who would not have an opportunity to eat again soon. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Now the dirty dishes are piled high and the kitchen table is covered with crumbs. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

One of the Speckled Sussex went over to a pile of wood shavings in a corner, sat down, and started fluffing up her feathers. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The walls hold cupboards lined with cutlery and plates, piles of silk, linen, candles, and bottles of every kind. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

More specifically, he really noticed them when, upon sliding into his sleeping bag one night, his feet jammed up against a squirming pile of chilly coils. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stanley stared at the pile a moment, unsure if he'd even seen it. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I heard Irene next to me saying my name, but she sounded like she was saying it from beneath a pile of sand. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

It's only a pile of metal welded together with some wiring inside, destined for rust and decay. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Soon, Speed stopped opening the letters and let them pile up in the backroom of her store until they stacked thirty envelopes high. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He’d seen my training bra in a pile of dirty clothes on my bedroom floor and said it wasn’t proper. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Of course,” he said, and shifted his pile of books and magazines, even though it had not been on the side of the table that they would use. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We inspected the pile of broken whisky bottles and then continued up the trail. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dumped them in a pile at the door of the barn and sat there and wrapped up his numb feet. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

We turned to the left and passed through an enormous great room with furniture and boxes piled all around it. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Art Moran was standing with one foot up on a piling, talking to half a dozen fishermen, when Ishmael Chambers arrived that afternoon on the Amity Harbor docks. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Stonetown Harbor had always been a busy port: ships steaming in and weighing anchor at all hours, countless stevedores and sailors as busy as ants, and the docks piled high with cargo. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Heather delicately pushes a pile of dirty clothes off my chair and perches her skinny butt on it. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The war seemed fought with as much paper as bullets, what with the letters and the passes and permissions piled on the table, orders received and recorded, recordings of conferences noted down. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can have a scim too. I have a pile of weapons I never want to see again. Take them all.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When I got home from school that afternoon, Mom was still curled up on the sofa bed, a small pile of paperbacks next to her. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They carried the pile of stiff tarry netting to the riverbank and spread it out on the grass, and Mary showed them how to knot a new piece of cord where it was worn. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Professor Flitwick, the Charms teacher, was a tiny little wizard who had to stand on a pile of books to see over his desk. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

When in sight of her house she took a shortcut and came upon a pile of old caribou droppings—fuel for her fire! Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The van doors opened and more skeleton warriors piled out. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

John had swept one side of the church and the chairs were still piled in the space before the altar when there was a knocking at the door. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She hugged me again and waved from the door as I piled into Wynn’s truck with all my loot. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

She hurled the stones she had piled at the mouth of the cave. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the end there were more than two dozen copies of Inkheart on the piles of firewood, their pages crumpled, their bindings wrenched apart like broken wings. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

By the time Lizzie was back, he had a pile of muddy sand but had lost track of where a clam might be. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Inside are a small anaco and blouse, and a pile of fabric scraps of all colors, faded and frayed. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And at last he came down from the loft, yawning and rosy, rubbing his curls, just as Mae was piling the plates with flapjacks. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had a great big pile of dead dinosaurs off to the side and had to keep shaking more and more reinforcements out of the pillowcase. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kicked a pile of twigs into the fire hole to make a blaze, and then he could see the face of Coyotito. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held the tray up higher, and the candle shed its weak light on the towering pile of spoons and bowls and kettles. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Each of the flanking booths had a small pile of onions on it, and two thick packages wrapped in cloth sat on Mama’s cart, probably fish she had traded onions for. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

When I came downstairs, he was at the kitchen table with a pile of papers spread out in front of him. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

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

Mama Ya-Ya smiles weakly and sits up slowly, leaning hallway back into a pile of pillows. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

In one corner of the room there was a pile of green unhusked coconuts. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were ranges back as far as you could see, but behind the last range piled up against the sky there was a great unknown country. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If it was fair, that was in the bond, and I stand to the letter of my bond, Shylock. There is a pile of clouds in the east, it’s not fair, and I don’t go.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quickly he opened the door again, gathered the scattered crumbs into a little pile with the aid of the moonlight. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

A pile of dry leaves and then twigs, placed criss-cross, on top of one another, were arranged in the trench, with plenty of spaces in between. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Overwhelmed, I began asking all the questions that had piled up in my head, like: “How did you get this car?” I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

There would be a great pile of letters waiting for him in the hall, and mine amongst them, scribbled on the boat. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

One day on course due west, off central Krete, the ship caught a fresh norther, and we ran southward before the wind while Zeus piled ruin ahead. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe there had been a time when the boys and I had wrestled in piles of food. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The clerk sat up straight, gaping at the pile of money. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Two piles of earth lay on the grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tossed it across the room—Sir Fig Newton scrambled off my desk after it—and it bounced off my ever-growing pile of smells-pretty-rank laundry. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know you from the fly on a pile of cow manure,” he said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The pile of tried wands was mounting higher and higher on the spindly chair, but the more wands Mr. Ollivander pulled from the shelves, the happier he seemed to become. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

A pile of mangels and swedes occupied them for some time and they set out only when the light was beginning to fade. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just one delivered to a human would break every bone, would turn any piece of furniture into splinters, would reduce an entire house into a pile of rubble. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

By ten we all piled into the car and started off for our big adventure. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ron and Hermione had lit their wands too, and were now examining the piles of objects surrounding them. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I toss a handful into the pile behind us, and sit back. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

There are no papers, no pile of ledgers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Kit was thankful, as she had been so many times when the wind howled and the snow piled higher, that her friend was snug in a proper house. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Junk in that boathouse was piled ten feet high. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then I stepped around my piles and had a fine idea. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I said move this pile back to where it was!” the SS officer yelled. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

They set it atop the crowded mantel of the stone fireplace, next to piles of books and photographs, promise to have it framed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was also a pile of sand and gravel, equally intact. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a pile of rotten boards down by the creek. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And now it was just another pile of rubble. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The waterlogged fibers weighed a ton, and they clung to my fingers as I tried to hurl piles away. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She wanted some shelter before she gave him a pile of bones. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

We made a pit stop to eat at a Cracker Barrel restaurant about three hours into the trip, and everyone piled off of the bus. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It was all just sitting right there at the top of my throat, just behind my eyes, all the sadness and guilt that’s built up inside me like a pile of trash at the dump. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You just never know,” Deborah said, fishing two more articles from the pile and handing them to me. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

We filled our entire car full of green grapes-—the trunk, even the glove compartment, and Dad piled stacks in our laps so high we could barely see over the top. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She points to the piles of books on the back shelf. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He nods, and I dart around the pile. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She kicks up a pile of dirt with the toe of her sneaker and sighs loudly. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Soon, shawls are flung on chairs, a half dozen pairs of heels are kicked off in a pile at the bottom of the steps. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tossed the rock, face down, beside his dirt pile, as if it had no special value. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Their rifles were off to the side, stacked in piles. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The inside of the honey house was one big room filled with strange honey-making machines—big tanks, gas burners, troughs, levers, white boxes, and racks piled with waxy honeycombs. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He climbed up out of his hole and sifted his fingers through the pile. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The walls looked as if someone had piled up a number of stones in a hurry, the roof had collapsed, and where there must once have been a door only a black hole now gaped. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She picked up a card from the discard pile. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Sitting next to her hand, on the table, was a small pile of tiny homemade envelopes. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Katie took the letter from me in the hall as if she would have preferred I’d handed her a steaming pile of fresh horse manure. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already, a pile of the light, round, puffy bread waits on the table. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Did he know that his grandfather had helped to drive the pilings for the wharf at South Beach Bay landing? Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Håkon grabbed Ivan and pulled him away from the shifting stones, clearing the rubble just before the top of the pile crashed down. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Inside are tidy piles of hummus, carrot sticks, and edamame beans. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The boys recruited one of the crew’s student managers as pilot and navigator, and piled into the boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When they came into the living room, she looked up from the pile of pale blue fabric in her lap and smiled. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A severed pile of dreadlocks fell to the floor along with something else - a large fleshy thing lying in a pool of golden ichor. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Without looking at Hooper again, he went towards the pile of clothes. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Marco cannot help but smile at the card before replacing it in the pile. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Molly has been pulling things out of the chest and putting them in piles—clothes, books, knickknacks wrapped in old newspaper. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

We pile into the third bus—Justin and Mike snagged seats early and are waving at us from the back. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Every so often, there is an isolated square of sidewalk with weeds forcing their way through the concrete, or a pile of rotting wood, a collapsed dwelling. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

So he ended up with about half the bag, and me, Junior, and Tariq all piled up in the other half. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"Gorgeous," Mrs. Wexler replied, clutching her husband's arm as her high heels wobbled in the deep plush pile. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brightbill watched in horror as his mother slowly disappeared under a pile of parts. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Six British guards stood warming their hands, their muskets leaning against the small pile of firewood. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it weren’t for the pile of mementos honoring Mr. Griswold, a person might pass this corner and never guess something horrible had happened there. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Meggie tugged him along the corridor so impatiently that he stubbed his toe on a pile of books, which was hardly surprising. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

There was a gray gas can in one comer next to a bunch of gray rakes and a pile of gray rags, and a gray tire next to some gray fishing poles. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I yank them from hangers until I have a pile and then burrow into it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Had his will to believe in a new picture of the world made him act a fool and thoughdessly pile horror upon horror? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

People were already lining up for the free food, piling their plates high. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They walked through the center of town, stepping over piles of clothes. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The others sorted out the goods, making a pile of all that could be left behind, and dividing up the rest. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was nothing there now but a massive pile of twisted, flaming metal. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

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

She dug through a precariously stacked pile of documents on her desk till she found the ones she was looking for. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

How long would she put up with it—and why—before she exploded and dumped me in a pile of cactus? This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

No matter how I piled on the blankets at night, I was still cold. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He walked over to the counter and started digging through a pile of things, and finally, he came up with a broom. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Tidbit even ate the apple cores and promptly fell asleep on the nearest pile of straw. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all wore ski jackets, the kind which, in my day, mothers put on layaway in September, then piled up overtime hours so as to have the thing wrapped and ready for Christmas. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Mom’s eyes grazed over the unmade bed, piles of clothes, and cluttered desk. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

As people filed out of the room, Mr. Quisling tapped papers into an even pile on his desk. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A woman, two boys, a teenage girl, bags and belongings piled around their feet. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Hanako spotted a bustling outside market, right next to a single broken concrete wall and a big pile of rubble. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I blink again, and I see her smile as she sweeps my hair trimmings into a pile. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I tried to be impressed, but it still looked like a pile of rocks to me. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was cold, but the witches piled leaves over him, and Lyra slept huddled close behind his back. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of a closet, there was a large cardboard box that had once held a refrigerator and would now hold the three children’s clothes, all piled in a heap. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

All I see are piles of shiny winter coats and snow pants. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Each party of boys added a quota, less or more, and the pile grew. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Not far off, I saw my saddlebags, next to a pile of bones. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

All but Little Rabbit, who was little enough to hide in a pile of rocks by the pond and smart enough to stay so still that the Terrible Things thought he was a rock himself. Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Jesus, sorry,” he says, immediately reaching for a pile of napkins. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

So I’d rigged up an external antenna and mounted it on the hood of a car at the top of the junk pile. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They passed an enormous pile of dirt where the Royal Gardens once stood. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

I follow her, take the knotted pile of lights on the ground, and start untangling them. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Mary Lou picked up a dried frond and added it to the meager pile in her arms. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Einar left a pile of rocks beside the base of the path and told her to add one more to the sack each day. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“No wonder Sticky didn’t see him. Without the spyglass he just looks like a shadow among the bridge pilings.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

My happiness over my pile of money is cut short. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Except instead of demolished buildings and disintegrated bricks, there are books open face-first on the floor, their damaged spines poking up, while others are piled on one another. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Isobel seems satisfied with the response, lifting a pile of fallen books from the floor and stacking them on the desk. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The snow was piled now around it, and he pushed with his body, moving it forward, not wanting the exhilarating ride to end. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

A neat pile of books was stacked next to it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I hung on to my riales in my sweaty fist, my stomach growling as I pictured the little pile of riales growing in a cloth bag at the bottom of my cardboard clothes box. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neumann Two sits with his legs spread and eats eggs one after another, piling the shells into a tower inside his upturned cap. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Bigwig burst through the piled earth, twitching and panting. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They piled the bags one by one gently in the Toyota’s trunk. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was given a table and a pile of cucumbers. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

In her candy pile, she counted ten packs of the chewing gum. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

While it was cold, baskets of all shapes and sizes, some with handles, some not, piled up in all the rooms in our house. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Each addition to Yolanda's beach basket causes a spill from the stash already piled high above the brim. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Then, as if she’d seen enough, she started taking the plants apart, expertly sorting leaves from stems from seeds, creating small piles of each in her lap. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He sat down on a pile of stacked firewood to catch his breath. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He chose for himself from the pile a brooch set with blue stones, many-shaded like flax-flowers or the wings of blue butterflies. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Momma would have them bring the corpses in and burn them for the compost pile. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

They got into the chicken coops and ate the chickens alive, leaving behind a whirl of feathers and a pile of pathetic little bones. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat naked on wooden benches while an electric heater, buried under a pile of stones, heated the dry room to very high temperatures. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We jumped out of our seats and circled him, dropping our hands into the pile. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Laertes fell against a pile of boxes to avoid colliding with him. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I took my arm and swept the whole pile of cards to the floor. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Miss Jackdaw was standing right where you are when she was taken. We found a whole pile of her feathers on the floor.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Here, have a seat,” he said as he sprawled onto the other pile of grass, “and tell me why you want to go to the palace so much.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The girl is still inside, mechanically lifting books from a pile and placing them on shelves. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“This is going to be so cool,” Bridge said, taking a smock from the pile in the middle of the stage floor. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The roads were icy and piled on either side with old drifts as high as the car. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was filled with animals and machines and piles of straw, and two robots. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then you go through the backyard to a covered shed on piles over the ocean and here are the tanks for the larger animals, the sharks and rays and octopi, each in their concrete tanks. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marvelous things were piled in every window along the streets downtown, and big organ music made the sidewalks sort of tremble. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The others piled forward in a helpless heap and began cursing him again. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Because when the workers processed the pineapple, they discarded the cores in a huge pile behind the factory. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran and dumped the bunches in a pile on the bare ground outside the yard fence, then hurried to bring a live coal from the fireplace to start them burning. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I decided that if I used up one pile, I could tunnel through the snow to the next and the next. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inej kept her eyes averted, shuffling a stack of papers into a pile on the desk as Kaz stripped out of his vest and shirt. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Everyone began to wonder why he didn’t shut the pile off,” Anderson said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crews drove concrete pilings deep in the ground to support the wall. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Some unknown force had wrenched and shattered these cubes so that they lay askew, often piled diminishingly on each other. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

As Winnie watched, scarcely breathing, he moved the pile carefully to one side, pebble by pebble. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tony grumbled now, as they wove around a big pile of horse manure in the street. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Near the center of the room there was a trestle table piled high with glossy apples. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I remember is the clinking noise it made as it uncoiled in a pile at Mary’s feet, the sounds seeming to pick up where Violet left off. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I opened the door and saw him sitting at his desk, which was covered with piles of paperwork. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

There was a little pile of plaster lying on the pavement ahead of him, and in the middle of it he could see a bright red streak. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Janina and I ripped up pieces of moss and piled it near our supplies. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

We got in a fight about his razor, because she said it should go in the “throw it away” pile and I told her it should go in the “save it” pile. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She watched him kneel before the twig pile and grab two to rub together for a fire. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

When I came down the sidewalk, the sky was clearing and two trucks were blocking the road in front of my building, furniture piled in the backs like a house had been turned upside down. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I swept the kitchen floor, made a pile, and Mong set down the dustpan. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Everyone knows the ship could sink, unable to hold the piles of bodies that keep crawling on like raging ants from a disrupted nest. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Joel went off on the tractor to get a load of woodchips from the big pile he keeps across the road. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In her mind’s eye, Sefia saw herself hunched over the book, growing frail and nearsighted as the years piled up around her and the lights of her life burned low. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

All around us, people perceptibly in need of new clothes are sifting through the racks and piles of hanging and folded goods. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Something twined about his ankles and he jumped, fell over into a rather fragrant pile of feed. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Harry couldn’t think of anyone who deserved to win a large pile of gold more than the Weasleys, who were very nice and extremely poor. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I eye the growing pile of dishes with dread. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I worked the whole next morning on three signs—one for each of us—and handed them out right before we all piled into Nan’s car that afternoon. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I looked at the pile of books in the corner of my room. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The hut was built, or piled up rather, of driftwood planks and branches. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

But Deborah waved her hand in my face, shushing me like I was talking nonsense, then fished a videocassette from the pile and held it up for me to see. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

There are tables, chairs, couches, land-sliding with months, maybe years of mail, all unopened, falling to the floor in piles. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

We pick our way through family groups, past piles of bags and bundles. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

After the room where we were tattooed, we were taken to another room with a huge pile of old, used prisoner uniforms, and told to find something that fit. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The faction bowls are printed on my eyelids, tipped on their sides, their contents in a pile on the street. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I wait, counting to a thousand, while piling my candles on a chair. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But none of that stuff compared to what I found when I removed a pile of framed pictures so I could see to the bottom of the trunk. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

After a while, without saying anything, I went to the side of the road and lay down on a pile of damp leaves between the tall, buttressed roots of a kapok tree. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In front of the entrance in a black and smoldering pile were the remains of all my things. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She picked them up, arranged them in sectional order, and put them on the sofa in a neat pile. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The humilities are piled on a soldier, so Cyrus said, in order that he may, when the time comes, be not too resentful of the final humility—a meaningless and dirty death. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It just lingered outside the stone pile, grinning. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Sidman took everyone else to search for wood, and she organized-what was brought back into a pile that slouched from the biggest logs to the smallest twigs. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

She had always been a fussy eater, and now that they had come to the States, it seemed as if there were twice as many inedible foods that could be piled high on her plate. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The anger piled behind my eyes in a pounding headache, thumping in a rhythm that felt strangely familiar. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It was just a pair of second-year squirts, sent to get a pile of Cider with Rosie. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“To understand where you’re going, we must first understand where your blood has been. Separate the stardust into two even piles on the carpet.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

She had been too distracted to notice the house’s disarray on her previous visit, the grimed plates, sawdust, and piles of clothes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t one-third as big and heavy as the she bear, but when he piled into her from one side, he rolled her clear off her feet. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was sitting on a pile of discarded tombstones. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

First, we divided the treasure into two piles, one bigger and heavier than the other. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Connor and I looked around at the stacks of boxes, the piles of junk, the shelves stuffed with old books and papers and props. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

A half an hour later we were resting among the piled sacks. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The snow fell heavily, in a long pile like a sinking mountain range. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Backpacks were piled on the floor because most of the lockers were busted. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

I loved how the room got noisy as the Allies piled in, dumping their backpacks in the corner and peeling off layers of winter wear as they settled into a circle. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

His eyes keep going back to the pile on the right. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He would look at both piles, his head swinging back and forth between the two. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Orcs were piled in great heaps, away from the mounds of Men, not far from the eaves of the forest. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Pick which pile you are most drawn to,” she says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The men were digging in, piling rocks to make a stone wall. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wisps of black smoke snaked around a pile of debris at the end of the hall. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But by means of the enormous wealth he had piled up and by the secret hold he had over various persons, he was acquitted on some technical inaccuracy. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Aphrodite a piled three stories hig tulle and dripping wit jpeared in the room, with her hair 1, barely covered by a few layers of 1 artificial grapes from her shoulders to her knees. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harvey added my saucer to his own pile. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

My grandfather is asleep on his back, his enormous stomach piled two feet in the air. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do not know when the soldier finishes dumping all the clothes onto the pile. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They also added the notes of our interview to that pile. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybeth looked up from a pile of stones she was making into a long circle around herself. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here, take a stack of these and drop them off as you go around town,” he told us, shoving a pile of brochures into my hand. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s fine, Sean. You are, of course, free to leave. If any of the rest of you do not wish to stay and play, kindly deposit your library cards in the discard pile.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

In a large empty room we were ordered to undress and pile our striped uniforms in a corner. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The only reliable signs were the black plumes of smoke from the dredges and the ever-present scent of burning leaves from slash piles set aflame by workers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There was a very small pile of silver Sickles inside, and just one gold Galleon. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Zafoona rolled back the tinfoil and eyed the fillet of fish lying on a small pile of yellow rice. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Once, I walked out onto the balcony and looked up at the Riveras’ door, where bouquets of flowers wrapped in cellophane were piled at the threshold. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

But their Christmas ended in late afternoon on Christmas Eve—I saw department store clerks working against time to replace a holiday window display with deathly white piles of towels and sheets. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fine green mold spread over the books and papers and paintings that were stacked so high and piled so deep you could hardly cross the room. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lena, Hannah, and I have made a huge pile of buckets, garbage bags, masking tape, and drop cloths in the main office. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

There were broken tables and tiles and random stuff piled in front of the closed door. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

As he spoke, he noticed the plastic tarp had blown off his wood stack, so he walked over and tucked it back around the pile. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The vertical piles are still standing, like the trunks of dead trees, and part of the cross-planking is attached to them, but the railings are gone. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Over at the South Summit, I could see Andy Harris sorting through a pile of orange oxygen bottles. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“We heard them piling boulders up on the other side. They’ve decided to ignore the outside world for a while.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

We settled onto the floor with piles of blankets, huddling together for warmth. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Evan looked at the pile of dirty plates on his left. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

At that moment, Courtney Speed appeared at the bottom of the steps, her long black hair piled loose on her head, strands hanging in wisps around her face, which was thin, beautiful, and entirely ageless. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When I rise again, I see she is inclining toward a large pile of watermelons in the corner. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

We get out of the car and pause long enough to notice the sun slung low, pink clouds piled high. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

More goodbyes, Dicey thought to herself, coiling up the last rope into a dark brown hoop, piling loop upon loop. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning they’d pile into the wagon with their unsold harvest and set out on the long journey home. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I had made progress with my tower, but it seemed like as fast as I piled bricks, Big Rose was always a little faster. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He had raked underneath the frangipani trees, and dead leaves and pink flowers lay in piles, ready for the wheelbarrow. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I push up onto my fists and reach through the pile of stuff on the floor between my mattress and the wall. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was a pile of sticks, about the size of a heaping plate of spaghetti. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Mitchell Sanders and Azar and Henry Dobbins and Dave Jensen and Norman Bowker slapped hands with me and we piled their gear in my jeep and drove down to the Alpha hootches. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I add the card and jelly beans to the presents piled on the table and sit next to an older woman, sliding the guitar under my chair. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

There he found an inkwell, a pointer, some pens and pencils, a bottle of ink, some chalk, a bell, two hairpins, and three or four books in a pile. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Lying facedown beyond the pile of earth was a boy of fifteen or so. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The fisherman sits beside a small pile of fish, steering the boat. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Cadaver hacked branches off of trees and hauled these to the back of her lot where she lumped them into a pile of branches that she had hacked off last week. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

A pile of broken cookies lay ankle-deep all around her. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Thirty minutes later, when Dimple and Rishi had fallen on the floor in a big pile yet again, Ashish hit a button on his phone to pause the recording. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A pile of it burning would make a big light. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked best little green soft butter beans and he stacked them in a neat pile on the prongs of his fork. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And in the doorways men sat on the stoops selling various newspapers gathered in piles around them. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Following behind them was Mrs. Meecham, radiant in a yellow dress, her red hair piled fashionably, and her finest jewelry glistening around her neck, above her left breast, and on her wrists and ears. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“With the books, I’m sure she can. I wonder how many books there are? I bet we could learn them all, and do without. Imagine having to carry a pile of books everywhere...Pan?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was a tidy house with a neat stack of firewood piled up against the side. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

Hornet had followed them behind a pile of old crates. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sergio piles in last and tells me to sit up front with the driver. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The plates kept piling up, and within minutes the glass racks were out of control. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He thought she would pile up strong walls of objection, and for one of the few times in his life he would disobey her wish no matter how strong her objection. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Goods from around the world would pile up on English docks, while the people of Europe spent their money on products theyd sell to one another. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

In silence the six men rose and filed past the table, each looking at the pile of white bones. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She steps over Ford’s pile of presents and grabs my stocking from where it’s tacked into the wall. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She looks at her feet and kicks a little pile of leaves. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I looked around my crowded office, at the stacks of records and papers, each pile filled with tragic stories, and I suddenly didn't want to be surrounded by all this anguish and misery. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I flip over the paper and send a pile of adoption forms sailing to the floor. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

After supper, all five Keeleys piled into the family van and headed off to the local toy store. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

An unadorned light bulb dangled down over several long wooden tables piled high with rags. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, on the promontory, the blue-painted cannibals had piled up their cyclopean wall of unmortared stones, fourteen feet high and equally thick, with terraces on the inside from which they could hurl their flints. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Benji had hoped to see piles of cash on the table. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The stones were still there, piled up, from when they had built the fire. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The narrow alley is empty except for some piles of refuse and the icy stains of someone’s dirty dishwater. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

In the middle was a picnic table piled high with food from all the different trucks. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, we pile into the car for our hike. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Not much, but there was an old pile of hay in the corner that didn’t smell too awful. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Thank you. Just put them into a pile and let me know if there’s anything you think needs my immediate attention.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They made such an entrancing sight that Tyrion almost waddled right into the steaming pile of dung the elephant had left to mark its passage. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her knitting piled in her lap, she stared at Cora. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A woman sat behind a desk, which had a computer and several piles of paper. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Early the next morning, we all piled into the car, some of us with greater reluctance than others, and trundled off to the vet. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

Harry piled his plate with a bit of everything except the peppermints and began to eat. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The colored one was far away and was rusty and looked as though it had long ago been abandoned on some junk pile. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He piled his presents on a table and displayed them for no fewer than three days, the silly old goat! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

If the reaction got out of control, they were to dump the cadmium on the pile—then get out fast. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bien had grown up playing soccer in a refugee camp in Mozambique on a patch of bare earth with goals marked by small piles of rocks. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He stumbled over a small pile of dirt. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Under his rickety bed lay a pile of Hugo’s drawings. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He’d inched around the door frame and seen his mother taking her afternoon nap, hidden under a pile of blankets. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

My mom takes a pile of napkins, gently wiping the shake off my face, her eyes suddenly brimming with tears. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He stumbled on a ring still scorched by fire, and in the midst of it he found a pile of charred and broken bones and skulls. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He stacked the packages back carefully, straightening the pile to its original symmetry. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dirt, to start with, the piles of rubbish, the dust, the dogs, the flies. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Directly in the center, an ash pile sat underneath the opening at the very top of the dome. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I emptied the wastebaskets and feather-dusted the desks, which were piled with scattered papers. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Then Percy noticed that there was a whole pile of mutilated stuffed animals at the foot of Jupiter’s statue. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I nearly fell over a pile of stacked stones, bruised my shin, and sat on them instead. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Is that why they pile up like that? Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Bigger looked about and saw the pile of white bones lying atop a table; beside them lay the kidnap note, held in place by a bottle of ink. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

His men chaired him around the piles of naked cobs, hoarse with cheers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He jogged over and found it next to the pile of ash. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

For a moment, the three of them and the weasel were a pile of sprawling bodies and flailing limbs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“The break-in, the trip across the lagoon. We nearly got shot, and for what? A pile of counterfeit money. Darn it!” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

All the cardboard boxes that had been sent to the office in the last few months were piled on the floors and beds. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

August retrieved her hands from the pile on my chest, but I left mine there. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten generations of his heirs or more could live on what lay piled in that great room. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come inside where it’s shady. Nat, thee has piled up more wood than an old woman could bum in a year.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, Minli remembered the two children fighting over their piles of mud as she had left her village. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Every buffalo-hide lodge was burning or had already been turned into a pile of ashes. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The rain had stopped, but the men still hid from the damp, huddled by the fires in their caves of piled stone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In early March 1941, we piled our belongings onto a wagon we'd scrounged for the move and said good-bye to our apartment, the last tie to our once promising life in the big city. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Just as Henry, Esme, Ruby, Olive, Grammy, and I are ready to pile into Esme’s van for the drive, Ruby tells Henry she needs to go to the bathroom, so he takes her back inside. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Whenever one of the missiles landed intact on the rubble pile, she would seize it, standing in full view as she whirled the corded iron round and round, releasing it in a blur of speed. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

When I get changed for track practice, I look at my pile of folded clothes in my gym locker, rub my bands on my thighs, and decide to leave my armband on. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

She stands among the ashes, bends down, and sifts through a pile of burnt wood. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Side by side they scaled the last height to where the diminishing pile was crowned by the last broken rock. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I could hear the faint thud as the bow hit the pilings. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

On top of the pile sat a drawing of a Greek nude and a portrait of my handsome history teacher. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

At the end of the party they piled the peasants onto wooden carts and hauled them off to vote, under careful observation, amidst much joking and laughter. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most boys his age still sleep on the pile of their families, but 'Taniel was adamant: “My brothers have beds to themselves!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The meetings were held in the basement of Wharton Hall, a harshly lit, windowless room, paper plates, pizza cartons, and soda bottles piled on a metal table, folding chairs arranged in a limp semicircle. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Two boats that had been washed out of the tunnel before us were now piled against the barricade—one submerged, the other cracked in half. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The white families swarmed in a camp off the main street, inconsolable and abject, the meager possessions they were able to save piled around their feet. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Then I would groom them, give each of them a pile of hay, and get the tack ready for the first ride. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

She sighed and picked up the broom that stood in the corner near Baba’s pile of sundari wood. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You were gone all morning and these small piles are all you brought?” the mother hollers at us when we get home. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slammed the door to her room as I went out, and kicked the cats that were asleep in a pile by the back door. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She fights to work her hair into a pile on top of her head, like getting that locked down will replace the fact that they’re stuffed into a tight space with Frank’s old junk. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

My clothes were all folded up in a neat pile the same way Momma used to fold them when she’d go to work before I got up. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

An old woman in a dark red suit and a name tag on her black vest sat in a folding chair, amid a pile of programmes. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Her hair is red as cherries and piled messily on top of her head. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The sea slapped and sucked at the pilings, and fishing-boats jogged at their moorings, and out at the end of the long pier burned a lamp. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the field, slaves, mostly men, worked steadily swinging scythes with attached wooden racks that caught the cut wheat in neat piles. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Guo Ming, director of the China National Space Administration, examined the daunting pile of paperwork at his desk. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She's taller than I am but looks only a few years older, with sharp, wary eyes and her hair piled in a knot on top of her head. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The old man shook his head, staring down at the luggage piled around him. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until my marriage I had been hearing from my old friend Link, living in faraway places as he piled up awards and degrees from this country’s most prestigious educational institutions. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Council Chief stood up to open the meeting, slipped on a pile of Porlock dung and ran cursing from the hall. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pet scoffed deep in its throat and flipped through a pile of charcoal sketches. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Old Johnny Mercer’s backhoe bucket clanged and dropped dirt into a big pile next to Great-great-aunt Florentine’s grave. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now that the Saturday is finally here, we all pile into our SUV early in the morning. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Mama is a blur of activity as she minces a huge pile of onions and garlic in a mini chopper and puts a jumbo pot on the stove. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Everywhere on the floor, piles of books leaned into each other. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

As Perry continued to sort and choose, the pile of material he thought too dear to part with, even temporarily, assumed a tottering height. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pile of laundry already in the basket is pretty big, but I dig around in the leftover clothes until I find Aurora’s pink sparkly leggings that desperately need to be washed. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Each of them took a greasy metal tray from a pile at the edge of the counter. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Inside was a trim little fellow in a gray suit and fedora, with leather suitcases piled at his side and his family jammed in the backseat. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“And as it happens, when I take your head back to Ghohg, I’ll get a nice little pile of gold, too.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

She reached for a screwdriver and disassembled the puppet until he was nothing more than a pile of scattered parts. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

"I knew those clues were a pile of fertilizer," Doug replied, jogging easily. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Art supplies sat in organized piles on tall shelves—paint, colored pencils, construction paper, glue, and a myriad of other things he didn’t recognize but couldn’t wait to inspect. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He even pulled all the ticking out the mattress from their bed and added it to the pile of confusion he was building in the center of the room. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The sound of his heavy breathing came plainly from the top of the earth pile. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Tommy Lacks stood by his crop praying for a good price, Henrietta and the cousins ran around the tobacco piles, talking in a fast gibberish to sound like the auctioneer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She shook her head and swept all the photos up into a rough pile. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He blew the flames to life and piled on the wood and sat with his legs crossed, leaning against the stone pier of the bridge. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

By Friday, when the sun finally came out, Papa’s aspirin bottle was empty and a pile of cigarette butts covered the floor by his side of the bed. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Rolling her eyes, Marmalade pulled a pile of canvas scraps from a pocket of her loose patchwork jacket and slapped them onto the table. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Some had piles of pink-grained stones gathered from around the island placed carefully at the foot of each cross. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

By the end of September, snow was piling up on the tundra, and the lake had frozen over. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minced in with them and stuffed or piled high with household gear and suitcases were civilian cars, buses, farm trucks and carts pushed by men and women or pulled by horses. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Even if I’m here just through Monday, the rumors will start flying, and the homework will pile up. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

We knew she was going to give us a pile of trouble when we set out to milk her. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jojo, whose cough had finally faded, leaned over and picked out another book from the pile. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She says it’s like having a piece of wood suspended between two chairs, but piled in the middle with too many heavy objects. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snow is falling faster, piling up on the concrete. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He threw his unfinished biscuit into the pile and they scattered around, like fallen blocks. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to leave, but as soon as I crept more than a few yards beyond the pile of ogres, my complaints started: thudding heart, tight chest, spinning head. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

This piling up of chemicals from many different sources creates a total exposure that cannot be measured. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

All the experience I had piled up in the earlier weeks seemed to make it harder rather than easier to be out on the trail on my own. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Gurgi, making himself completely at home, snored under a pile of hay in the bam. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

There were no trees to speak of in Battle Mountain, but one corner of the dump had huge piles of railroad ties and rotting lumber that were great for climbing and carving your initials on. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We flew over gray piles and gray piles and gray piles toward home. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sand had piled up high enough to be flush with the land outside the crater. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worse, when the daughter hung up, she did not quench the old woman’s curiosity; instead, she placidly drank her coffee, went to her desk, and began to postmark a pile of letters. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t give alms but on holy days! And never in my hall! Begone, you pile of vilth! Knights! Eject him!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The dogloo walls were made from blocks of ice, and the roofs were frozen boards of sealskin with snow piled on top. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The pile was only about two feet high. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He scooped the piles together and started over setting them up. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Before we start, I want your dementor essays,” said Snape, waving his wand carelessly, so that twenty-five scrolls of parchment soared into the air and landed in a neat pile on his desk. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He looked at the large piles of dirt near where X-Ray was digging. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The broom got put to good use as I tried not to think about what the little hard pellets in the growing dust pile meant. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

When everything was finished, he tossed them onto the counter, along with a small pile of salt for dipping. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The seats have been wrenched from the floor and they're piled in stacks. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The curtains were drawn and bore black crepe ribbons, and the walls were piled with wreaths of flowers whose sickly sweet odor filled the halls. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their fears began to circle the abandoned car, then to pile into it, tense new passengers with theories in their laps. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as he lifted the bird bath out of the mold, there was an unbelievable grating sound, and a pile of dust and rubble lay at our feet. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old rusted cars or piles of tires sat in the yards. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

This meant that as they pulled the vines or piled them up they got mightily scratched, all over their arms and chests and legs, but it was cooler. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

She sectioned out Ifemelu’s hair, plucked a little attachment from the pile on the table, and began deftly to twist. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Even now, seven months later, there was still a huge pile. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“We can do this, Kaitlin,” he said, yanking a two-by-four out of a pile of debris. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Ivy pushed back the covers, messing up their Aberdeen pile, and scooted off the bed. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A cook was at work in the kitchen, where the breakfast table was piled with junk mail, pill bottles, and tissue packets. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

"You have to sort the clothes in this pile into the right categories and hang them up by size. Think you can get that?" What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A gust of wind, hitting a pile of chaff, will scatter all the parched stuff far and wide; just so, when this gigantic billow struck the boat’s big timbers flew apart. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hated to come home and see piles of bright pheasant feathers and the long thin dead bodies of the birds—though at supper she: forgot and ate and ate and ate. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I certainly hadn’t been looking for it when I opened the small compartment, but there they were, nested on top of a pile of crumpled napkins. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I pulled one out of the food pile Once I’ve seen a word for the first time, I usually remember it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hastily, she pulled The Gold-Bug from her backpack and stepped closer to the pile. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

His victims were so numerous that surviving villagers piled up the bodies to take shelter behind them, and the stream beside the village was red with blood. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They have green tea ice cream for dessert, which everyone pretends to like, and then they pile back into their cars. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Eventually everything within the building would merge, would be faceless and identical, mere pudding-like kipple piled to the ceiling of each apartment. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

My notebooks toppled down around me in a scattered pile. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The neat pile of body bags was waiting for the rest of us. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps,” Theodora said, “we should make notches on a stick, or pile pebbles in a heap, one each day, so we will know how long we have been marooned.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

All the stands are surrounded by chain-link fences, and the prizes look like they came from the reject crane machine pile. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then he applied some ointment to his aching foot and sat down at his desk to do some of the paperwork that had piled up. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He came back a minute later with a pile of books in his arms and slammed them down on the table. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

She was sitting on the edge of the bed with a box of Kleenex on her lap and a pile of pink crumpled-up tissues on the floor. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Gran shuffled over to another towering pile and removed the top two boxes. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

One was piled high with chests and crates and sacks, provisions for the journey. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t big enough for all of her children, but they piled in just the same with no thought of seat belts, because there weren’t enough anyway. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

For a little while they talked and joked but gradually fell silent, working the rhythm of scavenge, building piles of copper for whoever was rich enough to afford it. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed behind the desk, and Chess noticed a whole pile of signs leaned against the wall. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She noticed a pile of twigs and dirt. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately beyond the brambles, the ditch was closed by a pile of earth, weeds and rubbish. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The steak plates were piled high on the stove with their brown juice and their white grease sticking them together. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gathered them all from her brothers and marveled at the big pile of sweets they now had. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Celia asks, moving piles of books so they can sit on the violet benches but the twins both remain where they are. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The crowd was in a frenzy, howling every time another Condor piled on. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

As the pile of refuse grew, Anne swung her torch closer and closer to it. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bales were so heavy and piled so high that they were a real menace. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Thousands had already arrived in ox-driven carts piled high with their belongings. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

There was also, in the middle of the square, a pile of onions. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“My wife tells me that I’m doing fourteen-hour days,” Miele mused one afternoon, slicing cold chicken and piling it with fresh tomatoes on toast. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The simulacrum swells, titters, and then falls into a pile of laughing shadows, their cackles falling against my ears like slivers of ice. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He pushed the pile in and emptied it in the trash. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I’d expected a huge pile of mail, and a lot of phone messages and e-mails. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I imagined pouring my bottle of water on her and watching her melt, like the Wicked Witch of the West, until there was nothing but a pile of clothes and a candy necklace. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Everything was piled almost on top of everything else. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She stared at a tiny shoe on top of the pile. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

We could see them piled up when the maples thinned out to birches, carried on winds that were way too high to reach us below the trees. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Our ears became accustomed to the whistle of falling shells, to the rumble of gunfire, our eyes familiar with the sight of men dig­ging bodies out of piles of rubble. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I chopped a large pile of wood and stacked it close to the kitchen door. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were piled up right by the front porch. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead of them, the woman leapt over piles of nets and slid, legs kicking, over the tops of wooden chests, squeezing between plump businesswomen and groups of confused travelers. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Nearby was a pile of dusty ragged sheets that Granny had kept draped over the upholstered parlor furniture. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Using the pile of construction paper, markers, and tape, we began sketching screenshots of how we imagined our app would look, on cardboard cutouts shaped like cell phones. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Instead he gives Van Rappard a pile of woodcuts and a drawing—still another version of Sorrow. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

You could tell from the piles of luggage, the boxes containing radios and kitchen appliances, the sacks full of things like disposable diapers. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Two boys rolled out of a pile of brushwood and dead leaves, two dim shadows talking sleepily to each other. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Long white linen curtains hung at the windows; a large pile of fluffy white towels sat in a corner, and there was a single golden- framed painting on the wall. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

"We don't do this every day. Some days we clean out the jakes and pile it on the dung heap." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I am staring at the pile of notes, at the soft wax impressions, an intaglio in reverse. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Small weapons of all sorts, from bucklers to broadswords, were piled within. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

They clang noisily as she drops them in a pile in front of us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My worry for her piles on top of itself. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Tug knowed Petey walked home from sweeping a pile of dust from one end of the mill to the other every day. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The faculty mailboxes are still half- empty, the mail piled in a bin. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The vertical pane goes from my knees to my waist, three glass shelves of items piled on top of each other behind it. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyson tried to pick it up, but he fell back, stunned, into a pile of cinder blocks. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You jerk,” Doug said, laughing from the bottom of the pile. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

She reaches across the tiny tea table and the sad little pile of water crackers and touches the back of Alex’s hand. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But that stopped and then this spot just got piled high with Merrimack Gazettes. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

She set the clothing down on the bed and looked at the pile. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kids jounced around on top of them, bickering and shoving one another, pretending they were just going for a ride in a pile of junk. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I kept blinking but the pile of clothes stayed right where it was. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

She gave me a pair of one-hundred-dollar bills, two fifties, and five twenties from a pile of endless bills. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She stared at her own reflection, at the ridiculous pile of hair on top of her head. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Anya ran across the bridge, past the pile of dead trees, and into the Nightingale’s wood. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I pray that I lose to one of them, one of the rule-breakers, not one of the sunny fruit piles, ho-hum plums, flat pdfs painted to order. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

These already looked like the ones we’d first moved into, sand piling up against foundation blocks, the clotheslines empty, all signs and markers gone. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If he has to go, every pilot would like to be killed in action. It’s better than dying of the piles.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last he came to the pile of Uncle Claude’s unopened paychecks. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The work was piled over my head and I felt like I couldn’t think straight. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The striped cat slunk inside and dropped the tiny kitten onto the pile. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

At last he had her baskets piled in the back of the buckboard. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

After about fifty yards, we come to a small wooden house—a shack, really—unpainted, with a sagging front porch piled with junk. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He taps a pile of papers in front of him. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

He passed a hospital wagon, saw mounded limbs glowing whitely in the dark, a pile of legs, another of arms. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned over a card and it went straight to the discard pile. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

There were books piled on every seating option, so she sat on the floor, not bothering to take off her backpack, and put her head between her knees. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The regrets piled thickly on one another until Matt’s thoughts were running around in his head like a hamster on a wheel. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were so many people buried in the Lacks cemetery now, he said, they’d run out of room decades ago and started piling graves on top of each other. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She looked at the broken table and then to Luke, still standing in the pile of wood and glass. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She adds more pancakes to a pile that is already on a plate. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We piled branches beneath the platform and kept it burning. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had a pile of clothes they got from the elementary school, as well as a bunch of blankets and even some soft toys for the twins. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

My stomach clenches, but there’s a knock on my door and Julie comes in, holding a dark-green tray with a pile of food. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

My shoes—all Keds, all white—are piled in a heap in the back corner. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A skull dislodged from the pile and clattered to the floor, where it rolled to a stop at my feet and stared up at me. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

This young man seemed to have so many feelings stuck inside him, he was like a pile of kindling, just waiting for that first, hot spark. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Such an introduction to New York,” said Tucker, “to land in a pile of dirt in the Times Square subway station. Tsk, tsk, tsk.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started looking around for Henrietta, and when I came back around the big junk pile, the door was open. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Worn bicycle tires, bottles with peeled labels, ripped up magazines, yel­lowed newspapers, all scattered amid a pile of bricks and slabs of cement. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ellsberg watched a young girl pull something from a pile of rubble. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Not knowing what else to do, he walked to a cluttered pile of boxes in the corner of his room and moved them to the side, revealing a hiding place in the wall. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I didn’t eat mine; I stacked it on top of the scarf and the figurines in a pile next to my backpack, with the excuse that I’d eat it later. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Anansi pointed at a pile of leaves beneath the tree, and when Leopard prowled over them, the great cat fell into a hidden trap. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

We splashed through shallow puddles, startling flies from their perches atop piles of rotten food. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Early the next morning I went to the trash pile. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dining pavilion had collapsed into a pile of white rubble, and the Big House was on fire, its windows glowing like demon eyes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I stopped midway through building my gunpowder pile to play with, the Black Cats and somehow dropped a match into the pile. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We piled back into the cars and headed on down to Big Joe’s place with the horns going and people waving out the windows. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sum in the drawer is piling up but at the present rate of accumulation will be more than $100 short of my rent when the end of the month comes around. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll get this whole place as tight as a barrel, Mama. I already met a guy who told me where they pile all the scrap lumber.” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole thing looked like a huge pile of jumbled boxes. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the third morning, Laila began moving the piles of things to the yard and depositing them by the front door. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“This is enough,” I tell Mama, pointing to the pile of items we have. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

So I stepped over all the sunflower seed shells that had piled up between my feet like a mountain of dead flies, and walked, not on the track, but just beside it, on the grass. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

And so Wilbur came home to his beloved manure pile in the barn cellar. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

We add a few more books to the pile, and at some point I catch her eye and she’s smiling at me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He needed to buy a pile of new gear, he explained, because he was going to Alaska. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tad reached for a board sticking out of the pile of debris. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He sifts through the pile of blueprints, checking labels and dates. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The pile was growing there: a Polaroid camera, a transistor radio, an elaborate electric train set—and several sealed envelopes containing cash. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Leaning into the front window, I looked hard to port to be sure I was clearing the last piling as we pulled out. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

And right underneath all that vibrancy is...my pile of medical equipment, sitting right next to a hideous green faux-leather hospital chair that comes standard for every room here at Saint Grace’s. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The dead outnumbered the living, and there weren’t enough hands to bury the bodies piling up in the roads.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

And it was in this way that Despereaux became the only mouse sent to the dungeon whom the rats did not reduce to a pile of bones and a piece of red thread. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The reaction on the part of the entire family was instantaneous; it was as though someone had thrown a match onto a pile of straw. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

We had to climb over a huge pile of broken stone and twisted metal to get inside. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He had a small jeweler’s scale on the floor beside him along with tidy piles of gold and silver. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Leo was dragged across the deck, half-conscious and groaning, and dumped on a pile of ropes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I was wondering if you’d be willing to help me with math this year,” he said as he pushed a pile of soggy napkins around the table. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was my distinct understanding that those two had piles of money. Piles of it. Collectors pay a lot of money for those little carvings they make.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

She folded her sewing into a neat pile. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Underneath the paperweight lion was a picture of the two tortoises and next to the typewriter was a pile of densely written paper and an apple with one bite taken out of it. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I started cleaning the camp area, or what was left of it I piled all the palm fronds, frayed by the wind, in one place; sticks of wet driftwood in another. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a white linen cloth laid on the grass, with bowls piled high with food—she could see salads and sandwiches, nuts and fruit, jugs of lemonade and water and thick chocolate milk. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I located wood and piled it around the base of the palm tree that held our water keg and the tin box. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Koffi looked at the pile of cut-up fruit, carefully arranged in a small ring. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Far off in the field his brother was lifting stones from a sled and piling them on the stone wall. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I waited near the fence gate for it to leave again and jumped in the back, squeezing in between two piles of wooden crates under a blue tarp. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I toed one of the paper piles on the floor, trying to peek at what was written on it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Since there were piles of papers all over, and since he was very small himself, the cricket found lots of good hiding places. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Red was across the street, watching a colored man who was cleaning up after the parade, sweeping trash into a pile. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together Garrett and I heave one bag of ice after another into our cart, until it’s piled as high as it can get. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

There was a little stove there with a few coals glowing and a desk piled high with papers and a carpet on the floor, and some chests of drawers. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were down in the dirt firing slowly, carefully from behind splintery trees, piled gray rails, mounds of raw dirt. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calder stepped over a nasty pile of garbage that smelled of sour milk and sneakers. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t looking to pile on the agony for Syl’s ma, but the truth’s the truth. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I stand there for a few moments, sweating, arms piled high with boots and clothing. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He went outside and brought in more wood and piled it beside the hearth. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

When he woke early in the morning, however, the first thing he saw was a small pile of packages at the foot of his bed. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Behind them black clouds piled one atop another against a blood-red sky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The more prosperous families had coal sheds; the poorer ones left their coal in a pile out front. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He looks around my tiny room, taking in the unmade bed, the clothes, both clean and dirty, piled on my desk chair, the blank walls, the cheap furniture. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was only one shovel, so we took turns at the compost pile. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Resolutely, Luke stuck his fork in the pile of scrambled eggs on his plate and took a bite. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I spend the time studying the ten-foot walls of snow piled up on either side of the narrow path that has been cleared, wondering if they will collapse in on us. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I grab my jacket from the pile of coats. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

After hammering out a pile of jagged iron fragments, I slipped while crawling out and threw back my left hand to catch myself. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I watched as the limbs flew off the pile until they reached the guy who was still alive. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He jumped up and went to the door and began digging under the tarp and the blankets piled in the cart. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I looked for the rock pile in the corral, but I could not see it. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not bad for spoiled brats,” she said, looking over the pile of treasures. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

A huge pile of twisted metal, wooden planks, and crumbled bricks lay in front. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He was just piling underwear into his cauldron when Ron made a loud noise of disgust behind him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When Daito’s avatar vanished completely, it left behind a small pile of spinning items on the ground—everything he’d been carrying in his inventory, including the Beta Capsule. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I glance at my pile of piano books that have been collecting dust since we got here, and I wish I had a lesson today. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

One overcast morning, as I was pushing the boiled egg around on my plate, Ali walked in cradling a pile of chopped wood. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I put down my fork in my pile of gross carrots. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I watched the tiny projectile land and lodge itself amid Cap’s cascading piles of long hair. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

In her room, Mabel had posters of her favorite singers plastered across the walls, along with piles of brightly colored yarn everywhere, since she was in a bracelet-making phase. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I threw on some basketball shorts and went to the kitchen, where Jazz was already piling up my plate. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He piled in the bags and we started off up the street and out of the town. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

But since we couldn’t afford to pay the town’s trash-collection fee, our garbage was really piling up. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the onions were cooked to just the right softness, Dr. Bulkeley piled them in a mass on a linen napkin and applied the blistering poultice to Mercy’s chest. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He turns and hops from one pile of false gold to another, then right into the swirling wall of water and disappears, leaving me alone at the bottom of the world. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I know they’ve sent countless packages that are piled up somewhere in the great, crumbling postal edifice downtown. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced at it, placed it on a pile of papers on her desk, and picked up a book. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

His pants are always too big and belted awkwardly so he looks like a scarecrow, like if someone pulled the belt he’d turn into a pile of straw. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Now he distinguished outlines of shields hanging from the walls and piles of swords and spears. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I went a few yards ahead of Mama and picked cotton from her row and piled it on the ground. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I buried that card deep beneath a pile of already-spoiled death casseroles in the metal trash can in the alley. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

A steady current of heated air rose all day from the mountain and was thrust to ten thousand feet; revolving masses of gas piled up the static until the air was ready to explode. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

One of the first people I passed when I started moving again was Lopsang, kneeling in the snow over a pile of vomit. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Bills piled up rapidly, and he was soon faced with the loss of his most precious medical instruments: his adding machine was repossessed, and then his typewriter. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

When they returned to the table with food piled on their plates, Dasch said, "Aren't you glad to be back in the United States?" Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I scoot part of the pile over into one big mountain and sit on the floor. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

There was quite a pile of saucers now on the table in front of me. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

In the purple hall, Dany found her ebon bench piled high about with satin pillows. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The ogre put the dog collar down on a pile of dog collars and began to plait another. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

When the social worker piled the four of us into her car, I knew exactly what was going on. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When he noticed the magazine in the recycling pile he found the woman and tore out the page as carefully as he could. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I would sometimes affect similar ailments to my mother’s and try to mimic her, stay in my room whole weekends with a pile of picture books or puzzles, never changing out of my pajamas. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shuffles several papers into a neat pile on the desk. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I turn around to see one of Mango’s ears sticking out from the middle of the pile. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Instead, he began scrambling in the sandy pile. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But it’s a big pile of dirt, and I’m a big artist. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

He and Alfred burst out laughing and collapsed into a pile in the backseat. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The one who was tugging at the little boy’s leg was thin and palely blond, and her hair was arranged in a straggly pile on the top of her head. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, there were several towering piles of empty tuna-fish cans. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Their belongings were piled haphazardly in the truck bed, held in place with ropes. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

There were still piles of dogtooth violet bulbs and Solomon’s seal roots and a few dried apples. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calder noticed a hefty pile of papers next to her computer. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He looked down; through thick woods he could begin to see the boulders, great boulders tall as houses, piled one upon another like the wreckage of a vast explosion. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Extra wishes lay on the ground beneath me, piled like blossoms. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

There were only some books in a pile, a small cooking stove, and the carpets, covered with mysterious designs. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fadi took a spoonful of tangy homemade yogurt and plopped it onto his plate, next to a pile of stewed cauliflower. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He kept bringing home gifts for my mother and stacking them in a pile in their bedroom. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Next to the slingshots were little piles of things I figured the woman was gonna shoot. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She rose and tentatively picked up one of the slender, pliable saplings from the pile. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bunch of bronze books were piled under his chair. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I walked to the edge of the pile, and after a quick glance around to make sure I wasn’t being watched or followed, I turned sideways to squeeze through a gap between two crushed cars. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And they piled out and filed in the stage entrance. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

The other woman was short with thick dreadlocks that were wrapped in multicolored cloth and piled high atop her head. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

They were made of large flat stones piled close together. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The overflow had been piled in stacks on the floor. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

But Aunty Ifeoma spent a little longer showing Jaja her flowers before we piled into the station wagon and she drove off. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll be so glad when that’s over . . . the way he’s treated her . . . piles and piles of diapers, and he said why was I so tired? Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

They were arrayed on three sides of the city, all but the river side, surrounded by piles of broken stone and casks of pitch and resin just waiting for a torch. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Bono said, “Good to see a man who don’t need the Carnival in Venice, just so long as he’s got a live squirrel and a pile of squash to huck.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Eleanor!” he shouted, and when she looked up he let go a bouquet of red roses, which sailed gently toward the water in the wind and landed in the waves below the dock pilings. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Stuart had to climb onto the pile of books again and dive for the bell to restore order. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

On top of the pile closest to him was Flora and Ulysses. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

He climbed out first and looped a rope around one of the pilings. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The sun was dropping slowly from sight, and stripes of purple and orange and crimson and gold piled themselves on top of the distant hills. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their arms were piled up with the delicious dark cakes. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

He slashed her from throat to pubis, skinned her thighs, removed her internal organs, and arranged them in a pile between her feet. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

All the T-shirts in my pile barely hit my waist. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

We sat amid the piles of silks, picking up pearls and putting them in a jar. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad were lying in their bed under a pile of thin blankets. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Talc got up and began to look through piles of various antique term papers, reports, and examinations on the top of the bookcase. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m mesmerized by the pile of little round pills. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It all comes tumbling back into his head then: contraband and G’ma acting weird and piles of money behind the TV. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“But look what I did,” I said, proudly pointing to my pile of cotton. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The Transportation Department said it would only take a few more days to finish pouring the cement for the pilings. Then we can relax if... if she’s still there.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It is not mysterious to be home on a Saturday night, reading a novel in a pile of smelly golden retrievers. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, she served Ritz crackers piled with sardines for appetizers and put dinner on TV trays so that everyone could watch the news or play a heated game of Scrabble. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He slumped down near the side of the path, muttering to himself and putting more snowballs together until he had a big pile. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He was standing near the front end of the cart, amidst an assorted pile of cigarette boxes, egg cartons, and pop bottles. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or to the top of a tall Florida pine where a vast pile of twigs and sticks in ordered disorder holds three large white eggs, cold and lifeless. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I’m terribly busy at the moment, and strange as it may sound, I don’t have enough time to get through my pile of work. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The dead mammals were heaped together, a grotesque pile of decayed animal parts. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed us to a pile of large garbage bags. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled open a dresser drawer and took out his clothes and piled them in the suitcase. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the pile came to me, I read the question: How will you—you personally—ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering? Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Everything is suddenly clear to me,” Mrs. Levy’s bitter voice said behind a pile of newspapers. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad sat at the dining room table, staring at his phone, and there was a stack of French toast and a pile of bacon awaiting my arrival. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

They topple Herr Seligmann, batter him, pile blows on him, kick him. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

But the Roman hero found horrors piled upon horrors. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been a paperback in that pile of alleged games that Jack had showed them. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Longa, she shouts with all three chins jiggling, you have a pile of diapers to wash. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the closet was a pile of towels. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I grasped Hamlet’s forearms to steady myself, and he whirled me around until I screamed with a desperate delight Then he swung me down onto a pile of hay, where I sprawled, breathless and dizzy. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I walked to the truck and climbed to the top of the pile of belongings, where my brothers were waiting. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Every nook was occupied by a chair, a teetering pile of books, or both. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

One of them is counting a pile of cash on the coffee table. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He piled them on a table in the middle of the room and told us to take a few magazines, some scissors, and some glue. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The train rose into the air, rail pilings lifting it over the swamps below. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

We pile in, members in one and initiates in the other. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Why, you pile up your hands, choose a number, and draw out in turn, and the person who draws at the number has to answer truly any question put by the rest. It’s great fun.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lying on my stomach on the floor, pushing the box under my cot, I found a tiny pile of mouse bones. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That got you, didn’t it? Wait’ll I tell your girlfriend how cute you are now. You smell like a pile of dung.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room was mostly taken up by a makeshift desk—an old warehouse door atop stacked fruit crates—piled high with papers. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Now the original home stood in the middle with various additions, rooms, and wings stacked and piled around it, like a merchant trying to carry too many bags at once. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He saw a pile of scattered ashes, nothing else. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I felt around the bottom of the bag and touched some keys on a ring, resting in a pile of dirt, or maybe crushed leaves. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

A woman followed behind carrying a basket of laundry—pants and shirts and shalwar kamizes piled in a heap. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

And then, as the snow piled deeper and deeper and movement became impossible and then ridiculous—people changed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came back crying; all that was left was a pile of feathers and bones. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And as the lady set the plates in front of us, piled up with Chinese goodness, Coach quickly gathered all our forks and knives. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Marigold picked her way down the stairs, her arms piled so high with shirts and pants and things for her father that she practically tumbled to her death three times. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

From the pile on the floor, it looked as though they’d already soiled the other bedclothes. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

After dinner he will help Sonia and Ben scrape bay leaves and lamb bones and cinnamon sticks from plates, pile them on the counters and two burners of the stove. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once, she had counted eighty lemmings piled at the nest of a snowy owl. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon they began to pile in from the hall. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I check and double-check my “At Bedtime” pile of bottles and pills. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Still holding The Gold-Bug, Emily studied the pile and considered which category of fan she fell into until she realized she was different. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And since the bed was now too crowded, I had to sleep on a pile of blankets on the floor. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As soon as I let go, I’d feel my hips start to wobble and then I’d fall over—like a stack of books piled too high. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The feelings pile up, threatening to crack my chest wide-open. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stanley sat with his back against a pile of dirt and ate. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

There weren’t as many palm trees there as I remembered, and some of the homes had been reduced to roofless walls and piles of twisted clay. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t really know what I was doing, but I ran around the length of the stable, throwing shells into the dung piles. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

A weight settles on my chest, like each sentence she speaks is piling there. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He worked at a desk in a room piled with cotton cloth at the back of the factory. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pile of guts was a black blob of flies that buzzed like a saw. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He glances at the pile of broken glass. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Most of the supplies, held in crates, burlap sacks, and plastic bins, are piled neatly in a pyramid in what seems a questionable distance from the camp. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

After what seemed like forever, a mountain of glistening silk was piled at the feet of the statue. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Beside him was a pile of heads taller than he was. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was quite a contrast, to see a huge pile of complicated machinery on one side and nothing but blue water on the other. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It all piles on top and the fear gets pushed down; it isn't so big now. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z